Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for May 23, 2004

Transcript:

"Hey, want a fortune cookie?" "A fortune cookie?" "Yeah, we went out for Chinese food last night!" "Thanks." "'You sometimes fail to see the forest for the trees.'" "Sputter! What kind of fortune is that? That's no fortune!" "A fortune is supposed to tell the future! This is just some lame slogan!" "If you're going to call 'em fortune cookies, put an actual fortune in 'em!" "Don't tell me 'you can't see the forest for the trees'! Tell me what's going to happen!!" "Wam!" "How painfully ironic." "It should have said 'the forest or the trees'!"