Hiccup

Sounds too much like magic.

It’s a shame no one really knows what causes hiccups for sure, isn’t it?

Don’t like the fact you might have the hiccup, but like to watch you bounce!!! :lol: :idea: :smile:

WOW+++…be careful with that knife…cure is to pray..lol

Link to YouTube is missing.

Yo Mama!

Homework: When I was a kid, our chauffeur, Albert, had me do this and it cured my hiccups — drink water but do not swallow; tilt your head back and open mouth (so now you mouth is like a small container with water in it); wait this way until you hiccup again (water may spill out when the hiccup happens); swallow the water after the hiccup; that’s it; the hiccups will stop. The method did work when Albert had me do it; but it has never worked since!

Ride a horse back-words :razz: sdorw-kcab esroh a edir.

Sadly no cure for hicups. Although I try holding my breath as long as I can while pressing up slightly just under the rib cage.

Most hiccups are caused by a kink in the diaphragm and the hiccup is a spasm of the diaphragm trying to correct itself.

I tried your cure but kept getting a dull pain in my eye :shock:

Tell the hiccupper they still owe you 100 dollars you lent them six months ago, they usually get so upset that they lose the hiccup. Seriously, hiccups can kill people, and did kill a Pope once.

Does the knife/fork have to be stainless steel or will a silver knife work also?

[Trampoline] :mrgreen:

HOMEWORK: Drink an entire mug of beer by taking small sips with no stopping from start to finish.

That was a good one Marina YOU are right that dose work. I have one that works to. PUT a drinking straw between your teeth and drink the water it works :lol: :lol:

Remedy for hiccup?

But of course!!! Close your eyes.. Ready?

1…
2…..
3…….

OK. Open your eyes now!

BOOOOH!!!

:smile:

Really enjoyed that, Marina! And perfect background you created. So good to see you and Gorby. Thanks – been missing you!

Always.

Homework: Gee, I don’t know :mrgreen:
I have not had any hiccups in at least twenty years!
Last time I remember having ‘em was after drinking
11 Heinekens and a doubleshot of Wild Turkey, over
a period of four hours…
The Wild Turkey was supposed to cure the hiccups…!

OMG! I just tried your remedy and it worked — I am not hiccuping now! (Maybe because I was not hiccuping to begin with? Huh?)

I’ll have to try that one next time I get the hiccups.
Thanks :smile:

What’s the origin of the term “Make-out”? I don’t see how those words relate to kissing someone for some amount of time.

I believe that my method is simpler: Check it on http://arturmartins.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/how-to-cure-hiccups/

Hello Marina,
Great show, thank you.

How about the word [ Turkey]?

So now with the “Green Screen” up and running do you plan on making any exotic trips?
How about some pics of your hometown, hang out with celebrities?
There are so many royalty free pictures on the web that you could use for our enjoyment.
I’d love to see your imagination run wild.

Did you actually want to release this lesson on Sunday evening, or did you get impatient about waiting for Monday morning?

Mondo Kewl :cool:

That method works better.

Close your EYES,:-)…make sure both knife & fork made of silver is used

…I would used a wooden stick :cry: I only had them once… :idea: eat yeast…[YEAST] :razz:

Tools is the name of the artist.

I will try that cure if I ever get the hiccups again. When I used to get them I learned about the “hold your breath till you almost die” cure (same as smokey36bear). If you are struggling to not pass out from lack of oxygen you quickly forget to hiccup. :mrgreen:

I want to know the origin of [buxom]
:roll:

4 hours you had the hiccups?…So if you drink dutch beer, you have to drink bourbon? :lol:

We can agree Time=Money? Ok…
My billable rate of $220 per hour minimum one hour. I spent 48 minutes to follow your methods and it failed. I would like to collect on your offer. Where do is send my invoice to?

Hehehhe Just kidding.. or am I? :shock:

:mrgreen:

alligator—Marina does this word, buxom is hot :wink:

She actually has a disclaimer in the video saying that she is not responsible for any lost money! Disclaimer is at about 0:19+ seconds — not easy, but possible to pause with the disclaimer visible enough to read.

Dear Marina,
It’s good to see a new video tonight. I thought you would take the whole weekend off, this first weekend of Springtime! :grin: (In the Spring, we think of love in bloom!)
My cure for hiccups had been to drink a glass of water. The cure you described fascinates me. Perhaps stirring the ice cubes generates some negative ions, and as you drink the ice water, these ions help your nerves to stop that nervous twitch that causes hiccups. Thank you, I think you gave us a great cure, and I’m happy you showed it to us in your video! :razz:
Seesixcm6

Many moons ago I was working with a guy who had really bad case of the hiccups. I told him that the last job he sanded looked like garbage and the boss wasn’t happy about it. I also told him that the boss was on his way to the job we were at to grill him about it and that he(the boss)also thinks you’re stealing materials from him. :shock: After about five minutes I ask him if he still had the hiccups, he replied no. :smile: Then I told him I made the whole thing up and I was joking. After getting over wanting to beat me with a 3′ peice of soild red mahogany flooring :mad: he was the happiest guy on the job for the rest of the day :cool: …and with no hiccups. :mrgreen:

My method to rid someone of the hiccups seems to be a bit more traumatic. :neutral:

Was that supposed to be a joke?…

hold your nose and close your eyes…then just let the “hiccup happen”

:razz: hs4mm says: “…has never worked since!” :smile: Marvin Gaye (Hitch Hike) :grin: peace

Wild Turkey cures more than hiccups also a good [anesthetic]. :mrgreen: :smile: :smile: :mrgreen: :lol:

Hey CJ! Good to see ya. :smile:
You keepin’ the swabs in line? :grin: Ha!

Marina did you have a good weekend? :cool:

Not a joke.

This works…[Kettlebell] Get someone using the kettlebell and stand in their way. Marvin Gaye Lets Get It On…sing along spirit

Du!

Marina excellent job keep going! I would like to know the etymology of the expression [ green horn ]

Thank you

NO Bull Sh*t… :wink:

Hi PD! Missed you much. I’m about heading out the door right now. Catch you on the flip side. :mrgreen:

nerd words just don’t grab me.

Hey I wanted to ask about the origin of the word [Target] and whether it has anything to do with a [Targe]

Oh yeah I love to bet at times Marina what are you willing to gamble? That you method will still work without the spoon in the class while drinking?

They’re there to poke fun at.

Not to be taken seriously :smile:

Hi Marina,

Does Gorby ever get hiccups?

My neighbor told me if you take a large flower vase, put ice in it and cold water… and stick the bottom end of an electric weed eater in it… this will work too… the only side effect is that others will really start to laugh and wonder if you’ve “lost yer marbles”. :shock: :lol:

Hell with the HICCUPS lets have ONE MORE :lol:

Miss M, u make me smarter, and for that reason, i thank you!

Hey Marina Is it true that if you wore the same color shirt. That your green screen is all we could see would be your head :?:

Cure for hiccups:

My 8th grade English teacher taught me this one so maybe English teachers know about hiccups.

Step One: Plug both ears
Step Two: Steadily drink water for as long as possible.

I’ve never had this method fail me, the only difficult thing is drinking while you’re plugging your ears. A drinking fountain or straw can be helpful. If you’re really desperate take a mouthful of water and then plug your ears while swallowing slowly.

Here is the solution…Underdog Music Video…for Gorby the co-host

PS: Preceding implicitly assumes that impatience would be the only reason for posting earlier than intended; but there could be other reasons for posting earlier than intended (if indeed this lesson was posted earlier than intended).

Foster Brooks and Dean Martin in a hilarious skit from way back in the day. :oops: :roll:

Noticed a new feature on the HotForWords site :arrow: Twitter
(wondering how that is that going to function here)

“Meh”…’Nah’…”hic—up”…berp :cool: shish

The cure I’m about to disclose has been 100% successful in the 2 decades I’ve been doing it. I’ve never seen anyone maintain the hiccups after SUCCESSFULLY doing this.

Take a glass of water and fill your mouth about half full (not too full, or you’ll make a mess with the next step.)

Tilt your head back and open your mouth. With you mouth open, swallow the water a bit at a time. It can be difficult to do the first couple of times you try it, and you might splash water around (people may laugh) but it WILL WORK.

Marina, I will try your knife trick, but I admit, I’m skeptical. You haven’t steered me wrong yet.

I would like to request the word [paddywagon]

Is it suffering to have the hiccups?…Underdog Opening…Are they detoxable?.

Wow! That maybe what our chauffeur, Albert had me do, and I might have mis-remembered it! Albert was from Ceylon. Did you learn the technique from a source that ultimately points to Ceylon?

It seemed so long since we had an actual lesson, I was starting to think you might be sick. I’m glad I was wrong.

Is that a new dress or just one you haven’t worn in some time? Very eye-catching either way.

Hiccup “remedies” never seemed to work for me. They just went away in time. I just hoped not to get them too often in public.

Until next time, good night, Marina. Sweet dreams.

I think I’ve heard a spoon full of mustard as one possible (old-fashioned) cure.

You got it right Marina. Get yourself a “Hic-Cup” and you’ll never suffer from a case of hiccups again! :arrow:

http://www.hic-cups.com/

I’m pretty pissed-off at YouTube for suspending some of my favorite foot fetish channels. Do they have something against feet or something?! I don’t consider it to be pornographic, if there is no nudity or fucking involved. :mad:
Weekly I have to remove the unvailable videos from my favorites on my second channel, that there seems no point in keeping them. Fortunately I have a list of maybe 20 foot sites on my profile, in an event that something like this would happen. :mrgreen:

Man, what is this world coming to if YouTube can’t show 3 hot lesbians sucking and licking each other’s feet? :lol:

:neutral: I hear ya

brb. gotta check on my balloon popping fetish videos.

How can a skantily clad woman bouncing up and down on a big balloon to pop be considered pornographic? Guess I will find me some hotties in ski clothes videos then.

Combine this vid with the new “wobble” app on the iPhone & nobody’d pay attention to the lesson.

YT has been favoring Make-up videos, start flagging them saying it makes you have impure thoughts. :idea: :grin:

This is what would happen. http://twitpic.com/2dgir

The way people used to cure Hiccups when I was a kid was to inflate a paper bag and seal the opening, and then creep up behind the afflicted and crush the bag between both hands, making a loud bang.
The shock and jumping out of their skin was supposed to do the trick.
These days you’d probably get sued for cruelty and causing mental distress. What a bunch of wimps! :roll:

Something is going wrong with me! I didn’t notice any wobbling – MUST go back and check it out. :twisted:

Today’s quote:-

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” – Samuel Johnson 1709-1784

By coincidence I also received the following quote today:-

“There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he’s absolutely free to choose.”

William M. Bulger
American Educator, Senator

In LA relationships are built on ‘What can you do for me’
If someone can’t sell you something or you don’t buy something or you can’t be used for something then you are useless.

Yes this sounds somewhat misanthropic but it is somewhat true.

[paddywagon], slang for a police vehicle for transporting criminals and arrested “suspects,” acquired its name from the fact that many Irish immigrants to “Americay” became police officers. “Paddy” (nickname for “Patrick”) is also slang for “Irishman.” :cool:

At least that’s my best guess without looking it up. :wink:

[shillelagh]
[blarney]
[mick]
umm…oh, yeah, [limerick] :grin:

Marina, I hope you’ve caught on that skipping St. Patrick’s Day was like saying nothing about Valentine’s Day or Halloween (almost). :sad: Besides, you’d look GREAT in an emerald green dress! :grin:

HW: [tomato] juice

Homework :cool:
:lol: Lesson :!: I [burp] when I get the hiccups. I don’t know if burping actually cures them, but they do seem to go away fast! :smile:

Humm, Why did your Hiccup sound like a Gorby bark?

HW: Drink water and wait a little bit and take deep breaths.

Wow, that’s cool greatestpotential! Of course they don’t tell you that a knife in water will do the same :-)

No, that is the remedy for when your dog is sprayed by a skunk. :grin:

Mondo Kewl :shock:

{Had to change my smiley face, WP said I was making duplicate comment by repetitive use of my new catch phrase.}

:cool:

Similar to displayed, yet funnier to display:

Try drinking the water, SANS silverware, from the OTHER side of the rim…

That is, “backwards”

Seems to some like the effort and the tilting will cause the hiccups to recede.

Keep ‘em coming!

Franz.

Thinking of hiccups, thinking of [persistence], perhaps?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz7FFlFy8eM :shock:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20339.html

[punch-drunk]

I understand, thanks to Dictionary.com, it’s an Americanism?

Given the political nature of the above, I think of this version of the song Dear Prudence (here is the Beatles’ original), which reminds me of maybe my favorite of their’s, Girl, which, of course, is like you, Teach — and, hey, there’s even a Russianesque (as I think of it, for some reason) interlude at 1:30 therein, then again at 2:00, for the remainder.

Oh, and all this leads to a second request in the same comment/homework submission:

[jurisprudence]

American way…babies sitting with the caste of English…bold…ed and gigi :razz:

:lol:air is not freedom

[Singultus] :???:

The latest ‘cure for hiccups’ I heard (from a very-studied friend of mine) was “drink the cup of water from the opposite edge of the rim—sort of upside-down, [as-it-were] (sp?)

I don’t want to “comment” on this video on YouTube (where all the kids too young/[shame]-[stricken] for MojoFlix’s NSFW-section are probably stuffing the comments-section with ‘oooh, booby-bounce! [giggle]‘-exclamations); but Our Lady hath requested it of Us, nothing we can do but heed and [obey]! :wink: :shock: :wink:

:twisted: what a crime :evil: …GOATS UNITE…Eagles of Death Metal “Wanna Be In LA” – standard versions

SuPrized

[taxes ]

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Today’s quote is really weird. In my view, the true measure of a man is how he uses his mind in the pursuit of his own happiness. Regarding treating others, the measure is whether he treats them as a trader would: not initiating force (or fraud) against them, nether wanting to rule them or wanting to be ruled by them, and either ignoring them (letting them live their lives) or, in interacting with them, exchanging values with them.

–Hs4Mm

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:roll: :evil: :roll: Listen,…Keith Richards Happy live…
:neutral: H>E>L>P :oops:

Hello Marina! :)

I would like to request the word [Miscellaneous]

Thank you for making these entertaining videos :wink:

Get real…old is new…cocaine’s for horses, its not for men
they say it’ll kill you but they don’t say when
cocain all around my brain…K.Richards…smellA

I would like to request the word [toxic] :grin:

“The true measure of a man is how he behaves with a beautiful woman, a small boy, and a flat tire.” :grin:

I forgot who said that…anyone know? :?:

Awesome music Leonard! LA definitely seems like the place to be! :grin:

where does the word trample come from and can trample on something to deminstrate this word please (barefooted if you would please)

Dear Marina, I would like to know the origins of the names given to the days of the week as in Sunday Monday etc. well, Sunday monday and Saturday are kind of obvious (if I’m not mistaken)- sun, moon, saturn- the plants… But how about Wednesday, for example ? I heard it has a connection to the Norse mythology. Does it ? I’m confused… Could you please enlighten me ? I’d be gratefull !

[Tuesday,Wednesday, Friday]

:arrow: Dear teacher :smile:
Great video as usual :cool:
H/W :neutral: this really works :idea: every time
place a washcloth ( towel or such) over the mouth
of the glass of water & then drink (sucking) water through
the cloth :cool: an away go the hiccups :shock: Guaranteed :!:
Glad to help :grin: let me know how it works on you, I may have to
come all the way out west to help you with this problem :oops:
lmaorotf B.B. :mrgreen: :twisted: :lol:

[trample]

Hello Marina, I would like to know the origins of the phrase [on the fritz] as in my dishwasher is on the fritz

XOXO

The translation for New Age Hippie in Spanish is Hippie modeno {modern hippie}

Sounds like the beginning of a [shaggy dog story] – I wonder what the punch-line is. :???:

We want to see more hiccups!!! :mrgreen:

So just how is the knife handle thing supposed to do the trick? Does it cause air to be swallowed while drinking or what?

Why is the quote weird? It recognizes that everyone (or most everyone) is nice to other people when they want something from those people, but true ladies and gentlemen will treat “a nobody” nicely simply because it is the nice thing to do.

Maybe we are just wishfully-thinking wobbling. I know I was!

Everything is green there. If what dp (and I also did a few days ago) suggests, the flesh would not be affected. She would float in midair. Mmmmmm.

Did anyone get the Beavis grunt laugh at 0:40? Marina, you are way tooo funny. :lol: You just crack me up all of the time. Great lesson, so I’m going over to YT and rate five stars.

Now I wonder what it was about this lesson that made you think of a trampoline? :mrgreen:

I second the idea!

re: “We want to see more hiccups!!!”
As opposed to hearing more hiccups,
because seeing is believing. :lol:

A kink in the diaphragm? That doesn’t sound right.

I head that, but didn’t comment on it because it was too much trouble to figure out the spelling of the name.

This nerdy word: [tivoization]

Marina tweeted jokingly that the mechanism might involve negative ions. Then, greatestpotential found a site that actually made a product out of this idea and are selling it with some mumbo-jumbo about electrolysis!

Marina, you think the people who came up with that product were visiting your neighbors and overhead you recording this lesson and stole your idea that way? Or maybe the cleaning lady, notwithstanding your thanking her in your Oscar acceptance speech, photographed pages from you notebook that had to do with this lesson?

–Hs4Mm

Hi Marina… WORD REQUEST: [ Verboten ] :wink:

PS: In 69.1, I wrote why I didn’t comment on the beavis-giggle, but not what my comment would have been. That sound does not sound like a hiccup. When I first heard it, I thought it did not belong in this video.

But I now see that if one pays attention to the lesson — one sees and hears what is going on when the bevis-giggle happens, and if one has seen at least one b & b show, then one can see why she put that bevis-giggle in there.

Marina, what do you use to do your bluescreening? I need to do a vid soon with a bluescreen but I can’t seem to think of any software thats easy to use and effective.

To get rid of the hiccups, all you have to do is drink a tall glass of water slowly. The ice and the knife (or fork) help you to sip it slowly instead of gulp it quickly.

The quote purports to provide advice on the essential thing to judge a person on (“the true measure”). When I judge a person, my primary concern is not with what he does or does not do for others — my concern is with how he pursues his work and whether the key to his own happiness is in his pursuit of his work. Everything else — including what he does or does not do for me or for anyone else — is secondary.

A person who uses his mind fully in the pursuit of his work is good.

People who do not have a productive purpose are likely to spend their time claiming to do good for others while, in fact, making life miserable for everybody — a person with no productive purpose has nothing of his own and is incapable of living his own life; all he can do to “help” others is to steal from those who do produce and give to those who don’t; and decent people wouldn’t want such “help” anyway. That quote can be interpreted to mean that these do-gooders are good people — but such do-gooders are in fact bad people.

–Hs4Mm

I think my time here is now over, but its all my fault for getting these new timewasting things

http://twitpic.com/2dwcv

:smile:

:lol:

Word Request: Patsy. (A peson who is taken advantage of, or controlled by, someone else, usually to their own detrement.) According to Hanibal Lechtor, in the 2001 movie Hannibal, this word is derived from the Italian family name Pazzi. The Pazzis were embroiled in the 15th Century in a conspiracy hatched by the Medici’s enemies the Sforzas, to eliminate the Medici. The plot failed, much to the detriment of the Pazzis, (Or patsies), involved. (Knowing that everything stated in a Hollywood movie must be true, :roll: , can you confirm or deny this story? Where did the word patsy originate?) Major thanks teach!

Eric M

Potential Nerd words of the day? (Pointexter) A nerdy text messenger. or how about (textual harrassment) Harrassing text messages, possibly even sexual in nature.

I would like to request the word [Twat]

the ice and the knife has no effect,when we as kids had-Å¡tikavka or Å¡tikutka- mom just gave us a glass of water ,when there was no water we where told to hold the breath for 5 minutes and it was gone coz all it is about is to hold your breath even the drinking of water is the same effect …

Mr Evan Truba na pečenie might like this one
since there are many sexual words i got one too – kurva :lol:
and we can ask why all Slavs use the word kurva only Russians have a different name for it /we use that word too but more often we use kurva/

btw who knows the Russian word for kurva? :lol:

LOL Marina :!: When you mentioned knife in water I immediately thought about that Polanski arthouse film:

but still im here for the word [Slav] :lol:

and I would like to request the word [cunt]

knife or what ever its all about the water making you hold your breath

have to see the Patricks day then :lol:

All those in favor of the request of [dork], say aye.

I should try this. lol. hey I got a word request about the word “foe” I don’t know what it means. I would like you to make a video about it please. thnx

wowiezowie1999 AKA Trace

[patsy]

[foe]

aye :roll:

{Oswald}

:lol: Aye. Marina did the word origin of “dork” in a video interview months back. I will see if I can find that and post it here.

This ain’t the vid but since the word “dick” and “dork” are similar in origin you’re sure to find some “dork” here too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwxhSvmDpvg

{grassy knoll}

Does Gorby have a new sibling, or is this just a visiting friend?

