Dick short for Richard and detective

hi

Dickheads are everywhere…I hear mouse, :eek:

Cracker Jack
Jack and Jill
Tyler Durden
Jack in the Box

Hey wait a minute…Jack…

Signing off,
ThoughtOnFire

I used my Dick Head there… :oops:

There was a girl who would call me Jack in Highschool. Hm…

And others called me sleepy cause I slept in my classes. No sleeping around here… down with the promiscuous! It’s hard to sleep in this class…I could not do it… ATTENTION!

When you look up a word in the Dictionary … oh forget it…

TOF

Hey Marina,
so i was wondering if HotForWords can do i little investigation on the word Twilight?

Thanks and Love you!
-Stephany
:wink: :smile: :!:

I knew of a guy named Richard Dickinson … wtf is up with that?

So Jack is short for Jackin, … it’s like this conversation I had today with somebody on my lunch break with the same name as me (David). Naturally was talked about our names. And how people shorten David to Dave, okay, really, how much more is it to add the id there?

Now if I met somebody with the name of John Jacob Jingle Heimer Schmitt, I would just call him Jack.

I simply do not believe in You anymore,,I tried,,and tried hard,,just can’t do it….Unsubscribe Me please. I’m done.

tryant

What’s wrong tryant?

hey Marina (hotforwords) where does the word punk come from

HUH???

hey Marina love the show ^^
now for the homework: i found out that Jack is short for Jackin :)
can’t wait for the next vid ^^

ru00825

Any one know a guy named Richard Cranium? aka Dick Head

Where did the word jew come from? :lol: even tho you might laugh about me asking that..lol

Great lesson I could be wrong, wouldn’t be the first time :lol: , but maybe Jakin (mind out of the gutter guys) form of the name John (jon) Kennedy was known as John and Jack.

This brigs up other questions. ie Bill short for William or Bob short for Robert.

I think people shorten names out of lazzyness. eg:
Theodore=Teddy=Ted
David=Dave
Laurance=Larry
I have had friends named Brian and I call them Bri.

Hey why don’t we have the name Bobert? :grin:

Hey Marina,

I have an interesting phase for you. I would like to request the phrase “Jai guru deva om” from the Beatles hit song Across the Universe. I love this song, and would like to know the meaning, if it wouldn’t be too much of a problem. But I know you can do it! lol. Keep up the good work. I very much enjoy watching your video’s. Can’t wait to see your next. Have a Happy Holidays too.

Your Viewer:
KoryZ14

I think the source of Tryant’s uh, discomfort is the easily disbelievable (at least without a more detailed explanation) combination of the first letter of one word with another word. Dainty Rick = Dick because ‘it sounded so much better?” Does this happen with other words*? What about other names? Did Terrible Rob become Trob? You haven’t given any other examples of this process in the videos I’ve seen and it strains credulity. That’s what’s wrong with Tryant.

Now you gave no dates for this combining, so I will assume it was in the 1800s, because dapper, desparate, etc. are words that were used to describe personalities back then; they aren’t used in modern times except in comedy. In those times, the only nationwide media was print, so, if the combining theory is correct, how did it happen? Combining actually deleted letters, thus removing the description, which would be just the opposite of what a writer would want to do. If it happened at all, perhaps I could see it happening in a local environment, i.e. it was a form of slang used by those around him, but that would just be local. There will have to be more documentation to sooth Tryan’ts savage breast.

Now I am not willing to jump ship on this one, but I think you need to get on the 1MC and announce to all hands just how this combining originated. If you can’t get any detail on it, maybe it isn’t true. Or even if it is true, without convincing evidence you should qualify it as a theory or say that someone found it “in a mayonnaise jar on Funk & Wagnal’s front porch.” Either way, it’s not “a mystery solved;” it’s a mystery proposed.

(To Tryant: There, there, now!)

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*Now please don’t trot out blog. True, it sounds better that “wlog,” but this is not the same as combining a person’s name — even a nickname — with another word.

Judah |ˈjoōdə|
1 (in the Bible) a Hebrew patriarch, the fourth son of Jacob and Leah.
• the tribe of Israel traditionally descended from him, the most powerful of the twelve tribes of Israel.
2 the southern part of ancient Palestine, occupied by the tribe of Judah. After the reign of Solomon ( c. 930 bc) it formed a separate kingdom from Israel. Later known as Judaea .

Please investigate the word Yosemite. 2 good reasons to do so: (1) you don’t have any “Y” words yet. That’s sad, teddy bear. (2) I think I know the origin of thew word, but I’m not sure.

Jack is a diminutive of John which is from Yachan a derivative of Yahweh – Yachan meaning: in the grace of God. :razz:

Well that was a very cool lesson. :cool: Both of my names were mentioned in the video. :mrgreen: My last name is Richards (ok its not the same as Richard). Of course everyone knows my first name. I wonder from all the many first names out there, Marina picked Jack. Must be something behind that choice.

Homework: What’s short for Jack? Well its not short for John thats for sure. I only know I was named after my dad. I have Junior added to my last name. So I carry around 4 names. Like one wasn’t enough. :roll: So I really don’t know what my name is short for. I should wiki it hu? But how would I know wiki is correct?

Im more interested in my last name. Where it comes from and how it came to be. Hey you probably know my cousin Denise? Oh?!? humm maybe not. I haven’t talked to her in years. I wonder what she is up to now? Note to self, contact cousin Denise.

Hi Marina, did you notice the blank area under the Countdowns area? Is this the same issue as the Fetish video, whose column is also still blank. (words blocked by google ads )

You can contact Marina or I directly via the contact page if you wish to talk about your concerns.

Are you Jackin me?!?!??! :mrgreen:

LOL!

Damn I just spent some time googling my name and I find it everywhere. It’s so over used, I feel like… well like the Jack of all trades, Jack up (abandon, give up or hoist with a jack), Jack off (to masturbate), Jack (mechanical device), Jackass (male ass), Jack Frost, Jack in a set of playing cards, Jackhammer, Jack shit (not knowing anything at all), Jack (Union Jack – Flag), Jack and Jill, oh I can go on forever. You see what I mean over used. :roll: The only time it’s not over used is in bed….. :shock: :mrgreen:

Hey M! How about the phrase “Jack-in-the-box”! It’s not what you think it is…….. :shock:

This title backwards is a bit dodgy…

detective and richard for short dick

lol

Hey Capt’n Jack, you forgot Jack an’ Apes.
Just funnin with you.
The word that we know via O’Reilly is jackanapes,
an impertinent, presumptuous person. :smile:

Marina did a good job on this one, occasionally I have found a few of the lessons hard to follow. But this was really done well.

I am ill :cry: cold sore throat. My younger brother has an ear infection.

Not good :sad:

Brain your affecting is temperature high your.

ha

No sweeping the dirt under the rug! All dirty laundry must be washed in public. If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. (I’ll probably think up some more of these original, never-before-heard jewels after I hit Submit.)

Seriously, all scholarly work must stand the scrutiny of those to whom it is presented, even if the audience here is um, less than scholarly (and barely literate :-)). All work is subject to good-faith constructive criticism*. That’s the only way that work’s value can be established. If you can’t do that, then “don’t wash your dirty rug in the kitchen.”

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*And so is the criticism!

I see the black area under the Latest Lesson is now also blank, just like for the Fetish video page; looks like a definite google ads block.

If you do View Source for the page, you will notice that the words in that box are a list:

<ul> (Unordered List)
<li> (List item) [The O'Reilly text here]
<li> (List item) [No text is given]
</ul> (End Unordered List)

Notice that the second item in the list is blank (unused). Maybe that’s what causes the extension of the box. I can’t tell for sure, because lists are not allowed HTML tags here, so I can’t try it out in the sandbox.

Hi CampKohler, multiple empty lists would not show up and would be collapsed like multiple empty lines, unless one uses hard returns.

I copied the source of the empty space and pasted into Notepad on my desktop. The ads then show up. My guess is that the server and google ads widget sees the word “dick” and is telling the ads to not show.

Marina mentioned it on the Fetish video page here.

Excellent vid! I like this format far and above the floor ones! :grin:

Best you’ve done in a while!

Homework: Jack short for John? I don’t get that one either.

Ciao,
Fianchetto

Morning all – been a while since I last appeared (disadvantages of subscribing to multiple forums!)

Anyway, over here in the UK, there’s another use of dick – the pudding spotted dick. It sounds highly amusing to those familiar with the use to describe part of the male anatomy, but in fact it’s just a steamed pudding containing dried fruit (the spots!).

As for my real name, it translates as either “Son of my right hand” or “Beloved youngest son” – both completely ironic as I’m left handed and first-born…

[This] is very much the way I make it, and wish I could make a big pot for you and your brother, mate!

Maybe you could cook up a pot for you and your brother? :grin:

Get well soon, friend!

Ciao,
Fianchetto

Hello Marina, the ads do show up when I save this video page to my desktop and view it there. Here is a screen shot of the ads when I view this page.

You will probably want to RIGHT click on the link
and click View Image, otherwise the site widget
will shrink the large image.
http://i35.tinypic.com/1430sv9.jpg

Lots of detective ads as might have been predicted. :grin:

And yes, I did click on all of those ads so you get credit. :grin:

////nyjno y4it’ angliskii :idea: :oops: ))

Hope is not a case of [Infectious Repetitis] :grin:

A really good and funny lesson. Dick means so many things. Love your video and of course you, the ever beautiful inside and out Marina Orlova.

For the record, I am dick, and I do have a dick, but I ain’t no dick get it?

:lol:

Jack stands for so many things. Off the top of my head:

1. Jack Off
2. Ain’t know Jack shit
3. Jack o’ lantern

Pssss…….sst can’t think of anything else now. I may be both a Scientist and an Engineer, but I bow to Marina when it comes to Philology.

Oh, oh, I better make fun of my own words
before Bob gets to it. :lol:

predicted: pre-dick-ted
What does Dick have to do with Ted before?

despite Cap’n Jack’s protestations, “Jack” is a nickname for “John”. Not a shortened form, just a nickname.

and dang nice declotage…’er, i mean, dress…that is – nice smile!… :cool:

dick is a shortened version of detective and they are both in hot pursuit of their objective.

jack is short no funds therefore he can’t be called a john

Well my brother actually has a perforated ear drum. I feel better now. Still a bit ill but a lot better.

