Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Choose Your Fortune Teller

Remember that scene in Big where Tom Hanks went to fortune teller machine and then became an adult. Then he falls in love with Elizabeth Perkins making her a pedophile?

Well, I recently came across a few of those fortune teller machines and I decided to review them for you.

Swami:

This is the typical machine I think of when I think of fortune teller machines (which oddly enough takes up quite a bit of my time.)
Swami, like all the others we will be looking at, is about the size of an old phone booth and features a bearded man in a golden turban. His shirt and scarf reminds me of something that Larry would wear on Three's Company.
He has a statue of Buddha in front of him.
LOOK: ****
SMELL: ***
ACCURACY OF PREDICTION: 61%
POSSIBLE SAMPLE PREDICTION: "You will be on American Idol season 28."
POLITICAL AFFILIATION: Green Party





Esmeralda is another traditional type of fortune teller. She comes with a crystal ball. She looks like Keanu Reeves in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
LOOK: **
SMELL: *****
ACCURACY OF PREDICTION: 88%
POSSIBLE SAMPLE PREDICTION: "You will need knee surgery by the time you are 65."
FAVORITE PRO GOLFER: K. J. Choi


Natasha is just like Esmeralda except she is a commie.
LOOK: *****
SMELL: *
ACCURACY OF PREDICTION: 74%
POSSIBLE SAMPLE PREDICTION: "You will not fly without a plane."
FAVORITE UNNECESSARY MEDICAL PROCEDURE: Vertebroplasty



Sir Lancelot. Sure he was known for cutting off the heads of those who sat at his round table (or was that Robin Hood?) but here he cuts off the head of your fortune.
LOOK: ***1/2
SMELL: ********
ACCURACY OF PREDICTION: 541%
POSSIBLE SAMPLE PREDICTION: "Don't eat things you find in the men's room."
FAVORITE HANNA BARBERA CHARACTER: Vin Diesel



Zeus was the King of the Gods. Here he looks like Santa Claus and sports a sweet red toga and a kickin' blue ring. He has a crystal ball too.
LOOK: ******
SMELL: ****
ACCURACY OF PREDICTION: 100%
POSSIBLE SAMPLE PREDICTION: "Fortune card tray empty. Please reorder."
FAVORITE GREAT LAKE: Huron



Moochie is a goofy old sailor who has a crystal ball and a pooch. Not sure which one he takes advice from.
LOOK: *
SMELL: *****
ACCURACY OF PREDICTION: -1%
POSSIBLE SAMPLE PREDICTION: "You know where I can get beer and hardtack around here?"
FAVORITE TYPE OF SALT: Iodized Salt


There you have it.

In conclusion: never use real cranberry sauce. People really like it better from the can.

3 comments:

  1. Hardtack (or hard tack) is a simple type of cracker or biscuit, made from flour, water, and salt. Inexpensive and long-lasting, it is and was used for sustenance in the absence of perishable foods, commonly during long sea voyages and military campaigns.[1] The name derives from the British sailor slang for food, "tack". It is known by other names such as pilot bread (as rations for ship's pilots[2]), ship's biscuit, shipbiscuit, sea biscuit, sea bread (as rations for sailors) or pejoratively "dog biscuits", "tooth dullers", "sheet iron" or "molar breakers".[3] Australian military personnel know them as ANZAC wafers.

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  2. Cru Jones3/24/2010

    That's rad. Iodized salt?!? Awesome.

    No wait...

    Rad.

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  3. Swami is the best because his name backwards is "I'm aws." Aws is Swami's slang for things that are awesome. And rad.

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