if it isn't one thing...

[winterbadger]

My hand having healed up from my cycling accident, I burned my finger cooking a piece of salmon for my dinner last night.

Since this salmon had apparently not spent its life eating nuts from the tree of wisdom, all I got was a blister...

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[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

ouch :0(

[winterbadger]

Thanks!

Wonderful icon, BTW. How *does* one get them to animate?

[magaidhbhan.livejournal.com]

Can I just say how much I love it that you just made a joke that I wouldn't have expected anyone but my Folk&Myth/Celtic studies buddies to have gotten? I'm sorry you burned your finger, but rock on, a charaid! =)

[winterbadger]

*blush* All praise should go to Rosemary Sutcliffe. :-)

I told the same tale to some of my co-workers, and one of them remarked that my doing so reminded him of one of our friends we used to work with, a noted Celtophile and scholar who had spent several years working for a member of the Dáil Éireann.

[justjayj.livejournal.com]

*flashback to undergrad Celtic Myth class*

Ow!

Hee.

[winterbadger]

:-) My pain, like my humour, often gets expressed in the most obscure of ways. :-)

[dativesingular.livejournal.com]

Yay Salmon of Wisdom jokes!

(Even if in my thesis it was Sigurd and the dragon heart---it's essentially the same story. ;)

[winterbadger]

My friend Nicholas asked how wise a salmon it could have been if it allowed itself to be caught. :-) Of course, he's as much a Germanophile as I am a Britophile, so perhaps I should have referred him to the Volsungs.

[dativesingular.livejournal.com]

Volsunga Saga = LOVE

Every time I look at those Manx crosses, I'm amazed. And to think Ant played freaking hide-and-seek around them as a kid . . .Fafnir! Reginn! ZOMG!

[peaceful-fox.livejournal.com]

You're plenty wise, Mr. Winterbadger. I think you are very mac Cumhaill for knowing that myth. ;-)