Several

HI

CRAZY..I have several brains!*!*!*!*!*

Homework: books

Live near where king Richard[PETTY's] lives…your fast Cap :eek:

:grin:

I have several animals. :smile:

About 100 mile from his house and Dale Earnhardt Jr. :smile:

8th :cool:

You have several of….. BOOBS! :mrgreen:

So if several comes from severed, why are apartments all bunched together? Shouldn’t they be apart? Why do we park on driveways, and drive on parkways? Why do girls have gynecologists? Shouldn’t they have GALnecologists? Why do we say we overslept, when in fact, we underwoke?

just wondering… :lol:

Good lookin out Marina :cool: :roll: nice to be up front for a change :twisted:
usually in back due to height 6′ 1″ :evil: and conduct :lol: B.B. hw will be a little
late :mrgreen:

Homework :cool: I have several videos on YouTube! :mrgreen:

:???: Several Marinas :?: I LIKE THE :idea: :!: :grin: :mrgreen:

Great video.
I was thinking joint and several liability, just as you said it.

HW: My knowledge is from several sources.

HW: Gorby has several disembowled squeek toys.

I have several BILLS that are due each & every month :oops: :shock:
All being paid on time so far :evil: :lol: B.B.

Tulips getting better every day.

Hey cap, eye will be able to see better tomorrow, Lord willing. HD will actually mean something again… eye surgery, in several hours. Thanks for the bunny visit.

When I was a little kid, I use to think several meant seven, because of how closely it is spelled.

Did I catch a grammar error… several of ?
BTW Checked my subscription inbox before starting the vid.
Your new vid showed up… started the vid from the website… checked my inbox… & it’s gone (not unexpected).
Came here when I saw your tweet BTW.
As per yesterday’s command, clicking on the YouTube link from the site, will rate & comment…”at ease soldier”.

Hey HotForWords, I have a request for the word [Kaleidoscope]. You’re amazing, and a true inspiration.

I have several t-shirts. It is such an effective way to make a simple statement. :twisted:

It is odd that so many words have (d)evolved their meaning into something very different, or even opposite. Since the “peruse” video, I have noticed that the word in nearly always used inappropriately. Even my “scholarly” historical books have perusal meaning ‘to skim.’ :roll:

We are all bunched up! Mi-d-evil Roam..Too many tears1 :razz:

After seeing this video and “matrix”, I’m going to be having several more [dreams] of Marina as twins and triplets. :grin: So, do you have any sisters?

If you watch the video here first it does disappear from the YT subscription box.

I came here before I checked YT home. I have NOT gone to HFW YT page, yet. The subs on YT do not list HFW. My most current sub vid is “porkie.” I dunno, but this does not seem correct. :???:

I have several albums and 45′s(poppers), that is, records(black tar)…crazy like a bug Paul McCartney – Too Many People / She Came In (Quebec 2008)…more HotForWords Schools :wink:

i have several music c.d`s and thats cool

Baling hay with a John Deere 630 tractor and 336 baler...Looks like cufan71, has bales of several, to un load :mad: :wink:

Hey Marina, looking at you in this video got me thinking of the Dahm triplets. :grin:

I just tested it with another account and I showed up on YouTube, but when I came back here and watched the video here, then went back to YouTube I didn’t show up.. meaning it tracks if you have seen the video elsewhere.

I will try to remember when you do your next vid, (tomorrow?) BTW, I left a screenshot in the forum, and it is, uh… erm… kinda big. One of you back door folks may want to fix that or just take it out. It was mostly for the Lady’s benefit.

See, I try to help, and I just go screwing things up. :roll:

Hi there Marina!

I would like to request the word [unexpurgated].

thanks!

Jonathan

I would like to know too… also, :grin: is it two brothers? [more]

You were 5th :idea: :roll:

Besides “canz o’ spinach” (of course), I drink several cups of water a day! :grin:

Was it just today that you started adding discussion threads? :???:

I also left you a message on the forum site telling the same thing you just mentioned. If you watch it here it disappears on the YT new video page.

Sorry took “at ease” & forgot the vote thing… done.
Cool… by persistance, got the first iJustine tabulation thingy into the possitive. The power of several (3) computers pays off.
Only get to use one today :sad:

Hope every thing goes ok with the procedure. I’ll keep you in my prayers. :smile:

Mike

Don’t we all. :lol:

I added my other YT acct to Lady M’s subs. When I forget to check tomorrow, I will go to the bobs828 to see if the sub shows up there.

I had my eyes operated on when I was three. Still can’t see worth a crap. I was born cross eyed. They straightened them out and I have to wear glasses because of being near sited. Now I am blind in one eye and can’t see out of the other. :lol:

Your a fart smucker with several brains. :lol:

Does 2 constitute several :?: Hmmm I wonder :razz:

How would you ask the question? What do you have several…. <—What would I put here?

Lovin that thumbnail! And my now silent laptop!

Marina, What are discussion threads?

11

Could have sworn I typed test.

I thought that lol…. But that would mean she would have lots.

Marina, I think you have several brains left to feed on..

Well this is odd. has everyone put their name back to normal now?

Capman911: When I was in 4H, I stayed a week with a family in Randolf county, as I remember the name…went thru MayberryMayberry R.F.D. Opening and closing titles and NASCAR: Bootlegging to Hero, The Early Years..ya-all still got dem drie-counties :wink: B-good

All of our Counties are wet Leonard. We can drink all we want. Even get some shine every now and then. :lol:

I think he meant when you said….”I have several of….”

Innit.

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I waited over 1 hr 10 min just to give YouTube time to do what it needs to do.

I did not get any email notification.

Then, on the youtube-dot-com page: Subscriptions did show “Several” (also, “view all” showed “Several” in both “New Videos” and “hotforwords”).

However, message-inbox was empty; and friend activity was empty.

Watched the video starting from listing in the youtube-dot-com page’s Subscriptions area. (After watching, “Several” was removed from both youtube-dot-com page’s Subscriptions area and “view all”‘s “New Videos” area; it remains in “view all”‘s “hotforwords” area.)

(HW: It is easier for me to answer what I have one and only one of, Marina.)

–Hs4Mm

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Funny isn’t it?

Funny is not it?

Shouldn’t it be … Funny is itn’t?

Should not it be?! :lol: I could go on forever!

:mrgreen: 8/5 :cool:

I am hoping u could do the word [WEDGIE] marina thank u

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Marina,

“What do you have several of?” is perfectly fine. (Look at the funny counter-examples quoted below before going into the two linked pages. For some people, one would have to say, as the Southern Gentleman did: “What do you have several of, you jerk?”)

This has a good write-up on the issue of ending sentences with a preposition.

This link has the following funny counter-examples:

Southerner stopped a stranger on the Harvard campus and asked, “Could you please tell me where the library is at?” The stranger responded, “Educated people never end their sentences with a preposition.” The overly polite Southerner then apologetically repeated himself: “Could you please tell me where the library is at, you jerk?”

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While editing the proof of one of his books, Winston Churchill spotted a sentence that had been clumsily rewritten by the editor to eliminate a preposition at the end. The elder statesman mocked the intention with a comment in the margin: “This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.”

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These two anecdotes reflect an intolerance on both sides of the Atlantic for the rule prohibiting sentence-final prepositions. So where did the rule come from, anyway?

–Hs4Mm

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Homework:
I have several piles of stuff (yes we’ll go with stuff) around my house.
I also have several computers, only one of which works.

Thats a new one on me …phart schmaqquer :razz:

:wink: This is my kind of baling :!: :mrgreen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPp7EehgQvA&feature=related :grin:

I have several textbooks from which I derive several headaches. On Marina’s YT site there are several commentators with several disturbing character flaws.

Between you and I we have the recent comments section filled up. :lol:

James you are the individual, several of more than a bunch and are severalfold of severalties, that is passing out property. B good and I’ll watch your channel :roll:

Remember, she is Marina Orlova… not Diana of Ephesus.

Wedgie, HotForWords

I have several possible reasons for several possible Youtube-problems that might need several investigations :mrgreen:

Very interesting subject,Marina. I rise early in the morning, usually circa 5am., and have several cups of coffee to start the day. Not the best breakfast, but it keeps me going!

Right you are :mrgreen:

Dear Marina, You have several of many things, such as beautiful dresses and other outfits, videos on YouTube, thousands of subscribers, thousands of computer memory files, books and other research material, and thousands who want to be your boyfriend! :!:
I also have several books, but they’re mostly about military history, diet, nutrition and other self-help books. I have several electronic items, such as a TV, some radios, cassette recorder, and a camcorder I got a few days ago. :smile:
The best thing of which I have several, is knowledge of many jokes, so that if we meet, I can tell you joke after joke, to make you happy and enjoy a good time! :razz:
Seesixcm6

Am I right? is it not

Which one of you made me miss 69!

I am thinking of becoming a lord…. What say you fellow hotforwordians?

I always like to give Marina 5 stars. I never let the YouTubers’ comments get to me. I’m sure Marina is very much the same way.

