The Cock on a Chinese restaurant paper placemat.

[Bucky]

How do you react when you go to a Chinese restaurant and see they have those red & white paper placemats with the zodiac calendar years on them? You know, the one that says if you marry someone six years older than you or six years younger than you, you'll be miserable...

Year of the Dog, Year of the Monkey, Year of the Pig....

And then you get to this one: The Year of the Cock includes 1945, 1957, 1981, and of course 1969.

When you were 13 you'd see them and giggle. Ha! It says "cock". When your kids are 13 you try not to say anything about it and tell them to please quit giggling in a public restaurant--the manager is staring at you. I mean it, you two, if you keep on acting like this, your mother and I can never take you out to a restaurant ever again.

Have you gotten over it yet, or do you still get the giggles when you read the phrase "Year of the Cock"?

[Reverend_Smitty]

1. There are just some things you never grow too old for...

and giggling at the word cock is one of them.


but then again, you can't take me anywhere :P

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Not half as much as compared to the bottle of cock sauce on the table.

[Dr. Strange]

4. That cock sauce is spicy.

I use it sometimes when I cook. 'Cause I like hot cock sauce.
Try spicing up your chex mix with it some time.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. I put it in my spaghetti.

's good.

[Bucky]

5. When you run dry, do you refill your cock sauce or go & buy a new one?

(nice picture, by the way, but that's not how you're supposed to hold it)

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. My dad was going through customs one time....

...and he had bought a ceramic statue of a rooster. When asked if he had anything to declare, just to be a smartass he said "One Ceramic Cock". I don't know if the customs agent laughed or just gave him a dirty looil.

[Withywindle]

7. I still giggle.

I'm very proud that I was actually born in the Year of the Cock--1969.

[RainDog]

8. I have a Chinese cock hanging on the wall of my bedroom

it's a wall scroll. with little cockettes. supposed to be cock-sure, but I don't know about that. it was a present. I'm doing major spring cleaning (in the summer) so I should probably take it down and wash it off. but I'll have to make sure it's colorfast first.

Funny you should mention it, in fact. I put lampshades in my tub and washed them the other day and just last night I was thinking I should take that cock off the wall and wash it. very dusty now.

and no, of course I didn't giggle when I wrote this. I'm far too mature to laugh at cock jokes. ahem.

[Pierre.Suave]

9. SWEET!!!!!

I was born in the year of the Dragon. How freakin cool is that?

http://www.c-c-c.org/chineseculture/zodiac/Dragon.html


1916, 1928, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000

People born in the Year of the Dragon are healthy, energetic, excitable, short-tempered, and stubborn. They are also honest, sensitive, brave, and they inspire confidence and trust. Dragon people are the most eccentric of any in the eastern zodiac. They neither borrow money nor make flowery speeches, but they tend to be soft-hearted which sometimes gives others an advantage over them. They are compatible with Rats, Snakes, Monkeys, and Roosters.

[Magrittes Pipe]

10. Best Al Stewart song ever.

[Symarip]

11. I was going to name my band:

King Cock and the Roosters.

Band girlfriends weren't impressed.

[MissMillie]

12. there's writing on the mat under my plate?

All I ever notice is the food....

[Arugula Latte]

13. Uh oh. I married someone six years older ...

And this is year 13 ... :scared: