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Annotations Every Day - Written by T Campbell & Flo Kahn - Illustrated by John & Jason Waltrip

NOW Syr'Nj knows what mead is.

Chapter 5 – Page 14

on May 31, 2010
Chapter: Chapter 05
└ Tags: Frigg, Scarlett, Syr'Nj, The Sisterhood of the Perpetual Bloodshot Eyeball
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  1. mindsword
    mindsword
    May 31, 2010, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    I find it hilarious her first thoughts are about how she insulted Frigg and not why she’s on a tree branch. Maybe that’s where she sleeps at home, but still…

    • Iocane
      Iocane
      May 31, 2010, 12:08 am | # | Reply

      And that there’s a family of birds nesting on her rump…

      • T
        T
        May 31, 2010, 1:01 am | # | Reply

        The birds are all Erica and made me laugh out loud.

        • Jean-Luc
          Jean-Luc
          May 31, 2010, 7:54 am | # | Reply

          Sorry, I’m having trouble following your oddly prolonged mode of speech. Do you mean to say you lol’d? :P

          • SimonH
            SimonH
            June 4, 2010, 10:30 am | # | Reply

            Why is it that whenever I read what Jean-Luc posts, I hear the voice of Patric Stuart?

            • SotiCoto
              SotiCoto
              June 21, 2013, 11:30 am | # | Reply

              . . . If you can’t answer that question yourself, there may be no hope.

      • Neferius
        Neferius
        September 3, 2015, 8:50 am | # | Reply

        Which she probably used in lieu of a blanket :))

    • taltamir
      taltamir
      June 3, 2010, 9:34 am | # | Reply

      she is a wood elf, why WOULDN’T she sleep on a tree?

      • SimonH
        SimonH
        June 4, 2010, 10:30 am | # | Reply

        Lol – why “wood-ent” she sleep on a tree…. XD

        • SotiCoto
          SotiCoto
          June 21, 2013, 11:31 am | # | Reply

          If there are any other kinds of Ents, please enlighten us.

          • oddcodicologist
            oddcodicologist
            August 10, 2014, 2:56 pm | # | Reply

            Well, ‘ent’ is just Old English for ‘giant’ (like the Old Norse ‘etin’), so, Tolkien’s adaption of the word aside to name his tree-hearders, an ent could be many types of non-wood giant :D

            On another note, hello all! Just found Guilded Age today, and am enjoying it immensely.

            • SotiCoto
              SotiCoto
              January 9, 2015, 9:11 am | # | Reply

              I probably should have known that.
              Thanks for the update. =)

      • SimonH
        SimonH
        June 4, 2010, 10:31 am | # | Reply

        Lol- Why “Wood-ent” she sleep on a tree. XD

      • Speedy
        Speedy
        November 21, 2018, 5:14 am | # | Reply

        She prefers to get to know a stand of trees, before she sleeps with one of them. She’s not the type that likes a a one-night stand.

  2. Joe
    Joe
    May 31, 2010, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    I’m surprised she remembers that moment.

  3. 1d4caltrop
    1d4caltrop
    May 31, 2010, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    So Wood Elf blood/sap is similarly red. Interesting. Are they, perhaps, descended from dragons?

  4. Gravedigger
    Gravedigger
    May 31, 2010, 1:03 am | # | Reply

    Who’s praying? It’s hard to tell.

  5. xXHildyXx
    xXHildyXx
    May 31, 2010, 1:12 am | # | Reply

    i find it pretty interesting that frigg got her ass beat by a bunch of nuns… rulers and all…

    • Catbus
      Catbus
      May 31, 2010, 8:06 am | # | Reply

      Dude where do you think she LEARNED HER SKITTLEZ

    • Em
      Em
      May 31, 2010, 8:07 am | # | Reply

      Not really. They’re quite tough for nuns. Also it’s a toss-up whether Frigg was trained by them for any length of time or not. Her age isn’t clear in the graffiti comic.

  6. alta lemur
    alta lemur
    May 31, 2010, 1:14 am | # | Reply

    Syr’nj is branching out.
    And Frigg is washed up. Srsly, can she not put up a fight because she got drunk earlier? I expected Frigg to hand them their own butts.

    • Riotllama
      Riotllama
      May 31, 2010, 2:38 am | # | Reply

      ETHERD!

      • Lynxx
        Lynxx
        May 31, 2010, 3:05 pm | # | Reply

        Great ETHER!!

