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?
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?
Hang up and drive!!! Not that most people can drive anyway…
WEll, NO! I think cell phone use should not be allowed in a vehicle. most people do not know how to drive responsibly the way it is now.
I did wonder where the name bluetooth came from and now I know. Cool.
Gadgets of today have many uses. As important is communication, I think too many users are hooked on their poindextering ways. Laws make people crawl; cravenly, craving mass comunications, with an ear, phoning and not texting. Lazy became cool. Selfish minds with words. good art……….thanks for this educational practicing of “Air Reality” …bless you hOTfORwORDS (OWLS)-word request
why does it cost to upgrade the version of Blue Soleil? how stingy it is!! who would want to pay???
“You look stupid with that bluetooth thing in your ear!” And actually they’ve done studies that proved it doesn’t matter how you are on the phone when you drive it’s all just as bad. Like HFW and HFP are just as hot!
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/index.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!
m/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=125952652
oops! copy paste lesdyxia
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=125952652
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
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=125952652
wow…you’re right!…why did you bring up such an asinine topic?…
let’s see…did you drink in college?…ever make mistakes you’d probably not make at this age? (hmmm…no, i won’t go there)…
move on is the order of the day…and you seem to salute that organization’s agenda…
oh, and Buffalo is Clinton’s constituency, right?…or is that Arkansas?…where are cigars made?
slingin’ mud just gets everyone dirty – or didn’t you know that?…
“I won’t grow up”
Peter Pan
Hey Marina I want to know the origins of the word bamboozle please and thank you
My best regards
Ivan.H.
here in the UK it s a law …..i still see Stupid people on the mobile phones …BUt there s a Law and speed camreas are stopping the silly drivers, there getting letter in there home with FINES !
What is the origin of “Uptight” and how did the original meaning change to to characterize good sex. “Up tight, outta sight” (as in the Stevie Wonder song). Some how it came later to be defined as: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, jittery.
regards, roberto
Dear Miss HFW, yesterdays’ Phoney video picture quality was the best ever. With the Bluetooth video, video quality (pixels?) was poor. Homework: I don’t drive while on the phone, because I just can’t buy enough wire to do that. Yeah, sometimes while driving I : eat, read the map, read the mail, drink water on the rocks/shaken/not stirred. But I’m not suppose to, so rarely do that now. Yes, people have accidents while multi-tasking, so no cell phones makes sense to me. I try not to be a hypocrite. Maybe when this car shows up on e-bay, I will try to be a low-ball bidder Can you here me now?
Your link is dead..
Congratulations Jeopardy player CJ! On 2/04/03 the name “Yugoslavia” was officially abolished.
Captn,
That site doesn’t allow direct linking. When you copy the link, then paste into the address field of your browser, it works.
13gb.com/media/images/telephonecar.jpg
Thanks pedantickarl…
GB, I had a girl friend that took me out on a date in one of those Yugos. Everyone told me I was lucky to be alive. I thought they where referring to my date!
Curses! foiled, again – oh wait a click…
Ha ha! cool! does it come in any color
other than beige? Get one in pink,
put the rocket motor iin the hatchback,
get a monkey for a hood ornament
(push the buttons for you while driving)
break the sound barrier…
“can you hear me now?”
Marina could talk a “pink” streak
all the way to China, again. LOL
I think its a stupid law. Yes we do need the law to force the sheeple to stop using their cellphone while driving, but this is just not the way to solve the problem. We need to take the driver out of the drivers seat. Once we do that then many problems go away. Many people are very good drivers and many are very bad drivers. Do you trust your life with a bad driver? I don’t! Is this law going to solve this issue of people driving while talking on the phone? No not even. They will still be distracted by the conversation. You don’t see me driving a cruise ship and talking on the phone. Thats just not safe, period.
Read my The Great Robot Race comment below. There are links to how we can take the driver out of the driver seat today… Well soon…
“park the car , Marvin”
“Marvin, did you check the oil?”
“Brain the size of a planet,
I’m so depressed
I think I’ll turn myself off”
- Marvin, “your plastic pal who’s lots of fun”
the chronically depressed robot
(from BBC- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)
Zoiks! misquote – should read
“Your plastic pal who’s fun to be with!”
Who knows. Maybe your next car might be like Kit in NightRider.
Damn this page is getting super slow. I see coco and one pixil. somehting.com was having problems loading. Oh wow.. it timed out…
Coco didn’t even load…
I disabled the cocomment widget temporarily.. it was preventing the page from loading. Hopefully things will be fast right now.
