Cummingtonite

This is a word I did before as a Nerd Word of the Day.. I just wanted to have fun with it.. so I made this cheesy video about it!  Think of this as recess time for the weekend!

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

    FIRST! I want to say, I laffffed my ass, or is arse off!!!.
    That was soooooo funny.
    Damn, Marina, stop doing that, how do you ever expect me to say what my favorite video is? I think it might be this one now. Ohhh, those 500+ choices.

  • prospero811

    If you handle dickite right, or combine it with fukalite and erotic acid, it will produce spermite or spermidine. I prefer clitoriacetal, which if stimulated properly can get you some vaginatin (which some say is the most pleasing of molecules).

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    Third! Wow, purely by chance.

  • prospero811

    Marina!

    I’m glad to see you are doing so well. Your videos just get better and better!

    Hey – there is a whole community of secularists, freethinkers, agnostics, etc. that would love see a video by you of some or all of the following words:

    [agnostic]
    [atheist]
    [secular]
    [sectarian]
    [religion]

    I know I’ve asked before, but I thought I would try again.

    Keep up the good work!

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    Good one! :mrgreen:

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    You like the new/old format. She decided to step away from what Youtube told her to do and when back to doing what her students requested.

    Marketing rule number #5. Sell what the customers need, not what corporate wants.

    Oh, and one more important thing Prospero, Welcome back! :-)

  • wetsuit5

    Marina,

    We know about Sister Words and Gorby, but what are your 2 friends names? (Morina and Dube).

    Wonderful opening, but I can’t spell it…

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    Great video Marina! This is what we like to see. ;-)

    Oh and btw, you messed up on the Chemical formula and a few other things but who cares right?

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

    Very :lol: lesson!!!!!
    Homework

    Vomicine

    This poisonous molecule gets its name from the nut Nux Vomica, which is the seed of a tree found on the coasts of the East Indies. The seeds are sometimes called ‘Quaker buttons’, and are a source of strychnine as well as the emetic vomicine.

    Extra Credit Geodes are my favorite rocks! :grin:

  • http://packcat.org packcat

    How is my dear white-chocolate mudshark skank today? er, I mean teacher….

  • http://youtube.com/jamesingtonthethird James

    My god, that was difficult to follow. But I did enjoy it.

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

    Hello Everyone!
    Don’t forget to vote for HotForWords in the
    Mashable Open Web Awards, every day.

    When you use this link, all the fields will be filled out for you.
    Just log in with Twitter or Facebook.
    http://mashable.com/owa/votes?v=178&c=36

    The voting lasts until Sunday, 11:59 pm EST, December 13th

    Thank you all for voting! :grin:

  • fglrx

    And what will be produced with moronic acid + curious chloride?

    My favorite rock is anthracite because it’s full of energy.

  • neuroway

    Man, this cumming is precocious. By 16 days. :shock:

  • keefc2

    ‘Copper Nanotubes’, not a funny name in itself, but when abbreviated the chemical symbol for copper (Cu) is used and Nanotubes becomes NT, you end up with a rather unfortunate result. :oops:
    see this Royal Society of Chemistry paper.
    http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b6/b614147a/b614147a.pdf

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/smokey36bear smokey36bear

    If I had to choose it would be iron pyrite.

  • http://youtube.com/jamesingtonthethird James

    In light of my weird youtube message http://twitpic.com/saig3

    [shenanigans]

  • originalistrick

    Oooohhh, Marina, you’re such a blast! Fantastic lesson!

    When I was doing a little motorcycle road racing for fun, we referred to the trick factory parts & pieces the manufacturers would not sell to privateers at ANY price as “UNOBTANIUM”.

    Thanks for the hilarious lesson.

  • originalistrick

    THAT is funny!

  • neuroway

    Atomically speaking, 26+2×16 = 79 fool’s. Sorry. Could’n resist to go beyond the borders of chemistry. :-)

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

    Marina, that was a brilliantly done video. Loved every bit of it.
    Your hair in the intro looked glorious and I loved the pigtails.
    It added that extra touch to the lecture.
    Loved your Beavis grunt. You are too much.
    Ohhhh those YT comments, those were hilarious.
    What a great video.

  • originalistrick

    Rob, you have a wonderful talent.

  • http://klan.my1.ru sahok

    cool painted! and why we believe russikh estimate only enter numbers from 1 up to 5 and at Sun letters? :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

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

    Hey, everyone, don’t take HotForWords for Granite now
    as she is a combination of Sexithiophene & Angelic Acid.
    Rock on.

  • villewilen

    :smile:

  • http://www.GoForThisWorld.com Hs4Mm

    Homework (favorite rock): I am a man … my favorite rock is mine itself.

  • Victor

    Hey nice video Marisa, it was funny :)…. i´d like to know where the expression DJ (disc jockey) comes from what does jockey has to be with playing music????

  • originalistrick

    That’s so clever it shamed me into giving up at a come-back.

  • http://www.GoForThisWorld.com Hs4Mm

    Are those the manufacturing instructions given to a Chinese factory for making artificial vaginas (I did notice the spell checker’s suggestion to replace the “s” with an “e”)?

  • fglrx

    Every kind of rock can be melted with a thermal lance.

  • fglrx

    My favorite kind of stone is the one I use to get [stoned].

  • http://www.GoForThisWorld.com Hs4Mm

    Here’s an odd thing about costumes and voice: The voice of the character in the creamy jacket (the “used car salesman”) is masculine (gruffer?) and the voice of the character in the olive green jacket is feminine. The cap worn by the Cream is biggish and masculine; the cap worn by Olive is smallish. The ear flaps of Cream’s hat give Cream’s face a masculine slant; the exposed face and neckline of Olive give Olive’s face a feminine slant.

    Event though Cream’s chest appears smaller and one can see an outline of breasts, and even though Olive appears to have broader shoulders and a bigger, flatter chest, because of the facts in the first para, I get the impression that Cream is with his girlfriend Olive (with Olive appearing like a petite girl wearing her boyfriend’s jacket)!

    But as per your YouTube pop-up message box, you intended both to be “dudes”! I can see Cream as a man but it is really hard for me to see Olive as a man!

  • http://favstar.fm/me Che Mero

    The two characters doing commentary are so silly.

    You a comedian now? :lol:

  • http://wexfor.weebly.com wexfor

    my favourite are: commic acid, fucokinase that is often shortened to “fuc-K” and you already mentioned erotic acid. chemistry can be fun sometimes.

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    “Good evening, ladies and Germans.”

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard

    awesome… :lol: /rockNrow

  • http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/4581 jimmcgovern12

    Best video yet; excellent actressing.

  • http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/4581 jimmcgovern12

    That’s actually a pretty good come back.

  • http://favstar.fm/me Che Mero

    She’s a regular Einsteinium. :roll:

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

    My PC shut off or would not let me finish what i was saying. There are the semi precious stones of onyx, beryl, chrysolite, chrysoprase, emerald, jasper and carnelion in the walls of the New Jerusalem up in heaven in the book of revelation. But I would like to be CUMMING TONITE into you!!! i BOUGHT SOMETHING SMALL FOR ME MADE OF BLACK ONYX, REAL SHARP I THINK.

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

    Homework: I really love geodes, and I’d like find a place where I can score a bunch of some soap stone. My grandpa was a rock hound, and my favorite of his rocks are Apache Tears.

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    Notice the protective equipment used by the operators (rabbit’s foot in the pocket of the guy at the right :roll: ). For steel, consider oxy-gasoline, a relatively new (and way-cheaper than acetylene) system, this testimonial from China.

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    And who the heck is Boomer?

  • http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/4581 jimmcgovern12

    spelling, sorry… come-back

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

    That cummingtonite rock looks crusting for some reason. :mrgreen:

  • Victor

    Hey nice video Marisa, it was funny …. i´d like to know where the expression [DJ] (disc jockey) comes from what does jockey has to be with playing music????

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

    Boomer’s 1st appearance (…Fully grown now)

  • http://packcat.org packcat

    Is that what they mean by Toxic Waist?

  • http://packcat.org packcat

    or a jetliner full of fuel :oops:

  • http://reassert.blogspot.com reassert

    Hi Marina, would you like to explain the origin of word “caporegime”(A position in mafia, under the underboss and “consigliere”)? The word “consigliere” was popularized by Mario Puzo’s novel The Godfather, and everybody knows the origin. But “caporegime” was not. So please create a lesson for this word, thank you :razz:

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

    Oh man, this was such a sweet lesson!

    Homewooooooooork:
    Silly Chemikalz! :-)

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

    Add one Carbon to Erotic acid and it becomes Homo-Erotic acid :mrgreen:

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    A jockey “operates” a horse. A disk jockey operates (originally) a record player (and now) a CD/tape player.

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    Marina, you are getting [risque] in your old age. The whole lesson is based on a pun? Hmmm…. The painting thing was nice, though. I have no talent in that area whatsoever, so watching a work of art develop and seeing where the artists decides to place his attention next is fascinating.

    I like rocks and minerals that are peizo-electric, like quartz and barium titanate. At least you can do something with them, unlike ordinary rocks that just sit there.

    I once touched a moon rock in the Smithsonian, but it wasn’t very thrilling. In fact, if it were not for the sign, one would never know it had come from the moon. For all I know, they could have been lying about it. Who’d know? To this day, I don’t like green cheese. :razz:

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

    Abbreviations are important in chemistry, because that’s how most elements get their names.
    The official abbreviation for Sodium Ethyl Xanthate, is SEX. And it’s a flotation agent used in the mining industry. It can be found in solid or liquid form, giggidy!
    NICNAS (National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment) evaluates the symptoms of over-exposure to SEX:
    “Signs of high exposure are dizziness, tremors, difficulty breathing, blurred vision, headaches, vomiting and death. Can cause reproductive and nervous system damage.”

  • originalistrick

    Well, the Tide rolled. Now The Horns gotta get it done. It’s show time.

    HOOK ‘EM!!!

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

    A friend told me that she thought that lately everybody seems to have ASS on the brain.
    And she was right in more ways than one…
    ASS is the abbreviation for Argininosuccinate Synthetase, which is a chemical found in the brain.
    Lack of ASS may cause lethargy or mental retardation.

  • http://www.GoForThisWorld.com Hs4Mm

    Pshaw! That and the oxy-gasoline pointed out by CampKohler are freezing compared to my heat. The state of my rock is governed solely by my wishes.

  • http://www.myspace.com/nuclearlullabymusic nuclearlullaby

    I would like to request the word[ACETYL­SERYL­TYROSYL­SERYL­ISO­LEUCYL­THREONYL­SERYL­PROLYL­SERYL­GLUTAMINYL­PHENYL­ALANYL­VALYL­PHENYL­ALANYL­LEUCYL­SERYL­SERYL­VALYL­TRYPTOPHYL­ALANYL­ASPARTYL­PROLYL­ISOLEUCYL­GLUTAMYL­LEUCYL­LEUCYL­ASPARAGINYL­VALYL­CYSTEINYL­THREONYL­SERYL­SERYL­LEUCYL­GLYCYL­ASPARAGINYL­GLUTAMINYL­PHENYL­ALANYL­GLUTAMINYL­THREONYL­GLUTAMINYL­GLUTAMINYL­ALANYL­ARGINYL­THREONYL­THREONYL­GLUTAMINYL­VALYL­GLUTAMINYL­GLUTAMINYL­PHENYL­ALANYL­SERYL­GLUTAMINYL­VALYL­TRYPTOPHYL­LYSYL­PROLYL­PHENYL­ALANYL­PROLYL­GLUTAMINYL­SERYL­THREONYL­VALYL­ARGINYL­PHENYL­ALANYL­PROLYL­GLYCYL­ASPARTYL­VALYL­TYROSYL­LYSYL­VALYL­TYROSYL­ARGINYL­TYROSYL­ASPARAGINYL­ALANYL­VALYL­LEUCYL­ASPARTYL­PROLYL­LEUCYL­ISOLEUCYL­THREONYL­ALANYL­LEUCYL­LEUCYL­GLYCYL­THREONYL­PHENYL­ALANYL­ASPARTYL­THREONYL­ARGINYL­ASPARAGINYL­ARGINYL­ISOLEUCYL­ISOLEUCYL­GLUTAMYL­VALYL­GLUTAMYL­ASPARAGINYL­GLUTAMINYL­GLUTAMINYL­SERYL­PROLYL­THREONYL­THREONYL­ALANYL­GLUTAMYL­THREONYL­LEUCYL­ASPARTYL­ALANYL­THREONYL­ARGINYL­ARGINYL­VALYL­ASPARTYL­ASPARTYL­ALANYL­THREONYL­VALYL­ALANYL­ISOLEUCYL­ARGINYL­SERYL­ALANYL­ASPARAGINYL­ISOLEUCYL­ASPARAGINYL­LEUCYL­VALYL­ASPARAGINYL­GLUTAMYL­LEUCYL­VALYL­ARGINYL­GLYCYL­THREONYL­GLYCYL­LEUCYL­TYROSYL­ASPARAGINYL­GLUTAMINYL­ASPARAGINYL­THREONYL­PHENYL­ALANYL­GLUTAMYL­SERYL­METHIONYL­SERYL­GLYCYL­LEUCYL­VALYL­TRYPTOPHYL­THREONYL­SERYL­ALANYL­PROLYL­ALANYL­SERINE ] that is if any living human can pronounce that!!!

  • seesixcm6

    Dear Marina,
    What a video on such seemingly shocking words! You look beautiful, even wearing a khaki overcoat and a white cap. I also enjoy your low-cdut dresses but I like to see you keep warm during the winters. It must be nice to sleep with you because a Russian girl will press herself close in order to keep me warm. :razz:
    My favorite mineral is silver, because gold is very expensive, now. Silver is beautiful, doesn’t tarnish, and silver protects you from vampires, werewolves and other horrors. :shock:
    My favorite rock is Jade. The Chinese consider it lucky, and you can rub jade to make it feel smooth and warm. :grin:
    I mailed my birthday card to you last week, and I hope it will arrive by Monday so that it will be forwarded to you on time! When you read the card, I hope you will be filled with warmth and happiness for your birthday! :razz:
    Seesixcm6

  • http://www.GoForThisWorld.com Hs4Mm

    Here’s the message I used for the retweet:

    IF YOU’RE GOOD, you might give your girl diamonds; but she won’t need any (Mg,Fe)7Si8O22(OH)2 since she will be it! via @hotforwords http://bit.ly/4T6xbv

  • pat haskett

    My favorite kind of stone is also the stone I used before to get stoned. Some times you have got to find the right stone to get stoned but right or wrong stone…you’ll probably get stoned. My eyes are red from rubbing them withhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catlinite Catlinite.

  • kolia

    This word I don’t need!

  • kolia

    you are crazy

  • kolia

    leave this shit for yourself

  • http://www.GoForThisWorld.com Hs4Mm

    Regarding that comment about turkey being French bird: I think the author is a fool who really meant what he wrote and isn’t some smart guy trying to be funny. A smart person could have made a joke along those lines since there actually is some basis, albeit an erroneous basis, for the idea that Greeks call the turkey-bird French-bird. The Greek word for the turkey-bird is galopoula. And Frenchman is gallos, bird is pouli with feminine form poula. But supposedly this break-up of “galopoula” into “‘gallos’ + ‘poula’” is an erroneous analysis — although the spellings look similar, the pronunciations and origins are different! The original Greek name for the turkey-bird was “indike ornitha” (or Indian-bird); and I think the “galo” in “galopoula” is Greek onomatopoeia for “gobble”. To sum up my thinking, in Greek, “galopoula” is, not “Frenchman-bird” but “gobble-bird”, onomatopoeic for turkey-bird.

  • darlingj

    I’ve seen Dudes with Lipstick and eye makeup like that.

    I guess they skipped the Rocky Horror showing to attend your talk Marina! You are a far better draw! ;-)

    Good thing they left their coats on…

    :lol:

    Great Lesson! :grin:

  • http://www.edgeofheavenbook.com wyo550

    Coochie coo

  • http://www.GoForThisWorld.com Hs4Mm

    .

  • http://www.GoForThisWorld.com Hs4Mm

    So will any of my comments show up in the next video? I like 19 with 19.1.3, and 21.5 or the original tweet http://bit.ly/4RutK1

  • pandion

    Excellent lesson thank you.

    I always liked the names for the different types of lava:
    Pahoehoe
    and
    Aa

  • http://mraugust.multiply.com augie

    fantastic lesson love it ;-)

  • veryfrank

    Marina: Where did the word Cunninglus come from? :smile: :smile: :smile:

    Would you like an expert demonstration?

  • goebelchx

    You are funny. You remind me of my favorite female.

  • Venomrock67

    That was pretty funny and an excellent lesson Marina ;-)
    and the “beavis grunt” was a nice little touch too. :cool:

    Homework: “arsole” which is obvious and some people like to explore
    around there. ;-) :mrgreen:

    And as far as for my favorite rock, I’ve always liked Obsidian (Volcanic Glass)

  • Venomrock67

    Yep ;-)

  • Dalek

    Cute lesson like all those cool rocks names. here’s a good earth science vid on rock formation.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2YEJBK9yJM

    Nice job Rob!

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard

    MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS | HOLLYWOOD …It is definitely a distinctive name that sticks out but I think Rock has been something I have largely had to overcome rather than being an advantage for me.
    Rock Hudson quote
    rock and roll[biscuit]=[squabble] :roll: …stone soul picinic :lol:

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

    ***Homework***

    Funny chemicals? Oh well, I think we can do a reprise of the deadly menace of [dihydrogen monoxide]. :lol:

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

    You might stand a better chance if you could spell it. :razz:

  • doncross2bear

    Great recess, Teacher. My favorite stone is Onyx. xoxo dc

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

    ***LESS THAN FIVE DAYS UNTIL MARINA’S BIRTHDAY (10 DEC!)***

  • steph1105

    [Blow Job] just want to know why its referred to as blow when you don’t really blow at all… :???: and its not really a job either… lol

  • darlingj

    Tim Curry has nothin’ on these guys.

  • ilikesexytime

    WOW YOU DO THIS WORD. but not soles?? COME ON MARINA!! FOR CHRISTMAS I WANT YOU TO DO THE WOD [SOLES] PLEASE!!! EVERONE HELP ME REQUEST IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Venomrock67

    Marina says: “enough with your shenanigans, she’s out of here.” :mrgreen:

    I don’t know if you’re talking about something else with Marina besides a word request because you commented on that segment saying “FAIL….I can’t see this” but I put the link here and if your comment has nothing to do with a word request, my mistake. ;-)

    Raw power got a healin hand
    Raw power can destroy a man
    Raw power is more than soul
    Got a son called rock and roll
    :cool:

  • Venomrock67

    Oh yeah, my actual favorite rock is this. :grin:

    Holiday Favorite

  • fglrx

    Because you are the [sole] person asking about [soles]! BTW, do you like eating [sole]?

    Now I see the 3 homonyms of “sole” are interesting to ask, coz the 2 nouns have the same origin (lat. solea) and the adjective has a different one (lat. solus).

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

    I agree, Marina should do the word [soul] :mrgreen:
    I’m sure it can’t be too far from [sole]
    But, could be miles from Seoul?

  • http://www.GoForThisWorld.com Hs4Mm
  • http://www.GoForThisWorld.com Hs4Mm

    When I first saw the video, before I knew about the connection with MA, the picture of the homes in the beginning of the video (0:40 s) reminded me of homes in the MIT/Harvard area. So is that a picture of a street in Cummington, MA (or somewhere in MA)?

  • Venomrock67

    Hmmm….I guess I can see where one could think of BB there, but it’s more apparent here.

  • http://youtube.com/jamesingtonthethird James

    No, I meant it was fail because it wouldn’t play! :mrgreen:

  • http://youtube.com/jamesingtonthethird James

    Marina will only do it if it has an interesting origin.

  • http://youtube.com/jamesingtonthethird James

    You are missing many bits out inbetween! Thats mostly suffixes.

  • Venomrock67

    I figured that out, I was thinking that maybe you might have forgotten about that segment. So did the vid eventually play?

  • http://youtube.com/jamesingtonthethird James

    look at all the ll’s and yl’s it’s like a welsh word on crack.

  • http://youtube.com/jamesingtonthethird James

    I did! Imma try and watch it again now.

  • http://youtube.com/jamesingtonthethird James

    No, still giving me BS about being in the us..

  • Venomrock67

    Yeah I heard that from CJ too. You got to admit that ilikesexytime is very persistant with that request. :lol:

  • http://youtube.com/jamesingtonthethird James

    Cummingtonite looks like copper ore to me.

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    Is that what is meant by ‘lowering your carbon footprint’? :roll:

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

    Is there like on an official Carbon footprint meter?

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    He can’t even spell his name!
    It should be ‘Very Rank’.
    {Rank. adj. = Conspicuously offensive.}

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

    Excellent, dude…heheh heh heheheh heh…

    Marina said blue balls…heh heh (a town in Lancaster County, PA)!

    When does she get naked? :razz:

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    I have only one favourite stone – Einstein.

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    You want to see Marina naked?
    Here you are.

    (¯`v´¯)

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

    So how’s your apatite? :???:

    “APATITE (Calcium (Fluoro-, Chloro-, Hydroxyl-) Phosphate) An irony of the name apatite is that apatite is the mineral that makes up the teeth in all vertebrate animals as well as their bones.” :cool:

    As the French say, “G a” (J’ai gran apetite.) :mrgreen:

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

    Not about minerals, but who is the most powerful woman politician on earth?

    Megawati! :mrgreen:

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    Can Neuro compete with Drench?

    {NOT off topic – It’s MINERAL water. :grin: }

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    In 2004, she was ranked number 8 on Forbes Magazine’s list of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women. As of 2008 she had fallen off the list.

    Either her turbines are failing or there’s an escalation in the power race, requiring more and more power to keep up with the Janeses (sic).

  • http://mentalgrammarhasbeensetup.blogspot.com äläx

    have this.

    if that pic is not good enough, try to enhance it in photoshop. it works.

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

    “where’s the nakedness” XD

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

    I seem to have heard that Dr. Jim Gano at U of Toledo, an Organic chem prof like Juliian Davies, had invented the organic chemical Adamantane. He had a big $250,000 FT NMR Spectrometer in the basement of the chem department. I did better in Physical Chem and Inorganic chem as I was a C student in Organic chem. Dr. Larry go Grimes who I was his undergrad teaching assistant in his nursing chem lab where he was a TA-Larry got a job at Los Alamos nuclear labs around 1983. He worked for Dr. Jimmy G. Edwards who was doing research back then on the vapor pressures of Lanthium metal at high temperatures. Maybe that is related to Uranium Enrichment as the isotopes of Uranium are seperated in their gaseous form so said Dr. Fred Horne in his grad school Thermodynamics class I took and got a C. Aberdeen Proving Grounds chemical weapons lab semed to come to the UT Placment Office to recruit chemists and engineers and I got an interview wiht them in November 1983.

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

    Beethoven’s Third Symphomy was called EROICA, that was suggestive to me. Or I QSL”d a small AM station from Slildell, Lousiana. SLIDELL souded suggestive to me. They never sent me a QSL card however. Sliding in and out over and over again-SLIDDELL!! Sexy name SLIDDELL.

  • http://mentalgrammarhasbeensetup.blogspot.com äläx

    man, dude, where the fuck?

  • originalistrick

    He (probably) has something these guys don’t…

  • originalistrick

    A win is a win, but last night’s Big 12 championship game was the ugliest, most disturbing game I’ve seen in awhile. If The Horns don’t play like they usually do in the national championship game, Bama’s going to hand them their jockstraps.

  • http://mikechimeriblog.com MCLIJazz

    Of all the places in Massachusetts, the mineral was named after Cummington. It wasn’t Bostonite, Newtonite, Springfieldite, Chelmsfordite, Foxboroite, Capecodite, Worcesterite, or Nantucketite. Oh, well. ;-)

  • http://youtube.com/jamesingtonthethird James

    Does he ride it?

  • http://youtube.com/jamesingtonthethird James

    I know

  • http://youtube.com/jamesingtonthethird James

    I have a shelf full of rocks. My favourite is probably bismuth but that is an element, so I would say next is an opal or a ceylon sapphire.

  • http://youtube.com/jamesingtonthethird James

    Marina, I know this is hardly a major thing, but that thing above the comment box that says “my book is out!” flashes once then again WAAAAAY too fast.

  • http://www.GoForThisWorld.com Hs4Mm

    [eh] [Canadian eh]

    Googling “why do Canadians say eh?” will result in some funny hits, including T-Shirts and these videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beXoiVs92SY http://phenommark.xanga.com/videos/bb428263247/

    The best answer I have come across is that it is a form of indicating that a question has been asked or that the statement is a rhetorical question.

    Supposedly it is mostly the French Canadians who use “eh”, and so there is the theory that it is like the French “n’est-ce pas”. This link to French is the only (correct or erroneous) link to its origin.

  • http://www.GoForThisWorld.com Hs4Mm

    There’s also a Lady GaGa video with Eh in its title — but this might be a different usage!

  • http://www.GoForThisWorld.com Hs4Mm

    Of all the places in the world!: http://i48.tinypic.com/29v0311.jpg This is solid proof that there is a God — only HE could have engineered such a “coincidence”!

  • http://mikechimeriblog.com MCLIJazz

    There’s more than one Cummington?

  • http://www.GoForThisWorld.com Hs4Mm

    There is only one Cummington, but there are several places where cummingtonite could have been discovered. For example, supposedly the Kolar gold fields in India and Goongarrie in Australia contain them; — and if the devil existed it would have ended up being called gonorrheaite!

  • Greatest Potential

    Precious gems may be distinguished in class by hardness of the stone, lustre, wearability, etc. whereas semi precious stones are usually considered easier to obtain and tend to be lower on the Mohs’s scale of hardness. Gem stones rock! ~ diamond, opal, lapis-lazuli, ruby, sapphire, tourmaline, quartz, etc.

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    I’m geeking out on some Radio Teletype software that I was thinking of using on a yacht delivery. Why? It’s so I can have computers onboard transcribing weather information so I don’t have to sit next to the radio for hours writing notes all day long. That sucks!

    So as I reading, I discovered where hell came from. j/k

    Hellschreiber (HELL)

    Hellschreiber is a method of sending text by radio. Each character is sent as an image, pixel by pixel. It was invented in 1929 by Dr. Rudolf Hell, of Bavaria, Germany.

    Why am I telling you this? Well I’m sitting at the dock waiting for some guy to repair broken water pipes on this guys yacht. I think his feet were a tad bit wet when he entered his yacht. Apparently he turned off the heater to save electricity but he never thought of freezing weather, nor to drain the water out of his pipes before leaving the yacht unattended for such a long time. All he need to do was to leave the heat on super low and it would have prevented the problem. He would have paid $30 bucks in electricity vs $900+ for the repair man.
    Now we missed the weather window and have to wait until Thursday.

    Morale of the story. Think things though before you try your fantastic new idea. Their might be a reason why no one is doing your idea.

  • ilikesexytime

    nah i like licking soles not EATING them! :mrgreen:

  • ilikesexytime

    PLEASE GUYS HELP ME REQUEST IT. ILL BE THE HAPPIEST MAN ON EARTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • ilikesexytime

    SOLES ARE INTERESTING. SHE WILL SHOW YOUR HER SOLES!

  • ilikesexytime

    PLEASE MARINA DO THE WORD [SOLES] AS IN YOUR SOLES OF YOUR FEET. OR YOU CAN DO [TOES] WHY ARE TOES CALLED TOES??????

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    Marina -

    (Mg,Fe)7Si8O22(OH)2 <—<<<< Marina, you forgot the ’2′ on the end of the formula for hydroxyl. If I remember right, I mention this error before in your first post of this rock.

  • MidnightEagle11

    it would rock if you could do the phrase [Son of a bitch] yeah i know that no one likes profanity but i am very interested on where this came from…female dog? IDK

  • Greatest Potential
  • ilikesexytime

    DAM THOSE ARE SOME SExY FEET. i wanna suck on those toes badly and lick those soles!!! THOSE ARE NICE!

  • Dalek

    ilikesexytime, a little music to go with your request…
    soles

  • rreppy

    Word request: unrequited. – and why does one never hear of something being “requited”?

  • http://www.GoForThisWorld.com Hs4Mm

    Since it is close to Marina’s birthday, here’s a quote on the supreme value of one’s life. These are the words of Irina, a young girl who has been sentenced to imprisonment in Siberia (by the Communist government) and knows that she will never return:

    There’s something I would like to understand. And I don’t think anyone can explain it. … There’s your life. You begin it, feeling that it’s something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it’s like a sacred treasure. Now it’s over, and it doesn’t make any difference to anyone, and it isn’t that they are indifferent, it’s just that they don’t know, they don’t know what it means, that treasure of mine, and there’s something about it that they should understand. I don’t understand it myself, but there’s something that should be understood by all of us. Only what is it? What?

    Irina is a minor character in Ayn Rand’s novel We The Living.

  • http://www.hisnibs.com his nibs

    I would like to request the phrase [his nibs] please. Thanks!

  • buffethunter

    I would like to request the word [word]

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

    It seems that no matter how we look at life, there is a onion layer to be peeled away to reveal a new layer. Is it possible to look at life, to live life without illusion? We can’t be all knowing, but can a human being understand his or her motivations…including what motivations have roots in the subconscious?

  • han2929

    I would like to request the word [ Croissant ]

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard

    :|

    “… here’s a quote on the supreme value of one’s life. “…

    Writing [supreme] the word, makes me think of choosen people. Even eating a “supreme” burrito; has me to wonder my taste for for what is the opposite. Good grades and high pay are the same to our “[supreme]” societal-government of that verses “communism”. The supreme debaters are law people and money are dictators for work and an economy is made by creating more (economic-activities): slavery, prisons courts, and culture-apartheidisms. :lol: Bottom Line-Hs4Mm: Happy birth-day 2 you and Marina…find what is good in life and hope-fully, the enviroment treats you ‘Supreme’. :smile:

  • damon_2k1kh

    I would like to request the phrase[he would always play devil's advocate].

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

    Good stuff, man! I know those two cats. We hang sometimes. :cool:

  • prospero811

    Thanks – I always watch the new videos. I’ve just not really had much time to post.

  • fglrx
  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard

    [sandels]…Help iswalking the [sole] march 4 words :lol: sophia loren [soles]…barefoot in the snow :cool: :arrow:

  • skyhookbel

    I would like to request the word [atonement]

    Thank you

    My favorite rock is salt because it is the only rock humans eat!

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

    I just came across this great article written by Benjamin Slade, aka be_slayed, a postgraduate student in linguistics (ABD) and lecturer at the University of Illinois.

    Hot for Words: On titillating etymologies and pop philology (with some remarks on Beowulf movies and sex thrown in for good measure)
    Monday, December 7, 2009
    by be_slayed

  • http://www.matthiasheymann.de Matthias

    Hi, cutie!

    Can you tell me the origin of the word [tired]? Does it have anything to do with the tires of a car? Interestingly, there is a German slang word for “tired” (“geraedert”) which translates directly into “wheeled” (Rad=wheel), and which we typically use if you are tired after a long day of work or after a workout. I also know of a medieval torturing method where people are tied to a large wheel, and… you don’t want to know – maybe this is how you feel when you are tired.

    Bye-bye, my teacher – Be good! ;-)

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

    Hello Everyone!
    If I may ask each and everyone of you
    to vote in the Mashable Open Web Awards,
    once a day until Sunday, 11:59 pm EST, December 13th

    You are voting for:
    HotForWords in the “Most Educational to Follow” category.

    When you use this link, all the fields will be filled in for you.

    Just log in with Twitter or Facebook.
    http://mashable.com/owa/votes?v=178&c=36

    Thank you all for voting! :smile:

  • fglrx

    That’s great! This is the first (as far as I know) objective review of HFW written by a professional linguist specializing in the field of etymology.

    The few “Hot for Words” videos I watched, however, seemed largely accurate. I mean, they weren’t deep, and I’m guessing Orlova takes a lot of etymologies straight from the OED, but I didn’t notice any serious misinformation. Etymologies seem to be her main trade, though she does have a video which touches on sound change, dealing with the pronunciation of kn-initial words (where knife is illustrated by a khukuri!), and a bit on neologism.

    I 100% agree! The videos are not university lectures – and that’s nothing bad, the aim is simply different. But they can light the fuse, for example thanks to them I recovered my old interest in linguistics (also in the fields far from etymology). I experienced a small flashback, and linguistics, which seemed to have been definitely buried in my life, started being fascinating to me again, so the influence of HFW on me was quite good!

  • okay4now

    Hwk: (favorite rock) = Most likely something from the X-group of asteroids, or uncut (oops) diamonds.

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

    Thank you for your great comment fglrx.
    You are absolutely correct. Many of the commentary about Marina is done by people that have barely looked at her videos and really don’t know Marnia’s passion for words.

    I left a comment on that site, I don’t know if you got a chance to read that.

    I am an interested student of linguistics and I didn’t realize how broad and deep the field goes along with the history and specifically word origins in which I have had an interest for some time.

    An important point that the author stated is that Marina’s lesson are a gateway to introduce this field to someone who may never have considered it, which is a good thing. There are many, many things about Marina’s videos and this site that have made an impact on me and others in more way than just learning about words.

  • http://favstar.fm/me Che Mero

    Where did the word [hobo] come from?

  • pat haskett

    Some humans have got to eat Lithium.

  • kolia

    i want word [ ghnom ] !

  • Chris

    Hello,

    I was wondering where the word [ Mosh Pit] came from? I would really like to know :razz:

  • pat haskett

    Merry Christmas Miss Santa Claus. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vedYhSGtlvE

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    I wonder if James ever feels “tyred?” :lol:

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard

    1828 DefinitionCRACK-HEMP, CRACK-ROPE, n. A wretch fated to the gallows; one who deserves to be hanged.
    http://www.1828-dictionary.com/d/word/crack-hemp

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    There are many elements that animals must have in their diet—some in only trace amounts and are toxic in any greater amount—that would not be classified as rocks, because they aren’t picked up off the ground and gnawed on.

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    When M wears the hat with the earflaps, I always think of Floyd R. Turbo, Johnny Carson’s hick character.

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    You might as well throw in [nib}, the business end of an ink pen.

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    Just out of curiosity, what level of TTY code is used for these broadcasts? Isn’t this kind of info available via the Web?

    I read about the Hellscreiber decades ago in a magazine article, but have never seen the hardware. Basically it sent a fax of each letter. Naturally, if a pixel or two (or twenty) got corrupted, it wouldn’t effect the readabiltiy of the character, so it was extremely tolerant to the noise and distortions of radio and that was its advantage; it traded speed for reliability.

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    That’s a good question. WLIU, I don’t know that jockying requires something to be ridden.

  • fatkid

    I would like to know why [nonfiction] is called what it is. Should not it have it’s own word to define it rather than using what it is not?
    Thanks if you do look it up :)

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    Being stuck with the library’s PCs for now, Google Earth’s app is not allowed to be downloaded because of it’s need for administator privilages. However the GE plug in-for IE (which is on the library PCs) allows you to use any Webpage that has the plug-in embeded in it. So you have to find the best page someone has cooked up. http://www.barnabu.co.uk is good.

  • sephroth27

    would like to request the word [cameltoe] with sexy video..lol

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    RTTY, aka SITOR B is used quite a bit. But it’s not used very much for you landlubbers. One must think out of the box of living in a city. You see out in the ocean there are no Applebees, McDonnald’s, AM-PM, Safeways, etc out there. I’m sure as heck not going to drag a cable modem way out there to get the web. I’m so happy the web and cellphones were invented. Now the air waves are much less crowded than before.