The question may be asked as:

1. Of which items do you own several?

2. What are some items you keep in large quantity?
Seesixcm6

What does the word [pronounce] come from? I guess I understand “pro” but “nounce”?

:roll: Not I

Was that because I asked for it earlier? :wink:

I always bang on about ending sentences with prepositions, in the case of from, a preposition governed by the dative :geek:

Marina does it alot < I want to make that a real word please!

“XXXXXX wanted to know where the word XXXXXXX came from”

Should really be

XXXXX wanted to know from whence the word XXXXX came.

But how would you say “where do you come from”

Oh, fukkit < thats a word

Why not add french?

From whence cometh avez-vous?

Wow! I wrote my HW (“HW: It is easier for me to answer what I have one and only one of, Marina.”) on YouTube — and it triggered something in a 53 year old person and made him/her deface it; and then someone else up-voted his/her crap! Weird people!

I hope not cufan71!

Sorry, but I have to ask!

Can all the women on here ( Apart from Marina of course)

reply here. I swear I never see any ladies here apart from our dear teacher….

Also… teachers pets/assistants??

 
Marina, in part says:
“… meaning it tracks if you have seen the video elsewhere.”

Correct.
See my summary in the forum

OK, so why is that a problem?

S’alright :mrgreen:

Yo very nice :shock: flags :cool: :oops: started going crosseye :lol:
:mrgreen: B.B.

What is the origon of [pancake]

 
Hi hs4mm,
You beat me to the link about the use of prepositions.

In the past, on this site I have talked about it and have provided either that link or similar ones.

seesixcm6 (at 14.3.4 below) gives examples of re-writing a sentence where the preposition is not at the end.

Of course, as has been said on this site before, when using the formal approach where the preposition is not at the end, the sentence seems more stuffy and has appearances of being more snobish.

Bisquick

Some members were not getting the new video in there subscription boxes on You Tube. Plus she wanted to figure out that if you were getting the new video in your YT subscription box by watching the new video on HFWs site if it would make it go away on the new video you tube site. I found out that when you clicked on Marinas home page on Yt and the video auto starts like it suppose to and you quickly stop it to check the new video page that it counts as a view and it causes the new video to disappear. That might be why some people can’t find the video in their new video page. She just wants to make sure every member is getting the down load in their new video page. If they are not then she was going to check into YT for the problem.

She has several… eyes, too? :mrgreen:

Origin of [Alien Moviez]. I will post it all my live.

Homework: I have several complaints about the Crappulus Spending Bill signed by Schmuck-boy-Obama, :mad: today

Marina any little start of your new video from any site “ie” HFWs site, YouTube site, or your Home page on You Tube that auto starts the new video will cancel the video in the new video section of a members site. I found this out by using another log in name and found the new video page and your new video was there. I went to your YourTube HotForWords home page and the video auto started and I immediately stopped the video. I went back to the new video page and the video was gone. So any little bit of video play will delete the video in the new video page. That may be why some people aren’t seeing the new video in their new video page.

:cool: :lol: :lol:

 
No, I am not a woman.

There have been ton of women on this board, like “nettehexe” who I happen to know. MissCupcake has been here many times and many other women like JC.

I think Marina said in the recent past that the demographics is fairly evenly split between men and women, and most men do all of the commenting here.

They are here they are incognito. Take Smokey36Bear could be a woman in disguise. :razz: :lol: :lol:

“Also.. be sure to click the video after watching to see it on YouTube so that you can rate it and make a comment or two.”
Why ? Is there something secret ?

Thank you (NOT!) for leaving your spam all over the place.
Leeching here at HFW just shows you can’t make it on your own… :mrgreen:

Do you mean Oregon?

I have several personalities :mrgreen: :evil: :cool: :lol: :shock:

zzzz

Plus most of the comments are male oriented and leave out the female population. What woman wants to talk about bodily functions. Errin shows up sometimes with some good incites on the subject at hand. But she rarely comments back to people. We need to make it a more female friendly place.

really ? whats that guy’s name ? its funny to see arguments in youtube comments :mrgreen:

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Hello Marina,

Preposition “for”: the following appears toward the end of the “your comment … has a new reply” notice:

Thank you for your commenting on HotForWords.

I think your intent is to thank the person not just for the specific content of the particular comment but for his act of commenting itself. I suspect “your commenting” is not proper usage; I think your intent is communicated by just saying:

{this will suffice to convey your intent of thanking for the act} Thank you for commenting on HotForWords.

or one could be more elaborate and say:

{this is an elaborate way of conveying your intent of thanking for the act} Thank you for your act of commenting on HotForWords.

One would thank a person for a specific comment by saying:

{this conveys a different intent – thanks for a specific comment (rather than thanks for the act of commenting iteself)} Thank you for your comment on HotForWords.

–Hs4Mm

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:???: Pancakes came from Oregon :?:

LOL! Smokey36Bear is definitely NOT a woman! :mrgreen:

OPBWLOL seems like a douche in my opinion , his channel comments :lol: “I doubt that you are 53, more like 5 you douche bag, go die in a hole you prejudice bastard”

Hey ChaCha, Yea I know, I was hoping Smokey would catch the comment and comment. :lol:

vote down on those comments too

yeah , me too :mrgreen:

OK, I just UP voted you, so you are at zero now.
I’ll give you more later to put you in positive territory.
Yes, James, I up voted you too.

Has anyone besides me noticed he’s drunk ALL THE TIME?
He’s the “new” Ted Kennedy…

a preposition is not governed by case.
a preposition governs the case of the following noun phrase. this is why the structure of a phrase like “in your head” is [in [your head]]. the preposition (“in”) is the hierarchically highest ranking element in a phrase like that.

more abstract: [PP [P ][NP [(D) (A) N]]]

with:
PP: prepositional phrase,
P: preposition,
NP: noun phrase,
D: determiner,
A: adjective,
N: noun.

as for ending sentences with prepositions. if you feel uncomfortable with that, my suggestion is you contemplate this: it’s not a preposition, it’s a postposition.
a postposition is like a preposition with a preceding NP (that it governs).

 
Homework:
What do I have $everal of? Hmmmm? Ohhhh, yeah, I know, I have $several HotForWords videos I am watching right now. :grin:

Homework: I have several computers, CDs, DVDs, bills and trills watching Marina.

P.S. Marina is “Pretty in Pink” from head to toe.

He has a nick name of Alienmoviez and a web site by the same name. Google says alien movies stems from the Alien series of movies with Sigourney Weaver and of course the Aliens. I don’t know what more Marina could add to that if anything. It’s not a viable request with any etymology to it. Sorry Alienmoviez. :smile:

February 24th is supposed to be all you can eat pancake day at IHops. See you there. Love them blueberry flapjacks. Yuummmy. :grin:

Don’t worry – there’s still time :mrgreen:

Good luck, Billy, hope it all goes well. :smile:

[baseball, and basketball]

Word Request

I always assumed that is the way it worked. If it does track the views, you should be getting credit for them, as the videos have the YouTube label on them. Therefore, they are getting free advertising on something you produced. Do you have copyright privileges on the videos you produce?

Marina is trying to see if it will boost her popularity ratings to get her in the most popular section of You Tube.

Well, I’ve just started getting into Twitter, and what I have several of is questions…

Anybody else here give a Twitter a try? What’s the point of it?

I really haven’t found much use for it besides leaving funny captions on other people’s pictures. I just started today, so I don’t even fully grasp all it’s various functions yet. Seems interesting enough, but I’m not sure if there is all that much purpose to it. It has some fun elements to it, but it also seems like it can get boring fast.

Oooops, ran out of time there.

I love the word Serendipity and Marina has already done the word back in June 2007.

Maybe the word coincidence would be redundant and maybe not. If the word doesn’t have an interesting origin, my life’s serendipitous moments sure do.

[Coincidence] is the noteworthy alignment of two or more events or circumstances without obvious causal connection.

Hi errin, a lot of us, including me and even Marina thought Twitter was a bunch of malarkey. Marina gave an interesting comment about Twitter sometime last year on here that reflected your thoughts about Twitter.

I think Twitter, on their pages recommended that you start following people that have similar interests as you have. I think you are in the music production scene and the like. Start following people you admire and follow them.

You can follow a bunch of famous people and news sites like CNN, and other companies. The more you use it, the more you will find you can’t live without it. :grin:

Also, if you use mobile wireless devices like the iPhone which I use, I can stay in touch with the the people I follow very quickly while away from home. Micro blogging as it were.

Gotta go. See you on twitter around 8 PM :)

My years of experience in the music production scene has taught me this… STAY AWAY FROM PEOPLE IN THE MUSIC PRODUCTION SCENE!!! :lol:

Seriously, thanks for the input. It doesn’t look like there are many musicians taking advantage of the Twitter format. I will look into that side of things when I get a chance. Thanks. :smile:

Good one errin, had me laffing at that one.

Pick a topic that interests you or that you want to find something more about. Stamp collecting, bowling, OK, OK, bad examples. Anyway, follow people you admire or people in different fields that you want you have an interest in. Give it time. You may get hooked on it – or not.

