Werewolf 2008

Whoa no comments yet? I’m first?

YAHOO!

Sorry. I will now continue with a modicum of decorum.

yo

There are no real werewolves ( just some REALLY hairy men ).

Also, there are no real ( ‘living’ ) mummiesor vampires.

We may be heading towards a ‘Frankenstein’ type but cloning seems easier.

We could also see technology for an ( electronic ) invisable man ( clothing with cameras and transmitters that show what is in your background on your clothes so you can’t be seen ).

Happy Halloween Eve to all.

No. Should I?
While we’re off the subject, what about the way some words are spelled differently in England and the US, like “humour” and “humor”? Why is that?
Also, why to the English sometimes add an “er” sound to the ends of words that don’t have an “r” at the end? You know, like “idea” becomes “ide-er”.
Thanks a lot and keep up your fine lessons.

hey hey maria, do the word rapprochement, sounds interesting..

pink whale tail :-D

The main problem with invisibility is that for the person (I’m assuming you’re not referring to an object) to be completely invisible, he/she would not be able to see. If there is something covering the entire person displaying the image behind him/her then no light could reach the eyes. If light were allowed to reach the eyes then the eyes would be visible. I guess there would have to be a trade-off, should such technology be pursued.

No. Should I?
While we’re off the subject, what about the way some words are spelled differently in England and the US, like “humour” and “humor”? Why is that?
Also, why to the English sometimes add an “er” sound to the ends of words that don’t have an “r” at the end? You know, like “idea” becomes “ide-er”.
Thanks a lot and keep up your fine lessons.

P.S. I used to be a werewolf but gave it up for Lent.

copy cat copy cat frigid copy cat. :evil: :evil: :evil: DIVORCE!

HAMBURGER. :mrgreen:

Colour and color. Blond and Blonde. Dumber and Dumberer.

I use to be a catholic, but i gave it up for lent.

neat-o. :smile:

Happy birthday, daddy! 51. :grin:

Lycanthropy and werewolves, yet another good Halloween theme.

The scariest fright this Halloween is probably your real life. The economic crisis hurts everyone — lost homes, lost jobs, lost retirement, lost faith.

Tell us how the financial crisis has affected you. Your personal story puts a face on the billions of dollars lost, and will put our leaders on notice that you come first, not Wall Street.

Congress will reconvene in November to start crafting solutions to our biggest economic problems. Help us make sure those solutions work for you.

Congrats on first, Orion!

I know how to make myself invisible to you… especially if you don’t know the block! :twisted:
Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo… Nyuk, Nyuk… Wiseguy! :mrgreen:

As small as cameras are getting today, there would be plenty of space to see through. Think about the ‘murals’ you can get for the rear window of a truck or some busses. You can see the image,and you ( on the outside ) might have trouble seeing inside, but the driver can still see through it to observe traffic.

Nope… no belief in werewolves, unless you mean that certain family of acrobats from Mexico.

A lot of words had their spelling changed INTENTIONALLY to separate us from the Brits after the revolution. Theater from theatre.

The idea – ide-er is just an accent ( think of Boston where they leave out the r’s in car and garage and recycle them elsewhere.

IN response to your comment on my comment below:

As small as cameras are getting today, there would be plenty of space to see through. Think about the ‘murals’ you can get for the rear window of a truck or some busses. You can see the image,and you ( on the outside ) might have trouble seeing inside, but the driver can still see through it to observe traffic.

Hello Marina,
Great show as always.
Thank you
Werewolves are my favorite type of versipellis.
Here’s a man that knows a bit more about Werewolves

I see London. I see France. I see Marina’s underpants!

Dear совершенная Marina, You wore nice underwear under your short-shorts! For your homework, I don’t think there are werewolves, either.
Marina, what is your weight? I think you weigh about 127 lbs. If you have a bathroom scale, please weigh yourself in the morning after you finish relieving yourself. If you weigh yourself before eating or drinking anything and weigh yourself undressed, you’ll get your lightest possible weight for the day. No, you don’t have to make a video of this! You’re so slender, you probably don’t need a bathroom scale! (But I imagined how you might use one!) :smile:
Your dear student, seesixcm6

There Wolf

He passed away just recently… pity.

Marty Feldman and Gene Wilder… a classic movie. Very funny.

Hello Dezdkado,
I clicked your name and I was wondering what you were holding in your hands.

Congress may TRY to craft solutions but I’m willing to bet they make the problems worse ( throwing money on the problem is a good example of a bad solution ).

The best first step to solving the problems of today is to put the responsible ( or irresponsible ) CEOs in jail. A CEO that can make money for his/her shareholders may well be worth a million dollar salary and/or bonus. A CEO that manipulates the company to generate millions for himself at shareholders expense has committed fraud, if nothing else. Just being a CEO does NOT ewntitle you to millions.

Banks that have loaned money to people who were bad risks and without adequate collateral deserve to go under and their shareholders should be clamoring for justice.

Having the government take over bad loans is just plain stupid.

Individuals who took out loans that they knew ( or should have known ) they couldn’t afford deserve bankruptcy.

I have had several mortgages, and never missed a payment. So because I planned well, I get to subsidize ( with my tax dollars ) the bailout of those who planned poorly? Call me a heartless SOB, but I have a problem with that.

I have carefully planned for my retirement, up to the events we are currently seeing. But NO ONE can plan for a total meltdown, which is what will happen unless the CEO’s who made millions by screwing up so badly go to jail so that other CEO’s may want to try working for their money.

I noticed Gucci the Werewolf, a blast from the past in the intro.
Love those Twitter messages and photos such as Gorby in the purse. :grin:

Marina is so scary sometimes. Maybe she should be the new late night horror flick TV hostess.

Homework :cool:
No, I don’t believe in werewolves, but for some reason I howl when I see pretty gals! AROOOOOO!!!! :mrgreen:
Oh yeah and I start panting too!!!

Hi Marina – thanks for the show. Just wanted to ask if you could look into the word “concur”. I think it has something to do with latin roots but I don’t know…

You must have just changed the Tweets font a few moments ago. It’s smaller now and much easier to read. :smile:

2 seconds later Mr. Werewolf got bit on the ass by Gorby the Zombie Slayer.

He knows a good gig when he has one.

Ain’t nobody gonna mess with his Marina.

I don’t believe in Werewolves.
I have to go shave my knuckles and toes to get ready for tomorrow night.
I was gonna dress up as HotForWords but I kept pawing myself.

Who’s your daddy!?

I’m curious about Rock and Roll.

How did this term come about to define this type of music?

MARINA AND ALL……….I just found video on video thumbnail and sexy boobies….uh,..not suggestion anyone we know but is funny video and worth a look and Marina would laugh too….

PIZZA :cool:

AWESOME request………… :razz: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin:

did I read correctly and you gave advice on how or when to pee :?: :?: damn,,anything sacred anymore :roll:

So your saying there can’t be any women werewolfs?

Also I see you have a little werewolf problem on your hands, sorry I can’t help you there… Kobe spooked me when he walked into the scene, imagine what a real werewolf would do to my complexion =))

AAAAHH… I just finished watching the whole video..
OH COMMON!!! Was that fright really necessary? :))
BRB, I must poo…

Thanks for the link nakedbullwinkle, I recognized one of our favorite ones, errr… I mean two of them, well, I mean one thumbnail. :smile:

Nice red thong. :mrgreen:

This man would know about Wolves. :lol: :lol:

Like this one Elvira Mistress of the Dark :wink:

Maria Sansone is one funny blonde :)
I also appreciate her experience in the field. I just wish I had time to watch all my favorite youtube shows. Alas, I do not…
But, Thank God for weekends! :D

HotForElvira

Ms. Marina, I have a question!
Do you have any e-mail address I could contact you?
It’s kinda personal, and you’re the only one that needs to know about it :)

BTW, your videos are awesome :) :cool:

Great video NB simply the best. Must save that one to my archives. :lol:

Hi johnnycase, Marina would tell you to click on the Contact link up above and then you’ll see a link that will bring up a text box where you can send a private message to Marina.

Yeah I do as ancient greeks that worshipped dyionisis were considered vampires and werewolves.

Werewolves for Words and Words about Werewolves

I will only relate to HotForWords, since this is hotforwords.com and not some political show.
I think that the economic crisis is mirrored in Marina’s show by the fact that she can’t afford full clothing anymore, and I also suspect she sold her furniture, thus doing her videos from the carpet!
Well, that’s what I think… :-)

Dear Hotforwords,
What does Deus mean?

I don’t believe in werewolves as I have never seen one. My outlook on life is seeing is believing . If one was to bite me on the butt then I would believe in them and probably be one. So I couldn’t eat garlic with my food anymore. :shock:

Uh Cap vampires hate garlic and steaks!!! :lol:

Of course I believe in werewolves – there was one wandering about your flat behind you, as you made the video. One moment it was by the door and in a flash it disappeared, to reappear a minute later from the kitchen.

Foot Long Hot Dog :shock:

I meant on your YouTube site.
I just read what I wrote and it sounded bad.

excuse me for reading earlier post, besides that Pot Head was flirting with you and you were totally digging it, cheater. :mad:

Please tell me the origin of the word “Stawman” Thanks, Pedro

Dez, as noted below it is called a Whale Tail :grin:

darlin’, i fully believe you could turn any man into a wolf…

now tell me, doe wif also show up in wiffle ball, and perhaps the phrase the batter wiffed?…

seems to me those oh-so-manly men might look down their snoots a bit at a poor batter, or a not-so-manly game, and make it “wifey”…

danged male chauvinista…

but excuse me while i wipe my wolfish drool off the keyboard…pantin’ with my tongue hangin’ out causes that, ya know… :cool:

I agree :grin:

My moms maiden name is Weir and I am hairy as all hell. Don’t worry I don’t eat people… I wouldn’t mind munchin on some Marina though :wink:

Oh Marinaaaa….

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I hope you know how to fix it :))

Wow that was fast!

No.

Hi boss…
1 question.. if I may. Are you down with the whole Halloween holiday? :)

But, late on a still night, alone, walking through mist covered woods looking at strange dark vague shadows and you feel (no, you know that you’re being watched &/or followed) then the answer would be ‘yes’. Of course, we can talk ourselves into anything…

In my country we don’t have Halloween, and I think it’s a pity because it’s a chance for kids to have some fun and for grown ups to have parties. :D So if this means believing in something as far fetched as werewolves, I’m all for it! :P

On the other hand, I could just go ahead and have a party anyway, but good luck convincing my boss I can’t come to work the next day.(since it’s not a regular holiday here)
So.. enjoy, and make the most of it ;)

Hey Marina Keeping In the spirit of Halloween.
When we die some of us will just lie and suponify.
What does that word mean and where does it come from?
Thanks you’re the best!

My favorite holiday! or actually it’s more of an event (real answer below). Hope I’m not too much of a buzz-kill for yah. Still too funny to see some thug in a rubber werewolf mask (that he just threw on) walking around growling and thinking he’s ‘got the H. spirit’. The greatest thing about Halloween is 1. seeing other people portray their fantasies 2. see the limited fantasies of others (limited imaginations).

I live in Paris. The next day is All Saints day, which is a holiday…A good Halloween costum for you would be to go to work on the 31st dressed as your boss–now, that would be when the fun really starts :!:

Did you know that werewolves come out to feed only once a month? And even so, they still are faster, stronger and more stealthy then us humans. They hunt alone and hide their prey after ingesting the meet. In some books, these animals are shown as vicious stalking type hunters, in others they are shown as part human, part animal, shifting between the two shapes when a full moon is present.
Interesting myth if you ask me… I’d watch any modern movie based on this. ;)

I want to witness Halloween!!! :(

Where do you live?

Hey Marina,

I’m gobsmacked that you of all people (and not your site’s support team) helped me out with my password fiasco! Thank you very much for going out of your way in assisting me. :wink:

And on that note, I’d like to ask you for the origin of the word “gobsmacked”…definately a word not used much anymore these days.

Your newest student,

Jim

Little Paris. :wink:

Why is it that the words READ ( as in your reading a book ) and READ ( as in you have already finished it ) are spelled the same?, same with Wind ( blowing air ) and wind ( to wind up )

Marina since your new to Twitter, have a hint.
If you want to private message one of your followers without it showing up on your main page, use http://twitter.com/direct_messages/

Strassbourg? Prague?

Huh, Google failed to deliver?
There is only one Official Little Paris, and that is :arrow: Bucharest :)

Trying to get this twitter thing to work! Arrggghh!

okay4now, OK for now… I’m going to sleep, I have a big day tomorrow(it’s actually now today) and will wake up at 6:30 AM
Good Night :cool:

Yea, she’s the best. :)

P.S. Welcome Jim, enjoy your new account ;)

Chemikal, I was just trying to be friendly if you got some itch go scratch it somewhere else…

Nah, must be those darn flees.. :))
I just thought you knew that, it’s a little bit of history that is dear to me. France presented Romania with a copy of the Arch of Triumph (of course, a slightly smaller version). Also awarding Bucharest with the honorary title of Little Paris.
I’m sorry if I came off like someone with an itch, I’m only tired that’s all :)

Totally cool! I’ve heard Bucharest is truely beautiful. Someday I hope you really get to experience Halloween in full. I going to L.A for ten days but not until the 1st, and there is no Halloween here–so we’ll miss it together–cheers.

Thanks!

I first discovered Marina’s HotForWords on FOX News’ The O’Reilly Factor a couple weeks ago, and then her YouTube videos just last week (I know, I’m a late bloomer). So naturally, I was excited when she of all people helped me out with my registration password that was defunct!

How cool is that? :cool:

You will get to celebrate All Souls` Day, Western style. Be sure to write on HFW from LA, I for one would like to know all that I can about America, since I’m planning to work there in the future.
Have a good trip!
Au revoir :)

Hello Marina :razz:

I`ve got a “word” I wuld like to know the origin of and that`s
the “@” where does that come from?

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Marina where did you get the cap that you wore in this video. :?: I just love the pattern on the cap. Is it a prop or did someone send it to you :?:

She is marrying me or should I say she is engaged to me or I sent a message and waiting a response so get back in the line mister :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Marina, do not accept any marriage proposals for I have mine on top of the stack :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink:

Oh, Lord, I was startled by the gal smushed in behind the steering wheel of her car… then came Buxom Hillary – yikers!!!!!!!!!

Hey Capman911,
This is funny, give it a try-
Dirty Mind Test.

