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Softie slugfest
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Pillow Fight 101: A world record for Oregon State?
Knocking the stuffing out of one another may set a record if Oregon State University students are recognized for what they hope was the largest pillow fight in history.
Unofficially, 766 people showed up on Nov. 14 to take part in the jumbo pillow fight in hopes of topping the Guinness World Records mark set by 645 people who staged a mass pillow brawl in Garnett, Kan., in June.
Lige Armstrong, a 21-year-old liberal studies major from Hawai'i, organized the event as part of a class project.
Pillow fight sign-up sheets with the 766 names will have to be sent to Guinness, based in London, and it will take six to eight weeks to verify the record, Armstrong said.
Power jeweling
The cover couple for a recent issue of the magazine Luxury International is none other than Deanna and Robert Wander of Honolulu.
The creative couple, owners of dk Finds (1221 Kapi'olani Blvd., PH 30), are described as "superstars" of fine jewelry design. In addition, Deanna (formerly Deanna Haimoff) is the owner of Haimoff & Haimoff in the Halekulani Hotel.
Bard of the lard
Americans love the haiku.
Why? For one thing, the little poems are simple to write: five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables. For another, if you strip away the traditional connection to nature, they're easily exploitable. Remember those Spam haiku?
So now someone named Meredith Clair has written a book titled "The Sound of One Thigh Clapping: Haiku for a Thinner You," combining our national (futile) obsession with dieting with the haiku fad.
Here's a sample:
"So Sweet. So Creamy/Yet so diabolical/Dulce le Leche."
No? Well, how about this:
"Poor noble Basho/Turning over in your urn/commerce before art."
