Wired Sexy Geek Contest 2008

Now you guys get the video BEFORE it’s done processing :-)

why do people say its a nightstand when you use it more in the morning…..?

Three?

I would like to request you investigate where the term “cold feet” came from. My girl is getting cold feet and I want to explain it to her. Thank you!

hello

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Marina,

Why do we park on the driveway and drive on the parkway?
:shock: :shock: :shock:

Vote or Die trying to Vote :lol: :???: :roll: :lol:

It will not let me edit. Hmm… Anyhooz, I think M should sign the 50 new calendars. To ensure they actually get to HFWers, I have a plan.

The Plan:
Che will pick me up in his pickup truck (loaded with burritos for the trip.) We will stop by the printers and pick up 50 new calendars and deliver them to M. We will wait patiently while M and Gorby sign the calendars based off the HFW website comments. (PK will provide an algorithm used to weight the quality of each comment, multiplied by number of comments, to the factor of number of days contributing.) M will make a fine dinner for us, and nice fluffy pillows for us to crash on the floor before the long trek. Che and I will then set out in the truck to hand deliver all the calendars. Each recipient must provide a meal and a couch for the night. Sounds like a great plan!

Oh yeah, M, we need to make sure that hitoshi, chemikail, Bob, James, and MissCC get one, just to make the trip worth it. (I hope Che's truck has those big ol' superinflatable tires. :roll: ) And mijj will need a calendar, too; I've always wanted to see Liverpool.

So, M, whaddaya think?

Why not vote for ALL of the Marina entries? That must be allowed since they are separate entries and they all get aggregated into one so it’s a good way to vote for Marina multiple times.

Marina, if I go to the US as an exchange student, can I stay at your house ? lol :razz:
Ps.: Voted

It kind of stinks that there are so many separate nominations for Marina in that list. I understand that they will consolidate them, but it would be nice to see a more accurate placing for our teacher.

BTW: I voted and gave a neg to that dude – hehe.

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Marina,

What happened to the FORTY SOMETHING THOUSAND (44,364) entry you had on there the last time I looked like last week????

Where did it go?

That ain’t even fair! :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

In the season of giving can you please give us the lineage of the word philanthropy please?

I have to agree with Bob on this one. But which personalities do I get to use? Can I vote with all of them? Now we’re getting somewhere!

Absolutely Teacher. You and your thousand sisters are the sexiest geeks around! There’s not a lot of competition anyways. You all look like a bunch of clones to me. :-))

Top rated one eh?

I love the red one! She’s the one who gets my vote. :-))

Hi marnia I voted for you Hugs and Kisses to the Teacher

Hi Marina,

I love my new calendar.

-Pennsyltucky9

What do you mean, “we?”

I hope you win,casue my finger is in a cast from voting for you so much. :mrgreen:
Here’s to you Teacher!!!!!

You must win! I wote hundret times! just for you Marina! :eek:

THAT is a very good picture of you they are very good. I have been voting for you when will you know who got it :?:

:cool: Hi Marina! I voted for every entry! I hope you win again! Maybe this time they will give some kind of award! By the way, have you seen my video request? I hope you will use it! :smile:

they are the borg. you will be assimilated. resistance is futile.

:mrgreen: I only voted for YOUR entries :!: :mrgreen:

Well done on being first!!! How do you mean?

Also where do you get all your designer stuff. I just bought a few fake armani things. quite pissed off…. so I am buying a top straight from armani to avoid this again… Is that what you do?

This is from the Wired Sexy Geek Contest site.

Nominees submitted by multiple users will be consolidated to reflect an accurate, aggregate vote count.
Sounds like if you vote for all of the Marina’s and thumb down the rest all of the votes will go toward Marina.

SPELLING MISTAKE!

Under the video you have written

It looks like people added me likt

also

Love the widescreen tv clip.. I saw your hair like it was in the butterfly vid.. :-)

yes. it’s spelled “licked”, indeed.

Ha! my private vid has got 52 views and 6 comments even though 11 people can see it. I have clicked on it about 7 times so where have all the rest come from? :smile:

I could have sworn we will see a remake of the sexy geek video, which was one of my favorites.
I do want my calendar, Marina.
I’m gonna vote my heart out for your calendar!
Sorry for being materialistic, but that’s the way the world works, and you did promise. :D

If you guys make it North of the Canadian border… drop by and I’ll refill your truck with burritos, beer, maple syrup, hockey pucks, back bacon, toques, “Bob and Doug Mackenzie Take-off eh! yah hosers” shirts, beaver fur hats… and… a nice pair of mukluks for Marina. :mrgreen:

I saw it one, and refreshed once for HD.
Nice woorkkk James.. I’m amazed. I can’t wait to see what you’ll cook up for next year! :)

I voted twice. The second time I wore a disguise. I hope it worked. :shock: :lol:

You will win, I promise! No joke. :)
Thank you for granting us priority, the HFW website community!
Makes me tingle just saying it. Haha, I’m so proud of my teacher, I can’t contain myself… :D

it’s also ok if you want to thumb down the not so sexy, sxephil! :twisted: :twisted: If the need arises, I will be the first to thumb his ass down all the way to the inferno from which he came from! He said on blogtv something not cool about Marina, and since then, I don’t even watch his videos anymore. Bleh :mad:

Yes, no more submitted entries… unless it is a new geek. :mrgreen:

I have voted. I can’t see why Philly D. is #1 Our dear teacher needs our votes

Sounds like a plan, Bob. Thanks for your good wishes.

That’s a little radical… but what’s one or two lives if it means you win in the end! =)) I bet that based on this analogy, wars were created. :mrgreen:

Make sure you get Marina’s measurements before you leave, so we can fix her up with some new mini-kilts when you get to Scotland.
Better each take her measurements to make sure you get it right. :wink:

Well, don’t spill it all over the floor. :grin:

The site seems to use cookies so it’s not personalities you need, it’s computers.

Wait a minute Bob!
Spill what? Did you just pick on me? Uahaha, careful I will take a joke so far, you won’t even remember when it started. :D

WOWWWW!!!! THAT WAS AWESOME!!!!! YOU CAME TO LIFE ON THE PAPER!!!!

Phily D isn’t even a true geek. He is nerd, just plain nerd.

{Somebody slips $20 into PK’s PayPay account to ensure the Northern Exposure enroute restocking station makes the cut.} :twisted:

No fair being first yourself.
I think you may have some insider information.
(Hummm, wonder if the SEC regulations apply)
(Maybe Bush will start a Posters Commission before he leaves, or it might be on the top of Obama’s agenda)

How many times can we vote on this “Wired” site?
I was thinking if you don’t know which submission to vote for, then vote for them all.

Oh my, on the calenders, I hope you didn’t get stuck with a lot of unsold stock.

Oh sure, that’s how it happened. :roll:

Дорогая Марина Орлова, Yes, I’m going to vote for you, again. That was an amazing drawing by a talented artist! If I could illustrate like that, I wouldn’t need your beautiful calendar! :razz:
какая прелесть
seesixcm6

Quote: Sir Winston Churchill 1874-1965
“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
RW Quote: Well I am right now so I’ll have to grin and bare it. :mad:

That’s a very talented artist.
Captured the image VERY well.

:oops: :lol: :lol:

It looks like Wired consolidated the 2+ pages of HotForWords entries and giving a big jump to Marina’s currently 21,615+ votes catching up to SxePhil’s 25+K. I must have worn out two mice voting for those entries. :lol:

Capman911, on a previous page mentioned that voting on the down arrow takes away from the up entries. I’ll try to get clarification on that, and if true, then it is important to click the down arrow of the person leading Marina, which is SxePhil.

Marina is #1 in the universe, geek and otherwise!!!

Great video of that artist’s sketching of Marina.

Hotforwords you have to be the loveliest creature on this planet Brains and looks that can’t even be put into words.If your not a model or in line for miss universe something is wrong.I’m 57 years old and happy to say before i leave this planet I will have images of you and die with a smile on my face.

:smile: VERY happy :lol: to vote once (maybe more) again my dearest Marina
:smile: I would Love for you to win all the contests you want & enter :cool:
and not for the free calenders (I LOVE mine) a sighned one would be special :mrgreen: BUT :shock: because you deserv it for all your hard work & determination :grin: I salute you :!: still tryin for T.P. :oops: B.B.

Homework: I’ve been having fun posting my votes over at the Wired site :mrgreen:
“Marina uber alles” LOL! Found a nice shot of Marina looking hot in a very flattering yellow outfit – schmeck!
I haven’t voted anybody thumbs down, I don’t do that.
Is it up to 1000 posts? Gee, it’s only been, what, three days?
I wouldn’t mind a calendar… (turned out, the one I got at Christmas was from the National Audubon Society :neutral: )

Absolutely!

I think the SxePhil people need view more HotForWords and get educated and learn to vote properly.

Hey Cha Cha,

Look at Marina’s down arrows. I think, (but, not sure) that the up and down arrows combined are used as the metric for determining the lead. If that is true, then the SxePhil people have most likely done that.

I agree, I don’t down vote anyone else, but since we need to beat SxePhil, and if the combined up-down numbers count, then at minimum, we also need to down vote SxePhil, besides up voting Marina.

I’ll try to get clarification on the combined up-down metrics, unless someone knows for sure and can fill us in.

Cha Cha said:
“Found a nice shot of Marina looking hot in
a very flattering yellow outfit”

You mean this one, right?

I was able to see most of the pictures, except most of M’s pics. Is anybody else getting this, or is ‘puter getting funky? :???:

It was not letting me edit before. If you can read this, then that problem is fixed.

I, uh (cough) figgered you’d (cough) be hereabouts someplace (dies).

{ Che has the inseam covered, no problem } :grin:

So this is what happens when I leave the house, recruited into a road trip.
We must film this and make a movie, the dialogue will be witty even without the aid of a keyboard, will be shooting from the hip so to speak.
It will be necessary to abandon the PU in Maine, fly to the UK, rent an Austin Martin then drive the Chunnel at which point Alex will fix as up with an Audi which we will ship back to M.

I voted already. I managed to find the highest rated submission out of the 1000+ on the list. Thats nuts, just goes to show how much Marina’s popularity has skyrocketed since last year.

Such a gracious host. :smile:

I have a requestbfor two words, four actually.
First, Gorby shows up a lot in your videos but what is the origin of his name, is it Mikhail Gorbachev (or Gorbachov?) that inspired you?
Second, since you are in it a lot on your calendar, what is the origin of the word “lingerie”? Third and fourth for that matter what are the origins of the word “thong” and “bra”?
I’m not a perv, I’m just wondering and in the end you’re the one that called yourself sexy! =)

Ooooohhhhh, gives me goosebumps :wink:

Oh nothing to say, just like the way my ‘fuchsia’ looks against your ‘yf00wo’ colored border. :mrgreen:

You didn’t get the Babes Gone Wild calender… pity :roll:

James are you talking about the one from December 29 titled ‘A Thanks for Marina’s Hotness….

If so that went public, It showed up in my subscription box BEFORE you email message appeared. Thought you knew this.

They have your DNA now…

“It’s not about the look, it’s not about how beautiful you are, how sexy you are, it’s about how smart and intelligent you are!”

hotforwords, July 09, 2007

yay , so how do you send the calendars ? I really really want one :mrgreen:

This is H O L L Y W O O D. You have to take such statements with a few shovelsfull of this stuff.

Did you get a signed copy, we want to know where they all went… huh?

If resistance is indeed futile, why do they keep bringing it up? I think they’re trying to pull a fast one.

Very :cool: drawing Marina! :grin:

Yessir! It’s already gone :sad:
Consolidated… :evil:
They can’t do this to me :???:
So, I took your advice and voted to thumbs down
a lot of geeks. Is Obama REALLY a geek? :roll:
It takes a lot longer to vote…
Spent more time voting thumbs down (lotta geeks!)
Captain Jack made it twice! …voted for him! LMAO
(always vote for your boss, kids) :mrgreen:
Sometimes it was hard to vote, though
I voted for Wozniak (he has good karma)
Majel Barret, Marie Curie et al RIP (but no vote)
…the rest are just a blur – metro’s, NASA, bikinis – oy!
I sure hope Marina wins…
(free calendar! LOL) :idea:

According to what I read on the site above the areas where you start voting that since there are numerous entries for certain people like Marina that all of the votes on different entries will count toward her at the end of the contest. I vote thumbs down for all of the rest as it should count against them.

how can they hold a competition without having any incentives in the form of prizes!!!! or,.. publicity!! or something?!?!!?

silly people.

can i request…. ‘goody two shoes’

:mrgreen:

and what about ‘teachers pet’

where did that come from :eek:

and what about…….. jackass
cos i noticed you dont have many lessons starting with J :cry:

J is for jasmine :mrgreen:

:cool: Just saw your Twitpic of Gorby! http://twitpic.com/y10j
It’s so good to see him perky again! :grin:

‘J’ is for jive-turkey :mrgreen:

For the tweeters in the crowd go here and nominate your teacher for an award with a real prize “Award show in New York” don’t know if they pay travel, sorry. Nominate in “education” catagory especially… but heck if you want to, there are lots of other catagories, but DO IT NOW as nominations cease at the end of Dec31.
BTW I voted for capt. Jack @ wired contest too, I won’t say “up or down” here.

Oh & nominate “misscupcake” in whatever category she’d like. I chose socialmedia, she could use a trip to the “Big Apple”… whatever that means :smile:

What page or # is HFW :???:

worth Big Bucks :smile: C K :lol:
By the TON that is!!

I looked but my nomination didn’t show up so I did it again… go to the education page & nominate. See if she’ll show up there, generate some action http://shortyawards.com/category/education … you can click the “Tweet it yourself” green link, I did the second time I tried.
Oh & “Kwicherbichen” for bestusername :lol:

Billy it seems that there is a top 100, so maybe she needs enough nominations to get on the top 100 list or it’s close off at this 100.

If you click on the icon of a nominated person you will go to a page where there is a list of those who nominated said person.

Marina, you are truly a sexy geek, not sure I can choose betweem you and Olivia Munn though. I will have to ponder on this :twisted:

Just like a good dimocrat I voted for you and I voted often.

I don’t see your nomination? It should appear immediately after it is made. I just saw mine now it has disappeared.

lol
no need to ask for votes… she’s definetly going to win

I see you got one in, so before I go, I’ll try another catagory… say tech http://shortyawards.com/category/tech & the I hit “Tweet it Yourself”… getting easier.
going home now

Guessing ‘Best user name’ is a write in category.

Sounds good to me. You handle the logistics, and I’ll eat the burritos. :grin:

Oh yeah, don’t forget about hitoshi, chemikail, and MissCC (can she cook anything other than cupcakes? Uh… I dunno?

There’s quite a few in there… “user generated” catagories

I know it’s a late entry, but if some more folks can nominate, hopefully voting will make a difference… like an out of nowhere canditate that takes a landslide victory… or not. What happens, happens.

I voted for Marina :!:

Marina rose to the top, even in the face of some stiff competition. I mean, some of the contestants were favorites of mine. Zooey Deschanel, Mila Kunis, Rosario Dawson, Olivia Munn, and Scarlett Johansson. I’d never hear of
Natalie Del Conte,, but she would get my 2nd place vote. I voted only once.

oh oh! :arrow: :shock:

Eggnog spiked with Brandy for breakfast manana :shock:

:razz: I voted for Marina :wink: and even got 300 of my military friends to vote for Marina :lol: you deserve more yes my sexy sweetheart more !!!!! :wink:

hi ms. wsg!
i have a simple word request, please find the origin of the term “indian giver”.
thanks.
johnny

My Teacher

Ok, I think I voted for you. Certainly I didn’t vote for anyone else, but I didn’t see a “vote” option, so I added you to the blog as my #1 sexiest geek of the year. You know you you don’t need a vote for that. I want a recording of you (if not you yourself) to say “There you go” whenever I get a star in life.

My word request is a phrase, “Far Fetched”, is it Yiddish (lol, that’s from “The West Wing”) but any way, I used to tell my pet dog Dixie to “Fetch”, when I would throw something for her to run after and bring back. I spose “far fetched” would be something brought back from afar. So far that you couldn’t see from where it came from.

Any way how about that recording device that plays when I score a star :smile:

Thanks,

Newtonsmahi

Mark A. Conkle

I just woke up,then voted for You Marina. That chickie Who plays Jackie on the 70s show is near the top too,and rightly so,She’s a little sexpot.

hey marina i have a special word to request the word is Mariachi i thought i was and interesting word to request for…hope you put up there thanks.

ohh by the way good luck i that contest i will sure vote for you

Sorry, but I am going to vote for an underdog

Mila Kunis, she was just too hot in her latest movies: May Payne and Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Before it is upon us, this January 20, 2009 please find out where the word: “inauguration” comes from…

I see Captain Jack is running also!

After a trip like that, you guys are going to need a holiday. Do we know anyone in Tahiti, Fiji or Hawaii? If so I may just stow away in the calendar locker as it empties.

I am here been over there and voted twice already. :smile: :smile:

Jive would be a good word to request, but stop calling Miss CC a turkey! :grin:
Or was that your signature? :razz: :lol:

How about a Shorty shortest skirt category? :lol:

You are sexiest geek ! I vote several times already :)

Yeah! I’m a bit shocked. :shock: I’m not raking very high but I’m doing better than Steve Jobs, and Obama. I kind of wished I was a bit more in the green than the red. :neutral: SxePhil has me beat by a long shot. I think I could top him next year. I have a plan. It’s going to take me a year but I think I can top him. :mrgreen:

Shameless link to :Sexy Geeks of 2008 “Top Nominations”

Awe, tnks bro! I know I don’t stand a chance. But it’s kind of fun. :wink:

Thanks ChaCha! I wonder who I will beat out. Steve Job, and Obama maybe. Maybe next year I’ll post a photo of my abs. That should roll me up a bit more. I need to work on my tan first. :oops: Obama got me beat on that one. I think I might try to beat out SxePhil next year. At least I could steal some of his votes putting Marina higher up next year. Yea that sounds like a plan. :twisted: :twisted:

There are no nominations for Hotforwords in any category as of now.
Che, yours won’t count because your twitter account is private, but I don’t see BillyB’s either.
Another rigged poll?

Hello Hotforwords! First I would like to say im a big fan of your videos. They are very interesting to me. Also, I would like to know what the word “adorable” comes from. For some reason that work really confuses me. haha. Anyways keep up the good work.

-Greer
aka Greermakesvideos from youtube

Hello noltie,
Yes, Marina was inspired by Mikhail Gorbachev to rename her little sidekick from Kobe to Gorby. Read all about it here.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/10/28/gorby/

Check out the Blog link at the top of the page for
other interesting articles and points of interest.

As far as I know, in the context of finding those ever elusive word origins, all word requests are on the table, so you don’t need to feel like a ‘perv’. The more interesting the history or origin of a word, the more likely will the word be done.

Hi popzzz,

I don’t recall a 40 K entry on that Geek contest site.
The picture of Marina in the pink top was around 4 K
and Phil’s was around 14-18 K.

By having those multiple entries, Marina’s votes skyrocketed. The votes are periodically consolidated and rolled up into one number. It seems that the entry where Marina is wearing the pink top is the rolled up count.

Hi ranhead,

Thank you for downvoting Phil. As you can see there are many down votes for Marina’s entry and I’m sure that the Phil camp is determined on winning. Continue to down vote anyone ahead of Marina, when voting for Marina.

From the Wired.com website.

UPDATE 2: The submission period is officially over.

This only means that no more submissions will be accepted but voting is still going.

Marina, why don’t they have a sexy internet doggy of the year? I want to vote for Gorby! He’s soooooooo cute! Nibblet the Wonder Kitty sends you and Gorby a big, warm head rub. :smile:

Eric M and Nibblet the Wonder Kitty

Is there any way they can consolidate all Marina’s nominaitons, so her votes don’t get difused out among lots of different nominations? It would truly stink if Marina got the most votes, but didn’t win because they were spread out over multiple nominations. :eek:

Eric M

lol, yea, it’s my signature, wanted to use ‘old buzzard’ but YOU took that handle. :razz:

Marina, you are the epitome of feminine pulchritude! Btw, what is the story on the word epitome? Thanks and have a fun New Year’s Eve!

Eric M

Hello absentmindedprof,
Yes, Wired.com does state that they are consolidating the votes. You can find this statement right above the list of entrants.

“Nominees submitted by multiple users will be consolidated to reflect an accurate, aggregate vote count.”

Here is the link for voting. Read any last minute announcements just above the list of sexy geeks.

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/12/every-geeks-a-l.html

From the Wired.com site:

UPDATE: We’ve received many submissions from readers — be sure to scroll down and click the Next link to vote for even more sexy geeks. And, yes, several men have been nominated. Most of them are lower down the list. Nominees submitted by multiple users will be consolidated to reflect an accurate, aggregate vote count. Remember that you can sort the list — click the New link if you want to see the latest user submissions.

So to answer your question, it’s yes.

__/)____

Your too fast for me PK! :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Thanks Capt Jack! That’s good to know. Happy New Year’s Eve!

Eric M

Thanks for the clarification! Happy New Year’s Eve to you and your’s!

Eric M

I know. :neutral: I set it to private but when I use the new uploader it pays no attention to any info i put in and just calls the video what its filename is for some reason. It went private about 5 mins after it had finished.

The Best to You in the New Year Eric

WORD REQUEST: Hogmanay. :smile:

hello everyone! i finally bought an iMac today!

Unsold are you kidding? With a face like that I can imagine those calendars sold faster than the ipod.

Ok, you can watch it now… It’s public :mrgreen:

HI EVERYONE!

My video which is basically a video to Marinas good looks. Everyone has been saying lately “oh Marina isn’t just famous for her looks” I know this but I thought what the hell. So I made a video to celebrate her beauty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up0FwBW4o4M

Enjoy

Lucky git. A few months ago I would have whored out my body for one. Until I realised there isn’t really a sex trade in a town full of old people. :lol:

You’ve got my vote :smile:

I’d like to request the word “wild”

Have a happy New Years, Marina! :smile:

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Hello Dear Marina Voters
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When you visit the Sexy Geek of the Year top rated page, at first blush you might think Marina is only about 3000 or so behind. When you account for the down arrow votes, Marina is actually 10,000 votes behind, but slowy gaining. She is now only 9,987 votes behind Phil.

I am tracking the voting progress in Excel for right now. If I have time will automate the process on a web site and maybe Captain can insert a graphic up above so we can track the action live.

This is a screen shot of my Excel as of about 10 minutes ago. I’ll keep updating the results periodically and see if I have time to do the web tracking.

Current Stats
If you are number phobic and your eyes gloss over because of looking at numbers, just look at column K. It needs to be positive for Marina to win. I will do a graph later.
http://i44.tinypic.com/5eyccx.jpg

Remember, whenever you vote for Marina, also do a down vote for Phil. Thank you kindly.

http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top

That’s great hitoshi!
Let us know how you like it and what kinds of things you are doing with it. I think other people would be interested in that also.

I’ve noticed many more YouTubers are moving away from MS PCs and moving to Macs.

I think the contest might end today.. so any votes you guys can get in today would be very much appreciated.. and as PK states.. votes must be accompanied with down votes of others I guess.

Awesome hitoshi!!! Now you can make some videos!!! :-) You’re gonna love it!

Great James! Well done, and I loved the music as well! :-)

thank you! i’m now moving musics from windows to mac!

Hmm. Marina must win

“jamesingtonthethird decided to rig the html” :lol:

Glad you liked it!! I think I will keep that there for a while.. It has the perfect thumbnail. and makes my channel look nice too :wink:

Marina & HotForWords admirers,
Speaking of clichés, did anyone see the AP article regarding the Banned Words list? Don’t tell me to go green again, except my border of course and Mr Green -> :mrgreen:

Check out this article.
Notice any interesting words HotForWords did recently?

Banned words list offers no ‘bailout’ to offenders

And yes, I prefer this ♥ to this <3
I’ll be a monkey’s uncle. :lol:

I was just looking through the comments of the first vid

Marina do you know what,” suck ma baws means,”
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hotforwords (1 year ago)
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Sure, but why would you want to suck on a Biological Aerosol Warning Sensor?? It might be somewhat uncomfortable!

Are you a subscriber yet?

:-) Marina

OWNED!

Just saw our nominations for the shorty awards, #65 in Education….

happy new year all !!
btw is there a new year card from our dear teacher ?

you do that :mrgreen:
we’ll all benefit from it

I don’t give 2 fux of a monkeys c*t :grin: :roll: :???:

I am going to smoke some green. I asked alot of people ig the had any but in the end i got it from the first dude

lolmonkey

Nobody can go green really , unless you’re a prehistoric caveman who don’t even light fires :mrgreen:

I wish you a happy end 2008 and a happy new 2009!

