Year of the Rat

McGinty misses out

The Desert Rat is celebrating the start of the Year of the Rat. Unfortunately for Jim McGinty he was born just after the year of the Rat in 1949 so has missed out on those wonderful qualities possessed by those born in the Year of the Rat. With the start of the Year of the (Desert) Rat, Chinese have been forming queues across the country to buy the solid gold rodents pictured.

A Rat Year is a time of hard work, activity, and renewal. People born in an Earth Rat Year are said to be logical realists, shrewd, charming, ambitious, and inventive.

In Chinese, the Rat is respected and considered a courageous, enterprising person. People born in the Year of Rat are clever and bright, sociable and family-minded. They have broad interests and strong ability in adapting to the environment and able to react adequately to any changes.

They are gifted in many ways and have an easy going manner. They are active and pleasant, tactful and fantastic, and are able to grasp opportunities. They seem to have interests in everything and hope to participate in doing it and usually do it very well. Well Jim blame your normal parent, you just missed out - by a rat's whisker!

McGinty, Carpenter and the Corruption (of truth) and Crime Commission should remember the old desert saying:

"Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat."