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If you could look like anything...anything at all....what would you look like? I'd be the wind. ...........It's easy to be someone's friend when all you need is someone to console you. It's much harder to be there for them when they're happy all the time. .............Even when I say nothing, it's a beautiful use of negative space.


























Blind Eyes Closed
 
Tuesday, March 04, 2003
 
For reference, THIS is the "Kees":


Sam: so i hear summer wants to be you
Nora: doesn't everyone??
Sam: well, i'm doin okay with still having balls
Nora: hahahahahha
Sam: unless there's something you haven't told me about you
Sam: other than that
Nora: apparently I have more testosterone than Tom
Sam: hah
Sam: i see, your profile
Nora: yes yes yes
Nora: and he is SUCH a woman
Sam: poor jeff...i mean tom, not jeff
Nora: haha
Sam: mini-jeff, is it?
Nora: it's pretty interchangable
Nora: yes
Nora: mini-jeff and big-tom
Sam: but he doesn't have mini-keesed hair
Sam: that makes it dificult
Sam: difficult
Nora: he pulls it off surprisingly well
Sam: and yes, the verb form is "kees"
Nora: we were talking about that tonight
Sam: as a linguist would write
Sam: "I elected to kees my hair before going to the rave."
Sam: or, perhaps
Sam: "A got a good keesing from the stylist."
Sam: A = I
Sam: "She keesed his hair for their dinner date."
Nora: hahaha
Nora: he wrote a speech for public speaking about weather
Nora: and we figured it was inspired by his hair
Sam: "He will be keesing before taking another escalator"
Nora: his entire persona is just screaming to be a weatherman
Sam: it also exists in noun format, as in
Nora: so much linguistics!
Sam: "Middle-Scottish hair styles, as exemplified in the movie Braveheart, are not a prime example of the keesing cut."
Nora: or the "kees" for short
Sam: cut should probably be style
Sam: in that context, i think we can use the full last name
Sam: because it is in its nounal form
Nora: I guess
Sam: "keesing cut" being, however, a noun phrase
Nora: you're the linguist
Nora: haha
Sam: to be more colloquial about it, you could simply say
Nora: "keesing style", even
Sam: "Middle-Scottish hair styles, as exemplified in the movie Braveheart, are not a prime example of the kees."
Nora: haha
Nora: I love you so much, sam
Nora: I'm so sending this to him
Nora: hahaha
Sam: which simplifies the noun phrase into a single term, its point better gotten across because adding the -ing ending could confuse because of its use in verbal conjugation
Sam: most excellent :-)
Nora: he should change his name so this exercise is less confusing
Sam: now, in a more derisive, and again colloquial format
Sam: obviously
Sam: you could say
Sam: "Damn man, he keesed your hair up"
Nora: that's pretty ambiguous
Nora: it gives 'keesed' a negative conotation
Nora: the part is rediculous, but not necessarily negative
Sam: which clearly implies some sort of change, although positive or negative depending on the inflection
Sam: indeed
Nora: on Saturday we straightened my hair and keesed it up
Nora: we tried getting the part right next to my ear, but it looked so rediculous I couldn't even show him
Sam: if the primary stress were to fall on "damn," then the change would most probably be understood to be positive, whereas if it were on "keesed," you'd be in a world of shit
Sam: hahahaha
Nora: yeah you're right
Sam: indeed, though, you are correct, there is nothing inherently negative about the "kees," so the meaning does derive from context and inflection in that situation
Sam: can i get any more ridiculous?
Sam: i'm sitting here laughing at myself, this is hysterical
Nora: if you really tried
Nora: you should write an essay about the "Kees"
Sam: HAHAHAHAHAHHA
Nora: if the opertunity so arises
Sam: i'll submit it to the campus times
Nora: hahahahhahaha
Nora: awesome
Sam: "My source for this article will remain nameless, I gleaned the word 'kees' from modern Irish Gaelic" will appear in a footnote when i introduce the term
Nora: hahahahahha
Sam: see how long it takes whoever reads it to put two and two together
Nora: but include a picture
Nora: please
Nora: for reference
Sam: of course
Sam: but not his face
Nora: oh good
Sam: just his head
Nora: haha
Nora: above the eyes
Sam: so they still have to put it together
Sam: yup
Nora: I would love you forever
Sam: that would be SO freakin funny
Nora: I'm just imagining the possibilities
Nora: hahahah
Sam: i think i'd write that paper as a linguistic interest prompted by a massive new movement in the style industry
Sam: quote various nonexistent articles in fashion magazines
Nora: like House of Leaves
Nora: did you ever read that book?
Sam: no
Sam: haven't heard of it
Nora: it's amazing
Nora: Jeff has my copy
Sam: i can just see it now
Sam: the title!
Nora: I read it last year for 1st quarter outside reading
Nora: but anyway
Sam: KEES TAKES THE WORLD BY STORM
Nora: hahahhaa
Sam: FASHION WORLD ROCKED BY NEW "KEES" CUT!
Nora: the entire book footnotes other books and people that don't actually exist
Nora: but do it well
Nora: hahahahha I'm imagining Zoolander in a kees
Sam: PARENTS HAVING THEIR THREE YEAR OLDS "KEESED!"
Sam: hahaha
Nora: the peer pressure....
Nora: "come on, guys, you gotta kees. Everyone's doing it."
Sam: this is so awesome
Nora: "don't you want to get the chicks?"
Sam: my god
Sam: this whole conversation has to go in your blog or something, hehehe
Sam: WHOLE THING
Sam: hahaha
Nora: deal

....and since I can't disobey Sam.....
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