Dinosaur Egg Found!

hey

Sorry I have no idea Of what your are talking about. :shock:

300 page iPhone bill by iJustine, was pretty big as well :smile:

Wow, that video was so blurry. You must have been using your macbook camera , right?

Rick Astley is my idol. I wish I can be like him. He is the ultimate man’s man.

wow

What the hell was that all-about :?: :shock:

Oh you little stinker…

I am on 4chan almost 24/7

Memes: lolcats, Brian peppers, goatse (not for the faint of heart), imma chargin’ ma lazer, the pear with teeth that says “lol wut”, demotivational posters, chuck norris facts, courage wolf, depression dog, advice dog, Rage guy, raptor Jesus, over 9000, Accidentally (blank) something, do a barrel roll, c-c-c-combo breaker, om nom nom nom nom, xzibit and yo dawg, I herd u liek mudkipz, epic fails, all your base are belong to us, pedobear.

oh and epic fail guy, EFG

Hey I’m in early.

No I’ve never been on that site. Marina I wanted to ask you if that was a real tattoo on your arm in your last video. but seeing as it’s notthere anymore I guess it was a press on.

Marina, that may have been a heretofore unknown language for all I know, but you were so cute I don’t care.

Did you get any snow? :???:

Marina, tricky little devil aren’t you?

I have never been to 4chan before and probably will not go there again. 4chan is not mentioned among the Top 100 websites in the US.

It was terribly hard to follow you in this video. One reason for this might be that English is a foreign language for me and that I don’t have much opportunity here to practice my English. But contrary to your older videos you didn’t pause, you constantly talked about things that I’m not familiar with.

Has “rickrolled” really appeared in a serious dictionary or is it just another word word creation that will disappear as fast as it spreaded on the Internet?

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I had to listen a few times before I understood this lesson.

(First a disclaimer: I had made a rule for myself that I would not comment until something having to do with talking happened; but I have been forced to break that rule and comment before that talking-thing happened: the lyrics of the song Never Gonna Give You Up are so good that I have to break the rule to acknowledge its goodness.)

Anyway, what I learnt from this lesson: There is a lot of shit happening on the internet; and crappy, low-life people are attempting to spread that shit by using pseudo-intellectual terms such as “meme”. The site 4chan appears to be leading site for such people; and a cesspool of cacology and of the shitty happenings (“memes”).

I suppose it is OK to explain the word “rickrolling” and ridicule it (poke fun at it). But the aspect of ridicule is present only if one spends time thinking about the lesson, identifies the issues involved, and correctly evaluates them as a form stupidity. It is likely that this type of ridicule will be lost on some people and this site will start attracting riffraff. (Perhaps having a home-work question of what do you think about the phenomenon of rickrolling and memes might help generate some thought.)

–Hs4Mm

Most of your videos are excellent discussions of real English words. This one is nothing but pop culture garbage. I hope you return to discussions of real English words.

PS: The way to shorten the time for a video is not by a rapid-fire delivery (that does not give the listener any time to register the thoughts being uttered) but to edit the script. Rapid delivery is a false short-cut — it actually leads to unintelligibility. (If one listens to this lesson several times, with use of the pause and rewind buttons, one does eventually understand what is being said. This video is not effectively 1:35 long!)

SUPERFLUOUS :!: :!:

fire wood day…lesson makes me hungry for eggs…its just me :eek: :shock: :???:

PPS: The soul of the people who engage in the activities mentioned in this lesson is the same as the soul of those who, during a magnificent event, will streak and shove their ass at the people involved and at the meaning of the event; that is the soul of nihilists seeking destruction for the sake of destruction. The title of this lesson refers to dinosaurs; but that soul is not from the primordial swamp; it is from a cesspool.

lots Che :cool: about 10 inches of so :roll:
:mrgreen: B.B. :twisted:

Don’t words get adopted into a language by consensus of the popular culture? Don’t you find it interesting how this new “garbage” becomes accepted into the language? Just sayin’.

hi! I found the word [bridewell] in the book Jane Eyre. Please explain it!

I would like to request the words [crotch, groin and loin]. What are the differences between these words and what is their origin?

photo by hotforwords…but still a tattoo :razz: Hope this helps runawayscott :?:

Has “to rickroll” already become accepted in the English language? I’m not a linguist, but I would say that this is the case when a new word has an entry in a generally accepted dictionary. I seriously doubt that “to rickroll” has already met this condition. The Wikipedia article doesn’t mean anything.

This video isn’t about the English language, it’s about internet phenomenons.

Doh!

Homework: 4chan? No, never :mrgreen:
If rickroll is a sample of what I’ve missed,
it doesn’t look like I’ve missed anything.

Dear Marina, Well, congratulations on finding that dinosaur egg. No doubt it was on the beach at Malibu.
Yes, you were the first person to “rickroll” me.
No, I’ve never been to the 4chan site, and I don’t plan to go there, unless you sneak a link to that site. (That would be another “rickroll.”)
Speaking of eggs, I think I’ll make an omelette tomorrow morning. It’s been raining so much the pasr three days, it’s hard to drive anywhere.
Perhaps this summer, I’ll drive to Los Angeles and try that BlueJam Cafe. Now if I invite you, I’m afraind I might get “rickrolled.” In other words, “stood up.” Like “rickroll”, [stood up] would be an entertaining expression for a video, someday.
Seesixcm6

You might find this of some interest:
Gird your Loins :mrgreen:

Don’t feel so bad :mrgreen:
English is my first language, and I noticed this lesson was not easy to follow (since I don’t Twitter, I guess).
Rickroll, to me, is just an internet “fad” word, not worthy of my attention.

I was wondering where you’ve been! :mrgreen:
Your new Gravatar looks kewl! Tres “V” – LOL!

PPPS: Dostoyevsky is the most magnificent projector and condemner of evil. But I doubt if even Dostoyevsky could project the kind of utter, rotten evil that resides in those sites — the evil there is beyond what a rational person can conceive.

:roll: Did Octomom lay an egg? :razz: (dayum!)

Marina,

I’m really looking forward to your book. I know you can’t give away too much, but can you give any hints about it?

IMHO, all this Internet fluff is of no importance and should not be taking away from the origins of English words. Perhaps another Website, http://www.hotforwordslite.com, could be started to handle this crapola. Does anyone think rickrolling or any other fleeting Web transients* will be of any historical significance ten years hence? (Perhaps a hundred years from now they won’t need historians for the Web, because every speck of minutia will have been duly digitally recorded somewhere. What would be the job of a historian be today if we knew every fact in George Washingon’s life down to the brand of button polish he used?) Anyway, there is just too much stuff in the culture of the cyber world to spend any time on its trivia, no matter how “now” it is. Unless, of course, Paris Hilton says it’s hot. I mean, like, some things are actually important. :roll:

On to more and serious observations. In the thumbnail, I spy three round things that need to be kept warm and carefully tended. :mrgreen:

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*Yes, I know it’s redundant. I don’t care.

It’s printed on paper.

Answer: You won’t find groin or crotch on any of the labels in your grocer’s meat department.

I’d have to agree.

I have been to 4chan, and I am sure I have been ____rolled before, but do nto remember it.

Point taken. But let’s wait five or ten years to see what sticks to the wall and what slides down into a pile of putrifying dreck.

Marina thats one sharp top you have on nice!!!!!!!! :razz: :grin: :mrgreen:

You can’t tell. If this video was made a month ago, she could have dyed her hair green yesterday and you would never know it until she showed up bald on the first chromakeyed segment to follow.

I am sure some people were saying the same thing in Shakespeare’s day. Some words and phrases stick, others go away. Even the Bard through in pop culture references.

Hey, your use of riffraff just triggered off a good name for all this Internet fluff — rickraff!

It is hereby seconded, adopted and duly recorded by laser-etch on Gorby’s dog tag.

:?: :shock: Whaaaat? I’ve watched it twice now and am still not sure what happened. This is how an internet coined slang word came about? And it means pranking? Still not sure what meme means. And no, haven’t gone to that site, don’t know if I want to.
Still, Marina, you look [luscious].

The bottom of the page no longer indicates the #of ppl on this website. por que? :???:

Heard an interesting stat’ today on the radio, (so it must be true :razz: ) that 23% of the earth’s population is internet connected. Anyways it is a large number & internet lingo travels at the speed of modems (see how old I am)… ten years is foreva’ in todays world.
Another radio stat. 1 in 6 people on earth have a cell phone account (or whatever you call it nowadays) I have three cell phones & no account anymore. I guess you could say I gave it up for lent, a few years ago.

It was slowing down the website and I couldn’t find another suitable option out there. I was using http://www.freeonlineusers.com/ but it would hang all the time preventing the whole page from loading.

It be useful if everyone would append their city/state/province, etc. to their nicknames so that geezers, newbies and infrequent visitors could place posters geographically. I have “stood” in front of Capman’s old fire house in Fayettesville and before the brown brick B&T Bargain Barn in Barnesville (where Cufan took his video), but I can’t remember everybody.

Is 10 inches of snow a lot or a little to bigbhd95? I have no idea*.

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*One inch of snow to me would be the storm of the century. I can remember about an 1/8th of an inch for one morning on the north side of town several decades ago. (We like to keep our snow up in the Sierras where it belongs.)

Why would you not go to the website even just out of curiosity? I’m not saying you should, but I recently found out that that website is responsible for so many of the Internet crazes that have happened over the past couple years, and out of curiosity I visited it and still had no idea what was going on! It’s VERY confusing.. but gives one a look into the minds of very young people on the Internet.. and very influential people, mind you!

There is a book by Malcolm Gladwell called the “Tipping Point” and he goes into how things blow up in culture, which is very relevant to what they people on 4chan are able to accomplish as a community.

I am with you there Camp. Some of this internet “hip-word” stuff is in the category of corybantic babble that reaches no catharsis… just empty gibberish. :roll: :shock: :razz:

WORD REQUEST: [RENAISSANCE]

Lots of pictures :-)

Some info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan

“very influential people” — what does that say about the people who are influenced by such people?

I’ve done over 400 videos on words, and you can’t stand one or two videos on lighter topics?

4chan in the 968th most popular website. Not in the top 100, but top 1,000 is pretty significant as well.

The Ominous Parallels compares, and draws parallels, between the culture that voted in Hitler and had the Holocaust with the culture in the US.

Have you noticed, that YouTube video makers are developing a little bit of a dialect of their own, when it comes to talking about making & posting vids. When they talk to each other the tone or watever you call it changes & the technical stuff that bounces off of me, seems to be absorbed by the respondant.
Following some folks (especially mareketers) on twitter, I pick up on a kind of insider language with a bit of a “Rah Rah” attitude… assosiated I guess, with the Tony Robbins type followers.
I miss my friend MissVodkaknockers… she was a scamp eh!

Ohhhh, I probably will go there, Marina. :roll: I am a VERY curious person. I just said that because everything on your video went so FAST, and I will most likely waste lots of time on that site when I should be doing other things. And when I look into the minds of very young people, it often frightens me.

lolcats, rickrolling, and “Chocolate Rain” sprouted from 4chan. If you spend a lot of time on the net like myself, you may find these things interesting. If you don’t have an interest in how things sprout up in society, then that is fine.

I do find these things interesting as they affect me directly YouTube placed my video on the homepage on April Fools day last year and Rickrolled everyone who clicked on the video, and it resulted in a few hundred thousand views for my video that day (from people eventually finding their way to my actual video), so I have a personal interest in the origin of that term and the what it was all about.

Lighter topics?… not lighter at all. Connected is what a lot of people are saying one must be to survive in the modern jungle. Hey keep doin’ what you do… Never know, Obama my say “You’ve been Rick Rolled” in a presidential speech one day… hopefully he’d be joking.

Keeping everything running requires so much technical stuff! Sorry to find myself becoming even more of a geek!

Wasn’t somebody talking about that book on O’Reilly recently? And is that ‘blow up’ like a balloon, or ‘blow up’ like a bomb? :wink:

You know, I was thinking the same thing as Michael Landau until I read your comment and I want to thank you.
It was like a needed slap to the cheek as to say, wake up man, snap out of it, we’re havin’ a litttle fun over here…
Anyway, thanks for the giggle. :smile:

PS: I am not influenced by them. Are you influenced by them, and, if so, how?

It is interesting how schools never discuss how a seemingly normal, educated people could allow themselves to be brainwashed into killing millions of innocent people. That, to me, would be so much more important to teach than “They were the enemy, we had to kill them.” Period. Without teaching that, we could all, very easily, allow that to happen to us and not have learned our lesson.

We already have seemingly normal, educated people here who have been brainwashed into killing millions of innocent people. It’s called abortion on demand. :cry:

That 23% figure doesn’t apply to N. Korea; there it is about .00000435%. That’s one person. Guess who?

Here’s a quote from a review of the book:

This book answers the plaguing question: How could it happen? How could ordinary people, seemingly decent Germans, turn into goose-stepping, Sieg-Heil-ing robots, eager to obey any orders, even to administer the “final solution”–the Holocaust?

I’ll have that book shipped to you from Amazon, unless you tell me you already have it.

There is always a large group of people in every society (even ours), that if not restricted from doing so, would at least acquiesce with the denial of rights of, if not the outright destruction of others. It is up to the rest of us to make sure the restrictions are effective.

It was not too long ago that there were Americans who started a war to preserve slavery*. It was not just a few dozen or even a few thousand that supported it; it was a large percentage. QED.

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*Don’t say it. State’s rights, yadda, yadda, yadda.

Hey, I try to absorb as much of the jargon as possible, trying to understand it before it leaks out my brain. Not so easy.
I’ve posted some vids & did my first bit of movie editing… hours & hours for 3 minutes vid. Frustrating & satisfying all at the same time :lol:
You sound Canadian saying “Sorry” all the time, hope you don’t mean it.
It’s kinda fun to pick up on peoples personalities as they attempt to say something in 140 charachters. I’m always going back too edit mine, pairing em down to 140 exactly most times.

As someone who is a native of that country and as someone who has been a freak for history for all of my life I can assure you that it has a lot to do with words, especially the use of euphemisms even among the elites of the Nazi regime. The genocide hasn’t been called mass murder, it was just the “final solution to the Jewish question”. Political opponents were given “special treatment”, which meant that they were killed.

The German philologist Victor Klemperer wrote a book that described the alternation of the German language during the Third Reich.

You may know this already, but I had to make this comment here because I’ve noticed that Obama was compared with Hitler here on your website which is totally inappropriate.

Great! I bet you’re excited.

The number of users online at any moment is not important; it is not an indicator of the audience, because one can post now and be read by many at any time in the future.

BBS, yayyy! Chat, booo! :grin:

I found those figures to be astronomical when you think about it, even hard to believe.
An interesting thing they mentioned too, about the cell phone accounts, was that the rate of use was not diminished in the nations one would consider to be, “Poorer Nations”, if anything cell phone use was up…

I had to research nearly every internet term in the lesson to figure out what the hell was going on. So: I had fun, and I learned something.
Isn’t that Marina’s goal?

You might want to take a look at: The Wrong Way Home by: Deikman, Arthur J., M.D.

I’ve been rickrolled and to 4chan. I experienced Generation gap.

Link should have been to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTI_-_Lingua_Tertii_Imperii

Gotta see the signs and know what to do. If you see em lining up like toy wooden nutcrackers and doing the goose step to marching muzak let’m the townsfolk run em out like weeble wobbles along with the crackhouse drug peddlers and baby rapists. Find instructional videos on “cow tipping” on how to achieve this.

Giving the name of the nearest town would destroy my anonymity. There are only two people in town and in a month or so the chief of police would figure out it wasn’t him.

Will any of them be in body paint?

I don’t know all the things you’ve changed but i now have to turn off my adblock plus to see the twitter box didn’t have to do that before you changed to the new style. I never seem to have had trouble with the pages loading. Just saying

I didn’t find your site by “following the crowd”. :mrgreen:
I found it by honing the cutting edge of your groundbreaking idea.
Others may not follow in my lead – so be it.
I would rather seek my own path, than follow the sheep for mere popularity. :cool:
For those who walk beside me , I am grateful to be in your company :wink:

You know if you didn’t have big boobs no one would even care

Ha ha, here’s Marina doing some pwning.

Now, regarding the issue of whether the term “rick roll” will be a permanent edition to the English language, I don’t believe it will. Not that I doubt the power of the internet to make lasting contributions to regular language, but the term “rick roll” is pretty much exclusively limited to its literal meaning. And the act of clicking a link with the intention of seeing one thing and getting the Rick Astley video isn’t really applicable to any other situation that would make “rick roll” a really widespread term. And Nancy Pelosi recently rick rolled people on YouTube, which is pretty much a clear sign that rick rolling is well on its way to the grave.

I find it kind of funny you devalued the significance of internet-speak but started the comment with “IMHO”.

Sorry, Camp, but that really is what the Civil War was about–states’ rights, not slavery. The North used the slavery issue to give the war a moral dimension such that Britain, who’d already abolished slavery, couldn’t justify supporting the South, who they relied on for certain products.

Au contraire.

The way Gladwell discusses it is more like [making mountains out of molehills]. Exaggerating an issue completely out of proportion by taking a singular event out of context and exploiting the ignorance of the masses into having faith in a faulty belief system.
Power is rarely given and usually taken. When a society gives in to the ideas of “charismatic” individuals who are corrupted by their own self importance, that society as a whole suffers, and can collapse as did Ancient Rome, and Nazi Germany.
Hilter was elected by his people, acted without conscience, and brought them chaos and destruction.

Ha ha, Marina, I don’t think it counts as rick rolling if you proceed to deliver the content we originally clicked for anyways.

Yes, I’ve been to 4chan a few times. It troubles me: you hear about Anon doing good things some of the time, like protesting the Church of Scientology, exposing people with child pornography, and more recently, bringing animal-abusers to justice. But at any given time when you go see what the /b/tards are up to, it’s pretty much just a cesspool of internet-obsessed people desensitized to everything wrong in the world. They’ve all got their heads unbelievably far up their own asses, but I don’t deny their ability to spread memes. Toysjoe gave a list of memes below which pretty much exhausts all the memes with which I’m familiar, except maybe for an hero, Chris Hansen, Rule 34, and hypnotoad. But oh well, my own generation has always bewildered me.

By the way, I saw on my calendar that today is the anniversary of your first video, so Happy Anniversary! I mean, it’s really after midnight, so technically it’s the 3rd now, but whatever.

Since you asked to comment and rate here it is (the comment) I would rate you about a high 7 to a low 8 currently. I haven’t seen you without your makeup recently.
I’ve been to 4 chan when I was investigating being rickrolled once before. I don’t even try to know all the internet meme. Rated the video 4 stars and favored also. I have always favored your vids so I have too ask whom’s asking?

No… and I have no idea what you’re talking about. :???:

Nerd Word of the Day: Again with installments. Installments of words would have to be syllables, right? We’re going to get a syllable a day until we have a whole word? :?:

Good observation, Nathan.

Well, as long as your funny bone is tickled, I won’t mind. My point is not that we should not use webby expressions, but that M, who has time only for one word a day and has to address a worldwide audience, would better serve that audience by avoiding rick-raff of the rickitiest type.

I
Make
Honest
Observations.

Night Guys

Nathan, if it weren’t for the loss (or imminent loss) of free labor to which the good citizens of the South were helping themselves, they probably wouldn’t have cared to stick their heads up to where they could get them so easily shot off. Suppose the U.S. government had declared that the South could no longer use gummed reinforcements or paperclips. Do you think they would have been so incensed? I mean for the principle of it and all?

Follow the money. :wink:

G’nite John-John.

(He must really like that. :smile: )

Just ricked-rolled out of bed on a cold E.Canada morning, and you are like a golden ray of sunshine in this frigid darkness. Never heard of 4chan, but will visit. Rick Astley is very good, you can actually understand what he’s singing about.( excuse my grammar)

I would like to request the word [PWN] in response to your video on (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yua5kklOHuU&feature=channel)

thanks.

Dear HotForWords,

I haven’t been to 4 chan before, and did not know about rick rolling! One meme that I’ve noticed is the ‘fail’ meme.

Your Student,
ThoughtOnFire

BTW I received the prize from the GTW Game in the mail today! Thanks :mrgreen:

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US !!!
THIS IS SPARTA !!!

quite old really

i second [pwn]

is your website in the top 100 ?

I have 3 words to suggest.
* [bigot]
* [sexist] (please indicate how long it took for the word to obtain its strong connotations, and when it originated)
* [prohibitionist]

Also, please read this thread if you have a moment.
http://www.marijuana.com/420-lounge/115595-bigotry.html

Two more words: [congress] and [progress]

I think the late Paul Harvey would appreciate this.

“If ‘pro’ is the opposite of ‘con’ what is the opposite of ‘progress’?” – Paul Harvey

You’ve never done ‘[marijuana]‘? There’s some controversy behind this word, and I would love some solid clarification on the topic.

lol Don’t answer that question literally; it might incriminate you.

If she dyed her hair green she could play a video on it during her own video (à la green wall technique) – how cool would that be. :???:

Marina, that was an awesome lesson. Being entrenched in Internet technology, I have been to a lot of sites, including 4chan, the ones before that, and others. My interest in these sites is not only for technical reasons, but also as you mentioned, the idea of memes and also artificial intelligence, self replication and social network technologies.

In fact, I made a word request for the word “meme” here. You may notice that I also made the word request for [neologism]

I loved all of your comments below, specifically;
“…educated people could allow themselves to be brainwashed…”
You are a girl after my own heart. I love reading your comments.

[corybantic] :?:

Below, Marina mentioned how a certain Internet event on the net brought her many more views. As Marina mentioned below, that there are influential people on the net and many of you may have heard that the next wars will be that of information wars, which are here already.

For those of you who have been following me and my graphs on the HotForWords’ Sexy Geek pages, I have mentioned 4chan in the context of the Sexy Geek 2008 Voting. Back in Dec. Marina was about 4,000 votes behind Phil in Up votes and about 10,000 votes behind in combined votes.

As many of you know, Marina was heavily down voted. That didn’t happen by accident. Let’s just say, some 4chan’ners moved a lot of votes. Even though Marina is leading in Up votes, a definitive (no excuses) win for the Sexy Geek of the year also means winning the Combined votes.

Would some of you kind HotForWords fans please vote for Marina until she is leading in the combined votes? In recent weeks, there have only been about 10-20 votes added per day. Marina needs 1,144 votes to take the definitive lead. A thousand of us can do that in one day.

Please vote here by clicking on Marnia’s green Up arrow.
It’s one vote per 24 hours. Please vote until Marina takes the lead. You can also click on my name which goes to the same link.
http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top

Thank you in advance and to those who have continued to vote.

:shock:

Done.
Don’t forget to down-vote de Franco and up-vote those immediately following him.
Maybe we can eventually get him down to third place or even lower.

It occurs to me that the phenomenon of thumbnail cheating on YouTube is a form of rick-rolling, in that it persuades people to click on something that they would not do if they knew the real content.

In general, today’s schools do not teach anything and do lots of things to hinder the development of the mind. But here are two schools that are different: http://www.vandammeacademy.com/curriculum/default.htm and http://www.leportschools.com/curriculum_upper.html

I saved the name before I deleted the account so Ms V could be resuscitated.

HFW did a lesson on the word POT Click here to watch :shock:

This may hold you over until she does your word.

A more complete quote is:

… a seemingly normal, educated people could allow themselves to be brainwashed into killing millions …

“Brainwash” is a term that concerns manipulating an adult mind. The key term in the above is seemingly normal, educated, with emphasis on seemingly: In Germany, adults were not brainwashed; the entire society was educated with the wrong ideas from kindergarten up — people were brought up with a warped mind from infancy.

Homework :cool:
I have never heard of 4 chan.

For another perspective on the very same topic, check out Ordinary Men, by Christopher Browning. Any of you who have attended public school in the US, have been indoctrinated to respect authority, do not rock the boat, be a productive member of society, sacrifice for the common good. Each of these can be useful qualities, but they require balance. [Harmony] is not everybody singin the same part, but a combination of differents which produce something beautiful.

I have never been to 4chan. That is not my forte. This video was more light hearted (from my perspective,) and I can appreciate that. Others are a little more tech-savvy, and these topics may be of more interest to them. I also like to gain some new knowledge that is not in my direct line of study. At any rate, it was still fun. What is the purpose of a swing set, a merry-go-round, or a slide? They are fun, and fun is good.
Keep up the good work, M’Lady. :grin:

Fortes fortuna adiuvat. = 4chan favours the brave. :grin:

Umm … “never going to give up you”? Where does the comma go in that sentence? :lol:

Here, here. Life is too serious to be taken seriously all the time. :smile:

I can’t believe you just RickRolled your viewers. I feel so abused. :sad:

hutchiee, here’s a *kiss* – is it better now?

Good observation Bob.

Can I Have One? :oops:

:smile: Uh-oh :!: Look what you have started Marina! Now everyone is going to ask you for a KISS :!: :grin:

:roll: Umm.. Can I have a kiss too :?: :oops:

Marina,

After having watched this video, I was struck with the thought that it would be a good idea for hotforwords to investigate the word [meme] itself. At first, I thought it might be related to the French word “même,” which means “same.” Thinking that, I pronounced it as mehm until I later learned it was pronounced meem, and now I have no idea where it came from.

PS: After I started writing this, I scrolled down and saw Karl not only made the same suggestion, but did so in an earlier lesson. Kudos to you, Karl, I admit I shamelessly stole your idea.

Egad, here comes the massive line.

*kiss*

*kiss* :mrgreen:

Pg. 2 of most popular for FTW. I always had a theory that the new Most Popular section on YouTube favored a young demographic.

:grin: Thank You! :grin:

I’ve noticed that a lot of countries in Eastern Europe tend to end in -IA and a lot of countries in the Middle East end with -ISTAN. For instance, there’s RussIA, SlovakIA, RomanIA. There’s also PakISTAN, UzbekISTAN, AfganISTAN. I was wondering if there is any meaning to [-IA and -ISTAN] at the end of the names of countries.

THANK YOU

thanks and I KISS you back :oops:

Marina, I’m one of those who have just recently discovered your site. I’ve only watched a little part of your videos, but nearly all of them are outstanding.

You’re a sexy and beautiful woman. But that alone doesn’t make you special. There are legions of sexy beautiful women that are showing their female attractions on the net.

You’re teaching etymology on the net. That, in itself, is nothing special too. When I google the word etymology, I’m getting 5,570,000 results. Though, etymology doesn’t seem to be a popular topic at all, you don’t get much etymology on popular websites or on TV and radio. It seems to be neglected in schools. Nevertheless, words and their meanings determine the way we think, and the people who have the power over the words are the really powerful ones.

You’re a teacher who gives lessons on the internet. That’s nothing special too. There are legions of teachers that are trying to give lessons on the net.

You’re excelling all the other people who are publishing on the internet because you manage to mix these three things up in an incredible way. The first impression that someone gets when he watches one of your videos for the first time may be “BOOBS!!”. But your first-time-viewer very soon gets another impression: “BRAIN!!”. Your videos are both entertaining and instructive,

Nearly all your videos are brilliant, but some of them are even more than that and gone beyond terrestrial spheres. Want to know something about the origins of the current economic crisis? HotForWords has decided to investigate. A highly controversial issue like the relations between church and state? That’s a minefield, the chance to fail with that topic are very big, yet you’ve done that lesson so playfully that when it comes to the word antidisestablishmentarianism, you’re the top answerer.

You’ve established terribly high standards in your past 400 videos. My reading of most of the critical comments here is that a lot of people think that both your “rickroll” and your “sexy” video failed to meet these standards. In your past videos, you’ve made a break when your viewer needed it, you were repeating things when it was necessary. Everyone could see that you’re a skilled teacher. You’ve varied the speed of your talking, you’ve spoken slowly when it was necessary so your viewers could understand you. Your Russian accent was no handicap, you’ve managed to use it to add some more cuteness to your videos.

This “rickroll”-video has a really bad introduction. As a literature teacher, you must know that the introduction is the part where you make your audience familiar with the topic of your work. You’ve completely failed to do that in this video. An egg? A duck? Rick Astley? And then there is that word that I couldn’t understand. This time, your Russian accent wasn’t cute. I simply couldn’t understand that you’ve said “I’ve just rickrolled you”, and I guess I wasn’t the only one. The word “rickrolled” wasn’t written out, contrary to difficult words that you’ve dealt with in your past videos. You’ve spoken very fast, you didn’t pause, and there is no music sequence that gives your viewers the chance to rethink your words. I guess the only ones who could understand this lesson were some twittering hardcore-Youtubers and the unimportant script kiddies at 4chan.

In both your “rickroll” and your “sexy” video you don’t appear as playful as you did in most of your past videos. There’s not much in these two videos that make them outstanding.

I wouldn’t have watched the whole “rickroll”-video if i hadn’t noticed your brilliance before. I would have thought “What’s that garbage?” and clicked away after 30 seconds. It wasn’t captivating like most of your past videos.

About 4chan: This website is sometimes compared with the old Usenet. In my opinion, this comparison doesn’t fit. In the old Usenet, new things were created. One of the most famous examples is the Linux operating system that was baked there. That’s what the nerds of the old Usenet will be remembered for. But what is it that the kiddies at 4chan will be remembered for? What have they created? The only thing they’re noticed for is destruction. They’re barely mentioned in my country. For example, Heinz Heise Verlag does only mention them in connection with the takeover of Gov. Palin’s Yahoo account, with their confrontation with Scientology, and in an article headlined “Troll’s Paradise”. There, 4chan, among some other websites, is called “the Internet’s cesspool”.

Contrary to the kiddies at 4chan, you’ve created something. They’re not playing in your league, they’re playing far below your level.

But it’s not up to me to give you any advice. As I’ve said before, you’ve already shown your brilliance to the world, you’ve become a [celebrity], and you deserve it. You didn’t have to listen to what the members of the community that you’ve built around you say, and you definitely don’t have to listen to someone like me who’s just here for a short time. If you feel
that you have to change the style of your videos in order to make them shown on a prominent place on Youtube, if you feel that you must not exceed 1:30 min, I won’t complain.

This is just my 2 ¢.