I would like to request the word [belly]. How did that word come to mean stomach or the stomach area and what does it actually mean?

Muchas grassy ass :grin:

I rarely get them, and when I do I can, just sort of, relax them away, but I am interested in where you learned this method, as I have never heard of it. I will definitely try it on the next hiccuper I come across.

“Mr Evan Truba na pečenie”? Ummm…oh, NO! Just got it! :lol: Bob, take note, we have a Slovak punster in our midst :!:

Let’s see, [kurva] is…whore?! :shock:

Actually, the word does have an interesting etymology. [Whore] and apparently kurva both derive from the Proto-IndoEuropean root car- meaning “love.” Originally the term was not derogatory / bad. The same root word gave us such English words as “care” and “charity,” Latin caritas, French cher, Spanish querida, Welsh caru and cariad, all meaning “love” or “beloved.” So maybe if you call someone a whore, you’re actually calling her “beloved.” :grin:

I suppose being a curvy kurva would attract more men. :mrgreen:

I’m finding блудница as the Russian translation for kurva…Marina, is that correct? :smile:

you put a cloth over a glass of water and drink through the cloth. it has worked for me 100% of the time

oh someone else got it to. Ive used this method for 45 years and it works every time

wow
you surprised me a lot…and it fits in what Lady Marina said in that bitch video ,interesting , never think of it this way…
but actually the truth is we still use it as love meaning …or how to say it hmmm… my girl likes when i call her kurva in some special situations ….
that brings me to a question,could this be caused by christianity entering our lands??? since i know that for example originally KOKOT and PIÄŒKA was used for m/f genitals but after entering of church it is a dirty word….even that we use it like 5000 times per day

блудница- well lady Marina will know better the meaning of this word…but Bludica sounds like ours Bludička -wich where ladys on special nights and if you get to woods in the night they used to have lights and where too nice to handle and if you folowed them you get lost and nobody ever would see you again

i give you one more try to find the word /coz i bet teacher wont help you with this/
my help is it starts witch s or russian C

Hi rene,

Looks like we ran out of room for replies yesterday, so I’ll repeat my answer:

“ÄŽakujem=Slovak, Dzenki=Czech?, Hvala=Serbo-Croat?, Spasibo=Russian.
Do you know this one: Благодаря :?: :smile: “

not to get me wrong
Bludičky they are not from this world they are from -Tír na Nog /i think you should know this since its Keltic word/

Oh yeah, I almost forgot
HW: The best method for me is to drink a glass of water from the opposite lip. I remember when I was in high school, my father had the hiccups for three consecutive weeks. It actually got pretty serious, by that point. He tried everything (but I do not remember this one.) The Dr. had to give him some pretty serious knock-out drugs, just so the poor guy could sleep. Dad was also experiencing some fairly serious pain in his ribs. They finally went away.

What a shame that Lady M could not have shared this info back in ’87. WTF, Marina? :mad: You could have save Pops some serious pain. :roll:

James, surely you don’t mean you’re leaving the HFW fan club, do you? :shock:

Good idea, PK. Maybe someone can copy all the hiccups and paste them together in, like a three minute loop, normal speed, faster, and of course slow mo. :lol:

OK kiddies, click here if you’re breast-obsessed, run along and play and leave this page to us serious philologists. :lol:

of course i know Blagodaria /im often in Kyjev and Krim to train russian martial art in US known as systema/ im speaking Russian,Srbian and Polish sometimes it makes me uf a big mess-gulaš /this weekend i had here in Prague friends from Ukraine and Russia +i have here my friends from Srbia and Makedonia + i work as a reception manager so you can imagine my brain is going crazy..but back to the words/
you can devide Slavia in 3
east west and south /jugoslavia-jug/juh-south =south of Slavia/
east-spasibo /RU,UKR,BR/
west-ďakujem,děkuju-diki,dzenkuje-dzenki /SK,CZ,PL/
south-hvala /SR,SL,HR,Mac,BG,Monte Negro/

but hvala is also used in all /?/slavic lang.
/h=ch-english dont have this letter or spelling /chvala tebe,chvalim ta,pochval sa,pochvala

now i see i didnt respond the yesterday stuff coz no email came to tell me there is some message for me

***LossForWords presents another Fractured Philology lesson: “Smart Aleck”***

Since presenting my first lesson on the Russian origins of the term “Smart Aleck,” I have come across a competing account of its origins, also tracing it to Russia.

One Count Aleksandr at the court of the Czar was infamous for his sarcastic wit, barbed remarks, and bad puns. This infuriated his fellow nobles, as respect is highly valued in Russia. Finally the Czar had him executed. “Don’t be a smert-Alek” became a dark warning at court to those making rude jokes, passing into general use among the Russian people.

Americans, hearing the phrase from Russian immigrants, adopted it into English as “smart Aleck,” thinking it meant someone who made wisecracks – unaware that “smert” means “dead”! :shock:

There you go – another mystery compounded by your dubious LossForWords. :mrgreen:

For your homework, was Weizsäcker a smart Aleck – or just a wiseacre?

Evan Owen says:
30.1.1.1.2
March 22, 2009 at 4:11 am

OK, I found “klobúk dolu” meaning “hat down” as you hinted! (In English we say “hats off” to someone.) (I got “no such word” for “smekam” :sad: but they probably don’t include all the forms of verbs.)

Gan fod ni y Cymru Cymraeg yn tyfu yn ddwyieithog, mae’n hawddach ini dysgu ieithoedd eraill / since we Welsh grow up bilingual, it is easier for us to learn other languages. :smile:
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smekam -means the same as -hats off- only it express the move of the arm that is called -smekat-to put down

man i have at home maybe like 200 phrases in gaelic and i would love to lern it ,but here is nobody i could practice with …so mostly what stays in my mind are phrases from old Irish songs…i love this music,i have at home maybe around 100 books of history of kelts even irish mythology -the book is biger then bible

since you are a Keltoi do you know what sentence is known world wide from Kelts? /they say it in Asterix film -few times/
this phrase set Kelt warriors when they where standing infront of Russian Car

again its about holding your breath :mrgreen:

Tír na nÓg “Land of Eternal Youth” (tír being related to the Latin terra, “land”) was a blessed island somewhere to the west of Ireland, according to Irish mythology. Interesting that there is a seamount in that general area, which was above sea level during the last Ice Age.

Or holding your oar…sculling…mind :idea: praise ** and ** inspiration **…run a mile with out shoes or with leaded boots…….WHOA: said Cathy, and decided

I enjoyed this Evan… very interesting. :smile:

We have “ch” in Welsh, pronounced the same as the Russian “X” in Хрущёв.

BTW, the Slavs all say “Чрна Гора” instead of Monte Negro, right?

BTW again, thanks for telling me about your martial art form. (I’m studying taekwondo.)

Go ahead and tell me — I can’t think of it quickly and need to get back to work. I’ll check back later. :smile:

I trust you didn’t take it seriously. :smile:

We have “ch” in Welsh, pronounced the same as the Russian “X” in Хрущёв.

BTW, the Slavs all say “Чрна Гора” instead of Monte Negro, right?

Oh yeah, tell me again the name of your martial art form. (I’m studying taekwondo.)
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i tell all the time you are close to us …you even have áéí wich others dont have….

well for those who dont understand our languages no ,for those who understand yes we say Crna Gora
in Slovakia it is Čierna Hora in Czech Černá Hora
it is the same only czechs ans slovaks where other slavs say g we say h

our martial art is called -rusky rukapašny boj
you will find it on youtube under name systema

i train this one -Systema Kadochnikov
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-1UIpAAq2I
or here

John Cale live @ Casa Das Artes De Famalicão “Paris 1919″

I once saw a Prussian and a Russian have a “hiccup” flite…know lie

ok i reply since i already prepared my bed in work :lol: its good to have a job where you can sleep :mrgreen:

Car asked :do you fear nothing?
keltoi: no we dont fear anything ,only that the sky will fall on our heads

Lady Marina ,lubite autora Достоевский?
znaete knigu Братья Карамазовы???

I found it imaginative and entertaining. :mrgreen:

If the hold your breath for a long time, the resulting drop in oxygen in your blood will also help stop hiccups. Just be careful not to pass out, though.

I have been told that a hiccup is a mild form of seizure between the two halves of your brain. Anything which calms your brain down tends to help. Notice a lot of the remedies involves feats of holding you breath which includes trying to contort yourself to try to drink a liquid in an awkward manner.. all of which just tends to decrease the oxygen in your blood.. then there’s the scare tactic which shoots adrenaline into your bloosdtream also affecting O2 saturation (at least initially before you start screaming at whoever just scared the S–T out of you). The method of “slowing things down” which was shown to me has also worked 100% of the time for me (although it sometimes requires 2 or more applications). Here it is… I sit down (at least and sometimes lean forward to bring my head closer to the level of my heart) and then I take my forefinger and thumb and slowly apply pressure to my jugular veins just on either side of my throat. (it really looks like you’re giving the “international sign” for “I’m choking” so be prepared for questions). It’s important to know 1) you are not trying to STOP the blood flow.. and 2) you are also not putting any pressure on your throat… so you can still breathe and talk. If you apply the pressure correctly, your head will feel like it’s swelling up like a balloon with pressure. Keep that feeling going for about 30 seconds at a time. Release and keep still for a bit. If they come back… reapply the procedure.

Next…
:arrow: I’d like to find out where the term [jaywalk] came from. Not so sure what’s so bad about the letter “J”.

Hello Marina,

I would like to request the English word [sake] and perhaps also the phrase [for the sake of], infact the etymology and usage of the word [sake]. I was having a discussion with a native Spanish speaker and we couldn’t find a Spanish equivalent.

Cheers!
Mike
Homework: to me it really is just about holding your breath. More interestingly: my aunt explained to me once how she cures my infant cousin’s hiccups; she’d take a piece of string, saturate it with saliva, and mound it on the center of my cousin’s forehead.

How do other people traditionally cure babies of hiccups?

I miss the old video intros, where you get the little images of Marina and ‘intelligence is sexy’ and that great music. I’m always getting nostalgic.

Actually a hiccup is when your diaphragm (that sheet of muscle that causes your lungs to expand) spasms and jerks. It’s just a muscle spasm and holding your breath stretches the muscle.

Here’s a story of a woman dumping a man who wanted her to quit her work. I know nothing about her (except for Marina’s tweet which implied that she rarely wears pants). But this act of her’s makes her a good person in my judgment.

If she throws a glass of water at a waiter because the water was not cold enough, that’s not good, but it does not deter significantly from the value she earned by choosing her work over that guy.

On the other hand, no matter how well she treated all people (so that according to that quote she would be the highest sort of person) — had she given up her work to become a piece of meat at that guy’s house — then, in my estimation, she would be a totally worthless person.

As an aside, I do not have any idea of the kind of person that guy is who wanted her to quit her work — his nature is too alien to me. Joe Dimmagio is another such freak — he wanted Marilyn Monroe to stop being herself after he married her! She properly divorced him.

–Hs4Mm

It’s best to approach the hiccup malady in an impirical manner.
Arrive at a conclusion after careful observation. For example,
in the film, “Tremors”, the characters Burt and Heather did not have the hiccups, and they liked to fire off their weapons indoors,
in their “rec room”. So, if you have the hiccups, load up your elephant gun and fire off a few rounds indoors and your hiccups will go away.

It’s snake oil Marina. Your not seeing the clues the clearly make this a gimic. Im surprised a ‘myth buster’ like you can’t see this. :shock: I know your smarter than this. :wink:

Huh?

ditto

I don’t have a cure. I just let them go until they go away.
I think I’ve said this countless times before, but I love when you speed the video up. :lol: Also, Gorby. :smile:

simmer down captain! :lol: This isn’t no urban legend… Epiphany for Marina whats the origins of Urban Legends???? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! :mrgreen:

Some of those “old wives’ tales” stuck around for as long as the did for a reason. Some of them actually work: chicken soup for a cold, smoke a little of this for your headache, mud plasters for mending bones. Then again, some were just scary.

The point is, we cannot automatically dismiss something, just because we have not yet scientifically proven how or why it works.

I liked the intros too.. but due to the direction YouTube is going.. all partners were informed to lose their intros. Something to do with user attention spans on the videos… people bailing when they see an intro that is longer than 5 seconds.

You’re going to play ps3! Just remember – not too many filmmakers got their start playing playstation. In fact, I don’t think anybody successful at anything got their start playing playstation! :-)

Final Cut Pro. I do everything in FCP.

An old cure for hiccups one time included swallowing a spoonful of peanut butter while standing on one’s head.

I also have another home cure for you. If you ever get laryngitis and have difficulty talking because you have phlegm around the vocal cords, you can use an old cure I got from my wife. If you have a honeybear half full, fill up the rest with apple cider vinegar. Shake it well to mix it up. You then take a teaspoon of this mixture and dilute it in a mugful of hot water. I guarantee you that it will remove even the toughest crud from your throat. I even shared this with Dr. Cornish, an orthopedist. I never heard what he thought of it. But it works.

T’what do you ascribe your interest in this word?

Aye Aye, Sir.

Comedy sketch from Reckless Tortuga – Russian Mail-Order Bride

Ice, knife, glass, water?
I’d rather get stuck with the hiccups for two more minutes. :-)
I just breathe really slow, and they go away in about 1 min.
It usually works, but you just need to relax.

Think about it Marina. What is a hiccup? What’s happening when we hiccup? What is the connection of the Vagus nerve and hiccups? Why do some animals hiccup and others don’t? What is the connection to animals and humans hiccuping?

As for the ads claims I could write a volume of book on the subject. I don’t want to cover that subject here. I might get shot for posting my knowledge online.

Episode one of Russian M-OB Intro

 
Marina stated above:
“If the page loading times are too long.. let me know…”

Marina, I have two complaints:
1. Your web site is the greatest and best in the world Universe!!!
2. Your site is way too fast for me. I can’t read that fast. :lol:

I just also checked this page and others on my iPhone and it loads perfectly fine and quickly.

Soooo, since I have extra spare time since your site is way too fast, I think I’ll go over to the Wired Sexy Geek page and vote for Marina again, as I do every day on my iPhone and at home.