HW: Jack is another way to steal or rob i.e.
Jack a car = car jack
commandeer an airplane = skyjack
Hijack = steal a cor or truck in transit
The pickpocket jacked my wallet

As far as I know, Jack is short for John or Janathon. I do not see the connection, either. I do not even understand my name; why is Bob short for Robert.

Homework: Jack is John’s nickname (not Dick?) :roll:
English words can be confusing – no poetic justice…
A Jack is also a knave, as in card suits, or professions.
Jack of all trades, for example. Then theres Jack as
in AC/DC’s song She’s got the Jack which can
mean the Jack of cards, or that he’s getting “jacked around”
(hey! wait a tic… Jack is used as a synonym for Dick!)
Being Jacked up is another way way of saying hijacked,
or “jacked up” on dope. A “jack off” is another way to
call someone a Dick… maybe there is some justice!
Then “jacking off” means something else involving …
well, it’s a fairly well known meaning… [all the girls
and boys can stop giggling, now - this is serious!]
Jack and the Beanstalk – magic beans and giants,
Jack the Giant Killer, the little tailor who killed 7 in
one blow! (flies, not giants). Is this how “blow job”
got it’s name? Uh… where was I :roll: I lost my train
of thought…. corn is also called maize – LOL!

This is intriguing – according to Wikipedia, {pause while I wash out my mouth with soap.} Dick, Dicky and Dickie are also variants of Robert.
How on earth does that make sense?
I suppose that logic has nothing to do with the matter because Jack is short for John and not Jaques or Jacob which are both associated with James. Go figure!

I agree with CK. The differing opinions here are the most interesting part of this site, in my humble opinion. M did leave some danglers on this one, so we will hash through this. M has buttered her bread, now she must sleep in it. :???:

Curses! Foiled again! :lol:

Have you heard of Richard Proboscus
aka Dick Nose (Dick Knows?) :mrgreen:

I do not see the resemblence to Denise, but now that you mention it, I do see how you and Keith could be kin. :razz:

Kudos to deadpoolfriends for a creative video request

Word request = Kudos
Why a congeries ?

Tricky Dick = Richard M. Nixon

not Proboscus, but Proboscis!
Whitesmoke doesn’t catch all the typo’s
and neither do I – LOL! :grin:

kith and kin.

I am guessing you are disbelieving the origin,
or etomology as explained by Marina. She did
not explain how Dick originated as a word for
penis, decades before it was a nickname for
Richard, but philology is like that. There are
words whose root origins cannot be traced,
which is why I think Marina didn’t want to
touch on the penis origin, and kept her focus
on the (traceable) nickname origin. Sounds
like a cop out, but there it is. Another word
Marina researched was (a href=http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/05/20/teachers-pet/>dog.
Am I in the ballpark at guessing why your
object? Sometimes you get the good, and
sometimes it can be not so good,
but it’s all real – no magic beans :mrgreen:

LOL! my HTML skills suck!
..or maybe it’s just that I typo
Oops – that thread was dog
(oh, I see – I made a typo) :mrgreen:

dicky,dicky and dickless :roll:

The rooster wants some of your corny crumbs :eek:

there are no short versions in japanese names…. and we dont even have middle names either…..

The snow birds fly south in winter :mrgreen:

My attempts at cooking vids are giving me a new respect for what Our Dear Teacher does! (as well as teaching me that I MUST get a better camera)

Scripting, recording, editing. WOW!

{Scripting… Hmmm… Perhaps I should hire a sexatary to take some detectivation…} :roll:

OK, friends – Feel free to groan, but no throwing of rotten foodstuffs, please… :mrgreen:

Google ads is stupid sometimes.. .they don’t like the title of the post, they think it’s sexual in nature, so they have removed ads. It’s really frustrating.. I even tried to make the title longer.. which worked briefly.. but not the ads are back.

CampKohler, I am making a new thread… so click here.

CampKohler and Tryant… here is the definition of “Dick” from the Oxfored English Dictionary. Verbatim:
1. a. A familiar pet-form of the common Christian name Richard. Hence generically (like Jack) = fellow, lad, man, especially with alliterating adjectives, as desperate, dainty, dapper, dirty. Tom, Dick and Harry: any three (or more) representatives of the populace taken at random; see also TOM n. 1a; clever Dick: a clever or smart person; usu. ironical: a ‘know-all’; also attrib.

wow! and what about a LongMan dictionnary?

wow!! i was in england, and the only restaurant i liked to visit there was Kudos! it was chinese restaurant!

Привет Марина!
Как тебе мое творение? (ну не совсем мое, но пойдет) ^_^
Barack Obama

THIS LINK IS BETTER

а я уже выучил))

So how do they get Peggy out of Margarete :???:

Word Request – MIRAGE
The only thing i know abou MIRAGE is that it’s an optical phenomenon, and it happens when it’s very hot!
Thank you!

If a kid is named after his father Richard does that make him ‘little Dick’?

Jack… contrary to commonly accepted answers… is not a derivative of the names Harold, Frank, Betty, or Gerzelda.
Frankly, Gerzelda is from the Northern Hemisperic origin of Gerzeldabush. A plant harolded for its ability to transform from a seed into a bush, that in maturity looks like a Gerzelda… big, but not too pretty. Betty really had nothing to do with any of this… just a red herring.

Another mystery made more complex and misunderstood… by your trusty… Hot For Nonsense… Recycle-Logical-1

For your homework… chop up some cabbage and cram it up your nose. Then try to find out where the word “coleslaw” came from. Write your answer on a piece of paper and microwave it for 30 seconds. Then take thumb and plug one nostril while blowing out chopped cabbage from other nostril. Aim this at your calendar… see if it sticks. Ifs not, then try the other nostril full of chopped cabbage.

Speaking of calendars…

Sorry Marina and others… I’m just being a bit of a dick! :shock: :lol:

First of all, it is good to see our teacher back among us; we have missed you of late.
Even an excellent source, such as OED, is still only one source. In history, we emphasize that all sources are biased. It is best to use multiple sources, whenever possible, and contextual insight to fill in the blanks. I do not know much about the scholarly methodologies of etymology, but I guess they would be similar (since it is a “history of words.”)

…or Dad the ‘Big Dick’?

Little Richard

bsomebody, I don’t use one source, I use a minimum of 5-7 sources per word.

The point I was trying to make is that Dick was used to refer to “everyman” and the combination of some very common adjectives with the name contribute to Dick catching on as opposed to Ric. If you can give me simple adjectives that describe dapper, dainty, dirty and desperate, but begin with an R then perhaps we can begin to disprove this theory.

Where is the video Fianchetto?

Okay, that makes sense. Now that I see it in writing, I can follow what you said in the vid. Perhaps some of us failed to make that connection when you first presented it. Thank you for the clarification. {Somebody skulks to the corner, feeling very simple.} :oops:

Biggus Dickus

Biggus Dickus rrrranks as high as any in RRRRome.

I reckon this word is kinda reelin’ me up something fierce, mam’sel. I think some beasts are born to be wild, and can’t be tamed, no matter the energy you spend on them. Can Jack of all trades (masters of none) break an Appaloosa? Can they wheelie a Hayabusa? ¿Wouldn’t a very slight soupçon of cojones be needed for that, pardiez? Dicks, Jacks, hens and chickens are not eggs, whatever the great view they may have of themselves. Only Europa could ride a Miura. And only the most beautiful virgin could ride a unicorn (as far as the legend goes). Appaloosa, Hayabusa, Miura, Europa.. Interesting words, for quite interesting legends, with even more interesting origins I’m sure… Wouldn’t you like to investigate these?

Link: (Guten M̦rgen Europa Рnot sure it will show up correctly).

EUROPA AND BULL

In the single corp during wwtwo….my dad was JACK, called: Jack of all Trades. Now, to get my rick, to start my rick and cook some Tennesee Jack. Wrench dem logs and split’em dick and johnny….and do not get lost dar Jack!!! Saliors fight with small dicks richly. Gota go to the JOHN and leave something, no shaking the tree! :shock: :mrgreen: :sad: :lol:

Just to clarify. I think your contextual knowledge automatically made the connection (that you mentioned above), but I failed to follow. I did not intend to imply a lack of thoroughness on your part, and for that I aplogize. I find your lessons very well-researched and to the essence. Thank you for all the time and effort that you put into your projects.

You gotta tell us if the cabbage was red or shineknees!!!sneezes….JAGERMEISTER

So you are going to be a YouTube guru of cooking shows? You will compete with the likes of Jolene Sugarbaker The Trailer Park Queen
Bamm!!

Use any kind of cabbage… if you have more that one kind, use them and mix it up a little… have some fun… maybe add some mayonnaise… be creative! :lol:

oUR mASTER masterfully masters a masterstroke of a masterpiece. ….maunder….dickey=low necked garment :razz:

still neither worthy nor complete enough to post. I am an animated individual, and as such, I move about a lot, and my cheap camera blurs badly with any motion. As well, assimilating all the stuff and coherently assembling the finished product is daunting! I am humbled by the task, but learning quickly enough, I think. Also am still striving to get the overall direction and style hammered out. My goal is to present how-to cooking vids aimed at bachelors to motivate them from ramen noodles to fine dining for themselves, and from dates in restaurants, to preparing better food than in most chains for their loved ones in a fusion of Clifford Stoll, Jacques and Julia, and Me.

Funny vid – Thanks! :grin: but I don’t intend to be at all competitive. I only wish to share my love to cook for loved ones, in the manner I described to Marina above, that others may have the beautiful experience of it themselves.

Che just made up a joke while waiting for his tea water to boil..
ready for it, here we go:

Where do Dickheads live?

In condomminiums

{drum roll……… hit the cymbal tishing }

[A Video Dedication] to stokes and ChaCha
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Who’s your favorite fictional detective?

Rockford, Magnum, Sherlock……
Me I like the guy on Psyche comes on the tube just before Monk

I was wondering where the word architec came from. I know that in some languages the architec and engineer have the same meaning…I am interested because I my major is Architectural Engineering…so an architectural architec?? :???:

I wish I had found [THIS] and [THAT] when Capman was still a Harley (before he became Yoda.) :grin: :grin:

(please disregard the title of THIS – I didn’t name it, and found it more humourous than annoying)

[AND THIS, TOO!]

