Gird Your Loins (Game)
Where does the expression Gird Your Loins come from?
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Posted on May 7, 2008 · Filed Under Lessons
Hi Marina
there is an error. lonja is not what you said. ans slice in spanish could be said said “loncha”. ham is cold “jamos” so or you are in a mistake or that is a fake answer
lonja is a place were the fish are sold when they come from the ships.
and I am sure, I am spanish!!!
kisses, take care and be bad
Nice one……. come on Marina can we have a video on kissing please ?
xxx
Hard hitting use of smileys………..Shucks my sunglasses are in the car
I love you can you give us kiss
Jeees whoops I meant to say I love Marina not cimska
Word game suggestion for Marina.
Punk
Hey punk stop asking for four letter words.
Did you notice the stammer ?
What s-s-stammer? Nah - missed it.
(he’s been asking for this word in
several other requests - maybe
somewhere on the lost pages)
Marina, дорогой учитель, I’m curious to know: what are some of the common expressions and colloquialism’s that American and Russian cultures have in common? What do you like best about being in America and what do you miss the most by not being in Russia?
i know one!
vodka
Dearest Marina
but only subscribed today because I finally decided that I wanted to be part of the fun. 
I have been watching this website for a month now
You seem to attract only the most knowledgeable jolly persons who try to share the benefits of each other’s wisdom because they have 2 common interests.
No offensive guys you normally have to endure on youtube 
but a highly educated multinational group of men and women that have been snared by your obvious charms 
It’s fantastic.
Last time I saw theG4 introduction video I was really impressed.
Consequently and subsequently I have seen all of your lessons and feel that I know you better ,and therefore wish you well.
Today I watched the introduction video on HFW youtube channel ID again and I wept like baby for 30 minutes …on my kids life.
I have just one thing to say to Marina shaking like a leaf with emotion and tears running down my face onto my keyboard
GO BABY GO !!!!!
She is the cheerleader !!!
You sound truely moved. Curious as to the “2 common interests.
” you were refering to??
Cover your keyboard, You almost made me spill my tea onto mine too. Why did you wait to subscribe? If you were realy vicious you’d be in there early & often. Just curious why you waited
You say no offensive guys… heck hang around a while, you’re sure to get offended or at least misunderstood & cause offence. It’s all good though. Merry Christmas http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=FRvoChwdr88
Welcome!
Nothing fishy about it at all. i wanted to observe
I really was moved Marina is the most beautiful and intelligent witty lifeform that ever walked this earth ,
I wish her well, and cry and shake with the excitement of her blatently impending success which I believe me has barely even started.
The 2 common interests are our passion for words and admiration of Marina what else could they be
I answered your “deer” riddle over there.
I too have been emotionally moved posting here at the website, been angry, sad, melancholy, ticked, & enjoyed good music links. A whole different dimension that didn’t exist a few years ago. Is it real? I’m older than most here, so I didn’t really think a lot about this dimmension before, although other dimmensions I have contemplated.
I did’t mention the happy or laughing emotions, I didn’t really have a passion for words as some here seem too but there are some excellent writers in my family of whom I’m a tad jealous. So I try to write & be understood & while I relate stuff from my life I realize that my life wasn’t as boring as I thought, & HFW.com is not boring unless I go on&on…
So that being said I laugh with you & weep with you & wish Marina all the success that is due & with the lessons taught & learned may she find peace in her soul & not compromise the integrity that shines through in what she shares with us. ‘nuf said…
You may like this, just guessing
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=HhZ5-L9znt8
My good friend told me to look her up, I’m Impressed.
Hey didn’t I read somewhere that you were teacher’s pet once ?
So was I but my teacher didn’t look like Marina.
More like a bag of spanners
PS I have to put the riddle answer under the question sorry
What do you mean I was teachers pet “once”, I still am, see…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY5fhbsQt9w
Imortalized for as long as the video stays posted. Matina is so nice she hastn’t had me put down yet, Allowed to play out in the back yard virtually as long as I want to.
