Captain Kidd against the Black Pearl

Aelgifu!

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Hmm. My 23rd post doesn't have a 5th sentence; it's a link to a Doonesbury cartoon so old that John Kerry is drawn as himself.

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Hmmm indeed. What's the fifth sentence in the cartoon?

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obopolsk.livejournal.com

That is an awesome sentence. I'd call you Aelgifu if you wanted. But I'm also the person who wants to name her child, if she ever has one, Aethelthryth. :)

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*grins* I wish I could claim credit. (And I sort of did, I suppose,) but it was from a post where I was quoting Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman.

Though as far as nicknames go, that's one I wouldn't mind having.

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Aethelthryth is a great name. And I would totally be behind that, except that anyone named Aethelthryth in this benighted day and age would be nicknamed Ethel. She'd have to practice her fisticuffs to keep it from happening. (The entire point of that last sentence, in case you wondered, was so I could use the word 'fisticuffs'.)

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obopolsk.livejournal.com

"Fisticuffs" is an excellent word. But I do have to come up with a nickname other than Ethel--that would be awful!

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Well, there's always the nickname "Elf", which follows nicely from Aelfgifu. Technically, that might not be any better, but I think it's more fun.

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What, fisticuffs?

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(Yes, I am taking advantage of my unlimited license to spam your journal. Deal.)

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*snorts* Yes, I am always terrribly upset to hear from you in any form.

Really, any form of the word "spam" that does not involve non-kosher food products or -- okay, so most forms of the word "spam" are irritating. But the personal and Monty Python versions of spam are always welcome in my LJ.

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Yes.

Fisticuffs.

*bites my thumb at you*

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Do you bite your thumb at me?

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Honestly, can't you read?

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Shall we play at questions?

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Are you asking me how high we can up my comment count?

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Don't you want to break LJ comment records?

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Of course she does!

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Statement. One-love.

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Thank you, I was trying to figure out the appropriate response.

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Do you think that our puny efforts will succeed where the Snaps Cup meme has failed?

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Aren't we so much more interesting than those people who do Snaps Cup memes?

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What does that have to do with the amount of spam they generate relative to us?

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A whole group of us who were in the same medieval English history class in college swore a not-so-solemn oath to name our firstborn daughters Aelfgifu.

I only figured out years later that our professor had mispronounced the name, and instead of ELF-gih-foo, it should have been elf-YEE-foo.

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obopolsk.livejournal.com

*snort* IMO, Elf-yee-foo is even better. We should all pity my unborn children, I think.

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At least Aethelthryth is pronounced more or less phonetically.

If you could be really cruel to the poor kids, you could spell it Æþelþryð...

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Teacher of

obopolsk's unborn daughter: "Ebelbride? Is there an Ebelbride present?"

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Question for you -- the full book quote in the original journal entry says that she's "Saint Aelgifu". I've been trying to find evidence of this saintedness and failing -- do you know if she was in fact a saint?

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