Peanut Gallery

Hi

Whew!! :shock:
For a second I thought we were going to be the peanuts. :lol: :lol:

Wire mesh? :?:
Shade of the Blues Brothers at the Country Western Bar. :grin: :grin:

4 ish

wetsuit5, I just saw that on TV.. that’s where I got the idea from :-)

“What kind of music do you have here?”

“Oh.. we have both kinds.. Country AND Western!”

Hi Marina :)
I am looking for the word “Scrutinize”, can you help me out? :D

HotForWords,

What’s your opinion of today’s Russia vs Georgia action? :?:

:cool: :wink: Now to find the video. A weekend of comedy. :idea: :razz: :razz: :lol: :lol:

The official video was better done.

are you teaching at a university, Marina?

kobe or not kobe, that is the question. :razz:

Last time i went to the theater… i know its not really the same thing, but seeing Dark Knight opening night was a BAD IDEA!

To quote a fine lady, “There you go”

Now I’m seeing double on the upper right picture. I can’t tell which one who it is? One of them must be your twin sister.

The “Peanut Gallery” actually gets a better view of all of what’s going on. In the front row you miss alot of what’s going on on one side or the other ( ie entrances ).

In Shakespear’s time the expensive weats were on the side where you could be seen better than you could see; I never understood that.

In Norfolk the Naro theater has an upper balcony that is the same price but a much better view of the movie.

Just one more opinion from the Peanut Gallery, and PROUD of it.

Felicity you said this is Marinaville so she must also teach at M.U.E.L.
Marinaville University of Etomology and Linguistics. :wink:

For Grandma Words version. :grin:

Happy Cubic Day! :mrgreen:
foxbow15 got shut out?

Marina,

Found it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSZfUnCK5qk
:mrgreen:

Phrase request: “Hell for Leather” or “Hell Bent for Leather”.

Privet Marina!

How could I ever prevent myself from subscribing a channel with such a wit motto “Intelligence is sexy”? Words were never that entertaining since I read Etymologiarum Libri Viginti in high school. You came across that book, didn’t you? Oh sure you did! … OK just in case you didn’t, here’s a tip for you: get a copy of the book, search for “cadaver” and be ready for laughter. That’s not the only funny definition you’ll find there. It’s a promise! :-)

Now, let’s come to us! I’d love you to teach me something more about the origin and pronunciation of the words “awkward” and “thatched”. Could you possibly investigate?

In the meantime, I’ll be practising sesquipedalian Russian words! I’m setting forth towards Moscow tomorrow morning in order to take an intensive Russian language course at MGU. It’s high time I give up the comic way I pronounce the letter “Ы”, isn’t it?

Time for suitcases now!

Poka,
Stefano

Every time I go to a Nascar race. We usually sit about halfway up in the stands. We throw chicken bones and beer cans at the people sitting in the front row seats. The front row is called chicken bone alley anyway. After you have drank three or four six packs the hooping and hollering begins. It’s nothing but fun from then on. :twisted:

“Watch out! she has a k-nife!” :shock:
cracks me up…
Doing Shakespeare? kewl :cool:
(“Hark! What light through yonder window breaks?”)

You make for a nice snow bunny!

Homework: Last time stuck in “The Loge”
U2, Indianapolis, Rattle and Hum Tour
(Expensive ticket for peanut section!) :mad:

5 stars! :mrgreen:

Lets go to Russia and get us a snow bunny :wink: :grin:

My last time in the peanut gallery was the last time we flew to Thailand. We sat right down the back end by the toilets, and the plane must have been a dog, because it was wagging its tail like one. In fact, I suspect it was the one that blew a hole in its fuselage on the way from Hong Kong to Australia.
I can’t remember the last time I went to a cinema or theatre – probably when “Top Gun” came out.

…and western
this is Dr. Woodrow Paul Christianson
aka “Woody Pau”, King of the Cowboy fiddlers
Buffalo Gals

good for gas prices? WTF :roll:

Why does this video remind me of
“It’s a good day to die” scene from
Starship Troopers III?

Здравствуйте, Марина!

У вас есть хороший ум. Ведь, хороший ум в хорошое тело. “Mens sana in corpore sana” or something like that. I’ve forgotten Latin spelling.

Я хочу знать происхождение фразы “Adam’s Apple”. Почему яблоко? Я не знаю. Объясните, пожалуйста!

For you folks not studying Russian: I want to know the origin of the phrase “Adam’s Apple.” Why an apple? I don’t know. Could you explain it to me, please?

Marina, dear teacher — how’s my Russian grammar? I have been teaching myself…

Ah, I see a mistake in my grammar already. I think I should have said, “хороший ум в хорошом теле.”

A peanut walked into a bar, and got a-salted.

I was wondering if you could find the origin of my name and last name
Leonida (I know he was a Spartan king) Alberto Rizzo
Thank you!

A peanut walks into a bar and asks the bartender, “How much are your martinis?” The bartender looks at him and says, “I’m not sure – how much are you willing to shell out?”

You’re so pretty it’s ridiculous and unfair to other people. I’ll bet the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

Dear Marina, For your homework, in today’s movie theaters, the “cheap seats” are in the main seating section, and the pricier “loge” seats are in the balcony, where they have plusher carpeting, better seats, and one theater has “love seats” there, where a guy and girl can sit next to each other (and watch the movie).

It was the reverse in earlier times: In theaters of the Shakespearean era, the “cheap seats” were on the upper floor of the theater, so that the poor customers had to climb higher to get seated. Roasted peanuts were a common snack of that time, so patrons could throw peanut shells (which didn’t toss very well) or whole peanuts, when they didn’t like the acting. Early baseball stadiums were the same, in that the cheap seats were on the upper parts and the nice seats were near ground level.

Dear Marina, You looked great in your well-designed dress.Your clothing choices are very beautiful. Your dress was fresh and clean, unrevealing, respectable, modest, decent and it covered you well. What a quiet, sophisticated and classy young lady you are!
Your dear student, seesixcm6

I found it! It’s right there between the word ‘word’ and ‘can’ in your sentence. I hope that helps. :grin:

Well wt5.. well done..

MARINA YOU MUST READ THIS!!

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/08/08/edducation-cheef-don-t-corect-kids-bad-speling-115875-20688565/

Bad bad things are happening, you must investigate. And kill those responsible :cry:

Sorry to keep posting!

Wondering the origin of the “Ku Klux Klan” what’s a ku klux?

how about the origin of the phrase “video games”? and could you give a shout out to http://www.gamestrata.com! THANKS!
your DS, KBC! XD!

‘Blues Brothers’ has got to be one of the best movies of all time!!!!!

Homework: Feels like I’m in the peanut gallery every where I go :grin:

Marina,

I need your help. My friends and I were talking about word and phrase origins and 4 have come up that my weak research has come up empty on. I need the undisputed expert!!

