Vetting

#1 Yaaaah !!!

hey

congrats dude

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in the house

hi

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:mrgreen: OK! that was different! I guess you mowed down the meaning of vetting. Or were you the victim at the end of your video? Always be careful of things that go voom in the night!! You might come face to face with a vampire mower. Yikes!!

I was ditching and that is my word request, animals?

Hi Marina! Another wonderful lesson! Brava!

If I may, I have a question for Captain Jack, Capman, the other HFW senior statesmen (and women!), and the members of the HFW community at-large. I am fairly new to HFW but have come truly to enjoy the clever lessons which always bring a smile, the wonderful electronic repartee, and the chance to learn painlessly something fun about language. Marina has created a genuine community which she works hard to build and sustain. She indefatigably churns out a daily video (always a treat!) and interacts frequently with community members. She does so with grace, adroit charm, a keen wit and powerful feminine allure. I (along with many others) keep HFW as a favorite site and so enjoy her latest lessons and the chit-chat they produce (and Marina’s trademark pink musings). I am genuinely appreciative of this site and Marina’s work.

My question is how can this enterprise be made more lucrative for Marina? I confess near total ignorance about web based businesses. I vaguely understand that a visitor’s click on a banner or sponsored link may produce advertizing revenue or a commission for the content provider. I’m guessing that it can’t be much but I just don’t know. Maybe Marina’s gathering celebrity and the popularity of the site will naturally bring her every monetary reward she deserves. That would be great. If not, I wonder how the HFW community can best recognize and celebrate what she has produced and keep her (and HFW) properly in the black.

Marina, I raise my question with the best intentions and without any desire to pry into your business. The subject brings to mind a word request. I’d love to see your take on the origins of eleemosynary versus remunerative.

With gratitude, Q

:roll:

Homework: Nope, hadn’t a clue. Ignorance was bliss, but not as much bliss as having Our Dear Teacher explain it to me :smile:

ok .. i haven’t seen the video – so i’ll have stab at “vetting” myself.

Let’s see .. obviously it splits into two part:

vet
ting

vet — inspect
ting — onomatopoeic — perhaps a bit of ceramic being flicked by a fingernail.

so … something’s being inspected, perhaps somethign ceramic.

I would say in that case: “vetting” has its origins in the world of antique pottery assessment.

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I have so many people i would like thank for this honor. I hope i can get through this without shedding a tear……Wow ! I didn’t prepare a speach or anything but I would like to thank the Accademy. I would like to thank My manager and my agent. I would also like to thank my parents who always supported me in this endeavor. I would like to congradulate my worthy opponents in this competition.
Oh Ya,…And the lovely Marina for giving us the venue for such a unofficial championship of “who gets to be first”. ….Oh Ya,…and teaching us new words……..When do I get my trophy? :lol: :razz: :roll:

Marina,

Get out your AK-47 looks like Klasinokof (sp?) is attacking.

But has Kobe landed yet?

Marina the other day someone asked me if I was tall. I said I was “fair in height” So I was wondering, since you’re so hot, where does the word Fahrenheit come from? I know that that progression was a complete non sequitur but i really do wonder where that word came from. :smile:

Gotta go now, hop a Medevac flight to render emergency medical care to Our Dear Teacher…I’ll save you Marina….just lie on your back and do everything the nice Paramedic tells you :wink:

You get nothing and like it!

I am glad you covered that word vet or vetting. This was the first year that I have heard that word used for a VP or anybody. Thanks so much for clearing that up. Great video. By the way I have a push mower just like that. :lol:

Wow…after reading that,…I need a nap. :lol:

speaking of a thorough investigations and politics, i subscribe to factcheck.org the organization fact checks the ads, speeches and debates of the candidates. emails their findings with citations, making it easy for one to confirm their findings and to do further research.

:sad: :!: :?:

What a great lesson! :mrgreen:
Now I wonder how many bar bets
I could win with this information! LOL!
I didn’t see a lawnmower – nuh uh :cool:

A touch of drama in the end, very nice. :shock:

I like the way you worded that in there. Your a fart smucker. :lol:

word request Fahrenheit

Did you go out to I95 and pick up nickles? :mrgreen:

Way to hustle :mrgreen:
No trophy, just satisfaction :cool:

OOOOO CPR my favorite on a lady. :wink: Can I watch :?:

Marina, you should have begun the vetting process before you got that lawn mower. :shock:

With all the financial crisis… can you give us the meaning of the word “Liquidate”? Anything to do with liquids?

LOL !!!!! Geronimo your stupid !!! ( i mean that with all due brotherly affection ) however I am laughing at your set up. :lol:
The word (to answer your question) came from a little town in germany named after it’s founder Ziggy Heit. He was a travling man that grew up in the circus. His father was a less than honorable man that ruled with an ‘iron fist’. So once Ziggy became of age he set out to bring the same joy to the people that he previously experienced in the circus but he came up with a new twist. Instead of having a circus of animals and tricks and clowns, he explored the joys of rides like roller coasters, fun houses and games and contests for the biggest pumpkins, Smash up derbys and the like. He desided to call it a “fair”
The first one was held in an open field that later developed into a small town…yes you guessed it….the town of “Heit”. People came from all around because word spead that there was a fair-in-Heit.
And thats the story. (sorry Marina if i “show-bized” the explanation for you.) i need attention. :grin:

Hooray! ..i watched the vid and survived! :) – i was cool calm, collected and informed throughout!

Hmmm … i went through a background vetting procedure when i applied for my first job after University. (negative vetting as opposed to positive vetting)

They said it’d take about a month .. it took them 6 months. The bastards.

Dear тонкая Marina, You have a loud scream! I hope you got away from that indoor lawn mower safely! Don’t’ keep us in suspense, as you did with the question of whether Kobe would fly!
For your homework, no, I didn’t know that “vetting” was related to veterinarians. Reportedly, Diana Spencer was “vetted” by the British Royal family to make sure she was a virgin before she was married to Prince Charles and then she became Princess Diana.
Another use of the word “vet” is to refer to veterans of the military. We are sometimes called “vets.” In your next video, I hope you’ll reveal how Kobe did in his balloon ride. (I hope that lawn mower didn’t hurt your beautiful legs, too.)
Your dear student, seesixcm6

Hey Guiggles, I am going to let Marina or Jack tackle that one. Marina knows more about the adds and what brings in her revenue and how much she makes on each add that we look at or click on at her site. If Marina doesn’t answer you I will get Jack to explain it to you. Good question for all of us to know so we can help her in her revenue department. :cool:

Why do we say “ear” when referring to corn.

:oops:

Mia :!: , go do your homework. :mad:

we want mow!…

i had no earthly idea that “vetting” was associated with veterinarian…how novel!

but i disagree about there not being any animals involved…for a couple of reasons:
1) humans are, without question, animals…i don’t understand anyone who disagrees with that fact…highly-evolved animals, to be sure, but animals nonetheless; and
2) in the political arena here in the US we have two parties involved, each represented by an animal mascot – the big dumbo & the big-mouthed ass…

so animals are involved in the vetting process…IMO, anywho… :cool:

He liked flying so much… maybe he’s a Lawnmower Pilot… Funny I can’t stop whistling the grandfather clock song. now I’ll have cotton eye joe…

because who wants to eat a foot of corn?… :lol:

Here’s Your Trophy Dave. :wink:
Dave’s Trophy

Good link :smile:

It only pays to Vette at the track</a :mrgreen:

Marina,
I can’t believe that the only use of Vet you initially thought of was for an animal doctor. As a veteran of the US Army, I’m actually disappointed and a little saddened by your lapse. I hope you’ll try and keep the veterans in mind in the future. Thanks, and have a good day.

“how can this enterprise be made more lucrative for Marina”

I wouldn’t have thought there’s a lot of scope from this site itself. After all, it’s the videos that get the attention, not (so much) this site.

Maybe M could get some extra bucks by product placing in the vids :
.. swigging a few bottles of coke in each vid.
.. driving into the vid on a new Harley each day
.. having the dog (wassisname) chew up a Collins Dictionary while she speaks
.. etc.

Captain Jack needs one of those to go with his helos.

yours is a cartoon, too?

Back in the day, I was a newspaper editor and we had a saying in the newsroom: “All politicians are swine and should be hit on the nose with a stick.”

Who better to determine the suitability of “swine” than a qualified vet? Vetting makes total sense to me.

i am thinking Gabriel Fahrenheit might just be able to answer that…

‘cept he’s been dead since, oh, 1736…

***shhh!…i think it was the alcohol did him in**

Did you like your trophy :?: :lol:

Who was Fahrenheit trucking company named after?

hang on .. so where does “veterinary” come from!?

You I bought the push mower 15 years ago brand new. I cut the grass with it one time and went and bought a rider. It still has the same blade and spark plug in it. If I wash it up it looks like it is brand new. So it might as well be a cartoon.

Spooky stuff as only mowing the lawn eight hours ago, first time in years….. :eek: :shock: ……huh, must have been kobe flying over reporting back to HFWs HQ……unless…..naaa, I wish :lol:

In school hols M, I use to help out on a local farm/ estate where by placing arm into lamb and cows rears, I would help newbies first steps into life :grin: watching horses give birth to their fouls was pretty amazing stuff, the Vet was always to hand checking over the mother and newbie, fantastic really. Think all political people should have the same treatment, so they know what it feels like being, errm, taxed so hard! :roll:

hhmmm, mower…….more thinking….. :shock: :cool: :smile: :shock:

I dunno .. no pat on the head from Marina about my quizzes .. and i have to look up veterinarian myself … sigh

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=veterinarian
veterinarian
animal doctor, 1646, from L. veterinarius “of or having to do with beasts of burden,” also “cattle doctor,” from veterinum “beast of burden,” perhaps from vetus (gen. veteris) “old” (see veteran), possibly from the notion of “experienced,” or of “one year old” (hence strong enough to draw burdens). Another theory connects it to L. vehere “to draw,” on notion of “used as a draft animal.” Replaced native dog-leech (1529).

Hi Marina,
I’m still wondering about Kobe…. Earlier I said “Pigs Can’t Fly” any more than Kobe…. AND with this talk about Lipstick on a pitbull and a pig, I can see that a real Vet is needed for the Political Vetting process.

Speaking of Vets and Pets, what about the origin of the word “Earmark” Is that Something that Vets used to mark farm animals?

In your description you might show off some of your cool “Ear Rings” that are attached by piercing the ear… Could piercing be considered an “earmark”? Or perhaps you think my post is a Bridge from Vetting to Know where? :-)

Hi quiggles, as you noted, besides the advertising banners Marina is due to release some DVDs, see top. Also, if I recall, we were asked to vote on what HFWs should do, base ball caps, calanders,posters, T-shirts, mugs…….the list could go on and on. All being well Marina’s HFWs will be a brand name soon. Great openings for marketing in schools, colleges, uni’s plus us ‘home study’ types. Hope it kicks off big time for Marina, I mean really big, as a marketeers dream plus she deserves it. What the ins and outs have been thus far for income, best speak to Marina or Captain Jack. – I know from previous experiences in running a property management company, unwhittingly our web-site attracted over 250,000 hits a week so exploited the advertising with mortgage lenders and alike. So get the traffic to gain advertising revenue. Certain there is a great deal more to it but I know not of. Best, Matt

Whats with the lawnmower? I know I haven’t commented in a while but I don’t think I missed some reference in anothere video, did I?

Marina has added a few more props to her videos and expanded a little bit to a bigger camera and a larger room. Better to see her :wink:

Answer to the question on the last video.
Because your a tortoise too. So you can’t help him.

I think when she made the video someone started cutting the lawn outside. So instead of reshooting the video she covered it up by placing one in the shoot and adding a humorous ending.

Hello My Dear Teacher! What ever happened to Kobe? Is he still aloft? Has he floated over the desert and landed in a brothel near Las Vegas? BROTHEL? Sounds like that is a word to investigate!

Marina,
can you find the origin of the word kinky OR sexy!
thank you!
(be good ;P)

I had no idea! Haven;t heard the term vetting b4. It was fun tho.

I did not know :shock:
But I do get all my horses Vet-ed . I just never put the two together. Are there going to be veterinary supply ads on your site .
Marina are you a horse fan, Do you like to ride?
Peppy San Badger

That is not the answer from Blade Runner :razz:

Beautiful Horse.

That was the answer I got from Stargate SG1. What was the answer from Bladerunner?

chevolay replied on September 17th, 2008 4:16 pm:

It’s a test, designed to provoke an
emotional response. :shock:

That’s right when the agent was talking to the guy at the company that made the replicants. I heard it today on stargate sg1. It had a different answer. Pissed the old boy off when he asked him about his mother. lol

Sorry, Capman…the patient is critical….no visitors allowed in the FICU (Fianchetto Intensive Care Unit) until she’s comepletely recovered…”Nurse, I want bilateral antecubital IV access…percutaneous, but by cutdown if you must…establish macrodripsets of Lactated Lazarus, titrate to level of consciousness, with a 10mg/kg bolus of Resurrectine, STAT…”

Capman, things are still looking a bit hairy, now, and I’m WE are still not out of the bush WOODS yet.I’m going to WE will have to run a probe on her to make sure, and I still expect some ups and downs, but the overall prognosis is positive. I think I can safely predict a full recovery. :mrgreen:

Ciao,
Fianchetto

Who really cares about vetting?

You should have just said nothing.
Here I thought you were being deeply philosophical
But your just being silly. Besides, I am not a tortoise.
I am a cactus and I don’t care what happens to the damn thing..

Hey
Any one want to be a sponsor of a young Russian Girl ??
She has brown hair and is very beautiful like Marina, 30 years old?
Her EX is trying to have her deported. Maybe we could all
pitch in and fly her up to Captjack’s. :idea:
He would give her a good home. :grin:

Marina, the only vets you know are veterinarians? What about the vet-erans who have served their country in the military? That’s ok, you are a blonde.

Your right Jack needs somebody. Maybe she would do just fine. It’s a shame to treat someone like that . She must have done something awfully bad.

He is my best roping horse’s daddy.

Oh my God! Marina, are you alright? Maybe you should keep your lawnmower in the garage from now on.

I had no clue that vetting came from veterinarian, but this lesson makes me wonder about Veterans. Do veterans come from veterinarians too? If not then what is the origin? And what is the origin of the word oops? Oops! I requested oops already. I know you have a lot of requests, so I will be patiently waiting.

I don’t know any of the facts. Some guy married her so she could come live here (USA) but she got tired of being used like his (sex) slave

I happen to be a US Navy Veteran, and not offended in the slightest – it has nothing to do with the origin of the word “vetting”, so the only way for her to make a reference to veterans would be to pointlessly deny that the word ‘vetting’ originated in that manner.

If I were to claim that bees make honey in collections of hives called ‘apiaries’ would I have to clarify it for you by explaining that gorillas have nothing to do with the process of honey production?

I had no idea.
Sorry thats all I have energy for I’m feeling a little feckless to night. :neutral:

hey capman…sorry for the late reply…I had to learn how to strikeout things in the practice room…re: Can I watch?

Tragic for the poor girl… wish I could help, just made an offer for my second home, and will be pretty cash-poor for a little while – gotta save my bread to be sre to have the down payment, closing fees, inspection fees, etc. Maybe in the spring :smile:

Ciao,
Fianchetto

I had never heard of the term vetting till tonight.

I did not know vetting came from veterinarian. I, too am a veteran and wander if that fits into the picture or if they are completely different words. I get more from the vids when Marina takes the words all the way back to the roots.

I think both Veterinarian and Veteran are derived from the Latin ‘vetus’ = old, but the verb ‘to vet’ came from the physician who healed old or aging beasts of burden, as Marina described.

Ciao,
Fianchetto

Okay I have a word…or two for you.I was watching just shoot me yesterday and there was a part where the boss had talking socks that said left and right and he used this to sort of apologize to a guy he insulted.So that got me wondering,where do left and right come from and how did they go from directions to meaning somebody is correct or somebody going away?

D’accord, mon frere!

Ciao,
Fianchetto

:lol: Well, we DO eat hotdogs by the foot, and if you have any idea what goes into them, well, let’s just say I would much rather eat eat a foot of corn… :lol:

Ciao,
Fianchetto

It makes sense how “old” would lead to veteran, but I am missing the dots from old to animal dr.

they healed the adult cattle:

vet·er·i·nar·y [véttərə nèrree, véttrə nèrree]
adjective
relating to animal disease: relating to diseases of animals and their treatment

[Late 18th century. < Latin veterinarius < veterinus "relating to (mature) cattle" < veter-, stem of vetus "old"]

Ciao,
Fianchetto

I had no idea that vetting had it’s roots in the word veterinarian.

You look great with eye glasses and I liked the Land-O-Lakes Indian girl / meditation posture. Also liked the change of zoom in the middle.

That’s funny, I also have a namstfarC lawnmower. I wonder what it was alluding to; haircut? evil like forks and clowns? The mystery continues.

CORROLLARY WORD REQUESTS:

larboard = port = left
starboard = right

Hey, Marina. No. I had no idea, I thought it must have something to do with misogyny and making sure male candidates had not been involved with “fast cars” (cor-vettes) and “fast French women” (Yvettes). So, basically, you’re saying that when you vett a person, you’re looking a “gift horse in the mouth.” OK, pretty cool.

Why the cutoff of this video’s YouTube comments after a mere one hour and a measly 45 comments? I hope you don’t look at the rating, and if it is sufficiently high, cut off the comments so that the rating couldn’t be reduced by later commenters’ votes! That would be unethical enough to unleash the Lawnmowers from Hell. Wait, is that why… oh, dear! Oh, my goodness. And blade rash is soooo painful.

BTW, why are the YouTube links to your Website inoperative? Not one in any video seems to work. Links to other sites work OK.

Finally, I don’t think a book on selected word derivations would be interesting enough to be a good seller. (What will sell is paramount, unless you are just publishing for fun.) I guess you could doll it up with some nice photos for your fans, but I don’t think that just the text alone will do it. You’ll have to think of something that will make people pick up the book, thumb through it and feel that they just have to have it. Not that it would be interesting to anyone else, I would like to see a book of words and sayings that explains how they translate in different countries. For example, if we get hurt, we say “ouch.” What do they say in other languages? Is it universal or is it culture-specific (and what is it in the other cultures)? Of course there are hundreds of words like that that could be explained, each one having a different beginning in each language (hopefully). Then there are sayings. If someone is envious, we say “green with envy,” but nobody is actually green; it’s just a saying. Where did it come from? And there must be sayings in other languages for the same meaning. Where did they come from? But perhaps I’m the only one interested in this angle and I will never see your book in print. :-(

So the old Navy guy and the old cow get lumped together; gotta love it :mad:

Марина, first you look great wearing spectacles. Also, I would be happy to mow your lawn. ;)

I’ve always thought that “to vet” came from the same word as “investigate”.

Hmmm,
Vetting comes from vetanarian. so there must be animals envolved.
Forget the vetting, I would rather be petting.

Now my question is, why do we call it petting?
When a boy and a girl get together in the back seat they engage in heavy petting.
Maybe because they are acting like animals?

Let me take a stab at it. Liquidate means to sell off something, which converts it into cash. Cash is liquid, because you can put it to (almost) any use, such as buying something you want instead what you had. If not liquidated, undesired goods must be traded for desired goods, which is difficult due to having to find the right party who wants them.That’s why we have money. Try trading chickens for an IPod at WalMart and you’ll see what I mean. :-)

Starboard just makes sense. The rudder (to stear) is on the right side, thus this is the stearing side (or board). The stear board side. Larboard … I dunno. Port, though, also makes sense. A ship will pull into port on the side opposite of the rudder (or stear board).

In order to keep my videos short and succinct, I often end up leaving out all kinds of irrelevant information as it clutters up the main message that I am trying to get across.

Vetting comes from veterinarians.. I didn’t feel it necessary to drag veterans into a process that is not the kindest process.. vetting someone to see if there are any skeletons in the closet. I don’t think veterans would appreciate me dragging them into this origin. As for where veterinarian and veteran come from, well, I think that will make for another good video!

This is a good one, and truly a lesson for me. I don’t know that before. Thank you Marina. I am not aware of that before. To me, ‘vetting process’ makes me think of ‘vexing process’ becauce the one who is under background checking usually is vexed as their trivial things in life are unearthed to the public. Men are not perfert. We all made mistakes, don’t we? But it seems these mistakes are not allowable in the eyes of the political players.

I don’t think she is using “a bigger camera” (that’s really funny!). I think she now has a bigger room to put the camera farther away from herself. Do you remember the tiny little kitchen with dark counter tops that used to be her background (where she made tea and ate cheese)? That’s the clue. Now it’s a big kitchen with white counter tops. Hence, Doctor Watson, I conclude she has exchanged abodes. It’s elementary!

:smile: Marina: Holloween is around the corner, can you tell me where the word pumpkin originated.

The vetee’s, the veters, and the voters.

I really wish that wasn’t your horses name.

Exactly.. they seem to be mowing lawns right when I want to shoot these days.. and that lawnmower was extra loud that day.. so I figured I’d include it in the video :-)

Hi Marina, your “Interactive Hotness!” video is being featured on the You Tube Home page. The video is at the bottom of the page.
http://www.youtube.com/

If it isn’t there when you visit the page, I have a screen shot of it here.
http://i34.tinypic.com/1z4em2u.jpg

jindai, I’ll be doing a video on veterans at some point in the near future. I just didn’t think veterans would want to be associated with the whole vetting process, as it’s not a pleasant process. I intentionally left them out as there was no reason to associate them with the word. Plus when you include all kinds of tangential information in a video it ends up getting really long. Veterans and veterinarians may share a common root.. but that’s a video that I want to do in the future!

You see you had me, then you lost me.

You had at this sentence “She has brown hair and is very beautiful like Marina, 30 years old?”

And lost right around this area “she got tired of being used like his (sex) slave”

JUST KIDDING!

Seriously though, where are the pictures! :lol:

I heard, then saw the lawnmower sneaking in, remembered the best weekend vid & the discussion that started over the vaccum cleaner… lawnmower on the carpet for those rough days. Reminded me of a little email story I got.

My sister has the courage, but not always the skills, to tackle any home repair project.
For example, in her garage are pieces of a lawn mower she once tried to fix. So I wasn’t surprised the day my other sister, Pam, and I found our sister attacking her vacuum cleaner with a screwdriver.

“I can’t get this thing to cooperate,” she explained when she saw us.

Pam suggested, “Why don’t you drag it out to the garage and show it the lawn mower?”

Ahhha, mystery solved.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/09/17/vetting/#comment-61821

Way to go… finally watched…must ask … how many times?
What was the job you applied for? or was it a top secret position… that would explain the long delay while you were vetted & the six months wait… they may have been watching you.
I find it hard to find good people to work for me & hate going through the process of advertising a job position… and interviews etc.etc.
Had a guy phone me today, wondering if I knew anyone in town, (He’s new in town & just laid off from a job he wasn’t realy trained for) that was looking for… and he expained what he was good at… just the qualifications if not more than the guy I just lost to an engineering course, “Thank you God”. i told him to come down to the shop to talk to me… when can you come see me?…15min. later I’m showing him around & wow he wants to help me with the reorganisation process that got stalled when the rounds of vacations started a few months back… He starts tomorrow :smile:

YouTube is doing some kind of maintenence to their system…can’t even rate videos until they finish up..

