Wednesday, November 9, 2011

kef \keyf\, noun:

1. A state of drowsy contentment

2. Also, keef. a substance, especially a smoking preparation of hemp leaves, used to produce this state.

Kef comes from the Arabic word kaif meaning “well-being or pleasure.”

Pillow partition

• A pillow partition is a section of pillows placed between two bedmates, who are not lovers, to avoid any accidental touching while asleep. The bedmates using a pillow partition are typically heterosexual males, who are forced to sleep in the same bed on a trip for logistical reasons. If one male is straight, and the other's sexuality can be considered a bit ambiguous, the pillow partition is a necessity. It can also be used to save face to any other males on the trip who might joke about the two bedmates sleeping together.

Example 1:

"Yikes, I asked for a room with two beds, not one big bed. Luckily, they gave us enough pillows for a pillow partition."

 

Example 2:

Person 1 - "Damn, yall slept together in the same bed? Yall must be gay."

Person 2 - "Nah man, it's cool. We had a pillow partition, so nothing touched."

 

Example 3:

Person 1 - "It sucks that you're going to have to share a bed with Pat. I'm not really sure, but I think he may swing both ways."

Person 2 - "Yeah, I'm going to be enforcing a strict pillow partition rule."

Trivia

How many square feet of lawn does it take to provide a day’s oxygen needs for one person?

• 625 square feet.

History

• Kristallnacht: Jews were beaten and killed by Nazis, and their homes and shops destroyed, during "the night of the broken glass" (1938)
• Rolling Stone: music and pop culture magazine published its first issue (1967)
• Berlin Wall: East Germany allowed free travel across its border to West Germany for the first time in 28 years (1989)

Birthdays

• Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883): novelist, dramatist and short-story writer; other authors born on this date include Anne Sexton (1928-1974) and Imre Kertész (82)
• Whitey Herzog (80): baseball manager; MLB pitcher Bob Gibson (76) shares this birth date
• Mary Travers (1936-2009): the distaff member of Peter, Paul and Mary; other singers born on this date include Susan Tedeschi (41), Nick Lachey (38) and Sisqo (33)
• Carl Sagan (1934-1996): scientist who brought planetary astronomy to the masses; also, mathematician/astronomer Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)
• Eric Dane (39): Grey's Anatomy's Dr. McSteamy; also, actors Robert David Hall (64), Lou Ferrigno (60) and Nikki Blonsky (23)

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