Here they are:

1) Cool – When did it start meaning something in style? And why doesn’t warm mean the opposite?

2) Hunky Dory – Strage american expression meaning everything is fine.

3) Bull Face Lie – why is a Bull Face Lie considered more egregious than a regular lie? and what exactly is a Bull Face Lie?

4) Rocheambeau – A fancy word to describe the decision game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. I assume it is a French word, but I could not find any correlation with the game. What’s the connection?

Thank you my queen!

I think it has to do with Adam (Adam from the Bible), and the forbiden fruit.

don’t worry, “commenting is sexy” :mrgreen:
kkk? (not so sexy) :roll:

I think this is the common belief, but I believe this answer to be apocryphal. The Latin term is “pomum Adami”, but it is believed by some that this is a mis-translation of the Hebrew phrase “tappuach ha adam”, which also means “male bump”. (insert sound and graphic of the late 70′s dance craze here…)

I don’t know — but in my opinion, HotForWords *must* investigate! :-)

HwK: A Sundance Film Festival premiere, I was a guest, also called “nose bleed seats”, right?

Oops. Never mind the Cool question. I see you already did that one. My bad.

Haha, one of your best Marina!!

Homework:
Last time was 2 years ago when there were way too many people :/

yeah…. I went mountainbiking and ended up in hospital with 7 stitches in my leg :sad:

I’v never heard of a peanut gallery…..not even something that would serve a similar purpose…..so I gues….no ..?

3) bull face lie. ummm….never heard of it
could this be bold or bald faced lie? :idea:

HI Marina! I happend to use a word or better yet a phrase the other day and stopped to think where did it come from? The phrase is “pitch black”, ie… “the room was pitch black”. Thanks, I love to listen and watch your videos! CJ

LOL! nice one!

Could be. I’m not sure what the actual expression is. My Mom used to always say Bull Face lie, but she may have mistaken the actual expression.

My friends said that their parents used Bull Face lie as well though, so maybe the expression varies regionally. ( I grew up in Oregon)

So the expression you heard was Bold or Bald Face Lie?

Bold Face makes sense I think, meaning that you can lie with a Bold face. No sign of guilt at lying.

If it’s Bald or Bull though, I’m not sure where that would come from.

So maybe Bold is the right saying.

Hello HotForWords,

I have another three words for you to help me with. I would like to know more about what the words: Abstract, Assumption and Implication!!

THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!! :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink:

Request the word please, “Fable”

thank you :D

paris hilton for president

Last week I saw Buddy Guy perform and my seat was in the center of the third row from the very top. The sound was great because it was in a symphonic auditorium. My friend brought some 10 to 30-power zoom binoculars, so we could even read the settings on the amplifiers from up there.

It was an awesome show, and anyone who wishes they could have seen Jimi Hendrix live should go check him out before he’s gone. For those who don’t know, Buddy Guy was the blues man Jimi Hendrix used to watch playing small clubs when Hendrix lived in England before his rise to stardom. Much of Hendrix’ material was actually inspired by Buddy Guy’s guitar work, such as Voodoo Chile and Red House.

Buddy may be aging, but he puts on one hell of a show. He played screamin’ solos, and even did the behind-the-back, under the legs, and picking out a solo with his teeth! I didn’t even stick around for the second act because it seemed ridiculous to ruin the moment by watching “Bad to the Bone” George Thorogood after such an incredible performance. Buddy Guy rules!

Hi, I was wondering how the word “Smitten” came about?

Could you investigate the origin of the word “bootleg”, especially as it refers to someone who makes moonshine? Thanks.

Bald faced = not covered. It means a wholly intentional, premeditated, and maybe even rehearsed-in-advance lie so the person won’t give away the fact that they’re lying by some inadvertent body language (i.e, wincing, glancing down or away momentarily, covering the face by pretending to scratch their forehead or brush their hair aside, pursing the lips, pretending they have something in thier eye, or placing their hand or fingers over their mouth as if thoughtfully stroking their chin, etc.). Some people say bold-faced as well, and the adjective bold applies pretty well here too. I don’t know what the original expression is, so HOTFORWORDS MUST INVESTIGATE!

thorogood should open for buddy. buddy is one of those original apostles of american music. one those, need to see before their gone performers. i’m envious of you. i think he’ll be in ohio this month as well. hmm…

Found this Googling your request
Bootleg Whiskey recipe
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~plumleysofcentraltx/Plumley%20Bootleg%20Whiskey%20Recipe.htm

The last time I had to sit in the peanut gallery – I did not need glasses. Upon your next visit to the Tampa/St Pete area of Florida,
LOOK ME UP! I’ll be the guy who’s going: “What just happened?!?”
- and peanuts? Great! Love ‘em —- really! Visit Tampa!
(Back me up MELIKADOTHECHACHA/Might visit U 2!)

Marina, I realize the term existed prior to television, but “the peanut gallery” was popularized by Buffalo Bob and the Howdy Doody Show. The peanut Gallery was where all the kids sat! A little bit of American cultural history you missed out on growing up in mother Russia, but that was back in the 1950′s and WAY before your time. Anyway, I believe that was when it became more of a part of our mainstream cultural jargon. Too bad you missed out on that, it was cool. I think you would have liked it. Did Russia have any really cool kids shows?

if you’re into guitar stuff, check out mattias eklundh.

Investigate the word *minion* and know that there are those who…..
….. well, they’ll set it right. AHEM! Excuse me I’ve got some phlegm
stuck in the duodenum of the diaphragm (Joe Pesci accent included)

and, of course, bumblefoot.

:roll:
apples, acorns WTF?
“the acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree” :mrgreen:

Video games?
i don’t think there were any
before Pong…maybe in Japan?

Peanut Gallery :shock:
Like We don’t know WHO this is directed at???ROADRUNRNCH???
Still are no pillows on the bed…………yet. :lol:

Prof Ken Smith
is rational,
but not sane.
Bogus twit!

Let him die
in his own
ignorance. :mrgreen:

He is right, Tampa is sweet!
Home of the Tod Schnit show.
Great little cigars, Hav-a-Tampa. :mrgreen:

perfect example

Dude! (& Dudettes!) just come on down to St Pete, the Pinellas Park
Winghouse recognize usually knows whats’s going on and they remember ol’ UncleDave/SuperDave. Usually there is something going on !!!

Like it would matter??
She would do a lot less damage then Obama or Hilary.
The French love Her, She FEEL’s your pain.
Buys into Global
Warming / Cooling what it is that day.
Love not War.
Gay is Great,
Animals have the same rights as humans ( unless unborn ).
She is the Mirror image of what People have become today.
Why not have HER lead,

I went to NASCAR in Vegas one year. I think the better seats are further up, you get to see more. Just like baseball.
BTW do you know what Nascar stands for?

