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Marina
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oh? we’re being sweary, are we?
, count
Another Learn Russion video has been posted.
It is a grey, even overcast today in Sackoftomatoes, but pleasant enough to walk the dog. ‘Slike where you are?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdlyi5mckg0&feature=related
“On the road again,
Runnin’ over those frogs,
And toads again….”
are you just trying to bee funny (oh i laughed my ass off!!!),
or are you really concerned about frogs?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ze3jkA7XFM
IT gonna hurt really really really bad.
Nicolas dejen for the ones who don’t mutha fukin’ care!
bui
Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.” – Henry Ford 1863-1947
…@DeeHenFrenchyToucho
“Read or do not read the site Quote of the day. There is no try.”
I’m founded on lost time…tAlk0clOck
Obama Swats Fly… Replying to @Camp Kohler – Sacto CA
very skillful! killing flys is not that easy as it seems.
There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those
who don’t.
“You are exactly right. Or not.”
time to relax and have a little fun:
Dance with Laibach!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY2nuuqMStY
These guys have artificial larynxi, don’t they?
oh no i’m searching for a song of philip glass, but i don’t find it. and don’t want to listen to all this stuff!
yeah the best teeth!!!:
( and when you don’t recognise it as beautiful you suck!)
http://x7b.xanga.com/b7fe33ea21634279598913/z222732780.jpg
If I had her sleeping in my bed, I think I would wear one of those plastic neck collars just in case she got thirsty in the middle of the night.
↑ (a dirty joke from a old man) ↑
For those interested, there is more Re-chewed Redmeat available in the MEATing room.
It is another beautiful California morning after a week of rain. I am dog-sitting for four days while my sister and the brother-in-law drive down to 80° (no kidding) SoCal for a few days doing theme parks.
I have frozen pizzas. I have frozen mince-meat pie. I have butter-pecan ice cream. I have peach yogurt. I have cashews. I have cable. I have Internet. And if it were not for the damned dog trying to chew up everything it’s inquisitive nose can find, I would have nothing to complain about. Tonight a friend of mine is coming to town to deliver cars (which pays for the gas for the trip) and is taking me out for dinner and giving me a new (or at least refurbed) iPhone which he got from AT&T for the grand sum of 99¢ (such a deal!).
And now I shall take my leave to make and devour a snow-pea-stir-fry and cheese omelet, and, if things run true to form, a meteorite will smash the house to bits just as I get the fork to my mouth. The dog will then eat the omelet and spend the rest of the day grinding what there is left of the house into unrecognizable pieces.
“There are F kinds of people in the world: those who count in hex and those who cannot.”
—Camp Kohler.
? .. what about the other 13(base 10) kinds of people?
You have grasped the essence of the joke—that F(base 16) = 15, not 2. Now the real question is did you immediately fall to the floor grasping your sides to keep uncontrolled laughter from causing your internal organs to spew out, or did you not?
actually, i gasped in astonishment and suffered fibrillations because, while it may be a joke, it wasn’t actually funny (according to the Schmitt-Fenster Mirth Scale, your “joke”‘s mirth quotient was 0.2 where “mild chuckle” = 4.0).
Your heuristic is as minimalist as the vernacularity of your grammar, CK. Not to say squarely frivolous. You forgot those who could very well count in hex but have chosen not to.
My bad!
“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” - Joseph Stalin
Well, he got that right! If you want true democracy, you had better be looking over the shoulders of the counters. I saw the film mentioned in this article and it was a real eyeopener.
.. and he doesn’t even mention corporate mass-media propaganda. Not necessary in the USSR i guess.
You don’t have democracy if your vote is based on distorted and manipulated information.
Wotta?
“The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner is the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.” - Napoleone di Buonaparte (1769-1821)
“A good decision is based on knowledge and not numbers.” - Πλάτων (424/423BC – 348/347BC)
“She was short on intellect, but long on shape.” - George Ade (1866-1944)
“Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
RAAAAAAHHHHHHÂÂÂÂÂÂ! Sss.. s.. satan lives… I tell ya HAHAHAHAAAAHHHHAAA!!!
“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Ph.D. Theology
μολὼν λαβέ!
“U talkin’ to me?”
Dr. Ströll Van Dick Håed, Ph.D. in Genetics
“How about a little disintegrator blast in the winky, eh?” – A martian
“That which does not disintegrate you makes you stronger.”
– Hellmutt Der Von Krackerjackenfest
Which we have now learned is total nonsense. DNA, for example, is known to contain a great number of unused genes. Anything designed “by accident,” even if successful, is going to be a non-minimal design.
Pssssst! Hey, CK, come here! Shhhhhhhh! Quiet quiet… I have a secret to tell you… Don’t tell anyone, but you know, humans didn’t design themselves!
Humans are just an imbecile bunch of stupid moronic apes. They have been designed together with their cousins the monkeys and the chimps, by Nature, which is actually infinitely more subtle and intelligent than them, during an accident she had ages ago when she was not that wise and old, you know?
All right, gotta go! Let’s not disturb the class today! Looks like our dear fellow students are all on Ritalin today, all calmed down, relaxed and cool.
Shhhhhhhh! Hush hush!!
have i posted this before? .. i dunno .. i’ll post it anyway cos it’s so brilliant ..
Das Ich – Kannibale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9SDx4aaczg
I dunno if you posted it before, I tell you… YES! Absolutely brilliant.. An unforgettable rhythm soon to become an ageless classic I’m sure. Boom bang kannibale, dooo eich kannibale, dooo eich kannibale, bang bang bang… What a rythm!!!!
BTW, do you know about a super-black metal germano-gothic melody, that says something like this:
“BANG BANG BADABOOM I’mma gonna befriend da divel, BANG BANG BADABOOOM yah, I’mma gonna beefreind da devil, wooowhhhahahaaaaa Waaahwaaahahoooo?”
I believe it’s from a german band too. The artist name is Hellmutt Von Krackerjackenfest or something like that? Does it ring a bell? Can you help me to find this one on the net? I’d love to add it to my collection!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U76deEFkSUs&feature=relmfu
All three were very entertaining.
what do you mean with “all three”?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0AjiN9q_TU
Well, there’s Jinxy and then there’s “the girls.” It does appear that “the girls” are “in their cups,” because they are a little wobbly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifA1AQe_NF0&feature=fvwrel
once you get past the giant hooters (. Y .) , it’s quite an amusing video ^.^
With a little sweetie like that, I would be .|.
You are way too old for her. Don’t even think about it.
Things still work to a degree. I suppose I could always “limp along.”
You too.
Abbath on Church Burnings
churches were made to be burned.
The talking into how should I wake! patti smith @Neuroway ..how is the weather? ps-drama lessons at day break…
The weather? Ah, the weather, the weather.. What can be said about the weather? It is very feminine!
“That which irritates you makes you stronger.” - Anonymous
Wotta?
much improved (and short) version of Smoke on the Water which isn’t dull and awful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crSqCof1wRA
“She looks like she combs her hair with an egg beater.” - Hedda Hopper (1885-1966)
“A well-spent day brings happy sleep.” - Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
“Your lack of faith disturbing I find.” – Master Yoda
“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (121-180AD)
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
We prepared items for shipping and got them working again once they had been shipped. Usually for a grandfather clock this meant carefully protecting any moving parts in the clock with foam blocks and wrap,
@GeraldAaron:disqus What is this post in aid of?
