Sometimes the fortune cookie just sits there showing the paper
tissue script from inside the cookie that says "Bad Predictions".
A couple of other times, below it is some bad prediction, e.g.,
"X-Rays will never amount to anything---Lord So and So.".
Often an error occurs, and that's why there is no prediction
below the cookie.
Lee
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-extropians@extropy.org
> [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On Behalf Of Anders Sandberg
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 4:22 AM
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Re: random bad predictions
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 03:55:34PM +1000, Damien Broderick wrote:
> > http://www.elsewherepress.com/FORTUNE.HTM
>
> My fortune merely read "(internal function)". It might be that it is either
> warning me about an upcoming intestinal problem or it was indeed a truly bad
> and self-referential fortune that foretold that it didn't work.
>
> Epimenides as oracle: "I foresee that any prediction made by a Cretan will
> be wrong."
>
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