Non
Athletic
Sport
Centered
Around
Rednecks
:grin: :grin: :grin:
They’re making a left turn!!! I wonder what’s going to happen next!!!
-Jeff Dunham from his ‘Arguing with Myself’ show.
I like Nascar and still find humor in this.

OH no buzzy
I am a SOLIPSIST.
1. Philosophy. the theory that only the self exists, or can be proved to exist.
2. extreme preoccupation with and indulgence of one’s feelings, desires, etc.; egoistic self-absorption.

and the bad thing is … ?

hello Marina! I wanted to know about the meaning of the expression “clean your clock”.

yeah, but i have no problem with him.

Hello Marina,

What is the exact meaning of, “Every dog has it’s day,” and of it’s origin? :wink:

Thanks in advance!

John

Is the KKK like the TUC :?: (Trinity United Church) ?(not so sexy)?

We need to send in Code Pink to save them all.

“Scrutinize”;
To inspect critically.

:cool:

We got tickets one year to Charlotte Speedway, but they were on the front row, chicken bone alley. We were covered in rubber from the cars as they would come by. The rubber was in big chunks of it. So I could see how rough the pavement is and how bad they wear down their tires. I like you definition of nascar. It’s like NASA. Need Another Seven Astronauts.

I have been in A lot of Cowboy bars and never one with a cage for the band.
Biker Bar?……..Yes, one :cool:

Hi, Marina

The term “redhead” is an obvious description for a person with red hair, but where did the words “blonde” (or “blond” for a man) and “brunette” come from?

You might like this
Alexia – Andreas Vollenweider
Marina

Ethnodoxology is my newest words request.

It’s already like that here in Cumberland County. The students don’t have to spell correctly if they are not in a spelling class. If they are in spelling class that’s a different story.

Non
Athletic
Sport
Centered
Around
Rednecks

Spoken by someone that has never driven a race.
2-3 hours knoted up and waiting to get hit or lose an engine.
It’s like running or swimming.

when I run all the time, for some reason I am always thinking “it not over until the fat lady sings.” mmmm I must like fat women or I hear it somewhere. SOS

Let him die in his own ignorance… Hahaha I love that line

Are you high?? Get out of this word discushun forom alx. It is a very bad fing.

100!

no, i’m not high.

so. what’s the bad thing? any arguments?

WELL FOXBOW THATS KARMA!! I told you to stop being number 1 but you wouldn’t listen.

Urm… Maybe 2 variants of their

not good

or Marinaville University of Linguistics and Etomology.
Now that spells a better M.U.L.E.

We are not in spelling class.

okay, you let me know that you think it’s a bad thing, and that those responsible should be killed. that’s about all you could say about it, and it has no substance at all.

one of his arguments is that “judgment” is an alternate spelling of “judgement”. why can’t “truely” be an alternate spelling of “truly”?

how do you argue against that?

As a student yourself or you seem to be with your wise intellect don’t you think that if we don’t keep up with the proper spelling of words while students are in school and in every class that sooner or later our languages will begin to change into something more along the line of not being able to understand what a person has written down and harder for other people to understand.

solopsism? :roll:
philosiophy 101 – oy!
no problem, oh wait :grin:
prove you exist
without using existentialist
or pragmatic reasoning.
only use solopsism.
good luck! :mrgreen:

Exactly capman

why can’t “truely” be an alternate spelling of “truly”?

Because truly is already the correct word we don’t need another one. I noticed when I was at school people were saying ” I writ it down then lost it” No No No bad bad bad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj6QqCH7g0Q

no, mike, i don’t think so. if you look at the spellings, you’ll see that they are based on the phonology of words, what they sound like. it’s not like one calls a cat “cat”, and another one calls it “foodle” or something. so, no, it won’t be harder to read.
consider the last lesson. the silent k. now, that’s something you really don’t need, right? so, wouldn’t it make perfect sense to write “nife” instead of “knife”?
consider “ph” in words like, “phantom” or “phone”. in those words, “ph” is pronounced as an f. what’s wrong with “fantom” or “fone”? maybe this is gonna change. “fantasy” is an alternate spelling of “phantasy”.

You just need to relax, take it easy :cool:
How about fish movie with nice music?
Just watch the fishies! very relaxing….

hehe quote fromtv

If you can’t say anything nice… Piss off

so, wouldn’t it make perfect sense to write “nife” instead of “knife”?

No it wouldn’t because it is already spelled knife…End of. :???:

being bald is fun if you spell it right :mrgreen:

oops! balled not bald

you didn’t answer my question. you didn’t answer it, because the sentence you quoted was only part of his argument.

that we already have a spelling doesn’t mean that there can’t be another one.
again: consider judgment / judgement. which one is correct? which one came first? should we eliminate one of them? if so, which one and why?

you drink soda? water? tea? there should be only one kind of soda, and one kind of water, right? why would we need several sodas?

Should we ?? We… What makes you think I wanted to be included in this we???

Im guessing brunette is from the french brun meaning brown

Good point Alx. I see what you are saying. Why are these words spelled one way with a ph where a f would work in it’s place or a k in front of nife. I guess when you reach my age and have spelled words like this all your life change comes hard and we try to hang on to what we think is proper. But what was proper for our generation and older generations maybe better for the younger generation to learn it a different way. My wife is a high school teacher and we have discussions all the time about the why ph and f and k are used in words when they are not needed. It sure would simplify the English language. But I’ll have to stick with my opinion about spelling the way we have always spelled. You know the saying about opinions don’t you. :smile:

think about the logic of the word “we” in the context i used it in. you’ll see the difference.

anyway. still don’t have any substantial arguments?

Doesn’t matter. I ALWAYS write a disclaimer when I write “we”.. OK. I’m not going to argue with you now because

A) Its 1 am , and i need to go to bed
B) Because i need to go to bed I cant be arsed

i’m not sure. what’s the saying?

sweet dreams.

Capman… . All these new words just show chaviness and incompetence because people do not know how to spell. I may be 16 but I like things as they are . People need to stop being lazy and trying to take an easy root out of grammar

Opinions are like assholes everyone has one. Now this is no way calling you that it’s just an old adage we us.

Why all the manson vids?? WHY NOT THE ANNIE LENNOX VERSION

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: omg

There is no human problem that cannot
be solved by applying the right amount
of high explosives. – Michael Nesmith

i like manson better than lennox.

Hey Marina,
what’s the word “somersault” come from?
it has nothing to do with summer or sault!

I watched a St. Louis Blues hockey game from the cat walks of the Kiel Center the first year it was open since someone in my family had ties to building it. Why are they called “cat walks” anyway? Also, you should’ve said “pipe down” to the members of the peanut gallery in tribute to Captain Jack!

What happened to the ability to star the lessons within hotforwords.com?

