Pistachio

Let’s look at the origin of the Pistachio nut.  Also, check out some other fun Get Crackin’ spots at:  â€ªhttp://www.facebook.com/wonderfulpistachios and  â€ªhttp://www.getcrackin.com

While making this video I literally could not stop eating the pistachios, they were so good!

Thank you Wonderful Pistachios!

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  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/pagedoll/ PageDoll

    Hi Marina! Hope you’re having a wonderful afternoon. :smile:

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/pagedoll/ PageDoll

    I really like all the background pictures you use. All the decorating is exactly how I’d do it. Extra minimal, no dust collectors, and super clean lines with a well placed curve here and there.

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/marina/ HotForWords

    Those are my many houses! Glad you like my decorating! :-)

    just kidding!

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

    That was very interesting Marina the pistachio is my favorite nut to. Most the time i get stared on them and i can’t stop eating them good video :grin:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/MarcusVermilion marcusvermilion

    Ah! I didn’t know that they were not originally native to America. I could never really get into pistachios. I like to eat cashews. Give me a can of Planters Cashews and it will be gone!

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/dwpool1962 danielpool
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lSliucgygc&feature=channel_page&FMT=22 Capman911

    I love pistachios also. I remember when they use to dye them red and the red would get all over your fingers, but I guess they figured the red dye was bad for you. I guess they fit right in with the rest of us nuts who dwell about your home here. :smile:

  • http://www.bikengruvin.blogspot.com Smokey Lightfoot

    Pistachios are so delicious and hard to stop once you really get going… just like sex!

    You can hear pistachios crackin’ in the background… I think?! :grin:

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

    I see the red dye ones at Christmas time sometimes. You are right it dose get all over your fingers :|

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

    Crazy cracked nut…I see that the cyber world is alive! My bag of nuts are sunned cracked; and if Marina likes’em; that is(are) pistachios, well then-me too! :lol: …if you feel like a nut… :lol:

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/sniperskaya/ sniperskaya

    Marina, you have gone from “Douche Bag” to “The Pistachio”. I think see a pattern here from – soup to nuts? What!? No caviar? :razz:

  • lars2

    Dehiscence – fascinating !

    When in Canada, there’s a warm week in August when the Caragana bushes seedpods dry and crack open. I love to sit in the kitchen with the window open and listen to them cracking !!!

    It makes one more aware of the ‘value of the moment’ !

  • lars2

    Pistachios also lower ones anxiety level and promote a better nights sleep !

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/hot5marina/ samuel campola

    Hello My Dear Teacher, a nice long lesson today. Pistachio nuts are wonderful. My late wife used to love them. I would crack them open and fill a bowl full of the soft little things for her, so that she could just eat them without the distraction of breaking them open and discarding the shells. Good times: pistachios

  • http://www.bikengruvin.blogspot.com Smokey Lightfoot
  • http://www.bikengruvin.blogspot.com Smokey Lightfoot

    They also lower cholesterol… but, not when you eat them with bacon! :roll: :shock: :grin:

  • http://www.bikengruvin.blogspot.com Smokey Lightfoot
  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/leonard/ leoNard

    Pastichio is a traditional Greek dish similar to a casserole. It is served mainly during special occasions and holidays. This is a traditional recipe for making it from scratch, originally from the initial author’s great-grandmother. It takes a little work, but pastichio is so much better when made from scratch!

    sourced of :arrow: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Traditional-Pastichio :lol: Mystery Pistachio :roll:

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

    {O I L} for the toil of soil or bust a boil :smile: Lisa Hannigan – Pistachio…i think you’ll like/something for after dinner :lol: …{oil}

  • http://www.bikengruvin.blogspot.com Smokey Lightfoot

    It is called a “Greek style” lasagna much superior to the well known Italian lasagna… it became popularized in the movie… “My Big Fat Pistachio Greek Ex-Wife!” :razz: :grin: :razz: :cool:

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/leonard/ leoNard
  • http://www.bikengruvin.blogspot.com Smokey Lightfoot

    There’s another “Get Crackin’” promotional program (no not the drug dealer one) but, it has to do with increasing the consumption of eggs.

    DON’T GET CRACKIN’! :cry: :sad: :evil:

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/cyberquill/ Cyberquill

    My Favorite Nut – The Orlova

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/vicdehaven/ Vic DeHaven

    Dear Marina, Would you pleas give us an explanation for the English/American expression {putting on the dog} ?
    Thank You,
    Vic

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

    Interesting vid’ my dear, didn’t know all of this…
    That’s funny because me and my father are crazy about pistachios, we eat them as driking water ihihih :shock: :o
    Have a good day, have a good reading… :grin:
    Kisses, nicolas!!!

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

    Horn of plenty… :razz: …{cornucopia }…may require work :lol:

    The original depictions were of the goat’s horn filled with fruits and flowers: deities, especially Fortuna, were depicted with the horn of plenty. The cornucopia was also a symbol for a woman’s fertility. The story is said to be a predecessor of the Unicorn and the Holy Grail stories.

    —-> sourced of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornucopia

    …happy thanks giving to all… :cool: http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/06/27/horny-game/

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/gero007/ shatti

    could please find for me the meanings of {bound} .. thanks

  • pat

    When I first {glimpsed} your email announcement I thought it read “Let’s look at this Picasso Nut.” Yes, I like pistachios, too. I think we purchased a fifty gallon drum of unshelled and salted at Sam’s Club. I’m sure they had a drum of the shelled ones, also. I knew some delivery drivers who ate sunflower seeds and spit the shells all over the place(trying to cure chew habits). Now and then one of them would have a bag of pistachios instead of the sunflower seeds. I tend to break my pistachios with my finger and only on occasion with my teeth. I always have a {rubble dish} nearby for the shells.

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/heydave/ Heydave

    You know it!
    (And you beat me to saying it!)

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/phoenix25/ Randy F

    Awesome vid,who knew pistachios had such history?! Hey can you do the words {Homunculus} and {Thrice}?? You are super pretty and smart,you can do it!! lol ciao

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/ryen/ ryan

    word request darling {zodiac}

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

    :sad: Could someone please help Paris Hilton she never had to work before :sad:

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/edegaru/ Edgar

    Hey, love that you’re doing foods now. I’m a chef and would like to request a word.

    {Horseradish}

    I’ve been wondering for a while, what purpose putting “horse” in front of certain foods names is. I’ve discussed it with some fellow chefs and the only conclusion we can come up with is that; it’s a sexual reference to the shape of the radish and its similarity to the male organ on a horse. It’s not unusual for foods to get named after body parts. We have elbow macaroni, penne pasta, and hearts of celery and artichokes for example.

    Many thanks and great job on all your videos. My friends and I love seeing you on the O’Reily factor. :grin:

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/billgeo/ Bill Georgoulakis

    Hello there Marina,
    Greetings from Greece

    :mrgreen:

    Hey, what do you say you do a special on words with Greek origins
    (that will be a big list!)
    The medicine profession (doctors of all kinds) are full of them, but they are obvious (to Greeks at least).
    I’d like to know some more English words that originated from Greek ones.

    Many times an English word traces back to a Latin origin, but thats not the
    end of the line, as Latin words, in their majority, have a Greek or Persian root.

    Thank you for your time, and we are looking forward to your Greek themed videos.

    Kind Regards,

    Bill Geo
    Athens, Greece

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

    “Pablo Picasso”… is a song written by John Cale and Jonathan Richman for the proto punk group The Modern Lovers. The song was recorded in 1972 at Whitney Studios in Los Angeles, :arrow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso_(song) :cool: and produced by John Cale, but was not released until 1976, on the Modern Lovers’ self-titled debut album.
    … :cool: Acoustic show of Iggy on spanish TV in 1989. Great made up cover of “Pablo Picasso”

    :twisted: Pablo Picasso (by Bowie)

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/DPS670950?feature=mhw5 Me Lika Do The Cha Cha

    There is no such thing as eating one pistachio nut!
    …not if there’s a whole bag around – heh heh! :mrgreen:

    Homework: I just squeeze ‘em ’til they pop :cool:

  • thematrix75

    Hello Marina, and everyone! That was a very interesting video on pistachio nuts, I love all kings of different nuts. I mostly use a metal nut cracker to brake the shell open. So how you doing everyone, what’s up with class, I hope you’ll are doing fine! I got some different links and jokes and stuff coming as soon as I can get all my thumbs working :lol: And Away We Go!

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    Some Jokes

    Lunch…

    “Did you hear about this? This is one of those only in California stories- elementary school students in Berkeley are receiving a class credit for’lunch.’ Since they learn about nutrition, lunch is now considered a class. See , that’s when you know we’re getting too fat in this country, when students are actually majoring in lunch!”

    ~ Jay Leno

    And God Said… A very religious man lived right next door to an atheist. While the religious one prayed day in, day out and was constant;y on his knees in communion with his Lord, the atheist never even looked twice at church.

