It was ok to read ours out loud as long as we read them with a sarcastic voice tone. If you read them straight you were in trouble. :)
i always found it so funny how we couldn't say 'lucky' but could say 'fortunate.' They mean exactly the same thing. You can't believe in FORTUNE COOKIES cuz of the FORTUNE. But you were allowed to say 'fortunate' not 'lucky'!
Crazy.