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Happy New Year! 新年好！
J:
well happy new year then.
shot these some years ago.
i think the thing is happening on saturday this year. if i can i'll get some new ones.
Papersatan:
--- Quote from: smack that isaiah on 03 Feb 2011, 07:45 ---Don't forget, to those of you who are years of the rabbit (if you're turning a multiple of 12 this year), to wear a bit of red today for safety
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Also to save 20% on most purchases at Macy's, this week only! (I'm gonna tell people that it is for Chinese new years, and not for ladies heart attacks)
also:
water pig
Akima:
--- Quote from: bainidhe_dub on 03 Feb 2011, 16:06 ---Wait, Wikipedia gives "Traditional aspects and associations" for each sign, ok, but how is the ox traditionally associated with Switzerland, India, Cuba, Yemen, Finland, and Ukraine???
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I have no idea where Wikipedia gets the association between Chinese zodiac animals and countries*, but it is rather cool that mine is associated with Australia, my adopted home.
*I know the USA is regarded as a Fire Monkey because it was "born" on 4th July 1776, but how it works for countries without a definite birth date, I do not know. Neither of the potential offical birthdays of Australia as a nation (Federation in 1901, foundation of the first British colony in 1788) falls in a Dog year, and of course nobody knows in what year the land was first settled by Aboriginal Australians.
Thomas Edison:
I went to a Chinese take-away today with my Malaysian room mate and he wished the cooks a happy new year in Mandarin and I got really jealous that I can't speak another language. I might learn Mandarin for him.
JD:
Good luck with that.
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