That was good one to figure out Warren Thanks. :mrgreen:

HotForWords looking naked —-> http://bandmerch.seenon.com/detail.php?p=74212
2009 Calendar finally out, woo! :D
I added it to my wish list, though until I get my own VISA, I will only look from afar :/

Marina – Great vid! Great thong! Great lesson! Great effects! And great thong!!!

MARINA THAT WAS SOO SEXY i love dit how ur thong was showing. Loved it. ANd also ur feet were showing when that wild unrealistic beast attacked u! :mrgreen: Show more of your breasts. I saw u smiling when u ran away =) Plz orgin of the word Bra

I just ordered my calendar Chemikal. Can’t wait til it arrives. Have to wait until December. WOW is right.

Where, wolf??? (W/apologies to Marty Feldman)
Yes, real men are becoming an endangered species.

“These days there’s dudes gettin’ facials, manicured, waxed and botoxed. With deep spray-on tans and creamy lotiony hands you
can’t grip a tackle box.

“Yeah with all of these men lining up to get neutered,
it’s hip now to be feminized.
I don’t highlight my hair,
I’ve still got a pair.
Yeah, honey I’m still a guy.”

Brad Paisley, I’m Still A Guy

Calendars are ready to be ordered. So Karl are you really going to order 12 so you can display all 12 months at the same time :?: Huh Huh are ya :lol:

Dear Miss Orlova,

This is really coincidental that your class today is on Werewolf. On the way home from work I was thinking: What if there were Dog Men? Not even connecting the dots to werewolf. On some planet maybe there are Dog Men. Werewolves are very rare, even more rare then Vampires. I smell a Werewolf…shit…looks over his shoulders…That’s enough to scare you away, they need to shower obviously.

YS,
TOF

Wow…one of your students had request for @ symbol and that is great question..but, had me thinking, Question Mark, exclamation point…they are staring at me on the symbols and take them for granted…what about looking into them for us Marina :?: :!: :?: :!: :?: :!: :?: :!:

Hey Marina,

Your werewolf sound effects freaked out my cat. The cat’s ears popped up… :shock: and then the cat ran into my bowl of popcorn. Very funny! :lol:

I do not believe in werewolves. I believe in music and love… baby! :mrgreen:

Or as Marina did a lesson on Metrosexual . A man who does things like that. :smile:

http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/08/18/metrosexual/

I used to be a werewolf but I’m OK Nowwwwwwwooooooowooh

Chemikal what is Twitter? Is it something like Facebook or Myspace?

Jus to let you know, I’m going to be camped out in a tent next to the mailbox until my calender gets here…send food and bug spray :mrgreen:

lmao

Ok mikeohhh just in case you
change back. :lol:

Bug Spray Whaaaassssuuuupppp PD. :grin:

You know in underworld where there is that dude that becomes a Werewolf and a Vampire, yup.

Or maybe the First Vampire in the Blade movies, yup.

I’ll be one of those for next year…

This year I’m of course,…a … Zombie with a Brainz Fetish.

Actually I just might be the Eye of Sauron.

Hmm,how about the name Weir,like rob Weir from Grateful Dead(apt name for Halloween time eh”),could that name be related to the word were and,I hate to say it,make Teacher wrong! Yes! Yes! I’m biting My tounge!

Watch out for that little,white,werewolf behind You! I heard that “Gorby-wolves” can be very fierce and attack without notice! :lol:

No,I don’t “believe”,but,there is that factor of some truth behind every myth so Who knows what spawned the tales originallly?

“One ring to find them all,and in the darness,bind them.”

That didn’t work out so well for Sauron,hope the eye costume goes better for Ya!

Is it not a silver bullet that kills a werewolf?

SILVER BULLET

Hey Mikey!…Oh, just picked up six calenders. One for every room in the house! JK!! No, I’m giving them as Christmas gifts to some buddys. Even Page is getting one. She will love it…she better or we’re not going to be friends anymore! :lol:

Dear Marina Orlova,

I don’t know if you are aware of this or not. When where Adam in the Bible is kicked out of Eden with his Wif, Eve, they then have to Wear clothes right? Adam had then to till the Soil until and even through himself being weary. Maybe out there under the moon, when he was wanting to be at home with his Wif, long after evening, he then became a werewolf. Like, “Where’s Wif”, right.? HOWWWWLLLLLLLLLL!!!

Another Interesting Fact: Male Wolves will not Howl at the Moon unless and only with the Shewolf.

My grandmother made french fries with gravy, I’ve seen it around ever since I was a kid, I thought every one ate thick sliced fries. We would laugh at fast food fries being skinny and all.

I heard a rumor that Gorby is going to dress up as the Killer Bunny Monster from Monty Python and The Holy Grail.

Well I have a whole year to work on it.

“Look at the Bones!!!”

I’ve always wondered where the phrase, “…and all that jazz,” came from. I use it all the time, but I don’t know who started using it or anything.

I like to think that werewolfs are around, but I haven’t seen any for a long time now.

Wish there was a sample page to view, I like to get a peak of how it’s laid out.
I notice that BandMerch Store does not offer much in the way of descriptions, like they don’t tell you what the material is in the clothes, they are no LL Bean.

No, I don’t…
Lycanthropy is considered a mental illness and is mentioned in DSM IV… It is also clustered with Paranoid Schizophrenia as one of its signs….

Oh shit…I am at risk for Lycanthropy. … I mean …

Who said that?! Wtf I am Hearing things…

Or uh…yeah. Really who said that?

You got that right. I wish they did have at least one or two calendar pages to lust after. :mrgreen:

I remember that rabbit flying out of a cave to rip the knights throats out! LOL,don’t even need to see the vid. Watched *alot* of Monte Python on PBS back in the 70s as a loaded teen. Float on over to the tv to turn it up so Ya don’t miss anything while the whole smokey room is laughin their asses off!

I’m not talking about photos to lust over I just think they don’t have their shit together. BandMerch does not have my confidence.

No i do not believe in werewolves. I do believe in man and that is scary an-fa ? Steve Irwin crikey mate you’re far safer dealing with crocodiles. Westerndiamonback rattlesnake’s then the executives and producers and all those sharks in the MGN building. Mankind has declared genocide upon himself :sad:

OMG! Ваши соучастники – внутри – злодеяние получают большле!!! LOL!! :mrgreen: :cool:

Espionage

baby, i never cheated on u. i’m not interested in pothead. i don’t even remember him. i loooove uu. :wink:

Blondtourage.

Hey Warren, sorry it took so long to get back to you. I had to get to my studies and then go to classes. The image on my YT site is a pomegranate, and it has some symbolic meanings. A lot of folks tell me that it looks like a heart… :grin:

Hehe… Gorby the vorpal bunny… how cute… and dangerous. :mrgreen:

were wolves are good for sex play amoung consenting adults, as for human werewolves perhaps in spirt there are.

Sweet! :mrgreen:

I believe in the spirit of the Werewolf, I was consumed by the spirit of one when I was in combat in Iraq in 1991.

Hey no problem, thanks for responding I read what I wrote and thought I might have offended you- it sounded bad.
When I was a kid living in Burbank, for a bit, there were pomegranetes growing nearby and we would sneak into the yard and take a couple each. They used to dye our hands and faces red- couldn’t lie our way out that theft.
Refrenced in many places-
I like the “Ten Thousand Immortals” reference the most.

Exactly, boys. Elvira, ‘heavy on the make up’ goddess vamp of horror movies. Underneath it all, Elvira is a redhead. Well, it’s Halloween time, wouldn’t it be good if Marina dressed up in a gown with a deep plunge and high heel shoes for a lesson for us dear students? I think she needs a show biz agent if she’s going to conquer television..

Werewolf? No problemo. Nothing a T-888 (an infiltration model i.e. a Terminator designed to pass for human) programmed by yours truly can’t deal with. :neutral:

Anyway, I think I might have heard of the origin of the word before, though I have almost forgotten it completely in the midst of time. Thanks for reminding me of this fascinating word.

By the way Marina, this might be of interest to a philologist like you:

In Chinese, sex maniacs (i.e. men so obsessed with sex that ethical concerns such as mutual consent mean nothing to them) are called “colour wolves” (pardon me, this is a direct translation of the 2 Chinese characters used). East

Asian languages such as Chinese and Japanese have no standardized alphabetical systems such as the A-Z in English, the Cyrillic characters in your native language (Russian, I hope I’ve not named it wrong), etc. They are based on pictorial symbols, which evolved from what were literally pictures to the much more simplified bit still relatively complicated and massive library of pictograms and their combination to create different words.

Interestingly, it seems that wolves are used as symbolism for sex crazed men in both the East and West.

I’ll like hear your expert thought and opinions on this, Marina. :smile:

Marina, the link to this site in the YouTube header for this lesson has an error. “http” is doubled up, killing the link. I’m surprised someone has not spotted it sooner, perhaps because they all come here to view the videos. I use YouTube first so that you get your count bumped up one and then click the link to frolic amongst these whackos… uh, I mean loyal fans. Moral: whenever you provide a link, always test it before you consider the work done. You never know when a typogoofical error will creep up and do you in.

PS*: If Kobe is wandering around in the background when you are shooting, your edits will make him seem to move at the speed of light.

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*Funny how “PS” still is an apt abbreviation, even though we have moved from snail-mail to E-mail.

I have never heard of the sex-crazed aspect in werewolves before. I can understand that with respect to Eastern culture, but I would think that if it was in Western culture, I would have run across it at least once in uh, (ahem) several decades.

Since you seem to know something of Chinese, I have some questions. I am very interested in how languages consisting of pictograms cope with new terminology. If someone hears of or invents, for example, fiber optics, they could put together the characters for light and tube and it would be apt. But what of others, e.g. the lay public? Will they be able to “get it” from those characters, especially if the characters have more than one meaning. In English, for example, light could mean a photon stream or not having much weight and a tube could be a vacuum tube* or a subway. How would the pictogram guy deal with the permutations? Do they have to be taught the color wolf = sex maniac? But we don’t always combine existing words to make new terms; we can just invent new words or make acronyms.

What happens when the new term hits the streets? Is it always accompanied by a brief explanation until the public is used to it? Is there some central authority that approves or disseminates them? How does the average Joe know what light tube means? At least in English, a new word will be unfamiliar and tell the reader “this is a new word” (unless the reader is unsure of himself and attributes it simply to his own ignorance). What does the pictogram reader think?

Take laser. It used to be LASER, an acronym that morphed from MASER when the frequency was upped from microwaves to light. When it was MASER, the techies read about it and knew what it stood for, but not Joe Sixpack. Slowly laser caught on, what with sci-fi, Star Wars, hand-held pointers, gunsights, etc., without Joe ever knowing what LASER actually stood for (and still doesn’t!). Is that how it works with pictograms? Enquiring minds want to know.

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*Electronic device or those message-carrying sucker-uppers.

Then stop it until you do. You could substitute “Yadda, yadda, yadda” meanwhile. And if you have the same problem with that one, try “and so forth,” “for what it’s worth,” “in my humble opinion,” “if you will” or “but what do I know.” One of those should work for you. I mean, just until you find out.

And don’t forget my favorite, the octothorp, an etymologistical nightmare.

I always wondered where the word “Pawn” came from. I have heard the word many times and even used it a few times on occasion, but have no idea where it comes from.

jt, I wonder if Marina does it all, even if everything is signed with her name. (I got such a message when I first started.) However, there are little glitches by those whose second language is English, e.g. she says “1900s” instead of “the 1900s.” (These are the kinds of things that get spies killed. I don’t see how, even with the most intensive training, one could eliminate them entirely from one’s speech, such that one would have perfect confidence in a foreign land.) Now take a look at the Privacy Policy page. Things like “…track user’s movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.” would not seem to dance trippingly* on the Ukranean tongue. I smell at least one lawyer “behind the curtain,” and where a lawyer lurks, can techs and administrators be far behind?

Personally, I don’t see why such a charade would be needed. We all understand that running an operation like HFW is not a one-man band. I suspect sitting around the kitchen floor tickling Kobe is a luxury that can be afforded only if the nuts and bolts of fixing broken stuff can be delegated to Webmasters and the like. You know, her people. You think she has people, don’t you? Of course she does. Their names and pictures should be on her people page. Yes, they should.

Forgot closure on the asterisk (a pet peeve of mine, too).

*There’s one of those words that almost seem to be an opposite of itself. It’s from some English guy.

Yeah, she fixed that in between belly-scratches for Kobe.

I don’t know if they like sirloin or not (with or without garlic), but I’m pretty sure they’re more worried about stakes.

I ordered 3 calendars.
Time check…

Here’s a song about it.

No need for the E-mail. The answer is 1,000 bucks, payable in advance.

No rain checks, either, buster.

Heh, I can see how the time delay might make you wonder, but the notion of accusing me of having something naughty in my hands just made me laugh. That you corrected yourself made it all the more funny. I wish I had caught your question before I went back to my books.

Yes, that red juice just seeps into my fingers and lips when I eat pomegranates… it’s kinda creepy as it makes me look like I have blood on my hands and my mouth… I guess that fits with the werewolf motif. :twisted:

The Immortals… the Persian elite infantry… Herodotus also mentions that their spear counterweights were gold apples, but I think this is a confusion of the name of the pomegranate (which means seeded apple). It’s too bad that Herodotus never mentioned why the Persians used that particular symbol for their counterweights. I was always biased against the Persians in my early studies. I imagined being a Spartan warrior facing certain death, or one of Themistocles’ Athenian naval officers. Persian culture was exciting and different, but the marriage practices of the nobility gave me chills… I believe Cambyses married his own sister to secure his claim to the throne… yuck… just like the Pharaohs of Egypt.

The symbolism I think is most interesting is in the Judaic belief that the pomegranate was the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden. In this, it’s heart-like interior and blood-red fruit makes a lot of sense. It has more meaning than this in Judaism, but I find that to be most intriguing.

I was also amazed to discover today that the word grenade originates with the pomegranate.

Thanks for the video share… made me glad that I’m not as old as Hef. :mrgreen: Made me remember my early teens when I was in love with a girl named Missy Cleveland.

Marina, while I was in the armed services we sometimes referred to grenades as pineapples. However, I have learned that grenades have a link to pomegranates. I understand the grenade’s appearance as a pineapple, but how and why is the grenade like a pomegranate?

I thought and i thought. I reached to the depth of my soul and the height of my intellect, but I could not improve on perfection. The winning thumbnail must have boobies!

For that matter, where did the word “Jazz” come from?

Read the comments here while you listen, oakie dokie?

Wow! massive changes to the HFW YT profile page. I like the changes. I like the recent comments box also.
Recommendation regarding background picture. Could you do a horizontal flip (mirror) of Marina? (leave her on the left side but facing right) or move her about 50-100 pixels to the right.
I’m so picky. :smile:

Yes, but do you sniff their butts?

Marina, the Nick and Marina YouTube Vision glasses commercial was pretty funny. I ordered the glasses and you really did appear. :lol:

I seem to remember something about her having some serious scars from burns, which are covered by her costume. (Gotta watch them boiling cauldrons.)

Blasphemy!

Cool link, but doesn’t answer the R’N'R question. It does present some good info, though. Thanks, CK.

Was that advice limited to peeing? Oh, urine trouble now!

Except the grenade is more convenient. You pull the pin and the “seeds” come out automatically. Lots of red, too.

She was Goth before Goth was popular… and cool and funny, unlike most Goths… who tend to be whiny little p*****s.

What a team-up they would make… HotForWords meets HotForHorror. :mrgreen:

Ah, but the red does not come from the grenade… though it does come because of the grenade. :twisted:

“Jesus H Christ”

Hi Marina, In Australia we get a lot of US T.V. and movies, quit often someone in these shows will use the phrase, “Jesus H Christ”. Please can you find the meaning of this “H” in the middle of this phrase, I have asked several yanks that I have met over here but none could tell me what this “H” means.

Love your work.

Not that it couldn’t be seen coming by some astute fellows.

Oh, he’s from Indiana?

It’s just a made up middle initial for humorous effect as an expletive as though the name was that of an ordinary person, i.e. one of no historical importance. I once new a guy who regularly combined this with the crutch expletive, “Jesus H. Christ on a crutch!” That was in the 70s and he could be dead by now. (St. Peter: “WHO ON A WHAT?”)

Perhaps if he comes back, he will be required to use “NMI” for his identity card or driver’s license.

This is one theory… some of it is true, some of it is plausible.

It recalls the H in the IHS logo emblazoned on much early church paraphernalia. IHS (Iesus Hominum Salvator [Latin for "Jesus savior of men"]) dates from the earliest years of Christianity, being an abbreviation of “Jesus” in classical Latin characters. The earlier Greek Christogram is “IHC”, derived from the first three letters of the Greek name of Jesus, iota-eta-sigma or ΙΗΣ. The Greek pronunciation is “Iesous,” with the E sound being represented by the character eta, which looks like an H. When the symbol passed to Christian Romans, for whom an H was an H, the unaccountable character eventually became accepted as “Jesus’ middle initial.”

Personally I prefer “Jumping Jesus on a Pogo-stick!” :mrgreen:

The Dead Milkmen: Stuart

Dear Mr. Thoughtonfire:

As legal representative for the Super Highway Information Technology Company, I must ask you to cease and desist use of our valuable and well-established trademark in your Web posts and other casual usage. The board of directors has emphatically persued others who do not reserve the S.H.I.T. name soley for reference to the company and to the products and services thereof.

This is to serve notice that, by reading this letter, you have hereby agreed to having had read it. To acknowledge this please sign below, and then initial your signature to indicate that the signature is indeed yours. If you cease and desist in a timely manner, namely right now, we shall consider this matter closed and that no further action need be taken. Otherwise, well, what can I say? It won’t be pretty.

Yours in non-infringemental partnership,

Sincerely,

Knit Picker,
Senior Counsel

Oh, I’m afraid you misheard. It’s not pineapple, but pinapple. You pull the pin and it Automatically Peppers People with Lacerating Enfilade. I hope this question didn’t blow up in your face.

lol… good one! Your puns remind me of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

You sly dog… :twisted:

hi hot for words…
i would like to suggest the word shebang, as in “the whole shebang”
love ur work by btw.

Marina, what is a Stonehenge? Well, I’m sure I know what a stone is… More to the point, what is a henge? I know what the site of Stonehenge is, and I know where it is… but what is a henge? Is it a colonnade? or perhaps a hedge? or even a mound or hill?

Nice to see that you are interested in cultures and languages other than your own too. :smile:

Anyway, I figured there is a little misunderstanding about the “colour wolf” terminology. It has to do with wolves, yes, but not werewolves specifically. “Colour” in Chinese has multiple meanings that are actually very unrelated to each other. Of course, colour means colour in Chinese too, but in my specified context, colour refers to:

Carnal, sexual, etc.

You get the picture.

As for terms for new things say, new technology, it depends on the exact device. For instance, fiber optics are called “guang xian” (approximation of actual pronunciation, since I have no Chinese keyboard to type them out properly), which translated literally means “guang” = light and “xian” = line, string, rope, etc. basically, “line of light”. Technically in English, we call them optical waveguides (yes, I am very much involved in Engineering), which in its bare essence no different from the Chinese term. Photons are called “Guang Zi” in Chinese, which is just Chinese for a “light particles”.

Other terms, such as LASER, aren’t so well translated in Chinese, however. In such a case, the Chinese term is simply created by grouping Chinese characters that sound similar to the individual syllables of the English word(s). LASER in Chinese, believe it or not, sounds VERY similar to the original word itself.

I am very pleased at your curiosity, though it’s obviously impossible to tell you everything I know in this limited space. Besides, I’m only participating out of my free time and I’m usually quite busy. Chinese Mandarin (THE Chinese Language that all Chinese speak) is a very complex language, full of nuances, expressions, etc. that date from very recent times to as far back in Chinese history that we know to that (about 5000 years).

Another thing:

If a Chinese character were to be used for the meaning of its original intention, it is in fact rich in symbolism which in itself tells you its meaning. I’ll like to go into detail, but lack of a Chinese Keyboard isn’t helping.

To get an idea of how numerous the basic pictograms and possible combination of them, it was actually the Chinese that invented the printing press many years before the west, though unfortunately, unlike the west, they did not have a habit of recording and championing their inventions as the west usually does (until very recent history, e.g. Beijing Olympics, where they showed off Chinese inventions such as the South pointing compass, etc.). The real reason they dropped its use was that unlike Alphabetical languages such as English, Russian, Arabian, etc., which has a definite character set of reasonable number and where every possible word is just a combo of them, Chinese is based on many pictograms combined to form a character or sometimes, just a single pictogram, depending on the exact character. In short, there were too many fundamental printing blocks needed to be practical using purely mechanical presses. It wasn’t completely thrown away, but never achieved the widespread use of printing in the west, e.g., news printing, until quite recently.

:mrgreen:

I would like to request a very interesting word. I first heard it in a Three Stooges TV show where they were pretending to be doctors in a hospital DR. Howard! DR. Fine !and I thought they just made it up!! They used it as an instrument they wanted passed to them working on a patient. It was very funny ! ! Anyway the word is ………………………………………………………. Are you ready…………………………………………………………….
………………………………………. o n o m a t o p o e i a

….and now is the time for spooky music Last Kiss – Pearl Jam

Make that check payable to Fianchetto, please, for prompt delivery (of the deed to the Brooklyn Bridge). :mrgreen:

p

please tell me the word sweetheart. thank you sweetheart

how about the word ho.

Has anyone noticed how Kid Rock’s song “All Summer Long” is the same tune as Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London?”