I’ll be on the iPhone around 8 PM

I AM a laird and I have to tell you it is greatly over-rated.

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Perhaps 4 years ago, I went through the book Rex barks. Going through that book is like doing small puzzles in grammar, and could be a good, enjoyable pasttime. I have wanted to go through the book again, but have not been able to make time for it.

–Hs4Mm

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You’ll be in my prayers, BillyB.

I have several music CDs; it’s a vast collection.

People used to tell me to “get a life”, so I bought several on eBay. Most were really cheap because they were used lives. One came with a guarantee. Unfortunately one life burned up in a UPS truck before it could be delivered. The other four are here and mostly happy. Excuse me, one needs to be fed now. I have to go…this life really gets upset when it’s hungry. YES I’M COMING!!!!!

Uh-huh!

My Dear Marina:

I’m sure that you have (more than) several pairs of shoes!!!

Marina I’d like to know where does the word [SPAM] comes from?

oh and great lesson. I’ve got several “ideas” when i watch your videos.
looking better every time.

My, oh, my Marina. You are pretty today!

Thanks for the interesting lesson. Oddly, I was familiar with the everyday usage of several and the “legalese” version, but never consciously put the two together before. I mean, I had never considered how the “severed” root affected the way we use “several” in normal conv

Aw, Hell, I don’t know how to put it.
Thanks again. You’re wonderful!

Always.

Oh, Homework:

I have several pets, several guns, several musical instruments, and several problems with verbalization.

Dear HotForWords,

I have several goals to accomplish in life.

Your Student,
ThoughtOnFire

Marina,

I just googled “boobs”. Oh my God I can’t stop laughing to type this.

CONGRATULATIONS?

I think we all did and there she was as she said she would be. :lol:

Great video as always, Marina. I thought of more interesting words that you may want to consider. [galavanting] [traipsing] and [atonement]
For that last one, what does ‘tone’ have to do with it? Something musical?

Check out the Words/Lessons list on the pulldown menus :mrgreen:
Spam is in there; Marina has 200+ video lessons for you to check out.

What do your Sea Monkeys eat? :mrgreen:

Hey Marina I found this video clip that might interest you and James. It tell how this one guy on YT makes $100,000.00 a year and only makes 3 videos a week. So you must be “loaded” :grin:

I would love to request the word [zerbert]. Its an action word meaning to blow on a person’s stomach.

In all their…I mean, HER splendor.

my reply on YT was that i have several thoughts, most of which i am polite enough to keep to myself…

unlike many of the [riff-raff] over there… :cool:

I went to YT and gave you a thumbs up Tom. :wink:

Marina, I thought you wanted to increase the number of clicks referred from external sites into YouTube … so how come the link in the text above does not end with an “&eurl”, perhaps something like:

{REMOVE SPACES} & eurl = http : / / www hotforwords com

I am not a computer whiz what would adding that do to the url she posted?

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In the present form, YouTube thinks you typed out the string “http blah balh” to see the video. So YouTube will increment the statistics count for the number of views that started without any referral from an external site.

With the &eurl (‘e’ most likely stands for external), YouTube will increment the statistics count for the number of views that started because the viewer was directed to YouTube from an external site, and the url-address of the site that directly caused the viewer to go to YouTube is the stuff that comes after the eurl= part.

Another example: Amazon has a program wherein if a person comes to place an order on an item because of a direct referral from someone else, then that someone else will get paid a percentage of the price of the item.

I am aware of the Amazon program; the description of how the system knows of a “direct” referral is my inference. The remarks I make about the statistics counters at YouTube is also an inference — I have not see any YouTube document that spell out any such detail. I would bet a few cents that what I have written above is fairly accurate.

–Hs4Mm
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Hi Marina,
Why is the word [ounce] abbreviated as [oz]?
Tks,
galhardofilho64

PS: A long time ago, Marina had written that more the number of direct hits (meaning having things the way it is now) the better. But in the past few days, Pedantic’s analysis seemed to imply that the ratio of direct to referred hits must be high — this led Marina to request recently (yesterday?) that we visit YouTube from here. Also, for some unspecified reason, Captain Jack disagreed that increasing the number of referred hits was a good idea.

Bottom line: to count as a direct hit, leave things as is; to count as a referred hit, add the &eurl part. Also, to be safe and avoid any YouTube counting bugs, the &eurl part might need to end with / (the way the url shows up when one double clicks on the video).

Added PS 64.1.1.1.

Thanks, that makes sense now.

Yeah, you have several of… And I’m lookin’ at ‘em. :mrgreen:

With all the crazy things I see on my computer, You are number one sweet,

entering person for me! jimj122345. Please don’t change.

Well, they tried “oc.,” but everyone who saw it said, “Awk??? What does awk mean?” So they started from scratch:

oa
ob
od
oe
of
og
oh
oi
oj
ok
ol
om
on
oo
op
oq
or
os
ot
ou
ov
ow
ox
oy
oz and said, “That last one sort of sounds right and since there’s nothing else to try, we’ll just use it. So that’s it. No arguments.”

It’s true, I tell you.

At some point your collection would have to have been half vast. :grin:

…and it just wouldn’t sound right to be ‘off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Awk…’ :twisted:

I think it was half vast in 2004 or 2005. Before then, I mostly downloaded songs through file sharing software like WinMX. Then, I wised up (as Bill O’Reilly would say :lol: ) and bought CDs. If I could, I’d buy used in very good or like new condition.

Has Marina ever said whether she makes her entire living from this site, or what else she does? Guess it works, at least for now.

Here is a guy who claims that it is not really as wonderful as it sounds… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzI928xJ3O4

I think several always means more than three. Therefore I have several TV sets. :roll:

Random thought: As lovely as you are, Marina, the stills of your videos often manage to catch you with several very odd and uncomplementary facial expressions.

Actually, i looked around twitter for a little bit and found it limiting. Perhaps in the future, but for now I have taken an about face when it comes to my interest in Twitter.

She could really enhance her earnings by offering nifty/cool/hot/hip HotForWords merchandise through the best Print On Demand website on the net… Zazzle. Her concept has great untapped potential in this regard. :grin:

Hello

You are correct, “of” goes in the question “what do you have several of“. but in your final statement (not a question)you say “I have several of…” <—if the word “these” were to be inserted there it would sound alright. Had you said “I have several…” the items could then be listed or left open for listing. is the “of” just optional, am I half right. You’re the pro & I’m just the car guy, & I’m not trying to point out faults, just testing myself to see if I be learnin’ a little.
My eyes can see in HD now WHOOPI, they were all correct you are beautiful Marina. Oh! it’s like a whole new world to me now.

Are Several and Seven related?

There’s an expression that goes “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.” :shock: Sounds sort of shocking, doesn’t it? However, I did read somewhere that the “cat” in mention actually means “catfish” and not Frisky the tabby.

Thank you, the first one woked well today, my wife is a darling, although she has no commpassion on me ( I don’t desrve it) she shepherded me there on the right day, I’d had it in my mind the surgery was to be wednesday, left to my own devices I’d of missed it. Left eye done in two weeks… maybe glasses no more (c: <—Annespade smile

Hasn’t anyone mentioned “severance pay” yet? Oh, I just did.

Went well today Bob… I think I had them more worried than I. Vommited on them last week in the pre-op consult… oops

With a mass overhaul in the economy people losing jobs, getting laid off, getting ticked off, etc. Who asked for change? I didn’t ask for change. Not this change!

Word of advice then. If things get too severe and life becomes unbearable, don’t forget; there are several ways to tell someone “I Love You”

Michael Jackson is auctioning off one of his gloves. He had several gloves so perhaps he will keep one for himself. King of Pop, not soda pop or whoze yer daddy.

Hi, Marina. I am interested in the word [edifying], as in “Those were very edifying experiences.” Now, there’s a special twist to my request. If I were to write the above sentence in Latin, how would the word “edifying” be written, in plural. I know this request goes beyond the normal range of your explanations but, hey, who else can I ask? You’re the only smart word-person I know of. :grin:

Yes, I know several other word people, but they’re all dummies.

Thx for your help. Great big smooch for being so nice.
AZ

Marina: the rating thing at YouTube, has been disabled? :evil:..or maybe, you know that…later

[compassion] to you BillyB,..Jimmy Cliff Live @ Marquee – I Can See Clearly Now…hope everything is clear :smile:

I have several of a lot of things. One is: I have several books signed by authors, I have several of old keys, I have several collections of many things! etc. etc.

..and today I had several “great moments”!

..how low can you go……………… Keep these comments to yourself!

Correction: Pedantic’s analysis seemed to imply that the ratio of direct to referred hits must be high close to 1 or maybe even smaller than 1 …

Saw this at YouTube … are they changing the algorithm? fixing email notification bugs?

We are currently performing site maintenance. Be cool – we’ll be back 100% in a bit.

