Penitentiary

Double + half header today: this and O’Reilly (and a re-run)

Cool.

Yes, Marina, I’m following you! :smile: Are you following me? :sad:

Yup, following on Twitter, of course. :-)

Is she the one that sat in the boxers lap?

Hey Marina,

Of course I’m following you on Twitter.

In retrospect, it should’ve been obvious that penitentiary was somehow related to that. Oh well, another good lesson. I wonder if Ms. Panettiere knows about that at all.

I would like to know how the word [Menstruation] came about and why it got called the “[Period]“

I don’t Twitter that much. I just like looking at the pictures. Great video, I will go to YT and give you five stars graciously. About penitentiary it has a weird origin, would never have figured that one :smile:

No, I don’t Twitter. :mrgreen:
Is that where you are, instead of minding the store?
How many times have you been on Twitter vs posting here at your site? Rhetorical – since you Twitter WAY more than you come here.
Are you really, REALLY, REALLY sure you want me to follow you on Twitter :roll:

…and I always thought Marina’s last name was A Lover which comes from the American “Lover” which means “Do’er of Love”.

Sorry, Marina. I’m not following you on Twitter. I don’t have an account because I’m not a social network type of guy.

[I would like to know the origin of the word Broseph] I used to have a twitter but I cancelled my account because I didn’t use it much :grin:

MARINA! :idea: You mentioned that the surname Panettiere might be related to penitentiary? Were you serious or were you joking about her recent plight? If you were, I get it. If not then I’m wondering where you drew that connection. To me, it seems that Panettiere would mean essentially “the one who worked in the place where bread was sold”. Sounds roundabout, doesn’t it? Well that’s because if I had used the simple word “baker”, that would have been inaccurate. Besides, there’s already the Boulanger which means essentially that. Thanks for keeping the lessons like the good ol’ “innocent” ones! :grin:

Орлова (Orlova) essentially means “daughter of the eagle”.

And as a bonus, if you say Marina’s surname and my screenname kinda fast, they sound the same.

Orlova
Wor’lov’a

:mrgreen:

Let’s not jump to conclusions, MeLika! :eek:

Marina’s tweets are few and far between compared with most twitters. She doesn’t twitter “way more than [she] come[s] here.” In fact, she is mostly busy thinking up the lessons, making the videos, editing them, etc. Keep in mind she has to eat, sleep, etc. just like we all do! :mrgreen:

Che takes metal cup and bangs it across iron bars then takes out harmonica and sings, ♫ ♪“No body knows the trouble I seen”♫ ♪

No peeps, No tweets ;-)

So, I guess that’s where the expression “lock ‘em up in the pen!” comes from.

Billy Miner, a famous train robber (who is believed to have first said the phrase “hands up”) was locked up at this penitentiary until he escaped.

http://www.miss604.com/2007/06/the-pen-and-sapperton-days.html

Yeah, well, I was joking, but thanks for the information

Hey Doug,
I wanted to disagree with your characterization of Marina’s Twittering, especially since you don’t follow her.

You said;
“…since you Twitter WAY more than you come here”

I believe you are making an apples – orange comparison of Marina posting here versus on Twitter.

First the facts, and Marina can correct me. Marina has been on Twitter since about Dec and has made 1,172 updates which is roughly 10 Twitters per day. Keep in mind, a lot of those Tweets are for postings about this site. So, take away about 2-4 of those tweets from 10 and Marina is only making 6 Tweets per day, most of those answering questions or interacting with people that she follows. She can have a life too, right?

Keep in mind, that Twitter is an externally facing communications mechanism and while the posts here are internally facing. Two different types of communications. Of course it would be nice if she made a reply to every one of us, but that is not practical, and until you have a site of your own with 300+ comments to keep up with, you will soon appreciate how difficult this is to keep up.

Also, keep in mind, Marina makes comments on many other places like other blogs, on her own YouTube video comment pages and watches other people’s videos, makes comments on them, etc. Give Marina a break. In my opinion, Marina’s Tweets are very valid, informative, and very timely. You should give it a try and see if you like it. :grin:

Sure thing! :smile:

Good luck. Marina doesn’t even follow me. I think she said I’m to noisy. Whatever. :roll: She is a Hollywood tweeter. [Hollyweet] Wow! I don’t think there is a definition for this word. Yeay! I think I just [coined] this word!

Hollyweet : Noun, Twitter user that has thousands of followers and follows very few. Tweets more about them selfs than others.

She used to follow me but that was apparently before she read my previous tweets! :eek:

It’s okay, tho’. I’m still following her and I know that she still cares about all her students! :mrgreen:

Pent up, and groovy. :smile:

I was trying to find you a picture Bill but all I could find was it was Wladimir Klitschko, 32, the current IBF and WBO heavyweight champion.

Beep!, Beep!, Beep!, Beep!!

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I’m not jumping to conclusions. As per PK, she Twitters 10 times a day, more than she posts here.
Her lesson out put this week is two, including Sunday.
Of course she eats and sleeps, and pees, too – I bet.
I don’t mind the things you say. You want to say some absurd things, and make assumptions – as you are inclined to do, ok by me. :mrgreen:

Hey Billy, I’m still testing the Sexy Geek voting every hour.
My guess is that I should have an answer sometime after 3 PM.

:smile: Latin lovers go tweet-tweet over HotForWords….over and over….not for everyone…Locks of Luck :smile:

Absurd?

Ten tweets a day is still too much for you?

Douglas, you really ought to check twitter out. Here, I’ll provide a link: click here. There. I promise it’s not as noisome as YouTube. Give it a try.

PS—Ease up on the bennies, huh? :razz:

:mrgreen:

You guys are making the case for me. Why should I follow her on Twitter, if she’s not there? :roll:
Where is the other side of the data set, showing how often since December, Marina has posted here?
Show me that number, please. :mrgreen:

PROTIP: Che, mi amigo, try your text with the “code” tags above. It makes it monospace.


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See?

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VVVRRRRUUUMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bennies? Absurd and (incorrectly) assuming.
You must be drawing from your own personal experiences and none I am familiar with.
No, I really don’t feel the need to Twitter.
Why? I am not a high school chick with peer issues…

Doug, here’s what you “get” if you follow Marina on twitter.

• update notifications of new lessons
• exclusive twitpics uploaded by Marina
• news about her latest projects, situations, etc.
• more…

Yours is distorted, I found out from the last page you need a line at the top because after the edit the lines shift.

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I am not a high school chick with peer issues…

PROTIP: Twitter is not MySpace. Kthnxbai… :mrgreen:

Here’s a video I stumbled across that has been BANNED from YouTube in a matter of 4 hours! :shock: :lol: :mrgreen:

Distorted, you say? Do you have a good monospace font installed on the computer/device you are using? Monospace fonts are a MUST with ASCII art. :grin:

Ronald Biggs…The Captain had a daughter
Who fell in deep sea water
Delighted squeals revealed that eels
Had found ‘er sexual quarters…train robber :cry: the birds do all my tweae :???: ttering :roll:

:shock: One shit on me today :roll: true…[an Eagle] :smile:

Ach! :(

I can attest Marina spends very little in Twitter. I’ve become an expert at tweeting. Looking at how Marina tweets she has much to learn about twitter. Same can be said about you use of twitter. I ask how can you make such a claim that she is on twitter all the time and yet your not using it?

Also think of that old saying from former Pre……? (too many clues?) “Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.”

AAhh I crashed it! :D

Hear, hear! :grin: :grin: :grin:

Thanks, Cap’n! :cool:

By the way Doug, Marina’s Tweets are much lower than 10 per day, which is a long term average. Take a look at the last 12 Tweets that Marina made covering a span of 7 days.

(Edited tweets down to have one tweet per line.)

# New post: Penitentiary 1 hour ago
# In jail http://twitpic.com/324nrabout 2 hours ago
# New post: I’m On The O’Reilly Factor Tonight 3 hours ago
# @Benihoff nice!about 21 hours ago
# Of to the gym! I need to stretch… 8:20 AM Apr 8th
# New post: The Huffington Post 8:18 PM Apr 7th
# @notbait Not yet! Sometime this week 7:56 PM Apr 7th
# Is it wrong to eat the same Thai soup 4:53 PM Apr 7th
# @Strabismus working… configuring,,, 4:04 PM Apr 7th
# @alilohan Hi, it’s Marina 2:30 PM Apr 7th
# Met Lindsay Lohan’s mom last night 2:02 PM Apr 7th
# http://twitpic.com/2qu7c – In costume 5:31 PM Apr 2nd

Oh yeah, since you don’t Tweet, do check out this
picture. She is an angel. :-)
http://twitpic.com/2qu7c

Let’s see if I can copy and paste from below… :mrgreen:

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Karl makes a good point, MeLika. Some days one tweets quite a bit, then on others not so much… :smile:

;)

I get new email every day that a new Tweeter is following me. I haven’t made a Tweet since I Tweeted to you or BillyB about a month ago. What is it that attracts new Tweeters and they are female and not bad looking, is it the tiger cause I know I am not that good looking any more. It’s got to be that damn tiger. To get down to it Marina really only follows her friends from YT and just wants us to follow her so she looks like she has a big following. She never answers us back if we leave her a Tweet. So why should we follow her? Damn Tiger. Maybe it has brought me luck with the ladies. Hmmmm

Yay! Great vid! It’s great to be back.
HW: Nope, I don’t twitter.

Actually, she finally DID respond to me on twitter. I asked her “R U there?”

:lol: Hi can you tell me the origin of [alcohol] :mrgreen: THAT WOULD BE GREAT XD
your show is great!!!!

Your missing out Cap! I’m only one degree way from being able to tweet to Obama. I found a new graphics artist to help out with my company artwork. Finding some free advertising from a good friend in Spain. Same friend found me a way to get a $400k yacht sooner than I had planed. I helped Wordspy address a problem they where not aware of. I gave comfort to a woman that was having a really bad month. I make people laugh. Oh and I’m on my way to becoming well know guru in the maritime industry.

I can go on forever. Funny thing is I used to hate twitter for I didn’t know what the heck it was for. I could not find a use for it. Now that I know the many ways it is used for, it’s like the next best thing since sliced bread. Yet, with all this I see the writing on the wall that if twitter doesn’t expand it’s capabilities it will become obsolete as other people come out with better products.

I think I did see her one time respond to Che. I don’t remember for what but she doesn’t do it as much as you would think.

It seems most twitter(er)s are under 40 years of age. There are some “older” folks. But not that many.

