Happy 牛 Year is the most popular new year greeting of 2009 in China. I even received such greeting from a Japanese friend. Whatever related to ox or cow come out. I would add more, introducing a cow who lives in Linux and is able to speak and think.
esn@esn-laptop:~$ cowsay "Happy 牛 Year！"
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esn@esn-laptop:~$ cowthink "Happy My Year..."
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Actually, these two commands are just one command.
esn@esn-laptop:~$ ls -l /usr/games/cow*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4264 2008-05-07 15:36 /usr/games/cowsay
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2009-02-01 10:19 /usr/games/cowthink -> cowsay
The cow is sentimental:
$ cowsay "Happy 牛 Year！"
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esn@esn-laptop:~$ cowsay -b "Happy 牛 Year！ "
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esn@esn-laptop:~$ M="Happy 牛 Year！"
esn@esn-laptop:~$ cowsay -d $M
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esn@esn-laptop:~$ cowsay -p $M
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esn@esn-laptop:~$ cowsay -s $M
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esn@esn-laptop:~$ cowsay -y $M
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It acquired the powers of shape shifting. All of its possible forms are as follows:
esn@esn-laptop:~$ cowsay -l
Cow files in /usr/share/cowsay/cows:
apt beavis.zen bong bud-frogs bunny cheese cower daemon default dragon
dragon-and-cow duck elephant elephant-in-snake eyes flaming-sheep
ghostbusters head-in hellokitty kiss kitty koala kosh luke-koala
mech-and-cow meow milk moofasa moose mutilated ren satanic sheep skeleton
small sodomized sodomized-sheep stegosaurus stimpy supermilker surgery
telebears three-eyes turkey turtle tux udder vader vader-koala www
For example, it can transform to a fire dragon:
esn@esn-laptop:~$ cowsay -f dragon "Happy 牛 Year！"
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The cow will show its powers of shape shifting to celebrate its year!
esn@esn-laptop:~$ for f in /usr/share/cowsay/cows/*.cow;
do n=`basename $f .cow`; cowsay -f $n "Happy 牛 Year"; done
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Darth
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koala
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