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Where is everyone?

GUNED

Morning, Yes I’ve got a few one of my favorites is my chrome snub nose 38 with hollow points or dum dum bullets.

I’d like to know where the word “lackadaisical” came from.

All hunters have gun will travel….410

However, as late as 1899, Friedrich Kluge, the great German etymologist, still preferred the derivation of gun from mangonel (a machine for throwing stones).

I own a cap gun :razz:

No gun!
The woman’s name could have came first you say?
Here’s a discrepancy I found odd, between sorcerer and sorceress. The word sorceress came first, and the word sorcerer didn’t appear until 150 years later. Were women better at making sorcery, then men were? :)

The only thing I shoot with is a camera.

‘Leave only footprints,
Take only photographs.’

Cows With Guns

Happiness is a Warm Gun – Beatles

HOMEWORK
I was tempted to buy a gun after a confrontation with my ex-wife’s boyfriend. I approached him to discuss some concerns about him and my daughters, and his immediate response was to threaten to shoot me. :shock: Which left me with the awkward choice of letting him fondle my older daughter and pick up my younger one by the ankles, or getting shot. :evil: So I was tempted to buy a gun and do some proactive self-defense.

Fortunately, since the man is only marginally employed and I’ve been very regular with my child support payments, my ex decided her best interests lay in keeping me both alive and out of jail, so she dumped him. :mrgreen:

Word question:
BTW, Marina, since this is a lesson linking guns and women, could we say it pertains to “gun-ecology”? :mrgreen: (Ref: Gk. γυνεκον) :cool:

[I own exactly one gun, and am quite 'attached' to it.] :mrgreen:

Homework: I have a Mini-14 with collapsible stock and a few high volume clips.
This is pretty much my exact setup.

MARK FARNER Don’t Let ‘em Take Your Gun/R&R American Style

I like the reliability of a revolver, you got your fancy hammer less plastic Glocks which are good in a shoot out but for intimidation when someone looks a 38 revolver and sees the alternating hollow point/dum dum rounds it will strike fear in their hearts.

Leonard, did you mean Cows with Guns? :lol:

(I met the composer, Dana Lyons, when we both lived in Bellingham, WA) :cool:

Is it fully automatic? My brother has the same gun.

Farm boy song Johnny Cash – Don’t Take Your Guns To Town 1959, 12guage

HERE!!! :mrgreen:
How’s everything in Bonnie Scotland?

Hey Marina,
My response to the vid:
no I do not own a gun because I do not need it. Marina do you own a gun :?:

Of course!!! You know how be-witching women are :grin: We men don’t have a chance!

Evan, you are right in correcting my mistake; thanks friend! Hands were cold :roll:

Dark! (Lights on all day.)
Cold and damp. :sad:
How about you?

Ouch! :roll: :lol:

Good morning Marina :grin:

Homework: No, I don’t own a gun at this time. I use to have a 9mm from WWII, a 22 rifle, and a 22 nine shot revolver. I ended up selling them when my son was born. Besides a gun in the house is more likely to harm a family member than be used on an intruder.

No. :sad: I’m in CA.
It would be nice if it had a auto/semi switch or a burst switch on it.
Although, I think you can still pick up a full auto AR-15 in AZ…Time to go for a drive. :mrgreen:

I wonder if that’s why ‘fun’ in Thai is a euphemism for fornication. :???:

Homework: Yes. Colt AR-15 (Boo ya!) :mrgreen:
20″ chrome lined barrel; much easier to reload than an AK.
Plus all associated manuals, cleaning kits, accessories, etc.
all in pristeen condition making it a very collectible weapon
to own. Her name is “Momma”.
I don’t like hand guns… they don’t shoot accurate for beans
(unless the barrel is 10 or more inches long). Police issue .38′s
are the exception. They shoot very accurately, in qualifed hands.

I HAVE A REQUEST!!! PLEASE DO THE WORD “86″. I GUESS IT’S MORE OF A TERM THAT I HEARD OFTEN IN THE RESTAURANT BUSINESS WHEN WE WERE OUT OF SOMETHING. I WANT TO KNOW HOW IT CAME TO BE. “86″….PLEASE…I EVEN BROUGHT YOU A RED DELICIOUS, SHINY, WASHINGTON APPLE. JUST FOR YOU! :grin:

Have Gun

Che, this is a side of you I don’t think we’ve seen before! :shock:

I am looking at getting a 357 or maybe a 38, problem there aren’t many places one can go to just pop off a few rounds anymore.

No… I don’t own a gun. I’d like to someday though for hunting.

I like the fact that you don’t have to wait for the bad guy to come around the corner with the M-14. Just send a few through the drywall and and the partys over. :twisted:

When we were young men, say 4 and 5, Ma took our guns away and gave us crayons. Ever since that point, we knew things were ‘gunna’ be different!

Now I make art instead of robbing banks. :cool:

I don’t own one because they seem to invite trouble. I do have a wooden sword. One friend who was an expert for Arts and Entertainment Network still owns the most valuable handgun in the world. According to friend Michael Zomber, there were only six special model Luger semi automatics made with 45 caliber barrels to take a larger sized round. Four of them are missing and believed to have been destroyed. Michael owns one of the other two that remain.I got to hold it and admire it in 1967. Is happiness a warm gun? For years it was unknown what happened to the sixth one, until – I believe in the nineteen eighties, the KGB released photos of the suicide of Adolph Hitler with the other 45 caliber Luger in his hand and with a bullet in his head. Now that the Soviet Union is dissolved, presumably the Russian government still has possession of that and the photos. For many years Michael Zomber has been approached to sell that remaining gun, but to the best of my knowledge he has refused. I Googled him, and found that he served a bit of jail time not long ago; not for shooting, but for upping the price on a collection of Colt Peacemaker revolvers and being discovered to have created a straw man purchaser to offer a high bid to swindle a collector. The collector later found out the bid was a ploy and wanted his money back or to at least pay an adjusted fair price. In spite of his being caught doing something unethical, Mike was always scrupulous about gun safety and I have noted that he turned some of his profits over to Amnesty International as a donor. It’s not guns that kill people it’s the damned bullets.

I wonder if it has anything to do with THIS GUY. agent 86.

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Given the way the video ends, I have to confess that I own a nice gun, and bring it to school every day.

–Hs4Mm
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When I visit my brother we go out to a private range and shoot up pumpkins and stuff. He’s got the auto/semi switch on his.

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***Business Idea for Marina***

Marina, since you’re advertising Russian Beauties on your site (including yourself???), here’s a money-making idea:

Since you obviously have a large following of available men, you could play matchmaker for the young ladies, using our homework responses to build personality profiles, and charge a finder’s fee. :grin:

I mean, isn’t that just as brilliant as all my other ideas? :lol:

Fantastic Smokey36bear :smile: been so long I forgot the second verse :oops:
those were great T.V. back in the day :lol: :mrgreen: B.B.

Wouldn’t “69″ be sexier and more fun? :mrgreen:

This is my rifle
This is my gun
This is for fighting
This is for fun

Well, no one’s ever tried to pistol whip me before but a few ladies have tried to…well…you get the idea (no need for the blunt end here right?).

You fire the hollow point round first, this bullet will fragment on impact putting small pieces of nasty lead in vital organs, if you want to stop someone in their tracks, fire the second shot with the dum dum round this will end any forward motion thus eliminating the threat.

You know Smokey what I always say, if you can’t pee out your front door it’s time to move.

We’re a little farther south, so the sun’s up a full 8 hours. The rain is washing away the last of the snow that’s been on the ground for 3 weeks. Not that the snow halted the Polar Bear Swim on New Year’s Day. :lol: (That’s me in the upper left. :mrgreen: )

I used to own a Beretta Cougar 9mm but sold it when the CDN government brought in stricter gun control measures. I agree with gun controls but they just made owning a pistol such a pain it was easier to get rid of it.

‘S alright, I liked the other vid as well! :smile:

My step-dad use to own a hunting rifle, but he gave it to his dad out of flight concerns before we moved to Hawaii so many years ago.
And my grandpa (mom’s side) owns a few handguns, a hunting rifle, and probably a shotgun (since I found a casing with pellets in them). Whenever we came to visit, he sometimes lets us fire his BB gun at targets down in his basement.

[Late 17th century. derived from: obsolete fon "fool," origin ?]
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My dictionary says unknown origin – perhaps the english word came frome the Thai (or other Asian language)? Might be something for our Trusty HotForWords to investigate?

Word Request: fun

Marina,

I would like to know the origin of the word

“buoyancy”

it probably comes from ‘the tendency of being a buoy’, so where does ‘buoy’ come from?

Best Regards
Sander

I own a beautiful Russian, her name is Samozaryadnyi Karabin Simonova.
lol

:lol: Just saw this, it made me laugh, so i share it with you guys:

“Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I’m halfway through my
fishburger and I realize, Oh my God….I could be eating a slow learner.”
–Lynda Montgomery

Lets see, I have a .308 Cetme assult rifle, an M1 Garande from WWII, a Mossberg 590 “Persuader” shotgun, an M4, a .22LR rifle, and a Beretta .40 cal. And a bunch of scopes, lasers, lights, and other fun stuff to put on them.

America had the most heavily armed civilian population in the world and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I have been shot before but I still respect guns and the hobbies that go along with them.

Oh and a German 8mm Mauser

Hmm.. how about these [Guns with Moustaches] :grin:

Chickens with Choppers. :lol:

Homework :cool:
Great lesson Marina! I don’t own a gun. By the way, I love that oufit :!: :grin:

I have airsoft gun!
Just for fun! :-)

Lol! my dad has a gun, he’s a police, and today in skool a boy stabbed the other in his neck with a pen and the police came for them wich had guns

It’s possible to purchase selective-fire or fully automatic firearms in many locales. There’re much more intensive background checks involved. Once that stuff is successfully out of the way, you have to pay a steep fee periodically in order to possess one. I think you also have to have and keep current a F.F.L. I really haven’t thought about it in a long time.

This is a great 58 second video of Gun Fail

Click here for Gun Fail

This is a great video of Gun Fail Listen as he says he’s the only one professional enough to…..

Дорогая Марина Орлова, I mis-heard you! In your intro, you said “I won’t bite.” I thought you previously said “I don’t bite.” What a misconception. Well, I thought you said something else, particularly after I saw that photo of you with a plate of fresh, raw oysters! :grin:
For the (increasingly unlikely) event the Army calls me back to active duty, I have a Colt Model 1911 pistol. In 2003, many former soldiers were brought back to active duty, and some of them had been out of active duty for longer than me. Since I don’t speak Arabic, Urdu or Farsi, I might not get called up, right now. The Army already knows I speak other foreign languages, so I hope I don’t get dropped into a war, elsewhere! Я говорю русского. BTW, you put photos of that pistol in your video. :!:
Very nice dress today, and that plant is no longer on your nightstand, I wish you a happy day on January 7th, when Christmas is observed in Russia. :razz:
Бог благословляет вас. seesixcm6

Smokey36bear,
I have to reply to your blanket statement pertaining to guns in the home. I have firearms all around my home and you would be a safe and welcome guest here anytime. God help the intruder, however. It’s about intelligence and education in the usage and storage.

Merry Christmas! Marina.

To answer your question, at the moment i own a Beretta Silver Pigeon II which I use for hunting and clay pigeon shooting.

Best wishes,

Milan :wink:

p.s. Still voting.

I just remembered this Last Action Hero song

I have a rifle. I’ve not done any shooting in awhile though.

Another one of Arnold’s gun related music videos. (Some of these 90′s action movies feel a little old!) :mrgreen:

While we’re talking about Guns, I’d like to know the origin of the word/name for the Desert Eagle.

Why is Marina having trouble sleeping? :wink:

At the end of this video, are you reaching under your bed for your gun? :mrgreen:

{ most likely your reaching for your feisty little guard dog }

Hey, Chacha. I’m envious. Always wanted an AR, but the situation has never been right for me to justify one.
You know, many people believe shorter barrels are inherently prone to exhibit better accuracy because of less oscillation as the slug travels down the barrel after ignition of the primer. I tend to agree. I have a two inch .357mag that I have shot cans at fifty yards with, although it’s a bear to shoot(to me, anyway)with full-house loads. I also have a seven and a half inch .44mag that is astonishingly accurate. I think handgun accuracy comes down to their shorter sight radius than rifles, and the fact that they are not anchored or supported at the shoulder.
Ain’t that the fun part of shooting-so much variety to attempt to master?

Hey I had a question for you…
I recently joined a ffire department and we have a racing team. Our team’s name is the “Schlagers.” I’ve asked around and there are several different meanings I’ve hear for this work but none of them are the same. I know it is German because our original name was the Germantown Fire Company, but was does the word actually mean?

Yes, I own a few. One of my family hierlooms is a Winchester model 12, 16 gauge pump. It is a beautiful piece of art and has very little kick. Even my scrawny 150 lbs. can shoot it all day long. I also have a couple of .22s laying around. They are a lot of fun to go out plinking; cheap to shoot, too.

Hi Marina!
I have one word request for you: gringo
I always wanted to know the origin of this word.. pls help me :roll:

Dear Teach,

Really interesting lesson. Very appropriate, the relationship between women and guns, I think. My own arsenal is light at the moment: a hunting rifle, several sporting shotguns, a hunting revolver, a target pistol, a carry revolver, and a home defense shotgun. It’s funny how one’s collection ebbs and flows in terms of type and number, as you buy some, sell or trade one here and there,etc. (How did I wind up with all these shotguns?)
And that is a gorgeous dress. You’re simply beautiful.
Always.

What is it like to live in a country where guns are sold in shops next to the 7-11 ?
Guns are abundant in most games though , i own a lot of virtual guns
And what about the word bomb ? Is it an onomatopoeia ?

Wow, bsomebody! A Model 12, especially in 16ga., is really a treasure!

Well, hmmm let’s see, I have a 55 caliber muzzleloader, a 270 remington bolt action, 280 rem automatic, marlin 30-30 lever action, a 1936 remington 22 roller block, a 22 rem auto rifle, a Glock model 22 40cal, a H&K 9 mil, 25 cal, Ruger security 6, 357mag, and a few shot guns. You never really know when you might need them now do you?

As the Terminator said “i’ll be back” :mrgreen:

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Hello Marina,

I noticed just now that your dress has a camouflage theme — appropriate for the topic! Nice touch.

–Hs4Mm
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It is good to see that I am not the only one keeping an eye on M’s vegetation. :roll:

wow , that’s like military stuff !! Americans lol :shock:

Dear HotForWords,

I do not own a gun.

Your Student,
ThoughtOnFire

PS That’s an awesome outfit. :mrgreen:

Oh yeah, the 1911 A1 is the gun I want. For home defense, it is the best thing around, and it just feels right in my hands.

After scanning through the posts, it seems we have an extremely well-armed classroom. :roll:

I like your style che!

Tommy T :grin:

Just tryin’ to picture Page-doll as that missing part of …..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIfuaUTH9Y4

!!! :wink: !!!

No guns here. I recognize their importance and with my old hobbies,
could probably field strip various oldies like the Walther P-38, AR-15/M16
with M203, Luger, Ruger Superblackhawk, Colt M1911a1. My favorite
is the old time Mauser (1932?) – which could be a pistol, machine-pistol
or carbine/semi or auto. It sort of did it all.

Nothing but swords or bow weapons for me now. Maybe if I ever owned
a yacht or something I’d re-think my personal policy.

You a crack-shot Page? Marina (same question)?

When guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns.

The folks you may need the gun for ( against ) won’t care about the laws; there is nothing they’d like better than going up against someone they KNOW is not armed.

The police can’t always be where the bad guys are, so while we wait for them we must be able to defend ourselves.

For better or worse, the US and ( I believe ) Canada were both settled by people with guns. People who believed that the government should be more afraid of the people than the people should be afraid of the government.

Excellent video Marina. I now know the origin of the word Gun. You said not to bring one to school, well its to late I am cleaning my 40 caliber Taurus right now. I put it back together and hide it in my backpack. :lol:

Lets see for Home Work: I have a Colt Diamondback 38 caliber revolver with a 4 inch barrel, a Beretta 92 F 9 mm, a Taurus PT140 Millennium Pro 40 caliber, a 44 caliber Colt Navy Arms Black powder pistol, an American Arms 22 caliber 5 shot derringer, a Charter Arms 22 caliber survival rifle convertible into a pistol, a Remington Woodmaster 306 caliber semi auto rifle, 2 Remington 22 caliber semi auto rifles, a Remington 1100, 12 gauge shot gun, a Remington 870 pump 12 gauge shot gun and a Potato ejaculater. This last one works off of hair spray, either, acetylene, or any flammable gas. It will shoot a potato about 50 yards. I have had one of these blow up on me by using to much acetylene in the combustion chamber. So I use hair spray to shoot potatoes. :grin:

Hi Marina, I don’t own a gun but I do have a WORD REQUEST WORD REQUEST WORD REQUEST

Please could you do the word “MEDIA” I would love to know the origin, I think I saw it on an old map once near Armenia… thanks!

So that was WORD REQUEST for MEDIA

:shock:

LOL

Marina, you made a spitting noise at the end? What was that about?

I so agree. I’ve used a number of Model 1911′s, but have never owned one. Definitely my next purchase.

Man, I’d love to shoot that tater-gun, Capman!

Guns aren’t outlawed in Canada tho Orion — only closely regulated. Up here the only places we have issues with gun violence are in areas close to large urban US centres on the other side of the border (sad but true). Here in central Canada there’s no such thing as a “gun violence issue”.

Yes, the US was founded by people who “believed that the government should be more afraid of the people than the people should be afraid of the government” and it’s an important part of the country’s history and national identity.

Canada on the other hand was founded by people who disagreed so vehemently with that approach that they threw everything they could carry into Ox Carts and hoofed it north of the 49th to show solidarity with King George. :wink:

Too true, Evan.

They are a lot of fun. We go to the grocery store and buy a older bag of 50 pounds of potatoes for about 1/2 price. Then shoot away. :grin:

Last time I shot I nailed a spay paint can from about 200 yards(walked off) , on one knee and no scope. I not sure how that stacks up but I was proud of myself. :grin:
Believe it or not I won the prize for best shot that day…even over my buddy, who has enough weapons to start a small rebellion. :razz:

Or her AK 47 :lol:

Sandbanks froze over….

I think sandbanks marina froze too.

I have an air pressure potato gun. An explosion from the hairspray version might get to 20psi. The air cannon can easily be pressurized to 5 times that. Very cool.

Maybe, but we already know the origin of that one.

Maya padruga Marina… :grin:

I was wondering about the word DIME
Nickles I think are associated with the metal they once were made from, and Quarters I understand.. 1/4 th of a dollar. But where did DIME come from?

“You’ll simply adore him, Ilsa. He speaks Welsh…”

BTW, this word reminds me of a request I have. In New Testament greek, the word kurios is translated lord. And it sounds very much like our word curious. Why would a lord or ruler be similar to the word curious? (And why was I reminded? Because the word gun reminded me of the word gyn, for woman.)

Paint can? That’s smaller than most will group a set of shots.
Yes-I’m impressed! I think Melikadothechacha might agree
(that is if he is willing to compare his beloved AR-15 to the Mini…!)!

What say, Mel…chacha? She teach ya how to shoot?
Doesn’t sound like she only poses for those Gals-with-Guns vids!

Nice outfit Marina.

Right arm man, power to the ppl

Quite. A person would be very ill-advised to fuck with Marina with a class like this.

That is why I belong to the NRA. It helps all of us law abiding citizens to keep and retain our guns through legislature and the court systems. With Obama now going to be president we all stand a chance to loose some of our freedoms to keep our guns. He was all for us keeping our rights to guns when he was running for president and was backing the second Amendment, but now that he is elected he has changed his mind back to what it was when he was a Senator. He is for Gun control for all and take away our rights. Like it’s been said guns don’t kill people, people kill people.

Dang Cap, I want to rummage through YOUR gun safe!
Those potato guns are gnarly.
Check out this potato gun with a twist , you’ll laugh. :lol:

It’s a civilian version, semi-auto, no immediate action lever;
other than that, it’s the original “black power”! Mine’s as clean
as a sewing machine, and in a gun safe. I was well trained
on the military version, so I have comfort level. :mrgreen:

Hey Marina,

No, I do not own a gun. I don’t really lead a life in which it would be advantageous to have one for protection, and I’m against hunting for pure sport, so I don’t really have any need to have one. So unless I make some good enemies or decide to go off and live in the wilderness, I probably won’t get one.

By the way, have you already seen Phillip DeFranco mentioning you on his show today?

That was some cool vids Pagedoll :wink:

RB She did Dimes in the Penny & Dime Lesson

Great voting everyone!!!
Marina’s votes are continuing to climb towards victory.
Continue to vote at the link above, in the red box below the video.

Great video lesson Marina!

hello marina.
i have a word request.
the word is gringo.
I am mexican and i know tha the word gringo is used to refer the americans but i don’t know the origin, could you explain me please.
thanks a lot.

Click on my name to vote for Marina. Just annudder way of a reminder to vote. :grin:

I don’t think talking fast makes someone look smart. Fast talkers are like saliva-smoking machine guns, bombarding their interlocutors’ weary ears with a non stop flow of dizzying words. I myself prefer to watch slow talkers like A. Big Johnson and his cousin Hugh G. educating the general public on the subject of fine wines.

I just voted again. I still believe they are adding contestants. There are people on there that I haven’t seen before and they have a small amount of votes. Hummm. Odd. :???:

I have a word request. Love the videos you’ve been doing, keep up the amazing work! I’d like to know the meaning/origin of the word ‘slut’. I hear people use it lightly, as an offense, and also as a term. I’m just wondering where it really came from. Thank you, and I hope you had a lovely new year!

A little picture for you PK.

http://skidzbanbury.org.uk/assets/images/White_Knight.JPG

Dadgum, Pagedoll-I want to shoot Capman’s tater-gun with YOU!

Just wondering… Isn’t owning a gun an unconscious materialization of some feeling of insecurity? Isn’t being a security weirdo some kind of inferiority complex? Just like buying a car for its airbags, wearing a seatbelt, being constantly suspicious and afraid of the “roaming bad guys”, etc…? :roll:

I’m not trying to challenge anybody’s opinion here, and I’m not trying to insult anybody neither. So please keep your agressive reactions if any to yourself, I’m not even interested to read them, I’m not going to answer them, I couldn’t care less about them, and eruct your testosterone somewhere else than below my post… I’m just wondering about it and pondering the issue… I personally don’t like guns. To me they are supreme lame toys for insecure people. I like 200+ HP two-wheeled sportbikes and I have a collection of swords.

Of course I do understand that there are other opinions about guns than my own, and I’m quite willing to read constructive critics that will perhaps convince me to build an interest for guns, cannons, tanks and other long-range shooting “sneaky?” weapons? I also do understand that security is, sometimes, quite a serious important issue to consider. But isn’t too much security and witch hunting some kind of fanatism?

Marina, you should do the word “Enterprise.”

I am half Scottish (and English) so linguistically I’ve imbibed words from over the border (Scotland) without realising. One term for money, more slang than regular, but common, is ‘spondoolies’. It sounds nice, and probably is just made up, but I wonder if you might bring your expertise to bear upon it and see what you come up with?

Yours appreciatively – kalanger

Hey Marina,
You are so cute. so beautful and intelligent.
Can you tell me where the word hamburger came from? They at
made from beef not ham!

Marina you look gorgeous today. I don’t own a gun but my dad does and we go shooting upstate every once in a while. It’s a good way to blow off steam.

Origin request: Son of a Gun. hehehe Yeah I know it already..But I don’t want to take away from your thunder or your list of over a million words you have to do.

Homework: Are you referring to my gun or my weapon? :lol:

I think I still have a little pocket gun. 25 cal I think it is. It’s in storage. I know karate so I have no reason to carry a gun anymore. I can be quite lethal with just my hands if I need to be. Most times I’ve only had to do harmless pressure points to subdue people with problems. Even though I’m a good marksman I really don’t care about guns anymore unless they are tall ship cannons. The best new years I ever had was when we fired 2 of our cannons in the millennium celebration.

Nope,don’t own any at the moment. I recently gave away the only one I’ve owned lately,it was about 100 years old,a muzzle loading “Fowler” as one gun-savvy friend said.It was not all there,I had the stock,barrel,ramrod,trigger and trigger guard,,the rest was gone.I gave it to an older friend that,when He retires,may get around to repairing it as a project or “busy work”.

:lol: Yes! Some women can be very explosive and hurl missiles in Your general direction! *Just* like a gun! :shock: :???: :lol:

Hey Marina
You are so cute. So beautful and very intelligent! Could we have tea together sometime?
Can you tell me where the word hamburger came from? They are
made from beef not ham! Or maybe a hamburger together? God Bless you!

Well Scott,

Yep, I agree with you. Sounds like a good way to blow off steam, as you put it. Kinda like riding a bike I guess. And honestly you never sound like the most agressive poster here. Your posts are always pretty cool, honest. Happy shooting! No mercy and never let any bastard step on your toes man! :wink:

I got a glue gun… not sure what caliber… I only use it when it’s truly necessary. :lol:

I don’t own a gun.

Eric M

So, as of this moment, Marina is only 2421 votes off of first place at the Geek contest… which could be made up by 1211 positive votes for her and the same negative votes for the guy in the #1 spot. If you have not voted, I really urge you to do so… She belongs in the number one spot…. she has far more positive votes…. If there is justice on the internet, let this wonderful friend of ours win!!!!

Capman, you are truly a brother. I’m a NRA life member. People need to realize that the NRA, America’s oldest civil-rights organization, is NOT the fringe group of inbred, knuckle-dragging “Deliverance”-rejects that ALL the mainstream media desperately claims. It’s over four million teachers, doctors, laborers, students, moms and dads, etc. who love ALL their Constitutionally-protected freedoms. I encourage everyone to go to NRA.com with an open mind and LEARN. You won’t get the truth anywhere else. If you find something hard to believe, look further; you’ll find the evidence. And it’s not just about gun rights. How many of you really know what the McCain-Feingold act did to your First Amendment rights of free speech? And McCain BRAGGED about this legislation during his campaign! And the uninformed nodded and said amen.
Everyone needs to be a NRA member. Even if your choice in your life is not to own a firearm, or to be a shooter or hunter.
Capman is right.

Thanks pal, it will take all of us to keep our rights.

Well Sir,I think,maybe,You should take whatever opportunity You can muster and go for a few hours of safe target shooting. Take several different types and sizes of gun and see if there’s one that increases,what looks to Me from Your statements,the mild interest You may already possess.

Muzzle Loaders are interesting and so are cartridge guns. The most challenging for Me to hit anything with was a flintlock,You have to stay steady during the quick “click,scratch,hiss,and,boom”,,it happens fast but not as fast as a firing pin hitting a cartridge or even a ball n cap system.

My son collects swords,the new imitation variety that is,they do look kinda cool when displayed. I have a bayonette,it is an old Wilkinson,Brittish I think,about 2′ long total,I had to make the grips by hand as the originals are gone,other than that I just oil it ocassionally and use it for a back scratcher,,,works great!

tryant

It’s really just skeet and target shooting. Guns get a really bad rap, you just have to follow certain rules:
1. Always treat every gun as if it is loaded.
2. Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire (your finger is your #1 safety)
3. Always be sure of what is behind and around you target.
4. Never point a gun at a fellow human being or anything you don’t plan to destroy. (Psst, that’s the most important one)

My guess is it has something to do with Hamburg, Germany

LOL!!!

Tryant, I do not understand all the savvy science embedded in your post. I’ll need to look for the definition of some of your technical terms which are beyond my philological grasp right now. But yes indeed, you raised the spark of interest for guns’n bayonettes and balls’n caps in my brain.

Thanks! :razz:

Hey M, I love that blouse your wearing. Hell I like most of what you wear. There where some minor wardrobe malfunctions. Oh now I said it. Your going to be conscious of your outfits now. :roll: :mrgreen: Oh well.

Looks like I can only vote once per candidate.I voted Marina up the other day,the arrow is still green but if I click it,it goes grey and the # drops by one! I reclicked of course to bring it back up. Doesn’t seem to matter wich link I use to go there,same thing happens.

Let’s hope she’s not spitting on the lovely little Gorby. He was most likely quite traumatized by hearing all these gunshots, hiding under the bed, because he was absent from the knowledge transfer session today.

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Hello Marina,

Should have said this earlier: The animation of the duck that fights back with the cannon is well done, and the climatic surprise is hilarious.

–Hs4Mm
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can u ppl tell me wat u think of my playlist plz?
http://view.playlist.com/9567216651

:lol: See what I can do when I’m sober :?: :!:

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Oops! There might be a grammatical error in my comment above: “climatic” might only be a form of the word “climate”, and might not be a form of the word “climax”. In such a case, a correct wording would be:

The animation of the duck that fights back with the cannon is well done, and the surprising climax is hilarious.

–Hs4Mm
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i know there are some more in the garage, but i know 3 of the guns i own. they were actually my dads and my grandfathers, but they are mine now. i have two, bolt-action springfield .22 caliber rifles and a 12-gauge, semi-automatic shotgun. The two rifles specialize in shooting longshot, hollow-tipped rounds. the older of the two is from 1908, and is a one-round capacity, manually-loaded rifle. the newer is from 1924 (i believe), and supports a 5-round clip, and has a 2x, non-adjustable scope. The shotgun is a cheap, but solid 1951 model semiautomatic shotgun with a currently 3-round capacity (the oregon law for shotguns states that no shotgun may have over a 3-round capacity, so we inserted a plug to limit its capacity).
so yeah, nothing impressive. as i said, there are some hunting rifles in the garage, but i havnt used them yet…

I own 3 rifles, a Ruger 10/22 with a bullpup stock, a SKS and a Springfield 1903. I enjoy target shooting at my local range with all of them. Here is a pic of the 10/22:

http://www.ranhead.com/ranhead/weapons/bullpup.jpg

i take it back, the first .22 is the 1902 model

dude……..nice!
whats the zoom on that scope?

Let me be sure I understand here: you don’t want to insult anyone, but gun owners are “security weirdos” with “some kind of inferiority complex”, “constantly suspicious and afraid of the “roaming bad guys”". That was your first paragraph. Guns “are supreme lame toys for insecure people”. And then you mention “too much security and witch hunting”. How could anyone possibly be insulted by that?
You think sportbikes and swords are cool, but people who like guns have some sort of testosterone issue. Are you including female gun owners in that assumption, too?
For the record, I am proud to be a hunter, shooter, and self-defense advocate. Including with blade weapons. And I have road-raced motorcycles. The real deal. On real racetracks. Even a superspeedway.
And, yet, I cried like a baby while pressing my face against my dog’s face as the vet administered the lethal dose that he so needed to end the suffering and find the peace that I so reluctantly let him have.
Never mind, Amigo. I’ve figured it out.

Do you suppose he had anything to do with kluge (a lashup or temporary fix)?

Maybe they were just better at making up words. :smile:

I don’t shoot guns…I am too busy shooting off at the mouth. :roll:

Hey, they have to get rid of the diseased animals somehow.

I have a .410 gauge shotgun. I have had it for over 30 years, but I still have never fired it once…lol. I do, however, also have a “lovegun” which I have fired many times…hehehe.

http://www.foodvenue.com/content/features/f020006_hamburger.asp

that’s a pretty good website that tells the origin of the hamburger, that I found in 10 seconds of google

When I joind USAF, I missed shooting expert by one or two shots with the M1, which I had never used before. The next qualification I shot expert and so proudly went to the clothing store to buy my medal. And was told there no longer was a medal issued for expert. Rats! It was the only one I wanted.

hey man, sounds like you really know what your talking about.

Word request: pen in the neck. :lol:

Hehe, but I guarantee Karate won’t allow you to dodge a bullet, only Neo and Agent Smith can do that. Unless you have lightning fast reflexes, you’d still get shot. “Those that live by the sword, get shot by those who don’t” That saying pretty much sums up my point.

” a man without a gun can be forced, a man with a gun can be persuaded”

Yeah, me too, Friendo. I guess I’ve got it all figured it out.

I like harsh vino tinto rioja. And you like budweiser beer. Hey, it’s the difference between corrida and rodeo.

Words are more powerful than guns. You don’t need a gun if you know how to intimidate, persuade, etc… we are mental creatures first and foremost. A gun is useless if you disarm the mind of the person holding it.

Anyway, once again I am going to re-iterate the unique word request I made a couple lessons ago. It appears that I have stumped Marina, so I thought I’d keep putting in the request until she acknowledges it or at least acknowledges that she can’t answer it.

What I wanted to know is what you call a word that remains the same when you rotate it 180 degrees. For instance, the word ‘pod’ remains ‘pod’ if you spin it halfway around. Same goes for the word ‘dollop’… turn it 180 degrees and it still remains ‘dollop’. The word ‘mow’ would be another such word. Question is, what is the word to describe such a ‘rotating’ word? Does such a word for ‘rotating’ words even exist? If not, there should be a word for such. It’s not quite a palindrome, and it’s not quite an ambigram. So what is it?

Maybe I’m wrong, but I am being insistent and persistent about this word request because it is so different. Plus I’m really curious to find the answer out! I thought for sure our trusty teacher would find it interesting too, but still no input from her on the matter. I’ll just have to be patiently persistent until I get some sort of answer. Peace, Errin : )

I own 12 guns, 5 of which I inherited. I used to shoot clay pigeons, so that accounts for 4 of them. I like to plink sometime,
and that accounts for another 4. One of them is a varmint rifle.
Another is a .44 mag which I bought for the “coup d’etat” for when I hunted elk years ago. That accounts for 10 of them. The other two are handguns for home defense. Normally, I’d list them just
to start a conversation with anybody that might be a gun freak, or anti-gun freak, but there’s a Warriors game on the TV, and I have to cut this thing short.

I am pretty sure that if you were being attacked by an intruder in your home you wouldn’t want the police to come unarmed, hoping their words were stronger than his gun. :roll:

Could you do a video discussing some Russian words that are used in English or have influenced/have a root in English words?

It’s just a cheap 4×32 tactical scope with an illuminated Mil-Dot reticle. It’s a fun little plinking rifle. My biggest issue is that I live in Jersey and we have a 15 round magazine law. :roll: So when I head off to the range I bring 10 full magazines. A lot of the larger capacity after-market magazines have quick loaders, but I’m stuck manually loading mine. Oh well, life is not perfect.

Old saying: Sticks and Stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me.

yeah….errin, im all for solving a situation peacefully, but there are limits man. if youre giving answers like that, then you need to go out and live a little, cuz thats just sad…

Lemme guess. Is being attacked by an intruder in your home the worst of your nightmares? You haven’t come up with something more frightening than that yet?

No, it was just one example, I am sorry I didn’t come up with every possible attack scenario for you.

Hello Marina,
My family and I were at my grandpa’s funeral today :sad: and my six-year old daughter wanted to know where the word funeral comes from. Her name is Mandy if you want to shout out.
Thanks,
G.I.S.-Nate

You mean when you get into a sticky situation?