    However, the atheist’s life was good, he had a well-paying job and a beautiful wife, and hid children were healthy and good- natured, whereas the pious man’s job was strenuous and his wages were low, his wife was cheating on him and his kids wouldn’t give him the time of day.

    So one day, deep in prayer as usual, he raises his eyes towards heaven and asked: “Oh God, I honor you every day, I ask your advice for everyday problems and confess to you my every sin. Yet my neighbour, who doesn’t even believe in you and certainly never prays, seems blessed with every happiness, while I go poor and suffer many an indignity.

    Why is this?” And a great voice was heard from above…

    “BECAUSE HE DOESN’T BOTHER ME ALL THE TIME.”

    Smart Cat

    A man absolutely hated his wife’s cat and decided to get rid of him one day by driving him 20 blocks from his home and leaving him at the park.

    As he was getting home, the cat was walking up the driveway.

    The next day he decided to drive the cat 40 blocks away. He put the beast out and headed home.

    Driving back up his driveway, there was the cat!

    He keeps taking the cat further and further and the cat would always beat him home. At last he decided to drive a few miles away, turn right, then left, past the bridge, then right again and another right until he reached what he thought was a safe distance from his home and left the cat there.

    Hours later the man calls home to his wife: “Jen, is the cat there?”

    “Yes” , the wife answers, “Why do you ask?”

    Frustrated, the man answered, “Put that critter on the phone. I’m Lost and need directions!!!”

    Porridge?

    It’s a sunny morning in the Big Forest and the Bear family is just waking up.

    Baby bear goes downstairs and sits in his small chair at the table. He looks into his small bowl. It is empty! “Who’s been eating my porridge?” he squeaks.

    Daddy Bear arrives at the table and sits in his big chair. He looks into his big bowl. it is also empty! “Who’s been eating my porridge?” he roars.

    It was Mommy Bear who woke everyone else in the house up. I was Mommy Bear who unloaded the dishwasher from last night and put everything away. It was Mommy Bear who went out in the cold early morning air to fetch the newspaper. It was Mommy bear who set the table. It was Mommy bear who put the cat out,

    cleaned the litter box and filled the cat’s water and food dish. And now that you’ve decided to come downstairs and grace me with your presence… listen good because I’m only going to say this one more time… I haven’t made the stupid porridge yet!!”

    —————-

    Once upon a time there was a famous sea captain. This captain was very successful at what he did; for years he guided merchant ships all over the world. Never did stormy seas or pirates get the best of him. He was admired by his crew and fellow captains. However, there was one thing different about this captain. Every morning he went through a strange ritual. He would lock himself in his quarters and open a small safe. In the safe was an envelope with a piece of paper inside. he would stare at the paper for a minute, and then lock it back up. Afterwards, he would go about his daily duties.
    For tears this went on, and his crew became very curious. Was it a treasure map? Was it a letter from a lost love? Everyone speculated about the contents of the strange envelope. One day the captain died at sea. After laying the captain’s body to rest, the first mate led the entire crew into the captain’s quarters. He opened it and… The first mate turned pale and showed the paper to the others. Four words were on the paper; two lines with two words each:

    Port Left

    Starboard Right

    ———-

    Summer. Two Ukrainian farmers walk on the road.One of them suddenly stops, stares around with unbelief in his eyes, and asked from another: “Why, Vlass, did you see what I saw? Did three headless cyclists just drive by? ” Yes, Mykola, they did, ” answers Vlass.”I think you might want to carry your scythe on another shoulder.”

    —–

    Johnny’s in class when the teacher asks him. ” I got something red a round behind my back do you know what it is?” Johnny says: “a ball?” She says: “No, an apple, but it shows you were thinking.”

    Johnny said, “Hey teacher I got something long, hard, and has a pink tip in my pocket. what is it?” She Cries out: “JOHNNY!!” Hey it’s a pencil, but it shows you were thinking.”

  • pat

    “Gertrude Stein” is a song written by Phranc as a lesbian response to the song “Pablo Picasso”. Gertrude lived an amazing life as a writer and patron of the arts in the early 1900′s. She collected many paintings, but she really liked her Pistachios(oops I mean Picasso’s).

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

    What is not funny about some past famous same sex loving people: are the work ethics they had; and were very much against playing the “sex-whore” games of the neo-gay people…

    {[benefits]}/0\The Veterans’ Benefits Act increases some allowances and grants for disabled veterans, improves various veterans’ insurance options, and more. …Jonathan Richman – I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar Live

    {frank}…the new age nuts are marked with dust of from the shelling… :lol: cream candy corn left~over from the day be4fore all SAINTS day—hear 4 h0Tf0Rw0rdS—I said, I’m straight
    I said, I’m straight
    I’m
    I’m straight and I want to take his place
    All right you Modern Lovers what do you say?
    (I’m straight!)
    Tell the world now
    (I’m straight!)
    :lol:

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

    :cool: AWESOME lesson Marina :!:
    Homework I love pistachios! I just crack them open and then I eat them! :grin:

  • pat

    Happy Thanksgiving to Marina and my fellow school mates. If you do not celebrate the holiday, mix up a nice bowl of pistachio pudding and a tall glass of milk then enjoy the feast. I know I’m gonna! :grin:

  • seesixcm6

    Dear Marina,
    Thank you for another wonderful video. Pistachios are very tasty. But they’re expensive, compared to peanuts. I wonder if you’ve had pistachio flavored ice dream? It actually tastes good! :razz:
    I didn’t know pistachios were brought to California in 1929. It’s a well-produced crop, now!
    Tomorrow, we celebrate our Thanksgiving holiday. I’m thankful to you for the videos you give us. They bring us cheerfulness, information, and your beautiful images. It’s very nice of you to do this, and I sincerely thank you for your videos! :mrgreen:
    SeesixCM6

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/red-dragon/ Evan Owen

    So I was in Greece, puzzling over the restroom doors labeled “ανδρών, γυναικών” — until I remembered the English words:

    {anthropology}
    {gynecology}

    and suddenly the meaning was clear! :mrgreen:

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/red-dragon/ Evan Owen

    Ancient words:

    Well, Marina has done abysmal, little changed from the ancient Sumerian;

    We might consider {orange}, which came to English from Sanskrit via Persian and Arabic;

    But perhaps most fascinating is {Eden}. The lost garden might not be so lost after all. Babylonian records speak of the “Eden of Urartu,” “Eden” referring to a high plain and “Urartu” being a variant of “Ararat” in what is now eastern Turkey. Hebrew Genesis refers to “gan eden” “gan” meaning specifically a walled garden — i.e. a river valley — on the eastern edge of Eden. Four rivers flowed out of Eden, which have been identified as the Tigris, Euphrates, Araxes, and the Kezel Uizhun. Add all the clues together, and Eden emerges as the valley east of Lake Urmia, which some six thousand years ago would have been a fertile savannah supporting fruit and nut trees and wild grains.

    Check out archeologist David Rohl’s work on the subject. :smile:

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

    :grin: Happy Thanksgiving :!:
    Don’t gobble gobble too much food! :mrgreen:

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

    {chocolate/spice} :lol: {CANE} :twisted: I like INDIAN bird :lol:

    H a P P y ~~~T H a N K S !!!to the YANKS and Giving to all graces of nature :lol: ~~~

    {mOlA/MoLa}Mola salsa, a sacramental flour preparation made by the Vestal Virgins
    ~~~~Sugarcane is still extensively grown in the Caribbean. Christopher Columbus first brought it during his second voyage to the Americas, initially to the island of Hispaniola (modern day Haiti and the Dominican Republic). In colonial times, sugar formed one side of the triangular trade of New World raw materials, European manufactures, and African slaves. France found its sugarcane islands so valuable, it effectively traded its portion of Canada, famously dubbed “a few acres of snow,” to Britain for their return of Guadeloupe, Martinique and St. Lucia at the end of the Seven Years’ War. The Dutch similarly kept Suriname, a sugar colony in South America, instead of seeking the return of the New Netherlands (New York). Cuban sugarcane produced sugar that received price supports from and a guaranteed market in the USSR; the dissolution of that country forced the closure of most of Cuba's sugar industry. Sugarcane remains an important part of the economy of Guyana, Belize, Barbados, Haiti, along with the Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, and other islands.

    :???: ——>>sourced from- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_cane

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

    {HEATHEN} ;-) Treats and thanks to any and everyone!!! Happy Thanksgiving! …..May the flour mesa up your grains… :smile: A-maize :smile: The flavor is described caramel-like, but also licorice-like. In finished products, it is occasionally found in hazelnut cream, chocolate, cocoa or muesli. It is suitable for sweetening drinks, pastries, sweets, spicy dark sauces as for stews and for strong dessert sauces. The product is mainly distributed in the organic trade and fair trade.

