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Monday, March 15, 2010

Chow / Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Ancient Wisdom from the Far East

Posted by on Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 4:06 PM

This was on the back of my fortune cookie fortune today:

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You can get involved here (just don't hunt-and-peck with your chopsticks—it's tacky!). The other side of my fortune said "your situation will change for the better," which sounds about as likely as me "getting involved" with the Census (or anyone getting these chopsticks away from me unless its from my cold, dead hands)—unless it's the Census that's going to change my situation. Hmmmm.

 

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1
same with my fortune cookie today, from a restaurant in North Seattle

kind of an innovative way to reach a perhaps-undercounted population if you ask me
Posted by Reader1 on March 15, 2010 at 4:26 PM
STJA 2
I just filled mine out.

Feels all Biblical and shit.
Posted by STJA on March 15, 2010 at 4:34 PM
Fifty-Two-Eighty 3
I filled mine out too. But what I'm more interested in is if there are really places out there with 12 peoiple living at the same address. Because that's kinda scary.
Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty http://www.nra.org on March 15, 2010 at 4:49 PM
Allyn 4
Last night we went to our neighborhood chinese restaurant and out of seven fortune cookies, found six different census messages. They were cute. And dorky.
Posted by Allyn on March 15, 2010 at 4:59 PM
Allyn 5
@3 Yes, there are. Many of them. I personally know five households of 13+ people.
Posted by Allyn on March 15, 2010 at 5:02 PM
6
I haven't got my census yet! But I did get a fortune cookie like two weeks ago with a similar message.
Posted by kersy on March 15, 2010 at 6:03 PM
mr. herriman 7
got the same one at bamboo garden last night! three out of the four of us at the table got census-related fortunes!
Posted by mr. herriman on March 15, 2010 at 7:11 PM
Greg 8
You know what would make me more likely to participate in the census? SENDING ME THE FUCKING FORM INSTEAD OF ALL THESE GODDAMN REMINDERS. Assholes.
Posted by Greg on March 15, 2010 at 10:53 PM
9
@8 It's such a tease :(
Posted by kersy on March 16, 2010 at 9:06 AM
10
So who's the census-loving fortune-cookie tycoon?
Posted by shabadoo on March 16, 2010 at 10:29 AM
Greg 11
Seriously, I had major census blue-balls until the thing arrived in the mail today. Then it was over so quickly, and now I'm feeling vaguely empty.
Posted by Greg on March 16, 2010 at 10:41 PM

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