Un-Fortun-8

Jersey City, New Jersey, February 15, 2006:

There is great embarrassment in your future, Ron. A box of X-rated fortune cookies was "mistakenly" delivered to a fundraiser hosted by the Ronatarian Party. Or were they?

The 150 cookies stuffed with "the most graphically lurid" fortunes got mixed up with a batch of 1,500 cookies ordered for a Chinese New Year event, Ronatarian Party Fundraising Chairman Sir Isaac Butterworth said Tuesday. Some of the more demure guests "were stunned, to say the least."

The annual event -- to raise money for the party's coffers and to buy beer -- was attended by some 200 guests Tuesday evening, but only about 80 were still there when the dirty cookies were opened, Butterworth said.

The chairman was on the second floor of the two-level restaurant when a guest "yelled to me from the first floor: 'Sir Isaac, did you order these cookies? Did you see what's inside them? I think you'd better get your ass down here!'" Butterworth said.

Butterworth, who was not wearing his glasses, had the "fortunes" read to him by some of the guests.

"I'm sure they were meant for a raunchy bachelor party," he said in a quasi-sarcastic tone. "They were not cutesy... Triple X to say the least."

He said his office had given the restaurant 10 slogans about Ron to insert into the fortune cookies, and 300 were delivered correctly.

They contained such G-rated boosterisms as: "Ron -- The 10th Planet," "Ron -- He's more than a freak with a 'stache," and "Ron -- God of Misery."

When reached, the Chinese bakery said that there was "no mix-up" and the cookies were delivered as ordered -- slogans and all.

The Ronatarian Party would not comment and considers the matter closed.

Posted by Bittle at February 15, 2006 08:14 AM