There’s one that’s been running for over 40 years now. It’s called Спокойной ночи, малыши! (Good night, kids!). You can watch one of the regular songs on YouTube. It’s encouraging all the kids to go to bed at the end of the program.

Alx do have aol or aim or a program that can talk to AIM?

In your next level,
you will find that a Solipsist has only the self to decode.
Ie, There is no you to prove too that I excist…… :wink:

If you can’t say anything nice…

Come sit by Me :grin:

I have a word request Marina. the word is:

catholic

How About Paganism?? :?:

You recently did the words pub & bar , which I like to frequent . Where did “cocktail” come from ???? My friend ponytail56 would like to know also.
Cheers !!

The “Peanut Gallery” came from “Howdy Doody”, a kid’s TV show in the 1950s

Wondering about the origin (and meaning) of the phrase “pound sand”.
I have a few guesses, but nothing more substantial than a guess.

Must be a school for Dumbasses.

Hey Marina. Just for you to know this is my first comment. I have a word request… GOOSEBUMPS…
Thanx. :)

Best check the cargo before flying.

Hold the phone! If the peanut gallery is so far from the stage then it would take alot of force to get a light little thing like a peanut all the way to the stage! Right? Now,*if* the target was the crowd with the closer seats then it all makes more sense to this old duffer.

Tryant

Young children were often refered to as “peanuts”. There was a popular t.v. show called “The Howdy Doody Show” featuring various marrionett charachters as well as human charachters. Towards the end of the show the viewing children were told have their parents write in request for tickets for them to sit in “the peanut gallery”, which was a live audience of children that watched the show as a on stage audience.

BiLL

And if you don’t use your ( opinion ) you are full of Hit-s :lol:

:smile: Peanut gallery :smile:

true the e is silent ( tru ) e makes the [u] a long U.
true + ly is ( tru-e-ly) the e would not silent.
The e is dropped to make it tru-ly.

I am sorry if I offended anyone with my Nascar comment below. None was intended. I have been to a race, watch them on T.V. Just for the record I think Fox does a better job with the races than NBC. My dad has even been to a race school in Vegas. I know how hard it is. I meant no disrespect.

so, brun- ette is a “little” brown? :mrgreen:

Hey, I heard tonight on the Olympics a Nike commerical that says, “I have a lot of soul, but I’m not a soldier” which made me curious of the origins of the two words, and if they are related?

Last time I was in the “peanut gallery” would be Ozzfest, which honestly at our venue, SANDSTONE AMPHITHEATER (IN all caps cause it was recently restored to it’s original name from “Verizon Wireless Amphitheater” and so I’m happy so it must be in all caps :) ), the lawn seats are cooler anyway. You can see the whole stage,and you aren’t in cramped seats. You can relax on the grass. :P

It’s also possible that they used the term for the audience as a joke.

hi! i was wondering about the word “bitch” when referring to a female dog and does the word go along with any other animals?

Shawn

You can find it on this site…. THIS IS THE LINK

DISREGARD THE LINK. I’M TIRED AND MISS UNDERSTOOD THE QUESTION…

Marina, awesome video! Funny stuff.

Homework: Well I’ve never been in a palce where they have such a peanut gallery so I’ve never actually been in it, and mor commonly for me is to be on the stage not watching it hehehe.

Best Djinnies, Ath, Offering three wishes (Altho there is no promises of actual fullfilment, but you can’t get everything in this world.)

I was watching the the asome shows of the olympics in beijing and that make me wonder the origin word of olympic :mrgreen:

Igor, спасибо! That’s cool! I wonder if Marina watched this when she was a child? Probably! Here is a youtube link to an old Howdy Doody show comedy bit with the “peanut gallery” in the background. I suspect the term peanut gallery may have been coined when P.T. Barnum had his shows at Madison Square Garden. Interestingly, the first Clarabell the Clown in The Howdy Doody Show was Bob Keeshan, who later had a very long lived TV show for kids called Captain Kangaroo.

Hi Marina, I’ve been thinking about your ‘she has a k-nife’ video and I was wondering where the word autumn comes from?
Love the videos, keep up the good work. :wink:

I would like to know the origin of the word: revolution. And the connection it has to like the revolutionary war, and as in one revolution, like one lap on a track, or orbit of a planet around the sun.

I once overheard a joke, where these dudes were all looking at smut mags and someone commented “Kids at a penis gallery” word request “penance”

Hi Marina,

I’ve been wondering about the interjection “gee”, used in expressions like “Gee, I don’t know” or “Gee, I wonder…” or “Gee whiz!”

Where did this word “gee” come from? Did it perhaps derive from “Jesus”?

Cheers,
~ Chad

I’m not sure, but I think you’re on the right track, Chad. I think it started out so people could get away with blaspheme. Instead of saying Jesus Crist one would say gee wiz, or instead of god damn one would say gosh darn.
Let me know if I’m close Marina.

Where did the word “Orgasm” come from? Is it related to the words “Orgy” or “Orgiastic?”

I had to sit in the peanut gallery during a Shostokovich concert. It was two balconies above the floor, and it was like watching a flea circus with violins.

I relized this in college:
Can any one come up with a phrase that almost everybody uses, and is grammatically incorrect? And why it is grammatically incorrect.

Cat walks. Humm thats interesting.

hahahha Pipe Down.. Funny Neanderthal… :lol:

The star ratings on the HFW site were only for the posts. The recored nothing on YT. There where many request from the students of where to rate the lessons on the HFW site. Since YT only accepts rating of videos from there YT page, she abandon the rankings on HFW site. Also she said they use to many resources that bog down the site.

I have a book of matches!

Well if your going to request that word then im going to request the word “a”. Or was that the letter “a”? No I think its a word. No it’s a Vowel. No it the first letter of the alphabet we learn of. ‘a’ is number one over the other 25 letter. Hum.. What is ‘a’? Its such a small word. I don’t know where a comes from. We uses it all most every day but we know very little about it. What is “a” all about? If I only knew more about ‘a’ then I could love ‘a’ more. I wish ‘a’ would talk more about its life as an ‘a’. ‘a’ just likes hiding in sentences all day long and barely saying a peep. Talk to me ‘a’. Let your heart speak out. Don’t hide behind the other letters. Who are you ‘a’??

Sorry I got off on a strange tangent. :oops:

Do not fight a war until you know for sure you are already victorious.

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*** ) Here is a rock you can bang your head against if you think it will ***** ) make a difference.
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Oh thats funny smokey!!! I grew up around NASCAR. Well my dad was the sports writer for the newspaper so I seen so many cars I was almost sick of them.. :)
But if you where to fire up a NASCAR right next to me, you would see my face light up and my heart pound to every thump of the engine. DAMN LETS GO RACING BOY!!! I’ll by you fly!!!!!!!!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

hello from the peanut gallery i wanted to ask you to cheer the u.s. rapid fire pistol team to victory they are using my favorite brand of pistol and they are fellow american people trying to do our country best and that and rifle shooting are my favorite i could probably shoot as good as some of them with my many years of long range precision shooting for hobby but i probably would not make the rest of the training like waking up in the morning that only happens during hunting season if i am lucky

are those the little cartoon black girls i have seen around on your shirt it’s really hard to tell

Are you saying our ratings only count on YT?