BTW I think my answer to your riddle about the deer is right. “venison”… I was very hungry when i answered. Yours just adds corn to a tasty meal.
http://www.freakingnews.com/Tiger-squirrel-Picture s-11880.asp
http://www.worth1000.com/entries/80500/80643YeGD_w .jpg
http://www.saynotocrack.com/wp-content/uploads/200 7/03/tiger-and-piglets1.jpg Some interesting Tiger photos.
Believe it or not one of my hotfest teachers ever was my grade 5 teacher. I Remember the blond 60s’ hair & the bright coloured Mini skirts. Couldn’t stay in grade five more than two years though. I was born a child out of time, too young then, too old now…sigh
Welcome to the fold Tiger; maybe you can help keep the wolves from the door.
Are you any relation to Sid Vicious?
I think Marina likes the Sex Pistols; at least she was wearing one of their T-shirts in a video a long time ago.
Thanks for the welcome Bob
Really nice to meet you
What species are you and do you bite ?
I have been watching this site and your emails for absolutely yonks …well 2.37 yonks actually only just decided to join the fun now.
You have a very distinctive gravatar
No sorry vicious is purely coincidental.
I am the eldest quintruplet of Little Squirt of the WaterPistols
I am a Siberian Gamster (we use g sound as h in Russia)
And I am a Gangster that has a vicious image to protect.
I can’t pun any or your words because this is a family site. Kids want to learn too.
Bob looks alot like an eared grebe (Podiceps nigricollis) in winter plumage to me.
Hey one of those ate my little sister.. Come on WL pun that.
Just getting my bullet proof vest
Sorry for snorin’…
/ 
/ etc. / … / π / ➪ / ???
You certainly make a first impression!
I’m guessing you already know about
the word list and the 158+ videos.
If you need links, just ask.
I feel you; on the Heroes catharsis;
cutting edge social workshop.
Uhh..bathrooms down the hall
if you want to clean up.
You may be sensitized at some
level us mongo-men types
see as “too deep”. The movie
“Bedazzled” comes to mind.
Brendan Frazier portrays the
extreme example of sensitivity.
Don’t Panic! We can help you
get through this, and beef up
your word-origin confidence.
Sorry, I can’t do it for you,
it’s something you have to
do your own. See, we’re all
engaged in healthy rivalries,
We are really competitors
vying for a spot as the TA.
It’s about the words, mostly.
I guess you knew that or
you wouldn’t be here!
my outro:
Folks’ll read and respond
to your stuff, so get busy.
Is this the by product of intoxicating liquor or intoxicating literature melika
Huh? it is what it is, dude
i think you may mean byproduct?
everything in moderation; nothing to excess
Are you worried about the competition?
I’m not
Marina,
I always thought that the expression “gird you loins” came from the King James translation of the Bible, specifically, the book of Job. Would it be better to find out what the original Hebrew express was to find the origin of the expression?
ChicagoPeter
cancel below comment ,wrong game,ouchh ,was rushin
so you were Russian where do you live now ?
only messin
Messin-potamia?
So tell Amy to stop messin about with the pots yeh ?
ok it is handcuff but since you girt your lions
it is handcuffs…but i have a request,where did (gift of the gap) come from 
I think you mean “gift of gab”, not “gap”. Gab means to talk a lot, it’s a short form of “gabby”.
Don’t be mean on tindofa he might be a spider and on his long and dangerous trek from A to B on the mountainous keyboard decided that he was desperate for a P.
The Gap?
Yes it’s a shop they have toilets in there for a pee
Hi Teacher,
In books, I have come upon the the word Tallywacker or to tallywack someone, just wondering.
zillakong
Tally Ho!
Dear Marina
ORGASMS. 
There are quite a lot of us out here that want
2hotforwords-fan club says
Can we have ORGASMS please oh wonderful one
Now calm down boys Marina knows what i mean
Where’s WordLover we need your support second the motion please.
