Hair of the dog
Why would the hair of a dog help you get over a hangover?
This is another interactive video, so it’s good to watch it on YouTube for the full effect.. but I have the possible answers below as well.
Dog Hair Drink
Dog Hair in Wound
Shakespeare
Awww poor dog, thats a rough life it’s leading having to put up with her all day long jeesh. Hair of the dog for a Marina hangover would be hotforprofits.
random lesson—mothers are always right! how many before the one too many? clover honey wine is good like strawberry wine
so, is it bee wine? grape yeast? 
Vitamin B1 and C and calcium with magnesium are good. Alcohol depletes vitamin b1 and makes you nutty
Hangover Regrets
…as you say, gross!!!!
Hangover cures…..use to sink a pint mid morning after a full on English Breakfast, followed by either a long brisk walk or bike ride. Oh, and a wtaer melon was always good.
Coke-Cola and plenty of water. Berrocca tablets full of goodies.
A period of time a while back, would never get a hangover just kept drinking….which was not so good.
Another cure which really did the trick was jumping out of a plane and drop 12,000 feet (parachute included!!!)
now days, plenty of water, fresh fruit, walk and avoid everyone for 24hours until my head gets back to base. Have not been hungover for ages but I dont drink hardly anything these days…… thats is unless my mad aunt visits….nutter, a lot of fun but oh my, need a few days recovery if she starts to put the world to rights. If we get to the story about all her collectable antiques & toby jugs I am locked in as no way out. I have tried several times to escape these 4am conversations but this just fuels her with more demands for booze and something to eat. The milkman comes and goes as with the second class mail, they do not stop, just wave laughing at us through the window as we dance to her golden oldie records (which I do enjoy). My calls for help are muted. While I lay there trying remind me of who I am and what just happened she is already visiting other relatives aiming to put the world to rights again…..the medical world hold their own breaths as she defies all. She is a nurse and has been refused to donate blood……….thinking about it, she will be due for her two month tour from NZ quite soon……..
Hi Marina,
Just wanted to let you know that this video done in wide screen format is also great. In the YT player the video is displayed in letterbox, but it is not bad. Using a Windows player the video is in wide screen format without the letterbox.
Menudo is the ultimate hangover cure.
One bowl and the hangover is far better.
I’ve heard that the prairie oyster is a great remedy.
“Drink a warm glass of hair and call me in the morning.” - Groucho Marx
Teacher -
Where did the word “Gadget” come from? And while I’m thinking about it, the word “Mug” has many meanings, from a cup, to a robbery… Could you look into them??
Test comment. Please ignore.
Can’t, it’s like a magnet.
“Kobe”
Is that the name of your pooch, Marina 
I thought that maybe it might have been the name of the desert, “Gobi” 
Pro’bly not 
Does this mean that Hot4Words is a basketball fan, or maybe a fan of Kobi 
It reminds me of an ol’ buddy that named his cats after boxing champions 
Oh, and thanks for that flute ‘n’ xylophone music 
It reminds me of the 1950’s travelogue music on TV 
(Gotta get that CD 
)
I was wondering where the word “whatever” originated from?
I’ve always been curious of the origins of the word “Qualm”.
Id like to know the Origins of “Orgasm”.
what about the word INSPIRATION and does INSPIRIT have anything to do with that word
Marina,
Excellent work on this one! Funny how science comes full circle from folk remedies to modern research. The dog hair concept is not dissimilar to a vaccine that uses dead diseased cells to stimulate an antibody reaction to fight the disease.
Hang in their good lookin’.
You’re the Best!
would love to know the origin of the word “tickle”
Please explain the greek origin of stoics and how it became an english word. I know it has something to do with the lesser socratics.
I’ve been curious for a long time, where did the word “Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia” come from & is it considered a real word? (my spell check doesn’t seem to think so)
http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/11/30/sesqui-wha/ Try this link, Think this is it.
Cap Jack Are you wearing out your F5, And starving to death yet?
Maybe Marina is your Syrian of the sea. Like in the Odyssey, Ulysses was drawn to the rocks. Stay off the rocks ol’ Man. It;s just the wind and the tide.
I heard a lone voice near the end of “Dog Hair Drink” video. Was the TV on? Did you have someone there talking on a cellphone?
Anyone else hear what I heard? Funny the things that get our attention that is just ilrelevant to the lesson.
CaptainJack, I heard that too.. I have a wireless mic.. I think it picks up radio stations… or perhaps it’s that damn poltergeist!!!
When the Police recorded “Does everyone Stare”, a wireless mike picked up some radio station playing opera. It was on the master tape, so they left it in rather than re-record - Check it out!
What the heck!
I thought you left them at the other hut? Did they follow you to your new place? Damn! You might have to an exorcist to remove the ghost. You better put Kobe to work and have her scare them off for you. 
The reason people are hungover when they wake up is because they are dehydrated and their meningeal sack (sack around the brain) is dry and constricting against the brain. The reason “hair of the dog” works is because it temporarily re hydrates you while numbing your senses a bit. I know nobody wants to hear this, but agua (water) is the best remedy for a hangover.
Drink malox when you get home, and two asprins in the am.
My trusty hot for words Marina. I would like to know the origin of the word “hookey” (to be truant; skipping or cutting class) . By the way I love the new thing you did with the Guess the Word Origin Game…funny stuff…as always love your videos and that smile of yours it brings the sun out everyday.
Maia Marina, new word requests:
Tic-tac-toe
Equals
PICNIC
Table
hey been wondering about this. in the u.s. we say, “down on the farm, cattle on a ranch, on the north slope, out on the town, etc…” but we don’t usually say, “dog on the backyard, animals on the zoo, monkeys on the jungle” what determines the use of the word, “on”? i have a theory, but just wanted to know if anyone else is aware of this pattern?
My first thought would be that the IN almost signifies withing a boundary… such as in the zoo would imply within cages or the zoo itself.. dog in the yard might imply within the fence of the yard… the jungle might be within the boundaries of the trees.. and the on almost implies an open area.. BUT… you could look at the usage of the phrases.. “Where is the dog?” means, where is he located.. and you would say “In the back yard” meaning a certain area… the Lion is IN the zoo, meaning confined. Out on the town would mean getting away from confinement…. branching out into other places.
I don’t know.. just taking a stab here.
yea, that’s what i was thinking. i also considered these examples, “on the sidewalk, on the river, on the highway, on the trail.” these examples represent areas bounded on both sides yet open ended. now here is what i started thinking about. we say, “in the middle of the highway” but we say “on the side of the highway” now the reason must be that being, “in” the middle one is bound on both sides, but being, “on” the side, is beyond the boundary and thus boundless. as is the case with being “in” the middle of the river and being “on” the river’s edge. yea, the difference i think are the boundaries.
If Marina is taking a stab, that makes her a femme fatale.
Alright, the Prose Perro chiming in here…
First, let’s identify the problem. A person gets on a plane, not in one. A person gets on a bike. A person gets a rowboat or canoe, but on a sailboat, You get on a train, but what really starts screwing with your head is that you get IN a caboose. And to really fry your brain, you do get ON a bus, but once you’re on a particular bus you are said to be IN the bus.
The word “in” tends to emphasize “enclosure.” If the thing encloses you, then you typically get “in” that thing. Hence, an animal is “in” the zoo, etc., but “on” the prairie.
However, that’s not always the case, and it looks like the use of the word “on” is prevalent when you board something by walking. Hence, you get “in” a car, but “on” a train or a plane. Whether you later sit down appears to be irrelevant.
Although you enter a caboose by walking, you are already on the train when you do that - walking from car to car - therefore you get “in” the caboose and “on” the train.
that makes sense prospero811, i can imagine some of the difficulty boarding these early vessels, they had planned a boarding dock at the top of the empire state building for airships, imagine the view from that gangplank! i think that there is almost a flow chart approach to boarding, the most dangerous or exciting part is getting on, after that your in. so to describe it one would place emphasis on the, “on” part. “whew, i finally got on the titanic yea!” even now with airports and the unexpected events that occur to travelers boarding or getting “on” is something to emphasize. of course getting “on” the plane doesn’t mean your “in” the air yet.
Insane.
It’s Hick Talk, Hay seeds’ Plow Boys, Them good ol boys down on the farm.
you made me think of something. the difference between, “in your head” and “on your mind” ain’t that interesting?
If you take word phrases to literally they really don’t make sense. Idioms, grammatical syntax’s.
i meant that the two phrase although similar describe two different perceptions of the brain. “in your head” implies isolated such as the boundaries marina discussed, the brain isolated in the skull. or “on your mind” the expanse or boundless characteristic of the mind as in beyond limits. i’m not interested in the literal interpretation.
In any case If you are IN the road, May not be so good for ya. SPLAT!
and if your on the road again, you may be Willie Nelson!
George Carlin (RIP) used to have a great fear of getting on a plane. He said he’d rather be IN the plane!
BW, Yes I have seen this pattern but just blew it off. Interesting though.
Marina, Wow great theory. Your insight of words is just amazing. You too BW!
I’m just going to sit here and bask in the glow of your thoughts.
thanks for remembering me.
English is just crazy in its use of prepositions. You can take a ride “on” a train, but you’d think someone was crazy to take a ride “on” a car.
Nick
save a horse…
and call me cowboy…
Your so very right Nick. Whats worse is I learn form people that have it all wrong. I still get laughed at when I mess up.
never end a sentence in a preposition is one I can think of.
Isn’t it;
Save a horse,
Ride a Cowboy?
Also eat a Cowboy.
Whenever I’m taking a flight somewhere, and I hear someone say that it’s time to get on the plane, I say “Are you crazy? I’ll get IN the plane, but I sure as hell ain’t gettin’ ON the plane!”
“Get in the aeroplane” sounds right, not “get on the aeroplane”, has something to do with the “aero”. “Get on the plane” still sounds better than “get in the plane”… maybe just in my head though. I missed all this earlier… interesting. Cheers
Thanks Capt. Jack! I really appreciate it!!!
Yeah, she did look particularly radiant. Maybe her boyfriend just proposed - or something…
Nick
I think its new pad, new puppy, great support from her loyal students, etc. Am I close?
The new videos are very professionally presented. Also, Marina is doing long takes rather than the short choppy ones of times gone by. She has befriended the camera, and has done so beautifully. Great job! I loved your appreciative comments Captain Jack. Now and then, we really do need to express how we feel about our beloved teacher.
I had to look up the word ‘befriended’. I guess it’s a shorten word for ‘become friends’. Humm always learning here.
I think it is important to give feed back to a teacher as to let them know how the lessons are working out for them. I always seem to beg my students for the same thing. The answer is always good and they recommend me to other potential students. So I ask them is there one thing you think I can improve on that would make the learning experience better. Some say its perfect and some say that I need to work on this and that. Which is good to hear so I can alway try to improve my abilities. My goal is to become the best nautical instructor on the planet. Tall order yes, doable yes, easy no.
Marina’s glowing personality just pull me into a subject I really struggle with. Yes at first I was attracted to her beauty that got my attention. But it was her intelligence that kept me here or I would have left months ago. I used to hang around people that where more intelligent that I was. Loved those days! But those friends have moved on and I have lost contact. Today it’s not only Marina but you guys also. Even if Marina left her site I still would be on here every day. Of course Marina would be greatly missed and I would freak out. I would have to goto one of those AA meeting or start a MA meeting.
You guys have also taught me many things. For that I am great full to be in your presents. It’s really all of us that makes this whole learning experience wonderful. I love hearing all the stories about everyone. I get many emails from many of you and we are always talking about interesting stuff. If it wasn’t all of you here I would be hard pressed to keep visiting also. Thanks everyone for your friendship and contribution to HFW.
Jack
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How cool is all of the above
VERY 
Boys;
Marina is a VERY sweet and Lovely Person. BUT lets keep in mind she is a Internet star doing a Job. Making videos and having some fun. Interacting with us for….Fun. Lets try and keep reality and fantasy separated. Or you will be sure to be disappointed and crushed. In her REAL life, It is very different and she will be first to say that she whats to keep the two separated. ( Just my thoughts not hers )
Lets have fun and make her a big star doing it.
Most hated
RRR
captain Jack you suck !
Must get real lonely out at sea .
If you’ve ever had an impact on anything ever it will be a total miracle, or accident, oh not talking about the impact you make on your toilet seat, ’cause you’re not worthy of being hooked-up to the same public sewer system as Capt. Jack.
Menudo? wasn’t that he name of Ricky Martin’s boy band?
**Marina** Ok something broke. I just received and email for your post Hair of the Dog about 19 minutes ago. Its 23 hours late. It used to take 15 minutes or so. What happened?
Yea I just got mine too
tres!
I think they only go out like once a night.. 5pm PST or so.. so if I upload after 5pm.. then you won’t get it until the next day.
Oh Ok that makes perfect sense.
Now we know not to use email as an immediate indicator of your new posts. Will just have to use the “Elite Panda” force to predict the next lesson. 
“Use the force Luke, use the force!”
Trying to compress this latest video and it keeps failing! Arrggghhh!! And it’s the special 200th video you were all taking about! Hopefully it will be up within an hour or so.
Ok, great Marina. I can wait. I was just getting ready to head out the door to get dinner but I’ll just sit here and wait, while putting pressure on you to finish. hehehe *Hey try rebooting your computer* sometimes the computers memory leaks or get corrupted a bit.
“Arrggghhh!!” Oh you a pirate today? LOL. I feel your pain! I wish the darn computer would just work!
Shiver MY timbers!
NOPE!!!
Is anybody else having problems with the smiley faces not working.
Sorry, should have put it here.
:???: 
NOPE!!!
ok lets see I can’t any of them to work. I just rebooted my computer too.
I found out the problem Mike. You didn’t pay your smiley bill! They pulled the plug on you!
I think you can go to Wal-Mart and pick up those discount smileys. 
Not too bad but they are old school. And at least they are homemade! 
Damn, that didn’t work. The darn site read my old school smileys and converted them. Oh well you get the point……
Mine are good on Firefox,
what’s your platform?
You may need to blow up
your hotforwords cookies.
When you accept the new
cookies, this should force
an update check and the
smileys data should come
back. If that doesn’t work,
there are other ways to
restore the emoticons,
If the file is missing or
corrupted, that’s the
fastest wasy I know
to get it back.
Good luck
I am using ie7 and MSN. I have cleaned out all of my history, cookies, and anything else I can think of but they still won’t work. They did earlier today so I don;t know.
Might just be my mouse. I switched computers and they are working on this on.
New mouse tommorrow 
I just uploaded firefox on the day that they were trying to set the record and I found out that there are issues concerning safety.
I just used it today and after I was done I used norton360 for a complete scan and there was a virus. I should have wrote it down for reference.. I think is had “star’ as part of it’s name.
Marina, thought you and the others might enjoy this, the “World’s Ugliest Dog Contest”.
http://www.goth-panda.co.uk/2007/?p=149
This was a viral not too long ago,
along with the evil looking squirrel…
Hi Marina,
Word Request: catawampus (sp?) unsure
If you could let out the info on this one that would be bonza.
Thank you
Catywampus, heard it used
again - can’t spell it, best shot
best definition is that it means
“out of skew”, misaligned
I’m sure it has more meanings
than those two.
Good request, dude
Hi Marina
I was wondering what is the origin of tenderhooks, as in “to be kept on tenderhooks”?
Thanks
Dec
Dec, I believe it’s “TENTer’s hooks”, the hooks that go in the grommets that stretch a tent tightly, so it would be like you are stretched tight, pulled in all different directions at once…. In the old days when tents were made out of canvas they had to be stretched tightly to keep rain out.. and if you touched the canvas it would leak inside the tent…. ah, the good old days…
You’re wrong!
Ok, now you sound like my wife!
I found no explanation in Websters on tenderhooks. But I did find one on tenterhooks.:)
You’re right…It’s tenterhooks, but I know the origin has something to do with weaving!
Tenderfott.
legal tender
tender mercies,
tenderloins, ummm..
that’s a good place
to stop
DoH! tenderfOOt
I read books often. But my sister reads books oftender.
i’ve always thought it was tenderhooks, too…but the reasonably legitimate sites i’ve perused all indicate it’s tenterhooks…
oh, well, camping’s alright…
with the right company…
Yay! I got one right! My hangover remedy is (!) never drink cheap whiskey - go with a single malt Scotch, some good Cuban rum or Russian Vodka. Everclear is good too. Also never mix drinks - no rum and whiskey, no beer and wine…
Just out of curiosity, but what’s your favorite libation Marina?
COME ON!!!
Marina is from the land of Vodkya!
I doubt she drinks single malt…
maybe a little pink squirrel?
It’s sort of random but could you look into the origin of “dude”?
Origin of Dude?
Recently took the place of , Man in the vernacular.
Really stoned Surfers could never remember names. ie, Hey Dude, got any herb? Give me a ride, Dude. That Dude is so wasted.
Dude, That Be-och is Smoke’n. Or the ever so great, (What are you doing ) is replaced by, Dude? or DUDE!!…?
With the appropriate hand jesters, ” Dude ” Can get your point across to even the most intoxicated.
Later, Dude.
Dude??!
Dude was used by cowboys a
l-o-n-g time before the California
surf culture snatched it in the 60’s
Dudes & wranglers (not the blue jeans)
tend the herds on the prairies and
plains. Shhhh,might stampede the herd
If you want to meet a lot of dudes, try a dude ranch. Not to be confused with a chicken ranch, where the ladies aim to please…
I am currently wondering about the words, “Flea, Tick, and Mite”. Seeing as I am currently in an infested home of fleas, I am curious.
Now, pardon me, I am about to go squish some more of the buggers.
Dear Teacher,
I have two suggestions. How about the expression, “Two bites of the apple.”? I understand it’s related to the saying, “Two flips of the coin.”
While on the subject of second chances how about some research on the origin of the expression “Hump day”. It’s been a long work week!
Cheers,
hump day,
hump in the road,
one hump or two?
what the heck is a dromedary?
Dromedary, dromedary is a type of camel.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/camel
Same as Marina!
Right! so the dromedary is a one-hump camel.
Don’t settle for a static photo. Try a videodromedary.
Hey Marina
I want to make a wordrequest. With the European football cup final coming up this Sunday I wanna’ know the orgin of the word “Soccer” (cause’ it’s quite obvious where the word football comes from). 
Woo, i got it right.
As for homework, I actually watched a British show called Brainiac a while ago, which tests various beliefs and myths (kind of like Mythbusters, if you’ve seen that). in one episode they tested a bunch of remedies for hangovers, and when the subject tried drinking a tall glass of water before going to bed after drinking, he had no hangover at all in the morning.
I don’t drink, so I haven’t tried it, but since a hangover is just dehydration it makes sense.
Wasn’t there a mustachioed superhero named Brainiac?
Hello teacher,
I’ve always wanted to know the origin of the word hacker. I’ve always been one myself, sorry to say, and I never quite figured out where the word actually came from. A disgrace, I know.
Thanks.
Hacker? ummm… what
hacks have you worked?
My first was a trojan horse
called “The Phantom”.
This was 35 years ago
and on an NCR mainframe.
It cleared out all memory arrays
(effectively stopping all work)
and then echoed a message
to every console which read:
“I am the Phantom program
Catch me if you can”.
Then it would reseed a
time between 30 seconds
and 30 days to restart,
rename itself, and go
dormant until the next
call (no resident memory).
When they dismantled the
core bubble memory, to
locate and remove it,
it was hitting about
2-3 times a day. Whoops.
Two hour after they rebooted,
it was back. Phantom could
sense logic probes through
a sophisticated reference
file, kind of like virus scan
tech of today. At the first
probe, it called a computer
in another city, and copied
itself along with a set of
instructions to call back
in a week and reinsert itself,
trying indefinitely if no answer
I was a minor - left no
tracks - didn’t get caught.
I wouldn’t even try that
today - no way
Clock speed was slower,
tiny, narrow bandwidth,
Phantom was a hack,
more inconvenience
than viral.
I used to play in traffic
too, so what?
Caught you, i knew you would have to boast eventually. What you doing boasting or complaining?
more nostalgia than anything…
remember 8″ disk drives?
that was a BIG deal at the time…
Hey Marina - Speaking of Shakespeare, how about doing a lesson on words coined by Shakespeare? I believe there are quite a few of them.
Like ‘jet-set’.
Actually, I’ve started going through all my Shakespeare just to footnote the phrases still in use today. I started with Julius Caesar (an old favorite) and here’s the list:
Act I, scene 2 “Beware the Ides of March”
Act I, scene 2 “…it was Greek to me”
Act II, scene 2 “A coward dies a thousand deaths, the Valiant, once”
Act III, scene 1 “Et tu. Brute?”
Act III, scene 1 “Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war”
Act III, scene 2 “Friends, Romans, countrymen. Lend me your ears. I have come to bury Caesar not praise him”
It’ll take awhile to get around to them all, but I did Julius Caesar in one day. I could probably use some help….
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in our selves that we are underlings. - Cassius
Yeah, great play.
Quite a few movie titles have been pirated from lines in Shakespeare plays. It might be fun to gather a list of them.
Hello My Dear Teacher,
It was reported today, ‘Sharapova Stunned by 154th-Ranked Kudryavtseva’
Could you look into the origin of the word tennis and does it have anything to do with the number ten? This could be a two lesson request as the number ten itself seems to be mysterious. Lots of words contain the number ten, but may not have anything to do with the number; e.g. tent?
Thank you, and as requested, I’m being good
P.S.
I reviewed your Love
video and saw that you mentioned that tennis was imported from France. Perhaps, the origin of the number ten might be an intensive lesson as there are many more possibilities. Some other words that contain the letters “ten”, and does it have anything to do with the number ten?
often, tennis, attention, tendon, tenable, pretend, Lieutenant.
Then, of course there are the many uses with the number ten as in
Ten Commandments and 10-4 and so on.
I would like to learn the origin of the word jacuzzi.
I always wanted to know about the word Mannequin (did I spell that right?) Like where did it come from and all that jazz.
where dose the words yes @ no come from or why ist yes @ no.
Marina have you tried these for what you are looking for in pinup girls.
http://www.rainfall.com/posters/pinups/catalog1.ht m
Where did we start using “boo” as an affectionate term for another person?
Do you mean boo or beau. I know we us beau alot refering to a lover.
Right, beau exists too.
But I’m talking about boo as in Chris Brown’s song, “My Boo.”
Both are referring to the same thing. Maybe they’re related?
That would make a good one to investigate. I’ve just never heard of it spelled that way. I don’t read very many books. Good luck with your request.
Mike
Or have heard Chris Brown sing my mistake about the book and song.