Poop Deck Answer

Here is the answer to the Poop Deck game.
Please rate and comment over at YouTube to help the video.  Thanks!  :-)
Oh.. and here is what Peter from Family Guy did on the poop deck.

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  • leonard

    :o … french opposite..i’m slow

    not [Stern}…[PEA-Jacket}. :P

  • hs4mm

    Opposite of stern is lenient! :)

  • leonard

    Peter is so pool-ling…peas make soup and boats can not swim… :lol: …it is not legal to make a knot of American(USA) grown hemp

    silly “NEW DEAL”…no mast, no can..vass…no ropes

    :???: :cry: :evil:

  • hs4mm

    But seriously, bow (fore, prow, stem). Nautical terms are crazy! No wonder The Captain got interested in etymology!

  • matrix452

    The opposite of stern is the “bow”

  • leonard

    no bowing :mrgreen:

  • leonard

    :???: CRAP…I got pushed to the bow-tie class and had my head[capital] yelled at…I lost my bowie knife to James Bowie…[bowery]…bend my ass :lol: :roll:

  • mattym

    That’s great including the”Family Guy” clip.Hot For Words must be a fan! :shock:

  • leonard

    :grin: :mrgreen: Friggin in the Riggin
    be careful of langUage

    [calosity] or [boxing]…Singing Telegram Charlie Barnett & Bunny Briggs

    this should make the hotforWords students think? :lol:

  • greatestpotential

    :| who knew there were so many ways to make knots in rope, and then learning that knots is a nautical term for speed, it is crazy :!:

  • originalistrick

    You’re a funny lady, Marina. Thank you.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/animalntaz animalntaz

    Marina, I see you watched that Family Guy link I provided back on the Poop Deck Game. You could have posted that AOL video link instead of this poorly recorded YouTube video, it has excellent quality.

  • hs4mm

    I learnt a new expression — all because of someone’s reply to my comment at YouTube! [ Badum tish! ]

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/animalntaz animalntaz

    Oh wait….. or does it have something to do with that YouTube Partners thing of not showing other sites videos or something (and I guess AOL being a possible competitor)? :???:

  • originalistrick

    Folks,

    My bride is having heart problems and is undergoing a procedure Friday. Please mention her in your prayers. Her name is Sharilyn.

    Thanks. A lot.

  • greatestpotential

    :lol:

  • leonard

    A Whiter Shade Of Pale – Procol Harum
    …feeling [sea-sick] :oops:

  • seesixcm6

    Dear Marina,
    The opposite of the stern of a ship is the “bow.” It’s the front part of the hull of a ship. It’s usually angled so that water flows past it easily. It’s derived from the Middle English word, “bowen”; in Old English, it was “Bugan”, and it’s similar to the German word, “biegen”, which means to bend. :smile:
    Now, the “bow” of a ship should not be confused with the ship’s “prow.” This is the upper part of the ship’s bow that is forward and above the water line. In old sailing ships, there would be a carved figure of a mermaid or a beautiful woman at the front. The “prow” also refers to the front of a ski or surfboard, or other objects.
    Well, I clicked on five stars, but I still haven’t learned the Russian language, yet. Tell me, will I have more fun with Russian women if I speak Russian better? :razz:
    SeesixCM6

  • http://www.youtube.com/mountainboy32 mountainboy32

    Marina when are we going out to Sea????????? ;-) ;-) ;-) :mrgreen: :mrgreen: I will clean your deck babe!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • seesixcm6

    Good luck with everything, to you and Sharilyn, both.
    SeesixCM6

  • http://tour-russia.com dsfoto

    The opposite of Stern is The bow or fo’c's’le / forecastle :smile:

  • http://tour-russia.com dsfoto

    seesixcm6 Said Tell me, will I have more fun with Russian women if I speak Russian better?
    To quote my Russian Professor who leads 3 student groups per year to Russia ” the best place to Learn Russian is in BED :smile:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/dwpool1962 danielpool

    Hey originalistrick I do that. GOD BLESS BOTH of you.

  • mikeez

    Hello…

    Can you please make something up with X-Fuzion?

    you know http://www.xfuzion.com

    a way to advertise my site ;D

    PLEASE I BEG YOU!

    Hot girl like you advertising for X-FUZION woah!

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/dwpool1962 danielpool

    :cool: TUNE

  • greatestpotential

    :shock: Awesome tune. Who da thunk Liza Veiga, portuguese soprano singer, would do a cover version years later :!:

  • freebird

    If someone said they have a bow rider boat… it would mean that you can sit/ride at the front of the boat… so my answer to the question is answered within what I have typed here… OK? :shock: :grin:

  • stigmatasaurus

    HW: The BOW (rhymes with HOW). Yet, another “bow” rhymes with “hoe.” Are these true homonyms?

    And why “Port” and “[Starboard]?”

  • greatestpotential

    :smile: Looks good Marina, your newly designed YouTube channel page :!:

    http://www.youtube.com/hotforwords

  • http://www.youtube.com/CheVolay Che Volay

    Will do my friend.

  • xuanlongsoul

    :twisted: Marina In Your Video Boob You Spilt The Word Boobalicious
    Into Booby And Licious Yet You Only Defined Booby So What Does [Licious] Mean?

  • matty915

    Marina! I love you! But I’ve been wondering why in NASA they use the term [Houstin] when they call back to earth? Like [Houstin, we have a problem] :mrgreen: Please let me know Marina! ;-)

  • http://www.youtube.com/CheVolay Che Volay

    I was on the stern of a boat ready to jump off to tie it to the dock at a restaurant . Just as I was to jump another boat created a wake, this hit the boat just as I jumped to the dock, it sent me flying in the air I landed, I took a roll and with the line still in my hand wrap it around the cleat. All this in one smooth motion. The ppl on the outside patio all clapped then I went inside to have a cocktail.

  • http://www.youtube.com/CheVolay Che Volay

    There are ppl here who specialize in answering questions like yours. Hang in there they will be along shortly. :mrgreen:

  • darlingj

    Absolutely.

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    I do not!

    NASA’s missions are controlled from the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. Pres. Lyndon Johnson, a consumate polition, somehow, someway managed to get the facility located in his home state and get it named after himself (a “twofer”).

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    licious = short for delicious

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    Are you ill?

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    Of course, you secured a license for using a sound clip of Brent Spiner from Star Trek, Next Generation from Paramont Television. Suuuure you did.

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    Ooops. That should be politician.

  • zinnaku

    the opposite of the stern is the BOW. ;-) :cool: :razz:

  • http://youtube.com/user/dstrott raven62

    Homework Bow. Why is it called a bow you don’t bow there. :?:

  • Justin Perkins

    I wanted to request the word [Plenipotentiary] because it is a interesting word and that is all. <8^)

  • big ed

    I get goose flesh every time I talk to a beautiful woman such as yourself, Marina. And it ain’t because I’m skerred! ;-)

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedanticKarl

    originalistrick, my prayers are with you and Sharilyn

  • http://www.theendoftheinternet.com/ Chemikal

    Hehe.. Peter is so simple minded.
    Next he’ll be trying to shoot arrows from the bow. :-)

  • http://www.theendoftheinternet.com/ Chemikal

    Cool, did you scream, for added effect?
    You know, like Marina did in the video.
    I bet she was never scared of going fast. As far as I know, she’s not scared of anything. :-)

  • http://www.theendoftheinternet.com/ Chemikal

    Hi Ed,

    Is this a late homework for the Goose Bumps lesson? :-)

    Note to the admin: (Marina or one of the TAs)

    Please add the Goose Bumps lesson to the “All Words” category.
    It’s missing.
    KThxBye.

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedanticKarl

     
    YouTube is continuing to evolve. I have mixed feelings about their new channel design. What is neat is that you can scroll through all 455+ HotForWords videos with one scroll of the videos page and be able to sort on different parameters like Most Viewed and Highest Rated. The new channel design will be permanent for everyone coming July 15th.

    I see the Popular page #1 has an additional panel of videos below it called
    “As Seen On”, showing selected websites that have embedded YT videos. That’s interesting that they are in effect promoting web sites containing YT videos.

  • http://www.theendoftheinternet.com/ Chemikal

    The Unsubscribe button on top of her head really pwnz the whole top bar thing.
    Maybe Marina should start saying click the yellow button, to avoid confusing the noobs. :D

  • http://www.theendoftheinternet.com/ Chemikal

    I hope everything goes well my friend.
    Blessings

  • http://www.theendoftheinternet.com/ Chemikal

    The opposite of stern is nrets!
    Can I get an Ayz? :-)

  • http://uk.youtube.com/user/jamesingtonthethird James

    Marina, get rid of that awful design. I like being able to see al the videos in boxes not stupid scrollbars, it has mucked your background up too.

  • http://uk.youtube.com/user/jamesingtonthethird James

    You are kidding me.. So I am going to have to put up with that horrible design forever!

  • http://uk.youtube.com/user/jamesingtonthethird James

    Hey I have just done a new video with harry Check it out

  • http://uk.youtube.com/user/jamesingtonthethird James

    7 – Most Discussed (Today) – Pets & Animals
    #81 – Most Discussed (Today) – Pets & Animals – Global
    #95 – Most Viewed (Today) – Pets & Animals
    #92 – Most Viewed (Today) – Pets & Animals – India
    #78 – Most Viewed (Today) – Pets & Animals – Israel
    #94 – Most Viewed (Today) – Pets & Animals – South Korea
    #39 – Most Viewed (Today) – Pets & Animals – Sweden
    #31 – Top Favourited (Today) – Pets & Animals
    #21 – Top Rated (Today) – Pets & AnimalsAccidentaly listed my video in pets and animals but still

  • http://uk.youtube.com/user/jamesingtonthethird James

    WHY DON’T YOUTUBE LISTEN TO WHAT PEOPLE WANT!!

    http://www.youtube.com/blog?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&entry=Lm2Ai0sw1Io

  • http://uk.youtube.com/user/jamesingtonthethird James

    Weirdo

  • http://uk.youtube.com/user/jamesingtonthethird James

    I love family guy.

  • leonard

    Good luck with your bride…Prayer for healing
    :sad: …I hope the [procedure] for Sharilyn goes well :smile:

    think good things Rick, your family depends on it…(just guesssing on your choice to submit the prayers—St. Mary’s Orthodox Church-The Lord’s Prayer in Slavonic :cool:

  • http://uk.youtube.com/user/jamesingtonthethird James

    Oh Marina, are you ever coming to England? I see loads of stuff going on.. But nothing here.

  • Berkaichu

    Hey, I wanna request [mystery]. It’s a nice word.

    Oh, BTW, the answer is “BOW”.

  • leonard

    :razz: Rolling Stones – Ain’t to Proud to Beg w/ Amy Winehouse Live…mikeez, the site goes no where :?:

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedanticKarl

    Yes, there are 25,429 comments about the new YTchannel layout where more than 90% of those comments are not happy with the new design.

    I think change is good if it innovates, but this new design looks awful and is confusing where it may detract from attracting new visitors. The average person will be less inclined to explore the channel which may mean less views.

    I liked Marina’s old channel where she showcased several videos below the main video, and then showcased her favorites.

  • http://www.youtube.com/CheVolay Che Volay

    Isn’t a “consumate” some kind of soup?

    {& if the shoe fits....} LOL

  • oaklaw

    I would like to request the word [capital] why does it mean so many things from amount of money to most important area of a country and so on… oh including “majuscules”….

  • flanman115

    I want to request the word[ obtuse] ihave heard it a couple of times

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedanticKarl

    This is so funny. Earlier this morning there were 24,000+ comments in over 110 pages. Now, there are 2,550 comments in 13 pages. Looks like YT is busy removing comments as new comments are appearing every few minutes.

  • http://uk.youtube.com/user/jamesingtonthethird James

    69TH!

  • http://uk.youtube.com/user/jamesingtonthethird James

    You are kidding! They are evil.

  • http://www.youtube.com/CheVolay Che Volay

    Just got a Friends invite on YT from the Pasta Channel, for real, videos of watching pasta boiling.

    Learn a lot in the 12 min plus video, we are now friends.

  • bigbhd95

    HW the bow :idea: to you at the knees :oops:
    Dearest Teacher :cool: B.B. :mrgreen:

  • hs4mm

    One explicit goal YouTube had for the new design was to help the channel to retain the viewer on the channel’s page “forever”. Toward this end, when one now clicks on a video that video plays on the same page (in the past, a new page dedicated to that video was loaded). All the things that were on the previous design’s dedicated-to-one-video page (such as comments, rank, video response etc.) are still available on the channel’s page itself.

    But one can question things such as whether seeing comments in a tiny scroll window constitutes comments being available!

    In an attempt to cram everything on one page, the individual parts have been made so tiny that they are now effectively invisible! So other than the currently playing video and a few other items there is nothing “usefully-visible” on the channel’s page!

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedanticKarl

    Hi hs4mm,
    YouTube has totally gone off of the deep end and is on drugs. As you mentioned, YT had a goal in mind, but they have failed to execute it as I think it will drive people away.

    Above the main video is a label called “Uploads”. As a verb, it doesn’t do what I expect, so it makes no sense. Is that supposed to be a replacement term for “videos”?

    So, they decide to use a text label called “Uploads”, but to the far right they have two icons which the average non-techie visitor won’t know what it means until they hover over the icon or experiment.

    Then, below the video there are what I might term as six menu items such as Info, Comments, and so on. Clicking each item gives me information below that menu list. So far so good, until you get to Favorites, which activates immediately. So, the Favorites item is actually an action button that favorites a video which I might not want to favorited.

    Right now, the article on the new update on the YT Blog has 2,788 comments, or very roughly, 240 comments added in the last hour.

  • http://www.youtube.com/CheVolay Che Volay

    Marina, just found a prospective new Word of the Day:

    Architainment – The hybrid of entertainment and architecture, designers cross over into buildings. i.e. Amusement rides e.g. Roller Coasters, Water Slides…..

  • http://blank marz123

    i would like to request the phrase[birthday suit] I wanna know who made that word up it is just so weird ;-)

  • leonard

    ME TOO!-oaklaw….

    [[[C*a*P*i*T*a*L]]]

    :cool: :mrgreen: :razz:

  • leonard

    :razz: “birth-day” suit was made up from my mother…”Ma-nature”!!! :lol:

  • leonard

    Che—you are a ‘far-out’ trip…..”trippy shelterization” :cool:

    May the WIND catch your pollen…high-bred and classed

  • http://twitter.com/fromvikingstock fromvikingstock

    New Forum: River Sports — Canoeing, Kayaking, Rafting

    http://twitpic.com/8diph

    -FVS-

  • http://twitter.com/fromvikingstock fromvikingstock

    The twitpic link should be:
    http://twitpic.com/8dm3p

    –FVS–

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    Correct on all accounts :mrgreen:

  • http://uk.youtube.com/user/jamesingtonthethird James

    :evil: I am getting really pissed off with this whole YouTube thing. First they introduce widescreen which is good (about the only thing the have done well)

    They took away the number of videos you had uploaded from the top part of the video. Then they messed around with the ratings. Introduced most popular, which strangely is almost identical to the most viewed list. Only now most viewed overall is the same as most popular, meaning its not really right at all. Then they froze the views of people that got more than 301 in a day and made them out as cheats, but strangely partners were immune from it. Now they are obsessed with ads and then trying to make you feel better with useless add ons. Also they openly admitted they were using tracking cookies, which is awful. Now, they have made this horrible new layout that they want to make permanent. Despite everyone on the blog saying they hate it, they just don’t listen :x It’s in beta so some stuff may be missing… Hmm, yes I know exactly what the next plan is just to fuck things up even more for us all, I think they will have a big box for ads on peoples channels; you will only make money from them if you are a partner. Another stupid thing is that youtube actually has ads in the video. Ridiculous. When you watch a video, you are watching it because you want to, and not be bugged by stupid banners at the bottom of the screen. Although they have for gotten about their famous “algorithmic demotion” they still manage to mess things up, Marina used to upload when her video reached 24 on the most viewed list, but now they are messing it around, she can’t and I bet that has affeceted her income. It also loads video VERY slowly now. This is stupid.. I really hope youtube falls on its ass.

  • http://uk.youtube.com/user/jamesingtonthethird James

    Is that an slk32 in the behind the scenes video?

  • Daisuki-hk

    I would like to request the word[damn]

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    I have 4 books that cover nautical terms. I used them to entertain passengers on cruises when conversations become a bit stale. A good friend of mine got me started in etymology before I even knew what the term was. He used to have a note book full of origins of nautical terms that he collected over the years.
    Later on I discovered Marina’s Youtube videos. Thanks to Marina’s lessons and comments, I have discovered many false origins. Next time I’ll tell more accurate stories. That said I still tell the old ones, like Ship High In Transit acronym. I later reveal that it’s false and that there are many more like them. They are such good stories, I could not let them die. ;-)

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedanticKarl

     
    Regarding the new YT channel change coming July 15, here is the YT blog link that shows, at this moment, 30,060 comments on 151 pages.
    http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=gp6Wr8yTSvY&page=1

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/bsomebody13 bsomebody

    I will PayPay a dollar to anyone who can give me a friggin’ clue as to what this song is about :???:

    totally clueless :roll:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/bsomebody13 bsomebody

    Somebody will stop right now and say a prayer for originalstrick and Sharilyn.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/bsomebody13 bsomebody

    Opposite of poop deck would be the fo’c'sle.
    Opposite of the stern would be the bow.
    Opposite of aft would be fo’rd.

    In between would be amidships – going port to starboard, the in between is the centerline.

  • bigbhd95

    Dear Originalistrick :arrow: Please pass on the best wishes to you & yours from me & mine :smile: I hope all goes well with the proceedure :cool: B.B.

  • beevee14

    I’ve always been partial to Conquistador. Great rhythym section!

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/bsomebody13 bsomebody

    2 or 3 weeks ago, the mother-in-law left my study door open, and the kittens disappeared. I had feared them all lost.
    :cry:
    :|
    :smile: Today, I found them in the garage. Maia had hid them out there. They have their eyes opened now, and the black one wants to eat food. Must remember to bring kitty food home from work tonight. I brought them back into the study. After an hour of hiding out and exploring, I now have three little fur balls laying at my feet. :cool:

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack
  • http://mentalgrammarhasbeensetup.blogspot.com äLx

    47 feet, 3 inches (14.4 meters)

    weird numbers. why didn’t they make it 47 or 50 feet, or 15 m?

  • MtnDood

    Hi Marina I’d like to know the origins of [Couch Potato], [Don't put all your eggs in one basket], and [Wolf in Sheep's clothing]

  • http://www.youtube.com/CheVolay Che Volay

    No scream, that accomplishes nothing, but did laugh a lot after. :lol:

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    Alx,

    Funny I thought of the same thing. Why didn’t they make it easier and round it up. Well it’s because of the size of the earth. With this bases of measurement we can can accurately place our selves on a chart (not a map, for they are not accurate). So one minute of arc of a great circle of the Earth is equal to one nautical mile.
    See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_mile

    All navigation uses the Nautical Mile as the unit of distance. Traditionally a nautical mile is 6,080 feet but more precisely 6,076.11549 feet. In metric measurement it is 1,852 meters, which is one minute of arc of a great circle of the Earth. Even under the metric system, the unit of distance for navigation is still called the nautical mile. One knot converted to miles per hour (mph) would be approximately 1.15 mph. One mile per hour would be 0.868 knots. A statute mile is the common “mile” with a length of 5,280 feet. Therefore a statute mile is not as long as a nautical mile. One nautical mile would equal approximately 1.15 statute miles.

    All our US Charts are printed in nautical miles (knots). With this we can do Time, Speed, and Distance calculations with just a 4 function calculator and some basic tools. A good chronograph is also key. If you know what time it is you can find your place on the planet rather well. It’s so amazing how they used to be able to navigate back in the day with simple tools.

    What’s really interesting is the Chip Log used to be more accurate way of measuring speed than the early days of GPS. Yes, you read me right. More accurate than GPS. ;-)

  • leonard

    :razz: Conquistador your stallion stands
    in need of company
    and like some angel’s haloed brow
    you reek of purity
    I see your armour-plated breast
    has long since lost its sheen
    and in your death mask face
    there are no signs which can be seen
    :mrgreen:
    And though I hoped for something to find
    I could see no maze to unwind
    :???:
    Conquistador a vulture sits
    upon your silver shield
    and in your rusty scabbard now
    the sand has taken seed
    and though your jewel-encrusted blade
    has not been plundered still
    the sea has washed across your face
    and taken of its fill
    :oops:
    And though I hoped for something to find
    I could see no maze to unwind

    Conquistador there is no time
    I must pay my respect
    and though I came to jeer at you
    I leave now with regret
    and as the gloom begins to fall
    I see there is no, only all
    and though you came with sword held high
    you did not conquer, only die
    :cry:
    And though I hoped for something to find
    I could see no maze to unwind :lol:

  • beevee14

    Recorded with Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and Robin Trower on the guitar. I can’t stop listening to it!! :!: :mrgreen:

  • leonard

    :lol: .. Conquistador – Procol Harum (Studio Version)1967 :smile: Conquistador your stallion stands
    in need of company
    and like some angel’s haloed brow
    you reek of purity
    I see your armour-plated breast
    has long since lost its sheen
    and in your death mask face
    there are no signs which can be seen

    And though I hoped for something to find
    I could see no maze to unwind

    Conquistador a vulture sits
    upon your silver shield
    and in your rusty scabbard now
    the sand has taken seed
    and though your jewel-encrusted blade
    has not been plundered still
    the sea has washed across your face
    and taken of its fill

    And though I hoped for something to find
    I could see no maze to unwind

    Conquistador there is no time
    I must pay my respect
    and though I came to jeer at you
    I leave now with regret
    and as the gloom begins to fall
    I see there is no, only all
    and though you came with sword held high
    you did not conquer, only die

    And though I hoped for something to find
    I could see no maze to unwind

  • leonard

    Hey buddy—hears one…MOTHER IN LAW BLUES ITS A MEAN OLD WORLD
    …BOBBY BLUE BLAND AND BB KING
    PLAYING THE BLUES purrr-fect :smile:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/bsomebody13 bsomebody

    :cry:
    {Somebody had to leave the room for a sec …}

    :oops: What are you looking at? I had something in my eye. :|

    :roll:

  • hs4mm

    How Shakira eats pasta: http://twitter.com/shakira/status/2307888141 — keep in mind she spends lots of energy in her dances!

  • jovannamelina

    Hi i would like to know the origin of [jovanna].

  • krizlx

    Hey i would like to request the word [Karma]

  • zer0fearzer0

    I would like to request the word [Fuck]

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/capman911 Capman911

    It has already been done. Just go here and read the answer to your question. http://www.askmen.com/top_10/entertainment/top-10-word-myths_1.html

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    Fur balls at your feet? You mean those little kittens are coughing up fur balls already? :smile:

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    You might as well throw in [capitol] and the difference between the two.

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    I noticed a change in the comments format today. Previously, the Previous|1|2|(etc.) page-selection menu was identical at the top and bottom of each page (if I remember correctly). Now the bottom menu has been replaced with either an Older Comments or Newer Comments button. Why was this done? It is basically a one-page-forward or one-page-back button, which is less useful than the page-selection menu it replaced.

  • http://www.hotforwords.com Marina

    I just thought that since I can’t change the words in the paging thing.. the Previous Comments link might help those who don’t understand that they comments are paged. Is it bad?

  • mattym

    I think the old way is easier to navigate. But that’s just me…reluctant to change!!

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/capman911 Capman911

    I think Marina has been on another site tweaking. If you notice at the top of the page where it says Dash it used to say Dashboard at one time then it use to say Site Admin or something of the sort. I think she likes to change things to see if we notice or maybe it helps out as far as making the site easier to use for us and her.

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedanticKarl

     
    OK, so I was reading Marina’s tweet about
    the lost icons, so I rushed over to the
    YouTube channel page to see why would YT
    remove icons. I checked and all the icons were
    there. So, I read the Tweet again, and found
    out it was a different kind of icon. :oops:

    So, I was wondering about revising the dictionary
    to only allow one definition per word, but then we
    would put Bob and Evan out of a job. :-)

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/capman911 Capman911

    I don’t think it’s bad it’s just another change maybe for the better.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/capman911 Capman911

    :lol: :lol: Good one Karl. Still love ya Bob and Evan. ;-)

  • jovannamelina

    i would like to know the origin of[jovanna]

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    I think it’s just fine. Either way works for me. I normally do not click the pages numbers for i never know which page I need to be on.

    Fyi, the site is displying just fine on my Palm Pilot.

    ___/)___

  • leonard
  • ellis

    hello Marina
    i just wanted to say hello from Mexico ha ha (:))
    i really like your channel.
    Bye Bye

    what does YEUK mean??

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedanticKarl

     
    I loved Marina’s bedtime tweet so much
    I had to re-post it here for infinite posterity
    and so as not to lose it to the twittersphere.

    Marina tweeted:

    Tiny stars shining bright,
    Its time 4 me 2 say goodnight,
    So close ur eyes & snuggle up tight,
    I’m wishing u sweet dreams tonight!

     

    Sorry, I wasn’t there to tuck you in,
    Sending you Happy Butterfly ;-) Kisses,
    As if I had been…,
    And when you Awake from the Deep Reverie,
    I wish you a Sun Kissed Good Morning,
    As your day that you begin.
                     :grin:

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedantickarl

     
    Love that YT title, “I’m On A Boat, M’er F’er!” :lol:
    That is soooooo funny.

  • http://myspace.com/tombee2 tombee

    Hi Marina…

    I am new to your videos, but as a writer, I have to say I love them. Which is why I’ve signed up.

    I’ve also signed up because I have a word for you to investigate for me.

    That word is [megalomaniac] or [megalomania], if you prefer.

    I am also a music producer signed to a London based record label, and I have a few musical words and terms I’d like to know the origins of – but first things first.

    Regards from the UK

    Let your quest begin….

    hmmm…. there’s another interesting word. QUEST. It conjures up images of dragons and daring knights of old. I think I’ll check your list and see if you’ve touched on it in one of your previous vids.

    Toodle-pip as we sometimes say over here.

  • http://mentalgrammarhasbeensetup.blogspot.com äläx

    i don’t know. somehow seems to me that the metrics is kinda messed up.
    maybe better:

    tiny stars are shining bright,
    it’s time for me to say good night.
    or
    tiny stars are shining bright,
    time for me to say good night.
    or
    tiny stars shining bright.
    time for me to say good night.

    the “up” in the third line is a little disruptive. hm.

    anyway, it reminded me of a song:

    but the stars are burning bright
    like some mystery uncovered
    i’ll keep moving through the dark
    with you in my heart
    my blood brother.

  • http://mentalgrammarhasbeensetup.blogspot.com äläx

    oh, wait. found something. russian alphabet with pronunciations. prepare to practice “Ñ‹” for about two years. lol.

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    Twitter is spherical? Are you sure it is not just planic… planiful… planular… uh, flat?

    I had sweet dreams last night.

    I dreamed I was on the Hotforwords factory tour and fell into the Marina vat. The workers (all wearing hairnets) tried to fish me out, but I kept diving back in. Finally they dragged me out with a long hook and kicked me out the back door, hoping the county health department wouldn’t find out that a batch of Marina might be contaminated with drool. So there I was in the alley, quivering and all covered in Marina juice and this little dog comes up to me and licks me clean. But when he finished, he scampered off, so he wasn’t after me so much as the juice. Story of my life.

    OK, I made it up. A guy can dream, can’t he?

  • hitoshi

    hello everyone! iPhone 3GS was finally released in Japan today and I got it!! Yay! And I m typing this message with it. It’s incredibly amazing. I really love it. What are your favorite applications, by the way???

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedantickarl

    That is so funny. I was on that site the other day.

    Here is another site I like as it splits up the Russian alphabet into groups that relate to English such as “Perfect Matches”, “False Friends”, “Secret agents” and “Rare Aves”.

    http://learningrussian.net/russian_alphabet.php

    I haven’t heard Springsteen’s – Blood Brothers in some time. Love it.

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedantickarl

     
    OK, I see the reason for the MF YT title, I think.

    Am I seeing that right? 23,158 views in appx 40 hours? Appx another 8 hours to go until the 48 hours is up and the video never made it to the Most Viewed board. Was this due to the channel changeover?

    I had to tweak my code to match the new YT layout and got it done. The subs and channel data and Most Viewed and Popular boards data was not affected and I was tracking that all along OK.

    I saw your comment on the YT Blog regarding moving the UnSubcribe button. I left a comment regarding two things that bug me. Another thing I noticed is that the list of videos do not display the “Run Time” as they did before. For most people it probably is not a big deal. I miss those numbers. Of course, once you click on a video, you’ll know the length of the video.

  • pennsyltucky9

    Welcome to the site, tombee. I second your re[quest]. [Megalomania] could be an interesting lesson.

    -p9

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    The page numbers are fairly intuitive; even the computer-illiterate knows what the numbers at the bottom of a book or magazine page are for. If someone is that Web-challenged, they would be hard-pressed to even find your site in the first place; they would pick up the mouse and say into it, “Computer, Marina’s Website, please. Um, hello… Helloooooooo. What is wrong with this thing?” :grin:

    I won’t say it’s bad, but more options are always better than fewer options.

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedantickarl

    Hey PK, I bet you didn’t see the views yet, did you?
    You wouldn’t think that’s so funny if you saw the views.
    You’d be yelling MF too.

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    Now there is a fine old word. The dashboard was the wood in front of a carriage driver that kept him from being dashed with mud and water as he drove along. At one time, cars unabashedly had dashboards, although they were inside the passenger compartment and not subject to being dashed. Lately, a car company wouldn’t be caught dead (although two of them have recently very nearly been caught dead :lol: ) referring to a dashboard; it’s now the instrument panel, like it was on the Space Shuttle or a 747.

    Somehow, for computers, somebody thought it was cool to be retro. So the early Macs starting having dashboards and radio buttons. The pendulum swings back and forth.

    You can bet your bottom dollar that NASA has no dashboards or radio buttons on the Space Shuttle. The most that NASA ever went retro was keeping the name CAPCOM (capsule communicator) for the people that talk to the “spacemens.”

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    Gorby is a “sheep in wolf’s clothing.” :smile:

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    What? You don’t memorize which comments are on which pages? Time for you to get an Exelon patch. :mrgreen:

  • http://mentalgrammarhasbeensetup.blogspot.com äläx

    huh? dude … wut?

    uh … if it’s to do with paged comments it’s bad. paged comments are evil. paged comments suck. paged comments are pretty fucking far from helpful. and they sure as shit ain’t necessary.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/capman911 Capman911

    It’s the same like the glove box. Do you put gloves in the glove box. I don’t, I store the vehicles papers in it. Must have been back in the old days when autos didn’t have tops or windshields and they had to bundle up to stay warm. So they must have stored their gloves in the “glove box”. :lol:

  • http://www.youtube.com/CheVolay Che Volay

    The closest I ever got to Michale Jackson was during the trial in Santa Maria, my doctor’s office was near court house, had to take side streets to avoid traffic that day. This was the day he got on the car roof.

    Then again weeks later I was in the same emergency room as he was on his pajama day.

  • http://calling-muggins.blogspot.com/ muggins

    That’s a word that needs to be turned upside down. boob deck. Then the question can be posed, “Why do they call it a boob deck?” Well, I’d certainly go up there to find out.

  • http://mikechimeriblog.com MCLIJazz

    The opposite is the bow.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/capman911 Capman911

    I think I would like to visit the boob deck also. Seems like a lot more fun and a better view. :mrgreen:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/capman911 Capman911

    Did they give you the royal treatment that he got. :razz: Were you in your pj’s when you visited the ER. A site to behold :lol:

  • thegorn

    Well, take a bow…lol

  • thegorn

    Fucken A!

  • http://mikechimeriblog.com MCLIJazz

    LOL :lol: Thank you. :smile:

  • Venomrock67

    Well, I suppose you all already know this little event that happened yesterday Thursday June 25th 2009. I wasn’t a big fan of this guy and was even ‘sueded by the media to form bad opinions on him but he was a great talent and also a human being (sure he had problems,but we all do) He will be missed.

    Here’s a couple of my favorite hits of his.

    THE WAY YOU MAKE ME FEEL

    BLACK OR WHITE

  • Venomrock67

    Oh yeah,

    :cool: FAMILY GUY RULZ! :cool: :lol:

  • hotfouryou

    Marina,
    I just watched your O’Rilley factor beef. I hope you are not bothered by the idiots who have nothing better to do than trying to make someone else as miserable as they are. You are too intelligent for that. And too Hot.
    Sincerly,
    Hotfouryou

  • hotfouryou

    Marina,
    I would like to request the word [ TICKLISH ] as in “Marina, are you ticklish?”
    Thank you,
    Hotfouryou

  • http://www.tony-bernhoffer-photography.com tonyb

    [knucklehead]. Also from A HAIR OF THE DOG THAT BIT ME-WC FIELDS IN SOME OF HIS 1930′S COMEDY MOVIES MAY HAVE USED THAT EXPRESSION.

  • thegorn

    That was the poopiest…

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/CantwrCymreig Evan Owen

    Speaking of which, Bob gave me a stern warning about the quality of my puns. So I must bow to his superior punmanship. :lol:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/CantwrCymreig Evan Owen

    ***Word requests***

    Speaking of [nautical] terms:

    [anchor]
    [angora]

    Marina, is there a connection? Or will my request come to naught :?:
    Or will you give it a “pass” because I already did it a few days ago? :lol:

  • bcdman18

    I was wondering if you could do the word [Rhode Island] the state. Ive always wanted to know why its called an island….

  • 508090

    I would like to request the word [thriller] in memory of michael jackson

  • sparky101

    I would like to request the word [cocktail]

  • paday2

    I’d like to know the origin of [foot the bill].

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedantickarl

    Marina, I’m glad that you changed back to the old channel, even if for about two weeks.

    There is some serious wrong stuff with that new channel in terms of logic flow and making it easy to navigate; referring to the menus below the main video.

    Say for example, a newbie clicks on Playlist. Now, the ratings stars are gone. The newbie won’t be able to rate because he won’t know what to click on to get the rating stars back if he even knows that it exists in the first place. The result. Ratings will be essentially non-existent. The Favorites is an action button which means there will be a ton of Favorites when the newbie doesn’t even he intended to Favorite a video. It happened to me several times.

    I like the old layout because you did such an awesome job of making the two sites transparent of each other. The YT channel and this site flowed smoothly into each other. When you did that, that was a very smart thing to do. The new channel ruins all of that.

    I can’t believe the views on the Poop MF video. There is some serious flaw going on. YT should re-imburse you for lost revenue.

  • pennsyltucky9

    Good reference, Mike.

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    That’s a good one. It has the feel of something from Merry Old England, so there should a ripe history to uncover.

  • eduardogold

    Hi!!! I would like to know the origin of the word [reptilian]. refering to ETs. bye bye my dear teacher =)

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    It was due to a mixup at the Congressional Statehood Matters Office in Washington, D.C. The state was actually to be named after the state bird, the Pink Breasted Blonde Booby, but the forms got misfiled when a clumsy janitor’s mop handle accidentally activated the fire alarm. To preserve records, the clerks had to quickly stuff all work in progress into fire safes before evacuating. When things returned to normal, some papers were found in the new state’s file that had to do with median strips, or road islands. Somehow this got spelled as Rhode Island, and the rest is history.

    It’s true, I tell you.*

    ———
    *The rest of the story can be found in the second paragraph here if you are interested.

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    We went all over this when they were implemented here, but the complaints fell on deaf ears (or would blind eyeballs be more apt?). I suppose there were complaints of slow loading when the number of comments rose too high for a particular lesson.

    The ideal solution would be to have a user-selectable preference for paging, but I don’t think that is an available option for WordPress. The next best thing would be to have a second Website that is identical in all respects except that there is no paging. The users could pick which one they wanted to use. (M: “Right! Like I don’t have enough to do now.”)

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    Or trunk. At one time it was an actual steamer trunk strapped to the rear end.

  • greatestpotential

    @bsomebody

    Procol Harum’s lyricist Keith Reid wrote the words to this song. He told us: “It’s sort of a film, really, trying to conjure up mood and tell a story. It’s about a relationship. There’s characters and there’s a location, and there’s a journey. You get the sound of the room and the feel of the room and the smell of the room. But certainly there’s a journey going on, it’s not a collection of lines just stuck together. It’s got a thread running through it.” Reid got the idea for the title when it came to him at a party, which gave him a starting point for the song. Says Reid: “I feel with songs that you’re given a piece of the puzzle, the inspiration or whatever. In this case, I had that title, ‘Whiter Shade of Pale,’ and I thought, There’s a song here. And it’s making up the puzzle that fits the piece you’ve got. You fill out the picture, you find the rest of the picture that that piece fits into.”

    :lol: 1 dollar accredited to my paypal account please

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/bsomebody13 bsomebody

    I do not think it was deaf eyes. Lady M gave substantial feedback that she was well aware of the situation and its accompanying complaints. The Lady explained that she felt the paged comments were the best option she had at present. I, personally, prefer the unpaged layout, but I appreciate the difficulties it may cause some.

    and, of course,
    Peace to all of you, my friends. :cool:

  • http://mentalgrammarhasbeensetup.blogspot.com äläx

    we went over this several times. like … about a year or so. the “lady” girl chick marina implemented this pagination crap but turned it off after complaints.
    slow loading, my ass. for mac users, maybe. dunno. computers today are fast. they don’t have like 4 mb ram anymore.

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    It’s after 9AM, yet there are no new comments on the 27th. Where is everybody? I am eating a 4-egg tomato-and-cheese omelette (which came out pretty damned well) and a stack of [flapjacks] expecting to see some juicy comments and there is dead silence. WTM?* Maybe it’s just the fact that it’s a Saturday morning and everyone is sleeping in. Maybe it’s because it’s going to be 105°F this afternoon, so everyone is out doing their thang while it’s still cool. Or maybe it’s “comment death.”

    You know, after a lesson has aged just a bit too long, everyone has said all they want to say about it, and so the comments taper off until… well, nothing happens. Some bored TA should do a study and plot the number of new comments and reply comments against time. Does it vary a lot by lesson, or is it more or less the same for each lesson?

    My last pancake is ready. Toodle-ooh.

    ——
    *I have substituted our Dear Teacher’s name. WTF is just sooooo vulgar. I hope it catches on. I now see WTF often on TV, when it is clear that if they actually said the words aloud, they would be castigated and fined by the FCC. Yet everyone knows that everyone knows. Imposed censorship is so non-sensical; self-imposed censorship is good.

  • george villegas

    hello hot for words :razz:

    id like to no where the word [dollar] comes from..

    thank you

    george

  • http://www.hotforwords.com Marina

    I am really upset by not only that they are forcing the new channel design down our throats (I HATE the UNSUBSCRIBE button right above the video in the middle that screams UNSUBSCRIBE every time you watch a video on that channel – and they won’t change it).. but that I have no idea why the count on my latest video is at a level I saw two years ago. They say the counter was delayed but that does not seem correct.. I think it’s broken. I’m afraid to upload a new video.

  • originalistrick

    Sorry to see they’re assing things up again, Marina. You just do whatever you need to do. Or not do. If it’s best you hold out on a lesson for awhile, then fine. We all understand. You know we’re behind you.

    Always.

  • stigmatasaurus

    Here’s another: ENTORM (v.) “to simultaneously entertain and inform.” Coined by my radio favorites Armstrong and Getty in Sacramento. http://armstrongandgetty.talk650kste.com/main.html

  • greatestpotential

    I hear ya. I’m really not seeing how these new features improved on the previous ones in channel design. Your channel as stands seems very YT friendly to me. Frankly, I’ve had it with talk of “change” without the including of that other important complimentary word with it
    IMPROVEMENT :!:

  • http://mentalgrammarhasbeensetup.blogspot.com äläx

    yeah, yeah, always bitching about youtube. i don’t get it, really. no one has to use it. if you don’t like it, stay away from it. maybe think about what yt has made possible, be glad you can watch a lot of videos for free, be glad there’s a platform to present your videos — and leave it the fuck at that.

    but OOOH NOOOO. a lot of people seem to know better, of course!

    why don’t you build your own goddamn tube?
    because you fucking can’t. that’s why.

    stop whining.

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedantickarl

    I have been racking my brain for a whole day and cannot find the elusive loss of views. When searching for negative causes, it is very elusive and complex. I have been all over the net looking at every angle and I can’t come up with anything, except for the following:
    - The Most Viewed board is blanketed with 64 Michael Jackson titles. More than half of those titles are MJ titled videos, or every other video.

    - The Popular board only has 21 MJ titles.

    - sxephil is on the Most Viewed board page 1 with a MJ title as well as the Popular board.

    - I noticed that certain tweets have not been making it on the timeline such as the ones I make via TwittyPop and for about two days now or about the time you uploaded the above video June 24. See Twitter Help:
    “Frozen Timelines (new tweets not appearing)”
    http://help.twitter.com/forums/31935/entries/39776
    I’m wondering if there is a connection and I’m looking into that.

    - I looked into network issues and all the routers are up. Asia is having some issues with packet loss so the quality of service is reduced.

    - I looked into most of the tertiary sites (popurls, metacafe, etc) listing your videos. Some of them do have the above video listed, but many more do not.

    - Looking at the ratios (views to ratings and views to comments) they are on the normal and low side.
    Right now I see the entry of views to get on the MV views (pg5) in the 48K view range. Is it possible that the MJ videos blanketing the MV board prevented your video from being seen? I am researching that angle right now.
    In the Forum I posted how the Japanese videos pushed your video back 18 positions.

    By the way, it is true that the counter is delayed by at least an hour, but, it appears also to be broken. I take hourly data snapshots and right now there are no updates every one to two hours with hardly a budge. So, yes, there is a problem over at YT.

    Also, did you notice that they have revamped the Video Honors boards navigation? First, there is the color change and instead of having the MV and Popular TABS (which are gone), there are now links below the gray horizontal bar. The page navigation at the bottom has also been moved to the far right instead of having it in the center.

    I’m doing lots more work and will let you know.

  • originalistrick

    Get a life of your own, you nutless little nobody.

  • http://mentalgrammarhasbeensetup.blogspot.com äläx

    oh, another one with a white horse. hehe. fine, then.

    You just do whatever you need to do. Or not do.

    ummm. what?
    – how’s the weather?
    – it is raining or it isn’t.

    Get a life of your own, you nutless little nobody.

    and you’re a big somebody, then? lol. fuck off.

    fucking suck-ups.

  • greatestpotential

    @äläx

    Merely offering constructive criticism, yet it seems the lazy hate to hear that. No surprise really, it’s easier to take the easy way out, at least on short term basis, then as time travels on realisation hits home that if someone was actually paying heed to helpful comments they wouldn’t have had to pay out as in lo$$.

    I’m a supporter of YouTube and always have been. Find out what happens when you don’t listen to what I have to say.

    Oh, and I do a lot of building and construction, you’d be surprised if you knew and if you knew you certaintly wouldn’t be talking to me in such a hostile manner.

    signed,
    amused

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedantickarl

    Hi CampKohler, yes I have done some “comments vs time” studies. In fact, the rate of change of comments follows a universal growth – decay curve similar to a capacitor charge and discharge cycle.

    In absolute quantity of comments (views for videos), the quantity does vary by type of lesson / content, but the shape of the curve (rate of change) does not. There is heightened interest in the first two-three days, then a tapering off as time goes on.

  • http://mentalgrammarhasbeensetup.blogspot.com äläx

    nah, don’t take it personal, i wasn’t talking to you in particular, just hit some reply link (actually, since you said you support youtube, i wasn’t even talking to you at all).

    anyway, it seems to be really en vogue to find everything crappy these days.

    sry, didn’t mean to upset you.

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedantickarl

    Also Marina, take a look at CampKohler’s comment at comment #72 above where he says that there were no new comments this morning. I also saw that. The count at the bottom was around 38 and it is at 42 right now. That is on the low side in comparison to the recent weeks as it is usually around the 50-70 range or higher.

    So, perhaps your videos are not being seen for a variety of reasons. I’m looking at my data to see how all of your videos are being affected. More to come later…

  • greatestpotential

    ;-) It’s cool, I’m not upset nor taking it personally. This is the internet, right folks?

    I’m happy to see your face äläx, and not that middle finger :!:

  • http://mentalgrammarhasbeensetup.blogspot.com äläx

    i knew it. it’s personal_ly_. man, that’s what i wrote first, then deleted it. adverbs. :/

    ah, as for the finger. do you have the expression “green thumb”? like, “you really ha a green thumb”? or is it “green finger”? i think i’ve seen a movie with that title.
    so, i could’ve made that avatar green, and tell people i’m just good with plants.:D

    the finger will come back, though. promise.;)

  • greatestpotential

    Martha Stewart says it’s “green thumb” someone who is good with gardening and plants and shrubs and such.

    So the finger will be making a comeback, lol, allow me to beat you to the punch then

    http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r167/Anni_Cat/Random/green-middle-finger.jpg

  • http://www.theendoftheinternet.com/ Chemikal

    Could it be just that it’s vacation time around the planet? :P
    Just tryin` to contribute with an idea, if it’s stupid just laugh about it, don’t get offended. I see the heat has gotten a lot of people pissy. By the way, how do you cope with the heat? I’m kinda loosing the battle at the moment.
    Hot nights, hot hot nights. And not in the sexy sense! :-)

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedantickarl

     
    Our wonderful teacher is now a TV game show clue
    and answer on the Dutch game show called Lingo.

    Take a look at these screen shots from the video.
    http://i42.tinypic.com/2hzrguh.jpg

    This is the Dutch online TV video list.
    Refer to Date: 26-06-2009 (June 26, 2009)
    http://www.uitzendinggemist.nl/index.php/serie?serID=94

    This is the video player link.
    Requires Windows special download driver or use Quicktime.

    At 5min 18 the announcer mentions Marina Orlova.
    At 9min 40 a photo of Marina is displayed on TV
    Reference: rich_hj at http://twitter.com/rich_hj
    http://player.omroep.nl/?aflID=9705741

    Find out more about Lingo here.

    On August 5, 2002 Game Show Network started airing the first episodes of its version of Lingo. The first 20 episodes were recorded in the Netherlands on the set of its Dutch counterpart; subsequent episodes were produced in the U.S. Five more seasons, filmed in Los Angeles and each consisting of 65 episodes, began in December 2002
     
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingo_(US_game_show)

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedantickarl

     
    NOTE:
    For the above screen shot,
    click the green arrow below the image
    to see the full screen version.
    http://i42.tinypic.com/2hzrguh.jpg

    :grin:

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedantickarl

    Hi Chemikal,
    Yes, you are correct, seasonal influences do have an affect on a lot of things as well as environmental (heat, etc).

    In this case, the affect seems to be to the extreme (30K views in 2 days), which indicates more than just seasonal or environmental influences. Marina had also changed the YT channel page after the release of that video which may have had an influence in the low views and YT is making a lot of changes everywhere on the YT site.

    At the moment here in the greater LA area, it is 98 degrees F which is bearable and the nights are still cool. July, Aug, Sept it will get a lot worse I’m sure. At this moment it is 3 PM and my house is still cool without air conditioning or fans. Later on in the evening, I’ll be turning those on.

  • originalistrick

    102 degrees @ my house in Austin-5:36 PM Central. Been cooler today.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/capman911 Capman911

    Call me next time you have breakfast. I will bring some more goodies to go with what you have. Yummy. I love a great breakfast. My blueberries are getting ripe and we can have blueberry pancakes or make some blueberry syrup. ;-)

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/capman911 Capman911

    If it wasn’t for voting for your videos on YT I would drop my YT accounts and just stay here on this site. But the only way for you to get the ratings you need or deserve we have to keep a YT account. It’s a shame the voting system want work from here to your YT site. But you also need the advertisements to be clicked on on YT for you to earn extra coins. Поэтому мы остаемся на благо процветания. ;-)

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/capman911 Capman911

    Does it help CRS :?: :lol:

  • leonard

    [Jesus juice]…

  • leonard

    Should a vote be taken on your dream?

  • leonard

    tape it :roll:

  • leonard

    word request [glove box]…for the ladies :lol:

  • leonard

    Oblast
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    :cool: :razz: :lol:
    Oblast is a type of administrative division in Slavic countries and in some countries of the former Soviet Union. The word “oblast” is a loanword in English,[1] but it is nevertheless often translated as “area”, “zone”, “province”, or “region”. The last translation may lead to confusion, because the subdivision of “oblast” is called “raion” which is translated as “region” or “district”, depending on the context.

    Oblasts are a type of administrative division of Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Ukraine, and the now-defunct Soviet Union. Official terms in successor states of the Soviet Union differ, but some still use a cognate of the Russian term, e.g. voblast (voblasts, voblasts’ , IPA: [ˈvobÉ«asʲtsʲ]) is used for provinces of Belarus, and oblys (plural: oblystar) for provinces of Kazakhstan.

    yank me :evil: :smile:

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    Thanks for the info. Now we all know that a capacitor charge/discharge or an air tank fill/release all results from the physics of stuff going into an empty space and then resisting more stuff coming in by allowing less and less in per unit time until, after an infinitely long time, and infinitely small amount of stuff is allowed in. However, there is no physical relationship (that I know of) between the number of comments in a blog and the likelyhood of a user posting another one. So why should the curve be the same? Don’t get me wrong, it’s nice that the blog behaves the same way as natural physical processes, but why should it?

    Another factor that we haven’t mentioned is the effect of a new lesson appearing. That of course would kill the buzz for the old one, so instead of a smooth curve, it should drop steeply when the new lesson comes out. Have you seen that?

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    Ohhh. I can eat blueberries, but they’re not at the top of my list. I favor boysenberries, but this morning decided to go retro and used maple syrup. Tomorrow, my mom has requested French pancakes (crepes with butter, sugar and lemon juice on them), a good excuse as any I know to combine starch and fat.

  • leonard

    [[[absurdity]]]{{{aromatic}}}

    a tank of buzz is a bee good lesson

    Know when not to push a bomb…Johnson :lol: …hey camp-A+

  • leonard
  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    I hate hot nights! The worst one ever was in Houston. It was like an acetylene torch with a built-in steam generator at 9PM. The hotel was built with the ends of the hallways open to the outside like it was Hawaii or something. God, it was awful.

    However, in Sacto., it’s just the opposite. It cools off every evening (except for 3 or 4 nights a year), so you can take walks, etc. and enjoy it. It was 105°F today with a slight breeze, but it’s down to a nicely warm 98° at 8PM and still heading down. I have lived in TX, OK, WA and DC and visited a lot of other places, but I never entertained the thought of staying at any of them.

  • hs4mm

    WordPress hosted page with over 1450 comments and with option for “Paged Comments” or “Show All” http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/secure-form-mailer-plugin-for-wordpress/

    Aside: entering a comment with html markup was hard for me on HFW site; on the linked site, someone has entered a comment with html/php markup — don’t know yet if that was entered the hard way (via escapes) or if that site has some easy way to capture comments with html markkup.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/capman911 Capman911

    I will have to try the French pancakes with all the ingredients that you listed. Sounds very good.

  • dan_woo

    Curiosity is killing me…

    Where did the word [palooka] come from?

  • elsquared

    Hello My Dear Teacher-

    I trust only HotForWords to investigate this 2-part request. Why is the headquarters for the Metropolitan Police in London named [Scotland Yard]? And why are London police officers called [bobbies]?

    Your faithful student,
    elsquared

  • no-time-for-lube

    Well i would love to hear you tell me all about the word [Lividity] i know its something that happens to the body after death but where does the word come from?

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    1 c flour
    1/8th tsp salt
    1 egg
    1 c milk
    Option: 1/2 tsp of cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla

    Mix ’til lump-free. Add about 1/4th c more milk until like heavy cream. Too much milk makes it like paper; too little, it’s too thick. On moderately hot oiled pan (cast iron is best; avoid Teflon), spoon in enough so that rolling around pan coats it thin. After top gloss disappears, flip over (should be golden brown). Cook until spots turn brown on bottom. Should be limp, not stiff like a tortilla. Plate, butter, sugar and liberal fresh lemon juice. Flick off seeds, roll and enjoy.

    Adjust heat so that next pancake sizzles, but is not burned. First pancake is usually not the best; give to someone you don’t like. :smile:

    Alternative topping: make fruit mixture of strawberries, peaches and other bits. (But that’s heresy.)

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedantickarl

     
    Marina, at least, both the YT Popular board and Most Viewed board have been locked since 7 AM this morning. There has been no movement of any videos in any direction. Normally, there is movement at least every hour of a video either moving towards page 1 or away from page 1.

    CommunityChannel released a video this morning and it is now at 48K views, but has not made it to the Most Viewed board as the lowest views on that board is now in the 56K region.

    A report is coming later tomorrow (Sunday) as I am organizing my thoughts and data. :smile:

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedantickarl

     
    Hi CampKohler, regarding your comment;
    “However, there is no physical relationship (that I know of) between the number of comments in a blog and the likelyhood of a user posting another one.”

    Actually, you gave the answer in your first comment.
    You said:
    “You know, after a lesson has aged just a bit too long, everyone has said all they want to say about it, and so the comments taper off until… well, nothing happens.”

    I agree with that and that is observable in my data.

    You used the phrase, “natural physical processes”. Humans are physical and behave that way too. For example, by observation, you can see certain natural physical occurrences such as water seeking it’s own level, velocity and acceleration observations of physical objects and so on occur in human psychology.

    You can observe similar types of patterns (analogues if you will) in the psychological world which manifests itself in the physical. For example, the Peter Principle appears to have similar outcomes as water seeking it’s own level. One occurs in the physical and the other in the non material world, but both have similar observable patterns.

    By the way, that is also true of the financial world. If you’ve done any studies of the physical sciences and then compare it to the non-physical world of money and finance, you’ll see similar patterns.

    For video views (or comments), I like using the automobile analogue the best. When there is a new video released, there is plenty of fuel (viewers). That fuel accelerates views very quickly at an almost exponential rate, until the fuel is spent, and then the rate of acceleration slows down (rate of views increase) and tapers off.

    The approximate fuel supply (subscribers + some new viewers) to drive views onto page 1 is about two to three days, at which point there is a large drop of views – unless there is a promotion (magazine, interview, etc) that continues the acceleration of views, but at a slower rate.

  • darlingj

    114 here today in Palm Springs, Ca.

    Still 82 right now at midnight…these next two months will not be fun. :=(

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedantickarl

     
    Update: June 28 1:15 AM
    About 5 minutes ago, two of the three “machinima” videos on the Most Viewed page came off of the board having been there for 48 hours.

    One of his videos is entitled “The Game Show – Episode 2″ had been as high as position #48 and was pushed down to position #77 when he left the board with 56K views. The #77 slot is now occupied by a Michael Jackson entitled video. It appears a new machinima video got on the board just now called “Inside Gaming June 26″ with 24K views at position #89
    Other than that, there still is no movement of videos.

    ShaneDawsonTV2 released a video 17 hours ago now having 48K views and it is not on the Most Viewed board.

  • http://stefanmikarlsson.blogspot.com stefankarlsson

    Hi Marina. You’re the by far hottest teacher I’ve ever seen. Anyway, the phrase I want to ask you about is [Cook the books], regarding deliberate accounting errors. For background of the question see these amusing Dilbert strips

    http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-08-07/

    http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-08-08/

  • drummer4life

    sup Marina im doing a school project and i need to know what the word [Honorificabilitudinitatibus] means. could you please help me?
    many thanks Ala

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedantickarl

     
    Update: June 28, 2009 5:47 AM
    YouTube has finally broken up the stalemate lock on the Most Viewed board. There are now only 37 Michael Jackson videos on the board instead of 64. CommunityChannel, shanedawsontv2 and machinima are all on the board right now, but, they got jump started up very high on pages 1 and 2 with their lowest views being in the 53K range. The #100 spot has 21K views which is a huge decline from the previous 56K views in that position.

    The Popular board is still locked up and has 18 Michael Jackson videos on it.

    At this point in time, the Honors boards being swamped had nothing to do with you not getting on as that came much later after your video had plenty of time to get on. Small mini report coming in a couple of hours.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/CantwrCymreig Evan Owen

    Hi leonard,

    I once went on a tour of Siberian rivers. First the Lena, then the Yenisey, and the Ob last. :mrgreen:

    (Oh, blast! I wasn’t going to tell puns today!) :sad:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/CantwrCymreig Evan Owen

    From German thaler, “from the valley,” referring to a valley in Germany where silver was mined, then minted into…dollars. :cool:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/CantwrCymreig Evan Owen

    äläx! It’s summertime! Why don’t you go out and enjoy some nice fresh air and sunshine if your computer is upsetting you? Maybe we all should, and let those who are actually involved resolve this YouTube thingy. :grin:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/CantwrCymreig Evan Owen

    You can tell a lesson is going stale when people start getting into flame wars. (See äläx et al. below.) :twisted:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/CantwrCymreig Evan Owen

    Is it any cooler in the Carpathians? Going to the mountains always “alp’d” us bear the heat. :lol:

    [alpine]

    Ah’ll pine for my mountain home, tho’ the trees are not all pine.

    Look, cedar tree? Not alder trees are fir, just the hairy ones. They should use a comb and spruce up a bit. :roll:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/CantwrCymreig Evan Owen

    .

    [mind your ps and qs]
    [chew the fat]
    [bum's rush]
    [sleep tight]

    ye olde sayinges from Merrie England!

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/CantwrCymreig Evan Owen

    Cool post, äläx. This explains a bit about Marina’s accent. :razz:

    “Ы” не так трудно, вы знаете. :smile:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/CantwrCymreig Evan Owen

    No he visto esa palabra antes. ¿Dónde la vió? :?:

  • jerseybob

    The opposite of the stern is the bow.

  • neuroway

    не тåк труÂн*, вabíl знâèтé, eh? Really? Bâhbåbíl? Is that so?

    We, poor misununcultivarated people, need a lot of faith to believe this is indeed russian and not a subtle variant of Klingon.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/CantwrCymreig Evan Owen

    Oh, come now, neuroway, how could you possibly mistake Russians for Klingons? :sad:

  • neuroway

    @Evan,

    I dunno. No idea!

  • originalistrick

    I apologize for my outburst. Under lots of pressure lately. Sorry. Just can’t understand how some people get some kind of gratification from being hateful. Should just feel sorry for them, I guess.

    Keep bringing the puns, Evan Owen – gotta have ‘em!

  • originalistrick

    I totally agree.

  • leonard

    **!**STe(i)[a(e)]RN WaRNiNGS**!**

    I saw a person get boxed in….

    The Inn had warnings that flew the rumors of the “[rumpus]” room and the pigs got into the food reservers :???: Kiki Dee I’ve got the Music in meWhy are not “RUSSIANS” the people ever winning the world [BOXING] chAmpIOnshIps? :?: :| ….

  • http://www.hotforwords.com Marina

    I feel like I should delete this video and upload it again. It’s embarrassing that YouTube broke like that for me on this video. I’m going to upload another video in a bit then kill this one and re-upload it later this week.

  • leonard

    Is GoDaddy Radio presented from I-TUNES?…just promoting mondays interview… :smile:

  • http://mentalgrammarhasbeensetup.blogspot.com äläx

    It’s embarrassing that YouTube broke like that for me on this video.

    i read this sentence at least four times. maybe i’m getting dumber by the minute or something.
    youtube did what?

  • hs4mm

    Will you be preserving HFT comments on this video? I suppose it is RIP for my comment at YT — which actually got two positive replies!

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/CantwrCymreig Evan Owen

    @ originalistrick:

    :grin:

  • ellis

    .

  • ellis

    i saw it in a book
    i just found this about yeuk
    -verb (used without object)
    1. to itch.
    -noun
    2. an itching sensation.

    bye

  • http://myspace.com/tombee2 tombee

    Cheers mate – Oh and I see what you did there with the word ‘quest’… I like it.

    It could be an interesting one… there’s something about ‘Q’ words. It’s great when you get to use them as they don’t come up in everyday conversation that often, and they’re usually quite impressive.

    Plus: Quest is such a short word, but it describes such a massive undertaking. Odd.

  • http://www.youtube.com/CheVolay Che Volay

    He did get the royal treatment, they moved some old lady on life support to the hallway and gave the private room to MJ and she died. The family sued and won.

    My friend’s girlfriend is one of the ER nurses (a Russian girl) and she gave me all the details on his preferential treatment.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/capman911 Capman911

    Man that sucks. :evil: I feel sorry for the family of the older lady. F**k that hospital. :x

  • leonard

    right on :lol: on right :razz: a rite to party hearty with the smarties :smile:

  • leonard

    An “indian”[indigenous] friend had reserved feelings that the USA was the “P00P” [deck] of cards :lol: ….I am a fan of American land.

    s*o*u*l~~~c+i=T=i+zenship

    My word and phrase request

    “Sovereign Nation”

    :smile: :lol:

    ;-) Is central government; the dicTator of (police)cy for “economic apartheid” and basis for [community-ism]??*??What is paganism and GREEK thought?…[civil]…author :sad:

    :lol: :cry: :lol:

    :smile: I love Hot4Words, but not like a lawyer! :smile:

  • http://toastytech.com/guis/bobboot1.gif Bob
  • leonard
  • titan1912

    The opposite of the stern is the bow.

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