Hooligans


Those darn Houlihans!  I mean Hooligans!  Why are rowdy people called that?

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  1. Evan Owen says:

    :idea: A “hooligan” is a fish! :???:

    No, really! In the Chinook jargon of the Pacific Northwest, “eulachon” was the name for smelt, or candlefish (“ch” as in “loch.”) As the Salish kids learned English, they slightly changed the pronunciation of “eulachon” to “hooligan.” Several years ago, some of these local kids on a bridge with their fishing poles told me they were fishing for “hooligans.” I told them they should have a shillelagh to bop them on the heads! :oops:

  2. pandion says:

    By word no, but I have had my Hooligan moments.

  3. Venomrock67 says:

    Oh I forgot, I have a couple of word requests: [Neocon] and [Liberty] It would be interesting if you enlightened your students on these. I think the idea for liberty will be extinct here shortly. Anyways take it easy Marina, you’re the best. :smile:

    ciao from vrock ;-)

  4. Venomrock67 says:

    Russian Street Fight Hooligans. guess they organize events like this in your native land and elsewhere around the world.
    Never been called a hooligan, Hellion maybe.

    Hmm…Bitch Slap, Hooligans? I’m thinking you like a little violence in your entertainment Marina, whether you like it or not I will accommodate your need.
    The bastards
    Therapy? You think this guy still pissed after a year? lol –> no, seriously I feel for the dude.

  5. pedanticKarl says:

    Today, March 14 is Pi Day as one can see by the Google logo.
    As you know, the first three digits of Pi is 3.14 (3/14 :smile: )
    It’s also the birthday of Albert Einstein
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day

  6. Evan Owen says:

    Three days to Saint Patrick’s! :mrgreen:

    [Patrick]
    [Gaelic]

    For your listening pleasure:
    Mná na hÉireann (“Women of Ireland”) :grin:

  7. buzzword says:

    i’m more of rabblerouser than a hooligan.

  8. jessaying says:

    [A.M. & P.M.]

    • beevee14 says:

      Ante Meridian and Post Meridian. With ‘ante’ meaning before and ‘post’ meaning after, I would hazard a guess that ‘Meridian’ means middle or noon. So, what you have here is a fancy way of saying ‘morning’ or ‘afternoon’!

      But I could wrong ;-)

  9. rosiecheeks says:

    Happy PIE DAY! Marina, can u do the word as in rhubarb pie! *don’t rub another man’s rhubarb*^joker.

  10. Soldan says:

    speaking of hooligans, which brings me to football,
    how abot [hat-trick]

  11. seesixcm6 says:

    Dear Marina,
    Good Morning, I see it’s nearly time to congratulate you on reaching 300 Million views! You deserve congratulations because you’re so good at what you do: make videos people want to see! You’re beautiful and lovely to look at, and you select words that are entertaining tp most viewers. You edit and present your videos extremely well, and your acting skills are just excellent! :razz:
    Someday, I hope you will produce a movie-length 90-minute video! I’m sure you would sell many DVDs of such a movie. Maybe it will be shown in regular movie theaters. I’m sure you can write a 90-minute script, and you’d become famous as a one-woman movie star! :razz:
    Seesixcm6

  12. dlou says:

    I would like to request the word [HOSIERY]

  13. ghostwolf72 says:

    how about the phrase[fall off the wagon]

  14. Evan Owen says:

    300,000,000 views at 6AM Pacific Daylight Time tomorrow. :grin:

  15. Evan Owen says:

    Word requests

    Some fun words relating to linguistics:

    [glottal stop] — reminds me vaguely of “osculation” :oops:
    [rhotic] — a variant of “erotic?” :grin:
    [phonetician] — and I thought they lived north of the Canaanites! :mrgreen:

  16. seankim says:

    [something smells rotten in denmark]

    ???

  17. Marina where the hell is Captain Jack,Doug and Cap Man??? I miss the old crew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

  18. quiggles says:

    Dear Marina & HFW fans,

    At the blistering rate of 10 views every 4 seconds Marina will have reached 300 million views in about 28 hours. I suggest we chill the champagne!

    Cheers, Q

    p.s. From this video it looks like she is already set! :smile:

    • pedanticKarl says:

      Hi quiggles,
      My guess is that you are calculating the 28 hours from the home page counter which right now shows 299,796,610. The YouTube profile page shows 290,655,684 uploaded views.
      http://www.youtube.com/hotforwords

      My understanding is that the YT views are near real time being updated every hour or so. I believe the home page counter is a projection based on a rate of views from the current views.

      In any event, the difference between the counters is 9 million some views which is huge where I would go with the YT views which I believe is the current most accurate views minus an hours or so.

    • pedanticKarl says:

      Now, 5 hours later, the counter now reads 299,550,207
      where five hours ago it read 299,796,610, meaning that the counter has reset itself to a known value. That is normal for the counter to span a range of a known value and to demonstrate the rate of change into the future which is about 3.5 views per second. It is the 3rd digit (the 9) from the left that is in error. It should be a zero. All the various data source I checked all show 290,xxx,xxx not 299,xxx,xxx

    • gunju221 says:

      if your gonna open champagne for marina reaching 300,000,000,… than you need a girlfriend or something.. wow

    • I want 300 million views to check me out.! :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Hay Marina share some of the [fame] with [prospective][rivals]like me.
      http://www.youtube.com/user/mountainboy32

  19. beevee14 says:

    “Black holes are where God divided by zero.” – Steven Wright

    and on ObamaCare, he multiplied exponentially :shock: :|

  20. Traci says:

    I need some new shoes :|

    • beevee14 says:

      Ask, and you shall receive. Here are your New Shoes ;-)

      Actually, this guy has a great voice. There is video of him doing “Rehab” that is pretty good , but I couldn’t find the ding-dang thing! :cry: :arrow: :cool:

  21. rosiecheeks says:

    Marina, can u do the origin of the word mermaid? I was watching Aquamarine for the fourth time because the blonde girl in the movie is super hot. And i want to know more about the word.

    P.S. Why does Marina’s boobs have kinda too much space in between?

  22. quiggles says:

    Marina!

    I’m Irish but have never been called a hooligan.

    My word request is [thesaurus]. Is a [thesaurer] one who writes a [thesaurus]?

    p.s. Did you ever get the new OED thesaurus? It’s both confounding and amazing!

  23. francof says:

    Would you investigate the origins of the word [mean] used in the context of being spiteful or angry. I can only find the word described in length pertaining to math and statistics. Thanks

  24. Evan Owen says:

    Technical note: It’s taking Google about three minutes to pick up HFW posts. Check it out: write something unique here and then Google it! :smile:

    • Traci says:

      Wow! It worked! Now I guess I have to watch what I say or someone will discover more than I want them to know. Kind of scary though. Maybe I should not comment on here. :shock:

  25. leoNard says:

    [Voodoo Child]…or do the word [SOUL]…good day :smile:

  26. rosiecheeks says:

    Marina, can up please tell me the origin of the word meat curtains?

    ex: Remember amber, that hot blonde at the bar, i fucked her last night and when i pulled down her panties i discovered some ugly ass meat curtains. Also, her pubes were orange. Stay away from cow-tongued orange Amber.

  27. bbdowns124 says:

    Please tell me where the phrase, he’s feeling [under the weather] comes from. TY Marina!

  28. johnnysquarepants says:

    Hey Marina, I let my meet your sister. :smile:

  29. gunju221 says:

    Congrats, you have successfully ignored your skribit suggestions Marina :evil:

  30. beevee14 says:

    Happy Friday, Gentle Readers!
    Here is something that I thought was pretty neat. I even knew a few of them(I know, I can’t believe it, either!) :smile: :cool:
    I wonder if Zig-Zag is aware of #2? They could use that as a great marketing tool!! :mrgreen:

    1. Money isn’t made out of paper, it’s made out of cotton.

    2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.

    3. The dot over the letter I is called a ‘tittle’.

    4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

    5. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.

    6. 40% of Mc Donald ‘s profit come from the sales of Happy Meals.

    7. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

    8. The ‘spot’ on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was albino.

    9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily. (Just as I suspected)

    10. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

    11.Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

    12. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww)..

    14. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants. (the Little Perv!)

    15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830′s as a medicine.

    16. Upper and lower-case letters are named ‘upper’ because in the time when all original print had to be set in letters, the ‘upper case’ letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, ‘lower case’ letters.

    17. Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time, hence, multi-tasking was invented. (This is also the last time any man ever did this)

    18. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

    19. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos..

    20. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy before!

    21. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, or silver!

    22. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips.

    23. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it inst
    I wondeantly go mad and sting itself to death. (WHO took the time to do this ? ! ! ! !)

    24.. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original ‘Halloween’ was a Captain Kirk’s
    mask painted white.

    25. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have
    the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. (Good to
    know!)

    26. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand. (and you thought this list was completely useless!…..)

    27. The phrase ‘rule of thumb’ is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

    28. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

    29. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It’s the same with apples.

    30. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

    31. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

    32. “Guinness Book of Records” holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

    33. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a
    space suit damages it. (I NEED TO REMEMBER THIS.)

    34. George Carlin said it best about Martha Stewart. “Boy, I feel a lot safer now that she’s behind bars. O.J. Simpson and Kobe Bryant are still walking around; Osama Bin Laden too, but they take the ONE woman in America willing to cook, clean, and work in the yard, and they haul her off to jail.

  31. James says:

    Oh my god… I really don’t know how I am going to work around this parody. But I am not making any expenses on this, my next video will be the hardest one I have done, and put the most effort into.. I will have to spend money on it.. May even need a new greenscreen.. So when it’s done if you could all do the usual on it.. But actually do it, I think it’s going to take me more than 2 days to make… My longest video ever! AHHHHHHHH!

  32. monty hack says:

    Teacher, I’m interested in the history of the following phrase: “one often finds his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it.” –French proverb & Kung Fu Panda =D

    I’m certain it doesn’t match French philosphy, and feel it is a modified quote borrowed from Confucianism or Taoism.

    I’d be most grateful if you might investigate this mystery. Please disregard this message if you’ve already addressed the topic.

    Your faithful student,
    monty

  33. Yes, Marina I am a hooligan and was definatly called that as a child. I loved bombing cars with eggs and vandalizing things it was so much fun. I was wondering can I be your little hooligan????? :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: Your {blouse} is hot and so are you Marina.

  34. James says:

    Aha! Thiis is what I mean Abou people Not talking to me. I left a few co
    ments with no replies. And look at this 60 comments and 12 threads??? Where did the conversation run dry?

    • pedanticKarl says:

      Yeah, those Abou people are funny.
      Sometimes the Abou people will talk
      to you and then sometimes they won’t
      I don’t know what it is abou the Abou people.

    • Traci says:

      Well you never talk back to me :sad: Why should I talk to you?

      • beevee14 says:

        Don’t you know, love? You really must be from the Isles(preferably, south of Sheffield and east of Tewkesbury) for fair James to reply to your comment. Everybody else is utter untermenschen. :smile: :idea: :arrow: :cool:

        • James says:

          WHAT! From the north? I would never lower myself to talk to a northerner! They are definitely untermenschen :lol: :idea: :arrow: :cool:

          LOL

          Actually, comments have REALLY picked up here now… Maybe a bit of a good old flame war brewing too..

          Where is Marina now? I think it is important to engage with the new people here, etc… I don’t really engage with them until they get a gravatar, because they might just sign up, make one request and piss off. :smile:

          Still editing….

          • beevee14 says:

            WHAT! From the north? I would never lower myself to talk to a northerner!

            I know. Its like here. If the people on the coast drive more than 50 miles inland, they start thinking “Deliverance”, pick-up trucks and WalMart! :mrgreen:

        • leoNard says:

          From The album: The Dictators Go Girl Crazy
          …James…The original postbox recording line-up consisted of bassist/vocalist Andy “Adny” Shernoff, lead guitarist Ross “The Boss” Friedman (aka Ross Funicello), rhythm guitarist Scott “Top Ten” Kempner, and drummer Stu Boy King (who was, in fact, the band’s fourth drummer since forming in 1973). It was this line-up – along with roadie/occasional vocalist and “Secret Weapon” Handsome Dick Manitoba – which recorded the band’s 1975 debut album, The Dictators Go Girl Crazy! for Epic Records, produced by Sandy Pearlman and Murray Krugman (best known for their work with Blue Öyster Cult). Although the album sold poorly at the time, today it is considered one of the most important albums ever recorded by a New York punk band of the period. :grin: from wiki-dickie :lol:

        • Evan Owen says:

          un-”menschen”-able? :?:

      • James says:

        Because I spoke to you!

  35. pumuckel123 says:

    [top banana]

    Hey Marina,

    I’m german and when I was writing a history essay, I found this word meaning leader.
    I find it very funny, how a banana could stand for a leader!!
    Can you tell me where it comes from, why you say “top banana”?? :smile:

    I love your videos on YouTube ♥

    Love
    Ellen

  36. pedanticKarl says:

    So, it could be said that hooligans are up to no good
    with a bunch of shenanigans. It must run in the family.
    Here is Marina explaining the origin of shenanigans.

  37. stigmatasaurus says:

    Nope, don’t think I’ve ever been called a hooligan, but I have been called a [smartaleck].

  38. pat says:

    My siblings and I were always called hooligans and told to quit acting like them whenever we jumped on the beds, jumped on the furniture, jumped down the stairway, jumped off the picnic table, jumped off the shed, jumped out of the tree, jumped off the roof, jumped off the car, etc. I guess hooligans do a lot of jumping. On a side note, I’ve heard an Irish Folk song were the word “hooli” is used to describe a party. Anyone?

  39. taichiyogi22 says:

    ok a person i work with and i were discussing the TERM
    CASE CLOSED

    like at the end of a court session when you hear someone say (THIS CASE IS CLOSED )
    we were just wondering if it actually had to do with like the lawyers were finish and closed their cases or if it just meant it was over!

    so i said i’d ask! well take care and enjoy your videos!

  40. iluv2cutfarts says:

    My most dearest HotForWords Hottie Girl –

    You need to stop fartin’ around already, and do a session on the word [fart]!!!

    Love you long time…

    iluv2cutfarts
    USA

    P.S. Twitter is for bitches who need to be bitch slapped!
    :D

  41. James says:

    OK guys, trying to win back some views here… Here are 3 small clips from my next pardoy TRANNYCLOTHES

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLAqmb7Gq5s

  42. BigBhd95 says:

    Loved it Marina :grin:
    beautiful as usual ;-)
    sister has gotten very vocal lately :shock:
    BUT you give as well as you get :lol:
    :cool: B.B. :cool:
    p.s. H/W have been called many colorful & worse things in the past :mrgreen: , however i dont recall ever being call Hooligan :!: :???:

  43. thematrix75 says:

    Hello Marina,this video was short but sweet!Those Houlihans I mean Hooligans,you are a real card Marina lol!I loved this video , thanks for all that you do for us Marina!See you later :!:Home work : I was called a simpleton mainly by my gram! Peace :!: :cool: :smile:

  44. blondebond says:

    Hi Marina,

    I’m curious to know the origin of the work [gambut], like “[an opening gambut]“. Is it related to the word [gamut], as in “[the whole gamut]“?

    Your videos are enjoyable intellectually, humorously and otherwise. They are enjoyable on many levels. You are lovely. Your videos are a joy to watch.

    I enjoyed your earlier videos more than some of your later ones. That is the challenge of attaining mass appeal. I can see the democratization of your work. You have shifted focus at times to titillation. It is nicer when that part of your appeal is understated but ever present.

    It is a pleasure to write to you.

    I am,
    your student,
    Blondebond – would you believe that I’m a PhD candidate?

  45. hitoshi says:

    i m trying to be a roligan as a japanese………….

  46. James says:

    Everytime I get a neuro drink from now on, I will click Marinas ad. :cool:

  47. James says:

    LADY GAGA RELEASES HER VIDEO TODAY, THAT MEANS I CAN FILM!

  48. James says:

    How long have you had a greenscreen for Marina? Which do you prefer?

  49. denechek says:

    [Flying Colors] Hey, if your students pass with “flying colors” what does that mean? Does that mean they are in the air force, or that they fly the gay flag? (or can they do both now?) Video Comment?

  50. doncross2bear says:

    Been called rowdy in my misspent youth, but never a hooligan. Been called protective and a worrier, but is Teacher okay? Sure hope so.
    Love to Ya,
    xoxodc

  51. fglrx says:

    It’s an interesting fact that hooliganism is inevitably related to soccer. Other sports don’t attract so many people from the margin of society. Only the soccer social environment is able to group together the hooligans into well-organized hooligan clubs bound up with the particular soccer teams – it’s a phenomenon rather unusual in the rest of team sports. What might be the reason for that?

  52. AllynTygrrr says:

    Not that I’m aware of. I’m typically anti-hooligan(s), but I do get a kick out of watching the occasional soccer riots on TV whenever they get rowdy enough to make the news…although I REALLY dislike destroyers – so at the point they start damaging perfectly good stuff I am far less amused.

    I would use the ‘r’ word to describe such behavior, but it probably qualifies more as the other ‘f’ word – ‘fu*ktarded’ – although since I haven’t posted that follow-up commentary/novel to your ‘retarded’ video detailing and deconstructing my use of the ‘r’ word yet, I wouldn’t want to use it and accidentally have it taken in anything less or more than the intended context.

    Of course it depends on the specific crowd/people being referenced, but I would typically use hooligans in a derogatory sense to describe the dumbasses that get drunk and try to start fights at bars – and that ain’t cool.

    Classy is cool last time I checked.

    :)

    You’ll be pleased (or possibly indifferent) to know I have apparently now found your lessons intriguing and enlightening enough to warrant creation of their own folder (‘Wordiness’) within my email program. I’m still a few years behind on watching all the lessons, but better to start paying attention and collecting them late than never.

    For what it’s worth, I like the blonde best…although all the wigs and costumes and characters are cute too.

    I would ask why you don’t add some comedic animal puppets to the cast, but I might be biased due to my own recent comedic animal puppet-based creative entertainment endeavors.

    I forgot all the other random words I was curious about during the week at the moment, but in light of the global economy and my lightning short attention span, while I’m here I’d like to request [interest].

    Thank God at least some corners of the world are smart and pretty.

    See ya’ll ’round!

    Be good!!!

    ;)

    - A -

  53. antzzz1985 says:

    Hey Marina, how r u..?
    I love the shirt that u r wearing for the hooligans clip.
    Hey can u help me too find out the origin of the word bullshit….?
    I would be happy if u can help me…..
    Thanks and sayonara…

  54. stanwolcott says:

    Marina: I have always wondered about the origin of the term [rat racing] as applied to street racing. I wasn’t able to find anything online, but I bet you can! Keep up the great work. You’re certainly the best look philologist I know. :o) Stan Wolcott

  55. Greatest Potential says:

    Bunch of hoolies :!: The lot of em’ :!:

  56. fglrx says:

    I have never been a hooligan, I like to build – not to destroy!

    OK, sometimes I like to do some behind-the-scene manipulations, but always to change something in a positive way, so I was called a intriguer a few times, but never a hooligan.

  57. CheVolay says:

    There was an Irish bar called Hooligans. Cops where always there breaking up trouble. No problem the owner was a retired cop. :shock:

  58. mcc99 says:

    Hi Marina,

    I would like to know the origin of the word [lynchpin]. This discussion:

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

    seems ambiguous at best.

    Thank you.

    Matt

  59. tayljim says:

    No but I have been called a lot worst

  60. smokey36bear says:

    Homework: Does being called an instigator count???

  61. sniperskaya says:

    Fine for the hooligans, but what about us surly curmudgeons, eh? :lol:

  62. mukmika. says:

    The ‘soccer hooligans’ are all English. The original Hooligans must have spread their genes around quite well!

  63. James says:

    Just look at that thumbnail! Champagne, an iPhone, covered in gold. Such yobbish behaviour, hooliganism is shown well here :mrgreen:

  64. aztecwarrior says:

    yes ! but in my country México we are called “porros”, a lot of boys from high school or college attending the futbol games!!

  65. Evan Owen says:

    Yay, Marina did my word! Thank you! :grin:

    But you didn’t mention the bit about “hooligan” being adopted into Russian as well (гулиган). :???:

  66. jasonboig says:

    I would like to request the the phrase [pardon my french] in apologizing for swearing. Do the French really swear that much? Can I change it to “Pardon my New Jersey”? I’m from NJ and know that people love to swear…

  67. seesixcm6 says:

    Dear Marina,
    I’ve never been called a hooligan, nor a Houlihan. I don’t know why you’d show a photo of yourself shouting into a iPhone, and holding a champagne bottle in the other hand. You must be pretending to be a hooligan! I think you really are nice, proper, and polite; not at all a bitch slapper as you might imagine!
    Seesixcm6

  68. leoNard says:

    NICE :-) Yes I’m a HOTFORWORDS number one one…[hood] of [cards]…4 Marina :P

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