Are Chinese sheep really ghosts?

哈哈，其实，实在我自己也不能忍受它任何进一步

yea well, whatever it was seems to have had a sex change. I do like the female better but your scaring me now. A little R&R perhaps?

Yeah,it was just temp RJ. You're right,I need to get with the times. It is the year of the tiger after all. Hey presto,虎年快乐

Tal,

It was the Year of the Horse Manimal by Daniel Lee. Here are the others:

http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://f00.inventorspot.com/images/manimal7.jpg&imgrefurl=http://inventorspot.com/node/13736&usg=__1MWYrJQFwCuk8dBuREbzTHvRP6A=&h=450&w=335&sz=82&hl=en&start=5&sig2=unN76O5uTYNfwPk_4J93-w&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=EvczSDokc-1pdM:&tbnh=127&tbnw=95&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmanimals%252Btiger%252Blee%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=UDeeS8qTAdGTkAW9hZDIAg

...whoah,that's quite a url length.Just as well for copy and paste.

Sorry Tal, I forget where you are and how little you "get out" 哈哈。 Ambien is in the news from time to time as some politician is caught "sleep driving" or something. Evidently the drug has this weird side effect where some people (especially if taken with alcohol) will sleep walk, eat, drive, and one guy even had a sleep affair and didnt remember it until the gal called him wanting to know when he was coming back.

your a champ mate,only you would see it another way and it still fits.

呵呵，I had no idea, thought you must mean ambient music. Well... I learned something!

actually Tal, "ambien" is a popular prescription sleeping pill here in the US.

呵呵，what is that new avatar anyway baba, I'm sure I should know but just can't place it. You change it so often these days! Seems constant change is your motif.

'Ambien' RJ, you mean like the music? Yep, it's good!

Well Mick Dundee showed how we Aussies put the bulls to sleep [as shown in this vid at 36s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WGqaN12JuM ...sorry can only find this stuff on youtube] so maybe the connection works both ways. 我看你。

hehe,

I was pretty sure that's the reaction I'd get and you're just the one to tell me so.It just feels so fitting in this discussion though mate.I wanna feel part of it,blend in,be one with it.Would you prefer the sheep man I posted a link to above?...I don't wanna put folk to sleep any more than I'm already apt to though as I want the boards to be alive....can't have anyone bored with the boards.

Changye- money! I should have known.

Baba- please tell me that avatar is a temp.

Tal - cows eh, personally I find that ambien works best. It does lead to sleep walking however.

Hey RJ, good to see you mate, cheers! In the classroom I sometimes make students chant: 'Mrs. Brown counted cows coming down the mountain', (to practice the 'ow' sound!), and then I'll tell them 'if you can't fall asleep at night, you can count cows like Mrs. Brown, and then you'll fall asleep'.

'Shouldn't it be sheep?' someone will ask, and I'll say:

'Well, it works with sheep too, but if you count cows, you fall asleep more quickly.'

This usually mightily puzzles them, (my surreal and silly sense of humour generally not striking a chord!)

'Why?' someone will say.

'I'm not sure,' I'll reply, with my best attempt at looking puzzled, 'it just does. Try it!'

或者，也许他们可以数人【没有短缺】：

http://f00.inventorspot.com/images/Manimal.jpg

Hi rjberki

They count money, perhaps, hehe.

have you tried counting goats? I wonder, is the counting sheep thing understood in china? What do the Chinese count?

Hi rjberki

I can't sleep well due to the "sheep/goat" problem, so I have to count sheep again tonight.

我觉得对说法你对的，就语法书而论我都不过你，可是对生物学我不一定。 :-) 其实对生物学我也都不过你！

..while originally all rams had horns, sheep can have horns or not, depending upon their breed, sex, and genetics (www.sheep101.info).

Hi bodawei

我听说，野生品种一般都有角，但是有些改良品种没有角。这个说法对吗？我对生物学不太熟悉。对了，顺便说下，你可以说“母/雌羊”和“公/雄羊”，但是不能说“女羊/男羊”。我家的小胖狗是母狗。

Hi bababardwan

我打错字了！其实，“羊年喜洋洋”就是2003年（羊年）的时候我常听的一个祝福语。

Changye

我学习生物学很久，但是我知道绵羊有一对角！ 其实然而女绵羊没有一只角，男绵羊有一对角。 这是男的不是女的，对吧？

长夜，

你为什么写了“喜洋洋”。。。他的名字是“喜羊羊”

。。不过我系黄“洋洋”因为Xiao_liang“一天找这样的词

从“毛”来看，喜洋洋好像是一只绵羊，不过问题是他有一对角！头上长角的绵羊你看过没有？真是纳闷儿！喜洋洋很可能是一只“二不像”，哈哈。

哦， 不好意思。。

因为中国没有真的绵阳（对吗？），我没有看过，所以一定是山羊。

是吗？这个问题憋在我心里已经很久了，越想越搞不懂，晚上都睡不好觉！

这个问题不重要的，就是喜洋洋， 很可爱啊！

同志，不要少见多怪，绵羊也长角的。

Oh,my friend ,sheeps also have their horns.

怕不怕鬼？还是鬼怕不怕你？

你好，很高兴我能到在此留言，我是中国刚毕业的毕业学生！英文不怎么好的！今天很无意间过来，希望我们能成为朋友，互相交流。如果想了解中文或者中国可以和我联系的。我的邮箱：kongqiancj@sina.com.cn

Tal，我不好意思。。。我没有意识到你是严重。。好运。。我希望中国人或者老师回答

呵呵，鬼肉！！

I have a few theories:

1. The 老板 keeps the meat for friends and family; don't waste it on customers who are happy to pay 30 RMB for a dish of liver and lumps of fat.

2. There are other dishes available at the restaurant but our host does not like 羊肉.

3. 老板 sells the meat to local Muslim restaurants. Most little Muslim restaurants seem to just use the meat and not the offal - maybe it is a SYMBIOTIC relationship.

But this wolf is like this:

"...always plotting to catch goats. But failed all times."

Like I said mate, story of my life! 呵呵！

我一定会回来的，可恶的小羊！

Sounds delish bodawei, so what did they do with the meat? or maybe it was ghost meat, 呵呵，鬼肉！

Now come on mate,that would make you the Big Mal Wolf and I'll have none o' tha'

Sheep-goat confusion Episode #1

One day our friends ask us if we'd like to go to a restaurant where they eat 羊肉 (lamb.) Yum, yes please. We hop in the car and on the way the conversation kind of takes a twist. Our host starts referring to it as 山羊 (shānyáng.) Oh, I think, a goat restaurant - still sounds interesting. Visions of delicious goat and potato stew. On arrival we see that it one of those without a menu - the goods are displayed in boxes, cases, shelves etc. I can't see anything that looks distinctly like goat meat, but there is an awful lot of offal. Our hosts of course do the ordering and presently our main dish arrives - offal, big lumps of fat, and blood in an enormous stew. I had the stew part right. There were separate dishes of potato, greens etc. No meat, I promise you. No meat at all.

My question for poddies is: what do they do with the meat?

Sounds like the story of my life!

I tell you what,this sheepish looking goat does look pleasant [but not sheepish].I love the character descriptions ,such as for Big Red Wolf:

"She is the wife of Big Big Wolf. She always blames her husband, and thinks he is a loser. Longs for mutton. Hits Big Big Wolf with a frying pan in basically every episode."