Ciao,
Fianchetto

I was surprised she got the video posted with Y/T in the middle of maintenance mode, probably explains the lack of comments as Y/T doesn’t always work that great… like a car computer… puts itself in “limp” mode, so you can get home, but really works crappy.
I think her book will do well, she has a good fan base & one of the biggest publishers (Harper Collins I believe) is on board with it & they don’t usually make mistakes that will cost them money, just hope they don’t hamstring M’s creative processes, ahh, she wouldn’t let ‘em.

Bingo, 1min late

I understand, and thank you for your thought. However, just to join the Army, I was vetted. And as I needed a security clearance, the vetting was quite thorough. So, I felt no need, or desire, to be disassociated from that word, despite the lack of linkage to the origin. Or, more craftily put, “Though ‘vetting’ has no etymological linkage to ‘Veterans”, all veterans WERE vetted.”

Thanks for reeling me in, there, Dear Teacher….. I researched the matter myself, unfortunately after I made this post, but in time to make one further up :oops:

Ciao,
Fianchetto

…close…?

I was wondering about the word “Veteran” does it have the same background as the word “Vet.” Since I’ve heard the term “Vet” used before to describe a military veteran. I wanted to know the true origins of veteran.

-Collin
http://www.yuperoo.com

well .. the job was at GEC/Marconi .. researching into visor displays for pilots. … nothing weird .. just technical.

My vetting procedure took longer than expected, i suspect, partly because my parents aren’t british, and partly because i’d spent some time in suspicious countries before I’d started university. By the time i finally got the offer, i’d already started with British Telecom (interactive speech systems – recognition and synthesis)

That sounds like good news about your new guy. Job applications are such a huge gamble for both sides of the equation. How can you possibly really tell from a resume and a couple of interviews how well suited or adaptable someone will be? .. From what you say, maybe methods off the beaten track are better because they cut to the essence – can’t prepare those cliches.

How dare you insult the cow by associating that poor innocent creature with the likes of me! :grin:

Ciao,
Fianchetto

oh yeh … finally watched the M vid .. twice, just to make sure .. i think ‘cos i was snubbed after requesting the pat on the head for the quizzes my blood runs colder.

lol, yeh – that’s the spirit.

I think that kind of thing is important. It’s the token that matters.

It’s kind of like a management issue – motivation, morale, etc. …

… ‘course, i’m being very selfish and asking for a pat on the head. ..

but generally in that spirit, i think M should be a bit more willing to visit these threads and dispense a little attention here and there at random – i.e. regardless of whether x has done or said something she values.

On a (or at least a modern) sailboat or single-screw powered vessel, the rudder is central.
* However, on a small sailboat, with a centrally mounted rudder and tiller arrangement, a right-handed skipper would be to the left of the tiller/rudder to hold the tiller in his right hand

Multi-screw craft generally have one rudder per screw, all evenly spaced abeam of the keel.

Only asymmetrical vessels I know of are Venice’s Gondolas, which are built like a banana, to allow the pilot to propel and steer the vessel from the rear port side. (http://www.gondolavenezia.it/homeng.asp)

I think larboard is a corruption of lading (loading) board – the ramp by which means cargo was moved to/from the vessel.
Which point we agree would naturally be the side nearer the dock

So, I think you may be sort of “right” about starboard, and we both agree about the Larboard or Port side origins.

Thank you for the challenging discussion on the matter!

and check out TED.com for more talks to match your intellectual caliber… here’s one to whet your appetite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4VzuWmN8zY

I posted some of my faves on my YouTube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Fianchetto1

Enjoy, and feel free to email at youtube, or post here with your opinions of them. :grin:

Ciao,
Fianchetto

http://www.gondolavenezia.it/homeng.asp

It’s been several hours now at youtube…

Personnally, though, I am much looking forward to the dvd’s and coffee mugs :-)

Ciao,
Fianchetto

My apologies, Snipe, I could have, and should have made a better, more tactful post than this.

Ciao,
Fianchetto

Hi Marina, oh what a joy to watch you and giggle after a long day pounding away on the computer… pity about that lawn mower…

I wondered about the word LISP… where does it come from, and why do we make such an unusual SOUND – unlike any other word – when we say, “he lisps badly” – thanks and hugs, Zen

ok .. nice and peaceful in here now (08:46 BST)… maybe time for some music …

… what should i choose?

how about something with a lovely mood …

[Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath]

Hi, l like you lessons a lot, the word i like you to talk about is Music, i do not know if you can also find the origin of spanish words, i would like to know the origin of Love but in spanish (amor). By the way the origin of my name Oned comes from my parents One from Onesimo and D from Dora. Good luck, hope you answer soon

I stand corrected in my statement (from memory) of the gondola being steered/propelled from the port side….Oarlock pictured here is clearly to Starboard (destro), bringing up another pair of corollaries:

CORROLLARY WORD REQUESTS:

Dexter (Latin) = right

Sinister (Latin) = left – And, Dear Teacher could this be tied to the phrase “Evil eye” I think I remember reading of ppl being tried as witches for being left-handed

Ciao,
Fianchetto

http://www.gondolavenezia.it/history.asp?scelto=1

Oarlock on Starboard side (destro)

hmmm … how about a colour theme to some music …

[Hawkwind - silver machine] (including [Stacia ] being – unusually modest)

I was not aware, but honestly I’m never heard the term used. The old adage is true, you certainly learn something new everyday, that is if you are paying attention.

[Fleetwood Mac - Green Manalishi (1970)]

[Simple Minds - New Gold Dream]

For your fun, fellow students

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipfqKyxm5Hc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAp6X0zZfx0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj8IA6xOpSk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9d65u3LfKs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMkHYE9-R0A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu_PQBmk-6c

[Blackbird]

Good choice mijj. BS is great and love Paranoid and many other tracks.
The opening of this track is reminiscent of Engima’s Mea culpa.
I wonder if Engima borrowed from BS?

[Golden hair - Syd Barrett]

Marina, your “Vetting Process” video is now one of the Promoted videos on the You Tube Home page. Your “Interactive Hotness!” is still on page one of the All – Features – Videos page. 9/18 01:57 PDT

oo! .. i’ve never heard of Enigma – Mea Culpa!

(…rushes off to search YouTube..)

A very young Black Sabbath Paranoid

that sounds strangely familiar .. but i’m pretty sure i’ve never heard it before. … weird.

.. and that church bells through the storm .. such a resonant theme .. even if it wans’t borrowed, it’d be reinvented.

good ol’ Ozzie! :smile: what a brilliant guy!

I was not aware that vetting came from veterinarian.

how about when Ozzie sang Paranoid for the Queen at the Jubilee …

[Black Sabbath - Paranoid live Queen Golden Jubilee]

Are you familiar with Bryin Dall & Derek Rush? They are rather obscure and stuff about them is not easily found. I think it’s Derek that tries to emulate the voice of Ozzy.
http://www.chthonicstreams.com/discog.html

Derek Rush is a New York City-based musician, producer, and visual artist most often associated with dark underground music using a combination of electronic and live instruments.

Check out this video. It’s part of a track of an audio CD which is no longer in production. It was released originally by Suffering Clown through World Serpent (London).

Virtual Vault of the Adepti of the GD
Read the comments listed as SufferingClown (that’s Bryin)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHqsVcE40Kw

Lots of this esoteric stuff is right in your backyard.

thanks .. that’s great :grin:
.. that’s why i like this site … there’s lots of people here with good ideas and influences for me.

(..rushes off to check up..)

re: good ol’ Ozzie! what a brilliant guy!
It was unbelieveable when I first heard them. I was at a rock festival in Honolulu Hawaii, in Diamond Head crater – a miniature Woodstock. The surprise rock band was Black Sabbath. Couldn’t get to the stage if my life depended on it, but got pretty close. What a day that was.

i’ve never heard of Dall & Rush. .. i’ll have a scour round.

i like that Golden Dawn song .. i’ve listened to it a couple of time (v. good purely as music) .. i’m going to see if i can work out the words, i’m sure they’re significant.

over report delly : :arrow: ?: vett process in the rinarians any pollt a……;;;;;; :!: :razz:

Maybe M could get some extra bucks by product placing in the vids.

What, like lawn mowers, you mean?
BTW, it looks like the mowing machine didn’t like the product of the sewing machine. No comment.

It’s been scientifically proven that bumble bees can’t fly, because their body weight is too much for the amount of lift that their puny wings can produce. Unfortunately, the scientists forgot to tell the bumble bees.
Now we find that, not only lawn mowers but also racecars, tanks and witches can fly, so who can now doubt that UFOs exist?
Unless it was Captain Jack using RC models to abduct young ladies to have his wicked “every witch way” with them.

I think i already made some realistic suggestions.

e.g.
I think Harley-Davidson would pay good money to have Marina straddle one of their machines whilst her lips and tongue mouth the latest hot word.

What distinguishes Man from the animals is his arrogance in believing that anything distinguishes him from all the other animals.

(strangely familiar : referring to: Enigma – Mea Culpa)

A pat on the head is better than one under foot.

That’s a great obscure pun about the camera and the room, which leads me to a Word request:- Camera. How did it go from meaning a room to a little box?

HwK: Was not.

! bob – you have strange stuff running through your mind !

I think [this] is a more desirable image.

Does Holloween come from the custom of hollowing out pumpkins to put candles in them?

no. there is indeed something that distinguishes man from other animals. it’s called “language”.

oh .. :oops: .. cow pat … d’oh! .. I’m a bit slow, bob. Maybe i should get some sleep.

it ends up getting really long

yeah, but some of your recent vids are not even two minutes long. older vids are like five, six minutes.
this is not meant to be a complaint or something. just saying.

plus, what’s with the submissive position?

Dear Hot For Words, I watch your videos and often share the ones I think provide insight into words the friend I’m sharing it with would be interested in. You do an amazing job making entomology interesting and sexy. But so much is focused on the root in giving word origins. I often wonder how the root came to be. How did a series of sounds become a word and acquire specific meaning? Can you shed some insight onto this? Thank you and I love you for so many reasons beyond your obvious hotness ;-)
101Media

Marina,

That’s a GREAT idea for a video.

And it will get huge playing.
I’m sure even the Federal Government will pick up on that.
They will probable even try to take credit for it.

Marina ! You look very cute with your glasses. In France there is a song called FEMMES À LUNETTES “women with glasses” and it says and sings that women with glasses are especially sexy.

Vetting also has another meaning to appraise, verify, or check for accuracy, authenticity, validity, etc.: An expert vetted the manuscript before publication. :razz:

I love your Sarah Palin impression!!!

I also have a word request. Since WWII, more and more suburbs have been built with culdesac’s which is French for bottom of the bag. How did this word become known for a dead end street?

It took a few times, but then I heard the machine. :lol:

But UGH!! that reminds me, I gotta cut the grass today as well.
(Hey Mister weatherman I’ll slip you a couple of bucks if you make it rain) :twisted:

Concerning the mowing machine : I have exactly the same problem when I start to make a video. There is always an idiot who makes noise under my window. Plus I am living in the country-side and there are big tractors ! People don’t use to consider that noise is a very important form of pollution. Exactly like smoke. I am able to be very fierce with a person who destroys the quietness of mother nature. What can be nicer thant the song of the birds or the blowing of the wind. Surely not a mowing machine ! Nuke the noise !

aLx wrote

there is indeed something that distinguishes man from other animals. it’s called “language”.

