Today begins the Year of the Rat on the Chinese lunar calendar. How do you plan to celebrate the noble rodent?
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Today begins the Year of the Rat on the Chinese lunar calendar. How do you plan to celebrate the noble rodent?
I plan on growing larger teeth, a tail, and fur, immediately.
No, I don’t know. What is the proper way to celebrate the noble rodent?
Oh, YAY!
‘Tis Yuki’s birthday! (from Fruits Basket)
I don’t know how to celebrate it. I would read the one volume of Fruits Basket I own but I don’t feel like it.
Umm… I’ll just wish everyone happy new lunar year… That’s good enough…
Rats are pests. Why would anyone have a year about them
3 – Rats aren’t pests! They’re nice creatures!
They’re part of the Chinese zodiac.
Don’t people eat rats? Or guinea pigs, at any rate… I imagine they might be too small to give enough nutrition.
[/disgusting thinking]
Well I hopefully will be getting a shirt soon that reads:
The Black Death
European Tour
[picture of rat]
and then on the back there are ‘tour dates’ with towns completely wiped out from the black plague XD
Otherwise, I’m not sure yet.
5- buy one!
Year of the Rat.
Uh….
Lots of sniffing and scuttling around.
Happy Year of the Rat!
hmmm….. I will brush up on my rat knowledge for a start maybe.
(1) I’ll try too.
What a coincidinky!!!! I just finished a book involving giant rats called Gregor and The Warmbloods in the Underland Chronicles!
I plan on celebrating by… *drumroll*… studying!
Just like I spend the rest of my time.
I’ll celebrate by…. Posting on this thread! hooray!
I’ll do the Hamster Dance, dressed up as a rat.
My 12th birthday’s this year. I’m a rat person.
Have you read Flowers For Algernon?
My little brother’s a Rat. I’m a Dog.
I’m a boar. Or pig, but I’m used to saying boar.
Like Jared Leto! YAY! xD
I’m a monkey.
(18) So am I, since my birthday is in January.
19 – Aren’t Chinese Zodiac to do with what year you are born?
20- Yes, it does. I’m a monkey because I was born in 1992.
*sighs* I’m a rooster.
I’m an ox. A close relative of Bo’s.
(20, 21) The correspondence is not exact. Robert and I were born in different years according to the Gregorian calendar, but the same year by the Chinese calendar which changes in late January or early February.
I didn’t know that when I was little, so for several years I lived under the illusion I was a rooster.
I’m a rat! YAY!
I’m a monkey. I think my mom is too, and my dad is a rat. I think.
I am a monkey!
Last year was the year of the pig, which is considered to be a very lucky sign. There is a small baby boom in China everytime it is the year of the pig.
I’m a dog. My sister’s a pig. My mom’s a rabbit, and my dad’s a dragon. Apparently dogs don’t get along well with dragons, but I doubt that, seeing as we get along just fine. (not sarcastic.) I don’t actually get the whole deal with being born in a certain year meaning that all of these characteristics are true of you. But the placemats with the animals and descriptions on them are pretty, anyway.
I dunno what I am, what’s 1995?
Erm….Rooster. I believe.
(29) That would be the boar or pig.
Here’s a list from Wikipedia of the years within which MBer birthdays fall:
Dragon: Feb 17 1988 – Feb 05 1989
Snake: Feb 06 1989 – Jan 26 1990
Horse: Jan 27 1990 – Feb 14 1991
Sheep: Feb 15 1991 – Feb 03 1992
Monkey: Feb 04 1992 – Jan 22 1993
Rooster: Jan 23 1993 – Feb 09 1994
Dog: Feb 10 1994 – Jan 30 1995
Boar: Jan 31 1995 – Feb 18 1996
Rat: Feb 19 1996 – Feb 06 1997
Ox: Feb 07 1997 – Jan 27 1998
Tiger: Jan 28 1998 – Feb 15 1999
Rabbit: Feb 16 1999 – Feb 04 2000
Dragon: Feb 05 2000 – Jan 23 2001
I’m a horse.
pig.
Ox. But all my characteristics fit with the rat!
I will also celebrate by watching Ratatouille!
That’s a good idea.
i AM a noble rodent (born in the year of the rat), so do i hafta celebrate meself?
6 – OK, let’s squish this one again.
Rats spread Bubonic Plague – or at least, the fleas on their backs do. Rats also die from Bubonic Plague. They’re not imminue.
The Black Death, and the later Great Plague, were probably the same disease, but recent research strongly suggests they weren’t Bubonic Plague. It was more likely something related to Ebola, but with a longer gestation period, spread by human to human contact, not rats. The first clue to this was the puzzling absence in written records of any mention of the startling spectacle of hundreds of dead rats that always accompanies an outbreak of Bubonic.
Right, next grizzly subject…..
I’m a boar. Whee? xP
2: Happy birthday, Yuki! I’ve never actually read Fruits Basket (gasp!) but I have several friends who are obsessed with it.
15: Yes! We just read Flowers for Algernon in school. But isn’t Algernon a mouse?
I celebrated Lunar New Year by wearing a red shirt and planning to wish everyone a Happy New Year and promptly forgetting.
6, 38- Well, it’s no fault of the rats, is it? It’s those pesky little fleas who caused the trouble.
IM A RAT!!!!! comon giv mes a break!!! im i nice gurl!
pEc ppl!
ratatouille rox
ratatouille rox out lowd
42, 43, 44 – Please keep in mind that MuseBlog isn’t a chatroom, so please try not to make pointless posts, and avoid having more than one post in a row if you can help it.
That makes me a boar. Hmm.
Not exactly my daemon, is it?
I’m a roosted. yay. most of my friends are dogs…
I’m a tiger…… Wish I was a dragon!
I am a dragon! I thought I was a snake for a long time, which made my friend sing “Cold-Hearted Snake” at me.
Copenhagen is having a rat problem. PLEASE DON*T MENTION THIS TOO MUCH: IT’S EMBARRESSING ENOUGH HAVING “HUMANE” TRAPS ON ALMOST EVERY OTHER BLOCK.
Our winter was exeptionally mild, it got up to 12 degrees today, for goodness’s sake. absolutely ridiculous. So the cold didn’t do it’s anual “kill rats freeze” so we are stuck with a whole bunch of rats. I’m rather distraught as i happen to think it’s horrid. Jeez, it’s okay for people to overpopulate, but as soon as it’s an animal, nooooo, let’s butcher the rats! I feel sick.
40 – Either a white lab rat or a white lab mouse.
THE HIGH TODAY IS 4 DEGREES (Fahrenheit).
RAT!! That is I.
51- Be thankful.
52 – ElaboRATe.
6- Ooh I saw and wanted that shirt!
38- Okay… I still want the shirt.
46 – That’s what I am too.
53- Read post 50. WE NEED THE SNOW AND COLD!!! Although we are not going to get them. I was out walking with two of my cousins, and we picked SPRING FLOWERS. The gækaren’t supposed tobe out until early march, at the earliest!!
Eh. I’m a monkey. Wish I was anything except a monkey.
(57) If it’s any consolation, Vixen, you’re in good company: half the GAPAs are monkeys, as are quite a few MBers (see above, starting with comment 18).
Why do I have to be the one who eats fleas off other monkeys’ backs??? ;D
Just say you’re a vegetarian and don’t eat fleas. There are many advantages to being a monkey.
60- *Laughs out loud.* May I take a gues that you are a monkey, too?
Hey, at least you’re a monkey. I’m a rooster.
Monkeys, monkeys, monkeys……..
can we have a monkey thread instead of discussing monkeys on the RAT thread?!?!?!?!?!
63- No. We are talking about Zodiac signs on the Zodiac Rat thread.
63- Yes, we should have a separate monkey thread because monkeys make everything better!
We do NOT need a new thread! We have too many threads as it is!!!
(66) Monkey see, monkey do not make new thread.
67- *lol*
67-Haha!
My friend’s dad is from China, but he lives in Florida and we live in Ohio, so it really doesn’t make sense at all.
I went to China during the summer and it was amazing!
There is a picture of me being Koko and reading Muse in China on the “when they’re not on the blog” thread.
56 – Ha! You DON’T want heat… I want heat VERY BADLY. Any kind of weather I can wear shorts and a t-shirt all-year-round is my IDEAL kind of weather. I WANT THE COLD TO GO AWAY!!!
*begins burning incense* Coldness, go away, coldness, go away… It ain’t working. *drools* Spaghetti straps and cutoffs…
Wait a second,
its the year of the rat and
the March MUSE is about rats
is there a connection here?
*gasp* You’re on to something!
I’m a rat on the Zodiac! *grins smugly*
Does that mean that if the next issue of Muse is about…-picks random subject-…hot pink bunnies, it will be the year of the hot pink bunny?
I suppose so. I guess that means that that one about napkins it was the ‘Year of the Napkin’.
And the one about adverts was the ‘Year of the Ads?’