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02-18-2007, 02:02 AM
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Happy Chinese New Year!
Yep, it's finally the year of the pig 
We Vietnamese call it the Têt Festival and it's quite a celebration back in the motherland.
In fact, it's a holiday for most eastern Asian countries.
It's customary in my culture to wish to people good fortune for the New Year.
So I wish all the denizens of the Ahto Spaceport Cantina a year full of prosperity, health and that everything goes right for you. If you're still in school, I wish you good grades and if you're working, I wish you to get a promotion.
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02-18-2007, 02:23 AM
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I'm not Chinese and I don't celebrate this version of New Year, but Happy New Chinese Year.
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02-18-2007, 02:28 AM
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LEEEROOYYY JENKINS!!!!!
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The year of the Pig, eh? What was last year?
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02-18-2007, 03:18 AM
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Happy new year everyone! 
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"Your the fool Devil! Now witness the power of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL Titan!" ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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02-18-2007, 03:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Mohunas
The year of the Pig, eh? What was last year?
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I believe it was the year of teh Dawg Dog. I'm a Metal Sheep by Chinese astrology.
Happy Year of the Pig, everyone!
Who verily knows and who can here declare it, whence it was born and whence comes, this creation?
The Gods are later than this world's production. Who knows then whence it first came into being?
He, the first origin of this creation, whether he formed it all or did not form it,
Whose eye controls this world in highest heaven, he verily knows it, or perhaps he knows not.
- The Rig Veda, Mandala 10, Hymn 129
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02-18-2007, 05:50 AM
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Resident Musical Expert
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Happy piggy year! Luckily i'm a rooster...
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02-18-2007, 07:09 AM
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May fortune favor the foolish!!
Happy Year O' The Pig!
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02-18-2007, 10:53 AM
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Magical Watering Can
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Happy year of t3h Pig, everyone 
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I'm a Metal Sheep by Chinese astrology.
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...And I'm Solid Snake according to the Chinese astrology 
"A poodle is a dog, but not every dog is a poodle."
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02-18-2007, 02:56 PM
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Destroyer of Burfday!
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Originally Posted by LIAYD
Yep, it's finally the year of the pig
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DANGIT LIAYD, It's your fault I need a diet! grrrrrr
The Binary Theory of Life: Inside the box = bad... Outside the box = good...
Sanity is the highest form of oppression.
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02-18-2007, 03:16 PM
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Being in B.C. it's socially expected I celebrate Chinese New Year (1/3 of the population here is Chinese or of Chinese descent), so everyone have a happy New Year! *Fires fireworks into the air*
I hate myself and want to die.
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02-18-2007, 03:17 PM
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Fight da Powah
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And i'm Dawg Ztalker and Sabre.
Anyways, Happy Piggish Year! From what i've heard on radio, it's going to be a lucky year, a good year to have babies but not one to marry.
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02-18-2007, 03:32 PM
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Aa! Megami-sama!
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Yeah happy new year...
For me I'm a dragon in China Anthology...and I'm proud of it.
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02-18-2007, 04:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Hallucination
Being in B.C. it's socially expected I celebrate Chinese New Year (1/3 of the population here is Chinese or of Chinese descent), so everyone have a happy New Year! *Fires fireworks into the air*
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1/3? Wasn't it 90% :P?
It's a good year to have babies because they believe they will be rich. In eastern Asian culture, during your entire life, you take care of your parents and when you retire your children take care of you. They want their kids to be rich when they retire for obvious reasons
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02-18-2007, 06:15 PM
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unprecedented
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Happy Chinese New Year!!!
It's the Year of the Pig (or Boar as some choose to call it)
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It's a good year to have babies because they believe they will be rich.
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Sounds good to me! Now if I could just find a woman to bear my children... Hmmm... I'm gonna have to move quick if I'm gonna make it happen this year. I don't want to have to wait another 12 years.  |
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02-18-2007, 06:45 PM
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I was born during the year of the Horse....
Hey, I bet all the 'oriental' people at my school are celebrating this day. Since the whole top floor of our school is overrun by them.
Anyway, Happy Chinese New Year!! XD
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02-18-2007, 08:36 PM
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Baron von Sexy
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1/3? Wasn't it 90% :P?
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That's after you add in the Indians and Koreans.
I hate myself and want to die.
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02-19-2007, 12:51 AM
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Destroyer of Burfday!
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What's the best year to have babies in? Ya know for like all-round generally not-sucking kids?
The Binary Theory of Life: Inside the box = bad... Outside the box = good...
Sanity is the highest form of oppression.
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02-19-2007, 01:05 AM
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Happy New Year!
I'm a Horse. No jokes about 'horsing around'....
Our kids had a 'Chinese New Year' celebration at their school on Friday. They had a dragon go to all the classrooms and they formed a parade around the school. Everyone brought canned goods and such as 'gifts', and the food was all donated to the local food shelter.
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02-19-2007, 05:41 AM
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Gung Hee Fut Choy... I'm chinese, but is that even how to spell it??.... meh
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02-19-2007, 07:57 AM
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It is fashionable
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Happy new year... though I'm a little late.
Like, groovy 
you dig?
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02-19-2007, 09:52 AM
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unprecedented
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Originally Posted by maverick187
Gung Hee Fut Choy... I'm chinese, but is that even how to spell it??.... meh
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Is that in Cantonese or Mandarin? Looks like it's Cantonese to me.
I don't know Cantonese but in Mandarin it depends on what pinyinization system you use. In Hanyu pinyinization it's Gung Xi Fa Cai.
Of course if you know the characters then it makes things much easier since the written language is all the same. 
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Our kids had a 'Chinese New Year' celebration at their school on Friday. They had a dragon go to all the classrooms and they formed a parade around the school. Everyone brought canned goods and such as 'gifts', and the food was all donated to the local food shelter.
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That's cool! I don't remember ever doing anything for Chinese New Year when I was in K-12. I went to the biggest Chinese Cultural Center in my metropolitan area and was greeted with good performances by mostly non-Chinese people. That was surprising but I guess there are a lot of Americans that get into Chinese culture. |
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02-19-2007, 12:03 PM
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Originally Posted by cutmeister
I guess there are a lot of Americans that get into Chinese culture.
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Or they just want their women.
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02-19-2007, 04:37 PM
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Hey none of that.
I like the Chinese New Year and I wish our Asian friends a prosperous year. This Saturday, a group of my friends in the anthropology dept. are going to Chinatown in L.A. to see the Golden Dragon Parade. Lots of fun ahead.
This is my dad's year. He was born in the year of the Pig. I wonder how compatibility issues work out since my mother is a Hare. I'm a water Rat and my brother is a dragon hmm...
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02-20-2007, 01:09 AM
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Originally Posted by lukeiamyourdad
Or they just want their women.
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Damn strait!
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02-20-2007, 02:21 AM
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Je suis l'agent du chaos.
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Take em. I like white girls anyway.
Happy Têt!
edit - Yes, damn those narrow channels of water.
That's the last time I buy anything just because it's furry!
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02-23-2007, 01:44 PM
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Well, since I'm a pig, I should have a good year.
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