Rice burner

That was kewl Fianchetto. :cool: I might add my bike back now. Chng a ching a ching ching ching :lol:

Homework= John. Why I don’t know. Maybe you could do a video on why John is short for Jack. :smile:

Jack is short for John you mean :-)

Yea I am bass ackwards today :smile: Thanks.

That almost like when we all have a flame war on here and Marina has to break it up. :lol:

Dear Marina
I have enjoyed your site for some time now and never until today found you wrong on any point.
However, for once you have strayed from the path. Obviously Dick is not your speciality.
Dick as the nickname for a detective comes from American literature towards the end of the 19th century. Dime novels published in the period featured a sharpshooting lawman called “Deadeye Dick” so called because he was a ‘dead shot’ who always hit and killed his target – the bad guy. It became the contemptuous nickname for detectives throughout the US. The nickname never really spread elsewhere as the brand of dime novel didn’t travel outside of the US so the cultural reference wasn’t clear to the rest of the world.
Deadeye Dick as a name was a turnaround of a long naval tradition, “Dick Deadeye”, made famous by WS Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan in their music hall operettas. A deadeye was a kind of knot or sliced loop.

Milaya Marina,
After reading all the lewd, crude, and downright offensive remarks that some jerks write about your videos on YouTube, I feel a need to write how I feel while watching them.
I would love to awake in the morning to the sound of your breathing and the feel of your soft curves in my embrace.
I would delight in fixing you a breakfast of your favorite foods: maybe eggs benedict, crepes suzettes, shchi i kasha (“pishcha nasha” – sorry, trying to be funny).
I would kiss you passionately before leaving for work.
I would sneak home from work an hour early in the afternoon, so that I could walk with you by the river or the seashore, watching the sun reflect in your eyes and the wind play with your hair.
I would gaze lovingly into your eyes over dinner, while talking with you about your latest research and ideas on philology and etymology – maybe kibitzing with cognates from Spanish and Welsh.
I would spend some time in the evening helping you with research, or doing some work on your website that you asked me to help with.
I would end the day by exploring every inch of you with lips and fingers, looking for new ways to give you exquisite pleasure.
Repeat every day for forty years, with breaks to raise the children.
Anyway, that’s how I feel when I watch your videos.
S lyubovom,
Evan Owen
Oh yeah…I’d like to be 25 years younger so that you might take this proposition seriously.
PS Hey “HFW AA group,” need some help here, I’m falling off the wagon!

Is a condomminimum a small prophylactic?

Old King Cole issued a series of edicts. They became known as “Cole’s Law.” :wink:
It’s so reassuring to see that I’m not the only one HFW is driving totally wonkers! :grin:

dude wtf your some 40 year old virgin probably that imagines about beautiful girls over internet, damn, no one wants to listen to your sad life imagination, either get laid or stay in your little house and keep hiding behind that computer, but dont post any of this crap
btw very funny vid…. :D

Of course Marina is not a mirage, because she’s more than an optical phenomenon, although she is “ochen goryachaya”!

I request the word: Shampoo.

TALES OF A GUMSHOE

It was another hot August night I had spent all day at the race track in the blazing sun. Now back at the office I turned on the desk fan and poured myself a drink of some cheap bourbon.
My sun burnt face and the third bourbon was making me drowsy then I heard someone approaching. I could see though the frosted glass that it was a dame at the office door.

And then she walked in, she was wearing a tight sun dress made up of thin material from which you could see the upside down V of her open legs reveling the magic triangle in her silhouette. She walked towards me an sat at my desk thrusting her gams in my full view of my face.

She said she needed my help, ……….

to be continued

Screaming all over the place with no hog? I think our hero was burning something more potent than rice – wasabi, perhaps? :grin:

ROFLMAO
That was great, Fianchetto

How about Julia Child Fianchetto, Chef Extraordinaire :cool:

Jack as in a flag. Hoist the Jack me matees.

Eta ochen staraya shutka, russkii chelovek!

Jack be nimble Jack be quick Jack jumped over the candle stick and burned his Richard. :shock:

Lovely jubbley Fianchetto! :-)))

¡Perrea perrea!

Thanks – I love Pixar’s, and others, CG shorts. Particularly fond of Scrat as well. :-)

Own the next meeting is after the new year so we can all fall of the wagon before then. :grin: Lot of parties to go to before the next meeting. :wink: Nice post Owen, we all have dreams of something that eludes us in one way or another. :smile:

So Jack is Little John? Then would asking for John Daniels mean that you just wanted a small shot of Jack?

Must have had a long John… son :mrgreen:

Funny how art imitates life, aint it? :mrgreen:
(or is that – as you say – bass-ackwards?) :grin:

That joke was a little flat. :mrgreen:

That’s where the English Dickheads live….in a little flat :mrgreen:

Yeah, I love it when he goes Kung Fu on those prehistoric piranha!

ianp. if you could show me examples of this Deadeye Dick prior to 1908 and that he was a detective that would be helpful as a slang dictionary published in 1908 described dick as being short for detective. The only reference I can find of detective stories involving Dick.. there was a detective series by the name of Dick Donovan from the late 1800s. People could have possibly associated his first name with detective. Another theory is that dick is taken from the slang “to dick” meaning “to watch” taken from the Gypsies back then.

Dick to be short for Richard is pretty bizarre, just like Jack for Jonathan… it’s just as possible that dick came about in a similar bizarre manner.

The Tom-foolery is getting a bit Harry…

Leonard sneezes Jager? So that’s where the stuff comes from.

I request the word Pussy

How come this word is used to refure to a cat and a female’s privates? :neutral:

Ok if you want to get all technical. Draw your sword! Jack-knife (type of dive or truck maneuver), Jack Russell (type of terrier), Jack o’lantern (pumpkin), Jack-in-the-box ( I wont say because I want M to do the phase), Jackass (male ass/mule like, and stupid person), Jack boot (large cavalry boot) Jackdaw (common name of the daw), John ( toilet, might have came from the use jack or jakes to describe a toilet but people settled for John), and finally Cracker-Jack ( something excellent, or caramel-coated popcorn, or Navy Uniform)

Karl, lesson learned here is never fence with an armed man! heheh I’m funnin with you too. :wink:
Ooops :oops: forgot one more: pe·dan·tic (p-dntk) adj.
Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules: a pedantic attention to details.

Hey is this the start of a ‘wordfight’? If so, please don’t invite M for her word-fu is much better than I and she can lay me down flat with just one word that sounds like it came from above. You know like in the movies.

LOL

Baela con miga mi rosa senorita! :grin: :grin:

Muchos gracias, neuroway!! :grin:

Where is Jack when we keep talking about him so much? A sleep at the helm. :mrgreen:

Oh you where looking at the wrong photo of Denise. I don’t know of any Keith in my family. But thats not to say there isn’t one.

My faithful Indian companion, Srinivar, tells me it is a direct ‘loan word’ from the Hindi शैम्पू. :mrgreen:

Another Amazing Video Marina!

It was The Best Meeting You at Youtube Live and I’m Glad You Like My Garfield I Got For You!

Hope You Do My Request For The Word Matrix! Here’s the Video of us Meeting and Me Requesting The Word at Youtube Live

We’re all just a bunch of Romantics here on HFW… every Tom, Dick, and Harry :mrgreen:

I found this on Nat Love whom they called Deadeye Dick.

http://www.answers.com/topic/nat-love

Oh great! :roll: A few more I failed to post. Im beginning to think why people don’t name their kids Jack anymore. It’s such an over used name/word. Oh it could be worse. I could be named “The” or “And” or “It”…. I would break my neck turning my head to answer every sentence. :roll:

Hi Sean, Did you know that Marina had rated your video 5 stars? Scroll down to the ratings area on the left.

what’s wrong? I honestly don’t remember! Was drunker than 10 indians and was fresh out of the shower after some drunken little cutie-pie puked all over Me and Herself! If that won’t put a guy in a funky mood and make Him say funky things then nuthin will!

When I watch the vid again I *might* remember what bothered Me last night,,,either way,,I simply MUST refrain from posting here,there,and everywhere when I’m too loaded! My apologies to You Marina and to All the Class too,,do Ya forgive Me? :cry: :smile:

Jack is short for John you mean how can this be when there is the same amount of letters?

Jack is short for John. That would be a good chapter in another book, nick names.

Speaking of romantic, here’s a great Russian vid. It’s about a young soldier’s tender feelings for his sweetheart in her blue scarf, as he set off to go slaughter the Nazi invaders.
Синий платочек
Maybe russianboy / russkiichelovek will translate for us? Pozhalista?

Hi Marina. I can’t thank Bill O’Reilly enough for introducing you to me. I look forward to your upcoming visit. I have a word for you. Baseball, that makes sense, basketball, makes sense too. How about Hockey? played in Europe, North America. What is the origin of Hockey?

And you are adorable by the way

Jack and Jill went up the hill,they each had a buck and a quarter,,Jill came down with 2 and 1/2 and they didn’t go up for water! :shock: :smile:

Oh I just remembered something.

jack (v.) 1873, jack up, originally “abandon, give up,” later (1885) “hoist with a jack;” then “increase prices, etc.” (1904, Amer.Eng.), all from the noun. Jack off (v.) “to masturbate” is attested from 1916, probably from jack in the sense of "penis."
Which makes me think of the ‘One eyed Jack!’ I know what your thinking..LOL. When I was younger I wore a patch on my good eye for the doctors thought I had ‘Lazy Eye’. They where kind of right. Its not really lazy but im sort of blind in my right eye. I can see fine with it but can’t read. Its like trying to read with peripheral vision. I can’t in the center focus of my eye. My brain does a cool trick that everyones eye can do. It fills in the blind spot. I have two blind spots in my eye. Since my eye couldn’t use the information it just tried to move around to gather as much information as it could. The appearance of a lazy eye. ‘Eye’ sometimes still use a patch but only because its part of my Pirate costume. http://bit.ly/G4vC

Pajamas.
Maharajah.
Dungarees.
Candy. (Or is that Malayalam?) :grin:

Harsh! :sad:

Never ever say HI Jack at an airport. My dad and I made that mistake once. :oops: :oops: This was long before 9/11. :neutral:

- Quote

“I was never fascinated by classical jewellery. There has to be a soul. I’ve always loved discovering odd pieces while traveling, which I could customize for my very own joy.”

