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Mummy, mommy.. mom…

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  • http://18wheels.mevio.com/ Warren

    Hello Marina,
    I’m holding a spot for Bob and Capman911.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/foxbow15 foxbow

    oooh , this hasn’t been up for long has it…

    I call mine äiti ,it’s Finnish for mom

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/ajm1995ajm ajm1995ajm

    hey there!
    i was wondering about 2 words…the first one is Linguistics.
    The second one is… inaguration (like the president thing… idk if i spelled it right)

  • thxeleven38

    Homework:(Hi Kobe!) When she was I alive I called her mother when I was upset with her and mom ohtherwise.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/cufan71 cufan71

    4th! :-)

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/foxbow15 foxbow

    mummies are also just dead body’s that have been well preserved due to natural causes …. not just the typical egyptian toilet paper wrapped corpes….

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/cufan71 cufan71

    5th! :cool:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    Thanks Warren, I was just eating some soup. I would have saved you a bowl, but my son can home and well you know the rest. :smile:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    I’ll be number 10 whether I am or not. Screwing up the numbers hehehe

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    I used to call mine mama. :sad:

  • a3spirit

    hi I got a word request, or sort of…
    “ish”, “an” or “ese” ? People from England or Spain are called English and Spanish, but people from Portugal are called Portuguese but not “portugalish”. If you’re from China, Japan or Vietnam you’re Chinese, Japanese or Vietnamese respectively. People Mongolia are Mongolian but not “mongolese”. If you’re from Congo you’re considered Congolese but folks from Morocco are called Moroccan. So what makes someone a ish, an or ese?

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/smokey36bear smokey36bear

    I call her either Mom or Ma depending on our mood.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/cufan71 cufan71

    I call her mother, mom, or my favorite maw! :cool:

  • parchedsquid

    I am an “ian” (Canadian). I’ve wondered about that too, a3spirit. The weird thing is, even though I don’t know the official rule, it’s usually intuitive which suffix to put on when I don’t know the correct one.

  • stokesjrj1

    “mother” and her other name “I cart you 9 months for 9 hours hard labor you lazy ass indian you”

  • http://toastytech.com/guis/bobboot1.gif Bob

    Thanks, Warren.
    Mike, I could do with some chicken soup right now – not feeling myself today – more like a ghost.

  • stokesjrj1

    and all i got was this lame ass calander that i have to pay for

  • http://18wheels.mevio.com/ Warren

    If it was your son that’s Ok. I understand.
    “Mom” always made soup and It’s my favorite thing to eat.

  • http://18wheels.mevio.com/ Warren

    You’re hungry for soup? I see that you have a bit of a
    thirst.

  • CampKohler

    It may have to do with euphoniousness. Like parchedsquid says, it’s intuitive, probably just because it sounds best.

    What about other languages? Do they have -ish, -an and -ese endings (or their equivalent) or do they have more rigid practices, e.g. something along the lines of universally attaching a suffix meaning “foreign devils” to the country name?

    More and more I am growing less interested in the ancient roots of some English word (which is far removed from our time and is so less relevant to us) and more interested the differences between current languages. However, I am not so interested that I would actually undertake to study a lot of foreign languages; I’m too lazy for that. Maybe, in addition to the material Marina provides, she could spice it up a bit by adding what the word or phrase is in few widely-spoken languages. Now I wouldn’t expect her to go digging up (no pun intended) the word for mummy in Swahili, but she could gather a circle of people competent in the major languages upon which she could rely to help her out with the material. That would add a service that I don’t think you can easily find on the Web and it would broaden our horizons a bit. What do you think, you tittie watchers?

  • http://toastytech.com/guis/bobboot1.gif Bob

    True. dezdkado will be able to tell about mummies that were found in a cave on the Nuugsuaq peninsula opposite Uummannaq, preserved by nothing more than the extreme cold and low humidity of the air. Also, there was Ötzi, a mummified hunter found high in the Alps between Italy and Austria, also preserved by the cold.
    Other mummies have been found in peat bogs and in Pompeii, Italy where they were mummified by a pyroplastic flow emanating from the volcano Vesuvius.

  • originalistrick

    I called mine Mom most of the time, but sometimes Mama. She’s with Dad now…

  • swampwiz

    Марина, the word “mama” is a basic word in all Indo-European languages (and probably others), not just English. It’s the same in ро-русский.

    BTW, I enjoyed the depiction of you breast feeding a child. It was interesting for me.

  • CampKohler

    You Web wookies! Stop using the apostrophe to form plurals! Who started that crap, anyway? It seems to come up along with the Web, but maybe it’s been going on a lot longer. Perhaps these egregious errors weren’t noticable because we had no way (other than via personal correspondance) to see how others wrote except in publications. Their editors would assuredly correct missteps in their own self-defense, so as not to appear (or be seen to have readers that appear) to be a bunch of goofballs.

    Well, we aren’t mommied here &mdashl; there are no editors to correct us (and with the edit function turned off, we can’t even correct ourselves!). So all our flaws hang out like the wash on the clothesline. Don’t these kids (I assume they are kids) know that every time they open their mouths type on their keyboards, every error they make will stick out like a sore thumb and announce to the world their state of education (or lack of it)? Maybe they think it just isn’t important, but I can say from experience that there have been people I have passed over for jobs simply because I really didn’t want to look at those errors from that time forward. But what do I know; maybe everyone nowadays is so inept that one can’t pick and choose anymore. That is to say, when we are all ignorant, the man who can count to two is a genius.

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    Me too. I called mine mama also and
    oma for my grandmother.

  • dixie_normus

    hey marina!, can you do the word Opportunity?

  • CampKohler

    &mdashl; should be —

    Thats the L of it!

  • originalistrick

    “Interesting”? “INTERESTING”? Well, hell, then I’ll just add that it was “interesting” to me , too!

  • mangaphreak

    Not sure where to post this question, so this thread is as good as any other: what’s up with the iTunes podcast version of the clips…?!? They haven’t been updated for the last three weeks or so…!?

    Any info on that…? Thanks…

  • CampKohler

    Oh, I wouldn’t call her ass lame. Thin maybe, but definitely appealing. You know what they say, “You can never be too thin or too rich.” :mrgreen:

  • swampwiz

    Oops, that should be по-русский.

  • http://toastytech.com/guis/bobboot1.gif Bob

    Just proves that people are so embarrassed to be drinking Bud that they have to make themselves invisible. :lol:

  • http://www.unicorncomics.com Tazman

    I can really get wrapped up in this lesson. :roll: :mrgreen:
    Sorry! I couldn’t let this one go to waste. :wink:

    P.S. I’m still waiting for my word requests Dear Teacher.

  • http://toastytech.com/guis/bobboot1.gif Bob

    I completely agree, if you believe that English is the writer’s mother tongue, but one has to make allowances for those for whom English is a second, third (or more) language, and try to teach the correct usage in a kind way. :smile:

  • http://toastytech.com/guis/bobboot1.gif Bob

    And by the way, where did “euphoniousness” come from? I believe euphony sounds more pleasing. :razz:

  • http://mikechimeriblog.com MCLIJazz

    I call my mother “mom.”

