It's a cookie, Sherlock.

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frindle

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Hello. Would you please tell me what this fortune(It's a cookie, Sherlock) below means?
Is it a famous line from an episode of Sherlock Holms?
Please help! Thank you.


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(This is from a children's novel. A boy and his dad came to a chinese restaurant.
They are reading their fortunes. Fortunes of this restaurant are not normal.)

Dad's fortune says: Only a goofus locks his keys in his car twice in one week.
He looks injured. "I don't even have a car!"
Mine says: It's a cookie, Sherlock.
 

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It is not from a Sherlock Holmes story. These cookies are sarcastic- you wouldn't need to be Sherlock Holmes to work out that a fortune cookie is a fortune cookie. However, I can't say that either of them makes me laugh.
 
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