08.21.07
Sir, yo Luck Number is M.
Today I had lunch at a fast food Chinese place called (unfortunately) Wok and Roll. Upon cracking open my fortune cookie I was greeted with this little gem:
Lucky # 3, M, 24, 25, 30, 31
What’s that? Capital M is one of my lucky numbers? Well, we debated the validity of it for a while and eventually agreed that Roman Numerals were not valid in any local lotteries that we knew of, and probably haven’t been for, oh, about 2,000 years or so.
BUT, it is the 13th letter of the alphabet & the Kentucky Powerball is currently sitting at $245M, so why not play it?
And play it I did. Folks, the fortune cookie cannot be wrong - especially when there’s this kind Numeric Engrish (Chinglish?) involved. Time will tell if the wise men who see the future through hard pastries have it right.
“Known to cure itching, colds, stomachs, brains, and other diseases.”
– On a bottle of Chinese medicine.
I wonder how the Guide to proper usage of Balls, Nuts, or Testicles would translate to Engrish….
Diesel The said,
August 22, 2007 at 8:19 pm
This is beyond hysterical…
tommyboy said,
August 24, 2007 at 5:18 pm
“Balls, Nuts or Testicles” would be similar in Engrish, but we would add the word “mahbles” as used by Tanaka in Major League 2.