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

German pronunciation for weib:
(das weib; n. woman, adult female, wife)

Marina’s weib

Correct pronunciation is similar to the English word “vibe”, but with a more abrupt ending.

http://www.dictionarist.com/uebersetzung/weib

….and now music to commemorate calendar pre-sales Pictures of Lily – The Who
…gives a whole new meaning to the phrase stocking stuffer :mrgreen:

…yeah! another ‘myth’, werewolf LOL….I mean ever such a thing as a man-wolf….its crazy idea, just to even think about….wait…..huh, nah, ….ouch!! AAH, just getting some strange
flashbacks…fullmoon……..screams…biteing…blood…..hairy…….running fast….really hungry……howeling…..peeing on lamp posts……..huh, sniffing another dogs butt, gross……

Hey! Does Gorby want to go out and pay? :grin:

Marina,

You’ve done a lesson on golf but what about the word FORE?

Of course I do. Since I was a boy, I believed they were the only being that the devil could create and send into the world. I guess it jus seems so much more real than a blood-sucking freak. Interestingly, i found that I would lay awake at night thinking about things and bears would come to mind since they were around the house a s a child. Than i would link my next thoughts to werewolves. i even had a dream a s a boy thta invooved being bitten by a wolf. i guess the encounter with wild dogs as a boy later on would have an effect on me. Strong enough for me to base a book on it written while in prison. It involves shapeshifting which I got cued in on when i watched a movie by a former playboy bunny named Julia Cialinni. Its almost finisherd. it has shamans and wolves and shapeshifting. Its alot more credible than anything else and I’ve even tried it. Its the idea that one can enter the being of an animal in the reak world when one begins to fall asleep. its a cool thought and idea. Like i said, its something Ive tried and found it to work really well. It definately is a trip. Peace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

About time you got out of bed…. what’s for breakfast. :grin:

[FOOD]

:mrgreen:

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhuuuuu uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!

Is anyone else having trouble getting into gravatar.com?

Affirmative… gravatar site is belly up… looks like the site is trying to reset itself in some infinite loop…

tks Karl :smile:

yo momma so hairy she only speak wookie!

Your mom’s actually not too bad… she’d give you the hair off her back.

Marina said:
“Just had a breakfast… Strawberry banana fruit smothie blend…. Yammy… U want some???”

You bet. I’ll be right over. :lol:

Hi Marina,
Great site and videos. Maybe you could research the word fellatio next? :lol: .
Спасибо

Hey Mike, Twitter is a quick way to stay in instant contact with people by making pithy comments or answering short questions.

Check out Marina’s pithy comments as she goes about her day. http://twitter.com/hotforwords/

You can view Marina’s remarks at that link. If you have a Twitter account, you can chat back and forth, not unlike one does on this site.

yo momma is so hairy when you were born you got carpet burns

I liked your choice of pink. Hat’s off to that werewolf!

Marina, great series of videos for Halloween. What wil be your costume?

On a substantive point, isn’t “virilis” derived from the more simple word in latin “vir” meaning “man”? Are adjectives always derived from nouns? Or put another way, do nouns always come first? That would be a cool lesson by the way, something meta-philogical.

Happy Halloween!

Louie

Kid Rock wasn’t the only one to combine another song with sweet home alabama… an interesting cover (combo).

Where did the word Charlatan come from???

I don’t believe in werewolfs. But I am beginning to believe in magical dogs as I watch Gorby (your communist dog) or is it Kobe disappear and reappear in your videos.

Senior

Marina ! You forgot a second instand with the root WERE in WEREGILD ! => http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wergild

Where did the word LUSCIOUS come from .
Keep up the greta work :grin:

I appreciate your thoughts, orion_ss1. I’m glad you saved carefully for retirement, as few do. It’s difficult to do when you have no job and your house has been repossessed. These times are reminding me of the book by John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath.

I raised the same issues you did about restricting CEO’s bonuses and golden parachutes in business school, but my thoughts were frowned upon.

Chemikal, I should have restructured my original comment, as it was copied from an e-mail to me. I am not associated with Consumers’ Union except by receiving updates about what is going on in Congress. This organization is part of Consumer Reports, a good resource for unbiased information on products.

Consumers Union lets you know what issues are before congress and what their implications are to the consumer. They provided links to your appropriate representatives and form letters to send regarding such issues.

As far as Marina is concerned, I miss her kitchen table productions, too. I hope the repo-man hasn’t visited. It may be time to leave the high rent district, if so.

My Halloween gravatar. :twisted:

–animalntaz

Sculpting pumpkins like a professional is harder than I thought. I’ve tried scuplting real-life faces in them, the way I wanted it to be, but I’m not even halfway done with the first pumpkin.
I’ve been struggling with my art skills for years, I’m not the perfectionist I use to be. I don’t think I ever was THAT good, but probably only good enough for high school.

Hi Marina,
Where does the word soul come from.
Johnnyc(Blueskysoul)

Sorry NB I asked her back in the Cracker video. Or did she ask me. Ole well your not the only one. :wink:

works for me

Hey does anyone know if this is Buzzword. Look at the picture on the wall behind him.

Buzzword

I was wondering where the word “incest” comes. I think you rock…

Hell boy you still got your broom :?: :lol: :lol:

here http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-sci-otzi1-2008nov01,0,6603213.story

now mind ur p’s and q’s

Broom? What? …I’m not a witch. :?:

If you rearrange 2 of the letters… you get “insect.”

I guess “insect” and “incest” are equally disgusting. (…Well, actually incest in more disgusting, but you get the point.) :mrgreen:

It’s Halloween Bitches :lol:

I throwed you a bone to chew on now shut up

DAMN IT! I screwed up that link. :mad:

first thought buzzword was sxephil when I saw is gravatar :shock:

Where do you buy bras that size? :shock:

“Oh, that’s beautiful!”

:?: Marina are you going to give out report cards today? I know you haven’t mentioned them in your lessons, but I guess you have been so busy that you haven’t had time to hand them out. I hope I get one if you get around to it! Have a happy and safe Halloween! :cool:

To all my fellow students here in Marinaville have a happy & safe Halloween also! :cool:

Really you are wonderful a women! :lol: :wink:

Really you are wonderful a women!

Hey Marina, I was wondering where the word commercial came from, as in a television commercial. Thanks, and keep up the great work!

Привет Марина! I was wondering if you knew the origin of the saying: “You cannot have your cake and eat it too” ? Is it a Russian joke? I know the word for “have – есть” and “eat – есть” are spelled the same in Russian, is that where it comes from?
Thanks,
Tom

ah Deja Vu :smile:

Marina, Never has anyone made philology so interesting.
A word came up that has three meanings at dictionary.com , the word is “Wrangler“. In the USA people think of a cowboy, it can also be someone who argues, and in the UK it is someone who got the highest marks, of their year, in the exam for their maths degree at Cambridge University. All very different, but is there a connection? Which came first?

Thanks and kisses.

Alan

Dear Marina,

I’m sorry to say that your German spelling can be improved. The German word is “Werwolf”.
This word has a bad taste as Hitler used this name for an organisation whose members murdered the mayor of Aachen.

They just what? come back! That’s not even a werewolf! I know because Wolves are bigger than that, and so are men, so if you mix the two, you’ll get something big like a grizzly beer.

HAVE A HAPPY HALLOWEN DAY FOR MY SWEET FRIENDS!
All with my loves and hugs,
onlycasperman
SAMSUN-TURKEY

How did the world “club” refer to Bar/Dance Club/Strip Club?

What is the origin of the phrase “money for jam”?

I love you my sweet friend MARINA!
LOVE,
If you want meet with me then I’ll tobe very happy,
If you some love me then I’ll give you my heart,
If you send me to your wonderful a picture then I will put on my table with my picture,
If you reall love me then I’ll give you to all of my life,
Because you are wonderful a person and you have a kindhearted a heart!And so,
Always I will love you my sweet friend MARINA!
All with my loves and hugs,
Onlycasperman
SAMSUN-TURKEY

Marina, about you State of Texas Tool Taxes, as you know every mans tool is his peter and his treasure. if a womans use of a mans treasure is used for economic gain she owes taxes on said gain as a franchise tax.

Hi Marina,

I have a word request. My daughter who is a Marine told me that the Marine’s use oohrah as a motivational word. Can you please research the origin of the word oohrah .

Thank You

Al

Is M really in Hawaii or is she prankn’ us :cool:

Het HFws’ – look, you all, I now this much and thats about as far as I go but please hear me know,today, I recieved sad news,two friends,bothers of mine, died through their own stupidity…..Gareth and Martin died in Vietnham snorting some grap…..a big hug from you alls would be appreciated….big loss, cant stop crying, mamny people freinds in surreal reality…..sorry but life right now…..lost two great friends today, am feeling horrid……what words can explain, who can make good in these impossible times….MY LOVE AND THOUGHTS TO REBECCA AND TRINA

If anyone sees any great costumes tonight please come back here and tell us. :cool:

Sorry for your lost ‘mit’ :sad:

hi marina, i am interested in english word DOMINATRIX. Greeting from Slovakia

Justwant to send my love and peace, best wishes to two very good friends of mine, Martin and Gareth Taylor (BROTHERS) who sadly passed away yesterday via headonism in Nahm…bless you Rebbecca and Trina, wives of my friends and to all the family….Jim, we have talked before….; todays news brings it home…..lost for words, love you all – sorry for bringing party down but lesson to us all….I knew these guys most of my life and todays news saying they died due to ‘fun times; speaks volumes as they now rest for ever, has to be the worse Hallow ween season ever… There smiles and laughter gave me life, a part of me they shall always remain….I share my openinenss HFWs, take it or leave it, these are my firends, they are gone……i miss them so very much……Thank you Marina for allowing my out burst but shared we are, life is so short,t tomorrow never a gift, liive now, live wise, be happy, be kind you all…if you can leave the planet as my firends Martin nad Gareth have done with endles memories and laughter to others such as me, you will be legend….- excuse my words please, but love you all at HFWs like ilove my firends of the past 20 or so years…….PEACE to you all, with a balanced mind and an open heart, wishing you all love….// XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Hope HFWs commune understands as this to me is just awful, lost two good friends suddelnly today, life never will be the same…, we all here near ‘Reading’ are choked and in shock….shall miss your fun and laughter, stupid verse on everything that you always said, made me think and laugh so much……shall miss you, greatly Gareth and Martin….love you always as we friends laways have and will…..

wordsequest: Dometic

Sorry to hear of your loss. Peace is difficult at such times, but I hope you will do well and achieve it.

Since I am in Hawaii right now I am looking at a beautiful blond with in a small bikini. It’s orange to go with Halloween. It also has two pumpkins on it. Sorry Che I don’t know if M is in Haw, where did you say again? Huh, what did you say I can’t here you right now as the pumpkins are covering my ears. mmmmm

I am very sorry for your loss Matalexwolf. It is good to share the loss of friends with other friends as we understand and will stand by you to help you through the tough times. Peace bro.

Man, I am so sorry about your buddies. You all will be in my prayers.

Marina is in Hawaii. Check out her pics from Tweeter. One on the plane and the other from her hotel room. Very beautiful photo of the beach. :mrgreen:

Twitter is addicting!

Have you seen Marina’s pics on Twitter from Hawaii. Beautiful. :mrgreen:

I don’t have tweeter…any other way to see them :?: :sad: Happy haunting day there captain…been to alaska lately which is my home state. I live a summer in kodiak working with the coast guard for my employment and was most fun I had ever working. :wink:

She works hard, she deserves it :)
That won’t stop me from being a little jealous though…

Yes NB look over toward your right and you will see My Tweets under the adds section and click on My Tweets.

wordrekwest: makin’ bacon

what…….are you in hawaii with marina :?: You stole my girl damn it..must be the damn uniform…oh well, god bless and your service for our country.

I agree Chemikal. My nephew is a professor at Hawaii University. Him and his wife say the cost of living is very high there. But like you said Marina deserves it very much. :wink: :mrgreen:

OMG you didn’t look did you? You were supposed to close your eyes. YEA right like the rest of us did——not either. :grin: :lol: :lol:

wordrekwest: bootie , booty , algolagnia

Making an observation, it looks like that Marina may have had an editing oversight as the Dutch word was also incorrect also using the same letters; i.e. “wulf” instead of “wolf”. I’m embarrassed to say, I do that all of the time. It’s too easy to copy and paste, but then I keep forgetting to make the letter changes. The agony of technology.

………….OED……..video shows
——————————————
O.E…..werewulf…..werewulf…..correct
M.Du…weerwolf…..weerwulf…..err
O.H.G..werwolf……werwulf…….err
——————————————

Dear Teach – Your new YT page is FANTASTIC! I love the profile pic from your calendar. Beautiful! Have a blast in Hawaii. Keep us updated – lots of pics!!! If I ever get Twitter to LET ME LOG IN TO THE DAMN THING I’ll try to follow your exploits there, too. Love you! Happy bikini Halloween!

…motorboat!!!!!

Hey NB this is where she ask me to be engaged or vice versa.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/06/18/cracker-game/#comment-27340

….looks like she is sitting in coach figured her for a first class type of gal.

Beach
Plane Coach Seats
Link to photos

Additional ancillary tidbits about “wulf” and “wolf”.

Generally, versions of the word Wolf with an “o” indicates the German origins and with a “u” indicates English roots.

However, the word “Wulf or Wulff” does appear in German as a variant of wolf. It may be patronymic in origin being derived from the first name of a father. In this case, Wulf is associated with the very popular German first name Wolfgang and simply means “son of Wolfgang”. No doubt the initial bearer of the name was noted for his qualities of strength and power.

Name Example: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wulf

….knock knock at my door some early trick or treaters; ….a playful hairy leg lit’l hippie girl dancing in her sunshine dress standing next to a chubby purple face alien named moonbeam wearing an oversized tie dye T-shirt wreaking of cin-cest and ganja. They ran away as I answered the door.

{ shouldn’t have worn my La Migra uniform as a costume, oh well more candy for me }

My condolences to you matalexwolf for your loss.
My prayers are with you.

So is it that WifWolfs are wandering the combat zones?

Marina,

Did you really expect to repel Werewolfs in red thong undies?

Scary Halloween car Rolls Royce Phantom

Red is suppose to attract bulls. Maybe it does the same to werewolfs and the male gender :?: :grin:

Didn’t you put on a mask or were you naked. :lol: :lol:

…glad to see you got your head out of the pumpkin :grin:

I got sand in my eye. :lol:

…..you mean her boyfriend kick sand in your face :grin:

Hey… Speechless… my heart goes out to you & Martin and Gareth’s wives, and thanks for feeling free to share with us.
It gives me a point of reflection & a focus for my prayers.

It was one of the pumpkins. :grin: :lol:

It looks like an old style Batmobile :cool:

Problems solved— :razz: where’s the doggie

Hi Teacher! I need to know how to send you some Digital artwork I did of you. Tastefully done I might add. You will get a kick from it I think. I hope to hear from you soon.

…Was a little worried that if a fange got snagged, there’d be a resultant wedgie.

Sometimes life isn’t ok. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5Vzrfkg-HY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5Vzrfkg-HY there is no such things as a happy bikini halloween, there’s a happy bikini christmas, but no happy bikini halloween. watch the dumb video nitwit.

i wish i was never born.

kudos.

Charlatan.

well well well look who came out to play :shock:

{…want some candy lil’t girl }

Why is that song so familiar? I heard it somewhere before :???:

“What is seen, is not always what is real.” :shock:

the ads in the video are quite annoying , it obscures my view of Marina

Marina, when pronouncing the word “gnostic” the “g” is silent. Why is the “g” not silent in the words “agnostic”, “diagnosis”, “prognosis”, etc.? All that is occurring is the addition of a prefix to the base, modifying the base meaning… right?

Gnostic, from the Greek gnosis (knowledge) < from gnostikos (knowing, able to discern) < from gnostos (knowable) < from gignoskein (to learn, to come to know)

prefix a- (without)
prefix dia- (through)
prefix pro- (before)

You are a true fan! :mrgreen:

Marina putting her ‘feet up’ in Hawaii.

La Migra! You’re an evil one, Che.

oops

http://twitpic.com/j9ry

PRO QUID QUO?
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Hi what is the meaning and origin of the word “PRO QUID QUO?”

You mean quid pro quo. (Those pesky foreign languages are soooo confusing.)

This is all so gnu to us.

Yeah, that would do it. :-)

Why do I get the feeling I’m being buffaloed?

Were you?

Is the opposite outcest?

no… outcast

It’s too early. Come back next month.

And wear the suit.

Thanks for the info. Now how do new terms get recognized by the public? Set aside technology and just talk about new general speech. In English a new word like blog gets pronounced and the listener could figure out how to write it without too much difficulty. How does the listener know which pictograms to use for a new word without the aid of spelling? Going the other way, how does the reader know how to pronounce a new combination? It seems like the entire population would spend half their time keep up with new stuff, unless of course, pictograms, by their nature, inhibit new stuff so that the language changes very slowly.

I can’t imagine what it would be like without spelling.

Hey marina.
what is the meaning of “sorry”?
everyone says it when they’ve upset some one, so what does it mean?

wish i could tell ya but i don’t know, sorry.

WROOONG!!! UR SOOOO WRONG!!! lol. :oops:

yes, unfortunately i was, i understand nobody asked to be born(not that i’m aware of) but ultimately you have to put the blame on the closest connection, which would be my frigid parents. :neutral:

Oh, I can see it now. Six weeks of pineapple, aloha, hula, poi, luau, mahalo, lei, kahuna, wahine, ukelele, wikiwiki and, of course, The Official Complete and Unabridged Rules and Regulations of Diamond Head National Park.

dude, i’m sorry to say this, but get a fuckin life. :roll:

WORD REQUEST: Incest.
Put your sister to the test.

Correct on so many levels. Yet the phrase is indeed quid pro quo, which, literally translated, means, “Hey! Your piece of pie is bigger than mine. What’s with that?”

It must be an Erie feeling.

http://www.ikissyou.org/

The internet was a new toy then.

Before ‘flaming’ was discovered. :shock:

yes i do

i have a word request: ain’t

Hi jamman810

Marina has done a video on the word “ain’t”.

Link here :http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/09/19/aint-aint-so-bad/

:smile:

Try again

http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/09/19/aint-aint-so-bad/

[Word/Lessons] in the menu bar, lists words Marina has done.

i was wondering about the origin of the word -elude- :?:

I would like to request for the word ‘success’. Thanks.

i would like to request the word “podunk”. Thank you! and good luck!

Where I’m from we’d say, from your usual comments, that you “have a burr under your saddle.” Sometimes you can be marginally amusing, though.

Does anyone know how to sign up someone, like add Marina to my Twitter program?

As I said, some English terms are translated by simply mimicking the sound of their syllables, which severely lessens the need for new pictograms. Changes are still made to this date, though they are usually changes in pronunciation and very occasionally, a slight change of pictogram form.

If it wasn’t for a fairly recent invention known as “pinyin”, which depicted pronunciation of individual Chinese characters in the form of alphabets (e.g. fish in Chinese is pronounced very closely to “yu” and that’s also very close to how it is described in pinyin). Some characters can have their sounds guessed out from their form provided you have fundamental knowledge of the constituent pictograms used to form them, but most of the time, a sound is just arbitrarily assigned and you simply can’t know unless you are told.

And yes, one can waste most of their lifetime trying to memorize numerous characters. Lacks of simple alphabet and words that are just combos of these alphabets does make the creation of completely new characters extremely unlikely, but 5000 years of history is more than enough time to create almost every character that will ever be necessary in practice.

Word request : Extravagance.
Really want to know it :smile:

:cool: Word Request :cool:
Hazzard

I want to know the origin of the word, stool.

i always wondered where the word Slang come from.

What’s that to you if I love Marina!Are you a women or male I dont know you!Dont worry you,I’ll love to Marina to everytime.
Lets tell me your thoughts about of the love!
Best wishes,
onlycasperman
SAMSUN-TURKEY

Marina ,I love you and everytime I’ll love you .Some peoples envy me for love you!
I love you MARINA and always I’ll love you!
You are very wonderful a person for me .
All with my loves and hugs to you and all your family!
onlycasperman
Mahmut Alan
SAMSUN-TURKEY

I do not believe in werewolves.

:-) thanks Campkohler! I felt like an idiot after I realized my mistake! :oops:

Yep, they’re real.

I see Camel cigarettes [word request] uses Samsun tobaccos from Turkey. bless you all

good one and I second that word

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” – Albert Einstein 1879-1955

Dear LEONARD,
Thaks you for your thoughts ,yes Turkish cigarettes SAMSUN216 wonderful cigarette!
Best wishes,
Mahmut Alan
TURKEY

Marina ,where are your other wonderful pictures,can you able put there now?

me too i dont believe werewolves exist

Sure was a funny video! :smile: hope you are having a great day, onlycasperman : we need your comments back at the HotForWords site. :razz:

:smile: funny one..where you been??? :razz:

fast xbox repair…

It is reported that 7 out of 10 Xbox consoles will develop serious faults. When your soes toy face 2 choices. Wait weeks or months for a return from an xbox repair center or you can get this guaranteed 1 hour fix…

This video was very funny and a little scary!I loved the Werewolf singing in tune,and the animation at the end was something.It’s getting close to that time of year also.I guess this is the new 2008 version of a older version.I wish you good luck Marina with your new website design,hope it all comes together.Thank you for your time,and see you later!

I like the zebra shorts.

{spooky action at a distance}