I seconded yours yesterday (it was the same word LOL)
Calm down at the back please
Mr Strapp the Scotsman ….Can we have your full support Jock or are you too busy girding your loins ?
And Platex are offering exceptional support also apparently
Chastity where are you ? Ooops someone told her to belt up (UK for shut your mouth) so she went home in tears.
I want to have an orgasm (video)!
We really can’t take you anywhere WL LMAO
i reckon you should be nominated for the spanking of the day by Marina
[Sigh].. if wanting was getting, we’d ALL be there!
The human is the only creature capable of imagination and getting fulfilment from that.
Actually joking apart I’m not really into spanking, it’s just that I keep leaving my browser open and Tiger my hamster has the hots for Marina and makes vulgar postings when I leave the room.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=AabBI4w0zIA This ideo is flagged for a reason. The closest bodily function to an orgasm is the sneeze. not sleeze.
Vvvideo, actually sneezing is better if you arn’t alone http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=IqnAK8W_Hz0 now do your homework
Sorry, 2hotforwordsfanclub, I forgot how to convert that to the metric system. Or DO you have orgasms in the metric system…?
Actually WL we are compelled by law to use the metric equivalent in everything except the mile in all sales and advertising etc. But this was only passed by statute because the entire nation refused to adapt like the French did many moon agos on April Fool’s day. (new year)
Wordlover your knowledge is less extensive than I imagined.
You thought that your masculine self would be the first to know that that all orgasmometers are manufactured in both the Metric Ooooh and the Imperial Aaaaah on a global basis. It isn’t a software version the toggle switch is on the left hand side.
Mine has developed a fault it says ‘come on hurry up this battery only lasts 2 hours’.
Oh, my knowledge is extensive alright, I saw how they make ‘em on Venus. I even overlooked a convector bolster that almost blew up and it was right next to my only ride home: Big-O IV, which was made in Manchester by a couple of glow-in-the-dark Swiss Army knives. Damn, your knowledge is less extensive than I imagined; I thought you knew that…
(i.e., 
)
Are you sure that comment didn’t come from Uranus ?
(acting annoyingly oblivious) My anus? Wa’s ‘at s’pose-ta mean?
(which, when translated into Literalese, becomes 
)
No (also acting annoyingly oblivious) you were babbling about manufacturers of planets in the most knowledgeable way and I thought that the next item was going to come from the most famous of all the Piloffpoop Corporation from Uranus
Or. Chasm http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=K74A0EidDl4
An origional
I want ORGASMS as well please Marina
Question is how long is a hamster’s orgasm ?
The largest one on record was achieved in 16 August 2004.
It measured 6 Aaaahs (13 Oooohs in metric).
The ground shook so much that it could be felt by Jupitarians on holiday (vacation in US?) on Mars.
Where, perchance, did this take place?
OK I have been rumbled ! It was in the cage next door in a pet shop in an odorous city now called Eggstinked on Mars.
Happy now ? I’m only little don’t bully me …
I’m always happy !
Don’t worry, be happy ! Me no bully you, oui !
Oui , no I’ll only do that if you bully me !
Marina,
After thinking about this question I’ve come up with an answer
On the humane the loins are located on each side of the backbone
on the animals you will find the loin between the ribs and the hips
Greg
And the leg is connected to the thigh bone
The thigh bone’s connected to the Marina bone……
Marina, дорогой учитель, I think the idea for you to teach some Russian language and customs, culture, etc., on a pay site has some merit and could be profitable for you. Please consider it? Also if enough of the other students here agree would that influence you? How about it class? What say you? How many of you would pay $5-$15 a month for a site where Marina would teach Russian language, customs and culture (even if no school credits would be possible)?
It’s totally #1.
OMG I was wrong.
Don’t admit to that silly !
You thought that this was the right place to give the answer for the golf game buddy
Trust me on this one…
I’m gonna stick with 2hotforwordsfanclub’s theory as well lol
Seek your mind ….You know that it is true …May the force be with you
Shouldn’t that be ‘may the VOCABULARY be with you’ master ?
