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- From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jason)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: Happy Chinese New Year!!!
- Followup-To: alt.callahans
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 06:43:45 GMT
- Organization: the Polyhedron Group
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- References: <1jrkbe$dmd@agate.berkeley.edu> <C1D7LC.5pK@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan25.203903.7937@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
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- In article <1993Jan25.203903.7937@bmerh85.bnr.ca>, yho@bmerh99e.bnr.ca
- (Yue-shun Ho) wrote:
- >
- > In article <C1D7LC.5pK@news.cso.uiuc.edu> trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
- > >
- > >kitten says "cockadoodle-doo!!!!!" and throws a handful of confetti at C+
- > >
- >
- > "What what? kitten, you say what?" yue-shun is scratching his head.
-
- Jason laughs. "Our Kitten's a Rooster, as I am. That's what. Born in one of
- the Chinese 'Year of the Rooster' cycles."
-
- "Say, Pegasus reminds me that there is also an elemental cycle to these
- years. So you might have the year of the wind-hare, or year of the
- fire-horse. In Japan, women unlucky enough to be born in the year of the
- fire-horse were thought to be extremely unlucky and cursed. Until recently
- girl-children born in that year were often killed, or if they lived, would
- have difficulty getting work or husbands, and were even suspected of being
- likely to murder their husbands."
-
- "Anyone know how the elemental cycle is calculated into the Chinese years?"
-
- "BTW - Pegasus was born in the year of the Hare. Roosters and Hare's aren't
- supposed to get along with each other. And according to the European zodiac
- or modern biorhythms, we should be at each other's throats. But we've been
- together more than 13 years, counting the four we were dating before we
- married. Go figure."
-
- Hugs,
- Jason
-