Teacher’s Pet

Two in row.

FIRST!!!!!! It’s really cuet, like the owner :cool:

I mean 2nd!!!

As the kids are wont to say these days: pwnd!

Oh you really suck!!!! :mrgreen:

lol, GRRR! :mad:

Dear teacher
Ouch! It is hard to compete with this one….
I am sure he has a british name (or the pedigree has a british name), something else to investigate !
Amicalement
Your devoted student
Don Felipe

:!: OMG :!: THAT PUPPY IS SOO CUTE :mrgreen: . :lol: THAT IS ONE LUCKY DOGGY, CHILLIN WITH MARINA AND EVERYTHING! I’M SOO JEALOUS! YOU HAVE NICE SEXY LEGS MARINA! :wink:

Ok Im Third!!! :razz: :razz: :razz:

Ok Marina you have to post a little bio / background story on the puppy. :grin:
Love that glass desk you have. Nice. I have a question, what software do you used on your mac to make the videos? Can you tell us how you create a HFW lesson? Do like a behind the scenes look on HFW.

I wish I was a cute dog so you could adopt me too. Oh well, I’ll just pretend and walk around with my tongue hanging out. Arf, arf.

I was ask to post this word “Marlinspike” from two crew members of the fishing vessel ‘Time Bandit’ (Donald & Eddie). A Marlinspike is a tool that most sailors use to work with lines on a boat. We use them for untying knots, splicing lines, etc. Donald said the name for the tool ‘Marlinspike’ came from sailors use of the upper jaw bone of a fish called a Marlin. He wasn’t sure that was the true origin. Others say the fish was named after the tool was invented. I haven’t researched this yet in my books. :smile:

Sweet pooch Ya got there Teach! It must be well behaved as I didn’t see any teeth marks on Yer ankles! :wink:

Well done prospero. You arent a 40K fan by any chance are you?

Snap.
Marina, I spent the month of April staying with my in-laws in Bangkok and they had a four month old puppy that was the spitting image of your new pet.
They have called it “Tung Ork” which is Thai for beansprout.
What’s yours called?

I would like to find out about the word “lollygag”. I’ve been accused of “lollygagging” a few times!

Cute puppy, cute teacher :wink: What kind of puppy is that? I also like the song.

maltese.

uh, the rest of the dog is under the leaves … I guess …

Kobe.. we both seem to name our dogs after something you eat :-)

jesus christ. now they’re all going to try and guess that dog’s name. help. this is gonna be such a long thread …

Hello Marina! Can you delve into the origin of the word gorgeous? It’s such a great compliment, but I always associate it with Homer Simpson gorging himself on a box of doughnuts. Thanks!

oh, yeah. before anyone makes this stupid joke as a guess, I’ll just put it here: hot dog.

I don’t want to guess.
I want to increase the thread, Come on fellas !

Is it after..Kobe Bryant? Ha

I am well pissed off.
I was standing in the pet shop for months.
Marina comes in one morning and chooses that scrawny mutt and didn’t notice me at all. Gutted.

falcon? :roll:

that poochie listens to some bad language…tsk-tsk!!! what if he starts repeating it?… :lol:

good song, nice lyrics. cute puppy.
thanks for sharing.

I would like to request the word “DWEEB”

Sweet little puppy teacher, :)

(REDOING THE VIDEO.. WILL BE BACK UP SHORTLY!!!) :roll:

word request: mug (as in mug shot)

I am!

Hey I was wondering if you could search for the origin of the word ROUND. I know, such and odd simple word but I heard that it came from the Egyptian sun god, Ra. i wasn’t too sure but it would be nice if you could do a video on the origin of Round. Thanks =]

I’d like to know what he put on his T&A form to get the job. :sad:

I can fetch, roll over. I bet floppy ears can’t climb gum trees. :wink:

Word request. Fista-cuffs. Not sure if thats how its spelled but like when someone says, man those guys almost went Fista-cuffs

Well I can’t keep poking you now. :razz: :razz: :razz:

Well I can’t poke you now. :razz: :razz: :razz:

Teach , Hope you cleaned up your room, And get rid of the old pizza box .
Why are Hot Women such SLOBS…………? :lol:

ANYBODY-ANYBODY !! Can someone tell me why i cant post on any of hotforwords lessons on UT but CAN post on any other vid? yes i read the help and it seems like ive been blocked. could this be true and how would i even know?…ive NEVER said one bad thing :roll:

You should do the word cunnilingus, thanks! :mrgreen:
Kyev One

There’s several off chances. Maybe the thing updated really slowly? Maybe you were blocked by mistake?

I only just started YouTubing so I am probably not the best source, but time to process various stages of the upload seems to be a real issue. I just used a video as a response on Youtube and even though it shows as a response on the dropdown for using videos as a response, the video ITSELF does NOT show as a response, nor does it show in the list of responses of the video I wished to respond to.

In some forums you can set a video so that no one can video respond at all. That may be the case as well.

Hope you find the answer to your mystery. :) If you’ve honestly never done anything mean I bet the answer is going to end up being something annoyingly innocuous like slowness in updating. I can’t imagine any benefit to randomly blocking people that have never done anything wrong! :grin:

Have fun!

I would like to know what my name means. Clell Alden
thanks
for your help in this matter

when i said post what i ment was comment-anyways this is all very very new to me as well

Define shortly

OMG!!! If being “Teacher’s Pet” means you get neutered, then I DEFINITELY don’t want to be the TP!

What is your username at YouTube pagedoll.. when I check comments from my iphone I have blocked people by mistake a couple times.. so you are most likely blocked.. but I can unblock you in 2 seconds!

Marina, I hope you don’t expect the class to believe that your dog ate your video.

my user name is fuhrc08- thank you Marina…nothing but smiles from me all the time every time :grin:

I just checked and you were NOT blocked.. so I blocked you and then unblocked you just now.. maybe there was a glitch.. it even shows you as a friend.. so I don’t understand.. maybe I’ll remove you as a friend and I’ll request friend to you… OK.. did that as well.. see if you can comment now…

With the school year amost over and I still haven’t
been able to catch up on the leasons that I missed
does that mean I have to attend summer school?

yep it did thank so much-luv luv :grin:

awww little poopers- cute puppy Marina :smile:

That would be cool if i was the teachers pet.. :D and just like be lazy around the house. Do what ever i want… and dont have to go to school and i defenitaly want to be your teachers pet because how popular you and.. how you name the people and their teachers pet.. so famousxblayzez for teachers pet???? thnx
:D

aLx, She just said what her dogs name was. Have you ever had Kobe steaks in Japan? Its a marbled looking steak. Lots of fat content which would probably kill me if I where to eat it today.

Poor poor Tig. So sad. :cry: Do you want to join our little group S.O.A.P.? We’ll make you feel wanted again! :grin: Just jump off you little wheel and tell us all about it… :mrgreen:

Koalabear, She didn’t want an old slow lazy Koalabear. You just sit in the tree all day and eat shoots. :smile:

Damn refresh! Its so slow…. :evil:

Teacher,

I havnt been able to attend class as much as id like to, but where did the word delicious come from.

Im not nearly as good at breaking words down, although, i used to think that delicious was a great adjective used to describe taste, but of course we all know now it can be used in many sentences like.

for example.
I watched Ironman tonight, that movie was delicious…

indeed…

cuite puppy lol–can i be ur puppy jump in ur lap would u pet me sweetheart after all this is augie and it rimes as augiedoggy hehe

Hi marina ,
do you know the origin of the word balagan?

tnx@!

ok i want one! i didnt realize he was so small until i saw a hand next to him :shock: he looks like nothin’ :lol: but fun!

Now that’s what I call a real teacher’s pet! :smile:

I dunno why, this video doesn’t want to run for me.

Marina, you are absolutely delightful. It’s too bad that you (and we) are subjected to some infantile comments. You deserve better than that.

Now . . . how about a lesson on the misuse of the word, “most?” It is NOT correct to say, for instance, ” . . . most everyone . . . ” I leave it to you, my Dear Teacher to explain why.

Thank you for your efforts to improve the use of the English language.

This is my second attempt. If you don’t respond, then I will have to put you in “time out”… detention… principal’s office… whatever, just please tell me the origin of the phrase: I’ll knock your socks off, or it will knock your socks off.

Ahh its so cute :smile:
I feel quite guilty about calling your dog an it :neutral:
could you reply to tell me if your dog is a girl or a boy

P.S your dog is as cute as you are

and caine / catel in romanian!
what breed is it?!

My oh my, is that a really small dog or a really big tennis ball :?: ? :?:

Hope to hear from you soon, TongueTwisler
:cool: , :idea: , :lol: and hot that is sooooooooo my teacher on HotForWords

mmm well it’s worked for me, but quite a few of Marina’s lessons haven’t worked for me lately :???:

to knock someone’s socks off: to completely defeat a competitor.
to knock your socks off: to completely surprise or please you very much. Also used with other verbs to say that something is done in an extreme way or to a great degree. (I worked my socks off)
Origin of expression: The noun “sock” comes from the Latin word “soccus,” which means “light shoe or slipper,” and when “sock” first entered Old English around A.D. 725, it meant just that — a slipper or lightweight shoe of the sort one might only wear indoors. By the early 14th century, “sock” had arrived at its modern meaning of “a short stocking covering the ankle and usually part of the calf.” Such stockings were (and are) usually worn over the foot and under a heavier pair of shoes.

That arrangement of shoes-over-socks is important in understanding “knock your socks off.” The phrase first appeared in the mid-19th century meaning “to beat or vanquish someone thoroughly,” at first used literally to mean to win in a knock-down fistfight so savage that the loser might expect not to only lose his shoes in the fracas but his socks as well. The number of brawlers who actually lost their socks was probably pretty small, but a threat “to knock your socks off” was one of a number of such hyperbolic pugilistic phrases popular at the time, including “knock your lights out” and “knock you into next week.”

Among folks who were not inclined to physical combat, to “knock someone’s socks off” was soon adopted in a more general sense of “to win decisively,” and one might “knock the socks off” one’s opponents as well in bridge or whist as in the boxing ring. From there the phrase mutated a bit more and “to have one’s socks knocked off” came to mean “to be amazed, delighted, very impressed,” as in “The new production of Annie with an all-ferret cast will blow your socks off.”

Incidentally, if seems surprising that a very violent metaphor should end up as an expression of critical acclaim, keep in mind that the term “blown away,” now routinely found in book and movie rave reviews, originally meant “to be killed by gunfire.”

Hi

How about telling us about ‘kiasu’

Thanks Marina

change browsers.

Maltesers?!

Hi Marina can u please! tell about the origin of word “Vampire”

The life of Riley is great until he reports his credit cards stolen. :lol:

Almost as cute as teh owner! :)
Seems like a nice time rolling on that floor
Curious about the breed and age …….. of the dog that is!!
(in swedish dog is “hund”, I guess related to the word hound like a huntingdog)

Hes Cute, just like my dog he likes playing with him self. :neutral:

this is Riley

and this is his life

lucky dog :mrgreen:

Metropolitan is it just a name for a museum or does is have some larger meaning? Let me know HFW

Please Help Me~!! Tell me what origin the word ”Mermaid” is! HELP!

cute dog :mrgreen: goes well with the hot mom… :lol:

Who dat O’Riley. This is Riley, he said wryly.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PSXSOEiv3N0

What happened to the Great Dane?

Hi whats the origin of the word ‘life’?

And this is his wife http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bv-2TZwjyc

Love the dog Marina… matches the carpet too. Looks like a spirited little critter. Hope he sleeps through the night ’cause it looks like he’ll match your energy level.
Thanks for making & sharing this vid with us, “прелестный” right

You could be onto something there; my first Labrador was named Honey.

Capt.Jack, a Koala is better than a Kiwi; that eats roots shoots and leaves. (Put the commas where you like. :lol: )

His name is kobera? I see you reflection in your tv\monitor screen. sound only travels 1\5 mile per second so light\eye is quicker than the hand. I got you this time also He He :twisted:

Adorable! Thanks for brightening my day.

microminiaturization

Hello Marina,
Help me….I actually do not understand what is the teacher’s prize you always mentions……”bust” , “butt”, “bat”

The original word Celtic is pronounced “Keltic” while today’s basketball team, The Celtics, is pronounced “Seltics”. Why the change in pronunciation. Are the Keltics and Seltics two different origins because from the looks of their uniform and their logo they seem to “sport” the same heritage.

The Life of Riley 1940-60, First a radio show, then turned movie, then turned tv show about Chester Riley, a wing riveter at the fictional Aircraft plant in Los Angeles, California? Enjoyed living off of someone else time and money. That O’Riley?

very cute doggie :D

Life of Riley eh? Riley is my sister’s name :D
I usually hear that name more often in boys though.

The way your doggie was playing with the toy reminds me of the way my cat plays with his toy ball..grabs it with his mouth, slings the ball around and plays a little bit of soccer :D

A friend of mine has a big Newfoundland dog, his name is Solomon. He’s black, fluffy and slobbers all over you :lol: and he’s probably about a metre almost in height…that’s how big these newfoundland dogs are :)

She’s just adorable, just like her mother. :smile:

Oh and my cat’s name is called Mac…named after MacGyver :cool:

What tv/monitor screen did you see me in? I didn’t see one in the video… must watch again :?:

Ok I just ran the video again and saw something. Hes a he sorry. :oops:

With relatives Warren.. he’s too big for my apartment. :cry:

ah, you’re right, jack. thank god. I thought “kobe” was the name of the one she replied to. didn’t check.
wait a minute. didn’t she say she was a vegetarian? and she likes steaks? huh?

Boy TongueTwisler :-)

:shock: So your saying that the English create the word, so a dog must be from the Paganist of the middle ages…

Yes I was wheely pissed off about it.
Don’t want to exercise now.
I heard about the Society For Unwanted Pets.
Soap sounds like a cleaner version.
Judging by the ambiguity of Bob’s punctuation is he excluded from the clean fun ?

And the whole thing has set off my nervous complaints again
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CtEXRelmeHI

Sorry you are disappointed big ears are you heels over head for Marina in standing on your head land ?

This one is very funny
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uv6uUm1grbI

yeah, yeah, I know, she didn’t say she liked steaks. I wouldn’t name my dog after something I don’t like, though.
we had a cat once. I called it “cat”.
we had a bird once, too. I called it “bird”.
we had degus once. I called them “degu one, degu two, degu three”.
I had a lizard once. I called it “lizard”.
I had a girlfriend once … uh …

Or was it the O’Reilly referred to in the song sung in the 1880s by Pat Rooney, the founder of the Vaudevillians?
The hero of the song, a hotel-keeper named Reilly (or Riley), describes what he will do when he strikes it rich: New York “will swim in wine when the White House and Capitol are mine”. A version made famous by burlesque performers Ned Harrigan and Tony Hart has these lines in the chorus:

Well, if that’s Mr. Riley
They speak of so highly.
Why, faith, Mr Riley,
You’re looking quite well.

