Meme.

[muchabstracted]

Gacked from elfsdh2

Rules:

1. Go into your archive.
2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to it).
3. Find the 5th sentence (or closest to it).
4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.

No one will agree to call me Aelgifu except Gerd the miller's son, who cannot pronounce the name and says Ugly-foo.

Comments

[fleurdelis28]

Aelgifu!

[fleurdelis28]

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.

[muchabstracted]

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

[muchabstracted]

*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.

further musings

[muchabstracted]

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'.)

[dreams_of_wings]

*laugh*
I read that sentence and went "Oh! I know what book that is from! I have not read that in AGES."

What fun. :)

[muchabstracted]

*grins* The benefit of discovering Catherine Called Birdy later on in life -- it gets posted on LJ. Twice, apparently.

HA

[ayelle]

That's still my favorite of all the Cushmans.

Re: HA

[muchabstracted]

I suspected it was her best, just based on the back covers. Which, I know, not a reliable method for determining book quality.