    • Em
      Em
      May 31, 2010, 8:07 am | # | Reply

      Have you ever had ether sprayed in your eyes while drunk and then been kicked in the face a lot?

      • Mic-Gold
        Mic-Gold
        May 31, 2010, 8:28 pm | # | Reply

        Only the once….I think.

      • TexasNinjaBuzzard
        TexasNinjaBuzzard
        June 2, 2010, 3:00 am | # | Reply

        Do pepper spray and/or cheap vodka count?

        • SimonH
          SimonH
          June 4, 2010, 10:34 am | # | Reply

          That’s worse, so long as you were kicked in the face.

  7. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    May 31, 2010, 2:02 am | # | Reply

    Those nuns later went on to establish the LAPD.

    • munkyfst
      munkyfst
      June 1, 2010, 8:29 pm | # | Reply

      bad elf bad elf… watcha gonna do… watcha gonna do when they come for you… bad elf
      Oh god… I’m so sorry I just could NOT resist!!

  8. Atnas
    Atnas
    May 31, 2010, 2:08 am | # | Reply

    That last name sounds awfully nordic to me! I like it (I’m from Sweden!). Now the question is, and I don’t think this is 100% clear in the comic- does Syrnj know that Frigg is in trouble having seen the nuns in a dream of sort, or is she just waking up, remembering last night and being sorry for calling her a Knothole?

    • noerartnoe
      noerartnoe
      May 31, 2010, 2:25 pm | # | Reply

      And for those that didn’t notice earlier: the name Frigg is also about as Scandinavian as it gets, seeing as she’s a Norse goddess (the wife of Odin, in fact).

      • ahdok
        ahdok
        June 1, 2010, 3:30 am | # | Reply

        it’s also a synonym for a swearword :)

  9. Johndoe
    Johndoe
    May 31, 2010, 3:58 am | # | Reply

    She’s freaked out by the idea that she insulted a friend

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      June 1, 2010, 3:34 am | # | Reply

      She’s actually freaked out because she knows that using the word “knothole” actually invokes ancient wood elf curses.

  10. Johndoe
    Johndoe
    May 31, 2010, 3:59 am | # | Reply

    and i understand about Ether being some kinda chemical that does something negative to your body…but I wikipediad it and its such a broad term….can someone help us out?

    • Omega
      Omega
      May 31, 2010, 4:30 am | # | Reply

      knockout gas.

      • SimonH
        SimonH
        June 4, 2010, 10:37 am | # | Reply

        You know in movies about kidnapping, how they put a white rag over the victim’s face… they drench said rag in the stuff. Puts you out pretty fast.

        Also was used as an anesthetic before safer chemicals were found. There was a chance of not waking up if they used too much ether….

        But these may be mis-remembered facts.

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      June 1, 2010, 3:31 am | # | Reply

      ether’s a chemical group that can be a part of amny different molecules – while the rest of the molecule might determine some of it’s properties, all ethers will share some properties as well (one of which is being quite reactive, I believe.)

      In a fantasy setting, Ether can well be the fifth element as well, after water, and a bad rock band.

      • Moridin
        Moridin
        February 20, 2013, 7:52 am | # | Reply

        The fantasy element would be Aether, not ether.

        • SotiCoto
          SotiCoto
          June 21, 2013, 11:33 am | # | Reply

          ÆÞer.

          The comment system will have denied my charmap shenanigans, but it had to be done.

          • SotiCoto
            SotiCoto
            June 21, 2013, 11:34 am | # | Reply

            Whoa hey… it worked. Go figure! =D

    • Deets
      Deets
      June 1, 2010, 11:41 am | # | Reply

      Once upon a time candy was dandy and liquer was quicker, but ether will fuck her up! Ether (in real life) will render you unable to control your body very well. Its like being drunk but only your body is drunk not your mind so much. The amounts poured on frigg would kill any ordinary human outright in real life, but it could be as Ahdok said, a fifth element type thingy in fantasy land. Like Mana is in Warcrack.

  11. soloran
    soloran
    May 31, 2010, 4:48 am | # | Reply

    ether will knock you out. before the advent of modern anesthesia, surgeons would use ether-soaked rags or sponges to knock patients out. So getting doused with a few gallons of the stuff should be enough to at least slow Frigg down. And those nuns are one of the most violent orders I’ve seen. Go back and look at Frigg’s origin story page.

    • munkyfst
      munkyfst
      June 1, 2010, 8:36 pm | # | Reply

      Of course the draw back to useing it in surgery was the difficulty in gauging a proper dose lethal in many cases. We had a jar break in a lab setting once, lab went to lockdown (sealed airtight until safetied by an outside observer), about 6 onces knocked out 5 people, but killed 3 monkeys and a butt load of mice. Dangerous stuff, but just awsome fun to set on fire makes a really cool tweet sound like hydrogen gas. :D

  12. minion
    minion
    May 31, 2010, 4:55 am | # | Reply

    In this case ether is probably referring to Diethyl ether: A common low boiling solvent (b.p. 34.6°C), and an early anaesthetic. (C2H5)O(C2H5)
    This substance revolutionised medicine (esp surgery) in the mid 1800s similar to chloroform.
    /geek

    • Dragom
      Dragom
      May 31, 2010, 5:14 am | # | Reply

      So that would boil pretty fast off of Frigg when she’s angry, ensuring a thick plume of gas.

      Still not sure this is necessarily a bad thing for Frigg though, unwanted is a given for sure.

  13. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    May 31, 2010, 7:52 am | # | Reply

    Sorry Miss Akerfeldt, sludge happens.

    The badassery of those nuns has pretty much been established so one shouldn’t wonder much at their pious kickassery.

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      May 31, 2010, 7:54 am | # | Reply

      Or should I say facekickery.

  14. Hawk
    Hawk
    May 31, 2010, 10:47 am | # | Reply

    And so Syr goes looking for Frigg to apologize…

    And finds what?

  15. Niall
    Niall
    May 31, 2010, 11:31 am | # | Reply

    ‘Statistics tell us that 90% of Nuns who beat their acolytes still profess love for them. 20% claim it was the acolytes that “made” them commit these violent acts. In nearly 65% of all cases, the Nuns will deny any wrongdoing in the beginning, claiming the injury was a result of running into a doorknob. If you are a victim, perpetrator or know of a similar case, please call our tariff free hotline: 1800-FALSEXORCISM. Aggressors Anunymous: “We’re here to actually help.” ‘

  16. Toki
    Toki
    May 31, 2010, 1:47 pm | # | Reply

    Ã…kerfeldt?
    Now I have to wonder if they picked a Nordic name at random, or if one of the authors is a closet Opeth fan…

  17. SaltyKracka
    SaltyKracka
    May 31, 2010, 3:59 pm | # | Reply

    Aaaaaaaand my predictions have come true. Now how about that?

    I suspect now is time for Frigg to come face to face with Priestlord Gigundus, and he’s going to be tiny-helmet man.

  18. Wolfie
    Wolfie
    May 31, 2010, 6:46 pm | # | Reply

    Akerfeldt?

    Is she related to the only real member of the band known as Opeth?

    Or am I creating connections where there are none?

  19. Wolfie
    Wolfie
    May 31, 2010, 6:47 pm | # | Reply

    Fuck, just looked up two comments and realised I am not such a genius.

  20. korbl
    korbl
    May 31, 2010, 11:40 pm | # | Reply

    two questions:
    Is there a joke in Frigg’s name?

    Is waking up on a strange limb the elven equivalent of waking up next to a strange person after a night of drinking?

  21. Subliminiminal
    Subliminiminal
    June 1, 2010, 1:09 am | # | Reply

    Sista said knock you out!

  22. Jasleh
    Jasleh
    June 1, 2010, 3:16 am | # | Reply

    With the last four panels, I cannot help thinking of something that happened to my character in a game of D&D. She also woke up in a tree with no idea of how she got there. However, she had not been drinking. She just… lost a few days… and got a lot of strange looks when she tried to explain this to people… especially when she mentioned that her tent (and horse, IN the tent) nearly fell on her.

    Still… there was no alcohol involved, no matter what the random NPCs thought.

    … you probably had to be there.

    • SotiCoto
      SotiCoto
      June 21, 2013, 11:35 am | # | Reply

      … Were you the same one who had the elf sodomised by a bugbear?

  23. Twigs
    Twigs
    June 1, 2010, 3:55 am | # | Reply

    Awww Syr’nj =) She cares about people’s feelings. Ironic that she’s worrying about Frigg, who has no feelings.

    • Velsharoon
      Velsharoon
      June 1, 2010, 8:01 am | # | Reply

      Oh, that’s not true. In fact, I’d say she’s concentrated emotion. ;) And besides, anger is a feeling.

      I really like the bird’s nest. So funny. ^^

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      June 1, 2010, 4:46 pm | # | Reply

      Frigg has… Urges.

    • SotiCoto
      SotiCoto
      June 21, 2013, 11:36 am | # | Reply

      What a strangely obviously wrong thing to say.
      Frigg has nothing BUT feelings.

  24. GA1313E
    GA1313E
    June 1, 2010, 9:31 am | # | Reply

    I like many others wonder about Friggs name Ã…kerfeldt? did you just pick it randomly or was there some pun intended?

  25. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    June 1, 2010, 12:44 pm | # | Reply

    In translation Ã…kerfeldt would be something like “Fieldplower”. There’s also an Egyptian god Aker whose name translates into “he who bends or just bender”. :P

    • Toki
      Toki
      June 1, 2010, 8:50 pm | # | Reply

      “Farmland” would be a better translation…

    • Nate
      Nate
      June 1, 2010, 10:02 pm | # | Reply

      Does he happen to resemble a coffee thermos with a drinking habit? Just askin,

      • ahdok
        ahdok
        June 2, 2010, 4:57 am | # | Reply

        Thermos would be an awesome name for a fantasy-setting god.

  26. Tolrick
    Tolrick
    June 2, 2010, 3:29 am | # | Reply

    Everyone going on about the chemical Ether… has it occured to you that in fantasy settings, the ether is also a term for that ethereal stuff that sometimes gets used in magic?
    I have no doubt at all that these nuns have mastered the use of an ether blast of some sort.

    That said, I’m very surprised that even a drunk Frigg hasn’t put a serious bit of pain on more than one. Even if she loses, they should remember for a long time that they were in a fight.

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      June 2, 2010, 5:03 am | # | Reply

      knowing how much the creators of this comic hate normal letters, they’d have spelt that æther. :)

    • SotiCoto
      SotiCoto
      June 21, 2013, 11:43 am | # | Reply

      In JRPGs, doesn’t it normally replenish MP or something?

  27. Emily
    Emily
    June 3, 2010, 2:15 pm | # | Reply

    Everyone going on about the chemical Ether… has it occured to you that in fantasy settings, the ether is also a term for that ethereal stuff that sometimes gets used in magic?
    I have no doubt at all that these nuns have mastered the use of an ether blast of some sort.

    That said, I’m very surprised that even a drunk Frigg hasn’t put a serious bit of pain on more than one. Even if she loses, they should remember for a long time that they were in a fight.

  28. Amy
    Amy
    June 3, 2010, 9:26 pm | # | Reply

    Everyone going on about the chemical Ether… has it occured to you that in fantasy settings, the ether is also a term for that ethereal stuff that sometimes gets used in magic?
    I have no doubt at all that these nuns have mastered the use of an ether blast of some sort.

    That said, I’m very surprised that even a drunk Frigg hasn’t put a serious bit of pain on more than one. Even if she loses, they should remember for a long time that they were in a fight.

    • Tolrick
      Tolrick
      June 12, 2010, 11:12 pm | # | Reply

      I’d like to thank you both for copying my post without any additional commentary of any kind.
      Now can I ask why?

      • Arkanabar T'verrick Ilarsadin
        Arkanabar T'verrick Ilarsadin
        June 27, 2010, 9:08 pm | # | Reply

        Note the websites they have linked in their names.

        A bot comes along, grabs a random post to assure “relevance,” and copies it with the address to which it wants to spam links.

  29. FreddeX
    FreddeX
    May 9, 2011, 4:30 pm | # | Reply

    “Frigg Åkerfeldt”? Huh, i didn’t expect to find a swedish (well, semi-swedish.. or something) name in this comic! :D

    Also i like that Syr’nj is basicly like me when i wake up, always the little things i think of before i start to think of the big things. Real life example:
    I noticed that my glass of water was empty BEFORE i noticed that a ram (the male sheep kind of ram) was standing right next to my bed bleating at the top of his lungs! :D True story! ^^

    (I live at a farm and the ram had escaped from the pen and went in through the open front door which is close to my room, trust me i always close my bedroom door from now on! ^^)

  30. zack of hiskatana
    zack of hiskatana
    August 3, 2011, 1:58 pm | # | Reply

    so… how ezzactly do you explain frigg getting pwned by nuns when A. shes aredy beaten them and B. she took on a whole slew of pirates pretty much by herself and won?

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