“Top Posts” is a good thing. It helps and reminds of all the fine work our lovely teacher does. :grin: Thanks from me and keep up the lessons. :razz: [AIRHEAD]

can you please investigate the word [Turkey]? is there anything to do with the [turkey] the bird and the country [TURKEY]. I will be insisting on the same word till you will make a video for it =)

Marina, does bread hurt? I noticed that the word [Pain] means ‘bread’ in french and a hurting sensation in English. Is there a connection, a story behind that?

Not just in Eastern Europe:-
Australia, Austria, Mongolia, Nigeria, Syria, Russia, Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Columbia, Croatia, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Latvia, Liberia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mauritania, Namibia, Romania, St Lucia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tanzania, Tunisia, Zambia.

No pain, no gaine. = Don’t eat too much bread and you won’t need to wear a girdle. :grin:
{Another example of fractured franglais}

…only going further to prove my point!

That’s interesting Nighteye. Old French baguettes can become as hard as a baseball bat if left in the sun for too long! My guess is they can hurt quite a bit. Not sure if there’s a connection between pain and bread though.

Up a little early Marina and I would like my kiss. :roll: :wink: :smile: :eek: :grin: :mrgreen:

frenzied=corybantic

Cha cha cha! I discovered this site by clicking on the teacher’s b00bz! I don’t walk beside you and I am not grateful to be in your company!! :grin:

Oh god, i think hutchiee just started a new movement of kisses from the teacher … What a scandal *click* haha i’ve got a proving photo ( mhm stupid word ._.)

I just felt myself get less cool thanks to learning the nonsurprising nerd-origin of FTW. My mind’s suddenly polluted with images of 130-pound ‘men’ with greasey hair, wearing medium-sized graphic pac-man or atari T-shirts, tight jeans, white shoes, vintage calculator watches circa 1983, with mountain dew in hand to help drown their Dorito-tainted breath. So I’m off to self-report my mancard violation, though I think there will be leniency due to the overal nature of HotForWords, godwilling.

However, since I do appreciate any species of prank, and since I was victimized by the Rickrolling of last year, this lesson has made me wonder about the origin of [TOMFOOLERY] and, Marina, if you will [HIJINKS].

Marina, I wish your new videos were a little longer. That was a lot of information squeezed into this short one and I admit I had to watch it twice before fully understanding what was going on, even though I already knew what rickroll is.

Remember that some of your best videos to date are 3-4 minutes long :)

As for 4chan, it’s an awful site and I don’t recommend it to anybody.

Also vote for Captain Jack!!!! :mrgreen:
(first page, third from the bottom)
A vote for Jack won’t go against Marina :grin:

Woops. I clipped the second half of the first sentence somehow. Should read:

I just felt myself get less cool thanks to learning the nonsurprising nerd-origin of FTW, and now I learn about geeks and the evolution of eggs, ducks, wheels, then Rickrolling. …

My 6th grade English teacher would slap me if she knew I wasn’t proofreading my comments before submitting them.

Power is rarely given and usually taken.

Sounds almost as if you were paraphrasing Dr. King. I am so proud. :cry:
{Somebody wipes a tear from his eye.}

Ummm… Dr. King was NOT the origin of that saying. :mrgreen:
Adolph Hitler used that quote quite often in his early speeches
(the origin is unknown)

Happy Square Root Day (3-3-9) :mrgreen:
The next one won’t occur until (4-4-16)
Take a math teacher to dinner :cool:

You’re wrong. This is the difference between this site and youtube. Yes, on youtube, many people may not care. Some of them are just passing by, and one of the first things they notice is Marina’s chest. They stay ignorant of everything else. That’s why you get all this stupidity in the comments there.

That said, I don’t belive that someone takes his time to register here only to watch videos hoping that *maybe* *someday* *something* more will be revealed, while he could be happily watching what he wants somewhere else. It’s not like boobs are hard to find on the internet nowdays, is it?

If you really come here just to watch boobies, I’d suggest you to stop and watch porn instead. It would be more… erm… efficient for you ;) I’m sure no one here will miss you.

Check this out MeLikaDoTheChaCha…Chinese Words for Fruits : How to Say ‘Plumb’ in Chinese…Word request [plumb] as in a [carp]enter…math teachers eat too much :razz:

rooT of Square..daetoo :grin:

Whats top posts? And Marina……….. *kisses* :mrgreen:

HAHAH! How many idiots do you think tried to click the part of the video that siad… Hotforwords naked click here?

Using copyrighted footage at the beginning there were you? Naughty naughty.

Wow Marina, You have been busy on the comments, I am going to see a film with my mum soon but when I get back I will have a look at some new css stuff :-)

Lolcats infuriate me. I find them really stupidly annoying.

God Bless [redundant]…God Bless Marina-aniraM.sselB.doG…reduplication..

you@youtube are and is smart

.. thanks for letting oldschool people practice..[praxis]..propman skills of writing :smile:

thanks dude, i finally figured John-boy reasons of the “good-night” salutation :razz:

Word Request :shock:
[Caboodle] Don’t let Gorby see this!

That has been passed around so many times by now. I would not be surprised if it ia already public domain. :roll:

What brains you have for the courage of such suckling…areyoukidding???To produce or send out suckers…

*[SUCKER]*

:roll:

@ neuroway – you have made my point even clearer, thanks :mrgreen:
Keep clicking on those bOObs!
…or should I just say “Baaaa”

I think M may be able to overtake expertvillage again. Thank god…. for 1 month the have stopped adding to thier 130000 videos

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=expertvillage&view=videos

I don’t believe “passing around” is a legal way to void a copyright; it’s not like a trademark going into public domain because of common use outside of the product or service identification. (Just try “passing around” Mickey Mouse or some other Disney property and see how far you get.) BTW, since ’76, when the U.S. joined the Universal Copyright Convention, copyright attaches at the time of creation to all works with no action required by the creator, including a copyright notice like the one at the bottom of this page; it’s automatic, so everything is copyright unless negated by the creator (by, say, a stated license).

Not me… No, not me.

{CK tries to put away his magnifying glass without being noticed.}

Queen MARINA…#1 EDUCATER-educator.EDUCATURE.edMACteachure of “WTF is the degree to that what makes so many to agree and then to pee and too peed off” P’s are pest…beesRgood :twisted: AC/DC Dirty deeds done dirt cheap + lyrics(schools head) :lol:

WLIU, I’ll bet it has the same root as plumbing, namely lead (plumbus), which might have been originally used for plumb bobs when they got tired of looking at rocks. Nowadays, plumb bobs are usually turned brass with a steel point, but I think that is just to appeal to the “shiny bauble” part of male’s brains. I is not the bob that is the business end of the instrument here, it is the string that supports it; the bob is just to pull the string down, so a lump of dried crap* would do as well.

— —
*Yes, a pile of my posts would qualify. :mrgreen:

Well said.

It is interesting how schools never discuss how a seemingly normal, educated people could allow themselves to be brainwashed into killing millions of innocent people.

care to elaborate on that?

egg-sure…&…AC/DC – Thunderstruck
..u-da-brain

I just bought a cheap Chinese padlock this morning, and one of it’s features is listed on the packaging as a “laminatch guard bumper.” They slip a simple blue plastic band around the bottom of the lock so that, over time, it won’t scratch whatever is being secured. (I discard this so it won’t look like a… uh, cheap Chinese lock.)

Not having ever seen [laminatch] before, I Googled it and found matches on just a few foreign-language pages, none Chinese. One spoke of it as a material that would be engraved upon, say for making a sign. It was also used as a nickname on a Russian photo site by one Leeloo Mina Lekatariba Laminatch. That would be some coincidence, wouldn’t it?

Any ideas where this came from? Are the Chinese making up words now?

I read somewhere that -istan means “land of,” which makes sense. That would mean New Mexico could have been named Enchantmentistan. (Their state motto is Land of Enchantment.)

I liked the one the Onion used in one of their skits: Etchasketchistan. :mrgreen:

It seems to be independent of language, doesn’t it? Or is that just in the eyes of the English-speaking beholder? Do the inhabitants of all of those use the same name as we do?

And every one of them is puckered up! :!:

And I mean that in a nice way.

That’s the best way! :lol:

Pretty in PINK

Yes, CK, I agree with you. As far as copyright goes, we really do not have any such de facto public domain. It does seem, though, that the internet makes copyright laws much more difficult to enforce. Is this a blessing or a curse? Free (libre, not gratis) information is a whole new Pandora’s Box. :???:

Speak More…we are performers, from the

City: The Capital of the Republic of Lexicon

and “homeys” habitants
Hometown:_-)

Etymologia-ists:-)

:razz: :idea: :razz:

I’m starting to think we need another Guess The Word Game to get me out of this [funk] I’m in. Maybe by this weekend.

:twisted: funny as bunny; at work, trimming the prune trees :evil:

umm. something popped up and i accidentally clicked it away or something.

marina? what was that?

C’mon CK. It was fun. I agree that this was not the hard-core entomological lessons that I really get into. I truly appreciate when Lady M takes a word all the way back to its fundamental origins; this often sheds a new light on what the word really means. I think it also says alot about people in general, how we manipulate word meanings based on the context of the place and times. I also think that it is good for me get out of the comfort zone and look at some aspects of society that I normally do not attend. This word (okay, the last few :roll: ) have been more lite and fun. Playing ball with my grandkids may have some substantive benefits, but the bestest part is that we are having fun – together. :grin:

Whoops! etymology, not entomolgy. I guess we could all look at bugs together while we play on the swing set, but that’s a different story. :oops:

Cut the Lions hair!!!

…HD***HFW

Yes, the FTW video’s best position so far was #33 (p2 #13).

iJustine has had only three different videos on the board so far, and has a similar appearance on the Popular board as your videos as they all started on Pg 5 or Pg 4.

My database shows that 1,007 videos had their initial appearance on the Popular board on Pg 2, many with low views from 1000 to 5000 and most geared to younger demographics. I’ll put a partial list up on the forum on Thur and will also post some very interesting graphs.

Question: Is the tattoo on your arm in the last video real? I thought it might be a fake after I didn’t see it onyour arm this time but I figured you might not show the videos in the same order you film them.

Question: Is the tattoo on your arm in the last video real? I thought it might be a fake after I didn’t see it onyour arm this time but I figured you might not show the videos in the same order you film them.

Good reminder ChaCha, I’ll do it now.

Another nice widget to the far lower right; Top Posts.
Love it.