Wow, you really have a happenin’ site, Marina this is jam-packed! Could you do a word video on jam-packed? lol That’d be sweet.
In Germany you aren´t allowed to drive and talk for a long time now. I just don´t know if you can wear the headset while driving, I never wear a headset or use a handy when I drive. When you do a research on regulations you will find that a blind person is allowed to drive while someone who can´t hear isn´t allowed…..
.
Germany is extreemely cool to
have the Good Samaritan law!
Driver’s are REQUIRED to
carry a SURGICAL first aid kit
and stop to render assistance
when accidents happen.
Still got my kit, and my triangle
Hm, your teachers tell you the law “if you see a accident stop and help, if police sees you can get into jail if you passed”, so it isn´t just the police, when someone saw you pass, and they call the police you can get into (deep) trouble. If it is a small accident you slow down and ask if they need help, in such case…you stop.
However, the truth is that some of today’s people keep going, it seems like the old traditions are “dog poo” for them.
Well Marina, this video should get you mention in G4 TV for sure!
Your bio reads as amazing as you are beautiful. Very impressive and thanks for the painless way to be exposed to new words and the origins of phases.
Oh you have GOT to get Gravatar!!
With your screen name there can only
be one picture for you! Kobe!
http:\\en.gravatar.com
I love how you pronounce California: it’s sounds like much more the imaginary place in “Amadís de Gaula” from which it’s name came than anywhere in this world.
In Slovenia, where i live, we have law that vorbids using cell phone without bluetooth system, smoking, doing make-up(ladies watch out
) and anything that could disturb/distract you during driving(masks for mardi gras for example) which is up to police officer to decide…
and i also have to mention that our fines for moving violations are among highest in Europe
(example: speeding in town; 30km/h over limit:1000 euros and +9 points: when you reach 18 points you lose your driving licence)
In Italy a similar law passed a few years ago… as usual Italians respect it if there’s police in the whereabouts
Sense of safety while driving is not such a common state of mind…unluckily
Hugs
Marina, did the ban on talking on cell phones also ban texting while driving? Ive actually seen some people doing that! I would think that is even more dangerous than talking on the phone while driving! Talk about having a death wish! (Maybe I’m wrong – they could have been playing GTA IV on their PSP.)
no lol !!!! you cannot talk on ur cell while driving but no laws against sending text recieving text or email
Give them time, they’ll outlaw it. Enjoy it while you can, kids.
and i’m 54, augie…
still a kid, tho’…
This is too funny!
http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4398
May 22nd, 2007
Anti-’Cell Phone While Driving Lawmaker’ Crashes … While Reaching for Phone
Cell Phone
By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
I’ve written previously about cities or states proposing headset laws, or even complete bans of cell phones while driving. This is a case of “do as I say, not as I do” as a California State Senator who had previously voted on SB1613, which requires headsets in California starting in 2008, crashed while reaching for her phone while driving.
State Sen. Carole Migden rear-ended a car on Highway 12 near Fairfield Friday that left one person with minor injuries, the California Highway Patrol said.
Migden was apparently reaching for her ringing cell phone just before she hit the sedan, the senator’s office said in a statement. Source: CBS5
ya ya ya just another way for us to lose more of our rights and freedom !!!!!!! what we dont need is more govt controling our lives and telling us what were alowed and not alowed to do !!!!!!! Ltcom.August Van Suchtelen US Navy Seals
Its the sheeple that need Big Daddy and Mommy (the Government ) to watch over their dumb asses. So we make laws to protect them, just like mommy and daddy.
With the advent of new technologies etc. the cry still goes out from the human heart Come Talk To Me
The phone company I deal with, for my shops, screwed up the billing when I bought out a competitor. The billing office could not find out from the service dept. what messed up. I had to get my phone guy (set up my system) to get to the root of it. All as it was, was a lack of comunication between the switchboard & the Billing dept. they neglected to let them know at the switch that the call forward changed names 6 months ago & the rate should have been only about 40% for the, one line call forward. So 6 months later they call me to tell me I’m getting cut off because of the unpaid stuff, Billed to the old company that exists no more.
