Acronym

Here is the origin of Acronym plus I include some funny ones.  Can you think of some other funny ones as well?

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  • leonard

    Good ONE :-)

    the feds are an AGEnCY with no known E.N.D>

    Marina: this is A+++A..grandest lesson SOUL far

  • darlingj

    Very Cute! Great Lesson.

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    LOL. You are so dedicated. :smile:

  • http://www.freewebs.com/jt1stcav/ jt1stcav

    Another great lesson, Marina…this was definitely not F.U.B.A.R. (F&@#ed Up Beyond All Recognition)! :roll:

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

    Acronyms F.T.W.

  • leonard

    laser hit me right on…thank you so very Much…I swear and dare a pear for the fair… :-) I pro-nounced by the # :P

    [Yard Stick]—rules from the Lexicon Republic*****hOtfOrwOrds*****

    PEAcE for ARt-sAKe

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    I dont get eht ‘spelcheck’ jok. I waz borne in a cav I guse.

  • hs4mm

    The remark that: “Since acronyms are new, F*** cannot be an acronym.” (might not be a literal quote from the lesson) is a deep remark! It requires that the viewer know about false origin of F*** as an acronym from the times of old English Kings!

  • http://www.jindai.us jindai

    My dear teacher, I think you were a little short on your research this week. Fcccer is not an acronym, as it’s not pronounced as a word, it’s an initialization, like FBI, CIA, and TSA. Only constructions that are pronounced as a word are acronyms, constructions that are not are initializations.

    I’s sorry I’m contradicting you, dear teacher, but I felt it needed to be cleared up.

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

    FUCKER! :mrgreen:

  • hs4mm

    Spelcheck was the guy who requested [Acronym]; and he created his user name as a joke — someone who claims to be a spellchecker but is patently unable to spell!

  • hs4mm

    Listen carefully to what she says — everything she presented as an acronym was indeed an acronym; and she never claimed that the three non-acronyms she presented, viz, BARF, ARSS, and FCCCER, were acronyms. What she actually said was (not a literal quote): if the names of some federal agencies were pronounced as acronyms then the result would be funny.

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    Don’t for get S.N.A.F.U. Most government agencies run in this mode. Currently, I and other merchant mariners are experiencing a snafu with the new licensing department in Virgina.

    When I was in the Navy; I had a FUBAR file. It was my out box of docs I didn’t have a clue of what to do with them.

  • http://www.youtube.com/Tinysstupidstunts25 tinysstupidstunts25

    I would like to request the word [Chewy]

  • http://www.youtube.com/Tinysstupidstunts25 tinysstupidstunts25

    2. I would like to request the word [Fitzgerald]

  • http://www.hotforwords.com Marina

    jindal, it’s a joke.. obviously the FCCCER cannot be pronounced as a word as it ends up sounding like something inappropriate! :-)

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    tnks. ;-)

  • leonard

    PHuQuer :mrgreen: FHaCHure :lol: an ounce of PROnounceMENT :lol:

    the NEW Deal of the 30′s had many “gov” codes too

    phuker :lol:

  • originalistrick

    What a great lesson! Loved the laser gun effect. You’ve been mighty [PROLIFIC] this week, Dear Teach. Really appreciate you.

    Always.

  • http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=104856069420#/profile.php?id=661937518&ref=profile Gerald III

    Literal pronunciation: “Eff See See See Eee Are”

    I haven’t the slightest clue as to how one would pronounce that as an actual word (instead of saying the individual letters). Then again, I don’t have 2 degrees in Philology.

  • http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=104856069420#/profile.php?id=661937518&ref=profile Gerald III

    She’s tricked us yet again.

    You’re a sly one. :o

  • freebird

    :shock: GOLD LEAF – Go On Lie Down Let’s Enjoy Another F@%$ :shock:

  • leonard

    Love a good [JOKE]…

    G.od B.less—H.ot*F.or*W.ords and Marina too…G.B.

    :-)

  • apollo121

    I would like to request the word [joystick] for all apparent reasons ;P

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    Ok I have one for you all. ‘T.W.I.C.’ I’m required to have one or risk being arrested and loss of my ticket. They are not cheap at $132.50 bucks. The readers for this are pricey at $2k to $5,000 bucks. They are even required with crews as small at 14. Interestingly enough, there is word out that it might be discontinued. All this money wasted at the expense of the vessel owners.
    Does all this protect our docks? Nope! They are very easily by passed in a dozen different ways.

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    You know Marina. This was a very clever lesson you did. You found a way to cover all those profane words that people keep asking about. You did it all in one simple lesson. Now that’s intelligence!

    Like I have said in the past; I could give you the keys to a ship and I would feel confident that you would manage it well somehow.

  • seesixcm6

    Dear Marina,
    Thank you for your video on acronyms. In business, government, academia, the military, and elsewhere, acronyms are unavoidable. I hope that you will someday present us with affectionate acronyms, such as S.W.A.K. (sealed with a kiss). :razz:
    Seesixcm6

  • thegorn

    lots of hand movement there, they are well timed. lol…

  • vburzlaff

    Hi Marina, would you explain the origin of the word [neighbour]? I keep thinking it has got something to do with the horses’ neigh. Thanks!

  • leonard

    or keep It simple stupid

    K.I.S.S.

    ..t.A.T.u kisses
    …kinda acronymist… :???:

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

    Playing [hookie], weather is too nice.

    Heard where ["shot glass"] came from the other day, something about trading bullets for liqueur.

    Bottoms up!

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

     
    That was a wonderful and funny lesson Marina. I couldn’t help but crack up at the flying F. FCN A, I can pronounce FCCCER. It is the YouTube title. Very funny. :lol:

    Hey, I loved your little annotation regarding
    the acronym that did exist prior to the 20th century.
    ΙΧΘΥΣ (Ichthys or Ikhthus) meaning fish.

    Iota (i) is the first letter of Iēsous (Ἰησοῦς), Greek for Jesus.
    Chi (kh) is the first letter of Khristos (Χριστóς), Greek for “Christ” or “anointed”.
    Theta (th) is the first letter of Theou (Θεοῦ), that means “God’s”, genitive case of Θεóς, Theos, “God”.
    Upsilon (u) is the first letter of huios (Υἱός), Greek for Son.
    Sigma (s) is the first letter of sōtēr (Σωτήρ), Greek for Savior.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthys

  • greatestpotential

    I noticed you put your hotforwords website address on your recent photos in Nice. Does that mean you’ll sue me if I do play art on your photos and post them here?

  • hs4mm

    It’s a joke — see comment #9 below.

  • pennsyltucky9

    I’d like to know whether [BLAT] derives from an acronym or not.

  • pennsyltucky9

    Nazdorovye, Che.

  • leonard

    Hey music man! Did you see this..PLAYING FOR CHANGE: PEACE THROUGH MUSIC | One Love | PBS
    thought you might like and everyone else…have a good SUNDAY :grin:

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

    SPQR (“Senatus Populusque Romanus”) was an acronym or abbreviation on Roman banners.

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

     
    I love the thumbnail over there at the right; a.c.r.o.n.y.m.
    So, is acronym an acronym. Maybe not, but I like this one:

    A Contrived Reduction Of Nomenclature Yielding Mnemonics

    Oh oh, there is another word that looks
    suspiciously acronyminic – [mnemonic]
    Might be an infinite recursion.

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

    Yeah, neighbours are those living within the sound of a horse’s neigh. Right. :lol:

    From Anglo-Saxon “neah” (near) and “gebur” (dweller). :cool:

    BTW Marina, the emoticons keep disappearing. I have to type in the codes for them. :neutral:

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

     
     
    Luckily this lesson was not SNAFU,
    and neither was the SNAFU lesson. :grin:

     
     

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

    “Fitz” is a prefix meaning “bastard son of.” Perhaps related to the French fils, “son”. If my memory serves right, the name [FitzGerald] was brought to Ireland by the Norman French, overlords who eventually became Gaelicized.

    There was a movie a couple of decades ago called “Fitzcarraldo” about an Irish entrepreneur in Peru, “Fitzcarraldo” being a Hispanicization of “FitzGerald.” :cool:

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

    OK, per jindai below, it was an “initialization,” not an acronym. :smile:

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

    M — in case you hadn’t noticed, jindai is a bit humor-impaired. But we love him anyway. :smile:

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

    There was a joke in WWII that “fubar” was a corruption of a German word fuchtbar, meaning “terrible.” {PK, help me out here, I can’t find the word in my German dictionary — is this bogus?} But of course jt1stcav has the correct meaning.

    For the uninitiated, “snafu” means “situation normal, all f*cked up.”

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

    [mnemonic] derives from the Greek Mνημοσύνη or Mnemosyne, the muse of memory. :cool: I use this as the name of my journal. :cool:

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

    Hey PK, there’s some term for re-interpreting a real word as an acronym. Do you (or anyone else) know what this term is? :???:

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

    Ghastly acronyms infest the world. When I was a draftee, I discovered the military was peppered with acronyms. I seldom knew what they were talking about. I remember only one from the military and it’s MOS, for military occupational skill. I listened to an audiobook recently, called “Homage to Catalonia” by George Orwell, where every political party, and there were mucho, had a acronym. My advice is that if you decide to listen to the book, or read it, keep a pencil and paper handy to jot down the acronyms and keep them sorted out. Great adventure book.

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

     
    Hey Evan, yes, I just came across that
    word about an hour ago, and dang it if I didn’t
    try to remember it. As soon as I find that word,
    I’ll let you know.

  • http://mentalgrammarhasbeensetup.blogspot.com äläx

    it’s furchtbar, with an r.

    “-bar” is a productive suffix generating adjectives.
    “furcht” means “fear” etc.

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

     
     
    Am I the only one to discover the secret acronyms
    being sent by Marina? Don’t tell anyone, these
    are highly secret acronyms.

    YMCA
    KARL

     
     

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

    http://searchcio-midmarket.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid183_gci211518,00.html:

    “An acronym in which the short form was original and words made up to stand for it afterwards is called a backronym. (For example, SOS was originally chosen as a distress signal because it lent itself well to Morse code. Long versions, including Save Our Ship and Save our Souls, came later.)”

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

    Kudos, PK. (In case you were fishing for compliments.) :lol:

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

    Hey Evan,
    Yup, that’s the one. I was a little hesitant to cite that word as I was thinking of something else in terms of backwards definitions.

    By definition, a backronym is a reverse acronym a phrase constructed after the fact to make an existing word or words into an acronym.

    In fact, I was working on some words and I will post them up above in a few.

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

    Vielen dank, äläx. :smile:

    I fear my Deutsche is all furchtup, er, furchtbar! :lol:

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

    Oooh, too dreadfully clever, PK. :lol:

  • http://omegafinal.newgrounds.com avalonknight

    How do I pronounce FCCCR? F-Seer maybe? There is one other way, but it might get me kicked out of the classroom.

    Here’s one I found interesting, SWAT has two acronyms. It was originally “Special Weapons Assault Team”. But since it sounded too violent for a police force, it was changed to “Special Weapons and Tactics”.

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    I heard that it had some connection with a German word. I didn’t know what that was or if it was true or not.

    The PC version of snafu is … all fowled up.. That said, I rather use the colorful version. It carries more weight for me. :twisted:

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    Hey Alax, thanks for the link. It was cool to hear the enunciation of the word too. I wasn’t sure if I was pronouncing it correctly, but discovered I was spot on. :mrgreen: :grin:

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    “Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things.” – Epictetus 55-135 A.D.

    I just seen this quote from somewhere on line this week. [For the life of me], I can’t remember where though.

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

     
    Also, the above acronym is related to another type of writing device called an acrostic.

    The individual words of the acronym above are also an acclamation;
    “Jesus Christ, God’s Son, Saviour”

    In Greek, it would be Iesous KHristos which would become IKHTHUS or Ichthys meaning fish, hence the use of the fish by early Christians.

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

    Hey, speaking of Greek words, here’s a handy Greek phrase:

    “Euripides, Eumenides” which translates roughly to “you bust it, you fix it.” :mrgreen:

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

    Another interesting piece of etymology: “Yeshua” in Hebrew & Aramaic became the Greek “Iesous,” Latin “Iesus,” and ultimately the English “Jesus.” I wonder if He would even recognize the name.

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    That’s cool! I was going to start learning Greek but gave up. I know long have a reason to learn it.

  • greatestpotential

    :cool: sea crete

  • James

    Very good lesson Marina.

  • James

    Congratulations you have recieved enough views that we can’t update in real time!

    Yes YouTube… Congratulate me for you freezing my views.

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    Many young single men who go to Thailand, go to Phuket. :lol:

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    There are many humorous backronyms in aviation travel based on the names of airlines, e.g.
    SABENA=Such A Bad Experience, Never Again.
    LIAT=Luggage In Another Timezone.
    LUFTHANSA=Let Us F^(< The Hostesses And Not Say Anything.
    QUANTAS=Queers And Nymphomaniacs Travelling As Stewards.

    Of course QUANTAS is a real acronym standing for Queensland And Northern Territory Air Service.

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    YMCA=Young Marina’s Class is Awesome.
    KARL=Knowledge Administered by a Real Lady.

  • leonard

    Another island…Beast with two backs
    Meaning

    Partners engaged in sexual intercourse.

    Origin

    This modern-sounding phrase is in fact at least as early as Shakespeare. He used it in Othello, 1604:

    Iago:
    “I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.”

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    Sounds like the [Missionary position].
    Doing it whilst Tweeting on your iPhone would be an iMposition.
    The beast with two fronts would be Mission iMpossible. :grin:

  • leonard

    You are good…Bob: here is the city down the way of the road***EAA Warbirds of America…A likeness of cartoon character Bullwinkle the Moose is a conversation piece on the nose of a Yakovlev-11 airplane in Oshkosh this week.
    :razz:

  • leonard

    [United Brethen]…my cabin , they built and for another word request-[nano] and [allegory]

    What is a large group algebra workers, working in musical time? How is what, what is made, paid out in psuedo currencies?…berry currants

    Polka Family Christmas@Pulaski Polka days

    STP—–stop teasing Polish or FBI—-full-bloodedIndian

    ps–I’m selling free LUV [tickle me] tender loving care—tlc

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    Thanks for the link, Leonard. :smile:

  • leonard

    more is telling… :-) An aptronym is a name aptly suited to its owner. Fictional examples of aptronyms include Mr. Talkative and Mr. Worldly Wiseman in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678), Truman Burbank (true-man), the lead character in the 1998 film The Truman Show and the principal cast of the Mr Men (1971).

    A related phrase is nominative determinism, popularised by New Scientist magazine, suggesting, with tongue firmly in cheek, that people’s life choices are influenced by their names. The distinction is subtle but fundamental: as post-hoc versus propter-hoc, so aptronym versus nominative determinism.
    :P

  • leonard

    U-2

  • wetsuit5

    If Nice is Nice, then what about NYC?

  • leonard

    Schools…learn to net and swimming 4-ever…eating schools of fish for family fun…

    What do they call a girl, that calls back? and hooked for grace :?: :oops:

    ;-)

  • leonard

    Quote

    of the HotForWords and Lexicon Republic

    “Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things.” – Epictetus 55-135 A.D. “What about things like bullets?” – Herb Kimmel, Behavioralist, Professor of Psychology, upon hearing the above quote 1981…PS—-what does “TRON” stands for?**!**[sits]

  • http://www.hotforwords.com Marina

    I removed it because I am not so sure how true that theory is.

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    Today’s trivia quiz:-
    Who invented the number “zero”?
    Who invented Algebra?

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

    I did spend my 22nd b-day in Bangkok. No joke.

  • matilda

    Dear Teacher,
    Please tell me the origin of the word [human].
    I always love your work!
    Thank you! :razz:

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

    Timely word request. [Race] has been in the news quite a bit lately. Somebody thinks this would be an excellent choice for a vid. (It has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I have been requesting this word for months, now. :roll:

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    New Yoik is Noisty. :grin:

  • wetsuit5

    You didn’t get it Bob. Pronounce NYC.

  • hs4mm

    Didn’t you remove it soon after you put it in, way back yesterday? Anyway, any news on the bug in SCO Super Comments that creates incomplete links?

  • leonard
  • leonard

    :-) Better yet…numbers…arabic numbers are not of the arabs :P ps—do not ruin the roam of counts—– ;-)

  • leonard

    Somebody has always got to race for something

    To be on time and then we start this race.

    [run] like a hun….my nuns said: that they were a made up race of stolen babies…the HUNs :P [tribes] of the bribes…. :-) [continental] and the jet set

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    Race is a cereal food which is a staple in Oriental countries, often eaten very quickly with a curry, hence the phrase “Curry in a hurry”.
    It’s true I tell you.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/cufan71 cufan71

    :cool: Here’s one of my favorite acronyms: E.P.C.O.T.
    Every Person Comes Out Tired
    So true! :smile:

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    Oh yes I did. How’s my Bronx accent? :grin:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/cufan71 cufan71

    :grin: YUMMY! I love Race Krispies! :mrgreen:

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

     
    Hi Marina,
    If you mean by removed, the ΙΧΘΥΣ annotation, it is still there at 1:14

    Referring to “… how true that theory is.” it is true that it opens up a huge bag of rhetoric, ad hominems and folk lore. I’m a student of ancient religious traditions, but I’m not an expert, yet, in determining the veracity of what is usually taken for truth, other than through lots of cross referencing many different author’s works.

    Besides verifying the historical written works and historical evidence, there is the argument whether that which was written about, was historical fact, or an act of faith and then there are arguments of when these events and writings occurred, in other words the problem of back fitting. And then of course there is the issue of determining if it was a true acronym or an initialism or just an acrostic.

    Evidence of the interpretation of ΙΧΘΥΣ appears to be preserved in the catacombs of Rome dating around the 2rd century.

    The Hebrew language has a long history of acronyms that were pronounced such as the Hebrew Bible called the Tanakh (TNK, TaNaK) which is an acronym composed from the Hebrew initial letters of its three major sections from the
    Torah, the five books of Moses,
    Nevi’im or prophets, and
    K‘tuvim known as the “writings”.

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

    Zero: obviously the French, for keeping score in tennis, a sport which they “love.” :roll:

    Algebra: invented by al-Jabr, an Arab noted for prattling on about math. :lol: Definitely a “wog enwog.” :???: (Sorry — that was pretty obscure.) :neutral:

    (Dear me — also non-PC. Puns before propriety, eh?) :oops:

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

    I also long to know a reason to learn Greek. :razz:

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

    @Bob

    That’s quite a quanta-ty of airline acronyms! :wink:

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    Well I discovered it’s all Greek to me and I’ll never understand it.

    I did take a look at Russian. I notices some things about it that really explains why Marian chooses certain English words the way she does. All this time I thought they were all rude people.

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    That’s funny. I did read somewhere that they do that.

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
    One of your facetious [stabs in the dark] was quite close to the truth but in the wrong sense so I must make a reduction in your extra credits.
    You could redeem them by telling which famous (wog enwog) poet found the way to solve cubic equations.
    BTW – you missed a chance of a pun in your post -

    an Arab noted for al jabbering about ….

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

    Among the Hebrews, there was the “atbash cypher,” a way of writing in code. “Atbash” is an acronym for אתבש “aleph tau bet shin,” a sequence of Hebrew letters describing how the code worked. Very simple code, yet scholars puzzled for centuries over Jeremiah’s reference to “Sheshak” — until finally one recognized it as atbash cypher for “Babel.” :cool:

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    Well Zorro of course! Zorro was a great hero and they wanted to combine Hero with Zorro to make Zero. He like it very much because he could quickly strike a circle with one stroke whereas making the ‘Z’ took three strikes.

    Algebra is a combination of bra wearing algae. If you see to little green bubbles in the water that the female algae called Algebra.

    :razz: :razz: :razz: :razz: :roll:

  • http://www.cherryheaven.co.uk learningenglish

    Quantas is spelled Qantas. q always has a u: queing is a custom of long standing.

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

    PK,

    Re your above k’tuvim (plural of k’tuv)

    Katoob is a light-weight, multi-lingual, BIDI-aware text editor. It supports opening and saving files in multiple encodings. The main support is for Arabic language, but language specific features can be added. It should run on most BSD and POSIX compliant operating systems.”

    Both k’tuv and katoob come from a proto-Semitic word meaning “write.” Katoob is also the Nepalese word for “book,” adopted from Arabic, though Nepalese is Indo-European. :cool:

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

    BTW “t’ank” you for your comment. :mrgreen:

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

     
    I’ll have to fill in for leonard and provide
    Saved by Zero

  • viperii

    Here’s my most favorite acronym OBAMA One Big Ass Mistake America

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

    Marina,

    In honor of your your Greek word lesson and your recent trip to Greece:

    Mi Mou Thimonis Matia Mou :grin:

    Hey, I just found out a bouzouki is not a Greek anti-tank weapon. :lol:

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

     
    Tnk ntng of it. :-)

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

    OK, I get it, “rice” is just the Cockney pronunciation, right? :razz:

    If you prey upon rice, are you a cereal killer? :mrgreen:

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

    Monty Python might say, “We are the knights who say ‘NYC’ “ :lol:

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

    Bob,

    I could name the “wog enwog,” but that would lead us back to the old tired puns about “algo-rhythms.” :neutral:

    Re my missing a pun: “prattle” is a synonym for… :mrgreen:

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

    I thought “algae bra” was a female undergarment worn by mermaids. :???:

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

    Your “rude people” impression derives from an etymological misunderstanding. “Slav” derives from the Russian word for “word.” :smile:

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

    Karl’s a lady? :shock: :razz:

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

    leonard, in your lucid moments, you really come up with some interesting material! :razz:

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

    Hi Marina,

    I like your new website feature (“plug-in,” is it called?) that links commenters’ names back to their recent comments. Clicking my name lets me see that everything I thought was so witty when I posted it is really pretty inane and fatuous. Just the motivation I need to get up from the computer and do something useful! :razz:

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

    Epcot? Bring your walking shoe. Primarily, there was a Morrocan rock band (no, it wasn’t my cup of tea) that had a dancer, who was the most beautiful woman in the world, or so I thought at the time. I swung by there a few times just to drink in at her dancing. It wouldn’t do to just stand there gawking endlessly for hours…they’d have to call the gendarmes…but if I thought I could get away with it, I would have. She was pure eye candy. The Norwegian gift shop had some nice honeys there too, one of which I managed to pissed off when I casually asked her if she knew how to make lefse. Apparently, I picked at a deep psychological wound, as yet unhealed, as she informed me brusquely that her grandmother had promised to teach her, and she stormed off. Also, there was a ginormous drum at the Japanese site which was beaten athleticlally by a couple of sweeties. The damn place was life affirming, and this is a lot coming from a dour sceptic like myself.

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    No, it’s from their sentence structure.

    From russianlessons.net

    “2. Russian does not use complicated sentence structures like English. You can normally say exactly what you want with just a few words. For example, in English to be polite we would say something like “can you please pass me the salt”, however in Russian they would say something simpler like “give salt please”. Speaking so directly may even feel unusual for an English speaker, however it is perfectly normal, just add the word ‘please’ to be polite.”

    If someone said ‘give salt please’ I feel I should slap them for being so rude. I like the efficiently of the Russian language but I also like how English adds a bit more to encourage someone to pass the salt. Without this, I might be inclined to say “Get it your own damn self!” ;-)

  • pennsyltucky9

    Well I can honestly say I’ve been to church now that I watched this vid, Leonard. Thank you. Very powerful words are both sung and spoken here. Peace, brother.

  • greatestpotential

    :| This is corny but after the hotforwords video on domain and now this video I’ve considered securing a domain for Acronymby & Finch

  • greatestpotential

    You, Me, and a Canopy ♪ I think that’s an old sailor song.

  • pennsyltucky9

    So true, Captainjack. One might even see this as a right-brain vs. left-brain dichotomy.

  • neuroway

    Diantre, that’s a very easy one, in reality. Things like bullets can be viewed as a bunch of orderly aligned mini-fokkers waiting to take off and wreak havoc on some unwary ennemy. Even if you can’t see them coming, at least you know you can view them coming (and kinda hear them too). This allegory should reassure Herb Kimmel in at least a couple of his existential wanderings and help him calm down and get some sleep too. If at least Herb can view what he can’t see, some progress has been made towards some direction if not some goal I say.

    “I was never good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.” – Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (1892 – 1918)

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    Hum never thought of it that way.

    I wonder why men have separation of their brain while women use their brain as one whole. Must be some kind of reason for this. I still don’t know why men still have nipples. :mrgreen:

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    So one half of the brain can feel them and pretend that it’s making love to the other half. :twisted:

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

    Good observation, CJ. It sheds some light on why the Japanese consider us so rude. They have loads of words to convey politeness, so that we probably appear brusque or rude to them. :neutral:

  • pennsyltucky9

    I seem to recall that the Mayans came up with zero earlier than the rest of the world, and that Algebra was invented by a middle-eastern mathematician named Al-Jabbar.

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    And algo-rhythms are the periodic occurrences of toxic algal blooms which happen in warm weather.

  • pennsyltucky9

    No, just a post-cerealist.

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    Not available in your country.
    I think MI5 are censoring UK YouTube.

  • Damiana

    Too funny how many people believe that fuck (so not masking) is an acronym for Fornicate Under Consent of the King (or some other derivative).

    The etymology of fuck that I believe is true:

    Verb:
    ficken (third-person singular simple present fickt, past tense fickte, auxiliary haben, past participle gefickt)
    1. to fuck

    http://bit.ly/WfeWd

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    Algorhythms also occur when a certain former US Vice-President and Presidential candidate is on the dance floor.

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    Only if you reap it. :roll:

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    Good observation, CJ. It sheds some light on why the Japanese consider us so rude. They have loads of words to convey politeness, so that we probably appear brusque or rude to them. :neutral:

    Yes! You’re right. Japanese language shows much respect to the person they are speaking to. That is exactly my point with the Russian language. Marina and I have been experiencing some communication issues. It feels like whatever I say is taken as an insult or the likeness of one. I’m not sure if the the language differences is suspect but I think it’s definitely worth a look at.

    I’m going to study a bit more about Russian language and compare that to what I been saying in hopes I can better communicate with her. I don’t want to feel like I’m walking on egg shells with every email draft.

  • neuroway

    NYC is nothing else than a GARGANTUAN BANANA. :shock:

    Ahem.. I wanted to mean a big apple of course. Let us not exaggerate and inflate things too much here.

  • wetsuit5

    You guys are rough today.
    We’ll have to petition Marina for a case of Neuro Sleep for the house.
    Everybody take a nap.
    She wakes up the beast, she’ll have to sing us a lullaby now.

  • Venomrock67

    is it fucker? no way because if it is that’s funny, that’s a good acro for most federally funded programs, fuckers. I’m gonna have to scroll down to see other peoples’ answers to find the right answer.

    Hey have you heard of this acronym? PETA (People eating tasty animals)

  • Venomrock67

    :oops: it’s a joke, that went over my head! but hey that’s a good one Marina! :lol:

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

    Kalispera and efcharisto Evan, for adding to our Words and Phrases sack o`goodies.
    And I’ll contribute this video link!

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

    F.A.R.T Fayetteville Area Rapid Transit bus system.
    C.A.T. Charlotte Area Transit.
    R.A.T Raleigh Area Transit
    M.I.L.F Mothers I Like to F**k
    W.T.F What The F**k
    MoFo Mozilla Foundation
    TRAINSEX Training System Exerciser
    A.W.O.L Absent With Out leave

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

    I agree with you on the FCCCR meaning fucker. I have seen and like the PETA acronym also. Rabbit and deer are very tasty along with cows, chickens, beef etc etc. :lol:

  • Venomrock67

    Since people like to pay a lot of these whether or not it helps to gain social programs to help out people or stabilize the economy and to fix the infrastructure system, what’s the origin of [Tax] or [Taxes]. :grin: :shock: :mad:

  • http://www.myspace.com/dooberskate Painkiller120

    It can’t be pronounced, even though It is an Acronym not all acronyms can be said into a word. Some can but some can’t that’s like trying to pronounce NWBA or even NAACP. It’s a trick question.

  • originalistrick

    Yeah. The People Eating Tasty Animals thing is real popular (and accurate) in my neck of the woods. In fact, I just finished another PETA masterpiece from my grill.

  • originalistrick

    Speaking of “eating meat”, are ya’ll familiar with the term “vagetarian”?

  • originalistrick

    Ouch, Evan Owen. I just did this for the first time. Ouch again. Me so fatuous, too. Don’t mean to be…just comes naturally to me, apparently.

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

    Try this link from Dailymotion.

    The other link is on the Universalmusic YT page, so I’m sure Universal had a say in that.

  • az musician

    I would like to know the origin of the word [zombie]. I’ve like to request another word if that is okay. What is the origin of the word [Etymology]?

  • http://www.ps3dreamthemes.com dadragon84

    I would like to know the origin of “FELATIO”

  • http://www.ps3dreamthemes.com dadragon84

    and is it true that the origin of the word “FUCK” comes from the abbreviation for “Fornification Under Consent of King”

  • http://www.ps3dreamthemes.com dadragon84

    I would like to know the origin of [FELATIO]

  • Damiana

    Just google it: What is the etymology of fellatio? You’ll get the answer within seconds. And in answer to your other question: No.

  • http://www.hotforwords.com Marina

    No, it’s not true.. it’s what I said in the video :-)

  • caucus54

    I would like to know the origin of [Shark], thanks Marina.

  • http://mentalgrammarhasbeensetup.blogspot.com äläx

    the real MILF.

  • http://mentalgrammarhasbeensetup.blogspot.com äläx

    lol.:D

  • Damiana

    :lol:

  • greatestpotential

    you’re silly. that would be a blow job.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRtq2-gziI buzzword

    so, where the fuck is everybody? alex, you still here? hey pagedoll.

  • http://www.hotforwords.com HotForWords

    Hello?

  • Damiana

    hmmm.. I like hummer.

  • greatestpotential

    I heard it came from early day colonists. When the farmers plowed the fields they’d say they were going to “fuck” which meant run a plow back and forth on the land to make the soil ready for the planting of seeds.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRtq2-gziI buzzword

    Hi?

  • Damiana

    Good find, äläx.

  • greatestpotential

    oh. that’s just a blow job with a tire low on air.
    or like when a car veers too far to the side of the freeway and the tires run along rough indentations in the cement.

  • http://mentalgrammarhasbeensetup.blogspot.com äläx

    yeah, right here?

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRtq2-gziI buzzword

    hey, i’m down here.

  • Damiana

    More like a musical blowjob..

  • http://mentalgrammarhasbeensetup.blogspot.com äläx

    chicks. they always gotta butt in.

  • http://mentalgrammarhasbeensetup.blogspot.com äläx

    kinda like in the middle now.

  • greatestpotential

    tootsie pop♪

  • leonard

    Hello? :lol:

  • greatestpotential

    Hey!

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRtq2-gziI buzzword

    dude, that damiana chick below uses a lot of foul language.

  • Damiana

    lolly pop lolly pop oh lolly lolly lolly♪

  • greatestpotential

    I taught the bitch right.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRtq2-gziI buzzword

    those that can’t do, teach.

  • greatestpotential

    oh yeah? well those who misbehave get spanked.

  • Damiana

    @buzzword
    I said “hummer” in answer to a question and talked about the etymology of fuck.. So what..

    @greatestpotential
    be respectful.. I don’t refer to you in degrading terms.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRtq2-gziI buzzword

    in honor of initials and acronyms… kmfdm

  • Damiana

    Cool band..

    Also in honor of initials and acronyms: CKY

  • greatestpotential

    i was being respectful. b.i.t.c.h.: beauty in tow, carefully handle.

  • http://mentalgrammarhasbeensetup.blogspot.com äläx

    shit, yeah, she does. you gotta fucking love her for that, man.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRtq2-gziI buzzword

    since your such an ass you must slap yourself silly.

  • greatestpotential

    benny hill said don’t assume because when you assume you make an ass out of u and me.

  • greatestpotential

    okay chimp. tell me why you think i’m an ass. no, i want to know what you really meant by that so tell me now.

  • greatestpotential

    come teach me smarty pants how you appear the utmost gentleman or take your unkind words and stuff them back in your banana peel.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRtq2-gziI buzzword

    exactly, so what. check out this bit of hfw history. that was such a fun thread.

  • Damiana

    Thanks, äläx. You’re cool.

  • Damiana

    I’ll get back to it. That’s a lot to read. Are you schooling me to be cool or wha?

  • greatestpotential

    thanks, but no thanks. i don’t take orders from primates.

  • Damiana

    awright.. Just wanna keep it nice..

  • greatestpotential

    ha, that had suck up all over it!

  • greatestpotential

    You’re a cool daddy. Get me a harpsichord quick! Need some baroque with that.

  • Damiana

    @buzzword
    äläx says you’re cool and i believe him..

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRtq2-gziI buzzword

    lol cool off gp.

  • greatestpotential

    Oooh cool. If you sucked up anymore you’d swallow your head down your throat.

  • http://www.myspace.com/dooberskate Painkiller120

    Id like to figure out where the origin of zombie came from that would be a good one. I’ve always wondered that.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRtq2-gziI buzzword

    cool we’re all cool. that thread, just an example of me and alex getting corrected for our language a long time ago. history keeps repeating itself.

  • greatestpotential

    cool, coz i’m learning how to coddle babies. it’s like in school when the teacher makes you carry a bag of flour around for a month to see if you can be a responsible mother.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRtq2-gziI buzzword

    that’s an old one.

  • leonard

    Straw and fodder…hey back::-:: clip from “Taming of the Screwy” in which the Warners attempt to work on their vowel sounds.
    [Hay bales] and [oil rigs]…shoot me up;! the car said :lol:

  • greatestpotential

    true, history of the boring kind repeats itself constantly. def. sounds like something a history teacher would say.

  • Damiana

    k, buzzword.. i’ll check it out..

  • leonard

    buzzword says:
    53August 2, 2009 at 7:13 pm
    so, where the fuck is everybody? alex, you still here? hey pagedoll.
    :P you guys should be on youtube :lol: phuck??!??

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRtq2-gziI buzzword

    true, history of the boring kind repeats itself constantly. def. sounds like something a history teacher would say.

  • greatestpotential

    I’m cold. Want to play dead fish with me?

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRtq2-gziI buzzword

    digging that tune, had to play it twice.

  • greatestpotential

    I don’t mind repetition as long as it’s run through the shredder afterwards. Since each generation is being taught that history is always repeating itself you would think we’d have this dilema licked by now. right(?)

  • Damiana

    @buzzword
    love CKY. Jess Margera, Bam’s bro, formed the band with a bud of his..

  • leonard
  • greatestpotential

    hmmm INXS

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRtq2-gziI buzzword

    digging into them further… camp kill yourself?

  • Damiana

    yeah, buzzword.. Camp Kill Yourself.. and there’s a spinoff band.. Gnarlkill that has Bam Margera, too..

  • Damiana

    INXS is cool..

  • greatestpotential

    :o The Letter People – The Long Sounds Song

    This song, written by Miss E after the success of The Squoosh Song, introduces viewers to the vowel’s long sounds.

  • leonard
  • leonard

    [drill] from wiki—-Jethro Tull invented the seed drill, a device for sowing seeds effectively. At the time his workers did not like the idea because they thought they were going to lose their jobs.

    Tull also advocated the use of horses instead of oxen and invented a horse-drawn Hoe for clearing weeds, and made changes to the design of the plough which are still visible in modern versions. His interest in ploughing derived from his interest in weed control
    :-)

  • leonard
  • kickmynadz753

    I really enjoyed this lesson. :) I would like to request the word [ballbusting].

  • greatestpotential

    Tull, till, tilling the soil, perhaps a connection

    :o Bungle in the Jungle

  • leonard

    A guy name Lolly wrote this…Bobbie Gentry – Niki Hoeky

    Redbone – Come And Get Your Love
    ..[main line]

    …same writers of both songs :P

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRtq2-gziI buzzword

    oh, that was fun! i so enjoy a good love song.

  • stigmatasaurus

    Great lesson, Marina! :smile: Technically, these are “backronyms”: FORD–Fix Or Repair Daily; FIAT–Fix It Again, Tony. :?: Does anybody remember what U.N.C.L.E., C.O.N.T.R.O.L., and K.A.O.S. supposedly stood for?

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRtq2-gziI buzzword

    a love song for damiana… tiny meat.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRtq2-gziI buzzword

    where the fuck did you go?

  • greatestpotential

    :o I think U.N.C.L.E. stands for Ukraine’s Naughty Chicks Like Excitement!

  • Damiana

    Comment landed in the wrong spot.. moved..

  • Damiana

    Niiice.. loved that tune by Ruby, buzzword. Edge-y. Shades of Poe.. kinda..

    Saved Tiny Meat to my YouTube faves..

  • Damiana

    hey buzzword.. was talking to äläx until he had to go ni nites.. checked back for replies for a while, but then missed you. bummer. nice mouth *smirk* lol!

    cool that you liked the gnarlkill, too. so much fun..

  • kickmynadz753

    I would like to request the word [ballbusting].

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

    What is a acronym for {lawsuit} because the state of NY better seek your vocabulary help Marina maybe they can manipulate there way out like their Aids scandal! See YA hope your haven fun. :lol: :lol: :lol:

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

    I remember entering Athens near dawn on the train, and greeting two of my fellow passengers with “Kalimira!” Their response:

    “Qu’est-ce q’il dit?”
    “Bon jour.” :lol:

  • http://softyoungmess.tumblr.com jacysadventures

    I would like to request the origin of the phrase [knock on wood]
    Thank you

  • xenourger

    I would like to request the history of the phrase [Johnny on the spot] thank you

  • blackice

    I would like to request the word [hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia]. It is commonly misspelled with two “p”s in the “quipe” part. I know what it means but I would like you to teach more people of this great word, I use it fairly often.

  • http://www.youtube.com/labbatt78 labbatt78

    Finally some heated weather heading our way! Thank god! I wanted to be out in my backyard pool and lay out in the sun. I hope it’s the same flava when I leave town in about 2 weeks.

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

    People just don’t listen… :D

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    You will find the answers in this BBC program.

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

    Man, forget listening… Seeing is where it’s at!

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    Don’t forget S.M.E.R.S.H. from the James Bond books, and T.H.R.U.S.H. from The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    Forget seeing. You’ll see it when you believe it. :grin:

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

    On topic question…
    Where does [Shag] come from?
    I’m not talking about Shag and Scoob, I’m talking about:
    “Yeah baby, shall we shag now, or shall we shag later?”
    I think you get the picture. :-)

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    Wasn’t he a character in “The Merchant of Venice” who salivated and whose tongue quivered at the prospect of “a pound of flesh”?

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

    That’s what I call asking Hello.
    And the answer is yes. :-)

  • leonard

    :lol: [bRains]

    :roll: Health care is taking care of investers :cool:

    —My word request is [[[treat]]]]like treat me as an award to spoils…..

    [treat} or no tricks :cry:

    :smile:

  • coolio13

    I would like to know the origins and or meaning of occult and occultation, please.

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

    The ads in my e-mail were pretty freaky. The e-mail had your response and two replies from leonard. It actually made me smile out loud.

  • leonard

    My winter conceived kitten is KING COOL…How are your cats?

    :razz: Miss Kittin – Kittin is High

    …ethnic pride and ride your races with Hot Words of for :cry: PS—{how is a running race started}? pace your self

  • leonard

    :P George Jones – The Race Is On
    GO-g0-Go-gone :P clan of tribe

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    What were these freaky ads for?

  • hitoshi

    i cant drink Neuro Sonic anymore because it doesnt taste good :cry: who would like it??

  • playersim343

    what does entertainment :grin: Mean

  • http://mentalgrammarhasbeensetup.blogspot.com äläx

    yeah, went to bed. yesterday was fun, though. we need to do that shit more often. hehe. re-read the whole thing today, fucking hilarious.

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

    U.N.C.L.E. – United Network Command for Law and Enforcement
    T.H.R.U.S.H. – Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesireables and the Subjugation of Humanity
    S.M.E.R.S.H. is more properly, SMERSH, an acronym (?) from two Russian words: “SMERt’ SHpionam”*, and was an actual USSR counterintelligence organization founded during WWII to thwart NAZI spies in the USSR.
    C.O.N.T.R.O.L. and K.A.O.S. were faux acronyms that didn’t have words corresponding to the letters. In TV, you don’t have to have real acronyms.
    *Wiki

  • bgbreakdown

    I have an excellent phrase. It’s especially good since newspaper and TV reporters always get it wrong!
    [carrot and stick approach]

    News people think it means if someone does something you want you give them a carrot, if not you hit them with a stick. Wrongo!

    Muah!

  • jonathan.peel

    Hi Marina, I am starting to have insomia and i was wondering the origin of that word. You think you can make a video? That would be great. I love your videos they are very informative. :smile: :smile:

  • http://twitter.com/wyo550 wyo550

    Acronyms form the basis of what I call “DIGISPEK” (the language of tomorrow, today!) driven by “ROTFLMYAO” and “LOL” and so forth, in the future people will “speak” in this technology- driven (ie Twitter message length) format – without saying anything specific…UNO?

    In my new book (which may be advertised on H4W if the price is right) I describe the American Research Security Act of 2018, which the faculty of universities call the “Horse’s Ars Act”.

    I was going to put ICBM on my license plate for the Porsche Turbo- but thought, “why incite the haters?” Same for CIAO on the Ferrari. CIAO is an Italian acronym for something along the lines of “Very truly yours”- except it literally means “I am your slave or servant”.

  • Damiana

    yeah.. last night was fun. :lol:

  • Damiana

    hey buzzword.. another by CKY that you might like.

    disclaimer: it’s kinda twisted..

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

    Here’s a weird story, to battle the skunks spraying around the house I started to pee around the property. So last night I peed off the deck and when I got up the next morning a dead skunk was laying there next to where I had peed.

    It’s either a coincident or something in my diet poison that little stinker.

    {Che must now go read the warnings on all prescription medication}

  • LetsRoll

    I’d be curious to know how [deponent] verbs have come to be called deponent. Many thanks!

  • http://www.hotforwords.com HotForWords

    Yeah, I had my National Association of Modern Babes from Los Angeles (NAMBLA) license plate on my MayBach… but I kept having all these creepy weird guys honking their horns at me!

  • http://www.hotforwords.com HotForWords

    Nice.. #1 Most Viewed right now on YouTube! That’s 2 in a row :-)

  • http://www.hotforwords.com HotForWords

    You should see the elaborate origins that people come up with… right now on the video on YouTube people keep commenting various crazy origins! the latest one was related to disease and the king would decide who could procreate to prevent the spread of disease or something like that!

  • http://twitter.com/wyo550 wyo550

    Ciao Bella! ;-) I hope everyone notices that our dear teacher, this honestly beautiful, truly hard working and extraordinary human being from east of Moscow is working after dinner while vacationing on a magnificent yacht off the French Riviera! THAT is a work ethic! What cracks me up in the NATIONAL association of L.A. Chicks! Because “those in the know” KNOW there’s “No life east of La Cienega” NAMBLA sounds [Namby Pamby] to me. Your family must be so proud of you Marina! Moledetz! (and if that’s not correct Russian, GO GIRL!) Yee Haw! as we say in Wyoming

  • leonard

    :lol: GOOD JOB :smile: and grand work :lol: :!:

  • http://www.wyo550.com wyo550

    Yikes! :shock:
    Here’s why the creepy guys were honking.
    They were in love with SUCH a pretty boy in a Maybach with NAMBLA plates!
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAMBLA

    If you’ll ever be my pretty boy I’ll let you play with my six speed some time! OK, you’re busy. How about your evil sister?

  • bigbhd95

    My dear teacher :smile: you are so funny ( nambla ) LMAOROTF :oops:
    :cool: B.B. :mrgreen: wonder how many knew nothing :lol:

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

    Oh yea eating at the Y. :lol:

  • moshulu9

    Hi Marina!

    I’m apologizing before I start… Don’t hate me please for all these…Because I’m spending your time in jest… And I know you don’t have it…

    What means the ordinary word: “love”(I’ve just read the explanations below)…?

    a) finding somebody sexy
    b) finding somebody sexy and damn attractive
    c) finding somebody sexy and damn attractive and seducative
    d) finding somebody sexy and damn attractive and seducative and
    irresistible
    e) finding somebody sexy and damn attractive and seducative and
    irresistible and much, much more

    Thanks a lot
    Sasha

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

    That was a great come back Damiana. :lol:

    And in answer to your other question: No

    You must have read his mind. :smile:

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

    If you Daphne me, I’ll Velma you until you Fred.
    That will make me Scoob and then we could Shag again later. :mrgreen:

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

    And it has nothing to do with all the extra cleavage in the last two video thumbnails. :mrgreen:
    Not that I think it’s a bad thing, au contraire mon cher! :-)

  • greatestpotential

    What would the creeps do. Shake a pair of wonder roos and say vulgar things to you when you were stopped at a stoplight(?)

  • http://www.hotforwords.com HotForWords

    Look at all my videos.. scroll down.. so I’m not sure if that statement is accurate :-)
    http://www.youtube.com/hotforwords

  • greatestpotential

    lol@ukrainian version of hot&cold {ha!} watching it now

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

    Oops! :oops:
    I’ve been reading through to many of your YouTube comments.
    Hehe, for a moment there I thought… but naah.
    You’re cleavage is alright with me. So tell it not to worry anymore, OK? :D

  • greatestpotential

    Ah, your hangover vid is doing well. What are we talking about. I ran out of imported coffee and I’m like just coping.

  • greatestpotential

    I heard about how Rollie Fingers would sometimes get heckled at games but he would always just smile and twist the ends of his moustache and then wind up for the next pitch as if nothing fazed him.

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

    Ok which one of you keeps sending me the condoms. :lol: I just got a Trojan from some where. My my I don’t need them any more or less depends on the subject matter. Virus cleaner caught and cleaned it. :cool:

    Trojan: HTML/Fake XPA

  • http://mentalgrammarhasbeensetup.blogspot.com äläx

    sometimes i want to hurt people. bad. people who do shit like that and probably even get paid to do it. wtf.

