Very Cutting Cookies
Question From Dec. 8: If we were to start a company called Miss Fortune’s Cookies, what messages should we include?
“The Bill Clinton Misfortune: You will abandon all past romances for an involvement with a blond, middle-aged, fairly attractive woman named Hillary.”
--SHARON KARP, Los Angeles
“Help! I’m being held prisoner in a Chinese fortune-cookie factory!”
--STEPHEN MERAGER, West Covina
“Hard cookie, ain’t it? Go to Mrs. Field’s, you cheapskate.”
--EMMANUEL RUSTIA, Chino Hills
“Go on a diet already!”
--GRACE HAMPTON, Burbank
“Next time, try the kung pao.”
“Duck!”
“You will be hungry in one hour.”
“You will soon be returning home from a short journey.”
“In one week, several white cartons in your refrigerator will have to be thrown out.”
--D.L. BURKHART, via Internet
“For Gov. Pete Wilson: Leader who lives by politics of divisiveness deserves big wedgy.”
“For Newt Gingrich: Politician whose rhetoric contains self-rising flour soon causes own career to fall.”
“For Linda Tripp: Woman who plots against friends has only enemies.”
“Dr. Laura: Moralist who fails to live by own lessons soon finds self exposed to world.”
--CATHLEEN BROWN, Los Osos
The question for Dec. 15:
Members of the Billboard Liberation Front took it upon themselves to “free” several Apple advertisements recently. (See story, this page.)
We’d like you, dear reader, to also “think different.” If you could choose someone to appear in Apple’s present ad campaign, who would you like to see represented?
Send replies of 25 words or fewer to Smart Aleck in care of Southern California Living, Los Angeles Times, Times Mirror Square, Los Angeles, 90053, or e-mail socalliving@latimes.com. Include your name and hometown. Replies will appear next week.
