fortune cookie n : thin folded wafer containing a maxim on a slip of paper
fortune cookie ({WAITS}, via the {Unix} "fortune" program) A quotation, item of trivia, joke, or maxim selected at random from a collection (the "{cookie file}") and printed to the user's tty at login time or (less commonly) at logout time. There was a fortune program on {TOPS-20}. [First program?] [{Jargon File}] (1995-02-14)