Her first one-off pieces was sold directly to Liberty and Harvey Nichols in 2003.

- Bjørg (www.bjorgjewellery.com)

FEELING THE FREEDOM

Speaking of which: Nickname!

Why is the science of the study of the sky called astronomy and the pseudoscience is called astrology?

Yeah but….why did penis get the nickname, dick?
Not that it wasn’t in need of a name change. Honestly, penis is a weenie of a name, isn’t it?

So, I was wondering about the word ‘tweezer’ What kind of word is that? Is it from the Latin ‘tweezus pinchum pluckum’?

Jack is short for Jack-Off. haha hey MARINA HOW COME THERE IS NO THANKSGIVING CARD!?? =( i was waiting for that one. Also y do people these days refer to dick as penis? :shock:

If I may be so bold after last night’s drunken episode,I would like to request “naked as a J-Bird”.

It is good to see Your pink boxes again Marina,maybe that was what had bothered Me all along,for a while You left nearly all the replying to the TAs and I missed Ya! :smile: I was petty and let it manifest in a bad way,,,silly Me. :oops:

Now don’t get Me wrong here,I do like all the TAs too,especially capman.

creepy……. :-/ :???:

Homework :mrgreen:
Very :lol: lesson!
Jack I beleive is short for John.
Example: John F. Kennedy was called Jack

Marina I must say that your videos were much better before you became a you tube partner. Do you even know who is jerking your chain?

There there, tryant, you’ve just made ME feel a little less foolish after MY outburst of passion… :mrgreen:

Oh Deere! I’m back! :mrgreen:

Oh yeah, this is a PHILOLOGY site, not an encounter group! :oops:
BACK TO BUSINESS: so Rick becomes Dick. Hmm… in the Celtic languages, the initial consonant often mutates depending upon the word preceding it. E.g., in Welsh
tad = father;
ei dad = his father;
ei thad = her father;
fy nhad = my father
Gaelic also has initial consonant mutations.
For your homework, if Dick is short for Richard, what would be a logical nickname for Pritchard?

Homework: What’s short for Jack? Well its not short for John thats for sure.

In my statement what part made you think I was protesting Jack as a nickname for John? :smile: Im just protesting Jack for being mis known as short for John. I think the confusion of Jack becoming short for John might be for my name in different languages like (sounds like this,’Wall-king’) ‘Wall-King’ meaning John. I don’t know what language this came from (thinking Spanish or some dialect of it. ) but many Spanish speaking sailors called me this for a few years. I tend to like the Hebrew meaning ‘Gods gracious gift’ for it sounds impressive. Yet Im not religious nor do I feel like I’m a gift to the world. On second thought I might be….. :cool:

I can see no useful purpose in this word association game manipulation thier attempting.

Jack Deere :neutral: Nah :!:

WB.

BTW I’ve driven a large Deere a few times when I was little. http://bit.ly/BZvf It was a thrill when I was driving on a elevated road that was too narrow for the tractor and the outside wheels where just turning into space. My sister tried it and she had a hard time staying on the road.

Nickname at best but not short. :grin:

this business association attempt sucks dicks like you do.

Dear.. Methinks of (sorry about that, it’s just a bad association of ideas)

Flying deer (at least part of it).

Maybe Jonathan :???:

My dick is what i use to fuck my wife with I dont know what her name for it was.

I have never driven a dual wheeled tractor, but I would love to! My tractor is sort of high profile and I have gotten into some tight spots! Like going under trees!

That’s and interesting phrase “naked as a J-Bird”. I thought it was short for Jail Bird. humm..

Yea sometimes M doesn’t comment very much on her own site. This is a common occurrence. So much of the problem comes from what the technology lacks. I felt the same way as you do. I have been reading the comments for about a year and we are lucky just to get one pink box per lesson. Im guessing here she doesn’t feel the need to comment for she contribute more than her share with making the videos for us to watch and a website to watch them on. That’s the problem with videos. After time they become plastic or unrealistic. I have mention to my student about offer my class online and they said they would never attend because they want the personal physical instruction that you would get at a university. I had mention doing video lessons which they said would be ok but it lacks the spur of the moment questions. Im a bit more interactive in class and prefer to answer question in person than with text.

Speaking of oversized: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjDshU8pDxI :cool:

My nickname was “Mr. Meoff”. I even had this one evil girl announce my nickname over a PA system at the malls food court. I was very embarrass then later realized know one their knew my first name. :oops: :oops:

I’m guessing Jack is short forJackson

OK I’m going to try one more Time at this; DOES ANYONE KNOW IF MARINA IS STILL GIVING OUT RINGTONES????

My left eye is my dominate eye. I was born cross eyed. They clipped a muscle in my right eye that caused the eye to turned in and straightened out the eye a lot, but not enough. I still have a slight turn in of my right eye. So I don’t have any peripheral vision. But I stay out of wrecks and keep it between the ditches. I can see and read from the right eye, but the left always takes over. As they say blind in one eye and can’t see out of the other. :lol:

I should start them up again… remind me in a few weeks!

Huh?

‮Hope you and your brother get better soon James. :wink:

I don’t get it either :???: .

I like your name just fine :mrgreen:
Even the Disney people were classy
enough to create Capt. Jack Sparrow
Johnny Depp sold it so well, he can’t
walk down a street anymore without
somebody going “Yaargh, matey!”.
I’m glad you remembered to mention
“jack up” a car. I was going to ask
one of the Brits what kind of jack
is stowed in their boot (Scissors,
hydraulic or ratchet?). Ye have a
fine name thar, Captain :mrgreen:

Yeah? Heh heh,well I guess I’m not worthless after all,I can serve as a bad example! :lol: Only 1/2-kidding.

See what we mean about your attitude John. There was no reason to talk trash to Evan. He hasn’t bothered anyone by his comment.

I am getting fed up. Marina is commenting here a lot more now and all I can see is people having a go at her. For gods sake, if you think you can do better then why don’t you try!

AND JOHN!

(he should just go before he creates a FW)

this business association attempt sucks dicks like you do.

Marina I must say that your videos were much better before you became a you tube partner. Do you even know who is jerking your chain?

:mad:

goddamn!

He’s just joshin’ ya, Jack :mrgreen:

Hi Marina, Here is a first time newbie word request… What are “druthers”?!? If I had them, I’d know.. Thanks!

HAUSCAT! Love that name!

Jack is not, i believe, a nickname for Jonathon, but for John only…Jonathon and John have different derivations…

ianp is partly right on DeadEye Dick, though – however, the character’s name was Deadwood Dick…

http://books.google.com/books?id=QbY3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=deadeye+dick+dime+novel&source=web&ots=09Om1ptNJp&sig=JOSo4aRQ1HTAZ5HC27OZDpkkELM&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result

Im right here. :mrgreen: But I have to go now. :sad: I have some moving to do. Yeap I have to move again. Im giving back my new motor yacht and moving back on to my sailboat. :cry: Then moving the sailboat back to Kirkland. Which is better so I don’t have to commute to my classroom. :mrgreen: Reason? Because the recession is strangling my business. :sad: I wish I was in SoCa now. Im getting more request for my classes there than in Seattle. :grin: Might be because there are 7 schools here and only 1 in LA. USCG would like me to be in LA. :???: Well at least I have solved the $15k expense of moving cost. I’m just going to buy a new sailboat in Long Beach area and start my classes near by.

LOL! “See also TOM” :mrgreen:
Annuddermale will like to see that!

well, dang, i dangled an html angle bracket somewhere…

i apologize for the italicize… :mrgreen:

We should be able to vote-kick.

I’ve been here for 6 months give-or-take,She did reply to comments more often till a few months ago,ahhhhh well. You TAs are friendly and reply alot,that’s cool,keep after it fellas. Might I suggest the next batch of TAs be hot chickies like Marina? You know,to bring some balance,Yin/Yang,hot/cold,good/evil,light/dark and such. Most fellas here would welcome it I think.

So,to the hot lady members here,how about it?,wanna apply for TA? Get Your own shade of reply box and gain some fame whilst helping educate the world? You know You want to,,so,,,c’mon,just do it.

It’s already been done. It’s on one of the radio show links. Anyone have a link for popstar8katie?

hmmm…Jack is a nick for John, so i’d guess Jackson is a nick for Johnson… :mrgreen:

q.v. my [Video Dedication] below, and the past couple of days’ posts, and you still won’t get it, but you will understand. :grin:

It never ends with him. He’s is going to run of more members.

http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/11/28/detectivericharddick/#comment-87131

I don.t care what you think youngster.

Jack “the Ripper” – LOL! :mrgreen:

c’mon, Stokesie, play nice…

the evidnce suggests otherwise or i wouldn’t have commented , capman so take your comment and shove it where the sun don’t shine.

Listen, you aint the first person here to be a pain in the ass, and you wont be the last ok. So if you don’t have anything nice to say…. Piss off.

Yeah it was very painful. But not as painful when I slip and landed on the candle stick. :shock: I can’t sit down anymore. :lol:

Do what you have to pal. I know things are tough for everyone right now. I think you liked Kirkland better anyway didn’t you.? If you need any help moving I have a truck. :lol:

well, we all know the old joke…Tom, Dick, or Harry, who shall I marry? I will marry Tom ’cause his…

‘er…hmmm – can’t seem to ‘member the rest of it… :mrgreen:

now that was funny!

or was it T’s D was Harry :shock: :lol:

My recent reply to Capt Jack;

“I’ve been here for 6 months give-or-take,She did reply to comments more often till a few months ago,ahhhhh well. You TAs are friendly and reply alot,that’s cool,keep after it fellas. Might I suggest the next batch of TAs be hot chickies like Marina? You know,to bring some balance,Yin/Yang,hot/cold,good/evil,light/dark and such. Most fellas here would welcome it I think.

So,to the hot lady members here,how about it?,wanna apply for TA? Get Your own shade of reply box and gain some fame whilst helping educate the world? You know You want to,,so,,,c’mon,just do it.”

I suppose the above copy/paste is some form of cross posting,sorry,just want to be sure the idea is seen by as many as possible.

Do you own this website? if not than pissoff your self

You got the better deal. :mrgreen:
Get your brother on antibiotics
QUICK! A prerforated eardrum
is ripe for infection. Once it
gets inflamed, he’ll be in some
serious agony. It put me on
the floor for two days, once.
Equilibrium was too messed
up to stay in bed – the floor
was safer.