I don’t know if I have done it but the numbers suddenly change to 22500… How can phil be sexier than marina?

Dear Marina,

I wish you and your family a most happy and successful New Year!

Louie

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wow ….. I musta been in the twilight zone …..

I didn’t pay that much attention at the time or really think about it much but now it seems that all the top votes had more. I also remember it being further back in time more like several weeks ago now …..

o well …..

Captain Jack is doing better than Obama and Palin! :mrgreen:
Palin 3:1 (against) Obama 4:1 (against)

As of now she’s #65 in education. go nominate if you still can Bob.

Marina has more nominations than some top 100s in the “Tech” category, must be a delay before showing up. I wonder if Marina could nominate herself, would be no harm in trying after all she is the world’s “Sexiest Geek”.

The rules mentioned nominating yourself, “you will be eligible for the egocentric award”

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And a tip for you die-hards:

If you’re really serious, you can clear your cookies (will kill lodded in sessions) each time and do it over n over until the cows come home …..

:shock: :evil: :shock:

You might want to send out a note to the student body Marina as only a handful will see this comment …..

that’s funny :-)

What is origin of the word “smithereens”, which i know means “fragments or little bits”.

It’s after 8 AM in Calif and I’ve been tracking the Sexy Geek votes since 4:46 AM. Here is an update of the chart and a graph.
The good news is that Marina is gaining, but we still have many more votes to go.

The graph shows the difference between Marina and Phil’s votes.

Remember to down-vote Phil for every up vote for Marina. If you don’t do it, they will, which means your vote is actually negated.

You only need to down-vote the person ahead of Marina,
which is Phil.

Graph
http://i42.tinypic.com/1671s2b.jpg

Hi, Marina ! I’m a french fan and I would like to know where does the word COCKTAIL come from.

Wish you a happy new year.

Good morning Chemikal (afternoon in Bucharest, of course). Since you’re working on your colloquial English, here’s a reference for you: Urban Dictionary, explaining the aforementioned “get out of Dodge”. Not a hint, mind you, we enjoy your company. :razz:

Thanks for the chart. I want Marina to win… but, no matter how this contest turns out Marina is in a category far beyond Phil. Phil is noise! Marina is music! (to my ears… anyways!)

How would we know which yellow outfit? She looks hot in anything, and everything looks flattering on her! :shock: :grin:

Very well said and so very true, Recycle-Logical-1

Can someone help me understand something..

If (for example)

£1 was worth $1 today but last week £1 was 89 cents … does that mean that the the price has gone up in America?

That funny a few lessons back I post a comment in my ‘For The Record’ series which said …”you can put any word in front monkey and you got a great user name.” Had no idea it was a national trend, I pulled that right out of the air.

Could have easily had said, ‘Clown’

hey hotforwords. i’d like to request to word “holy”

i read this in a comment:

“One more thing…it’s almost laughable how obvious it is. Where do you think the word “Holy” comes from? Well, I’ll tell you. It comes from the latin word “Helio”. Now, what does “Helio Biblio” mean in latin? It means “Sun Book.” Holy Bible = Sun Book, or “Book of the Sun”. It’s right on the fucking cover, people! Christianity is nothing more than a sun-worshipper cult, and they don’t even know it!”

and then this…

“Wrong. The origin of the word “holy” comes from the 11th Century Old High German “hulis” and Old English “holegn” meaning “Holly” as in Holly Tree, considered a sacred plant to both pre-Christian Celtic and Roman worship.”

which one is it?

and “SUNday” as well

thank you

That is why I brought it up, Che. :wink:
I remember you mentioning it.
Amazing how coincidence work.
You must be in touch with the ether.

If yesterday, 1 Pound = 1 Dollar
and last week, 1 Pound = 89 cents,

then the dollar has increased in value compared to the Pound. Does this mean “the price has gone up”? Well, it means I can import more Coleman’s mustard from the UK than I could last week. So UK items are cheaper for me. In the UK, they must pay more to import French’s Mustard from the US, so from the UK point of view, the price has gone up.