You haven’t been paying attention? I have :mrgreen:
Sorry about you…
“How low can you go” Puh-leez!
He’s a schmuck – not very Presidential…

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Fundamentally, it is up to Google to come up with the right algorithm that reflects what really is “popular” and what really is “most viewed”. If Google makes a mistake in their algorithm and starts reporting meaningless videos as being “popular” and/or “most viewed” then the proper thing to do is to point out the error to Google; it would be wrong to blindly accept whatever algorithm Google adapts and attempt to score on that algorithm.

Moreover, I know for sure (a 100% sure – not as an inference, but as a fact) that Google frequently (e.g., about every 4 months) changes the algorithm that governs what is shown to the user at their main search site (www.google.com). So it is likely that Google will keep tweaking the algorithm used at YouTube to report “popular” and “most viewed”. This would mean that it is more important to give feedback to Google that shows that their algorithm is outputting crap (or is outputting the gold-standard) than it is to blindly try to this and that to score high on the existing algorithm.

Getting Google to invent the correct algorithm to reflect facts (reflect what is really popular and what is really most-viewed) is a solid, achievable goal. As is getting them to make Most-Viewed the default tab. Trying to blindly adapt to whatever their algorithm is for the current few months is futile and will just make one crazy.

Blindly accepting any algorithm Google puts up and attempt to score on it is bad.

It is primarily Google’s responsibility to invent the right algorithm. And it is in the users’ best interest to give them feedback on how their current algorithm is doing.

Also, the essential focus on making a good product should not be lost in the attempt to get Google to do the right thing.

–Hs4Mm

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgmIiQbwTEY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0AdLe7N_No
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaBRoV7U0Co :shock:

I saw the updated thank you message:

Thank you for your comments at HotForWords.

That’s very good. I concentrated on the “for” part and did not move on to the “on” part. But you did fix the “on” part too: “on” would introduce the subject of the comment; but the web-site HotForWords is the location of the comment; “at” introduces the location of the comment (“comment on a topic at a place”).

Back working about a minute ago or so..

Twitter overloaded at night? What’s happening to people? Not good.

Great to hear! (Or, great to see!)

Save old keys. Put one in a co-worker’s desk drawer every so often. They can’t figure out what they’re for, but they can’t throw them away because they might be important. Drives ‘em nuts.

Marina,

G4 mentioned you again. “WEBGIRLS: FOXES”. They list you #4. Pity them.
Love you, Sweet Thang!

Always.

i have several
- couches
- rollerblades
- undies
- chairs
- candles

I have several: books, cassette tapes, CDs, socks, tools, magazines, bus schedules, bills & more….

About 4.7 by the looks of the thumbnail. (But who’s counting? :lol: )

And several ways to leave your lover.

[Ubiquity]

Well if you look to quantum physics for the answer, I think it would say that all things are several in nature.
Confusing? Quite, but…
Just take the role of an ultimate observer, and consider the Quantum superposition principle, that implies that any one object or point can exist simultaneously in two or more places at the same time.

My Homework: I have several of everything. And so do you, congratulations!

It’s perfectly understandable if you don’t comprehend this concept right away.
Take me for example, I got into my Engineering Faculty with a 10.0/10 score for the physics admission exam. That would be enough to assume that I would be a good enough candidate for the new physics course that we were going to take up, right?
Actually I sucked so bad at it, that I even failed my first semester of it.
That was due to the fact that quantum physics is so different and special, that if you are bound to the traditional way of interpreting reality, you have a hard time begging to grasp it.

I’ll also give you another example… Think of the Universe, it’s mostly vacuum and matter, right? Now think of matter, it’s composed of atoms, and an atom is composed of electrons and a small nucleus in the middle. There’s really not much matter in there at all, if we think about it this way.

Electrons pop in and out of existence on orbitals, and Heisenberg himself said that atoms are not things, they are tendencies.
What your eyes see as objects, your brain interprets them as possible movements of consciousness. So instead of thinking of objects, you have to think of possibilities, possibilities of consciousness.

Now that we’ve established that consciousness is involved, the individual observers cannot be ignored. Therefore, literally everyone creates their own reality!
It’s all pretty awesome, if you just stop for a moment, to think about it…

Did the main reply (64.1.1) make sense by itself or did it leave you partially mystified with the postscript (64.1.1.1) being essential for the reply to make proper sense?

[number = no. ]
WTf ?? :???:

Probably short for Spanish “numero,” meaning “number.” :wink: Or maybe Latin.

“Pound” (the weight) is abbreviated “lb.” which comes from Latin “libra,” meaning “scales.” I think. :???:

“It is the opinion of the group assembled for the purpose of determining a probability of the likelihood of the meteorological-related results and outcome for the period encompassing the next working day that the odds of precipitation in the near-term are positive and reasonably expected.”

This can be shorten to a word or two. You know what those words are?

For some reason using one or two words, people have a problem understanding my thinking. Which I understand for the above sentence draws a much better picture of ones thought that can further explain what is going on. For example we know there is a group of people in the decision process. There is mathematics being used. We know that the meteorological prediction is for tomorrow. There is much evidence that the out come will come true…. Yet some people say that the sentence is way to wordy and unnecessary. Give me a freaking break! It’s a catch 22! I’m damned if I do and damned if I don’t. This burns me to no end. What to do? What to do?? :roll: :roll:

I would like to request the word [Level].

Not the normal use of the word [level], but the use of it in street names or town names. I live in Virginia and we have two towns named “Frog Level”, and a road named “Squirel Level”. I found “Poplar Level Road” in Kentucky, “Chaulk Level Road” in Virginia, and “Green Level Road” in Georgia. I have looked in several dictionaries to try to figure out what the word “level” could mean in this context. HELP!!! I drive by these places all the time and it just drives me crazy!

I know that number in Malay is nombor , but that can’t be right ….

For around L25 (about 50 bucks for us Yanks) we could be Marina’s neighbors in Lochaber. But as Bob suggests, out of deference to the Scots, we should be “lairds.” :smile:

James, your adolescence is showing! :razz:

“the Quantum superposition principle, that implies that any one object or point can exist simultaneously in two or more places at the same time.” But when observed it collapses on one position and so you only have one object in one place. So really you don’t have several things anymore.

“So instead of thinking of objects, you have to think of possibilities, possibilities of consciousness.” You have been watching the documentary “What the Bleep Do We Know?!” Not sure if you watch the first dvd set or second dvd set.

Heisenberg is wrong. Of course I can’t prove that. :sad:

I have issues with some of the thinking in the documentary. But there are many thing that explain some of the interesting things that have happen in my life.

Seesixcm6, you’re an inspiration! You write your one daily love note to Marina, then go about your business instead of leaving “several” messages all over the board! :grin:

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” – H. G. Wells 1866-1946

I think catastrophe has already won. I had to destroy my book (quite painful of 3 years of work) I was writing because this catastrophe happened before I finished it. Damn, it would have been a great book by now.

The pedantic among us would say “Of what do you have several?” But that’s not American English “as she is spoke.” :razz: “What do you have several of?” is standard American [colloquial].

***Homework***

I have “several” thoughts about your pink dress, one of which is that it is stunning. Another is that you may need “several” new restraining orders against crazed fans. :razz:

MARINA,,,HELLO,,,BECAUSE I FIND YOU TRULY ADORABLE, I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST THE ORGIN OF THE WORD ,THIS IS A HARD ONE, [SMART-ASS] :!: , SINCERELY :idea:

KICK ASS WORK…nothing like fresh cut hay, getting [baled]… :razz:

Hi fconti! Marina has already done a :cool: lesson on half of your word request: http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/08/05/arse-ass/ :smile:

If you can’t prove that Heisenberg was wrong, then you are uncertain of it, which might be construed as meaning that you think he was either right or wrong but not both right and wrong, which you believe is certainly not possible, however, you cannot be certain that your belief is right since, of course, you can’t prove it. :???:

I made the change.

Good Day: Арефьева Куколка-бабочка several nice things velvet underground – venus in furs***this song says it all..about severanc’ :twisted: :oops: :lol: “taste the whips”
Hot force of words…

I have several pink-clad ladies talking at the same time on my monitor, blowing away the working space, as soon as I click on this lesson. :-)

Ain-it over 400…congratulations to MARINA..[con.quer.a.ble] or [coniption fit] :evil: :lol: :mrgreen:

Now what are you doing? :oops: :roll:

I remember that in Indonesian it is nomor, but I don’t remember no more than that. :roll:
Tiga puluh tahun sedari bisa bitjara bahasa Indonesia berkuasa djuga, akan tetapi sekarang ini saja melupakan semua.

Rain tomorrow, maybe…

Going to try paged comments again… it works with the email notifications now. Let me know what you all think.

It’s necessary to use it as the pages get really long and take forever to load for people with slow connections.

The Oxford English Dictionary gives one of the definitions of ‘level’ as ‘a level tract of land’ such as the flat land bordering a river which forms the river’s flood plain; an example from the UK is ‘The Bedford Levels’.
Now, do you know if the word ‘[Levee]‘, meaning a raised embankment separating a river from the adjoining low lying land, has the same root or does it have a different derivation?

good job…i got fast speed, but had slow before :roll:

The increase in speed is an illusion since one now has less information — to see all comments, one now has to keep looking at multiple pages, one at a time. So overall it is acuall slow.

Perhaps the video page has only recent few comments; and then there is a link that takes one to a page that has all the comments? I am going to run out of edit time — will show what I mean in a PS.

(It would also help if users stopped making inane comments.)

You are right! I’ve started to lose track – there are so many… :mrgreen:
I am noticing a glitch in the mail notifications where instead of bringing me directly to this comment, it brought me to pg. 3 (the latest page). hmmmmm.

My mail notification of a comment reply on page 2 brought me here instead! Very interesting… :mrgreen:

Have you noticed that the five day forecast prediction is always more accurate than the following day prediction? :mrgreen:
Weather is indifferent to our attempts to understand it.

Hillary is over there now displaying western ignorance of Islam. She thinks by appearing to appease them will make us look like we’re their friends. All she is accomplishing is to show us as weak and indecisive. Too bad Hillary
Cannot
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Thinking.

Here’s what Yahoo! does. Their pages have a “Read Full Article” button. HFW could have a page that brings up the video and just a few of the most recent comments. If user presses the “see all comments” button then he gets to see all the comments.

If it is tricky to figure out how to support Read Full Article using WP, then a short term work-around would be that the “see all comments” button brings up an entire new window that has all the comments. There are likely to be several (lesson word!) work-arounds to implement a “read full article” button within the constraints of WP, hard to discuss this in comments.

Hey hot for words, were did the word [ober] come from?

(Would like to clarify my parenthetical remark: “It would also help if users stopped making inane comments.” First, I do NOT think there should be any restrictions on what users write — it should be left up to the users’ to figure out what is appropriate. Here’s what is unique about HFW: people come to this site will all kinds of backgrounds, experience, and age — there isn’t any “demographic” that is site attracts — it attracts all. HFW is not like a party restricted to toddlers or to teenagers or to retirees or to stamp-collectors, married and in love, divorsing, lonely etc. — it is like a party where all come. This being the case, one would have to tolerate, to some extent, babies crying, kids running around etc.)

My email reply isn’t working. When I click on a reply in my emails it want take me back to the commenter.

If you guys have emails from earlier today before I put the paged comments into operation, the links may not work properly. It will only work for comments that have occurred since I put the plug-in into operation.

Marina

hs4mm… I will put something like that into place when it becomes available. Right now I am not aware of a plugin that offers that. I’ll look further.

Marina once told us that she wanted a free flowing organic atmosphere on this site with out the harsh remarks that occur on the You Tube site. That members were able to do their Homework as so to speak then converse among themselves. The conversations on here at one time got so heated that Flame wars were a daily issue and members were at each others throats. Members were leaving because of this. Marina gave us a piece of her mind and the wars ended. The TAs were formed to help her with some back end work and to keep Flame wars to a minimum. So far the wars have stopped and the conversing among the the members has become more of a viable discussion than a war. As you said there are many countries and different races and ages depicted here, so there are going to be some inane comments made as long as they don’t insult Marina then the TAs step in and ask the commenter to refrain from those types of comments. If the person persists then they are place on moderation until their comment can be evaluated then deleted or allowed to be seen by the members. I know comments that you refer to are stupid and doesn’t make any sense. But that’s the atmosphere Marina wants as she said comment all you want and have fun. I think the over commenting is slowing down the site the reason behind the paging addition. Plus the addition of the forums being added. You know as well as I the more adds and items you ad to a page slows it down just a little bit more. Oh I couldn’t comment directly to your comment about the

Did the main reply (64.1.1) make sense by itself.

yes it did as my email want take me back to your or anybody’s comments right now. I guess another glitch in the paging process. Maybe some of the cementers will see your comment on inane comments and hold back on them. Take care and I enjoy your comments as they add knowledge to the site if we would just pay attention. :grin: please don't count how may times I used the comment word in that comment. :lol:

Mike

cool

That was what I was looking at as interesting. Page 3 was embedded in the link, not page 2. :mrgreen:

ober? Is this an English word :?:
I’m listening to Obama – he’s drunk as a monk.
(lisssen to hizz “s”‘s)

If what you say is true, YouTube inane comments would be crippling, but they are not, are they? :mrgreen:

Hey folks there is another virus going around called Win32/Conficker.A [Computer Associates], W32/Downadup.A [F-Secure], Conficker.A [Panda Software], Net-Worm.Win32.Kido.bt [Kaspersky].
Here is the page to go to so you can read about it’s affect mostly on Windows based computers. All of the school system computers here are infected with virus. I think I hears where the government is offering a $250,000.00 reward for it’s maker. This site also has a removal program if you think you are infected.

http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2008-112203-2408-99&tabid=2

Cripplint? As in sitting there with one’s mouse hand gnarled up beyond recognition? No, but it is a considerable annoyance, so i always look at them in the one-page format. If WP doesn’t have a user-selectable
one-page format, then there should be two sites, each with the different format, so that the user can choose. By looking at the traffic, M can see whether a significant number of users want paging.

Another way to decrease loading time for only a few users is to have a user-selectable blog that does not use gravatars or other bit-rich items. The text of the blog, even at 56K, shouldn’t take too long to download.

Who is this, anyway?

Oh, for a moment I thought you were going to say M needed to restrain a couple of other things.

And I was going to disagree. :mrgreen:

I’ve checked using low power machines. The Gravatar graphics, etc. are not displayed anyway.
It doesn’t make sense to try to accommodate every ancient computer scheme out there.

Dear Marina, you beauty :razz:
I would like to know what [Original] comes from.
What is the origin?!
by the way, cool enough with the paging of comments

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Being unable to prove something does not mean that one is necessarily uncertain of it. (The police are often in that situation.)

Heisenberg stated that you can tell the speed and direction that a cat is moving in, but you can’t tell exactly where it is at the same time, especially if it is in a box. :mrgreen:

Oh, no! Marina has been through the change already? And at such a young age. :cry:

The trouble with a lot of nicknames is that gender is not made apparent. English requires that one know the gender to properly apply personal pronouns. Why don’t we all modify our nicknames to put a M or F at the end? (Those who are in doubt, can use a question mark.) At least those who do not choose to correctly represent their sex by an appropriate gravatar could try it.

Now there is nothing to say that you can’t lie, but then you will be referred to by the gender you specify. If you are a male and wish to be referred to and thought of as a female, then go for it; it’s on you, not us.

Do you want to try this?

I don’t understand what the voting thing is doing. When I click the up arrow, M’s count decrements. When I click you-know-who’s down arrow, the count increments. How does it work?

What do you mean they are not displayed? And what do you mean by “low-powered,” Blackberries and the like or some old 486?

I think this is to accommodate slow connections, e.g. dial-up users, not slow devices.

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Your canceling your vote out, you need to either wait 24 hrs or clear your cache. The color of the arrow becomes darker once you voted.

Or, the only existence is the here and now. Everything else is nothing else.
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Nah, I do not buy that either. We are constructs of events, ideas, and substances before us. These made us who we are, but the only action I can take is the action I take at this very moment.
I have struggled with quantum physics, string theory, the eternity of God… all to no avail. As Clint Eastwood so poetically phrased, “A man’s got know his limitations. :mad: ” I have absolutely no concept of the eternity of God, yet I accept that, so maybe there is something to this other stuff, too. The thing is, though, how does that affect what I do right now? I know the Universe (and beyond?) is vast and indecipherable. All I can do is

Hello!
I´ve had several problems to see this video.
My internet connection is horrible. :cry:

Bye

Do you stay up late at night thinking up this stuff, writing it down for future reference? Or are you a man of multiple epiphanies?
Inquiring minds want to know.

Don’t understand what you are saying. YouTube has paged comments; even pressing the “Veiw all … comments” brings up paged comments.

Also, I don’t think slowness is because of quantity of data — I think slowness is because of the interaction between the web-page server and the hard-drives to retrieve the comments. The more the number of comments, the more transactions that the web-page server has to do with the drivers and the longer it takes to get what needs to be displayed.

i was wondering where my last name came from [Bodley] thanks a lot
-Bodley

Can you eat your cake and have it to?
Yes, if you don’t observe it. :-)

About the documentary, I thought it was very well built, because it gave voice to some very real problems, that physicists still encounter today. I’m really glad that I watched it, since I was able to better understand a new view.
I can look at an object and see a large amount of empty, governed by huge amounts of electricity, at a micro molecular scale.

I loved that you said Heisenberg is wrong. That shows that you thought about what’s been said, and interpreted it in your own way. Of course, this and other things we have learned in school, can be hard to swallow.
Take p-type semiconductors for example, they lead electricity through positively charged holes that electrons leave behind when they exit an orbital. What’s up with that?

“Anyone can be a great thinker, as soon as they start thinking.” Remember?

Your father.

Or she could go back to the regular quality videos here as she wants people to go to her YouTube site and you could watch in either HQ or regular quality there and vote and make a comment killing two birds with one stone then come back here and also make a comment. My computer is not to slow, but I have trouble sometimes watching in HQ. I definitely can’t watch them in mpeg 4. Like you said some people are still using older computers, some are still on dial up, and some are on both. I believe the newer technology that Word Press and all of the adds and gravatars running in the back ground are hindering some of the members and they are having a slower load time and can’t watch the videos in HQ or HD which ever it is.

dude don’t be like that

:lol: :lol:

I did not mean to offend. I was only joshing you.
Peace to you.

Would you be able to tell me the origin of the word [Game]?

Some people just do not have a sinchapumer. :twisted:
Of course, some may argue that I am one of those. Oh well, you say poe-tah-toe, I say banana split.

Dude, is that an arrow sticking out of your head, or are you just happy to be here?

Of course so.
If it’s not part of OUR reality, how can we understand it?
We can at most believe that it is there, and it is undiscovered.
If the universe and the atom, the big and the small, are such great mysteries, then why do some people think that, everything in between is so simple and unastounding? :-)

Exactly. A friend of mine told me, “Any God that is small enough for me to understand, is not big enough to do all the things he needs to do.”

what’s with the pagination thing? goddamnit. again? help!

The HFW quote

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” – H. G. Wells 1866-1946

goes along with the MLK quote for today.

Our scientific powers have outrun our spiritual powers; we have guided missiles and mis-guided men.

wow , how many languages did you take up :shock:

Soon we’ll be able to divert most weather apparitions.
I wonder how much longer it will be for us to control it entirely.

That’s a good one Chemikal. I think you can understand what you can’t feel. Of course. Because if you can’t feel it and you can’t understand it, well, obviously you are not able to know that it exists at all, unless someone else that can either understand or feel it tells you about it. Then you need to believe it to acknowledge its existence, or reject it if you choose not to believe.

However, sometimes, you can feel what you can’t understand. And this has nothing to do with believing I think. This has to do with feelings and sensations, and can’t be described in any logical term.

In other words… you can’t understand what is not part of your reality. But sometimes, you can feel it. Or perhaps you can’t. I don’t know. We’re all built and geared differently I guess..

I believe the site has set a cookie on your computer which remembers that you have already voted in the past.
If you clear your cookies, you should find that you will be able to vote again, but then all your other cookies will have been erased, so you will have to log in to all your regular sites again, unless some genius can tell us how to clear only the cookie that is set by reddit.com

(Just a side note: Found out that that Yahoo! page is using a javascript feature called innerHTML.)

Probabilities are no simple thing.
If we were to say that there would be a 30% chance of rain tomorrow, and a 70% chance that tomorrow will be a work day, then there is only a 19% chance that both will happen.

But wait, if there’s a 30% chance of rain, then there’s also a 70% chance of no rain. Does that mean there is a 19% chance that both will happen? :-)

Can you point me to where “Marina gave us a piece of her mind” — would love to read that!

High Marina, I would like to request the word “Obtuse”.
Thanks for your time and consideration.

~Brian

Give me a little time and I’ll get it for you.

Thanks.
Here’s a site where you can check your system’s security.
https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
Just click on file sharing, for an analysis.
Here are my results (I removed my port number though, for obvious reasons):

Your Internet port ### does not appear to exist!
One or more ports on this system are operating in FULL STEALTH MODE! Standard Internet behavior requires port connection attempts to be answered with a success or refusal response. Therefore, only an attempt to connect to a nonexistent computer results in no response of either kind. But YOUR computer has DELIBERATELY CHOSEN NOT TO RESPOND (that’s very cool!) which represents advanced computer and port stealthing capabilities. A machine configured in this fashion is well hardened to Internet NetBIOS attack and intrusion.

Unable to connect with NetBIOS to your computer.
All attempts to get any information from your computer have FAILED. (This is very uncommon for a Windows networking-based PC.) Relative to vulnerabilities from Windows networking, this computer appears to be VERY SECURE since it is NOT exposing ANY of its internal NetBIOS networking protocol over the Internet.

I learned a new word today because of Mijj! [Cocksure] http://bit.ly/M928S :mrgreen:

Mount St. Helens put out more noxious chemicals and debris into the atmosphere than all of mankind in all of history, when it blew! The atmosphere scrubbed it in under five years. The very idea that mankind can impact the weather other than very, very localised phenomena is laughable. If there was a way to channel all of the energy produced through all of mankind’s history toward changing the weather, it still could never be done. The most significant impact toward global warming/cooling is made by the sun.
Al Gore and other so-called, self-proclaimed climatologists are all full of it! They do it to make money and “keep the ignorant sheep in line”. :mrgreen:

What if someone really wanted to prove a point?
They could just nuke everything, and we’d all enjoy a beautiful off season nuclear winter. :D
Yikes…

Thanks Chem. All of mine checked out ok also. :smile:

Here is the comment Marina made to the members.

http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/07/15/skinny-dip/comment-page-3/#comment-39430

Read up on Krakatoa, East of Java.
1816 was called the “year without a summer” because of that eruption.

Thanks alex…pagination or is it [pagan nations] or us pigs in HotForWords, Republic of Lexicon and the [capital] with our heads cut off :razz: blah

I would like to request the following words:
-Hysteria
-Orchid
-Seminar
-Venus Flytrap
-Avocado
-Mastodon
-Manatee
-Fundamental

I haven’t talked to the Limey bastard in a couple weeks. I need to stop by. I hope he is doing well.

Are you at a new vid? I do not show it yet on my YT. I don’t want to check it yet, because I want to see if my YT updates.

1509, from M.Fr. obtus (fem. obtuse), from L. obtusus “blunted, dull,” pp. of obtundere “to beat against, make dull,” from ob “against” + tundere “to beat,” from PIE *(s)tud- “to beat, strike, push, thrust” (cf. L. tudes “hammer,” Skt. tudati “he thrusts”). Sense of “stupid” is first found 1509. The verb obtund (trans.) “to render dead, make dull” has occasionally been used, esp. in medical jargon, since c.1400.

I think it’s cool that you found this solution to speed up load time on your lessons, but there will be some separation.
I mean, you would have to be extra curious(diligent), to find your way back to comments on previous pages, just to see what other people added to the conversation.(not referring to the replies you normally get notified of receiving)
If you balance the pros and cons of the layering, and you decide it’s a good addition, I’m always open to change.
Maybe you can edit the plug in to show just a few comments on the first page, and on the 2nd page, all the rest.
So initial load time for the page decreases, and there won’t be more then 2 pages, at any time.
People that would want to view older comments, would most likely want to view all of them, so you can facilitate that by keeping them in one place. And that place would be Page 2 of your video comments section.
If the plugin has heavy javascript and you might have trouble editing it, send the code over. I’ll be happy to help out, to the full extent of my knowledge, if you like this idea.

I would like to request the following words (re-post) :
-[Hysteria]
-[Orchid]
-[Seminar]
-[Venus Flytrap]
-[Avocado]
-[Mastodon]
-[Manatee]
-[Fundamental]

1315, from L. originalis, from originem (nom. origo) “beginning, source, birth,” from oriri “to rise” (see orchestra). The first ref. is in original sin “innate depravity of man’s nature,” supposed to be inherited from Adam in consequence of the Fall. The noun, in sense of “original text,” is attested from c.1385, from M.L. originale. Of photographs, films, sound recordings, etc., from 1918. Origin first recorded 1563. Originality is first attested 1742, probably after Fr. originalité.

noun or adj.?

It will if you subscribe to Michael Buckley. If you don’t sub to him it want show up.

[Orchid] is very interesting — one might call the origin of orchid the masculine form of the origin of vanilla! Marina has already talked about vanilla.

Mike said it best so I’m in support of what he said. We (TAs) have a system in place that does a good job of moderating inane commenting.

Uh… Let me think about that for half a second.
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No thanks. :roll:

PS: People who coin words must have fantastic imaginations … by looking at these pictures vanilla and orchid, does anyone here think that the origin of their names is justified?

Also, if the originators of these names were given a Rorschach inkblot test, what would they have come up with! :shock:

I have several kinds of knives in my drawer, with a wide variety of blade alloys. The knife I bought back in 1971 continues to be the knife I would recommend, even though I’ve bought scores of knives since. That would be the Swiss Army Knife, of which there are a few good choices depending on what your needs are. Don’t get too many functions because the heavier & bulkier the knife, the less likely you are to carry it. The mysterious Swiss Army knife blade alloy is easy to sharpen. That is one of the key factors in my choice. And they are quality constructed, and no, they don’t break, or at least they haven’t on me, and I’ve abused them under harsh conditions for decades. When considering buying a knife, a critical variable is the blade alloy, so bookmark this webpage to get a briefing on the different types of alloys. For example, there are 3 main varieties of 440 stainless steel, and if it’s not specified which 440 type it is, it’s the cheapest one and don’t squander your hard earned cash on that knife. Oh yeah, and go to uTube to find out how to sharpen a knife…no kidding, they have some short tutorials there that are golden.

I like the idea of paging the comment to speed up the loading of the site. That said, I have been visiting other locations and loaded HFW and found it to be slow even on very fast internet connections. I’ve visited other WP users like http://perezhilton.com/ site seem to load faster than HFW and he has many more views than HFW. This leads me to believe that your site host is slow. I wonder if there is an online tool one could use to test the speed of a host at different locations (internet providers) to test this out?