    SITOR B is used for our weather information, notice to mariners, and other things. We also can pull off HF weather faxes. Basically all communications is done with a radio of some sort. Including satellites, but they are very expensive to use.

    I don’t know if anyone is using a Hellscreiber today. What was great about it, is they commonly repeated the message so if the last sentence got messed up the next copy would be much better. Many times you would jump up and down just to read the sentence. It was a great idea.

  • citizenjavert

    Marina….you are getting sleepy…very sleepy….your eyelids are getting heavy, very heavy, you are falling into a trance. You cannot resist but answer my question: Where does the word hypnosis come from? Does it have to do with a hypodermic needle like for truth serum or something? Thanks. : )

  • jgargano03

    I would like to know the meaning and the background behind the word [Deoxyribonucleic acid].

  • http://www.GoForThisWorld.com Hs4Mm

    1) Regarding “Is it possible to look at life, to live life without illusion?”. Short answer: Yes. Some fundamental points: Plato was the first to systematically introduce the erroneous idea that there are multiple realities. He taught that there is a the world that we perceive and an ideal world; but he did say that it is possible to know the ideal world by non-sensory, mystical means (“insight”, “revaluation” etc.). Kant accepted Plato’s dual realities — but said that the real reality can never be known.

    Both those views are wrong. Aristotle was the first to say that there is only one reality, the reality of concretes that we perceive, the reality we can know by our senses and by reasoning. As far as each individual is concerned, he is born, he lives, and he dies — there is nothing before he is born, and there is nothing after he dies; while he is alive, there is this world that he can know and deal with.

    2) Regarding “We can’t be all knowing,” Yes, and that is fine. One has to know what one knows, one must live and act within the context of one’s knowledge, and one must keep expanding one’s knowledge. That’s all; and doing so would be perfection.

    3) Regarding “but can a human being understand his or her motivations…including what motivations have roots in the subconscious?”. Yes, he can. One is born “tabula rasa” — the mind is blank at birth, one is not born with any “innate-ideas” or whatever from some “previous life” or wherever. Everything in one’s mind is what one put into it as one grew up. The subconscious is just that part of one’s mind that one is not consciously aware of at that time; by paying attention to it, one can bring its contents into conscious awareness and examine it. Incidentally, it is good that you used the word “subconscious-mind” rather than “unconscious-mind” since “unconscious” has connotations that the material therein is of mystical origin not amenable to one’s conscious mind.

    The preceding are some fundamental ideas — if you are curious to see how such ideas play out in day-to-day living (as apposed to mere academic blah-blah discussion), I recommend the collection of essays Philosophy Who Needs It? (available on Kindle too). The title essay is actually a speech given to the graduating class of the United States Military Academy at West Point on March 6, 1974.

  • http://www.GoForThisWorld.com Hs4Mm

    In “supreme value”, “supreme” is qualifying “value” and not “life”. The wording is not: …here’s a quote on the value of the supreme one’s life.… One’s life is one’s top/supreme value: true for all good people. Thanks for the good wishes. I wish you well too.

  • http://www.GoForThisWorld.com Hs4Mm

    Here you go … but be warned that this is just fools-gold and fools-knowledge: http://bit.ly/5aEOiz To be completely educational in teaching the word “cameltoe”, one would have to explain why it is fools-gold and fools-knowledge. Based on what Marina said at an interview in New York (perhaps during her last visit) and based on her other work, I suspect she would agree that “cameltoe” is fools-gold and fools-knowledge. What I do not know is if she would do a lesson on “cameltoe” that includes an indication of why it is fools-gold and fools-knowledge; and I do not know if it would be feminine and appropriate for her to do a lesson that indicates why “cameltoe” is fools-gold and fools-knowledge. Then again, perhaps based on the nature of how the indication is done, it could be feminine and appropriate — but I don’t really know.

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard

    from the above link of CampKohler – Sacramento CA…”Military Drafts
    “This station wants no draft. They want to deprive a boy of the Army. The Army is educational. The Army teaches you how to do dental work with the butt of a rifle….how to tell what time it is by making a sundial out of a dead person…how to make beer out of bird droppings and also how to make a rubber girl out of an inner tube…In conclusion, I say we should not end the draft. We should increase it. We have a moral obligation to give Bob Hope soldiers to entertain. Fellow Americans, it is an honor to be drafted and to serve your country. Thank you, bye-bye, and buy bonds.
    ” :lol:

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard

    thanks .k. :razz: …….. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck_(stereotype) ;-)

    In the Dictionary of American Regional English, the earliest citation of the term in this context is from 1830, as “a name bestowed upon the Presbyterians of Fayetteville [North Carolina]“. A citation from 1893 provides a definition as “poorer inhabitants of the rural districts…men who work in the field, as a matter of course, generally have their skin burned red by the sun, and especially is this true of the back of their necks”.

  • http://youtube.com/jamesingtonthethird James

    I really want a Siberian goose down pillow and duvey from marks and spencer. Trouble Is it will set me back nearly £200! I think o will buy a duvey cover and steal the pillow

  • http://youtube.com/jamesingtonthethird James

    Fuckin iPod !!! It’s duvet not duvey

  • Venomrock67

    Hey Chris, :smile:

    Here’s a [Mosh Pit] History.

    Cats in a Mosh. :mrgreen:
    Marina has said it had been “raining cats and dogs” but actually it’s been RAINING BLOOD :razz: ;-) :cool:

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

    Hi CK,
    I saw your post over on the Forum regarding when you do a reply, it bounces you back to the top. Since I am replying to you here, I can check it to see if it does it for me.

    Edit1:
    CK, when I submitted my reply, my text box aligned itself with the top of the browser perfectly where I could read my reply. I did not go to the top of the blog. I am using FireFox 3.5

    Let me know what browser you are using. MSIE still has lots of bugs or there are many things IE does not comply with.

    Edit 2:
    I am still here. I did not bounce to the top of the blog.

    Edit 3:
    I am still here, did not get bounced to the top. Everything is working fine.

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

    Odd — Einstein’s nemesis was known as one-stone Hitler. :lol:

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

    ***Homework***

    Instead of boron me to tears, today’s homework is a golden opportunity for the sort of elemental observations that Bob and I periodically make, a lead-in to the following:

    When opportunities knock, cesium quickly before they get away.
    “Money is the root of all evil” is an antimony proverb.
    If your possessions are more trouble than they’re worth, it’s best to get iridium.

    Hm, Iron out of ideas quickly, and need to go zinc of some more! :mrgreen:

  • pat haskett

    I was kind of thinking of lithium salt in response to Skyhookbel. My source of information was this video on lithium. I’ve never gnawed but I’ve licked! http://www.youtube.com/user/DOCTOROFMINDMD#p/u/530/zF9Lc-a_lGo

  • biktous

    I’d like to know the origin of the word : “strength”,
    and as an option : how could we test our strength (physical)
    thx

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard

    [wax]— duck down——– :razz: No stealing…word request…[thief]…Y I b4 E…[stealing for God] :twisted:

  • http://mentalgrammarhasbeensetup.blogspot.com äläx

    try this.

  • pig-in-a-poke

    Marina,

    Have a Happy Birthday week!

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

    Well sweetheart, how about the Bible word [JUDAS]? IN the Bible there was the bad Judas who betrayed Jesus Christ with a kiss. But there was also a good Judas-Judas Macccabees, in I Maccabees and 2 Macabees who led an insurrection against the pagan Greek armies.of antiochus Epiphanes who was forcing the Jews to deny their faith. That is an inspiring story. I did see the movie DEFIANCE about the Polish Jews in WWII who went underground and lived in the woods to hide from Hitler and his exterminators. Maybe I will have to go underground to hide from my oppressors and persecutors.

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

    Radio Pyongyang in 1992 had sent me some paperback book called THE SEA OF BLODD OPERA. I did not read it carefully. Was it about how North Korea ran Mac Arthur out of their country or was it their communist revolution? My hands started to tingle for some reason. I was sorta scared like little bugs crawling all over my hands. Weird.. Maybe I was not supposed to read it well. Tae Don mountain?

  • Jaime

    Would you believe I just found out about this site. Spent a few minutes looking around and I am already hooked :smile:

    I would like to request the word [jabberwocky].

    Great site! Will be ordering the book for sure!

  • arikurt

    I would like to request the word [carousel] :)
    I am so curious about its origin!

    thx Arikurt

  • pat haskett
  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    It’s some version of IE, but I can’t tell which, because the library has things pretty well locked down. There are no tabs (but I don’t know if IE7 can have tabs disabled). In any case, it doesn’t matter, because I can’t do anything about it.

    It would make it a lot easier for me to scroll down to where I was if I could read the blasted comment numbering. Can you have the contrast jacked up a bit on this? Thanks.

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    If you are going to be around for awhile, go to http://www.gravatar.com and upload a pix or something.

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    You could just assume that nearly all writing is about real life and that only those writing made-up material are creating fiction. But if you insist, what word would you use?

  • originalistrick

    GoDaddy Danica will be driving a JR Motorsports car (Earnhardt, Jr.’s team) on a limited schedule in the 2010 Nationwide Series season. I HEARD she would debut at Daytona. She remains under contract for the entire season with Andretti-Green in the Indycar series.

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    Anything that burns readily could be used, I suppose. For example, NASA once used three astronauts in a capsule full of oxygen.* I note that the steel being cut is what, in the scrap metal business, would be called tin. That is, it is so thin that it is not so much being cut as melted. To cut, say 1/2″-thick steel, you could feed an army on the toasted prosciutto and cucumber sandwiches it would take to just get the steel warm.

    To cut metal, you have to get it hot enough so that it will catch on fire in the oxygen. Then the steel itself becomes the fuel and you have no need of any other fuel.

    ———
    *You would have thought they would have considered this.

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

    Hi CK,
    Marina is in NYC and I’ll let her know to increase the contrast.
    In the meanwhile, just do a CTRL-F for page find and enter part of your name, something like “pkohl” or whatever. If you have other posts above it, just do the find again until you get to your reply.

    Is it possible for you to install FireFox? I haven’t used IE in ages except in very rare cases.

  • hawklover

    I would like to request the word [Ornithology].
    It is the field I am studying to get a master’s degree in and they didn’t tell us the origin of the word it self.

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard

    Evan: A thought… Daily Dose Pick: Marina and the Diamonds
    2:46 pm Tuesday Dec 8, 2009 by Doug Levy
    Under the Marina and the Diamonds moniker, Welsh songstress Marina Diamandis brings quirk back to pop music in an epic way.

    While skirting similar territory as fellow UK sensation Florence and the Machine, Marina emits a more playful persona — imbuing her own Kate Bush-isms with echoes of offbeat entertainers like Regina Spektor and Amanda Palmer.

    To date, Marina and the Diamonds have released a handful of impressive singles and EPs, accompanied by equally impressive videos. The most recent single is the American pop-culture-skewering “Hollywood,” which sets the stage for Marina’s debut album, The Family Jewels, due in early 2010.
    :lol: MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS | MOWGLI’S ROAD
    :smile:

  • pig-in-a-poke

    Thanks, M., I responded to C.J. I am sorry for the inconvenience. :oops:

  • makersmarc

    I would like to request the word [inglenook].
    I am spending some quality time with my wife by the fireplace and would appreciate knowing a bit more about the etymology of this word.
    Thank you!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ron-Olson/677740658 the terrible swede

    Voted for you at Mashable.com.

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

    From Greek ὄρνιθος, ornithos, “bird”; and λόγος, logos, “knowledge”. Of course, it would be more fun to watch Marina do it. :grin:

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

    `Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
    Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
    All mimsy were the borogoves,
    And the mome raths outgrabe.

    –Lewis Carroll

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

    Then there were the MacAbees, the Jewish clan of Scotland. :roll:

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

    That lesson could spiral out of control! :razz:

  • kristanna

    Great video! Love it! :razz: good job Marina!!

  • Daniel

    Absolutely interesting. Thanks for letting us know all this origins while keeping us interested.
    I would also like to request the origin of the word [Snob] which I’ve been wanting to know from a long time now.
    Thanks Marina and keep up the good job!

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

    One must have Seoul to be a Koreagrapher. :mrgreen:

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard
  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard

    :smile: Row by roles…and Pat: let’s hope and push Marina in doing more words like skiffel, ragga and all classed pop music culture-X’s-[rock-n'-roe] :lol: :evil: 1828 DefinitionBOTAR’GO, n. A relishing sort of food, made of the roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean, as an incentive to drink.
    1913 DefinitionBotargo (botargo)
    n. ((?))
    Bo*tar”go
    [It. bottarga, bottarica; or Sp. botarga; a kind of large sausages, a sort of wide breeches: cf. F. boutargue.]

    1.A sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink :lol: . boats get rowed[roaded] :cool: :smile:

  • mcnichols

    Funny, yet very interesting video.
    I would like to request the word [Latin] out of pure curiosity. Thanks

  • joseph3044

    Dear Marina,
    I have two words for you: [onomatopoeia] and [borborygmus]. The latter is an example of the former.
    Большое спасибо
    Джозеф

    P.S. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!1

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

    Again, Judas gets a bad rap. What would have happened if Judas did not turn over Jesus to the authorities? Besides, Jesus told him to do it. :roll:

  • lonestar1

    Hi

    I would like to request the phrase [ Hit the hay]

    I have always wondered why people say that when they are tired.

    thanks :)

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

    Also, as I mentioned in a previous
    post, you can use CTRL-A ( select all)
    on the page which will invert the page
    colors which will let you see the
    comment numbers until the contrast is increased.

  • pat haskett

    And if you can’t make it to the coast of the Mediterranean you can always row down the shores of Lake Michigan to get the good stuff!

  • pat haskett
  • jedifredi

    I would like to request the word [ballyhoo] – thanks!

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

    Thank you, leonard, there’s a tune that’ll tie a knot in your [cravat] :razz:

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

    Quirky indeed!
    She’s hardly the first Greco-Welsh, though; “Owen” was originally Greek. :smile:

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

    J’ai grand appétit! :oops:

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

    ***Marina’s birthday is tomorrow!*** (She’ll be 29!)

    M, what shall we get for you? :grin:

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

    From Latium, the Italian province in which Rome was located. Funny it’s not called “Roman.” :???:

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard

    29 is forever :smile: The word “unbreakable” has three morphemes: “un-”, a bound morpheme; “break”, a free morpheme; and “-able”, a bound morpheme. “un-” is also a prefix, “-able” is a suffix. Both “un-” and “-able” are affixes.

    The morpheme plural-s has the morph “-s”, /s/, in cats (/kæts/), but “-es”, /ɨz/, in dishes (/dɪʃɨz/), and even the voiced “-s”, /z/, in dogs (/dÉ’gz/). “-s”. These are allomorphs.
    :grin: :lol: :grin: -the way I fEEl-….GOD-bLeSS all respon{D}(s)cibell…[trUck] :cool:

    U’ve got to B awAke, or, it won’t work

    an all-terrAin-truck :lol:

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard
  • fglrx

    To be precise, supposing she was born in the European part of Russia (GMT+3), her birthday is starting in 32 min from now :!:

  • dswwhitetiger

    [entrepreneur]

  • http://blogg.englunds.info tvicx science

    Allowed to publish by (StarTrp1_S1) Obama please callus !

    Do You where You are heritated from
    In Medias ResSkapad av Thomas ons, december 09, 2009 21:55:33

    Me now my whereabouts, ansisters, and my BIRTHRIGHT

    I HAVE BEEN HER FOR 4211 millions lighYears of time !!!

    LuxPrimaNoqtisque was my First int name!

    Believe it or not ,, I now where I am from !!!

    I can claim ALL this planet in ANY jurisdictic court of law ,, just by birthright!!

    SO DO SHAPE UP BEFORE i DO recall MY right!

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

    ***HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARINA!*** (one hour late, Russian time) :lol: :grin:

  • truezin

    Where does the word [kitty-corner] come from?

  • BigBhd95

    to my most :lol: favorite teacher :cool: dearest Marina :smile:
    happy birthday & mant happy returns :oops: giving or taking a few hours difference one way or annother :?: hih :!: :mrgreen:
    :cool: B.B. ( wishing for teachers pet honors as a holiday’s present)

  • fglrx

    Might be interesting!

    quatre (catre) + corner –> [cater-corner] –> [catty-corner] –> [kitty-corner] ?

    If such a process had happened, it would be a great example how folk etymology itself can generate a new word.

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard

    :lol: from comment #99.11-link”.. With polished chrome detail and pearl white body this product is the ultimate iPod[ acsexsory]!
    Why is the music component so important? Listening to your favorite sexy music and actually feeling the corresponding vibes quickly transports you to a place where music, mind and body truly “come” together. ”
    :grin: [wax]… :-)

  • Greatest Potential

    May the upgraded version of OhMiBod have a 3-mile freedom cord, run on a Hummer all terrain vehicle sized battery, and be available in french tickler, ribbed, and duel pronged versions.

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

    Happy Birthday Marina!
    I .wav you, in an HD way!
    That’s geek talk for “I love you lots!” =)

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    It’s from the days when the mattresses of the financially challanged were stuffed with straw (vs. feathers or more expensive fillings). Of course, if you slept in a barn or stable, the saying was literally true.

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    A lightyear is not a unit of time; it is a unit of distance.

    “I’ll be back in about two feet, six inches.” :shock:

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    I think she would really like another run at her twenties.

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    And you read that off the label on the bottle?

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    It’s crackers to slip a rozzer, the dropsy in snide.

    Makes about as much sense.

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    I forgot about Ctrl-A, too. Good idea for a workaround!

    As far as installing anything, it is no go. There are only four people in the county library IT dept. and they don’t want anyone messin’ ’round.

    As a permanent fix, increasing the contrast will allow newbies to even realize that there is numbering, so I think it is worth the time to do it.

  • http://www.hotforwords.com HotForWords

    Seesixm6,
    Thank you SOOO much for the wonderful birthday card! It was sooooo sweet!!! :-)

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard

    :oops: :mrgreen: :razz: :roll: your turn to buy a round—merry R the drunks :roll: :razz: :mrgreen: :oops: …[wild]… :smile:

  • http://www.myspace.com/ichijos_house_of_sushi lordichijo

    I would like to request the word [lascivious]. :smile:

  • vince the artist

    Hi Marina. I have a request for the origin of two words. The first word is [caricature] and the second word is [chess]. As part of my art career I draw caricatures. And I play blitz chess on the web from time to time. Grazie, e ciao….

    Vince the Artist

  • http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=327173901 paradisexcali

    This video is hilarious! :razz: Love the irony very attractive… I have to share this video with my Grandpa now to let him know I’m indestructible! lol! Best wishes to a WONDERFUL Teacher on her birthday may GOD grant her graces. ;-)

  • http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=327173901 paradisexcali

    This maybe challeging to discover this words origin [Yaotl] it is nahuatl. I noticed that turkey came from this dialect.

  • kristanna

    С Днем Рождения Марина!!!! :smile: Пусть твоя жизнь всегда будет наполнена радостью и счастьем! Удачи во всем! ;-)

  • Venomrock67

    On this special day, I just want to say HAVE A FANTASTIC BIRTHDAY Marina. :smile:

    If I should stumble, catch my fall. :cool:

  • Venomrock67
  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedanticKarl

     
     
     
    H A P P Y    B I R T H D A Y    M A R I N A !!!

    Wishing you the best birthday ever and may
    all of your wishes and dreams come true.

    With greatest admiration and love,
    XOXOXO

    ~PK :-)
     
     
     

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

    2 feet, six inches as the photon flies?

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

    @ pat haskette Re: Wild Man Fisher

    What a great song. A classic. Everybody sing, C’mon let’s merry-go, merry-go, merry-go ’round… This song was on a used vinyl album I bought…when…1973? I think Zappa put it out,
    with various artists on it. Tim Buckley sang a haunting song that I think most folks haven’t heard, I must have been blind.

  • parthenophilast

    Request: Is “[Aren't] you coming tonight?” grammatically correct? If you say “Are not you…,” it doesn’t sound right, but if you say “Are you not…,” it does. So, I think that the contraction is skipping over the word “you” in this case. Why does English do that?

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

    It figures — Bob’s new Twitter love interest is keeping him from playing ‘Pun My Word. :sad: Oh well, give my greetings to Miss Fizzy Duck. :razz:

  • http://www.myspace.com/lilaznswtgrl56 sweetxtc

    I noticed that you didn’t have a video about the origin of the word “word” I think that video will be quite interesting =]

  • http://www.geocities.com/jmythh2k5/MyBrary.html mythman

    It’s sad that our Lady is so easily led astray into the pervy gaiety of lexidaisical homophones, but there’s no shame that a little dragon-slaying (to save the birthday-girl) can’t cure!

  • makersmarc

    Bottle? I thought it came in a box.

  • seesixcm6

    Dear Marina,
    I’m thrilled that you got my card, and that you mentioned it. I’m glad it made you happy and you thought it was sweet! :razz:
    (You;re sweet!)
    Seesixcm6 :razz:

  • Jaime

    Happy Birthday, Marina!

    I would like to request the word [gibberish].

    I would like to request the phrase [yattering and yammering]. It is not frequently used but people who do so are usually speaking gibberish, so it is a complimentary phrase for the above requested word.

    Again, Happy 29th Birthday!

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

    thanks you very much……….
    Poptropica

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/nikolhalalalalabegins/ nicolas dejean

    This one is so hot ma! love the end part, and the people in background, well i laugh really hard ahahah
    Word up!!!
    nd

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