I was thinking BOATHAUS, but decided against it There can be only one Marina on this site. :)

Oh that sound like what most of us would like to experience with her. Great post Owen! :smile:

Yh, doc gave him antibiotics. He gets car sick. and he was sick 5 times. thank god i wasnt there

In my statement what part made you think I was protesting Jack as a nickname for John?

the part where i misread what you wrote, of course…sheesh, isn’t that obvious?… :lol:

COOL IT John

Gumshoe? Private Dick? or Jane ?
How about a love story.

Do what you have to pal. note to captain jack , pal is a code for personal ass licker.

I have not been talking to the people I usually talk to latley

Melikadothechacha
capman911
smokey36bear
annuddermale
captainjack

I AM SORRY!

That’s a pretty interesting observation… I’m guessing that Welsh/Gaelic is an oft untapped resource around here.

BTW, I don’t understand John’s comment. Evan, are you attempting a merger with Marina, or perhaps a corporate take-over?

YES ACTUALLY I DO OWN THIS WEBSITE

Proved by the fact I can go more than 3 levels deep.

So shut it then because

You don’t know shit

i thought you were James?…(-;

no worries, we all have actual lives that we actually live once in a while – and i go for months without talking to online friends, sometimes – doesn’t mean i don’t like ‘em, just means i have nothing to add or no reason to comment…

what was this about?… :cool:

I would love to see some women TAs. I have not had one woman even ask to be a TA. I should try to volunteer JCR. You know I find interesting is that this site is not dominated by women. Women tend to be more into words than men.

Good suggestion Tryant. Let’s see if any ladies are willing to step up on the plate. :smile:

Just thought I should say.

actually, i think the HOT ladies have to apply thru me…

i call it annudder rule… :cool:

James it is okay

I can see no reason why this post could be offensive to anyone here it is a a stating of a personel opinion directed to 1 specific person and all i read is comments from people who are attempting to manipulate my opinion with their opinion that don’t/won’t count for anything where I am concerned.

I like the colour of your border. I think we have the best ones (dont tell everyone ( kinda hard for them not to notice when i have written it in a place they read ))

Thanks.

i hate gum on my shoe… :???:

OK, at least one of the comments is an honest opinion… he likes the earlier videos. I have to admit that I like some of them more too. I like the bloopers she used to show at the end. But I’m really interested to find out about this mysterious power behind the throne… this group of ne’er-do-wells who are manipulating Marina within some shadowy conspiracy. So, I’ve got to know… who are they? Is it The Pentaverate?

yes, cap…mine was, but i shaved… :mrgreen:

Sorry. I havent spoken to you much lately either.

How deep you can go don’t mean shit , boy its the person whom paying the money for the website owns it .

YES ACTUALLY I DO OWN THIS WEBSITE

Proved by the fact I can go more than 3 levels deep.

So shut it then because

You don’t know shit

Colonel Sanders has his hands on alot, even beyond the grave. :grin:

So Marina really was a SINGER in a former life. Just watch, you’ll rub your eyes in disbelief. :shock:

I would hate it if marina went all comercialised

“hello my dear students, today’s lesson is sponserd by coca-cola insert slogan here

That would break my heart.

While driving home from my sister’s after a great Thanksgiving weekend my girlfriend asked me the origins of ‘port’ and ‘starboard’ ( which I was able to answer ) and then she asked about ‘right’ and ‘left’; which I was NOT able to answer.

You did rightwing and leftwing, but not the underlying right and left.

Please investigate.

spoken like a true Marina Sycophant…

Rule 1.1. (a) subsection Why We Exist from The Marina Sycophant Handbook: Marina rules. Period. End-of-story. Why are you still reading this?… :cool:

Go on then hot shot. What makes you so great.

Christmas Word Requests :cool:
These are both related to each other.
Mistletoe
Kiss
(Marina I can’t believe haven’t done a lesson on kiss yet.)

Go on then hot shot. What makes you so great.
PAGEDOLL!!!!

SORRY!! that seemed to have pasted itself from my last comment :lol:

what i meant was

PAGEDOLL!!

1979?…’er – Marina, being 28(?), would’ve been born in 1980…

obviously she was ahead of her time… :cool:

i like to chill with the common folk… :cool:

thats a real good attempt to manipulate the content of my posts by combining two seperate posts into one seperate posts to two seperate commenters in too one,

this business association attempt sucks dicks like you do.was directed too Evan Owen

Marina I must say that your videos were much better before you became a you tube partner. Do you even know who is jerking your chain? This post shouldnt be associaterd with the one above, except by some pervert like James

I like [This bit] of Marina’s pre-philologist-incarnation work. :grin:

that you :oops:

i thought Walt Disney still ran this cartoon we call Life…

at least that was the rumor… :cool:

Are you kidding I’m not gonna rememberin a few weeks :roll:
Alas the fate of all video game geeks, no short term memory.
It took me a while to get an answer on this, no one ever listens to me. I’ll Try though. Would you prefer a post or an email as a reminder???

well, Evan did suggest a merger of a different sort elsewhere…(-;

Starboard is a good one… port is more obvious once you hear the origin.

One 4th of July I spent the evening with friends on a sailing yacht in the middle of Clear Lake (TX) to watch the fireworks. On the return trip, as we motored into the channel, our port light went out on the bow. Inebriated, and armed with a flashlight and a red water balloon, I took the place of our forward port light, earning me the moniker “Port Light Dez”.

I don’t know of no knot or splice called a dead eye.
I found Deadeye in my book as a circular block with no revolving sheaves but three holes arranged in an inverted triangle, through which shroud lanyards are rove; similar devices with one hole, often for extending a stay. From ‘dead’, already thus pelt in Old English, with a common Teutonic root, the idea bing that the block had no moving parts. Because such blocks where also known as ‘dead men’s eyes’, it may be that three holes suggested two human eyes and on open mouth. I see dead eye was first attested in 1751 in Anson, Voyage, I, viii, 78…

LOL… I prefer Heart of Glass

hello. i have a question where does the word russia come from :?:

Marina ages well… very well, indeed. Maybe she’s like Merlin, and lives in a backward time-line.

you post in a public forum and believe it should be sacrosanct to you and the person to whom you write?…c’mon, John – I know you know better than that…

but your question of whether Marina knows who actually pays her salary isn’t really anyone’s business here, is it?…Marina strikes me as very bright, but her business is hers – not ours…

i’ll leave that for you and wish you peace…enjoy your evening.

Heartily second the request cufan :!: I was guessing she’d be saving ‘kiss’ for St. Valentine’s Day, but like your idea even better!

P.S. Have you seen the place my name links to? :grin:

The other day I went searching for Eggnog, I love that stuff. Why don’t they sell it year round?
Anyway I found Pumpkin Eggnog, it’s like liquid pumpkin pie :grin: and Gingerbread Eggnog. Mmmmm good.

Just something I wanted to share.

Marina is far more powerful than Colonel Sanders… his chicken was laced with a secret chemical that made you crave it fortnightly… obviously we crave Marina’s lessons on a (practically) daily basis. :mrgreen:

Hmm… Walt Disney… it’s interesting… that’s the second dead man mentioned that is controlling this “cartoon we call life”. Perhaps we must contend with Zombies!

No worries, James… Marina doesn’t need anything corporate to be a success.

:grin: I like them both, chose to link that one for its rap section, alluding to her recent ‘Me Rapping’ post. :grin:

Well I won’t *rule* that out! :lol: I don’t care how they get to the position,just that they do get there :lol: Have-at-em annudder! More power to Ya Man.

I disagree with you on Jack being short for Jonathan. I see it more like a insult or derogatory name. I have seen names come about as a shortened derogatory naming system that people like to use to poke fun at. Look at your nickname for example. It could be looked upon as some sort of derogatory name. Only some nicknames stick over time. Im thinking names like Dick come about as derogatory to Richard.

hmmm…bright, attractive women usually don’t attract bright, attractive women…

well, maybe in Celeb-world…

or on Ellen…(-;

Here’s a cool story about the adventures of a Private Deck.

:grin: I love the stuff too! Gingerbread Eggnog I have never tried that, but it sounds YUMMY! :cool:

pagedoll Your vision here just doesn’t cut it for me , no offense mean’t.

HOMEWORK: I was starting to think that maybe Jack was short for Jacque or Yakov or something. But I guess it’s just originally a nickname for John. :idea:

I just hope you were able to restrict your arc of visibility to the required 112.5 degrees required by the rules of the road. :smile:

Inebriated or not, a difficult task for a non-fixed light.

Yeah, Smokey, sounds great! You have a brand name for these tasty products?

Brand name is Hood
They are out of Lynnfield, MA

JAMES!! :grin:

I don’t care whom reads these posts i,ve made. I do care about that they find my comments offensive when it plain as day that they weren’t meant for them.

Well TY Capt Jack! Nice to be lauded a bit after I was such a damnable goon last night,makes Me feel a tad bit redeemed.

I wonder if there would be more ladies at HFW Youtube to dangle the “TA carrot” in front of? I think I’ve done My part and someone with a better understanding of Youtube Users might have a better ability to “recruit” the ladies. Get Em! Beg,borrow,and steal Em! :lol: Just get Em here!

Marina will always and ever be the Queen,We could benefit from the company of some Princesses tho! :wink:

One word…Vampire. :neutral:

I guess it’s like Peeps, the only time you can find them is at Easter time. :smile:

hmmm…well, i wouldn’t construe this particular post as offensive – insensitive, perhaps, but not offensive…it’s more in the way you word things than what you are saying…

but i’m sure my thoughts matter not a whit…thanks for the response…

Back in basic training, we were called “DICKs”, while our drill sergeants were considered “DICKHEADs.”
It’s an acronym for Dedicated Infiltrated Commited Killer.
And for the HEAD add-on: Hired to Educate Another Dick.

Is that like the Prime Directive? :mrgreen:

I don’t care whom reads these posts i,ve made. I do care about that they find my comments offensive when it plain as day that they weren’t meant for them, If some one finds my post offensive state it in a seperate comment or it is a clear attack upon me; as evidenced by annuddermale’s comment above.

Hehe… in bootcamp the DIs told us USMC stands for:

U Suckers Miss Christmas
and
Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children

It’s kinda funny with Marina’s facial expression on the freeze frame above.

You have a friend named Richard, Marina? I guess it is safe for me to say that you must really like DICK! :mrgreen:

PEEPS!!!

I love to put them in a microwave!

Oh yeah I thought it was obvious but I just wanted to clarify. :grin: I never try to assume anything. Anytime I assume something when working on a ship it puts peoples lives or body parts in danger. I guess I over reacted. :oops: :oops: NOT!!!! Im just playing with you by giving you a hard time. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Good request… with a good history lesson too.

ok??? y did u tell me that. It has nothing to do with my comment….

I’ll third these requested words.

Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau

I have that problem on this video too James. The last comment I make ends up in the next reply box. So it’s just not your computer or mine, a little glitch probably.

You suck DICK! :mrgreen:

Bravo!^2, Warren :grin:

I don’t know how well it met requirements, but the Coasties did not seem overly concerned. My guess is that they were more worried about drunken pilots. Our bowsprit had a teak deck-like structure that was about 6 feet long and 2 feet wide. I whimsically dubbed it “The Forecastle”. It was a perfect place to lay out while holding the improvised port light.

sounds like you were the Prime Director… :mrgreen:

make that Primed…

I saw this economy thing coming long time ago. I had hoped that I would be able to fill my classes during the summer as plan for the market to crash. I called this one right on the money. I had a plan to ride out the recession but failed to implement it in time.

No need to a truck on this trip. That why I like boats. You just fire up the engine and cast off all lines. Think of it this way. It’s like living in a motor home. Problem with motor homes is your limited in width, height, and length. Sailing yachts are very friendly to the environment. Im still working out the move to LA or San Fransisco. Thinking of buying a 20 foot container and just trucking it to SoCa.

So I guess in our spare time we all john off. :shock: :lol:

I apologize if my comment sounded harsh; obviously you were trying to avoid collisions.

OOD’s and smaller boat captains are trained to discern another ship’s ( or smaller boat’s ) orientation by the lights seen. Seeing both red and green lights I would have to assume your vessel was pretty much pointed directly at me, and might cause concern and or confusion ( I have seen bizarre light combinations, in foreign waters, international waters, and in inland waters ).

As I said; you were trying to be more visable, and as you said, the Coasties had bigger concerns.

Vampire? Like Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, we have Marina, Woman of Word Origins?

Certainly a Witchy Woman, if not a Vampire.

i don’t believe i attacked you – i certainly did not mean to do so…you certainly are free to speak; and i don’t think it is recriminate to request a bit of civility in language…

2¢ just isn’t what it used to be… :cool:

Put Jack between Mr. and Meoff and say it 1000 times out loud so everyone can hear you. :mrgreen: I think you might get the picture. :wink:

…….just got back, what i miss?

Your not a bad example Tyrant or even 1/2. We all have to vent somewhere or sometime. It just builds up in us until have you let go. No harm no foul. Then carry on as nothing has happened it’s all cool. :wink: Peace Pal :wink:

This is a good day for Jack and Dick jokes or is it Dick and Jack jokes, either way it’s fun just like the panties video and all the different names for panties and games we played on that one. :mrgreen:

“Suck my dick.” :lol:

you Missed the Boat?… :cool:

What about Polo – or as I call it, Horse Hockey? :lol:

No offense was taken, Orion. :mrgreen: It did not seem harsh in the slightest. My going forward was just for that very purpose… to avoid collisions, specifically with power boats. Most sailing yachts, whether under sail or motoring, move fairly slow. As you note, without the port light, and in its proper place, a Captain should assume the worst case scenario. But not every driver and pilot on the water has experience enough to judge the proper course. I find this especially true of “go-fasters” who rely on their engines, not training, to avoid danger… no offense meant to all speed and power boaters.

lol… primed… I was feelin no pain that night

To much to surmise in one comment box :razz: :razz: :lol:

You stepped on me Annuder. Oh well I wear you as a hat :razz: :lol:

Just don’t step over the line into the realm of Sicko-phant :mrgreen:

Warren great example, I tried to find a sample for the film noir dialogue to set the rhythm of my mimic. Tks.

Especially liked how she got her cigarette.

That’s ‘punny. :lol:

Irwin R. Fletcher
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfzXpE0QB2U

Police Chief: Name?
Fletch: Fletch F. Fletch
Police Chief: Occupation?
Fletch: Shepherd

Cool! I always wondered where the diamond giving event originated from :mrgreen:

Hey HotForWords,

I have a word request. What is the origin of the phrase
“5 o’ clock shadow and what does it have to do with its meaning?

Yes, very good

I pulled this picture from the Witchy Woman video. It kinda looks like Marina. :smile:

http://i37.tinypic.com/vookgk.jpg

Fortunately, I am a Rick, although I know some people who consider me a Dick. And there are a couple of you who are being dicks out there. What the hell’s wrong with you, questioning Dear Marina about her vids and her private business affairs? This is HER CREATION. It ain’t about you. Be grateful for the information/education and the fun Marina has provided for us all.

Don’t worry Pagedoll you cut it with the rest of us. Whaaaassssttt up my friend. How’s everything on your side of the map? Hope everything is fine for you as it is for me and mine. Take care and don’t work too hard. Or with one. :razz: :lol:

mine starts to show @ 11 AM…

but my timing has always been off… :cool:

Can you extract 1:15 for PageDoll?

2:38 is way kewl as well :-) I like the faerie thing going on… :grin:

How little you actually know.

If it involves others it ain’t her creation.

How do you know?

TY capman,TY.

Please think, if you are capable, of how stupid that comment was.

This is HER CREATION. It ain’t about you. ahh question, what are we all doing here then?

Not a creation more of an illegal modifications

see answer too question “how do you know” above

At least one of us here seems to be doing (or wishing to do) something like [This]

Have you ever tried making your own eggnog?

It is somewhat similar to making custard, homemade eggnog taste a lot better than store bought.

Hood milk company has a blimp, seen it once while watching the Tall Ships Parade while on the East coast.

ever wonder how they get the words on those little heart shape Valentine candy.

or [This]

Marina, is Gorby sick? Let us know when you can. I hope everything is alright! Always.

“Each problem that I solved
became a rule which served
afterwards to solve other
problems.”
– Rene Descartes 1596-1650,
.
heh heh!
.
“I am always willing to learn”
-MeLikaDoTheChaCha
.
“What was that middle part?”
-A Fish Called Wanda

The origin for Jack is Jacobus in Latin, or Jacques in French, or Jaime and Santiago (which comes from San(t) Yago or Iago = J ->Y or I; and C -> g) in Spanish. Santiago is also the patron saint of Spain. Have you heard of the Spanish city “Santiago de Compostela”, where the saint is allegedly burried?

@originalistrick

You’ve been here a little while, now – all noobs are given a mutant alien image on their posts… if you click it, you can upload a photo to personalise it. As well, the ‘Dashboard’ tab at the top right of the page will take you to a profile page wherein you can change your display name to be equal to your ‘nickname’ – whatever you like, spaces and some punctuation are allowed. Thirdly, there you can add an URL in the Website field. This will turn your name blue, like mine, and link it to that URL. Most use their YouTube channel, but mine is a bit different. Enjoy! :grin: :grin:

Ciao,
Fianchetto

1979 was a GREAT year! Not because of Blondie tho,because I had wheels(68 chev 2-door 396),alcohol and gasoline,money(a job plus ummm lucrative entreprenurial interests),a steady gorgeous GF then when that ended several others,party favors,lax laws,good friends,etc..Lived well within My means but lacked for nothing important. I am always “lifted” when 1979 comes-up in convo,,TY.

After that era MADD and other “puritan type” groups slowly gained power and made Me get trickier and trickier just to have a dab of fun. Everybody knows what MADD is but have Ya All heard of DAMADD? = Drunks Against Mothers Against Drunk Drivers. I don’t know that it is a real organization,probably just a widespread feeling. :cool: The more we are restricted the stronger the feeling will grow,till,like prohibition,it will all bust loose worse(or better :)) than ever.

Welcome back, ChaCha – Have you seen my video dedication to you and stokes (below) yet? :grin: :grin:

Good to see you, as always, and hope you like it! :grin:

Dear совершенная Marina, I was away both Thursday and Friday, so I missed seeing your new videos. To answer your question, “Jack” is short for Jonathon, and also for the name, John. Also, “Jack” is short for Jack Daniels, a Tennesee whiskey. In electromics , a “Jack” is a Jack Audio Connection Kit. “Jack” is short for a fast-food place called Jack-in-the Box. A golfer named Jack Nicholas was also called just “Jack.” A tool caled a “Jack” is used to lift heavy objects. A “Jack of all trades” means someone who has many skills and can make repairs. “Jack” is also the partner of “Jack and Jill” who are in a famous nurserey rhyme. :smile:
I’ve posted so late, I don’t know if you’ll read this, Marina. I hope you had a good Thanksgiving. Your dear student, seesixcm6

* to change your display name, first enter desired name in the ‘nickname’ field, Update Profile at the bottom, select Display Name Pubicly as drop-down list, and update again. your next post or reply will reflect changes made here.

Changing your photo, or ‘Gravatar’ is retroactive to all your posts on this site.

hmmm…i don’t know if your post is in jest or not, tyrant, but my brother was nearly killed, and did suffer brain damage, due to a drunk driver…for me, it’s not a funny subject…

but that’s me…your taste may vary… :cool:

I forgot about the name Jacobus in the Old Testament which in Hebrew means “supplanter” (or similar).

Thanks, Fianchetto. I just haven’t taken the time. I should tell you that I am so new to using computers(never had one before this one) that you would truly not believe it. So all the stuff you’re mentioning that someone like you takes for granted, I have to figure it out for myself. I’m trying to teach myself on Marina’s site. Can’t think of a funner way to learn. Say, I have to go somewhere now, but take a look at Marina’s tweets. It looks like Gorby may have a problem. Could you keep an eye out? Appreciate it.

Heck yeah,sounds primo to Me! You fellers recruit Em and I’ll help chat Em up! :wink: Of course,if they read the archives I’ll prolly get ripped up one side and down the other.

The Valentine candy is printed on by munchkins and very small pens :razz: :razz:

@Warren

[Magic Noir]

:wink:

If’n I had My druthers I’d tell Ya it means something like this,,”I would rather see it this way”,it implies to Me that,although unknown to the speaker for sure,the don’t really know if it is/will be as they wish.

watch some old BW episodes of the Beverly Hillbillies and it’ll all become clear :smile:

Marina, I really, really hope Gorby gets well soon, I, like others here have grown quite attached to the little fella. :sad:

Putting Gorby in my prayers tonight

Hey Hot for Words,
I have a word request for you. I’ve been reading this book called “Convivium” and I have never heard the word before. I was wondering what it means and where it comes from.

thanks!
Nila

I don’t remember in which order they are in, but here are the pictures you wanted. :grin:

http://i33.tinypic.com/nfpu87.jpg

http://i35.tinypic.com/2dtun2c.jpg

http://i38.tinypic.com/33oppi8.jpg

I hope Gorby gets well. He’s a very special part of HFW. :sad:

We shall as well. I didn’t understand this or your earlier, similar post until I looked on twitter just now – thanks for posting here, prompting me to look, mate! :grin:

Fianchetto thought you would like this pic from witchy woman.

http://i38.tinypic.com/33oppi8.jpg

Nice SLIDE SHOW of our teacher…How many lesssons can you recognize by name? I only got two. :???:

look up

Ouchie bigtime,I am sorry to hear that Man. I do however feel that many activities with downsides do have upsides too.When too many rights are taken away then,even tho injuries are prevented,it lessens the general freedom of the masses. I have lost Friends to alcohol related incidents and feel for Ya Man. I just hate to see My rights diminished daily. If I am injured/killed by a driver wich is under the infuence then that will be My comeuppance for wanting to be free,I accept the possibillity.

We all have views,TY for presenting yours for consideration without appearing angry,I respect that action and no mistake.

seems like Fianchetto wants to make a movie I Don’t see it happening though.

Hey Cappy!! Oh its all good over here. Had a mellow T-day with the folks. Just got back from Glamis, that was a blast. Just kickin’ back watchin’ some college ball right now…Pagey says HI! (shes right here) :grin:

Pretty cool pic. I like it. :cool:

HEY Marina!

I dying to know the orgin of the name Jenna!

:smile:

JJ

Glad to help – I am new to having an online presence, and new to HTML and we all have different learning curves. As a paramedic, I learned the Galen Rule: See one, do one, teach one. Though I don’t currently practice medicine, I still try to carry on in the manner of my fellow Medics and Physicians who took me under their wings when I was green. mijj here taught me how to post renamed links, and the other ‘Frequent Flyers’ and TA’s here are generally more than happy to help with any questions you may have. Click their names and you usually get their YouTube channels if you wish to contact them directly. I am at http://uk.youtube.com/Fianchetto1 feel free to drop me a line there if you like, mate.

Thanks for the Gorby update, too!

Capman911 why don’t you take offense to animalntaz”s comments?

My Grandfather was known as “Jack” because it was the polite version of a a nickname his older sisters gave him. It was just not nice to call him “Jack-ass” in front of company.
The polite version of the nickname stuck. He even got his retirement checks with “Jack” on them.

added my own prayers to yours, Che Volay…

That guy was no- fish out of water
nor was he- all wet
he was in a- kettle of fish
it was- sink or swim
he had- other fish to fry
being- hard boiled
a regular- Shamus
not wanting to- walk the plank
figuring it was- water over the dam
there was a- turn of the tide
so- in a twinkling of an eye
he decided to- vote with his feet.
:razz:

Marina, Gorby and you will be in my prayers tonight. I hope all turns out well. Always, Rick.

:wink: :wink: hi MARINA–jack is short [?] for john.why i do not know.tom.staten island.

Hey Seesix how about pickup Jacks and with the little ball and little stars called jacks. :grin:

Marina, wishing Gorby a speedy recovery.

I think this is the season between now and March when, flu, tainted foods, and certain infections occur. Viruses account for most food poisoning cases where a specific contaminant is found. I was in the hospital for five days several years ago due to tainted food.

i don’t believe i attacked you – i certainly did not mean to do so…you certainly are free to speak; and i don’t think it is recriminate to request a bit of civility in language…

2¢ just isn’t what it used to be…

So in submiting this comment I John say to you annuddermale “I don’t think it is recriminate to request a bit of civility in language” as long as the message doesnt get polluted.

I left you a reply down lower

What is the word origin of “bouncer” like one that would be seen at a bar/club?

i think jack is short for james? I also would like to request the origin of the word word.

I will pray for Gorby also and for you Marina.

well, if you (and, as you pointed out, others) find base language necessary to get a point across, i guess the rationale is lost on me…

not my flavor, but tastes vary…

Marina, congratulations on 150,000 subscribers. (Actually, 150,010 now)

What’s funny is that this morning at 3:16 AM PST, I noticed that you had 149,832 subscribers. That’s 10168 subscribers in the last 15 hours.

[Guy Noir]

:lol:

[Pinot Noir]

My brother just got over food poisoning from eating deer meat. I don’t know if he didn’t cook it long enough or if it was too old. It’s tough on the old body.

No.. that’s about 168 subscribers in 15 hours… someone needs a refresher in mathematics :-)

Hi Marina,
In your latest video you were talking about the shortened name
for Richard and detective. You asked the origins of the name Jack. Jack is another name for John. I know this as my uncle was named Jack. My auntie would call him John.

ROFLOL – Our beloved English teacher helps us out with our maths, too! :grin: Absolutely beautiful! :grin:

New site HOT FOR NUMBERS :lol:

Great song Evan! My mom and grandmother LOVE this song! It’s very popular in Russia.. especially at weddings! You pretty mush summed up what the song is about! :-) (The blue scarf symbolizes love and hope and caring, I think)

:wink: I’m here all the time :wink: xxooxxoo

added my prayers also on my 12 other sites :smile:

That was smooth.

You pointed me in a new direction.
Thank you.

:mrgreen: thats right :mrgreen: Ltcom August Van Suchtelen US Navy Seal

personal favorite the Pinot Noir

Film Noir, Detective work and music noir.

Hi All;

Sorry, see no problem as long as you preface it with “Big”

Regards
Richard

annuddermale and Dezdkado:
I believe the technical term for the ailment is “thermologophilia.” It’s a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder. :mrgreen:

What happened to Film Noir?

Whoops… already covered… rats!

Hello Marina,
I do believe that “Jack” is also short for “Jonathan” or, John.
BUT…..
I was wondering why “Bill” is short for “William”??
And also “bill” is used for money(as in dollar bill etc.) or as money owed (phone,car, power etc) and also as a mouth on a duck or goose!! Please answer this for me as I don’t seem to understand!?! Sincerely, Bill…..or Billium….Or Willy!! :wink:
And I hope that Gorby feels better soon!

Maybe you could try typing them in differently… for example…

D*CK, F*TISH, F*CK*D, *SSHOLE, or otherwise just avoid subjects that are suggestive or objectionable. We will still enjoy your site. :smile:

Lover of hot words, eh? Are you sure you’re not suffering from thermodidaskophilia? [(lover of hot teacher(s)]

Out of all these comments to these postsonly 1 was required can you guess the one. Here it is i will tell you. Huh?

:lol: :lol: :lol:
Ohhhh my gawd that is soooo funny.
Reminf me to never use a calculator again.
Of course, then remind me to tripple check my typing.
Thanks for keeping me honest. :grin:

I love this girl. She is all quality and she is with it. :grin:

Oh dude, I get those names too. And Jack is short for John, an oddity I’ll never get. What is it with these nicknames? I agree with Satchmo, why does William have so many nicknames, and why do so many words use the word Bill? Where does it come from?

Maybe detectives were called dicks because they were cocky.

If you were online with HFW at 3:15AM, you’re even more obsessive than I am!

The strange etymology of Yakov:
Yakov (Hb) => Iacobus (L) => Jacomus (NL) => James (E) and Jaime (Sp)
Yakov => Iago (Sp) and Jacob (E)
Santiago de Compostela…that’s in Galicia, NW Spain, right? Lovely cathedral there.

Oh, my dear teacher, there you go overreaching yourself again. You’re a very knowledgeable and talented etymologist, but you are not an onomastician (expert on proper nouns and name origins) as that’s a specialized area that requires a much deeper understanding of sociology and history sometimes.
Richard is not merely a “popular Christian name” as you put it, it comes from Old English and Anglo Saxon, and means literally Wealthy and Hard (Rich=Wealthy, Hard=obvious). In the context of the times, anyone wealthy was powerful, and anyone wealthy and powerful was a nobleman. And anyone hard was also hardy, strong, brave and powerful (in the physical sense), so the contextual meaning of Richard is “Bold Ruler”, which many kings where named Richard for that reason, the Lion-hearted being the most famous.
Now, there is the joke that in the most basic sense, Richard means Powerful and Hard, so of COURSE the nickname Dick applies, but that’s just a joke.
I know you probably get many requests for name origins, but seriously, until you get a degree in onomastics, leave that for the experts, okay?

I didn’t understand at first either, ’til I scanned the rest of his remarks. He’s just some hijo de puta who’s trash-talking everybody today.

hahaha thats funny

That too!

Marina answer me!! Y DONT WE GET THANKSGIVING CARDS FROM YOU!? :cry:

Maybe they were “rushin’” to build an empire?

Perhaps Marina has her own way of celebrating thanksgiving she isnt priviledged to reveal? Thats just up to her to answer someday.

I didn’t understand at first either, ’til I scanned the rest of his remarks. He’s just some hijo de puta who’s trash-talking everybody today.
Yes yes i agree you are.