Please help me vote for Marina as Sexiest Geek ever by clicking here, or on my name. Thanks everyone.

Okay. I have a request for you. The word(s)- “Absurdist/Absurdism. Both of these words do not seem to be actual words, yet their is a whole field of Philosophy about them. I was curious, maybe you could explain the meaning behind these two words.

 
Tripple ditto to what runawayscott and bsomebody said.

I also love the classic outros (you known, opposite of intros).
There is a ton of of them, and this is one of my favorites.
Not only is this a great lesson. Do you guys know what an aptronym is? I learned that from that lesson. And, it’s got the Beavis grunt in there. Check out the Hot Hot ending. Guys, don’t miss the video. Awesome video Marina.
Hooker Answer

Yes there are many old wives’ tales out there. Some have merit many don’t. But there is a secret to all of them that many people don’t know about. The mind…. One example, I’ve helped friend get cured from PTSD. No meds…

Your right we can’t dismiss it, but we can’t say is a cure either. People are using entanglement for secure communications. It might take us years to figure out how it works but in the mean time it works well.

Why did you try it then? :?: :sad:

 
I see something new on the pages. :smile:
Very nice addition Marina. :grin:
See if anyone else notices. Let’s see if I can do that Beavis grunt.

The older/newer option on the Recent Comments?

Or do you mean the Feedburner, Music Player, RSS… on the bottom of the page.

Teacher, I don’t know if you generally avoid the forums or not, but if you would be so kind to translate the warning (presuming it is russian) found at the :37 mark at the link found in the Bunnicula picture I posted here, I’ll feel better about myself when I go to the gym later today.

tschüss

Twist and Shout~ Mae West

ems190: I second “Absurdist/Absurdism” for a HotForWords, development…

:shock: :mrgreen: :cool:

How can not?

Easter Joke

Why did the Easter Bunny hide the eggs?

{ text in your answer }

The only 100% sure cure for hiccups [death] same as a remedy of this world economy.

Ha Ha In honor of our current economic times: http://tinyurl.com/co2spb

This word is currently in the news a lot, dealing with bank failures and mortgage defaults. I would like to request the word [underwrite].

 
Cause he was an el pollo loco little chicken :grin:
Mondo Kewl, ¿no?

Just a joke … I did not really try it.

Hmmmm… Karl, I don’t want to criticize, but your posts seem to get a little, how should I say..

Bony and pedant? Aren’t you supposed to be a quiet, calm and nice person?

Marina,

Thank you for the single page comments and the the endless (endless meaning with support for “newest, newer, older” buttons) recent comments. It was nice to wake up and find these features!

One more request: how about if one clicks on the “Recent Comments”, one ends up with a page full of endless recent comments?

Also, when one goes to various categories (such as press, nerdwords etc.) how about a link at the top to a page full of text based links (similar to the links for all blogs or all words)?

–Hs4Mm

@El Capt’n

Damnity Capt’n! Old wives’ tales are nothing more than what they are! Just don’t listen to them! That’s it!! A sailor-boy should know better than that!

I think you might have a point neuroway.
Must be the… let me check… nope, checked the Hot HotForWords calendar and it wasn’t a full moon. :smile:

i cant help myself
today terrorist attacked my brothers
ti oprosti sestro moja Jugoslavia!!
tatu

Heck, that’s just fine. As soon as you are yourself, and don’t try to imitate anybody. I never said I was a quiet, calm and nice person, did I? I would never, NEVER try to monkey you! :grin:

One thing I wonder: did paged comments result in a loss of sub-comments because people only looked at the most-recent-page? Conversely, will single paged comments increase the number comments that have sub-comments and the number of sub-comments?

For those with IE: I recently switched to firefox and firefox is blazing fast compared to IE. (I still have IE because some things at work only work under IE; but use firefox for everything else.) I recommend at least trying out firefox.

I have just one thing to say to that. Find them, one by one. Once you are sure, really sure of who they are. No mercy! Screw them! Smash them all! Crush them! Make them suffer! But don’t try to take over the whole world and innocent lives as a retaliation!

That’s what I’m thinking. I saw someone look at my site the other day and she thought there were only 5 comments on a post when there were 180!

LONG LIVE ROMANTICISM!!!!!

Easter Joke

Why did the Easter Bunny hide the eggs?

Answer:

He was fucking the chicken :mrgreen:

@El Capt’n Jack

No books needed man!

Drink a full barrel of vodka. Threw in some pickles here and there. Then you will know what is a hiccup. 500% guaranteed by your trusty neuroway!

My Grandmother always told us to bend over and spit under a rock. Well you had to pick it up first. An old wives tail I guess. :roll:

Marina, a good lesson would be on wives tails and how many you and the rest of us members could come up with.

Pimp your ride, Capman! :smile:

Marina, other computer, uh, aficionados, technical note:

Clicking “edit” for a remark doesn’t cancel it from being transmitted to someone on a feed — renepayback got my initial remark before I edited it.

Evan “Fireplace” Owen :lol:

Does anyone know if there is suppose to be an add under the Recent Comments. There is a gray box with a black background kinda staring back at us like a black hole leading no where just taking up space like this comment is doing. :shock:

Well Cap, there’s only so much you can get out of a west coast custom chopper, told ya. You can beat the crap out of it, it’s still a weak mount!

It’s very good for mags and pics though!

That’s where Marina’s recent tweets show up. Also, try the “Me on Twitter”/”Tweets about HFW” and set “Auto Update”.

Thanks hs4mm. They just showed up. Must have been a slow connection or something.

In Mexico I seen ppl light a cigarette and then stick the butt end in your ear to cure something. Now I can’t remember what ailment this wives tale was suppose to heal. :???: :???:

I have heard of that too Che, but I can’t remember what it is suppose to cure. I even seen it done in an old movie. Maybe it cures brain farts. :lol:

wrong agin. you cannot do nothing without the water the cloth the knife ice

Marina….. The Gorgeous lady with the brain most men would like to have… here is a sure fire way to cure “hiccups”…….
The fleshy part of the ear just above the lobes …. it has some soft cartlidge in it….press them in till the ear canal is completely closed off… then have the hiccupper drink a full eight ounce glass of water … not unblocking the ear canals till the water has been drank in it’s entirety… the drinker must drink it non-stop

Also what is the origin of [quid]

Jim from Jamain

No, I could NEVER leave here! EVER!

:shock: That’s just WRONG :!: :mrgreen:

I think I need to rephrase this

You guys James were all was complaining about paged comments.. so I removed them to shut him up.

Now your email links will not work for a while until new posts come along. as punishment If the page loading times are too long, Marina

Yeah, :lol:

Photo evidence, nice touch :lol:

yes that’s what i thought :???:

GO GREEN Marina :lol:

But your intro is different Marina.

I am going to be brutally honest here (because I know feedback helps :smile: )

I think your intro is different because your are very beautiful, if you used the same intro as you did on the artichoke video (the best intro ever!) I really cant see how people would turn away, also the intro would need to have yourself in it. Remember when I (please tell me how to spell that) made my intro 30 seconds long, that was just bad, and even an intro 30 seconds long from you would be too much, but the old intro I think was fine. I also miss “hotforwords must investigate” *spinning globe and random pics*

Also, to be honest with you, I think these videos are lacking extra information the the older ones had, take the fork video for example. That video got me started on youtube, as the response I made to it was the first video with my face in it.

But I think what is making it hard is the bluescreen, (and maybe a few annotations)

For example

If you asked me where handsome came from I can tell you it means good with your hands, and I can’t really remember much more.

However

with out looking at the fork video I can tell you that

Fork came from the latin forca which basically means pitchfork (I think thats how you said it) Sometime in the 1600s it became popular again and its design was based on a torture instrument

Vampire is the same in all languages

Zombie came from the african ( I think ) word nzambi

butterfly comes from the dutch word boeterschijt

duck tape come from the dutch word doeck which means cotton, it is illegal to seal ducts with duct tape.

I have learned alot from you Marina, but I think the bluescreen is distracting, because I find myself thinking

“ooh, that flashy effect of a dinosaur falling down the stairs is funny, how did she do that?”

But, bluescreening works BRILLIANTLY on the guess the word games.

I am not trying to put you down, I am just saying I think lately the videos have been a bit hard to follow. But I have also noticed that this lesson, was starting to get back on the really informative track of things again.

If you used to get 50,0o0 views on a video in 12 hours back when you had the intro, and you are still getting the same amount now, then obviously, it makes no difference..

Finally, perhaps with panacea81 overtaking you and youtubes make-up phase, perhaps you should do a video about the origin of the word make-up

(And even more finally, you used to call your video something like “Punched in the face” the by the time the new one was up you would call it the word eg. “Punch”

This made things easier to find when you search on the channel)

Anywayz, I hope I haven’t bored you. I still do love your videos and keep them going (I still wouldn’t mind a 4 minute long one now and then) I think I can say that even if you made a 30 min video, all of us that are interested in you and what you do (INCLUDING ALX :lol: ) would watch it. I know I would.

I don’t know how to end this, so as its like a story I will just say.

THE END

:lol:

XXXX

hahaha. I third it :mrgreen:

Wow i just made a page long comment…. my god.. i must be on something

James is a mama boy…Ramones – Mama’s Boy
<…….or Suzi Quatro :roll:

@Captain Jack – I don’t understand what your complaint is. Are you saying hiccups are purely psychosomatic? Are you saying the cures are all placebos? I really don’t know where you are going with this. My comment above clearly demonstrated (to me, at least) that hiccups are very real, and they occasionally require a genuine treatment. My Dad was not pussilanimous, by any means. He was a 21-yr career Marine Corps officer, two tours in ‘Nam and received the Bronze Star with Valor. I saw him continue working after the doc tried to convalesce him for walking pneumonia. If he had the hiccups for three weeks, believe me, they were real.

As for how Lady M’s cure works, I cannot begin to explain. I can see several possibilities, though. The cold water, the altered breathing pattern, the cold knife on the cheekbone, any others that I may have missed, and any combination of the above. I definitely do not know it all, but I am smart enough to know that I don’t know everything. Acupressure, acupuncture, chiropractic medicine, all of these used to be discounted by Western doctors, simply because the doctors could not explain how they worked. More and more, Western medical professionals are understanding that many of these Eastern medical practices do have merit. We even begin to understand some of it.

Snake oil? Maybe, maybe not. Like you said, though – if it works, it works.

I have better things to do http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROsRojfJjNQ

Wild Horses Kick Butt…somebody might let these animals help :razz: Hicks Too…hooked on hicks and roads???
Think :idea: peace

I like the way you think. :roll:

ditto here. Give firefox a try.

I think the page loading times are slower. And it’s not about the server.. it’s about the pages being really large.

I dont, if anything they are faster.

Link to your wish list now marina?!!! :razz:

Believe it or not, my pages have been loading faster the last wo days. :???:

Sorry to be spammy, but where has the comment editor gone?

It was ashamed they were eggs instead of little baby bunnies

This just in: the Bat Signal is no longer needed Gotham will now Twitter Batman instead :grin:

Ditto that “” “”

Dear HotForWords,

Next time I have the Hiccups I will def. try this out!

I haven’t had hiccups in a long time though.

Have you heard of that guy who had them for years?

Your Student,
ThoughtOnFire

All I know is this:

Two or three times a year I’ll get the hiccups, and while it’s amusing to witness(even to me), they are VIOLENT, wracking my whole body and causing me to make some very non-human sounds. And the worst part is after going away for awhile, they’ll return, and this starting and stopping nonsense goes on for a day or two. That is NOT in my head!

long winded :?: :mrgreen: :twisted:
just asking :oops: :lol:
:cool: B.B. :evil:

ok chlape, i think i leave this place for now…maybe if there is some interesting word video i show up again…
well and if you have some slavic questions you find me at
rene.poluch@centrum.cz
dobro došli
Slava!!

I say faster faster faster

Finally http://news.aol.com/article/jane-doe-identified/393835

well i guess not ,those who do you might find this film interesting ,since it is the best film i ever saw…
100% slavic film Evan might like it
Polish-Czech film including Slovak and Srbian actors and of course Russian book as the main theme of the film

K A R A M A Z O V I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VLYpUJrj2I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivP5RNiMbxM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WhPkhIlPRU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4s417DsuyE
http://www.karamazovi.cz/

I must admit I enjoyed the intro portion of your older lessons too, Marina. Now I, and everyone else here who’s honest will admit that we just want to see and hear as much of you as we can. But in this format, your intros just PERFECTLY set up the lesson to follow. And the song, and the “intelligence is sexy”, etc. was such a neat trademark for you.
Again, not complaining. I simply feel like your lessons seemed somehow more “complete”. Is there any point in broaching this subject with the YT people? Love you no matter what!

Now THAT, boys and girls, is a lesson to remember!

Marina,

After thinking about your saying that YT was concerned about people bailing on a vid that had an intro longer than five seconds…when they said that, were they even paying attention to the success HFW was experincing AT THAT TIME? Were people “bailing” on your vids THEN? Hell, no! Again, a solution to a problem that did not exist.

Hey Marina, Bill O’Reilly must be part Irish at least — why don’t you see if he’ll have you on his show for St. Patrick’s Day words next year? Lord knows we’ve given you enough material the past few days. :grin:

A lesson on “wives’ tails”…That’s funny, Capman!

we dont want to rule the world…Perun will show us the way and those who shall suffer will find what they where looking for ,in Peklo…Morana is waiting for them
Gods dont forget those who where killing their children.
Slava Perunu,Slava Svarogu,Slava Slavianom!!! :mrgreen:

Well done, PK.

the 10 anniversary
http://sho.sk/archiv/flashimages/komentare/vyrocie-hanby/myalbum/foto2.jpg
http://sho.sk/archiv/flashimages/komentare/vyrocie-hanby/myalbum/foto1.jpg
http://sho.sk/archiv/flashimages/komentare/vyrocie-hanby/myalbum/foto3.jpg
ti oprosti sestro moja Jugoslavia!!

“I need to learn patience, NOW!” :shock:

Hi Captain,
I read your post on the Forum – “Popular…”.
I’m out the door myself and will post a reply there and will also add a reply here so that you know that I left a post, to answer your question about being informed.

Due to space / time constraints on the forum, lots of the info is not very detailed, but have lots of details to talk about. Later…

1001 views in Marina vid!!! WOO! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up0FwBW4o4M

Marina, if you want a good iPod dock get the griffin amplifi,

http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/accessories/0,39100116,49293075,00.htm

Best thing I ever bought, great sound Great bass, goes so loud. Sexy blue ring, its just the best thing ever, (its in that pic of my new tv)

wrong :evil:

Cock-a-doodle-do! That’s a rooster for cry’n out loud! :eek:

Gay rabbit? :???:

I’d say that rooster is in danger of being tainted by an unmitigated transaction and that’s one really confused rabbit :!:

What is the reason for removing the endlessness of the recent comments?

iPhone, iPod the new gaming platforms?: http://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/the-iphone-s-cool-and-quirky-games/1299467

You have my prayers for their recovery.

Hello Rene,

I’m sure Marina read your comment and has read Dostoevski’s Brothers Karamazov, but she has her own choices about which remarks she replies to. Rarely do I see her answer any questions in or about Russian. My only Russian-related post she answered was Синий Платочек . She doesn’t often get into deep discussions of linguistics, either, aside from the videos themselves. :neutral:

On the other hand, she will quite often get into technical discussions about computers, website design, technical gadgets, and video productions. Ask her a question about her website, and you’ll probably get an answer. :smile:

So here’s one that was brought to light by the comic “xkcd” today: [dammit]
Here i’ve been spelling it damnit all these years, never realizing dammit is actually the CORRECT spelling. Seems rather counterintuitive given that it comes from “damn it”… doesn’t it?

in honor of finance:
[copula]
[kurtosis]
[in/out of the money]
[tranche]

Is this ‘the top’ of the comments for word requests? I am not blog savvy enough to understand this site very well I’m an old fogey, I guess.

GP, you ever have chickens? That’s a pretty runty comb and tail for a rooster! No wonder the rabbit “mistook” it for a hen! :twisted:

Chicken police break up rabbit fight :lol:

renepayback or Bogdan could do better than I, but the last part of it reads “he guards those who love him.”

There’s even video evidence :!:

A friend of mine had chickens and we’d periodically go into the hen house and feed these chickens as they pecked at our feet and our ankles while we tossed the grain around. Then the chickens would fight over the grain and smack into one another and make those brack brack noises. I also had pet rabbits.

more incriminating evidence accompanied by fitting music:

Ha! Evan! Where the hell is peta when these chickens are being cornered, pinned, and systematically raped by rabbits?

After a cartoon network marathon, I’ve been wondering, where does the word [cartoon] come from?
C ya Marina

OK, you’ve showed us how to get rid of hiccups, but if I don’t have them and want them, how do I get them? :???:

Marina,
If you have someone stand behind you and fold your ear lobes up and push them in (so they plug there ears) while they drink at least half a glass of water, this wil cure hiccups also. I read it Popular Science a long time ago and it almost always works. :wink:

James she is mine you can leave her alone now.

George Jones – White Lightning (1962)…

eat “caked ” yeast…andthen a shot of lemon and rye…baking with the [soda]

…various versions for white liteNing :lol:

Hi C cups i would have thought they were hi d cups :smile: :smile:

Hi-c juice drinks

dictionary.reference.com lists several dictionary entries for the word in question. The Random House Dictionary lists a possible etymology, although the others claim the origin is unknown.

Originated around 1650-1660 (so it’s been around a while), perhaps a dialect variation of the Old English thwat or thwaite, which in turn are derived from the Old Norse þveit, meaning a cut, slit or forest clearing.

This could be feasible due to a couple of villages in Scotland, one each in Orkney and Shetland, named “Twatt”. Unsurprisingly their village entrance signs are tourist magnets :)

Both are classic examples of a [portmanteau] – blending two words into one. The contributors to a certain online encylopædia suggest a rather interesting history for the term itself…that’s got to be worth a video!

And, thinking about it, you haven’t done a video on [Encyclopædia] yet…

Reading a certain online encylopedia’s entry on the subject was quite interesting – especially as hidden away in the references were links to several scientific papers on the subject.

Although (unsurprisingly) the comprehensibility of the abstracts depends on your knowledge of human biology…

The immediate cause appears to be a spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm (the big muscle under your lungs that inflates and deflates them). There’s no conclusive answer as to why humans get hiccups, but one theory doing the rounds is an evolutionary leftover from an aquatic past.

As for cures, apparently drinking water (often in an unconventional manner) is one of the top home remedies. The site also recommends something that’s easier said than done – forget about them (!)

Fruit drink?

I’ll bet. They dont have picture on that sign do they?

Hiiccups is air in your stomach from what I understand. When you drink coke or other highly carbonated drinks you can get them or any way that traps air in your stomach, like laughing a lot. Also The only true cure is to drink ice water. A few other old wives tales is holding your breath for 10 or 20 seconds. Pat your head and rub your stomach. The last one I know about is burping.

Oh I almost forgot the best fools tale is to scare the hiccups away.

:mrgreen: Never sneeze and hiccup at the same time or you just might blow your brains out!! LOL!! Just kidding!!

i heart this video. can you tell me how to change m password someone?

Hi i’m Italian and i Like to refresh my English here!
When you have hiccups and you don’t have water, ice, knive or whatsoever you can solve this problem by holding your breath!
1. Take a deep Inspiration (without blowing your cheeks!)
2. Hold until you can
3. during the hold you’ll have the sensation like when a burp is coming… hold and after that you can espirate
4.voila the hiccup is gone!!!

Go to admin…next to log in…or write personally to HOTFORWORDS–Marina Orlova :razz:

thnx

You are very welcome :smile:

yes i do have a remedy for hiccups. it goes along with the cause of hiccups. hiccups are caused by an air bubble getting stuck in your you esophagus. the way to stop the hiccups is to get rid of the air bubble. the only thing you have to do is take some sugar (real sugar, nothing like splenda or anything like that :roll: ). now dont just pour it in your mouth all at once. just lick the end of your finger and take the sugar you get on your finger and put it on your tongue and swallow. the sugar will dissolve the bubble relieving you of your hiccups. to make sure you really got it, do it at least 2 or 3 times. it works. :mrgreen:

Strawberry jam works very well!
If you don’t believe me, try it!

Take 1-3 spoons with strawbery jam

dude that like works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :wink:
love ya

The hiccup is created by stimulation of the vagus nerve which lies along the path of the esophagous. Eating something dry, bread or the like, and drinking alcohol (which will alter respiration) can trigger hiccups. And is exascerbated by a carbon dioxide deficiency in the blood, created by the forceful expulsion of air by continuous hiccups.

Drinking a full glass of tap water without stopping or breathing into a small sack, in and out for a half minute or so, will usually do the trick.

The uninterrupted drinking allows time for the carbon dioxide to build up in the blood, as does the breathing in and out into a small sack.

wow i watched 00:38 a lot of times boobies jumping!!!!!

nice article…………
Poptropica

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