Jaywalking

:smile: AWESOME Lesson Marina :!:
:cool: Homework Thank goodness I haven’t gotten a ticket yet!

I got a ticket for loitering. I wasn’t loitering. I just got there and hadn’t even opened my soda yet. The police wouldn’t listen.

Excellent Lesson @hotforwords! :grin:

Great lesson!!!
HW: Outside of speeding, I’ve never gotten a ticket, but if they were to give out tickets every time my heart is arrested when visiting the HotForWords site, I’d have about a zillion tickets by now. :lol:

I almost got popped for swimming nude in a state park. Hey, it was in the hippy dippy era when everybody swam nude. So, there I was, my junk swinging in the wind, being marching in front of a park ranger with his gun drawn, back to my clothes where my girlfriend was sunbathing nude. Incredibly, my luck changed when a man and his son were walking up the trail towards us with their dog. The ranger told me to put my clothes back on and leave the park, because the worst thing a citizen can do in a park, besides burning it down, is bring a dog into the park.
Years before, I got popped for jaywalking by a CHP. That ticket cost me like $65, which knocked the heck out of my life savings at the time, which was almost $90. Since then, I try never to break the law when possible.

Hey guys!
If you loved this video as I did, don’t forget to go
to YouTube and FAVORITE this video and any
other HotForWords videos. I love these videos.
I just can’t get enough of them.

:lol: walking a pet dog off his leash out in the street
worse was a friend got a ticket for an unlicensed dog :m:
B.B.

I would like to know where the term [playing hookie] comes from……

Can you find the meaning for the word [Porn] id really like to know :smile:

RM

Yeah, you are right, that’s exactly what you are.

[ethical]

The ticket?

Out-running the cops on a motorcycle back in college…then running out of gas and having them drive up 5 minutes later.

(facepalm)

They were fairly cool about it though and actually seemed to find it quite amusing as did I. I only got a ticket for passing in a no-passing zone and the original speeding infraction because that city back in Texas had a ‘no chase’ policy and it’s all they technically saw me do…although I obviously had to be going pretty damn fast to put that much distance between us that it took them 5 minutes to drive by and see me sitting in the parking lot on the side of the road.

Watching the police car drive by then stop and backup to come ‘visit’ me was quite hilarious though. Too bad we didn’t have cell phone cameras back in ’97. lol (I was speeding on a country road…and when I saw the cop pass me going the other way and make a u-turn to pull me over, I just took off instead.) There is no way in hell they would have ever caught me had I not run out of gas…and I still don’t understand while the reserve fuel tank switch didn’t work that day. :/ Oh well.

On the flip side, just a few months ago out here in my car I got pulled over for nothing but pulling over…without signaling. The cop was following me even though I wasn’t doing a damn thing illegal (except maybe having smart-assed license plates ‘KEEP RGT’), so I just pulled over to let him pass or make him stop me. Which of course he stopped me only to give me the ticket for not signaling when I pulled over. (facepalm) Seriously? WTF? It would have been 280 dollars!!!…had it not gotten thrown out when the cop said he didn’t recall the incident and therefore didn’t show up in court. :)))

I could never be a cop because ironically I’m too nice. Oh well.

But on a lighter note…back to the subject of ‘Jay’…

This has got to be ‘Jay’central… http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/

I’m kind of a speed demon so that’s how I got my tickets. My other activities I lay low, under the radar. If this is true that you got a ticket I think the cop was just trying to get a closer look and get his macho on. L.A. seems to have more problems than Marina jaywalking!

I would have guessed that the origin of jaywalking had something to do with the bird jay.

When I was 14, I built my own amateur radio transmitter from scratch. It was a single tube, 40 watt CW rig (Continuous Wave) since I had just gotten my novice license. For the oscillator, I used some old Army – Navy surplus crystals. One of the crystals was right on the edge where the novice band started.

After a week of great DXing (long distances), I received a letter from the FCC office in Chillicothe, OH (560 miles away) saying that I was a few cycles out of the novice band.

Luckily, it was a fix-it ticket and I didn’t have to pay anything. I removed the crystal out of the case and rubbed it on some emery cloth to make the crystal thinner and thereby raising the frequency and getting off of the edge of the band. The neat thing is that the FCC confirmed that my 40 w rig was getting out just fine. :mrgreen:

PLEASE REQUEST THE WORD [SOLES of FEET] MARINA TEACH ME PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

I got a ticket for not having enough reflective tape on my motorcycle helmet.

The Chief of Police and the Mayor got a call from me about their managerial wisdom for having and retaining a chicken shit cop on their payroll. (They couldn’t defend it)

Still had to pay the fine.

I’ve been stopped a few times by police in various third world countries, but I always managed to avoid getting a ticket or paying a fine/bribe by pretending I didn’t speak the language.
The one exception was in France where I fell into a trap set by “Les Flics”. It was on a deserted country road with an all but invisible solid white line down the middle. I came up behind a truck towing a cement mixer along at 2 mph and overtook it because the road was clear.
How was I to know that there was a flic hiding in the bushes? :x

I was given a ticket and arrested twice in the same day when I was 17….for the same crime: jumping the fence to get into Lollapalooza ’96. But, I did actually have tickets, just gave mine to a girl… Lesson Learned!

Я ДЫРЯВАЯ ГОЛОВА! Like a rural person crossing the street.

I have been stopped a few times for speeding but having good friends always helped in having them dropped before going to court or not issued at all.
We did set up one of our Battalion Commanders that was just promoted to BC by having the city pd whose pd station was attached to our fire station place a small training bag of marijuana under the BC’s personal car seat so when he left work the next morning a pd officer with a drug dog stopped him and the dog alerted to the car. After the search of the car our BC was very upset and surprised. We were all sitting across the street observing this and laughing our butts off. He told the police officer it must have been his sons which made it funnier. We all came across the street and had a good laugh out of it and told our BC of the prank. The pd officer was very convincing and busted out laughing when it was all over. He never let us live it down about the joke we had pulled on him. We pulled extra duty for a short while as pay back for the prank, but it was all in fun and our pd works and plays well with us as we joke back and forth with them all the time. More stories to follow. :lol: :cool:

What a persistent guy.
Of course [soul] can’t be too unrelated, say aye. :smile:

Calling 2X2L-2X2L come in 2X2L. Can you here me now. :razz: :lol:

CQ DX, CQ DX, DE WPKMAN, I read you 5 by 9

That’s a great story Karl! :grin:

PK,

How did you become comment #0 here – and I’m -2 below? :???:

Thanks DJ,
You shoulda seen me. Imagine, me a 14 year old kid, I was gonna do battle with the FCC just over a few cycles out of the band. How dare they give me a ticket after my masterful accomplishment. One of my mentors had to remind me; “There, there sonny, It’ll be all OK. Just don’t mess with the big boys.” :lol:

From tomorrow’s funnies (Rhymes with Orange): Witch gets a $250 ticket for driving while hexting. Any guesses on what she was hexing for? And did her hex come true?

DJ,
I believe it is the comments that are being injected
from Twitoaster that cause a re-numbering the sequence of numbers. One of the guys below said he was #1, but has now
shifted to -3.

You can reply to tweets over on Twitoaster and the tweets are embedded automatically here.

Check it out if you haven’t already.
http://twitoaster.com/hotforwords/

:smile: Hello. I just left about 50 comments on this vid over at YouTube. Fun!

:lol: Now what the hell is a Twitoaster :!:

Go here
http://twitoaster.com/hotforwords/

The site threads and archives twitter conversations amongst many other things. One of them is that the tweet replies are injected into this site.

I received this in an Email today and thought it was cute.

Technical Breakthrough:

Apple announced today that it has developed a breast implant that can store and play music. The iTit will cost from $499 to $699, depending on cup and speaker size. This is considered a major social breakthrough, because women are always complaining about men staring at their breasts and not listening to them.

Mwwuuuhhhuuhh? Whotta? Da stoopid and da rural, huh?

Incredibl! Shockingly gross! And where is the spirit of chivalry gone nowadays? Yes, I do ask. Is it gone with the wind or what?

Cops should stop all traffic to let the jaychicks jaywalk their way to the other side of the freeway. BOTTOM LINE!

Marina: I want to know if I can combine two words to make one. An example would be “hotass” to describe you. If I were talking to another guy, and you walked by. I would say that you are one good looking “hotass” chick. Whaddya think? :cool:

I’ m hung(e)ry for plums….I wonder why? Prunes for the M.ASSES :lol: Rural verses urban and begging for city slickers and water treatment….a got a ticket for the [roller-coaster] ride… :P :P :P RAIN_CHECK–lead tools 4 SNOW CHECK___ :-) …I bought a ticket to my buddies place in the

;-) …think to wink or blink and sink….d&f ;-)

R U sure it was-not about FIFTY_ONE AND PART of EIGHT OR MORE?……i got to go to the bathroom…iggy doingLOUIE :lol: :oops: Iggy Pop Louie Louie Live …4 marina…too and JaY

Several years ago, a cop wanted to give me a ticket for ignoring red lights while crossing the street as a pedestrian. At that time, that would have cost me the equivalent of 5 US$. The thing is that this happened at 11 pm in a small town near the Swiss border when there was nobody on the street except for me and the cop, that I found it ridiculous that the city didn’t turn off the traffic lights at night and that I found it offensive that this cop wanted to enforce that by giving me a ticket.

I knew that the limitation period for this offence was only three months and that the Swiss border was only a few hundred meters away, I’ve decided to escape to Switzerland and evade the German cops for the next three months because I knew that I had nothing to fear from the customs officers when I crossed the border. It worked.

Highfalutin stuff fora buncha chicks crossin’ da street. Heck, whatta heck is camin’ next? Wild undomitabl bushes, stetson hats, longhorns and country songs?

Only a couple weeks ago, I was driving home from school at about 8:30 at night. Cop pulled me over and told me that when he ran my tags, my inspection sticker was about to expire. WTF is that? Do these guys just randomly run tags on everybody or do ’92 Camrys stick out for some reason. I think we may need higher crime around here; our pd is getting a little bored.

BTW, I still need to remember to get that inspection. :roll:

I would like to request the word [hypermammiferous]. I think we should enlighten our lascivious lingo.

I want to request the word Veranda

I would also like to request the word [steatopygia] mostly because I think hip hop needs to expand its vernacular.

The Law-Man :arrow: [CLASH]-my back- :idea: the ordor of lAw is just doing hers or his duties, or was was it an EYE ??/|\?? up there!!!!!

before I start a “heat’in” fire to warm my house and the BOSS__–__police…The Beatles – Flying / Blue Jay Way…God Bless HotForWords….

mY :lol: favorite by this band :cool:

HotForWords got BURNT…Will she get the book thrown at her… :x .BADwordMaMaMaRINA…LETS organize an international JAY-Walk ProTesT…Capman 911 can TEST out…Fascism!!! :x :twisted: :x …this might lead to more naughtier things… :cool: Walk Don’t Run” 1960
“Walk Don’t Run” 1960 Category: Music
Tags: The Ventures surf music 60s
verses…1964 as top 40 also :lol: :roll: wipe-out :P :-) can ya keep up?….

has this ever happened to you :?:

I still didn’t get any jaywalking ticket but I always accross the street when the red light is on ;-)

:lol: [OUTLAW]-ORLOVA…gang sign-up today…[posse]…Dick Dale & The Del Tones “Misirlou” 1963 :cry: :arrow: :shock: Dick Dale’s video of The Song Nitro. ~~~~~~~~ :smile: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv4rLLvxsKk

Dear Marina,
“Rural” is pronounced “Roor-al.” The word would rhyme with “plural.” The “ru” sound is not the same as in the word, Russia. (Maybe you could telephone me for help in pronunciation? Or do you phone your teacher’s assistants? They could do their job, better!) :cool:
The only thing for which I got a ticket was for driving too fast on Highway 101. Nowadays, the highways are so crowded, I’m less likely to get a ticket. :twisted:
I hope you paid the fine for your ticket and that it won’t harm your driving record. :smile:
I enjoyed seeing your Twitpix today which had the character for “big” printed on your sleeve. You look beautiful in that shirt. :razz:
Seesixcm6

I once got a ticket for impeding traffic. I was stopped at a red light, and was told that the rear door on the delivery truck was open. So I closed it. An officer saw me get out of the truck, and wrote me a ticket. I tried to tell him that if I had driven off the cargo would have fallen out, and that would have slowed traffic down far more than me closing a door.
He was not understanding.

hey, brand new to your site! never gotten a ticket (all the ones i have gotten i deserved, lol). btw, if you’re on a college campus, the police don’t care if you jaywalk.

i have a word that was for the other day’s homework, but i missed it. i have a job: i’m a barista at starbucks. but my word request is: where did the term “barista” come from?

Hey beauty… you should do a review of the word “Bondage”, is kinda kinky and you´d make suchsexy and funny video about it, that would be just awsome… can´t wait for it… Thanks honey and congratulations

Sorry for my misspellings in my last comment, my keyboard doesn´t works, but really Marina, do the video of the word “Bondage”, it will be just great…

:smile: A ticket to ride….. I think I’m gonna be sad, I think it’s today, yeah. The girl that’s driving me mad Is going away. She’s got a ticket to ride, She’s got a ticket to ride, She’s got a ticket to ride, But she don’t … :P awesome Marina… :lol:

the most stupid ticket i ever got was “Overtaking a car on the Left”… yes i passed a car on the left side… and yes i asked the cop “isnt that the side that im supposed to pass on?” and he just replied “you know i can give you more tickets if you want” then on the day i was supposed to take it to court i didnt have time to do so so i couldnt even protest the stupidity of the ticket… and no i wasnt speeding. it was a little old lady creeping along down the edge of the road and i was in a hurry (delivering pizzas) to get my last pie delivered so i did not want to follow driving mrs daisy.

-=Rustedone=-

Homework: Un necessary waste of a resorce for doing 87 in a 65. The ticket was only $5 and was paid on the spot. My question is, is there such a thing as a necessary waste???

Well THIS ONE TIME

Hi, Marina!

I would like to request the word [reave]. What exactly is its meaning and where does it come from? Also, I would like to know how I can use it referring to a person like “reaver”.

Thank you so much! :mrgreen:

A couple of months ago I video-responded one of your videos on YouTube with this same request, but it never showed up as such :sad: this was my video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r0Brp4_hv4

If you can grab my request, would you please add my video request in your video as well? :oops:

Thank you so much, Marina! And you are the best!! Take care!!

You may find this one funny Smokey. A serious badass Nova on a 800+ HP wheelie. :smile:

Has Gorby ever been [blackballed] for barking, and does it have anything to do with shoe polish and …? :smile:

welcome back koalabear, long time no see.

:| Sounds like from another country?…The Ting Tings – Shut Up And Let Me Go
:roll: :lol: :shock: Madtv 9×18 The Tonight Show With Jay Leno Jay Walking Mania
…Marina the [rhubarb]…country-bumpkin… :lol:

Actually, more like a 1500HP Badass Nova SS. Not to be misunderstimated.

[Jazz]

The only things I have received a ticket for are speeding and not coming to a complete stop at a stop sign.

one of these days (Animated Clip 1973)
Pink Floyd

Fortunately I’ve only gotten just a few speeding tickets. How about being ticketed for moshing in a NO MOSHNG ZONE. :roll:
Getting ticketed too much one could end up wallowing in a sea of lameness……
and that would be LAME! :mrgreen:

Local Seattle Thrash Scene Re-visited: The Mighty…er excuse me The once Mighty FORCED ENTRY performing Anaconda and Morgulon along with other songs at the Seattle Center Mural Amphitheatre 1993. BONE CRACKIN’ FEVER ran rampant amongst the crowd that day.
Sadly, They never got the worldwide recognition they deserved.
But they were dicks. :mrgreen: :cool:

You didn’t get the new subscriber jet, so i am still on homework-strike for you.

♪♫ I’m gonna tell on Bo-ob! ♪♫ :razz:
Found THIS on twitzer:
“RT @Capman911: During a recent password audit, it was found that a blonde (female) was using the following password:MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofy When asked why such a big password, she said that it had to be at least 8 characters long.”

Blonde jokes! How non-PC! Bob should be ticketed by the Thought Police! :razz:

Variant: [bereave]

Not to be confused with [reeve] (as in [shire reeve]), which also has an interesting etymology. :smile:

Spanish cognate of [reave]: romper, to break. :cool:

Yes, and Bob blew his cover as an Englishman when he told Le Flic to “Mangez de la merde!” :razz:

Capman911 started it. Don’t shoot the messenger. :lol:

Variant: reive (Northern English & Scottish) hence Reiver.

Homework:

I’ll top Marina’s story by a couple of orders of magnitude.

When my (now ex-) wife decided to call it quits, she committed perjury to get a no-contact order and have me thrown out of our house. I immediately asked a friend to “tell my wife I forgive her,” which on reading the fine print I then found was a violation of the order. My wife reported me to the police, and a year later I had to stand trial for violating the order (potential fine: $5000 and a year in jail.) This was long after the order had been canceled; my wife and I had resumed weekly outings with the kids (including a three-day camping trip); still, the State insisted on “the law to the letter.” :x

Fortunately we still have jury trials in this country, and juries can recognize when the law has [run amuck].

[jury nullification]
[misdemeanor]

♪♫ I’m gonna tell on Mikey ♪♫… :razz:

[Boddhisattva]
[Karma]

“My Karma ran over your dogma.” :wink:

Far be it from me to make lewd remarks in my replies to Evan, (I would NEVER tell anyone to “mange de la merde”) but I have to point out that one would have to travel to Cornwall to achieve the feat of which he [japes].
On the other hand, it would perhaps be fitting to advise Evan to read the follooing poem. :lol:

Miss Loo

When thin-strewn memory I look through,
I see most clearly poor Miss Loo,
Her tabby cat, her cage of birds,
Her nose, her hair — her muffled words,
And how she’d open her green eyes,
As if in some immense surprise,
Whenever as we sat at tea,
She made some small remark to me.

It’s always drowsy summer when
From out the past she comes again;
The westering sunshine in a pool
Floats in her parlour still and cool;
While the slim bird its lean wires shakes,
As into piercing song it breaks
Till Peter’s pale-green eyes ajar
Dream, wake; wake, dream, in one brief bar;
And I am sitting , dull and shy
And she with gaze of vacancy,
And large hands folded on the tray,
Musing the afternoon away;
Her satin bosom heaving slow
With sighs that softly ebb and flow,
And her plain face in such dismay,
It seems unkind to look her way:
Until all cheerful back will come
Her cheerful gleaming spirit home:
And one would think that poor Miss Loo
Asked nothing else, if she had you.

Walter de la Mare

“I tried to pay the cop directly, but I guess you don’t do it in America…” :lol:

[На лево] :grin:
Ooo, that reminds me:

[glasnost]
[perestroika]
[czar]
[tovarisch] tova… [товарищ] :cool:
[borscht belt]

i fought the …

How to Prevent a Speeding Ticket

How erudite, Bob!

Forgive my rude remark, which was made famous a few years back when Canadian PM Pierre Trudeau shouted it at protesters.

Cornwall being a Celtic region, would a policeman in your seaside town be a “Garda Looe”? :mrgreen:

necessary waste would seem like an oxymoron, right?

Good morning Miss HotForWords***Marina “O”…[ambushed]…my moment for word request….gotta go and thanks :smile: THE OUTLAWS -”Ambush” (1961)

Cool Slavic Women, continued:

Мелинда Христова from Bulgaria’s Got Talent! :grin:

HOW________TEN YEARS AFTER One Of These Days
….. :cool: :lol: :cool:

The Clash :cool: :smile:

The Dead Kennedy’s “I fought the law (AND I WON) :razz:
I guess this is the poetry version :mrgreen:

onward and upward Rijk ;-)

Kulak Ti LOL :lol:

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LMAOROTF :lol: tnx darlingj that made my day B.B. :mrgreen:

I once got a ticket for running a traffic light that didn’t exist. The policeman in Fayetteville, AR, said to me, “Son, you ran that red light there.” I said, There’s no red light there.” He replied, “Well, what do you know about that? Guess you can pay the ticket or wait and talk to the Judge Monday morning.” It was Saturday night, so I paid the ten bucks. That happened in 1956, but I never forgot it.

Congratulations Vrock that sounds awesome :smile:

I would like to request the word [crypt]

I wanna piss around with this speech recognition thing cos it gives some real funny shit, I am just going to read the first little bit of the bible and not make any changes to what it says….

Here goes.

THE BIBLE
In the beginning god created the heavens and the us. And the earth was without form, and the week; and darkness falls upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of god moved up on the face of the waters. And god said that there be light: and there was light encompass all the lights the and it was good and god divided the light from the map from the darkness and got caught the light day and the darkness he called night and evening and morning record Thursday for the Fifth for

THIS LITTLE PIGGY

This little piggy went to market, this little piggy staying at home, this little piggy had most beef, and this will take he had none, and this little piggy that we we really be really pulled away time.

SHE SELLS
Off she sells sea shells by the seashore, this you will sit she sells for seashells I’m sure

ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL
Of all men are created equal not to be – by the, ER skin
BOOM BOOM POW (spoken)
I like the boom boom town, those chicken skin checking my style, and they try to copy my sweater, I’m on the and it should now, from three so 3008, Wilson 2008. I got back to England in the future boom boom boom.

Copy my sweater lol

SHE WOLF
So where she’s in disguise so where she’s in disguise as a she wolf in disguise coming out coming out coming out. For the domesticated climax of the were asked me, darling it is no doubt this is the counter P, morning to wait mail there is wide open, according scraping Soviet commentary. I’ve been devoting myself to you and eight Monday and Friday to Friday. For not getting enough retribution on decent incentives to Kinnear said, I’m starting to feel distinctly be used like a coffee machine in an office, San Diego; C to get me another interview about it. There’s a she wolf in the closet open up and set it free there’s a she wolf in the closet lest answer that can breathe. As well

I would have waited

Hey what did I do. I was just telling the truth. ~whahahahaha~

HotForWords is on the cover of
Mutineer Magazine Issue #8
I’ll have to get the magazine to find out
about those 13 other word origins and Martini.

Of course, a video lesson on Martini
was done back on July 3, 2008
 

We here on the rural pig farm are ‘hogforwords’

Good lesson Marina,I jaywalked different times but never got fined for it so far.I had enough speeding tickets ,and not coming to a complete stop at a stop sign,and traffic light.These as which I got many tickets that where very high fines,and no paying on the spot.Rules must be different depending what state area your from etc.Some times it depends who’s on patrol,their mood etc.Thank you for your time.Sorry :sad: to hear that you did get a ticket for jaywalking Marina,that just bites!What can you do though?See you later love you Marina your just the best!P.S. I love your top your wearing in the video pink if I’am not color blind.Peace :!:

Once me and my friend Waco Dan were riding in bumper to bumper traffic in Rosarito Beach, Mexico, the policia stopped us for “following too close” Oh! did I mention this was in ‘bumper to bumper traffic’.

They haul us in the police station, question Dan inside while the young cops searched the jeep PU truck. Rolling every little piece of dirt on the floor mat hoping to find pot seeds or roaches in the ashtray.

Even though we had long hair none of us smoked pot.

We figured later that they wanted to have an excuse to steal the truck. It was near lunch time so we bought them tacos for lunch and that settled the fine.

Later that day we drove on to San Felipe on the Gulf of Mexico side but that’s is another story.

I’d like to request the word [cop-out] or even the various meanings and origin of the word [cop] for that matter.

:)

Hi Marina!

I have to write this monolouge for college, andit has to be serious. But, because my life is so brilliant and I have never been in a violent family, I have nothing to write, and i couldn’t even make it up if i tried. So, I am allowed to do dark humor (even though I have added some black comedy in there too)

EVA

EVA was an old lady I if used to visit she was very old when she died. she used to live across the road from me I was really the only person that she knew. She had never married and like a lot of old ladies if all she needed was some company , I used to visit three times a week. I helped with basic household chores like cleaning, I used to make her cups of tea. One day I was talking to eva and she told me when she died she wanted to leave me 50,000 pounds. I insisted that she didn’t but it’s kind of one of those things where you say you don’t want it in the back of your head. You do want them to insist. The months went by an Eva remained healthy, until one day I went to check in on her and found she had died. She was in her bed so I guess she must have died in her sleep, eva was very old, believe it or not she was nearly 106. Two weeks after her funeral , I received a phone call, it was from the cats’ home they were thanking me for the donation of 50,000 pounds my friend just made them, but they are unable to find her accounts. I was rather annoyed. I think when I said to her no don’t give me the 50,000 pounds, she actually took me seriously. So after all the years of care I had given her, she had left it all to the fucking cats, thanks a bunch. Someone had once told me that eva kept her money close to her. I should have guessed really I didn’t pick up on the signs like the idiosyncratic way she placed cat ornaments on the mantelpiece all in alphabetical order by the names that she had given each of them. Well now it’s A race between me and the cats. Really what can the fuckin cats use it for, so they can all sit around getting pissed on the beach drinking Martini? And then go back to a restraraunt and pay 12.95 for an all the mice you can eat buffet. Well I was told she kept her money close so in this race between me and felines I have an advantage although I miss her very much I am having her exhumed, and if they don’t find the bank book i am screwed I want a new car and as much as I Love cats I would love a new car a hell A Lot More. I really can’t believe i gave so much of my time to that woman and she goes and gives her money to The cats! I really do miss her… sorry, I really do miss her money. Think of what 5 years in an isa would do for me! Fuck being in a job I would work for 1 year then retire! So sad..

Hi AllynTygrrr,
Marina did an awesome lesson on Cop last year in March in the form of a game.

Here is the Cop lesson game
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/03/22/cop/

This is the answer to the Cop game
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/03/23/cop-answer/

Thanks Karl! Awesome!!! (I love instant gratification.)

But the videos in the pages you linked to aren’t showing up for some reason? Do they load for you? Thanks for taking the time to point me in the right direction though!!!

Actually the Jaywalking video isn’t loading at the moment for me either, so it just must be a temporary technical glitch. Thanks!

um… your monologue sucks james. what is the prompt you were given? there has to be more to it than, “write a serious monologue.”

No, it was just to write something sad… I can only do comedy.. So thats how it came out.

Once I was on a major road (4 lanes & a center turn lane) and saw I was appraoching dozens of stopped cars and a few police cars scattered about. Knowing this mess was at a school zone I feared the worst. But no, it became apparent that the police were running a speed trap, and in so doing had created a tremendously hazardous log-jam. So I’m stopped 15 to 20 cars back from the nearest cop, who’s dealing with the first driver in this line. Sit, pull up, sit, pull up, and I notice this cop-chick is giving a ticket to every driver. Hmmm, this seems odd. Finally I’m “at bat”, and she leans in and tells me I was speeding in a school zone and to wait here while she went to her car for something. I didn’t say a word, but I did write her name & badge number down on a notepad. When she returns she notices what I’d done and yells, “Is there any particular reason you need that?”, to which I quietly replied, “There might be.” Oh, man, that really set her off, and she starts screaming at me, saying what all she’s going to do to me, on & on. Now, I lose it & jump out & and start going ballistic on her, pointing my finger in her face & and telling her what a crooked P.O.S. she is, etc. Lucky I didn’t get into real trouble, I reckon. Anyway, went to court over the whole thing, and the little wench didn’t even show up.

Neat word & great lesson, Marina! Thank you.

Always.

Hi AllynTygrrr, yes, the pages are loading for me. It might be a temporary ISP outage for you in your location or some other glitch.

Here are the videos located on YouTube.

Here is the Cop lesson game

This is the answer to the Cop game

I love instant gratification. :grin:

try this… its just you and your mom. your mom has a chronic disease that makes her dependent on you. she grows more and more dependent upon you. she refuses to let anyone care for her but you. your spending all your time caring for her needs. although ill she is not dying, just becoming increasingly dependent. now you are watching your youth slip away, you watch your peers move on with their lives. by the time your mother dies you will have missed so many opportunities and may find yourself even more alone than you are now. you convey your story to the audience. you want them to understand your dilemma, you do care for her, but is she worth your sacrifice. during the course of the monologue you become increasingly frustrated. as if she is calling for you from offstage. you want her to just give you a little more time. you speak faster, to make it quick. your goal is to gain their sympathy and prepare them for your final confession. your going to kill her.

Marina had tweeted that she was shooting the
cover of Mutineer Magazine

Sep 24th 3:57 PM
# Shooting the cover of Mutineer Magazine
http://twitpic.com/izutu

Thanks again Karl! Your rock! So there was a TA position around that time last year? Damn, got on board way too late for that I guess, although I have been curious as to exactly what her production crew consists of. Does she just always have a cameraman around or what? While we’re on the subject (and since you seem to be a HotForWords veteran), is there some video series that explains how her homemade/grassroots production works behind the scenes and who helps her? (i.e. which software, cameras, website maintenance, etc.) She can’t be doing everything herself right?

Hi Allyn,
Regarding your question, above.
(had to answer here as there is no Reply button)

Yes, I guess I am a veteran since I have followed the beginnings of YouTube before Google bought them, then followed the Goggle takeover and the ensuing video channels that started cropping up. I have been following Marina ever since her first video in March of 2007.

Back in late 2007, I would have bet that there was crew of 20 people behind Marina, but, Marina is actually the quintessential geek and is a one woman show. She says so herself in one of her videos. I’ll put a link to that video shortly. When it comes to technology, she is on top of things. She is wearing me out just trying to keep up with her. What a girl!!!

To get a glimpse of behind the scenes and how Marina shoots her videos, take a look at several of the Associated Press videos.
Marina said that there was a 6 minute video of the interview that the AP did, but she may not have found it yet. Most of the syndicated videos around the world are about 2-3 min in length. Watch several of them as some use different scenes.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/02/20/associated-press/

Marina uses FinalCut Pro on a Mac as you can see in the video.
She talks about her camera here and there are other blogs here and on the Forum about her camera.

Not all humans are that selfish, Buzz. Some can feel altruism, you know? They’ll sacrifice themselves for any member of their family. For friends. Even for perfect strangers sometimes. They’ll give it all for nothing. Youth. Money. Life. Safety. Health. Success. Happiness. For free. For the pure sake of it. They’ll surrender their souls and their feelings as soon as they get an occasion to do so.

Altruism is one thing that only real humans can feel I think. Although sometimes animals seem to be able to catch some glimpses of it. It’s just one more feeling that can’t be grasped by pure logic, amidst a bunch of others. It is of course a little bit more complex to psychanalyse and to understand than hunger, fear, rage, greed, desire, etc…

I think the cops badge looks fake.

Very cool. Thank you sir! Very impressive! (both what she’s accomplished and the wealth of information you have and took the time to share)

I’ll check it out and now know who to direct my random HotForWords related questions to in the future. She should pay you for this kind of ‘experienced support’! lol

Much appreciated!!!

:)

- A -

BTW…

Aha! So she has a semi-pro camera and some soft boxes setup for the lighting! That certainly helps explain why she looks so perfect most of the time.

I was wondering about what kind of amazing webcam and apartment lighting (and perfect complexion) she must have all this time, but this sheds a bit more (soft) light in the subject.

Thanks again Karl!

Hi Allyn,
I just checked some of the AP videos and many of the videos are no longer on those news sites. The French video is working and the Korean video is working and is 5 min in length.

I hope she doesn’t pay me as I have been rewarded more than money could ever pay or that she has realized; in other words being of service to Marina is priceless.

I see that you joined the HotForWords community recently and I welcome you to this great site that Marina has passionately developed over the last two years.

I have read your blog and love that domain name DamnNearGeni.us
I get a chuckle out of that every time I see that.
I know you discovered who the geni.us is :-)

Japanese article: http://www.iza.ne.jp/news/newsarticle/economy/worldecon/310394/

{bablefish} Skin open…Sexy teacher with animated picture origin of a word explanation

{google} Oh, I described my skin … sexy teacher etymology in video

The person who tweeted this might be the author too: http://twitter.com/gibonn/statuses/4723737110

Allyn,
Here is the video where Marina says;
“See, I’m a makeup artist also.. it’s a one girl show”
She says it at 3:01

Notice that the clip was borrowed from an earlier lesson entitled “Hooker GTW – Answer” video. A lot of people like you had been asking Marina if she was doing the editing and video effects herself.

Lame Duck

Ha. Thanks Karl. We all have our moments. :) Yes, I recently met an entrepreneur who has a ‘portfolio’ of parked domains and I had never met someone before who actually did that.

My old domain name used to be DamnNearGenius.com until I saw the del.icio.us website one day. I thought I was so damn clever, changed it to DamnNearGeni.us and even bought advertisinggeni.us for future use, and then went about my life as usual.

Meeting that guy and seeing how many names he had and what some of them were worth made me go “Damn, i bet I’ll kick myself for not acquiring more geni.us domain names.” So a few weeks ago I decided to approach it like that and decided to see who ‘geni.us’ to start.

I was like “Oh. Wow. I’ve seen her before. How funny.”

…and mesmerizing.

I’ve been routinely sidetracked in this direction ever since. :)

i jaywalk late at night when no traffic.

hello miss marina i`m curious about the old style of calling math [arithmatic].

Dear Marina, I’m not sure mine is the kind of question you normally answer, but when it occurred to me, your site came to mind. I’ve skimmed through a lot of travel guides and language phrasebooks, and noticed that closely related languages are often very different in some details. This seems to happen especially often with words for [thank you]: languages as similar as Spanish and Portuguese, or Russian and Ukrainian, can use completely different words for this. Do you know how this happens?

Hi Marina,

Sometimes people refer to some one who is mentally disturbed, or very upset, as a [BASKET CASE]. How did this phrase get started? Does it suggest that some one left their mind behind in a basket somewhere?

Hello Marina,

You gave a lesson on the origin of “let the cat out of the bag” and asked for related phrases. The obvious one is, “Don’t buy a pig in a [poke]. A poke was a bag (and all these years I thought it was literally a poke of the finger), but what is the origin of [poke]?

Your faithful and attentive student,
NYC Daddy-O :-)

:shock: todays word request….[dodge] the draft or [baseball] [dodgers]———-[stra.ta.gem]———

what is vinegar and spices mixed with [horseRadish]=wasabi and [mustard]…mustard girl –Jenny :cool: :lol: jenny :P

;-) Hi Marina, I haven’t asked for a word in a really time. However I have come across a word that seems odd, the word is ;-) ;-) Loft ;-) ;-). I have a friend with a Loft in his house, and I also heard people calling someone Lofty. Are they a room in someone’s house? I think not….. Could you please explain?
Thanks,
Chiselstone

It’s funny that Marina talked about paying tickets to the cop. That is the standard way of paying tickets in Russia (and I doubt that the payment ever makes it to the court!)

I was once with 2 other foreigners in St. Petersburg, Russia, when we got stopped by a cop for jaywalking. Our fine was supposed to be 500 rubles each, but I quickly interpreted it as 500 total for all 3 of us, and paid the 500, and walked away. :razz:

Hello 4maitai5,
I see that you are a new HotForWords member and I want to welcome you to a great web site.

Regarding your question; I am not an expert, but interestingly, yesterday, I was reviewing some Russian phrases and I noticed that there were four ways to say, “Nice to see you”.
The phrases were categorized into
male / female and formal / informal.

My guess to your answer is that since most languages other than English make these distinctions regarding gender and formality, you will see those slight differences, even in the same language, never mind comparing a phrase to another similar language.

Here are examples of; “Nice to see you”, in Russian.
Notice the change of just one letter for the gender change and the change of a word for the change in formality.

Formal
male: Рад Вас видеть.
female: Рада Вас видеть.

Informal
male: Рад тебя видеть.
female: Рада тебя видеть.

This kind of segregation of phrases can also be seen in many languages such as German, Spanish, French and many others. In English we don’t have gender identified nouns nor do we have many expressions or phrases that refer to gender or formal expressions.

For example, in English, one might say;
informal “Hello”
formal (male), “Hello, Sir” or
formal (female), “Hello, Madam”

Even though we may use a different word depending in what gender we address, that is not the same as having nouns that refer to a gender, for example, child in Spanish;
boy child: el niño
girl child: la niña

To answer you question specifically regarding to the phrase, “Thank You” and the slight differences, I would say that it might be for the following reasons:
1. Language constructs and phrases evolve over time and become regionalized, even in the same language and country.
Here is a site that shows you
how to say “Thank You” in German ten different ways.

In Russian, “Thank you” would be; spasibo or spasiba
Marina can clarify as to how each one is used.
A lady on a video used the word, spasiba.

2. National and regional customs and traditions influence the ways phrases are spoken.

3. Phrases influenced by religious traditions and rituals.

I’m sure there is a lot more to this, but I hope this may stimulate a discussion about the regional differences.

Hi Marina! Nice video!!
Please check your e-mail!! Thanks
Pavel Shimansky

[How come some words have sounds that give no clue as to their origin? Origin of "Sun" is related to the Sanskrit word "Surya", but neither "Japan" nor "Nippon" which mean "origin of the sun" have the "su" sound in them. So where did "Japan" nor "Nippon" come from? The words "Suresh" and "Susan" have a similar starting sound of "su", but only the Indian name "Suresh" is related to "Surya", and the Western name "Susan" is related to a flower. Perhaps the flower "Susan" is related to is in turn related to the Sun?]

You might still be there. :)

I was going to send this video to my son, as he is a police officer and would appreciate it, but I can’t remember what the origin of J-Walking is. The many media additions particularly the whipping sounds, distracted me. Does anyone else share this observation, or should I crawl back into bed? :grin:

Umm, what happened to the polka dot bikini lady, did she offer an observation, too?

Okay, just replayed video. :lol: I must be a stupid rural person, too. Pejorative, now I’ll have to look that one up.

look through her eyes Leonard

Spot on, Hs4Mm.
Black-eyed Susan is the usual common name of Rudbeckia hirta (L), a member of the sunflower tribe of the large family Asteraceae.
Aster is also Latin for Star so you have made a small step in [Botany] and an Astronomical leap in Philology. :grin:

:razz: Oh Susanna Yee Haw :!:

Thanks for the confirmation. I was guessing.

Wikipedia thinks Susan comes from a type of lotus; so now we have a controversy:

wiki on Susan as coming from 2000 BC Middle Egyptian “sÅ¡n” (lotus flower).

wiki on Rudbeckia hirta.

:mrgreen: Vidal Sassoon

Helden – Vidal Sassoon presentation

Marina,

Your autographed and kissed book came today. I know it’s not a big thing to you, but it really means a lot to me. Thank you so much. You’re the best!

Always,

Rick

Hi Bob, you wise old soul,

Hauling your erudition out for display? Be sure ya got your facts straight or someone will razz you for sure! :razz:

Hi Marina!

I’m new here, and I had an idea today while I was in a particularly boring Orientation meeting for my new job. I want to know what the origin of the word [metric] is, but not as relates to the metric system of measurement. I want to know where it comes from in relation to the function of keeping track of statistics, such as those for, say, a help desk, or call center. If it’s best in your opinion, you may also want to explain where the [meter] came from, both such as a parking meter, and the meter, the measure of distance. I’m pretty sure they’ve all got to be related, but I don’t know how or where they originated.

Love ya,

Matthew

[daisy] comes from “day’s eye,” an old English nickname for the sun. :cool:

Nice…..[Random] reply lscgh. :razz:
11? WHY 11? How about 10 or 12 and make it even. :mrgreen:
One might be thinking somebody might be checking into them. Hopefully this is wrong.

I guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds. ~Bela Lugosi ~

Wolfmother – Joker and The Thief under a New Moon Rising. :twisted: :cool: :cool:

Just a random, off the wall reply, No puns intended. :mrgreen:
If you’re actually new, Welcome to HotForWords :smile:

@vrock,

dammit.. you beat me to it. :/ 11

very good—-L7 (shitlist)
…..[sHit-List] :oops: {PUSSY_WHIPPED] L-7,live******every-one

Surfing YT and ran across this video that directly relates to the quote. I’m not into god as far as the christian ideology or religion in general but damnit this “Mother” gives it to you short and sweet. She must be a Rebel.

In accordance with their status, some have wives,husbands and children, relatives, fiefs, and gold and silver, while others have no treasure. Whether one has wealth or not, no treasure exceeds the one called life.
~ The Gift of Rice- The Daishonin year 1275~

DOGMA :mrgreen:

Awesome! It means a lot to me as well! :-)

Yeah, I went overboard on the sound effects on this video! I will not be doing them so loud in the future!

I would like to know the origins and histories of the word [badonkadonk]

LOUD VIDEOS ARE LIKE HAVING CAPS LOCK ON ALL THE TIME :!:

LET’S YELL AND FUCK, GODDAMMIT IF WE FEEL LIKE IT!

AND LET’S RAISE ALL HELLS AND HEAVENS AND DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN IF WE DECIDE TO DO SO AND FUCK IT ALL AND FUCK IT MORE IF WE DECIDE IT’S AN APPROPRIATE SOLUTION, DAMNITY! WHO’S GOT THE GUTS TO STOP US ANYWAYS?

The most ridiculous ticket was a parking ticket in Monterey, even though I’d paid the fee. Only thing was, I put the parking stub on the dashboard UPSIDE DOWN! And though my name is Jay, I’ve never been ticketed for Jaywalking!

Hi Marina,

I would like to know the origin of the phrase [going commando]. It means wearing no underwear under your dress but where does it come from?

Thanks,
Hamid6724

Are you inviting me to check my misleading backwards etymology?
How N-Tyce-ing; Sure ya right, I was seeding a controversy.
Let the discussion roll, or shall we get teacher to tell us the origin of [Susan]?
And what about all the other names around the world? There must be enough material there for a series of videos.

How Did Jesus Cross The Road?

He used the Cross Walk!

Yet another source says that Susan means a Lily.

What got my attention was this: although Spanish and Portuguese are so close as to be almost mutually intelligible, the basic Spanish word for “thank you” is “gracias,” versus “obrigado/obrigada” in Portuguese (depending on the sex of the speaker). In Italian it’s “grazie,” which is close enough to the Spanish version, but for French I’ve always heard “merci.” I was wondering whether “gracias/grazie” was the original form for all Romance languages, and if so how Portuguese and French came to use different words altogether.

Likewise, where “thank you” in Russian is “spasibo,” the Ukrainian equivalent is (I think) “djakuju.” In Polish it’s similar (dziekuje’), but the Croatian is “molim.” Again, what’s the story? And do these words have different literal meanings?

*These are the only language families I have any experience with; otherwise I’d probably be asking about Germanic too.

:smile: where is my under-wear? :???: :?: :lol: :smile: That looks like one for the new picture taking telephone…actually old like a [Hoover]…

…["going Commando"] is like [bris]?

…I thought I Knew the meaning of ["un-dressed"]…phrase for praise and should underwear get a grant?…I hope not, it might just keep the sheep in the wool and my eyes hiden from seeing! :lol: ……{pull the wool over my cotton picking eyes} [briskly] she brises us——–[][][]brio[][][][]the rich ritual cut the vampire’s drink off….Bob said it has something to do with the skirting Scots :lol:

Its mean when one is not feeling [well] too!!! :cool: Some awe feeling for…[AWOL] :lol: U da best :razz:

[ax] or [axe]

…[sprang] like her leg was only spranged and not broken or how much pain does the [lawyers] make off the [doctors] pain….is a court painfully shared like health care? :grin: :lol: [word doctor] Orlova: do you have an answer?…[man.a-Ge-MenT]…[beep-beep], my ride :lol:

[TAX]…is it true of the proposal to halt so much migration into the USA; that a speCIAl payment is to be required of new citizens?….[CRAZY]….taxes to battle the [Axis]

:shock: donald [][duck][] cartoon-the spirit of 43 (WWII)

:oops: :o :| Betty Boop Cartoon Banned For Drug Use 1934….the times are-A-changing….PS-bob dylan has a CHRISTMAS album coming out :cool:

In Bulgarian, “thank you” is “blagodarya,” again unlike the phrase in other Slavic languages. “Molya” means “please,” resembling your Croatian “molim.” :smile:

[jape]

My favo(u)rite [jape] was planting a story about a plot by Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru to kidnap Prince Charles during the 1969 investiture and demand Welsh independence for his release. Wales on Sunday picked up the story and ran it as a screaming front-page headline. MI5 and Buckingham Palace Security got drawn into the brouha, and for awhile I was nervous that they might figure out who Llewelyn ab Owain was… :o

Anyway, that we all many years ago, and I’m sure everyone has forgotten… :roll:

Heut’ Ist Mein Tag
:razz:

That site aims to make money from people who like to make a display of things associated with them (rather than what they themselves do by choice). So the site might twist facts to boost the false pride of their potential customers. For all one knows, in 2000 BC or 4000 years ago, the Egyptians might have called the lotus “sÅ¡n” because it reminded them of the sun!

I think that you a funny one and and —a hot-doG____crosscuT-SauL…[peter] like salt :cool: :p Albert King – Hot, Live and Raw
….____….____-.

Marina,

You seem like a sensitive young lady and I do not want to dampen your enthusiasm to experiment. I enjoy the extra effects you include in your videos. In fact, I got a laugh while re-viewing your pigtails video and your notice of the King’s nice locks and nice shoes. A true Gucci girl, eh? :lol: I have been told that I am easily distracted, :shock: so I wondered if it was my hyper-sensitivity or if others shared my observation. You may want to consider others’ opinions first.

Greatest Potential, I have been criticized by my son for texting in all caps. It was easier for me, as it takes too long to be proper. It’s much easier to call, than text. But, I have seen my son do it zoom fast with one thumb and not looking. The advantages of being young, I guess.

hey pig-in-a-poke,

i understand the convenience of texting in all caps.. but, all caps is considered screaming. and not just on the internet.. texting, etc. i’m so used to seeing it as screaming now that if i encounter someone who does all caps it really feels like i’m in a room with someone who’s hella pissed and screaming.. can be unnerving. :/

Hmm … difficult to relate “ssn” to the Egyptian sun god …

Re (Ra) was the Egyptian sun god who was also often referred to as Re-Horakhty, meaning Re (is) Horus of the Horizon.

In fact, it’s difficult to relate anything in ancient Egyptian to modern languages since their Hieroglyphic characters are so unrelated to any other writing system. For instance, how would you pronounce “Boot-chick-boot” or “Twisted wire-staple-owl”?
As another red herring, did the word [horizon] come from the Egyptian god Horus? :???:
{“Boot-chick-boot”=Bob, and “Twisted wire-staple-owl”=Hs4Mm}

That was my son’s sentiments, too. I appreciate your affirmation, Damiana.

Let’s see now:
letter, letter, letter
left symbol selector button
more symbols
symbol selection
back to words, space button,
OMG! Just pick up the frickin phone! :lol:
And, texting became illegal in cars in my county, today. Yea!

[goofy] or [goof ball] why do people use it to describe the actions of another person when they are acting silly or crazy
ty :)

What is the origin of the phrase [lickety-split]? A response in the manner of the phrase would be greatly appreciated.

Yet another red herring: Re (Ra) lead to modern day [Ray] as in “sun’s rays”! (And it happens to be the second syllable in “Suresh”!)

it comes from France

are you sure : )

I was going to use the lickity-split, today. But, after thinking about it I decided not to, as I didn’t know the origin, as well. Sounds a bit provocative when you think about it. The link above contains the origin and definition in case Marina does not get around to it.

@pig-in-a-poke

yvw. always happy to help.. : )

My lip is bleeding.

I [need] a vampire.

When employers fire me, they should say you’ve been Thought On Fired.

It turns out that was just a “voluntary resignation” 1 day of no call no show… it’s all because I was up late the night before sleeping in class.

And so I’m going to work for the More Man’s…is that the origin of [Mormon]? I don’t know.. I see them jaywalking on their way to church. And the only time I decide to step inside of a church it turned out all Churches were closed. And then I saw a [Free Mason] symbol on a truck driving by and away. I knew it meant something, nothing, nothing at all. Don’t mind me I’m just speaking to the wind.

And yes I am the color of sand.

I always felt being called “White” was rather derogatory and borderline Racist.

[pigment]

Is it still considered jay walking when you are walking in the turning lane for several blocks at a time?

Oh, or pretend to have an invisible car, complete with a driver, a copilot and 2 back seat drivers; is that jaywalking?

Next time an officer gives me a ticket I’ll tell him: can this be redeemed at the arcade?

You know that it can.

That watermelon looks fucking [delicious]. :razz: In fact, watermelon has not ever looked better.

:!: … shows you how corrupt humanity is; jaywalking KILLED Jay, but it takes THE PAIN-AND-TORTURE OF A WHOLE TRAFFIC-TICKET to inspire Marina to investigate ‘jaywalking’ … oh well; whatever floats our Lady’s boat :roll:

Anyway Marina, I thought of you while I read this long letter that described Centerpointe Research Institute’s Holosync Solution … not that I’m not always thinking of you anyway, but the Holosync Solution uses neuro-technology (yes, not a health-drink; but the same name) that helps you build your brain with special tones embedded in natural sounds on their CDs.

France! We come from France! :grin:

No, Marina, you are not stupid – how could you be when your life’s work is to educate us your students?

Your book finally arrived through my letterbox here in England. I have got as far as the History lesson and want to thank you for imparting the knowledge that female chauvinists can and do exist. i’ve never met one, but that could change. One thing I do not do when I am reading your illuminating and exciting book is [yawn]. I had to stifle one of those the other evening while playing the card game [bridge]. ;-)

I don’t see any negatives with your sound effects, Dear Teach. I mean, look at what we’re talking about here. I find them illustrative and entertaining.

hey evan,

“day’s eye”, an old English nickname for the sun

thanks for that.. beyond cool. : )

Hi D.,
You and your hot-lips gravatar have just made may day. :grin:

hey evan,

sweet. that makes me happy. *\o/*

{alien} and {underdog} please

[Trap] or [Trap Door]

“A woman either loves or [hates]; she knows no medium.”

Greta Garbo

Whoops–now that you say that, I think I got the Croatian words mixed up. Maybe “thank you” is “hvala,” but now I’m a little reluctant to say that with any confidence.

YouTube thought that searching and
showing trends like Twitter is a neat idea,
so they are now doing it.

See what it’s all about over on the Forum here.

[architect]

[czar] Ceasar

[g string]

I would like to request the word [Methylenedioxymethamphetamine]
Thank you. :)

I’ve been [selling short] and [going long] on the forex. Please investigate the origins of these words.

Since my Serbo-Croatian phrase book is within arm’s length of my computer, I’ll confirm that “hvala” is Croatian for “thank you.” :smile:

“Croatians are not lobsters or crabs.”
– from The American’s Guide to Eastern Europe :lol:

[American vs. British English:]

Blow me – When an English colleague of mine exclaimed “Blow Me” in front of a large American audience, he brought the house down. It is simply an exclamation of surprise, short for “Blow me down”, meaning something like I am so surprised you could knock me over just by blowing. Similar to “Well knock me down with a feather”. It is not a request for services to be performed. :shock:
–from The American’s Guide to Speaking British

Jay walking :grin:

Shakespeare: “Anne, do you think this title is too long? ‘Julius, grab her quick before she gets away.’ ”
Anne Hathaway: “Why don’t you just call it Julius Seize Her?” :mrgreen:

So why don’t we just stick with [chocolate] and vanilla? :smile:

The pig said “oink,” but the [pig meant] “don’t eat me.” :mrgreen:

Your colorful words are a [pigment] of your imagination! :razz:

george…killer of dragon :smile: Did George find you yet or still lookin?..The Arabs believe that St. George can restore mad people to their senses; and to say a person has been sent to St. George’s, is equivalent to saying he has been sent to a madhouse. It is singular that the Moslem Arabs share this veneration for St. George, and send their mad people to be cured by him, as well as the Christians..

I have got to [hand] it to you and shake for good luck..A 15th-century icon of St. George from Novgorod

… :lol: George, from the Ancient Greek γεωργός (geōrgos), “‘farmer’” or “‘earth-worker’,” which became a name in Greek: Γεώργιος (Geōrgios), and Latin: Georgius. The word Γεωργος is a compound word, formed by the words Ge (Γῆ), “earth”, “soil” and ergon (ἔργον). It has variants in dozens of languages:…..an honest [SLaVe]…….

Marina hello. I have always wondered where the phrase [deep six it] comes from.
Best wishes.

I woke up this morning,
the whip cracking with vengeance.
Now understand her warning:
“Don’t take my dollars and cents!”
This chick means business!

[pizzazz]

what a great word! i’m watching a dancing movie and some have so much of it, while others fall flat. [PIZZAZZ]

SURF OR DIE :razz:

BetterBadNews :mrgreen:

ANTHRAX covers PIPELINE, ANTI-SOCIAL, GOT THE TIME and FRIGGIN’ IN THE RIGGIN’ :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:

:arrow: They never changed their name! :mrgreen: :cool:

The above EMPTY comment is a test for Rijk.