The word russia must come from russia or our interpertation of the spoken word as it was pronounced by a russian?

my x wife

HER NAME FOR IT WAS LITTLE PEE WEE. Let’s ask Marina what your name origin means little pee wee :?: :lol:

You are completely right, Evan. The Cathedral in Santiago de Compostela is wonderful. The city is located in NW West, where the Celtic infuence is remarkable. I wonder whether you also visited the Parador (=State owned hotel) there. It is the old hospital for pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago, or Way of St James. Should we talk today about the Way of St Jack, just for the sake of keeping close to Marina’s question? :roll:

Most of what yogione has shared is true. But there is more to the story. What we call in English “Judah” is in Hebrew “Y’hudah” (יְהוּדָה). It does refer to the fourth son of Yisrael (Ya’akov), and to his descendants (HaY’hudim). After the Kingdom of Israel became divided, the ten northern tribes were referred to as Israel and the southern tribes of Judah and Benjamin (as well as parts of Levi) were referred to as Judah. In the 8th century BCE (approx. 722 BCE) the Northern Kingdom was conquered by Assyria, and its inhabitants taken away as captives. These 10 tribes were largely assimilated and most never returned (See the Book of Esther [and the Apocrypha] for more on this). The remaining kingdom (Judah) was conquered by Babylon (actually the neo-Babylonians or Chaldeans who conquered Assyria in 606 BCE) not once but twice (597 and 586 BCE). The second time resulted in the destruction of the temple of Solomon. In both events the captives of Judah were taken back to Babylon for resettlement, leaving behind only the poorest of the poor (the Am H’Aretz, people of the land). After Babylon was conquered by Cyrus the Mede and came under the power of Persia, Cyrus allowed the HaY’hudim to return to their land of origin… The Persians named this province “Yehud”, an Aramaic name for Y’hudah, and it was part of Persia’s 5th satrapy. The people living in this region were called (by Persia) “Yehudim”. It is from this Aramiac word (Yehud) that we later derive the word “Jew”. It is not that Judah was stronger or more powerful that allowed the land and their descendants to be so named. They were just fortunate enough to be allowed to return… and it is believed that only 10% of Judah and Benjamin returned to the land. Judaea is the Roman term for the sub-province of Syria (the same one the Persians had named Yehud) that came under their rule due to the conquests of Pompey. Pompey invaded Judaea and took Jerusalem in 63 BCE. So from Hebrew (Y’hudah) to Aramaic (Yehud) to Latin (Judaea) to English (Judah and Jew).

HI Marina word request for john and his X wife pee wee :?:

“Palestine” is a non-traditional and imposed name on the region. Emperor Hadrian, after the defeat of the Jewish forces of the Bar Kochba revolt (132-135 CE), wanted to add insult to injury… and so renamed the region Syria-Palestina after Israel’s ancient foe, the Philistines.

Emperor Hadrian further degraded the Jews by forbidding them to reside in Judaea, on pain of death… except for one day of every year, the anniversary of the destruction of the 2nd Temple (on Tisha B’Av [70 CE], the 9th of the month of Av… usually in late July or early August). He allowed Jews to enter Jerusalem on this day to visit the ruins of the temple mount and “wail for its destruction”. From these we get the wailing wall, and the great diaspora.

Not content to end the hatred at this point, Hadrian also rebuilt Jerusalem as a Roman city (Colonia Aelia Capitolina), built a temple to Jupiter on the ruins of the Temple Mount, carved a pig’s head into the South gate of the city, and forbade circumcision throughout the empire. Roman coins at this time were minted with the inscription “Judaea Capta”. So many Jewish rebels were taken captive and sold into slavery that the price of a Jewish slave dropped below the price of a horse.

As another side note, Solomon’s Temple was also destroyed on Tisha B’Av (586 B.C.E.)… by the forces of Nebuchadnezzar. Herod’s Temple was destroyed by the legions of Titus, son of Emperor Vespasian, who would follow his father as Emperor of Rome. The captives from the revolt in 70 CE were used to build the huge earthen ramp for the assault at Masada (in 73 CE, that was ultimately unnecessary) and the Flavian Coliseum in Rome… which still exists today.

Thanks for the reply, Marina. I can understand how everything in that entry applies to your lesson except for the “alliterative adjectives” reference. To be alliterative, the adjective and the name would have to begin the same, e.g. Dapper Dan or Dirty Darryl (if we are sticking to Ds). But Desparate Ric (or any other kind of Ric if the adjective did not begin with an R), would not be alliterative, so the alliterative reference I say does not apply to the combining of D—– and Ric. I read the alliterative reference to mean, “Dick, like Jack, can be a generic for any man, especially with an illiterative adjective;” it says nothing about the combining of the two, which is what was discussed in the lesson. Is there any evidence of the combination applying to the non-alliterative?

(To Tryant: Hang in there, baby.)

Signed,

CKP (The P stands for persnickety.)

Naughty one! :roll:

Jack-Jacob

I wasnt trying to do that.

I just didnt do 2 blockquotes.

Word Request: Gorp. I was on an MBTA bus the other day and overheard a group of people discussing their recent hikes. They were comparing how much chocolate was in gorp. One person claimed that gorp stood for ‘good old raisins and peanuts’. Could you find out where this word came from and what, if anything, it stands for?

Eric M

Jack is short for John. (Even though they have the same number of letters.) For example, John Kennedy was often called Jack Kennedy.

Eric M

La Bête Noire

I think Jack is short for John… :???:

dude – dont be a richard

If Scotland Yard was looking for John the Ripper instead of Jack the Ripper they might have caught the guy. :mrgreen:

Pretty soon they’ll be looking for Che the Quipper. :lol:

@Bob the Zinger

Everything I know I learned from you :smile:

LOL! That’s a type of “Jacks” I forgot! Good call! I also didn’t mention that old time movie actor. Jack Nicholson, or the old-time TV host, Jack Parr. or the old-time comic, Jack Benny!
seesixcm6

Jack is the common nickname for those named John, of which there is a very funny episode in Chapter 2 of the book Mr Midshipman Easy, whose name indeed, became Jack.

Marina,

I made a request here for Dick short for Richard months ago. Along with…

Ted for Edward
Bill for William
Hank for Henry

and so on.

However, it appears a standard written request will not get your attention.

I have made a lot of good request but they keep getting overlooked.

Why are some words used as both a noun and verb, spelled the same but pronounced different?? You know heteronym’s.

i.e. Duplicate, Dove, Record, Attribute.

Very :cool: video Fianchetto!

Also note that Marina’s Twitter followers have increased by 50% since YouTube live, so attending has probably done her some good.

just one correction – a driving license is a privilege, not a right…and therefore to keep the license you must abide by the strictures… :cool:

hmm…well, i joined just to pass on my prayers for Gorby…

but i did see one highlight of YTLive where someone poked Marina’s highlights…that alone might cause a Twitter…(-;

Jack is short for Jackin or Jacob. If your French Jacque.

Touche’ annudder,I wouldn’t wanna parry with You too much,prolly get My drunken brainpan split asunder :!:

Класная тема :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

jri:
Actually I haven’t been there. I met some Galicians at the Festival Interceltique (speaking of Celts) in NW France who told me about it.
Good point re St. Jack: since the origin is Yakov and Jacobus, St. Jack WOULD be more accurate than St. James.

I feel for you, mittheman. But video requests are the way to go. She probably chooses them because they add some extra interest to her videos. I just need to get my 13-year-old to show me how to upload a video. :lol:

I remember back in basic training, while we were getting smoked doing push-ups, one of my drill sergeants would stomp his way in front of us and say something crazy like, “MAKE MY DICK HARD!!!” :shock:
I didn’t think of him to be gay when he said that. I’ve always assumed that he was one of those war crazy types, who gets an erection by the very sound of gunfire. :twisted:

YOU ARE SO HOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

He would also say something crazy like this towards a group of privates, “I REMEMBER THIS ONE TIME A PRIVATE TRIED TO KILL HIMSELF BY STICKING A HOSE DOWN HIS THROAT, TRYING TO PUMP HIS STOMACH! WHEN I SAW THAT, I NEARLY LAUGHED MY ASS OFF!!!” :shock:

I like that scene from the movie G.I. Jane:

G.I. Jane: “Master Chief…”

Master Chief: “LIEUTENANT… SEEK… LIFE… ELSEWHERE!”

G.I. Jane: “SUCK MY DICK!” :cool:

My former roommate in the army would recite that DH Lawrence poem from that movie.

John [but do not ask me why]

:idea: You want to have your video get more exposure on the net and dick gets slotted to a no-no postion on the search engines :?: Try “Hickory Dickory Dick Dock” or “Dickens Dapper Dick Detective” “Dickless in Seattle” :!: etc.

Jack is an Anglofied version of Jacques, the French occidental word for “John”. The name comes from somewhere in the early Middle ages and according to my best friend Jack, it was used as a taunt to a minor King or England, now well-forgotten by history. The French called him Jacques, jut to anger his subjects who couldn’t understand why the Frogs couldn’t say a simple word like “John”.

here you go, another mystery solved by your…nevermind. :)

Oh Marina, Marina….I detect, that humor rises to many peoples’ temper—”I have the smallest penis in the world; that is why I have so many women looking for it.” Also, in grade school, I had to administer punishment because this kid told me a joke…” he said…would you suck my dick if I washed it===you punk i said—he then called me a dirty cock sucker” bang bang :evil: :twisted: :sad:

If “dick is short for Richard”, I feel sorry for you, Richard! :mrgreen:

I have a request: what is the origin of the word “word”? Anything to do with the Latin “verbum”?

So you knew her also?

HER NAME FOR IT WAS LITTLE PEE WEE. Let’s ask Marina what your name origin means little pee wee

Thanks I like this explanation much better :mrgreen:

a bundle of sticks

and Nixon,Dick—I over heard…you give Nixon your stuff to send home (New Guinea,world war two) You could trust him too!!!! Dueces never looses :cool: oh over heard from vets dead—-sons of the half wings :smile:

Bright one…learn to Jack dick too

that is what Pat said(Nixons’wife)

You don’t dick around(great hand gestures), jack in the box

James… Which is odd considering Jim is also short for James..

u sure love saying dick, that was great though private dicks :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :cool:

‘Jack’ is an affectionate version of the name John.

good one James :razz:

u can have my private dick

[Dork] doesn’t have a clear etymology from online sources. Is it from the same origin as “dick,” or is it a contraction of “door key,” as in “door key children”–> “dorky children”? http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dork

Jack is short for Jackson and sometimes Jacob :shock:

bye bye my teacher:Dd

Sorry, Hot For Words has the wrong derivation for Dick as detective. It comes from 19th Century writer of English detective novels (Dick Donovan was pseudonym for JE Preston Muddock). These books were best-sellers, called ‘Penny Dreadfuls’ because they cost one penny to buy at station news-stands. Dick Donovan was the name of the wildly popular hero, and people in US and UK started calling detectives ‘Dicks’ because of these books. Kinda’ like “Bond, James Bond” became a catch phrase after the success of the first Bond films.

What is the origin of the phrase to “dick around” or to “dick about”?