    Whole cane sugar is used in India as a traditional sweetener, there it is called jaggery. Traditionally, the sugar cane juice is boiled over open fire. In the teaching of Ayurveda it ranks among Sattva Guna – food, that is claimed to be very healthy. ,amazing brown sugar

    … :lol:

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/pagedoll/ PageDoll

    Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Have a great day, eat too much, and take a nap. :cool:

    If you don’t eat enough to put you to sleep, have a neuro SLEEP. You”ll go down faster than a drunk ogre.
    Word Request: [ OGRE ]

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/gunju221/ PaparazziKid

    BLACK FRIDAY TOMORROW!

    Who is Buying what? Who is going to be at the door at 5 A.M? :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/billgeo/ Bill Georgoulakis

    Hello there Evan,

    You are quite right there!
    Just a small correction though,
    the term “anthropology” actual comes from the Greek (modern as well as ancient) “άνθρωπος” and “-λογια”, meaning “human” and “to study”.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropology

    The term you are looking for is the medicine profession of “Andrology”
    what comes directly from the word “ανδρας” meaning “man” or “male”.

    But, as I understand it from reading the fist lines here http://www.andrology.com/, its a quite common mistake to make.
    Even doctor have never heard of the term.

    There are ALOT more examples like that, and not just in the medicine profession.

    Glad to see that someone in interested in this.

    Regards,
    Bill

  • Samuel

    Hi Marina’
    I just wanted to wish you and Gorby a Happy Thanksgiving. and are you doing anymore Russian lessons?

    Tanks your student Samuel.

  • Me Lika Do The Cha Cha

    Looks like Marina is tweaking the comments section.(or are you just messin’ with my melon?)

  • leoNard

    I don’t get it! The nuts are good…{peanuts} is my word request?

  • leoNard
  • thematrix75

    hello everyone, how are you all doing today? What’s up with the class? well on with the show!
    LG Windows 7 Tablet E Note h1000b Worlds Largest Luminous Pearl Yrmengzhu History Of Thanksgiving

    Sad Story

    Four friends were taking coffee in a cafe located on the main floor of a 20 floors highrise inn. Suddenly the light went off and somebody announced on the speaker: “Please, be patient, light will be back after 5 hours, adjust yourself accordingly.”

    All these friends were occupying the room on the 20th floor, and decided to walk up since the elevator service was off as well. One of the friends purposed, every on of us will tell a joke on each and every floor walking up turn by turn, all agreed. On the third, fellow , whose turn came up to tell a joke, apologized with the remarks: “Sorry friends, my story is very sad, I won’t be able to tell you the joke” . Rest of the friends did not force him and kept going.

    On the 13th floor all of the friends asked him again: “Are you in a mood now to tell us the joke or not yet?” My story is sad, very sad, please forgive me”, he replied.

    On the 20th floor every one was tired but happy they made it finally. At this Moment, all the friends forced his friend if he is not in a mood to tell the joke then please tell us your sad story.

    “All right! All right! my sad story, do you guys want to hear it?” , he questioned. “Yes! Yes! please”. “Ok,. , my sad story is……”, he stopped and looked at the faces of all the friends. “Say it man. common”, his friends demanded, “we may help you.” …. “My sad story is, I have left the key of our room in the cafe on main floor”.

    ————-

    A blonde brunette and red head are the 3 best friends decide to take a swimming class, they sign up and the instructor tells them: “To test your speed 1st, all 3 must swim 100 meter with breaststroke.” All 3 agree.

    The red head goes first and finishes in 30 min., the brunette finishes 45min. and the instructors waiting on the blonde- hour, 2 hours, 3 long hours go by. Here comes the blonde. Coach says:: “What in the world took you???” The blonde replies: “Coach, it’s just not fair, the other girls got to use their hands!!”

    ———-

    A little boy was sitting outside a store eating one snickers candy bars after another, when an older man walked up and said: “You shouldn’t be eating so much candy, It’ll rot your teeth, it’s just bad for you to eat so much candy.”

    The little boy looked up and said: “My grandfather lived to be 95 years old.” The older man asked: “Oh? By eating snickers candy bars?” The little boy said: “No……by minding his own business.”

    ——–

    A couple had just been married. After arriving home the husband picks his new bride up and carries her across the threshold. Once inside, he pulls his pants off and throws them on the floor. Then he says to his wife to put those pants on. The wife says to him: “You know I can’t fit those pants.” He then says: “Now you know who wears the pants in this house.”

    The wife looks at him then she reaches down and pulls of her panties and throw them on the floor. The she says to the husband: “Honey put on those panties.” The husband says: “You know I can’t get in those panties.” The wife says: “And you won’t until your attitude changes.”

    ———-

    Hoss rode into town to buy a bull. Unfortunately when he bought it, he was left with one dollar. Hoss needed to tell his wife to come with the truck and get the bull, but telegrams cost one dollar per word. Hoss said to the telegram man, “Ok. I have my one word-’comfortable.” Why do you want to tell her that?” asked the telegram man.”Oh , she’s not the best reader, ” Hoss said. “she’ll read it really slow”. (Com-for-ta-ble, get it?)

    ————

    A white- haired old man walked into a jewelry store on Friday, with a beautiful young lady at his side.

    “I’m looking for a special ring for my girlfriend, ” he said

    Our jeweler looked through our stock and took out an outstanding ring a $5,000. I don’t think you understand-I want something very unique, “the man said.

    At that, our now very excited jeweler went and fetched our special stock from the safe. “Here’s one stunning ring at $40,000.” The girls eyes sparkled, and the man said that he would take it.

    ” How are you paying?” Asked the jeweler.

    “I’ll pay by check; but of course the bank will want to make sure that everything is in order, so I’ll write a check and you can phone the bank tomorrow, and I’ll fetch the ring on Monday.”

    Monday morning, our very disappointed jeweler phoned the man.” You lied, there’s no money in that account.” “I know, sorry, but can you imagine what a FANTASTIC weekend I had?”

    ———

    A husband asks: Why do you weep and snuffle over a TV program and the imaginary sadness of people you have never met?

    Wife: For the same reason you scream and yell when a man you don’t know makes a touchdown.

    ———

    Aspirin

    A man walks into the pharmacy and asks the pharmacist, “Do you have any acetylsalicylic acid?”

    ” Do you mean aspirin?” asks the pharmacist.

    “That’s it! I can never remember that word!”

    Ice Fishing

    There were two good ol’ boys from Alabama, who loved to fish, and they wanted to do some ice fishing. They’d heard about it up in Canada, so they took off up there. The lake was frozen nicely. they stopped just before they got to the lake at a little bait shop and got all their tackle. One of them said, “We’re gonna need an ice pick. “So they got that, and they took off. In about two hours, one of them was back at the shop and said, “We’re gonna need another dozen ice picks.”

    Well, the fellow in the shop wanted to ask some questions, but he didn’t. He sold him the picks, and the old boy left. In about an hour, he was back. Said, “We’re gonna need all the ice picks you’ve got.”

    The bait man couldn’t stand it any longer. ” By the way,” he asked, “how are you fellows doing?”

    “Not very well at all,” he said. “We ain’t even got the boat in the water yet.”

    Thinking “Outside The Box”

    Many hundred of years ago in a small Italian town, a merchant had the misfortune of owning a large sum of money to the moneylender. The moneylender, who was old and ugly, fancied the merchant’s daughter. Both the merchant and his daughter were horrified by the proposal. The cunning moneylender suggested that they let providence decide the matter.

    The moneylender told them that he would put a black pebble and a white pebble into an empty bag. The girl would then have to pick one pebble from the bag. If she picked the black pebble, she would become the moneylender’s wife and her father’s debt would be forgiven. If she picked the white pebble she needed not marry him and her father’s debt would still be forgiven. But if she refused to pick a pebble, her father would be thrown in jail.

    They were standing on a pebble strewn path in the merchant’s garden. As they talked, the moneylender bent over to pick up two pebbles. As he picked them up, the sharp-eyed girl noticed that he had picked up two black pebbles and put them into the bag. He then asked the girl to pick her pebble from the bag.

    Now, imagine you were standing in the merchant’s garden. What would you have done if you were the girl? If you had to advise her, what would you have told her? Careful analysis would produce three possibilities:

    1. The girl should refuse to take the pebble.

    2. The girl should show that there were two black pebbles in the bag and expose the moneylender as a cheat.

    3. The girl should pick a black pebble and sacrifice herself in order to save her father from his debt and imprisonment.

    Take a moment to ponder over the story. The above story is used with the hope that it will make us appreciate the difference between lateral and logical thinking. The girl’s dilemma cannot be solved with traditional logical thinking.

    Think of the consequences if she chooses the logical answers.

    What would you recommend the girl do?

    The girl put her hand into the money bag and drew out a pebble. Without looking at it. she fumbled and let it fall onto the pebble-strewn path where it immediately became lost among all the other pebbles.