I suppose that it depends what you mean by language.
Certainly most animals have a very limited ability to communicate vocally, in the way that human animals do, but that begs the questions
“Are animals able to communicate?”
and
“How do animals communicate?”
Just because they can’t use a sophisticated vocal communication system, that humans can understand, doesn’t mean that they don’t have some other system, that is perhaps even more sophisticated than ours, that we haven’t discovered, e.g. a kind of sixth sense.
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
As this report on the Animal world’s communication kings concludes, maybe it’s not intelligence that is sexy, but complicated vocalisation.

There is also a saying,
“Women in glasses
don’t get passes.”
which purports to prove that women with glasses are not sexy.
The truth is probably nearer to “women in glasses are sexy in spite of wearing glasses or not sexy regardless of whether they wear them or not.”
Did you notice the similarity between Marina and Palin at 5 seconds into the video? Similar glasses and similar hairstyle and shape of the face.
Is Marina running for Vice?
Say it isn’t so.

PALIN ? Are you speaking about this WAR BITCH ? :twisted:

alx replied on March 5th, 2008 11:33 am:
[...] language is what distinguishes us humans from every other li[f]e form on this planet (this does not mean we’re “the superior life form” here). because it has features that no other kind of communication has. e.g. recursivity, or the ability to express, and work with, “time” and time-related things.
sign language has these features as well, so it is a real language. unlike those bee dances or whatever they call it. that’s different.

alx replied on March 5th, 2008 12:11 pm:
[...] okay, it depends on your definition of “language”. I use “language” in the sense of “human language”, that is “human communication”. our type of cummincation has, as mentioned above, certain features. recursivity amongst others. that means, applying a structur[e] to itself.
“mary wanted to leave.” “tom said that mary wanted to leave.” “paul said that tom said that mary wanted to leave.” etc. ad infinitum.
expressing time-related things.
“I was hurt.” “I’ve been watching.” “I’ll beat you up.” “I found this yesterday.”
you won’t find things like this in animal communication.
animals do communicate, yes. but their communcation systems just don’t have certain features.

alx replied on March 5th, 2008 12:50 pm:
oh, another thing. we can “play” with language.
a while ago, I watched this movie, “death at a funeral”. pretty good movie. anyway, I recommended this movie to a friend of mine, wrote down the movie’s title. and just then I realized that “funeral” is an anagram to “real fun”. wtf?

I thought it was checking horses before buying them, rather than before a race. Or maybe it’s both.

Capman, I didn’t like my trophy very much. I haven’t seen such a dicusting display since the Navy. (srry capt-Jack it’s just a movie quote)

“My mother?,…Let me tell you about my mother.” (Blade Runner)

Hi Marina,

I learned something interesting about vetting earlier this summer.

It was revealed that one of the chosen “vetterers” had to be vetted before he could vet the potential vice-presidential candidates. Through this vetting of the vetter, it was determined that the vetter had relations with certain businesses deemed inapproriate. Thus, the vetted “vetterer” was disqualified from doing the vetting. :lol:

It is sort of like “due diligence”. Whereby, you investigate a financial/personal background of someone/something before you make a decision to commit oneself to a potential relationship.

When you see people placing side-bets at a wedding reception on how long the marriage will last, you know that the bettors know that the parties in the marriage relationship haven’t done their “due diligence” or “vetting!”

Now that I have done my homework, I am going to take my elephant to vet… its got a tooth ache! :arrow: :lol: :lol:

Plesae pardon all my spelinlg misstakes and gramitacal airors in my post.
I need a coughfeee. :arrow: :roll:

No, I wouldn’t have believed that vetting comes from veterinarian, thank your Hotforwords. As financial guru, Jim Cramer, says, “Bulls make money, bears make money, and pigs get slaughtered.” So my ignorance might be understandable, oh no! By the way, you look very sophisticated in a Sarah Palin way with your glasses on. Knowing that the governor from Cal-ee-for-nee-a, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is an immigrant, might you have political ambitions, or is your stay in America temporary?

Good story, BillyB. I’ve been trying to get my mower running all week and my toes are sore from kicking it. Hmmm, maybe I’ll try screwdriver, next. Take that, and that, and that! :evil:

Word Request:
lollapaloosa
poppycock
hooligan
blue blood
back to square one
:smile: :smile: :grin: :cool:

Geez! I try to make a joke and everybody gets all serious on me! :???:

My..my..my..my..my.. my.. my……teacher look good tonight! :wink:

Ut Oh.

HotForWords has competition.
Time 1:56

Thanks!

Jeez Marina! I try to make a joke and everybody gets all serious on me! :???:
I agree, should be a good vid, but I still think you should do Tequila first.

The image of Marina riding a Harley is a graet idea! I’d like to see that. :grin:

Hi, Marina,

I’ve always thought that “unsavory” was a wonderful word. Very descriptive. But, what is the origin? Will HotForWords decide to investigate? There you go!

ButtonKing

Marina, I meant that you should do the ETYMOLOGY of the word Tequila first. But hey! If you want to do a few shots first, fine by me! Maybe you can explain why they put a worm in the bottle or do the ritual with the salt and lime…
Sounds like some research is necessary….
Might involve some low crawling through the Cantinas down in Tijuana…
Have fun! :grin:

Before I finish watching this.. Why the hell is there a random lawnmower? I love random crazy things. :mrgreen:

Marina ! What do you think franky about my last video ?

What I was referring to, to runawayscott since he hadn’t commented in a while was that Marina had switched to a bigger camera “a camcorder” from her laptop camera so she could add more and bigger props to her videos. :grin: I know she has moved to a bigger apartment because she told us she had done so. :wink: So thanks CampKohler for the heads up. Lord I need it. lol Keep me on my toes so I will proof read my comments before I reply. :grin:

oops ! I forgot to say it’s about the word COMMENCEMENT !

That’s because you didn’t use a smiley in your comment. :mrgreen: Body language accounts for over 90% of a conversation. :shock:

Thank you zendplayer for your word request: Lisp

Thank you collin85 for your word request: Veteran

Thank you berrygold13 for your word request: pumpkin

I read your first line to fast at first and thought you said
In order to keep my videos short and succinct, I thought you said succulent. my bad :oops: :lol:

Thank you dr.tran for your word request: Right and Left

Thank you fianchetto1 for your word request: Right, Left, & Evil Eye

I didn’t see any connection with Left and Right for Port and Starboard. The starboard side was the side the Steering board or paddle was kept. Since mariners didn’t want to crush the steering board on the pier, they would dock on the Larboard side or aka Port side.

Marina.. I am fed up of the 4 level thing… Can you just let me go that deep?? Thanks.. I have been so busy with college on a better note… it was great!! WOO STUDENT MONEY PROBLEMS!! OH YAY :cry: :cry: Sorry.. I am feeling down right now

While watching the vid (it’s safe now i’m completely cold to M’s charms) i couldn’t help but enjoy the part where M suddenly takes off her spex.

It’s very “Why, Miss Orlova! You’re beauitful!” in tone. :)

I wonder if that was coincidental or deliberate …. ?

Here is a proper trophy for you my friend. You deserve it. My son took wrestling in middle school through high school. He was sixth in the state in his division. That was the kind of pins or trophies that they handed out. The look kinda odd to me also. :lol:

http://blog.ecr.co.za/newswatch/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/trophy.jpg” rel=”nofollow”> Dave’s Trophy

Was the horse name after you or you after the horse. :lol: :lol:

Hey Monsoon. I have already put in your word request of oops. So keep an eye out to see if or when she does your word. :wink:

I am pretty sure I had my name first.

Why in the hell not? :mrgreen: It reminds me of an old a href=”http://video.aol.com/video-detail/saturday-night-live-season-1-land-shark/1415496980″>SNL Land Shark skit that they did years ago.

I think when it comes out we will finely find out what Koba means :smile:

what’s your course, james?

que???…………. DRAMA

What’s with the vampire lawnmower?

no .. i mean really .. what’s your college course?

and the like

drama :lol:

Oh Gawd… Drama? That was my first major in college :mrgreen:
Afterv that, I was “Undeclared” until I zeroed in on the
Engineering stuff. I could’ve made more money as a
butcher or a dentist, but instead, I have a higher life
expectancy – LOL! Yesterday was a good day to
sell gold investments. There was an $85 / oz. bounce.
Now is a good time to sit tight and watch the Market
for corrections, lots of sell offs going on. Remember,
buy low, sell dear :mrgreen:

i think the graphic was added in to disguise that there was actual lawnmower noise intruding into the vid from outside.

Personally, i think M should have added a motorised artillery vehicle rather than a lawnmower. (i’m going through my “finding fault with M” phase)

Marina explains down the page. There was
a lawnmower going outside when she was
recording, so she incorporated it for fun! :mrgreen:

i find “unsavory” rather distasteful.

no james .. i mean … really .. what’s your college course??!!

surely it’s some techy computer thing or something.

Hi Rocky, here is the link of the comments of the lawnmower mystery.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/09/17/vetting/#comment-61775

then why is it you never say things like “exit, stage left” and so forth?

i guess my stockpile of shares is plummeting.

still .. you gotta laff, incha :lol:

I love enigma.. Helps me sleep

Thanks for the clarification! I went back and viewed the video again.
Duh. My only defense is that I had the sound turned way down.

AND the other party if the Vetters miss something ( or if the other party sees something that they can blow way out of proportion, or they can just make something up – its the American way :smile: )

Urm maybe because… This is the internet and not a stage.. BTW please do normal replies.. I dont wanna piss M off by going to deep.. So please just reply as normal.. Sorry I aint being rude… I am going through an RRR phase atm.. Maybe because foxbow isnt on msn for me to unleash my anger upon!!

I just saw a news item where Lindsay Lohan has refused a $700,000 offer from Playboy to bare her ummm “soul” for the magazine. Will we ever see a “bare” Marina in the centerfold? (Just trying to decide whether to renew my subscription.) :)

tangenital

hehehe Marinal said gential!

i’m not sure why M would be annoyed at you if i went level 4+ deep.

ps. if “all the world’s a stage”, surely that includes the internet, doesn’t it?

OK this word isn’t there

Ultrapnuemonomicrosilicovolcanoconiosos

Just for fun

because i started it

HAHAHAHAHA. ha

Are you an automated reply system CJ?

test

Marina,

Is there a reason why I am not allowed to post to the Grandfather Clock thread? Is this accidental, or punitive?

well .. don’t worry about me …

… i already had a discussion with capman911 about me doing the level 4+ thing. And we agreed if there were any problems he’d tell me and i’d cease and desist with no argument.

.. plus, i suspect M is more passive about what goes on in the threads than capman911 or Captain whassisname.

yes I am a robot sent out to include the word Request to all word or phrase requests. ITs to help with the searches…

“because i started it”

+ .. yeh .. now i think about it .. you’re a bad influence on me!

How did you do that 3 level replies James?

I have noticed that you never have any furniture in your apartment. I was wondering if you know what furniture is, and where the word came from?

Chiselstone

James, could you please go to the contact page and email me?

Hey Mijj, could you visit the contact page and send me an email. :smile: tnks.

Attention Please. We all need to visit Marina’s You Tube site and watch the video and vote for it as You tube was down last night and is putting her video behind in ratings. Thanks for help on this matter. :smile:
Mike

Marina how can I add you videos to my MySpace site for people to see? If I do will they change when you upload a new video?