It was revived and updated in 1915 as a patriotic war song under the title Are you the O’Reilly? as an attempt to cash in on the success of It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary, and contained the chorus line “Gor blim me, O’Reilly, you are looking well”.
Or does it refer to the Riley clan from County Cavan, Ireland who ran a virtual Kingdom and minted their own coinage, known as Rileys, which was even accepted in England as legal tender? Certainly anyone who “printed their own money” would be able to live the life of Riley.

Looks as if the dog has chewed up all the replies. :???:

WoW!! your dog looks really happy.

Back to normal again

No TV in the video but I do know now why you always look so Divine in your videos. :wink:

Marina,

I would love to be your pet and lay around your apartment and chew on things. :mrgreen:

Do you realize you just said Marina is as cute as a dog?

he did not say that.

Well, he wrote it. “Your dog is as cute as you are,” is logically the same as “you are as cute as your dog.” If A=B then B=A.

But I was kidding anyway – I know what he meant.

“marina is as cute as a dog” is logically not the same as “marina is as cute as her dog”.

he was talking about a specific dog, whereas your first interpretation implies that she looks as cute as a randomly picked instance of {x | x is a dog}.

Word request: “Hi.”

One answer is the life of Riley was an old tv show that came on in the 60s. Thats what is was called was The Life of Riley. I am giving away my age now I used to watch it. :oops:

Incorrect aLx. My statement had nothing to do with which dog, randomly picked or otherwise. Her dog is a dog (her dog is part of the set of things called “dogs”). Therefore, if she is as cute as her dog, it necessarily follows that she is cute as a dog. She may not be as cute as “all” dogs or “any” dog, but being as cute as her dog necessarily means she is at least as cute “a” dog.

“Take some more tea,” the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.

“I’ve had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone: “so I can’t take more.”

“You mean you can’t take less,” said the hatter:
“it’s very easy to take more than nothing.”

Did somebody on here say that there is no word for “Love” in their language? Anybody remember?

her dog is a dog, but a dog is not necessarily her dog.

you can’t jump from a specific dog to the set of dogs. if you do, then it is possible to say that she’s as cute as … I don’t know … my aunt’s dog.

Mmmm…..yummy!

err…malformed ID… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5K3QbE3fEE

don’t get me wrong, I do see your point and I know what you mean. I just interpreted “a dog” as “some dog from the set of dogs”.

Klingon, maybe? :grin:

I can’t say that because she is as cute as her dog she is as cute as any dog. But, I can say that her dog is a dog (D1, where D1 through Dx is the set of all dogs). That doesn’t mean all dogs are her dog, but it does mean that each dog is by definition a dog.

That being said, the allegation is that she (M) is as cute as D1, or M=D1. D1 is as we have already agreed is “a dog.”

I didn’t even try to jump from a specific dog (D1) to the set of all dogs (D1-Dx). D1 being a dog is sufficient.

The Klingon word for “love” is apparently “muSHa’” according to the English-Klingon lexicon: http://klv.mrklingon.org/klvtab.html

I googled it and found a reference in a few places that approximately 13% of cultures have no word for love. However, I was unable to find a source for that, or any detail as to which cultures. Probably doesn’t pass the bullshit test.

I know what you mean, and basically you’re right.
but I don’t think he wanted to say that she looks as cute as any dog, assuming that “a dog” = “any dog”, that was my interpretation.

and, “her dog” != “any dog”, that’s all I said.

know what I’m saying?

uuuh … is it just my browser or do the replies randomly keep appearing and disappearing? seems to work fine with ie but not with other browsers? anyone using ie and seeing replies disappear?

Dog Eat Dog – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uOzn9NSx1U

I’ve noticed a delay in the comments posting, and yesterday there was a time when all the replies were gone for a while, and then they came back.

Yes, I know what you’re saying. I was just busting his balls, anyway (and subsequently, yours.

You’re a clever Chep O811, :razz:

cute little apricot ya got there! :mrgreen:
if you feed him, will he get any bigger? LOL :grin:
oh wait here’s another one… :cool:
mighty short handle on that four legged dustmop! LOL :smile:

how do you find time for us with that guy around??? :???:
i’m not the jealous type, but if i was, i’d still be
embarrased ’cause the competition has FOUR legs! :oops:

strong little bugger, though! only got pinned by that
tennis ball half the time….! :mrgreen:

As for Riley … drawn a blank (gotta think more on it) :shock:

The poodle bites !
(C’mon frenchy)
the poodle chews it !
(sap it)
- FZ, Dirty Love :twisted:

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What a wonderful mommy, Marina,…thanks for caring!,…….;-)
.

good narrative, dude! :mrgreen:

. Paris
..in the
the spring!
:mrgreen:

I have got that Zappa album. Just love that track.

In romanian it’s “iubire” !
But in my language there is no known single word translation for “dor”. (refers to the emotion induced by missing a person) So take that ;)
What’s love in your native language?!

Hello again Marina!

I have a pharse for you to investigate. I’ve always wanted to know the origin of the phrase “the coast is clear”.

“Living the life of Riley” suggests an ideal life of prosperity and contentment, possibly living on someone else’s money, time or work. Rather than a negative freeloading or golddigging aspect, it instead implies that someone is kept or advantaged. The expression was popular in the 1880s, a time when James Whitcomb Riley’s poems depicted the comforts of a prosperous home life (barefoot boys and girls on lazy summer days, etc.,etc.). Anyway, the ideal life of carefree, bountiful and yet humble lifestyle and life of “homey dream-come-true” spawned a comic song by Pat Rooney of the name “The Life of Riley” in the 1880s. The popularity of the song and the continued popularity of Riley’s poems of the nature depicted reinforced each other and our phrase became authentic American.

But it could have an Irish origin: After the Riley clan consolidated its hold on County Cavan, they minted their own money, accepted as legal tender even in England. These coins, called “O’Reillys” and “Reilly’s,” became synonymous with a monied person, and a gentleman freely spending was “living on his Reillys.”

I wonder if any youtubers got it yet… Nice one teach` :P

What is the word for Love in your vernacular?!
Get in to it.. I really am curios ;)

Snap it!
(C’mon, Frenchy)
Not a speck o’ cereal!

Adorable.

Ha! Burn on the youtubers. yay, I’m 147th that’s what I was shooting foe. It’s easier than going for first. I like to set realistic goals and keep my expectations low as well.

shooting FOR

I wish I could stay in front of my computer 24/7 waiting to be first. Oh, wait a minute, no I don’t. :grin:

Teach, The word ; LOVE, To most means, I Own you, I Tell you what to do and think. What’s the term, LOVE, mean to you? To me, It means , You cover My flaws and make me whole…..