“A careful driver is one who honks his horn when he goes through a red light.”
- Henry Morgan (1635-1688)
More like 1915-1994. At least they had cars and lights when he was alive, unlike the other Henry Morgan.
You are absolutely right, Sir. I stand corrected. ;-)
“All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.”
– Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
“¡Shoot, coward!” - Che Guevara (1928-1967)
“ Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.”
– Desmond Morris (The Naked Ape) – (1928 – ????)
“I need to feel good inside, regardless of what people say about me.
There are afternoons when people get really excited and you think ‘What a load of rubbish!’. And others, when the public is cold, but you think ’Today I performed with my soul, not simply with my head’. That’s what really counts with me.”
- José Miguel Arroyo (1969 – ????)
“We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
“An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.” – Kurt Masur (1927 – ????)
“I’m going to Wolverhampton!”
“Wear the fox hat”
.. zooooooooooooooooom ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZl46mPUz8c
“Shoot, coward. You’re only going to kill a man.” - Che Guevara (1928-1927)
¿Wotta?
“DON’T FICK WITH FREEEEEEEDOM!” - An Amerloque
“Ça m’énerve” - Helmut Fritz
PWHAEEEEEÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊTTT!!!
Classy Gent of the Day:
Kapitän zur See Hans Wilhelm Langsdorff (Iron Cross First Class, Iron Cross Second Class, Hanseatenkreuz)
http://classy-gents.tumblr.com/post/16163824557/langsdorff
What a disgrace! That’s embarrasing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yUukyFNRWk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl7BQ5ZGGz8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzbPQZi62EM&feature=related
who’s Kanwulf?
as you know i’m very into metal.
But there are a lot of things, i dislike regarding Black Metal, which is although in a way my favorited sub-gernre of metal.
in this video he tries to impress the buyers of his records with his pseudo-black-metal-attitude, which has nothing to do with Black Metal.
attitude to life and the taste of music are very different things in my optinion.
he’s also upset because of the negative feedback he earned by doing so. and he is fraudulent/mendacious over and over.
yeh .. i got the impression he was posing.
i think it was the stuff about hair that put me off. A very superficial, inconsequential thing to be concerned about.
but there is also a other source of shame within BM:
Gaahl
apart from that he’s ok.
here’s a treat for you 8-) ..
a horribly painful deep and meaningful interview with Pete Townsend on german tv in 1969
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEz8zv9ScWE
thank you!:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xjd05e_pete-townshend-interviewed-on-beat-club-special-1969_music
on youtube it’s blocked. just want to recheck if it is the right link?!
yeh .. that’s the one. That’s the culprit!
what a fascinating story.
thank you!
i think it’s funny how they’re taking it so seriously
no, no, no it’s a great Denkanstoß.
“Black Metal was invented in Norway”
Interesting ….but I beg to differ with some of your statement although you’re probably right about the Norwegians ruling the Black Metal genre nowadays. I would say they’ve dominated the scene since the 1990s.
I’m pretty sure some of them bands from Norway were inspired to play by listening to some of these bands who came onto the music scene in the late 70s and 80s.
Sodom: Witchhammer
Silence is consent
Agent Orange
Celtic Frost: a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3wp8bvFjHY”>
Into The Crypts Of Rays
Bathory: Satan My MasterOne Rode To Asa Bay
Mercyful Fate: Nuns have no fun
Black Funeral
Venom: In League with Satan
Countess bathory/Seven Gates of Hell
Black Metal 1996 reunion tour “Second Coming” with original members Cronos, Abaddon and Mantas
…there’s so many others too. So who really did invent “Black Metal”?
I like some of the bands that hail out of Norway, but what was up with the church burnings, I mean why they so fucking serious?
Man, it’s all just Rock ‘N’ Roll! B-)m/
Yes, you’re right, of course. the so called “first wave of Black Metal”.
I said “invented”, but they only modified this music.
but the typically Black Metal sound (i mean the Black-Metal sound of the second wave) was made up there, which they first called Death-Metal by the way.
This was:
- overdriving the guitars so much that you have to listen exactly to get the chords.
- using rubbish-microphones to make the sound more “true”.
- making the vocals unintelligible
- using less (2-3) chords, for a whole album
- designing a repetitive sound, which sounds at least for me like military marches for other maybee like industrial machinery. (i mean the mantra-like repeating of the sound might bee the possible new thing, which was added to the music)
if you disagree with me, feel free to put in a caveat!
I really like the repetitive stuff within it, while other fans like it more unorganised, chaotically up to unmelodically, and spoofing this stuff.
oh yeah!
repetitive music!
Immortal -Tyrants
Immortal -Tyrants
i was live at this crowd by the way.
No disagreement from me on your analysis there IR, it’s right on. B-)
…I think you know this.
Here’s some of my other favorite Norwegian Black Metal hits.
Dimmu Borgir – Sorgens Kammer Del. II
Gorgoroth – Carving a Giant
The Black Satans – The Mutilation of Christ True Norwegian Black Metal from Finland.;)
taking time out for a lighter moment ..
a nation’s incarceration rate is a symptom of the degree of oppression of the lower strata of society: (unless you believe the poorer people of particular nations are born criminal)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
( approx * per 100,000)
740 – USA
540 – Russia
330 – Iran
200 – New Zealand
160 – United Kingdom
150 – Venezuela
90 – Germany
80 – Sweden
60 – Japan
I suppose some countries are not on the list, because if you chop prisoner’s heads off, they are not technically incarcerated any longer. (Problem solved!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDwsNLwheS4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6AexMEfxlE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me8IENHuPuU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR3uF1bAfeA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS5c2S4mWAQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHVGQ7z91uM
good stuff, mr ir
“For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.” - Carl Bernstein (1944 – ????)
I’m spending the day dog-sitting (that’s Molly prairie-dogging for a better smell) for my sister. It’s been a dry winter, but a series of small storms is supposed to make up for it starting today. At day break, the sky is full of clouds. I’d settle for a good fizzling out.
Hwæt!
manufactured “deep events” direct national propaganda and actions, rather than the wishes of the explicit government in authority. (Similar to the way poles and zeros dictate the characteristics of an engineering system)
http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/hostage-to-false-flag-terror-link.html
“So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
- Matthew 20:16
“It’s the lionesses’ job to do the hunting.”
– Scar
Or is it the other way around?
Well, it depends on your perspective. Did you ever play with towers of Hanoi, when you were a kid?
No, but I had a friend that wrote a program in Pascal to work the puzzle. The program was short, but the steps it performed were very tedious to say the least.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jossW8bckcQ
Wööööörd!!!
Bullyparade is the best!
Cöw deedaaaleee döw!!! Schnitt in dåå middle!
- Dr. Wolf Jake, Ph.D. & Wild wild west expert
oh ja!
genau!
Du kannst nicht treu sein!
AMAZING PRODUCTS
Are they deliberately mimicking an American accent?
yes, of course!
(but i think the dudes from the bullyparade, are bettern in doing so)
Smile, your local leader loves idiots.
