Many people think that it’s better to have a purebred dog but what most people don’t know is that “mutts” last alot longer than purebred dogs. I think because they get traits from both species.
matalexwolf on
July 7th, 2008 5:08 pm
mutt….thought mongral was the word used to describe a cross bread dog……
My Duko is therefore a Mutt, aawww bless, how do I break it to him????
jeg skriver på norsk først fordi det er lettere!
kansje du sjønner det!
jeg lurer på hvilket land du kommer fra???
jeg kommer fra norge og bor i norge!
synes at den måten du forklarer ordene på er bra!
engelsk er et vanskerlig språk, jeg er ikke så flink til å skrive engelsk.
men, jeg er ganske flink til å snakke det.
jeg ser på engelske sider, leser masse engelsk, ser på enelske filmer og hører på engelske snakke. f.eks: deg, tv og alle andre steder. og på skolen min da.
er jeg mutt i hode hvis jeg er dom?
hilsen vilde my!
et parr spørsmol til.
er du modell?
hva er betydningen av ordene:
funny
silly
better
best
good
p.s:
jeg kan skrive det på engelsk hvis du ikke sjønner det!
i can rite it on ingerlish if you dont nove hvat im riting.
im just 14 yers old! and from norway!
it can be some rong rited words!
hutchiee on
June 25th, 2008 6:03 am
comment 420!
okay4now on
June 24th, 2008 4:44 am
Two of my nieces have the same breed of Dog that you do–nice breed, fun too. One is the $10,000 dog, a long story, my brother has a big heart…
My sister just got a Maltipoo, another ‘nice’ breed. Is this dog a mutt since it is mixed? Or, since its origins are known (two blood lines) is it just a new breed? I thought mutt was an unknown blood line (not able to trace) rather than just mixed…
My guess: until the breed is officially recognized by the ‘Dog World’ it’s a mutt; most likely there are ‘Dog’ politics involved I’m sure.
Anybody know this stuff
grimwraithvids on
June 23rd, 2008 10:30 pm
In response to your video Hara-kiri, what about a word that is about an action that could be uplifting? I am requesting that you do a video on the word philematology…
Hey can you tell me where the term “Colonel” came from and why it is pronounced “kernel” instead of “ka-lone-al”? And what does it mean exactly and why did they use it as a rank in the military? If you could explain, that’d be great (and if you do, don’t forget to put my name in the video lol).
Bob replied on June 24th, 2008 1:30 am:
She’s done it already. Check the list of lessons.
mikeedustbunny on
June 23rd, 2008 10:05 pm
HI!… Saludos desde México!
Iwould like to know the origin of the word tremendous, and also; does it have any relation with the phrase “delirium tremens”…
Thank you.
XOXO.
player3d on
June 23rd, 2008 9:30 pm
i was wondering about the origin of “no homo”
socaljr on
June 23rd, 2008 9:13 pm
I have two “mutts” and they are both the smartest dogs I ever owned!!!! If I could figure out how to send a pic…I would!!! Regardless, I am so in love with you!!!!!! (yea, me and all the other horn dogs….horn mutts????…. who watch yur videos!!!!!)
roadrunrnch on
June 23rd, 2008 7:56 pm
351
prospero811 replied on June 25th, 2008 6:00 am:
When we were talking before, you criticized evolution by asking whether it was my view that “everything came from nothing - poof.” I pointed out that the theory of evolution does not explain how matter came to be, or even how life first came to be, but rather concerns the change of life over time that has occurred since life on Earth began.
The “where everything comes from” question - has to do with the cosmological theory, rather than evolution.
The third video addresses your EXACT QUESTION of “life popping out of nowhere” and explains quite clearly that scientists do NOT believe or theorize that life popped out of nowhere.
Any thoughts?
sulley1234 on
June 23rd, 2008 7:20 pm
Hey I was wondering the origin of the word spelunking. I went exploring caves with friends and this word popped up a lot
pennsyltucky9 replied on June 24th, 2008 11:19 am:
I have a friend who has traveled the world doing deep cave exploration as a professional caving guide and accompanied teams of scientists doing research in some of the deepest and gnarliest underground environments ever studied. He jokes that spelunkers are people who get lost in caves (amateurs, apparently) and that cavers are the people who are sent down to rescue them. I guess it’s a nomenclature thing. It really pisses him off when people refer to him as a spelunker. I usually wait until he’s had a few, so I can call him a drunker spelunker, but only if I have already planned my escape route, lol.
I was told a funny way to remember the diffrence between stalagtites and stalagmites.
“When the mites go up the tights go down”.
foxfire inferno on
June 23rd, 2008 6:20 pm
In light of the recent passing of one of my family members, the thought popped in my head about the word ‘Obituary’. Where exactly did this word come from?
mozozozo69 on
June 23rd, 2008 5:55 pm
hi i d like to know the origin of the word “Bra”
Bob replied on June 24th, 2008 1:26 am:
Two cups, one girl?
capman911 on
June 23rd, 2008 5:40 pm
Hey guys the new video is up
that1guy137 on
June 23rd, 2008 3:57 pm
this might be bad luck but how does the numbers 666 represent the beast
roadrunrnch replied on June 23rd, 2008 4:07 pm:
It’s His area code.
1 666 GO 2 HELL
annuddermale replied on June 23rd, 2008 4:29 pm:
from the New Testament, Revelation13:18 “Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.”
a score = 20, so the “beast,” or Antichrist is signified by 666…
BillyB replied on June 23rd, 2008 7:47 pm:
In Biblical numerology the # 6 represents “Man” or mankind. The “Man” (or man who controls the Beast) who is to come will be, for lack of a better word, represented by the #666. Some believe that 666 can be translated as the mark his followers must have and is the mathematically equivalent to three 6 digit numbers, unique to each individual, implanted on the right hand or forehead. Anyways as with the discovery of good technology turned to bad ie (nuclear power) The technology exists & has good uses now (not unlike cocomment) such as tracking of animals & people. But can be taken over by bad intent (rather tame words on purpose), Anyways that’s enough for now. http://www.rapturechrist.com/666.htm and many other sites to help clarify or even confuse. Link to reference
Disclaimer; views expressed in this link, except the scripture reading, do not neccesarily represent the views of the poster of this comment, although they are not too far off. I’m still scratching the surface of what was written long ago, but to me, relevant today. Cheers
Yea that’s about the size of my orange cat too. His name is Fifie after Fivel Mousegowitz. That was my daughters doing.
pennsyltucky9 replied on June 23rd, 2008 5:30 pm:
You have my permission, though it was never required in the first place. Sorry if I sometimes call a shovel a shovel. Dig?
Chemikal on
June 23rd, 2008 2:30 pm
we’ve passed 250 comments, time for a refresher… please give your 2 cents on the following ~ idea ~ would be great just to get as many opinions as possible, to help Marina make up her mind.
Thank you!
roadrunrnch replied on June 23rd, 2008 4:17 pm:
LISANOVA IS HOT TOO
BUT VERY different the Marina. I watched Lisa’s show for about 2 secs.
Brain dead X somethings. There is no there. there.
Marina, may I add something about mutton. The french origin of the word is according to Diez latin mutilus. In Roman Switzerland, Grison, Come Lake areas mot and mult means castrated. Everything here shows that a mutton is more apt to consumption than for reproduction. The similar etymology if foung in german where “hammel” the german mutton comes from “hamal”: castrated.
It is then very likely that the users of mutton in slang for dogs or women did not knew the etymology of the word, but probably associated it with “multitude” or gregarious/stupid instinct.
roadrunrnch replied on June 23rd, 2008 3:42 pm:
really?????? I have always known it to mean, An old female sheep.
Castrated sheep go to market as spring or young ?? Very good to eat
and mutton is old and stringy and tough.
micheldiego replied on June 23rd, 2008 5:59 pm:
In french you have the female called “brebis” the male called “belier” the castrated male called “mouton” and the baby called “agneau”.
I recomend “agneau”. Then two options the very young still drinking milk from the mother “agneau de lait” or the one eating grass from the Mont Saint Michel land where tide make the grass salted “agneau de pre-sale”.
A nice recipe is the 7 hours lamb leg. A very slow cooking for the easter sunday family table. http://www.marmiton.org/recettes/recette.cfm?num_r ecette=12368
roadrunrnch replied on June 23rd, 2008 3:50 pm:
That reminded me of a .quip
Why are they called a Sheepherder when sheep run in a flock.?
I have heard that is where STDs started. Is that true? From sheepflockers
micheldiego replied on June 23rd, 2008 6:14 pm:
After working in the mountains one month keeping sheeps, the young sheepflocker ask to the experienced one what he does to deal with the separation from the feminine gender. The old and wise sheepflocker just shows the flock. The young padawan sheepflocker is in shock but after another month of solitudeness he decide to try it with one of the sheep of the flock. Because of the noise the old master come by and sees the scene, he starts laughing, so the other is all ashamed and don’t understand why he is mocked, so the master had to tell him what was his mistake:
“you took the ugliest!”
(there is also a completly diferent version with a camelflocker)
roadrunrnch replied on June 23rd, 2008 3:57 pm:
They call old castrated male sheep…….pets
annuddermale replied on June 23rd, 2008 7:58 pm:
no, they are b-a-a-a-a-d-d-d, but eunuch…
BillyB on
June 23rd, 2008 2:07 pm
A Quiet Tribute to the old server.
I didn’t say that… did I?
I had a Siberian Husky, but he got an infection and i had too have him put too sleep. He was a Purebred Show dog but we kept him as a pet.I will have to search for the pictures before i can email them. He is the smartist dog i ever had the pleasure of owning, him and his daughter were are both very smart.
annuddermale replied on June 23rd, 2008 7:59 pm:
i have a red-and-white husky, myself…great, loving dogs…
Homework: http://www.abc.net.au/animals/dog_test/default.htm
I have no dog so can’t do the test. But I’m curious to see if some dog-owners can do it and give us the result together with the dog pedigree.
Unless you have a requirement for specific work or hunting dog, you’re best bet is a mutt. it’s possible to go wrong there, too. My friend adopted an adorable pit bull - boxer mix pup which turned out to be a super bionic dog suitable for only the more knowledgeable dog owner. That dog was all energy and muscle. He must’ve mated with every bitch in the valley.
melikadothechacha replied on June 23rd, 2008 3:21 pm:
Free puppies
Mother: AKC registered
pure bred toy poodle
Father: Good fence climber
jake46 on
June 23rd, 2008 1:28 pm
Hello where does the word WAR come from???
thanx from Soupahapeyphuntyme (check us out on u tube)
That phone number was an accual phone number here in my city. The people that had it had to have it changed after that song came out. There was an artical in our news paper about it
sir not appearing in this film on
June 23rd, 2008 1:12 pm
Word Request- Gob
superdanilchik on
June 23rd, 2008 1:05 pm
Petite Marine, je parle de toi car avec ta petite voix…t’as versé sur ma vie des milliers de roses…this immortal French song talks about you Marina …..
I absolutely do not like this derogatory term used to refer to those nice pets which are even smarter and more sensitive then ”pure breed dogs”. Unfortunately in France and in italy languages use even a ruder word for them: It=bastardino(lit. means little bastard) fr=batard…German language is definetely more polite,using the word ”Mischling”,from Mischung=mixture Curious to see how in Russian we refer to them as ”дворняги”-dvornyagi ,from the word дворня,-dvornya=servitude…….interesting.
gamecubesupreme on
June 23rd, 2008 1:02 pm
Hey, I would like to make a request for the word “gross.”
I’m just wondering how it got its slang definition of “disgusting” when it is used in a much different way in other subjects like economics or neuroscience.
Thanks!
roadrunrnch on
June 23rd, 2008 12:52 pm
Pt9 Just wanted to say; What the hell are you on?
1 ) BZW quote; buzzword replied on June 22nd, 2008 8:16 am:
well, your asking an anthropologist about evolution so… yeah, that’s what i think. but i’ll look into marina’s eyes. let’s see… holy shit, pixels! now marina isn’t just a philologist, she’s proof of the existence of god. your very talented, looking into her eyes, seeing god and kissing her ass all at the same time. the whole “the eyes are the windows of the soul” bit doesn’t really do much for me. yo, prospero811 here’s an opportunity for you to actually agree with me on something. eyes started out as light sensitive cells that over time developed into the organs we refer to as the eyes. that’s what i think. not asking you to think any differently, just commenting, because commenting is sexy… as long as it satisfies the rules of “standard english grammar” otherwise commenting is just human. which evolved from primates. i can see it in their eyes. har har!
Ok maybe you did not read this post. He was responding to me saying ( look in to Marinas eyes and tell me there is no god..) How is that starting a fight on the evolution of the eye?
2 ) The light sensitive cell theory is that A THERORY. And one I think is CRAP………IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO Take Me on in this forum, bring IT?
As for it being sophomoric , Who are you any way. STEVEN HAWKINGS, SLUMING ON HFW’S site?
As for ( embarrass yourself engaging our busy teacher )
You are now the arbiter of what is suitable to engage The Teach?
If you would like I will submit a Declaration of intent and get your approval……..ok?
Between You and Mr, aLx the site will be safe from me
Love and Kisses; ROArRUNRNCH
roadrunrnch replied on June 23rd, 2008 2:22 pm:
pennsyltucky9 replied on June 23rd, 2008 11:21 am:
roadrunrnch;
Did you say Buzzword started a very controversial theory? That’s a riot. But before you embarrass yourself engaging our busy teacher, get out your fifth grade biology textbook, or steal one from a 10 year-old. Read about light-sensing cells in earthworms. Do the planaria exercise on page 220. It’s “A little deep but I believe you are up to it…” This time don’t just copy your neighbors’ answers. Maybe you’ll learn something, unless eyes are just a theory and yours haven’t been created yet…
Bob replied on June 23rd, 2008 2:37 pm:
Know want dogs say in Korea?
Help! Help!
capman911 replied on June 23rd, 2008 4:09 pm:
Bob have you ever been in the military. In survival school for long range reconisence they put a table in front of you with different dishes of food on them. You go from plate to plate sampling the food. When every one is through they turn over plackards that tell what you have just eaten. It’s every thing from dog, snake, monky, insects to roots and berries. Just sounds yummy doesn’t it. If you’r hungry enough you’ll even eat boiled okra.
Hello Bob,
I forgot all about that show! I should have noticed the likeness. See, everybody wants their name mentioned and here you had yours mentioned AND you also had a guest appearance! First on 2 counts since that was before Marina started doing the “T.P” in her shows.
A belated CONGRATULATIONS! Now I’ll have to go back and read the comments. Have a great time gloating as all others grovel.
prospero811 replied on June 23rd, 2008 3:38 pm:
Well, since the post you cut-and-pasted from referenced me, I will say that I never read it before. But, I’m not sure what the controversy is? Is it evolution? If so, there really is no controversy (among biologists, geneticists, paleontologists, etc.) regarding evolution. That being said, what brought all this up anyway?
roadrunrnch replied on June 23rd, 2008 4:30 pm:
roadrunrnch on June 21st, 2008 4:51 pm
Hey Guys anyone heard from prospero811? His big day . Maybe He has a life outside…? Too damn Hot in So Calif. 115* at my Place. Better to stay in a annoy Y’All.
Back on the HOT site
go to the time stamp
if you’d like and read it all.
pennsyltucky9 replied on June 24th, 2008 12:31 am:
Prospero,
If you want to find out what this is about, take a good look through the previous vid replies (hot) as he referenced above. Buzzword (BZW) made some observations about evolution theory, namely that a sizeable gap seems to exist between documented scientific evidence and creationism, and roadrunrnch sort of fell into it that gap face first, poor guy: the specific subject roadrunrnch raised was EYES — were they created or did they evolve? Buzz totally had it under control. Notice how he’s conspicuously absent; he did his bit and left. He even invited you to comment, but you were missing.
My fault, I should have just let roadrunrnch dig his own hole instead of assuming there’s a person in there who actually wishes to interact on an intellectual level with others or, Dog forbid, learn something. My primary mistake is that when progress toward such an end is negative I sometimes allow disappoinment to flavor my discourse somewhat (as seen in his copy-and-pasted quote from me above), especially when I’m not well-rested. My bad. Now he thinks I’m targeting him when poking fun would be a more accurate description. Some don’t respond as well as others to that, I guess. But it’s hard to recall an unguided missile once something sparks its fuse, as I’m sure you’re well aware.
pennsyltucky9 replied on June 24th, 2008 12:38 am:
I’m on my ass laughing. What are you on?
roadrunrnch replied on June 24th, 2008 12:33 pm:
This is me smiling ?
What does being condescending and self riches have to do with teaching?
Your ideals are flawed and totally inconclusive. Moreover, I don’t choose to lock step with you off the cliff of ignorance, please for give me my arrogance.
Love and kISSes RRR :
pHs; Therefore, Following your logic, We developed hands to reach the remote?
pennsyltucky9 replied on June 25th, 2008 1:08 am:
My ideals? I don’t disclose them. Maybe you mean ideas (which aren’t mine anyway). Boy, you are difficult to understand. I recommend Whitesmoke.
This is SCIENCE we were talking about. It’s stuff that’s documented, proven, and published; a done deal. I learned it in college courses and university courses, and earned every bit of it by working hard.
Ad hominem attacks do not a sound argument make. If you perceive university education as the pathway to ignorance, there isn’t much anyone can do for you in terms of teaching, my friend.
actually its a quit simple word that everyone takes for granted and it never complains back,and it has alot of stress on it. The word i would like to request is
“CHAIR”
lateforclass on
June 23rd, 2008 12:35 pm
Brilliant site, very well done!
A French friend of mine recently pointed out that if English made any sense, then the words “overlook”, “oversight”, “oversee”, and “overview” would all mean about the same thing. The first two both mean about the same thing, and the latter two have related connotations. We discussed it a bit, and my wife pointed out that it hinges on two different uses of the word “over”. In the one sense, to “skip over” something, and in the other sense, “to be above” something. Now that sounds right, but how did these four words find their way into the English language? I’d guess that they entered separately (at least first two versus latter two), and it’s just a small English mashup snafu that these four words mean separete things.
So, Ms. Smartypants, can you shed some light on these words? Thanks a bunch HotForPants!
hossynossy4 on
June 23rd, 2008 12:18 pm
Hello Hotforwords, I would like to request the words God and good, because I’m curious as to whether they are related or not.
dimitrixxx69 on
June 23rd, 2008 12:15 pm
I’d like to learn the origin of the word ‘cocktail’. It’s such a dirty sounding word for such a nice thing. Perhaps someone tasted a nasty drink and said, “This tastes like it came out of a rooster’s butt!”
capman911 replied on June 23rd, 2008 12:22 pm:
Man I got a good lol out of that one. Thanks I needed that
Penknight on
June 23rd, 2008 12:00 pm
I’d like to request a word, if I may. I heard the word ‘knight’ was French in origin, and yet they also have the word ‘paladin’. Aren’t the two words basically the same thing? What do the two words mean, and where do they come from? Thank you!
Marina, I can no longer find the place to rate your video. It used to be a little line of “kisses,” but they aren’t there now. I always gave you the maximum amount of kisses, but now I can’t do that, since they aren’t there.
Question: do you like the JJ Cale Band?
-HotRocky
capman911 replied on June 23rd, 2008 12:04 pm:
There are the yellow stars under her video. Always give her five.
Boy, was it difficult to access the site today. I guess my computer wanted to seek its old pathway no matter what I was trying to type into the address box. I had to go to youtube, which shunted me over to the German site for some reason, where I finally accessed the homepage from there. Once here, the page loaded faster than usual, though. Some progress has obviously been made. Good for you, you pulled it off.
Getting down to business, I believe that some cross-breeding is bound to improve many dogs’ intelligence level, and that severe inbreeding can be a detriment to it. There will always be exceptions, but that’s my uneducated opinion.
I’m not allowed to have a dog where I live, so I have a pet jumping spider named Magenta. She’s a Phidippus johnsonii, or Johnson’s Jumper. I’ve been trying to get her a date since January, but she has a tendency to play a little rough. She overpowered and ate her first suitor before he had a chance to calm her down (they do a dance that puts girls in a trance), even though she had just been fed. So I’m screening male applicants based on size and strength. The babies are extremely cute, and are great to release in the garden because they provide excellent bug police as well as endless hours of entertaining gymnastics.
pennsyltucky9, I was upgrading the server.. started last night at 5:30.. and they didn’t finish with all the problem until just recently! Sorry about that! But hopefully the server will be faster moving forward!
Marina
capman911 replied on June 23rd, 2008 12:28 pm:
I guess this is where I thought you were doing the accual work. I was at least giving you the credit for being so smart and intelligent. me bad
pennsyltucky9 replied on June 23rd, 2008 8:38 pm:
Thanks for responding. The new server is faster, at least on my Mac. Haven’t tried it on the XP unit, but that’s my second choice anyway.
Good work! Now get some sleep, you deserve it!
capman911 replied on June 23rd, 2008 12:46 pm:
Last year we had a garden spider make her web and nest on a plant on our front porch. We called her Charlotte. We would watch for hours as she would wait for flies or bugs to land in her web then rush to them and spin her web around the insects. A male came along and they did their thing then she ate him, bad way to go after having sex I could think of better ways to go. She made a pouch and laid her eggs in it and after a few weeks the babies were born, hatched what ever you call it for a spider. It was very interresting. I guess I need to get a life after retiring instead of waisting my day on things like that. It was quite a spectical to see though.
pennsyltucky9 replied on June 23rd, 2008 8:30 pm:
That’s not a waste of time at all! You should consider yourself fortunate that you have the time and space to notice what’s really going on in your world. You definitely HAVE a life, and it’s one you choose to live, so don’t denigrate yourself for taking in the beaty of what’s left of our natural world. People aren’t the only ones here (so far!) and we have a lot to learn from all our neighbors, whether or not we choose to see them that way.
Most of all, I’m impressed that you have retained your sense of wonderment and curiosity enough after working all your life that you still appreciate this kind of event. Kudos to you, Mike!
Spiders are predators, so they have to be smarter than their prey to survive. They don’t have it easy, none of us do. And even in the process of getting eaten, the males are taking the most positive step they possibly can toward supporting their young by donating their own nutrients to the process. Imagine making that kind of sacrifice to the survival of your bloodline. Many a male has gone the same way, and I’m not just talking about arachnids. I separate mine and release the males so they live to mate again because I know I’ll feed the female. She gets real hungry when she starts eating for 75!
okay4now replied on June 24th, 2008 5:19 am:
pennysyltucky9 really said it, what you just described beats anything (type of show) they’ve ever put on T.V. A lot of people are out there ‘getting a life’ but they have know idea how to share, or how to enjoy a cloud, or etc. etc.
capman911,
Not many people “take time to smell the flowers”. You’re blessed on many levels. I laugh when some people say that I’m “wasting my time” when I notice a scene that you’ve witnessed. I grew up watching Mutual of Omaha, Jacques Cousteau and other shows that are similar so I can’t help myself.
okay4now replied on June 23rd, 2008 2:15 pm:
Laugh all you want, but I have a friend who once had a pet bee–for over four-and-a-half months –until his girlfriend accidentally killed it. No, in case you were wondering the bee’s name was not Eric.
pennsyltucky9 replied on June 23rd, 2008 8:34 pm:
Wow, that’s longer than I thought they could live. Too bad about the untimely demise, though. I wonder if it was listed as MIA in the hive all that time!
okay4now replied on June 24th, 2008 5:08 am:
Yeah, and years later when he told me about it he was still bummed about the bee’s passing–quite an amazing dude he is.
A little spider moved in my yacht and built a little home. He or she just moved out. Just left the spider house and didn’t even pay any rent. What gives? Am I that annoying? I shower every day! Man even the spiders are running out…
pennsyltucky9 replied on June 23rd, 2008 7:42 pm:
Next time throw a moth in the web, they’re easy to catch and spiders love those. You can be as annoying as you want if you bring home a snack every couple weeks! The food has to be alive and kicking though. That’s the beauty of having a pet spider; you don’t have to feed them for weeks on end and they really don’t care whether or not you bathe regularly!
I am a bit Arachnophobic. When I was young I use go grab spiders all the time. No I didn’t pull off their legs. Me evil step mother was though. I think somehow I picked the the fear from her always screaming when she saw a spider. Many years later I bought a rose hair tarantula. I used to hold it in my hand and I would start to hyperventilate. What a rush! Now im sorta ok with spiders. I did a bit of research on some arachnids at the University of Washington website. On thing I did learn was its even difficult for the experts to properly Identify different species. Also learned about the manymyths about spiders. Check out this fantastic website. Its one of my favorites in debunking myths.
I love these quotes:
“I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.”
- Josh Billings, 1818-1885
“Everything that ‘everybody knows’ about spiders…is wrong!”
- Rod Crawford, Curator of Arachnids, Burke Museum, in Seattle, Wa.
pennsyltucky9 replied on June 24th, 2008 1:47 am:
Very cool, Captain Jack.
Thanks for showing me that! I learned a few things right off the bat, and I’ll share it with my girlfriend who always calls me in to negotiate with spiders who visit her room. It was also good to read the Josh Billings quote. I’m going to add that one to my list of sign-off quotes for emails. I think it’s right up there with Einstein’s “The more I learn, the more I realize I don’t know.” And, as pagedoll said, “Always learning, always learning.” Good stuff.
I agree with Mr. Billings assessment. I have worked very hard in learning what I know; only to find out much of what I know is bull shit. I wish I could get all those years back.
okay4now replied on June 24th, 2008 5:04 am:
I’ve been bitten twice by Black Widows, funny thing is that I use to have a fairly healthy (read as major) phobia but after the first time bitten it just sort of disappeared. This second bite is still with me…20 months and fading ever so slowly…Now, I’m working on a shark phobia which can also be cured, but I don’t have to be bitten for this one, I p-r-o-m-i-s-e.
pennsyltucky9 replied on June 24th, 2008 11:42 am:
OW! 20 months! I’ve been fortunate in that the only poisonous bites or stings I ever received (besides bee stings) were 1.) a scorpion sting in the Florida Keys, and 2.) a Potuguese man-o’-war sting while riding the surf on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The man-o’-war sting was more immediately painful, but the scorpion sting lasted weeks.
I’ve been bitten from a rose hair. I was interesting watching her fangs pierce the skin of my hand. Freaked me out! Even though I know Im not going to die I still have a phobia. I even have a phobia of heights. I don’t have a shark phobia. I have petted many nurse sharks to feel very comfortable around them. knowledge is power and the more knowledge you have the more power you have over phobias.
pennsyltucky9 replied on June 25th, 2008 1:13 am:
Well said.
okay4now replied on June 25th, 2008 6:39 am:
20 months insn’t painful, it’s just like a bruse that slowly dulls over time: moving from black to brown then from green to light green…I don’t know what a rose hair is–and maybe I don’t want to.
I use to swim for hours in & beyond the surf, was once in the water with a Great White; it didn’t scare me or worry me just swam like heck for the shore. BUT, years later when the phobia was in full swing I was uneasy in fresh water lakes.<—go figure
pennsyltucky9 replied on June 25th, 2008 12:33 pm:
He was referring to his pet rose hair tarantula, ok4now.
ok4now. You must have been watching to many “Jaws” movies. hehehe
Yea I know what you mean about phobias being missed placed. I can climb up the mast on the Tall Ship Lady Washington and be very comfortable with the heights. But when I walked over a draw bridge at the same height as the Lady W. I get very nervous. Even though Im much safer on the bridge than climbing up the mast. Go figure.
Yea, rose hair tarantulas are a very common pet that you can find in about any pet store. Non poisonous, and mild temper. Easy to breed and to care for. They are good spiders for first time arachnid owners. If you are the kind of guy that forgets to water your plants this might be a good pet for someone. Keep some live bugs in with them and a wet sponge for water and your good to go for a week or more. The hard part might be keeping the bugs alive. Crickets are not to hard. Monkey chow and some water Gelatin keeps them going for a spell.
okay4now replied on June 26th, 2008 3:06 pm:
Yeah, I read the tarantula stuff then caught the rose hair reference after a curiosity attacked. I’m willing to cohabitate with spiders in this world but there is NO WAY I’d have one as a pet, I’d be too tempted to give it a little misting with a Raid can.
x2p428 on
June 23rd, 2008 10:16 am
Wow i love my teacher
cjwood on
June 23rd, 2008 10:15 am
Advisedly (adverb) - why does this word have nothing to do with advice?
koalabear on
June 23rd, 2008 10:02 am
Error establishing a database connection
Humm I think I’ve seen that a few times today.
capman911 replied on June 23rd, 2008 10:06 am:
Me too Koala
Bob replied on June 23rd, 2008 10:21 am:
Me three.
capman911 replied on June 23rd, 2008 10:30 am:
If he drew that, that fast he is good. Thats just what the teacher needs. Lucky devil he’ll probably be the next teacher’s pet. If only I could draw.
pennsyltucky9 replied on June 23rd, 2008 10:32 am:
Many people think that it’s better to have a purebred dog but what most people don’t know is that “mutts” last alot longer than purebred dogs. I think because they get traits from both species.
mutt….thought mongral was the word used to describe a cross bread dog……
My Duko is therefore a Mutt, aawww bless, how do I break it to him????
jeg skriver på norsk først fordi det er lettere!
kansje du sjønner det!
jeg lurer på hvilket land du kommer fra???
jeg kommer fra norge og bor i norge!
synes at den måten du forklarer ordene på er bra!
engelsk er et vanskerlig språk, jeg er ikke så flink til å skrive engelsk.
men, jeg er ganske flink til å snakke det.
jeg ser på engelske sider, leser masse engelsk, ser på enelske filmer og hører på engelske snakke. f.eks: deg, tv og alle andre steder. og på skolen min da.
er jeg mutt i hode hvis jeg er dom?
hilsen vilde my!
et parr spørsmol til.
er du modell?
hva er betydningen av ordene:
funny
silly
better
best
good
p.s:
jeg kan skrive det på engelsk hvis du ikke sjønner det!
i can rite it on ingerlish if you dont nove hvat im riting.
im just 14 yers old! and from norway!
it can be some rong rited words!
comment 420!
Two of my nieces have the same breed of Dog that you do–nice breed, fun too. One is the $10,000 dog, a long story, my brother has a big heart…
My sister just got a Maltipoo, another ‘nice’ breed. Is this dog a mutt since it is mixed? Or, since its origins are known (two blood lines) is it just a new breed? I thought mutt was an unknown blood line (not able to trace) rather than just mixed…
My guess: until the breed is officially recognized by the ‘Dog World’ it’s a mutt; most likely there are ‘Dog’ politics involved I’m sure.
Anybody know this stuff
In response to your video Hara-kiri, what about a word that is about an action that could be uplifting? I am requesting that you do a video on the word philematology…
please?
~GW
Visit My Youtube for funny videos and awesome pyrotechnics… somewhat…
She’s done it already. Check the list of lessons.
Iwould like to know the origin of the word tremendous, and also; does it have any relation with the phrase “delirium tremens”…
Thank you.
XOXO.
i was wondering about the origin of “no homo”
I have two “mutts” and they are both the smartest dogs I ever owned!!!! If I could figure out how to send a pic…I would!!! Regardless, I am so in love with you!!!!!! (yea, me and all the other horn dogs….horn mutts????…. who watch yur videos!!!!!)
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When we were talking before, you criticized evolution by asking whether it was my view that “everything came from nothing - poof.” I pointed out that the theory of evolution does not explain how matter came to be, or even how life first came to be, but rather concerns the change of life over time that has occurred since life on Earth began.
The “where everything comes from” question - has to do with the cosmological theory, rather than evolution.
Start with these:
History of the Universe Made Easy (Part 1): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg1fs6vp9Ok
History of the Universe Made Easy (Part 2): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMQk6MveZOE&feature =related
The Origin of Life Made Easy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozbFerzjkz4&feature =related
The third video addresses your EXACT QUESTION of “life popping out of nowhere” and explains quite clearly that scientists do NOT believe or theorize that life popped out of nowhere.
Any thoughts?
Hey I was wondering the origin of the word spelunking. I went exploring caves with friends and this word popped up a lot
I have a friend who has traveled the world doing deep cave exploration as a professional caving guide and accompanied teams of scientists doing research in some of the deepest and gnarliest underground environments ever studied. He jokes that spelunkers are people who get lost in caves (amateurs, apparently) and that cavers are the people who are sent down to rescue them. I guess it’s a nomenclature thing. It really pisses him off when people refer to him as a spelunker. I usually wait until he’s had a few, so I can call him a drunker spelunker, but only if I have already planned my escape route, lol.
I was told a funny way to remember the diffrence between stalagtites and stalagmites.
“When the mites go up the tights go down”.
In light of the recent passing of one of my family members, the thought popped in my head about the word ‘Obituary’. Where exactly did this word come from?
hi i d like to know the origin of the word “Bra”
Two cups, one girl?
Hey guys the new video is up
this might be bad luck but how does the numbers 666 represent the beast
It’s His area code.
1 666 GO 2 HELL
from the New Testament, Revelation13:18 “Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.”
a score = 20, so the “beast,” or Antichrist is signified by 666…
In Biblical numerology the # 6 represents “Man” or mankind. The “Man” (or man who controls the Beast) who is to come will be, for lack of a better word, represented by the #666. Some believe that 666 can be translated as the mark his followers must have and is the mathematically equivalent to three 6 digit numbers, unique to each individual, implanted on the right hand or forehead. Anyways as with the discovery of good technology turned to bad ie (nuclear power) The technology exists & has good uses now (not unlike cocomment) such as tracking of animals & people. But can be taken over by bad intent (rather tame words on purpose), Anyways that’s enough for now.
http://www.rapturechrist.com/666.htm and many other sites to help clarify or even confuse.
Link to reference
Disclaimer; views expressed in this link, except the scripture reading, do not neccesarily represent the views of the poster of this comment, although they are not too far off. I’m still scratching the surface of what was written long ago, but to me, relevant today. Cheers
That last link may be a little to wierd even for me. I like my bible straight, verse 9 in context.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=73&ch apter=13&version=31 verses verse 16 to end, in context.
Help?
a friend of mine says its not 666 but 616 for the number of the beast. I dont know if this is true or not…..
can you please tell the origin of the word “white trash”
Marina, could you do the word “sandwich” please?
It’s a bit Early for that.
I think I’m gonna hEarl.
Wasn’t there a Earl of Sandwich it was named for.
yes, and he duked it out with someone because of it…
thus becoming Duke of Earl…
Was it Earl B.J Sandwich?
I thought it was Earl B.L.T.Sandwich
PT9 if it’s ok I’d like to add to the site.
Sheep are very stupid. Girls think cute means smart. And if you have ever been around sheep……….they are neither.
Mutton is an old female sheep. Tough and stringy to eat. Needs to be cooked low and slow to be any good, or in a stew.
Spring lamb on the other hand is great, on a spit. with rosemary and garlic…….
how about a cat?
Yea that’s about the size of my orange cat too. His name is Fifie after Fivel Mousegowitz. That was my daughters doing.
You have my permission, though it was never required in the first place. Sorry if I sometimes call a shovel a shovel. Dig?
we’ve passed 250 comments, time for a refresher… please give your 2 cents on the following ~ idea ~ would be great just to get as many opinions as possible, to help Marina make up her mind.
LISANOVA IS HOT TOO
BUT VERY different the Marina. I watched Lisa’s show for about 2 secs.
Brain dead X somethings. There is no there. there.
If it works DO not fix it.
How did you learn of the comment number? I would love to link comments.
It’s under the the comments word right before the video. It says right now we are at 314 comments.
I was referring to “~ Idea ~” link.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/06/22/mutt/#commen t-28754
How does one quickly find your comment # 28754 or whatever it might be.
I’ll tell you as soon as you reply to it
Marina, may I add something about mutton. The french origin of the word is according to Diez latin mutilus. In Roman Switzerland, Grison, Come Lake areas mot and mult means castrated. Everything here shows that a mutton is more apt to consumption than for reproduction. The similar etymology if foung in german where “hammel” the german mutton comes from “hamal”: castrated.
It is then very likely that the users of mutton in slang for dogs or women did not knew the etymology of the word, but probably associated it with “multitude” or gregarious/stupid instinct.
really?????? I have always known it to mean, An old female sheep.
Castrated sheep go to market as spring or young ?? Very good to eat
and mutton is old and stringy and tough.
In french you have the female called “brebis” the male called “belier” the castrated male called “mouton” and the baby called “agneau”.
I recomend “agneau”. Then two options the very young still drinking milk from the mother “agneau de lait” or the one eating grass from the Mont Saint Michel land where tide make the grass salted “agneau de pre-sale”.
A nice recipe is the 7 hours lamb leg. A very slow cooking for the easter sunday family table.
http://www.marmiton.org/recettes/recette.cfm?num_r ecette=12368
That reminded me of a .quip
Why are they called a Sheepherder when sheep run in a flock.?
Would you want to be called; a Sheepflocker?
What the flock are you talking about RR?
Sorry I had to say that before someone else did.
I have heard that is where STDs started. Is that true? From sheepflockers
After working in the mountains one month keeping sheeps, the young sheepflocker ask to the experienced one what he does to deal with the separation from the feminine gender. The old and wise sheepflocker just shows the flock. The young padawan sheepflocker is in shock but after another month of solitudeness he decide to try it with one of the sheep of the flock. Because of the noise the old master come by and sees the scene, he starts laughing, so the other is all ashamed and don’t understand why he is mocked, so the master had to tell him what was his mistake:
“you took the ugliest!”
(there is also a completly diferent version with a camelflocker)
They call old castrated male sheep…….pets
no, they are b-a-a-a-a-d-d-d, but eunuch…
A Quiet Tribute to the old server.
I didn’t say that… did I?
I had a Siberian Husky, but he got an infection and i had too have him put too sleep. He was a Purebred Show dog but we kept him as a pet.I will have to search for the pictures before i can email them. He is the smartist dog i ever had the pleasure of owning, him and his daughter were are both very smart.
i have a red-and-white husky, myself…great, loving dogs…
My favorite dogs were a brother and sister team of Black Labradors.
I wish I had room and time for a couple of dogs.
Here’s another site to look at Marina.
http://www.samuelsdesign.com/comics/agoodgirl_roma nce.html
Peewee loves you hotforwords
Homework:
http://www.abc.net.au/animals/dog_test/default.htm
I have no dog so can’t do the test. But I’m curious to see if some dog-owners can do it and give us the result together with the dog pedigree.
Unless you have a requirement for specific work or hunting dog, you’re best bet is a mutt. it’s possible to go wrong there, too. My friend adopted an adorable pit bull - boxer mix pup which turned out to be a super bionic dog suitable for only the more knowledgeable dog owner. That dog was all energy and muscle. He must’ve mated with every bitch in the valley.
Free puppies
Mother: AKC registered
pure bred toy poodle
Father: Good fence climber
Hello where does the word WAR come from???
thanx from Soupahapeyphuntyme (check us out on u tube)
I have no answer for the homework!
I’ve got your number, Jenny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqUPApCUt90
ciao
That phone number was an accual phone number here in my city. The people that had it had to have it changed after that song came out. There was an artical in our news paper about it
Word Request- Gob
Petite Marine, je parle de toi car avec ta petite voix…t’as versé sur ma vie des milliers de roses…this immortal French song talks about you Marina …..
I absolutely do not like this derogatory term used to refer to those nice pets which are even smarter and more sensitive then ”pure breed dogs”. Unfortunately in France and in italy languages use even a ruder word for them: It=bastardino(lit. means little bastard) fr=batard…German language is definetely more polite,using the word ”Mischling”,from Mischung=mixture Curious to see how in Russian we refer to them as ”дворняги”-dvornyagi ,from the word дворня,-dvornya=servitude…….interesting.
Hey, I would like to make a request for the word “gross.”
I’m just wondering how it got its slang definition of “disgusting” when it is used in a much different way in other subjects like economics or neuroscience.
Thanks!
Pt9 Just wanted to say; What the hell are you on?
1 ) BZW quote; buzzword replied on June 22nd, 2008 8:16 am:
well, your asking an anthropologist about evolution so… yeah, that’s what i think. but i’ll look into marina’s eyes. let’s see… holy shit, pixels! now marina isn’t just a philologist, she’s proof of the existence of god. your very talented, looking into her eyes, seeing god and kissing her ass all at the same time. the whole “the eyes are the windows of the soul” bit doesn’t really do much for me. yo, prospero811 here’s an opportunity for you to actually agree with me on something. eyes started out as light sensitive cells that over time developed into the organs we refer to as the eyes. that’s what i think. not asking you to think any differently, just commenting, because commenting is sexy… as long as it satisfies the rules of “standard english grammar” otherwise commenting is just human. which evolved from primates. i can see it in their eyes. har har!
Ok maybe you did not read this post. He was responding to me saying ( look in to Marinas eyes and tell me there is no god..) How is that starting a fight on the evolution of the eye?
2 ) The light sensitive cell theory is that A THERORY. And one I think is CRAP………IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO Take Me on in this forum, bring IT?
As for it being sophomoric , Who are you any way. STEVEN HAWKINGS, SLUMING ON HFW’S site?
As for ( embarrass yourself engaging our busy teacher )
You are now the arbiter of what is suitable to engage The Teach?
If you would like I will submit a Declaration of intent and get your approval……..ok?
Between You and Mr, aLx the site will be safe from me
Love and Kisses; ROArRUNRNCH
pennsyltucky9 replied on June 23rd, 2008 11:21 am:
roadrunrnch;
Did you say Buzzword started a very controversial theory? That’s a riot. But before you embarrass yourself engaging our busy teacher, get out your fifth grade biology textbook, or steal one from a 10 year-old. Read about light-sensing cells in earthworms. Do the planaria exercise on page 220. It’s “A little deep but I believe you are up to it…” This time don’t just copy your neighbors’ answers. Maybe you’ll learn something, unless eyes are just a theory and yours haven’t been created yet…
Help! Help!
Bob have you ever been in the military. In survival school for long range reconisence they put a table in front of you with different dishes of food on them. You go from plate to plate sampling the food. When every one is through they turn over plackards that tell what you have just eaten. It’s every thing from dog, snake, monky, insects to roots and berries. Just sounds yummy doesn’t it. If you’r hungry enough you’ll even eat boiled okra.
Well I definately learn something new here all of the time.
Animals have accents and the can dial 911.
they can
Hello Bob,
I forgot all about that show! I should have noticed the likeness. See, everybody wants their name mentioned and here you had yours mentioned AND you also had a guest appearance! First on 2 counts since that was before Marina started doing the “T.P” in her shows.
A belated CONGRATULATIONS! Now I’ll have to go back and read the comments. Have a great time gloating as all others grovel.
Well, since the post you cut-and-pasted from referenced me, I will say that I never read it before. But, I’m not sure what the controversy is? Is it evolution? If so, there really is no controversy (among biologists, geneticists, paleontologists, etc.) regarding evolution. That being said, what brought all this up anyway?
roadrunrnch on June 21st, 2008 4:51 pm
Hey Guys anyone heard from prospero811? His big day . Maybe He has a life outside…? Too damn Hot in So Calif. 115* at my Place. Better to stay in a annoy Y’All.
Back on the HOT site
go to the time stamp
if you’d like and read it all.
Prospero,
If you want to find out what this is about, take a good look through the previous vid replies (hot) as he referenced above. Buzzword (BZW) made some observations about evolution theory, namely that a sizeable gap seems to exist between documented scientific evidence and creationism, and roadrunrnch sort of fell into it that gap face first, poor guy: the specific subject roadrunrnch raised was EYES — were they created or did they evolve? Buzz totally had it under control. Notice how he’s conspicuously absent; he did his bit and left. He even invited you to comment, but you were missing.
My fault, I should have just let roadrunrnch dig his own hole instead of assuming there’s a person in there who actually wishes to interact on an intellectual level with others or, Dog forbid, learn something. My primary mistake is that when progress toward such an end is negative I sometimes allow disappoinment to flavor my discourse somewhat (as seen in his copy-and-pasted quote from me above), especially when I’m not well-rested. My bad. Now he thinks I’m targeting him when poking fun would be a more accurate description. Some don’t respond as well as others to that, I guess. But it’s hard to recall an unguided missile once something sparks its fuse, as I’m sure you’re well aware.
I’m on my ass laughing. What are you on?
This is me smiling ?
What does being condescending and self riches have to do with teaching?
Your ideals are flawed and totally inconclusive. Moreover, I don’t choose to lock step with you off the cliff of ignorance, please for give me my arrogance.
Love and kISSes RRR :
pHs; Therefore, Following your logic, We developed hands to reach the remote?
My ideals? I don’t disclose them. Maybe you mean ideas (which aren’t mine anyway). Boy, you are difficult to understand. I recommend Whitesmoke.
This is SCIENCE we were talking about. It’s stuff that’s documented, proven, and published; a done deal. I learned it in college courses and university courses, and earned every bit of it by working hard.
Ad hominem attacks do not a sound argument make. If you perceive university education as the pathway to ignorance, there isn’t much anyone can do for you in terms of teaching, my friend.
Have a nice day.
I have friend from the Czech Republic - Dogs in Prague say “Huf Huf”, not “woof woof”.
Anyway - wondered if you could help a fellow podcaster with the word “Anorak”… in the context of a fan of something geeky.
Please give a shout out to the FrequencyCast podcast listeners - big fans of your videos!
frequencycast, it looks like you are the first person to get the subtle hint at the front of this video! Good job.
Where do dogs say Guff Guff?
Russia
Chacha…….
Know want dogs say in Korea?? he he……..
For got you question.
Guff Guff…………..on youtube?
Excuse me boys my meds are kicking my ass
typos can be fun too. Look at all the qretty colors
Does that make me the Teacher’s pet?
In Thailand they say “Hong Hong”.
Ok who in the heck let all the dogs out?
I didn’t know that animals had accents.
actually its a quit simple word that everyone takes for granted and it never complains back,and it has alot of stress on it. The word i would like to request is
“CHAIR”
Brilliant site, very well done!
A French friend of mine recently pointed out that if English made any sense, then the words “overlook”, “oversight”, “oversee”, and “overview” would all mean about the same thing. The first two both mean about the same thing, and the latter two have related connotations. We discussed it a bit, and my wife pointed out that it hinges on two different uses of the word “over”. In the one sense, to “skip over” something, and in the other sense, “to be above” something. Now that sounds right, but how did these four words find their way into the English language? I’d guess that they entered separately (at least first two versus latter two), and it’s just a small English mashup snafu that these four words mean separete things.
So, Ms. Smartypants, can you shed some light on these words? Thanks a bunch HotForPants!
Hello Hotforwords, I would like to request the words God and good, because I’m curious as to whether they are related or not.
I’d like to learn the origin of the word ‘cocktail’. It’s such a dirty sounding word for such a nice thing. Perhaps someone tasted a nasty drink and said, “This tastes like it came out of a rooster’s butt!”
Man I got a good lol out of that one. Thanks I needed that
I’d like to request a word, if I may. I heard the word ‘knight’ was French in origin, and yet they also have the word ‘paladin’. Aren’t the two words basically the same thing? What do the two words mean, and where do they come from? Thank you!
Woof
Down boy down
Marina, I can no longer find the place to rate your video. It used to be a little line of “kisses,” but they aren’t there now. I always gave you the maximum amount of kisses, but now I can’t do that, since they aren’t there.
Question: do you like the JJ Cale Band?
-HotRocky
There are the yellow stars under her video. Always give her five.
Lets Holiday
And make sure Teacher behaves.
Hu Marina,
Boy, was it difficult to access the site today. I guess my computer wanted to seek its old pathway no matter what I was trying to type into the address box. I had to go to youtube, which shunted me over to the German site for some reason, where I finally accessed the homepage from there. Once here, the page loaded faster than usual, though. Some progress has obviously been made. Good for you, you pulled it off.
Getting down to business, I believe that some cross-breeding is bound to improve many dogs’ intelligence level, and that severe inbreeding can be a detriment to it. There will always be exceptions, but that’s my uneducated opinion.
I’m not allowed to have a dog where I live, so I have a pet jumping spider named Magenta. She’s a Phidippus johnsonii, or Johnson’s Jumper. I’ve been trying to get her a date since January, but she has a tendency to play a little rough. She overpowered and ate her first suitor before he had a chance to calm her down (they do a dance that puts girls in a trance), even though she had just been fed. So I’m screening male applicants based on size and strength. The babies are extremely cute, and are great to release in the garden because they provide excellent bug police as well as endless hours of entertaining gymnastics.
pennsyltucky9, I was upgrading the server.. started last night at 5:30.. and they didn’t finish with all the problem until just recently! Sorry about that! But hopefully the server will be faster moving forward!
Marina
I guess this is where I thought you were doing the accual work. I was at least giving you the credit for being so smart and intelligent. me bad
Thanks for responding. The new server is faster, at least on my Mac. Haven’t tried it on the XP unit, but that’s my second choice anyway.
Good work! Now get some sleep, you deserve it!
Last year we had a garden spider make her web and nest on a plant on our front porch. We called her Charlotte. We would watch for hours as she would wait for flies or bugs to land in her web then rush to them and spin her web around the insects. A male came along and they did their thing then she ate him, bad way to go after having sex I could think of better ways to go. She made a pouch and laid her eggs in it and after a few weeks the babies were born, hatched what ever you call it for a spider. It was very interresting. I guess I need to get a life after retiring instead of waisting my day on things like that. It was quite a spectical to see though.
That’s not a waste of time at all! You should consider yourself fortunate that you have the time and space to notice what’s really going on in your world. You definitely HAVE a life, and it’s one you choose to live, so don’t denigrate yourself for taking in the beaty of what’s left of our natural world. People aren’t the only ones here (so far!) and we have a lot to learn from all our neighbors, whether or not we choose to see them that way.
Most of all, I’m impressed that you have retained your sense of wonderment and curiosity enough after working all your life that you still appreciate this kind of event. Kudos to you, Mike!
Spiders are predators, so they have to be smarter than their prey to survive. They don’t have it easy, none of us do. And even in the process of getting eaten, the males are taking the most positive step they possibly can toward supporting their young by donating their own nutrients to the process. Imagine making that kind of sacrifice to the survival of your bloodline. Many a male has gone the same way, and I’m not just talking about arachnids. I separate mine and release the males so they live to mate again because I know I’ll feed the female. She gets real hungry when she starts eating for 75!
pennysyltucky9 really said it, what you just described beats anything (type of show) they’ve ever put on T.V. A lot of people are out there ‘getting a life’ but they have know idea how to share, or how to enjoy a cloud, or etc. etc.
capman911,
Not many people “take time to smell the flowers”. You’re blessed on many levels. I laugh when some people say that I’m “wasting my time” when I notice a scene that you’ve witnessed. I grew up watching Mutual of Omaha, Jacques Cousteau and other shows that are similar so I can’t help myself.
Laugh all you want, but I have a friend who once had a pet bee–for over four-and-a-half months
–until his girlfriend accidentally killed it. No, in case you were wondering the bee’s name was not Eric.
Wow, that’s longer than I thought they could live. Too bad about the untimely demise, though. I wonder if it was listed as MIA in the hive all that time!
Yeah, and years later when he told me about it he was still bummed about the bee’s passing–quite an amazing dude he is.
A little spider moved in my yacht and built a little home. He or she just moved out. Just left the spider house and didn’t even pay any rent. What gives? Am I that annoying? I shower every day! Man even the spiders are running out…
Next time throw a moth in the web, they’re easy to catch and spiders love those. You can be as annoying as you want if you bring home a snack every couple weeks! The food has to be alive and kicking though. That’s the beauty of having a pet spider; you don’t have to feed them for weeks on end and they really don’t care whether or not you bathe regularly!
I am a bit Arachnophobic. When I was young I use go grab spiders all the time. No I didn’t pull off their legs. Me evil step mother was though. I think somehow I picked the the fear from her always screaming when she saw a spider. Many years later I bought a rose hair tarantula. I used to hold it in my hand and I would start to hyperventilate. What a rush! Now im sorta ok with spiders. I did a bit of research on some arachnids at the University of Washington website. On thing I did learn was its even difficult for the experts to properly Identify different species. Also learned about the manymyths about spiders. Check out this fantastic website. Its one of my favorites in debunking myths.
I love these quotes:
“I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.”
- Josh Billings, 1818-1885
“Everything that ‘everybody knows’ about spiders…is wrong!”
- Rod Crawford, Curator of Arachnids, Burke Museum, in Seattle, Wa.
Very cool, Captain Jack.
Thanks for showing me that! I learned a few things right off the bat, and I’ll share it with my girlfriend who always calls me in to negotiate with spiders who visit her room. It was also good to read the Josh Billings quote. I’m going to add that one to my list of sign-off quotes for emails. I think it’s right up there with Einstein’s “The more I learn, the more I realize I don’t know.” And, as pagedoll said, “Always learning, always learning.” Good stuff.
I agree with Mr. Billings assessment. I have worked very hard in learning what I know; only to find out much of what I know is bull shit. I wish I could get all those years back.
I’ve been bitten twice by Black Widows, funny thing is that I use to have a fairly healthy (read as major) phobia but after the first time bitten it just sort of disappeared. This second bite is still with me…20 months and fading ever so slowly…Now, I’m working on a shark phobia which can also be cured, but I don’t have to be bitten for this one, I p-r-o-m-i-s-e.
OW! 20 months! I’ve been fortunate in that the only poisonous bites or stings I ever received (besides bee stings) were 1.) a scorpion sting in the Florida Keys, and 2.) a Potuguese man-o’-war sting while riding the surf on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The man-o’-war sting was more immediately painful, but the scorpion sting lasted weeks.
I’ve been bitten from a rose hair. I was interesting watching her fangs pierce the skin of my hand. Freaked me out! Even though I know Im not going to die I still have a phobia. I even have a phobia of heights. I don’t have a shark phobia. I have petted many nurse sharks to feel very comfortable around them. knowledge is power and the more knowledge you have the more power you have over phobias.
Well said.
20 months insn’t painful, it’s just like a bruse that slowly dulls over time: moving from black to brown then from green to light green…I don’t know what a rose hair is–and maybe I don’t want to.
I use to swim for hours in & beyond the surf, was once in the water with a Great White; it didn’t scare me or worry me just swam like heck for the shore. BUT, years later when the phobia was in full swing I was uneasy in fresh water lakes.<—go figure
He was referring to his pet rose hair tarantula, ok4now.
ok4now. You must have been watching to many “Jaws” movies. hehehe
Yea I know what you mean about phobias being missed placed. I can climb up the mast on the Tall Ship Lady Washington and be very comfortable with the heights. But when I walked over a draw bridge at the same height as the Lady W. I get very nervous. Even though Im much safer on the bridge than climbing up the mast. Go figure.
Yea, rose hair tarantulas are a very common pet that you can find in about any pet store. Non poisonous, and mild temper. Easy to breed and to care for. They are good spiders for first time arachnid owners. If you are the kind of guy that forgets to water your plants this might be a good pet for someone. Keep some live bugs in with them and a wet sponge for water and your good to go for a week or more. The hard part might be keeping the bugs alive. Crickets are not to hard. Monkey chow and some water Gelatin keeps them going for a spell.
Yeah, I read the tarantula stuff then caught the rose hair reference after a curiosity attacked. I’m willing to cohabitate with spiders in this world but there is NO WAY I’d have one as a pet, I’d be too tempted to give it a little misting with a Raid can.
Wow i love my teacher
Advisedly (adverb) - why does this word have nothing to do with advice?
Humm I think I’ve seen that a few times today.
Me too Koala
Me three.
If he drew that, that fast he is good.
Thats just what the teacher needs. 
Lucky devil he’ll probably be the next teacher’s pet. If only I could draw. 
FORE! Oh, sorry guys. Me too.
Dam I had to duck and roll
Me five!
Aren’t you sleepy staying up all night