Hey chiselstone it’s probably just an extra bedroom or room in her apartment that she doesn’t use for anything but for making videos. :wink: She moved from a small apartment to a bigger one so she may not have the furniture to put in it right now. :grin:

no! .. i refuse.

i didn’t get a pat on the head for my efforts .. she doesn’t get my vote in youtube for hers! (pout)

Poor fellow hugs for you but no kisses from me just hugs. :wink:

dezdkado I just made a post to the Grandfather clock video. So you may have to reboot or just try again. :wink:

:shock: gerrrofff me!!! :oops:

Hi Mike, I haven’t used MySpacew in years. There should be a button that lets you insert a video or embed video. You will either need one of two things. Either the YT link of the video or the embedded code of the video. Visit any YT video and notice the EMBED code to the right of the video.

Some blogs let me embed the video directly into a text box by pasting that code to the right of the YT video. Other blogs will ask for the link of the YT video. Other blog sites have a special YT button and may just ask you for the video ID that you see at the end of the YT videos.

What’s your MS link?

Hey Mike, check out the HFW Home page. The Flyff ad is there underneath the current video. If you don’t see it, I have a screen shot here. http://i38.tinypic.com/2ezpvo8.jpg

Yes, I do patronize HFW advertisers to ensure continued longevity and success of this site. :smile:

http://www.myspace.com/retcaptaineng7

If you see the image scrunched and not readable due to the WordPress widget, RIGHT mouse click on the image and then click View Image. You can also RIGHT mouse click on the link, then click Open Link in new Tab or New Window.

I found it on her site. It popped again

Nice pictures.

Mike, I’m not sure if one can do a remote link to the featured YT video.
I haven’t researched it, and maybe Marina has an answer. I’ll research it and let you know.

The featured video is the large video one sees on a YT profile page.
That is typically the video that changes when someone uploads a new video. However, the YT user can chose other options such as not updating the featured video when uploading a new video.

I thought it was Kobe’s bedroom.

Hi dezdkado, sometimes when you log into a HFW page that is not the home page, and then you navigate to another HFW page, you may lose the commenting text box.

Typically what I do is this;
1. Just refresh the page, and the text box should appear. Somtimes you may need to navigate off to another HFW page, then come back to the page of interest.

2. If that fails, clear the cookies, then if needed you may also need to clear the cache. Refresh the page and you should see the text box.

OK, done

I had no idea that “vetting” had its origins in the examination of horses by vetrenarians. Thanks for helping make sense of the world!

Hi Marina

I want to know the origin of “Mobile Suit”

Greetings from Peru and thanks for the help

actually .. that’s an interesting question, cheselstone.

maybe it requires further examination.

“furniture” is an anagram of “fruit rune”.

a “rune” is a scandanavian script character of magical significance.

a “fruit” is the “The ripened reproductive body of a seed plant”

now .. those are intesting qualities in combination.

Obviously, this room is where M casts magical spells in order to seduce a potential lover into an act of reproduction.

– or — would be if there was any “furniture” there.

so really, the meaning is inverted: … ie.

this room is where M does not cast magical spells in order to seduce a potential lover into an act of reproduction.

I believe that Ms. Savage-Rumbaugh would beg to differ…

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/susan_savage_rumbaugh_on_apes_that_write.html

Ciao,
Fianchetto

P.S. Still searching for another that goes several steps beyond this one :-)

Very interesting and informative videos, they really bear a lot of fruit. And speaking of fruit, I would like to request a segment on “Guacamole.” :grin:

To be clear, i am agreeing with your point, disputing Alx in this case…more later… :smile:

Ciao,
Fianchetto

Hello chop2020, I think you meant:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Marina answered that in a comment in April. Here is a link to that question and Marina’s comment.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/04/13/pedigree/#comment-8913

Good luck, brother…finding fault in the faultless should prove an adequate challenge for anyone :wink:

Ciao,
Fianchetto

Aye, aye, sir. Mission accomplished.

Never mind. Mijj got it all cleared up for me. :wink:

Damn, bad fingers very bad fingers. :roll:

Why in the hell not? :mrgreen: It reminds me of an old SNL Land Shark skit that they did years ago.

Miss M did have HFW site set up for multilevel nested replies but the boxes get really small and hard to read like here. From popular request she limited it to just 2. So just don’t go crazy with it. :smile:

Of course, Jane Goodall would have a thing or two to say on the matter, but this is not the particular info I REALLY wish to share:

http://www.janegoodall.org/chimp_central/chimpanzees/behavior/communication.asp

Marina.
I have a word for you to explain origin of to your students;

Pomp-ous ( pretentious )
Definition: an overt show of dignity or delusion of self-importance.

juicy

How about the origin of the word broadcast? :smile:

How about the word definition?

FINALLY!! I found the ones I wanted to share with you…please explore the EXPLORATORIUM!! :smile:

http://www.exploratorium.edu/evidence/

http://www.exploratorium.edu/evidence/evidence.html?#/tester/

Ciao,
Fianchetto

It’s a runway.

Hey Hotrocky, she might as well accept it we have seen everything else that she has from pictures from the paparazzi. Playboy has boosted a lot of stars film careers. But I am glad she has some morals about her. :smile:

The Captain is correct, anytime we make a joke or sarcasm for humorous rather than venemous intent, it is considered as hostile, unless punctuated with LOL, smileys, etc., to indicate jest, in which case the statement is percieved as an attempt at humor, ant treated much more lightly by readers.

HOWEVER, my apology stands, I could have been MUCH more tactful in my previous post.

Ciao,
Fianchetto

Try that again it still didn’t work.lol

@Capman911, you can grab the embed code from the YouTube video and paste it into the design pages on myspace. It’s kind of rinky-dink the way they do it. (Testing out my new auto @Capman911 thingy) :-)

Captain,

Direct me to an example of such a vessel with it’s ‘steering board’ on the right (other than the gondolas that I just embarrassed myself with?

I still have yet to see another vessel with a single rudder positioned either side of the keel. Nor a multi-ruddered vessel without the rudders symmetrically equidistant from the keel.

Please locate any photo, drawing or diagram so I can grasp this?

Ciao,
Fianchetto

I swear in the thumbnail at the top it looks like M is really fussing at us over something with the hand up and her face like she is screaming something. Look at the eye expression it’s plum angry looking. I hope it’s Kobe that peed on the floor and not us. :lol:

i never said animals don’t communicate. what are you posting that link for?

I have two request for future episodes, I only had one but todays lesson got me thinking about another one.

1). Where does the expression “Drop dead gorgeous” come from? You should be familiar with this phrase, for obvious reasons.

2). Where does the expression “skeleton in the closet” or skeleton in the cupboard” come from? It makes me think of some Arsenic and Old Lace family doing in travelling salesmen etc.

Well keep up the good work Marina.

Your obedient student and
hopefully a future teacher’s pet
Daniel aka CanadaDan1971

… and … ?

nothing in there contradicts any of what i’ve said.

what the hell is this @[nick] thing?
come on, man. i mean, really.

@Capman911,

!! .. why do i get “@Capman911, “ text automatically added into the text box when i click the “reply” thing?

@Marina, So I am the guinea pig. So does it show up on all replys like it does on mine to you. When I clicked reply @ Marina was already there.

@aLx, It helps you see who you are replying to.. I can turn it off… I just thought I’d try it out!

@mijj, Something new M is trying out.

@Marina, !!

it seems somehow, that now, when a “reply” is clicked the text: @person’sUserName, is added automatically into the text box.

.. and clicking “click to cancel reply” now returns to the top of the page instead of where the “reply” was clicked!

the world is going crazy! (i’m skeered)

@Marina,

clicking the “click to cancel reply” now returns you to the top of the page instead of where the “reply” was clicked.

can you undo that too?

umm, yeah, i see what it’s for. but, uh, i do know who i’m replying to, you know. ummm … yeah …

It might be because he didn’t enter anything in the comment box.

oh, great. now mijj is screwing up the thread.

When I put in a comment it returned back to the original post.

what the hell?

it’s like she picked up our cage and shook it around and laffed!

i was skeered!

Let Marina play with her toys. Kobe must be asleep. :smile:

is that “@unsername,” thing a coCommenter user would find useful?

AAAAAH You turned it off. :sad:

what’s immoral about playboy?

not even cc is useful.

It’s still doing that now too.

could I suggest a “nudge” to someone when one wants to respond to a 3rd level reply, with an email sent to let the party know… ifn’ it’s deemed a good idea to eliminate the forth & fifth level skinny ass threads.

Nothing Alx I like Playboy.
I was giving Lohan credit
for making a good choice.

You said that language was the differentiating factor..to my understanding.

the only way to communicate is by the use of some (however simple or primitive) form of language.

So, I guess it comes down to what is language?

I propose that language is nothing more than a means of communication by means of some set of conventions, agreed and understood by the communicants. And by that definition of language, nearly, if not all, animals communicate, and therefore have language with which to do so, submitting direct contradiction to your quote:

no. there is indeed something that distinguishes man from other animals. it’s called “language”.

Perhaps I’ve been doing a poor job of making my point, is THIS post clear?

Ciao,
Fianchetto

It’s being handled at
this time BillB. M knows
of it and is looking into it.

So you wear glasses now? Cool! :)
Some people say that they make you look smart, but I say:
How does an optical disability make someone smart?!
And then they say, shut up nerd!
And then I say, GTFO loosers, and terrible fighting breaks out.
No worries, I always win in my own fantasies! :D
In real life I’m peaceful, but don’t mess with me… I have rabies and sh1t, OK?! grrr… waf! ^^

On older and smaller vessels, the crew sat amidships. The steersman also sat amidships. If the steersman was right handed, the rudder would be on the right side of the boat. The steersman would be amidships because of weight distribution.

Here’s one of your favorite show.

Family Guy

It generally was not a rudder on the older boats, but a wider, steering oar. Think of somebody sitting in the back of an ancient boat, steering it, and it just makes sense.

Horses run. Politicians run. They both need to be vetted to ensure a safe and fare race.

LOL, Mijj!!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

My word request is “Quiz”. I always thought it came from the Latin “quis”. Does it?
You are spectacular! :mrgreen:

ok .. look … everyone’s now being fascinated by the thought of M revealing all in a skin mag.

Let’s diffuse that right now by showing a pic of [one of M's naked breasts] so we can get on with our lives.

I think the idea has merit, to facilitate understanding of the thread, but think even better (or in addition) would be to (if possible) widen the post area and allow a few more depths of reply. This site is very linear, and doesn’t allow for very much branching of threads.

So, I guess my suggestion would be to allow more branching, if and only if it does not interfere with your ability to scan for word requests, or do other tasks required of the maintenence of the site.

Ciao,
Fianchetto

What do you mean now?…I have an age related optical disability & I broke my specks tonigjt & it realy sucks to try & type this without making too many mistakes. Not that long ago I loved driving at nigjht & seeing everything in high definition, now that Hi/def TV & Youtube vids are in HD… small screen phones etc etc. all is lost on me as my eyes aren’t HD anymore :sad: Hope it’s readable.
Overcoming any disability gives one strength & patience that would otherwise be underdeveloped… so if M. or anybody else that grew up with poor eyesight (or any other limiting sence) does well, I admire them.

thank you marina for singing you have a beautiful voice please sing more in your videos :lol: :lol:

*yawn*

yeah, yeah … read my posts first, all of them, then reply. what did i write in my response to bob? huh? exactly. that it depends on your definition of “language”, and i even said how i use the word “language”.

Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. :wink:
I wear bifocals myself. I think they look good on her.

The laugh @:30 belies things to come.

No, I did not know vetting drew it’s origin from veterinarians checking out a horse thoroughly.

I also didn’t know Marina would make such a hot parapalegic, but in this video she shows that she can pull that look off.

Nice dress, by the way, teach! Now if we can just get you a floor pillow or bean bag to sit on… :grin:

hi marina heres a hard one if you can please anwser this im a russian gypsy born in america also known as a русский цыганин in russian what does the word gypsy mean???