“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
“I live on good soup, not fine words.” - Jean-Baptiste Poquelin – Molière (1622-1673)
“It’s a thin soup, made from the bones of a bird that had starved to death.” — A. Lincoln
“Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.”
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
“In case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.”
- François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778)
“My horses are extremely valuable, worth far more than slaves. They are so smart that they could drive themselves. They don’t even need the yoke.”
- Gaius Appuleius Diocles (104 – 149AD)
“We who are so proud of our will, who believe that we are free to act as we like, are in reality nothing but wretched puppets of which our imagination holds all the strings. We only cease to be puppets when we have learned to guide our imagination.”
- Émile Coué de la Châtaigneraie (1857-1926)
Don’t fret, my love!
Oh wait, Neuroway doesn’t do puns. Anyone care to explain my post to him?
Anyone might not be wise enough to understand your puns, Evan. Would you care to explain them yourself? Tell me. What do you see inside “Don’t fret, my love!”? You really see a lot of things inside that sentence?
“A crowd thinks in images, and the image itself immediately calls up a series of other images, having no logical connection with the first. We can easily conceive this state by thinking of the fantastic succession of ideas to which we are sometimes led by calling up in our minds any fact. Our reason shows us the incoherence there is in these images, but a crowd is almost blind
to this truth, and confuses with the real event what the deforming action of its imagination has superimposed thereon. A crowd scarcely distinguishes between the subjective and the objective. It accepts as real the images evoked in its mind, though they most often have only a very distant relation with the observed fact.” - Gustave Le Bon (1841 – 1931)
“When Israel gets caught doing something, Hollywood gets a new movie telling us how bad Germans are.” – Kill Democracy Before It Kills Us
OK Chief! Let’s kill democracy before it kills us! And while we’re at it, let’s make sure it suffers before it dies, because democracy can be quite a pain in the neck, it is true… Now… Who should rule the many? The few? The most virtuous? The most vicious? The wisest? The richest? The poorest? The weakest? The strongest? The sneakiest? The most machiavelic? The most pitiful? The youngest? The oldest? The most imaginative? The most reasonable? Tell me, mijj. Who do you really think rules this freaking world?
Insects.
That’s an imaginative idea, to say the least.
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“When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.”
- Émile Coué de la Châtaigneraie (1857-1926)
As you can tell by the number of words I used, I did say the least.
That which can read your mind can cheat you blind.
lol .. so, you didn’t actually bother to go to the link.
I admire your ability to go on a rant based entirely on your imagination.
Rather a Gallic talent, eh?
Gallic talent? Why gallic? Can you explain to me? Is that a pun?
He meant garlic, because he was pressed for time.
There’s a great article hiding behind an unrepresentative quote!
It’s a great, illuminating quote. Full stop. (The article where it came from is great too!)
Seriously…
WTF happened to this site?
I’ve been busy having one drummer after the next forestall the completion of the recording I’ve been trying to all last year. Finally going to track with a drummer this week who can actually get the part for sure, so I thought I’d check in here. I have been checking in here off and on, but it wasn’t until just about now that I noticed a huge absence of word videos for quite few months now. Marina herself seems to be somewhat absent from the site.
Soooooo….. Any old schoolers like me still around? As in fans going way back to the early days of HFW? Can somebody fill me in on what’s up? Why does it appear as though Marina has abandoned the making of the very same videos that made her so popular? Why has she stopped interacting with her students? Usually, she’d be the one to answer that, but she seems to be missing in action at her own website. Haven’t had much luck tweeting her either.
I hope its a good thing, like she got a film role or is developing a show or something like that. I have other musical opportunities, so I’m not worried about that, but I can say that I am worried about her. She’s a fantastic person, educator, and video artist. She brings infotainment up to a whole new level. It would truly be a sad thing if this is a permanent absence and not a temporary one. I’d love to be filled in on what happened and where she is these days. Little help?
And to those of you who know me and am curious about my music, I am going to be finishing up the recording of ‘The Harder They Fall’ this month, and will still put it up on youtube once I get the video done. I’m sorry I’ve struggled for a while only to not have anything yet, but I’m not about to give up and abandon my music. Marina always said I should find other youtube personalities as well as her to crosspromote my music when it’s done, and I guess that’s who I’ll have to seek out if she’s no longer in the game. No offense to them, but Marina will always be my number one choice, and I’m still hoping she gets back in action sooner rather than later. Only, not much I can do about it if she has chosen to retire the making of the word videos. Those videos are a big part of what got Marina to where she is today. If she stops being prolific in putting them out, then I fear her subscriber base is going to stop growing, and will eventually dwindle and fade. Now is the time to be building on success rather than resting on one’s laurels, but who knows… Marina is an artist and an entrepeneur, so I’m sure she has her reasons. What she seems to have stopped being is an educator, and that concerns me, because she was so good at it. Not sure why she’d stop when she was always more passionate about all of this than any of the rest of us were. I always admired her ability to make a name for herself using this website and youtube. I always pictured hotforwords as constantly growing and evolving, and never thought it would stop. For now tho, it appears that it has stopped, at least the educational philologist side to it. I’d be very much interested as to the reason why.
And to those of you who know me and am curious about my music, I am going to be finishing up the recording of ‘The Harder They Fall’ this month, and will still put it up on youtube once I get the video done. I’m sorry I’ve struggled for a while only to not have anything yet, but I’m not about to give up and abandon my music. Marina always said I should find other youtube personalities as well as her to crosspromote my music when it’s done, and I guess that’s who I’ll have to seek out if she’s no longer in the game. No offense to them, but Marina will always be my number one choice, and I’m still hoping she gets back in action sooner rather than later. Only, not much I can do about it if she has chosen to retire the making of the word videos. Those videos are a big part of what got Marina to where she is today. If she stops being prolific in putting them out, then I fear her subscriber base is going to stop growing, and will eventually dwindle and fade. Now is the time to be building on success rather than resting on one’s laurels, but who knows… Marina is an artist and an entrepeneur, so I’m sure she has her reasons. What she seems to have stopped being is an educator, and that concerns me, because she was so good at it. Not sure why she’d stop when she was always more passionate about all of this than any of the rest of us were. I always admired her ability to make a name for herself using this website and youtube. I always pictured hotforwords as constantly growing and evolving, and never thought it would stop. For now tho, it appears that it has stopped, at least the educational philologist side to it. I’d be very much interested as to the reason why.
How exactly?
Discus kept saying ‘error’, then posted my comment 3 times. couldn’t erase it so i just re-edited
The same thing just happened to me (see pix). As your comment and my reply was long, perhaps it had to do with the length of the text. I’ll report that to DISQUS.
Meanwhile, if you get the error, instead of trying to post it again, refresh the page and see if it posted OK.
DISQUS has opened a case on this problem and is working on it.
And to those of you who know me and am curious about my music, I am going to be finishing up the recording of ‘The Harder They Fall’ this month, and will still put it up on youtube once I get the video done. I’m sorry I’ve struggled for a while only to not have anything yet, but I’m not about to give up and abandon my music. Marina always said I should find other youtube personalities as well as her to crosspromote my music when it’s done, and I guess that’s who I’ll have to seek out if she’s no longer in the game. No offense to them, but Marina will always be my number one choice, and I’m still hoping she gets back in action sooner rather than later. Only, not much I can do about it if she has chosen to retire the making of the word videos. Those videos are a big part of what got Marina to where she is today. If she stops being prolific in putting them out, then I fear her subscriber base is going to stop growing, and will eventually dwindle and fade. Now is the time to be building on success rather than resting on one’s laurels, but who knows… Marina is an artist and an entrepeneur, so I’m sure she has her reasons. What she seems to have stopped being is an educator, and that concerns me, because she was so good at it. Not sure why she’d stop when she was always more passionate about all of this than any of the rest of us were. I always admired her ability to make a name for herself using this website and youtube. I always pictured hotforwords as constantly growing and evolving, and never thought it would stop. For now tho, it appears that it has stopped, at least the educational philologist side to it. I’d be very much interested as to the reason why.
Everything you’ve noticed is correct. If you look at http://hotforwords.com/2011/07/24/15-wonderful-words-with-no-english-equivalent/, you will find that others noticed the same thing. Even the infamous
Charles T. Como made a cryptic appearance here then and he didn’t sound all that confident or happy with the situation. It all started when M did a series of about 6 videos from a strange place (echoey hallway?) and she appeared to be disturbed about something (broken heart?), eliciting a flurry of guesses from her fans on YT. Then those vids were pulled.
Since then, she has reposted some words and made a few blogs (like this one) that appeared to be simply fillers. She hasn’t appeared in the comments since. I believe the site was tweaked to improve things back then and then moved from Florida to Seattle, so someone is doing something, but I don’t know who is responsible.
Lately there has been the rumor that she is visiting (moved to?) NYC. Who the heck knows?
So far we have been in mushroom mode and just “Schultzing:” I KNOW NOTHING! I think things would have been a lot better if she had just confided in us and maintained a dialog. This silence is maddening.
When exactly did this all happen? Did she pull those videos down for quality control, or was there some sort of controversy? I sincerely doubt that this is the end for HotForWords, but it is most definitely concerning to those of us who have grown accustomed to her internet presence. I tweet her sometimes and email occasionally, but it’s always been here where she’s been most available. She built this website up on her own and ran it herself quite well. This was homebase for her phenomenon. I’m sure it still is, but it seems to be in limbo right now. At least she has been putting up some new stuff, but it still seems more like going through the motions.
It’s hard to say what the hiatus might be, especially if Marina is remaining mum about it. She is an artist. She could be having a block in inspiration or going through a transitional period. And she’s undoubtedly a very intelligent person with a passionate spirit, so who knows where her current journey lies.
Thing is, this is so not like her. She’s about 40000+ subscribers short of 500000. Usually this would mean she’d be churning out a bunch of vids and making a big drive to reach that half a million subscriber. Plus we’re talking about a person who makes awesomely entertaining philology videos, so why would she stop doing something she’s got such a gift for? No one else is capable of doing quite what she does. It’s a shame to see her not being her usual prolific self. I mean, the word request backlog has got to be HUGE at this point.
Another thing is that she loves her students, especially us old schoolers. Clearly, she’s still hanging in there, and the cooking and painting vids were a real treat. But overall, it seems our trusty teacher has gone on an unannounced vacation without telling the student body. It’s no wonder some of us are sitting around scratching our heads in an empty virtual classroom.
My biggest concern at this point is how this is going to effect the future of HotForWords. Besides being a loyal fan and friend of Marina’s, I am totally dedicated to the mission statement of this website and all that encompasses HFW… Intelligence is sexy, and people can be educated in entertaining ways. Philology being popular in the American culture is a very good thing. No matter how successful that mission has been so far, it needs to build on its successes as it moves forward to a bigger and brighter future. Look how successful it’s been so far… why stop now? Marina earned everything she got, and built this all up from the ground up. HotForWords deserves the best, and so does Marina. So do all of us who care tremendously about this site and her. It would be a very good thing if this hiatus ended and she got back on track.
I would suggest that those of us concerned about her should band together and try to get to the bottom of this. We need to go about it in a way that is not intrusive, that is not pressuring her to do anything other than what she feels is best for her right now. If she is going through something, she deserves the space and time to process. At the same time, she won’t begrudge us for caring and wanting to know what’s up. I have faith that it will work itself out in time, but I also totally believe in making a kind, friendly effort to inspire her to make word videos again. Things like that make a difference, and we all need a support system sometimes of friends who care and want the best for us. All I want is to see her back in action, and to see her get to that 500000 youtube subscriber base she has worked so hard to build. Let’s see what we can do if we handle it in a way that is sensitive to her artistry, her intelligence, her individuality. It’s definitely worth a shot.
EF wrote: “When exactly did this all happen? Did she pull those videos down for quality control, or was there some sort of controversy?”
It was about 5 or 6 months ago (there’s a gap in videos between 7 and 4 months ago). I don’t know what you mean by quality control in this instance, but I think she thought better of those videos and removed them. She seemed depressed in most of them. The last one had her asking if she thought we liked her just because of her sexiness and then she unzipped the back of her dress while facing away and… well, let’s just say it was memorable. In one, she went on and on about how she thought a guy asking a girl, “‘Sup?” was disrespectful, etc. Most fans (including me) replied that this was over the top, although we could see that she was definitely unhappy about something. EF wrote: “It would be a very good thing if this hiatus ended and she got back on track.”That pretty much sums up what we were and are all thinking, so you are preaching to the choir. Now let’s just hope she reads your analysis and takes it to heart. However, I don’t have much expectation that she will, though, because six months is enough time for snapping out of a funk if it’s going to happen. I think everyone feels she could be “fixed” by just giving her a big hug, and, of course, each of us feels we are just the right person to do it.
EF wrote: “When exactly did this all happen? Did she pull those videos down for quality control, or was there some sort of controversy?”
It was about 5 or 6 months ago (there’s a gap in videos between 7 and 4 months ago). I don’t know what you mean by quality control in this instance, but I think she thought better of those videos and removed them. She seemed depressed in most of them. The last one had her asking if she thought we liked her just because of her sexiness and then she unzipped the back of her dress while facing away and… well, let’s just say it was memorable. In one, she went on and on about how she thought a guy asking a girl, “‘Sup?” was disrespectful, etc. Most fans (including me) replied that this was over the top, although we could see that she was definitely unhappy about something. EF wrote: “It would be a very good thing if this hiatus ended and she got back on track.”That pretty much sums up what we were and are all thinking, so you are preaching to the choir. Now let’s just hope she reads your analysis and takes it to heart. However, I don’t have much expectation that she will, though, because six months is enough time for snapping out of a funk if it’s going to happen. I think everyone feels she could be “fixed” by just giving her a big hug, and, of course, each of us feels we are just the right person to do it.
> “I think everyone feels she could be “fixed” by just giving her a big hug, and, of course, each of us feels we are just the right person to do it.”
I imagine, from her side, this would look as frightening as a zombie attack .. all us slobbering misfits lurching down the road with arms outstretched and lust in our eyes!
“boobies!” .. “BOOOOBIEEEES!”
Yes, but how many zombies say, “There, there, now?”
I don’t know about fixing her. Or even if she’s broken. I do know it’s not a good thing that she is not building her fanbase, putting out word vids, and manning this site.
I guess there’s not enough concerned old schoolers even around currently to do anything about it. That’s cool. I’ll just keep checking in with her ’til I find out what’s up. I know her, she’ll be back in action sooner or later. Hopefully it will be sooner rather than later.
i’m just as puzzeld as you are.
Maybe just taking a break form it and doing a bit of paining to unwind
“Learn by Suffering.” - Aeschyllus
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“If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will live for, he isn’t fit to die.”
-Dr.. Erm.. Ph.D.. well…. Long, long country story…
“Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.”
- Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
“Electricity is really just organized lightning.” - George Carlin (1937-2008)
Actually, it’s the other way around.
“People only see what they are prepared to see.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
“Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.”
- William A. Feather (1881-1989)
“There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry”.
– George Armstrong Custer (New Rumley, Ohio, 1839 – Battle of Little Bighorn, Big Horn County, Montana, 1876)
“When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.”
- Émile Coué de la Châtaigneraie (1857-1926)
“The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.”
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
“There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.”
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Es are good, Es are good, Ebeneezer Good – The Shamen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFJdUJg4wOk
pole dancing for jesus..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rIHd7SM1co
(via curledmoss)
Wotta?
“Errare humanum est, perseverare autem diabolicum.” - Seneca the Younger (4BC-65AD)
“I have made 200 films, of which 150 were crap.” – Gérard Depardieu (1948 – ????)
Wakie wakie, sleepyheads!
Welsh bagpipes!
And here you thought the Scots were the only cuprits!
PS “Meillionen” is Welsh for clover.
Also see M’s lesson on ukulele
nice tune :)
Wotta?
“Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.”
- Publius Vergilius Maro (70BC-19BC)
“You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks.”
- Inuit proverb
Hiyu man klatawa kopa kanim!
Did Aguirre start a guerre?
No. He started a rebellion, and was cut to pieces. The letter he wrote to his king, Philip II, in 1561, is of some historical interest. Here’s a link to a translation of it.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1561aguirre.asp
Pourquoi la surprise? C’est seulement un gorille géant tenant une belle jeune femme que le soleil se lève sur la rivière.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=SAN20120109&articleId=28554 >
How to start a war and blame the other guy. The US Use of War Pretext Incident
.. just preparing you guys for Iran
Is this safe? … http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/images-SSCweb/ThisIsPublicHealth-SafeSchools.png … wake http://images.nationmaster.com/images/motw/islands_oceans_poles/wake_island_1970.jpg
@EvanOwen98248
What a map to wake up to!
Life will bring you down at least once. Rise again after every fall, and you’ll win.
“μολὼν λαβέ!”
“It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.” - Sitting Bull (1831-1890)
…sometimes erroneously attributed to Egil Krough, official in the Nixon administration during Watergate.
Well, he was parroting Sitting Bull, then. Or the persons who attributed this quote to him suffered from a crass lack of knowledge of the history of the US.
Melon lips?
No. Molon labe. I bet you’ll find something about it on the www.
Will someone explain puns to Neuroway?
Actually, that looks more like a banana in the closeup; my bad.
This is why Brits grow up crazy.
“I remixed a remix, again. It is back to normal.” - Mitchell Lee Hedberg (1968-2005)
Hey HotForWords, how did you get your comments to look like thist? The headers looked like they are brushed and fade in/out. Can you explain how you did that?
@ mhazel The odds of M actually replying are about 1:1,000,000. Things have changed around here from “the good ol’ days” for reasons we know not. We don’t even know if she is managing the site nowadays.
By fade in/out, do you mean that that the color saturation varies from the top of the bar to the bottom? I notice that the saturation is even across the bar at disqus.com and sacbee.com. How do the settings adjust the color? Is it just specified by a number or do you supply a sample of some kind?
Yeah, that is what I meant. How do you get comments to look like this?
Copy the contents of this link to your custom CSS:
http://mediacdn.disqus.com/uploads/styles/54/5183/hotforwords.css?u=1303791782
Thanks.
Hungry?
“Tierna azucena eres,
a tu campo celeste
trasplantada y alegre
por el sueño solomne,
que te hace aquí, imponente,
tendida espada fuerte.”
- Juan Ramón Jiménez – La Espada
¡Oh guitarra! Corazón malherido
Por cinco espadas!
– Federíco García Lorca – La Guitarra
“A h*rse never runs so fast as when he has other h*rses to catch up and outpace.
Giddy Up!!!
“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.”
– Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Actually, by good sleep, the water that’s in the bath and the wine that’s in the glass. Only fools bathe in polluted water. Only fools drink filthy wine.
Truth bathes in good Wine.
“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.” - Albert Einstein
“The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen.”
– Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
“A man’s kiss is his signature.” - Mae West (1893-1980)
New video from M did not show up on my YT subscription page for some reason.
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
– Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982)
“A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.” - Adrienne C. Rich (1929 – ????)
“Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth – look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.”
- Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
Someday when a couple of cameras will be fastened to a blind person’s head and fed into an implant, will they turn off the camera just as they kiss?
No.
Hey, Marutei Tsurunen is from Finland! And here I thought the Diet of Japan was, like, sushi and yakisoba!
Doh! How did we miss THIS??!!
Taco Clock
Taco Clock
Hey! Where’s @leonard ?
COOKING LESSON: The Pudding à l’Arsenic!!!
“There is nothing like the passage of time to make the world’s smartest people look like idiots.”
— Lev Grossman
Come get some! - Duke Nukem
“He who takes the Queen’s Knight’s Pawn will sleep in the streets.” - Anonymous
Je suis malade aujourd’hui; ce qu’il ya d’autre à faire que perdre du temps sur HotForWords? :-(
Eh bien, vous pourriez lire “Les Pensées” de Blaise Pascal, entre autres…
Oui, mais avec cette fièvre c’est la même chose que Asterix et Obelisk!
Toutes les misères des hommes dérivent de ne pas être capable de s’asseoir seul dans une pièce calme.
Peut-on être stupide que celle d’un homme a le droit de me tuer parce
qu’il vit de l’autre côté d’une rivière et son maître a une querelle
avec le mien, si je n’ai pas disputé avec lui?
Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the
Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a
campaign to force the indigenous population from its land
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/9005835/Loggers-burned-Amazon-tribe-girl-alive.html
The War on Iran: Phase I
http://wartard.blogspot.com/2012/01/war-on-iran-phase-i.html
One man’s Mede is another man’s Persian.
They tried to draft me for war in the Gulf, but Iran!
Q. Who filled the huge hole in the History of Western Civilization between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance?
A. Barbarians from the Dark Ages, who developed the well known concept of intellectual darkness.
How the Irish Saved Civilization
LOL!
not every military intervention is bad. The Intervention of the US, France and GB in Libya was absolute tenable.
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Stamps_of_Germany_%28DDR%29_1968,_MiNr_1371.jpg&filetimestamp=20110613210406
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Stamps_of_Germany_%28DDR%29_1969,_MiNr_1476.jpg&filetimestamp=20081121212858
Oh yeah, with such a mighty and professional army as the US one, full of altruistic and highly trained soldiers, backed by great military victories such as Viet-Nam, Afghanistan and Iraq, I’m sure Iran will be conquered in a few weeks. What do I say? I few days!