Sounds like a good idea errin!!!! Lets send all our “strong mental creatures” down to Columbia so they can intimidate the drug cartels out of business. :roll: Worst case scenario is that we free up some jobs here in the US…….Yeah I’m being facetious. :mrgreen: Both guns and words have their place in this world, and I don’t think they are interchangeable.

So what’s out there then? The Wild Wild West? Then if you bring a gun and the other guy has a flame thrower? If you bring a flame thrower and the other guy has a nuclear missile?

Welcome to O.K. Corral!

EXACTLY!!! Good comment!

Don’t be sorry. And if you are, I generously grant you my pardon! :smile:

I would like to know where the origin of the word fuck is from. Everyone says it’s fornication under consent of king and it was shortened to the acronym of F.U.C.K. I realize this is a pretty hefty word, but isn’t anyone else curious? Like what did you say in extreme cases of anger waaay back in the middle ages? And how did this come to be known as the worst of all words?
Thanks, I know it’s a kinda “dirty word”.

:lol: set of 50cal pistols pearl handles set of 44mag pearl handles 3 8gage shotguns down 9in 4 12gage 9in oh tha list goes on and on what did you expect from a Navy Seal hehe 8 customs tht are one of a kind sweetie

In answer to the first paragraph and keeping it within the spirit of the second: No.

Sounds like you live in country that doesn’t allow it’s citizens to have guns. Do you actually believe that everyone that has a gun just goes around shooting people, getting into fights? Does your police force not use guns? Yes it would be great if their were no violence in the world but there is, and I would not want a criminal to have bigger guns than the police. And by the way a gun is much better than a flame thrower.

hehe sounds like fun

Or climactic surprise works :-) Thanks.. I really liked the duck fighting back as well! I originally wasn’t going to do that, but then I felt sorry for him :-)

All drugs are legal in Holland. The idea of legalizing drugs is just a frightening to you. Just like the idea of legalizing wiskey was a frightening idea to prohibition folks. Is there more alcoholics now that alcohol is legal? I’m not sure, but I’m sure there is much less mafiosos smuggling Canadian wiskey into the US now.

Oh no! You own guns! You are obviously going to go around killing people and looking for fights like the OK corral!! :lol:

:lol: she makes the clothes look fantantic :lol:

I don’t take them to town

Sounds like nothing at all, except a brain-tatoo of yours, pal.

When you think your 24 hours is up go to the voting page and refresh your browser and clear your cache and you should be able to vote again.

Geez wheez,

Looks like I’m painting this lesson Hayabusa-black. Where’s Evan Owen?

OK bambini, that’s enough for me for tonight. Arrivederci buenas noches amigos good night. :cool:

we arent allowed to have guns in australia unless you have a specific reason for needing one, ie police officer or maybe animal hunting.

what about the word ‘counterfeit’ :mrgreen:

use the word in a sentence:
im looking on ebay for some paul frank shorts, and im noticing alot of ‘counterfeit’ items.

:cool:

Not frightening at all to me. I didn’t even offer my thoughts on legalizing drugs. I used that EXAMPLE so as not to get into political debate over any wars. The EXAMPLE really had nothing to do with drugs, more about the handling of dangerous armed men.

interesting question, errin. hotforwords, MUST investigate

HAHA sorry. went into impersonation mode.

cough.

what a cool question, i must say!
at first i thought you meant palindrome but then i realised you mean, 180 vertically or horizontally.
whereas, a palindrome is the same when the letters are changed from front to back, not necessarily just ‘flipped’

good question!
i cant think of any more of these… unameable things!

we shall call them…. palindrome wannabes LOL

i have requested many words of Marina, I understand she has ALOT of requests and not only are some unsuitable for what she does on youtube, but time is also a restraining… thing. at times. :)

hehehe :mrgreen:

actually you know what would be heaps cool one day?

if marina had a word origin ready for me, and gave me a script, and i impersonated her and became teacher for the day! YAY@

except i would receive much less apples from dear students :) hehehe. many less apples. much less apples.

i would not receive as many apples as marina would :)
that makes more sense! hehe

maybe i could be the teacher for baking related words. like, cupcake. angel cake. cookie/biscuit. dough.

hehehehehe :mrgreen:

i wish there was no need to try to ‘destroy’ anything. :cry:

Hello, Marina :razz:
I’m here, too :smile:
Why Not?
:?:
I would like to ask you to explain the babushka word in an American understanding
I’m sure, you know – Americans use this word in their speech a lot

Thank you :wink:

LOL …. Yeah it is amazing how this issue stirs people’s emotions. I wonder if Marina knew a simple word like “gun” would start so many negative conversations.

Oh well, for the record I am a gun owner, a member of NRA and I do not carry or own a gun for protection. Too much paperwork involved with shooting someone!! :twisted:

Oh, I forgot….
Merry Christmas!
It’s today :razz:

I am the same way. I own a lot of guns but I do not carry one for protection even though I am a private investigator. I do not want to ever shoot someone, but I also would not begrudge anyone who decides that is how they want to protect themselves. I hate how people think they are more evolved or superior because of their hatred of an inanimate object that some people choose to misuse. It’s like hating cars because of drunk drivers.

A substitute teacher? Sounds like a fun idea, but who’s filling in for Gorby?

Symbiotogram. It took me all of five minutes and I wound up in the most obvious of places.

I own many firearms. Several semi-auto .22LR rifles for target. I own a.50 caliber flintlock muzzleloader rifle, a bolt action .308 Win. for deer hunting and varmits, several shotguns, and multiple handguns. I am also a LIFE BENEFACTOR MEMBER OF THE N.R.A.(National Rifle Association, U.S.A.).

Marina, if you ever want to go shooting then I would love take you to the range. Or deer hunting with me. Safety first.

Also, to those who live in countries where cannot own firearm, or in the case of Australia and Great Brittan(England) where is is being outlawed completely, Guess what? You are NO LONGER CITIZENS OF YOUR COUNTRY! YOU ARE SUBJECTS/SERFS TO RULED AND/OR ENSLAVED BY THE GOVERNMENT AS GOVERNMENT PROPERTY! YOU NOW ONLY HAVE “Rights” if your government “feels” like it. Why? Because you no longer have an effective means at your disposal to enforce you basic rights as citizens and defy an abusive and/or unlawful government.

Trust me. Most of the incoming Presidential Administration are anti-gun here and will serve a man who stated objectives are:
1) TO RULE, not govern the U.S.
2) To turn the government of the U.S.A. over the the U.N. in
8 years.
3) To raise personal income tax to 65% minimum on the “Rich”
who work. He defines the “RICH” as any single person
Making $25,000.00 or more and couple $40,000 or more.
However wealthly supporters will be immune since they
will be considered part of the ruling class of government.

While I would have welcomed an ethic and/or female President with real ideas for change. However changing this country back into socialist, theocratic, monarchy is not among them. I feel for this man’s family since he most likely will be assassinated by President’s day by some disturbed racist(s). Them along with him.

But then again for REAL CHANGE for positive, the first thing we have to do according to William Shakespear is, “KILL ALL THE LAWYERS!” Since this incoming administration is 90% bloodsucking lawyers, might be a good move. Then follow it up with all those CEO of banks and companies that sucked the public, their workers, their companies, and this nation dry by sending jobs to CHINA INC. and it’s subsidary, Mexico Inc.

nice. yeah, all of the guns i have are old. like they used to belong to my dad, but im hoping to get some new ones for myself…

dude, we never said we were gonna shoot anyone. it is no crime to own a gun, so i dont know what youre bitching about. i mean, i shoot targets and stuff cuz its fun, which is something that someone who has never even held a gun could never understand….

Noswaith dda ichi neuroway. I actually stayed away to do some work today. :lol: Hayabusa-black — I’ll have to Google that one.

Arrivederci & do svidanya to you too. :smile:

Frame 00:01 would make a great billboard ad. :!:

last sentence is WELL SAID. couldnt have put it better myself….

There is nothing wrong with an older gun. The 1903 was my father’s hunting rifle. It got the name “1903″ because that is when the US Army started using it. So it’s a pretty old rifle. It still shots very straight, could be why the military used them for sniper rifles for so many years.

You talk as you think you know something that I don’t. I also see you know very little about the Marshal Arts or you would not make such a claim. I hope in time you will get to see an opportunity on how a Marshal Artist defends ones self from a person with a gun at point blank. Even the Lacey Police department trains with some of the techniques. I know longer train for such an attack for one has better chance of wining the lottery than having a gun pulled on me. Yet just last spring I was one blocks away from a shooting. :shock:

:eek: women are far more deadly than any silly firearm

This whole discussion made me recall This old video

Hablabamos de esta palabra ya hace solamente dos o tres dias. Creemos que viene de la cancion “Green grow the rushes.”

yeah, this is 1902. its a .22 and you have to manually load a round into the barrel, close the bolt, fire, eject, reload. but thats my oldest rifle…

At the moment I only own paintball guns, but I am looking at getting a Springfield Armory XD .45, unfortunately the XDm is not legal here in CA.

Although I may not own any at the moment, I have fired many, being a combat vet from the first Gulf War.

“Gringo,” si, por favor, hay muchos de nosotros quienes quieren saber!

SHOW ME UR FEET MARINA! ORIGIN OF THE WORD TOES! or SOLES COME ON EVERYONE REQUEST IT! :mrgreen:

Old saying: God may have created all men equal but Sam Colt made them that way.

Hi Marina,
Very interesting.. But now I am confused.
When I was in the military, my drill sargent told me a different meaning for “my gun”
Does anyone else remember this gun?

Hi Marina,

I want to wish you a Merry Christmas.

Your trusty hot for words student.

That sounds like a great idea.. hmm…

I’ll send you a script.. you record it.. send it back to me and I’ll edit in my little animations and post it as one of my regular lessons!

I like it!! I like it A LOT!!!

Substitute teacher day!!

:-)

:cool: That was cute, Marina. The duck reminds me of the one in the comic “Pearls Before Swine,” who wears a helmet and is usually in a foxhole.

My guns? I own several: rifles, pistols, shotguns. Inherited most. Don’t shoot as often as I’d like. If I were a wealthy internet hottie, I’d try to get an indoor range going near where I live.

I have a good friend, who I did some traveling with, his dad owns an apple orchard in the Okanagan Valley. Best apples in the world, just a sample of the apples I would bring you on your sub day. I know you said you don’t like cupcakes much anymore, so if you let me know when you’re teaching, I’ll Bake a pie, just like my dear old gramma used to bake… funny I’m not too old nor have I forgotten that smell. I loved visiting gramma as a kid… mmmm, can smell it now… must get vanilla ice cream.
Cheers, hope it happens for you, I’d love to see it.

Woah, didn’t see you there Marina it came to my attention that I’ve never brought you an apple, hope you aren’t jealous. Better late than never (Cliche’)… Lesson appropriate Apple

Miss Cupcake has a cat, I think it’s called DiDi or something like that. I only remember DiDi because an old (well I was young then) girlfriend was named DiDi.

Si! hay muchas versiones del origen de esa palabra y no se sabe cual es la “correcta”.

hahaha! thats right! my cat didi could fill in for gorby if necessary. but he’d probably rather sleep in the corner to be honest. hehe :mrgreen:

OMG WHAT HAVE I GOTTEN MYSELF INTO

haha wow, i didnt think youd even read my comment let alone like the idea! hehe!

thats so great! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

thankyou! :grin: :mrgreen: :smile: :cool: :razz: :wink: :lol: :!:

If I wanted to use a gun I could set cans on top of the fences as target practice. As long as no living creature is nearby.

Has that Holiday passed yet? :roll:

WORD REQUEST

Where does the word “henchman” or plural “henchmen” come from?

Thank you! :lol:

WORD REQUEST

Is the 7th Orthodox Christmas? :?:

yay , me too : SOLES

first time posting :smile:

Word Request

Where did the word Adam apple come from.

My friend was telling me (which is wrong for sure) that when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit (which according to him was an apple) he choked on it and it got stuck in his throat so as he was the first man that’s why all man have it and thus it is called Adam apple.

Thank you love your lessons :mrgreen:

Oh Great idea. That would a fun change up. :mrgreen:

Yes darling, I have an ASSAULT RIFLE and here’s a RUSSIAN VIDEO of me, doing a PAINTING with my rifle, called “Bang Bang Bang”:

http://www.LaserRadio.com/4russia.rm

I remember the day that law came into effect. I seen a news clip with a pile of rifle being burned.

I think the US will adopt the same kind of law. Not going to happen anytime soon but I think in 10 – 20 years it would become a law. I don’t see an need for people to carry guns in the city limits. But if you live up in Alaska I see a life saving reason everyone should carry something to stop a bear.

hey hotforwords i got an interesting word for you and also an interesting question. my word is “Know” and i would love to know the reason behind why we use silent letters in the English language.

Marina covered that in a on another website. James did a video on it also.

I lost the links when my HD crashed. Can anyone give DL2007 a link to both sites?

Oh yes your correct. So many religions out there it’s hard to keep track of them all.

Yes I do. I own two pistols (Sig Sauer P220 and a 9mm Highpoint) and two shotguns (Mossberg 500 and Lanber Expert II 2085).

what about women with firearms :mrgreen:

I’ll not write answer to you because you are not give me answer to my sayings!

Yes, Shotguns, Pistols, Rifles…………a person can’t own too many guns.

Dear Marina,

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here for logistical reasons beyond my control, and I have to say after catching up with all your lessons over the past few days, most of them are really good.

Your lesson on guns is very enlightening to me. I had no idea that “guns” came from a female name. What’s even more interesting is that the inventor of Kevlar, a popular bullet resistant vest material, was also a woman.

Oh, this reminds me of your old (but still very interesting) video on the AK-47.

Son of a gun, if my mother’s name were Gunilda,
that would make me a son of a gun and if I had
a son that would make him son of a son of a gun.
Son of a gun. Phew!

hi i want to request a name word
what is the meaning of the name “chantel”

Could you investigate the origin of the word “alien” for us, and I am also interested of the word Comment. Thanks

@errin (for those who aren’t clued in, he’s male)

First, let me acknowledge errin’s request for a word that when rotated 180 degrees gives back the same word; e.g. “pod”

errin first made that request here January 3, 2009 at 9:33 am

errin made the request again on January 4, 2009 at 10:26 am

errin made the request again on January 6, 2009 at 9:54 am

And, errin made the request again today on this page:
January 7, 2009 at 7:49 pm

Second, I want to acknowledge Capman911 for mentioning the word “ambigram” in the context of errin’s request on January 3, 2009 at 9:58 am

Third, I want to acknowledge darkshadowlink1990 for first asking for the definition of the word ambigram back on July 6, 2008 at 2:20 pm

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@errin
Now, having all of the acknowledgments out of the way, I would like to answer errin.

As I mentioned on the Nerd page, that is a great request errin and I have read all of your comments. Absence of a reply does not mean Marina or I or others are not feverishly working on it. I understand your persistence, which is good, but keep in mind, a lot of us are busy and we will eventually get to the squeaky wheel. :grin:

First, let me get to your denial of the word ambigram as a possible word that describes a rotating word that stays the same.

You said on:
January 3, 2009 at 11:03 am

If the answer you had was the ‘ambigram’, I don’t think that is correct. The ambigrams are logos artistically designed to read the same way when flipped over. Not quite the same as a word wherein the letters remain the same when flipped, and do not require any artistic alteration to do so.

errin, as I said before, this is a great request and I hope Marina does it. Keep in mind that she does have a busy schedule and she has a ton of great requests.

I think it is safe for you to continue to make the request by using the word, ambigram.

Natural Ambigram
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambigram
A word that possesses one or more of the above symmetries when written in its natural state, requiring no typographic styling. For example, the words “dollop” and “suns” are natural rotational ambigrams

For Marina:
The request by errin for the origin of the word ambigram is a good one and the above people should be acknowledged.
capman911 for first mentioning the word in the context of errin’s request and darkshadowlink1990 who first made the word request back in July.

Phew!!!
Thanks for listening. :grin:

awsome job Marina
there’s 1 ‘”awsome”

Hi errin,

I answered you here:
http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/01/07/gun/#comment-101704

Small world indeed! I am from the Okanagan Valley, where I lived in Kelowna and Westbank for fifteen years. And you are right about the apples. Delicious!

Son of a Son of a Sailor :smile:

Son of a gun, Recycle-Logical-1, that’s kewl.
Great video find.
I think the Captain must be a Son of a Son of a Sailor. :lol:

Actually, I studied in Taekwon Do and made it all the way to green belt blue stripe, and besides watching human weapon, i also read mma magazines, I do know how to disarm a gun from myself at point blank… well at least a pistol at point blank. I know also about the martial art Krav Maga, which is the Israeli commando fighting style which teaches you even how to disarm knives, and other things. Bruce Lee happesn to be my favorite Martial Artist, partly for his speed, but also because of his strength. And take note, it is spelled Martial Artist(s), the way you spelled it implies military law. And if you were one block away, consdiering that there are a total

“My Daddy Was a Pistol and I’m a Son of a Gun” :Lewis Grizzard

I’d happily proffer an apple for you, Miss CC :grin:

Hmmm… how ’bout that. Kelowna is my birthplace. Picked well over a few hundred bins of ripe juicy apples in my day. The area is very much like the Napa Valley in Ca. :smile:

Maybe at some point down the road we could invite special teachers for cameo appearances. This could give you some time off every once in a while… which you will need… just like all hard working businesswomen.

I’d like to invite… Sister Mary Elephant :lol:

If our talents are passed on to us through our ancestry… which I do believe to some extent… then CaptainJack’s bloodline could definitely include some Admiralty. Maybe related to Captain Cook or someone on his crew… they passed through the Puget Sound/Juan De Fuca Strait area (where he lives) many, many years ago.