The past few days, when I refresh my page, some of the ads are all out of whack. The “mate1.com” will be all the way over here, right through the comments box. I don’t know if that is what you saw, or if you had a different situation. Mine is normally not an issue; I just refresh again and life is good.

there’s nothing you don’t love, anyway. :PP

For the RSS feed whatchamahoobie? Twitter, diggit, RSS feed… I;m overwhelmed. :roll:
That is another box that gets out of kilter, as I mentioned to Alex below.

No, I can’t stand the lighter topics. I hope you return to your previous quality content.

You know me too well :mrgreen:

Uh, no. Those are the English names for those countries. For example, Germany is actually called Deutschland in its native tongue, but the French call their next-door neighbor (Germany) “Allemagne.” Nobody calls it Germany except us English-speakers! Of course, this does little to address the initial subject: whether suffixes -ia or -istan have a translatable meaning. My guess is that they both mean the same thing as placing “land” at the end of a country name such as Ireland (land of Eire) or England (Angle land).

I don’t think that I know what you mean with “wrapped mind of infancy”.

The vast majority of Germans that were born before 1933 were definitely notbrought up with anti-Semitism. racism or Social Darwinism. The latter is an invention of the late 19th/early 20th century that could have been taught in kindergarten or primary school.

If you mean that the Germany of the 1930s had a wrapped mind because they were taught to be loyal and obedient subjects to the emperor, that, in times of crisis, they have to gather around their leaders and don’t question what the leaders say, then you’re right.

But the Germans of the early 20th century were not the only people that were educated that way.

Type in Che in the search box, the 28th B-day video comes up.
Type in pendanticKarl no post found shows up. It must be flawed.

I had to make sure it wasn’t April 1.
For a minute I thought I didn’t exist. :lol:

It does list seven video pages for me with
either spelling; lower or upper case “k”.

What’s neat about that search box is that you don’t need to hit enter. Just enter some letters and it starts searching. Very nice.

Just did it once more and this time I got seven hits, go figure.

Hi vault,

I strongly suspect that the person who posted this comment is an unloved woman who needs attention, not some guy looking at a pair of breasts for his first time. Who in their right mind would say such a thing to Marina? The jealousy is palpable, the tone transparently envious.

We had a person named hdvideo posting some very similar crap here around May or June of 08. This individual is truly starved for contact of any kind, and obviously has nothing of value to contribute but loves to get peoples’ goat any way she can. It’s a power thing. People respond to it, and that perpetuates it. Some people apparently feel that the best way to get attention is by breaking things and pissing in the aquarium. Don’t pay her no nevermind. She’ll go away quietly when ignored.

Hi Marina,

Here’s a video of that car you’d like to get!
http://uk.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=98891&videoChannel=82 :shock: :grin: :mrgreen:

no, i’m pretty sure that wasn’t it.

but, getting an answer out of a chick is always a matter of luck sometimes pretty fucking hard. *rolleyes*

Tattoos on Marina? God I hope not. They look like hell later. Besides, she looks good just as she is, and in my neck o’ the woods we say if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

pissing in the aquarium

does a pool count as an aquarium? hehe.

Yeah, I’ve seen that and ’420′, so that’s why it surprised me she hadn’t covered ‘marijuana’.

Marina’s got a Rick-ed side :grin:

Rick’n'Roll is back! Especially in a Rickshaw :roll:

Ok, ok, ok, I’m being Rick-lessly Rick-diculous & Rick-tarded. Sorry :oops:

I was trying to talk to you.. I can message people on the site but it doesn’t work all the time.

huh? try that again.

WOW. MARINAS SECRET MSN MESSENGER!! I WANT TO TRY!!

OK, marina, I will try do css 2 morow

Please…Please…Please…this I really got to know, and I think it is a good one:

What is the origin of the phrase [I got reamed] ?

Thanks,

Down Boy, she’s playing with you.
Oh I see, that’s what you wanted to try. :roll: :grin:

Get lost, you pathetic loser.

Excellent point.

[RAUNCHY]

Could be interesting…

Yesterday I had a sneezing fit at work, and one of my co-workers said I had just had a “sneezure”.
What a great expression!

Did you flop around on the floor like a fish with a handkerchief?

It depends on whose ox is being Al Gored. If you are are the copyright holder and you want to get paid, you would might object to free distribution, even if those who receive it are unlikely to buy it anyway. It’s the same situation as was seen with software piracy.

I suppose some day there will be a law requiring each PC to have an ecryption-protected ID embedded in the CPU which will enable copyright holders to get a cut of everything of theirs that you download from a money account set up ahead of time, no matter whose site it comes from. (I don’t want to give anyone ideas. :wink: )

May the square root black magic 333 retro back on the us governments scandal and employees involved. I am 32 it doesn’t work on me so funny Doug you look at square roots. I am always dealing with numbers they play such importance :grin: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :grin: :grin: :razz: :razz: :razz: :razz: :razz: :razz: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: to me.

:mrgreen: Hay I didn’t get my Kiss I am Pissed! I still love you anyways poooooooooooooooooooooochhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :razz: :razz: :razz: :cool: :cool:

I would like to request the word [hiccup] or [hiccups]. Its such a weird yet funny word that I would love to know the origin of.

Thank you :mrgreen:

yes , all new english words are now made in china…

[wedgie]

I don’t know about -ia, but CampKohler is right about -stan. -stan is Persian [I think, but am probably wrong about] for “land of”.

Especially if you’re Aquaman!

@Chachacha

Not a chance pal! I just decided in some sudden enlightened strike of wisdom that I’m gonna stop clicking on them! Don’t be addicted to girls is the first rule of a good politician!

:oops: If it’s a movement at least it’s a good movement. :oops:

Cool gravitar, heavy Metallica album :wink:

Much… much better :cool:

Marina, what is the origin of the word [addiction]. I watched all your video’s so I think it counts as an addiction now so I was wondering the origin of it.

Sorry if FTW, meh, Miley, etc. is your idea of fun. Those leave me with the same feeling you get when you get home from shopping and realize that you left that extra-humongus-size bag of kitty litter in the bottom of the shopping cart. :cry:

Oh, well, I think we have spanked M enough on this subject. {CK stops and reflects on the wording of the preceding sentence two or three times while biting into a fat, juicy. sweet navel orange quarter and feeling the nectar swirl around in his mou… Nevermind! :oops: }

Pedantic,

A 3:43 min long video, 5 hours after upload has 246 views — but guess where it is on YouTube’s Worldwide Most Viewed page? http://i44.tinypic.com/2w53913.jpg

By what meaning of “most viewed” did this happen?

Is that possible under YouTube’s stated policies? If not, is there some employee in YouTube who is hacking the youtube/browse page?

–Hs4Mm
.

If they are anything like the tool sets sold in the 99-Cent store, the new words will crack, break or round off the second they roll off your tongue, which, considering some of the new words, may not be a bad thing. You will know to throw those words away and buy Snap-On or Craftsman. :grin:

HI Marina you say. Be sure to rate and comment on my video at YouTube. I all ways rate your video is that enough for you to get recognized or must i make a comment all so :?:

Figured I’d also point out my name is after the type of music named after the type of drug, I don’t do drugs :mrgreen:

Yo-e-yo! If you got to the dashboard, under your profile, you can link your YouTube page URL to your screen name.
It turns blue (like mine) and I can go straight to your page by clicking your name. Neat, huh? :mrgreen:

No handkerchief.

I don’t know how a perfectly respectable metal-working term (enlarging a hole with a reamer for the purpose of making it an exact size) got perverted like this. Maybe one day a machinist in San Francisco dropped a chuck key, bent over to pick it up and, as they say, the rest is history. :shock:

How about your 1210 predecessors? :razz:

So what part of the country are you from?

I would like to know the origin of the word [nuance]. I took Russian for a year back in college, and I was always impressed that my Russian teacher (she was from Uzbekistan) used [nuance] a LOT when talking about the slight differences between words… until I looked up “nuance in the Russian dictionary… IT’S THE SAME WORD IN RUSSIAN TOO!” I know that a lot of words cross languages, especially nouns (coffee, chocolate, beer, tobacco), but [nuance] seems like an odd one to be the same word in many languages

[swastika]

that is my word request

this makes no sense to me, but it was interesting….. [hood (car and jacket)] where it came from and how we started usin it through those ways….

WORD REQUEST: CORN [NIBLETS]

Holy crap! It just dawned on me!

Marina, DON’T HATCH THAT EGG!!!!

Where is my axes?????????????/ :grin:

Marina,

I was viewing some of your lessons that you did before I found you, and not being very YouTube savvy, I was wondering if my rating these past vids would be of any benefit to you. Or is it too late to help out in that way?

Always.

I am not everyone I am someone and kiss me because you know you want to!!!

Pandora’s box, Jurassic Park, dinosaur egg.

more hums, for the chums-Sparks – This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both Of Us….

!*!*!*!*When is Easter…I want eggs of “nil”..painted eggs, with red cabbage—yeah, yeah!*!*!*!

:neutral: role for big stones :eek: clash models row for roe…egged again :roll:

Not to mention clawing up the furniture and having a little white snack for brunch.

Hi Marina I love your videos, they are amazing :)
Could you do a video for the word (Martyr)? Thanks! :D

***HOTFORWORDS SINGS!***

Marina likes to joke about singing badly, but actually she sings like an angel!

Click here to hear this beautiful, blonde, buxom, bilingual 28-year-old former schoolteacher in full voice! :grin:

(Geez, with that much in common, can you blame me for getting the two mixed up?) :oops:

Hi Marina,

My accompanist on the piano at the St. David’s Day songfest on Sunday was Russian. At the end, I thanked her in front of the audience, then said, “Елена, вы играйте очень хорошо сегодня!” :smile:
To which she replied: “Только сегодня?” :oops:
See? I get into trouble every time I try to speak Russian! :roll: You really SHOULD offer us some Russian lessons! :grin:

Yeah, funny about that…[Ресторан] is the same in Russian and French. The two languages must be related! :lol:

You need a bit more starch in your square brackets. :lol:

“Leave key in chuck, you’d better duck!” :lol:

(Machine shop humor)

I worked for awhile in a machine shop. Pretty boring job, just milling around all day…what a grind! :roll:

rongverb, be careful how you [broach] this request with Marina! :mrgreen:

Oh, Marina…Hi!
Um… I heard an amusing story about the origin of the word [quiz]. I hope it’s true. Do you think it would be interesting to investigate?
Love your work!