Maybe also they had peanuts for brains….dunno……jk.

Homework: I was at a Circus-type thing in Rochester with my friend Weezle and my brother and we saw some really hot dancing with this circus lady doin’ her thang, and she was workin’ it. It was down. Anyway, Marina, we, unfortunately were in the peanut gallery whilst watching this spectacle and I couldn’t say that that circus lady was near as hot as hotness herself – Marina Orlova.

Avidly participating,
-Shawn M. Norris

Yes.

Dear teacher
Thank you for this very interesting lesson. I didn’t know this idiomatic expression so… this lesson was a very interesting one indeed. Is it possible tomake a world request? If I may, I would like to have lessons about three words : bootleg, beyond and indeed!
Thank you for the lesson.
Amicalement,
Don Felipe de las vegas

hey hotforwords i have a question on the word Rock And Roll
I know its a genre of music but what i dont understand is how ti came to be “Rock and Roll” or what the rock signifies alongside with roll. i hope you can answer my question :smile: thanks for reading

I sat in the peanut gallery just a few weeks ago. I always get peanut gallery seats for concerts, I go for the music, not to see the band. Plus, the show in the peanut gallery can be very entertaining.

Hi Marina; where does the phrase ‘mickey mouse’ (meaning ‘shoddy’) come from?

“Oh, the humanity”

Hi Marina!…your newest class member!….the one at the back hoping he wont be asked a question on his homework that he hasnt done! lol
The word ‘ fabulous’….any thoughts?
hope you’re well
Cooldoq x

And why is it spelled like that? :roll:
only “damn” and “autumn” end in “mn”
with the “n” being silent. Godd request! :mrgreen:

I was in the peanut gallery for the Led Zeppelin reunion concert in 2007, tickets were allocated through a lottery so we had no choice in the matter.

The Greeks have a mountain
named Mt. Olympia. Could it
be greek? :idea:

This is a good link to the “bitch”
lesson. Ya did good, Smokey! :mrgreen:
Briefly she explains the answer
to your question, 89wheelz89.
It did indirectly answer the question
of where the phrase “bitch in heat” :shock:
comes from, as it applies to women.

Get some sleep! :mrgreen:
You did a good thing with that link.

Hi Marina,

When I heard the term peanut gallery I thought… cheap/inexpensive nuts in an area/gallery… meaning “the cheapos r nutty” section. All the antics come from the poor nutbars at the back of the place sort of idea. It’s a lot of fun there!

I’m pretty sure no one was offended.
Your humorous assertion that NASCAR
is enjoyed by rowdys and rednecks
didn’t hurt MY feelings! Never felt the
chicken bone rain, but I have dodged
a few half full beers! Now, if you had
called them “Skoal” social set, this
would have made fans of “Redman”
unhappy! LOL :mrgreen:

In language you can’t have the tail wagging the dog—it just doesn’t work as a progressively learned discipline. It would be like asking a first grade class “Okay, now how do we speak?” instead of telling/teaching them. The disparity between educated/learned and then just the accepted language would grow too great. In the middle ages a very select few could read & write, but many people spoke and were understood– they were the serfs.

The French take this very seriously with the Institute de Francais. Every word in its spelling, accent, meaning, usage is officially dissected then approved or not. Sounds fascist? Well, it is great to uphold a language & it is also great to have a unifying source…By the way you can officially submit stuff to them & get a response kinda like HFW.

You’re probably right. Lots of old
vaudeville and theater words and phrases
were adopted by early TV shows.
“Bang! Zoom! Straight to the moon”
was made famous by Jackie Gleason,
but he said in an interview that he had
heard this in vaudeville when he was six. :mrgreen:

I thought it was called the peanut gallery because that was what was tossed at the bad performers in the shows, peanuts. :roll:

Clocks have a “face”.
This might be a clue :mrgreen:
Good request,

The first year the Twins won the World Series, 1985, we watched a number of games from the peanut gallery. Should have been called “the beer gallery,” though, since we threw beer, not peanuts.

Your Shakespeare is marvelous. Why not a video on how many English phrases come directly from Shakespeare?
tt

ummmm….that was a fallacy
of pragmatic logic, Not solopsism.
Try, try again? :mrgreen:

ok – here it is. It cannot be proved because
“proof” depends upon external validation
be it from God or man, who must, therefore
also exist. The arguement has been put to
you for proof. The arguement itself is
evidence of intellect in opposition to the
position that only you exist. If only you exist
there would be no one to make any such
arguement.
“Cogito ergo es” = I think, therefore I is!

Excellent claymation work!
Very imaginative :mrgreen:

When ever I here “Peanut Gallery” I think of the two old guys from the Muppet shows. :mrgreen:

hey mike, yeah, aim, just add me: wortsammlerLE,

my computer is out of work ,i can hear,i wanna cry!

I agree with alx and I would like to offer another slant on the topic.
What comes first; spelling words or saying them? Most of us speak words before we see them or write them. Later in life, many of us don’t take the time to learn to spell correctly from what some of us mis-heard.

Take the word supposedly. How many people do you know that say “supposebly”? What is interesting is this; there is a word supposably, referring to conceivable which sounds exactly like the mispronounced “supposebly” which refers to permission. So, context determines the correct use, spelling and pronunciation.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/supposably
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/supposedly

Another example is espresso which has become “expresso” to many people.

You look like one of them, so you may explain what this word means: Angel

Some of the posted
arguements make sense. :mrgreen:

Some are “for the birds” <- phrase request

people who sat in the back are poor and could not afford to sit in front and they could not hear so they were rude and made it to where nobody could hear.A$$ HOLE$

[it's all done with mirrors :mrgreen: ]
check out the hair part…

another great line from
Blues Bros. Movie :mrgreen:

I’d like to know about the pdrase “it will cure you or kill you”

What is it? How about the new one that Paris Hilton used in that new video… “loves it”. ughh I don’t know which one you are referring to though smokey36bear.

Offended??? Naw! Never. Let me show you some links.
This is the race track I practicably was raised on. Yakima Speedway.
This is the track my uncle announces on. Grays Harbor Raceway
I’ve been in this guys car a few times.
Bobby Allison #22
My dad wrote for the auto racing section of local newspaper.
Oh an my dad married a raceway trophy girl.
Yea you might say I’ve been around auto racing just a bit.
:mrgreen:

Dear teacher =D
I been seeking for the meaning for this word for awhile even my dictionary and school teacher can’t help me
The word cynicism,so please help me teacher >.< :cry:

Hi Marina.
I just got done sitting in the “Peanut Gallery” at the John Mayer concert in Sacramento Ca. They were the cheap seats. However they were not that bad because the cheap seats are on a hill side of thick grass. (nice on a hot summert night.) We threw our blankets down and had a great time.

I got one. When people say, ” I could care less”.
I hate it when people say that because the actual saying is.. “I couldn’t care less”.
If you say, ” I could care less”, THAT MEANS YOU CARE !!!
DUH!!!

I realize that it doesn’t have to do with ‘grammer’ but I thought i would throw that out there anyway. :wink:

Your wrong “G”. It is actually between the quotation marks.

I’ve seen that movie at least 20 times and every time it is on T.V. I have to sit down and watch it again. I love it.

i request “tickled pink”

My kind of peanut gallery :lol:

The first thing is Paris Hilton speaks Pop.
She and her kind worship the Dollar .
Not in anyway are concerned with intellect….dude
totally
excellent
extreme

Hi Sergiocadavid Marina has that effect on people to give them goosebumps as pretty as she is. Welcome to the site. Unofficial door greeter here. If you will look at the top of this page there is a lessons list on what lessons she has done. I don’t think goosebumps is in it so it might be a good word to do. Just give her time as she has many requests. Have fun here and if you have any problems or questions get up with Captain Jack as he is the teacher’s assistant or just ask anyone they will try to help you. :smile:
Mike

which two words……soldier and soul?

But you can still compliment her on her videos if you think they are up to par. Just tell her that they are good or bad or a four or five star video. I think the vocal comment on rating her videos helps her to know if she is doing a good lesson or not. It helps her ego if nothing else.
Mike

Is that the same Michael Nesmith from the Monkeys?

Nice! :-)

Move over a little your hogging the seat. :grin:

james, it’s more like stupid old people that decide to have a picknick on places they shouldn’t be.

Thanks cooldoq, I think that word might make for a good lesson. Thanks!

Marina

I read this and thought it was interesting.

http://devernay.free.fr/paradoxlost/html/solipsist.html

Any word given for a female dog would carries the meaning.
The word did not make the “female dog” a bad thing.

Should I have waited and let you do the greetings.
Nike

MIke

You had a great time? I thought you said you were at a John Mayer concert. I’m confused.

I was just wondering where does the word picnic come from?

If this conundrum causes you a headache keep taking aspirin until the headache goes away or kills you.

The scenery dude ! the scenery . i.e. it was hot outside…. get it? :wink:

Is the boat rocking to much. :?: I know you don’t get seasick. :lol: Has an a got you hung up. Here I found your a. :lol:

A

It is easier to imagine that a (?) was created and all that is,
IS, is only in It’s mind.
ie, Is, is only a consciousness with no physical form.

Wonderful, as always! Off to research whether a home or condo is a better retirement choice of housing? Which brings up the point: what is the origin of the word condominium? :wink:

a condo can’t be a home?

LMAO! Roadrunmch should read this! :mrgreen:
Hey! I finally found the right menu tab and sent
out invites to y’all! :smile:

Notice how humanity is striving more and more to live vicariously through video games and movies?
What is to say that an extremely advanced conciseness has created a “game” and we are it’s players? Little images of light, living for the game.
Do the People living in our games, think they exist……….too?

They are both types of housing but they aren’t the same. Housing association fees and board decisions for condos can be very different from living in a private home, especially if it is one without a homeowner’s association. So they are both places to live but the costs aren’t the same. Also, in some areas condos sell better than homes and in other areas, they are hard to sell. More complicated than it seems.

It is any version of they phrase “piss me off” or “pisses me off” because it is not proper to end a sentence in a preposition. sounds weird but to say it right it should be “off I am pissed”

Plius, there are emotional factors. Some people don’t want the bother of a lawn. Some people want the lawn, the land, the separate home. Condos can share walls with neighbors, similar to an apartment. It becomes a very personal decision, with financial levels, too.

this is so crap. “don’t end a sentence with a preposition.” come ON! what kind of fucked-up “rule” is that? who ever came up with that shit?

Ending a sentence with preposition? That is something up with which I will not put!

:grin:

I don’t think “off” in “piss me off” is being used as a preposition. Isn’t “off” modifying “piss” and therefore it’s an adverb in that sense? Or, isn’t really just an idiom anyway – what the heck is “piss me off” anyway and how did it come to mean that one has become angry or vexed?

Teacher? Perhaps you’d care to investigate?

“it pisses me offly”? humm …

umm… I think that was a movie,
Tron? … in a nutshell!

philosophy of mind 101: brains in a vat.

“brains in a vat”
an argument in science states
that an atom doesn’t exist in
reality, until you look for it.
This doesn’t sound reasonable
to a physicist, because atoms
do exist in reality. To one versed
in mathematics, only absolute
proof of an atom in a specific
location is accepted to verify
it’s existence in reality.
“Oh, what twisted webs
(of logic) we weave!” :mrgreen:

Thanks :cool:
I hope she takes the time out to talk about it in a future video.

Not all adverbs have to have -ly at the end. See http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/off

Off can mean, as an adverb, “away from a place: to run off; to look off toward the west.” – so – to piss off might be like that – the Brits have saying “piss off” which means “get the fuck out of here you asshole.”

Also as an adverb, it means “away from what is considered normal, regular, standard, or the like: to go off on a tangent.” — so, if being “pissed” means to be angry – being “pissed off” maybe means – be abnormally angry.

Those are just guesses. But, nevertheless, off is an adverb sometimes and a preposition other times.

“off” does not in any way modify the verb. i’d argue that it’s part of the verb.
if it’s an adverb, you should be able to replace it with other adverbs.
(i) you’re pissing me off.
(ii) *you’re pissing me easily.
(iii) i’m pissed off.
(iv) i’m pissed off easily.
(v) ?i’m pissed easily.
(vi) piss off!
(vii) ?piss easily!
(viii) i’m slightly pissed (off).
(ix) i’m easily pissed (off).
(x) *i’m off pissed (off).

Captain, you don’t know the rocking im going through on this crazy dock. Im on the worst dock ever! I hope to remedy that in a month or two. Yes I still can get sea sick. More like dizzy spells now. There are days I take Ibuprofen to get rid of the headaches. I need a heavier yacht or move inside the marina. Its much smoother to be inside the marina than outside on the break water. :mrgreen:

my mother lives in a condo, and she calls it, “home”; so do i, when i travel there…

annudder :cool:

hmmm…given that my mother’s condo cost one helluvalot more’n the two-story house (with full basement) that i grew up in, plus all the condo association codicils and fees, i’m not sure if there’s a financial benefit…

annudder :cool:

oh, and i hope you got to bring the beverage of your choice…that was always my favorite part of a concert-on-the-green…

well, that and the make-out sessions…

annudder :cool:

last peanut gallery i purchased was for a Braves game with my 10-yr-old son…

‘course, the good thing about the cheap seats at ball games is that you can move to other seats if the place isn’t crowded…

which, given the Braves’ season, it wasn’t…

but the coolest thing was that after the game, my son got to run the bases at Turner Field…

annudder :cool:

thanks Mike!

In the UK we mostly say “a bare-faced lie”, so that would tie in with “bald-faced” and with your body language assessment.

As an aside, you used the word “rehearsed”; a hearse is a vehicle for carrying a deceased to the funeral, so if you are hearsed, are you dead? And what if you are rehearsed; are you exhumed and about to be re-buried?

Hopefully someone will agree with me that hopefully is used inappropriately.

Err … Nike, don’t wait, Just Do It. :grin:
Oh dear! Too late. He didn’t wait, had a hissy fit and left. :sad:
Hope he comes back again. :???:

its a preposition, now piss off everyone.

Marina;
Just read John John’s Dad’s response. Funny what kind of affect this medium can have–that YOU can have–on people! It really is amazing and when all is said & done it is the good cheer that is the lasting element. I think. How cool.

Posted on wrong lesson<—–color me dumb :neutral:

yup the KKK is def. not sexy, but wondering the origin of the name

Know which word would be kinda cool to find the origin?
The game “Cricket”
Or “Jai Alai”
Cheers, and can’t wait for your next lesson

I often hear “Have you ever been?”
It means, “Have you ever been there” or “have you ever been to ___” but it’s just wierd to stop the sentence with a preposition.

I think I get it–you’re against the idea because we have a system and that should be that. It’s nice, simple…it’s even clean. That WOULD make life nicer, wouldn’t it? :wink:

However, James, if you learn only one thing today, learn this, and keep hold of it for the rest of your life:
–Everything changes.

Do you like the same toys you liked when you were 8? Do you look the same as when you were 8? Do you speak the same as you did when you were 12? No. And you will continue to grow and change as we all do. All things change, and it can be a good thing–who wants to be boring and be the exact same all their life?

To bring this into the realm of language, can you recall how many times Marina has documented how words change over time? How about the ones with arse or jerry-rig?

Not only words, even grammar changes over time. Thank goodness, huh? If grammar didn’t change, we would all be talking like Shakespeare–”Hark, who goes there?” “It is but me, Duke, ye olde smythe, here fer yer horse. The stud threw a shoe, I herd.” That, young Master James, would be a terrible fate indeed. :wink:

Last time in the peanut gallery…I was in at a baseball game for the local “farm team”, meaning minor league baseball. It was fun! :wink:

Actually, peanut gallery goes along with that song about baseball called “take me out to the ballgame” It says, “buy me some peanuts”

It’s an intentional corruption of “cuclose,” I think. So you can look it up if you want. Now let’s drop this subject please. We’ve already given it way too much exposure. We can come up with plenty of suggestions for word origins that don’t invite disaster into our forum, so let’s concentrate on that instead. Thanks.

I’m not a fast learner, but I’m not a slow learner either. I’m a half-fast learner.

Hi Bob,

I believe that the phrase “hell-bent for leather” derives from the euphemism 19th-century American gunfighters used to refer to quickly drawing their sidearm: “slap leather.” When you heard someone slap leather, you had to either duck, run, or draw faster and fire. So an angry or belligerent hombre could be said to be “hell-bent for leather” as either the person is probably going to shoot someone before the day is out or there was no way in hell this person’s gonna shut up before someone else shoots him. Looking for a fight is the qualifier. At least that was my impression.

Yeah, you’re right that Buddy Guy should have received top billing, Buzz.

I think the ticket marketers make the call on that one, though. Thorogood has probably sold more records or received more airplay, something like that. The world is truly turned on its head when such a Johnny-come-lately gets to close the show for a Blues legend like Buddy.

Now don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying George can’t play; I’ve seen him and he can definitely put on a show. But in my view, the true Blues form is all about suffering through adversity and injustice and so it doesn’t leave a whole lot of room for chip-on-the-shoulder braggadocio such as “I’m B-b-b-b-b-bad to the B-b-b-bone.” I was quite satisfied to exit the venue after the best part was over as the younger, louder, beer-saturated, predominantly white diehard George Thorogood fans filtered in. I witnessed a major demographic shift occur in the crowd, and as such, the peanut gallery seat I had occupied was soon to revert to its original less-than-adequate characteristic status. So in the final analysis I’m glad Buddy played the opener slot. What an incredible show that was, and his fans were far more respectful of each other, too. Plus, I got to head homeward with his encore still ringing in my mind and THEN relax in the relative safety of my livingroom with my Westone Warlock across my knee as I downed a couple cold ones!

Thanks, aLx. Those guys are both awesome.

I had never heard of either of them, but then, I pretty much stopped listening to radio quite a long time ago so I could listen to my own inner music. I never got into Empty Vee or VH1 either. I’ll be checking more of their videos, to be sure. Danke schon!

i don’t even have a tv set, so i don’t really know what they’re playing on mtv etc these days.
friend of mine is a musician, sort of, he went to sweden to attend this freak guitar camp that mattias eklundh offers. kinda like a workshop, i guess. his solo album, well, my friend said that’s more like music for musicians. pretty weird and freaky stuff to the average ear.
anyway, once in a while i get music from him, and suggestions, such as bumblefoot and freak kitchen (this is the band eklundh plays in) or ane brun.
lots of great music i’ve never heard of before.
so, yeah, check em out, cool stuff.

Hi Tryant,

I think the phrase peanut gallery may well have originated in the Old South, where crowds were segregated by color, because “goober peas,” or peanuts as they are now known, were initially used as hog feed and as such, primarily looked down upon by white socialites as a black folks’ (read “poor-man’s”) snack food because if it was fed to hogs, it would have been, by definition less hoity-toity and refined than, say, popcorn. Now I could be wrong on this, so don’t quote me, but it has always been my distinct impression that the phrase carried some racial overtones in that only the people in the least sought-after seats i.e, way in the back or up on the second balcony, etc. would exhibit such a lack of “proper class” as to be seen eating “goober peas” in public back in those early times. So, regardless of all the aforementioned speculation on my part, you are correct. From that distance, it truly would have been impossible to hit the stage with a thrown peanut. But the shells from a balcony tier could certainly rain down upon the cheapest seats in the very back of the “white” section. Maybe that was the actual “peanut gallery!” Kind of like a shooting gallery where the targets were the poorest of the crackers below (those who couldn’t afford the best front-and-center tickets) and peanut shells were the ammunition. Oops, I inadvertently dropped another one! Hmmm. Food for thought, anyway.

