Teacher’s Pet
Quick lesson today.. and a little break to introduce the real Teacher’s Pet 
The dog’s name is not Riley.. I am introducing an interesting phrase that needs to be investigated.. some people over at YouTube got confused… well you know.. 
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Hi Marina, how have you been?
Awwwwwwww!! Wee lil fuzz ball of fun. No way can any student compete with such a furball as that. The tennis ball is about the same size as (did you say Poppy?) the wee lass!
My world has been turned upside down due to a dog. Duke, came to stay for a few days, about a month ago! His dad is overseas working leaving mum too busy with a third baby on the way. Only having pets breaks them rules in the lease, so all being well have found another home for us both to live. Duke is rather big and still a pup, chews much however finding him good to train. A neighbour says we are like Elliot and ET…. dogs have got it sorted I think. Fed, housed, walked and loved…. yeah so who is this Riley?
Have missed class, very much due to , life, so have many lessons to catch up with. You are looking amazingly fantastic as ever
Alphabet City
The reason why black is no longer the prominent lack of color, is ‘cause-of-dogs.
Wake up!!! Open a window and use Katz.
PERT
After watching this it was the only thing that came to me!
Sorry.
A friend of mine has a couple of Yorkshire terrier, right? The small and smart dogs.
She decided that the young one should never be ashamed of his size, so what name did the dog get?
Ulysses, of course…
Well a mans best friend is a dog ….and A Ladys…….
I would call the Dog SNOWBALL .
I Love Dogs i want to get a Mountain Dog …perenses….big white one …..or a st bernerd. …My flats to small ……..i need a Bigger garden and large space and my Dog would have the ‘ Life of riely ‘
I wasn’t going to watch the entire clip, but ended up doing so. The little puppy dog’s cognitive process … at play, and I simply watch the frisky little thing and go off in thought …
Biological cognition is a most fascinating “thing.” Care to watch some “kittens” at play? It’s all the same thing …
Biological cognition is a most fascinating “thing,” Maria et al.
Wow, you guys got YouTube to work fast on a holiday weekend …
That is a cute dog. I wanted to pick him up and play with him.
I was almost going to say that “I actually prefer bigger dogs… but any dog is better than even 100 cats”.
Then I realized how stupid a statement that was — because the more cats you have the worse your life.
So I will just be quiet and say … “Cute dog!”
cute little sobaka
My dog SANDY HOBBS has her own web page like yours does!
http://www.zero123.com/sandy.html
Gee, we have something in common!
WORD REQUEST: “BRICK” “WALL” & “BRICK IN THE WALL”
It’s quiet in this flat tonight.
Can you hear the echo?
Hey, Bob!
The wait was worth it.
She did it again- Funny!
Hi,
Please investigate “aphrodisiac” for me. Please.
Thanks!
Hi there,
i got two words to submit you. The first one is “idiosyncrasia”. And the second one is “soddomy”.But be care, the second term is not from the town “sodom”, because it s a bad translation of the bible…
Thanks,
Oli
Miss Marina,
I’m a big fan of books and films about the Italian mafia like “The Godfather”. There are many Italian terms being used in the books and films that make the conversations confusing. One term that i really do not understand is “pezzonovante”. I’d really like to know it’s meaning and it’s etymology. Thanks!
By the way, i love your vids! Keep it up!
Dear Marina,
My wife and I are wondering where the term cocktail dress came from…
For that matter, Why do they call drinks cocktails??
Any guidence you may have would be helpful!
Tomorrow the great tennis tornament the French Open (Roland Garros) is starting and I was thinking…. you know when the referee goes fifteen - love… thirty - love….. why they use LOVE rather than zero ??????
it needs to be investigated!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFQlZht2DU4
Hi Marina.
I appreciate your work… and your patience (some comments are quite embarrassing). So my laud and congratulations to you and all other participants.
English isn’t my first language, so I use the MerianWebster Webpage to look for the proper pronounciation. But what’s this:
The word was “shenanigan”
So I hope, this will get your attention and your enthusiasm to “investigate”!
Sincerely, cheza.
PS: The video with James@war is sooo great!!!
Withdrawal
Withdrawal Syndrome
Marina, please I need my fix!
Need….video….soon….help….
She’s too busy playing with the dog.
No she’s not. She’s trying to get that last box unpacked while negotiating the minefield.
Yes, and unpacking.
She’s way too busy.
Considering all of the things that she must do to keep updated as well as produce her show- wow.
How did the word mooning come to mean flashing your butt at people?
Maybe we should just ass(k) you!
2:30 A.M definately gotta go to bed night or should I say morning to everyone.
Hello Marina,
Love your website and admire your dedication to it. I was wondering, as an audiophile myself, where the words “woofer” and “tweeter” came from as they pertain to audio speakers. To be honest, I think it would be enough just to here you say the word “woofer” because of the lack of “wh” sound in Russian. hehehe
Thank you and keep up the great work!
-Big Jeff AZ-
A dog woofs, a bird tweets.
Teach, A earlier post asked about, THANK? This is a good question. Thank, is a antonym for f*ck? Good ; Thank You.. Bad; F*ck You. And when your Girl wants to do something to show Her appreciation, She Thanks you……curious, It seem to be synonyms too?
I have a word request if this is the right place to post it. The word i would like to know more about is Prometheus. Thanks keep up the good work
I also have a burning desire to know more about Prometheus.
i gotta go to bed ,Night all
Oh analyzing these videos makes my head hurt. Thats no dog. Thats a manifestation of a great white safari hunter, he’s roped the moon, defeated the platypus, and lain to rest the great pink rabbit, a being of the Xtianity, one who’s head is not his own and incurred the wrath of Satan’s daughter herself, Firm in his beliefs and easy to love, a true spirit of kinship……or something like that.
Marina, seriously, I really do like animals (apart from their nutritional value). However I don’t like poodles all that much because a friend of mine had a wife who just absolutely HAD to have a purebred white poodle to match her naturally platinum blond hair. So the poor guy got her one. The thing about purebred dogs is that in order to get the physical qualities that people want in them the animals become inbred. This produces some, shall we say, some other less than “desirable” qualities. My friend’s wife’s dog was so inbred or purebred if you will, that whenever the doorbell rang it would run around in circles, barking and urinating all over their apartment. This wasn’t a cutesy little toy poodle, but a full sized one. Poodles were originally bred as working dogs. It is man that has reduced them to fashion accessories. I hope you are one of the ones who is too smart to treat your dog like that. Remember that poodles are very active and require a daily commitment to exercise them. I hope you and your dog have many years of happiness together. BTW, beautiful Harlequin great Dane too. (I would have thought you would have thought you would have gone with a Russian Wolfhound though.) Might I suggest the nickname ZIB for your dog, in honor of the space dog that was substituted for Bobik the Soviet space dog in ‘57? You could call him “ZIBushka” for short (short dog, get it?) and because there is so much space in your apartment since he isn’t a big dog.
In the interest of Glasnost, I would suggest George W. ZiBushka.
LOL! Nice
Tell us about the word “LEGEND”
I Am Legend. That’s all you need to know….
Dear Teacher-
A word used way too much… FREE please educate us about the origin of this word. thank you.
If she were free to do so, she would, and she would to it for free in her free time. I personally believe that the word free should be used freely by anyone free to to do so.
Marina, i just want to thank you for your great site every time i visit i learn something new from you or the friendly people that leave comments. it has inspired me to make some drastic changes in my life(for the better) and this one is just for you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L5F6SWKhXY thanks agian
Where did you get youre nice avatar? just cuious.
I seems my avatar is a the rage
i found it at this place http://www.EXCLUSIVEAVATAR.COM
COULD YOU DO THE ORIGIN OF FABER’S SYNDROME
I agree. Do us all a faber.
Hi Marina,
What’s the origin of the word logo?
GJ
Does anyone know how to tell if a video on YouTube does not allow video replies? Some of them I reply to act as if they work but they never attach to the video in question. They even show in the dropdown with an asterick (you know, the dropdown when you go to use an existing video as a reply).
I looked through about as much youtube help as I could stand.
And ummm…. sorry if this is off topic. I am more or less at my wits end though and figured everyone here was probably pretty youtube saavy.
OK… couldn’t sit through the whole dog video. Are you chasing him around with your ibook or did you get a video camera? Nice dog though. Although I’d recommend a different breed.
wife liked the dog, must be a chick thing.
men are different.
Looking forward to florida?
yeah, you know … sun, ice cream, …
I don’t have any pets. But my parents have a Yorkshire Terrier (and two larger cats!), one of my sisters has two Yorkshire Terriers (one weighs just 4 lbs!), and my other sister has two Springer Spaniels. My sister’s two Yorkies are called Molly and Jody, so I just call them The Mojo. The Spaniels are called Moose and Cruzer. I don’t have pets, but my African Sumac is home to lots of cute little bugs…. They’ll have to do for now!
Dear teacher
I don’t like when you take drugs before doing your lessons. Neverthe less, I will do my homeworks.
Amicalement
Don Felipe
why do people say the word buh in front of bye when someone is leaving. example “buh- bye”
Ok here’s a joke for you.
An elderly couple is attending a church service.
About halfway through,
she leans over and says to her husband,
“I just let out a silent one.
What do you think I should do?”
He replies, “Put a new battery in your hearing aid.”
Thats the best one today, everybody here laughed @ work. LOL
Thanks BillyB.
Mike
Check out the one further down I left for khop102. He wanted to know about the word masterbate.
P.S. I love small dogs. Especially with baked potatos…
potaTOES
Ok Mr. Quail
Marina:
How do you call a dog with no legs?
It doesn’t matter because he can’t come anyway.
A dog with his leg wrapped in bandages hobbles into a saloon. He sidles up to the bar and announces: “I’m lookin’ fer the man that shot my paw.”
A man walks into a bar and sits down next to a lady and a dog. The man asks, “Does your dog bite?”. The lady answers, “Never!” The man reaches out to pet the dog and the dog bites him. The man says, “I thought you said your dog doesn’t bite!” The woman replies, “He doesn’t. This isn’t my dog.”
A blind man walks into a bar with a seeing-eye dog. When the blind man reaches the center of the bar, he snatches the dog up by his collar and starts swinging him around and around. The bartender, startled, asks, “Hey, what the hell are you doing?” The blind man says, “Just taking a look around…”
Har Har Har
Marina,
I love your class… I´m a pantyhose fan.. I love wear them even now a days not many girls like them. Anyway, I would like to ask the origin of the word “pantyhose”
Kisses
D
gg diana915
+1
Respectfully, Chemikal
I have a word for you Ms. Marina: Scuttlebutt!
-Clint
Aye! And a good nautical term, it be, too! Gave barth to the water cooler syndrome, which is well known to claim many a poor unwary soul so long may they peacefully rest in the deep…
Arrh. Me parrot shit on me shirt again. Blast!
lol Yea, it’s quite an interesting term. I actually heard it on the news yesterday, and that’s what made me think of posting it on here. So, hopefully Marina will shed some light on this interesting term!
Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
YAAAAarrrrrr!
Teach, Where is the Great Dane from your earlier Video?? Now that’s a DOG..(I understand; APARTMENT) BUT what a Dog.
scroll down.. or use find for Marina’s posts.. she answered this earlyer.
GL
Chemikal
Dear Marina,
How did the expression “the cat’s pajamas” come about?
Целую,
Bad Squirrel
I have a good word request Marina:
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
I am sorry to tell you my friend but she has already done that one.
Check Marina’s lessons at the top of the page and it will give you all the words she has already done. Plus somewhere on this site or Marina’s YouTube site are all of the videos she has made. Its up to 160 or so by now. Be 
and peace. 
http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/11/16/supercalifra gilisticexpialidocious/ click & enjoy. More here http://www.hotforwords.com/words/
thank you for the help i appreciate it
Thanks!
251 comments on YouTube Vs 256 over on HotForWords.com
+mine.. we stand proud at 257 comments!
So.. please start reading from the bottom, up. Every little thing
you might want to check out the “Gird Your Loins (Game)” lesson. 964 comments. have fun reading every single one of it.
Not only will I do that.. I will even respond to some of them.. maybe I’ll help to reach 1k+ comments.
Yeahh… why not?
why not? because people tend to read and comment on the newest lesson(s).
PLEASE! HELP! HELP! HELP!
WHAT’S THE WORD ””GALOUT”’(or some sort) MEANING; A SCOTISH INVESTOR USED IT AND i DON’T KNOW WHAT IT IS.
I was late with something and It wasn’t good for the business, then he told that to me in a context. I took it like a bad word but I still don’ t know what is it ——I can’t find it in the Cambidge dictionaries
Galoot is a word used by Scots to mean an idiot; sorry not to break it to you more gently but I think you already realised that your Scottish investor was not being nice to you.
The word is used in a nautical context to mean a young or “green” marine or greenhorn (a raw or inexperienced person) but the Scottish use is rather harsher.
Interestingly, in The Urban Dictionary, there are other definitions given amongst which is “A devastatingly handsome, crushingly intelligent and bitingly witty man.”
So don’t be too downhearted; we galoots have to stick together.
Look on this episode as a learning experience.
Somebody wise once said, “show me someone who never made a mistake and I’ll show you someone who never learned anything.”
and as we discussed earlier…Yosemite Sam was fond of calling Bugs Bunny a “long-eared galoot”…
I knew it! Yosemite Sam is Scottish in at least one cartoon.
I heard him say “idjit” for idiot, too, in one episode.
“Whoa means WHOA ya varmint critter!”
I heard Yosemite Sam is Half Dumb.
lol
Bye Everyone i’m off to work now.
Yea me too stokesjrj1, but I wouldn’t call my career ‘work’. Its loads of fun. Im my own boss. I have great students. Oh I have to tell you this. I didn’t get a stupid apple (fruit kind) but they gave me a ‘Time Bandit’ t-shirt and coffee cup. Way cooler than an apple.
that lil furball is cute
The expression to be “pissed off” comes from?
1. In the UK, pissed is slang for drunk and we all know there is increased likelihood of people getting angry when drunk;
2. Some linguists and historians think the expression must have been well known during World War II, citing a story about General Eisenhower’s dog. The story goes that the dog (Felix) urinated on a map and the officers joked that the enemy was “pissed off”.
3. Shipment of cargos of urine via boat for use in dying fabrics and gunpowder production had crews who had been assigned shipments of urine rather than more conventional wares were said to be “pissed off”. Obviously the reaction to this unsavoury task gave meaning to the term.
The origins of most slang expressions are irretrievably lost in the mists of time, or are they? What do you think?
Chemikal
See? Now I went along all this time thinking that’s how the condom ended up flying across the room (it was pissed off).
Dear Marina,
I recently found your Youtube vids and must say this is the cleverest idea I’ve seen. Congrats on your success. Now, the word I am interested in is “Gal”. I guess I am just old enough to think it weird to address a table of females by saying “You guys” as opposed to “You gals”. I ask because this seems to be a word that is about to die. Maybe it already has. Thank You
Hello Maia Marina
Здравствуйте!
Посмотрел ваш клип и задумался на тему происхождения абривиатуры РЭП.
П.С. Вы очень крсиво поёте.
Hi Marina,
Brand Spaning New Student. it is an italian word but what does the word destaduda mean? sorry if I did not spell it correctly.
Seen your interview with Bill O’rielly and had to come to this site ASAP
Was that “brand spanking” or “brain spanning?”
“brand spankining” as in new not “brain spanning” the word I’m looking for is “destaduda” that is the best I can spell it. It is an Italian word my father always called his brothers.
Sounds like he might have been saying “destitute.”
not sure how it may be spelled spelled it how it sounded to me. my late father said it meant “Blockhead” in Italian just curious cause whenever he bitched with his bros it was in Italian so I couldn’t understand.
Italian for head is “testa” as in “Testarossa=a Redhead”, so that gets us the first part of your word. The nearest I can find to the second part, “duda”, means “doubt or suspect”, so maybe “testaduda” could mean someone whose intelligence was suspect.
Sin duda (without doubt), someone who knows Italian would be able to confirm or correct my theory.
this site is what I used to research this word.
That’s a Riley good video!!!
I know, it’s a Riley lame comment. Sorry!
I thought it was Riley funny
You’ve all got to be kidding me, Riley!
what about the phrase head over heels? we seem to use it a few different ways
Done it already.
well at least im on the right track
Right click “copy” & “paste” your links making sure you leave a space before & after.
Nice avatar, pagedoll
Or maybe i should say nice Icon, which do you prefer? avatar has many things associated with it…….icon\avatar…looks much better than the previous .
thanks
I didnt the last one was encouraging enough smiles. this makes me smile-www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw06kldgVSU
sorry i wanted that address to turn blue so you could click on it and see but i guess i dont know how to do that
try putting “h t t p : //” in front of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw06kldgVSU
Seems that video has been taken down.
maybe this one will work http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8aMfa2hgr0
yea!! i did it!! thanks again
Hey Marina,
Is it true you’re going to encourage us to vote for McCain in November?
Bizoo.
presumined, I don’t get involved in politics. Too divisive. I have ads that appear on my website from all the candidates, but they are served up by Google and I have no control over them.
Teach, Can you tell your minions about your experiences in A Socialist Country. FREE Health care. ????FREE????. And what this will cost them. Maybe what drove you here? And not ……France or England or …….? Are you happy to see the USA going in the ……like Sweden. If You do not want to get involved, Then can you define, chick shit?
Just kidding Hun, But your insight would be important to Me.
Thanks for your reply. I see your point.
But you do have a deal with GTA4, surely?
Bizooo.
roadrunmch: Dude! Let it go!
This is a party; not for party
parlor tricks (politics). We have
a lot of fun with OUR brand
of juggling clowns, dancing
bears and high-wire acts.
To get into Amerca’s, or
anyone elses, f***ed up
political systems is a
real buzz kill.
So, no harm, no foul.
Just buckle up and
enjoy the ride!
buzz kill? ……teacher………… not ,
yOUR brand
of juggling clowns, dancing
bears and high-wire act.
Hearing from someone who was lived it and not from some duplicitous Hollywood whiner is not a parlor trick. So thank you for your concern but being a buzz kill is what geeks do. RRR ::)( ;;
I think that one flew right on overhead like a wedge of northbound mallards, Ed. But you’re yonder on the early side o’ the pond, right? Seems to me you’d be off the hook then anyway. And what’s bizoo?
hm. “bisou”, maybe?
Good recall, pennsyltucky9 (or should I call you Mr 9?).
Ya, I live in UK, but maybe I become a US citizen b4 Nov
aLx is correct about bizoo, it’s a fun version of “bisou”, a French word for “kiss”… it’s how I sometimes sign off when I write to French (or pretty) girls 
(I like if they write back in English and just sign off “Kiss” … v cute… I got a kiss from Marrakech recently… *sigh*…)
…ya, it was a French kiss for Marina
What’s your take on the blonde one’s GTA4 fixation, btw? …
Hey Marina, I have always wondered about the word “Masturbate”. It doesn’t seem as though it quite relates to the meaning at all… Check it out? Thank you!
<3 Kendall
I think this from a tv show were as the father was Mister Bates the mother was Mrs. Bates and the youg son was Master Bates.
Just kidding had to through that one in there.
Hi Marina
Could you expound upon the word ‘redneck’ as in a personal stereotype.
tia
spike
Dear Marina,
How did “knocked up” come mean pregnant?
Целую,
Bad Squirrel
Dear Marina,
While travelling in Central Asia I found a dish soap called “barf.” Why would anyone want to wash their dishes with barf is beyond me. What is the origin of barf, and does it mean anything pleasant in the Central Asian languages?
Целую,
Bad Squirrel
whats wrong with these comments?
Hi Marina,
Would you be interested in the age demographic of your student body?
Why not do a poll (under 20, 20-29, 30-39…)? I think that the results might be surprising.
How about this idea:
Male? female? other*?
*(just in case they have
pets who also watch).
My cockatiel usually helps me @ the computer, so he’d be “other” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVe4NMseLcg When Kobe gets old he may need a friend. My bird jumps on the keyboard when I type , he likes to compete.
Quick response before I watch the vids.
I was an aviarist/breeder, for a time.
Quite successful - and damn lucky.
cockatiels, parakeets and lovebirds.
Buy that calcuim!! USE that calcium!!
does you bird like scrambled eggs?
I trained a couple birds (one parakeet, one cockatiel) to wolf whistle, the “come hither” whistle and, how to whistle Dixie (yeth, I tan whithle).
After that - they taught my other birds
Saw the vid - is that your guy? Had results like that - got a few solid yellow males, too
used my bird in an “impromptu” magic act. he would put his head in my mouth! (the old lion tamer trick). simple operant behaviour modification of the birds inate instinct. Anyway - thanks for reminding me of some of my favorite critters. I have a cat now. Just got lazy.
Back to the main point about the poll -
male ? female ? other?
the strange attracter to this is the yield in the survey partitioned to those who respond: female/other, male/other, male/female/other and just plain other.( i want to know how big to make the butterfly net!!)LOL!!
ummm… read that back
should be apportioned, not partitioned.
(programmer’s jet lag)
Not my bird in the vid.
Pets become such a part of who we are as humans that I think when its time to separate there is a certain amount of mourning goes on in our hearts if we really let them get in there. As a kid it took me along time to get over the death of my rat “George” 
Yes bird likes his eggs, pasta & potato, anything he can steal & he’ll fight for his share.
Actually, bird is my daughters’, left behind when she moved out, can’t get rid of him, even flew away once, went & broke into a house a few miles away & lady didn’t want him. He knows a few tunes, Bridge over River Kwai, Andy Griffith, Marriage of Figaro (the intro), sometimes composes a mix of it all with telephone ringer thown in. His favorite & it drives my wife nuts is the smoke alarm, when he wants attention quess what he does.
My oldest son got married & took his two love birds to be with him & his new wife. Funny, years ago he came home from school twice a day when they needed fed (chicks), & they will die with him, they’re so attached. Daughter in law didn’t know that she married the three of them
Богдан I think was asking about ages cause he wants to know, but Marina should know by checking the profiles of subs. gtg
Dear Marina,
Why is the space between a hockey goalies’ legs called ” the five hole?”
Целую,
Bad Squirrel
Dear Marina,
Why do old people call youngsters “whippersnappers?”
Целую,
Bad Squirrel
Dear Marina,
What is the origin behind the piece of lingerie knowns as the “Merry Widow?”
Целую,
Bad Squirrel