  • http://toastytech.com/guis/bobboot1.gif Bob

    What I call my Mother depends on who I am talking to; it can be any of Mum, Mums, Mumsy, Ma, Mama, Mae, Patsie, Blottie or a number of other nicknames, and I use any of them when addressing her personally, depending on our moods and the situation.
    Variety is the spice of life, is it not?

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    Here Bob a nice bowl of
    Chicken Noodle Soup I hope it makes you feel better. :grin:

  • tristesmiles

    :mrgreen: I bought some calendars thanks marina, now i can show you off at work. :mrgreen: cant wait for your book next. can you kiss my calendar :mrgreen: LOVE YAH :cool:

  • stokesjrj1

    video visions internet death every owner of her jewelry

  • CampKohler

    “Not sure where to post….” The site could benefit from some separate blogs for specific purposes with the appropriate buttons at the page top. This allows for other users to contribute or even solve a problem immediately, which a Contact msg does not.

    1. Report Problems — post technical probems with this site or HFW’s YouTube videos with symptomatic details. Other users could contribute confirmation/more detail.
    2. Site Improvements — Propose improvements to Web site operation and form. Other users could discuss the suggested improvements or propose better ones.
    3. Watering Hole & mdash; A gathering place not related to any specfic lesson. Ask general questions or gossip. Would it would be better to pull general stuff out of the specific lessons?

    As permanent blogs, they would probably need to be paged, because, as their length increases over time, there would be too much material to load to each user who checks in. alternatively, after it gets a bit longish, a new blog could replace it and the old one gets archived with users able to select it if they desire.

    I have a suggestion for #2. In addition to labelling the current lesson in the same format as all past lessons, e.g. “http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/11/01/mummy/”, have a copy of the current lesson (or point to the original) with the label, “http://www.hotforwords.com/currentlesson”. That way users can create a permanent shortcut to the current lesson, which is not possible now due to the frequently-changing label. Yes, it would be one more thing to update when changing lessons, but it would save a few clicks for the great unwashed* masses.

    —-
    *Maybe that’s why they talk dirty so soften. :-)

  • CampKohler

    It’s crackers to dropsy the rozzer in snide.

  • CampKohler

    That’s not quite right, but if you’ve ingested the right drugs, you won’t even notice.

  • seesixcm6

    Dear совершенная Marina, For your homework, I called my mother “mama.” She passed away in 2002. so I only speak to her at her gravesite. Thank you for posting a new video from Hawaii. I didn’t expect one from there. I thought babies who were nursing only asked one question: “Got milk?” :eek: Your dear student, seesixcm6
    PS: Marina, did you take a photo of your boyfriend?

  • stokesjrj1

    what you think dont mean anything CampKohler

  • diversion22

    Hey Marina, it would be great if you could make a video of the word, “sucking up”: like sucking up to your teacher to get a good grade. This would be really great! :razz:

  • stokesjrj1

    CampKohler your answer is in last post of mine you answered in below :!:

  • ironbear66

    i would like to know about the word Slang

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    I couldn’t get your to work Seesix so I guess you mean this man. Marina’s Boy Friend

  • vasilisjj

    Hello my Dear teacher, as you are doing halloween type words, I am wondering what is the origin of the word DEMON.
    Thank you very much :!:

    Yours
    your student vasilisjj

  • stokesjrj1

    Capman911, I couldn’t get your to work so I guess you mean this man :!:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    I emailed Marina the other day about the pod casts not being updated, but I didn’t get any response. I guess she was getting ready for Hawaii. So it’s no telling what she is going to do with it.

  • orion_ss1

    If I called her anything but ‘Mom’ she’d think I was a pod-person. Grandkids call her ‘Mimi’; she used to sign all her notes ‘Me’. It sounds weird but if I found a note on the table signed ‘Me’ I knew who wrote it for as long as I can recall.

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    You didn’t mean this one?

  • leonard

    elloha

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    Ok it seems none of them work. Klaus I couldn’t get your to work either. lol

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    I had problems when I first tried to get Marina’s video to play. All I got was that swirling wheel. Must be a spider in the web.

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    OK, that’s what I thought, “twitpic.com” is domain filtering the access to their pics. I did a test on the test page of the same URL and it worked one time. The second time it did not work. Looks like you may need to do a screen shot and post on a different site.

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    The video playing issue is a YT issue. They are very slow. Lost of comments about that on various YT sites.

    The pic not working is a domain filter that the “twitpic.com” server is implementing.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911
  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    Now that one works. I clicked view picture first then copied the url.

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    Seems your raw URL works Mike.
    Also, this should work.
    http://twitpic.com/jas3

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911
  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    Your right Klaus, either raw url or by the url that you posted.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/misscupcake1 misscupcake

    maybe this has been requested but i wanna know why its called the white house.

    is it because the building really is white.
    or is it physically white because it was called the white house for some other reason?

    sorry i havent been posting here lately. my internet has died.

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    Interesting, your raw URL worked a few times, and now it doesn’t, indicating filtering. This version should always work? http://twitpic.com/jas3

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    Greetings misscupcake. Yes, you have been missed. :smile:
    How about a White Horse? Just kidding :lol:

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    I don’t know why the White House is called the White House. I’ll let Marina surprise me.

    When I was in Hawaii, the busses had a big yellow sign on them that said, “The Bus”. Maybe Marina can tell us if that is still so. :grin:

  • i8berrys

    “Grapefuit” drives me nuts. I understand the fruit part…but the grape part odd. Does not look like a grape or taste like a grape to me. What gives

    Thanks for the Halloween history!

  • seesixcm6

    Thanks to all concerned for solving this! I didn’t realize that link to twitter wouldn’t work! Yes, I meant Marina’s picture of a fat old guy sitting in a beach chair. He’s probably worked a long time, finally took a vacation to Hawaii, and now this slender beautiful babe takes his photo and puts it front of hundreds of thousands of viewers on the Internet! Now, is that nice? (Yes, the photo is funny, but is it nice?)
    seesixcm6

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    Watch someone on this site recognize that fellow and tell him. But I guess he is getting an eyeful with M sitting in front of him. Your right it probably isn’t nice. But it’s to late now. :grin: Have a good one Seesix

  • seesixcm6

    Thanks to pedantickarl above, the picture from Twitter was solved! Thanks. seesixcm6

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    If not I’ll ask my nephew, as he is a Professor at Hawaii University.

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    Be careful who you call fat and old. It could a family member or friend or associate or a HFW fan on vacation unbeknown to Marina?

    Whose shadow is that in the foreground?
    Only the shadow knows, muwahhhahaha :lol:

  • leonard

    To be honest, I addressed my mother as mother, as age worked to death and she did not like being called “Ma”—ethnic thing. very good lesson, the world history thing worked on me :cool:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    Latest pic from Hawaii. This one is for us men folks. hehehe

    http://twitpic.com/jhxh

  • fatbuffalo

    so who went to hawaii ?