I don’t like the paging plug for it also screws up all our old links to other comment here. I just did a twitter link to a comment here and now it has paged links. So if you turn this off it will break.

Correct Bob!

Hi , Marina
partying down in New Orleans [Mardi Gras] time…Or [carnival] which ever you prefer.
Come down some time and check it out always a good time as long as your drinking.
Did live in the city until “Katrina” kicked me out! but thats another story.
well ok , have a good one.

P.S. your always beautiful…

A Cockshutt is the name of a tractor not made any more, but they are still in use.

Scotland, NC, or Washington?

Did you go look at the flame war page? You would have to read for awhile to get an idea of the fights that were going on for a few videos.

That is why I am a historian. :roll:

He’s just typing random stuff. All his other stuff is google translator. We’re onto you, now, Bob. :mrgreen:

That’s because the forecast is a general prediction. When it gets closer to the currents day forecast, weather people tend to narrow down the predictions for the areas that they are covering. The hardest place in the US to predict local weather is Puget Sound for we have this convergence zone. This is caused by the the flowing around the Olympic Mountains converging over Puget Sound and smacking into the Cascade Mountain Range. Weather experts love testing out their computer models on this area.

This is also an issue of way to much data and slow super computers not able to process all the data. Also there is micro climates all around us. I’ve seen predictions for rain in Kirkland and watch all the rain clouds go around the city. Not one drop hit the docks. Speaking of data, there is hopes that private weather station will enhance predicting the weather. Most Mariner I know like to use http://www.wunderground.com/ for you can use private weather station. AccuWeather is the worst!

This is the knife I carry every day. It is a tactical weapon designed as a second carry weapon. If someone goes to grab your gun from your holster then you can jam down on your gun with your hand pull this knife and slice and dice the attacker. It is razor sharp and will shave the hair right off of your arm. Great little knife.

http://www.tomarskabars.com/1480_INFO.html

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We do not feel what we do know. I think this is extremely prevalent. If I only know one thing, I cannot describe it, because I have nothing to campare it. Even worse, I do not even know that I know it for the same reason. I have used this metaphor often, but it still fits: how can a fish describe water? The fish does not even know the concept of water, because wet just is.

If you think this is just more random jibbering (well, you may be right), but I truly believe this explains alot about us. We can see when this happens culturally. I learn something new from a different culture and think, “Wow! I never even thought of that before.” Now, this new knowledge has many different new interpretations for me. If we expand this thought into spirituality, we can begin to see how little we really do know.
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I think. :roll:

Got the link, thanks. I browsed, but did not immediately spot any fires; with paged comments, it is a pain to go over the comments. When comments were in a single page, I have looked at old lessons and gotten a good idea of the comments very quickly; with paged comments, it is too time consuming and painfully slow for me to get a sense of what went on. Anyway, on the good news side, I have contacted someone who might be able to help me add the “innerHTML based ‘view all comments’” button. He said he can meet with me on Tuesday; will see what happens.

For those that haven’t seen the new post on the right by Marina please click on the post and view it and vote for our Teacher for Miss You Tube. You can vote as many times as you like because the votes are counted as comments. The more you comment at that YT site the more votes Marina gets. Click on my name and it will also take you to the site to vote for Teach. :smile:

That’s good news maybe Marina can use it and it will help the site.

The thing I love about Mijj the most is he doesn’t mind calling you or me a bastard in a second. He is a great guy. I would like to meet him one day.

Yeah but what if someone would pay you a million bucks for an accurate weather forecast on December 12th? Might be for a very big outdoor event that will make the producer 14 million dollars. Or if one could predict the next Katrina? There is big money in weather predictions. That said Historic weather is just as important as predicted weather for you can’t predict weather unless you have a good historic data to work from. :mrgreen:

[copacetic]

Hey Brian let me put that in brackets for you as that is what Marina searches for in word requests is [Obtuse] by rambo508. She looks in the comments and every [ ] she sees she writes it down along with your name and sees if it is viable to do a search and a lesson on. :grin:

Mike

So I just comment, “Marina HFW” and that is a vote for the Lady?

After reading Caps comment, I fired off an e-mail to him. He sent me back the updates for his music. He has really worked on it in the last couple weeks. He sent it to me as a wmv, so I do not know how to post it here. If you don’t have the newest yet, you can leave your e-mail at my YT channel, and I will forward it to you. It sounds great!

You might want to keep this one for yourself, though. I assume he will post it as a vid when he is ready. I am pretty sure, though that he would not mind if I forwarded it to you.

i’m interested in the word (ataraxia) not only its concept but its etymology too.
Good site.
See ya.
Bye

We do not feel what we do know?

I don’t agree bsomebody. I am pretty sure you know, for instance, what joy or pain is. You have felt it in the past. Can you describe precisely, scientifically to me what joy is? What pain is? Can you rate it exactly on a feeling-detector scale from 1 to 100? You can’t. You aren’t even sure of how intensely others can feel these things.

Try to explain black and white to a blind man. You can’t. You can feel what black is because you have eyes. The blind mind knows that black exists because you told him. He believes you because somehow he realizes that some other people are not blind. You feel the colours and you know them. The blind man doesn’t feel them, but he know of their existence because he believes you.

Yo Marina, hows it goin?

Since you did the words sergeant and lieutenant I wante to knw the origin of another military rank. [GENERAL] , besides being a military commander general mean broadly, they must be somehow related to eachother

10 more ways, so don’t ya fret Chet, pocket that dime and be there on time

Oops! Better pictures vanilla and orchid (same as in 107.1.1.1).

Regarding “innerHTML based ‘view all comments’”, don’t get your hopes too high about me being able to come up with something that can be used here — the idea might be simple, but the “devil is in the details”, and time.

Sent you the e-mail. I will check in tomorrow to make sure you got it alright. Let me know what you think of his music. I honestly believe this cat has absolutely no idea how much talent he has. He puts out some really great stuff. :cool:
BTW – Mrs. Somebody has always wanted to travel to the Island. If I ever do get over there, I’m gonna look that Limey up and buy him a pint.

Just got the email thanks. Yes he has a lot of talent and is making something of it. Every video or piece of music he puts out gets better and better. If you make it there buy him a pint on me too. :wink:

I’ve always wondered about the origin of the word [supple] and if you have the time…?
Thanx

I thought I would share Miss M hanging from the ceiling. :lol: She must be Spidarina.

http://i40.tinypic.com/30le0r7.jpg

I think that you might have several torn apart dog toys.
I have several bags of popcorn so I guess I’ll microwave a bag and watch a movie.

“This catastrophe” meaning what — the economic crash, or the government’s response to it? :???:

I would like to request the word “spread”

Indonesian version of Dragostea Din Tei
:grin: (apologies to Chemikal — the original is in Romanian!)

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Check out [avocado] for a most erudite and entertaining discussion of the word’s etymology. :mrgreen:

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Barbra Manatee :mrgreen:

Gee, I wouldn’t have guessed — you’ve all been remarkably kind to me! :lol:

Ukrainian! Coulda sworn it was Russian at first… :grin:

Chacha, just to be pedantic,

1. The 1816 “year without a summer” was caused by the Tambora eruption, not Krakatoa.
2. Krakatoa is west of Java. The “east of Java” phrase came from a movie title; the producers discovered their geographic error too late to correct the title before the movie was released. :cool:

OMG I ripped off someone else’s screen name with my “LossForWords” lessons! :oops:

Pedantic or not, Krakatoa did erupt and send significant debris into the atmosphere which did affect the weather, yes? :mrgreen:

Gosh, I hope you’re not still using pretzel logic as an excuse to foment needless arguement…
Marina’s words are there for you to discover on your own. Much of the conversation related to you occurred in back channels tied to specific incidences. It is not necessary nor is it prudent for us to keep you informed as to every specific detail to satisfy your apparent need to argue semantic issues, sorry. :mrgreen:
A suggestion: try to have fun while you’re here :mrgreen:

Why? You’re having fun, right? :mrgreen:
You haven’t misbehaved, that I’ve seen…
You are a smart guy who adds to the content in a meaningful way – even when your being “quirky” – LOL!
Ain’t nothing wrong with that….
Besides, all this chatter about what is and is not “inane” is purely subjective. Much of what has gone on in the Forums might be considered inane, but people have a lot of fun doing it :cool:

I have waited 24 hours, in fact it’s been several days. They should know that I have not voted for at least a day. How could it get screwed up? But just to make sure, I will wait until 11:22 tomorrow, which is one minute more than 24 hours since I last went there and see what happens.

I gather YT’s paging has to do with the number of existing comments. As an example, one vid with 2K comments breaks them up into pages with about 500, but lesser comments may not cause the blog to go beyond one page. Perhaps I have been looking only at the latter and never saw any paging and so did not notice that that is the way it works until you mentioned it.

Mesmerized by this lesson’s thumbnail, I am contemplating Marina wallpaper. A whole room of Marina! Wouldn’t that be something? I don’t think any celebrity has offered a fan product like that before. Would Hollywood, once they found out about it, start a buzz?