But what the hell do I know? I’m just a stupid cracker who isn’t even from the Deep South, nohow!. Plus, I’m too damn lazy to research it because it’s summer and school’s out. So you’re on your own there, pal.

See ya ’round the campus.

I lioke to end my sentences with a proposition instead.

Is that like a dangling modifier?

The original form was “I couldn’t care less,” not “I could care less.” People are just careLess in their speech and things drop out over time so usages change, although rrrrilllly now, who cares about apathy?

But where’s the prepostion at?

Jiminy Christmas! Somebody just blasted my femur!

I think that’s what Michael Dukakis wants to do (mount Olympia).

I can just picture Jimmy Carter buying the Peanut Gallery all to himself. :wink:

Sole. I have a lot of sole.

Wwwwwhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssuuuuuuuuuuuuppppppppppp!

aLx; The person who came up with “never end a sentence with a preposition” was English clergyman Robert Lowth, he wrote a neanderthalian gramar book back in the 18th century & that piece of advice stuck in peoples’ minds–and it has never been properly put aside.

Marina,
Good question I wouldn’t be able to give a factual answer

Greg

Hmmm,yeahhh,I like the concept,it’s speculative,as You say,but has some basis in horse-sense with the added bonus of being a bit convoluted too! Just the kind of thinkin I like! Right,wrong,or in-between.

Now that I finally found a school I like You bet Yer bippy I’ll be “around campus”. :grin: I wonder if Proffessor Marina was expecting all the prersonalities She recieved here at this fine online institution?! See Ya pennsyltucky.

Ummmm,Little Miz Marina,speaking of,”convoluted”-”horse-sense”-”bippy”,may I make a them a triple word request? TY much.

I hear ya Penns….I hear ya.

That must be the mountain that is made up of empty beer cans.
It’s next to “Mount Lucky lager.” :razz:

GOOD CATCH :wink: I was thinking preposition when I saw someone else use it. “Been” is a verb.

Perhaps it’s not grammatically incorrect. After all, people say
–Have you ran?
–What did you eat?
–Where did the truck blow up?

I still think it’s wierd to say “Have you ever been?” without a stated destination. I don’t have a problem with people saying it, and I don’t correct them.

When I hear “Have you ever been?” I get the same senation that I get when I put a piece of bologna in my mouth. I’m expecting meat, something tangible, and instead I get some odd fluffy mystery substance lacking in taste and texture. It has limited nutritional value– not really enough to recognize, but it’s enough to be sure that a person can survive…for a day or two :cool:

It’s not a bad “general” rule. Obviously, it’s not appropriate in all circumstances.

One phrase I hear all the time is “where you at?” instead of “where are you?” I hate that.

I’ve never read anything to this effect – but, when I was a kid, I came to the conclusion that it meant “I care so little about this that I don’t care enough to care less about it…” – i.e. “I could care less…” but I don’t care enough about it even to care any less than i do…

Obviously, I just made that up, and typically I say “I couldn’t care less” just because it sounds better to me.

World Wide Words says that there is speculation that it could be a phrase like the New York Yiddish phrase “I should be so lucky!” I think they may be on to something there.

Hey pennsyltucky9,
“Peanuts” was also considered “something that was small or unimportant”. As when playing a game of poker or dice and the “pot” was small you would consider this as “playing for peanuts”.

Opps, I forget to say that maybe this is why the section was called a “peanut gallery” since everybody there might be considered a nobody- small or unimportant.

I like it that gallery too.

Hello Marina,
I sit in the “peanut gallery” when I’m at a football game. I try to get close to the 50 yard line so I’m right in the middle of the field. I can see the whole field and the crowd is always loud and having a great time. I’ve bought tickets for seats down below and close to the playing field and just like you acted out everybody there is quiet and boring. You can’t see what’s happening when the teams are at the far end of the field. I’ve never gone back either- I’m just a peanut gallery fan and a peanut head gravatar.

what is she saying from 2:11 2:24? can you teach me it, anyone?

I said: “So, even though getting rid of the peanut gallery might create a more quiet theater, you would also lose the money made from selling those seats! So maybe it’s not a good idea to get rid of it…. maybe some kind of wire mesh around the peanut gallery is the solution!”

Sorry for jumbling my words :-)

“so, even though getting rid of the peanut gallery might create a more quiet theater, you will also lose the money made for selling those seats. so maybe it’s not a good idea to get rid of it.”

oh, damnit.

thank you for your reply, Marina! No, its just that my listening skill is not good. But why would we lose the money made from selling those seats even if they remove the peanut gallery…?

they can’t sell the seats anymore when they’re not there anymore …

Then in this case “you” means “managers of the theater”?

i guess it’s sort of like a non-personal you. like “one”.

one would also lose the money made from selling those seats.

If you put wire mesh around the peanut gallery, how do the peanuts get into the gallery?

I haven’t been seated in the peanut gallery, but I’ve been seated in the nosebleed section. I suppose it’s called the nosebleed section because you are so sitting so high up that the altitude will give you a nosebleed.

I knew a guy that lived out of his car. Whenever he drove by, I’d say, el condo Passat…

Last Saturday, I sat on blankets on the grass, too. The outdoor theatre production of AIDA at the Spring Mountain Ranch, which lies in Red Rock Canyon at the base of the Wilson Cliffs, just outside Las Vegas.

I had Betty Willis sign a lithograph on June 21, 2008. She is the lady who, in the late 1950s, designed the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign that is so famously associated with my home town. Sadly, she did not establish any legal ownership of this design. If she had, she would be very rich, as the sign is reproduced in many forms in tourist shops all over town. When I think of the word “fabulous,” I can’t help but associate it with Sin City.

How about the word “meadows?” After all, Las Vegas means “The Meadows.” Here in Las Vegas, one of our shopping malls is called The Meadows Mall, and the street it’s on is called Meadows.

So what? Someone just took a shotgun to my lemur! (Now I need a new pet.)

Good one, pennsyltucky9! :grin:

Funny that Warren would discuss “peanut gallery” when his gravatar is Charlie Brown, a Peanuts character! :mrgreen:

Marina, me and a few other guys are way back here in the Neat Pun Gallery.

Dear fellow student,
The meadows, indeed! I wanted to have a spanish quote, so that’s why there is no meadows but only las vegas.
Amicalement,
Earl Philip from the meadows

I was always considered a member of the peanut gallery in my old English class :cry:

Perhaps in your realty the cheap seats are a university but in my reality its a home furnace and the peanuts will get roasted to death when the fire is burning in the furnace so the wire mesh is for the protection of the peanuts?

Marina, I needed to use you and this video to comment a poster here. You’re great! Keep up the good work. :!:

When I was watching a parade through the city… 200 people in the back screaming and partying even though we couldn’t see a thing while the other people are just golf clapping :shock: