A most famous brand-name origin
Where does this brand-name get its origin? I thought it made for an interesting story while researching it.
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I’ve got to get one of those shirts. Seriously though doesn’t everyone already know the origin of this? Hotforprofits needs some cute shirts like that.
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another famous
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Coca-Cola was originally
green
YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!! OMG
I love You! You are so sexy!!! and clever, etc.
with you being russian what is your favorite brand of vodka and is there a recipe for vodka cookies
i want to know the brand name origin of sex wax for surf boards i used it when living in long beach CA,
Not to mantion the Coke bottle, even without any markings, is the most widely recognized item in the world!!!!!!!
the word dick. reffered to male organ. where did it originate?
Cheers for that , i can Drink both PEPSI and COKE ….But i DO like PEPSI More …..with RUM………Rum is so nice with coke or pepsi…..
Rum would be a good word to talk about ……
FUN FACT:I am an electrician and my company does electrical work for Coca0cola machines as a vendor
Actually Coca Cola still buys tons of coca leaves, but they will not say what for. And Starbucks was caught and sued in San Francisco court for putting epinephrine in their coffee!
epinephrine like an epi pen for when you get stung by a bee or are going into shock that epinephrine
interesting video, i like your initial image on this video.
There is notthing like a habit forming drink except the nicotine slip
Word Request: Punani
Is it related to poontang?
http://www.eduqna.com/Words-Wordplay/401-1-words-w ordplay.html
Thanks
I like that Hawaiian meaning - very poetic.
The difference? Coca-Cola was a pharmacist’s stimulant drink (Cocaine and Caffeine) where Pepsi was a pharmacist’s stomach aide for people suffering from dyspepsia.
I would like to know the origin of the term, “pull off,” meaning “to do something successfully.” Example: “How did you pull off getting into Harvard?”
Ok this is a hard one for you, and deffinately a little taboo, but it’s the only word that keeps occuring to me when I watch your video lessons :oops:. I cannot find any information regarding its origins on the internet so I thought you might be able to help me get to grips with it, and possibly give me a hand. The word has aired on the BBC, in a show called countdown and will go over 99% of Americans heads. So get your etymological dictionary out and look up wank, or you could just hit me around my facetious little head with it.
I guess I must be a one percenter…I work with a Limey here in PBI who has a medal attached to the front of his bike. It says ” World’s Biggiest Wanker ” . It was presented to him in Australia, of all places. I asked him whether he hangs it above or below his VC…
I have a word request my teacher: “train”. Its my faveorite way of transportation and I always wonder wheter it has something to do with its other meining “to train” as in bootcamp.
Is it true that the fat, whitebearded gentleman we are used to seeing around Christmas time was also designed by the cokacola company
They just reinvented him to sell their product.
Yes, before he was portrayed wearing long robes, either red or a light brown, but it was Norman Rockwell that Coca-Cola commissioned to do a new more modern painting of Santa for them to advertise with around Christmas time, and his painting became “The Coca-Cola Santa” and it became their greatest marketing idea ever, and now most people don’t even remember the way Santa used to dress.
Actually now that I think about it, I don’t even think he wore red before he was “redone” in Coca-Cola’s red with white trim. Because I have a old-fashioned Santa tree topper, and it’s the light brown.
The popular image in America is a Coke creation. Red robe, belly, boots, red smilling face etc…. A marketing idea.
In other coutries were the tradition was strong, such an image did not go through and the traditional figure is still strongly associated with the Saint. In eastern France for example he wears a blue dress, is tall and not fat and has a bishop’s hat and a carries a bishop’s cross.
I have heard, that Coca-Cola is an orange based flavour whereas Pepsi is a lemon based flavour, and that Pepsi is the prefered mix with Rye. Also that only Coca-cola should be used as a mix with dark rum.
hello beautiful marina. i would like to know the origin of the word karma, as in good karma bad karma etc.
My karma ran over your dogma.
The dogma runs that you now have bad karma.
Now, lets see if the phrase “bad karma” gets people worked up into a tizzy, like “bad grammar” did.
and what does that mean exactly? lol
I had a karma Gia when I was younger was and excellent little kar
lol, Bob - that’s right - is there really such a thing as “bad” karma? Maybe we should call it “different” karma, or “personal” karma….
Hmmm….
Constant karma is more accurate.
What about Instant?
http;//ie.youtube.com/watch?v=EqP3wT5Ipa4
Marina,
Where did the phrase, “as poached as an elephant” come from?
heh. you like animals, don’t you?
I like all animals, yes, but more of the weird looking animals like unicorn fish, tree kangaroos and elephants…
Especially with a side of fries.
Hey elephants are scared of hamsters and mice.
An elephant…..I bully them…I’ll rip his head off and we can see…….Who nose what embarrassing underwear he keeps in his big trunk.
That’s a good one!
Where did you hear that?
Are you talking to me? I’m pretty slow, so you’re going to have to explain that one to me… hear what?
I didn’t hear it either. Have you been on the whacky backy again Melika
yes, I was “taliking” to you
yes, you “sound” slow
I guess you’ll need to try
a little harder to be fast, huh?
this is as slow as it gets
“how did you come by to
know and understand the
phrase ‘as poached as an
elephant’?”
Did you “read” it someplace?
Did you “hear” it someplace?
Did aliens plant it into your
thought stream, anally?
I was just curioius - sorry!
I hear the phrase being used quite a bit almost everywhere, but about a week ago a friend of mine was on Youtube and she had me listen to this song that she thought was very amusing, and it said, “As poached as an elephant”, and that was the first time that I ever actually thought about that phrase..
Now, I have never actually seen an elephant, much less a poached one, I wanted to request this because I thought it sounded like it would be very interesting for Marina to investigate. Did you know that I’m not allowed to use smilies any more?
Not allowed to use smilies ?
How about frownies ?
Is it a religious thing or is you internet having it’s menstrual cycle ?
OK - thanks for that.
If you poach an egg
then it’s cooking.
if you poach an
elephant, that’s
stealing.
So the conundrum is more
about the word “poach”
I like the green one, myself
Oh my gosh! I can’t believe I didn’t relise that before!
Poaching is to illegally hunt and kill an animal.
Elephants are endangered.
It’s illegal to kill them.
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Well I guess I can still make something out of my useless request.. Because I don’t see how that word is related to those two definitions..
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I used the smilies too much on my first word request, and now I’m not allowed!
You can’t poach a hamster.
I don’t fit well enough in either poacher.
I am too big for the egg poacher
and too small for the stomach of a poacher.
Also, the term COKE is used to refer to coal that has been refined to take out the impurities. It is then used to fire the blast furnace, that creates molten metal, such as steel. Wonder how that got started? I remember my grandfather working at the “coke” plant in the 60’s, and he wasn’t making a soft drink!
Hello Marina,
What’s the difference between the two colas? Coke has more phosphoric acid in it than Pepsi… and this acid is also used to clean things.
My friend took a bottle of Coke and shook it up with his thumb tightly covering the opening. His new girlfriend had just revealed that she wasn’t on “the pill” and they just finished having unprotected sex. He took his thumb off the bottle and pushed in her “you know what!” Supposedly, it works to “deactivate?” … “wandering sperm!” hmmm?
Let’s investigate!
New uses for Colas.
FoodDrink for thought. Do you still like Cola?Bob the new uses for colas was an interesting video. I may start spraying my ferns and Hostas with it to keep away the cutworms.
I started feeding my Venus fly trap with Coke but now it doesn’t kill and eat the flies it is holding 347 hostage until I switch to Pepsi
I prefer Coke but the plant doesn’t.
Do you think I should give in or is this showing that hamsters can be weak ??
No don’t give in make the little bastards suffer
They are pesky enough as it is. 
Careful Tig the bomb scare will be the next ploy. Never trust a plant with a bomb
grrr… this must be the evil twin.
hey Marina
I was just wondering about why in America they call it socker but we in Europe call it just football and why Americans call football what we call american football. And why is that like so? It makes just a mix up.
Cause we’re bass ackwards. Its like we still use the SAE number system and still call things ounce, pint, quart, gallon and the rest of the world uses the metric system. We are slow to adapt. People resist change. But change is good. It stimulates the mind to try new ideas. Just my thought on your question
Spot on, Capman,
Constant change is here to stay.
No, it’s because Americans took Rugby and rewrote it some then called it football. So, being Americans who think we are right and the rest of the world is wrong, Football is the name of OUR game, so we renamed the rest of the world’s “Football” to soccer.
Sorry Capman that is more a Russian point of view than an American one that Americans are backass backwards as a nation and should move on to metric.
Sorry I am English and I don’t like metric either so I’m a backass also.
In fact metric was so rarely quoted in the UK for food that the government had to pass a statute insisting that everything was measured is in metric weights and distances.
So now everybody asks the poor shop assistant “568 grams can you tell me how many ounces that is please love ?”
Generally as a nation we hate metric and the Euro (we never joined)
I think that Imperial encourages good mathematics because it is so complicated. Education separated the classes. With base 10 metric a mathematical moron can sound educated. Is this good ?
Are calculators good at school ? Why is religious services banned at school ?
So what you are saying ragabashmoon, is that despite the fact that the ball is handled more than it is kicked it is called football.
Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to call it handball or American Rugby ?
I don’t know why they violated the name of such a dissimilar game. Was American Golf a maybe at one time ? American Tennis ?
Even more tongue in cheek maybe the World Wildlife Fund whose mascot was a Panda was endangered by the World Wrestling Federation (of America only). I reckon that the Pandas got scared when the bozos kept ringing them up for fights.
I don’t understand. I thought you first invented “football” then heard about a game played with a ball and the feet in some other obscure part of the world. As you already were using “football” for something else, then you had to call it something else: soccer from “assoc. football”. Maybe I’m wrong. What I never understood is why in the first place you called football something played with a ball and mainly the hands?
Maybe the Yorkshire saying ” nowt as strange as th’folk lad.”
Funny old things us humans eh ?
Hey Miss
This hamster is impersonating me.
He described himself as human.
Either an impostor or
a few slates short of a roof,
you know a few biscuits short of a packet,
not a full shilling,
barking mad,
you know the light is on and there is no one at home.
When you close the fridge door does the light go out
Hmmm superb humour capman119 (capman911 translated into English)
Still miss Word lover though
Hey I have spent hours trying to sneak the fridge door open but the light always wakes up quickly slowly quietly loudly, I can’t catch it out. I reminds me of the mirror. That just copies me every time. Can’t catch it out.
Hello Marina!
How are you this fine day? I was wondering if it was possible if you could inform me on the origin of the word ‘trivia’. Recently, in one of my literature classes, my teacher mentioned that ‘trivia’ didn’t always exactly mean ‘trivia’, or something along those lines. Though, since I have forgotten what she has told me, I was thinking, “this would be a great job for Marina to do on her ‘hotforwords’ show.”
Thank you in advance for your help.
p.s. I took the advice you had dished out about tracking comments. Not a bad piece of software. In addition, the advice on the more recent soy milk and juice mixed drink, superb!!
Do you believe that “trivia” is an important issue ?
I have another one!… how about the word BABYDOLL… At first sight it should be a doll, the toy, with a baby face… but if you google it you will see a bunch of different models of sexy clothes for women!… how could that be??? what is their relationship?
Where the word Guitar comes from, and Why the guitar is named guitar, haha.
Can you tell mes please.
By the way. the difference between Coke and Pepsi. I think pepsi has a smoother taste, like the difference between splenda and canderell haha!
Not trying to tell the difference between Regular Coke and Diet Coke.
nice COKE!
I heard about it before somewhere!…
Please do this one:
Why the word SEPARATED in the writing spells all together and the words ALL TOGETHER spells separated????
pepsi is sweet and coke is sour?
So next time i want Sweet and Sour Chicken and egg flied lice, I should drink Pepsi and Coke together ?
no, u cook the chicken with coke and pepsi
Teach, I see you on the new york times, This paper is like the old KGB, Cheka, Their job is to mislead and obfuscate. To the same end I am afraid.
Hey Marina, are you going to pick up the new iphone? I hear there going to be extra trick with 3g capabilities and now only $299.00 for the 16 gig model. I only ask because you had mentioned you use one in previous comments.
Why is it called an “I phone” when as an audio gadget it should be an ER-phone ?
It might be the whole multi-billion dollar marketing thing, but, thats just my opinion…you had better copyright that or next year we’ll see the iglass
Or E R ingaid
Anyone old enough to remember the old red coke machine? The little glass door in the front , long and narrow and you would pull the bottle straight out the front. 10 cents. And there was a little box with an opener. No twist tops. To be cool you’d lay the bottle up to a chair or table and hit down with your hand, This would take off the top. Different world then.
I remember one machine, you lifted the lid & had to slide the bottles suspended by their necks, around a track to the point of release. Most of the fun of having a coke was just getting it out of the machine. Saturday mornings, dad took me & my brother hacking around a par three golf course, at the end the reward, either a coke or an ice cream, & in the car the plastic protector from the factory, still on the seats to protect them against childhood spillage. Wow just saying that brings back the memories & the smells, the golf coarse was half of a farm, with cattle. mmmm… breath deep. Yeh I’m old enough
and the Grape NeHi, RC cola, Pa’s root beer
ok BillyB you’r giving away your age like I did.
A&W had girls on roller skates, for real & not as a retro thing, big frosty glass with nose numbing roote beer & fighting with the siblings over who got to ride on the ledge above the back seat on the way to A&W. too much… where’d all go so fast.
we had a A&W but no skaters, just the Car Hops.
I remember the old red coke machine, BillyB’s slide the neck of the bottle machine, and the frosty A&W root beer with hot dogs. The roller skates weren’t an option for employees in my area. Back when gas was 27 to 34 cents a gallon. I guess we are getting off track from Miss HFW’s homework assignment/DETENTION.
I’ve been to A&W before, but the place near me closed, and now there’s not any around anymore… I miss A&W. Probably the reason they quit wearing skates was because too many girls got hurt, I know when I worked at Sonic some of the girls were like “We want to wear skates” and they said they couldn’t because their insurance company wouldn’t allow it, but recently they’ve started allowing their car hops to wear skates again, if they wish.
But, Sonic is not A&W. I miss A&W. Don’t even think there’s one in Kansas anymore at all. Last time I went to one was in Texas.
I remember those machines. I also remember the old machine with the giant lever on the front and the bottle would appear at a lower square cavity that looked like an industrial cat door. But bottle caps were better back then, for kids anyhow. They had a cork seal instead of the soft plasticized seal that was introduced in the late 60’s and still in use. The cork seal was much thicker than today’s seals, and that allowed kids to thumb snap bottle tops and make them sail through the air. Great sport. Now that brings me an idea. Why not cut out some cardboard inserts for bottle caps to make them snappable? I’ll put that on my list of things to do when perfectly bored, like when watching TV.
thanxs very interesting topic lov Augie
If you live down south, the term “coke” is used for ANY soft drink, not just Coca-Cola.
I didn’t like the new look…….
too much makeup.
Hot For Words = Candy for the eyes and the mind !
BiLL2468
Candy for the eyes sends blood ‘tween our thighs
Candy for the mind if you would please be so kind
Nobody spoke yet about alternative colas, let’s promote them:
Fair trade colas: “Beuk Cola” try to help rural producers from Costa Rica. “El Che Cola” OGM free and giving 50% of the profits to OMGs. “Imazighen-Cola” 10% of the profits to promote Berber culture
Open source cola: “OpenCola” with a free an open source recipe anybody can produce it and improve the recipe under the GNU General Public Licence
Islam friendly colas “Zam zam cola” ‘Qibla Cola” and of course “Mecca Cola”
Local colas: “China Cola” “Breizh Cola” “Chtilà Cola” “Cola Turka” “Salva Cola” “Kofola” “Inca Kola” “Vita Cola” “Elsass Cola” “Jolly Cola” “President’s choice Cola” “Sinalco Cola” ‘tuKola” “Corsica Cola” “Evoca Cola” “Kola Real” etc etc etc…..
Sorry, was having a 10 2 and 4 while watching the lesson…
Yeah, Coca-Cola in the little 8 ounce bottles, and later the 16 ouncers. Anyone remember Dr. Pepper in the 10-2-4 bottles? It was more of a southern thing.
I knew Coke-Cola was the # 1 brand name however I did not know that background information Marina.
Thanks a bunch Gorgeous.
Oh Pepsi tastes sweeter to me than Coke.
An Admirer,
Billy
I love that saying “thanks a bunch.”
I try to visualise it and can’t.
What does a bunch of thanks look like ?
Here calls a phrase / word request please Marina
So you are saying that thank your are fruit or vegetable because they come in bunches. Do they look like radishes, bananas, grapes ?
Yes the Thank You plant has big strong leaves so enabling large bunches to be gathered on the Thank You plantations at harvest time.
A very gratifying period I would think !
So you harvest these with a verballycombined harvester ?
Here one could visualize me giving Marina a big hug with a big smile on my face showing how happy I was.
I was pretty offended by a link on your web page until I realized it was a link provided by Google Ads® which I assume you only incorporate to make more money. Seems you are learning the American way awfully fast.
We , Her monions what to see her make money so she can keep doing this OK?
I have to commend your honesty. I do understand it is by my choice I visit here.
Hey roadrunmch did you mean minions or morons
someine same and swotched my o and i in my key biard
He was making a joke about our being rich and relatively unintelligent (vegetables with money, —> money + onions= monions)
I was being sarcastic. Seems proof reading is passe as well,
“We , Her monions want…” rather than “We , Her monions what…,” but enough of English 101.
Anyway I personally hate when sites get cluttered with ads, especially those which attack others. That was my point.
Hi bobsully,
Copy that, thanks. You and I are so very “on the same page” that it would seem we underestimate each others’ abilities to follow our respective trains of thought. Mea culpa, but further on…
Likewise, I was being facetious about failure to proofread one’s own submissions (precisely by not mentioning it!) before committing them more or less permanently to the Submit Comment button.
Does anyone (besides me) ever consider that this forum might also serve as a kind of barometer or core sample revealing the temporal development (change over time aspects) of our own individual philological and/or linguistic education(s)? Those who participate and pay attention can learn more than just The Lessons from this blog because it’s a community. We learn from interaction with each other. Well, I do anyway.
Stupid stuff I cogitate on from time to time…
Sorry to digress. While I assert that our observations are critical to the vibrancy of the forum, it seems to me a bit unnecessary to disparage Marina for making her way by whatever means she deems appropriate in this capitalist murk through which most of us must either sink or swim. Wouldn’t you agree?
Personally, I didn’t notice any negative ads. I guess I don’t pay attention to them. I do know they are generated by keywords that Google senses on a webpage. I also know they help pay the bills to keep our forum afloat.
Thanks for responding, bobsully.
See you around the campus.
Certainly she can do as she pleases, just as I can choice to leave if it loses its unique niche and focus.
That being so, it is inevitable that, with certain “bad language” (I know, I know - don’t start again!) being used freely in here, some of the ads are going to be offensive to some.
People have two choices:-
1. Allow the ads to appear and ignore them, or
2. Use some kind of software to filter or block the ads.
For the latter, I use a Firefox Add-on called “NoScript” which allows me to block undesirable content from all sites except the ones which I specify.
Well it wasn’t really “bad language,” but rather standard language used to convey racist remarks. I would write Google, but I didn’t save the link. Got to love the Internet.
It’s suddenly gotten really hot and humid here in the northeast US. So I was wondering if you could find the origin of the phrase “sweating bullets”.
Barmar it was 102 here in the middle east in NC also.
You’re in the Middle East?
West coast Canada, cccold. I was taking the tarp off the pool on the weekend getting the pool ready for next weekend, visitors galor coming. We need some of your heat wave please. I’m driving my convertable in the rain these days, have to speed to stay dry.
Hey Marina could you do the phrase Deus Ex Machina? i herd it meant like a solution or something
MARINA–i knew that coke was the most recognized brand in the world.what is the most recognized word in the world?i know the answer.i want to see if you do.i can’t tell you here because then everyone will know.tom–staten island n.y.
OK
Microsoft is big worldwide, but doesn’t translate well into other languages, ie in China I hear that mens’ masculinity is offended to have to use a product name that translates “small & soft”
tomping61, yes I know you were addressing our dear teacher, but my answer to your GTW is: no. If I’m wrong my grade won’t be affected, and will create more web traffic for HFW.
“OK” - see the lesson!
Marina, just curious, but what is a famous Russian product, other than Vodka? I know about Zenit, FED, Kiev and Zorki cameras for example, but what else is there from Russia that is famous there that we might not know about here?
Yougo. the car
That was from You-go-slow-via, not Rush-hour.
Wasn’t the Yugo faster model built for Rush-hour ?
AK 47s, lots of guns, good guns better then Usa.
BS. I’ve shot both American, Soviet bloc and Chinese weapons. The AK trigger group was derived from the American M1 Garand action. Russian weapons have looser tolerances which means they work better overall in severe conditions and are easier for uneducated people to operate, but are far less accurate than American weapons. American sniper rifles are all capable of sub MOA groups. Most Russian sniper rifles are not.
Caviar.
I heard a story about a naval captain who wanted to reward his crew for a particularly good performance in an inspection.
Out of his own pocket, he bought them caviar, to be served in the mess at tea-time.
Asking his No.1 afterwards how the crew had received the gesture, he was shocked to learn that they had complained about the blackberry jam tasting of fish.
where does the phrase “pie in the sky” come from?
Snake and Pygmy Pie in the sky ?
Sneeze and Bunion ?
Chicken got much room
I want to know the answer to the ultimate question about life, the universe and everything.
Oh yeah, the “make me a rock star” thingee.
Babe, either you are (and don’t know it) or you aren’t
make up my mind for me - which is it?
[a clue - the answer has no apostrophe]
Is THAT clear?
ahem.. coComment lessons, please
here is a educational vid
try again, this video will help http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkV-jjpWjQs&feature =related
Ummm… was that a response to “How to use coComment”, “Is Marina a Rock Star”, or …
Oh! I get it, the meaning of life.
Marina is there anyway you could add [reply] to a comment box with in another comment box. Say I make a comment. Pagedoll then comments on my comment then someone comments on Pagedolls comment but there is no [reply] section in her comment box so we have to find where she has commented somewhere else to answer her back. Is this making any sence?
i know what you’re saying. if i respond to a comment made to me, the reply sends an email to me, not the other person. I’m dizzy, now…
I know I got dizzy just trying to say it.
How can a 2 letter word make you dizzy ?
So, again I can respond to you but this is a new conversation group. You will be able to respond in this window, but your response will not have a reply button. It does seem there ought to be a way to nest that variable. Must be a default setting. She could modify that code easy, I bet. Maybe even through an interface! “Know what I mean, Vern?” - Jim Varney
Hey hot for words.. I heared a word in English class the other day, Ide like to know if you could help me understand it.. i feel silly going to the teacher about it. The word is.. “ambiguous” thanks i hope you can help me! Mr.Gillespie.. pronounced gill-ess-pee by the way
I just now got my latest video from youtube for Hot For Words on the coke video. I wonder why it takes so long for it to reach my e-mail when its been on youtube all day
. We’ve already made 190 comments and the video now shows up 
The email notification always comes in several hours after a new post is released. I don’t know why, but it’s that way. It gives the people who watch and wait to be first responder a bit of a head start though.
Are you a you tube subscriber? If you were you’d gat notified via youtube account. I gotta see if I’m blocked or somehing, I don’t get my notification anymore