(BTW, Coleman’s is much better mustard.)
seesixcm6

But still not a patch on Moutarde de Dijon. :lol:

Has he been sniffing again? :lol:

What’s the origin of the word “DADA” ?? as in dadaism…

Iggy Pop, Lust for Life (live) the water cruise….excellent drawing :lol:

Oh, and to everyone….Happy New Year’s EVE :roll:

I would find it very amusing, and so would many others I think, if you could find out the origin of the word “Gamahuching”.

=D

Regarding Peek-a-boo: My mom was born in 1929 and played ‘peek-a-boo’ with babies all through the depression, well before Veronica Lake got her famous haircut!

Mine arrived via ground courier. Not sure which carrier (as I wasted no time tearing into it), but it was probably UPS or FedEx. At this point, they’re already discount-priced because the new year’s upon us. I paid full price, but what the hell… I love my new calendar.

What are you waiting for?

Word Request: I’d like to know the origins of the word, “The”.

Che, walking around with his nose high in the air

A SAFE AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU AND YOURS!

Word request: for the word ‘gay’ like where did people get homosexuality from the word gay? It used to mean happy.

Marina, do you know what has happened to the HD button?

I wish! If this one was signed I can’t find where. It was still packed in its factory shrinkwrap as well, so I don’t think so, BillyB.

I’m happy to have it just the same though. I like the March photo especially.

IT was FedEx

Thank you and the same to you, PT9, and to everyone else.
Thank you all for the fun and laughter we’ve enjoyed together in 2008.
Long may it continue into 2009 and beyond.
Happy New Year, Everyone. :smile:

You must win this contest again!
I vote for u evrey dey when i vake up! :grin:
aaa… Happy new year! :mrgreen:

Captain Jack is in the Contest!

so?

oh, well. congratulations on wasting your money.

Easy now alex, that all depends on the purpose of the purchase. eg. My wife used to have a PC, I would always use it because it was faster than my laptop. She recently bought an iMac (she works two jobs). I tried it one day & have’nt been back since. So she could (and may) say that it was $$ well spent.

Thank you for revealing the origin of the phrase. So help me get this right, it morphed from a banishment exhortation, to what? Something completely different, right?

waiting for my credit card ==
imagine asking your parents to pay for it
“what the hell ?? porn ??”
:evil:

Of course, how stupid of me. :idea: Try telling them it’s necessary for your etymology class.

i agree with “dajokestaaa” That seems like a very interesting word to talk about.

“NOTHING happened?” Oh, dearest Doctor, you devalue your ‘time in the sandbox’ … yet it added to the media-force that got you on SPIKE.TV, got you on Bill O`Reilly, got you on comedian Mark Day’s media-reference ‘list,’ and made you one of the top YouTube stars ever!

But you remain one of the best sources for word-power today, and I am glad to be one of your deeply-devoted students!

Actually, I guess ‘nerd’ would apply much better than geek, which is actually more “a fool” or “a mockery” or “a cheater” or “an animal!”

But you do drive your students wild!

:shock: OMG! I was only joking when I submitted Pamela Anderson. I just checked her votes and they are up by 117 and down by 245!
Maybe she is a bigger geek than I thought….. either that or no one really cares. :mrgreen:

Awesome video,James,good job.

Now,how about one that shows her legs!!!!!

Hey Marina,here is a suggestion,please do the word “gams”.
It was slang in the 30′s,40′s and 1950′s I for a woman’s legs.A good looking wonan’s legs…as in “Hey Marina,nice gams!”

I heard a song today, and it reminded me of you … “Born to Be Wild” (‘wild’ was a word I found while [research]ing “geek” for you).

I interpret “geeky” to mean ‘wildly useful,’ and Marina? your highness is geekier than geekiest!

Did you win….

:lol: sideshow freak,” 1916, U.S. carnival and circus slang, perhaps a variant of geck “a fool, dupe, simpleton” (1515), apparently from Low German geck, from an imitative verb found in North Sea Germanic.and Scandinavian meaning “to croak, cackle,” and also “to mock, cheat.”

The modern form and the popular use with reference to circus sideshow “wild men” …

…free pop 4 the thirsty :lol: calendars are for rhythm and vibrations :lol:

I am going to smoke some green. I asked alot of people ig the had any but in the end i got it from the first dude

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