Bluetooth it baby!
In celebration of the new law in California where you can’t hold a cell-phone up to your ear while driving… why the name Bluetooth? Was there a guy with blue teeth?
Posted on July 5, 2008 · Filed Under Lessons
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I wonder if the person who wrote this bill in California has any connections ($$$$) with a company who sold hands free phones.
can’t remember if I did homework or not, but I say “HANG UP AND DRIVE”
I can’t count how many times I have benn almost hit/run over because someone was on the phone while driving.
Hi, I am from Michigan Detroit. It’s wear I talk on the phone when I drive in summer because I have a Convertible so I am enjoying the ride and it’s very hard to hear both side of the phone and winters are here a crazy so need more pay attention to the road then ever, actually anytime need very carefully drive, it’s not me bad driver it’s always someone else on the phone or doing something stupid. So please drive safe anywhere at anytime…
Yes I do drive and talk on the phone
and i think is a good law 
Yes I do drive and talk on the phone when i get a phone call, and yes i think it should be illegal.
Yeah I hate it when people are yapping on the phone. When I use mine, I dial with it being held at the top of the steering wheel, so I don’t miss anything, and then I turn on the speaker phone, and I don’t sit and talk, I ask what needs to be asked, get my answer(s), and hang up. If I want to talk for a long time, i’ll go home and use my home phone. Either way, the car is not the place for CONVERSATIONS…
Hi Marina, Sex Goddess From Russia With Love,
I’m wondering if you can haddle a nice, well-ordered set … something makes me thinks … DA! … and … DAH! … lol …
Here is the nice set: [wiggle, giggle, jiggle]
They all seem related in a way but they are different … how did they originate? In what order did they originate?
HotFor”HotForWords” (that’s me) wants to know.
And maybe you could demonstrate the difference between those three words, so that we could more easily remember? :>)
Send me a kiss soon. Or a wink, or a hug or giggle or a wiggle or a jiggle or something!
MWAAAA!!
Gwillikers
I ain’t trippin, I got bars (skills) at driving haha. I’m pretty sure us Californians will also lok more stylish
strange…your video crashes for me right where the guy’s blue teeth come on (ugh). Must be me because don’t see other’s commenting on that, among the few I scanned. XOXO ken
Have you tried upgrading your Flash player? Also might restart your computer after upgrading. IT doesn’t tell you to, but it might help anyway.
thanks
A word request for you, my dear teacher!
I am interested in learning more about the word “pear-shaped.” The term is commonly used in colloquial British English, where it means “to go awry,” but this definition is is completely unrelated to its initial use as a descriptor for something (or someone) that is tapered at the top and wider at the bottom, and utterly incongruous with its use as a term for a particularly rich or mellow tone in music. Just how and why did pear-shaped go pear-shaped?
With love,
Jeff
My suggestion: Absolve/Absolution versus Absolute/Absolutely
Thanks!
hello there, I think some of your video’s are very funny. You might even say they are hilarious. By the way, I would like to know where the word hilarious comes from.
This is NOT a stupid law. I have seen people do so many stupid things while driving and talking on a cell phone. I also don’t think the law goes far enough. Talking on the phone while driving should be aganist the law….period!!!!
Another problem with the current law in California is that the fine for the violation is not high enough. It should be $100 or more. I know because I was involved in an accident while talking on a cell phone. Fortunately no one was hurt seriously but two cars including mine were totalled!!!
I’m headed down to the BMX track for a little sunday night racin’, wish me luck, catch you cool cats later! Pagedoll-out
No we don’t have it in NC yet but I hope it’s coming. It also goes along with eating, drinking, tuning the radio or anything that distracts the driver. Here you are driving a 2 ton or bigger machine and your mind is not on the hazards of driving. I also think this adds to road rage, someone talking on a phone then cuts someone off, it’s on then. I know I’ll give them the finger or run them off the road. I have stopped them and beat the shit out of them. It may not teach them a lesson but I feel a whole lot better. Dang I am getting mad just thinking about it. So I need to go chill for awhile. Drink another cold one.
Don’t drink another cold one, you’ll just get more upset!! HA! …good to hear from ya!
You too bud. I spent years trying to out manuver people in cars with cell phones while driving a firetruck on some of the bussiest roads here and all you get is flipped off by them. So now that I am retired I can pay a few back. Ha ha ha
Not really ill just ok.
look southwest and i’ll be outside mowin’…toss me one from the cooler, will ya?…
oh, and no cell phone while i’m on the Deere…
That cocomment was nothing but worthless spyware. I’m glad that you got rid of it.
Spyware? Really? Naw.. But then look at the data google collects and now has to give it to viacom. Oh boy!
I like the idea of a single place to store all your comment and see the new updates on those comments but I feel the company is going about it the wrong way. IMHO.
If you’re a bigmouth with a bad memory, like me it’s handy to find what you said & where. Mike h.i.s.Wet …
Won’t help with the why though
Hello, my dear teacher, I would like to request the following words or phrases:
01) Swan song
02) Perquisite
03) Lubricious
04) Mea Culpa
05) Lucubrate
06) Cunt
07) Come
08) Go
09) Crackalackadingdong
10) Pornography
11) Queer
12) Ogle
13) Quark
14) Niggardly
15) Gorgeous
16) Hideous
17) Fubar
18) masturbate
19) Voyeur
20) Surreptitious
Thank you.
wheres RRR when we need him…
#408 who’s going to be 420?
oops! #409
the speed is blinding me
Well im getting some major slow downs. I think its because of coco and some other links. I’ll going to try to block coco from loading on my browser and see if that fixes it. … Oh it looks like I might not have to. Coco failed to load. hehe
Awwwweee. finally.. Faster speeds.. yes.. happy day. I used ad blocker and removed all of coco from the page and now the only thing thats a bit slow but tolerable is gravitar. CJ is now a happy camper…
not me…i’m killin’ weeds a different way…
Can I be the next teachers pet Marina pleaseeee? And can I request the word “Dynasty” please because I always thought that it only realted to war but then it also relates to sports. Help please?
Thanks much
I want to ask if u can define the word Ambigram
thx u are a very gorgeous woman i wished u had been my teacher lol
sincerely,
-SHADOWLINk
Good day, teacher.
I’m a new devotee and I humbly request you educate your students about the word “soviet.” Some of us are old enough to remember its relevance, but I assume many of your students are unawares.
Dear teacher
I thought it was because the first blue tooth for a cell phone was blue looked like a tooth…. (Some times I’ve strange ideas). For the homeworks now: it is forbidden to drive with a cell phone in France, and it is a good thing. French don’t respect the law (it is a national tradition) but the idea has been voted thanks to a lobby.
Thank you for the lesson.
Don Felipe de las vegas.
Viva Don Felipe de las vegas!
Dear fellow student,
Thank you! “Vivaaaaaaaaaaaaa las Vegas touiiiiiiin” (a failed attempt to mimick the sound of the song of Elvis).
Viva Page doll
Amicalement
Don Felipe del cielo
I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHERE THE WORD “SEXY” ORIGIONATED. AS IN, “YOU ARE VERY SEXY MARINA”. I WILL WATCH FOR THE POSTING.THANK YOU! AND WE LOVE YOUR SHOW!
Hello Marina:
You’ve got a wonderful sense of style, and you’re quick on your feet. By the way, the etymology of F**k is worth looking into. I used to teach high school and I let one of my students research it. It’s origin is the slavic root “to hit or strike”, and it’s related to “Fox”, like you are. There’s quite a bit more in the O.E.D. and I’m sure you’ld present it more alluringly than me, so I’ll let you take it from here.
~ Andrew ~
I don’t know if anyone out there is into tennis, but there is a wicked battle on right now between Federer and Nadal for the Wimbledon championship…great match!
You’re just trying to get us to leave so you can have Marina to yourself.
You got me!!
it’s been postponed in the 5th set due to rain…
so Marina should be back in a minute…
Nadel JUst won!!!
Nadal in 5!…wow, that was great tennis!…
That was GREAT TENNIS!!!
hi marina.
i wanted to know why the doors on the phantom
are called suicide doors.
and not like…
reverse doors?
thanks!
In a front end collision, the doors
often cannot be opened. wedged
shut. People would survive the
crash but die from smoke inhalation
because they could not escape.
one way to kill yourself is to run
your car in a closed garage, hence
the analogy to suicide.
wierd, huh?
Hmm. I have a request for a word: Dogfight. How come aircraft battles are called “dogfights”?
There seems to be a funny theme with aerospace and animals =p
Yeah, the reason why I request this is because I just saw quite a few shows on the history channel today.
dogfight = air combat
catfight = girl combat
are there others?
Did you go to Gravatar.com, yet?
it’s painlessly easy, i promise
Hmm. Gravatar. Interesting. Although I usually don’t bother placing an avatar unless I’m *extremely* active in a community. I check for videos, and make replies/comments if I have an interesting thought. Which doesn’t actually occur that often with hotforwords. Gravatar seems very convienent and may solve that problem… if only more sites I visit support it…
no worries - tell you what
pick up on this
the audio is kind bad,
’cause it’s live
but the message is clear
poolside
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSfC2lkvRko&feature =related
Hello my teacher. I have come to relay on you for my word origins and now I have a question of my own. I watched a show today about gangsters in the 1930’s U.S. and it talked about them being “on the lam”. I know what this means, but where did the phrase “on the lam” come from?? Thank you, Pavehawk55 (Bob)
That’s an interesting one pavehawk55! Thanks!
Hey! I mentioned that one on the “loo” page!
My dear Teacher,
Is it just my vastly over active sense of worth or just being stupid?
Do you tend not to answer your regulars (ie Minions) I have noticed, but had not given it much credence. You pass over the crew of Your Love Boat. I understand you not answering my posts, mostly they are just silly nonsense and not in any need of an answer.
I don’t think you will be doing any harm if you were to answer
moresome of Your Minion’s as well as the others.I have moved on to more hard News sites, But I will drop by to see your new Videos.
RRR
Marina in a Fedora,
flippin’ a silver dollar,
wearing a double
breasted suit,
slingin’ a gat.
Can you get a pink Thompson machine
gun to coordinate with the pink suit and hat?
well - you could green screen that part..
Marina, Re: RRR
[best Schwarzennegger]
“He’ll be back”
he just took the whole minion
thing too much to heart.
I say, Marina in a fedora, with mobster suit .. white shirt unbuttoned way down …. and making me an offer I can’t refuse…..
roadrunmch - I responded, respectfully, to your last post on the Hot board. I hope you read what I wrote carefully and try to understand what I’m trying to say, and understand that neither I, nor evolution, proves or seeks to prove your God doesn’t exist. I think, though, that you are missing something very valuable when you attack an idea about the theory of evolution that bears no resemblance to the actual theory. You are Don Quixote charging at windmills when you say that evolution contemplates or predicts skin evolving into eyes.
naw, Marina in a convict suit…a skimpy convict suit…chased by a skimpily-dressed police officer…both of whom are after Mr. Big…
me…
well, me in a dream…
Not another chopper pilot named Bob, or are maintenance crew?
Neither, I was an MH-60 flight engineer. Remember except for single seat fighters, for every pilot flying there are at least a couple of non pilot flight crew members along to keep the pilot out of trouble. haha. Are you a chopper pilot named Bob?
I was … along time ago … now I have to content myself with MS Flight Simulator.
Except for the S61n, I didn’t fly anything big enough to have place for the luxury of a flight engineer.
My engineers always told me that engineers were smarter than pilots for two reasons:-
1. Because an engineer could make an automatic pilot, but a pilot could not make an automatic engineer.
2. Because I was in the helicopter and they stayed on the ground.
However, the best ones always accompanied me on test flights, “to inspire confidence”
I couldn’t stay on the ground. The flight engineer is a “required for flight” position. We had to operate the rescue hoist and all the insertion and extraction gear, man the minigun, do the weight and balance, figure take off and landing data. The pilots had it easy all they had to do was drive. haha Actually our pilots were a great bunch. Awesome aviators.
HI; in India it is already illegal to talk onthe phone while driving
Homework - We already have this law in the UK, and yes I do think it should be a law because there were more deaths when we didn’t use a Bluetooth headset.
I would like to request the word, Gay.
Was the person who invented the word was gay?
A lot of first timer’s ask this question
I mean, a LOT of first timer’s ask this.
Every day and night, first timer’s ask
this question. Over and over and over.
Again, and again, and again, and again
there is no cure? Do you REALLY got it
bad to know this word origin???
This word is fascinating to you??
Stick around and you will see this
word requested by others, today, tonight
tomorrow. Boring boring boring boring
Don’t feel singled out, not picking on you
like i said, stick around long enough and
you’ll see it, too. Usually, people who ask
this do not visit, again. So be different!
Maybe you can think of another word?
It might be an elaborate scheme to keep those people who are requesting waiting ;). I bet those hits add up =p
“elaborate scheme” ?
sigh - always a conspiracy…
“sometimes a cigar is just a cigar” - Freud
hahaha…not to Bill…
I guess, you are not capable or
able to think of any other word?
I gots one for you! “jaded”
[best Mr. Mackey]
“You sick little monkey”
Marina,
I would really like to know where the word “jalopy” comes from. Thanks,
Yojimbo
My dear Marina,
So often we hear the word ‘Pussy’, what is the origin of this word and how does it relate to the phrase ‘Pussy Willow?
Thank you so much!
Your loyal student Quester46
You did not read the directions, huh?
“Please read the Words List”
pussilanious willow
I believe it should be the law as any distraction in driving has the potential of causing or contributing to an accident so any distraction we can eliminate should help.
That would ruin a lot of dates- LOL!
Hello, everyone. I know this question is very weird but what is Marina saying from 0:26 to 0:34? I can’t listen to her, because I am Japanese learning English and my ability of listening is not good. Tell me please, anyone.
Marina’s very attractive accent got in the way there:
“Thank God, as people really are oblivious while yapping on their cell phones.”…
Thank you, annuddermale! And yes, I think you are right. I was oblivious and distracted because of her very attractive accents.
Your english writing skills
are very good!
Have you been to Gravatar,com?
Make yourself a nice icon
to be recognized easier
you look for the icons?…i check the list for who’s posting, sometimes, but don’t usually look for icons…
‘course, you won’t be getting notification of this response…
Not so fast there buddy!
There’s more than one
way to skin a cat! Me-rowr!
Whoops!
You probably should knock
the cat out cold, first!
Adapt, overcome - conquer!
contact fix didn’t take - so
now i scan the spam.
i hate scanned spam., but
what can ya do?
the majority of americans speak english and most cannot listen well either.
Huh? What?
i speak American, not English…
I feel you. I can walk many roads as a result.
The high road: proper English, ettiquette, decorum and protocol.
The highway: Tech lingo truncated - gutter speak
The low road: Bad Grandma! BAD BAD! We be chillin’
to do all three well you must punctuate correctly or
you don’t look like you know what you’re doing
Hey BW, I seen your gravitar on the Philip DeFranco show.
btw, my dang blueberry bushes are over-producing this year…i could pick all day and still not get ‘em all…and many of the berries aren’t even ripe yet…
so if you need a quart or so, just let me know, Marina…
blueberry pie,mmmm, my favorite.
c’mon over & pick ‘em, but you’ve got to bring Paige with you…
Why is the word pontificate used to represent someone is speaking in a pompus manner
who’s more pompous than a pontiff?…
where does ” CURSE WORD” comes from
( whay say blowjob is you suck, not blow XD)
Marina, dear teacher, since we’ve had a few words dealing with drinks, how about origin of the name “shot glass”?
(Not as obvious as one might think.)
Marina, let’s just be grateful that King Harald’s nickname wasn’t “fat ass” or we could have something far worse than a “Bluetooth” on our heads…
Cute sniperskaya, “I can’t hear you!” “Oh, I’m sorry.. I’m on my fat ass! Can you hear me now?”.. yeah.. good thing his name wasn’t “fat ass”
You’ve probably seen the cartoon Viking comic strip character “Hagar the Horrible”?
In Norway they call him “Hårek the Hard balls”.
I wonder if he’s related to augie, who doesn’t wear a hard ball on his head when biking because he has hard balls. (s ee below)
Interesting blurb on bluetooth: In Old Norse, blá “blue” could also mean “black” - for instance, when the Vikings encountered black Africans, they were referred to as “blámenn”, literally “blue men”, their land being called “Blåland” = “Blue land”.
Interesting historical note - there are monuments in Denmark, called the Jelling Stones, that were erected by Harald Bluetooth 1000 years ago and can still be seen, read and touched. He made the monument to honor his parents Gorm the Old and Thyra Danebod, and they say, “Harald, king, bade these memorials to be made after Gorm, his father, and Thyra, his mother. The Harald who won the whole of Denmark and Norway and turned the Danes to Christianity.”
It’s very cool when you can actually touch history. It can give one a feeling of going back in time. I’ve never been outside of Copenhagen when visiting Denmark, but I have been to a 1000 year old cathedral in Norway, with grave markers that were from soon after the viking age ended. It’s an eerie feeling, and gives one a at least a partial feeling that these people, who seem so different from us, really weren’t, and it’s just by happenstance that we are here and they there.
Speaking of a connection to history - if you want to see where your distant ancestors came from, check out the National Geographic Genographic project - it’s amazing - https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/in dex.html My results will be complete in a few days….
Sorry for the ruminations here, Marina. Just killing a few minutes before yard work…. ugh.
Oh - and while Africans were called “blamen” (pronounced blaw-men), the native Americans they encountered in Newfoundland were referred to as “skraelings” (in old Norse - “the uglies.”). Little known facts….
In Greenland “skraelings” is a dirty word because it’s what the Vikings also called the Greenlandic people. The translation I heard there for “skraelings” was the wretches or the wretched ones.
BTW, Pros, if you’re ruminating about Viking family matters, could you be said to be RUNEmating?
so blacks were the first smurfs?
and “the wretched ones” sounds sympathetic to me, Bob…
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Lazarus had it right…
Nice set up! LMFAO
Too funny!
HAHAHAHHAHAHAH That’s hilarious - I’m glad I don’t have King Harald’s bum on my head and how could everybody have one? It’s like: “Check me out - I got King Harald’s yeahhhh”
…….*crickets chirp in background* “oh….I geuss it’s not as good as Bluetooth”.
this one i already knew from a movie
why did people name it telivsion and who made it when why please answer
I would like to know of the derivation of the word Psychology and why it seems to share the same root word as psychic.
I would also like to meet you some day in all your pulchritudinous glory.
“psyche” is Greek for “spirit, soul, mind”…Psyche was, of course, the lover of Eros…
as an aside, Marina outshines any concept of Psyche…
logia is, of course, “study of”…so psychology is “study of the mind”…
and since a psychic is supposedly using mental powers, the connection is obvious…
now if i only had a ghost of a shot…
I would like to know the derivation of the word Psychology and why it seems to have the same root word as Psychic.
see above…and watch the double-clicks, they like to sneak up on ya…
1. Laws cannot be dumb because they don’t possess intelligence.
2. I have often been told that “Laws are made by wise men for the guidance of fools”, but when I googled it, I was surprised to find that the proverb is actually “laws are for the guidance of wise men and the blind obedience of fools“.
The trouble is, that fools never believe they are fools, so no-one obeys laws unless they know the police are watching. They think that laws apply to other people and not to them.
3. What I think is “dumb” is that the laws are not enforced properly. We, in the UK as in the rest of the European Community, have the law forbidding the use of hand held devices whilst driving but we didn’t really need to have it. We already had an offence of “driving without due care and attention” which would certainly cover all cases of trying to multi-task frivolous activities whilst operating a lethal machine, including eating, smoking, looking at maps, operating your Satnav, texting, playing video games, emailing, and even talking to your passengers.
I get really scared when drivers feel the need to turn their attention away from the road to look at the passenger they are having a conversation with, but I learned that lesson the hard way at a young age, when I crashed my car trying to pick up my sunglasses from the passenger seat.
I do have a Bluetooth earpiece for use when driving, but I only use it to answer a call if it is relevant to my journey, for example where to pick up my wife. Most of the time my phone is switched off when driving, even though, as a pilot, I have spent thousands of hours flying aircraft and helicopters and talking simultaneously on the radio or to my passengers.
The company I work for (trucking) doesn’t want anyone using a Bluetooth while driving. But it’s OK to use our CB’s. Duh!
lol…good point, since they’ve been in use for gawd knows how long…
i so love irony…
oh, and Warren, i’d shake your friend’s hand (below), but he obviously has his priorites straight..
Good one Bob…
I was just thinking, how many HFW fans here are pilots?
I don’t drive while talking on the phone, I pull off the road. I do think it should be made illegal. I have seen too many near misses because one ormore drivers are talking or texting.
I think it’s a dumb law.
The latest lesson picture looks good, it shows a nice side of you ——>
I was wondering where whatever came from? It makes no sense and is way different fromt he way people use it.
whatever..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-3brRCRsA8
one of my all time favs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yChT7ZgHbbk&feature =related
“smother that girl in chocolate syrup…”
Brown Shoes Don’t Make It - FZ
Just scanned all the comments.
Boy did our HotForWords touch a nerve.
How about Marina for Tim Russert’s replacement on “Meet The Press”.
(Wonder how much restraint Marina would have from bitch slapping George Bush)
(Ah that mental image brings a smile to my face. Better than Friday Night Smack Down)
or making Obama really come up with an idea…
or Hilary explain Bill (i’d really like to see that)…
or Ron Paul remove all his posters from the telephone poles…
or figurin’ out that “government” is not one man’s (or woman’s) agenda…but it is easier to blame one person than look for reasons behind the problems…
yep…
annudder nerve touched…
ditto
pssst! did i get it right? (below)
PEACE!
Read below - i’ve got mail, again
Gratsi Danke Gracias Merci etc.
You are smacking on President Bush
the same way catty women smack on
Marina!? Please, don’t be burning
my flag. It’s supposed to be yours, too!
i understand the frustration wetsuit5 enunciates, i just don’t agree with fingering President Bush as the culprit, nor do I find it funny to visualize someone slapping ANYONE, let alone the president…
i find it immature…and dangerous as a casual acceptance of violence…
but that’s my opinion, and i’ll allow wetsuit5 his…
(another #$% reply test)
I won’t be instigated to by
someone i don’t find a
challenge to educate
wetsuit5 isn’t stupid, just
misdirected - “watch the shiny coin”
he didn’t do that thinking
for himself, though, did he?
HEY! I’VE GOT MAIL!!
Your tweak worked - fantastic!
cut and paste error on my part
Jubilation!
Slapping old King Bush around everytime he speaks a Bushism and making him wear a Dunce Cap everytime he does fits right in.
I be dah pez-a-dent and ah lern-ed eng-bah-list fum hops-in-suburbs.
Paul, you sound like a peasant.. grow up!
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oops! copy paste lesdyxia
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oops! pissant, not peasant
sorry for the insulting the
harmless peasants.
well, not sure where you got the bio, as i don’t see a link, but age isn’t a factor in maturity…often it’s just a byproduct…
whatever age you are, you need to learn respect for others…
but i imagine that lesson would be lost on you right now…
his bio says 53, SAME AS ME!
No false respect here for a treasonist drunkard and doper that has destroyed the nation. If King George wants respect he should conduct himself respecfully.
But why yak politics on a fun site?
Just put the dunce cap on Mr. Nuk-a-lur.
You won’t upset me with your
lies and bullshit, but I think you
may inflame those who show respect
for our country where you have none.
Paul - you show no sign that would
make you a worthy opponent in a battle
of wits. You come unarmed!
I understand your bitter ascerbic views
You claim to have leadership skill?
He does! LOOK
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