    “Oh , how clumsy of me, ” she said. “But never mind, if you look into the bag for the one that is left, you will be able to tell which pebble I picked.”

    Since the remaining pebble is black, it must be assumed that she had picked the white one. And since the moneylender dared not admit hid dishonesty, the girl changed what seemed an impossible situation into an extremely advantageous one.

    MORAL OF THE STORY: Most complex problems do have a solution, sometimes we have to think about them in a different way.

    State Capitals

    Well, there was this blonde who just got sick and tired of all the blonde jokes. So one evening she went home and memorized all the state capitals.

    Back in the office the next day, some guy started telling a dumb blonde joke. She interrupted him with a shrill announcement.

    “I’ve had it up to here with those blonde jokes. I want you to know that this blonde went home last night and did something probably none of you can do… I memorized all the state capitals.”

    One of the guys, of course, said ” I don’t believe you. What is the capital of Nevada?”

    “N”, she answered.

    Self Defense

    During a practical exercise at a military police base, the instructor was giving the class instructions in unarmed self-defense.

    After he presented a number of different situations in which they might find themselves, he asked a student, “What steps would you take if someone were coming at you with a large, sharp knife?”

    The student replied, “Big ones.”

    Long Putt

    Playing golf with his buddies, my grandfather had to make a slick 25-foot putt. As he lined up, he announced< "I have a dollar bill that says I can make this putt. Does anyone want to bet?"

    His three friends eagerly agreed to the wager. My grandfather missed the putt by ten feet, and his friends gathered around to collect their money. Granddad pulled out a dollar bill which he had written, "I can make this putt."

    His pals still trying to collect on their bet and grandpa is too.

    Why Dogs Are Better Than Kids

    It doesn't take 45 minutes to get a dog ready to go outside in the winter.

    Dogs cannot lie.

    Dogs never resist nap time.

    You don't need to get extra phone lines for a dog.

    Dogs don't pester you about getting a kid.

    Dogs don't care if the peas have been touched by the mashed potatoes.

    Dogs are house broken by the time the are 12 weeks old.

    Your dog is not embarrassed if you sing in public.

    Average cost of sending a dog to school: $42

    Average cost of sending a kid $103,000

    Riding The Bus

    While riding the bus, my mother noticed a young man, who was holding onto the same pole, staring at her. Eventually, he said, "Excuse me. This is mt stop."

    Since she wasn't blocking his way, she was confused. "Well"
    she said, " go ahead."

    "And this is my pole, " he said.

    My mother was completely perplexed until the young man added, "I just bought it at the hardware store."

    And with that, he picked up his pole and carried it off the bus.

    ——–

    Mom and dad are looking in their sons room when they find a bunch of sex magazines such as leather and lashes, whips and chains, the mother cries to her husband: "What should we do about this?" Husband says: "I don't know but I wouldn't spank him."

    Little boy being bathed by his mother and pointing at his privates says:"Mommy, are these my brains?" Mommy answers: " Not yet."

    ———–

    Never know what an old guy will say. I took my dad to the mall the other day to buy some new shoes [he's66]. We decided to get a bite at the food court. I noticed he was watching a teenager sitting next to him. The teenager had spiked hair in different colors-green, red, orange and blue. My dad kept staring at her, the teenager kept looking and would find my dad staring everytime. When the teenager had had enough, she sarcastically asked: "What's a matter, old man, never done anything wild in your life?" Knowing my dad I quickly swallowed my food so I would not choke on his response: I knew he would have a good one! In classic style without batting an eyelid: "Got stoned once and made it with a peacock. I was just wondering if you were my daughter."

    ———-

    A blonde was driving on a freeway completely naked and knitting when a cop comes along and yelled at her: "Pullover" The blonde lowers her window and says:"No, officer, it is a sweater."

    I wonder what Marina will dress up like this year for Christmas / New Years? Here is the picture of my choice for my kind of Santa Claus Outfit!!! http://i925.photobucket.com/albums/ad100/orion75/HotForWords-Holiday-08.jpg
    Will we be getting this year for the holidays Marina? I hope so, no one looks any more sexier in a Santa Outfit, or any kind of outfit, yeah I kept the one I think it must have been last year, around the holiday's! You make any picture look good!
    Well I hope to see you all in class sometime soon hopefully you enjoy my postings and stuff, Happy Thanksgiving Today, for those who celebrate it, Have a Merry Christ, Happy Holidays,and also a great New Years, it's right now or just around the corner folks! http://i967.photobucket.com/albums/ae157/Classy44/Glitter%20Holidays_Glitter%20and%20More/thankg0027MA2517593920042.gif

    http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm248/livano85/NEW%20YEAR%20ANIMATED/christmas_graphics_02.gif
    This one looks alot like Gorby, could that be Marina also… :lol: and it is for the New Years!
    http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd306/ashleysattic-2007/mz_3737928_bodyshot_175x233-1.gif

    http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b325/Cheryl_Lynn7284/Pictures/Holidays-Occasions/Christmas/animatedpupswinginginstocking-HAPPY.gif

    http://i727.photobucket.com/albums/ww272/amcff/539926500_135158.gif

    http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee314/ayotechnology95/peace.gif
    Good bye everyone, and always remember to enjoy your day, and check out my post, I hope you like, All well I tried :cool: :!: :smile:

  • Evan Owen

    Yeah, she’s messin’ with us. I’ve checked a few other lessons; your 5233 blog posts and my 6000+ are all gone. Yep. Missing, vanished, lost to posterity, like the library of Alexandria. :cry: (hey, do the emoticons even work?) :???:
    No, they don’t. Can’t even type in the :codes: to include them. :evil:

  • Me Lika Do The Cha Cha

    I am so fucked, here. It’s acting like a virus and won’t let me into whatever account I have with them to un-fuck it!There is no way to contact them, either. Big Brother is a bitch!!!!! and her name is Dicks-US

  • Me Lika Do The Cha Cha

    You got that right!
    The Police – Peanuts

    “Try to liberate me (I say ‘OH NO!’)”

  • thematrix75

    Cool lesson, peace to everybody. Like clockwork Marine you are always making awesome videos. Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, Have a Happy New Years,and Season’s Greeting, and Happy Holidays to each and everyone of you, I can never thank you enough Marina, Gorby, and all the rest of the Hot For Words class! You are all stars, shine on, and I don;t think I could ever express my exact and true feelings, just not strong enough words to express my happiness of being here, and with Marina at the helm, how could we ever miss. With videos ,and such a awesome class I believe I never could show my thanks and appreciation enough! Peace!

  • leoNard
  • Evan Owen

    ♪Oh where oh where have my old comments gone,Oh where oh where can they beeee? ♫Test:{orange}{Eden}

    OK, html markup still works…just need the emoticons. 

  • Evan Owen

    OK, I’m feeling bored, {obnoxious}, and {disreputable}*, so I have to post this…

    2 Hot Girls in the Shower :twisted:

    *What’s the word I’m looking for? :???:

  • blam

    Hi people, hi marina, it’s your buddy hotforwo….wowo wait, im a robot or what?? No, some stuffs are running free in my minds i guess…i don’t know why, it’s weird, like a song i listen to over and over…. im sorry.
    Just stopping by today here to say that this girl is really amazing of knowledge and peace of mind, she’s so much an example for all…
    You know everyday i regret how i never gone into the accomplishment of anything and how it weight on me, but with Marina, her life, her vidéos, it allowed me to think how it could have been to be expert on anything and better to have passed my 20s into something to the best. Believe me, and i think you can seem to listen to her too but it’s not that extraordinary, it’s just living the dream, surfing the wave of intelligence, it’s not that hard in the main process but if it’s your destiny to succeed in what you do or want to do, you can be sure of it at the very begining, it doesn’t change so much after time is passing, but if you, like me, stop, and believe you can be you in a different way of living, like more simple, less ambitious, etc, believe me you’re wrong, and you gonna regret the all thing because even you don’t push yourself into the real thing young, you discover with time that you never going to be one until you push yourself into it, so you just lose time for nothing!! Ambition is a proof of cleverness as the same as IQ. If, like me, you’re very clever and do nothing out of it, what the sense of being clever, ah??
    So if you, young fellow, read this, be sure you love something, study and dive completly into the thing, for your future mind safety! Take example on the best success for me, Marina’s one! She had not care about what people were thinking because nobody would tells her what she already knows she was. And that lead her to were she is now : in the perfect joy of living. If you are sure you are a real good person, don’t minimise it, it can lead you to the top if you desire it, The best persons are at the best places, and it’s true in all kind of job. So trust, believe in you, and show to the world that work pays after years, and that it’s not the road who is important but the place where you are going…
    Peace to all of you.
    Nico

  • sky7dance

    Word request: { STRIPTEASE } :)

  • leoNard

    Hi —sky7dance!….Marina has a letter game for you…—-> http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/10/07/nerd-words-of-the-day-nom-de-strip/ oh-I play trip-tease :-)

  • leoNard
  • Anonymous

    I was wondering if there is any connection between the words {good} / {god} and {devil} / {evil}, since there is only one character difference.

