Gung Hay Fat Choy!
Feb. 12th, 2002 12:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
raybearThat's 'happy new year', for those playing along at home. And welcome to the year of the Water Horse. And we're pleased to inform our readers that we have the Water Horse in our studio tonight! Please give it a warm welcome.
[a smattering of applause in the office]
Q: Welcome to the show. Is this your first time here?
A: Yeah. The last time around you didn't exist.
Q: Which I guess could pose some problems, eh? Moving on, did you watch the pair figure skating last night? What's your opinion on the gold and silver medal standings?
A: I was hurting for both couples, really. And why did that one announcer talk about being ashamed for her sport? This is the first time she's ashamed of her sport? Did she not watch during the 1992 games? But what do I know? I'm just happy China won the bronze.
Q: Great. Would you mind explaining what exaclty a water horse is? Is it like a water buffalo?
A: Oh no. I'm the breed of horse you wide-eyed Americans are familiar with. The Chinese calender is a very complicated system, involving yin and yang, stems and branches and elements -- not just the animal. Water is equivalent to black in the five element system, so sometimes you'll hear this year referred to as the Black Horse Year.
Q: Would you mind gracing us with some predictions?
A: Without giving out too many spoilers, let's just say that if you were born in the day OR the year of Cow, Snake, or Chicken, your chances of getting nookie are higher then the rest of the population.
Q: You heard it here first, folks. Water Horse, thanks for joining us. We have to go to commercials, but when you come back to your Friends page, we will re-join the regularly scheduled programs for Raybear's journal. Special thanks to Raybear for allowing us to commandeer this space. G'night everyone!
[a smattering of applause in the office]
Q: Welcome to the show. Is this your first time here?
A: Yeah. The last time around you didn't exist.
Q: Which I guess could pose some problems, eh? Moving on, did you watch the pair figure skating last night? What's your opinion on the gold and silver medal standings?
A: I was hurting for both couples, really. And why did that one announcer talk about being ashamed for her sport? This is the first time she's ashamed of her sport? Did she not watch during the 1992 games? But what do I know? I'm just happy China won the bronze.
Q: Great. Would you mind explaining what exaclty a water horse is? Is it like a water buffalo?
A: Oh no. I'm the breed of horse you wide-eyed Americans are familiar with. The Chinese calender is a very complicated system, involving yin and yang, stems and branches and elements -- not just the animal. Water is equivalent to black in the five element system, so sometimes you'll hear this year referred to as the Black Horse Year.
Q: Would you mind gracing us with some predictions?
A: Without giving out too many spoilers, let's just say that if you were born in the day OR the year of Cow, Snake, or Chicken, your chances of getting nookie are higher then the rest of the population.
Q: You heard it here first, folks. Water Horse, thanks for joining us. We have to go to commercials, but when you come back to your Friends page, we will re-join the regularly scheduled programs for Raybear's journal. Special thanks to Raybear for allowing us to commandeer this space. G'night everyone!
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Date: 2002-02-12 10:50 am (UTC)me and the other snakes consider ourselves warned of the impending nookie. ok, i'm sufficiently warned, where the hell is it?
anyway, you rock my world. should i try calling you from work later today?
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Date: 2002-02-12 12:11 pm (UTC)perhaps i'll try to ring you at work after my doctor's appt? it will make the train ride much more bearable.
Inquiring minds want to know...
Date: 2002-02-12 10:53 am (UTC)Re: Inquiring minds want to know...
Date: 2002-02-12 11:08 am (UTC)Thanks for your letter, and keep tuning in!
Re: Inquiring minds want to know...
Date: 2002-02-12 01:18 pm (UTC)and i, too, am a young monkey - August 17, 1980, baby!
white as hell,
myles
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Date: 2002-02-27 10:49 am (UTC)[looks around.]