Engrish! :lol:

Яйци Мариной. Hmm …

As they say in Quebec, one man’s fish is another man’s poisson. :mrgreen:

The philologic terms are [exonym] (what foreigners call a country) and [endonym] (what the natives call their country.) Thus “Finland” is an exonym for the endonymic “Suomi.” “Wales” is an exonym, “Cymru” its corresponding endonym. :cool:

As to Germany, the Russians call it “Германия,” pretty close to the English.

My daughters use the term “Wheretheheckistan” to describe some unknown faroff land.

One man’s Mede is another man’s Persian. :mrgreen:

Looks Welsh. Sort of like [cwm].

Was that the one about the two Irishmen and the bet about adding a new word to English? :?:

[quiz]

Cool, I hope she does [quiz]
That doesn’t mean we want to be quizzed.

Could we have a lesson on how American English and British English are different, and maybe explain why… with a bunch of examples? That’s just another thing people would like to know more about in general.
[English] [American]

hey Marina…i was wondering about the word Noob……

I can’t believe I’ve been Rick Rolled by hotforwords!
Nuoooooo!!!
“I’ll get you my pretty, and your little dog too!” :mrgreen:
(do you know who said that, without looking it up?)
:D

Can you tell me origin of the word [Augmentation]?

[police]
Come to think of it , there aren’t any police until 19th (?) century , so the word must be quite new ?
(I haven’t done any research on it , anyway the point of word requests is having HFW do the researching and teach it to the world)

I’d like to remind you of something,
my favorite hotforwords quote (August 27, 2007):
“Women are different creatures” :D

We both live in the same world, but women experience the world in their own way. Sometimes a lot different than men do…
Why do you think that is? :-)

Hey all, and Marina, I want to share with you a story of suffering and of hope. Flyleaf’s Sameer has announced that his “cousin, Esther, has received recent news that she has medullablastoma in stage 4, which is the most aggressive stage. She is a 22 year old girl with her whole life ahead of her. I love her. She is a sister to me.” Flyleaf is doing a concert in Temple, Tx (details are on the linked site) to raise money for Esther, as her insurance won’t cover the bill. Please stop by and leave an encouraging comment on her website. Esther and her family could really use the support.

http://helpsaveesther.com/

By the way, please do the words [flyleaf] and [passerby].

Flyleaf used to be known as Passerby before they were signed by Octone Records.

Hello hs4mm,
Nope, no hacking, no conspiracy. In the context of your question; Views are NOT live; no real-time updates.

Video views are not updated instantly and are updated maybe once or several times a day. When YT has issues, then updates get extended even further. I think comments and ratings are updated in (near) real time. When it comes to YT, keep in mind, I am always hedging as the rules change and they don’t send me a memo. :smile:

Notice that the video in your screenshot was by sxephil, who gets a ton of views. If you looked at the comment count, you may have seen maybe 1000 or more comments per the 200 views shown. By proxy you would have known that the internally not-shown, later-to-be-updated-views were also high.

Did you catch Marina’s Twitter the other day to Buckey? In the context of this discussion, she jabbed Buckey in the ribs for exactly that which I just talked about. Check it out. It was a hoot. Marina is a riot. She just cracks me up every second.

Go to Marina’s Twitter and find the following.
She’s ribbing Buckey.
“@buckhollywood 203 views and 3,354 ratings!
Are you view-count cheating again Buck? :-)
“6:08 PM Mar 2nd from TweetDeck in reply to buckhollywood”

By the way, Buck has a special place in Marina’s heart for a reason. Marina has mentioned it before and I’ll let her fill in the details.

How do you learn the rules of the YT road? Blogs, blogs and more blogs and wiki. Check out wiki and search YouTube and related terms such as “views”. If I remember, they give a good writeup on views count, but could be outdated. Check the update history.

Marina being very technically savvy is on top of this stuff and she is a great source of the latest and greatest. I think you’ve read her blog about “Honors…” above in the Blog section .

 
Hello originalistrick, I don’t know every little detail, but some of the following will give you an idea that viewing the older videos helps in several ways. I believe the video views count towards the total HFW Channel count. Then, I think ratings also contribute to some final metrics. Also, there are Ads near the video which also help support HotForWords expenses.

I’ll show you what I mean. Go to YouTube, then at the upper left you see the four buttons, Home, Videos, Channels and Community. Click on Channels.

Now, you are looking at the Most Viewed Channels “This Week”, most likely. Above the 20 icons to the right, click “ALL TIME”. Notice that HotForWords is in position #19 with 168,463,007 views. By viewing the older videos, you will push her views past the next person until she becomes #1. Having a Channel in the top spot is also very important. So, I watch a lot of the classic HotForWords videos; besides, I’m a sloooowww learner. :wink:

By the way hs4mm, SxePhil himself also gives the answer to your question. I guess everybody and their brother is asking.
Here is the video.

Take note that I added the code to point the play head at the proper location. I know that this does not work for many people. If it doesn’t work for you, just manually go to 3:14 where Phil briefly mentions the views count thing.

Edit: the time code at the end does work for me.

Thanks a lot, PK. Really appreciate that!

[ATLATL]

Funny-sounding word for a cool device…

Love you, Marina! Have a greay day everybody!

Haha, great movement
…
and yes its a great record, i bought it on Vinyl the other day and its truely amazing

I did not know that. I have started watching some of the older vids to answer a specific question, but cut them off once I got my answer. I will let them play out, now. Thanks for the tip, Klaus. :grin:

Why, soitanly! Nyuck, yuck, yuck! Whoop, woop, woop woop! Do you know who said that!

Your welcome bsomebody.

Have you looked at your ancient Greek history, lately? While you are at it, check out some old Enlish (maybe even older, I’m not sure) for the origin of [sheriff.]

Sounds like this might be a good topic for a new forum. “Nature or nurture, gender roles in the international internet community.” :roll:

I thought this was pretty cool, from BoundlessProductions. This is what Somebody has to deal with when he is trying to study. :roll:
Lady M, please let us know if you object to posting links to “the competition.” I will understand if you disagree with this practice.

On second thoughts, examining evil – when the need arises – and noticing that it is small-minded, impotent and miserable is good.

Thanks.

I like finding out about new stuff! So, of course I don’t mind!

Hello Marina
I’m studing linguistics in Russia
And I’m really want to know about origin of the word : chewing gum

P.S Thank you for your lessons :)

Noob is a spelling corruption of the word newb, which is a truncation of the word newbie, which stood for “new body” or “new boy”, depending on if you are in the military or high school. :mrgreen:

In America, a “lift” is something that goes in shoes to make one appear taller. In England, it’s an elevator.
In England, if a girl says “knock me up” in the morning, it means call me or visit me. In America, that would means she wants to get pregnant.
Who else has got one? :mrgreen:

logicschabbaubar, I agree 100% with your third paragraph. Germans were indoctrinated with the idea to be loyal to the nation. I also agree that this indocrination was by no means limited to early-twentieth-century Germany. If you are implying that this same type of “education” was prevalent in the US at that time, then I also agree. If you imply that this “education” is prevalent in the US, today, then I still agree.

Where I disagree is in your second paragraph. I have seen many documents which demonstrated racism and anti-Semitism in this time. I have also seen much evidence of anti-Romani (Gypsies) and anti-Slavik literature. This was not limited to the typical propaganda outlets, but was also prevalent in scientific journals, elementary textbooks, newspaper articles and cartoons, etc.

The disturbing part, is I have seen very similar trends in the US. These trends were most prevalent about twenty to thirty years earlier in the US. I am actually doing some research right now about eugenics in the US, specifically Larry Hamilton Laughlin’s book, Eugenical Sterilization in the US, published in 1922. The most disturbing part is that this trend did not decline after WWII, when Americans saw all the horrors of that war. The eugenics movement continued into the 1970s! Social and scientific trends in the 1920s and ’30s Germany were very similar to trends in the US in the 1900s and ’10s. :cry:

One difference is that while Germany concentrated on people with Hebrew, Slavik, and Romani descent, the US was concerned with people of African, Native American (at home,) and Asian (for imperialism abroad) descent.

What is today’s nerdword? :mrgreen:
…or was that just another [flash in the pan]

I finally found that MLK quote that I was trying to find yesterday.

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

“restaurant” is going to be one of those words that just migrates for convenience, especially because travelers (who might not know many languages) are always going to be looking for restaurants… or coffee… or beer… :razz:

March forth [soldiers] of HotForWords…Today is

!*!*!NATIONAL GRAMMAR DAY!*!*! marching forth(fourth)…is why???…invest in calendars^*^

…howdy :grin: The Beatles – I Am The Eggman :razz: an apple for LEXICONIST * Marina* {force, fortify, forge,…a loud passage}..egg farts and “who laid an egg is cracked up”

From the HFW archives, one of my all-time favorites. M (this is before she gained her official Ladyship) complete with dry-erase boards and riding crop ( :shock: ) investigates the origins of sin.

It comes from the [Nahuatl] (Aztec) language.

Maybe the [police] kept order in the Greek polis, just as the [sheriff] (shire reeve) kept order in the shire. :???:

Wicked Witch of the West, in Wizard of Oz. :grin: (No, I didn’t look it up.) :cool:

[stuffed]

In America, after a big meal, we’ll say, “I’m stuffed.” This shocks hosts in Britain, where “stuffed” has a rude sexual connotation, as in the insult, “Get stuffed!”

British………….American
bonnet…………hood (of a car)
boot……………trunk (of a car)
nappy………….diaper
petrol…………..gasoline

I’d never seen that video before. It was great. I liked her hair, which she probably arranged at home, her light lip gloss, and that Marina didn’t wear a bra.
At the end, Marina says, “I will be really happy to respond you back.” Her English has really improved since June 3, 2007, and today, her Russian accent isn’t as noticeable. (I like today’s Marina, much better.) :grin:
Seesixcm6

***Hot new techno-gadget***

Marina, have you tried out the new Pensar 3000 wearable web connector with the telepathic interface??? I’ve been testing a prototype — it fits under my hat. I can do a Google search just by thinking of the keywords — anywhere, even while jogging or driving (not recommended — distracting.) It’s like having my memory expanded a billionfold.

It gets a little buggy though if I have it turned on while watching your lessons. :shock: :oops:

Try this one:

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country

Here’s a clue: JFK did not originate this anymore than MLK was the origin of “Power is rarely given, and usually taken”. :mrgreen:

[ Yodel ]

Good one. I can see it goes back to, at least, Rousseau. JFK also had several other, more modern interpretations at his disposal. JFK was great at implementing the other side of the “We the People” coin. The people must be active in order for democracy to work. He was a genius at promoting self-sacrifice without promoting denial of individual rights. It is a fine line and a delicate balance. We have lost that idea of self-sacrifice lately.

I know I tend to over compensate when someone else decides that my individual rights are less important than the “common good” (Patriot Act.) I agree that I should willingly give to the common good, but I do not like someone else making that decision for me. Hypocritical? Maybe, but I do see a distinct and relevant difference in the sacrificing of individual rights and the confiscation of personal freedom.

knock knock

Hi Chemikal,

“American English English American” from Abson Books, Bristol, England, is a 47-page booklet of American terms and English equivalents, and vice versa.

chris812125 :smile: What CK meant by the funny :lol:
was [ Martyr ] in square brackets for easy viewing by :mrgreen:
our Loverly Teacher Marina :oops: B.B. :twisted:
just tryin to help :cool: :mrgreen:

But we do hope Marina doesn’t lose that lovely accent, though… don’t we? :smile:

Quien es?

Brolly——– Umbrella ella ella lol B.B. :cool: :lol:

Little Old Lady

Cirly from the three stooges, why I outta :grin: :lol: B.B.

Apparently, flashing a peace sign with two fingers means something very different in England. It has the same meaning as the middle finger in America. It is also important whether the back of the hand or the palm is facing the intended recipient.

Who da lady who? :smile:

Nice job!
You could have just said Chemikal, on March 4th, 12:57 AM.
But you didn’t, you gave the correct answer.
You win a calendar! Marina, please give the good man one, that’s a good girl. If not, I’ll be forced to keep my word, or is it the Wicked Witch of the West’s word, or words? :-)

Looky there! Che can yodel, just like Jewel. :razz:

Thanks for all the input, now I’m convinced this totally needs a lesson! :-)

Ric….co….la..aaaa

Marina you are nice :)

little old lady who?

“We have lost that idea of self-sacrifice lately.”
If by we, you mean the DNC – yes, that’s true.
I’ve (personally) been making sacrifices, that you do not know about, since the beginning of the Iraq ground war. Literally, hundreds of thousands of dollars over a period of more than five years.
Insofar as the Patriot Act, yes, you sound like a hypocrite, sorry. As long as someone else pays, you don’t mind, right? What did the Patriot Act do to hurt you? Nothing, unless you are involved in an active terroist cell working inside the USSA. I call it the USSA, because the country is now becing run by a nationalist-socialist regime, aka the DNC.
You may not yet realize it, but your future prosperity has already been confiscated by them.
Today, the market is making a minimal correction only because Obama et al has not made a policy speech.
It really bugs me to hear that all the “skin” I put in the game, as well as the blood cost of our military, is going to be squandered for Obama and the Democrat’s political agenda. They don’t “sacrifice” DICK, but you will…
Uh oh! Obama’s making another speech right now… :mrgreen:

hummm. so next time someone notices me doing that, i’ll just say, “hey, i’m aquaman.” cool.

[Deviled] eggs, from my face…not on… :evil:

story time: when with friends, serving “deviled eggs” tell’em one egg is loaded with [cayenne] pepper verses paprika. That was a way, I got to fill up on eggs. :evil:

…How to make deviled eggs. :)…Eggs ricks :grin:

Way to Rick Roll Marina!! :smile: I would like to request [ romance ] [ impeccable ] or [ syntax ] , or better yet the phrase [ romantically impeccable syntax ]. And to hear you say that with your accent would be absolutely divine. :wink:

i, mee too##(:-:)2nd..

[Yodel]

:razz: Jimmie Rodgers – Blue Yodel No 1 (T For Texas)…Che Volay, how many songs came from this oldie?..HotForWords!*!*!*!*!*!r-u-L-e-s :cool:

Counterploy: “Yes, I tasted one and it was so hot I had to put it back.” :grin:

You have another month to go to bring that up. :smile:

whoops already done romance i think. 2 out of 3 isn’t bad though.

I have what I believe is an interesting word origin request. While watching your video on Codswallop I was actually drinking an [Adirondack] brand Vanilla Cream Soda, and it occurred to me I would like to know where the origin of the word [Adirondack] came from. Now used of course to describe the mountain range, but I have a feeling this word has an interesting story.

Love your videos by the way, keep them coming :D.

Thanks Marina.

-Nick

I thought it was a baggage tag for a very short trip in Georgia. :grin:

I don’t think it would be worth your time to install a hit counter on that one.

By “we” I meant Americans in general. Most of us have had a knee-jerk reaction. The problem is, these reactions have been in opposite directions. Some of us react by confiscating the personal freedom of our brothers; others react by building a wall around those individual rights at the expense of all others. Oftentimes, the same person will do both, simultaneously.

Chacha, if you are hungry, I will willingly give you food, even if that means I will have to go without. If, however, you decide to take that food from me, then my automatic tendency is to stop you. I believe that I should let you keep that food, and that I should give you more, besides. Do I consider that hypocrisy? No; I consider it weakness. That is a different problem that I need to address with a different strategy. When someone pushes me, then I automatically tend to push back. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

As for what the Patriot Act has done to me personally – it means that I am directly responsible for infringing upon the personal freedom of others. Initially I agreed with the Act, because I felt it was necessary for me to sacrifice that individual freedom for the benefit of my brothers and sisters. Looking back, I see that I went too far. I not only sacrificed my own freedom, but I sacrificed the freedom of others. If law enforcement has reason to believe that someone is a terrorist, then yes, that person should be held accountable to justice. To hold anybody, without charge, indefinately, without counsel, is never justice.

I agree absolutely that these are different circumstances that recquire different measures. Should extra lattitude be given when dealing with terrorists? Absolutely. Does that mean we can abandon the founding principles of this great nation – those promising a balance of individual liberty with public welfare? Absolutely not.

Lest you think that this has been just a meaningless exchange of lofty ideals, I will be happy to inform you that it has been more. Due to your earlier comments, I will pay more heed to my own sacrifice and give it willingly. I will, however, remain diligent in my pursuit to preserve those rights guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, for myself and all Americans.

I am greatful for all your input. I admire your conviction. Keep the Faith.

AQUAMAN say what? Ducked by the quack-seed grown after the horse ate its oats; the groat was enbedded by that wild rye of rice oats….Roe on with ricked up camp fire; fried fish and roe rolled and buttered.

:shock: vod-qua

When flying an aeroplane, one should leave one’s baggage behind and concentrate on the job in hand, however short the trip. :lol:
ATLATL sounds more like an aborted take-off, it’s even shorter than The Miracle on the Hudson.

I like this one:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. –Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

Do you make a distinction between county and government?

It was funny. This morning, I typed a short discussion on the changing roles of working women of turn-of-the-century (19th-20th) New York City. It was an extremely interesting topic. While I was writing the paper, Chemikal made his post. Sometimes the Universe does make sense. Either that or the blind squirrel found another nut. :roll:

[rave]

Blue Yodel #8 Muleskinner Blues-1930…

I Request MARINA–to demonstrate her yodeling talents :idea:

…Louis Armstrong and Johnny Cash – Blue Yodel No. 9… :wink:

The government, in it’s spending bills, is taking $10,000 from every man woman and child in America to fund pork spending projects – right now!
Where is your automatic tendency about this?
I have not and will not ever send money to the Republican party until it comes to realize, they can’t win by being pussies. I don’t fund pussies to continue to be that way. John McCain has more to say now as a loser, than he ever had to say while running for office. He’s a pussy in action, and practise. Only now is his rhetoric attempting to change that – but he is shown to be impotent and of no value whatsoever. It’s only rhetoric!
The founding fathers of our nation pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor, so we could be here now, having this discussion. Many of them lost it all in the process. The current regime seeks to take all of that away from those who have earned it, and give to those who have not.
I appreciate your offer to feed me, thanks.
What’s for lunch? :mrgreen:

Absolutely, there is a distinction between government and country – just as there is a distinct difference between religion, and the church.
One is the people, and what they believe and do. The other is what a “select” few do in their names, supposedly, on their behalves.
Jefferson had a knack for words, eh? :mrgreen:

I loved all of your comments below, specifically;
“…educated people could allow themselves to be brainwashed…”

i understand that this is a popular thing to say. it’s also one of the shallowest things to say.

i don’t see how that phrase could be discussed in school. does that mean or explain anything?
“the reason for all that is that people got brainwashed.”
ah! i see. clearly. uh huh.

oh, well.

Marina, you might want to take some lessons.

Requesting [yodel] again, also.

I think too many people abuse the[] thing. I hardly see a comment with out [word....] in it somewhere…. People just think “oh, that word is different. I will put brackets around it.”

Take comment 104 for example. Its a good request but still the [ ] are overused.

Some comments are just like

[hi] Marina, What has [happened] [to] the [scrollbar] ….

Hmm

Dick and the private dick…ric of HFW :grin:
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Backhanded is rude; palm forward is Churchill’s “V for Victory.”

Word Request :evil:
[Shyster]

Hey buddy: Erotic dance performance.Svetlana Orlova’s dance group.…hope you had celebrating time
with Saint David!*!(+)mary hopkin – those were the days-68..another Russian song..on Apple…nice :razz:

Are you sure that is right? I remember mijj saying something about Churchill doing it backwards. Yours seems right, though. The back of the hand seems to feel more rude, but maybe I am just thinking of the bird. {Somebody belatedly realizes that the smileys are gone and goes digging around his desktop for the longhand versions…} :???:

BTW, How do Brits say, “Peace, man?”

KLAUS: I think with all the “Capital” of the (+)Republic* of *Lexicon(+)…HotForWords became such a power-house….”leonard says: better than ~`rockn’ roll’`…are Queen MARINA’s leSSons” :cool:

…QUANITY==++==..

Quality!*****!

On one hand, this is the Dec. of Ind., not the Const.; therefore it is not binding. On the other hand, this is the first written statement of our government, thus it could be considered the cornerstone of our government. Is the Declaration of Independence a binding document, or was it simply a statement of seperation from England and the justification which was required?

I feel it is binding. It lays out our most fundamental of principles. I would like to hear your input.

[ Lasagna ]

high notes…like Church…the badger(mascot) of wisconsin is from the lead miners of your nation peoples…Is the party like a [Maenads]? of Bacchanalia?…party onwards :grin:

Hi Marina,

I am thinking about starting a [callipygian] society. It would be a club like the Red Hat Society.

I think you could be our first honoree:)

Dave

Free nuts..« Hello world!Nuts NON Utube Porn hotforwords Marina video…I thought interesting to share :oops: :lol: i love eating nuts and peach stones; in not shoe, the stone of path too

WHAT THE FUCK!!!!! http://youtube.com/fiveandahalfgirls

FIVE AND A HALF GUYS!!! WTF WTF WTF WTF

IS THIS SOME KIND OF JOKE…. IT AIN’T FUNNY!

Oh, I can just tell I am going to get someone right now saying “oh well james…. haha” :evil: :evil: :evil:

WHAT THE HELL THE C**T HAS EVEN STOLEN THE FONT I USE IN MY VIDEOS SINCE….. WELL ABOUT A YEAR!

So let me get this straight. You are pissed at fiveandahalfgirls for pirating your fiveandahalfguys which you pirated from fiveandahalfgirls, right?

Wow! Talk about comin’ back at ya quick.

I know this is not funny to you, but you must admit that it purely reeks of poetic turnabout. :twisted:

Out of all the people…. BSOMEBODY I NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE YOU!!! :shock: :shock: :shock: :mrgreen:

How can I be pissed with 5andahalfgirls for pirating fiveandahalfguys when 5aahgirls was before 5aahguys?

ANYWAYZ! I never pirated anyone! Apart from my dorset accent which is where the pirate accent came from….

Right, you see my latest videos… they are pretty much what would be on the 5aahalfguyschannel….. so if you can tell me how those videos…. all of me being me and not anyone else… are like 5aahgirls… which are misscupcake not being her… but being someone else… I shall give you a medal. :smile: especially if you can deciper this…

I do feel your pain, yet somehow I still see the humor in the whole thing. Consider it as flattery that misscc would parody you parodying her. I do understand that your channel is not a parody of hers, but you have to see that you did, uh… how do we say it, erm… hitched a creative ride from cc.

Better that it happened now, while you are still in the early stages. Perhaps this would be a good opportunity to do your own thing. I like your idea; a little mpd, a little ocd, a little total random… Think of a totally unique name that says what you are about. Make this thing yours, man. This may be the kick in the pants that gets things movin’ for ya. You have tons of creativity; forget about what cc is doing and go get yours!

If I remember correctly, Lady M encouraged you to pursue your own course, instead of having your idea so closely related to cc’s. Listen to her, man. She definately knows what she is saying. She would never steer you wrong.

Marina, quite rightly said, it is a good idea to stick where I am now… She likes my name… Also jamesingtonthethird is where all my subscribers are…. And as my mother, I am in no position to argue with her!

I am going to quit smoking in 2 months…. And also…. wow my video an HD just processed in about 5 mins….. WTF!!!

I cant believe I just uploaded unedited footage of me in the bath on youtube… Oh, SHIT!! But luckily only foxbow saw it …. I HOPE!

Marina If you want to drive up the coast and hand deliver my prize then that would be fine by me.
You would be treated to a nice seafood dinner at the best Oyster Bar on the central coast.
Ppl line up outside in the cold wind waiting for the doors to open at 6:00 pm. Even Tom Cruise had to wait once but I could get you in early.
A nice seat by the window overlooking the Pacific, sipping a glass of local Chardonnay, watching the whales go by, maybe so lucky as to catch a green flash at sunset.
Then the plate of fresh oyster arrives at the table set in a bed of red kale, lemon wedge, horseradish chili sauce mmmgood.
I just made myself hungry see ya. :smile: :mrgreen:

Wow…if nothing else, that dancing looks like a good aerobic workout. :shock:

Mary Hopkin has been a longtime favorite of mine — thanks, Leonard! :smile:

You know what it is, don’t you Evan Owen?

bsomebody, my point was that I’m objecting to the thesis that the whole German society was brought up with racism in general and anti-Semitism in particular from infancy. The Germany of 1933 was still the Germany of Goethe, Schiller and Lessing. Every pupil at a German Grammar school was obliged to read Lessing’s Nathan the Wise until 1933. Germany was the country that made Einstein a leading physicist at the Prussian Academy of Sciences. The Nazis startedburning books before they started burning humans.

Anti-Semitism and social Darwinism wasn’t just a German phenomenon. Anti-Semitism has existed since the medieval and even before all over Europe including Germany of course.

Hitler and his Nazi movement are unique and can’t be compared to anything in the present. Therefore, it is almost always inappropriate to make a comparison with Hitler or the Nazis. There are even expressions for the overuse of Hitler comparisons: Godwin’s law and Reductio ad Hitlerum.

The overuse of Hitler comparisons plays down the bestiality of Hitler, of the Nazi ideology and of the Nazi regime. Hitler was not just a fascist and the Nazi regime was not just a fascist dictatorship, they went far, far beyond that. That’s why I don’t like inappropriate Nazi comparisons. White farmers may have enslaved people of African origin, but making their slaves work wasn’t aimed at killing them like the forced labour in Nazi concentration camps was.

If this is how they do aerobics in Russia I need a plane ticket.

Marina?
Demonstration?

I think that we kind of half way agree. I think I understand what you are saying. I am saying that Germany did have an abundance of racist literature (scientific, literary, scholarly…) well before Hitler came into power. I have seen copies of this, myself. Granted, I have not seen any original documents, but I have seen enough, that I trust their existence. Most of my Nazi research was focused on their anti-Roma ‘solution.’ Anti-Roma literature has been all over Europe (as you say, since the Middle Ages.)

I am also saying that this racist ideology was NOT limited to Germany. I have a handful of US literature in my hands right now. I have also seen British, French, Polish, Japanese and Russian documents which say basically the same thing, just some of the names have been changed.

I agree that slavery is not synonomous with genocide. I am not saying it is any better or worse, but it is definately different. The atrocity of Nazi Germany was in how well they did their job. The Germans were so much further technologically advanced (that unique German helmet – only the Gremans had the technology to shape steel that way and keep its strength.) They literally made mass killings (and mass disposal) into a science.

Others who tried the “final solution” but with nowhere near the dramatic success: US v Native Americans, especially Cherokee and Choctaw on the Trail of Tears, which was a death march and NOT a ‘relocation;’ the Japanese v the Chinese during the Rape of Nanking; the British v Aboriginal Australians. Post WWII: Rwanda, Darfur, East Timor, Sierra Leone.

No one has been able to match Germany with their spectular success, except maybe Stalin (but he was an equal-opportunity discriminator; he killed anyone), but many, many others have matched Germany with their intent.

I feel it is dangerous to isolate the Holocaust as a unique event. Unique in its efficiency, yes; in its motives, absolutely not. If the Holocaust was just a freak in history, then we have nothing to learn from it. It was a horrible and despicable act of inhumanity, but the historical record has shown that the idea of racial superiority has been all too common, and the inhuman measures by which this superiority has been exercised is all too frequent.

How a nation develops it’s children determines the future of that nation.
parallels do not equal duplication but if it is to be the natural order instilled within us aways finds away…

It would be a hoot to hear her Yodel :smile:

I would like to know more about the word [hack].

There is a reference to its origin (in the Hacker Quiz) from the word “to-haccian” meaning to Hack at the ground. Now this is an obvious reference to a “Hacker” in golf, who is not a great player.

Not so obvious is its reference to an “Office Hack” who was a man Friday, or jack of all trades, who did everything, but was not particularly good at anything.

It seems that somewhere in time, there has been a shift from a Hack, who was just a “wannabee” to a Hacker, who is an expert – it has become its own antonym.

Also note that the noun “a Hack” can be a quick and dirty, or an unusually simple solution, to a complex problem. I would expect this to be a derivation from the computer Hacker, but is it possible that it pre-dated that usage for mechanical problems, such as using panty hose to replace a fan belt on a broken down car.

As in, the Western Cwm of Mount Everest.

“May you ever rest on this mountain.” — George Mallory’s epitaph :sad:

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I am aware of two types of on-line “chatting” widgets:

1) A consumer at an on-line store can have “private” one-on-one text-chats or actual voice-internet-conversations with a live customer-support/sales-person.

2) All who are logged in to a web-site can have text-chats in a common “chatterbox” widget (see right column of http://www.perlmonks.org ).

Which one or both were you experimenting with? Since you wrote “I can message people on the site” it looks like you were referring to the text-based version of (1).

–Hs4Mm

How come you’re not dead yet? Last summer you were convinced your doom was imminent.

some people ain’t dying as fast as other ones. or something like that.

a pool “cunt”? :shock:

you bet.

Do you honestly think if she was some 50 year old dude with hairs hanging out of her nose people would be interested in this bogus site? Get a life you hornbags. I suppose it is just a coincidence that in every picture her boobs are hanging out. Merely a statistical anomaly.

YO-E-YO-YO Hi Doug. Come on over let’s party i got the beer.EVERYTHING IS A OK :lol: :lol:

Oh; no, I didn’t mean to be critical. I was just ripping her for awesomely perpetrating nerdspeak on the unsuspecting masses.

In answer to your question: Yes. One of my favorite gray haired priests used etymology to dissect scripture. He would enthusiastically build his sermons around one word. The new understandings of the words provided improved meaning of the scriptures. I have been tempted to send him this link and suggest he do online sermons, but I fear he may have conservative views shunning the female figure and casting me into Hell for being a “hornbag”. Don’t put your faith in statistics, they’re often incorrect, as the statisticians fail to ask the correct questions.

The only meme I remember is the “Nice Boat” meme from Japan. From the almost-cancelled episode 12 of School Days. They put a pic of a boat and some guy said “Nice boat”! There!

i like that song lol

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thanks you very much…………….
Poptropica

that’s a very huge egg.
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