On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:59:37 -0500, Krazy Kiwi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 Reef Fish <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
><ginormous snip of the kiwi shears>
>
>>I am just popping in here to read a few posts, and wish y'll a
>>
>>                    HAPPY (CHINESE) NEW YEAR
>>
>>before this day slips away.
>
>
>Gong Xi Fa Cai to you too Bob :-)

Excellent, even if you called me a "Fat Chicken"!  :-)

Actually that's almost perfect Mandarin, except "Cai" should have
sounded like "Tsai" or "Chai", not "Cai", which sounds more like
"Gai", Cantonese for Chicken, as in "Moo Goo Gai Pan".  :-)

The first time I posted something in Scuba-L about Happy Chinese
New Year, I was FLAMED :-))!! :

>OK, how empty does your life have to be to decide to take a whole lot
>of Ts and make them look like the Chinese characters for Happy New
>Year?

because I posted this:


RF> I saw LARGE schools of hammerhead sharks beneath in
RF> strange formations (each T is a hammerhead):


   T        T         T                T     T            T   TT      T
   TT   T TTTT        TT               TT    TT          T   TT      T
TTTTTTTTTTT          TT       T        TT    TT  T      T   TTTTTT  T
 TT  TT TT          TTTTTTTTTTTT       TT  TTTTTTTT    TT   TT  TT TT
  TT TT TT         TT    TT            TTT   TT TT     T  T TT  TT TT T
  T TT  TT   T    T  T   TT  T        TTTTT  TT TT     TTTT TTTTTT TTTT
TTTTTTTTTTTTTTT      TTTTTTTTTT      TTTT T  TT TT      T   TT  TT  T
   TT   TT TT        TT  TT          T TT    TT TT     TT T TT  TT TT T
   TT   TT TT        TT  TT            TT TTTTTTTTTT   TTTT TTTTTT TTTT
TTTTTTT TT TT        TT  TT    T       TT    TT               TT
  TTTT  TT TT     TTTTTTTTTTTTTTT      TT   TTTT       TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
 TTTTTT TT TT            TT            TT   TT TT           T TT T
 T TT T TT TT            TT            TT  TT   TT         TT TT TT
T  TT  TT  TT            TT            TT  TT   TTT       TT  TT  TT
  TTT  T   TT            TT            TT TT     TTT    TTT   TT   TTT
   T  T    TT            TT            T T        T      T    TT    T


The flame-thrower WASN'T Nick, for a change, though he had plenty of
similar, senseless ones.    :-))


>Perth Mint issued a new set of coins to celebrate this day - horses - for
>the Year of the Horse.

I should have changed all the "T" to "H", eh?


>I am an OX but some of my ex's reckon I am as stubborn as a mule ;-)

I like mules <BG>, and am proud to self-proclaim as the King of Mules,
when it comes to my stand on matters of PRINCIPLE important to me. :-))

On the Chinese Calendar, I am just a cuddly, timid Wabbit, and I can't
even say I am as productive as one of them.  <sigh>

>Viv

Please order me a set the Perth Mint coins for the Year of the Horses,
at whatever cost.  You can deliver them to me when you come to the
Choo-Choo-NEDfest, and I'll pay you the OZ$ equivalent in US or CAYMAN
currency! :-))  I'll be staying in the SAME CABIN I would have stayed in
the CAIV02NEDfest, two weeks BEFORE the CAIV02NEDfest, in order to
fulfill my annual pilgrimmage to the Cayman Aggressor.   :-)

Does the Perth Mint have sets of Horse's Arse?  <BG>  If so, I may have
to order an unspecified quantity for unspecified uses.  <BWG>

-- Bob.