Comments on: Wise words http://theflowfieldunity.com/2008/09/03/wise-words/ The Flowfield Unity Webcomic Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:56:33 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: <img class="identicon" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=98ff8dd8c4b162222c4568c4d86e54ce&size=35&default=http://theflowfieldunity.com/wp-content/plugins/identicon/227e7941512983b.png" alt="Adam Identicon Icon" height="35" width="35" /> Adam http://theflowfieldunity.com/2008/09/03/wise-words/comment-page-1/#comment-15953 Adam Identicon Icon Adam Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:34:03 +0000 http://theflowfieldunity.com/?p=583#comment-15953 ha! Yeah, the muffin era dawns... expect crumbs. ha!

Yeah, the muffin era dawns… expect crumbs.

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i know you’re trying to lament, but this sounds pretty ok to me…

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There are these things my aunt bought called corn cakes, and they’re like rice cakes’ spiffier cousin, but I asked for corn cakes in one store and was taken to muffins.

All is turning to muffins. -_-

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I think the distinction is for US cizitizens that also have those rather nice sweet things called ‘muffins’… we just call it cake, or at least we did. Now, especially with the onset of Starbucks etc. the use of the word muffin to mean a cup cake or such has take a firm hold.

No one knows how, as a society, we are going to cope with having two items of food, similar enough but distinct, with the same name.

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What are English Muffins called over there?

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Confucius say man with hands in pocky feel cocky.

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your fortune won’t come true.

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That’s a good point you have there… does anyone actually like the cookie bit of a fortune cookie?

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“Your smile will tell you what makes you feel good.”
“Face facts with dignity.”
“Good sense is the master of human life.”

The exception to this is wher the fortunes is a series of numbers, such as lottery numbers…

The U.S. Powerball lottery drawing of the March 30, 2005 game produced an unprecedented 110 second-place winners, all of whom picked five numbers correctly with no Powerball number. The total came out to $19.4 million in unexpected payouts. 89 tickets won $100,000, but 21 additional tickets won $500,000 due to the Power Play multiplier option.

Powerball officials initially suspected fraud, but it turned out that all the winners received their numbers from fortune cookies made by Wonton Food Inc., a fortune cookie factory in Long Island City, Queens, New York. The number combinations printed on fortunes are reused in thousands of cookies per day. The five winning numbers were 22, 28, 32, 33, and 39. The sixth number in the fortune, 40, did not match the Powerball number, 42.

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and its hard to make music annoy me
ive never had a fortune cookie, but i wonder if theyre like horoscopes, you know, you can look at them and be like hey yeaahh, that totally happened to be today because its just that vague.

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Well, obviously he doesn’t suck quite as hard as he once did, being dead and all… but still.

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“Do you think that paper…” – I don’t know. I tried looking for some information on the manufacturing process, but was unable to find this out. I also tried to find out at what temperature the cookies are cooked to see if that would be enough to sterilize them… I’m assuming that they must be sterile, otherwise it would be hard to sell the cookies, plus I have never heard of anyone getting food poisoning from that particular part of a takeaway.

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Do you think that paper they stick in the middle of a fortune cookie is sterile or at least somewhat clean?

I’ve been in Shanghai for almost five years now and have never seen a fortune cookie, and rarely have even seen spring rolls.

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Benny Hill sucks.

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you two should get married, have some kids. build a bridge
or something. there’s enough bastard chillies in the world.

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-crocodile dundee / steve irwin
-john howard
-99% of aussie hip-hop

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I would post a video, but I don’t want that sort of thing anywhere near my site.

And as Davey points out, he has a themetune…

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I feel ashamed.
But you know why it is? Because I still don’t get emails telling me when there are new comments, and because of my crappy memory, I forget to check for updates without them.
Dear Adam,
Can you fix it for me?

Ah, Jim’ll fix it. Crappiest Chinese Proverb ever will say “Write to Jim. It works better than Gordon, at any rate”

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