Sometimes, My Dad is Amusing

Dan points out the end of this article from the Baltimore Sun (registration required). Skim past the various news of the annual Maryland budget crunch period, and you find:

"During one particularly complicated financial discussion, [DW - edited to avoid easy blog googling by family members], the school budget director, provoked a laugh by handing the council a fortune cookie message pasted onto a large sheet of pink paper.

"A way out of a financial mess is discovered as if by magic," it read, followed by the usual list of lottery numbers to play. "