Thank you Teach for taking out the [c] RAP music. Ever note that IQ and the music listened too, correlate?

oH forgot is the dog house broke? What fun????????? :lol: :lol: :lol:

OMFG! Leave it to Marina to have THE cutest penthouse pet around. :razz:

I wasn’t expecting to chime in on any lessons anytime soon (I have a huge amount of recording to do before heading off to Manchester UK at the end of the month), but that dog is just TOO f-ing adorable to not comment on. It’s like a stuffed animal brought to life. Undoubtedly, it is quite happy and well-adjusted for having such a loving and intelligent ‘mommy’. Why, I bet it already knows more philology than most. :smile:

I think I recall somebody said in was an afrcan language, but tht was a while ago, I’m probably not much help as to when. . But if you define love democraticaly you get the top 150 http://www.humanthermodynamics.com/RP2-Love.html
CS Lewis Book,the four loves probably breaks down our definitions of Love quiet eloquantly, or the four loves in ulysess http://www.io.com/~jlockett/Grist/English/ulysses.html

Was it an allusion to the Bill O’Reilly Factor Show on Fox? =)
Kiding!
I see people love you, on and even off the PC screen. They say that for every 5 people that love you, there are 5 that hate you. A saying in my country: You are the exception confirming the law!

Do you get up early and read comments while consuming large quantities of coffee :cool: ?
We frenetically wait for a new lesson… :shock:
O.o O.o O.o
O.o O.o O.o
All eyes on you.. :roll:

Don’t be sad, Marina. You did right by your Great Dane by having him move to a more roomy place. Those big kind of dogs need that. While your Dane no doubt misses you (and vice versa), try to find some comfort in the fact that you did the right thing by doing the tough thing… moving your Dane to where he’d be better off. You did what was best for your big doggie knowing it would cost you a little happiness along the way. When the moment came to make such a decision, you made the selfless choice in order to benefit your beloved poochie. That is what you should think about when you are sad over the matter… that your Dane is in a better place for him and you, that he is in the care of relatives, that he has a ‘mom’ that loves him enough to make such a sacrifice. You are a hell of a woman, Marina, and you know you made the right choice. Make the most of it rather than having regrets. You should be happy for your Dane, not sad. I’m sure that’s what he wants, and I know a thing or two about big dogs. :cool:

Marina,

Well you do words games, what about mnemonic, as a word and see what people have.
I know one for the 12 cranial nerves, every doctor has heard it. Just a thought.
Yours,
Robert

A few months back, I helped a small white Pekingnese get back into the gated apt building it wandered out of (no clue how the owner let that happen to such a sweet dog). I was just reminded of that dog thanks to this lesson, and wanted to mention it’s name, as it was a very clever play on words. The dog’s name was ‘Pucci’, as in the word ‘Poochie’ spelled to look like ‘Gucci’. Such a clever name… I never got to meet the owner, as I got the attention of a neighbor who opened up the gate and let Pucci roam back in to wherever apartment it came from.

Look at “Things for which there are no words” Tanzania ? swahilli http://psayre.blogspot.com/2007/03/update-research-research-research.html
No word for “Love” or “depression” Interesting! “Upendo” is to like someone but not love. Only a quickie check on lunch break GTG

How about the word “boner”

I was wondering where the word Hairlip came from?

Well, you like to quiz us at the end of every video. So how about “quiz”? I always heard that it was invented and spread within 24 hours as part of a bar bet. What do you say?

You wont see it if your watching the pooch

My mistake sorry

Why do you ask, Marina , have you given up on love?

LOL I had to laugh at my signing in, got an ad. lavalife girl right under the video link, bright blue eyes & blonde hair, lovely smile, not Marina, I thought it was sister, then saw it was an advert. :oops:
Anyways, I was young not too long ago, the most thrilling love was
puppy luv

never works for me “Puppy luv” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puWWqL4gojY

Nuthin’ but the best for my little angel :mrgreen:

by the way…
Is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho?
rotflmao :!:

Marina, could you please do the word “transparent”?
thanks, ~Birchtreeguy

You know, I kept meaning to ask about the word “dog” and if it’s just a coincidence that it is god spelled backwards…

I got a good one :twisted: the word “Gullible” is the stupidest word EVER made up. who or where did it come from? :razz:

WORD REQUEST: On your YouTube-profile, my heart grows three sizes; but it is a little let down when it sees that 70,000+ fans also experience regular heart-enlargement over you … makes me feel a little bit like ‘another brick in the wall.’ But if it is a wall that helps support you, our favorite teacher, then strengthening the wall is worth the loss of singlar special-ness.

I think it would be good (-for you and -for every ‘brick’ in your wall of fans) if you would research ‘brick,’ ‘wall’ and ‘brick in the wall,’ and explain those etymologies to us. Yours is the only voice we want to hear explaining it!

Had to be a joke.
Even caveman
had a word
for love! :mrgreen:

(aluna) – Caveman
Ringo Starr (1981)
PEACE!! :cool:

Dear Marina,

What is the origin behind the piece of lingerie knowns as the “Merry Widow?”

Целую,

Bad Squirrel

Dear Marina,

Why do old people call youngsters “whippersnappers?”

Целую,

Bad Squirrel

Dear Marina,

Why is the space between a hockey goalies’ legs called ” the five hole?” :grin:
Целую,

Bad Squirrel

Hi Marina,
Would you be interested in the age demographic of your student body?
Why not do a poll (under 20, 20-29, 30-39…)? I think that the results might be surprising.

Why do you ask ,Marina , have you given up on love?

Love, hate, just opposite extremes of the same emotions, the word for no love is indifference. :?:

whats wrong with these comments?

I trust your getting these comments.

Dear Marina,

While travelling in Central Asia I found a dish soap called “barf.” Why would anyone want to wash their dishes with barf is beyond me. What is the origin of barf, and does it mean anything pleasant in the Central Asian languages?

Целую,

Bad Squirrel

Dear Marina,

How did “knocked up” come mean pregnant?

Целую,

Bad Squirrel

Hi Marina
Could you expound upon the word ‘redneck’ as in a personal stereotype.
tia
spike

Hey Marina, I have always wondered about the word “Masturbate”. It doesn’t seem as though it quite relates to the meaning at all… Check it out? Thank you!
<3 Kendall

Hey Marina,

Is it true you’re going to encourage us to vote for McCain in November?

Bizoo.

Marina,
Thanks for the update.
To change the subject:
I also subscribe to “Podshow” and I was wondering why you don’t feature your Videos there as well?
You have the top spot on their “Women of YouTube’.
There’s also “Metacafe” and “Expert Village”

Oh, I almost forgot..
Relatives? That’s fantastic! Are they staying permanently?
They must be proud of you, I am and I don’t even know you except through your show.
I’m a truck driver so I don’t see the same people everyday and I tell everyone about your show (I hope it helps).

Dane! Come back, Dane! Come back! Dane, come back!

Before you knock my girlfriend’s socks off, you’ll have to snip her garters!!!

Marina already changed bowsers. That little white ball of fur is not a Great Dane.

what about the phrase head over heels? we seem to use it a few different ways

Define what shortly?

If you stick a lollypop down your throat too far, you’ll lollygag.

That’s a Riley good video!!!

Hi Marina,
Brand Spaning New Student. it is an italian word but what does the word destaduda mean? sorry if I did not spell it correctly. :smile:
Seen your interview with Bill O’rielly and had to come to this site ASAP :!:

Was that “brand spanking” or “brain spanning?”

I know, it’s a Riley lame comment. Sorry!

Done it already.

I agree, that’s a clever name. Did you tickle it? Gucci, gucci, goo!!!

That’s a good question about the dog house. On the one hand, if the dog house is broke (as a stickler for grammar, I would say broken), then that would explain why Kobe is inside the apartment rather than in the dog house. On the other hand, maybe not. After all, it’s hard to do a video of a dog playing in its dog house. It would be difficult to squeeze in there, especially if the dog house is proportional in size to little Kobe. On yet another hand, maybe the dog house is broke(n) because Marina tried to squeeze in there and busted it all to heck, thereby forcing her to bring the dog inside her apartment for video production. Ultimately, though, you have to wonder if the apartment complex manager would even allow a dog house on the property.

well at least im on the right track :lol:

It’s also very Nice on the French Riviera.

I thought “muSHa” was Klingon for Italian bred sled dogs…

Might pass the yoghurt test, though.

I’ve always wanted a curio cabinet, Chemikal.

Obviously, Kobe had a bone to pick with us.

Be careful. Somebody is going to say that only Muppets are adorable.

Wasn’t Riley the reincarnation of Brian?

I’ve wondered about this, too. Mabye Bostonians never heard a Celtic harp…

A maiden of the sea. She looks like tuna, but tastes like chicken.

Better than one in a row.

“brand spankining” as in new not “brain spanning” the word I’m looking for is “destaduda” that is the best I can spell it. It is an Italian word my father always called his brothers.

Здравствуйте!
Посмотрел ваш клип и задумался на тему происхождения абривиатуры РЭП.
П.С. Вы очень крсиво поёте.

Is the Dog, house broke. ie Dose He crap in the house.

God speaks English? In Spanish its perro, Orrep????

Hello Maia Marina :smile:

Dear Marina,
I recently found your Youtube vids and must say this is the cleverest idea I’ve seen. Congrats on your success. Now, the word I am interested in is “Gal”. I guess I am just old enough to think it weird to address a table of females by saying “You guys” as opposed to “You gals”. I ask because this seems to be a word that is about to die. Maybe it already has. Thank You

The expression to be “pissed off” comes from?

1. In the UK, pissed is slang for drunk and we all know there is increased likelihood of people getting angry when drunk;

2. Some linguists and historians think the expression must have been well known during World War II, citing a story about General Eisenhower’s dog. The story goes that the dog (Felix) urinated on a map and the officers joked that the enemy was “pissed off”.

3. Shipment of cargos of urine via boat for use in dying fabrics and gunpowder production had crews who had been assigned shipments of urine rather than more conventional wares were said to be “pissed off”. Obviously the reaction to this unsavoury task gave meaning to the term.

The origins of most slang expressions are irretrievably lost in the mists of time, or are they? What do you think?

Chemikal

gee not everyone has heard that expression, roadrunrch. it would a thing to get definitions to expressions so everyone could be on the same page, if you know what i mean.

Nice avatar, pagedoll

Or maybe i should say nice Icon, which do you prefer? avatar has many things associated with it…….icon\avatar…looks much better than the previous .

Me, I wrote a book about my confused life and adventures-
“Gullibles Travels”
Just kidding

That was not a very swift reply, Warren. :lol:

Have you ever heard of “Tom Swifties”?
“Look out! A golf ball! Tom forewarned”.

Japanese
Swahili

So if Kobe’s bone were through his nose, a Swift reply would be quite PUN-CHEW-al, right?

I wonder if Marina’s Bad Grammar video was produced RAPidly?

“Do you think I’m catching on?” I ask infectiously.

That’s good.
I’ll stop there since I know that I can’t keep it going with the likes of you. And don’t get prospero811, BiilyB, melikeadothechacha and captainjack started.

Rats, that was a misprint.
I laughed infectiously.

that lil furball is cute :smile:

Your self exclusion from our fun and games is UN-WARREN-TED.

Well Bob,
Your wit will beat me every time I admit painfully.

Oops
I posted to my reply, not yours.

“Don’t be defeatist” Bob warned crushingly. :smile:

Optimism and Hope are virtues I keep blindly.

Bye Everyone i’m off to work now.

Then you are probably good at card games, I speculate whist-fully, rummi-gin-g through my twenty-one reference books to crib more gambling puns.
I bet you would even back-a-rat running up a drainpipe to brag about. :roll:

Oops
I posted to my reply, not yours.

SNAP. :grin:

Wrestling wits may pin a pun though most will tapout.

Did you realize that the word Gullible is not in the dictionary?

PLEASE! HELP! HELP! HELP!
WHAT’S THE WORD ””GALOUT”’(or some sort) MEANING; A SCOTISH INVESTOR USED IT AND i DON’T KNOW WHAT IT IS.
I was late with something and It wasn’t good for the business, then he told that to me in a context. I took it like a bad word but I still don’ t know what is it ——I can’t find it in the Cambidge dictionaries

OK, Now you you’ve done it.
Out pops my “The Random House Dictionary of the English Language-Second Edition Unabridged”….
and on page 850, 3rd column, 17th word is:
“gullible ( gul’ e(upside down) be(upside down)l ), adj. easily decieved or cheated.
Also gul’la.ble [1815-25; Gull + -ible]

Hey Bob,
Where are you on this planet?
I’m in the U.S. in what we know locally as “The Bay Area”.
“East Bay” actually. Northern California.

Ha Ha Ha :mrgreen:
You didn’t really look it up, did you?
What planet are YOU on? :lol:

Sounds like a nice poem you wrote there. :smile:

Mike

No, I didn’t mean to mock you.
It was an honest question.

The only thing I saw was a picture and the frame was black.

I live in Aberdeen, Scotland at the moment, but I’ve bounced around all over the planet and there’s still plenty of bounce left in me yet.

I thought it was Riley funny :smile:

Oh.
Have a good day. Time to sleep.

presumined, I don’t get involved in politics. Too divisive. I have ads that appear on my website from all the candidates, but they are served up by Google and I have no control over them.

Sorry about that Jack I didn’t see your comment way below mine. I quess I should read all of them before I comment sometimes. Luck to ya me matie. :smile:

Galoot is a word used by Scots to mean an idiot; sorry not to break it to you more gently but I think you already realised that your Scottish investor was not being nice to you.
The word is used in a nautical context to mean a young or “green” marine or greenhorn (a raw or inexperienced person) but the Scottish use is rather harsher.
Interestingly, in The Urban Dictionary, there are other definitions given amongst which is “A devastatingly handsome, crushingly intelligent and bitingly witty man.”
So don’t be too downhearted; we galoots have to stick together.
Look on this episode as a learning experience.
Somebody wise once said, “show me someone who never made a mistake and I’ll show you someone who never learned anything.”

Yea me too stokesjrj1, but I wouldn’t call my career ‘work’. Its loads of fun. Im my own boss. I have great students. Oh I have to tell you this. I didn’t get a stupid apple (fruit kind) but they gave me a ‘Time Bandit’ t-shirt and coffee cup. Way cooler than an apple. :cool:

You’ve all got to be kidding me, Riley! :roll:

Oh and you found all that word for word on Wiki hu? :roll:

Not only.. There is no reason to trust 100% one particular source… Especially online!

The ‘coast is clear’ phrase first appears in print in 1531 where it describes a vessel which had safely cleared the coast. Then later Shakespeare used it in ‘Henry VI’ as a reference to visibility. Neither of these references touch on its true insinuation.
“Salty Dog Talk: The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions” Nice book but it does have its faults. I don’t trust it. But that said, I think its correct in this reference. :smile:

thanks :smile: I didnt the last one was encouraging enough smiles. this makes me smile-www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw06kldgVSU

Japanese too, eh Bob. I have a, soon to be son in law, who’s sister took japanese language study (she just got back from Africa), I have to ask her about that. I wonder how they translate “Lust”. I must investigate. I also came up with “Swahilli”, but that opened up a whole new train of thinking for me. If there is no word for something, to not express it (does it exist). Take “Depression” or “Love” as an emotional state, once defined, does that give it an existance. ie when I was a kid, the medical definition for A.D.D. didn’t exist, were we just out of control kids that grew up to be normal (so called) adults? Interesting, must mull for awhile..

Check this -> http://www.logosdictionary.org/pls/dictionary/new_dictionary.dic.main?u_code=4395&code_language=&language_list=&trg_lg=&word=&phrase_code=2519337&connect_value=451854&procedure_type=ST&subject_code=&num_row=10

Chemikal

sorry i wanted that address to turn blue so you could click on it and see but i guess i dont know how to do that :oops:

try putting “h t t p : //” in front of it.

251 comments on YouTube Vs 256 over on HotForWords.com
+mine.. we stand proud at 257 comments!
So.. please start reading from the bottom, up. Every little thing :)

I went to an online, english-japanese translation site (free) & came up with a multitude of “Love” translations & it seems our word for love is the one that lacks the ability to define. It “love’ really needs context to mean anything. But your link does bring up the culture issue, that the fear of “romantic love” meant no actual word to define it. (Is romantic love, human nature or cultural concept?) hmmm

Right click “copy” & “paste” your links making sure you leave a space before & after.

you might want to check out the “Gird Your Loins (Game)” lesson. 964 comments. have fun reading every single one of it.

Thanks!

cultural concept based on human nature?

Not only will I do that.. I will even respond to some of them.. maybe I’ll help to reach 1k+ comments.
Yeahh… why not? :cool:

why not? because people tend to read and comment on the newest lesson(s).

I have a good word request Marina:

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

I would have thought that this expression went back to the days of smuggling. “The coast is clear would mean that there were no revenue officers around to arrest the smugglers and that it was safe to bring the cargo ashore.
Just conjecture on my part though.

I am sorry to tell you my friend but she has already done that one. :sad: Check Marina’s lessons at the top of the page and it will give you all the words she has already done. Plus somewhere on this site or Marina’s YouTube site are all of the videos she has made. Its up to 160 or so by now. Be :cool: and peace. :grin:

Sounds like he might have been saying “destitute.”

Dear Marina,

How did the expression “the cat’s pajamas” come about? :grin:

Целую,

Bad Squirrel

Teach, Can you tell your minions about your experiences in A Socialist Country. FREE Health care. ????FREE????. And what this will cost them. Maybe what drove you here? And not ……France or England or …….? Are you happy to see the USA going in the ……like Sweden. If You do not want to get involved, Then can you define, chick shit? :roll: Just kidding Hun, But your insight would be important to Me.

Teach, Where is the Great Dane from your earlier Video?? Now that’s a DOG..(I understand; APARTMENT) BUT what a Dog.

I have a word for you Ms. Marina: Scuttlebutt!

-Clint

Marina,
I love your class… I´m a pantyhose fan.. I love wear them even now a days not many girls like them. Anyway, I would like to ask the origin of the word “pantyhose”
Kisses
D

Marina:
How do you call a dog with no legs?
It doesn’t matter because he can’t come anyway.

A dog with his leg wrapped in bandages hobbles into a saloon. He sidles up to the bar and announces: “I’m lookin’ fer the man that shot my paw.”

A man walks into a bar and sits down next to a lady and a dog. The man asks, “Does your dog bite?”. The lady answers, “Never!” The man reaches out to pet the dog and the dog bites him. The man says, “I thought you said your dog doesn’t bite!” The woman replies, “He doesn’t. This isn’t my dog.”

A blind man walks into a bar with a seeing-eye dog. When the blind man reaches the center of the bar, he snatches the dog up by his collar and starts swinging him around and around. The bartender, startled, asks, “Hey, what the hell are you doing?” The blind man says, “Just taking a look around…”

P.S. I love small dogs. Especially with baked potatos… :twisted:

Thanks for your reply. I see your point.

But you do have a deal with GTA4, surely? :wink:

Bizooo.

Ok here’s a joke for you.
An elderly couple is attending a church service.
About halfway through,
she leans over and says to her husband,
“I just let out a silent one.
What do you think I should do?”
He replies, “Put a new battery in your hearing aid.” :lol: :lol:

Har Har Har :lol: :lol:

Thats the best one today, everybody here laughed @ work. LOL

I think this from a tv show were as the father was Mister Bates the mother was Mrs. Bates and the youg son was Master Bates.
Just kidding had to through that one in there. :lol: :lol:

http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/11/16/supercalifragilisticexpialidocious/ click & enjoy. More here http://www.hotforwords.com/words/

Thanks BillyB.

Mike

Check out the one further down I left for khop102. He wanted to know about the word masterbate. :oops:

scroll down.. or use find for Marina’s posts.. she answered this earlyer.
GL

Chemikal

gg diana915
+1

Respectfully, Chemikal

why do people say the word buh in front of bye when someone is leaving. example “buh- bye”

Dear teacher
I don’t like when you take drugs before doing your lessons. Neverthe less, I will do my homeworks.
Amicalement
Don Felipe

and as we discussed earlier…Yosemite Sam was fond of calling Bugs Bunny a “long-eared galoot”…

what is a 40k fan?

potaTOES :mrgreen:

I say my mistake, but i did get you to look. :smile:

I knew it! Yosemite Sam is Scottish in at least one cartoon. :mrgreen:
I heard him say “idjit” for idiot, too, in one episode.
“Whoa means WHOA ya varmint critter!” :wink:

OK… couldn’t sit through the whole dog video. Are you chasing him around with your ibook or did you get a video camera? Nice dog though. Although I’d recommend a different breed.

thank you for the help i appreciate it :smile:

Seems that video has been taken down.

roadrunmch: Dude! Let it go!
This is a party; not for party
parlor tricks (politics). We have
a lot of fun with OUR brand
of juggling clowns, dancing
bears and high-wire acts. :grin:

To get into Amerca’s, or
anyone elses, f***ed up
political systems is a
real buzz kill. :???:

So, no harm, no foul.
Just buckle up and
enjoy the ride! :mrgreen:

How about this idea:
Male? female? other*?
*(just in case they have
pets who also watch). :mrgreen:

Ahoy Ahoy!
MMMMM…..Salty dog!
(with potatoes?) LOL!

Etes ok.

Does anyone know how to tell if a video on YouTube does not allow video replies? Some of them I reply to act as if they work but they never attach to the video in question. They even show in the dropdown with an asterick (you know, the dropdown when you go to use an existing video as a reply).

I looked through about as much youtube help as I could stand.

And ummm…. sorry if this is off topic. I am more or less at my wits end though and figured everyone here was probably pretty youtube saavy.

http://www.swampland.com/img/Image/articles/leonrussell/leonrussell_main.jpg
http://www.bednbiscuits.com/131752774_maltese03_op_800x640.jpg
I’m still out as to whether he’s maltese (pure) or a cross he’s trimmed funny. could have a little shihtz in him. Real maltese cross is cool http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1109/1425221701_a15117eb37.jpg?v=0

Originally, Jackie Gleason was cast for the part of Riley, but they went with for William(?) Bendix. (Not sure I remember his first name correctly, I was, like, 3 or 4 years old, at the time,)
Car 54 Where are you?