Or how about a Marina bobblehead for your car (except it’s not the head that bobbles)? :oops:

Just be careful not to put your foot through a light fixture.

My mind was whirling when I got through reading that page! You have to be deeply interested in that stuff for it to stick.

So I hear [shiitake] is common in Russia.

“Russia produces and also consumes large amounts of them, mostly sold pickled; and the shiitake is slowly making its way into western cuisine as well.” – Wiki

Anyone know what a shiitake is?

A handgun carried openly can be targeted as you well know.
It may cause some folks to warm to the idea of smart weapons that fire only when held by it’s owner. Just the same, it’s never good to be disarmed, especially in critical moments. Nobody has 360 peripheral vision, as enacted in the film “Crank”. Your Kabar anti-theft knife is made of the very practical Aus 8 alloy similar to 440b. Midway between being a little too brittle with Aus10 (440c) and soft & flexible as with Aus6 (440a).

Too true. It’s packed to overflowing with info. I keep it filed in my bookmarks for handy reference.

Shitaki are a type of mushroom which contain an amino-acid proven to help in the processing of cholesterol in the liver. As well, shiitake mushrooms appear to many researchers to be cancer fighters. They help the body form antibodies that help fight disease and strengthen the body and contain about one third of the recommended daily intake of selenium, which is an anti-oxidant. Anti-oxidants are necessary in the diet to help neutralize free radicals.

[shiitake] is a kind of Japanese mushroom reputed to have powerful anti-cancer properties. :smile: Oh wait, Bob already beat me to it. :neutral:

Selenium itself is reputedly a cancer fighter, perhaps because of its anti-oxidant properties. Essential to health in minute quantities, selenium is actually more toxic than arsenic in larger doses, so don’t take excessive supplements of it.

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“You are old,” said the youth, “as I mentioned before,
And you have grown most uncommonly fat;
Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door
Pray what is the reason for that?”

“In my youth,” said the sage, as he shook his grey locks,
“I kept all my limbs very [supple]
By the use of this ointment one shilling a box
Allow me to sell you a couple?”

–”You Are Old, Father William” by Lewis Carroll :lol:

[parody]
[D D] :mrgreen:

If you’re using Firefox, try this:-
Tools -> Options -> Privacy
In the middle section – Cookies – tick ‘Accept cookies from sites’.
Click the ‘Exceptions’ button. Scroll down and if you see an entry for reddit.com, highlight it and click ‘Remove Site’, then click ‘Close’.
Click the drop-down box beside ‘Keep until:’ and select ‘ask me every time’.
Click ‘OK’ to exit the Options window.
Now go back to the voting site and you should see that the up and down arrows beside Marina and you-know-who are no longer in strong colours, but instead, in pastel shades.
Click Marina’s up arrow and see the number increase.
A pop-up window will appear, saying that the site wants to set a cookie, and giving four options. Click the button that says ‘just for the session’.
Now wait 24 hours, try voting again, and report back to say if successful or not.
P.S. If you’re not using Firefox, try to equate these instructions with similar moves in your browser.

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[cynefin]

“Cynefin is used to designate a naturalising sense-making framework, developed by David Snowden and his collaborators. The Cynefin framework draws on research into complex adaptive systems theory, cognitive science, Anthropology and narrative patterns, as well as evolutionary psychology. It ‘explores the relationship between man, experience and context’ and proposes new approaches to communication, decision-making, policy-making and knowledge management in complex social environments.” –Wikipedia

Etymology? :grin:

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[ravishing]

“Are you hungry?”
“I’m positively ravishing!” :lol:
– my first ex-wife

[malaprop] — HotForWords must instigate! :lol:

Woo — I think the warm milk is overcoming my insomnia. G’night all. :smile:

Hey! you talking about me?
Oh! no, Father William, not Uncle Bob. :grin:

Word Requests :cool:
[Truss]
[Truck]
1st Comment on page 4! :cool:

[Inane] cf. [insane]

:lol:
Oh! dear. Has Marina just multiplied the possibility for people to make inane comments about being first? :grin:

Thx, what about [Intracranial] :razz: do you study a lot?!

:mrgreen: Fraid so! :lol:

Lots of cool history, too. Canada and White ….Oliver :roll:

First or Thirst? Albert Collins: I Ain’t Drunk…oh well :eek:

[i][b]Phrase origin request:[/i][/b] Where did the phrase ‘drunk as a lord’ come from? Where English Lords known for getting soused? :lol:

Eric M

Word Requests :cool:
[Flower] & [Flour]

Larry The Cable Guy Sings – Your Drunk Son, Earl…I 2nd that request :oops:

1840-50; intra- + cranial:
“intra-
a prefix meaning “within,” used in the formation of compound words: intramural.
Compare intro-.

Origin:
< LL intrā-, repr. L intrā (adv. and prep.); akin to interior, inter-”

“cranial
-adjective
of or pertaining to the cranium or skull.
Origin:
1790-1800; crani(um) + -al”

“-al
 
a suffix with the general sense “of the kind of, pertaining to, having the form or character of” that named by the stem, occurring in loanwords from Latin (autumnal; natural; pastoral), and productive in English on the Latin model, usually with bases of Latin origin (accidental; seasonal; tribal). Originally, -al1 was restricted to stems not containing an -l- (cf. ar- 1 ); recent lapses in this rule have produced semantically distinct pairs, as familiar and familial.
Compare -ical, ial.

Origin:
< L ālis, -āle; often r. ME -el < OF”

(just had to break it apart)
PS: I got my answers from dictionary.com which is from the “Random House Dictionary” and my other source is etymonline.com. I don’t own any textbooks.

Cool thing anyway theere :razz:

Economic crash among other things. There are some things I wrote about that didn’t come to pass. If we had a republican party in office then their might have been a chance.
Anyways things are much different and I see many good things about to happen. Unbelievable things. I’m so excited.

Yeah that’s right. Funny is I see people using as a 4 letter word substitute.

I can control it! I did when I was like 6 yrs old.Weird hu. So is childhood.

When the mountain blew up (btw, I was in the after math of the fallout) That was like only one week of impact to the weather system. You have to look back to 100 years of us polluting with our factories and such.

Al Gore is not an expert, he is just the high profile speaker. And right now if this eco stuff makes money then is that not such a good thing right now?

:mrgreen:

What?!?!?!?! LOL LOL!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :wink:

The documentary wanted to bring out some different views for us to watch. I have issue with one of the interviewees. She is an oblivious fake and yet still featured. I’ve been at her house and have friends that worked there. She is good at herding sheeple.

Yeah that was a bit funny I said Heisenberg was wrong. hehehe . I try to think (wrap my mind around) about what is said and try to see in my mind what works and what doesn’t. I’m now a person that think on my own and not just follow the sheeple and the the herders think for me. It has got me nowhere in life!

My sister and I have some very interesting abilities. People are not open about these abilities for they don’t understand them. What you don’t understand could create fear in people on our abilities. So I don’t disclose our ability’s and just enjoy playing with them. I feel like the characters of the movie “The Incredibles” Where they had to hide their super powers.

Your right! Anyone can be a great thinker as soon as they start thinking. Too many people have fat ass brains. They whine and moan about how their head hurts when they think.

@Captain Jack – If you go back more than 200 years, you will find even more pollution in the air from everybody burning wood and coal. Nothing like today. Oh, by the way, under GW Bush, America had the cleanest air ever measured since they started doing pollution indexes. China is now the worst offender with it’s new found petroleum based industry.
One bad move is to have everyone use mercury vapor fluorescent lights (the twisty kind) which offer both bad color temperature and are a material hazard for landfills. In moderate use, this wouldn’t have been a problem. The government plans to do away with the much safer and less polluting tungsten bulbs. Not to mention that tungsten bulbs are an order of magnitude cheaper to manufacture, making them the most cost efficient dollar value per lumen output over the fluorescents. The longevity claims made about fluorescents isn’t borne out when you look at the real numbers. They don’t even come close to lasting as long as they claim. I betcha China doesn’t change, and they KNOW cheap and efficient when they see it. Maybe they are simply better at math than American economists, hmmm?
Have you noticed that the “experts” are always surprised when the pap they spew doesn’t fly?

I have several worn out and wrecked vehicles not really anything to be proud of though, just my current one.

What “of” do you have several? Would this be the proper sentence structure for this question? Either way you would ask works , as long as the message is understood , proper sentence structure or not.

You have several video’s anyway.

watch this, please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy8zD4-ZLno&feature =related

Я думаю что я было загипнотизировано

My two week waiting period, for bending over & lifting only items under 20 lbs. is over (no tires or rim combos are over 20lbs, are they?). I can see very well now, might not need readers (still see small improvements every day). Thanks for your prayers & concern, they’re appreciated. Some of the folks from here wanted to see the eye surgery. I got the doc to give me a CD with vid of the operation on it. So I edited it a bit & turned it into a YouTube video. If you want the link, I’ll send it to you.

Very, very good news, BillyB!Thanks for the update.