  • greatestpotential

    SMERSH is said to be an acronym for a certain British organization whose motto is “Death to Spies”

  • Venomrock67

    :cool: :cool:
    E.O.G
    F.O.H
    F.O.A.D

    :evil: :evil: :evil: :razz:

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

    From what I’ve googled, SMERSH is thought to mean “death to spies“…[maybe Marina can weigh in on this topic], but in Russian. My instinct suggests we’re both incorrect to some degree, but you’re further afield than me.

  • http://www.jpl.nasa.gov davidclintonscott

    Dear Teacher,

    Can you explain the Acronym for [LASER]? that would be a most illuminating word.

    Cheers,

    Your humble student

  • greatestpotential

    As Bob pointed out SMERSH is from right out of the pages of those James Bond novels. Ian Fleming who wrote the Bond novels also worked for the British Royal Navy Intelligence at a period in his lifetime. It seems to me S.M.E.R.S.H. would stand for a variety of techniques that assassins use to take out spies with, such as Strangulation, Murder, Execution, Rope, Suffocation, & Handguns

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

    In response to greatestpotential’s “As Bob pointed out…” response.

    I’m going to throw your argument out of the courtroom, greatestpotential. The logic of “It seems to me S.M.E.R.S.H. would stand for…” is a hypothesis, loaded with conjecture or speculation. This does not mean I’m banging the gavel and closing the case. But really, “…Strangulation, Murder, Execution, Rope, Suffocation, & Handguns” gives the impression that you’re pulling these words out of a hat.

  • disco party

    Dear Teacher,
    Could you explain the origin of the word [Disco]?I am Very curios how it started =)

  • greatestpotential

    @muggins

    Sure, guess you’re right. Assassins taking out spies would have a more endearing, lovable acroynm for their tree club like
    Smile, Manners, Etiquette, Rightfulness, handShakes, & Hugs

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRtq2-gziI buzzword

    good times, good times. should schedule a time to meet up.

  • wgeisha1968

    Dear Teacher,
    Could you please investigate the origin of the words [BAMBOO] and/or [VOID]?
    Thank you! =)

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRtq2-gziI buzzword

    reminds me of how i met my wife… no, not really.

  • leonard

    I would think that most of the coffee drank of USA citizens is imported….Brazil is the world leader in production of green coffee, followed by Vietnam and Colombia :lol: the last of which produces a much softer coffee.

    I love coffee, too!!!

  • pennsyltucky9

    Don’t tell the local Department of Sanitation or Waste Water Treatment, but marking your turf doesn’t hurt when it comes to critters that live close to the ground like skunks. I had a situation once where animals were keeping me awake and ruining my gear by gnawing on it and generally making a mess of things. I collected my urine in a big fruit-juice bottle and poured it out carefully into a complete circle around my whole camp. Took a couple days to complete the process, but it was worth it.

    Apparently, the animals sniffing along the ground tend to register the concentration of nitrogen in the urine and that (plus the freshness) tells them whether they’ve blundered into the territory of a dangerous carnivore. In my case, make that a BIG carnivore. Ooo, scary! I had no problems as long as I continued reinforcing the boundary at the access points (where my own foot traffic disturbed the soil). My problem there was mostly raccoons and porcupines. Of course, a skunk is crazy fearless anyway.

    Hey, I just realized: a skunk’s only natural enemy is the great horned owl or maybe a barn owl if it’s big enough. They can gobble down a skunk whole, with no ill effects from the scent glands. Not sure how that helps you, but it’s something, anyway. If you can figure a way to lure the skunk out into the open when there’s an owl hunting nearby, you may have it licked.

    Better days, Che…

  • Damiana

    @buzzword
    lol! too funny.. did you like the track?

  • leonard

    At .55 sec. into this video…your light will amp :razz:

  • Damiana

    lol! aren’t people hilarious? and they really believe what they’re saying. :lol:

  • Damiana

    hey chemikal,

    uh.. austin powers? lol.

    i know it’s a british term, but i haven’t found anything on the etymology of the word, yet.

    loving the reference to shag and scoob..

  • yorinny3

    I love the videos and I lswear I learn something everyday…..but please tell me I am reading that Go Daddy ad wrong….are we missing a “c” somewhere? Maybe Mr. Dictionary should be consulted….

    Thanks for a great break during the day…

  • Damiana

    lol! if they’re gonna call themselves graphic designers the least they can do is learn how to mask out a background and tone a photograph..

  • edgarjensen

    Dear Teacher,

    I really enjoy listening to [piano] music. Most us know a [piano] to be a large musical instrument with a fingerboard where notes are sounded by pressing on keys. Could you explain the origins of the word [piano]?

    Thank you,
    May great big shiny golden delicious apples light up your life! :idea:

  • Damiana

    @buzzword
    have you seen the Dell commercial? freakin’ song runs round and round my head after seeing that.. and why is the one guy standing up hooking the top of his overalls.. ? wtf? lol!

  • http://mentalgrammarhasbeensetup.blogspot.com äläx

    this world would be so totally better off with me ruling it. (that was totally random. i don’t know why i just said that.)

  • greatestpotential

    @leonard

    Funny you mention Brazil being big coffee producers because I’m having some Brazilian roasted coffee right now. “Ah!” a Juan Valdez moment :lol:

  • Damiana

    capman911! lol! omg. it would have been a great comeback if that’s what i meant.. i didn’t wanna answer the guy twice, so it’s in answer to his query right below this. lmao! i wasn’t very clear about that..

  • Damiana

    lol! well.. you do rule. :)

  • pennsyltucky9

    Cool film, but unfortunately it’s also a classic example of how the Europeans just ran roughshod over anything they considered to be “wasteland” like virgin rainforest timber in Paraguay and Brazil. Have you seen “Bye Bye Brazil?” Some vaguely similar thematic motifs there, but with a more local influence. Three nipples. Check it out.

  • Damiana

    @leonard
    cool. i like trivia. both great songs. sometimes your comments are so random they make me laugh.. in a good way. :)

  • http://www.hotforwords.com HotForWords

    New episode uploaded.. processing :-)

  • leonard

    Never needed one…whitches …very good job*** its on you tube!!! :razz: :roll:

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

    Hi PT,

    Yeah, I saw Bye Bye Brazil when it first came out. Thematic motifs — do you mean, punching roads into the rainforest?

    I remember walking out of the show with my (now ex-) wife, and hearing her say, “They sure speak a weird dialect of Spanish in Brazil — I could hardly understand a word of it.” :lol:

  • pennsyltucky9

    *shakes head, looks at shoes* Humans are amazing creatures. :|

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

    Good to have my belief in marking out my territory has some merit.
    I just figured if this is what other animals do I just do the same.

    Two days ago a Bobcat cross right in front of me it was lean & muscular as it ran across the road.

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

    Hey Captain Jack,
    I was touched by your comments in this dialog with Evan. I can relate to your comments, not with Marina, but with former girlfriends. Language was not an issue, but certain worldviews, long held beliefs and other factors were part of the communications challenges. Body language, whether available in real life or non-existent in the written word also plays a part in it.

    This has been a topic of interest of mine for some time and I wished I knew more about it to the depth of knowledge that probably aLx has.

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    I’ve found lots of funny acronyms/backronyms on this site.
    Some that I like are:-
    ADIDAS=All Day I Dream About Sex
    or in your case Marina, All Day I Dream About Shoes.
    ALITALIA=Airplane Lands In Turin And Luggage In Ancona.
    or Always Late In Take-off Always Late In Arrival.
    BOBFOC=Body Off Baywatch, Face Off Crimewatch. used to describe a girl with great physical attributes but whose true character shows in her face.
    DILLIGAFF=Do I Look Like I Give A Flying Fig?
    DIMWIT=Don’t Interrupt Me While I’m Talking.
    The young ladies fashionwear chain ETAM stands for Everything To Attract Men. Could apply to HfW.
    DINKY=Double Income, No Kids Yet.
    FILTH=Failed In London, Try Hong-Kong. Used by certain multi-national employers of under-performing or out-of-favour staff.
    FISH & CHIPS=Fighting In Someone’s House & Causing Havoc In People’s Streets. Army infantry acronym for urban warfare.
    LOMBARD=Loads Of Money But A Real Dickhead.
    MACINTOSH=Most Applications Crash. If Not, The Operating System Hangs.
    NINJA=No Income, No Job or Assets.
    ORCHID=One Recent Child, Heavily In Debt.
    PCMCIA=People Can’t Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms.
    PICNIC=Problem In Chair Not In Computer.
    SINBAD=Single Income No Boyfriend And Desperate.
    SITCOM=Single Income Two Children Oppressive Mortgage.
    ST FAGOS=Sod This For A Game Of Soldiers.
    THICK=Those Having Insufficient Cerebral [Kinesis].
    WINDOWS=Will Install Needless Data On Whole System.
    WOMBAT=Waste Of Money, Brains And Time.

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

    I guess my mind was a little in the gutter on that one. Sorry. :razz: :lol:

  • Damiana

    @Capman911
    bad capman! badbadbad! :lol: j/k. no worries. that was hilarious..

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

    That’s an improvement, but I’m certain I can do better, except if’n it requires thinking.

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

    I know of some US military acronyms becuase the military seems to dig them. DARCOM, NORAD, CINCPAC OR CINPAC, FORSCOM, EDRE(?), NASA (NOT THE ARMY) ICBM maybe I can come up with more. The TV series MASH about the Korean War; now the mobile surgical hospitals are called CASH I believe. DOD (Defense Deaprtment). But none of these are very funny.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/seanhoutx seankim

    i’m a designer/artist and would be interested to know what you’d have to say about the words: [sketch]
    [etching]
    [doodle]

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/seanhoutx seankim

    and sometimes when i’m supposed to be sketching, i instead [piddlefart].

  • http://www.HotForThisWorld.com Hs4Mm

    Couldn’t reply to you at 59.1.1.2.3, so am replying here:

    The discussion in 59.1.1.x has to do with the quality of the ad (it has nothing to do with whether or not to do business with G’D).

  • neuroway

    Couldn’t reply at 59.1.1.2.3?

    I see… But 35.2.X has nothing to do with ads quality or doing business with GoDaddy actually. As a matter of fact, it has to do with gargantuan bananas and big apples.

    Nevertheless, I just decided to grant you and everybody else the right to continue 59.1.1.X here, for free.

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

    Kittens are doing great. Time to find a home for two of them. My granddaughter is keeping Bones here. Maia and three big kittens are taxing the litter boxes capacity :mrgreen: . All are healthy and active. Maia went through another heat, so I need to hurry up and get her fixed. Good times!

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

    some curry recipes, race betting sites, curry farming, an ad about nuns (?), a book about Huns, racial demographics… ya know, the usual stuff.

    Nothing like the privacy and intimacy of e-mail :roll:

  • http://bphaynes.tripod.com/ elliott610

    I found the S.A. T. to be most enigmatic. Hopefully I can still become a FBI person, join the CIA or even the local SWAT team. If not it’s back to UCLA to await word from RCA or MGM. Luckily I still have my part-time job with IHOP.
    best wishes
    `elliott

  • thematrix75

    These words are helpful to know,that last one was tough to say,and remember.Just a few are, FBI,CIA,MLB,NHL,NFL,NBA.I hope your book is making the top 100 sellers list on amazon,my hopes for this is so high for you Marina.Your latest picture of you sitting on the couch WOW!HOT!I also like Gorby’s new haircut it’s good to see him around again.I hope the best for you,and as always hope to hear from you soon!Many thanks for all your kindness and loveliness.See you later Marina!

  • Venomrock67

    Black Sabbath :cool:

    :evil: N.I.B:Nativity in Black :evil: :razz:

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRtq2-gziI buzzword

    check this one out, just heard it on the radio. gonna play it for my wife later, naked.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRtq2-gziI buzzword

    just saw the commercial and thought of you. yeah, the dude that pops up fastening his bibs and the look on the other guys face… i did’t go out and buy a dell but i did have a brief homosexual encounter.

  • Damiana

    lol! show her this one, too. :grin:

    btw.. i know i just replied to myself.. but it’s the end of the thread..

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRtq2-gziI buzzword

    got it.

  • Venomrock67

    Yeah, I would like to be a shark with her too! :razz:

  • Damiana

    nice. love the double entendre of that song..

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRtq2-gziI buzzword

    lords of acid, oh those were the days. pussy, everbody loves you

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRtq2-gziI buzzword

    i had a friend that was always naked. but he was a drummer.

  • Damiana

    retro new wave techno.. niiice. something a little newer with shades of romance.

  • Damiana

    lol! bummer.. the drum kit hid his man parts..

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRtq2-gziI buzzword

    i like queen’s o the stone age. a little romance is good. variety is the spice of life right. i think that’s what they say.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRtq2-gziI buzzword

    lol just remembered this one

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRtq2-gziI buzzword

    punk rock drummer. jumped around a lot, think he used his man parts on his drum kit.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRtq2-gziI buzzword

    got exams in the morning, cramed now crashing. night damiana.

  • Damiana

    love that last one. lol! eyes wide open

    all the luck on your exams! nites, buzzword.

  • scottstieg

    Actually, acronyms did exist in ancient times. In the early centuries of Christianity, the fish became a symbol for Christians. Do you know why? The Greek word for fish is Ichthus. Using the Greek letters, this was an acronym for: Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior.

  • http://www.GoForThisWorld.com Hs4Mm

    The Military Glossary lists KIM as “Keep In Memory”. This is actually a backronym for Kim’s Game — supposedly this game is in the curriculum of The United States Marine Corps’ Officer Candidate School in Quantico, Virginia. Kim’s Game was invented by Rudyard Kipling in his novel Kim. This is one of the games suggested for scouts by the founder of scouting, Baden-Powell. You can see Kim’s Game as enacted in the movie Kim (starring Errol Flynn) here.

  • keefc2

    Hi Marina,
    I believe these acronyms come from servicemans letters home during WW2.
    SWALK :”Sealed With A Loving Kiss”.
    NORWICH :”kNickers Off Ready When I Come Home”.
    :lol:

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard

    [RAT]!*!Board…..the secrect police of america is at all levels….Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say) – Lady Gaga :smile: :smile: :lol: :smile: :smile: David Armand (as interpretive dancer Johann Lippowitz) and Natalie Imbruglia perform “Torn” at the Secret Policeman’s Ball 2006
    Merry C.H.R.i.S.t.MASSes… :lol:

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/maninblackco1/ David

    Two of my favorite acronyms:
    CREEP = Committee to RE-Elect the President (Nixon–Kinda fits, somehow!)
    SNAFU = Situation Normal — All Fu**ed Up!

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/rohmansah/ rohman

    nice article for you ……
    Poptropica

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/blam/ me

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  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/blam/ me

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  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/blam/ me

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  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/blam/ me

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  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/blam/ me

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  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/blam/ me

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  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/blam/ me

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  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/blam/ me

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  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/blam/ me

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  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/blam/ me

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  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/leonard/ leoNard

    You calling me a ;-) “fucker”… sic…..you are not too smart! :???:Have you got a car? You are late for supper?…do you pray or become prey?… Miss Viva Las Vegas 2007 proves old Hollywood glamour and voluptuous women are in! Her mini beach burlesque show and interview reveal early influences, of Chicano culture and vintage style. Music Hook Herrera y Los Primos………….”Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.” – Wernher Von Braun 1912-1977

    :arrow: :???:

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