Smart Alec

  • 30th May 2012 at 1:58 pm
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 Hello my dear students!

Today, we use the term “smart Alec” to describe anyone who is overly self-confident, or pretentious about their own cleverness. But where did it come from?

Click here to find out!
Lots of love,
Marina Orlova

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  1. Beaudetsmith says:
    14 Oct, 2012 at 6:31 pm

    This is so very Creative and Mind Blowing Picture.
    http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=submission&id=2305599

  2. l-p-r says:
    16 Aug, 2012 at 11:09 pm

    http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/teacher-accused-having-group-sex-students-video-134339076–abc-news-topstories.html

  3. Neuroway says:
    16 Aug, 2012 at 2:17 pm

    An extremely brainy scientific study has found that men are 60% stronger than women in average. Is it true???

  4. Neuroway says:
    16 Aug, 2012 at 10:50 am

    “Imma letcha finish off this silly stupid ridiculous post of yours, but be informed that I have decided that Imma gonna make a move on ya. Ya’r on my list. Wanna drink some prime puppet pusher, eh, Neuro?”
    -Death (speaking to Neuroway, right here right now)

  5. l-p-r says:
    15 Aug, 2012 at 11:37 pm

    August 14, 1784

    Russians land in Alaska for the first time
    On Kodiak Island, Grigory Shelikhov, a Russian fur trader, founds Three Saints Bay, the first permanent Russian settlement in Alaska.

    • Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
      16 Aug, 2012 at 1:18 pm

      The Russians also were in California at Fort Ross. A few years ago, a Russian friend of mine bought me a ticket on a bus full of Russians with a Russian-speaking tour guide, so I had to go out of politeness. The bus broke down and we had to wait for a replacement to show, but it was an otherwise nice trip with good cool spring weather. It was an interesting place, but not quite faithfully restored; the plate on the fort’s gate threshold that received the gate’s bolt was attached using Phillips-head screws. Since PH screws were invented in the 30′s, it was anachronistic. But I had a fun time exploring the fort and the area along the beach. The park ranger’s white clapboard house next door (20′s? 30′s?) had an official NWS weather station in the yard, so I got to check that out, too.

      There was some annual period-costume celebrations going on and had some 1800′s cannon firings and rifle shootings. The cannon loads were black powder in aluminum foil bags (some environmental reason for that). They came out of the cannon as shredded foil that flew about 10 yards, along with a really tremendous boom that you just don’t hear in everyday life. One of the flintlock rifles failed to fire and the drill was the firer had to stand stock still until a supervisor of some sort came over and checked things out. I guess once upon a time somebody fired a similar rifle and, as he was moving it around trying to figure out why it didn’t go off, it did, with it pointed who knows where. So a new rule to prevent knocking off one of the paid visitors (which is frowned upon).

  6. Neuroway says:
    15 Aug, 2012 at 10:03 pm

    “This website has become totally uninspiring. If it continues like this, I will kill Neuroway, that avatar of mine.”
    – A puppet master

  7. Neuroway says:
    14 Aug, 2012 at 2:54 pm

    “La loi sans la force est impuissante.” – Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

    • Neuroway says:
      14 Aug, 2012 at 3:07 pm

      To get a taste of virtue, you must be willing to sit at its table.

      • Neuroway says:
        14 Aug, 2012 at 4:36 pm

        “To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.”
        – Charles William Stubbs (1845-1912)

        • Neuroway says:
          14 Aug, 2012 at 5:37 pm

          “Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!
          She has become a dwelling for demons
          and a haunt for every impure spirit,
          a haunt for every unclean bird,
          a haunt for every unclean and detestable animal.
          For all the nations have drunk
          the maddening wine of her adulteries.
          The kings of the earth committed adultery with her,
          and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries.”
          – Revelation 18:2-3

  8. Neuroway says:
    13 Aug, 2012 at 2:39 pm

    Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
    – André Gide (1869-1951)

  9. Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
    13 Aug, 2012 at 12:03 am

    Since when can a big-breasted blond be considered a trick? I would call it normal operation.

  10. Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
    12 Aug, 2012 at 11:51 pm

    Daily Comment Weirdness Report:

    In addition to the problem mentioned recently, there are new symptoms which I have reported to DiSQuS:

    “If I go to the latest hotforwords.com blog when logged out:

    1. The newest posts do not show; only those from a few days ago and earlier show (Newest is default sort.).
    2. There is no post button showing, not even the Post as.. button that normally allows you to log in after comment composition.

    Refreshing the page does not cure the above unless you are logged in, say by logging in at disqus.com. Then a refresh produces the Post as.. button and the later comments/replies appear.”

    Are any of you seeing this problem. If so please describe what your are seeing and what browser you are using. If not, that would be useful to know also. Thanks.

  11. Neuroway says:
    12 Aug, 2012 at 4:56 pm

    “Where there is power, there is resistance.”
    – Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

  12. Neuroway says:
    12 Aug, 2012 at 3:32 pm

    There’s no feeling at all. There’s nothing left to see. I was teasing. -Männerherzen

  13. Anonymous says:
    11 Aug, 2012 at 10:10 am

    Is there a Greenwich NICE time?

  14. Anonymous says:
    09 Aug, 2012 at 2:22 pm

    !!

    Australia issues a coin with a face value of AU$3,000 !!

    it’s 10cm across and 0.9cm thick!

    … and it weighs 1kg!

    .. and it’s 99.99% pure gold. (so its bullion value might very well exceed its face value)

    i’d like to go shopping with my pockets stuffed with a few of those.
    http://www.perthmintbullion.com/Buy-Gold-Coins/1kg.aspx?size=27

    … !!! .. and another with a face value of AU$1,000,000
    which weighs 1012 kilograms
    .. and is also 99.99% pure gold
    (so its bullion value will dwarf its face value 8-)
    http://kksinfo.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/world-heaviest-gold-coin-1012kg.html

    aint’ gold funny

  15. Anonymous says:
    09 Aug, 2012 at 6:47 am

    The history of Equestrian Sport
    Dang, Marina’s done it again: posted a YouTube video without creating a new comment page for it over here. Was gibt?

    How come the ancients held equus-trian events in a hippo-drome?

  16. Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
    08 Aug, 2012 at 4:57 pm

    Daily Comment Weirdness Report:

    I noticed today that all comments seemed to be normal, except that one of mine from two months ago was at the top of the comments for this blog in the same position on the page as though it had been recently added. It did say it was from two months ago. Anybody else notice old comments where they shouldn’t be?

  17. Anonymous says:
    08 Aug, 2012 at 8:16 am

    has our M taken up a hobby?

    Blond Russian skywalker:

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

    • Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
      10 Aug, 2012 at 3:10 pm

      She certainly has a nice set of uh, counterbalancing equipment. It would seem she is tempting fate what with the cracked condition of the concrete. Who knows if the contractor (some state organization back in the days, no doubt) left out the rebar to chisel a few rubles for the boss.

  18. Anonymous says:
    08 Aug, 2012 at 7:32 am

    Sikhs are not Muslims! They are followers of Jesus’s commandment:
    “Sikh and ye shall find.”

  19. Anonymous says:
    08 Aug, 2012 at 7:10 am

    Russian punk feminist group threatened with prison for Putin’ down the Russian president!

    Free Pussy Riot!
    Free Pussy Riot!
    “Mother of Jesus, Putin banish” – “Pussy Riot” in the Temple

    Хулиганы!

  20. Ann says:
    06 Aug, 2012 at 11:59 am

    nothIng…

  21. Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
    06 Aug, 2012 at 12:16 am

    @ann What are you up to?

    I think this Ann is a Full-Name reincarnation of someone who has been here at least a year. She has 21 comments on HFW, but I don’t remember her.

  22. Neuroway says:
    05 Aug, 2012 at 9:56 am

    “You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.”
        – Revelation 3:17

  23. Anonymous says:
    05 Aug, 2012 at 6:47 am

    any links:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmBkr1tjSjs

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29opjGV-5A4

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubBDKL86rTA&feature=related

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EpM5T2xxhAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONPH6ioP8JQhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xStIch0wPts

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONPH6ioP8JQ

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EpM5T2xxhA

    (the original of 投机分 is a little bit better)

  24. Anonymous says:
    05 Aug, 2012 at 6:40 am

    any links:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmBkr1tjSjs

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29opjGV-5A4

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubBDKL86rTA&feature=related

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EpM5T2xxhAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONPH6ioP8JQhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xStIch0wPts

    (the original of 投机分 is a little bit better)

  25. Anonymous says:
    04 Aug, 2012 at 9:43 am

    I want to speak out my condolence to the victims murdered in the cinema in colorado.
    I don’t know the background of this killings. First I heard that the murderer was a neurology student then I heard that obama hinted out that weapons don’t belong to the hands of confused people.
    I didn’t even know that there was a new bad man movie comming out. You see/hear from people getting slaughtered on TV every day, but this was indeed a little bit shocking for me. I don’t know if it fits to this board to formulate it like that to a incident I do not have anything to do with.

  26. Ann says:
    02 Aug, 2012 at 4:50 pm

     

    “Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things.” – Epictetus 55-135 A.D. “What about things like bullets?” – Herb Kimmel, Behavioralist, Professor of Psychology, upon hearing the above quote 1981  

  27. Neuroway says:
    01 Aug, 2012 at 10:02 am


    μολὼν λαβέ!        - Λεωνίδας (540BC-480BC)

  28. Neuroway says:
    01 Aug, 2012 at 8:14 am

    “The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.”
        – Louis Leo Holtz (1937-????)

    • Neuroway says:
      01 Aug, 2012 at 8:20 am

      Life is an inward experience. Some, inwardly, resolve equations of the nth degree, while others spend their lives resolving equations of the 2nd degree, inwardly.

      • Neuroway says:
        01 Aug, 2012 at 8:29 am

        “More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly — but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.”
             - Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (1864-1936)

        • Neuroway says:
          01 Aug, 2012 at 8:39 am

          “Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.”
              – Stephen Butler Leacock (1869-1944)

  29. seesixcm6 says:
    31 Jul, 2012 at 3:22 pm

    Dear Marina, You are enjoying such a wonderful time travelling on a massive yacht in St. Tropez, dining on huge oysters and huge oysters!  I couldn’t provide you with 1/100th of the pleasures you now have.  I have been enoying watching the Olympics on TV.  The US and China are leading the rest of the world in number of medals won, and I hope the US will win the most medals.  The US women’s gymnastic team was able to defeat the excellent Russian team in a close competition that was wonderful to watch.  Come home safely.  SeesixCM6

    • Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
      01 Aug, 2012 at 12:20 pm

      You must show more confidence with the ladies if you are to be successful with them. For example, I would write, “Marina, I could give you at least 1/89th of the pleasures you now have.” Do you see how much more attractive that would be to her?

  30. Neuroway says:
    30 Jul, 2012 at 9:59 am

    Take an ant outside of the crowded reality of its ant house. Place it in front of a few great horizons. It quickly morphs into a pitiful little crawling, excited animal, totally losing it, far, far away from the tiny-weeny world it was used to.

  31. Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
    29 Jul, 2012 at 2:50 am

    Eye and ear candy!

  32. l-p-r says:
    28 Jul, 2012 at 9:21 pm

    http://omg.yahoo.com/news/rihanna-chris-brown-secretly-meet-yacht-night-party-220000323.html   ////

  33. Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
    26 Jul, 2012 at 4:18 pm

    I am at the Sylvan Oaks branch of the Sacramento Public Library, sitting adjacent the reference section, where I see:
    Encyclopedia of Associations in 3 volumes
    Encyclopedia of Philosophy in 4 volumes
    Encyclopedia of Religion in 16 volumes
    Bulfinch’s Mythology
    The Facts on File Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend
    The Europa World Yearbook in 2 volumes
    2011 & 2012 The World Almanac
    The Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
    2012 California Vehicle Code
    California Worker’s Compensation Handbook
    Standard California Codes in 2 volumes
    Black’s Law Dictionary
    Sacramento County Master Plan
    Sacramento County Budget in 3 volumes
    Statistical Abstract of the U.S.
    City of Citrus Heights Incorporation Study
    City of Citrus Heights Code

    And that’s just one short bookcase; there are many more. And every branch has this stuff. Tons and tons of paper. Why?

    • Anonymous says:
      28 Jul, 2012 at 4:02 am

      i didn’t realize you have public libraries in the US .. i thought broadly accepted US ideology dictates that any public service is evil and shouldn’t exist.

      • Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
        30 Jul, 2012 at 10:26 pm

        That’s is a sweeping generalization, to say the least, and it’s an incorrect one. The liberals keep pushing for the government to do anything and the conservatives keep pushing back. The fight will never go away, so we have to work for a balance.
        Library systems are run  by a different breed of person than normal politicians and bureaucrats. Having said that, they are very set in their ways. Just try to get them to shift a chair a few feet or try a different way of doing something and you will find some government-like intransigence.I sent our library a suggestion to do away with the little labels below each place in the rack for a magazine and replace them with a big numeric label on the rack and the front of the plastic magazine cover (see below). This saves lots of time re-shelving magazines and will make it so easy that the patrons will do it instead of leaving them lie around for the staff to df. I wonder. If they will adopt the idea or consider it “too radical?”

        • Anonymous says:
          31 Jul, 2012 at 1:15 am

          > ”
           I wonder if they will adopt the idea or consider it “too radical? ”

          .. speaking for all lazy desk jockeys everywhere (public service *and* otherwise), the best way to avoid work is to decline it on technicality issues – ie. your idea wont have arrived via the proper channels or in the proper format, etc.

          • Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
            01 Aug, 2012 at 12:30 pm

            I have even experienced that. I wrote a petition to the county supervisors to rename a segment of a local street to what the signage the county erected said it was (they had just not dotted their I’s). I had done a masterful job of showing why it was such a piddly little matter that they could fix with the stroke of their pens so that the county GIS system could  be updated properly. 

            After getting passed around a  bit, they sent me a standard form to fill out for renaming streets, so they were saying that “it was not in the proper format.” The first thing that caught my eye was the $874 fee required. Imagine charging me so that they would finish their own work. I complained about that by telephone and they said they would study my petition (meaning they would actually read it now!)  No word in two months so far. 

            • Anonymous says:
              01 Aug, 2012 at 3:11 pm

              there is another view on this, too .. not at all just public service orgs.

              If it was simple to deal with they’d only need half the staff.

  34. l-p-r says:
    25 Jul, 2012 at 2:11 pm

    ..acting out?  ..word wisdom?  

  35. Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
    25 Jul, 2012 at 10:54 am

    The pix of M playing with some strange black dog (below) reminds me to ask, what did she name her second dog? (I suggested Ybrog, but it doesn’t roll trippingly off the tongue.)

  36. Anonymous says:
    25 Jul, 2012 at 6:18 am

      The Celtic prefix “Kaer” or “Caer” means “fortified place,” and may be a contraction of the Latin “caster,” which still is seen in English city names such as Lancaster, Manchester, and Worcester. Welsh cities incorporating “Caer” include Caerdydd, Caerfyrddyn, and Caernarfon.

  37. Anonymous says:
    25 Jul, 2012 at 6:17 am

    Other comments on the YouTube “London” video:

    i’m hot for teacher.
    Michael Manuel 12 hours ago

    accent is getting worse
    trawynbaker 12 hours ago

    Element 115?????
    kingmesucker626 13 hours ago

    Seriously, do we have to go mingle with those trolls if we are going to discuss Marina’s videos???

  38. Anonymous says:
    25 Jul, 2012 at 6:07 am

    Inside scoop on the 2012 Olympic Games – Invade London
     [origin of the name "London"]

    Well, that does it. Marina has officially abandoned her loyal fans on this site.  She’s producing videos again (sporadically), but not posting them on this site — only on YouTube, with the brain-dead trolls.

  39. Neuroway says:
    24 Jul, 2012 at 2:28 pm

    ¡BANG! “Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.”
         - Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469-1527)

  40. Neuroway says:
    23 Jul, 2012 at 11:38 pm

    A victory is not a beginning. It is an end. It means the competition is over. Done with. Won. It is a time of reflection. It is perhaps a time to mature and move on to something else. Because time won’t stop. Time is change, and you change with it. How hopeless would be your condition if the world were perfect, if there were nothing left for you?

  41. Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
    22 Jul, 2012 at 10:57 pm

    Got really hot today for the first time this summer: 96° F, but “it’s a dry heat.” Soaked up the library’s A/C until they closed, then I sat in on some Indian-language movies in the community room in order to use my laptop in the A/C. I left when the batt pooped and attended a “big band” concert at a park. The band was celebrating their 50th anniversary, so they weren’t as snappy as this outfit. Lotsa grey hair in attendance, so I fit right in and blended. Later I bought a big double box of giant strawberries at the 99-cent Only store and pigged out dipping it in vanilla yogurt. Now if I could have topped it off with an evening cuddling M, it would have been perfect. Berries, dipping, Marina… Mmmm.

  42. Neuroway says:
    22 Jul, 2012 at 10:39 am

    The human brain is without a doubt the most astonishing technical gadget on this side of the galaxy. 

  43. Neuroway says:
    22 Jul, 2012 at 2:26 am

    A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small “inside” group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many.
         - General Smedley D. Butler (1881-1940)

  44. Neuroway says:
    21 Jul, 2012 at 10:38 am

    It is incredible how one gets used to the incredible.

    • Neuroway says:
      21 Jul, 2012 at 12:58 pm

      “I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.” 
          – General Smedley D. Butler (1881-1940)

  45. Neuroway says:
    21 Jul, 2012 at 6:52 am

    Narcissism is never beautiful. Modesty is never ugly.

  46. Neuroway says:
    20 Jul, 2012 at 4:46 pm

    “The only way to get rid of resilience is to kill it.”
        – Lord Light (???? – ????)

    • Neuroway says:
      20 Jul, 2012 at 5:05 pm

      “America is not the greatest country in the world. We’re seventh in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, third in median household income, No. 4 in labor force, and No. 4 in exports. … So when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don’t know what the f*** you’re talking about.”
          - Aaron Sorkin (1961 – ????)

      • Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
        24 Jul, 2012 at 7:52 pm

        But we are the most free. We are free to eschew education, live dangerously (including dangling babies over 2nd-floor patio railings) and lie around doing nothing all day leading totally unproductive lives if we chose to do so. Of course, Mr. Sorkin enjoys the freedom to leave the country or off himself any time he thinks things are getting so free that he just can’t stand it any more.  

    • l-p-r says:
      20 Jul, 2012 at 10:08 pm

      Help

      lobby word request

      {“lord“}……why no Marina on this site:  HotForWords?

      • Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
        21 Jul, 2012 at 3:15 pm

        I asked that of Charles T. Como. He said he would reply, but so far he has not.

        • l-p-r says:
          21 Jul, 2012 at 8:55 pm

          I wonder who is actually the boss? 

          You-Tube markets through the internet; and gets money to partners producing exploitations…

          ..I think?  ..show business and sex and the audience!  ..young men and their models!   …%%%-&-a$$a$$

          • Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
            24 Jul, 2012 at 7:44 pm

            I get the feeling he has access to the site (either directly or via an agent), but that he is on the periphery of things. Remember last summer he was asked here to help M out with her problem(s) and he answered that he was trying? That implies that he did not have direct control (or at least as much as a close friend/business partner) might be expected to have..

            This is just a guess. I feel like a CIA analyst trying to figure out exactly what it means when a spy drops a toothpick on the ground or folds his Kleenex over twice before he blows his nose. It’s not even an inexact science.

  47. Anonymous says:
    20 Jul, 2012 at 1:32 am

    .

  48. Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
    19 Jul, 2012 at 1:35 am

    I’m running Microsoft Supercalifragilistic – XP – alidocious..

  49. Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
    17 Jul, 2012 at 5:27 pm

    Attention Chopped Liver Brigade: New video from M is out.

  50. Neuroway says:
    17 Jul, 2012 at 11:23 am

    “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
         - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

  51. Neuroway says:
    17 Jul, 2012 at 11:18 am

    You will never know the feeling of a driver ….

  52. l-p-r says:
    16 Jul, 2012 at 8:42 pm

    Basketball is an invention to play ball!   James Naismith (November 6, 1861 – November 28, 1939) was a
    Canadian-American sports coach and innovator. He invented the sport of basketball in 1891 and is often credited with
    introducing the first football helmet.

  53. Neuroway says:
    16 Jul, 2012 at 12:33 pm

    Quando sono solo sogno all’orizzonte e mancan’ le parole

  54. Neuroway says:
    15 Jul, 2012 at 6:38 am

    “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
        – Marcus Aurelius (121-180)

  55. Neuroway says:
    15 Jul, 2012 at 2:40 am

    “Freedom is the only law which genius knows.”
       - James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)

  56. Neuroway says:
    14 Jul, 2012 at 6:47 am

    You’re a gazelle? Well, don’t play with cheetahs.

  57. Neuroway says:
    14 Jul, 2012 at 1:57 am

    One’s paradise is another’s hell. One’s meat is another’s poison. The sewers of a big city are a rat’s Valhalla. And the vast and wild coniferous forest belt is a paradise for the wolf.

    • Neuroway says:
      14 Jul, 2012 at 4:23 am

      “Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them. He has no conception of the subtle atmosphere exhaled by the sex feminine, so long as he bathes in it; but let it be withdrawn, and an ever-growing void begins to manifest itself in his existence, and he becomes hungry, in a vague sort of way, for a something so indefinite that he cannot characterize it. If his comrades have no more experience than himself, they will shake their heads dubiously and dose him with strong physic. But the hunger will continue and become stronger; he will lose interest in the things of his everyday life and wax morbid; and one day, when the emptiness has become unbearable, a revelation will dawn upon him.”
          – Jack London, the Sun of the Wolf (1899)

    • l-p-r says:
      14 Jul, 2012 at 12:57 pm

      Down with {seWers]!  Booming busiinesses in stocking shelves!

  58. Neuroway says:
    12 Jul, 2012 at 1:57 pm

    Bang!

  59. konrad says:
    10 Jul, 2012 at 2:49 am

    Someone should learn how to scale images. 
    Image in this post have more than 650×450 and this same HUGE image is on main page!!!
    Main page is loading sooo slow because there are huge, not scaled, images on every post!!!

    • Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
      10 Jul, 2012 at 6:46 pm

      Hello, Your Konradship

      Are you talking about the pix at the top of the blog? That is up to the site owner (or whoever is running it for her at the moment). The pix attached to comments and replies, while uploaded to the server full size, are displayed as thumbnails that only expand when clicked (else they too would be huge). That’s the way DISQUS works Typically it is the number of comments in the blog that, when allowed to grow because new blogs are not frequent, that slows things down, not those thumbnails.

      What city are you in?

  60. l-p-r says:
    09 Jul, 2012 at 5:43 pm

    Today is National No Bra Day

      http://shine.yahoo.com/fashion/wanna-bra-less-summer-heres-151400175.html  braWL  …

  61. Neuroway says:
    09 Jul, 2012 at 12:41 pm

    GEEEROOOONIIIIIIMOOOO!!!!!!!

  62. Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
    09 Jul, 2012 at 1:20 am

    M says: “Hi guys! I am in Europe shooting some cool videos for you!” 

  63. l-p-r says:
    08 Jul, 2012 at 7:23 pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHTJhN70R4&feature=g-all-u   New German technology turns ink to sound

  64. Neuroway says:
    07 Jul, 2012 at 4:55 pm

    “The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.”
        – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)

  65. Neuroway says:
    07 Jul, 2012 at 1:41 pm

    “Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbours.”
       - Confucius

  66. Neuroway says:
    07 Jul, 2012 at 7:14 am

    Giddyup! Move it move it! Schnell!

  67. Neuroway says:
    07 Jul, 2012 at 3:22 am

    Human dignity is recognizing that the real owner of all your so-called possessions, including your own physical body, is the Universe. And it will reclaim everything you have borrowed from it, when your time comes. With vested interests.     - Luke 16 remix

  68. Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
    06 Jul, 2012 at 5:42 pm

    My Compaq laptop screen, when tilted back too much, displays everything bluish. Add that to M’s lousy blue lighting and EGADS! I want her to be nice and rosy, with the occasional dark pink of a ripe hickey.

  69. Neuroway says:
    05 Jul, 2012 at 11:12 am

    Something about Victory is rather boring. There’s no one left to fight.

  70. l-p-r says:
    04 Jul, 2012 at 6:41 pm

    board of wash   dipping the mind

  71. Neuroway says:
    04 Jul, 2012 at 1:52 pm

    Education strengthen the mind. It is the best protection against propaganda and brainwashing.

  72. Neuroway says:
    04 Jul, 2012 at 11:52 am

    SHAZAM!!!!!!!

  73. Anonymous says:
    03 Jul, 2012 at 10:49 pm

    No new video, i notice .. or is it that Madam’s just not posting links to them on this site.

  74. Neuroway says:
    03 Jul, 2012 at 11:43 am

    “Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.”
        – Confucius (551-479BC)

  75. Anonymous says:
    02 Jul, 2012 at 9:10 am

    deja vous vous m”enmerder!
    salut!*

    • Neuroway says:
      02 Jul, 2012 at 1:21 pm

      Ça s’écrit vous m’emmerdez. “Emmerder” est la forme infinitive du verbe. Il faut aussi ne pas oublier de mettre les accents sur déjà. J’espère humblement que ces quelques précisions grammaticales vous seront de quelque utilité, mon brave DeeHenFrenchyToucho.

  76. Neuroway says:
    01 Jul, 2012 at 3:56 pm

    “Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan – that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.”   
       - Le Corbusier (1887-1965)

  77. Neuroway says:
    01 Jul, 2012 at 1:43 pm

    Bang!

  78. Neuroway says:
    01 Jul, 2012 at 10:55 am

    “Pour us some wine! Schnell!”
        – Baron Hellmutt von Crackerjackenfest VII

  79. Neuroway says:
    01 Jul, 2012 at 2:46 am

    “Some languages are not appropriate for women. Logic is one of them.”
         - Baron Hellmutt von Crackerjackenfest VII (????-????)

  80. Anonymous says:
    30 Jun, 2012 at 7:47 pm

    I am responsible of my ignorence ? #angel

  81. Neuroway says:
    30 Jun, 2012 at 4:06 am

    You are not responsible for the latest child in the news that was murdered in front of a photographer. The murderers are the bastard who pulled the trigger or dropped the bomb, and the bastards who financed the violence.

  82. Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
    29 Jun, 2012 at 4:20 pm

    I’ve started using Wikispaces (see this example). I wonder what we could use it for at HFW? A list of visitors?

    The only problem is that you need a prominent place to post the link to the wiki page(s). I have made contact with Como. Perhaps he could squeeze a link into the help box at the top of the comments.

  83. Neuroway says:
    29 Jun, 2012 at 12:48 pm

    Believe what you want. To be the champion, you must beat the best.

  84. Neuroway says:
    28 Jun, 2012 at 3:00 pm

    “We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.”
        - Herbert Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)

  85. Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
    28 Jun, 2012 at 12:40 pm

    Another sketch.

  86. Neuroway says:
    27 Jun, 2012 at 2:39 pm

    Life’s a dragstrip. We either run it behind the driving wheel of a dragster, or behind the reins of a donkey cart. The distance is the same.

  87. Neuroway says:
    25 Jun, 2012 at 1:55 pm

    “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
         - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (121-180AD)

  88. Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
    24 Jun, 2012 at 1:53 pm

    Another sketch.

  89. Neuroway says:
    24 Jun, 2012 at 3:33 am

    “Choices choices… Coke or Pepsi?”
        – Baron Hellmutt von Crackerjackenfest VII (????-????)

    • Neuroway says:
      24 Jun, 2012 at 3:45 am

      A wise man knows that he is not a boy anymore. A wise boy knows that he is not a man yet. Dumb males don’t know the difference between real men and boys.

      • Neuroway says:
        24 Jun, 2012 at 5:22 am

        “History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.”
            – Paul Eldridge (1888-1982)

        • l-p-r says:
          24 Jun, 2012 at 9:43 pm

          Law wills your share to the prey…  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=xsFT7D7spBQ#t=3431s   ..heArt meat and city life is soCiaL…   Art of others ..to clean the rest rooms! 

      • Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
        24 Jun, 2012 at 1:50 pm

        Nor do dumb females (nor should they unless marriage is proposed)..

        • l-p-r says:
          25 Jun, 2012 at 8:07 pm

          Femlins were created by LeRoy Neiman in 1955 when publisher/editor Hugh Hefner decided the Party
          Jokes page needed a visual element. The name is a portmanteau of “female” and “gremlin.” They are portrayed as mischievous black and
          white female sprites, apparently ten to twelve inches tall, wearing only opera
          gloves, stockings and high heel shoes. They are usually drawn in two or three
          panel vignettes, interacting with various life-sized items such as shoes,
          jewelry, neckties and such.

          Femlins have appeared on the Party Jokes page in every issue since their
          creation, and were featured on the magazine’s cover numerous times, either as
          drawn by Neiman or in photographed tableaus of sculpted clay models.   …—-    sourced:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femlin

  90. Neuroway says:
    23 Jun, 2012 at 3:07 pm

    “Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.”
       - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

  91. Anonymous says:
    23 Jun, 2012 at 8:36 am

    Elijah Wood (Frodo Baggins) is taller than Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter)! Who knew?
    [Doppelganger]

  92. Neuroway says:
    23 Jun, 2012 at 7:56 am

    “Some working databases in folkloristics have been finally established.”   
    – Elli Köngäs-Maranda (1932-1982)

  93. Neuroway says:
    23 Jun, 2012 at 3:29 am

    “Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo.”
        – Gabriel García Márquez (1927 – ????)

  94. Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
    22 Jun, 2012 at 5:02 pm

    These vids are new under the hot4words YT name (vs Hotforwords):

    4. 21st: Ocean
    3. 18th: Jersey Shore 1
    2. 17th: Light House
    1. 17th: Jersey Shore 2

    That confirms she is back east.

    (Remember that the thumbnails are in reverse order from the above list.)

  95. Neuroway says:
    22 Jun, 2012 at 2:19 pm

    “The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.”
        – Marcus Tullius Cicero (106BC – 43BC)

    • Neuroway says:
      22 Jun, 2012 at 2:37 pm

      “Elegance is inferior to virtue.”
          – Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley

      • Neuroway says:
        22 Jun, 2012 at 2:53 pm

        “More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly — but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.”
            – Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (1864-1936)

        • Neuroway says:
          22 Jun, 2012 at 3:24 pm

          “Fight only worthy opponents. Forgive the rest, they are weak and impotent.”
               - Lady Time (46,500,000,000 BC – ????)

          • Anonymous says:
            23 Jun, 2012 at 9:29 am

            “The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.”
            – Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)

        • Anonymous says:
          22 Jun, 2012 at 9:01 pm

          “Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel
          Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre
          lo llevó a conocer el hielo.”
          ―
          Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez,

          Cien años de soledad

    • Anonymous says:
      22 Jun, 2012 at 8:42 pm

       ”It takes one to know one.” —
      Joe Sixpak

  96. Neuroway says:
    22 Jun, 2012 at 11:44 am

    “Behind every great misfortune there is a good deed.”
         - Baron Hellmutt von Crackerjackenfest VII (????-????)

  97. Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
    21 Jun, 2012 at 7:12 pm

    Another sketch.

  98. Anonymous says:
    20 Jun, 2012 at 9:49 pm

    Whats wrong with russian folklore music???:
    Bob Dylan

    • Anonymous says:
      22 Jun, 2012 at 9:04 pm

      I dunno…maybe the Leningrad Cowboys? They look a little out of place.

      • Anonymous says:
        29 Jun, 2012 at 1:14 pm

        you shouldn’t take it so literally. I wanted to imply that Bob Dylan sings this typical russian sentimental ballads, but in english and within a American context. And also his ancestors where eastern european jews. but i’m not sure if it is that rightly what i’m telling. And don’t get me wrong i like his music!

  99. Anonymous says:
    20 Jun, 2012 at 8:28 pm

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdTj4sJ1CNA

  100. Neuroway says:
    20 Jun, 2012 at 11:48 am

    The governments are full of dispensable men.

  101. Anonymous says:
    20 Jun, 2012 at 7:02 am

    Shelley Lubben on Porn

    • l-p-r says:
      20 Jun, 2012 at 11:41 pm

      http://guyspeed.com/thailands-got-talent-breast-paint/  ..is talent paid in money?

      • Anonymous says:
        21 Jun, 2012 at 9:13 am

        very sexy!
        the angry female judge too.
        not to mention that i don’t understand anything what they are speaking.

        • l-p-r says:
          21 Jun, 2012 at 5:59 pm

          Do you think the ‘HotForWords Lady’–Marina, could paint as well?   

          The country’s official name was Siam (Thai: สยาม
          RTGS: Sayam,
          pronounced [sàjǎːm]) until 23 June
          1939,[13] when it
          was changed to Thailand. It was then renamed Siam from 1945 to 11 May 1949,
          after which it was again renamed Thailand. Also spelled Siem, Syâm
          or Syâma, it has been identified with the Sanskrit Śyâma (श्याम,
          meaning “dark” or “brown”). The names Shan and A-hom seem to be variants of the same
          word, and Śyâma is possibly not its origin but a learned and artificial
          distortion.[14]

          The word Thai (ไทย) is not, as
          commonly believed,[citation
          needed] derived from the word Tai (ไท) meaning
          “independence” in the Thai language; it is, however, the name of an ethnic group from the central
          plains (the Thai people).  sourced:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand  

          …are you the same dude that commented(way-back), about leather making?   ps…me not understand their speaking, too!

  102. Anonymous says:
    19 Jun, 2012 at 1:43 pm

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGJHLUuBdi4

  103. Anonymous says:
    19 Jun, 2012 at 1:38 pm

    ;-)

  104. Neuroway says:
    19 Jun, 2012 at 11:21 am

    “How does taking a risk make you feel? Good? Bad? Powerful? Vulnerable? The only way to find out is to take a risk! Perhaps you’ll want more next time, perhaps you’ll want less, perhaps you’re a prudent coward and you want none of it. Or perhaps you’re total recklessness and you’ll want more and more to get a high out of it. Your own guts are the only ones who can precisely tell you who you really are. Listen to them. Now, how does watching someone else take a risk make you feel? You like it? You don’t? Do you prefer to see a risk taker fail, or to see a risk taker succeed?”

  105. Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
    18 Jun, 2012 at 8:07 pm

    This the first time trying this iPhone 4s on HFW without an app, it’s a royal pain. Took me 5 mins to get the DISQUS login to finally work. Size matters!

  106. Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
    17 Jun, 2012 at 3:24 pm

    Another sketch.

  107. Neuroway says:
    17 Jun, 2012 at 11:58 am

    “Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.”
       - Dame Rebecca West (1892-1983)

  108. Neuroway says:
    17 Jun, 2012 at 1:37 am

    “A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He’s got to ride that nag till it drops.”
        – Johnny Bench (1947 – ????)

  109. Anonymous says:
    16 Jun, 2012 at 8:25 am

    From the latest National Geographic:

    VANISHING VOICES: One language dies every 14 days.   By the next century, nearly half of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken on earth will likely disappear, as communities abandon native tongues in favor of English, Mandarin, or Spanish.  What is lost when a language goes silent?

    Miixöni quih zó hant ano tiij? (Seri, Mexico) “Where is your placenta buried?” i.e. “Where were you born?”

    “Nid geiriau yn ynig sydd yn diflannu, ond holl hanes a phrofiad y genedl, ei hathrylith a’r modd y mae’n gweld y byd.”
    (“Not words alone vanish, but the whole history and experience of the people, their genius and the way they see the world.”) — Howard Huws, Mudiad Adfer (Restoration Movement)

  110. Anonymous says:
    16 Jun, 2012 at 8:13 am

    When do we get a page for M’s new chicken-and-egg video on YouTube?

  111. Neuroway says:
    16 Jun, 2012 at 4:37 am

    “Love conquers all.”
         - François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1640)

    • Anonymous says:
      16 Jun, 2012 at 8:37 am

       So this Welshman vacationing in Paris steps into the bath in his hotel room, slips on a bar of soap, hits his head on the tub, and is knocked out cold.
      Hours later, he awakens — aware first of the throbbing in his head, then that the water has gone cold — and then sees the very worried-looking French maid staring down at him.  In his groggy state, he can think of nothing to say but to mutter the Welsh word for soap: “Sebon, sebon…”
      Where upon the maid brightens up, gives him an appreciative look, and says, “Non, monsieur, c’est magnifique!”

  112. Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
    16 Jun, 2012 at 12:53 am

    New word video. Again, we are the last to know.

    What do you think of her phrase, “most authentic?” 

  113. Neuroway says:
    15 Jun, 2012 at 2:45 pm

    “L’arbre voit venir la hache, le faon reconnaît le loup.”
         - Gilles Vigneault (1928-????)

  114. Neuroway says:
    14 Jun, 2012 at 11:41 am

    “False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”    Bill Shakespeare (1564-1616)

  115. Neuroway says:
    13 Jun, 2012 at 12:06 pm

    HWÆT!

  116. Neuroway says:
    12 Jun, 2012 at 3:51 pm

    Stop sugarcoating your shortcomings to protect your feelings. By definition, there can be only one best. You’re it or you’re not.

  117. Neuroway says:
    12 Jun, 2012 at 11:40 am

    “You need to be in flame don’t you? This is your element. What was true yesterday is less true today and will be false tomorrow. Advance!”
        – Lady Time (46,500,000,000 BC – ????)

  118. Neuroway says:
    12 Jun, 2012 at 11:34 am

    Strength and virtue is doing what you need to do, even if you don’t want to. Weakness and vice is doing what you don’t want to do, because you’re afraid of doing what you need to do.

  119. Neuroway says:
    11 Jun, 2012 at 12:10 pm

    “Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”
        – George Washington (1731-1799)

  120. Neuroway says:
    11 Jun, 2012 at 12:06 am

    Pfffffff…

  121. Anonymous says:
    10 Jun, 2012 at 4:55 pm

    Марина! Что у тебя с глазами? Перестань!

  122. Neuroway says:
    10 Jun, 2012 at 3:35 pm

    “Come a little closer.”    – Dierks Bentley

  123. Neuroway says:
    10 Jun, 2012 at 11:18 am

    Rumour has it that a single Lamborghini is worth 80 Ladas. You really believe this? Well, pit 100 billion Ladas against a single Lamborghini in a race. Any race you want, any way you want it. And have the guts to bet all you have on a single Lada in the flock of Ladas. Then, come back here and let us know your feelings.

  124. Neuroway says:
    10 Jun, 2012 at 5:09 am

    The fundamental difference between a wheelie and a stoppie is the sign of the acceleration. Or the sign of the deceleration, depending on the positivism with which you see the whole affair. And vice versa, of course.

    • Neuroway says:
      10 Jun, 2012 at 5:45 am

      “The life expectancy of a generation is about 25 years. Then the next decade, it is an entirely new generation.”
           - Lord Light (???? – ????)

  125. Neuroway says:
    10 Jun, 2012 at 2:24 am

    “Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.”      – Kaiser Wilhelm II (1888-1918)

  126. Neuroway says:
    09 Jun, 2012 at 3:06 pm

    “The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”
        – Winston Churchill

  127. Neuroway says:
    09 Jun, 2012 at 1:59 pm

    “No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
         - George Orwell, Animal Farm

  128. Neuroway says:
    09 Jun, 2012 at 11:44 am

    “All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”
        – Victor Hugo (1805-1885)

  129. Daniel Pool says:
    09 Jun, 2012 at 7:23 am

    QK

  130. Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
    08 Jun, 2012 at 12:00 pm

    Another sketch.

  131. Anonymous says:
    07 Jun, 2012 at 8:48 am

    i wish i could be skilled enough to say american jokes in english.

    • Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
      08 Jun, 2012 at 12:33 pm

      @hitoshi:disqus Perhaps you can help me understand how Japanese (or any country’s) graphical characters are understood by readers. For example, if i made up  characters consisting of a man and a tree (“TREE MAN”) that could mean,
      1. a man with the characteristics of a tree (height, strength, etc.)
      2. a tree shaped or looks like a man
      3. a man who works with trees (an arborist, forrester or lumberjack)
      4. a man who lives in a tree
      5. some kind of comic character with the name
      and so forth. The only way to figure out what is meant is by the context of the writing in which the characters appear. This means that if the characters were standing alone, you could not understand the meaning. Is this correct?

      Are new words and terminology typically made up to deal with new ideas, subjects and objects? Or are old characters re-defined or new combinations of old characters made up for new things? How is the knowledge of whatever represents new things dispersed throughout society? Is there some “new word of the day” announcement made?

      Generally, in English, a new word, say, laser, ethernet or internet, can be recognized as something entirely new and the reader, who may not have any idea of the meaning, will at least know that it is something new and that it must be looked up or asked about to find out the meaning. There are some instances of old words being re-used such as spam (a canned meat whose name was repeated so often in a Monty Python comedy sketch that it became as meaningless as unwanted E-mails). But that occurrence came about through non-formal (slang) channels. Another example is mouse (the computer pointing device) from the appearnce of the device. However most new terms are invented (“coined”) rather than existing words redefined.

      Has anyone written an explanation in English of how new terms are made up and passed into general use for languages that use graphical characters?

      • Rijk says:
        09 Jun, 2012 at 12:19 am

         hmmm think new terms are / were made up in different kind of ways and passed into general use of language is by repeatingly coming in contact with them. (spreading the word)
        Thinking that’s why new words/ new usage of words is going more quickly now.

        Here for instance we have the word “VET” which means fat, but in reasoned years it has gotten a new mean to it “dat is echt vet” “that is really fat” meaning good.
        Think it came form fat meaning big and that bigger in some cases is better.

         

      • Anonymous says:
        09 Jun, 2012 at 7:23 am

        hello, my great linguistic friends! how are you doing? if you can make up new words and understand them created by someone else, it is the evidence that words spoken by you come from your thoughts, ideas and emotions you have in mind. 

        there is a very weird way of thinking out there, which some stupid linguists came up with, that language conquers your thoughts, idea and emotions. according to them, if you didn’t have many words, your thoughts would be small. in short, they explain if you were a person from the Stone age, your spiritual world would be smaller because of the lack of your words. 

        i totally disagree with the theory. the less words you know, the less thoughts you have in mind?? if that is correct, its supposed that a baby has nothing in mind. and its impossible to do translations. of course, you can’t  create new words and understand them. hence, your thoughts conquer your languages. 

        so, a famous novel “1984″ written by George Owell has a problem regarding that. in the novel, a dictionary editor tried to remove bad words related to “think crime” on the purpose of preventing people from conceiving criminal minds and committing crimes actually. can the reduction of the words related to “think crime” contribute to the suppression of actual crimes? i don’t think so. 

        and Einsten also said something like he had ideas already and tried to find out words that could adequately describe them later.

        and in the regard of how the new words is dispersed throughout society, any words have both arbitrariness and sociality. who could imagine that the tablet device produced by Apple would be called “iPad”? “iPad” is currently iPad. but there is no reason that the device must be called “iPad” even today. however, Apple announced its name and majority of people call it “iPad (“iPad2″ and “the new iPad”).  a name of a thing and an ideology is basically anything ok. you just have to follow sociality in the language world.  

        For the record, i’m just a believer of Freud and Harvard Prof. Steven Pinker. 
        the two people really influenced my language world. oops, i forgot to add our trusty teacher Marina in my list.  

        and now i can’t tell you all i want to say because i m using english! my english can’t fully follow my mind now.

        • Anonymous says:
          12 Jun, 2012 at 11:35 pm

           You are thinking.  How un-American.

        • Anonymous says:
          14 Jun, 2012 at 9:51 pm

          hi .. just noticed this .. better late than never.

          anyway .. this resonates with me.

          I was shocked when i discovered that generally people presume that language is at the core of our being.  That goes counter to my experience.  It seemed ridiculous that people would think that.

          But .. on reflection, they’re not deluded.  They actually believe it’s true because that’s their experience.

          I came across information later that suggested that the majority of people are verbally centred, while a small minority are visually centred.  This info also suggested that visually centred people have that quality in common with animals.  

          So, there is a fundamental difference in the way that visual and verbal centred people think and perceive the world.  Visually centred people have to translate their experience into words, verbally centred people *are* their words.

          Vision has a much finer and subtle quality than words.

      • Anonymous says:
        12 Jun, 2012 at 11:33 pm

         The Japanese have quit trying to make new pictograms.  They just take the sensible way of adopting foreign words they need and spelling them more or less phonetically with their katakana syllabary.  (Erebeta, aisu kuriimu, hankachi come to mind, all just English with a Japanese accent.)

        As far as Chinese…where’s Fat Buffalo now that we need him?

        • Anonymous says:
          15 Jun, 2012 at 5:11 am

          with words from foreign languages, in japanese we rewrite them with the katakana system according to the way they are pronounced. as you say, ice cream is aisu kuriimu(アイスクリーム). 

          other examples:america→amerika(アメリカ)Apple→appuru(アップル)mountain lion→maunten raion(マウンテン ライオン)macbook air→makkubukku ea(マックブック エア)iPhone→ai fon(アイフォン)
          Steve Jobs→スティーブ ジョブズ
          HotForWords →hotto foo waazu(ホット フォー ワーズ)
          intelligence →interijensu(インテリジェンス)
          sexy →sekusii(セクシー)
          EvanOwen→エバン オーウェン

          グッナイ！フレンズ！　

          • Anonymous says:
            15 Jun, 2012 at 9:45 pm

             Attention class! Bonus points:
            Who knows what “グッナイ！フレンズ！” means?  (Hint: it’s not Japanese, it’s English written in katakana!)

          • Anonymous says:
            15 Jun, 2012 at 11:10 pm

             More about katakana

            Please forgive me if I have told this story already.
            When my daughter was 12, she tried to find an English translation of the words to a song called Teardrop by the Japanese group Bowl.  Frustrated by not finding the translation anywhere online, she began transcribing the lyrics into hiragana so she could look up the words in her Japanese-English dictionary — but this was also very difficult.  Finally I said to her, “Why don’t you write ‘Teardrop’ in katakana, then change the result to romaji* and Google that?” She thought for three seconds, then slapped her head (an American gesture for sudden understanding) and said, “That’s so obvious! Why didn’t I think of it?”

            I suppose I could have said that not one American in a thousand would have had any idea what I had said, let alone grasp it in three seconds.

            *(チイアドロツプ => Tiadoroppu)

            • Anonymous says:
              17 Jun, 2012 at 4:32 am

              my translation is “涙（namida）の雫（shizuku)”  if i have to translate “teardrop” into japanese. that sounds much more poetic in japanese. drop is given many different meanings in japanese if you look up it in a dictionary. and i think shizuku is the best choice among them in poetry and lyrics. but in the song, the singer called “teardrop” “涙 一粒(namida hito tsubu).” thats a good translation as well. ”一” basically means “a” and “one” or sometimes “a small bit.”  and “粒(tsubu)” means a small thing consisting of a bigger thing such as “grain” “sand” “kernel” “particle” and so on.  

              how wonderful your sister is when she was only 12, tried to do that!

  132. l-p-r says:
    06 Jun, 2012 at 8:40 pm

    Yellow
    Submarine [full film]     ……..tall boy…

  133. Neuroway says:
    05 Jun, 2012 at 11:38 am

    “Rumour has it that the golden rule is that he who has the gold makes the rules. Blimey! I wouldn’t dare to believe that this shall turn out to be a lie, would I?”
         - Baron Hellmutt von Crackerjackenfest VII

  134. seesixcm6 says:
    03 Jun, 2012 at 2:50 pm

    Dear Marina, I think you are very smart and extremely intelligent, but you are not snide and disrespectful as others who think they are intelligent.  Tonight, I’ll stay up late to watch the Miss USA Pageant on TV.  We’re lucky to have so many beautiful young women in our country!  I hope you enjoy watching it, too!  Of course, you’ve actually been to Las Vegas, and I never have.  SeesixCM6

  135. Anonymous says:
    03 Jun, 2012 at 1:54 pm

    hello there, dearest teach.  How are you today? .. you look like you’re thinking about standing for office.  Are you? .. which of the dreary old threadbare parties is attempting to lure you? .. personally, i think you should abandon cliches and go with Ron Paul.

    .. anyhoo .. enough of my rambling at an absent, abstract personality .. who was Alec, and was he really smart?

  136. Neuroway says:
    03 Jun, 2012 at 7:42 am

    Every communication is a two way bidirectional process. At one end, a pattern is created. At the other end, the pattern is first sensed, then recognized, then, eventually, answered by another pattern.

  137. Neuroway says:
    02 Jun, 2012 at 9:21 am

    Only art is perfectly capable of expressing the inexpressible.

  138. Neuroway says:
    02 Jun, 2012 at 3:18 am

    “Your hard work has destroyed too much. Your wealthy influence has spoiled too many beautiful landscapes. Your strong will has bowed down the mind of too many peaceful creatures into submission and servility. Your unwavering determination has been parasitizing too many naive and ingenuous imaginations. I am sick of you and I am sick of all your followers. I spit on you and on your wicked reality. I will never embrace it.”   
    – Lady Time (46,500,000,000 BC – ????)

  139. Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
    01 Jun, 2012 at 5:27 pm

    It is sure a slow day around here, isn’t it? Guess I’d better play around with a long, tall Marina.

  140. Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
    31 May, 2012 at 3:21 pm

    Another sketch.

  141. Neuroway says:
    31 May, 2012 at 12:25 pm

    “It is a double pleasure to bully the bully.”
         - Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli remix 2012

  142. Anonymous says:
    31 May, 2012 at 4:54 am

    hello, my friends. i didn’t know that “pay off” has a meaning of giving somebody money to prevent them from dong something or talking about something illegal you have done. that can be “買収 (bai shuu) in Japanese. and here is my question about this lesson. what does “take off with something”at 1:08 on the video mean? that means “steal?” or “run away?” i don’t know. 

    i am a kind of smart alec about english, of course, in Japan. hehe

    • Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
      31 May, 2012 at 3:15 pm

      “Pay off” in this context means to bribe.

      “Take off” in this context means to leave quickly, so “run away” would be apt.

      Sometimes off/on/up/down, etc. are added to verbs in English for emphasis, even though they do not strictly speaking alter the verb. Examples:

      Boot up (does a computer have a direction for working?)
      Jerk off (do you get turned off vs. on?)
      Sign up (do you write your signature down on an application or up?)
      Break up (do you feel uplifted when you stop a relationship?)

      and so forth.

      • Anonymous says:
        01 Jun, 2012 at 5:37 am

        thank you for teaching, Camp Kohlerさん。its difficult for japanese people to use off/on/down/in/over/around etc. correctly.  i have recently learned from an english textbook that “clean out my desk” is very different from “clean off my desk.” 

        and the book also says that “get in a train”and “get on a car” sound weird to english speakers. according to it, in this case, you should use “in” when you can feel a sense of oneness with a driver as a passenger, and otherwise, you should use “on.” so “get on a train” and “get in a car” are natural. 
        is the theory true? 

        • Camp Kohler - Sacto CA says:
          01 Jun, 2012 at 5:17 pm

          That interpretation sounds right to me. The use of in implies that the surroundings are close around you, (one get’s in one’s clothes), whereas on implies a bigger surrounding (one get’s on a train or ship). However, if, say, an boat or airplane is small, such as a rowboat or single-engine plane, in is appropriate due to the size.

          Unless one grows up in a culture, it is hard to know what a culture does in all these situations. You could study for years and never encounter all them all. There are a thousand little things like this that could trip up a foreign-born spy, for example.   

          • Anonymous says:
            01 Jun, 2012 at 8:31 pm

            Hey, CK, you rate a ” さん “.  That’s like Mister Camp Kohler!

          • Anonymous says:
            01 Jun, 2012 at 8:48 pm

             CK, did you ever read “The Charm School” (Nelson DeMille)?  It was about a Russian school to produce spies who could pass as Americans.  But while teaching them regional dialects, they always placed them in parts of the country other than their supposed place of origin, on your premise that no foreigner can ever completely master the idiosyncrasies of a particular locale, and that any residual oddities in their speech and behavior might be attributable to their being from a different part of the country.

            Really cool thread you & hitoshi-san have going, by the way.

          • Anonymous says:
            02 Jun, 2012 at 5:17 am

            ありがとうございます。Camp先生。im very happy to have many people teach me english kindly here at a specialist level.

            i would be killed soon then if i were a spy. in the case of negative questions, the way of answering “Yes” and “No” in japanese is opposite to that of english. example,
            Q: isn’t  a teacher of HFW Marina?   A: Yes, she is. (←english)                                                           A: いいえ。 Marina です。　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　(literally means “No, the       teacher is Marina.”) 
            they make me get confused all the time. i would say “Yes” when i should say “No,” or vice versa.

          • l-p-r says:
            02 Jun, 2012 at 10:57 pm

            Spys and secret police; tells known lies! 

            ..The know it all…   Donovan did not have an official role in the newly formed CIA but with his
            protégé Allen Dulles and others, he was instrumental in
            its formation. Having led the OSS during World War II, Donovan’s opinion was
            especially influential as to what kind of intelligence organization was needed
            as a bi-polar post-war world began to take shape…  sourced:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Bill_Donovan  

               …bAVaRiaN   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian_Soviet_Republic  for example:  Kissinger was bornHeinz Alfred Kissinger in Fürth, Bavaria, Germany in 1923   Soul my… ..to spy with class…lol…peAce!

        • Anonymous says:
          01 Jun, 2012 at 8:34 pm

           Even someone as American as Camp Kohler sometimes uses non-standard English.  Sometimes using English too well reveals that the writer is not American!

          • Anonymous says:
            02 Jun, 2012 at 4:39 am

            thats right, Evan様。we tend to try hard not to make mistakes when speaking and writing english. so we can’t  speaking anything when americans talk to us. and we try to find out slight differences among similar words such as “therefore”,”thus” and “hence” or “thankful” and “grateful” when studying. well, we like perfection and often care about what you think of our english. we don’t make english speakers think we are stupid when using english. its a kind of the Japanese nature. i think its stupid because any languages can’t be perfect.  

            • Anonymous says:
              02 Jun, 2012 at 7:32 am

               Here is a difference in manners between Americans and Japanese.  We would not care if we made mistakes in another language, or if people thought we were stupid.

              If you thought like an American, then you would say to an American, “If you think my English sounds stupid, you should hear how you sound when you speak Japanese!”  But it is best to say that with a big smile, so they would know it is a joke and not an insult.

        • Rijk says:
          02 Jun, 2012 at 6:49 am

          Your on the train made me think of George Carlin and i’m getting in the plain.
          5.17 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLKTFxA8ENU

          second a bit more on words
          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz4K-R8ZlhU

  143. Rijk says:
    31 May, 2012 at 4:24 am

    Nice to see you back to your old self. i have a word-request [ Lap ] hope you make a vid  on it

  144. Anonymous says:
    30 May, 2012 at 9:58 pm

    It has Lots of Visual effect in the Picture.
     http://www.zimbio.com/Weight+Loss/articles/9GJk4zJs5of/Satiereal+Saffron+Extract+Review+How+Effective

  145. Anonymous says:
    30 May, 2012 at 9:40 pm

    ***The REAL origin of “Smart Alec”***

    Hey, I did this before, but since M. has tried to confuse us with the facts, I’d better recapitulate.

    At the court of the Czar, one Count Aleksandr was exceedingly fond of making jokes at the other nobles’ expense, lampooning their foibles and pecadillos for his merriment.  Among the Russian nobility, offenses to one’s honor were taken very seriously, and at length, one of them challenged the Count to a duel.  He confidently accepted, only to find himself facing the pistols of every one whom he had offended.  Thereafter, whenever someone poked fun at another, the dark warning reminder was given not to be a “smert Aleksandr”, “smert” being Russian for “dead.” 

    As Russian immigrants came to America, their phrase “smert Aleksandr” transformed through folk etymology to “smart Alec” in English.

    There you go, another mystery confounded by your dubious LossForWords.

    The story of another “smrt Alek” (this one a woman) can be found here.

  146. l-p-r says:
    30 May, 2012 at 2:22 pm

    ..Marina Rocks!

    I’m not a smArt- ass!  ..The
    Smart Aleck’s     (Heinz) ‘Instrumental 2′ from the film ‘Live It Up!’

  147. Neuroway says:
    30 May, 2012 at 2:07 pm

    ¡CHA CHA CHA!

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