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Dina:
I love the names of your cows  :)
And I am sure your aunt is very pleased.

Yes, many people here (especially in restaurants) fried them in fat (I am not sure if it comes from cow or pig, I think both of them are sold in normal stores).

It was a nice sunny day, so going to the university was not bad, but tomorrow I got to stay at home *does happy dance*

Fcrate:
Heh, enjoy your day at home.
Elena is pregnant (hopefully) if it's a female, she's going to be Elen :D

Regenbogen:
@Fcrate.
I noticed, that all the cows have names starting with "El". Is this on purpose, does it have meaning or is it totally coincidental?
Might I suggest Elsa? Or Elvira?  :)

Elsa for me is totally a cow's name. I remember in almost every cowshed I've been in, there was a cow Elsa, lol.

Also there is a sketch by a famous German comedian about the cow Elsa:

There is a butler calling his boss at work to tell him about the death of the cow Elsa. The boss is pretty pissed about him calling because of such an unimportant occurrence. He has hundreds of cows, why should he care about one dead one. But after some consideration he asks how the cow died.
The butler says: Because the roof of the shed fell on her head. Apparently the walls of the shed were no longer able to support the roof at a certain point of the building burning. And the roof was too heavy for the cow, so she died when it fell on her head.
Boss:  :o why did the shed burn?
Butler: because of the flying sparkles.
Boss: ?????
Butler: from the burning mansion.
Boss: What??? Why did the mansion burn?
Butler: Because your son fell down the stairs while carrying the lit candles and he broke both his arms. That was bad luck for the cow Elsa.

Now it is getting a bit dark humoured ;) Just to warn you, but it was funny the way they played it.

Boss: Why did he carry burning candles?
Butler: We wanted to make it nice for your wife, for the funeral.


I always have to think about this when I hear the name Elsa.
Definitely a cow's name for me.  ;D

LOL I remember another detail: the boss doesn't know which of his cows Elsa was, so the butler describes her, because in his eyes she was special. The brown one, the one who always kicked the milk bucket after milking so that all the milk spilled. ;D

Fcrate:
Haha, that was a funny sketch :D
Well, 11 years ago I was reading The Wheel of Time when my first cow gave birth (brown and white Holstein), so I named the calf after Elayne, the princess of Andor. 4 years later, Elayne gave birth to her first female (Black and white Holstein) while I was reading about Eleanor of Aquitaine. After that coincidence, I decided to name every first born female of the line with something that has E, L, N. So it's Elena Daughter of Eleanor, daughter of Elayne, first of her name. :D
Elena's firstborn female will be Elen. I haven't decided about Ellen's firstborn, but I still have 3-5 years to figure it out. Heidi will give birth in 4 months though. I'll consider Elvira. Elsa only reminds me of Frozen.
Edit : your sketch reminded me of a joke, where a man was telling his friend that his mother in law had died. The friend says : my condolences man. How did she die?
Man : she fell from the balcony.
Friend : damn, tough go, she must have broken all her Bones.
man: well, she fell into the swimming pool.
friend: so she drowned?
man: no, there was a naked wire in the pool.
friend: she got electrocuted! how awful.
man: well, there was a storm and the power was out.. Also the life guard saved her.
Friend : So how the hell did she die then?
man: I gave up the fancy solutions and just stabbed the bitch.

Dina:
LOL Fcrate! I have not heard that joke before  :). I had heard the funny sketch Regen told us, with some variations. None of the versions I heard have a cow named Elsa. In fact, I believe in all cases the casualty that is reported to the owner is a horse. In some versions, the owner reacts as Regen said, angry because he has many horses and a dead one is not a terribly rare occurrence. But in the most common version I hear, the owner saddens because he liked that horse. Only, of course, then things went worse  :)

I had thought that the E names were some tradition, like when pedigree dogs each time the female gives birth the puppies are named with the same letter (normally, the first time they gave birth, the names begin with A, the second time with B and so on). I had a Collie whose formal name was Chrysler. We called him Sinhue though.

I suggest "Elina" but if you get more permissive about the name, not making the N a requisite, I would go with Elise or Elisa  :)

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