Like Brigadoon, this fortune appears only once every 15 years January 16, 2025 10:10 AM Subscribe
In 2010 I asked a question about a mysterious fortune cookie fortune I received.
In that thread, user brainmouse shared that 15 years prior, they had received the same truncated, mysterious fortune.
Today, in 2025, I received the same exact fortune cookie fortune.
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In that thread, user brainmouse shared that 15 years prior, they had received the same truncated, mysterious fortune.
Today, in 2025, I received the same exact fortune cookie fortune.
This requires community input.
The numbers do not appear in the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, but I felt like it was worth checking.
And as far as I can find, they haven't won any lotteries yet. But maybe today's the day to buy a ticket.
posted by automatronic at 10:34 AM on January 16 [2 favorites]
And as far as I can find, they haven't won any lotteries yet. But maybe today's the day to buy a ticket.
posted by automatronic at 10:34 AM on January 16 [2 favorites]
I was hoping this thread had an answer to the story behind it in the more inside. It didn't but impressive that, assuming the cookie you had today wasn't horribly stale, they're still apparently printing that fortune.
posted by skynxnex at 11:07 AM on January 16
posted by skynxnex at 11:07 AM on January 16
You hadn't got it yet in this timeline.
posted by warriorqueen at 11:08 AM on January 16 [8 favorites]
posted by warriorqueen at 11:08 AM on January 16 [8 favorites]
Reminds me a little of "All your base are belong to us," which we had fun with 25 years ago.
posted by beagle at 11:22 AM on January 16 [3 favorites]
posted by beagle at 11:22 AM on January 16 [3 favorites]
my jimmies are well and rustled
posted by Why Is The World In Love Again? at 12:02 PM on January 16 [1 favorite]
posted by Why Is The World In Love Again? at 12:02 PM on January 16 [1 favorite]
I feel like David Lynch might be involved somehow....
This is wild. Marking my calendar to check back in 2040.
posted by Sparky Buttons at 12:11 PM on January 16 [13 favorites]
This is wild. Marking my calendar to check back in 2040.
posted by Sparky Buttons at 12:11 PM on January 16 [13 favorites]
That fortune you like is going to come back in style.
posted by snofoam at 12:25 PM on January 16 [13 favorites]
posted by snofoam at 12:25 PM on January 16 [13 favorites]
Like cicadas, fortune cookie fortunes live underground, emerging cyclically to fling themselves around erratically, scream lucky numbers, and confound bystanders.
posted by EvaDestruction at 12:35 PM on January 16 [18 favorites]
posted by EvaDestruction at 12:35 PM on January 16 [18 favorites]
I feel the same way about mentioning the Nielsen rating and receiving one of the mail 5 days later.
posted by clavdivs at 1:46 PM on January 16 [2 favorites]
posted by clavdivs at 1:46 PM on January 16 [2 favorites]
The prophecy-industrial complex has had to dip into their strategic reserves to keep pace with demand caused by increasing numbers of people asking "what the fuck is going on here?"
posted by cupcakeninja at 4:45 PM on January 16 [4 favorites]
posted by cupcakeninja at 4:45 PM on January 16 [4 favorites]
I have it on good faith that 69.3% of the strategic reserves consists of neon and knowledge of eyewear.
posted by clavdivs at 4:53 PM on January 16 [2 favorites]
posted by clavdivs at 4:53 PM on January 16 [2 favorites]
Maybe it's the Chinese equivalent of the Queen of Diamonds in The Manchurian Candidate.
Do you have a sudden urge to kill anyone?
posted by Lemkin at 6:16 PM on January 16 [4 favorites]
Do you have a sudden urge to kill anyone?
posted by Lemkin at 6:16 PM on January 16 [4 favorites]
when told that Angela Lansbury would be playing the mother, President Kennedy was heard to say: "that's perfect"
posted by clavdivs at 6:22 PM on January 16 [1 favorite]
posted by clavdivs at 6:22 PM on January 16 [1 favorite]
Ebert.
"The film has become so linked with the Kennedy assassination that a legend has grown up around it. Frank Sinatra, the film’s star, purchased the rights and kept it out of release from 1964 until 1988, and the story goes that he was inspired by remorse after Kennedy’s death. In fact, the director John Frankenheimer told me, Sinatra had a dispute with United Artists about the profits...."
posted by clavdivs at 6:34 PM on January 16 [2 favorites]
"The film has become so linked with the Kennedy assassination that a legend has grown up around it. Frank Sinatra, the film’s star, purchased the rights and kept it out of release from 1964 until 1988, and the story goes that he was inspired by remorse after Kennedy’s death. In fact, the director John Frankenheimer told me, Sinatra had a dispute with United Artists about the profits...."
posted by clavdivs at 6:34 PM on January 16 [2 favorites]
It’s a zen koan.
posted by Devils Rancher at 7:20 PM on January 16 [3 favorites]
posted by Devils Rancher at 7:20 PM on January 16 [3 favorites]
I think whenever someone gets this fortune the timeline splits.
1995: privatization of the internet (in universe B it became a public utility).
2010: swine flu pandemic dissipated (universe B [C? D?] got to experience 2020 ten years earlier).
2025: ????
posted by brook horse at 8:34 PM on January 16 [4 favorites]
1995: privatization of the internet (in universe B it became a public utility).
2010: swine flu pandemic dissipated (universe B [C? D?] got to experience 2020 ten years earlier).
2025: ????
posted by brook horse at 8:34 PM on January 16 [4 favorites]
I just checked when the first fully automated fortune cookie machine was invented, and it was 1980. 15 years prior to 1995, and the year Reagan was elected.
I am incorporating this conspiracy theory into my belief system.
posted by brook horse at 8:48 PM on January 16 [6 favorites]
I am incorporating this conspiracy theory into my belief system.
posted by brook horse at 8:48 PM on January 16 [6 favorites]
I just checked when the first fully automated fortune cookie machine was invented, and it was 1980
Only 5 years before its use as a plot point in Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon.
posted by Lemkin at 6:32 AM on January 17 [2 favorites]
Only 5 years before its use as a plot point in Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon.
posted by Lemkin at 6:32 AM on January 17 [2 favorites]
This pleases me.
posted by obfuscation at 6:46 AM on January 18 [1 favorite]
posted by obfuscation at 6:46 AM on January 18 [1 favorite]
Reminds me of “there all is aching”, a true humdinger of a review from Review.
posted by OnTheLastCastle at 9:57 AM on January 18
posted by OnTheLastCastle at 9:57 AM on January 18
As a takeout connoisseur I've gotten the same fortune more than once a few times. I'm still chasing the high of one I only got once, though:
"MAYBE SOME DAY YOU WILL LIVE ON THE MOON!"
posted by Krazor at 12:39 PM on January 18 [2 favorites]
"MAYBE SOME DAY YOU WILL LIVE ON THE MOON!"
posted by Krazor at 12:39 PM on January 18 [2 favorites]
I wonder if there's ever been a fortune cookie fortune that had like a lot of typos.
posted by clavdivs at 1:23 PM on January 18
posted by clavdivs at 1:23 PM on January 18
congrats, you ate a thirty year old fortune cookie
posted by dbx at 2:13 PM on January 18 [1 favorite]
posted by dbx at 2:13 PM on January 18 [1 favorite]
I once smoked a Winston out of a Vietnam ration pack, they came a box of five, little boxes of fives. one day's rations.
15 Winstons.
posted by clavdivs at 4:43 PM on January 18 [4 favorites]
15 Winstons.
posted by clavdivs at 4:43 PM on January 18 [4 favorites]
Behind every great woman/man, is a great behind.
posted by JohnnyGunn at 9:40 AM on January 19 [1 favorite]
posted by JohnnyGunn at 9:40 AM on January 19 [1 favorite]
In my circles, the fortune does not come true unless you eat the entire fortune cookie in which it came while in bed.
posted by JohnnyGunn at 9:41 AM on January 19 [1 favorite]
posted by JohnnyGunn at 9:41 AM on January 19 [1 favorite]
One day I will visit a country where fortune cookies exist and maybe be enlightened as to what the fuck is going on.
posted by dg at 7:32 PM on January 19 [1 favorite]
posted by dg at 7:32 PM on January 19 [1 favorite]
The images are not working for me :( so I have no idea what this fortune is you describe, however, sounds like it ought to inspire some sort of speculative fiction work or three...
posted by stormyteal at 8:30 AM on January 20
posted by stormyteal at 8:30 AM on January 20
Oh... my best fortune cookie experience?
My ex-husband (divorced ~10 years at the time, occasionally both second-guessing it) and I were at a restaurant with one of our sons. Son and I sat down on the benches and slid in, leaving ex to choose who to sit next to. He chose next to me, so he in all ways did this to himself.
His fortune?
Stop seeking elsewhere, happiness is sitting right beside you.
posted by stormyteal at 8:36 AM on January 20 [5 favorites]
My ex-husband (divorced ~10 years at the time, occasionally both second-guessing it) and I were at a restaurant with one of our sons. Son and I sat down on the benches and slid in, leaving ex to choose who to sit next to. He chose next to me, so he in all ways did this to himself.
His fortune?
Stop seeking elsewhere, happiness is sitting right beside you.
posted by stormyteal at 8:36 AM on January 20 [5 favorites]
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