Were you going for the gross out factor or were trying to be mean in the dog eating posts down below? AC/DC “dog eat dog” meet the more entertaining http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL95gXwv5rw&feature=related everyones a winner.

Hi Marina,
What’s the origin of the word logo?

GJ

Ahem. Ha Ha Ha! :mrgreen:

Dude! are U competing
with this puppy? :roll:

Slap yourself about the head and shoulders! :mad:

yer only human… :mrgreen:

maybe this one will work http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8aMfa2hgr0

My cockatiel usually helps me @ the computer, so he’d be “other” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVe4NMseLcg When Kobe gets old he may need a friend. My bird jumps on the keyboard when I type , he likes to compete.

yea!! i did it!! thanks again :wink: :grin: :grin: :grin:

wife liked the dog, must be a chick thing.

COULD YOU DO THE ORIGIN OF FABER’S SYNDROME

men are different.

Quick response before I watch the vids.
I was an aviarist/breeder, for a time.
Quite successful – and damn lucky.
cockatiels, parakeets and lovebirds.
Buy that calcuim!! USE that calcium!!
does you bird like scrambled eggs?

Marina, i just want to thank you for your great site every time i visit i learn something new from you or the friendly people that leave comments. it has inspired me to make some drastic changes in my life(for the better) and this one is just for you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L5F6SWKhXY thanks agian :grin:

Ok Mr. Quail :razz:

thanks, now i have to go listen to pink floyd

I trained a couple birds (one parakeet, one cockatiel) to wolf whistle, the “come hither” whistle and, how to whistle Dixie (yeth, I tan whithle).
After that – they taught my other birds :cool:
Saw the vid – is that your guy? Had results like that – got a few solid yellow males, too
used my bird in an “impromptu” magic act. he would put his head in my mouth! (the old lion tamer trick). simple operant behaviour modification of the birds inate instinct. Anyway – thanks for reminding me of some of my favorite critters. I have a cat now. Just got lazy.

Back to the main point about the poll -
male ? female ? other?
the strange attracter to this is the yield in the survey partitioned to those who respond: female/other, male/other, male/female/other and just plain other.( i want to know how big to make the butterfly net!!)LOL!!

ummm… read that back
should be apportioned, not partitioned.
(programmer’s jet lag)

Looking forward to florida?

Dear Teacher-
A word used way too much… FREE please educate us about the origin of this word. thank you.

Tell us about the word “LEGEND”

yeah, you know … sun, ice cream, …

Marina, seriously, I really do like animals (apart from their nutritional value). However I don’t like poodles all that much because a friend of mine had a wife who just absolutely HAD to have a purebred white poodle to match her naturally platinum blond hair. So the poor guy got her one. The thing about purebred dogs is that in order to get the physical qualities that people want in them the animals become inbred. This produces some, shall we say, some other less than “desirable” qualities. My friend’s wife’s dog was so inbred or purebred if you will, that whenever the doorbell rang it would run around in circles, barking and urinating all over their apartment. This wasn’t a cutesy little toy poodle, but a full sized one. Poodles were originally bred as working dogs. It is man that has reduced them to fashion accessories. I hope you are one of the ones who is too smart to treat your dog like that. Remember that poodles are very active and require a daily commitment to exercise them. I hope you and your dog have many years of happiness together. BTW, beautiful Harlequin great Dane too. (I would have thought you would have thought you would have gone with a Russian Wolfhound though.) Might I suggest the nickname ZIB for your dog, in honor of the space dog that was substituted for Bobik the Soviet space dog in ’57? You could call him “ZIBushka” for short (short dog, get it?) and because there is so much space in your apartment since he isn’t a big dog.

Oh analyzing these videos makes my head hurt. Thats no dog. Thats a manifestation of a great white safari hunter, he’s roped the moon, defeated the platypus, and lain to rest the great pink rabbit, a being of the Xtianity, one who’s head is not his own and incurred the wrath of Satan’s daughter herself, Firm in his beliefs and easy to love, a true spirit of kinship……or something like that. :cool:

i gotta go to bed ,Night all

I have a word request if this is the right place to post it. The word i would like to know more about is Prometheus. Thanks keep up the good work

buzz kill? ……teacher………… not ,
yOUR brand

of juggling clowns, dancing
bears and high-wire act.
Hearing from someone who was lived it and not from some duplicitous Hollywood whiner is not a parlor trick. So thank you for your concern but being a buzz kill is what geeks do. RRR ::)( ;;

Teach, A earlier post asked about, THANK? This is a good question. Thank, is a antonym for f*ck? Good ; Thank You.. Bad; F*ck You. And when your Girl wants to do something to show Her appreciation, She Thanks you……curious, It seem to be synonyms too? :???:

Hello Marina,
Love your website and admire your dedication to it. I was wondering, as an audiophile myself, where the words “woofer” and “tweeter” came from as they pertain to audio speakers. To be honest, I think it would be enough just to here you say the word “woofer” because of the lack of “wh” sound in Russian. hehehe

Thank you and keep up the great work!
-Big Jeff AZ-

Not my bird in the vid.
Actually, bird is my daughters’, left behind when she moved out, can’t get rid of him, even flew away once, went & broke into a house a few miles away & lady didn’t want him. He knows a few tunes, Bridge over River Kwai, Andy Griffith, Marriage of Figaro (the intro), sometimes composes a mix of it all with telephone ringer thown in. His favorite & it drives my wife nuts is the smoke alarm, when he wants attention quess what he does.
My oldest son got married & took his two love birds to be with him & his new wife. Funny, years ago he came home from school twice a day when they needed fed (chicks), & they will die with him, they’re so attached. Daughter in law didn’t know that she married the three of them :lol: Pets become such a part of who we are as humans that I think when its time to separate there is a certain amount of mourning goes on in our hearts if we really let them get in there. As a kid it took me along time to get over the death of my rat “George” :cry: Yes bird likes his eggs, pasta & potato, anything he can steal & he’ll fight for his share.
Богдан I think was asking about ages cause he wants to know, but Marina should know by checking the profiles of subs. gtg

Where did you get youre nice avatar? just cuious. :?:

Crap, I see what you mean now!!!

not sure how it may be spelled spelled it how it sounded to me. my late father said it meant “Blockhead” in Italian just curious cause whenever he bitched with his bros it was in Italian so I couldn’t understand.

A dog woofs, a bird tweets.

I also have a burning desire to know more about Prometheus.

In the interest of Glasnost, I would suggest George W. ZiBushka.

I Am Legend. That’s all you need to know….

I agree. Do us all a faber.

I don’t have any pets. But my parents have a Yorkshire Terrier (and two larger cats!), one of my sisters has two Yorkshire Terriers (one weighs just 4 lbs!), and my other sister has two Springer Spaniels. My sister’s two Yorkies are called Molly and Jody, so I just call them The Mojo. The Spaniels are called Moose and Cruzer. I don’t have pets, but my African Sumac is home to lots of cute little bugs…. They’ll have to do for now!

2:30 A.M definately gotta go to bed night or should I say morning to everyone. :lol:

I heard Yosemite Sam is Half Dumb.

How did the word mooning come to mean flashing your butt at people?

Well thank you prospero811 :neutral:

Withdrawal
Withdrawal Syndrome :shock:

Marina, please I need my fix!
Need….video….soon….help….

Hi Marina.