I am a husband, but I have also heard of animal husbandry and tree husbandry. Do these people have to take out the trees’ trash or wash the pigs’ laundry? This is a WORD REQUEST. M, could you investigate husband?

I got progressives a year ago but lately my depth perception is going off, so breaking the glasses might just spur me on to better vision, although it’s always so $$$$ draining.
I just want to poke fun @ you capman 54Yrs old & only 8 friends… saw that on your myspace link… that’s about it on my facebook too :grin:
My wife hasn’t even “friended” me on facebook… ahhh.

Most Roma consider the term perjorative. I usually do not hear Roma use the term about themselves (at least not since WWII, when so many bad things happened.) :cry:

She even wore specs in her very first video…

http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/03/02/intro-to-philology/

“some people may be famous for creating a pencil sharpner. i’m famous for my tits.”

Never knew someone could pull off the “red/pink” thing witout a clash…the black seemd to be the secret. Pair of nice shoes, would complete the outfit, and they are fairly cheep too.
Hey I don’t know what the hecK I’m talking about… my wife always says to me “you’re not wearing that are you”? when it’s obvious that I am.

uh. why exactly were you looking for stilettos in the first place?

Not just any stilettos aLx… afordable, matching ones.

here’s the bra to go with them.

have you ever tried these [aerobic glasses]. (essentially pinholes in blank plastic)

I have a pair. They’re good for backup emergency (they dont use lenses so they’re difficult to break. They kind of work .. halfway between good and nothing. I think people make exaggurated claims for these things, but they’re ok for backup .. and if you like to freak people out.

i’m still waiting to see that orchid bloom… :mrgreen:

Mice
Of couse, you don’t always need the red… Maybe you do. What do I know about dressing women?

Did I type Mice…Nice
I’m going to get some temp cheepy glasses on the way home LOL

It was a misnomer, kind of like how Native Americans are called Indians. Columbus was lost; thought he was in India. Europeans thought the Roma were from Egypt and called them Little Egyptians.

damn .. it’s quiet in here!!

(throws pots and pans around the thread)

:razz:

check out the crazy dutch.

(Dodging and ducking those pots and pans.) I thought there’d be a new video by now. I’ve only been a subscriber for 2-1/2 months, and I guess I’ve been spoiled by Marina’s productivity. I miss a new video every day, but should be content with what we actually do receive. :???: (Ouch! That pan got me! I’d better go to sleep!)
seesixcm6

ok…found a photo of a reconstructed trireme:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/image?lookup=1989.02.0011

noting 3 points:
1> the presence of two steering oars, one port, and one starboard
2> this vessel is a reconstruction, based on the best records available, so this may be an inaccuracy in the reproduction
3> a trireme is a warship, not a cargo ship, its mission to ram other ships in the high seas, spending only enough time in port to resupply and repair before returning to battle, so it wouldn’t matter which side were nearer the dock.

SO..my search continues for a vessel other than the gondola with the steering oar on one side…This is quite fun, actually! :grin:

Ciao,
Fianchetto

oh, and the man who had his ass thrown in jail:

CAIRO – An Egyptian donkey has been jailed for stealing corn on the cob from a field belonging to an agricultural research institute in the Nile Delta, local media reported today.

The ass and its owner were apprehended at a police checkpoint that had been set up after the institute’s director complained that someone was stealing his crops, the state-owned Al-Ahram daily said.

The unnamed ungulate was found in possession of the institute’s corn and a local judge sentenced him to 24 hours in prison. The man who had his ass thrown in jail got off with a fine of 50 Egyptian pounds ($A11.40).

AFP

here.

i’ve been visiting for even less time than you, seesix!

i think missing the odd video every now and then is a good sign – she’s getting her priorities right.
in fact … 1 vid every 2 days and more presence in the site and checking ideas would be ok by me. – tho i have the feeling her fans might object.

I prefer quality to quantity. so M has to pace herself to keep the juices flowing. Could be tech issues too, i guess.

Marina,

I never new that the word vetting ever existed.

If you say that vetting comes from the word vet witch is a doctor for your pets.

Then to check out hoses to see if they were drugged :evil: or not would probably be vetting.

I can not dispute that fact if it came from you :!:

Greg

I definitely agree with the quality before quantity suggestion, in fact,I think 3 or four really good ones per week would certainly be less taxing on Marina, allow her time to do more thorough research, as well as pursue branching out into such things as the TV spots she did for FuelTV, and the interviews, perhaps direct product advertisements, etc…

Or, if she PRODUCED many videos per week (even for a couple of months), but only POSTED a few, she could build up a reserve of stock videos to post should she decide to go on holiday… :mrgreen:

Ciao,
Fianchetto

Thanks, gents, for the advice. I had tried those suggestions, but was still having issues. In fact, when trying to log in through the dashboard I received a message telling me that I was not allowed to respond to that thread… while I was able to log in and respond to other threads. At that point I had figured that I might be admin-blocked in that particular thread for writing something vulgar or impolite. I know I rub folks the wrong way by acting like an insufferable know-it-all :mrgreen: , but I was wondering if I had truly offended or hurt someone’s feelings :oops: . That’s why I asked if this situation was accidental or punitive. All is well now, so I’ve made new comments to the thread in question. Thanks again.

Hi Marina!

If we’re talking politics, or political etymologies to be exact I’d like to request the verb: “to swiftboat”. My reason? I dont know whatit means :oops: . I recently saw the funniest vid ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68NEc8EvV2Q ) and it has this word in it. It probably has an interesting origin to it as well.

Thx

The unnamed ungulate was found in possession of the institute’s corn and a local judge sentenced him to 24 hours in prison.

:lol: Learned a new word ungulate,
well new to me & covers a wide spectrum of critters, hopefully law abiding critters. Not like this Cheeky Chimp.
Russians seem to be a little more glamorous than the dutch, could make for an interesting olympi…

GOT IT!!!!!!!

the WORD is English:

[ Old English stēorbord < stēor "steering paddle" + bord (see board)]

but the BOAT is VIKING :smile:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vikings/ships.html

and of a preserved specimen, not a replica, either :grin:

So, my hat is off to you both, bsomebody and CaptainJack.

Thanks,
Fianchetto

What the hell! Something is goofy because I tested it. :neutral:

Im just going to do raw.. Damn computers are too slow.

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/saturday-night-live-season-1-land-shark/1415496980

Starting from now forward, or going bac through previous lessons as well? Just curious. :smile:

Ciao,
Fianchetto

Oh you got that right!!! Love that show. Im glad its coming back on. Damn networks that don’t have a clue what’s funny TV. :roll: I bet most people don’t even get the unspoken jokes. That show is WORNG on so many levels! :mrgreen:

Surely eleemosynary “to do with alms” is be Greek, maybe related to English alms. (The ee and y are dead giveaways, I think, unknown in Latin except in Greek loan-words. In fact the letter y is still called i grec “Greek i” in French.)

Remunerative “to do with earned income” must be Latin, through French.

Just forward for now unless we find someone willing to go backwards. :smile:

OOOH! OOOOH! Pick me!…..

I would be happy to help out….when did you start? I’ll go backwards from there.

,neam I

.ereth morf sdrawkcab og ll’I ?trats uoy did nehw …. tou pleh ot yppah eb dluow I

,oaiC
ottecnaiF

:mrgreen:

Hello,
A few days ago I posted this on your whiskey vid, but this came out about a day later, so I’m not sure if you saw it. If you did, sorry, but if not here it is again: I would like to request Nintendo, please. If you would like to use my youtube name, it is smashballbrawler. Thank you, and I understand if you do not use this.

I wonder what Marina makes of the Land-O-Lakes reference? What are the odds that she would have encountered that brand’s packaging since she came to America and remembered it? And I wonder if she (or her friends, if she asked them) know of that origamical trick we used to play as kids with the box and an Xacto knife? :-)

i thought that producing a number of vids at a time could be a more efficient use of time.

however .. the striking thing about M’s videos is her presence, charisma, that sense of personal contact (etc etc etc .. drone drone)

I have a feeling if a production line method kicks in then some of that could be lost.

however .. i think a few backup filler vids stashed away in a safe place for a rainy day could be useful … for when she just wants to spend some time off or get stuck into a side issue or whatever.

ps. i have found fault with M .. a very serious one.
Not only does she choose to live in the USA, she actually chose to live in Hollywood! .. is that the choice of any sane person? .. it’s the character flaw that proves she’s human, i guess.
.. oh yeh .. and she didn’t give me a pat on the head for my quizzes :cry: – that’s another serious character flaw.

personally, i think a comic book would be a good avenue to explore.

some of M’s vids could easily be mapped out as story boards .. and those could easily form the basis for the panel sequences in a comic book story. .. of course, the comic book story could go off into fantastic situations whereas M has to stick to her room for the vids.

etc etc etc .. of course, the problem with a comic book is .. someone has to produce it.

word request : lucifer & satan (matching pair, please)

:)

ps. beware of any couples you meet called “Lucy and Stan”.

lucifer …satan

Hey there Marina,

I was playing Metal Gear Solid 4 and though where did the word “metal” come from. So the word “metal” is my request and I would also like to know why its used to identify music such as heavy metal…thank you :mrgreen:

By the way – I love all of your lessons :grin:

….and i did not know that vetting came from veterinarians
bye!

Echoes

Sorry, that’s not my Marina. Might be you. :)

-Rock

A ‘swiftboat’ is a small powerboat, usually armed with a .50 caliber machine gun mount or two, used by the US in VietNam to patrol tributaries and waters un-navigable by larger craft.

John Kerry served on one of these craft during the VietNam war.

On returning home after his tour, he became an avid anti-war activist, testifying in congress to having committed atrocities, villifying his comerades-in-arms.

He was later elected Lieutenant-Governer of Massachussets, then US Senator representing Massachussetts.

In 2004, Kerry made an unsuccessful bid for the presidency, losing to incumbent George W. Bush.

During his campaign, servicemen who had served with Kerry in VietNam launched an agressive campaign against him, to the effect of giving President Bush a significant advance in popularity, leading ultimately to President Bush being elected for a second term as President.

one of the many “Swiftboat Veterans and POWs for Truth” ads:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ti-V_rORIw&NR=1

I’m giving you this just so you have the info, in case Our Dear Teacher chooses not to do it. I know its kind of dry, and would rather have her do it as well, but heck she could read the Chicago phone directory and make it interesting! :grin:

Ciao,
Fianchetto

:lol:
You lost me!
Say again all after “actually”

LOL Mijj!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

As for Our Dear Teacher’s alleged faults, I offer:

-I have been to many places in the world, (not ALL of them, nor have I been to Russia), but share this “flaw” of proudly choosing to continue to live in the USA, where we have the freedom to live wherever we can afford the rent, mortgage, or outright purchase of property and sustain ourselves, so long as we do so legally.

-I would say that any sane person can choose to live anywhere in the world that they choose. There remain primitive tribes in South America who choose to remain there in conditions that most of the developed world would consider squalor. They may be ignorant, uneducated, or simply unwilling to assimilate themselves with the foreigners who come and rape their land for timber or other natural resources, but I submit that they are no more insane than you or I.

-as for her choice of Beverly Hils, I wonder if there is a better place for someone seeking (and earning) celebrity to be?

-as for the pat on the head for your (pretty nifty in my opinion) quizzes, I would have to say that I haven’t gotten a pat on the head for any of my posts, but then again, perhaps mine are just not worthy of a pat. Or perhaps she has a lot of irons in the fire and hasn’t gotten to it yet. Or she may be considering you for teacher’s pet for keeping us entertained between videos? You’ll have to talk to her on that one..after all it is HER hand to do with as she pleases… :grin:

Chin up, pal – and keep making a positive presence here. I don’t think that she could make a dent in giving out individual praise to everyone who adores and supports her. There are just too many of us and only one of her.