With all the gadgets & things for communicating people are, deep down, looking for an intimacy that is not brought by technology.A Love Supreme
Calos
how did u end up with “HOT FOR WORDS”???
wat made u think these words???…….just curious…
I think this lesson will answer your question.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/06/21/hot/
its a stupid law i still talk on my cell while driving !!!!!! most women put lipstick on while driving this one sunday a woman driver cut me off in calif on interstate 5 just cause she was puting makeup on her face !!! i had to slam on my brakes and spilled my coffee and droped my shaver and my donuts and my cell flew on the passager seat hehe
Saw a guy with a book on His steering wheel, driving the most treacherous part of the highway up our Island… hope the donuts were O K with a little extra flavour.
ya coffee flavor !!!!! hav a great day
i’ve seen that while driving in Atlanta…
and the book being perused was the Christian bible…
how appropriate, as it might be the last text the idjit would read…
hehehe im back in military service leaving in 6days to Iran cant wait to get back to Arizona to drive my Dodge Viper
augie – good hunting
bring your people home
safe, …give ‘em Hell
…come home safe
copy?
thanxs will do !!!!!
Hey marina that was cool i never knew that, thanks for telling me
We gotta stop meeting like this – vuja de!
great screen name!
Get a Gravatar (i-swear-it-won’t-hurt)
http:\\en.gravatar.com
since we’re already like bro’s
some advice – mind the UFO’s!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy6v6repzXQ
ahah bros? ahah i love marina aint she sooo sexy?
She is scrumpdidleeicious,
that is a portemaneau* word
scrumptious + diddly + delicious
i think this was originated
by Ned Flanders, but
Marina is the wordsmith!
*you can learn stuff, too!
amazing site.
yo have u subscribed to her long?? do u have any of her past holiday cards?
Around six monthes,
Yup! you betcha
this is my desktop
http://www.beautyqueentv.com/bill_lyons/images/models/european/marina/marina02.jpg
WOOOA that is sexxy! i dont think shes wearing panties =) do u have any other ones? thanks.
Nope, if I do use a cell phone it’s with my bluetooth device. Marina I’ve got five cats and they’d like to know the origins of catastrophe. They’re cats and say their fasinated with anything starting with cat!
Марина, the term “blue tooth” is used is dentistry to exactly what it says. This is a tooth that is dead, and typically is a baby tooth that has no permanent tooth to replace it; the tooth just dies in place, but remains in the jaw until it rots (hopefully the person would visit a stomatologist regularly, and the tooth would get extracted before it would do damage to the jaw.)
I know about this, since I had such an “orphan” baby tooth.
Пака
I would like to know the origin of the word TOILET.
k
surprised you havnt done it yet,accually.
also
EXCITMENT
and
WORDS
None of the laws that *really* keep folks safest are stupid.
The stupid thing is when the laws never stop being made because “this group” thinks it needs to control “that group”,pretty soon the one group will have to watch to be sure the other group wipes its’ collective ass correctly.
Why not just build hands-free phones into new cars by law just like seat belts in the 1960s? THEN,pass another law that forces folks to answer every call!! You know,so the ringer does’nt distract You!
“Stupid” is most deffinately the word.
Gotta go,Dr Who(and Rose) will be on soon,no law against that——-yet.
Facetious rant is now turned off,I want a beer.
Oh,Marina,Yer still a cutie pie.
Hi Marina, this is not related to the Bluetooth video but I was on a yacht the other day and the people onboard started refering to the left side of the boat as “Port” side and the right side as “Starboard” side. Weird… Anyway, I just wanna asked if the Port side meant that the boat always goes alongside the port on that side? Or it is just a term with the same pronounication? I think it is also the same word as the sweet tasting wine called Port too. Please enlighten me if you can. Thank you very much! BTW, great videos! Cheerz
I don’t believe talking on your cell is any more distracting than shaving, applying makeup, or any number of activities which are currently not mentioned in legislation. So why not list them all, why single out one?
And actually, i don’t think a GOOD driver is at all distracted by a cell anymore than by the radio, the weather, etc. it’s the bad drivers who need to self-police themselves.
We just had the same law go into effect up here in Washington State.
I am of mixed minds on the law. Anything to try and get drivers to pay more attention to their driving should be a good thing, but a lot of studies show that hands free talking can be just as distracting as holding a cell phone as the driver is concentrating on the conversation rather then the enviroment around the car. But outlawying blootooth phone calls would be akin to outlawing talking to passengers in the car.
The laws are great news to the manufacturers and retailers of bluetooth products though.
I agree with you Thing. Its kind of a stupid law. I though Washingtonians where smarter than that. Well I guess some of us are!
Marina, tried a few things, no joy
just like you said – straight to spam
(i can find it now, at least!)
the options menu doesn’t have
a way to correct this – no list
to edit. woe is me….
if i resubscribe, will that make it better or, the same?
i put in a tech support report to yahoo
their email has been flawed since I can
remember. the tab always says I have
three emails when i have none!
bad code….no joy, yet
Ahoy Ahoy I think that was it.