I appreciate your work… and your patience (some comments are quite embarrassing). So my laud and congratulations to you and all other participants.

English isn’t my first language, so I use the MerianWebster Webpage to look for the proper pronounciation. But what’s this:

Etymology: origin unknown

:shock:
The word was “shenanigan”

So I hope, this will get your attention and your enthusiasm to “investigate”! :grin:

Sincerely, cheza.

PS: The video with James@war is sooo great!!!

Italian for head is “testa” as in “Testarossa=a Redhead”, so that gets us the first part of your word. The nearest I can find to the second part, “duda”, means “doubt or suspect”, so maybe “testaduda” could mean someone whose intelligence was suspect.
Sin duda (without doubt), someone who knows Italian would be able to confirm or correct my theory.
this site is what I used to research this word.

Tomorrow the great tennis tornament the French Open (Roland Garros) is starting and I was thinking…. you know when the referee goes fifteen – love… thirty – love….. why they use LOVE rather than zero ??????

it needs to be investigated!!!

Dear Marina,

My wife and I are wondering where the term cocktail dress came from…

For that matter, Why do they call drinks cocktails??

Any guidence you may have would be helpful!

Miss Marina,

I’m a big fan of books and films about the Italian mafia like “The Godfather”. There are many Italian terms being used in the books and films that make the conversations confusing. One term that i really do not understand is “pezzonovante”. I’d really like to know it’s meaning and it’s etymology. Thanks!

By the way, i love your vids! Keep it up!

Hi there,

i got two words to submit you. The first one is “idiosyncrasia”. And the second one is “soddomy”.But be care, the second term is not from the town “sodom”, because it s a bad translation of the bible…

Thanks,

Oli

Hi,
Please investigate “aphrodisiac” for me. Please.

Thanks!

She’s too busy playing with the dog. :cry:

LOL! Nice :lol:

If she were free to do so, she would, and she would to it for free in her free time. I personally believe that the word free should be used freely by anyone free to to do so.

No she’s not. She’s trying to get that last box unpacked while negotiating the minefield.

Maybe we should just ass(k) you! :lol:

It’s quiet in this flat tonight.
Can you hear the echo?

Aye! And a good nautical term, it be, too! Gave barth to the water cooler syndrome, which is well known to claim many a poor unwary soul so long may they peacefully rest in the deep…

Arrh. Me parrot shit on me shirt again. Blast!

See? Now I went along all this time thinking that’s how the condom ended up flying across the room (it was pissed off).

lol Yea, it’s quite an interesting term. I actually heard it on the news yesterday, and that’s what made me think of posting it on here. So, hopefully Marina will shed some light on this interesting term!

Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
YAAAAarrrrrr!

Hey, Bob!
The wait was worth it.
She did it again- Funny!

Yes, and unpacking.
She’s way too busy.
Considering all of the things that she must do to keep updated as well as produce her show- wow.

So did Marina get that WORD REQUEST? “BRICK,” “WALL” & “BRICK IN THE WALL”?

WORD REQUEST: “BRICK” “WALL” & “BRICK IN THE WALL”

I seems my avatar is a the rage :lol: i found it at this place http://www.EXCLUSIVEAVATAR.COM

My dog SANDY HOBBS has her own web page like yours does!
http://www.zero123.com/sandy.html

Gee, we have something in common!

cute little sobaka

That is a cute dog. I wanted to pick him up and play with him.

I was almost going to say that “I actually prefer bigger dogs… but any dog is better than even 100 cats”.

Then I realized how stupid a statement that was — because the more cats you have the worse your life.

So I will just be quiet and say … “Cute dog!”

I wasn’t going to watch the entire clip, but ended up doing so. The little puppy dog’s cognitive process … at play, and I simply watch the frisky little thing and go off in thought …

Biological cognition is a most fascinating “thing.” Care to watch some “kittens” at play? It’s all the same thing …

Biological cognition is a most fascinating “thing,” Maria et al.

Wow, you guys got YouTube to work fast on a holiday weekend … :oops:

Well a mans best friend is a dog ….and A Ladys…….

I would call the Dog SNOWBALL .

I Love Dogs i want to get a Mountain Dog …perenses….big white one …..or a st bernerd. …My flats to small ……..i need a Bigger garden and large space and my Dog would have the ‘ Life of riely ‘

A friend of mine has a couple of Yorkshire terrier, right? The small and smart dogs.

She decided that the young one should never be ashamed of his size, so what name did the dog get?

Ulysses, of course…

PERT

After watching this it was the only thing that came to me!
Sorry.

I think that one flew right on overhead like a wedge of northbound mallards, Ed. But you’re yonder on the early side o’ the pond, right? Seems to me you’d be off the hook then anyway. And what’s bizoo?

hm. “bisou”, maybe?

Good recall, pennsyltucky9 (or should I call you Mr 9?).

Ya, I live in UK, but maybe I become a US citizen b4 Nov :wink: aLx is correct about bizoo, it’s a fun version of “bisou”, a French word for “kiss”… it’s how I sometimes sign off when I write to French (or pretty) girls :smile: (I like if they write back in English and just sign off “Kiss” … v cute… I got a kiss from Marrakech recently… *sigh*…)

…ya, it was a French kiss for Marina :wink: What’s your take on the blonde one’s GTA4 fixation, btw? …

lol

Alphabet City
The reason why black is no longer the prominent lack of color, is ’cause-of-dogs.
Wake up!!! Open a window and use Katz.

Hi Marina, how have you been?

Awwwwwwww!! Wee lil fuzz ball of fun. No way can any student compete with such a furball as that. The tennis ball is about the same size as (did you say Poppy?) the wee lass!

My world has been turned upside down due to a dog. Duke, came to stay for a few days, about a month ago! His dad is overseas working leaving mum too busy with a third baby on the way. Only having pets breaks them rules in the lease, so all being well have found another home for us both to live. Duke is rather big and still a pup, chews much however finding him good to train. A neighbour says we are like Elliot and ET…. dogs have got it sorted I think. Fed, housed, walked and loved…. yeah so who is this Riley?

Have missed class, very much due to , life, so have many lessons to catch up with. You are looking amazingly fantastic as ever :oops:

:smile:

check this out http://www.cafepress.com/602spot.279428915

This one’s for Kobe. :grin:

Ciao,
Fianchetto

But, I think THIS one will WORK!

Her Maltese is so cute. Makes me want one. Even though it has the girly girl stigma attached. Hotforprofits should get a pet as well. And get some furniture marina this aint russia =P

SO,CUTE :grin :lol:

:mrgreen: :smile: :grin: :cool: :wink: :lol: :sad: :shock: :!:

[ANIMAL MAGNETISM]***+***My Random: Gorby is the new king, something [Queen] MARINA knew!!! :razz: net caught me, hear? An animal can be small, that is all :lol:

You named your dog Gorby after Gorbatsjov?
Nice thought (and i mean that in a good way)

:razz:

whauw :smile: Leonard, you read the older comments, i have respect for you.

THANK YOU –rijk :smile:

have a good day :cool:

Random lesson and random comment…. :razz: hello :cool: those darlins :P

lol, good one leonard : ) wild one
love it!

Oh your dog is so cute I realy like it and I think that it’s the most cute dog in the hole world!

:smile: Gorby’s so playful and CUTE. :cool:

George Carlin talking about his pets. Enjoy!!

Sad for all the {miners}…concern goes out to the families! test and hello a random lesson, too!