# 2010 year of the Tiger! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 11, 2010, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-year-of-the-tiger/524476 "2010-01-11T04:06:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-year-of-the-tiger/524476/21 "2010-01-11T15:41:24Z")
Ooh, I’m a metal monkey. That’s pretty neat. I don’t think many of the supposed attributes really “fit”, though. I’m marrying a fire dragon. He sounds dangerous! ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-year-of-the-tiger/524476/22 "2010-01-11T16:40:20Z")
Monkey, Yang Metal. ---
**Author:** ![BetsQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@BetsQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BetsQ)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-year-of-the-tiger/524476/23 "2010-01-11T16:54:14Z")
I’m a water ox. I’m also a Taurus, so I’m clearly bovine in nature. 🙂 Here are the qualities [wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_zodiac)lists: Dependable, calm, methodical, born leader, patient, hardworking, ambitious, conventional, steady, modest, logical, resolute, tenacious. Can be stubborn, narrow-minded, materialistic, rigid, demanding. I’m a lot of those, especially stubborn. Maybe not so much with the hardworking and ambitious, though. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-year-of-the-tiger/524476/24 "2010-01-11T17:31:09Z")
I’m a wood rabbit. I pretty much fit the stereotype. I am mated with a Dragon, though, which is pretty much said to not work…though it is said, if you can get past your differences, your relationship will be much stronger. Which has happened. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-year-of-the-tiger/524476/25 "2010-01-11T17:45:51Z")
> [@Maeglin](#): > > I’m an Earth Horse. This has a certain distinction. Me tooooo. I didn’t realize we were born the same year. ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-year-of-the-tiger/524476/26 "2010-01-11T17:51:04Z")
> [@BigBertha](#): > > I’m a dog. Not as cool as a tiger, but hey. yes, I am loyal. I enjoy calling our local chinese food place each year asking for (year of) fried rice. Guess it’ll be tiger fried rice soon! > Whats the element, never heard of it, how do you find out? Just run a search on the year of your birth (eg 1982 dog what element?) and you should get it. Otherwise, do a seach on Chinese horoscopes and check one of their charts). Fire dog here. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-year-of-the-tiger/524476/27 "2010-01-11T21:05:21Z")
I am a wooden Ox. Prefer the water based Cancer Western 'scopes though. But Sure, why not? I’ll go with it. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-year-of-the-tiger/524476/28 "2010-01-11T21:15:01Z")
I am such an oddball. Me: Wood Dragon. Hubby: Earth Monkey. Son: Earth Tiger. Daughter: Earth Rabbit. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-year-of-the-tiger/524476/29 "2010-01-11T22:27:51Z")
It makes total sense to me, that I was born in the Year of the Cock. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-year-of-the-tiger/524476/30 "2010-01-11T22:49:44Z")
Jan 4, 1968 - so I just missed Monkey ( which I thought I was for years, until I realized the New Years are slightly skewed date-wise in the Chinese Zodiac ) and instead got **Ram**. And I’m a **Capricorn** as well for that double goaty goodness ( or odor, perhaps ). Thankfully I don’t believe in horoscopes. Capricorns never do. ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-year-of-the-tiger/524476/31 "2010-01-11T23:07:02Z")
Wood Dragon. I am Principled, Discriminating, Noble-hearted, and Healthy. At my best I am Compelling, Vibrant, Magnanimous, and Charismatic as well. I don’t see myself as a born leader type that Chinese astrology portrays the dragon. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-year-of-the-tiger/524476/32 "2010-01-12T02:26:30Z")
I’m a Snake, which is pretty cool, because snakes are one of my favorite animals. According to that Wiki article… I’m a Yin Earth Snake, because I was born in 1989. Except the article on personlities says that Snakes are “Yin, 2nd Trine, Fixed Element Fire”. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-year-of-the-tiger/524476/33 "2010-01-12T02:55:44Z")
Horse. Hmmm…interesting that it shares a common scatological suffix with my “other” astrological sign. Not sure what to make of that. ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-year-of-the-tiger/524476/34 "2010-01-12T03:01:04Z")
Water doggy here. I might be a golden retriever. ---
**Author:** ![manila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@manila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manila)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-year-of-the-tiger/524476/35 "2010-01-12T03:14:41Z")
> [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](#): > > Water doggy here. I might be a golden retriever. Or a Newfie? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-year-of-the-tiger/524476/36 "2010-01-12T03:54:33Z")
I’m an Earth Pig, which happens to be the literal translation of “aardvark”. I remember watching a TV show years ago (must have been in '83 or '95) on which one of the characters was Chinese and upset that his son was going to be born in the Year of the Boar, because the kid was destined to be lazy. However, [this page](http://www.usbridalguide.com/special/chinesehoroscopes/Pig.htm) claims we swine are a hardworking lot! ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-year-of-the-tiger/524476/37 "2010-01-12T08:50:17Z")
Woof! > [@](#): > > By Suzanne White: Dogs are: Magnanimous, Courageous, Noble, Loyal, Devoted, Attentive, Selfless, Faithful, Modest, Altruistic, Prosperous, Philosophical, Respectful, Discreet, Dutiful, Lucid and intelligent. > [@](#): > > But they can also be: Disquiet, Guarded, Introverted, Defensive, Critical, Pessimistic, Forbidding, Cynical, Stubborn, and Moralizing. I don’t see a problem with the second set. I bet there are other pups that feel the same… Am I right? The dog’s element is metal, I am a cancer so, I have to try to keep my heavy world afloat. Not always easy. ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-year-of-the-tiger/524476/38 "2010-01-12T15:19:41Z")
I’m a Tiger, (and an Aries), my wife’s a Tiger and our second born will be Tiger…yes we have some good arguements in our house - why do you ask? ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-year-of-the-tiger/524476/39 "2010-01-12T15:49:51Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > I’m an Earth Pig, which happens to be the literal translation of “aardvark”. I remember watching a TV show years ago (must have been in '83 or '95) on which one of the characters was Chinese and upset that his son was going to be born in the Year of the Boar, because the kid was destined to be lazy. However, [this page](http://www.usbridalguide.com/special/chinesehoroscopes/Pig.htm) claims we swine are a hardworking lot! Also an earth pig. Where are the truffles? ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-year-of-the-tiger/524476/40 "2010-01-12T18:08:18Z")
Water Tiger. Pretty cool. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-year-of-the-tiger/524476.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-year-of-the-tiger/524476.md?page=3)