Ciao,
Fianchetto

Billy :lol:
aLx :razz:

The Cheeky Chimp stole a mobile phone?
Proof that animals can use language.

My mom almost died laughing when she found I did it to our butter when I was 12. Best she could come up with was “wait till your Father gets home!” I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect from him, but when he saw it he had a good laugh, and agreed for me that once was enough for that trick. :shock:

Ciao,
Fianchetto

“The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a ‘C’, the idea must be feasible.” – A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith’s paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.

Just goes to show you even the so called ‘Experts’ can be wrong. :???:

“Never set your ways into stone, because the next person will set their ways on wings.” – Captain Jack

Marina, I have a good request… “Late” as in the late George Washington. Why is late also used to refer to someone that is dead? I think this would be a good word to investigate.

I am confused with this @ thing… How does it work? Marina said something about it but I still am not quite sure..

I do it differently :twisted:

“Never set your ways into stone,
because the next person will set
their ways on wings.” – Captain Jack

Wow, that is a neat quote Captn. Can I steal that once in awhile?
See if you can have Marina put that into the quote list so it will
come up in the quote box in the lower right.

By the way, I can contribute to the quote list. Do you know what format is preferred? Is it one quote per line (i.e. line break after each quote) or are there other rules. Should I send the list to you or to Marina?

What are you on about?? Marinas videos are always succulent. :mrgreen: :lol:

hey! .. i was just listenin’ to Echoes a little bit earlier!

Why hasn’t CaptainJack reminded us that it’s …

[Talk Like a Pirate Day]

{…arrr…}

Shiver me timbers!

HFW User “tennesseedundee” gave us a heads up on the upcoming “Talk Like a Pirate Day” back on the “SOS Game” video page. That day has arrived today Sept 19 – International Talk Like A Pirate Day.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/09/10/sos-game/#comment-59761

well .. i’ve been here in HFW 36 days now.

So it’s been that many days since i completely accidentally and innocently discovered this YouTube clip of [Captain Jack serenading Marina].

Seeing at it’s Talk Like a Pirate Day (arrrr), I thought i’d repeat the link.

By the powers, mate .. you be right!

So why the blitherin’ barnacles ain’t every stinkin’ landlubber in this thread talkin’ like a pirate!?

Your bifocals look good on her??

A-rovin’, a-rovin
In Liverpool I long to be
A bonnie lass upon my knee
A-lo-aye-ayy!

My accent is considered a pirate one (I don’t have it) but the stereotypical one is a pirate.. Mind you. we do have a pirate history, isaac gulliver lived just down the road from where I do and there was a lot of smuggling happening

scrolling through i thought that was mobile slut lol

Liverpool I long to be
A bonnie lass upon my kne
]

Liverpool… Hmm.., A bonnie lass sounds scottish to me :razz:

Where i live can be referred to as:
Blighty, England, Britain, Great Britain, Albion.

How many ways can the US be referred to?

Hello Marina,

If the world is eating hamburgers then why is the French eating “hambourgeois” where did this word come from?
Hmmmm…please investigate and thanks!!

or should the correct grammar be:

to which how many the US can referred ways?

Makes me think of one I know, but would like to see Our Dear Teacher do…

WORD REQUEST: Walking Spanish

As in “Aye, me hearties, ye shoulda heard that scurvy dog beg, walking Spanish the whole span o’ the plank!”

Ciao,
Fianchetto

Arrr…Aye, James…picked ‘er up in Wick, but that one hadn’t enough syllables to work in the song…

Hi dezdkado, (additional thoughts – thinking out loud)
I noticed that you had used username “dez” at one time. (ref: lorem-ipsum video page – I’m presuming that it was you)
It’s possible that this may have messed up the login cookies / session Id.
Given the dual names, I think it may also depend on the browser you are using; e.g. MSIE vs Firefox.

WOW, thats like a really new meaning for this word then. I’m really amazed at how fast words are born and how fast they die out.

Let me just sum it up, cause I dont want to get it wrong.

It means bringing back ppl from someone’s past and use them in negative campiagns against him/her, am I right?

I would like to request the word “Horizon”.
I was once told that the Egyptian God Horus who was a sky God, the name also meant distant, had something to do with it. I have never read anything about that, can you investigate for me?

Also “Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall…” do you think he’s an egg??

[Pirate's Shanty]

Ahoy Mates!!! :cool:
AAAARG!!! It’s talk like a pirate day!!
Shiver me timbers Marina here’s a word request :!:
Carribean Batten down the hatches!!!
I love the Carribean!!! :smile:

America
The United States
USA or The USA
US or The US
The United States of America
The States
The Union
Uncle Sam
The US of A

At my last count …uh…50. :lol:

Ciao,
Fianchetto

I think that bin Laden guy called us “The Great Satan” on more than one occasion…

He’s an omelet :eek: :smile: :smile:

so .. what’s the origin of the name “America”?

{…he asked, innocently…}

d’oh! .. i bet M’s done a vid on it!

CampKohler & fianchetto1, you picked right up on that. :smile:
There is a video on YT that shows how to do the Indian girl trick.
I didn’t want to go there, though.

I liked Marina’s sitting position as it looks relaxing and endearing. I don’t think it looks submissive at all, but looks inviting and very personable.

Word request:
Ahoy
Good Egg
Bad Egg

Shiver me lumber mates :cool: :smile:

yo marina can you find the origin of the word handsome? thanks much and i love you.

The Republic
The land of opportunity
land of the free

and for you Brits:

Those bloody colonists!

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Hello Marina!

I would like to request the term “Save Face”, interested to find where that came from.

no offense, friend …I’m in a rare mood just now…

Yup, America! Land of free sex video has been done.

Canada is called America Light :smile:

I suspect the info in M’s “America” vid may not be the full story!! .. i’m looking to check for other info.

What I’d like to know about the French is “Who the heck taught them how to count??”

they do OK till they get past about sixty…for example:

92 = ninety-two, literally, ninety plus two in English

but in Nice,

97 = quatre-vingt-douze, literally four times twenty plus twelve

Where’d THAT come from?

Ciao,
Fianchetto

sorry…the new math..the “97″ should be “92″ as well… :oops:

we used to do that too in britain .. four score and twelve.

hang on .. wasn’t Horus the Sun god?

in which case Horizon could make sense as from where Horus is born. (just guessing)

marina i was washing my hair with shampoo and i was thinking whats the origin of the word shampoo?can you investigate?

My face is the origin of the word handsome

marina how about the origin of “talk to the hand”

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Horus_standing.svg/180px-Horus_standing.svg.png

Marina

I just visited the words list and saw nothing pertaining to motors or engines.With all the talk of alternative energy,hybrids,and considering that gasoline engines helped create the need for adding electric motors to the mix,how about doing a lesson about it? Please? Maybe just choose any related subject and run with it,it would be like a current events curriculum. :smile:

Hmmm,I know nuthin about website designing but am curious,how hard would it be to add another discussion area for current events? You could choose(or create a vote)a subject and let it run for a while,then on to the next.

I think alt energy is *very* important to the entire world and warrants discussion in school for sure. There are some good minds here,You could use them to help educate Your class on this paramount issue. :cool: :idea: :?:

yeh .. it’s weird isn’t it … before shampoo did people wash their hair in real poo?

hey .. that guy down there looks like me !!..

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Thoth.svg/311px-Thoth.svg.png

Marina,

Since this is Pirate Day, you must give us a video as a heavily accented Russian word pirate. Arrgg!

In Danish it would be “Half a Twenty short of Five Twenties and Two.”

More braggadocio from Jim, the Cabin Boy. :lol:
Give ‘im a taste of yer Long John, Cap’n Silver.

Might as well ask why do we say “eyes” of potato or “head” of lettuce for that matter?
I wonder if there are other vegetables that refer to “nose” and “mouth”.

That’s not aLx’s picture. It looks more like Jordan, or whatever her real name is. Katy Price?

I was wondering if she were starting to move out or just move in.

Dear Teacher, a former T Pet was listening to Bill O’Reilly call folks “Rapscallions” the other day, as everyone know what this means I do not know which “Pirate” first called someone a rapscallion.
Arrrrrrrrrrrrg.
Chief

:?: I hear the word “thumbnail” used on this site sometimes. What is it? Some kind of internet expression?

Wearing glasses, let see if I can find something funny on You Tube :razz: :smile: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph_G-wGvqzM

yeah.
and whoever said it was me? did you notice the quotation marks? it’s a fucking quote.

see below.

Also, why does “late” refer to a woman being pregnant?

Or this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqBy6TgYxTU

All the king’s horsemen and all the king’s men…
would bitch and moan, questioning the king, “Why waste time putting him back together again?” :lol: :mrgreen:

:idea: Maybe handsome means “some hands”, as in ‘some’ people find this person appealling enough to ‘grab’ on to. :mrgreen:

:neutral: I think that poo joke is getting pretty old.

I thought that was a lousy phrase in the movie ‘Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines’. Of course, the movie itself wasn’t great either. :roll:

I was just watching a ClipCritics video on YouTube the other day, and I got a couple of nice views of your whale tail at LisaNova’s birthday party. :grin:

Hi Marina : )>
I love your site and what you are doing for the english language
I like to write rants Can you tell me about the word Rant?
Thank you in advance
xoxoxo
Ernie

:oops: sorry

{… hangs head in shame …}

yeh .. i liked her style too.

slips of the tongue.

word request : Marina, could you tell us where the phrase “aLx is an asshole” comes from?

Thank you. :)

does he mention “frost and fog”?

did you watch the vid?

yes … eventually i did. I was disappointed there was no mention of “fost and frog”.

how does using cocomment make teacher look like a rockstar?

speaking of Marina as a rockstar …

perhaps Marina is ready for a band like:
[L7 - Pretend We're Dead]
(doing their bit on the brit Channel 4 “The Word” programme)

Good find there aLx. Im not the only one the flubs up. You should see me in class when I flub up in front of a live audience. I just keep on trucking as nothing ever happen. Sometimes my students will help me a long. Kind of funny at thimes. :lol:

How this one Mijj me matey arrrg

Party Like Rock star

me thinks its from the buzzword

You sure know how to embarrass a guy. :oops: I was think what would the odds be for something like this puppet video would exist. A beautiful lady named Marina and a boat captain. Yea what are the odds? Oh and I don’t think for one minute you accidentally discovered the clip. :razz:
I notice the show was broadcast a year before I was born, so I tried to find an airing date. I found a plot summary at the IMDb data base that gives you an idea of what the show is about.

“Stingray” (1964)

Gerry Anderson’s third SF supermarionation saga told the adventures of the WASPs (the World Aquanaut Security Patrol) as they explored the oceans and kept the world safe from a variety of perils. The WASP’s main weapon was Stingray, a super-sub under the command of Troy Tempest. Troy’s copilot was Phones, and they were often joined on missions by Marina, a princess of the undersea kingdom of Pacifica. Marina could breathe under water, but was unable to speak. In charge of the WASPs was gruff Commander Shore, whose daughter Atlanta was both a member of his staff and Marina’s rival for Troy’s affection. Credit to Marg Baskin for this summary.

It’s the pictures that go along with the video. Like the picture at the top where M looks like she is mad at some one. Or it could be a small little inset picture. More or less your right its internet speak. But it could be one of the hard surfaces on the end of your thumb. No just joking with you on that last sentence. :razz: :razz: :lol:
Mike

That better not be an innuendo bob.. :cool:

Your wish is my command! Funny you mention that. I had just finished my post and making an email to Miss M that I had it ready to go. I hope you all like my post. :grin:

Try this….bet you can’t do it.