A beautiful imagination should be freed from reason. An ugly one should be ruled by it.
freezing outside here in japan tonight. according to weather reports, Fuyu Shogun is gonna stay in japan for several days. Fuyu Shogun…. it literally means General Winter.
Dress warmly!
thank you for the very cute 日本猿 Evan-san!
どういたしまして。
(Hitoshi-san must have a HUGE keyboard to hold 6000 kanji characters!) :-D
大漢和辞典
Furigana: phonetic Japanese writing!
My best friend ,she just has
announced her wedding with a millionaire young man Ronald who is the CEO of a
MNC ! They met via RichFlirt.org….it’s where for men and women looking for
comp’anionship for a fabu’lous lifestyle, maybe you want to try it out :) .
…you don’t have to be rich there ,but you can meet one. It’s worth a try.
Spam!
REPEAT AFTER ME: I’m talking to you… I’m talking to you…
YOU, YOU, I’m talkin’ to you!
Are you talkin’ to me?
SHOOT!
You talkin’ to me?
“There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.”
– Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
http://twitter.com/#!/hotforwords/status/156569307583758336
“Work like you don’t need the money, Love like you’ve never been hurt, Dance like nobody’s watching.”
And then, my friend, you die.
“Work like you need the money. Love like you’ve been hurt many, many times. Dance like everybody’s watching. And then, my friend, you…”
…will go crazy.
“STOP IT! I’mma gonna teach you good manners, you freaky little punk!”
- Gaius Julius Caesar to Marcus Junius Brutus Caepio (before march 15th 44BC)
ASTERIX & OBELIX GREEK 80′S
Je pense que vous avez trop de temps à dépenser, mon ami!
“Ποιο είναι το μοβ και κατακτά τον κόσμο; Alexander the Grape!” - Φίλιππος Β’ ὁ Μακεδών (382-336BC)
Wotta?
H2O with an English accent? Love the way they say “cah” for voiture — auto a-rhotic, say what?
Him & his ox-headed horse, too!
“Eh, listen up, and listen good, you bunch of pitiful consanguine mongrelic brood of barbaric cousins! I have massacred one million of you, kapiche?”
- Gaius Julius Caesar (100BC – 44BC)
“I have myself massacred a few men of iron here and there (during my day). I don’t know if they were cousins or not though. Shall I not crush a few men of butter for my little evening snack?”
- Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel (1507-1582)
“And I mein herr komrads, I, I… Himmelkreutzsakrament. I think I should shut the fick up. Gute Nacht.”
– Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN!!! Altrimenti ci arrabbiamo. Kapiche?
“And I, oh, I was soooo miswunderstigmated, friendos.”
– A Great Unknown Conqueror (????-????)
“RRRRRRRRRTTTT” {eructation} - Saturnus
Teppichfresser!
Hetalia Nazis!
Who you talkin’ too, eh? Are you talkin’ to me? ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?
“WOW! WOWOWOWWWW! Easy, boy! You crazy or what? Don’t do that you little bastard. You hear me? Don’t do it, damn it!”
– Gaius Julius Caesar to Marcus Junius Brutus Caepio (15 march 44BC)
Ne
gomzan ket Latin mat! :-P
learn how to juggle with ..
Moebius & Plank – Missi Cacadou
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I96FczyNfK8
Let’s carry on with harmless pop-music! enough of this militant provoking music, on this sensitive HFW-board!
re military provoking music: .. interesting view. I don’t see variations of metal as military provoking. It depends on your background i think. Metal is industrial working class music – it reflects the qualities of mechanical industry. British metal started in the UK midlands industrial manufacturing area – ie. car manufacturing. Black Sabbath got their sound from the machinery in the car manufacturing factory they worked in. But if you don’t have an industrial background or environment, you would probably associate it with the military because you have no other reference.
oh sorry, you get me wrong, i meant militant AND provoking. you know my english is not the best.
ah .. ok .. lol .. sorry i misunderstood.
i guess i have stuff churning in the back of my mind about where people mistake “industrial” music style for “military” (eg. Rammstein)
and yeh .. good idea to mix up the styles.
on that note ..
Cocteau Twins – Ivo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-AWEkkgoko
lyrics to Cocteau Twins – Ivo
Ivo, Peach blow, Pandora, Pompadour
Pale leaf, Pink sweet, Persephone, we all adore Ivo
Ivo Ivo, bit animal, Ivo Ivo
We all adore Ivo Ivo Ivo
With the part animal, Peep peep, we all adore Ivo
We all adore Ivo, Bit animal, Ivo Ivo
We all adore Ivo
Ivo Ivo
With the part animal
(x2)
Predentive, Predo
Pra-da-da-dee
Ivo, Peach blow, Pandora, Pompadour
Pale leaf, Pink sweet, Persephone
(x2)
We all adore
Ivo
Bit animal
Ivo Ivo
We all adore Ivo
Ivo Ivo
With the part animal
Ivo Ivo
(x2)
Ivo, Peach blow, Pandora
slick rhythms there, by the way. 8-)
time to soften the edges of you heathen, ill-educated scumbags with a little poetry ..
Evidentley Chicken Town – John Cooper Clarke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkU2PlzBIP0
I hate poetry,
I don’t know how you stand it.
If I re-incarnate as king, history will report,
That I came back and banned it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIqePfR8FxA
unfortunately there are no wolves anymore in norway, what a pitty.
it also makes this cd-cover obsolete btw.
wolves only survived in the east.
what a indescribable crime to nature!
wow! .. great bit of music, IR.
My meagre payment is
Captain Beefheart & Magic Band – Electricity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JEOtSVkjJc
do you know a little bit of Black Metal?
i’ve never known that category before. Sounds interesting tho.
it’s mainly scandanavian, is it? All the interesting metal comes from north europe, i reckon.
i don’t know how to categorise this. It’s the intro music to Riget (danish tv program)
Illdisposed - The Kingdom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrqmkmUsTBo
Daily Comment Weirdness Report:
The “(Edited by author [age of edit])” statement that now appears at the end of any edited comment is new in the last few days. It only appears on the current (this one) blog for edits you make now, but not if you edit older blogs. It also works that way at disqus.com. However I did find a site (sacbee.com) where no statement appears at all.
“A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her.”
– W.C. Fields (1880-1946)
Life is a one way road. Oh! I forgot! It’s a cul-de-sac too! Now, smile, stand, take a deep breath, and run like hell!
¡Eh, tu! Giddyup!!!
Plaît-il?
Life is a one way road.
“Intelligent people know how to unleash their mind, but they also know how to leash it back and walk it around like a domesticated spirit.”
“It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)
¡SPLASH!
P-N8=Qch
No. It’s a black pawn, by convention starting the game on the seventh row. The correct notation for this move would be:
Pn1=Q. And ch is used only for the king. A queen in never in check. You just take it like any other piece on the board when you can.
Let me guess. Chess is not really your forte, is it?
I learned the game in the late 1950s, and above, used the Descriptive Chess Notation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptive_chess_notation) prevalent until 1981. Notation for the move was dependent on the color of the piece moved, thus the far row of the board was the 8th row, whether one was black or white. Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) now uses algebraic notation, in which the move would be Pb1 or Pg1, queen side or king side, respectively. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_chess_notation)
A pawn becoming a queen could very likely put the opponent’s king in check or even checkmate on the same move. So of course I was not referring to a queen being put in check.
Screw the queen. Concentrate on the opponent’s king. That’s chess’ rule NUMERO UNO. NUMERO UNO I say.
hey! .. new post!
How about that!
διαίρει καὶ βασίλευε
How about that?
the world is full of coincidinks isn’t it .. i was just lookin at this a few hours ago ..
http://warincontext.org/2012/01/07/the-divided-brain/
No. It was not a coïncidence, if that’s what you mean. “coincidink” is not a word, by the way. And no, I don’t think the world is full of coïncidences. Coïncidences are very rare. And when you experiment too many of them, if you’re intelligent enough, you’ll start thinking that something around you is not “statistically normal”, if you know what I mean, because “normal statistics” generate very precise mathematical curves than can be extremely well modelized nowadays.
As for the little video, I saw your link in the Tweeple window above. And I found it very interesting. Good one, mijj!
> ”coincidink” is not a word, by the way.
that makes absolutely no sense.
hmm… Are you okay?
If I tell you: “aslfsdflkssf is not a word.” That makes absolutely no sense to you?
I’d recommend you read a couple of books on logical reasoning. I myself do not have the time to prove that my sentence makes sense, but I can assure you it does.
All right! I enjoyed our conversation, but I have to go. Arrivederci!
well yeh .. it’s a completely irrelevant.
Like it’s the result of some kind of random statement tourettes.
blblblblblblblblblblblblblbbbl!!!
i guess that’s your way of saying i’m right. 8-)
@mijj, your last answer makes absolutely no sense. Completely irrelevant. Your guess is your guess.. Worth nothing in my mind. I’m saying you’re wrong, actually. READ MY POST AGAIN: I AM SAYING YOU’RE WRONG.
LOTS of non-words later became words. Before Swift, Lilliputian and Brobdingnagian were not words. Fifteen years ago, “blog” would not have been recognized as a word.
Diarrhea and vaseline? Reminds me of what they’re saying about Santorum.
No. Divide and conquer. Attributed to Philip II, king of Macedon (382-336 BC), and also to Julius Caesar (100BC-44BC) I’m sure you’ll find something about them on the net if you don’t know who they are.
What’s the relation between the two hemispheres of the brain and diarrhea and vaseline? Can you be more explicit? As for Santorum, I assume you are talking about Rick Santorum the US politician, right? I trust that someone like you, with your age and your education, wouldn’t be thinking about something else…
I was attempting to make a pun, a form of humor that rests upon words resembling other words of similar sound but different meaning, e.g. “διαίρει καὶ βασίλευε” and “diarrhea and vaseline.”
In response to Rick Santorum’s comparison of homosexuality to child molestation and bestiality, gay rights activist Dan Savage promoted the neologism definition of {Santorum} as “”the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.”
I suppose after explaining it, it’s not very funny.
No, it’s not very funny. It is rather.. erm… How would I say… American? (I mean American in the US-vernacular sense of it) Excluding Canada and all other American countries like Mexico, Peru, Argentina, etc… etc…
I didn’t see diarrhea and vaseline in the greek words. I saw “diaper kai banlieue”. Eh. Cultural difference I guess…
The Mexes just say “estadounidense.”
Suburban nappies? I guess it still goes back to sh*t.
No. The Mexicans say “Gringos”. The Spaniards say “Estadounidenses”. The Canadians say “Blokes”. And the French say “Ricains”.
I say “Suburban nappies” is more elegant than “diarrhea and vaseline”.
Oh yeah, Gaius Iulius Caesar, the monster who boasted of massacring a million of our cousins, the Gauls…whose subsequent honors were like lionizing Hitler. Philip? Mostly I remember the joke, “What’s purple and conquers the world? Alexander the Grape!”
Oh! That’s what they said? Well, I didn’t know that!!!
Never trust the hand of a magician.
“… the Pawns: They are the very Life of this Game.”
– François-André Danican Philidor (1726-1795)
“The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.” - José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (1888-1942)
“The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.” - Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772)
Especially if it’s down your pants!
“Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation.”
- Sahibzada Sayyid Iskander Ali Mirza (1898-1969)
“The bull knows at the end of the fight
in which it tastes its sudden gush
that a wine with the taste of death
impedes life and unbalances it.
Hearts breathe through the wound
from an immense neighbouring one
and its vast power of pine and stone
falls helplessly weak to the sand.
And like the bull you, my proud blood,
the bitter cup of daily dying
imbibed by the spirit turbidly,
spills on my tongue a taste of sword
diluted by a strong thick wine pulsing
from my heart where I shall die.”
– Miguel Hernández Gilabert (1910-1942)
That photo looks like one of these…
Not bad, not bad… Powerful imagery, one must quite pertinently say! Now, cast your mind out of your brain, fly it around a bit, and try to perceive things from another perspective.
… or another… or… etc.. etc… and voilà, there you go, you’re on your way. Let it explode in all directions like a wild animal. See what its got inside its barbarous, bestial, savage and uncivilized belly, then break it, harness it and teach it the ways of good behaviour.
“I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.” - Charles V
“I remixed a remix and it was back to normal.”
– Mitchell L. Hedberg (1968-2005)
Wotta?
You know, generally speaking, when M gets involved with something new (like this TalkOClock business), she typically arranges to share in the riches one way or another. So, one could say that this blog is a commercial. ”Not that there is anything wrong with that.”
“If I spared your life, as you say, it was probably because I did not think it worthwhile to take it.”
– Francisco de Carvajal (1464-1548)
I would be very, very relieved if someone with a gun pointed at me thought that I was not worth the cost of a bullet. I’d be the first to declare that I was worthless. Yep!
“Powerful imagery disgusts the inferior.”
- @EGshlimAJ:twitter (????-????)
“RRRRAAAAATTTTATATATATATAT! PRRRROOOOOOOTTTTT! TTTT! POW POW!!! BING BANG PATAPOOOOF! FFFFFFFTTTTT!!! TTTTT!!!! ATTAAAAAAACK!!!”
– Guns’n Soldiers (1939-1945)
“You see, Italy is really a very poor and weak country, and that is what makes us so strong. Italian soldiers are not dying anymore. But American and German soldiers are. I call that doing extremely well.” — Catch-22
I don’t think Italy is waging a war somewhere on the planet at this time. Actually, I’m almost sure Italy didn’t bomb a single country since WWII. So I would assume that Italian soldiers are not dying for any cause anywhere. I guess Catch-22 is some fiction work. Am I right?
“US is in even worse shape than Greece.”
- Bill Gross (Pimpco founder and CEO)
Source: http://www.cnbc.com/id/43378973
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller, 1961) is a satirical novel set in Italy during World War II, after the Italians had withdrawn from the war and while the Allies and Germans were fighting for control of the country.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUIBeH0TnBs&feature=related
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Dear estimated IR. Do you happen to be from Zimbabwe, Israel or Afghanistan by any chance? Just curious. Also, if you don’t mind, could you pick a racial and ethnic category below which you think you belong to and which describes you best? Don’t feel compelled to answer, all right? ¡Gracias in advance, friendo!
A) Whites: those having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.
B) Blacks: those having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
C) Reds: those having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands; see also Pacific Islander American.
D) Yellows: those having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, and the South Asia.
E) Blues: This category captures responses from the rest (but non-USics).
F) USic/USish/USinos: People who self-identify themselves as having the heritage of the native Vernacular-American speaking nations of the Americas (in other words, USans).
i would pick A.
thx, for your funny comment, Neuroway!
unfortunately i was dump enough to answer this question. my bad.
Bah, that was nothing. Don’t assume you’re dumb just because you answered my little census question, all right? :-)
You know, thousands of people like you are willingly answering dumb, stupid questions like this one everyday, and don’t have the presence of mind to send the people who are asking them to hell.
Don’t forget the Greens. These are people who don’t want other colors (especially Whites) to have the advantages of modern science that allow them to arise above the subsistance level.
Celts: people who find ethnic diversity to be an endless source of merriment!
Very pleasing music, but it should have started a five seconds earlier in the video so that the viewer doesn’t start checking his headphone connections, etc. to see why the audio is dead.
What do you suppose the roof in the house at 0:40 is made of?
And where did the “Edited by author….” statement come from? It’s not from DISQUS. If, as I suspect, it is from you, you needn’t bother; as long as you do not change the sense of your comment, nobody cares that you edited it, especially if you correct errors. (The more of that, the better.)
no this information is not from me. i think it’s a function of DISQUS. and i don’t typed it there, if it is that what you mean. and i don’t know why it appears there, as little as i know why my hyperlinks/hypertexts don’t work.
i don’t know what I’m making wrong:
(Hyperlink Code)
the hyperlink is linked at the bottom, but when i click the text it always links to the “i like to watch”-video from marina.
ok, now it worked. i didn’t make something different. strange??
You had to make something different! Try practicing over here. If you can’t get something to work, I would be glad to try to figure it out.
You are right! I just changed one character in a comment by editing and the statement appeared. However, several test comments edited only two days ago did not have the statement. Therefore, in the last few days, someone has changed the way the site operates and it is not retroactive to older comments that were edited in the past.
I wonder if DISQUS did that or M did?
Breton music sung by a Magyar! Love it!
Alan Stivell – E Parrez Langonned
Bagpipes with Arany Zoltán! :-)
1 2 3 test test test
“It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.” - Ἡσίοδος (c. 700BC)
“Care should be taken that all buildings are well lighted: in those of the country this point is easily accomplished, because the wall of a neighbour is not likely to interfere with the light.”
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (70BC – 16BC)
“Impressive. Most impressive.” - Anakin Skywalker (41.9BBY – 4ABY)
A Ukrainian boy was going to marry a Russian girl. His father gave him several pieces of advice for his wedding night:
“At first, grab her firmly and throw her on the bed to show her that Ukraine is strong.”
“Then show her your dick so she should know that Ukraine is big.”
“Then jerk off and leave the room to convince her that Ukraine is independent.”
Slavic humor…Marina, is this funny? I mean, you being a Russian girl and all…
That parable was invented probably by Russians to laugh at the imperial aspirations of Ukraine. I should not quote such vulgar content anymore.
There was another example of Slavic humor, but less offensive – a story about Hungary during World War II:
In South America, at a diplomatic banquet, two men who were sitting at the table were talking to each other. They did not know, however, neither their nationalities nor the names.
“And which country do you represent?”, asked the representative of Uruguay.
“Hungary, sir.”
“Hungary…”, wondered the Uruguayan, “Excuse me, sir, but I forgot
where this country is located: in Europe or Asia?”
“In Europe”, said the offended Hungarian.
“Ah, yes, yes, so it must be one of the Slavic countries.”
“No, we live in Central Europe and we are descendants of the Huns.”
“You are descendants of the Huns and you live in central Europe… it’s
very interesting. And what is the type of political system in
Hungary?”
“We are a kingdom.”
“Oh, if I may ask, what is the name of your king?”
“We don’t have a king. Hungary is ruled by a regent, admiral Horthy”
“Ah, you have an admiral, so you must have a powerful fleet!”
“No, we don’t have any fleet, since my country has no access to the sea”
“What a strange land: a kingdom without a king, an admiral without a fleet. Does Hungary have any territorial claims?”
“Yes, we have claims to Romania and Yugoslavia.”
“So you fight against two countries at once!?”
“No, not at all, we don’t fight against them, but, on the contrary, now we are fighting side by side with them against the Soviet Union”
“So do you have any territorial claims to Russia?”
“No, we don’t.”
“Sir, I’m afraid one of us has drunk too much. Well, maybe better let’s stop talking about Hungary.”
In the Jaruzelski era, Tadeusz Klincewicz went shopping for bread for his family, and found the line outside the bakery to be a block long. Frustrated, he went to the butcher’s to buy meat; there, the line was three blocks long.
In fury and despair, he went to the presidential palace. “State your business,” the guard challenged him.
“To shoot Jaruzelski.”
The guard glared at him. “Get in line!” he barked.
And there, the line was ten kilometers long.
“Everything is wrong. My life is a country song.”
- Lene Grawford Nystrøm (1973 – ????)
“WEEEEEEHAAAAAAH!! HARDCORE 10-4!!!” - Indigenous vernacular savvy sayin’
“People sometimes get too serious about business. Business isn’t life itself: life is tragic, but business is not. Business, like racquetball, is fun.” – T. Boone Pickens (1928 – ????)
The main difference between a buffoon and an artist, between a mere trinket and the real thing is depth. A lot of depth.
“I perceive you wish to establish a pedigree for your martyrdom, so that you can point to it as an heirloom for your descendants? So be it, and now, adios.”
- Francisco de Carvajal (1464-1548)
You’re wearing BCBG attire. As an animal lover, you should ask BCBG to stop torturing animals to produce fur for their clothes! See http://www.care2.com/causes/bcbg-must-ditch-fur.html,
Hey, it’s nothing poisonal; it’s just bizness.
I get so bored with this stuff. What happened to the Words?
The only way to know that is to have been a fly on the wall when she went through her metamorphesis/epiphany/paradigm shift/colonic-gone-wrong or whatever the heck happened to her. We have all been in mushroom mode about that since it happened. Meanwhile, like you, this site’s pathetic band of hangers-on pathetically hang on to see what life after philology will be like.
You know, it didn’t take very much more than her pile of books and her laptop to carry on as she had been, so if she was making a satisfactory living from it, you would think she would indeed simply carry on. She could have cut way down on the hours it takes to produce a video and still have kept the site going along as usual and still have time to find her new self or get herself “recentered” or whatever she is doing.
In other words, I don’t know what happened to the words either.
Interesting to say the least! ..
red wing…the music machine…
You’d answer her call, wouldn’t you?
First! (Big deal nowadays!)
What do you think of this TalkOClock thing? Don’t we have enough going on without a stranger calling us up at 3 AM to ask how to unstop their toilet? Of course, M can call any time.
You’d answer her call, wouldn’t you?
I think it is extremely interesting! Really! I’ll open a talkoclock account right now and start calling my first strangers all around the world.
OK CK! I enjoyed your daily comment weirdness reports and suggestions about testing on the net but I have to go. Arrivederci. N.