Hello,
This is an automated message regarding your recent request for Yahoo!
Mail Customer Care support. We have received your message and will
respond within the next 48 hours with an answer.
Thank you for reaching out to us. We look forward to helping you!
Sincerely,
Yahoo! Customer Care
**Please do not respond to this message as no one will receive it.
Ok guys, your beating a dead horse on this Yahoo thing.
Trust me, on this. 
On use Yahoo for sites that you think will use you email for spam. Then sign up for Gmail or some other email provider. If you send me an email I can send you a gmail invite, but I think it is now open to anyone. 
Do the smart thing and dump is as a primary email account. 
“Friends don’t let friends use Yahoo mail.”
I’l go with CJ above me. I don’t have a problem with my msn old hot mail account, it has the filters to adjust who gets let in. Ditto with my aol, and verizon e-mail accounts
I’ve been using a bluetooth for almost 3 years now and averaging 40 hours per month on the phone AND I love it….
I’ve been using the Plantronics 510 model and it has been great.
Plantronics was the company that built the headset for the astronauts who landed on the moon. “One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for Mankind”. Yes, its a good law. The bluetooth signal is much weaker than the cellphone so I also feel safer health wise.
Marina, How about Hysterical?…. That would be one to Gaffaw about, he said boisterously
Hello, miss Hot for the words. I would like to ask you to make a video to explain any of these things. Hat trick, Avatar, Apocalypse, Algorithm, glasnost, fait accompli, je ne sais quoi, connoisseur, cart blanche and/or Acme. Thank you so much, dear teacher : )
You just want her to say
“je ne sais quoi” because
of her sexiful voice!
Alright1 Hope you get it!
Hi, lovely
Why do people say “what’s up?” as a greeting. For example: “What’s up, Honky?” Where did that come from?
…and where did ‘Honky’ come from as it relates to white people aka ‘crackers.’
lol…just curious.
We all just had that lesson
Did you look at the words list?
be sure to check the recent
lessons, too. thanks
2:27 / 2:27
What is 2:27?
I think he means @ 56seconds the video jumps to the end 2:27. My quess… because in does it for me too. It may be a youtube glitch.
Not Youtube…walked over to my other shop & tried it there, is good. So it’s this computer, same trouble others had…over
Thats whats called an even trade
ya it happens to me once in a while than i just click on play again and it works just fine
When he said 2:27 he meant into the 2nd minute and 27th second, hence the context in which he said it (2:27 – 2 being the minutes and 27 being the seconds of the video)!!!! That’s the context. 2 is the minutes or could be hours elsewhere and the 27 is the seconds or minutes in some other context.
Helpin’ out my beloved teacher Marina,
Shawn Norris
Hi Hot4Words,
Where do I come from? Do you know … “Gee Willikers”.
Also what is the origin of “Honey Pie”? … as in … Marina, will you be my honey pie?
Send a kiss to … Gwillikers. xoxox
(Oh … and when did “xoxoxox” become “hugs and kisses?)
thats a pretty good ? i would like to know to.’Gee Willikers’
Sorry, Marina – oblivious is pronounced uh-bliv-ee-uhs
Not oblivierse
you meant oh-bliv-ee-us, right?
“Boa-reese, let’s keel moose and skvirrel”
i’m pretty sure Marina recognizes that her extremely lovely accent might occasionally cause problems with comprehension, but the polite thing to do is overlook flaws and celebrate perfection…and Marina gives us much to celebrate…
besides:
“Marina’s dulcet inflections are music to the ears of the uninformed…and the informed, too.”…Rule 10-4, good buddy in The Marina Sychophant Handbook…
Hey! Its work for me now!, the video…I can deal with the new law here in Cali but whats funny is I have to push the bluetooh thingy against my ear to hear it!
That picture of the guy with the blue teeth was nasty but hilarious – I was like uhhhh, but hahaha!!! Anyway nice video once again, Marina, you’ve far outdone yourself, but I have a question for you – when’s your birthday and what was the original term for birthday?
Have a lovely night, Marina,
Shawn Michael Norris
Well being merely 17, I don’t drive or even own a cell phone for that matter.
I think it’s absolutely a great law. People can really become distracted when talking on the phone.
you are 17 & DON”T have a cell phone?
what is America coming to?…
I’m Canadian. And frankly, although it could come in handy once in a while, most kids my age use it like some sort of fashion accessory and they don’t have any serious need for a cell.
And it’s not like I’m some popular kid who’s got nothing to do but call people and chat.
You’ve got a good head, even for a Canuckian…
You are correct, cell phones are more of a convenience than a necessity in many cases (not just with kids). Unfortuanately it seems Society has dictated that we all must be constantly “connected” – and privacy now comes at a premium rather than being an innate right.
Tom
Does anybody remember when they used to be called “car phones?” People who are a menace while driving and talking at the same time would crash or cause a wreck if they just tried to change the radio station or adjust there heating or cooling! Cell phone talkers are NOT the bane of the road as our media would have you believe, it’s still tired drivers and people who drive impaired in some way, I have a cell phone adapter wired up into my helmet so I can talk and ride while riding my motorcycle so just THINK what I think of this law of not driving and talking on a cell phone while driving! So again, much like guns, the instrument is blamed for the fault and not the person doing the deed, we have plenty of laws to deal with poor driving this one will not do anything but generate more revenue and do nothing for safety! I now step down from my soap box.:-)
I remember 1982, car phone installation, for only $1200, monthly fees thereafter.
I would like to know the origin of the word hoplology.
Have you tried to get on on of those video segments on Jeopardy? That would be great promotion! Really, they do video segments all the time and word origins would be perfect topic.
Now thats a smart idea jcr! Sound like a perfect match up!
Yes, but they’d probably hire her to take over Vanna White’s job.Oh, wait…I’m mixing up my game shows.
Im surprised she hasn’t been approached yet. Oh wait were talking about stupid network tv executives. Marina should talk to her agent about doing a show.
That is a brilliant idea.
i have noticed their subject matter being swapped on occaision.
Step in and conquer both, Marina !!
Hmmm…Alex Trebek should be due to retire soon. Marina for “Hostess with the Mostess”!!!
‘Course, we’d lose her to the fame, fortune & glamour of Hollywood…but Marina deserves it all…
A truly good idea, jcr…Marina was glorious on O’Reilly…
so, Marina, could you stand the scrutiny such a position would garner?…
It is not a stupid law if so many lives can be saved.
Marina, I would like to know the origin of the word usage “chick,” as in “That chick is hot.”
I do not talk on the phone while driving, not even with a headset or whatever options there are. I have enough trouble concentrating. Since my son is about to drive soon, I really worry about teens driving and trying to talk on a phone at the same time. Also, on YouTube or somewhere, there were audiotapes of people talking on phones and crashing. It was horrible. A friend’s daughter was nearly killed by a man who couldn’t hear people screaming at him to stop because he was about to hit a bunch of kids while talking on the phone. I do think it is unsafe but that is just my opinion.
Marina, it’s illegal in Texas also. So, no, I never do it unless I use the speakerphone feature. Any distraction while driving is potentially dangerous. (Which as Tim Allen pointed out, is why Mercedes doesn’t have cup holders. Or at least they didn’t until they started to be designed by people who consume Big Gulps. But I digress.) In addition to being dangerous while driving there is the possibility that the microwave transmissions can interrupt the blood-brain barrier and cause a lot of physical problems. (see link below please.) In Europe and the UK the placement of cell phone transmission towers is more closely regulated than here in America.
http://www.rense.com/general76/celkll.htm
I heard that about the microwaves. I wondered about that. I hope it isn’t truly dangerous.
Well you’ve read my post below. Now think about this for a bit. I know some people buy BT headsets so not to keep from putting a cellphone next to their ear causing cancer or whatever they believe in. Bluetooth head sets are little transmitters also. Funny don’t you think? Trading one transmitter for another.
Popcorn
That article is a myth. I keep hearing this all the time. There is not enough energy from a bag of cellphones to pop any corn. Your body receives more radiation from getting a sun tan than a bag of phones.
I’m a federally licensed amateur radio operator (N7MFE) and Im sure that there is no way for a few cellphone can pop corn.
There are a ton of YT jokes being played on people because you can’t see whats happing behind the curtain (camera). I don’t know how they are doing this yet but here is a good example how people are fooling you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv7IGT33jrs
My theory is they have stripped out a microwave gun (magnetron) and just aimed it at the popcorn. So question develops is how does a microwave oven cook anything?
A microwave oven works by passing non-ionizing microwave radiation, usually at a frequency of 2.45 GHz (a wavelength of 12.24 cm), at about 500watst to 1000watts, through the food. Microwave radiation is between common radio and infrared frequencies. Water, fat, and other substances in the food absorb energy from the microwaves in a process called dielectric heating. Many molecules (such as those of water) are electric dipoles, meaning that they have a positive charge at one end and a negative charge at the other, and therefore rotate as they try to align themselves with the alternating electric field of the microwaves. This molecular movement creates heat as the rotating molecules hit other molecules and put them into motion. Microwave heating is most efficient on liquid water, and much less so on fats and sugars (which have less molecular dipole moment), and frozen water (where the molecules are not free to rotate). Microwave heating is sometimes explained as a rotational resonance of water molecules, but this is incorrect: such resonance only occurs in water vapor at much higher frequencies, at about 20 gigahertz.
Cellphones operate at 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz or you can say .850, .900, 1.8 and 1.9 GHz. A handheld cell phone operates on about 0.75 to 1 watt of power. Clearly not enough power to excite water in th e popcorn.
Myth busted!
Now I have to find out how they did it. I’ll search YT. I know a guy that make plasma in his microwave and other interesting science experiments.
CQ DX… CQ DX…
Hey L Jr., did you drop your old KB7 lic?
I haven’t been on the air for years. Too many other distractions.
Captn,
What made me laugh the first time I saw the video was that the phones on the table were receiving, not sending. True, cell phones are always sending IDs, but not at full power or duration like talk time.
The video was most likely done with green screen FX
Check out this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cboqOeuBd_8
Under the table is my quess… No I wasn’t fooled…
pedantickarl, Yes I did. KB7GFE was my old call. But I wanted the cool Technician call. I haven’t been on the air very much either. But the next sailing yacht I get will be fully loaded with ham gear! oh and I see you found my full identity. Damn government!
Yes I saw that too. Cellphone only transmit ID and other codes when not being used for talking. Thats why standby times are much larger than talk times. Did you know the NSA is able to send codes to your phone and make it turn on the microphone to listen in on your conversation without you knowing? Scary hu? This of course only works when the phone has power to it and is able to receive a call. Anytime I talk to people about classified information I make them give me their batteries.
The cellphone popcorn trick revealed!
I was (as others here) where correct on how this trick could be done.
Ok sometimes its better to find smarter videos elsewhere than YT.
I found a video of a guy that actually did the trick. I do want to caution anyone who wants to try this at home. DON’T DO IT! It will damage your eyes for life instantly. It should be treated as a automatic rifle that is shooting invisible bullets that will kill you.
Cellphone Popcorn Trick Revealed
Captainjack, there may be some fooling around on youtube but the Brits and Europeans, Russians and Australians all seem to be taking it very seriously, at least more so than the Americans.
http://www.buergerwelle.de/cms/content/view/57/70/
http://www.tesla.ru/english/membership-03.html
Until there is more evidence it would seem prudent to err on the side of caution.
BTW Captainjack, the phone company’s ability to turn on phones to eavesdrop (homework word) on conversations in rooms is nothing new. The government was doing that 40 years ago with conventional land lines to listen in on “organized crime”. They still need a judge’s order to do it though, so most of us are still safe.
sniperskaya, to error on the side of caution one would need to turn off all radio stations, radars, microwave communications, etc, etc. If you could see all the radio waves we are generating in a color picture, you would wonder why we are not dead yet. So their is not a chance that people will shut down transmitters, this will ever happen. And I see radiation is just a minor thing. I see auto accidents being more important in saving lives. And yet all we do is just pass more laws and people just buy more insurance policies.
Eavesdropping.. Yes I know this very well. All to well my friend. All too well. You must have missed my earlier post… Google The Yakima Research Station. NSA no longer needs to tap into land lines. Its all done by satellites and computers. They no longer need a human to listen to communications. Its all done with software now. You would freak out as I do with what the NSA is capable of doing.
Also you don’t need a judges order when you intercept a radio signal. There are many loop holes in that law. That law is so obsolete its laughable. Im not trying to scare you. Im just letting you know the world is a different place than what you have learned over the years.
NSA has been looking at all people all over tha world if you watch TV all they do is reverse tech on satilite and as were watch a program on TV there watching you and see everything thats in front of your field of vision infront of your TV and these big screen HDTV gives a better larger view ya!!! big brother watching us all
Augie, Thats funny. Really they can’t do that. But they are watching you sort of. For example a tour boat company in Seattle had to install video camera around their operations. All are linked to the internet for DHS use. The tour boat company doesn’t even have access to the cameras to spy on their employees ( which is a good thing ).
In the city of Lynnwood, Wa. You can watch people walk and drive around town all via the internet and cameras installed about every major city block. A friend of mine was able to watch me walk 4 miles to home from a bus stop in downtown. Only 2 cameras where broken but he knew my route. Sounds like secret high tech government stuff? No. its open to the public on the cities website.
How good is face recognition software these days. Well you can buy a casio camera with the software on it. They use if for perfect focus. So this technology is available to the public right now. Imagine what the government has now…
Thank You Bluetooth is one of the corporate trademarks that I could not quite grasp as far as name-to-product association. Once again, you have enlightened me and I do appreciate it.
Marina, dear teacher, just curious, this has nothing to do with the lesson, but have you ever considered lessons with captions for the hearing impaired? In addition to broadening your audience I believe it would give you a unique advantage as there is no one else who does video blogs who currently offers this service. I know it would mean a little extra work, but it might be worth the effort. Just a thought…
i volunteer to type in all the text…of course, i would need to move to CA to sit next to Marina and make sure i understand every word she utters so that i transcribe it correctly…
and she’d have to pay me handsomely, but i’m pretty sure we could strike some sort of deal…
but i do think it’s an honorable idea, sniperskaya….as long as the captions could be turned off for those of us who want to dwell on the “full picture”…
What would be really cool is if there was some way of having braille online so those who are visually impaired wouldn’t miss out on Marina’s lessons or her beauty and intelligence. Guess it would have to be a kind of “hands on” learning experience…
Ha! can you imagine the screenmakers delight at all the replacement screens needed by the pervs trying to feel if Marina’s boobs are real or phoney?
lol…yes, and i’d say that i’d volunteer for that “chore,” too, if i didn’t think i’d get slapped by Marina for the comment…
oh, wait…i’ve got just enough kink in me to appreciate a lovin’ slap…
i have helped someone with MS install and use Dragon Naturally-Speaking, her only method of communicating with her virtual friends…speech-to-text has come a long way…and, of course, so has text-to-speech (’cept my Garmin USA voice sounds robotic, so i use the Aussie lass)…
but visually- & aurally-impaired double-whammy?…that would be a hard nut to crack, for sure…
On the Bosom of young Abigail
was written the price of her tail
And on her behind
for the use of the Blind
Was the same information in Braille.
On the bosom of our Marina
is written the size of her bra
And on her behind
For the use of the Blind
Is the Braille code for Shangri La.
Bluetooth it baby, god put a lock down on this one. Its always new, or improved and new, theres two much new and improved, thees enough new products in this world its now just a matter of source allocation.
Oh, and for the homework – I don’t think I am capable of driving anymore without talking on the phone!
At least you are capable of driivng. Some days, I don’t even feel up to that, depending on the traffic and how tired I am…just thinking about it made me yawn. Off to get some coffee.
The days of driving a car will be soon over. Robot cars will do the driving. The Great Robot Race
That was a few years ago. They just finished the Urban challenge in November of 2007.
This video is a bit geeky for the first 5 mins. They do take you for a spin inside the robot SUV called the BOSS. The robot will go around a mini course and you get to see the robot stop and let the other truck make a free right hand turn.
GM self driving vehicle: “BOSS” overview
So my question to everyone. Would you trust a robot to do the driving for you? And why or why not?
if tht robot was life like features and looks at our teacher HELL YES i believe we all would
Funny! We were just talking about this on the previous thread!
Yeah! How do I do that? I think Marina and I are communicating telepathically – it’s what happens when two people are in love.
Of course, Marina doesn’t yet know she’s in love, but how else do you explain why she used my picture to illustrate someone with blue teeth.
What I want to know is how the hell she got hold of that picture; maybe she really is KGB. I’m getting paranoid.
then here’s bob in all his cyan glory…
http://unclescam.org/teeth7.html
Nah! I ain’t quite as ugly as that.
Don’t sell yourself short, Bob…..
I knew forgot something important.
AND NOW! back to the show!
that was too
realfunny..Yea I thought so too. I heard that a million time before. Who was that voice from anyway?
Marina is a very creative individual! You can never guess what the next video would be like. She is better that TV sitcoms! Sitcoms are to predictable these days.
Extremely interesting discovery Marina!
I think it is an excellent law and should be made nationally. People need to pay attention to driving when driving [duh]. I now have Bluetooth® in my car, but still rarely talk while driving.
PS. I am glad your hair is growing out. You got it cut just a little too short last time.
Bluetooth was the actual guy?
thanks for the in depth report.
it’s always nice when you investigate..
that’s why the logo is like that – runes!
homework, i have never had a cell phone.
my choice is to not wear that ball and chain.
gotta worry about where you leave it,
not to mention batteries, oh – and don’t
forget to leave it on overnight to catch
system updates, the insurance and
replacements – oy gevalt
and don’t go near a toilet in the loo
insurance won’t cover it
i see what people go through…
I missed out totally on
“can you hear me now”land
designs go from impractical
to impossible to reason with.
I don’t want a phone that can
outsmart me in MY house! LOL
I’m holding out for the
Dick Tracy model yet to
be invented Bluetooth tech
brings it even closer to reality.
I’d rather wear a nice
watchchronometer
I don’t know anyone w/o a cell phone. My 80year old grandma even has one. Even my friends w/ no credit rating has a pay-as-you-go one.
[best Sybill from Fawlty Towers]
on the phone “I know, I know”
I’ve been acosted to get one many times
my mother would freakin’ love it!
If anyone could tell from the L&T/JK phone incidents – I am surprised
that I own a phone or a computer for that matter. But the PC allows
a communication that I never thought possible.
What I think that is lost is the body language. I love to go on
(Being “cracker” dare I say?) with innuendo. Not, this moment.
I heartily agree that when you are hearing the words *only*, things
can add a duality to their meaning and the direction where you guide
your topic …. “where was I?”
… Just to say, It you see the person’s expression as they speak, it
is sometimes just as good as rephrasing the original sentence.
.
.
…. “What?”
.
.
I also, await the video-phone.
You might not believe me when I am so thankful for a site like this.
Don’t care.
Thanks, M! and the other M!
Whoa – thanks all!
Since i’m watching the Matrix…where did the word ‘Oracle’ come from?
In this early commenting, I guess I might as well gently open a can of worms.
At the end of the video, Marina said, “drive safe” as opposed to what I was taught, which should be; “drive safely”. English is my second language, and I was “beaten” up for saying “drive safe”.
Saying “drive safe” would imply driving a safe, which is a noun. Drive safely is an adverb modifying a verb.
The can of worm gets started when we talk about prescriptive grammar rules versus what is understood. These discussions have been on this site before.
An item I saw on the web said, “drive safe” has been in use and is understood to mean driving safely. Whereby, if you said “You drive safe” would be wrong and “You drive safely” would be correct.
Any grammar experts on this?
the “LY” makes the word an adverb.
you can’t tell racers to drive safely
bad things can happen – a mojo thing.
I say to “drive friendly”, that works
good mojo
I’m not a grammar expert but it is supposed to be correct to say “I feel badly” instead of “I feel bad” but doesn’t “I feel badly” sound worse to most people? However, I think there is some distinction between a state of being and an action like driving. It is subtle.
Also, this isn’t really a word meaning thing but the word “Legos” is not American and is not plural in its original language. A bunch of Legos is called Lego. But who would say “Put up those Lego” here in America and leave out that “s”? It would sound like they were missing some Legos, symbolically speaking.
re: “I feel badly” sound worse to most people?
Hi jcr,
Several months ago, there was a long discussion about word evolution and evolution of grammar. Some of us follow strict rules of grammar, while others believe in using what sounds right; in other words prescriptive grammar vs descriptive grammar arguments.
http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/prescriptive-grammar.html
Thanks for your input and the Lego example.
Also, thank you for the nice article that you wrote about Marina.
And thank you for your reply and getting me up to speed with this discussion. I am also fascinated by how language evolves and prescriptive and descriptive grammar. For instance, “It is I” was taught to me by my English teacher but it always sounds awkward to me. Also, I think correct grammar can sound affected if used around people who don’t talk that way.
Thats my problem with proper grammar I was taught made me feel very awkward too. Then the grammar rules change and no one informed me of this. I didn’t get the memo! I have asked here who makes the decisions of what the rules of grammar are? I want to send them a letter that I have changed the laws of mathematics. 2+2 now equals 5 because of for extremely large values of 2.
“I feel bad.” and “I feel badly.” are two different things.
An adverb tells us something about the verb it’s associated with, so “I feel badly.” means that my sense of touch is not at its most efficient, perhaps because I’m wearing thick gloves.
“I feel bad.” uses a different meaning of “feel” – “I am in an emotional state that is bad.”
Get it?
It depends what you mean. Under the standard grammar rules, if you are saying you have a less than adequate sense of touch or to sense emotions, then you feel badly. If you are saying you don’t feel well or you are sorry for something then you feel bad.
Code example: At the risk of being prescriptive…..
This might be a job for Mr. alx, should he available for comment.