  • LALALA

    Yar old comments are gone to hell, Mr. Welshland.

    I tell ya it is true, in verity, stop testing! Of you’ll find out something, ¡caramba la verga!

  • thematrix75

    Thanksgiving Lesson
    watch out for that Gobbledygook it fits either the holidays, sounds like a turkey, and used in Harry Potter books by Goblins as a secret language, the new movie is out now Harry Potter Trailer
    Why Do They Call It Black Friday?
    Where is everybody, don’t tell me your out in this Black Friday crowd speaking Gobbeldygook :lol: Or watching Harry Potter’s new movie:lol:
    Peace everyone, and get back to me when your able to, It would be so great to hear from you all! I got other posts up. I posted extra because I didn’t know if my original post had made it through, I was stuck in limbo with Marina’s tweaking.and upgrading, and what ever other procedures she was doing at the time! I thought there was still so more work going on when I just got back on now! At least it appeared to be, I’m just glad to be able to talk to my friends at Hot For Words Again

  • me

    Hi!
    sorry i send a message to ma here, i have no other alternative, sorry guys, you can don’t read it or do, but it’s for ma first…
    hello ma, first you are so lucky to live in cali i mean, here it’s the snow and all lol, it’s starting to get very cold and you can go swimming into the ocean, life is not fair… no i joke, i love my mountains.
    I was looking at the latest posts on hot4words and, welim gonna say it, i felt weird watching em, i felt weird because i wasn’t with you…AND yeah because i want to say so much things to ya girl, on your behaviour (on your lips to btw ihah!) but yeah like, yeah like stuffs, but as i live in france and not in LA nor US, i guess it’s normal there, i can only guess… but still im gonna say it (im sorry it’s direct…) : don’t you think about mature guys????
    i know they don’t pass on utube nor television but they (WE!) exist!!!!!!!!! u know like, like the friends characters maybe or…. u know?? but ok this was an observation only, i really don’t want to critisise (even i do lol im sorry) but you do a cool work though. I onlythink you may be able to look, yeah maybe not after reflexion, i mean of course, you’re still single (not with me yet, i know ihihih) so you may have not the possibility to do so, so my comment is just zero in fact, so yeah forget what i say it’s just bullshits, you’re perfect ahahahahahahahhahahhaahha ah la la!
    pfff i wish so much i was living with you there (in LA…) to make you feel easy on things, as anyone diserve it… u know as a normal girl in couple attitude and stuffs, like perfection in a sense…. it’s the main life i mean, you ‘re not made to be alone as anybody else!!!
    And so do i.
    You know it’s funny (it’s one of my reflexion i share freely with the readers) ( i know im generous, forget about it! lol) it’s funny how when you got 21 you can be all without nothing and as at 30 you need everything or you cannot do anything….lol, it’s just amazing how years have such a big psychological weight on us. And you know im honnest (im 30) i need everything now ahahah ahah… So yeah money, a girl, nice job and all the rest i can immagine with the first treez!!! ahahah, sometime life’s so good when you’re light….
    Ok so yeah readers……im sorry, i don’t care that much to talk in public (even in real life) so you may read my thoughts quite often on this site.
    Ok so, a kiss for ma, tons of others for you guys and pirls…… and, yeah see ya!!!
    bye bye
    nicolas

  • neuroway

    No! Absolutely no connection! I’mma gonna let you think individually about it, but I’mma gonna give you a golden advice. Look. I strongly suggest you not to go deeper into this investigation! One character is enough! One character is a Galaxy!!! One character is a Universe!!!! Think about it, damnit!!!!! So there is absolutely NO connection between any of these words, philologically or whatsoever!

  • гравитации мальчик

    Mass… for instance something that has a proton, is a particle with strings balled up. It doesn’t actually convert into energy… it releases what can be considered its energy by un-balling. The particle is still there but now its shape has changed into the regular particle (un-balled) 10 strings with common center (or 20 radii).The energy contained in the nucleus of an atom is actually only potential energy.It is the same as a balled of group of proton strings with other field strings pulling tension on them from multiple directions. When something like a reaction happens and the balled up proton strings can unwind… the field strings will pull (actually snap) all of the proton strings to their full length (that’s the same length as the field strings) going from the size of a proton to commandeering the volumetric size an atom takes up in space. This instantly creates the massive disruption (instant extra field particle strings) in the particle field in one spot and the electro-magnetic pulse.Note: this is not the same as accelerating protons in the LHC. There, the protons actually do have energy because they are moving and smashing together.All of this is actually easily explained with that new formula I came up with…TL = mc^2Tension * Length = mass * speed of light squared

    That means the Tension of the strings in space times their length is equal to their energy.

    “speed of light ^ 2 * .1 amu” …notice it’s the same as mc^2

    speed of light^2 * .1 atomic mass units = 1.4924179 × 10^-11 joules

    I guess this is why the speed of light is involved in Einsteins mass energy equivalence equation… E=mc^2
    I always wondered why… now I know

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/red-dragon/ Evan Owen

    Oh, very good! I had been thinking that anthropology and gynecology were mis-matched; now thanks to you, we know the correct pair:

    {andrology}
    {gynecology}
    :smile:

    BTW my surname “Owen” is ultimately of Greek origin. Can you guess what words it comes from? ;-)

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/red-dragon/ Evan Owen

    Ooo, emoticons, there they are! I KNEW M. would fix everything in a day or so! :grin:

    Y’all DID know I was only teasing, right? :razz:

  • stigmatasaurus

    Mmmm, pistachios, … You forgot to mention any nutritional info, Marina. I assume pistachios have lots of monounsaturated fat like other nuts. I’m old enough to remember when they used to color the pistachios red and white; I understand that was to hide the ugly stains on the shells.Since we’re talking nuts here, why are hazelnuts also called [ filberts ] ?

  • stigmatasaurus

    Stop me if you’ve heard this before:

    Do you know why almonds are pronounced “ALL-monds” when they’re on the tree, and pronounced “AM-onds” once they’re harvested?

  • stigmatasaurus

    Hilarious!

  • гравитации мальчик

    Any comments written yesterday are doubled

  • Anonymous

    It looks that way. I did a second import of the comments over the past day.. maybe I doubled them up by mistake!

  • гравитации мальчик

    Wow… it’s almost already fixed.
    You must be typing with one hand and deleting with the other :mrgreen:

    p.s. the sexy robotic future girl blows my mind…
    http://www.hotforwords.com/2010/11/26/future-sex-robot-love/

  • гравитации мальчик

    This (above) is also double but they look different? delete that and this ok?

  • Evan Owen

    Emoticons are gone again… :???:

  • Evan Owen

    Hey, what gives? I posted this as a reply to Bill Georgoulakis’s comment below.

    And how do we link our comment to another? We used to be able to do that with the old program. :???:

  • aLx

    link comments? what?

  • Anonymous

    Huh? Link our comment to another? Another what? I’ve never done that.

  • гравитации мальчик
  • aLx

    also, the links in the dashboard won’t take you to the respective comments. again. D:

  • tonyb

    I read in my old Bible dicitonary that Daniel the Prophet who was a hebrew slave in Babylon in 586 BC; had died in persia and was buried in Persepolis in Iran. the Persians conquered Babylon who had previously conquered Jerusalem and took Daniel as a slave to Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon.
    I am not too crazy about pistachios. I used to eat sunflower seeds in their shells in junior high school!

  • Evan Owen

    Word Request: {pariah}

    So I joined a parenting forum, and under someone’s query “What should I read before becoming a mother?” I replied, “Read my book, Wisdom of Our Mothers.” :grin: Shortly thereafter I got a message: “YOU ARE FOREVER BANNED FROM THIS SITE FOR SPAMMING!” :shock:

    I feel so…so UNCLEAN! Like a {pariah} ! :cry:

  • гравитации мальчик

    Mine are working?
    Also… in the recent comment box…
    The page title takes you to the page but the time stamp takes you to the comment in question.
    The avatar takes you to disqus.

    Mouseover trusty’s (marina’s) avatar in the recent comments
    see how it says…
    http://disqus.com/hotforwords/

    Yours says…
    http://disqus.com/hfw-b6dfd41875bc090bd31d0b1740eb5b1b/
    I think you are not fully signed up yet or something?

  • гравитации мальчик
  • aLx

    uh, i don’t know, the link that’s supposed to take me directly to the comment just takes me to the page. it’s always like that after she changes something with the comments. D:

    yeah, well, the disqus-t(h)ing … i never signed up, but didn’t she say that you’re automatically logged into disqus when you’re logged in here or something?
    clicking on an avatar opens a popup layer w/ recent comments of the person that avatar belongs to.

    jesus … what a clusterfuck.

  • гравитации мальчик

    Even if I log out and then click on your avatar it goes to your disqus page…
    http://disqus.com/hfw-b6dfd41875bc090bd31d0b1740eb5b1b/
    …and all the links in the titles go right to the comments.
    sample…
    http://www.hotforwords.com/2010/11/27/why-i-want-to-incorporate-disqus-on-the-site/#comment-104405208

    It works with right click “open new window” and regular click lightbox thing.

  • PageDoll

    I’ve noticed my avatar is completely random. IN the recent activity box its the current pic, but in “recent comments” its the old one(turkey). Even better, my comment on the pistachio vid is the pic you all know and love me by. :-|

  • aLx

    ya, the disqus thingie takes me to the comment, indeed. but i want to go to comments directly from the dashboard. that doesn’t work anymore. i love the dashboard. :/

  • PageDoll

    Word Request: { Chivalry }

  • гравитации мальчик

    @marina
    I wrote something here but switched it to email in case you don’t want the information released?

  • http://savannahvideocentral.com Savannah Video Central

    Mmhmm…………

  • гравитации мальчик

    Go here…
    http://disqus.com/profile/signup/You probably have to sign up with all the emails you used on hotforwords.If that page goes right to your dashboard or comments… log out and then go back.Yes… you need to get this…http://disqus.com/pagedoll/

  • PageDoll

    Thanks for the info. I didn’t realize I had to sign up at disqus.

  • Anonymous

    Hit me up if you find it confusing.. when you go to http://disqus.com/dashboard I think you’l already have an account.. not sure. Let me know what happens so that I can tell everyone.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah.. go to: http://disqus.com/profile/signup/ and you can put your email in and get access to your account that way. You still have to sign up in a way.. but your comments will already be in there if you use the same email address as on the site. I should make a post about it.

  • PageDoll

    Pow! Did you feel that? That was me “hitting you up”…in the arm. Confusing yes, but it could easily be just me. I’m not sure if I had an account before I signed up. After I signed up I changed my av to the one that shows up on my HFWs profile, but I when comment here its still a turkey. Gobble Gobble. I’ve made a few comments here since signing up at disqus but nothings shown up in the activity section of my disqus acct as of yet.

  • гравитации мальчик

    Hey Trusty…
    I think when you reverted back to old style yesterday… anyone that made a comment got double comments and also double accounts at disqus?
    I think you said you re-imported or something too?

  • гравитации мальчик

    Hey Trusty…
    I think when you reverted back to old style yesterday… anyone that made a comment got double comments and also double accounts at disqus?
    I think you said you re-imported or something too?

  • CheVolay

    Get cracking!

  • CheVolay

    So Marina found Tumblr, about time.

  • Don

    where does the phrase ‘pulling your leg’ come from? How did this phrase come to mean that your are kidding or joking someone?

  • Evan Owen

    That’s the way you feel when you’re chilly, right? :razz:

  • Evan Owen

    Shoot, hit the “Like” button again instead of “Reply”…Getting to the point, what I meant was, I could insert a hyperlink in my comment that would jump to someone else’s comment. So, for example, I could have stuck a link in my comment above that would have taken readers back to Georgoulakis’s comment so they could follow our discussion. But I think “гравитации мальчик” / GravityBoy has the answer so I’ll check out what he said.{tempest in a teapot}More Greek…how about {galaxy} ? How about etymological link to {Milky Way}?

    Let’s see if this works: Georgoulakis’s comment

    Yes! That’s it! :grin:

  • Evan Owen

    Shoot, hit the “Like” button again instead of “Reply”…Getting to the point, what I meant was, I could insert a hyperlink in my comment that would jump to someone else’s comment. So, for example, I could have stuck a link in my comment above that would have taken readers back to Georgoulakis’s comment so they could follow our discussion. But I think “гравитации мальчик” / GravityBoy has the answer so I’ll check out what he said.{tempest in a teapot}More Greek…how about {galaxy} ? How about etymological link to {Milky Way}?

    Let’s see if this works: Georgoulakis’s comment

    Yes! That’s it! :grin:

  • Evan Owen

    Or maybe {chivalry} is a chilly horse. :mrgreen:

  • Evan Owen

    While we work out the technical details, how about another

    WORD REQUEST for “Christ’s Mass”:

    {Jesus} :wink:

  • PageDoll

    I’m still having issues with changing my avatar. Not sure how long it takes to kick – in, but this comment should have Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer as the av…gobble gobble? I’ve changed the av three times since the turkey and I don’t think the issue is related to disqus or tumblr. It seems to change everywhere but in the comments.

  • PageDoll

    I also noticed it takes a while for a new comment to appear in the recent comments box. Even after three refreshes.

  • PageDoll

    I also noticed it takes a while for a new comment to appear in the recent comments box. Even after three refreshes.

  • PageDoll

    I also noticed it takes a while for a new comment to appear in the recent comments box. Even after three refreshes.

  • PageDoll

    I like how you changed all the recent comment times to spanish. Ha!
    I made a comment “Hace 2 minutos” ago.

  • PageDoll

    Oh, now its back to english. :-0

  • leoNard

    Pull my finger…—this lesson has a leg pulled! Break a leg …Hey; Don! ..have you ever pulled someone’s pants leg? “To pull a boner” by Marina

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/2010/11/26/future-sex-robot-love/ гравитации мальчик

    Have you checked what the avatar is on hotforwords.com change avatar?

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/2010/11/26/future-sex-robot-love/ гравитации мальчик

    Trusty… maybe you can get the guys at discus to change that “claim comment” thing that they removed into a “send the owner of this account” an email (the private email has to be NOT viewable in anyway (even in (text) source code)).

    Then if someone needs to straighten things out they can find an avatar that has the wrong picture or still links to a different place
    pagedoll signed up…
    http://disqus.com/pagedoll
    but he still has other accounts there…
    you can hover over his avatar on this page and see the different link destinations

    delete this if I shouldn’t have written it

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/2010/11/26/future-sex-robot-love/ гравитации мальчик
  • http://www.hotforwords.com/2010/11/26/future-sex-robot-love/ гравитации мальчик

    If you are chilly all you need is a warm and sexy futuristic robotic girl.
    Especially in something like Doctor Zhivago were it is freezing cold :laser:

  • Anonymous

    I added information here on how to do that: http://www.hotforwords.com/disqus/

  • Anonymous

    That is a caching issue.. my server caches pages forever.. I need to see about solving that!

  • Anonymous

    That’s weird! Maybe you teleported to Spain and don’t know it yet!

  • leoNard

    My e-mail box is filling of others comments…. crazy!

  • fglrx

    I also saw “Hace 2 minutos” for some time, but now it’s back in English

  • Anonymous

    You probably subscribed to a thread’s comments. It should only send you comments that are replies to your comments.

  • http://twitter.com/rar8853 Richard A. Reynolds

    I would like to know if it was the good people at the Funk& Wagnell’s dictionaries who been putting you up to it.

  • kokonut255

    I Have a little question :

    Where does the term «Charley horse» comes from? I’m talking about the leg cramps. There are other variations such as «dead leg» or «graddaddy». And why is it called that way?

  • VonMalcolm

    Word Request: “Anime”

  • VonMalcolm

    Whoops: I see you have already done animated. Hmmm… How about War. I said War, Good God Y’all. (I was looking at a WOW banner.)

  • leoNard

    Its a current event!   

    http://www.hotforwords.com/forum/topic/world-news-and-current-events

    ________________________________

  • me

    WTF!! u have not change? ihihih
    i feel cool to be actually NOW lol able to, to be confident in you, i know you know tht better thn me (u gotta explain it to me someday btw hm)
    and… what do i wanted to say, i don’t remember…
    anyway, i pfff can i really talk?? ok id say yes (hi girls! ;)
    uh i want to say ma that pff it’s a bit coplicated for right now, i, fuck it, i see that i got to work seriously hard to become myself, that i look like a god witch alone it’s impossible to accept honnestly… and yeah i don’t know why, im very glad and stupid at the same time, it’s…u know………
    hm hm
    and…. pff what to say, that there’s that, there’s also, i woulde in one word…….. ( :/) and how i can say that, i nead to work seriously, but i don’t want to take a job it’s a job, and i want to work, it’s completly different. But the thing is that i have really really not much money and that i can plan anything, it’s so fucking anoying!! hm hm but!, i, want to say ma, that it’s easier to write than to imagine speak to you, no i joke but yeah anyway, and well i love you! ahahah : d:-)
    u know girls are funny to say to me, just believe you ask her anything, it’s vety vety hard for me, im still human on this and well educated at some point that i just can’t lol, and, see? so, im nearly nearly sure i can ask you everything but i don’t feel , i don’t know really why i can’t, u know i don’t see the future in that, i just block, it’s u know, id say me lol!
    BUT, i still wanna say that very honnestly i need help and i think i say it in my life (clap clap clap!)
    I think i just wanna you to come in france ma, i want you to come in france (with friends why not) and u know, no i don’t but u gotta know ahahahahahaahh hm ahahahaahahh :-D
    i see that i can be me and it’s something i lose alone sometime ‘anyway…
    look (…) i want to see you in front of me, it’s my verying i want for now, before anything in my life. word up!
    nicolas

  • me

    WTF!! u have not change? ihihih
    i feel cool to be actually NOW lol able to, to be confident in you, i know you know tht better thn me (u gotta explain it to me someday btw hm)
    and… what do i wanted to say, i don’t remember…
    anyway, i pfff can i really talk?? ok id say yes (hi girls! ;)
    uh i want to say ma that pff it’s a bit coplicated for right now, i, fuck it, i see that i got to work seriously hard to become myself, that i look like a god witch alone it’s impossible to accept honnestly… and yeah i don’t know why, im very glad and stupid at the same time, it’s…u know………
    hm hm
    and…. pff what to say, that there’s that, there’s also, i woulde in one word…….. ( :/) and how i can say that, i nead to work seriously, but i don’t want to take a job it’s a job, and i want to work, it’s completly different. But the thing is that i have really really not much money and that i can plan anything, it’s so fucking anoying!! hm hm but!, i, want to say ma, that it’s easier to write than to imagine speak to you, no i joke but yeah anyway, and well i love you! ahahah : d:-)
    u know girls are funny to say to me, just believe you ask her anything, it’s vety vety hard for me, im still human on this and well educated at some point that i just can’t lol, and, see? so, im nearly nearly sure i can ask you everything but i don’t feel , i don’t know really why i can’t, u know i don’t see the future in that, i just block, it’s u know, id say me lol!
    BUT, i still wanna say that very honnestly i need help and i think i say it in my life (clap clap clap!)
    I think i just wanna you to come in france ma, i want you to come in france (with friends why not) and u know, no i don’t but u gotta know ahahahahahaahh hm ahahahaahahh :-D
    i see that i can be me and it’s something i lose alone sometime ‘anyway…
    look (…) i want to see you in front of me, it’s my verying i want for now, before anything in my life. word up!
    nicolas

  • me

    don’t tkae your hair off while reading me, i don’t understand myself what i just wrote lol
    come in france ma, it’s the main message. bye!

  • me

    don’t tkae your hair off while reading me, i don’t understand myself what i just wrote lol
    come in france ma, it’s the main message. bye!

  • Nainoa

    I’d like to see your treatment of the word {plankton}. These most critical passengers here on spaceship earth are in very real trouble. You can read what they think about their plight at http://knol.google.com/k/plankton-manifesto-business-plan# By preparing a commentary on this word {plankton} or {planktos} you would help save them… thanks for your beautiful intelligence

  • hott4urblog

    Pistachio’s 12$ per lb. on da East Coast…. Keep Krackin… and If a Pitt-Bull Bull humps yo leg, don’t encourage him! – D.Mrako

  • leoNard

    {Propaganda} is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position. …

    —heLLo—

    So is(are) the English pound taking over?(language} Is(are) mixed-up dopes called krack-addicts? {peaNuts}…ounce of prevention and a pund of cash… Convert Pounds to Kilograms – Automatically To convert Pounds to Kilograms—-{narc}— love thy self by the pound and promote sum propaganda, http://www.postershow.com/images/c_propaganda_poster_new_large2.jpg Merry Christmas :-)

  • Mair

    Hello Marina,
    I was wondering if you could tell me which came first. The name orange for the color or the name orange for the fruit. was the fruit named after the color orange or was the color named after the fruit?

  • Seesix

    Dear Marina, Happy Birthday! Celebrate and enjoy the day! SeesixCM6

  • Ryen

    Marina I would swim to the moon, steal a star from the sky and fall back to earth, just to put another sparkle in your eye…
    Having said that i was wondering if you could investigate {zodiac} for me..
    Happy Bday.. Be good

  • thematrix75

    Hello everyone, how are you doing? Whats going on with the class and life today? Long time no post, I been busy with my posts for everyone to enjoy.

    Acer Iconia Real Dual Screen Laptop
    25 Reasons Why Boys Need Parents
    Dawn Of The Universe Recreated
    If Food Could Talk 12 Funny Cartoons

    Some Jokes

    LADIES WHO LUNCH

    A group of 40-year old girlfriends discussed where they should meet for lunch. Finally, it was agreed that they should meet at the Ocean View restaurant because waiters there had tight pants and nice bums.

    10 years later at 50 years of age, the group once again discussed where they should meet for lunch Finally it was agreed that they should meet at the Ocean View restaurant because the food there was very good, the wine selection was good also, and the waiters were cute.

    10 years later at 60 years of age, the group once again discussed where they should meet for lunch. Finally it was agreed that they should meet at the Ocean View restaurant because they could eat there in peace and quiet, the restaurant had a beautiful view of the ocean, and the waiters were sweet boys.

    10 years later. at 70 years of age, the group once again discussed where they should meet for lunch. Finally it was agreed that they should meet at the Ocean View restaurant because the restaurant was wheel chair accessible, they even have an elevator, and the waiters were kind.

    10 years later at 80 years of age, the group once again discussed where they should meet for lunch.
    Finally it was agreed that they should meet at the Ocean View restaurant because they had never been there before.

    Smart Arse!

    Two Businessmen in Cardiff were siting down for a break in their soon- to- be- opened new shop. As yet, the shop wasn’t ready, with only a few shelves set up. One said to the other: “I bet any minute now some pensioner is going to walk by, put their face to the window and ask what we’re selling.”

    No sooner were the words out of his mouth when, sure enough, a curious old woman walked to the window, had a peek, and in a soft voice asked: “What are you selling here?” One of the men replied sarcastically: “We’re selling arse-holes.” Without skipping a beat, the old timer said: “Must be doing well. Only two left.”

    Pensioners – don’t mess with them!

    ————–

    Dear Son,

    Your Pa has a new job. The first in 48 years. We are a little better, off now getting $17.96 every Thursday. So we up and thought we’d do a little fixin’ up. We sent to Rosemont and Seasbuck for one of them bathrooms you hear so much about and it took a plumber to put it in shape.

    On one side of the room is a great big long thing. something like hogs drink out of, only you get in it and wash all over. Over on the other side is a little white thing called a sink, this is for light washing, like face and hands, bit over in the other corner we really got something.

    There you put one foot in, wash it clean, pull a chain and get fresh water for the other foot. Two lids come with the darn thing and we ain’t had any use for them in the bathroom, so I’m using one for a bread board and the other we framed grandmother’s picture in.

    They were awful nice people to deal with and they sent us a roll of writing paper with it.

    Take care of yourself son.

    Your Maw

    Chaos

    A woman was at home with her children when the telephone rang. In going to answer it, she tripped on a rug, grabbed for something to hold onto and seized the telephone table. It fell over with a crash, jarring the receiver off the hook.

    As it fell, it hit the family dog, which leaped up. howling and barking. The woman’s three-year-old son, startled by this noise, broke into loud screams. The woman mumbled some colourful words. She finally managed to pick up the receiver and lift it to her ear, just in time to hear her husband’s voice on the other end say, “Nobody’s said hello yet, but I’m positive I have the right number.”

    Be A Kid Again

    Give yourself a gold star for everything you do today.

    Grow a milk mustache.

    Open a pack of cupcakes and give one to a friend even though you want both of them yourself.

    Have a staring contest with your cat.

    Kiss a frog in case.

    Make a face the next time someone tells you “no.”

    Ask “Why?” a lot.

    Believe in fairy tales.

    Have someone read you a story.

    Wear your favorite shirt with your favorite pants even if they don’t match.

    Do a cartwheel.

    Hide your vegetables under your napkin.

    Make a “Slurpy” sound with your straw when you get to the bottom of a milkshake.

    Sit really still for as long as the dog (or cat) is asleep in your lap.

    Find some pretty stones and save them.

    Stick your head out the car window and moo if you see a cow.

    Walk barefoot in wet grass.

    Giggle at nude statues in a museum.

    Make a cool screeching noises every time you turn.

    Count the colors in a rainbow.

    Fuss a little, then take a nap.

    Take a running jump over a big puddle.

    Giggle a lot for no real reason.

    Do that tap-someone-on-the-shoulder-while-you-stand-on-their-opposite-side-and-they-turn-around-and-no-one’s-there thing.

    Enjoy your favorite candy-bar. (Forget you’ve heard of calories!)

    Throw something and when it lands make a cool exploding bomb noise.

    Squish some mud between your toes.

    Buy yourself a helium balloon.

    Put an orange slice in your mouth, peel side out, and smile at people.

    Be A Kid Again…

    Miracle Dog

    A mechanic who worked out of his home had a dog named mace. Mace had a bad habit of eating all the grass on the mechanic’s lawn, so the mechanic had to keep Mace inside. The grass eventually became overgrown.

    One day the mechanic was working on a car in the backyard and dropped his wrench , losing it in the tall grass. He couldn’t find it for the life of him, so he decided to call it a day.

    That night, Mace escaped from the house and ate all the grass in the backyard. The next morning the mechanic went outside and saw his wrench glinting in the sunlight. Realizing what had happened he looked toward the heavens and proclaimed,

    “A Grazing Mace, how sweet the hound, that saved a wrench for me!

    New Number

    A woman was getting swamped with calls from strangers. The reason? A billing service had launched an 800 number that was identical to hers. When she called to complain, she was told to get a new number.

    “I’ve had mine for twenty years, ” she pleaded. Couldn’t you change yours?”

    The company refuse, so she said, “Fine. From now on, I’m going to tell everyone who calls that their bill is paid in full.”

    The company got a new number the next day.

    ————-

    An elderly couple lie in bed. The women said: ” Remember, when we were dating you used to kiss me on the cheek. ” So the man rolls over and kisses her check, Just about asleep when the woman says: ” Remember when you used to nibble on my ear.” The man climbs out of bed; stomps out of the bedroom. The woman says: “Honey, where are you going.” The old man said, ” To get my teeth.”

    ————————-

    Why are women like hurricanes? They come in wet and wild. When they ;eave they take your house and car.

    Stars React To Leslie Nielson’s Death R.I.P. Leslie Nielson

    Is there anybody out and about now? let me know if you get the change, drop in with a post! See you all later! Peace

  • Me Lika Do The Cha Cha

    Neo! Great stuff…
    It was worth the effort to go through :grin:

    Now is a chance for you to test the editor.
    The link to ‘Dawn of the Universe Recreated’
    has an extra quotation mark at the end.
    The result is a page load error.

    It’s an easy fix, and you’ll be able to see the
    ‘mish-mash’ of HTML code in the editor.
    …later, dude!

  • Evan Owen

    How about {manga} instead?

  • Deniz

    Hi Marina,
    Pistachio is “fıstık” in Turkish which is used for describing beautiful, hot ladies. :)
    By the way I am too lazy to search the origins of “mediterranean”. Could you help?

  • Jamesington

    HEY! I know I have been away for a while, but slowly im coming back..

    So

    NEW VIDEO: A Letter To Shane Dawson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRvMLodoqTE

  • stigmatasaurus

    I’ll fill in for our Teacher, because this is too easy. Break down the word: “medi-” means “in the middle” or “between;” “-terranean” from the Latin “terra,” “land.” The Mediterranean Sea is the “Sea between the Lands.” The Romans rather conceitedly called it “Mare Nostrum,” “Our Sea.”

  • thematrix75

    Hey! Where everybody at now a day’s? How are all of you doing? What’s up in the class, I see a few of my good friends are showing as being online. If your there and care , let me know your there! I have a few things, I hope you like!

    Document Extractor Multifunction Screen
    Snow Sculptures
    Food Art
    Coolest Teapots
    3D Murals Painted on the Side of Buildings
    <a href="http://nedhardy.com/2010/03/01/10-funny-animal-pics-that-will-make-you-lol/ Funny Animal Pictures
    32 Pictures To Help You Appreciate The Awesomeness Of Nature

    Parenthood

    –If it was going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor!

    –Shouting to make your children obey is like using the horn to steer your car, and you get about the same results.

    –The smartest advice on raising children is to enjoy them while they are still on your side.

    –Avenge yourself–live long enough to be a problem to your children.

    –The best way to keep kids at home is to give them a loving atmosphere~~ and hide the keys to the car.

    –Parents: People who bare infants, bore teenagers, and board newlyweds:

    __The joy of motherhood: What a woman experiences when all the children are finally in bed.

    –Life’s golden age is when the kids are too old to need babysitters and too young to borrow the family car.

    –Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he’s really in trouble.

    –Grandparents are similar to a piece of string! handy to have around and easy wrapped around the fingers of grandchildren.

    – There are three ways to get something done:Do it yourself, hire someone to do it, or forbid your children to do it.

    – Adolescence is the age when children try to bring up their parents.

    – Cleaning your house while your kids are at home is like trying to shovel the driveway during a snowstorm.

    – Oh, to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small, and half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am.

    – Adolescence is the age at which children stop asking questions because they know the answers.

    – An alarm clock is a device for awakening people who don’t have small children.

    Anything Good?

    Our family owned restaurant is the setting for many of our discussions about how to handle the customer who asks, What’s good tonight?”

    Obviously, we would never serve anything we didn’t think was good. I braces myself one Saturday night when I heard the dreaded question posed to my husband.

    He calmly replied, “Anything over $13.95.”

    Grenades

    Bubba and Clem find three hand grenades and decide to take them to the police station.

    “What if one of them explodes before we get there?” asks Clem.

    “Don’t worry about it, ” says Bubba.

    “We’ll just lie and tell them we only found two.”

    Top Ten Reasons Hurricane Season Is Like Christmas

    10. Decorating the house (boarding up windows)

    9. Dragging out boxes that haven’t been used since last season (camping gear, flashlight)

    8. Last minute shopping in crowed stores.

    7.Regular TV shows pre-empted for “Specials”

    6.Family coming to stay with you.

    5. Family and friends from out-of-state calling.

    4. Buying food you don’t normally buy… and in large quantities

    3. Days off from work

    2. Candles

    And the number one Hurricane Season is like Christmas..

    1. At some point you know you’re going to have a tree in your house!

    ————————————–

    A priest dies and meets St. Peter at the pearly gates. St. Peter tells him that there is a long waiting list and he will have to wait, but there is a library nearby that has all the original works and he can wait in there until called.

    So, the priest goes into the library. A little while later St. Peter hears a loud scream coming from the library. He rushes in, finds the priest screaming asked what is wrong. The priest says: ” The original word was ‘celebrate’” .

    A skeleton walks into a bar, The bartender asks him what he wants. The skeleton says: “Give me a beer and a mop.”

    Well I hope to see some of you soon! Bye for now. Peace!

  • Eduerr

    Marina,
    I was out driving the other day and saw a truck with a tank on the back that read, “NON-POTABLE”. The word potable refers to water that is drinkable but where does it come from and how did it come to mean drinkable?

    thanks,
    ed

  • Eduerr

    Marina,
    I was out driving the other day and saw a truck with a tank on the back that read, “NON-POTABLE”. The word potable refers to water that is drinkable but where does it come from and how did it come to mean drinkable?

    thanks,
    ed

  • Anonymous

    I LOVE Pistqachio and i am greek and i don’t know that

  • http://blog.cyberquill.com Cyberquill

    ss

  • http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lcor1tEOVp1qcy1tuo1_500.jpg гравитации мальчик

    Good buddy… that trusty video is stretched out.
    If you find any, report them and you get bonus points.
    p.s. unbelievably “wow” @0:04 …the peach bikini

  • Anonymous

    ..

  • Anonymous

    You’re right. I just checked if the “delete” function in the dashboard works and it doesn’t

  • http://blog.cyberquill.com Cyberquill

    I know. There are four buttons in the Dashboard:

    Reply, Edit, Delete, and Context

    Reply and Context work. Edit and Delete do not work. So why are they there in the first place?

  • Smokey Lightfoot

    I saw on TV they changed the ad campaign for pistachios to “get snackin’ “… probably due to the adverse connotation of ” get crackin’ ” .

  • http://www.hotforwords.com HotForWords

    I wonder! Hmm…

  • http://www.hotforwords.com HotForWords

    I fixed it! I think a bunch of my old video will be like that. I have to go in and add the following tag to them to make them play properly: yt:stretch=4:3

    Thanks!

  • leoNard

    Another reply.. ..the fun of learning are the benefits! Let’s see the differences between the the two—..why the cat never left..—-and from the home of HotForWords~~COLLAR~~…U R soul PeRKy :-)

    Sadomasochism
    as “Sadism” and “Masochism” to the ‘inventions’ of two historic individuals; as one might speak of “Leonardism ” instead of.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci … 26 KB (3,690 words) – 04:56, 3 December 2010
    ~~~..I once read something about leonard and collarhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/Vierge.jpg
    …just testing or trying to help!/?…have a happy eve before SAINT NICK’s day…

  • Anonymous

    That’s fun because I live in France and today I just bought pistachio and it’s exactly the same brand you shown in the movie.
    I love pistachio I eat that almost every day.

  • Anonymous

    That’s fun because I live in France and today I just bought pistachio and it’s exactly the same brand you shown in the movie.
    I love pistachio I eat that almost every day.

  • Anonymous

    This is a worldwide brand.

  • Michael

    Pistachio nut butter might be right up her alley.

  • Anonymous

    Ill treat you exactly how you already want to, it’s a promise..

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