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    Sorry I lied :oops:

  • fatbuffalo

    weird origins , breast feeding babies ….

  • tryant

    “Mom” is what all 7 of us called her when She was alive,and still how We refer to Her to this day.

    You can hold Me like You held Your hands at the end of the vid,and sing;

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzhbGaCwBzs&feature=related

    of course I’m well over 6′ and 240lbs but You are welcome to try! :wink:

    geeez,I’m not even drinking,where did that come from?!

  • bluerayzor

    I have a word request for a word that has been bugging me for awhile. My brother is in the military and in an infantry unit and I told him the word infantry has origins from infants, which I heard from the video game Metal Gear Solid 2. He says its origins are from infiltrate. Please set us straight.

  • tryant

    I have a Demon living just over the street! Well,he’s a pug and named “Demon” but He sure sounds mean till he figures out it’s Me at the door,then it’s,”pet Me pet Me”,,,,”no,not the cat,,pet Me!!”?

  • tryant

    Heyyyy,good one! Sounds interesting!

  • suprstock

    ”Mumsey,”is the proper way to say it…..

  • sniperskaya

    Marina, I’d like to add that teh term “mummy” can also apply to any body that has been preserved, whether by artificail, i.e., man mande, or natural conditions. Peru, China, Siberia, etc. have some mummys that are created naturally by their climate and environment.
    Unfortunately I can’t call my Mother any more, even long distance, because she’s dead.
    Give your Mom a call and tell her you love her while you still can. Once they’re gone you won’t get a chance to.

  • ironmaiden9492

    I just call my mother ”mom”.

  • bobmando

    I call my mother “mom”…and my children call her “Nana Barbara”…. (Not to be confused with “Santa Barbara” :smile:

    Now there’s another word for study: “nana”. What is
    it’s origin? thanks!

  • samuel3d

    I call my Mom, Mom Ha,ha,ha. :lol:

  • http://www.whitsundaytourism.com/ koalabear

    http://twitpic.com/jik9

    No surf, what’s going on here guys?

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/DPS670950 melikadothechacha

    Homework: Mom

  • runawayscott

    So at the beginning of your last few videos exactly whats the deal with the “CLick one of the boxes below” thing?

  • runawayscott

    Oh cool, It brings you directly to a lesson on youtube. thats a neet idea :!: :!: :!:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    If you’ll also notice the pictures at the beginning will take you to another video too. :grin:

  • BillyB

    Thats the L of it!

    just sayin’ wheres the missing apos’ :cool:

  • cheapone

    It appears to just be links to other videos by Hot For Words. If you watch every video as it comes out no real need to click them.

  • cheapone

    Great little lesson. I already knew about the mummy as in dead people, but I never knew where the term mommy as in your mother came from.

  • BillyB

    I be liken’ readin the guys (n’ gals) who is english is no so good. I be undrstndn, een they be makin’ mstakes nown’ agin. Dony be hittin’ moi… I’sa be loinin har.
    Sorry about that I’m getting used to no spell check, I just go to google ifn’ I think I misspelled something & I only miss the edit feature ifn’ I think a haven’t offended someone enough.
    Be cool Canuck, some of the smartest people I know couldn’t write an error free paragraph. I could if I wanted too but I ain’t all that smart

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/misscupcake1 misscupcake

    in sydney where i live, there are two main bus companies. a privately owned one that has yellow buses, or the government owned one that has blue and white buses. (as in, one bus is both blue and white. not some blue buses, and some white buses)

    our cabs/taxis over here are usually white but can be other colours, but never have i seen a yellow one.

    wonder why theyre always yellow in the states?

  • BillyB

    Been there, on my way to Alaska, years ago. Today’s weather.

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    Head for the North shore baby…. beautiful white sands,
    secluded beaches, body surfing, water falls…. dang I should
    have mowed my lawn last weekend and shown
    our teacher a good time. :grin:

  • http://www.youtube.com/sallybaey lumachoo

    I would like to request the word: foosball and calculator.

  • BillyB

    Take the “bus” in Bolivia or India to Nepal… Nah, I’d rather go for a walk in in China.

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    Hey Billy, that China pic reminded me of this video.
    Check it out this video of El camino del Rey.

  • BillyB

    So Sorry about the link… That’s what you get when you’re posting from the Loo.

  • BillyB

    The page I got ‘em off, don’t khow why it didn’t work.
    I got dizzy watching that vid. Looks like, at one time that was a very busy walkway, used for work… after seeing those missing slabs I would walk very gingerly.

  • buzzword
  • bsomebody

    For my homework: I still call her Mama, but my sisters call her Mom.

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    Ahh haa, the simian detected the fake Buzz look-a-like :lol:
    Oooohhh, must be dark where you live, your gravatar is dimming.

  • mangaphreak

    Too bad, because I found the iTunes subscription the most convenient way to follow the updates and watch them on my iPhone…

    Well, let’s hope it’s just a temporary glitch…! And yes, this site has become pretty crowded by now and could use some streamlining…

  • BillyB
  • Pseudonym

    Almost every language’s word for “mother” starts with the “m” sound. The only non-constructed language that I’m aware of that doesn’t is Bahasa Indonesia. (Some constructed languages such as Esperanto do.)

    There are, no doubt, other exceptions, but it’s a pretty universal thing.

  • BillyB

    That’s Kid’s stuff… My Mom raised me with a little difference. I know it helps me make it through these strange days.

  • i12bhot4u

    The word mama means suck in spanish and I guess in latin also. Mammals or the milk producing creatures young ones all suck milk. So mammals really means suckers and not necessarily just milk producers: right?

  • i12bhot4u

    Where does the word clitoris come from? There is a flower with a similar look and name: What is up with that? Which came first the name of the flower or the name of the female part?

  • rosiecheeks

    Word Request: Enjarging. Also, i wanna know the definition because the internet isnt clear.

  • rosiecheeks

    :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Like Paris Hilton says, it should be the pink house. VOTE PARIS. say no to Obama or the white wrinkly dude.

  • stokesjrj1
  • rosiecheeks

    ur such a pod-person.

  • rosiecheeks

    Snipply third grader, are we?? :/

  • rosiecheeks

    Snippy.

  • stokesjrj1
  • rosiecheeks

    uh, yeah, i’d like to request the word Ballsac. :P

  • thoughtonfire

    Dear Miss Orlova,

    Under the Waxing Moon.

    YS,
    ThoughtOnFire

  • rosiecheeks

    Dear Miss Orlova,

    Above the Waning Moon.

    Ys,
    Rose

  • rosiecheeks

    But first enjarging. thank u.

  • thoughtonfire

    Is that a even a word?

  • thoughtonfire

    Hey,

    It’s like that Nursery Rhyme.

  • rosiecheeks

    Ok i hate the stupid fucking split boxes. I can’t even FIND the video for mummy. oh wait, i just did. but what was up with that?? i had to watch a video and then a split second of a second video that i chose for mummy to pop up. Man this shit is annoying. Also too many ppl are requesting the same words and that shit is annoying too. My life is full of petty but big annoyances. :evil:

  • rosiecheeks

    Idk. But i call my mom Denise.

  • rosiecheeks

    i hate surfers now. The last surfer i met was a baaad dude.

  • rosiecheeks

    YA WHO the fuck calls their mom mummy>> if they dont live in britain and their no british, mummy is the most unattractive word in the galaxy.

  • rosiecheeks

    LAST POST OF THE DAY BEFORE I GO TO BED so i can wake up to another shithole day:
    WHOEVER that punk was that said i was MARGINALLY AMUSING, you are MARGINALLY, no wait, BORDERLINE ATTRACTIVE. Go suck a fat one. :roll:

  • rosiecheeks

    Calculator.

  • thoughtonfire

    And your father Brittany I’m sure.

  • thoughtonfire

    That was Enjarging, if I ever heard.

  • stokesjrj1

    rosiecheeks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGjfnt4gw5A
    http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/12/03/oneteen-twot een/ what were you told about tatoos and jewelry

  • rosiecheeks

    No i don’t call my dad brittany i call him dad. And ur disturbing my yin and yang. :mad:

  • rosiecheeks

    I know what you are but what am i :roll:

  • rosiecheeks

    Before you say anything back, i’m rubber ur glue whatever you say to me STICKS BACK ON YOU. ass. :shock:

  • thoughtonfire
  • thoughtonfire

    ‘ass’ there’s a word I never requested and heard not enough.

  • thoughtonfire

    When i was still 16 I was sticking my tongue out at Einstein likewise on me mum’s fridge.

  • rosiecheeks

    oh, you don’t know it, but u just Burned YOURSELF. :roll:

  • rosiecheeks

    I’ve always walked alone. Sometimes, life is better without friends. My shadow really IS the only one that walks beside me. In times of trouble, you find out who your true friends really are. But what do you do when you find out you have none. You walk alone.

  • thoughtonfire

    Or you walk with Jesus.

  • tok-715

    Dear Marina,

    Excellent work as usual. Your explanation of the origin of mommy as in mother is actually identical to what I’ve guessed based on my own practical experience in a myriad of cultures.

    It is very interesting to know that you call your mother mama as well as I do. It seems that the term mama for mother is so common it is almost universal among major cultures on earth. The Japanese have their own word for mother (okāsan) but also call their moms mama from time to time.

    Using the power of copy and paste, I was able to overcome the lack of a Chinese Keyboard and the necessary software to use it and mother in Chinese is written as:

    妈妈

    Which is pronounced as mama!

    Keep up the great and I will always be grateful and appreciative of you.

  • rosiecheeks

    yah but greenday doesn’t know that.

  • rosiecheeks

    i never know how to comment me. maybe ur just smarter than me. peace, jam tokyo.

  • rosiecheeks

    i never know how to comment you.

  • thoughtonfire

    Both of my feet are falling asleep. I better go smoke a fag. Good night.

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    rosiecheeks said:
    “Sometimes, life is better without friends.”

    “The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
    - Ralph Waldo Emerson

    “Walking with a friend in the dark
    is better than walking alone in the light.”
    - Helen Keller

    “Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead
    Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
    - Albert Carnus

    A friend… :smile:

  • nathanlemuel

    During the last four hours, I have tried to play the Mummy post something like six times. I like your calendar, and would have liked the opportunity to have purchased an autographed copy, but didn’t. Mirana, where does the word, “hooligan” come from?

  • CampKohler

    Is there anything in the entire universe that does not displease you?

  • CampKohler

    Misscupcake: Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_bus_yellow. For the next level, why are there black bands along the sides of school buses*? And if you know the answer to that, why is it that these bands may be interrupted by emergency doors or other features?

    —-
    *BTW, you spelled buses correctly, but unless pedantickarl was referring to kisses, he did not.

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    Word Request: Friend, Friendship, друг, приятель
    Marina, could you look into the origin of the word friend?
    If time permits and if it is related, maybe also the word “foe”
    as in the saying “Friend or Foe”.

    Heads up: In case the German word “Freund” comes up as part of the origin, here is how to pronounce it. :smile:
    http://www.dictionarist.com/freund

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    It’s after 2 AM PT, now PST and we fall back one hour.
    It’s really now 1:13 AM PST. Haven’t I been here before?
    Ohhh, the Déjà Vu….

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    Yup, Verizon just set my cell phone to the correct time.
    It’s now 1:15 PST

  • CampKohler
  • http://youtube.com/user/dstrott raven62

    Homework, I call my Mother Mom.

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    Hey CK, great info on yellow school buses.
    However, I think our sweet little cupcake was referring
    to cabs/taxis as always being yellow in the US.
    What’s up with that? :smile:

  • http://youtube.com/user/dstrott raven62

    That is one reason I like Arizona. We don’t have to turn the clock back and forth an hour for DST.

  • CampKohler

    And further, Bob: How would English as a second language lead to that use of the apostrophe? For that matter, why does a native-speaker confuse possessive with plural? Is there some little voice that whispers, “It looks like an apostrophe is needed in there doesn’t it? You are feeling quite uncomfortable without it, aren’t you? So go ahead… put it in there. What can it hurt? There! Isn’t that better now? Yes. It’s amazing how the little mark makes the whole world look better. You did good. Have a nice day.”

  • http://toastytech.com/guis/bobboot1.gif Bob

    Thanks for that link to the El camino del Rey video – INcredible!
    Judging by the speed the guy was walking, he can’t have been using any safety ropes. I know what my next nightmare is going to be about. :lol:
    Also, I’m very impressed by the smoothness of the video – he must have had some kind of gyroscopic camera mount.

  • chiefakira

    whaaaat you call your mother mama too.
    what a coincident me too.
    maybe we are brother and sister and mama never told us.
    grmmmmpf xd :razz:

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    Glad you liked the El Camino Bob. I love that video and great music too. I would love to walk it some day. I’m not a dare devil, but for some reason that one intrigued me. Like you said, that’s what my next nightmare will be about. :grin:

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    OK, nobody picked up on my White Horse request.

    No, no, no, no ….

    A blast from the past…
    Don’t ride the White Horse…. ride the White Pony
    Laid Back – White Horse :grin:

  • CampKohler
  • http://toastytech.com/guis/bobboot1.gif Bob

    ‘ere ’tis.
    And here is a scary Halloween story!
    Still interested in surfing?
    Stay safe on the beach, Marina.
    Swim in the pool. :smile:

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    Holy Frigging time warp I have regressed into the past. This should have posted to the top. I’m my own blast from the past. Wooooowwww!!!

  • CampKohler

    pedantickarl: re: Taxis, the answer moved up to above the question! Maybe there was a collision of entries or something.

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    OK, lets see where this comment ends up.

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    :shock: :shock: :shock:

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    This is the correct answer. :smile:

  • CampKohler

    Wow! We have a problem, Houston. All new replies are inserted in the middle of the pile.

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    By the way Raven, notice that I replied to your comment
    which is BEFORE you made your comment at 2:42 AM.
    I must be psychic. :shock:

  • i12bhot4u

    The word friend and its opposite fiend. Fiend means enemy and is there a similar root for these two words to be spelled so similar and yet mean the opposite. It is almost like possible and impossible.

  • phreedom32

    Luck/Lucky. How about it?

  • lostinhere

    I call my mom, ‘mom’. Simplistic, but it works. :cool:

  • http://toastytech.com/guis/bobboot1.gif Bob
  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    I just made a request to have the HFW server time be changed to PST. Having too much of a time warp. :grin:

  • http://toastytech.com/guis/bobboot1.gif Bob

    I’m beginning to believe that rosiecheeks is a sock puppet for someone else who we know.
    “Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead
    Just fuck off and leave me alone.”
    - rosiecheeks (alias :?: )

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    OK, this video is now on the board (YT top 100 most viewed)
    The race is on….

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    Oooohhhh, I’m starting to catch up with the future. Looks like the server is now on PST. Yippppeeee.
    Amazing the little things that thrill me. :grin:

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    Bob, that is too funny.
    I thought about that also (sock puppet) when he/she first appeared. Sometimes, you just can’t hide or fake a personality, unless one is really a split personality.

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    This comment should now be on the top…. keeping fnigers crossed…. :roll:

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    Yup, we are now all synchronized again. Phhhew!!!

  • http://toastytech.com/guis/bobboot1.gif Bob

    Funny Time Warp story.
    Last time I went to Hawaii, I travelled from Hong Kong via Guam.
    I reserved my hotel at Waikiki from the hotel in Guam in the afternoon and when I arrived to check in, it was the day before I had made the reservation.
    I had fun trying to explain to the receptionist that I had made the reservation the previous day.

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    Hey CampKohler, great NYT article down below on why taxis are yellow. Do you know why fire engines are red, presuming that they are not white.

    Fire engines are red because
    they have 8 wheels and 4 people ride it.
    8 plus 4 is 12.
    There are twelve inches in a foot.
    A foot is a ruler.
    Queen Elizabeth was a ruler.
    Queen Elizabeth was the name of a ship that sailed in the sea.
    Fish swim in the sea.
    Fish have fins.
    The Finns fought the Russians.
    The Russians were Red.
    That’s why fire engines are red
    because they’re always rushin’ all over.

  • http://toastytech.com/guis/bobboot1.gif Bob

    It’s a looooong time since I heard that one. :lol:
    The oldies are the best. (I keep telling myself, the older I get.) :lol:

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    That is funny.
    I crossed the equator at the 180th meridian. Ooohhh, that was scary. Yeah, I got pictures. :grin:

  • neoanderson

    PLEASE PLEASE CHECK THESE WORDS: Illumanti, Bank, rothchild, Court, Bench, and congress.

    Like when you go to court the judge rules from the bench..
    Could you also tel me were this saying came from “The dawn of a new day” It is really really old even in egyption if Iam correct i wana know wat does it mean if you could explain that. You could hit me up at my email removed by Marina ok BY!

  • neoanderson

    *illumantai

  • http://www.youtube.com/annuddermale annuddermale

    okay, i’m a mite late on this one…but you should’ve seen the mammas i saw last night… :mrgreen:

    anyway, homework: i call AnnudderMom “mamma” or “mom” interchangeably, unless i get irritated with some silly thing, then it’s “MOTHER!!!“…

    thankfully i’m learning more tolerance in our (her’s & my) old ages…at 85, she deserves to be cut some slack… :lol:

    okay, time to go get some real work done…since sunset’s gonna come so dang early today… :cool:

  • http://www.youtube.com/annuddermale annuddermale

    illuminati

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    Hello I-One-Two-Be-Hot-For-You,
    That’s a great juxtaposition; Friend – Fiend
    Marina must investigate that as part of my Friend word request.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/dezdkado Dezdkado

    I’m in agreement with Foxbow. Many of the earliest forms of mummification are caused by environment, not man. Even in Egypt, those who could not afford the expensive 70 day process of mummification, and the rituals,scrolls, and spells that went along with them, would bury the corpses of their honored dead into sand dunes until the bodies were fully dessicated. The peat bog mummies are an excellent example as well. (thanks Bob) In caves in the Andes, and in caves in the cliffs along the Yangtze River, dry cold air served to mummify the dead. I’m not sure if the victims of Pompeii and Herculaneum are true mummies. The pyroclastic flows of Vesuvius encased and cooked their victims. In some cases you can see where high temperature boiled the water within a victim and caused the ashy encasement to rupture from the internal organs and steam that spewed from the corpse. Otzi is very interesting (to me) because he contains within his body the earliest known forensic evidence of murder.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/dezdkado Dezdkado

    I call my mother, “Madre”, “Mom”, or “Mum”.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/dezdkado Dezdkado
  • http://www.youtube.com/user/dezdkado Dezdkado
  • http://www.youtube.com/user/dezdkado Dezdkado
  • http://toastytech.com/guis/bobboot1.gif Bob

    How would English as a second language lead to that use of the apostrophe?

    Well, it wouldn’t per se; all I’m saying is that it’s unreasonable to expect foreigners to understand all the rules and nuances of a language, especially when native speakers are so lax in their use of it.

    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/euphoniousness

    The reason I was teasing you (it was just teasing – don’t be offended) was because the Oxford English Dictionary doesn’t give “euphoniousness” the dignity of a mention. The fact that an on-line dictionary does so, I think, reflects a popular tendency of people to make things more complicated than they need to be.
    In the same entry that you linked to, there was a mention of the opposite term “cacophonous”. Would you, therefore use the same rule and coin the word “cacophonousness” in place of cacophony? That would truly have an unpleasant sound, (note the recursive definition) as well as being impossible to say even when sober. :smile:

  • http://toastytech.com/guis/bobboot1.gif Bob
  • http://HOTFORWORDS.COM morconfuzd

    PHANTOM IS MY WORD. I LOVE YOUR LESSONS AND WATCHING YOU GIVE THE ANSWERS , MARINA MORE PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIKE YOU. YOUR EXPRESSIONS MAKE ME LAUGH. NOT ONLY DO I SEE BEAUTY, BUT A PERSON FULL OF LIFE. I FORGOT WHAT THAT WAS LIKE, AMERICANS TODAY ARE TO SERIOUS, DON’T LET THERE INTERCHILD OUT. YOU KEEP BEING YOU, AND DON’T CHANGE A THING ABOUT YOURSELF. I’LL BE LOOKING FORWORD TO READING NEW STUFF IN THE FUTURE. YOU ARE MARVELOUS.