Wouldn’t it be something if we could discover a visual way to experience our genetic past! :smile:

How about “Caucasian”? Kavkaskaya Plenniza :smile:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelowna

errin,
Your request is interesting in that perhaps there doesn’t exist a proper word for words that read the same upside down. The proposed “ambigram” is another made up word by the National Puzzlers League, and I just did another made up word two lessons ago.

Perhaps you have a better answer than ambigram?

My name GRANT is a poppullar name , For a Grant Tank
to William grants wisky
to actor carey grant .
loads of poppullar names with grant in them !
:grin: :cool: :wink:

Hello Marina & errin,

Some additional notes.

In the wiki footnotes it mentioned Scott Kim who uses the word “Inversions” and mentioned Douglas Hofstadter as coining the word ambigram as the generic word for inversions.
http://www.scottkim.com/inversions/

I grant you that.
But, who was buried in Grant’s tomb?

Here’s a fine example of a young man playing with a gun.
Gamer vs Nature (Reality check) :mrgreen:
[Rated PG for profuse use of expletives]

Hello Marina,
On the Scott Kim site I saw this quick bio of Hofstadter:

“Douglas Hofstadter started creating ambigrams when he was in high school. His interest in ambigrams and wordplay reflect his research interest in cognitive science. His lettering work appears in his book Metamagical Themas. He has also written a book about ambigrams, in Italian.”

He is on the faculty of Indiana University.
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/people/d/dughof.html

Call him up and ask him to make a video word request of ambigram. I think it would be great. I would be happy to make the call for you. :smile:

its illegal to have guns in Japan.

General Grant National Memorial (as designated by the U.S. National Park Service), better known as Grant’s Tomb, is a mausoleum containing the bodies of Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), an American Civil War General and the 18th President of the United States, and his wife, Julia Dent Grant (1826-1902). The tomb complex is a United States Presidential Memorial in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The structure is situated in a prominent location in Riverside Park overlooking the Hudson River.

:cool:

i am From England and its Shock to hear on the new s Knife crime
And now more gun crime as well .
Shame public people have to carry Guns or/and knifes to
Show how powerfull they are Or even to Protect them selfs :neutral:

I own several guns. But my favourite two are the AK-47 and the SKS. Maybe since youve already covered the AK, you could tell us about the SKS?

I like the fact that guns are being advertised along the side of the page :-)

Cookies rotate like dictators. Marina and her Russian spirit got me to make candy bars yesterday, that might be a square rotating. I put together molasses(sorghum) and hershy’s syrup and 24 oz. of nuts and peanuts, boiled and then added cheerios and rice crispies, all in big cast iron fry-pan, then baked and walla. P.S. most were 3 wise men gifts after the 5th of the year………….capricorns are conceived during the pushy rams period…bull goats rule :lol: :roll: :wink: :lol:

mom

Candy Bars and hackers cookies

great picture

Holiday is the day of faith for organized labor(government workers) :mrgreen: :evil: :lol:

1983 – AC/DC – Guns for Hire Rehearsals

Some people should never be allowed a gun.

Alice Cooper – Love’s A Loaded Gun for kicks :lol:

Some people should neer be allowed a gun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yEUPM4a8MM

Disgusting!

That’s funny! :-)

Bullet

Its got a lot of materials to make one
interseting word to cover :smile:

I’ll bet you got love guns :?: :smile:

Hello elahie,
I liked Akon’s Freedom and the other Akon songs.
I saw him on the YT Live back in Nov.
I liked your playlist. All wonderful songs.

I’ve used several types of guns. I’m in the process of buying my first one. Probably a .357.
Request: Can you tell us where the phrase son of a gun comes from?
Thanks. Jerry

Thanks Mike,
That’s a great image. Love it.

I like the fact that guns are NOT being advertised along the side of the page here in the UK.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl8_eo2v8f4

…..Its fuc~ing brilliant ! :oops: :shock:

Word/expression Request – “One Horse Town”

I have used this expression in the past when I would talk about a small town. I didn’t know what the reference was until a few years back. Before that I just thought it was in reference to the size of the livery stable.
I think it was History Channel that clued me on the meaning but we all know the History Channel can be wrong at times.

So what’s your take on this?

They are not even real guns, Air guns and BB Guns.

Cool and thanks, I signed up :wink:

is that hot glue and my word request..GLUE(wheat)

A town with out farming horses and they just might use tractors(slaves for petro) :roll: Green Bay Wisconsin and the packers are a “one horse city” :lol: good request ………Mr. Che Volay

Marina, Word Request: Matron

:neutral: :neutral: Nope, no gun, my .22 got stolen and I,ve never owned anything larger except a 20 gage shotgun My father had a semi-auto pistol but mom put in in the safety deposit box at the bank when dad died so I only have access to my BB gun.

We can add that the Germanic root GUNNR or *GUNDAZ is akin to the Slavic *GUNATI “pushing” that is ГНАТЬ in Russian.
This Indoeuropean root is present in Latin FENSUS “push” used in DEFENSE, OFFENSE and so on. The Latin FENSUS- is an ancient *GUNDOS cognate to *GUNDAZ in Germanic. In Sanscrit (ancestor of Hindi) GHNANTI means “strikes, pushes”. In Greek PHONOS “murder” is also an evolution/mutation of *GUNDOS.

Now a little French chanson :

- Cunégonde, veux-tu du fromage ?
- Oui, Papa, avec du sel dessus !
- Mais, Ma Fille, ce n’est pas l’usage !
- Alors, Papa, Tu peux te le mettre au Cu…

Hey dictionaricdotcom: I enjoy your comments and history tells when your French language was for aristocrats that ruled the world. Yesterday I read Turgenev “Fathers and Sons”, the Russian author…understood the “little” people, while living in Paris. Go France, middle of east :lol:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4924387558616204215&hl=en

i have an old 22 rifle and a sig-sauer p-229 (S&W .40 cal) and a whole bevy of “air-soft” guns

Hi Mike,
I don’t think they are adding any new contestants. I’ve been monitoring it pretty carefully to make sure they don’t mess with Marina. It looks like they are doing some tweaks like rolling people into one entry and they are trying to reconcile different names for the same person, so it looks like it might be a new entry.

For example, they still haven’t rolled everyone into one. Captain Jack still has two entries as does iJustine.

By the way, very smart of you to make your link point to the contest page. I’m changing mine now.

Marina is continuing to advance towards first place.
Thank you to all of you who are continuing to vote.
3118 votes to go.

A pretty song. The Bastard Fairies – Guns And Dolls

Imagine if all the voters called two people to ask them to vote for Marina. Try it and see how quickly we can make Marina number one.

I think the primary fact she is referring to is Google’s technology that examines the contents of a web-page and puts up ads that match the contents.

I like your First Lady(Carla Bruni) voice and songs; and yours too.

LOL!?

thank you! :razz:

np :smile:

guns suck

Hello, sorry if I’m a bit late. Just a few points to make. Gun refers to an unrifled barrel, hence shotgun, it is poor slang to say the Least. The same applies to the word Clip when referring to a Box Magizine. Mauser produced the first successful autoloading pistol in 1898. I own several Firearms, all of the anti-people variety. not sport,simply part of My Martial arts training, as for the colour-belt who thinks He could unarm Me .42/secs draw & fire while I’m backing away from You because that’s the way I was trained, no threats, just do. sorry. At one time Canada had a higher per capita ownership than the US. 32 in My House when I was a Kid. My Fav. Rifle is My Springfield M1a National Match,proper ART & ammo, His nickname is Darth because it’s fracken scary what that Rifle is capable of, but He only kills paper, I don’t hunt. The Fathers of the Constitution put the 2nd. ammendment there For Your protection,defend it. I recieved My 1st. handgun at 12, right after somebody tried to kill Me. It’s not Paranoia when someone is really after You. Said Prep. was never caught. Yada Yada ad infinitem

She showed her feet in her FETISH video. If I remember correctly, she also gave a shout out to your name along with others that requested that word.

Ya she did in the Fetish video but she was wearing open toed socks. She didnt show us her SOLES!! PLZ MARINA WORD REQUEST OF THE WORD SOLES!! EVERYONE REQUEST IT!!! I DONT KNOW WAT IT MEANS OR WHERE IT COMES FROM!!!! :mrgreen:

It is truly beautiful. Still has the original bluing, only some wear where the pump has thinned it out. One scratch on the body, but absolutely no rust. Inside the barrel still shines like a mirror. My grandfather saw it when he was 10 yrs old, worked all summer on the railroad to buy it at the hardware store for $25.50. Let’s see, {somebody scrunches his head, crunching numbers in there } he died my junior yr, so that would be ’82, and he was 69, I think. So that makes it uh, 59+24 is 83 yrs old. Does that make it an antique? I need to take some pics for insurance stuff; I’ll have to upload it. :cool:

Never had one myslf but my younger brother had a b-b-gun for a while.

Sounds like a request, here’s a page full of odd ones.
This has been done before, so disclaimer is needed Click if you are of age… Informative & enteraining… kinda.

Point taken, I guess it wouldn’t be much of a learning experience. :sad:

Hey Marina, another thought:
You have a 3g iphone right? So do i (and they’re amazing!!!!! I love mine!). Anyway….you should make a hotforwords iphone app. If you don’t know how to make and submit an app, contact some of the companies that do, and I’m sure they would be eager to make it. That would be awesome! (and a lot more convenient than getting on the computer, signing in, etc….)
You should think about it.
Thanks!

Derek

@HotForWords You’re Both Bangin’ :!:

Hey Marina, another thought:
You have a 3g iphone right? So do i (and they’re amazing!!!!! I love mine!). Anyway….you should make a hotforwords iphone app. If you don’t know how to make and submit an app, contact some of the companies that do, and I’m sure they would be eager to make it. That would be awesome! (and a lot more convenient than getting on the computer, signing in, etc….)
You should think about it.
Thanks!
Derek

(I posted this again in case you didn’t see it earlier)

I have… several. They’re fun.

Hey thanks for chiming up and confirming my claim. :smile: One of my good friend and instructor Grandmaster Archibeque trained with Bruce Lee. He said Bruce was very fast with his feet and he just couldn’t block him.

Oh thanks for catching my misspelling of “Martial”! :oops: :oops: :oops: I’m so embarrassed for working in the arts, I should know better. When I see that word I think it’s wrong for my dyslexia kicks in. Damn spell check should read the context of the sentence to pick the correct word. On that subject of misspellings. “Bruce Lee happesn…” happens?. :smile: Now I’m able to return the favor. Thanks. :mrgreen:

What I see is a Russian Bride Advertisement: Find Your Russian Beauty.

:lol:

Ready? Draw!

BANG BANG! :arrow: :oops:

Do I own a GUN?! Are you kidding me? ! You’ll put your eye out!!! :cry:

Yes, I do own guns. I have a pistol permit w/ 4 handguns, plus 1 .22 rifle and 3 shotguns. Do not try to break into my house!

I must admit I seem to be going rather slowly, but I am devoted to finishing the quest soon! The Quest for the Holy Grail, ‘which came first: the Woman or the War?‘ So far I’ve got that Woman comes from a word meaning “with”, while ‘War’ comes from a word for “struggle” (which sounded a lot like a word for “beautiful” so you see why ‘War’ is also from a word for “confusion”).

I have airsoft pistol and gun! :razz:

Dear Marina,

I don’t have any gun because fortunatly I am living in a country where it is forbidden for normal citizens to have weapon.

Marina’s FEET, TOES, and SOLES in her Best Weekend video. :roll:

Tough guy…were you cold? :cool:

The video has been removed :evil:

Are we that bad off? Pimp for word request :grin: :idea: :grin:

the only gun i have is an old flintlock…it’s still got the flint, so it might work still – i’m not sure…

i do have a slingshot that does work, tho’…

and a baseball bat or two… :cool:

Ya but not long enough. i want the WHOLE FEET MARINA PLZ ORIGIN OF THE WORD SOLES!! OR TOES! IVE NEVER HEARD OF THE ORIGIN BEFORE EVERYONE REQUEST IT!!! :mrgreen:

Thank you! I knew that if I was persistent enough, Marina or one of her student body would get a definitive answer. ‘Natural Ambigram’ sounds cool. And here I was going to call it a ‘spinindrome’. :razz:

Thanks again! Peace, Errin : )

Hi errin, thank you kindly for your reply and you are very welcome.

I loved the idea when you presented it and I had found the word ambigram, but Capman911 beat me to it in posting it.

Since there are so many types of ambigrams, I did a bit more research into it, meaning lots of reading. It was a nice challenge. I have a busy life, so I cannot always get to these challenges and catching up with emails and comments all takes time.

Kind Regards, PK

Sure…Ruger 9mm, Remington 7mm rifle, Winchester 12G-pump, SKS 7.62. :smile:

Yes I do own a gun two actually a glock 23 and a Sigsauer p229
:twisted:

I own a dessert eagle and a Glock.

How sad that guns aren’t allowed in schools. Look at the tragedies that could have been avoided (or at least minimized) over the last decade. Shouldn’t someone be armed to defend the children?

Well I own an air gun not a real gun that is a metal pellet heaver.

Rifle is actually an interesting word for a derivation. Has to do with a spiral groove in the barrel which will spin the slug so that it travels straight instead of throwing a “knuckle ball”. I am sure you could do a more complete work up on this if you so desire Marina.

Curious that you should derive “War” through the “Woman”, because ‘Woman’ actually comes from a word meaning “Mix” while ‘War’ comes from a word meaning “Unmixed.”

But maybe the ‘war’ was started by one man who wanted to ‘unmix’ another man’s wife from the other man … still digging!

I own a short barrel 357 Magnum. A really sexy looking piece.

I do not own a firearm. But I have decided to attend the firing range.

I request the word

“Success”

:evil: i own a pistle thats all black :evil:

I own a bow but that’s not a gun

Hello Marina! Good lesson! I actually own several guns, but I am most proud of my .50 BMG rifles. Every time i fire them I smile!

Is that for real , Do you realy like guns? :neutral: :neutral:

Dear Marina. I have a word request. And the word is soul. I hope you consider this request. Your dear student, Bloodlust27.

Damn kom til at elske dem, skøre skandinaver.

I would like to know the origin of the word “Husky” and where it originated from. :) :oops:

I have a Drill Gun a Soldering Gun and a Grease Gun !

If i had a gun I wouldn,t tell anybody :twisted:

I love rednecks I guess I are one, kinda displaced.

more then one…
1. smith and wesson [pistol]
2. M-16.

best to have one and not need it then need it and not having one.

Not only do many men name their weapons after women, but women are naturally more adept at using them. The female metabolism is calmer than the male metabolism, which translates into greater accuracy at long range.

For instance, most of the deadliest snipers of World War II were female… they were also Russian.

Being ex-military, I own several. Different tools for different applications.

:shock: guns, hmmm
any that fires a type of missiles and uses something explosive…
no, wont find it here.
never needed one, exept in the army had to use one. that was quite fun :razz:
maybe some day :arrow:

originalistrick I AGREE WITH YOU 100% :grin:

GOOD WELL SAID MIKE :grin:

I’m a Firearm Enthusiast. (safety first, of course!).. I own 15 firearms as of this date.
Ruger M77 Mark II .30-06 (7.62 x 59)
Ruger Mini 14 Remington .223
Taurus PT140 .40 S&W
1943 Turkish Mauser K98 8mm.

These are my favorite 4. I really enjoy this website.

I have 15 ‘guns’ also. My favorites are my ak-47, Dragunov, CX4, AR-15, my trustee .22, but my newest and most destructive is my wonderful Barrett M-107…yeah baby :D

I have many guns.My favorite is my 44 magnum revolver a pistol.My second favorite is a 30.06, also a favorite of many big game hunters as it will take down a target from as far as 500 yards.Both the guns I have mentioned above will take any large game in the world except some in Africa.Elephants and Rhinos take much more uumph.I have one like the brown bess you showed which is a muzzel loader and it looks like mine which is the Kentucky long rifle.But the muzzel loader has come a long way in it’s day and now they make them inlines like a rifle and shoot sabots which look like real bullets.They are outlawed in some states as it is considered a high powered rifle in hunting.Although still loaded from the muzzel.I enjoy shooting mine very much. :smile:
Now my all time favorite is my bow and arrow which requires much more skill.I am extremely proficient with this tool.
So if you would My Teacher, where does the word [bow] originate? I ask that you please investigate. :wink: As in the bow and arrow.

Sincerely,
theteacherspet,
Bob
P.S.TY for the lessons,I enjoy interacting
with them.I am learning and I’m guessing
you are also.It’s a pleasure to teach my
teacher. :wink:

I have three firearms and five paintball markers (if you want to count them) One of my firearms is an issued item for my job (military M16A2) and the other are stored safely away. The two I own are: a .22 cal long rifle and a 410 shotgun. As far as the paintball markers (guns) I just have a random selection.

Very nice Hot4words being a firearms instructor I found it interesting. I have many guns and carry one with me all the time. No I never had to use it and hope I never do. 疯狂洋鬼子

I have a Super Soaker XP 250

Chello! (or should I say, “Privyet!”?)

My dear teacher, :grin:

I actually own several. the funny part is, they are all Soviet WW2 firearms!

3 Mosin Nagant 91/30 rifles
1 Mosin Nagant M38 carbine
1 Mosin Nagant M44 carbine
1 SVT40 semiautomatic rifle

and last, but not least, (well maybe it is the least since it ~is~ small!),

1 M1895 Nagant revolver

What can I say? I love all things Russian! ;)

no more than just air soft guns. :neutral: