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why is everyone so interested in the Chinese New Year all of a sudden.

ok, fine, because it's Chinese New Year. But why particularly this year? What's the deal with the sheep?

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 1 February 2003 12:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

People like the rat/sheep confusion.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 February 2003 12:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

explain.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 1 February 2003 12:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

I will not.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 February 2003 12:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

explain please, Mr Dastoor!

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sorry - I has cats and rabbits in mind.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

I ask for elucidation and all I get is obfuscation!

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sorry to say this is the first I've heard about it being the year of the sheep. I'm a dragon.

But then I just went to google (to try and answer the question) and saw this: http://www.google.com/

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

113-Avert misunderstanding by calm, poise and balance.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

Wow Jel - that looks a really great search engine! I bet it'll give Lycos and Altavista a run for their money.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sheep appears to be a modern non threatening version of Ram or Goat.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh so you say nice, clear easy-to-understand stuff to Jel then, N. (boo hoo)

there's all these noble animals in the Chinese astrological calendar (dragon and tiger for example) which could have been promoted when there year came up,why big up the sheep? Is it just coz everyone likes to draw (or see) cartoon sheep? Or is it coz sheep are easy to draw? The one on the wall of the Old Tom pub here in Oxford recalls the old sheep with no legs = cloud joke partcularly vividly.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

The time is right to make new friends.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

sheep are important, like for keeping people warm, and eating and stuff.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

I really don't get this N., or know whether you are being serious or not....are you saying I shouldn't post here?

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

oh, it's N, he's kidding!

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

(I think)

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm not so sure Jel, given what's been happening recently; I think I've been an idiot and made some errors of judgement on ILx of late and I really need to know if everyone's thinking ill of me and whether I owe people an apology.

for keeping people warm

DRAGONS are better at this shurely?!

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mark please do not worry I am just pasting random fortune cookies.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

(It is much easier to be critical than to be correct)

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

What a relief, N. I have been worried abt this.

I've only had those cookies once (at a *Thai* restaurant as it happens) so my ignorance *might* be forgiven.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

You could perish in the field of medical research.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Apparently it's the year of the Black Sheep.

And if your SO was born in 1979, consider yourselves Sheep shaggers.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

Baaaa.

― Anna (Anna), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

(I am a '79 baby)

― Anna (Anna), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

I suddenly love sheep.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 February 2003 14:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Has anyone read 'A Wild Sheep Chase'?

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 February 2003 14:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I consider myself to be more of a Ram.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 1 February 2003 14:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

You're more of an Ass.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 February 2003 14:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

I suddenly love sheep.

whereas I go through a pphase of mildly liking them, like them a lot for a week or so and only after a month or more does it become full-blown infatuation.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 1 February 2003 14:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

OI, DASTOOR. Leave it. You 'eard.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 1 February 2003 14:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

You're quite right. It was rude. I blame RJG.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 February 2003 14:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

People really need to give goats a break. What with cashmere and curried goat, they can be wonderful.

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 1 February 2003 14:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

www.google.com

― Rockist Scientist, Saturday, 1 February 2003 14:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm a Snake in Chinese astrology and a Scorpio in Western astrology. That seems pretty consistent. Cuddly, either way.

― Rockist Scientist, Saturday, 1 February 2003 15:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

I am a Tiger. Rar!

Mark H, no-one hates you. I bet you're one of the kindest-natured people on ILE.

― Mark C (Mark C), Saturday, 1 February 2003 15:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

I can't remember what Chinese sign I am, but my Chinese birth year is 1977 if anyone knows what animal that was. (I was actually born in 1978, but just before Chinese New Year).

In Western astrology, I'm a v. typical Aquarian.

(this is *not* a big hint that my birthday is very soon, honest ;-)

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 1 February 2003 15:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mark H, no one dislikes you at all! You are among our finest Marks!

Anyone know what 1959 was? What am I, an echidna? A cuttlefish?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 1 February 2003 15:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

what does it mean to be a sheep in the year of the sheep?

― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 1 February 2003 16:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

Baa-d.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 February 2003 17:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Any more puns like that and by heck i'll.......

All sheep Represent.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 1 February 2003 17:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Has anyone read 'A Wild Sheep Chase'?

yes. i think it was prob the first murakami i read, in fact.

― toby (tsg20), Sunday, 2 February 2003 00:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

I would be a pig. I am Welsh so always be a sheepshagger, as the kids at school told me.

― Graham (graham), Sunday, 2 February 2003 03:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

year of the sleep - why???

― Wintermute (Wintermute), Sunday, 2 February 2003 04:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

(I'm sorry, my last post was supposed to land in the "favourite misread ILX thread titles" thread. Ignore it.)

― Wintermute (Wintermute), Sunday, 2 February 2003 04:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've read the first 50 pages of a Wild Sheep Chase, I'll finish it one day, it's just like every other Murakami book really.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 2 February 2003 10:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

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year of the sheep - why?????