  • http://www.bikengruvin.com/slide.htm Recycle-logical-1

    I used to say “yes boss!” to her but that didn’t work so well so I went back to “yes Mom”. :lol:

  • tayljim
  • http://www.hotforwords.com Marina

    test

  • http://toastytech.com/guis/bobboot1.gif Bob

    Just woken up, or just going to bed?
    I flew all along Waikiki beach in my simulator and didn’t see a sign of you.
    Having fun? I hope so. :smile:

  • runawayscott

    Is Marina in Hawaii? makes sense, I heard she came to the US from Russia for the warmer weather.

  • runawayscott

    I haven’t seen you announce a teachers pet recently. Did you discontinue it? I hope not :wink:

  • stokesjrj1

    Test phrase for today an american classic “Fuck or Walk” you choose?

  • stokesjrj1

    perhaps its not “or” perhaps its be a friendly fiend sounds like sex play a couple would use especialy around halloween.

  • moscht

    Dis she get fatter recently?

  • stevemol

    We all know what a “speakeasy” was, but how did the term come about?

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/cufan71 cufan71

    :cool: Word Request :cool:
    Snickerdoodle: That’s one tasty cookie! :grin:

  • erie1495

    the word that i would like to request is penis vagina

  • http://toastytech.com/guis/bobboot1.gif Bob

    Certainly not!
    Just more cuddly. :smile:

  • rosiecheeks

    just wait until after thanksgiving. :shock:

  • rosiecheeks

    are u guys saying i’m fake. and i do not have a split personality. maybe it’s called bipolar. thank u very much.*gag*

  • rosiecheeks

    Word Request: Epitome.
    ex: My life is the epitome of hell.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ezekiel_Phillips/9389006 zesp

    Hi HotForWords,

    First, great site! Until I saw it, I had no idea you were so well known. OK, onto my request.

    I would like to request the word “values”. Post the 2004 election, exit polls showed the issues mattering most to voters were 1) National Security and 2)Family Values. Where did the word “values” come from, what is its base language, what did it used to mean…? I would appreciate if you would continue to educate with this word as your subject.

    Many thanks, and good luck selling many copies of your calendar!

    Zeke

  • tristesmiles

    hello marina today is “THE DAY OF THE DEAD”. do you know anything about todays holiday? all i know its the day when we celebrate the love ones who has left us from our world who past to the next world. we are heading out to the cemetary to pray for our family who has past. in Mexico everyone is at the cemetarys they make big celebrations. they might have something to watch on YOU TUBE? well thanks anyways! :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

  • tristesmiles

    yeah!!yeah!! but cheecks :razz: :razz: :razz:

  • http://www.bikengruvin.com/slide.htm Recycle-logical-1

    Take two teaspoons of “emotipe” and things should turn around for you! :lol:

  • http://www.bikengruvin.com/slide.htm Recycle-logical-1

    I think that was what the camera man said just before the porn director said “action!”. :lol:

  • http://www.bikengruvin.com/slide.htm Recycle-logical-1

    We were in Hawaii seeing if we could cover an entire wall with empty beer cans… ours! :lol: We were watching Saturday Night Live thinking isn’t it strange that they play this show on Friday nights. :???: WE WERE WRONG! We F’D UP! Our plane to Fiji was leaving in 55 minutes. We jumped into a cab at the speed of light and made it just in time. :arrow: :shock:

  • stokesjrj1

    Recycle-logical-1 you should have put this comment on the You Tube Channel rather then here.

  • http://www.bikengruvin.com/slide.htm Recycle-logical-1

    The flower came from another place in the universe at about 22222222222222222 B.C.
    The other came when it was stimulated! :lol:

  • stokesjrj1

    ha ha funny guys too badd none of these three tales are true.

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    Marina, I was shocked to see you answer the time thing. I was expecting an answer from a Jason. Everybody in tech is called Jason (speaking of all dogs being called Kobe). You really are a one woman show. Wow!!! I am impressed. :smile:

  • stokesjrj1

    TO: Marina’s Sex Ed Class (A Messeage from Japan)

    As Asuredly as lightning strikes, American women have never lost a soldier in war.

    Jon’s Jip Joint John’s Wrold Wide Imports
    (Remember: don’t play too win, Play not too lose)

    (kilroyalty handle SexTV) janjannet www.

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    Ditto to everything you said…. :smile:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    I have always heard you cry when a baby is born and celebrate when someone passes. Prayers to you and all of your family and to everyone on this day. :smile:

  • http://toastytech.com/guis/bobboot1.gif Bob

    Why zat? You going to give birth to a turkey? :grin:

  • stokesjrj1

    You couldn’t be more deceived. My cars name (IS GAY DECIEVER)

  • rosiecheeks

  • rosiecheeks

    i think i’m gonna commit suicide today. so long, friends.

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    That is funny, under the My Tweets it said:
    “Twitter is madder than hell and
    they’re not going to take it anymore!
    Either that or their server is down. …”
    :grin:

  • CampKohler

    Rosie’s video demonstrates the wisdom of the saying, “When you find yourself at the bottom of a hole, stop digging.” And emotipe is really just a obecalp.

  • CampKohler

    One word? Like chickenis and the eggina?

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/cufan71 cufan71

    Hi tristesmiles! I’ve been to Cozumel three times! On my second visit I went into a store called Los Cinco Soles. It’s a really cool store! Everything for sell is made in Mexico, and they had Day of Dead figurines! They were little skeletons having a fiesta! So cool! At the time I wasn’t sure I wanted one! But, as time went on I vowed if I ever go back I was going to get one! I finally got a little dog skeleton! It’s so cool!!! :cool: Sounds like a really awesome celebration! :grin:

  • CampKohler

    It was originally called a “yell-loudly,” but they changed it because it resulted in the neighbors to calling the cops almost every night (which had to be paid off more often than was really necessary).

  • CampKohler

    Have you seen some of her posts? :roll:

  • http://www.bikengruvin.com/slide.htm Recycle-logical-1

    Yah… they’re much better than Snookerdiddles! :lol:

  • http://www.bikengruvin.com/slide.htm Recycle-logical-1

    There was some thought about using “talk-softly” but they figured it looked too suspicious. :shock:

  • viktor77

    Привет Марина!!

    Can I request the word “Russia”, пожалуиста. It would be interesting to know its origin through Russian and Old Church Slavonic. :grin:

  • CampKohler

    WE SHOULD HAVE MORE ALL-UPPERCASE-POSTS LIKE MORCANFUZED’S. IT EXCERCISES THE UPPERCASE KEYS, WHICH ARE NORMALLY USED ONLY AT THE BEGINNING OF SENTENCES, FOR CAPITALIZING PROPER NOUNS , ACRONYMS AND THE LIKE. AS A SIDE BENEFIT, IT EVENS OUT THE WEAR ON YOUR KEYBOARD, EXTENDING IT’S LIFE (USUALLY THE LOWERCASE KEYS WEAR OUT FAR BEFORE THE OTHERS, WHICH IS A WASTE).

    SIGNED,

    COMPUTER EXPERT

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/cufan71 cufan71

    They used to scream hard but the got laryngitis and they had to speak easy! :lol:

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    Hey, you know what an expert is?
    An “ex” is a has been and a “spurt” is just a dribble. :grin:

    Sorry, CK, I just couldn’t resist.
    How often do I get use that line. :smile:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    I believe the Yellow Cab Company of NY had all of their cabs painted yellow whence the color yellow came from. As they bought up The Checker Cab Company the Checker Cabs had a black and white checkered board pattern on them plus the make of the vehicles was called Checker. The Yellow Cab Company painted the Checkered cabs yellow and left a small place on them that had the checked pattern. Plus insurance companies have a lower premium on a yellow work vehicle as it can be seen easier. I know this as one of the water drill trucks that we had was school bus yellow. The insurance company said we could get a better rate because of the yellow color. That’s why DOT vehicles are painted the school bus yellow also for a higher visibility. Even the Yellow Cab Company here in NC are the same yellow color with the black checkered pattern on them.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jack_Richards/1065965276 CaptainJack

    I can’t watch the lesson. :sad: I want my mommy! :sad:

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    Greetings Capt’n. Glad you’re back.

  • CampKohler

    Perhaps an arguement could be made that the -ness form means the quality of having the -y form. But that is really cutting wild rabbits in half. I thus accept your point that the -y form has more reasonablenessness to it. :grin:

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    Hey Mike, thanks for the yellow taxi update way down there below. That was great info about the color and the insurance rates.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    Rose if you let the video continue without clicking on any of the boxes the regular video for the day will play for you. Those other videos are if you want watch an earlier or another video. :smile:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/cufan71 cufan71

    Hi Captain! Welcome back! :cool: !

  • rosiecheeks

    just say placebo, it’s more proffesional. and what about my posts??? u don’t know me. when i said after thanksgiving, i was joking around saying she’d get fatter after eating turkey.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    Hey Neoanderson you may not want to display your email account on this site or really on any site that have open comment sections. Their are sites that put out spiders to find email addresses to send you spam and or junk mail. Just a little friendly advice for your protection. :smile:

    TA Mike

  • buzzword
  • BillyB

    I always went with…”a spurt, is a drip, under pressure”…

  • CampKohler

    Oops. I meant argument. (I was just too lazy to use the new edit feature to go back and fix that. Marina has finally taken my advice, you know. Um-hmmm.)

    After allowing the unneccessary-apostrophe matter to percolate through my brain overnight, I had a flash of insite. Could it be that this error is made far more often by native-speakers than non-native speakers? That is, it is a modern American phenomenon that is being copied by non-native-speakers as it is spread around the world by the ‘Net? If so it is our own fault and so it is up to us to send in the Marines to stamp out this travesty whenever it occurs; we must save the naive of the world from this vile, ungodly corruption that will surely send their souls to perdition*.

    Did you see that? I just saved foxbow’s soul.

    —-
    *Or at least make them look like goofballs in print (I don’t know which is worse).

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    Hi Jack, long time no see or hear from you. Question for you. Can you delete part of a comment? As one of the members put his home email address on the page and I know Marina deletes them because of spiders. I left him a message about posting his email address so maybe he will be more careful next time. Here’s the comment number.

    http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/11/01/mummy/#comment78374

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911
  • BillyB

    I’ll be happy to watch it for you Captain… At your service.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911
  • wetsuit5

    You Pass Dear Teacher!!

    Or are you telling us it’s test time?
    Or is this a Pop Quiz?

    I didn’t study…
    Let me get some Halloween Candy and see if I can bribe my way to a passing grade.
    I’ll slip Gorby a bone for moral support.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    Http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/11/01/mummy/#comment-78374

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911
  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    I give up fuck it. :mad:

  • BillyB

    You must be doing research.

    Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.” – Wernher Von Braun 1912-1977

  • CampKohler

    As an example of how another organization (over 20K users) handles feedback and group discussion, take a look at their forum index page, http://www.sactogasprices.com/Forum_Category.aspx. Then click one category and pick a topic to see how they go at it. I am not suggesting that such a elaborate arrangement is needed here yet, but it gives you an idea of what is possible. (Click here for the normal entry point if you’re interest is peaked. Ignore messages from anyone named CampKohler, because as stokesjrj1 has so kindly pointed out, it does not matter what he thinks. IGNORE THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN! )

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    Klaus how about show me again what the url would look like if I wanted to refer back to someone elses comment. I seem to of forgot. This is the comment I want to refer back to.
    comment-78374

  • CampKohler

    “your,” dang it! I merged “if you’re interested” and “if your interest is peaked” in my mind. Once it is in there, it is for all practical purposes corrupted and lost forever. Sort of like a PC, but without the free porno.

  • http://toastytech.com/guis/bobboot1.gif Bob

    Very clever. :lol:

  • thoughtonfire

    I know who you are but who am I.

    Believe me a know more about your split personality disorder then you know.

    I used to play double on a Harry Potter forum, I was Godric Gryffindor on one hand, and Marvolo, on the other.

    I find it more than borderline amusing.

    At any rate I’m balancing the bipolar in me anyways.

  • stokesjrj1

    That collar Marina’s wearing at the top of the page means I AM a white woman in a black universe with a a lot of servants. Theres more to it than that maybe she will tell us some day.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    Thanks Marina. :wink:

  • thoughtonfire

    Stokes why is your Gravatar Blacked Out?

  • stokesjrj1

    Or perhaps you people don’t know how to listen. :sad:

  • thoughtonfire

    And what would make your life a tomb of psalms?

  • thoughtonfire

    Is that an active form of Engender?

  • stokesjrj1

    You evidently haven’t been listening to someone much more superior than you. Shows up fine too my eyes.

  • thoughtonfire

    You are facing that way —->

  • garkoth

    Infinitesimal and its opposite, what are their meanings and where did they come from?

  • CampKohler

    Yeah, I’ve heard that before. Now I want to see if everyone gets the joke.

  • stokesjrj1

    Im sure it wasn’t much fun to spit in your own eye and put it out.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    New vid is up. Peekaboo wave. Buzz and I miss you all.

  • stokesjrj1

    no I am facing this way .

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jack_Richards/1065965276 CaptainJack

    Thanks everyone! :mrgreen:

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jack_Richards/1065965276 CaptainJack

    No I don’t have that capability. Email Marina and she will fix it.

  • CampKohler

    Just exactly whom are you going to commit suicide on? From what I’ve read, it could be anybody?

    LOOK OUT!

  • http://www.youtube.com/CheVolay Che Volay

    troublemaker :twisted:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    She must have been watching my comments, as she fixed the problem. :grin:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/dezdkado Dezdkado

    good stuff

  • CampKohler

    Your are right. I don’t know what you are really like. And I won’t except by virtue of your posts (I feel no need to research you on other sites, etc.). In other words, if you write something here, then that is what you are and nothing else counts.

  • http://www.bikengruvin.com/slide.htm Recycle-logical-1

    Where is this place where you have such a slow connection?
    Gilligan’s Island?

  • tristesmiles

    ive never been to conzumel thats in cancun, right? my parents are from michoacan Mexico a litle town in the mountains called tangancicuaro. next to a city called Zamora one hour away from Morelia. its very indijanez from the indians called “TARASCO” they still dress the same and speak their same language (dialect) we dont understand them we speak spanish. were more spaniard than indian. i always wanted to go check out the pyramids of the Aztecks and the Mayas. :cool: RIGHT ON VATO :cool: check out that movie by Mel Gibson APOCALYPTO. :shock: Its crazy :shock:

  • CampKohler

    OK, Cap, I finished my research and hereby publish:

    In case anyone forgets how to link to a comment, the following will let you “re-remember” it:
    1. If the lesson you wish to link to is not showing in the Recent Comments section in the right-most column, post a comment in the lesson and it will.
    2. Right-click in a blank area and choose View Source to show the HTML code which generates the page.
    3. Type “[Ctrl-F][Enter]” to open the search dialog box.
    4. Type “recent comments[Enter]” to find that section of the page. The section is a list of links like the one you want to make.
    5. Scan down the list, looking for an anchor tag (starts with “<a”) that contains the name of the lesson which contains the message to which you wish to link. Note that the date and name of the lesson both appear in the tag. (You could theoretically glean this information from the lesson page, but there is always the possibility that someone has goofed and the lesson file in reality has a slightly different date or name on it. To be certain, get it from the Recent Comments section in the View Source.)
    6. An example is <a href=”http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/11/01/mummy/#comment-78621″ rel=”bookmark” title=”November 2, 2008 at 7:39 pm 294 comments”>Mummy</a>. Type this in your message in the format <a href=”http://www.hotforwords.com/[4-digit year]/[2-digit month]/[2-digit day]/[any-length lesson title]/#comment-[comment number]“&gt[Link text]</a<.
    Notes:
    1. The rel and title attributes in tags are for other software to sniff the tag and are not needed to link to the desired message. They may be omitted.
    2. A target attribute will not do anything if you put one in an anchor tag; you can’t control how it will open. However this is not important, because it all works like you would want it to work anyway.
    3. If you want to practice entirely within Marina’s “sand box,” remember that the box’s file name is not formatted like a lesson; it’s “http:”www.hotforwords/html-in-comments/#comment-[comment number]“. You must use this format to jump to messages in the sandbox. If you use the lesson format (described in 6, above), you will jump out of the sandbox to the lesson (which is an even better test).

  • CampKohler

    Revision 1:

    OK, Cap, I finished my research and hereby publish:

    In case anyone forgets how to link to a comment, the following will let you “re-remember” it:
    1. If the lesson you wish to link to is not showing in the Recent Comments section in the right-most column, post a comment in the lesson and it will.
    2. Right-click in a blank area and choose View Source to show the HTML code which generates the page.
    3. Type “[Ctrl-F][Enter]” to open the search dialog box.
    4. Type “recent comments[Enter]” to find that section of the page. The section is a list of links like the one you want to make.
    5. Scan down the list, looking for an anchor tag (starts with “<a”) that contains the name of the lesson which contains the message to which you wish to link. Note that the date and name of the lesson both appear in the tag. (You could theoretically glean this information from the lesson page, but there is always the possibility that someone has goofed and the lesson file in reality has a slightly different date or name on it. To be certain, get it from the Recent Comments section in the View Source.)
    6. An example is <a href=”http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/11/01/mummy/ #comment-78621″ rel=”bookmark” title=”November 2, 2008 at 7:39 pm 294 comments”> Mummy </a>. Type this in your message in the format <a href=”http://www.hotforwords.com/[4-digit year]/[2-digit month]/[2-digit day]/[any-length lesson title]/#comment-[comment number]“>[Link text]</a>.
    Notes:
    1. The rel and title attributes in tags are for other software to sniff the tag and are not needed to link to the desired message. They may be omitted.
    2. A target attribute will not do anything if you put one in an anchor tag; you can’t control how it will open. However this is not important, because it all works like you would want it to work anyway.
    3. If you want to practice entirely within Marina’s “sand box,” remember that the box’s file name is not formatted like a lesson; it’s “http:”www.hotforwords/html-in-comments/#comment-[ comment number]“. You must use this format to jump to messages in the sandbox. If you use the lesson format (described in 6, above), you will jump out of the sandbox to the lesson (which is an even better test).

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBfWNAoZUZk&feature=related Chemikal

    :) Hi CJ ;)

  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedantickarl

    Mike, you actually did the comment ID correctly. I think the link got broken up by one space. This morning I highlighted the link, and pasted it into the browser adr bar and I saw one space. I removed the space and the link worked. I was busy all day so I hadn’t been able to get back to you.

    Instead of using the raw link in a short text box, use the embedded link method;
    [a href="URL/stuff/#comment-ID"]Some Words[/a]

    For your comment ID and for this page here is the embedded link.
    comment-78374

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/cufan71 cufan71

    Conzumel is on an island near Cancun. I have never been to Cancun. I hear it’s a real party place! I have been to three Mayan cities: Chichen Itza, Altun Ha (in Belize), and Tulum.
    So :cool: !!!!

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    Thanks Klaus and CK for the help.

  • animalntaz

    What are you testing? :???:

  • animalntaz

    I haven’t called my mom in 6 months. There is still a little bit of buried social tension between us.

  • animalntaz

    Here’s an interesting mummy movie. :smile:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/foxbow15 foxbow

    you typed all of this because I said mummy’s instead of mummies…… :???: ……..
    English is my 4th language… or 3th cause Dutch and Finnish are about the same to me…. so don’t expect it to be perfect….
    In Dutch there is a rule that if a noun ends with an Y, e, o, i, u or a, you use apostrophe S (‘s)to make it a plural ….. that’s why I make that mistake in english sometimes :???:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/foxbow15 foxbow

    oh wait I spelled mummies right , it was body’s=bodies

  • stokesjrj1

    This your outfit of hoodlums?

  • nw2394

    Where I come from “mother” is “mum” or even sometimes “mam”

  • rosiecheeks

    it’s november 3rd.

  • stokesjrj1

    actually with out light there would be no show ever tried to record video in complete darkness. Won’t work unless your using special equipment.

  • novaman123

    i call my mom mom

  • mangaphreak

    Okay people, seriously — what the *beep* is happening with the iTunes version?!?

    It hasn’t been updated for the last four weeks now…!? :shock:

    This is the most convenient way for people to watch the videos and you have just stopped supporting it or what else is the matter…?!?

    I’d hate to have to say goodbye to Marina, but if she’s not on iTunes anymore, that’s it then… :cry:

    PLEASE let me know what’s going on here…! Thanks…!!

  • CampKohler

    So it’s an actual rule in Dutch? Then I guess we are Finnished. :-)

  • leonard

    Mama-Mama by Arefieva :lol: related music…random lesson

  • leonard

    Its May 11…and where R U :?: ***)^(***

  • michael r

    just mom

  • rijk

    most of the time ma

  • rijk
  • leoNard

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