Did someone just say Mitzi Gaynor? ——————————— Whoa!
(Don’t take notice of this post. Thank you.—Mgmt.)
What post ? I can’t see one.
Ouch that hurt. Walked straight into that one eh ?
I have a black eye now 
Have a look at my gravatar
So a guy walks into a bar
, “Ouch! He said!” Guy next to him says, “Oooh! You alright? Better watch where you’re goin’ next time!” 
Correction: “Ouch!” he said.
(Please take notice of this and all posts, bars, and reckless drivers that you may encounter on the pavement. Thank you.—Mgmt.)
Hey what’s a pavement ?
And how can you pave tarmac ?
(Say cover it up and I’ll kill you !)
Hein ?
Je ne sais pas. Comment ?
I was taking the extracting the urine from the silly word pavement ,
I must say that sidewalk is so much more descriptive..
By definition a pavement must be paved with stones so how can it be paved in tarmac which doesn’t come in big slabs
Hey an imposter !
Hey, here are some ways of saying “hamster” in other languages:
Chinese: 仓鼠 (cāng shǔ)
Czech: křeček
Hungarian: hörcsög
Italian: criceto
Latvian: kāmis
Lithuanian: žiurkėnas
Spanish: hámster
Welsh: bochdew
Hey
WL look at my gravitar .. Do I look surprised ?
It is my name after all
All dentists have to smile or have to suffer the reoccurring Deja Vuic experience of being asked if they are feeling down in the mouth.
Riiiiiiiight…
(Cuckoo!
)
OK here’s a word origin conundrum…
Why do we PARK on a DRIVEWAY and DRIVE on a PARKWAY?
Look out, tiger-the-vicious, it’s a cat!
Hissssssssssssssssssss!
LOL I couldn’t type at all for laughing ! Had to go for a pee to settle down.
With wit like yours you could compete against Marina
Hot for Puns (no not hot cross buns)
What am I saying ? No you are a cool dude I think you wear shades …well actually you said that after the ‘accident’ you only have one eye so it is a darkened monacle maybe.
Look again at that Gravatar WL … Does this face look scared ? Eh ? Eh?
Bloody Cat ? Looks like a right pussy to me !
There are two ?
there were two but the right one is the only one left
Oh yes
Don’t underestimate ragabashmoon, Tig! He hasn’t had anything to eat—YET…
Now where was that Kalashnikov.
I can see a photoshoot of too close friends coming along for a Gravatar
About the money and video adds…
Maybe some donate will help You Maria???
I don’t think that she will need donations from donors when the DVDs start she will be fine
Then there’s the calendars,
the ‘ I fell in love at hotforwords.com’ tee shirts,
the mugs,
the bubble gum cards
the condoms with ‘fortune cookie’ style word puzzles inside. (guaranteed to damage Viagra sales here)
the his and hers matching wrist watches
the XBox and PS3 game,
The hotforwordsland amusement parks
The chain of ‘Hot food with your words’ restaurants
I have every confidence that she has it all covered (and keeps them all covered …….well mainly covered)
The 64 book sets of the ‘hotforwords English etyological Dictionary
Etyological as in “etyology” the study of wizened foot-headed aliens, right?
Ooops sorry WL tired it’s 5am in UK it was a slip of the tongue (I got it stuck between the t and y keys and had a to get a screwdriver to take it apart and accidentally pressed send in doing so)
What i meant was as in etymology .
Oh thear ny thung ith all thwolun now . I can’t thalk protherly
Bravo!
The Hot for Words oven mitts
HFW lunch box w/ special edition thermos bottle!
HFW sheets and pillowcases, king size only - satin, of course
not to mention appearances on Dances with the Stars, and the like.
I really see a day coming when we won’t be able to do this anymore.
She’ll be too busy making movies (or cinema, as our friends across the pond, say). My peoples think she would be a great Bond girl since she’s got “it”. All the memorable actors started off as villians (John Wayne, Henry Fonda, etc.). Bond hasn’t had a “strong” woman opponent since Mayday (Grace Jones). Mayday? Woof!