THIS IS INCREDIBLE…. Read all the Numbers… Slowly and in Order!!
Be Careful not to MISS ANY
1
2
3
4
5
6 & nbsp;
7

8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26

27

28
29

30
Finished?
Scroll down …………………

GOOD ! TOMORROW I’LL SEND YOU THE ABC’s
It takes so little to amuse old people.

It means ‘at’. I only use it for IMs on my cellphone and email addies.

I thought Ra was the sun god

Ya sure. Just tell them where you seen it before. I have seen one of my quotes make it back to me. It surprises the hell out of me. :shock: Yea I should ask her about that. She is looking for new quote lists. I think Capman might be working on that project. Send it to me and I can forward it to who ever. :grin:

http://www.crystalinks.com/ra.html

Is that a beer :?: :lol:

in order to create a superthread I want to play word association. Secondly google is so full of porn.. Why is it if I type something like car, porn comes up.. or suck… or cucumber lol

THE WORD IS CAR

You look so hot n sexy in that dress! Im hot for teacher!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_of_Death Here mijj take your pick, could be all of them, one of them , none of them or a combination of them.

Family Guy is a representation of a real place
Quahog is real, I went to college in their.
It’s a lot funnier when you appreciate the local satire :smile: :grin:

the internet was made for pr0n.

turn safe search on.

wussy.

IT turns its self on but.. I dont care. It is a bit annoying though when you want to find a photo of.. lets say a laser pen,, and all you get is something else in cheek

what are you talking about? google image search results for “laser pen” (safe search off). no pr0n.

Let me say this aboooth that, it be called America Lite

Could u do one on the Rubik’s Cube? :mrgreen:

Don’t feel bad, I was going to write the same thing until I saw that you did it. i have already used it three times in the last several months because people keep asking for that word. It’s a great joke and I will keep using it.

Innuendo? Isn’t that the Italian word for sodomy?

James has his beer goggle on and can only see pr0n in everything. I hear James stuck this stick with bristles on it and placed it in his mouth. I think there was some kind of jelly on the bristles. Then I heard he rapidly worked the stick in and out of his pie hole rapidly until a foamy ooze came out and then spit it all into this miniature toilet bowl. The whole job was done in less than 2 minutes. I don’t know how he can see pr0n in something like brushing your teeth in the morning. :shock: :twisted:

I think the whole thing is a sham to begin with. :twisted:

I think Miss M already did Ahoy. Did you look at the word list of pass lessons?

Shiver (of wood) to break into fragments; (of a sail) to shake; to cause a sail to shake by luffing up into the wind. ‘Shiver me Timbers’, expressing surprise or incredulity, is more often read than heard. Shiver was first attested in the sense of breaking in 1200 AD in the Trinity College Homilies, Second Series, 1873; in the sense of shake, in or before 1250 in the old English Miscellany 1872.

It is only mentioned in the Hello Hello lesson

HI Marina

how about Voluptuous…Every guy I know uses it..

I would agree, though, until you mentioned it I had never heard it used in that manner. But then again it was only a couple of years ago that I ad ever heard ‘Google’ used as a verb, either – as in “I Googled the word, but came up empty”

Ciao,
Fianchetto

BTW living organisms evolve very quickly, too..I got to work, now, but after work, I’ll locate the example and post it here for you perusal :smile:

another similar phrase is “Drink the Kool Aid”. Check out Our Dear Teacher’s video on that one

Ciao,
Fianchetto

Yea if you want to. Send me message on the contact page and I’ll email you back with instructions. :wink:

So are you just going to keep me in suspense? :roll:

Oh Ok. Hope she does a lesson on it then. :wink:

I plan to sail there someday. I bet it’s really nice there, hu?

Hot for Words. My Latin is terrible.
Please help me with the origin and true meaning of ‘Res ipsa loquitur’.
Thanks Love your lessons.
Devoted fan uh I mean student. :grin:

well … gotta say “no”, Cap. Cos in it she’d be an adornment. A mere decorative addition. In my L7 band she’s be the spark.

Is it true that M isn’t going to post any more videos?

Word Request, I am resubmitting my Halloween theme words:
derrick
fairy/fate
belfry
fanatic
gargoyle
normal
zombie
Oh how I love Halloween, hope you do a real special lesson
like an Elviva mistress of the dark parody, you must admit your styles are similar.
That is of course if you seen her shows.

I’ve got to admit, i’m disappointed aLx didn’t even acknowledge the existence of the bait. :(

Good one. Im missed that lesson. This question comes up from time to time in my classes. Damn this site really helps me out with my job. If this keeps happening I’ll have to start paying Marina for the lessons. :mrgreen:

is it because i started watching your videos again, Marina? :( You don’t want to do them if i’m going to be gazing at you.

No men , i said “Mobile Suit” :twisted:

well .. i accidentally discovered the clip in the sense of remembering there being a song about Marina at the end of the puppet show and sought it out. But didn’t have a clue there was a Captain in the site who was eternally doomed to be captivated by her allure.

The rumor is she has been kidnapped by gypsy para-pirates held in a posh penthouse fed only philology. This pig tale wench is dressed in pink with polka dot panties. The purple pinhead pupil carries a porcupine piggyback while dropping his phoney saber to sneak a peak at the lovely vampiress pusillanimous.

Now there this is a good game to play and it incorporates all the lessons learn.

Where did you hear that she wasn’t doing anymore vids?

I am eternally doomed ain’t I? I knew this could happen if I stuck around long enough.

I’m starting a rumour. (… shhhhh …. keep it quiet .. M may not be doing any more videos …)

i think it’s one of the duties of the TAs to step in to take her place if M is taken out of the frame.

One of them is going to have to dress up as M and do a video and hope noone catches on.

rock’n'roll.

yeh .. and not merely doomed for a short while. But doomed for all eternity!

maybe that should be …

A-rovin’, a-rovin
In Liverpool I long to be
A boner in a lass upon my knee
A-lo-aye-ayy!

Maybe this guy can fill in, he’s a bit androgynous

yeh .. but Britney doesn’t display her muff so she comes a poor second to L7 as a role model for M.

yes .. good theme .. men who are more attractive than Marina.

1. mijj
2. David Bowie.
3. … erm …

what?

humm …

d’oh!

lol

yes .. it’s a very important aspect of a lady’s career nowadays. The etiquette of muff display.

Don’t start rumors like that.. That really isn’t nice :neutral:

Why is everyone typing..pr0n

Hi Marina:) im not entirely new to your work, but i have to admit I signed up for your site only a short time ago.
I have a request…i would like to ask you for help with the phrase

“Leap of faith”

…i seem to be unable to find any useful info on the ethymology of this phrase. So please help me and solve this mystery for me. Thank you!

Tasty :puke:

well .. instead, i’m starting a rumour that i’m prettier than Marina.

ooh… you bitch

:neutral: :shock:

vegtables are cheese

Hey mijj, I’ve got aLx figured out. You have to say stupid things like I do all the time which will make him laugh his arse off. For example, in this case I might say; so mijj, aLx didn’t say anything to you cause he thinks you are a master baiter. :lol:

Yea Marina has me chained in her dungeon and forces me to get her coffee all day long. Being a TA isn’t what’s it all cracked up to be but I’m not complaining. :mrgreen:

that bitch!!

chaining you up then forcing you to get coffee! … presumably laughing all the while at your struggles.

Yea, and and Kobe gets to eat from a bowl and my food is put on the floor. And and she make me wear this baby blue ballet costume. Oh and now I have to get Mike coffee now. Its just horrible. I just want to go home….. :sad:

I didn’t know vetting had it’s origins in veterinarian. Excuse me for asking such a silly question, but was HotForWords wearing glasses in this video? I really couldn’t tell…

Flavobacterium that evolved the enzyme ‘Nylonase’
Nylon was invented in 1935, so these creatures adapted to eat nylon AFTER the invention of nylon, and the bacteria evolved betwen 1935 its discovery in 1975. LESS THAN 40 YEARS for a new species to evolveThis is not my original source, but is an accurate summary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOYi9U_h5xs

And words are created and ‘evolve even more quickly:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/erin_mckean_redefines_the_dictionary.html

Ciao,
Fianchetto

:oops: Teacher SWEET, In High School I was infatuated by beaver shots and guess what :lol: :lol: this Lesson sent me back in time :grin: Thank You very much :shock:
Jon X0X0X0

wha..? beaver shots? britney spears again? yeah, she rocks, doesn’t she.

Please don’t ask for anymore rain. It rains every afternoon here in NC. I have to cut my grass in the rain or it will be knee hi. :lol:

Hi ernie…I can answer that question for you. A Rant is what I went on when you posted the following ad online when I was visiting my family in the states last summer:
*****

I am an experianced Dom seeking Painslut 4 real play no limits but will respect yours :) [if265 1]

My Ideal Person:
Seeking true paincunts for real and or cyber torture
even in cyber i play 4 real and expect the same 4 u
above all honesty is key
******
That is what a Rant is. Its origin I do not know. I’ll let M answer that for you. BTW, you’re not interested in words…that’s my thing, not yours, or so you’ve told me. You’re only on this site because you’re a perv that thinks M is gonna look twice at you. Don’t hold your breath drunk boy. Go smoke a joint, pop a beer and continue surfing the net for a somebody that fits the description in your ad.

:)))))) thenx for helping me catch up on my numbers. Looking forward for tomorrow, because my ACB`s sux!
Oops! See? :(

Personally, I think it’s a loan word, directly from the Hindi language, but would like to see Marina do it as well :grin:

:idea:

Thanks, eric812, for your WORD REQUEST:

“Shampoo”

Ciao,
Fianchetto

Hi CaptainJack! Nice to meet you! :smile:
It’s so beautiful there! Yes, you must go there!!!! :smile:

Osso buco = bone mouth
bucatini = spaghetti with a hole through the middle

-just two that come to mind :grin:

Ciao,
Fianchetto

sorry – they’re not vegetables, but just other foods…but they DID come to mind… :grin:

More pasta with body parts…

orecchiette = little ears
ditalini = little fingers
linguine = little tongues
agnolotti = lamb’s ears

Yea I think I will. Im also thinking about visiting the Fiji Islands. :mrgreen:

gr8 video..
love when i can see your beauty legs

your are most intelligent women in the world and the most beautiful to!

If you click on the Words/Lessons link in the upper-left corner, there are a few videos listed under “100 Million Video Views” and “Best Weekend Ever” that have some nice leg shots.
There is another video I can’t seem to find here, which I think is her best leg shots. It’s on her YouTube site, listed under “Girl Fight!” :grin:

No, I did not know that. I do now thanks to my Hot For Words teacher.

Now, I wonder…. what is the orgin of the word… “Word”?

Hmmmm.

Stayawake,
Helendale, CA

I would like to know where the phrase [the jig is up] comes from, often used in old 50′s mob movies.

:lol:

Will [it] be soon?

How in this world are YOU?

Siouxsie and the Banshees – Passenger :lol:

:razz:

I did when I finished watching this video! Thank yoou!!! :mrgreen:

:o I’ve been hearing about this word more and more in the news lately. Guess it’s time for a refresher lesson.

i was totally wondering about this word when it was trending on google n twitter back then, thanks for enlightening me. you look funny sitting on the ground like that, love that dress too, maybe i should just point out when i don’t like one one of your dresses instead… those glasses are excellent on you as well, first time i’ve seen em. so much catching up to do, little by little, day by day…

Are you alive?…and then / did your back HEEL? :sad: http://calling-muggins.blogspot.com/ :arrow: :cool: i hope you are well :smile: