Leading to one of Adams' least-known books, "The Meaning of Liff" (1983)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meaning_of_Liff

I borrowed someone's copy of that once back in said 1980's. I remember there was a word for the cooler side of the pillow when you turned it over, but can't remember what it is - but I think it started with 'a'....seached the internet for it 'abilene', not to be confused with Abeline in Texas of course.

There seemed to be a lot of words related to knights having to deal with the different reasons/states of drawbridges not opening to let them in as well.

Now I have an irrational desire for Bryan Ferry to write a song similar to Avalon, but called Abilene all about how nice the cooler side of the pillow is.

Duddo (n.) The most deformed potato in any given collection of potatoes.

I use that word to this day.

I think skoonspruit (forgot the spelling) is the main one that still stuck in casual use decades later for my family.

It's the rare fountain thing a saliva gland makes eg when yawning.

There was another one for a group of cars all doing exactly the speed limit because one of them is a police car. I was better at remembering the definitions than the actual words.

You forgot the last one because of how improbable it is for a police car to drive at the speed limit..

> the rare fountain thing a saliva gland makes eg when yawning

When I was growing up everyone called that a "gleek". Though usually it only came up when people did it intentionally.

"in the beginning of the Monty Python film, the gravestone with the title "The Meaning of Liff" appears before a lightning bolt strikes the last F and converts it to an E."

I remember wondering 'what was that all about?'