Chinese New Year Punitive Punning

I have decided that if I receive one more MSN Message, or email, or Chinese New Year greeting of any form, both verbal and electronic, wishing me a 'Happy Niu Year', or some other equivalently poor pun, I shall strangle the person responsible. It is bad enough putting up with bad puns that seem an inherently unavoidable part of the English language. To have to put up with puns involving a transliteration of phonetic sounds of a language without an alphabet, now that is really pushing things to a level which is completely ridiculous.