The Hot for Words Movie! (ala Rock ‘n’ Roll HS), maybe?
hey - where’s My percentage? LOL
Embrace entropy, boys. What choice do you have?
Least we can say is, we knew her when…
Go on then I only joined yesterday
Bye
I like to know what the origin of the word “pool”
There never was a toilet handy when you really needed it !
But wherever you leave it you can be certain that the origin is the same.
Our local council pool has the following sign on the entrance :-
“Welcome to your Public OOL
There is no P in it and we want it kept that way!!!”
I’ve seen a sign with a similar message:
Welcome to our ool:
Notice there is no p in it, please keep it that way.
Then one could imagine a sticker on the Thermos of a coffee-drinking construction worker:
This is my ool. Notice there’s no t in it. I like to keep it that way.
(BAAAAAAAAAAAAAD pun, sorry.
)
But that is what you excel at, (actually you seem to excel at many other things) so just keep em coming my learned new male friend !
Reload………
PS Why not use a real gravatar of yourself like I do ?
I do, after the “accident” the only thing the doctors could salvage from my face is my lips and an eye. But the eye is rather unsightly and I daren’t show it to anyone online lest they judge me by my lips; and no facial feature should have to be held to that standard.
Eye completeyely eyenderstand about eye standard that theye has to mainteyen
Tiger and I are absolutely LOAO (plural of LMAO)
You really really crack me up I can’t take anymore .it’s 7 in the morning.
Emotional overload I don’t know whether to watch the G4 video and cry again or laugh so much my pecker drops off .
eyether weye eye M off to bed
hungry diner LO
waiter LO2U
hungry diner FUNEX
waiter SVFX
hungry diner FUNEM
waiter SVFM
EZ
OK, LVMNX!
Vhy did I do dat? I meant:
OK, LFMNX!
Thank you, the two Ronnies.
Hey labbatt78, to which pool do you refer. ie hockey , swimming pool… or to say, pool our resoures, or car pool. or even the game pool. http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=7GA3ySz4el4 someone had way too much time one their hands. LOL greetings fellow ex pet.
most likely the game of pool. Do you like pool Billy? If I don’t hear from you I hope you have a nice weekend or a nice mother’s day! TTyl ex pet.
Billy doesn’t have a pool he wears nappies / diapers ?
My uncle had a Billiard table, so when I was a kid I played a lot when the cousins got together. Don’t have my own table so don’t play pool anymore, but I do have a pool so now I play in the pool (Weather permitting)
Later
Hi Marina! I just thought of another strange expression: “sounds fishy”. Fish dont make sounds, thats silly! Why would anyone think that something sounds like nothing?
Might be out of her area
i would like to know where the phrase “big wigs” came from … you know when a boss comes in the room and someone says look he’s one of the big wigs… and i think it is number 3 for the loins game
cheers!!! 
Isnt that because french nobles used to wear those redicilously big white wigs (ie: the ones with big wigs had the power). And it became poplular in many other countries I dont know about england but this could be it.
Yeah, take a gander at Louis the 14th sometime.
And in England everybody working in the legal profession still wears them in the courtroom, don’t they?
Talk about retro…
They certainly do
And I think that they make the courtroom much more serious and authorative.
I did a couple of years in the Police and a Manchester England Barrister was absolutely livid because his gown and wig had been stolen from the Crown Court changing rooms.
‘It’s not the price’ he complained bitterly ‘It will take my wife hours to unpick the stitches and fray the gown and 500 times in the washing machine to make both look like my old ones. I don’t want to look like a Rookey.
So these guys are supposed to wear them to look smart but in reality the scruffiest guy is the most senior hhhhhhhhhm
Sting was in the Police and was/is from Manchester…
Blisteringly corny , after the knock knock gag I thought I had the copyright on the really ’smelly ‘ ones !
Nice to be back WL didn’t get back from dancing till 2am to I catchup.
how about a physics joke?
two atoms were walking down the street when one starts furtively checking his pockets.
Atom #1: What’s wrong?
Atom #2: I’ve lost an electron!
Atom #1: Are you sure?
Atom #2: I’m positive
That one had a very positive odour , you had eggs for tea ?
Gird the loins,,pegs on noses ,,, retaliation required as a defensive measure ….
A skeleton walks in a bar and asks for a pint of beer and a mop ?
Which type of cheese is made backwards ?
edam
I knew one of you would be a smarty pants.
It was a trick question, though. There is only ONE cheese that’s made partially backwards: Gouda. Don’t ask me to explain as I am sworn to secrecy by—uh, some people…
What are they big wigs or the big cheese himself ?
Let’s just put it this way: if I so much as cut the cheese as a means of relaying information regarding this secret, I’m Swiss cheese!
What do you call a reindeer without an ‘i’
No, I haven’t heard it. But I’ll guess it… uh…
Rangifer tarandus sine oculus???
render the answer please tigger-the-tame. vicious doesn’t seem to be more than a name
Billyb ….I am a Siberian Mafia Gamster (Russians use g instead of h)
I have a tough image to maintain so I have to disagree in pubic ooops where is that backsapce key
WL I really thought that you would say no eyedeer
What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs ?
A rug?
” ttv”Since a cow with two legs is “lean beef” your sightless legless deer would be “Venison” Need some recipes you carnivorous rodent
http://www.venison.ca/recipes.html
Sorry BillyB my legs are short it took me 2 hours to get this far down the page.
What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs ?
Still no eye deer eh ?
What do you call a deer with no eyes no legs and no manhood ?
This is a family show ……..retraction
What do you call a fish with no eyes ?
I can’t keep you waiting another 2 hours Billyb
The answer (must be spoken of course) is fsh
Wow- cheese whiz, guys.
[giving tiger the fish eye] I find
it remarkable that the Russian
mafia would employ a hamster.
Sounds like you may have
watched “Eastern Promises”
a time or two. Let it go.
Mafia thugs don’t usually go
around trying to attract attention
to that fact, do they? Well,
maybe the really stupid ones…
With all the mood swings you
have (blubbering over yer
keyboard & such) I guess
it’s possible - not probable.
Lay off the elderberries, dude.
#3
Hello hotforwords. Let me start by saying WOW!!! I just discovered your site and can’t wait to share this with my wife. I have a new 7 week old son and can’t wait to build his vocabulary with you. Y
You make learning fun!!
I have a couple of requests that I hope you can help me with.
1. Where in the hell did the expresion 23 ski doo come from.
2. what the heck is onamonapia( hope I spelled that right)
hope you can help, can’t wait for the next lesson
BDV1970
If there were more women like you in the world…
Men wouldn’t stand a chance!!
Hi bdv1970,
Sometimes Marina doesn’t answer, so if you want to look that up, it’s (onomatopoeia) I think.
Uh, I got some important news for ya… Men never had a snowball’s chance in H…
No, wait, I’m not allowed to disclose that. Proprietary information! Never mind! Pretend you didn’t see this! Uh-oh! Gotta go.
Great now you let the cat out of the bag. There goes the neighborhood. How are we so post to keep up the illusion with you spatting out the truth all the time.
23 skidoo - I believe this came about
from 1923 -1924, around New Years.
I should remember more details but
all day at the track has me a lil’ toasted.
all I can smell right now is burnt rubber,
formula fuel & brake pads, yuck. AND
I get to do it again tomorrow! WooHoo!
BVD1970 You can be pretty certain that our learned friend melikadothechacha will be right , (he usually is)
An onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like the action
eg
Pop
Bang
Sshh
Oops ?
Oomph
Slap
Smash
Bubbling
Crack
Can you have 2 word onomatopoeias fellas ?
Plink Plonk
Ping pong
Splish Splosh Splash
Ding-dong, comes to mind
Next?
Careful Melika you need to make sure that your head can fit through the doorway or you may have to wet your pants or pee in the tropical fish tank
Oops another wrong reaction to one of Melika’s quadribiguous sayings.
Bet WL pulls me up on this word I made it up. Bet he wants to check my software licence numbers and the tread depth on my mouse and whether my monitorscreen wipers have a full bottle of water. ooops I’m done for……
No, not done for. I would just word it: quadriguous and not quadribiguous as the -bi- bit is actually part of the ambi- prefix.
By the way, where is that tax form I sent you to fill out?
Oh Shucks i told you I was done for ……. there’s definately no time to say bye or press the enter key even
William Shakespeare said ‘Whether it is quadribiguous in the mind blah blah Use the b or not the b that is the question’
heya,
I had mentioned onomatopoeia a few days ago. It looks like that Marina is planning a video (in collaboration with Venetian Princess). So hopefully we will find out soon
hope this helps
I am getting worried about videos because wordlover has asked for one on orgasm (see top) come on buddy help me get this word nominated.
Kinky!
oh wait… collaboration doesn’t mean that….
go-away-bad-thoughts, go-away-bad-thoughts, go…..
who am I kidding??
Hi Teacher, grettings from your new chilean student,
i want to know the origins of the word blacksmith.
muchos besos
bye
arrowsmith, wordsmith, gunsmith (Smith & Wesson?)
that’s a lot of “smith”, including yours. Good question!
INTERESTING QUESTION
I am going to answer in a round about way because wherever you live in the world you will know someone of English descent.
Sorry no Wiki used we just learnt this at school and police
After the Vikings invaded us in 7th c we all inherited the German/Scand blonde hair from integral cross breeding.
86% of Brits have some Viking descent by recent DNA tests.
Anyway they were named after the professions they had. In those days the capital City of England was York not London.
If you manufactured or forged metal you were a Smith.–from the verb to smite or to hit —(when hot of course to shape it) The main metal objects for forging in those days were knives. . So it’s easy to understand Smith. Later Silversmith, a Tinsmith, Goldsmith Platinumsmith and of course someone that forges black iron (mixed with coal) was a Blacksmith, In those days it was a very important profession and was the olde worlde equestrian version of a car dealer working on the iron horse shoes and repairing carriages. Centuries later the car was first called the horseless carriage, and the term hackney carriage still stands today as if it is a ‘fare paying carriage’ traditionally drawn by horses.. Long replaced by very odd looking (but beautiful) black taxi cabs. The law requires food and water for the horse to be kept in the boot (trunk for the US) even in a diesel taxi cab this law still stands today.
Needless to say that it is never enforced !
Funnily enough the law compelling us to practice our archery for 2 hours on the village green every Sunday has never been withdrawn either.
Most manufacturers of non metals had specific names , eg Cooper (barrelmaker) Fletcher (makes arrows) thatcher (makes straw roofs -they are were all straw once) Taylor (Tailor makes men’s clothes) Cobbler (makes shoes) Archer etc etc
If you worked on something you were a Wright
Some Wrights were called Wheelwright Wainwright etc
In the remote parts of the country of Wales in Britain where the Vikings never reached they still speak the old indigenous language to Britain today (Welsh) there are only really traditional 3 surnames Jones Hughes and er ?
So the people are called Jones Butcher or Jones Posty etc etc
Alx can you come in on the German origins of the verb to smite ?
or maybe she answer me with other theories, if my word is selected
gb
c ya
Gnarly gnarl! I just felt a bunch of neurons
light up reading your piece! Excellent style.
- understood it all
can you help me programme my VCR? LOL
Have a cookie, You’ve earned it!
(don’t know if you like beer: if so swap “beer” for “cookie”)
That was real good, bro.
I’ll have the cookie. Hamsters love cookies
A real thug would
have demanded
Vod-kya!
Thanks Chris .She rarely answers anybody (not as marina anyway)..
Go to the top of the page buddy a lot of men want orgasms . Are you going to join in the nominations for Marina to give us orgasms (meaning of the word)