HW Hotfortweet, yes, I’m number 8,312 but I rather lead than follow soooo I’m cutting you some slack here ;-)

Sweet Tweets don’t eat to many peeps next week, :eek:

It seems to me that she does post on twitter quite a bit more than she does here. I too wish she would post here at least as often as she posts on twitter.

As much as I would think? I would think she wouldn’t do it at all, were it not for the popularity and lionization one can garner from being on twitter.

There is a lot of noise on Twitter.
Marina’s tweets don’t go into that area, but I would like her to reply here from time to time also. You know, to reduce the feeling of talking to yer self. (I’m referring to the posts addressed to her)
In real life, when I get the feeling someone isn’t listening to me, I get the urge to shut up. Don’t you? :-)

Remember that new computer Marina got? :eek:

Well, guess what. She’s probably on it right now trying to figure it out. There’s a twitter update panel on the right of this page if you want to see her tweet progress for today.

Hey bsomebody and Doug,
In my opinion, you guys a making the wrong comparison.

If you want Marina to make a ton of comments here, say so, don’t reference it with respect to Twitter. What if you found out she makes a hundred phone calls a day. Who cares, it’s not relevant to whether she makes comments here or not.

So, if you guys want Marina to interact more often here, say so, but don’t bring Twitter into the mix.

OK, I’ll speak up.
Marina can you make more comments here and interact with me everyday to keep me happy? :lol:

I though we’d have a homework that asked us something like…
Did you do any time? :D

That would’ve made me laugh…

In real life, when I get the feeling someone isn’t listening to me, I get the urge to shut up. Don’t you?

Forsooth! :roll:

I’m only one degree way from being able to tweet to Obama.

Excuse me, but that is just too funny! :lol: :lol: :lol:

I’m sorry! :lol: :lol: :lol:

“Hey look at me, I’ve got prestige… on twitter.” :lol: :lol: :lol:

:mrgreen: :cool:

One thing tweeter need to understand about twitter is that it is a SOCIAL tool. Yes it can be used to broadcast information but that is not it’s intent. It’s like if you want to get more letters you have to send them to get them.

Are looks everything? I have like over 2,000 followers. I have no YouTube show. A weak ass blog. Nobody knows me and yet I have people tweeting to me all the time.

Limited tweeter friends. That common with most Introverts. Extraverts follow everyone. I’m not an Extravert but a hybrid of the two. I’ve become what they call Ambivert. I was an introvert most of my life and have been pushing to become an extravert.

I get to see all the Twit pics here, links are posted when she does that. Sounds like she’s holding out on us if she doesn’t keep fans of her site in the loop, and only discusses her plans on Twitter…
I still want to see the number quantifying her posts here vs her Twitter posts.
You guys sure are being defensive about this…
Why?
I followed her on coComments – no great shakes there…
Whatever happened to that? Must not have been “all that” as advertised, hmm?
Now, I’m supposed to believe Twitter is “all that” and more??
The real number to look at is the dwindling number of views here.
Does Google pay better if she Twitters?
They don’t pay so good if your site doesn’t get the hits.
The time she spends promoting her site at Twitter is not reflected in the number of views she is gets. Where is the increase? Not here…
Seems like a waste, to me – sorry if you don’t agree. :mrgreen:

Yes it can be used to broadcast information but that is not it’s intent.

A host of tweeters would disagree.

Nobody knows me[...]

This is perplexing. Apparently they DO know you. Not only on twitter but from your contacts at sea (which I’m sure are more than just one).

I have like over 2,000 followers.

2,000 followers is an average number among those who are “in the loop” on twitter. Me, I have only 41 at last count but I care about them and it’s fun to share news with everybody. It’s for fun and informativeness, to me anyways. :grin:

I was only trying to get people excited about twitter. Not to boast about my twitter reach. Did you not understand my comment? How else should have I stated an example of how Twitter could be useful? :cool:

I guess you never hear of a thing called a filter?

I try to keep my comments above noise level myself.
And a filter wouldn’t make a difference weather I’ve heard of it, or not. :P

If we are being defensive it’s in favor of Twitter and its benefits. Another thing I didn’t point out about twitter is that you can meet new people with similar interests. Also you can find who lives in your area. It’s like a classified section mixed with chat-room communicativeness.

I would like to request the word/phrase [duck boards]. This phrase was a topic on an architectural tech forum I subscribe to, and there was a significant range in the lore about the origins/applications of this phrase, and even about the nature of the many various vernacular constructions to which it is applied. Bottom line no body really knew for sure what the heck they were talking about. Can you shed a little light on this?

No I understood you. It’s just that what would you want to say to Obama and how do you think he’d respond? “Hm, this guy looks like a man of the seas.” Y’know?

Hey, my name is Josh, and I’m in the navy. In the navy, five minutes before we all go to bed they say [tatoo tatoo, lights out in five minutes], but not even the salty old goats know where it came from! Can you help us?

Dear Marina,
It was wonderful to see you wear a red dress for this video. I also have neever before seen you in that still photo you posted on the left, in which you only wear a black topless corset, black high heels, and and your hair is loose. You look great! It’s no surprise I like your looks. :shock:
This is the first video you posted in four days. Many of your subscribers posted on your four-day old video time and again. It seemed as if they have no other life than to wait for your next video, and I hope they do “get a life” by reading a book, or learning a foreign language or doing something else beneficial. :smile:
Yes, I follow you on Twitter, which is an interesting community. I’ve made many posts, myself, and I’ve also posted a few photos. While I don’t have the multitudes of followers you have on Twitter, I find it a nice place an occassional blog. Thank you for showing Twitter to me. And yes, I follow you on Twitter because of the photos you post of yourself. (No, I don’t read Twitter because of the articles!) :razz:
Seesixcm6

On the left is a picture of Hayden Panettiere.

You have a valid point Doug. Why should one follow Marina if she doesn’t respond back? I don’t have an answer for that. I have over 2k followers that I follow back and I miss Marina’s tweets. I have to do a search or run a filter to find her tweets. From what I can tell she receives very little tweets. That’s because she rarely tweets back to her followers. That’s fine for that is how she wants to use twitter as a broadcast medium.

To answer you question I would guess about 200+ comments.

One doesn’t have to follow Marina or be on twitter to read her tweets. Her tweets are on the HFW site (in a small window or) in a full page by itself — http://www.hotforwords.com/twitter/ –, and you can even set things up so that the tweets are automatically updated (“Auto Update” button)!

No need for explicit number (just concept of addition): Since Marina’s tweets are on HFW but her HFW-comments are not on twitter, Marina is more on HFW than on twitter!

Good statement! I second that. :smile:

Full pink moon tonight 2009/04/09, O’Reilly appearance and what’s the beef, penitentiary with a little Panettiere thrown in… Spooky! :shock:

Bah! Let’s move on to another level of knowledge!!

BTW, we (or most of us) DO have a life, thank you very much. Do you have one, Onan? :roll:

Oh. Thanks. Hayden is only 19 years old too. But I must…remain…loyal…to…Marina! :razz: I like to see Marina wearing red than black, and I hope Marina posts more photos on Twitter!
Seesixcm6

It’s sooooooo good to hear from you, Marina. Thank you.

HW: not an “official” follower; I just check YOUR tweets. I tried to sign up back when you started using it, but somehow I could never get it to recognize or accept me, and just never pursued it any further. Maybe I can try to delete whatever is in there now and start over?

Looking forward to The Factor tonight.

Yes, I work to provide a living. I just can’t make the time to enter so many, numerous, multiple posts on HotForWords boards.
Seesixcm6

Guess who is mad about O’Reilly? :razz: :wink:

[COSMIC COWBOY]

Austin in the 70′s, Outlaw Music, Armadillo World Headquarters, etc.

Duly noted… :neutral:

Wrong, Horsefly. Mad about Marina!

Hossflah? Dem’s fightin’ words, pardner! :lol: :lol:

In spite of your sarcasm, you do have a valid point. The comparison to twitter is unnecessary. It may not, however, be irrelevant. It just may shed some light to the Lady’s priorities.

BTW, even though many of us joke around about our HFW addiction, :roll: your “keep[ing] me happy” comment is offensive and lessens your previously strong argument.

Hey neuroway,
What’s the pink moon reference about? Astronomical stuff about which I’m unfamiliar, no doubt?

Ahem, did you not see the lol face at the end?

Sense of humor, everybody needs one… :razz:

How embarassing – the way you wrote that is pretty much the way I pronounce it. What the heck, if one can’t laugh at oneself…

See6 we are glad to see you any time you can show up. :wink:

:lol: :grin:

point taken. Sense of humor? It’s crunch time at school. My sense of humor times out about the last three weeks of school. I should have known; Klaus is generally not one to belittle. :oops: ’nuff excuses. My apologies, Klaus.

“A host of tweeters would disagree.”

That’s fine, but it’s not the majority of the tweeters. You can not deny that twitter is social networking application.

“This is perplexing. Apparently they DO know you. Not only on twitter but from your contacts at sea (which I’m sure are more than just one).”

Maybe a better words would have been I’m not as well know as many other famous people in the media. What I was referring to is I don’t use the fame tool to get my followers.

“2,000 followers is an average number among those who are “in the loop” on twitter. Me, I have only 41 at last count but I care about them and it’s fun to share news with everybody. It’s for fun and informativeness, to me anyways. :grin:”

I don’t care about the average number. I have a rather sold group of about 100 tweeters that I have contacted. The rest are just stalkers and self proclaimed marketing gurus. The way I see it I would have never met these people if I did not reach out to the 2000 twtrs I have now. I wish I could tweet to 400k to find other like minded tweeters out there. But the number of followers is not a goal for me. The quality of the followers is more important to me. There are website out there like (http://twitalyzer.com) that tracks the influence you have of your tweets. I won’t get into the details here but it will show you the true influence of your tweets vs followers reactions as many other measurements. It really helps efficiently grow your network of fellow tweeters. I would like to be able to tweet something like ” I’m looking for x widget.” and feel that I have accessed everyone that has a widget that they are not using.

I don’t think there’s anything scientific about it. It comes from old legends. Here’s a link. Enjoy.

Wer is Klaus? :?:

Hell, I want to take Marina to Aruba, but I don’t see that happening anytime soon.

Face it. We’re just a bunch of obsessed, spoiled Marina/HFW addicts. And for this affliction there is no cure.

Oh yes, it’s both for information and sociality. True.

But the number of followers is not a goal for me. The quality of the followers is more important to me.

Indeed! Tag-alongs are annoying and bots are simply intolerable! :eek:

Che now stealthy walks along prison wall in urban camouflage

Hm.

Neat stuff!

Thanks.

Just google with the two names: Hayden Panettiere spotted on boxing hottie Wladimir Klitschko’s lap

PedanticKarl is Klaus. Don’t ask me why. :???:

Aha ich sehe. Danke schön.

That’s, “stealthily”.

Anybody seen Evan Owen and/or greatestpotential lately?

Hey bsomebody, apology accepted. I think highly of you and you are correct, it is not my nature to belittle anyone. I know how difficult crunch time can be. You’re a good guy.

You’re thinking inside of the box again. You judging the book by it’s cover. I’m not a labeled box that you put me in. Why wouldn’t Obama want to tweet you or I? If we had a fool proof way of turning the economy around don’t you think he would want to communicate with that person? Maybe Obama gets a lot of flack for a word he used in a speech and he can’t find a better word that describes what he truly wants to convey to the people. What if you knew of the perfect word for him? I like that I found a way to get useful information to Obama if I really needed to. But I’m really happy to see my friend get picked for US H.U.D.

Another example is McHammer tweeted me before I had a chance to tweet him. Apparently he had an interest in talking about the the time he spent in the Navy. So how can you say that people would have nothing to say to a man of the seas? I’m getting a lot of questions about the Somali pirates attack. I even was asked what could be done about such a threat. So you see. We as a society have much to offer to others. You have much knowledge about things I don’t know of. I know you know about other things than words.

It’s all about sharing information and not hording it. Twitter like many other apps, allows people to share knowledge in real time. I have learned much because of it.

I agree. But let me just say that I know of no box. To me, even the sky is too small to fit my wild-eyed ideas! (say that three times fast :eek: )

I didn’t mean to relegate you to a group of sea-roving ne’erdowells and I apologize if I gave you that impression. :grin:

Oh it’s an adverb not an adjective, tks Nathan

Hello. I’d like to request a simple word that I have seen used a lot on several message boards that I visit: [BUMP] Now, help me out here if I get this wrong, lately this word is used when someone replies to a very old post on a message board making it then show up on the top of the list. It is “bumped” up.

Shhhhh! Quit looking at him. You'll give him away! Sheeeesh, dude. :roll:

Correct. You visit 4chan often?

Marina had mentioned in the past how phone calls have taken up much of her time. She now keeps calls to a minimum and now her production has gone way up because of this. That said I think she could spend 5 to 10 minutes and randomly make a few more comment on her site.

Also remember people. Marina spends many hours putting these lessons together. She also has site maintenance that takes up much time among many other things. So you might all think she is just sitting around waiting to do the next lesson she is working her tail off. I’m nearly shocked that she even leaves the house.

LOL you might be right. Marina is like crack to an addict. :mrgreen:

I second that. I have corresponded with her (however briefly) and she is quite a busy lady! :smile: :cool:

She has responded to your tweets more than anyone else here, maybe at least three times.

I only remember one reply to me :-)

On and off. I visit at least 6 message boards!

You’re right, Che. I like to stay in contact with her. Although I don’t have a solid colored box I consider myself to be more of a man of words than Captain Jack. NO offense intended, Cap’n! I’m just saying that I seem to have more to say about words and language(s), whereas you tend to just say things that reflect the world around you and current events. :smile:

:razz: Hi wordlover. Wasssup!

So penitentiary could be look at as one repenting of wrong doings or sin?

:eek: GP! :highfive:

Capman you missed the old photos of my 69 Chevelle SS396. Here is a link to the last photo then click back through the photos in sequence.

Photos start here

PS the red hair twins are in the photos as well ;-)

I used to contribute (yes, contribute) regularly to the lols there. I still visit it [once in a blue moon].

So is (sexual) penetration a punishment or to feel regret?

:lol: :lol: You just put yourself in a bigger box! :lol: :lol:
So you’re saying the sky is close to your limit? Why didn’t you say the galaxy is not even large enough? Or the universe? Oh why limit to just the universe? Lets try dimensions of space or time. If you can wrap you mind round parallel universes then you just multiplied of where you can put your ideas. Now you can share your ideas with people around you and make them even bigger. We could work the other way too. Do you know how much data is stored in a human blood cell? I could go on for nearly ever. But my mind is in a box too. No matter how hard you try you can’t teach a dog physics. His brain doesn’t have the capacity. I wonder if my mind has limit of understanding of knowledge. :cool:

Hold on a sec….vrrreeuuuurrwww
Marina’s gunna be on t.v. soon, adjusting my rabbit ears
”
:lol:

:lol:

Actually they are from two different sources, sc. penitent and penetrate.

The question is: how much do you want to learn?

To request a word for our dear teacher to do: Put word/phrase requests between [ ] like: [dog] or [blah blah blah] :wink:

Evan posted not long ago. Yesterday I think. But he is going to take some time off from his addiction to get a book done. I hope you all support him in getting his book done.

~.:.~ high ooooO fiver! ~.:.~

:shock: How did you edit racheldoonan’s comment? Sonnuva…! Damn, I wish I had that kind of privilege. :cry:

No we don’t support anything except for ourselves and the fun, fun, fun we have and how slacking is the absolute tits! :wink: :wink: :wink:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

:cool: Thanks for the update CaptainJack. Just have to get back to M’seur Owen when he’s less busy then.

try using tweetgrid.com You can just type in a key word and only tweet with that word or name will show. I use a 1 by 13 grid and just put key words in them all the time. It’s a mazing. I only use the default twitter page to do maintenance tasks.

Too late Spotlight ((((((( :shock: has been turn on.

(Che runs towards the wire)

thanks captain , i am getting used to this thing . and i really would like to know how to upload a picture since you are so damn smart!!

Che! Neuroway! Wordlover!

Picking up where we left off:

Banana penetrating donkey!!! :shock: :razz: :mrgreen:

Here! Had to deal with a reality intrusion into my HFW time (aka work)!

The smileys have disappeared ?????

Efan! Hwyr da!

Where did you get smileys? None are showing up on my screen.

:shock: Our gravatars are smaller! WTF? :S :???:

You have to add them by their codes directly. The choice bar is gone…

smile is colon+close parenth.: :)

etc.

She’s tweaking instead of tweeting.

Maybe so. I just hope she’s adding more emoticon files! I could use some more. They convey my point alot more efficiently than just saying, “I’m only joking!” Y’know?

I know what you mean, I’ve asked in the past. :-/

Silly Che! You speak Spanish, amigo! “Penetrate” obviously comes from pene trata, “penis treats!” :mrgreen:

OOO! I can see it now on YouTube:
HFW presents: [Penetrate] — “Stick it to me!” :oops:

WE WANT MORE EMOTICONS! :eek:

Che, check out these emoticons. We could definitely use some like these, couldn’t we?

Yeah, but you didn’t cancel my password! :twisted:

Where were you the past 29 minutes, just out of curiosity?

Exactly :-)

I would like to request the word [pig] when talking about a police officer. Thanks!

Seriously, wordlover, I have been trying to use C6 as a role model; there really IS more to life than HFW. Like preparing the financials and quarterly payroll taxes. Or filing personnel records. Or…:sad:

But then again, I am close to getting my AC-Gold certification in Toastmasters, and test for my taekwondo black belt next week, and am looking for a publisher for my anthology Wisdom of Our Mothers which promises to follow the phenomenal success of Tim Russert’s Wisdom of Our Fathers; so maybe there is life outside of HFW.

Ych a fi! But then, [the eagle shits today] means it’s payday in the Army! :lol:

Foof to you, ChaCha! We get all this free entertainment and education from Marina, and you [kvetch] when she takes some time off for frivolity? Fie on you, ingrate! :evil:

Oh, Captain Jack! You DO understand my pain! :cry: :lol:

C’mon, wordlover, have you not caught on that Cap’n Jack is head TA? Meaning he sitteth at the right hand of the, umm…Mother?? :???:

That is when he actually shows up! :razz: :roll:

@racheldoonan:

Your request reminds me of a story.

A Hell’s Angel walks into a bar and sits down next to an accountant. “Numbers dude, huh? Gotta joke for you.” So he borrows a pen from the accountant and writes “6.9″ on a coaster. “That’s a ’69′ interrupted by a period.”
The accountant studies it for a moment, then chuckles. “Good one. But technically that’s a decimal point.” :lol:

TRIVIA: How do you say “The eagle shits today” in Welsh?

Be sure to mention me! Whatever that means! :???:

so damn smart

:shock: Yeah but have you seen his terrible grammar? :wink: :razz: :lol:

:wink:

Teasin’, Cap’n! :mrgreen:

Gwell hwyr na hwyrach! :grin:

Are you trying to get me fired???

He’s a bit slow Evan. We just have to nurture him along the way. :)

Slow? Are you sure you spelled that correctly, CJ? :roll:

Why did Marina pick you, CJ? I forgot. :sad:

These recent posts are proof positive that men get PMS. :roll:

I have been watching you on Fox News with Bill O, and i wanted to tell you not to worry or feel bad, for those people that are saying bad things. You are wonderful and you bring joy to many peoples lives. We all love you, keep up the good work.

Your friend,

Gene Igou

hahahahaha , can you answer my other question though … how do i put my picture one here????

Click on your icon next to your name. Alternately, go here and sign up for free. Follow instructions. :)

“Whoever said all men are created equal has never been in a locker room.”

Jeff Foxworthy

Ain’t it the truth? :roll: :sad:

Don’t worry ’bout me. I mean… Y’know… :???:

Homework: I am and will follow you to the ends of the earth.

Aw! Ain’t dat tweet? :wink:

ok i signed up for it … and its probably super easy to put it on here now . or is it automatic ?

It’s retroactive. That is, it will go back to all of your posts and add the gravatar from the picture you uploaded. :)

Interesting one originalistrick. But why do you say that?

Whoever said all dogs are created equal has never been riding a dogsled.

This brings a “special” word request to mind:

[SLEEPER]

damn dogs, take a break from your bitch ass whining about the lack of attention you get from mariana.

Mariana? Who dat?

did you get my quote?

***EMERGENCY EMOTICON RESOURCE CENTER***

:cry: :sad: :neutral: :???: :smile: :cool: :razz: :grin: :mrgreen:

:evil: :twisted: :mad: :eek: :shock: :oops:

Copy & paste as needed. Plus help me out, guys, with the ones I’ve forgotten.

:cool:

who cares what some fuck in the shower thinks about your dick? you boys can play your games in the locker room. where the rubber hits the road is in the bedroom.

OK, no rude jokes about Mariana’s Trench. :evil:

Copy & Paste doesn’t work. Try it. :sad:

Nor Offa’s Dyke… :???:

Geez, the things a student has to do to get expelled around here…:roll:

In order to speed up the website, we don’t upload photos here. What we do is upload photos to other photo hosting sites like http://flickr.com and http://tinypic.com/. Tinypic is really quick and easy. Then once you have your photo uploaded just link it back to here. Use the ^a href=”link to the photo from whatever site” ^caption of photo^/a^ That’s it. Oh and remove my (^) and put in (< ) and (>) in the proper places. :)

changing your name to emoticonlover?

Da’s right you tell dem cracka-asses t bak da fuck up! :cool:

Sounds like you had a bad experience in the locker room, “boy.” So sorry about the trauma.

I might not have good grammer but i do know what retroactive is ;)

To do that would be [taboo]

please don’t share your homosexual fantasies with me.

Oh I didn’t say you have bad grammar, I said… … someone else has bad grammar. :lol:

:mrgreen:

I know I suck at grammar. Everyone knows that, but you! Even Albert E. had to get an expert mathematician to help him with his theories. :)

I’m not a Cap’n.

CAPN
Acronym Definition
CAPN Calpain
CAPN Computer Automated Practical Navigator
CAPN Customer Account Profile Number

:P

bw, wut you been smokin’, cuz? tells me so I kan avoid it secon’ han’!

if your smiling in your pic you don’t have to use the smiling emoticons.

don’t need to smoke, i breath fire.

Hey, be glad you don’t have to learn the grammar of French or German or Russian! Whoa! :eek:

English grammar has simplified over the years and is perhaps the simplest of all the Indo-European languages. We do still have irregular verbs, irregular plurals, etc. But that shouldn’t discourage anybody for too long. :grin:

You brought up the gay angle, not I. And my wife can proudly vouch for my sexual preference.

You know these folks?

Atta boy! :)

:lol:

:mrgreen:

no dude you brought up the locker room plot not i. i indicated my disinterest in having my junk sized up by another dude. i’m glad your wife can vouch for whatever sexual preference you have.

I can’t even get detention, Evan.

:idea: Guys, guys! Put away your peenors! Ms. Orlova could come back at any minute!

no, i was taught by this dude.

i ain’t showing off my dick, i’m a dick showing off.

OK, how about this:

Here are modified codes; copy & paste, THEN remove the space after the initial colon (:) and before the terminal colon. Capiche?

: cry : : sad : : neutral : : ??? : : smile : : razz : : cool : : grin : : mrgreen :

: evil : : twisted : : mad : : eek : : shock : : oops : : roll :

Whoa! Looks dangerous! :shock:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I never been onna dyke, how could I get offa? :roll:

Ora capisco. :roll: :lol:

None of us can. I wonder where Marina is right now?

Hm. :???:

Guess school’s out but I didn’t hear the bell, did you?

Unless you’re the lead dog — the view never changes. :lol:

: lol : : ? : : ! :

check out the following link about the eastern state penitentiary it’s the last program listed, titled crime and penitence, cool program.

Yo’ mama, wordlover! :razz:

Lead dogs are not really dogs.

They’re half wolves, actually. And they never bark. They howl.

Mae’r eryr yn cachu heddiw! :cool:

Marina!
I volunteer to clean out the nasty emails sent to you as suggested by Mr. O’! I’ll do it for FREE!
Jeffrey

i am buzzword! i will not be moderated!

Yes, I do follow you on Twitter. I never tweet, but I follow about 15 to 20 people. I lost track of how many.

Progressive
Socialist
Communist
Fascist

Yeah Buzz! Honestly, who would think about moderating you? You talk like… You talk like a big gorilla!

But there were times where you were not so.. erm.. not so petulant. How should I say.. A little less testosteroned maybe?

Marina,

I am also of Soviet decent so I have to defend you. I just saw you on O’Reilly’s show. The reason that you get nasty emails is because there are a lot of haters out there. You are beautiful, intelligent and obviously successful. I would ignore the negative and keep doing what you’re doing. You’ll leave all the hateful people in the dust. Wishing you continued success,

Lana

damn link! try it fresh, http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2006/04/28

You put the quote in the right place, got it… thanks
I remember this vid, good stuff… just don’t wear the speedo to my next pool party.

dude, i just provided a link to an npr program. n p r… national public radio. does that balance me out?

Absolutely.

RESPECT
Re= again
Spectare= to see

This is a word I’d love for you to post. I feel it is the most important realization for people who seek to understand each others realities; and when we understand others, we are able to free ourselves of arrogance in the appreciation of a clearer sense of what is likely to be actual. Arrogance… I strongly feel, is the greatest killer of numinous energy, due to the dogma we dysfunctionally obsess over when we isolate ourselves in singlemindedness.

OOOOhhhh, whoever your grammar was, she sure passed on some good looks to you! (Too bad these gravatars are so small.) :grin:

Yah he talk like a Gorilla and walks with a waddle.

even if i bring the beer?

yep yep, walk with a wiggle, ride in style and sling the bling! only a few in my crew but we packing i.q.

[ CHARITY ] Is not it the real meaning of love?

All I can say is lock me up and throw away the key

here’s a link to gorilla zoe, waddle in h.d. to intensify the bass for proper thumping.

Ho hum, running out of ideas for tonight…

Hey, HFW fans, try googling “Марина Орлова HotForWords” (copy from here & paste in browser) for some interesting Russian views of Marina… :smile:

.

[caritas]
[querida]
[chere]
[caru]
[care]

Yup, got that right, bro! :smile:

No more beer for you or you won’t be allowed in thehot tube

shut up Evan hahahaha . I feel so wrong saying that “Shut Up Evan .” cause that is my sons name !

hey, my dancing is popular in japan!

“Интеллект — это сексуально!” :grin:

Yo soy sin palabras Zipper Lip :-z

“Soviet decent”? Извините, вы Русская?

Ok you can bring the beer, butt hide your smokes, my wife is an unbearable ex-smoker

[TRAMP STAMP]

@rachel

Well! Ye’ve married an Irishman an’ given your son a Welsh name! Ye must be my kind of folks! :grin:

Cead mile failte / croeso yn fawr / a hearty welcome! :wink:

Did you see the tweet, when this happened?

yeah, cool! i’ll hide the smokes and loose the speedo. i like skinny dipping.

I rest my case! If you go to nicemachines.com, click on the “Human History and December 21, 2012″ link to see what I am talking about.

nicemachines.com has been under construction for many years but not advertised. I need visitors to make my work meaningful and help me get out of “below poverty” living from Social Security Disability. I’ve been learning computers since 1984 by myself without teachers because I was always learning stuff that wasn’t taught in school yet. Give it a try, help me. Thanks to all that are willing to give me a chance. ThankZ!

Dean

Whose tweet? Several people may have tweeted/texted etc.; perhaps the In Touch, print edition, March 9, 2009 will have more info.

(HW: I have been seeing Marina’s tweets since around Jan 10, 09.)

You don’t have to try twitter, but don’t fear or mock it. Marina tried digg, cocomment & other stuff to bring traffic. Twitter seems to be quite effective in attracting followers & the more she tweets the more she attracts attention.
People that respond to her on twitter have their followers see their tweets & check out this “Hotforwords” person. Heck my son-in-law’s dad is now a hotforwords twitter follower.
If you give it try, follow some folks that interest you, or even folks that live in your area. I remember you said once that you took quite a while before you started to comment @ hotforwords. Take your time & enjoy change, it can be wonderful.
Anyways I’m sure your email is filled up on this one. have fun with the delete key.

If my memory serves me correctly (it doesn’t always) Marina mentioned on twitter that she was talking to Klitshco, & this young starlet came up to him while he was talking to “M”. She started flirting in an inappropriate manner sitting in his lap & misbehaving.
I asked “which brother?” … now I know. Also learned from your link, Vitali’s been married for 13 years.
But what’s important now… will the Brothers do battle in the ring. That would be the card of the decade I’m sure. gotta’ happen

Marina mentioned talking to Klitschko and that he was really nice; and that her conversation was interrupted by Panettiere jumping on his lap and talking to him incessaently.

Sorry, I tried following you on Twitter, but I couldn’t get any work done, for having to look at my phone twice every hour.

Great work Marina in educating the people that want to learn. The majority of your words I know and can trace back their origins but their are some that I was not aware of. So great job!

Only request I have is to set-up an official Facebook account. I am new here and as a big fan of MR. O that is what encouraged me to sign up , so being new I may have over looked an Official account.

Keep up the great work!

At every chance I get to follow on twitter. I need to get a move on a bit more. Plus I need to shrink my images a bit more to fit in on other sites.

Yes BillyB, she was

Hey Billy,
It seems that the the Sexy Geek voting site is having some issues whereby they are not recognizing or blocking certain domains on purpose or by accident. My ISP is ATT. I wonder if you are with ATT also?

I was able to successfully vote on my iPhone just a few minutes ago and registered vote #34700 which I also saw increment on my desktop, but I am not able to vote on my desktop despite it having been more than 24 hours ago and I am using a different browser.

By the way Billy, it does not matter which link you use to vote.

This link is the main link which embeds the other link. To view Marina right away without having to scroll, click on the “top-rated” link just above the scrolled window.

The advantage of using this link is that it supposedly clears the cookie at the appropriate 24 hour increment.
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/12/every-geeks-a-l.html

I prefer this link as it get to the heart of the matter.
I clear my own cookies after voting to be ready for the next 24 hour voting period.
http://reddit.wired.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top

Currently, there seems to be a problem for me to vote also from my desktop where my ISP is ATT. I am able to vote perfectly fine on my iPhone.

Let me out of this pink box, this is like being locked up!

Hi Marina!

I just spent the last 4 days overhauling my comp. Did about 8 reinstalls of windows, came to find out one of my video cards was dying.

<|^^^^^^^^^^^^^|===========))))))

” (@)’(@)”"”"*|(@)(@)*****(@)(@)*****(@)(@)”””’

Crud. My ROFLTRUCK got fudged up.

If I recall that hfw tweet correctly there was some female rivalry going on there. Whole night cats were spot fighting for a title on that that boxer’s lap. (lol)

My thoughts exactly! :cool:

Get him now ladies coz after a 10 round battle in the ring with a toughy a boxer can get cauliflower ears and then he starts thinking of marriage.

a lot of boxers get their ears busted up but it ain’t so bad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW9jj4EuoTQ

Marina, sure I follow you on twitter, even thought doing so is like conversing witha a fence post most of the time, no conversing like a oneway plow. [oneway]

Why should she be any different from all the others, everyones packing used.

She has put the website in a safe mode for the increased traffic from the O’Reilly show.

The site is overloaded with cute little plug ins. The more plugs the slower the site becomes. Take your pick.

You can manually type them in like this :cool: :)

Gotta go get some sleep tonight, I’ve been up about two days straight fixing my computer. Good Night Marina.

Good Night hotforwords fans!

With Twitter you can multi-task twittercelebrity style, do a live text interview while you’re getting your hair cut. Then after you check out your hair you can hop into a cab and kickback and read how your interview went. tweet’n

: mrgreen : shock : : oops : : cool : cool beans

I screwed up anyway :roll:

Did you leave out “curse” on purpose? :twisted:

I forward your request but I knew that M wouldn’t lock you out. I think peer pressure is the best method. ;)

word request [perfection]. After seeing your recent interview on Bill O’Reilly, I just wanted to say don’t listen to the haters, because in every way, you are “perfection” ;)

How about the word [ meritricious ]; one of my personal favorites that describes so many people I’ve known so very well (certainly YOU, not included). I learned of your site tonight on O’Reilly, fired-up my computer to check it out, and I’m hooked already. Nothing beats the [ concatenation ] of brains with beauty…..except, maybe, a medium rare porterhouse and an ice cold dirty martini, straight up, with three olives.
You go, girl.

Clinton

Interesting. I see the deadline has passed and the site hasn’t been updated since August, so I guess this is too late to make it.
I have found that the wisdom I learned from my mother and grandmother wasn’t in a form for me to appreciate the lesson until years later. It came in the form of trite sayings which had been learned by rote.
For example:
“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again.”
Hidden message; If at first you don’t succeed, your not doing it right – keep trying different things until you find something that works.
I just wish that I had discovered this, or had it explained fully, earlier in my life.

Hi Marina,

I saw your interview with Mr.O’Reilly and I think that the people who said those things are just plain stupid and don’t even deserve your contempt! Don’t let such simple-minded and hateful people keep you from doing the fantastic work your doing!… No matter what those jerks say, What I and so many others here and out there see is a Intelligent, beautiful lady who enjoys teaching and sharing her interest and knowledge in English… and having seen some of the things those people said about you, all I can say is that they are just h8ters and cowards…. and just plain retarded!

So keep on smilin’ and don’t let them get to you… Dont give them the pleasure of knowing that the stupid, hurtful things they say affect you…. Don’t let them win… People say stuff like that when they can’t bear the success of others… so that tells volumes about just how far you’ve come!

Carpe Diem!

That’s something an older woman would say :-/

…or a militant lesbo B)

Can’t wait for the Full Beaver Moon. :lol:

That’s the intention of detention. :smile:

I’m curious about the phrase and meaning behind (hodge podge) not sure of the spelling. I’ve heard it used, as to descibe a variety of items, such as “you have a hodge podge of socks.”

How come you don’t know how to insert a hyperlink?

You say you have been “learning computers” for 25 years :-/

Silly Che. They didn’t have hyperlinks 25 years ago. Gosh :shock: I thought everybody knew that. :roll:

Quote
“A witty saying proves nothing.” – Voltaire 1694-1778…Plows save much work. Good one John. The ground is most wonderful and rakeing is a before and after sow.. Plow the the wasp under…bees are good….blah ablah and ablah again

BTW, a present from Capman
:smile: : mrgreen : neutral : twisted : arrow : shock : smile : ??? : cool : evil : grin : idea : oops : razz : roll : wink : cry : eek : lol : mad : sad : ! : ?

Hello, Marina. I would like to know the origin of the word [disgruntled], meaning not happy with the situation. I often tell people I am gruntled, meaning happy, but they always ask what is wrong, not getting the little play on words. I cannot find a word [gruntled] in the dictionary, however.

Thanks

wfpot

Blue Cheer – Parchment Farm – 11/16/06 Tallahassee, FL
…

…[boot scares]….do not get or want free housing….

You have just been hyperlinked into Outer Space

This ones better

Lyrics:

Every night outta town, every night outta town
I go now, go now, I pulsate
I’ll be all fine, I’ll be all fine, man
I’ll take away, take away, be alright

JAILBREAK

The Allman Brothers Band – One Way Out (Live …

…[STRIKE-force]…greg?

…Elmore James – One Way Out….out to the field:-)(-)

wfpot.. that’s a good one. The gruntled is actually related to letting out a grunt.. which is a sign of dissatisfaction.. so disgruntled should be the opposite.. but it’s not.. hmmm..

JIMMIE RODGERS-IN THE JAILHOUSE NOW

***HotForWords Addiction Log, Day 193***

No cure for HFW addiction, eh?
Let’s try this then…
• Open new word document
• Close eyes
• Type 8 random letters while thinking of something else
• ctrl+a to select all
• ctrl+c
• open eyes
• go to My Profile on HFW
• go to New Password
• ctrl+v
• confirm password: ctrl+v again
• click “update profile”
• close eyes again, return to Word document, close without saving.
• return to HFW and log out.

There. I have locked myself out. :!:

Cheers! See y’all whenever! :grin:

Morning!

Mornin’ Had to let pooch out, so I’m awake a little early here!

FOLSOM PRISON

Make sure its a girl fence post(KNOT)…old farm joke :smile:

:lol: [still] morning and have a good 1 :smile: :lol:

Thanks for the reply. By the way, do you have a name for the “pooch” yet??

wfpot

:smile: Johnny Cash – San Quentin (Live from Prison) :???:

IMPRISONED FROM WITHIN … A jail without bars

i would like to request the word [Genocide]
or the phrase [ Armenian Genocide ]

not too soon we hope :mrgreen: E,O.
you could always come back [incognito] :roll:
I hardly recognize you :lol:
:cool: B.B. :evil:

Marina:

I propose having a contest. The contest is whoever can pay you the classiest compliment while putting a smile on your face in the most original way wins a date with you.

Here is my entry. (I give you permission to copy this concept)

Definition of [PHEW]-Any picture or any time Marina makes an appearance.

Word Origin- (Russian of course) The first time I ever saw Marina (on The Factor)

Most Appropriate Synonym-[GA-GA]

The Best Example of When You Combine The Two (Marina and the word PHEW) Making Bill O’Reilly (the master of cool) stutter or even remember what he wants to say, when you appear on his program. Even Bill does not know how to handle your beauty.

Thanks Marina,
Jay (JESilver@aol.com)

Did he really do it?
Who am I going to swap puns with now? :cry:

I follow you even on twitter of course!!! :mrgreen:

To be more precise “panettiere” in Italian means baker…can you explain this? :???:

Definitely in the ass-tronomical category.

“The weakest link in a chain is also the strongest. It can break the chain.”
– Baron Stanislaw Jerzy de Tusch-Lec (1909-1966)
:smile:

PK,

Remember the issue I mentioned a few days ago about my votes not “taking”? Well, it’s still happening, no matter what I do. I (we) know I’m “tech-challenged”, but something ain’t right. All I know is this never happened until about 8 to 10 days ago.

Hey beautiful person, I have a new word for you! It isn’t in any dictionary I looked at. Try……….. Unjustice ………….!
I did find a definition for it on a website though: http://www.theunjusticesystem.com
It is quite lengthy so maybe you can check it out and let’s get it in the dictionary!
That site is: http://www.theunjusticesystem.com
Thanks Beautiful

PK,

My ISP is Roadrunner/TimeWarner.

Hi originalistrick,
Yes, I remember and it is an issue for me also on my desktop, but not a problem on my iPhone. Who is your ISP? Mine is ATT and I’m wondering if the Sexy Geek site is blocking ATT users.

Thanks originalistrick, I got your ISP.
I’ll send an email to Wire.com and let them know.
It looks like a lot more people are having problems as I see the vote only incremented one vote from the time that I voted on my iPhone many hours ago.

lmao @ the wiggles!

Thanks alot, PK. I wish I could be more help. Really appreciate your efforts. I know darlin’ Miss M. must be thankful for what you do.

Did you say spud? :shock:

You want fries with that shake? Ha! Ha! :mrgreen:

Let me introduce you to my cousin Frenchy,
Frenchy Fry from Belgium :cool:

Do you put ketchup or vinegar on your fries?

Does English food taste so bad that vinegar actually makes it taste better? :shock: :wink:

Oh, PK, for the record, I just tried voting using the links you listed for BillyB, and that failed. I guess you already knew they wouldn’t work, but I thought I’d tell you, in case it’s pertinent.

I’d like to know the origin of the word [moron] because I saw you on the O’Reilly show last night and anyone who is rude to you and thinks you look 60 is a moron.

Sorry I havent been around much.. family is staying.

for some reason my background (on the comments that automatically have them) seems darker… than everyone elses

Hi Marina:I was just on Comcast and they had your interview with Bill O’Riley interview featured as a “Hot” video.

Stop showering, tends to make the family’s stay a little shorter… but then who’d want you around here then :razz:

FYI:

I hardly ever shower or bath, only dirty people wash..

Anyway, these are my cool family people. I love them to pieces.

HAHA!! Oh that would work I guess, but then there is always that forgotten password button you will HAVE to go back to… I know I would, I could never leave here. I love this site more than I love smoking…. Which I am quitting next month… But still..

If you live in a penitentiary, it’s a little more difficult to order your fast food. Thanks to annspade for the link. Gotta’ watch the “order board” :lol:

I’m a Motorcar Mechanic, so I live in the shower. The cool family may enjoy this… Eagles nesting, with eaglet that hatched yesterday. Happening just a few Kms from our house, ironicly right next to the airport.

O’Reilly post is up, if you didn’t see it on TV :shock:

gee leonard just use a sheep instead, I’ve heard its not as rough, or a ram if that’s your preference?

marina, i would like to request the word [heartbroken]

Good afternoon, Marina! Sorry I overslept, AGAIN! :(

The rain really makes me tired. It’s soporific… :roll:

Hi Marina, I would like to request the word [cakewalk] or [cake walk], in the sense of “something that is easily done.”

Maybe it’s related to the dance?

:idea: You are requesting it just for a video idea (replete with sound effects and superimposed Victorian line drawings)? Or because you don’t know the etymology?

wow! so i guess californias system is all messed up. Need to take it back to history.

Interesting one Evan.

That proves one thing. Donkeys seem to like bananas. And that raises another question. Are all animals created equal? Whatcha think? :cool:

Hi Marina. Can u follow me on twitter please? My twitter is http://www.twitter.com/fatax Kissess

Hi Marina I watched you on the factor If you where 60 you would be the prettiest 60 year old that i’ve ever seen:mrgreen:

so i couldn’t think of a word ar phrase i wanted to learn about guess you could say “cat got my toungue”. which made me think, maybe i already thought of one. So, i think you should “let the cat out of the bag”(you’ll never guess which video i just watched, and was inspired by) on the phrase, [cat got your toungue]

Homework :cool: I follow you on twitter, but I have not signed up on Twitter. Not sure if that counts as following. :???: By the way, I enjoy your Twitpics :!: :grin:

We all remember the expression, “Those who can’t remember history are destined to repeat it.” Well guess what:

POLITICIANS who can’t remember history are going to make THE REST OF US repeat it.

I apologize for that, Marina. I won’t say any more political stuff.

i really wanna know wat it means

When you look at the camera and call us your students, I hunger for knowledge. Also, your accent makes me melt. But what I would like to branch out on is about human sexuality. When I day dream I often wonder how the English came up with a word to describe the oral stimulation of the vulva. I would like to request the word [cunnilingus]. I just don’t see the vulva licker from the word [cunnilingus]. Take me from ignorance.

Garlic Joke :mrgreen:

First witch: Why do you keep throwing bunches of garlic out of the window?
Second witch: To keep the vampires away.
First witch: But there aren’t any vampires round here.
Second witch: See, it works doesn’t it.

:lol:

I follow you on Twitter Marina. :)

I would like to request the word [cupidity]. Thanks in advance.

Hi marina. I just saw your last appearance on o-reily and I cant believe someone had a rude thing to say about your accent. I love your accent very much, The way you pronounce your words, tone of your voice ,I just really enjoy.
Thanks, just wanted to let you know.
STEVE

Heh! Thanks! I also go to board for the “Kindertrauma” site and it lets one use Gravatar images. A few months ago I was there and I used BOB from “Twin Peaks” as my avatar since BUT, he shows up here as well and he’s not exactly fit for this website! I switched to a black screen but someone else here uses that so I chose the Wiggle puppet :razz:

Teacher: What’s with you pushing garlic into the laptops diskdrive?

Pupil: To keep vampires away from the internet Miss!

Teacher: But there aren’t any vampires on the internet!

Pupil: Well there you go, it works then doesn’t it!

Déjà vu !
:shock:

Hey Marina

I’ve always been very interested in the origin of various words, sometimes wondering how the words I use on a daily basis came to. I’m also interested in the russian language, culture and history, so I’ve come to like your videos very much.
Especially the ones spoken in your native tongue. (although I don’t understand one bit of it, but hopefully sometime in the future)

I would like to make a word request, and the word is
[communism]
As I mentioned before, I’m very interested in russian history and culture, so that let me to being interested in communism and politics and philosophy in general.
So I thought it would be fun to hear, from you, how the word originated and how it developed through time.
Other words I thought would be interesting to hear about are:
[Nihilism], [Anarchism] and [absurd].

Keep on posting more great videos.

Best wishes.

You should get a Twitter account a lot of us are there.
If you do I’ll tell you how to find us. :idea:

Really well said and very true

:mrgreen: you really are as [cute as a button] with all of your lesson’s on all of these words!keep up the good work Marina!!

:mrgreen: jokers are immuned to the stuff!

Hi Marina!

I would like to know where the word [bullshit] comes from!

Will you investigate?

Marina, you’re my new hero. Just wanted to say I think it’s great to see a beautiful girl that actually knows what sexy is. I also found out yesterday that you and I share the exact same birthday (DEC. 10th, 1980) thought that was pretty funny as well. Anyways, keep up the good work. Girls like you are few and far between anymore.

Marina,
some of the art mediums I use when teaching my students are [tempra, crayons, and oil pastels]. I’ve always thought that crayon is such an odd word. I’m glad to see woman who is not only beautiful but promote intelligence. Our youth need role models… stay classy, not trashy.

HotForWords, I am curious about where the word [tease] comes from, its origins.

The word is interesting to me because it can be used to describe schoolyard bullies, at one end of the spectrum, to flirtatious behavior at the other end, and numerous subtle variations in between.

Will you please investigate?

this Easter I wanted to know where the word [bunny] comes from.
you know as in bunny rabbit, which is sexier than pussy cat.

 
Congratulations Marina, you just
passed 190,000 subscribers on YouTube.

That jailhouse is a bad place to be. Hayden Panettiere never new who she was. I Remember reading about her in ring-magazine. She was dating Wladimir Klitschko a very good fighter 52-3-46- KO His brother is a good fighter too. Vitali KO YOUR OUT

SPELLING MISTAKE! on the orielly page, you have written meet instead of meat

Boooiinnnnnnnnnnggggggg!!!! ☼Spring has sprung☼ :shock:

Boooiinnnnnnnnnnggggggg!!!! ☼Oh! That’s just Morning Wood☼

Dude! Be careful. You’ll put an eye out with that thang. :wink:

some protection for you :cool:

HAHA :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: SERVES YOU RIGHT YOUTUBE!!!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/apr/09/youtube-google-money

:lol:

Yo…id like to request the word [Often]

Let the fun :-) be fun…<a href=”"Symbol” – Pentacle Song…

I LOVE….RED—-HEADS…love a redhead; a blond will read the RED…. :lol:

:smile: I will not quit :lol:

“Symbol” – Pentacle Song

Yea, the third eye {you know the stinkin’ brown eye} :wink: :mrgreen:

Look out for morning termites.

Mediums?

Yes, but she is going to have to work on the use of the long E sound wherever a short I is used. For example, “catcher’s mitt,” not “catcher’s meet.” This must be very hard when you learned it the other way all your life.

Got to remember to leave a space on either side if you type the smiley code instead of clicking the icon. That will be twelve cents, please.

Hey, Where have you been? :???:
Missed ya :smile:

Ed Zackly!

Somehow the logic of not needing to wash because you are always clean escapes me. (Which came first, the chicken or the egg-shaped soap?)

That’s as shaky piece of logic as James’.

I would like to request the phrase [Cuter than a button] :razz: :lol: :grin: :smile: :mrgreen:

No, no, don’t quit the site! Give up smoking instead! Oh, wait… you meant just the opposite, didn’t you? :lol:

…’Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.

Oh! Look who wants to have an argument now. Shaky piece of logic?

I myself think this logic is as hard as a 12 inch sinker nail. Nothing related to James’ stuff. Nothing at all.

You are going to have to explain how using the closing colon from one smiley to form the opening colon for the next is supposed to work.

You are going to have to explain how using the closing colon from one smiley to form the opening colon for the next is supposed to work.

Theoretically fascist should be several notches above progressive in your list. Practically, the list is about right, because there is little difference in the dictatorships.

I would like to request the word [bragadocious] :razz: :mrgreen: :wink: :lol: :grin: :cool: :smile:

Because everyone likes dirt—especially celebrity dirt—perhaps a popular new feature of the site would be Dirt of the Day, which consists of the filthiest, rudest, most ungentlemanly E-mail of the day. If several good ones arrive on the same day, they can be saved and parcelled out on “slow E-mail days” in order to even the supply.

Of course, fake dirty, rotten E-mails would be immediately discarded. Only genuinely lousy E-mails are allowed (one must strive for continuous quality). Now the more creative of us would be tempted to produce some real [corkers] so that the ordinary lame-brained scribblers will be left frustratingly in the dust, with their E-mails languishing in second-ratedness, but we must resist; only authentic crap must be allowed, so that this new feature will allow us to peer into their twisted souls (which is where the fun is).

Bitch-ass should be hyphenated as it is a compound adjective. Some people just make me sick with their weakly-punctuated comments. And then Marina, being a proper noun, must be capitalized. Can you believe someone forgetting that? How can something so basic be ignored. Plus the sin is compounded by not capitalizing the first word of the sentence. It’s just plain disgusting. And your mother dresses you funny.

There, is that better whining? :roll:

Because the earth is round, you won’t be able to find the end. So, you will just have to follow her forever.

Youse damned.

Heck, what can I say?

Practically perfect whining CK! :cool:

My daughters asked me what does [clean your clock] mean.

Please help me look good to them. I know it means to inflict a sound beating. But where did the phrase come from?

Thanks for being so HOT!

There are two kinds of people: those smelly, sweaty ones inside the locker room, who need a vigorous hosing down, and the clean ones, like James and me, who sit upon our thrones of serenity with clothespins on our noses.

WOO!!

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Four more days till a very important [deadline] :!: Just a little reminder! :wink:

Marina,

You are beautiful and your word videos make me smile.

Okay here is a word I have been wanting you to research for a long time [HYPNOSIS]

Since its what I do I would like you to research it.

Cheers,

Don The Hypnotist
http://www.donthehypnotist.com

:grin: Garlic Joke

Have you heard of the garlic diet?
You don’t lose much weight, but from a distance
your friends think you look thinner.

:lol:

Oops!

I dont follow you, with twitter!!
I dont now, what is twitter?? :roll:
Can you expane me?

ends of the earth!!
wow, thats nice! :razz:

My dear teacher!
Ha!

Love your website and look forward to latest lesson everyday. Plus you are funny!

In the course of your future lessons can you tell me where the phrase “smoking gun ” cam from and why it is used so widely in the US legal system?

Thanks and Love ya
XOXOXO

Bob

Could you explain how this phrase was established?

[Good Friday]

Also saw you on tv where you commented about the hate mail you have received. Sorry you have that happening to you. First, those people are jealous of your talent and to call you ‘old looking’, ARE THEY BLIND??????
Beautikful, smart and a cool accent, I like that.

Thanks for reading this

Falcon

Ahem … I don’t have any garlic jokes, but I do have an Easter joke.
Q. Why doesn’t Jesus use superglue?
A. He prefers “No More Nails”.

Hi Marina!
I would like to request the word [avocado]. Did it really mean testicle back in the day?

Thanks :)

think i found a good song for your show

[pizza http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_pizza#Etymology http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/pizza.html ]

Tell me about the word [maven] [Plethora] [compensability]

Thank you, what a unique and novel way to learn, capture the mind, and imprint the memory. Your a beautiful genius.

How about a little joke to living thing up here:

Two cows are standing next to each other in a field. Daisy says to Dolly, “I was artificially inseminated this morning.”

“I don’t believe you,” says Dolly.

“It’s true, no bull!” :lol:

Please tell me about the word [cassavah]

So far everything that you bring up has been great. I work on a boat as a engineer and this helps me get through my thirty days from home alot better. Keep up the good work. And, by the way you look great.

Hey marina, can you explain where the word [queue] comes from?

[chagrin]

:smile: Happy EASTer and the power of Faberge Egg fetches record $US18.5 MLN :cool:

…Russian EGGS…

:lol: :mrgreen: :lol:

[Groan]. [Grin] :grin: :lol:

Good job of trying to cover up your real age on the o’rielly factor Marina!

You are going to have to explain how replying twice is needed :grin:

You are going to have to explain how replying twice is needed :grin: .

I can’t believe there have been 23920 comments since I was comment 100000

:smile: Fred Astaire & Judy Garland – Easter Parade :wink:

:lol: ΠΕΡΑ ΜΠΑΝΤΑ “PERA BANDA” (Parchment Farm – Mose Allison)
… :roll: …good one dar Che Volay… :lol:

Update: Interesting story about this 3rd worm attack.
http://blog.bull3t.me.uk/archives/internet/twitter-infected-with-mikeyy-worm

Attention to anyone who uses Twitter. Visit the link below for further instructions on how to clear the worm out of your twitter account if you get infected. I should emphasize that the attack is more of a nuisance than malicious – its only activity is to post unwanted messages. It appears that no passwords or other sensitive information was ever collected. I would recommend that you do not try to view anyone’s twitter profile or click on their twitter name until a patch is made.

This is the story about the 3rd worm that came out about 2am PDT this Sunday morning.
http://mashable.com/2009/04/12/mikeyy-another-twitter-worm-on-the-loose/

This worm only affects your twitter account. Your computer is still completely safe of this worm.

I don’t know when you’re serious or not half the time. The other half, I don’t know know when you are joking. Just in case: space semi-colon text semi-colon space. For brevity, the examples have the opening and closing semis combined. I know you know how to do this, but just in case anyone else needs to know. :roll:

that was tacky

For those of you wishing a video response, please form a line over there :arrow:

You have a twitter worm? :shock: That sounds so disgusting! :roll:

Is that you or the worm making all the repeats?

It’s just a little script that takes over your twitter account and types up nasty little comments. It lives in the Bio link colors. Twitter has installed a patch but it will take some time for the worms to die out. :smile:

Im repeating the warning to my followers and other hashtag groups, but the “Man, Twitter can’t fix shit. Mikeyy owns. :)”– “Dude! Mikeyy! Seriously? Haha. ;)” & “Mikeyy. Woooo!” tweets are fake. It’s just a script randomly tweeting pre-programmed tweets. This worm will not affect you computer, just your twitter account.

Twitter worms?
“The worms crawl in”
“The worms crawl out”
LMAO!
What else did you get for Easter?
I’ve been getting chocolate bunnies and golden eggs
(over at Guild Wars). My Monk Ranger is level 16 in pre-Charr. Lots of people from around the world partying up that place! :mrgreen:
Remember when we used to do that here?

Hi Marina,

I think that you’ll find this word quite interesting:

[disambiguation]

Thanks

WyzoMan

I did get shit for Easter. I actually enjoyed getting the worm. It added some old school fun to my evening. Well the day is just getting started so I’m going to bed. I should be able to sleep half of the day way. Marina should be up soon. She’s an early bird :wink:

Hello Marina,

I’d like to know more about the word,

[Mood]

Thank you,
Chris

Here’s another request: why does [$] stand for [dollar]?

:cool: Hope everyone has a happy & safe Easter :!: :grin:

Nonsense! Tacks would be too weak & not nearly long enough.

Ha! :smile:

This request has been made before. I remember seeing a picture of the ancient start of the symbol some time ago. It was two stone columns (equating to the to lines through the dollar sign, even though the sign appears sometimes with only one line) wrapped by a wavy banner (equating to the S itself). I forget which words appeared on the bannner or who used the symbol.

Why not?

It just means obvious evidence, such as seeing a still-smoking gun after a shooting. For example, if you tickled M with a feather until she went nuts, if you were caught with the feather on your person, it would be the smoking gun.

Your only defense would be to flap your wings and fly off.

Twitter is a service that allows people to broadcast periodic messages to interested parties telling them of what they are doing, their current thoughts or any nonsense they can dream up. Its success depends of course on the ability of the sender to attract followers. Basically, it is a blog that is dispensed in lots of little pieces.

We already have enough distractions I think. If you already know everything a person is doing/thinking, what is there to talk about when you meet, except to say, “I know, I know“?

They howcumzit you didn’t ask this way?

Relax.
You are feeling rested and relaxed.
Listen only to the sound of my voice.
Notice how evenly my words sound.
You can not hold your eyes open.
You are now in a deep, deep sleep.
You will do [hypnosis] as your next lesson.
Take off your top.
GET THE DAMNED DOG OFF MY ANKLE!

And what phrases are used in other languages to mean the same thing?

Evan?
Chemikal?

Might as well throw in [cuter than a junebug's hind leg]. Stuff like that is probably just dreamed up by one person and catches on through word of mouth or from being in some publication, like a short story. It might be very hard to find the true origin, in which case M is not going to do a lesson just to say, “I can’t find out. Another mystery not solved by your trusty Hotforwords.”

Perhaps there should be a list on the site of all the words M has looked at, but decided that she can’t/won’t do a lesson on. They could be inserted in the alphabettic lesson list in parenthesis, so that everyone will know not to bother. I wonder what percentage of requests would be in that category.

My mother had a second hip replacement after falling against her front door (which wasn’t latched right). That went OK, but at 88, vascular dementia is starting to show up, so my sister and I are taking turns watching her. I’m the night shift.

Her old PC had 32MB of RAM and dial up, so HFW was impossible. We got DSL and I put in an ancient stick of 128MB, but there is something still molasses-like that needs to be ironed out. So my sis brought her late Toshiba Satellite over and it works OK on WiFi.

Now if I can just watch the vids and keep the drool off the keytops…

When the McClellan AFB (decommissioned in 2001) commissary was moved to a new building, the original pre-WWII commisary building was remodeled into offices for base staff. The cooler room (where the beef was stored before butchering) was left the same size for use as a conference room. The new occupants put up a sign over the entrance to the conference room: Meet Locker.

Who was subscriber number one?

I don’t know… My cat Sweetie Pie is pretty hot. :lol:

Oops. It’s this damned Vista and touch-pad mouse on my sister’s laptop. It does things without my explicit knowledge and consent.

Oops. It’s this damned Vista and touch-pad mouse on my sister’s laptop. It does things without my explicit knowledge and consent.

:roll:

So you can get up and give a speech, and, if anyone is not pleased, beat the crap out of them. :lol:

Hello, Marina!

I was wondering if you knew the original meaning of the word [Easter] and the history of what it was, and how it became the holiday it is today. I know it is NOT originally a christian holiday. I think this will be an interesting investigation for all. Thanks!

I have always heard the phrase, “beat a tattoo.” Looking it up, a tattoo is a drum beat (or bugle call) to call soldiers/sailors to bed.

Maybe the skin art definition of tattoo had to do with revealing it when undressing for bed.

Marina, Thank you so much for your educational and entertaining website. My word request is in response to your clip on the origin of ‘hot dog’. Another questionable food related word is [headcheese] or [head cheese] (not sure which is correct). It is a form of lunch mest usually made from pork ‘byproducts’. I am assuming things like the cheeks and snout from the pigs head. It doesn’t taste too bad but I wish they had been a little more creative with the name!

Keep the faith
heatseeker

he he!
thanks!! :smile:

Errr – sorry – that should have been ‘lunch meat’. I hope ‘mest’ is not a word!

Q: What’s a Jewish dilema?

A: Pork at half price….

my bad…. going away now…

hey marina could you do this word for me please [bootleg]

i didn’t know what’s-her-name even had annudder name – i thought she was just “Claire”.

yes, i follow you on Twitter. But none of your hot friends have hit on me yet. where’s the justice in that?

can we do [pantaloon] now? and are pantaloons why men wear [pants] or why they [pant]?

most likely, both…(-;

http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/06/12/panties-game/

Bad Sparky Bad. Though it was still funny. :mrgreen:

LMAOROTF :lol:
:cool: B.B. :mrgreen:

I would like to request the word [disgruntled]

thanks

Sounds like she got a Bum Steer to me.

Marina,
Easter treats and eats too you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38W6AA-RsyA

I would like to request the word [jock]. We used to call athletes that in high school and I recently heard that is a nickname for a Scottish soldier. Are they related?

You seem to have a lot of [Energy], am I right? :idea:

Hi Marina,

Hi Marina,
Saw you on “the factor” and you were not only sexy but very intelligent and it did NOT look cheap. Plus, you finally told me where ‘understand’ originated. Believe it or not, that has plagued me for more years than I would like to count! Here is another and I believe it is an English phrase[ BACK TO THE HILT ]. This is the only way I’ve heard it and it is probably related to one of their many wars(see PILLBOX or TANK). On the same subject, will you please investigate [ BLOODY ] as in,” give me a bloody pint of ale” or ” I lost me bloody job today, give me pint of ale.” If you are smiling, thats good. You look’em up and I’ll make you laugh. Your site is educational and fun (not an easy thing to do) so keep up the good work! hope to hear from ya soon!
thank you,
beevee14

soldiers carried liquor in there bootlegs to hide it

americans act on cue and britons act on queue resulting in different results.

I’m a new user – so greetings.
And I have a word request [JAZZ].

Don’t do it

Hello My Dear Teacher. I Saw You On The “O’Reilly Factor”. You Did Very Well.
I Hope None Of My Comments Have Offended You. I’m Proud To Be One Of Your
Students And Wish You Much Success. People Who Send You Rude Comments
Should Be Put In A “Penitentiary”.

ps. When Will Your Book Be Available?

:lol: HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE It’s aboutTIMEfor JESUS to come back

TIME

TIME

Knock,knock.
Who’s there?
Ether
Ether who?
Ether bunny.
.
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Juan
Juan who?
Juan more ether bunny.
.
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Stella
Stella who?
Stella nother ether bunny.
.
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Justin
Justin who?
Justin other Ether Bunny.
.
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Samoa
Samoa who?
Samoa Ether Bunnies.
.
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Beryl
Beryl who?
Beryl of ether bunnies.
.
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Dewey
Dewey who?
Dewey have to listen to any more ether bunny jokes?
.
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Consumption.
Consumption who?
Consumption be done about all these ether bunnies?
.
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Cargo
Cargo who?
Cargo “beep, beep”…run over all the ether bunnies.
.
Knock, Knock.
Who’s there?
Boo.
Boo who?
Don’t cry–all the Ether bunnies will be back again next year!
.
And one last bunny joke…
.
Q: What do you give the Easter Bunny for making a basket?
A: Two points, same as everybody else.
.
Happy Ether! :mrgreen:

Aloha! Be sure to check out the pulldown menus for some neat stuff.
If you go to Gravatar(dot)com, you can put a pic or graphic avatar up and lose the computer generated one. It’s quick and easy to do. Enjoy! :mrgreen:

Hiya! Bloody Mary is closely related to Easter, and the phrases you mention are word corruptions of this.
Now that you found this site, go exploring and have a bloody good time :mrgreen:

“Save the cheerleader, save the World”
Happy Easter, Tom :mrgreen:

Thanks for the kind thoughts :mrgreen:
Spring has sprung,
the grass has rizz
Where last year’s
reckless driver is :shock:
(Why does wreckless mean the opposite of reckless?)

I second this request. The Spanish word for Easter [Pascua] looks nothing like it. What’s up with that?

Art Medium or Art Media – the material used for making an art work. Also the liquid mixed with pigment making it suitable for painting. [tempera paint, crayons, oil pastels]

you mean I just happened to pick a phrase derived from Easter ON Easter. Amazing!

Hey I saw you on O’Reilly factor, you’re really gorgeous.

will you be my cuddle buddy <3

Remember too, this was right after the peak of Social Darwinism in America. “Survival of the Fittest,” in essence, might makes right. Much of this attitude paved the way for America’s international and domestic attitude throughout the twentieth century. :sad:

Seems to me that a (w)reckless driver would be a good thing. :???:

Really stuck it to me that time. :roll:

Yes it is, danielpool, and from what I can see, He is really gonna be pissed off. :roll:

Hey Marina,

I would like to request the phrase [a piece of cake].

Thanks,
Rudolf :)

Word Request :cool:
[Amber]

My maiden name is Lent….which comes from Richer Von lent (used to be a country in Europe and the name meant richer from the land of lent or so I have been told) However I know that lent is a period of time in the catholic tradition as well and I was wondering if they had anything to do with each other or the history behind the word. THANKS!

 
Here Daniel, let me give you a hand. You meant this video, right? You had an ‘x’ instead of a ‘y’ in the link. It’s one of my favs.

             TIME
     

You really knocked yourself out on that one.
Ether way, Happy Ether too you too. :lol:

You got all of that just from queue? I think Americas foreign policy in the 20th AND 21st century has been one of counter-acting people or peoples who believe “might makes right”. Also, isn’t comparing that to darwinism kinda apples/oranges?

or the BAD end of the stick!

Why do you say Ether? Do you have a lithp?

:shock: John: do you know how to fix a ram?…It broke last fall plowing my field…the sheep are for your peace of mind? :?: the rolling stones have a lot of good songs like this one, kind of folk rock, similar to some beatles songs. But some people don’t know…

Sittin’ On A Fence was released on Flowers album, June 1967 have a tongue :grin:

you made me think of the popular movie “titanic”. the sinking occurred at the end of the edwardian era. a part of me wanted to see dicaprio’s character survive and winslet’s character perish. to represent the cultural shift that was to come with the beginning of the great war. i think that you are right regarding the “survival of the fittest” comment. however i think the idea of the “fittest” changed. i think of president theodore roosevelt as representing this very well. also, america’s experience of the great war was significantly different than that of the rest of the world. this also contributed to the national identity of the u.s. that you mentioned as being consistent throughout the 20th century. um yeah… i think i’ll jump out of line and abandon ship now.

[lent]

Evidently you have been breathing the stuff.

Take deeper breaths! :lol:

wHAT iS wITH tHIS sTYLE oF wRITING, aNYWAY? iS eVERYTHING a bOOK tITLE?

Where are you from? (Not that I want to get nosy on you. I just want to be able to make fun of you in a correct, proper and appropriate way.) :grin:

Hallo Marina,

My name is Simon Hottentot, and I would like to know where the word [hottentot ] comes from.

greatings

drs.simon.hottentot

Marina, are we down to one lesson a week? Have we been punished for some reason? :sad:

Gee! This is not a bunny joke! This is an entire schwartz team of bunny jokes!

Lithen up! I don’t need any thit from you – LOL!
(jutht kidding)
Gary, Indiana :mrgreen:

Huh? :roll:
The Schwartz Team is a real estate firm run by Eileen Schwartz!
Explain to me what the hell are you talking about??
“Gee! This is not a bunny joke”
Nobody said this was a (single) bunny joke…
Pick up on it, quit being the s-l-o-w guy :mrgreen:

Nope, sorry – you “evidently” didn’t get it :mrgreen:
You must be only 7 years old!
Go ask your teacher to explain it to you.
Stay away from the “big” words, until you can use them properly – LMAO!

Thankth alot! :mrgreen:

O! A real estate farm?

I’m soo sourry Cha Cha. I think I meant a swasteam. You know? I still have problems with my written english. Foreign language, very hard to learn, etc, etc, et. all..

Thanks for the info. I stand corrected!

Shhh! Don’t complain, or she’ll cut it down even more! :mrgreen:

Anybody going to a tea party? :mrgreen:
I sent 100 invites and got 450 RSVP’s!
Now I have to move the party over to the beach, and even then – they better carpool!

Which swasteam?? :roll:
there are 304 Google references…
please explain this. :mrgreen:

THANK YOU :lol:

@Cha Cha

Swatchteam then? Schmackteam? Schreckteam? Schmuckteam?

DAMNIT CHA CHA! I AM NOT THE ONE SUPPOSED TO DO THE WORK AND ALL THE RESEARCH HERE!!!!

Let’s cut it short. Let’s call it a team then.

Phrase request: [tea party] :mrgreen:

@Cha Cha (#2)

Well, s*team then. That should make everybody happy.

Our experience in what we call world war I was different than the worlds because the majority of the country was isolationist. Same with WW II, actually. You know, you leave us alone and we can do the same. Again, missing the whole fittest thing. After WW II, america DID rebuild european and asian countries but by then, it was no secret what the soviets were up to.

I guess I should just pray for a healthy teacher right now, huh?

I didn’t know she was sick :mrgreen:
There are only three possible excuses:
sick, lame or lazy

Hi Marina I’m the YouTube user FallingRabbit, I think you do not know me hahaha. Well I wanted to request the word [Jigsaw]. I think you know the film “Saw” and the bad guy in this film is calling himself Jigsaw and I know that jigsaw means puzzle but what is the origin of this word?

[Jigsaw]

Thank you =)

No, I’m not but I’ll be watching FOX.(nothing new there). POWER TO THE PEOPLE, RIGHT ON!

you would have a painting and then cut it apart with a JIGSAW(saw with a small blade for curves and whatnot) :wink:

Either ether or easter, CK sac-town appears upset. And very polite!

Thanks, I’ll look into gravatars.

Now – the word stuff I’m really interested in -

A- GANTLET, GAUNTLET. Here’s an entry from dictionary.com: Word History: The spelling gauntlet is acceptable for both gauntlet meaning “glove” or “challenge” and gauntlet meaning “a form of punishment in which lines of men beat a person forced to run between them”; but this has not always been the case. The story of the gauntlet used in to throw down the gauntlet is linguistically unexciting: it comes from the Old French word gantelet, a diminutive of gant, “glove.” From the time of its appearance in Middle English (in a work composed in 1449), the word has been spelled with an au as well as an a, still a possible spelling. But the gauntlet used in to run the gauntlet is an alteration of the earlier English form gantlope, which came from the Swedish word gatlopp, a compound of gata, “lane,” and lopp, “course.” The earliest recorded form of the English word, found in 1646, is gantelope, showing that alteration of the Swedish word had already occurred. The English word was then influenced by the spelling of the word gauntlet, “glove,” and in 1676 we find the first recorded instance of the spelling gauntlet for this word, although gantelope is found as late as 1836. From then on spellings with au and a are both found, but the au seems to have won out.
I can understand and accept the concept of word change bubbling up from a pop cult niche to effect a system wide change – Michael Jackson has a megasmash album and suddenly ‘Bad’ is ‘Good.’ GANTLET/GAUNTLET, though, have always lived in a small pond frequented mostly by editors and headline writers. How is it a word that shares nothing but phonetics with another word supplants that word?

B- POLICE/COP. Until recently (last 20 years) you’d never, outside the tabloids, see the word ‘cop’ used to refer to a law officer, except when bracketed between thug-generated quotation marks. You see it in newspapers often nowadays, at least this side of the NYT and in the… what… seven remaining daily newspapers left in the US. ‘Cop’ never made Carlin’s list, and was never a taboo word, but there was always something a bit unsavory about it. Why did this change?

Marina made a Word Game using Cop which may help answer some of your questions. On the pulldown menus, second from the left; is the button for All (the) Words. :mrgreen:
I have to “cop” a plea when it comes to gauntlet.
The way to make sure Marina gets word requests is to contain the word/phrase within brackets, so she can search them out quickly. ie. [gauntlet]
She gets thousands of requests every week (she keeps busy). Plus, she reads the comments posted here and in the forums.

Thanks again. [Gantlet/gauntlet] it is. I want to keep them paired because I’m less interested in their individual histories than I am in whatever process led to the apparent triumph of gauntlet over gantlet – to the point that gauntlet pretty much stole gantlet’s definition. Hell of a way for a homophone to behave (I hope gantlet wasn’t two phased by it.)

My amateur, ground level understanding of word change is that new words, and new definitions for old words, perculate up from below. Bad becomes Good because everybody’s grooving to Michael Jackson. [Gauntlet/gantlet] was/were never used that often, save by newspapers, magazines, etc., and other professional entities who must have had a dictionary lying around somewhere.

I couldn’t reply to your comments below. You have some interesting ideas, and I would love to hear more of them. Please check out our forums, two of which apply to the discussion we were having below. Come on by the “Power of Words” or the “Language and Culture” forums. That way the discussion can continue for a longer, uninterrupted duration. We will also prevent the main forum from straying to far from the lighter-hearted banter. Again, I would love to hear more of your ideas.

thanx, b. I didn’t know that was there. very good exchange of ideas.

OMG! I now see an opening inside the banana!!!

Spiffy! Or should I say spooky! :shock:

Gracias Evan! :lol:

‘Penitentiaries’ are where one learns to be free through repentance, yes? Or am I thinking of the Pin-Up Tent-iary, where one learns about free ‘rip pants’-ence?

Either Way; Thank you, Lady Marina, for leading us to that truth.

I don’t remember whether I’m following you on Twitter, but if you’re one of my ‘followers’ you can see how I posted a blog pointing to a smart link to this entry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YvX1l5KZvo :wink:

yes i am following you on twitter. im new on it, as in i just registered yesterday. but your twitter 101 it has been a huge help. so thank you. it would be great if you could follow me too and give me tips and heads ups i might miss on twitter. also i would like to know how the phrase [heads up] came to be. hope i win that lunch date. it is not every day you see some one as smart as you that looks as awesome as you do. :cool: :wink: :smile: :mrgreen: