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I’m as happy as a clam! But are clams always happy?
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sweaty hands.
Does this mean that clammy hands comes from the dutch [klamme handen]?
Sweaty hands
A marina type creature that clamps and is clamant about the atmosphere of an institution that lacks human warmth…clamor…clamour…clan.desk.tineness/…clair-voy-ance
Was that you as a brunette in the intertube or a snippet from a travel ad? More please? I’d love to see you or hotforprofits do a few brunette episodes.
What is your cute little dogs’ name?
M from Michigan
LividEmerald is definitely happy as a clam! After being overwhelmed as both teacher and student, I finally get back to my #1 web site in order to catch up on missed videos, and what do i found out? Duh!
How about that eh
cold and wet…
I asked for this one weeks ago! How come you didn’t answer it til someone else asks for it? I was so happy to see you answered one of my requests only to be left unmentioned and dejected. I am seriously bummed!
Great lesson.
Speaking of happy, what about the phase ‘Happy as Larry’ Who is Larry and why is he so happy?
i am happy as a clam in high water
Дорогая учительница,
Может быть, Вы слышали выражению “читать кто–то riot act”. Если не, это значит, что Вы кричаете на их.
Пожалуйста, дорогая учительница, Вы с знанием и большой грудью, объясняйте!
С уважением,
Калифорнийском Человек
P.S. Пожалуйста, извините мой плохой русский. Я изучаю русский язык только один год. Кстати, я живу в Лос Анджелесе. Может быть, я могу покупать вам обед?
Dear teacher,
Perhaps you’ve heard the expression “to read someone the riot act”. If not, then it means that you take someone to task (or is that yet another expression?) for some transgression, that is, you give ‘em hell.
Please, dear teacher, you of knowledge and bounteous attributes, please reveal the secrets of this mystery.
Best Regards,
California Chelovek
I like the way you pose the question california chelovek….but the answer seems pretty obvious unless it’s the words “act” (a law) that’s confusing to you.
Not at all! I have heard this expression “to be read the riot act” many times. It’s more than just being told the law. It’s giving someone a hard time. Again, given our lovely teacher, no pun intended. :–)
Exactly; exactly the law was read before the batons started swinging..
Tell me what people see in a video like this that’s ahead of Marina’s videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0VsfbwlHbQ
Maybe people are coming here instead of going to youtube? Perhaps Marina should give a link to youtube first in her Emails instead of linking us directly to her site.
I’m not sure, really…shes cute?…those eyes could stop a freight train?…what am I saying, that look could stop a freight train! Problem is , she looks under age and if shes not, I must just be gettin’ to damm old!…dang-it!!!
Ok, I checked out her page on YT and she has alot of vids….and shes 21,… Phew! She also has pretty good overall veiw #s. I’m not sure what her deal is and frankly I don’t care. You know what I do care about? The next lesson from our teacher! …I always watch HFW on YT 4 or 5 time and rate it (*****) once or twice, or a least let it play while look at the comments, but then is over here for me.
There are alot of the Aisian girls on You Tube in bikinies and all sort of different clothing. All of them look very young. I guess it’s a fetish thing to see a youg Asian girl partcialy nude.
But she did have some big pretty eyes. 
Hi capman911, pagedoll and others,
I suppose the Magibon fascination might be a Freudian connection with our inner innocence. She is 21 and is just a normal girl in PA who has a fascination with Japanese culture and a Japanese icon that she represents. Her intention was only to interact with Japanese folks in certain forums in order for her to learn Japanese, which turned into a huge Internet phenomena.
Marina’s sister did an excellent Magibon impression in the Splitting Image Answer video.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/03/29/spitting-image-answer/
Thanks Pedantickarl for that answer.
That clears up alot for me on that subject. 
Are you trying to tell me Marina has an identical twin?!?
…I don’t believe it…not for one second Mr!! 
Isn’t she Japanese? So there’s your answer.
I don’t think anyone but you, capman911, caught on that I “busted” Marina today on the fork thing.
I know that was cool of you to remember that video with her using a fork.
We will probably catch here eating a tomato one day. 
I posted an answer on youtube to the homework you gave on the vid. WOP , in it I said honky as a term used for a white person. My question is: Where did it come from??
Greatings from Germany, Siberia seems really cold
………………………….. 
so i’ve researched it. and it seems this is the longest word in the world. what does it mean? there are 45 letters.
PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
(also spelled PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOKONIOSIS)
big huh? Please do a video on it!
I’m kinda disappointed that there’s no homework tonight… :`(
Wow!
565 comments on this page! Is that a record yet 
Not yet….
For the record, the record is the “Roger” video, unless my record keeping wasn’t recorded properly, meaning my recording was broken.
Phew!!, say that ten times fast.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/05/12/roger/
P.S.
There are 805 Comments for the Roger video as of this time… beep.
Interesting, very interesting. Someday soon I think that record will be broken with over 1000 comments.
Can you please tell us the origin of the word “lush” used in the context
of referring to someone who drinks a lot?
Mega apples for the Best Teacher!
Thanks!
Marina, where does the saying “feeling blue” or “having the blues” come from? Why is the color blue associated with sadness?
Do you think the Blue Man Group feels blue all the time?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tWP6aYwi5M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldxg87pDlI8&feature=related
And what’s up with Venus Hum? Hummmmm?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uurTw0XgX7I&feature=related
I was only thinking to ask the same question the other day. Thinking the sea and sky are blue, which isn’t sad as very mellow. Thought feeling ‘blue’ should be grey or dark if feeling sad. So came to a final conclusion it must come from being dead!!! Blue body, maybe??
Cheers, Mat
Actually when bodies decompose they turn white first, then black as the tissue rots…. Blue or purple is asociated with cyanosis, when the blood loses oxygen…
How about “hem and haw”? Told my son not to the other day, and wondered, “what’s the origin of that idiom? Thanks Marina.
A variation of the old teamster term “Gee” and “Haw” (not the union guys, teamster as in someone who controls a team of horses). Gee was used to tell the team to turn right, Haw to turn left. When you’re “Geeing and Hawing” or “Heming and Hawing” you are constantly changing direction, meaning you are unable to make a decision.
Clammy hands are wet and cold! Now I better Clam up!
Having withdrawl.
Need a fresh dose of our teacher.
And thanks for the card HotForWords
I’ll pass on the white stuff for a few more months/
the word i ask for is etymology – the phrase i would ask for is sick as a dog
Hi Marina,
I am a virgin on your site, although I have been lurking (watching) your videos for awhile.
I am wondering where ‘paradigm’ comes from?
It came from a guy that had 2 digms.
hi Marina,
were did the phrase cutting the chees come fromand define the word fart. what the defination for words u should nkow it in ur name
Funny Cap
Hi Marina,
Could you do the word Lip gloss. I would appreciate it very much.
Plus clammy hands refers to cold moist hands usually do to being sick or nervous.
Thanx,
Krunkteletubbie
P.S. My old account was KrunkTeletubbie82, i dont know wat happened to it tho
*sigh* -.- just look at the word…..it gives a glossy finnish to you’re lips…hence the name lip gloss -.-
Now do you know what a quahog is
Hint you’ll find them in clamcakes. Yes, a cake with clams. 
you have just watched family guy on bbc3
No, I live in the real city Family Guy represents.
A quahog is a specific type of clam, they are usually purple in color, on the inside of the shell. BTW … Native Americans (Haudenosaunee) used them in wampum belts.
Where abouts in the world are you Im in the uk and its Midnight
The netherlands +1gmt
ok… when is that new video comming it’s like 1 am over here allready
foxbow15, I don’t upload a new video until my current video hits 24 most viewed on YouTube….
that would be the top row of this page.
Hey Marina, Have you thought about posting your videos on other video hosting websites?
doh! -.-
Thanks foxbow15
Hey,
What’s the procedure for video requests. Straight to Marina, or post it to a hosting site? What’s deal?
Thanks,
You mean you want to request a word? just post it in the commentbox here…
I mean a video clip word request.
ok…..you mean you have a video , in which you have a word request?
make a video response to here latest video on youtube..
I uploaded the video but it doesn’t show up as a video response to the clam video even though I added it through “add a video response.” I can only see it through my utube account. Is there a lag or something between when it posts to my account and when it is linked to the video as a comment?
ok figured it out….
Post it as a video request to the latest video or the video before that. I will get it that way. You can let me know here after you post it to make sure I see it if you want.
It’s there…..
Excuse me, thanks Marina
cold sweaty hands referring to calmy hands i think. You make learning interesting.
Woo I got a free 30 day trial. It tried to change my default search though
Sorry it took me so long to answer your e-mail James. I was in a different program and my e-mail was not showing up.
Marina or anyone else who can help. On your youtube page it says download whitsemoke for FREE here http://www.whitesmoke.com/hotforwords
but when i clicked it it asked me to pay, i will pay for this at some point but was it a promo that has ended or am i doing something wrong
James xx
uuuhh……torrents ….newsgroups….
Best way to get a trojan really it would be nice if i could find a free trial
ok……..
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/WhiteSmoke-Enrichment-Download-7954.html
found a free trial. The one u sent me said it had ad ware
The version you downloaded probably has adware to, lots of programs have adware to keep the costs low for consumers.
Love The New Word! Keep Up THe Nice Work
I Was Wondering Where “Beating Around The Bush” Came From? Being That Loads Of People Use It And Everytime I Ask, No One Knows Where It Came From
the word free has many meanings, such as lack of price, or it could refer to freedoms. What is the origin of the word ‘free’?
Clams are naughty; their only ‘happy’ when their fried
they’re
Hi Marina,
I’d like to request the origin for “counterfeit”.
What is this ‘feit’ that they counter??
Love your show
this was a nice lesson, happy as a clam, i will use it now jijijijijiji.
Hello, im here to say this is a great show. I like to learn here vocabulary and stuffs XD… greetins
Welcome cej, I’m glad you could join the group here.
Sometimes it gets kinda contriversal, but it’s a fantastic site to learn from. Marina is a great teacher and Guru. 
PS and very very good looking too.
new video up and POSTED a bit dodgy, but hey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDE-ZHA2Np4
Hey James I see you have a avatar now.
What would it be? 
Some forks
Marina,
James has laid down the gauntlet (pretty funny)–we’d like to see you practice what you preach. Just for a laugh of course!
Especially since I caught you cheating in the lieutenant video!
Does that mean then I would have to eat tomatoes and sweetcorn? with a fork
I can’t watch that…
It’s not that bad is it?
I see you followed my suggestion.
I would like to know where the phrase “here’s the rub…” comes from.
BTW, what video editing software do you use?
Thanks!
Could you do the word “promissory”.
Thank You
anyone know anything about this website, …………..http://www.actionext.com/
I am not finding anything about it researching singly.
sorry about the caps lock capjack. so way back when, the bow was called the head of the ship then. hence the head
Yes, Head is the forward part of a ship (meaning the stem of a vessel). For example if I were to ask you “Fred, could you go to the head of the ship and get me 100ft of mooring line?”
Also as on upper part of a spar (as in Masthead) is called a head. Its also used for words like Headsail, headfast, heading, headrope, headstay, etc.
Heads is the old (and still current) naval term for the latrines, originally consisting of little more than timbers, projecting on either side of the bows, on which the crew sat to relieve themselves.
So in the early days the latrine (a.k.a. restroom) (there’s a word Marina. Why do the call it a rest-room?) was relocated inside the ship they just kept the name ‘Head’ so old sailors would know what it was for. In the boating world is full of tradition so you will see many old words still being used today to describe parts of ship, boats, etc.
Head – First attested (as meaning the stem of a vessel) in 1485 in Naval accounts (Navy Records Society, 1896).
Hope that helps.
Speaking of which, I must go and use the head. I’ll BRB.
Marina,
On your way back from Russia if you are by chance flying over Paris could you please throw a mother board out your window–mine is dying. The memory card has been pulled & now the computer works (?) which is a real mystery…anyway if I miss class it’s technical not personal, until I pick a good replacement then it’s both.
Nice that you went home.
Do you really believe that motherboards are made in the Motherland?
And anyway, if she flies from Moscow to the US, she would pass over Aberdeen and not Paris, so she could jump out of the plane straight into my arms.
Bob what browser are you using. I am using IE7 and it want show up like Mozilla I can’t get the comment numbers to show up.
Hey Marina, I just want to say thanks for the card and the picture of you in “Siberia”
Also you look absolutely stunning. I’m planning to visit Beverly Hills with some friends of mine, looks really rich there. Maybe you can show me around 
haha
P.S How does the word “stunning” relate to looks and where did it originate from?
wat is the origi n of howdy
Well, this is a fine how d’ ye do!
Did you know that that word is found in the bible? When I read it I was picturing Moses roasting one over a fire, but that wasn’t it at all. I won’t give it away
I have a few words I’d like to know about, if you choose any of them it would be nice!
spirit (as in your own spirit, where did this word come from?), next one is:
smarten up(why do we use the phrase smarten up? Where did it come from?)
What about hurry up, catch up, grow up, throw up, blew up, hang up, speak up, 7-up. OK skip that last one. What’s up with all this up? The people who use these terms should just settle down and calm down. You can settle up, but can you calm up? I need to lay down.
ok funny man…Times up.
I think you are doing a very impressive work, remember OED is known for many good illustrations. But this is like re-inventing the International Phonetic Alphabet in multi media.
take a look also at podictionary, http://podictionary.com/
I like it. It is different but has the same high quality as your production.
hey teacher, could u tell us where magazine comes from?
Which one?
Mine came from that guy at the end of my block. He lives in a plywood house on the sidewalk. Thats where my newspaper comes from too.
not a problem so here goes. why is the toilet on all USA merchant and navel ships called a head.
Go to the “Loo” post
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/07/04/the-loo/
And scroll down to my post at
CaptainJack replied on July 4th, 2008 11:38 am:
or a faster way is to, Just do a find on page search for the name “Washington”
Don’t listen to jack and all his mumbo jumbo, it is called the head just for irony sake. It was originally called the butt, but that was just too obvious for those clever sailors.
Did I ask you to butt in my comment?
Go away Geronimo! 
Put your butt on someone else’s… (insert lame word here). 
Ok I learned how to link to comments so here is the new and improved version of my reply.
The Head
Link to above comment on this page
A bit more better linking don’t you say?
Ok I guess I’ll try that link again. Too bad we can preview and edit before posting.
Link to above comment on this page
How do you do that link thing?
Click here Geronimo!
OK sorry the link ended up as 404 error. Something got goofy.Lets see if this works…
Click here Geronimo!
Ok I just looked further down and seen that your question was answered to the best of our ability. Apparently we have not answered your question to your satisfaction. Maybe if you rephrase your question we might be able to help you better.
Re-Pete?
I am glad someone could figure out that darn copy and send forth commment thing. You and Bob sure did. I guess I’ll have to play with IE7 a tad more.
I don’t know a thing about IE7.
Nor do I do windows of any kind. I only sleep in one bed. 
Im strictly a mac guy. Even my AIM/iChat screen name is ‘macaddictt’ from the old days of Mac Addict magazine. 
My dear teacher, I found this.
When you are nervous and your hands get wet. That’s what is called, clammy hands
Like when you are playing a video game, and your hands get wet.
where does the word zeitgeist come from
I was watching a short clip online named zeitgeist
It is german or austrian for “thinking of the times”
a short free film that expresses the reality of politics
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
Hello Dear Teacher,
I am interested in finding out where the verb “chuck” or “chunk” came from. They are both used in place of toss or throw. Thanks
Your faithful student,
flanther1
(jim)
I chunked the ball to Jim…..hmmmmmmm
Nice chunk! That’s the old pepper! Chunk another one!
I have never heard of anyone chunking a ball. I’ll axe others to see if they have.
Yes we southerners use it quite a bit the word chuck and chunk. Depends on how drunk we are when we are throwing something to one another. Like chunk me another brew dude
filming for dinner is now complete will edit in a second. got covered in sauce its a bit long but i will trim it down, also Marina I don’t mind doing it again and i will if you or anyone else wants to see me go forkless kinfeless & sponless let me know I love making people laugh (even at my own expense) take care. will post the link up soon (if edit works!!)
Look at that: James is coining words left and right. Forkless, knifeless and spoonless–just as long as it’s not tasteless…..
The only thing tasteless is my mothers cooking
YAY avatar working
Was I right or what?
Yes. just took time and a new picture
Why does my avatar keep changing on it’s own?
Hi geronimo, I think what happens is that when you add another gravatar, the last one you add becomes the default? You have to select the gravatar you want from your list and confirm it again.
Huuuummmm your eyes do look a little beadier. Your mustache is all white.
Quiet, or I’ll scratch you.
HI
IN THE USA NAVY. THE TOILET IS CALLED THE HEAD. DOES THE RUSSIAN NAVY OR THE ROYAL NAVY CALL IT THE HEAD
The royal navy calls it the loo, aren’t you paying attention?
YES, I AM LISTINING. BUT, MY QUESTION IS WHY THE USA NAVY CALLS IT A HEAD
Sorry, WRONG!
The Royal Navy calls it the heads.
As to why it’s called the head, because in the old days, before sailers became pussified, they wound have to hang their posteriors over the side of the ship to jettison their recycleables, and it was always done right at the front of the ship, i.e. in the ship’s head.
Go here to see Captain Jack explain and show a picture.
Bob, How do you find the exact comment link?
I know what your question was, but you asked if the Royal navy also calls it the head, and since we just had the loo video I thought I would make a joke. Obviously, not my best work.
justfred1, I think your caps lock key is on.
Oh! Goody, I can show off again.
Jack, it was explained by pedantickarl
futher down this page.
We sure have some smart people around here, what?
A little trick I will email you.
Thanks guys! Someone else was going to teach me that trick but never came back the blog to show me.
I can smell dinner cooking
Marina is all over the news. You gotta watch this.
http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=of3nm1&s=4
Is that some kind of program where you can insert images into an already shot video?
Check your email in a few minutes…..
You can put images into video in movie maker by pressing split then choosing a pic to go where you split,
Speaking of which: Is there a way that you could add the ability to edit posted posts (that was alliteration by the way!)? I have been on other fora where it was possible. It would be great–I am the king of dyslexic typos that I don’t see until too late…..
Wow its amazing what people do for entertainment. I thought it was kind of cute.
Yes Marina there are programs and plug ins that will allow you to do that. It’s a Hollywood trick they have been doing for years. What program are you using to do your video?
Brilliant pedantickarl!
Hi lostforwords.
A few months back, the question of editing posts came up. Marina can invoke that ability, but later it was decided that leaving posts in granite was the better way to go. I agree with leaving the comments in granite as it leaves everything in context, otherwise everyone would be editing their edits and then you would lose the context of the discourse.
Hey, Hey,
I have been good. No ranting like a fool.
No need for a Kill RRR bottom
It is really quiet and calm,
rrreally
Brilliant. Very professionally done.
You had a chance to figure out the comment thingy. I haven’t tried it yet so I e-mailed it to Jack.
Kitty, Katie, Catty-corner – I understand the origins but I’d like to hear your etymology – How did it get changed from location to location?
It is most commonly kitty-corner here in Vancouver, Canada i.e. His Starbuck’s is Kitty-corner to his gal-pal’s Starbucks. (Too many Starbucks in Vancouver? And I don’t even do Starbucks.)
I would like the word(s) “Peeping Tom” where did it come from?
… and in keeping with the theme of the last videos, we create a portmanteau and come up with Clamato as in Clamato Juice for which we need no stinkin fork. Hmmm, I wonder if the killer tomato can ever be happy as a clam…
Not if you stab it with a fork
Hey there again Marina. Looking good. ^_^
I’m gonna be boring and ask you to tell us about the word threshold again which is, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful words of the English language.
If you got time for two words I’d like to ask you to tell us about the word tranquility too.
Have a good day
Patric
can i request the word GREEZY. please.
By the way you are sooo sexy.
I’d like to request the phrase”red cent”, as in,” Your not gettin’ one red cent from me!”
A wild guess: because they were made of copper, it being the closest to an actual red color of any native metal.
Thats what I figured but still curious as to when it was first started to be used as a reference to a penny…if that is truly the case.
Whaaaaaasssssuuup my friend. Still lying low I see. You need to come out of your clam shell a little bit more. We have been eating clams, tomatoes, corn on the cob and all without a fork. We miss you so come on back sooner
Mike
hehehe… couple of really good laughs in my email. a most beautiful woman in the card…seems she had lost her own pants. High heels in the snow? I bet you where ‘em at the beach too.
Wow anyways
.
Had to watch the video a couple of times… Lividemerald
You used to have those old TV commercials posted here, I forgot what that show was.
Fuel TV
oh thank you, now Bob won’t have to answer me. I think the show you put on, by yourself, if indeed you still do them alone, have a better production value than those old spots.
If you don’t mind Fuel TV
What was Fuel Tv?
you killed my refrigerator with this video Marina
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz_WOLTFy4I&NR=1
Here are all the Fuel TV spots in a player… http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/01/13/some-fuel-tv-spots/
hey marina i have 2 word requests for you whats the definition for [words] and the phrase cutting the cheese? great lesson 2 by the way
Марина, was breakdancing invented during the Great Patriotic War?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoQb8vb4blA
Love it!
I prefer the more colourful version with the
original Cossack music.
Possibly my favorite Marina video (I have a special list) She’s really adorable in this one
one of my favs
Bill Murray as a cossack!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WS0zoRlLBIQ
I’ll be, the Russians invented break dancing. I wonder if they invented rap too
That was awesome! great moves!!
Hey there, Marina… Great lesson, as always…
I’ve a word request for you… How about “quixotic”, and does it derive itself from Cervantes’ “Don Quixote”? (I can pretty much guess the answer myself, but it’d be fun for a full-blown investigation… 
)
Duh!
Thank you for the intelligent and constructive response. With such wonderful insight, you cut to the root of the matter and bring much to the discussion. How amazing you are, and how proud your parents must be with your greatness.
(damned comment cut off my [/sarcasm]… oh well, you get the point, bubba…)
Brevity is the soul of wit. Or maybe you were just lost for words. Not that I agree with you though. I think it is a good question. I nver knew what it meant until someone used it to discribe me 6 months ago. I had to ask what he meant.
professorwhy, don’t be so touchy
HFW did a video on Duh! If you are a subscriber you should know that. Re: quixotic; ask yourself does idiotic come from idiot? 
Ok lost but, that still doesn’t explain to the masses what the quixotic syndrome is. I guess it’s not really a syndrome but an attitude.
Thanks for the responses, geronimo… Nice to see some board denizens have manners and good social graces…
As for you, lostformanners, er, I mean lostforwords… Interesting little jabs to toss out there, even in your rush to defend yourself… 
Of course, I wouldn’t be “so touchy” if you had just been more verbose in your criticism of my question… Whatever, though — I’m done with it now.
JUST ASKED WHAT IS FOR TEA TONIGHT ……………………….. SPAGHETTI BOLOGNASE!!
Yeah!!!
Oh that could be an interesting term. There are some smelly cheeses out there.
Pass’n Gas @ Sucia Bay
from the Bitter End</a Blog
James.. did you make your gravatar the same email address that you signed up to this website with? If not… you can add multiple email address to your account over there.
Yes, but it just will not work. Perhaps it does not like me
I will try again though
Also thanks for subscribing commenting and giving me a page etc.
Tea isn’t cooked yet but I will post as soon as I have eaten it, can you imagine the amount of strange looks I would get if I did this in a restraunt?! x My spelling is awful, I will buy whitesmoke soon
James, my avatar took 24 hrs to show-up….
on this same line how about cloud 9?
Ha so tempting to just say “my teacher hot fork words”
James! Steady on lad…
It took your avatar 24 hours?? ok ill see what happens tomorrow. Soft boiled eggs are my party piece, I can put a whole yolk in but i need a fork!! my parents dont cook eggs well. My mum is a terrible cook guess I will be eating a whole egg then
Forkin’ ‘ell! But you managed to most of it off your face. When you eat a soft boiled egg, I want to see that!
LFWs I left another comment under yours about teach eating with a utensil. Smart thing going back through the videos
5 HOURS OF EDITING THE VIDEO IS UP
FORK FREE DAY PART 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEva2TIMb0E
Good job James! I favorited it on my channel and made a page for you here as well
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/07/10/eating-with-no-fork/
Looking forward to dinner
Marina
Um….(cough)..err…(cough, cough), what is that implement that you are using at the end of this video? !@#?
You know Lost for words it almost looks like she’s eating a slice of tomato with that FORK.
LFWs cought you red handed 
How could you!! But wait it was : BEFORE the tomato and fork video, but I still hate tomatoes (and sweetcorn) by the way there is tomato in my sauce! I just cant eat tomatoes raw
Great video James. I left you a comment on You Tube also. That teramisu lokked real good.
Good job James, You lucky dog!
hey hot for words i have a question can u tell us here the word Quince came from?
hugs and kisses from your trusted student pini87
Hi pinilla_87,
Although the origin of the word Quince was not discussed, Marina did mention the word in the Marmalade pt2 (Answer) video. Click on the Lessons menu link above and then scroll down to the Marmalade video.
I had never even heard of the word before Marina mentioned it in the video, so I am always learning something new each day.
about tomatoes
have to complain
check it out please
What are you saying. Tomatoes are a hot topic in the US. People are supposedly getting salmonella from them all over the country.
I thought it was about all over with the salmanella and tomatoes. But last night on tv they said there were alot more cases of it.
I think it’s as I wrote it, but I am pretty dyslexic…
A word request: the C-word
. Yes that’s right the C-word! It has a long history in English literature and has an interesting etymology.
It’s not a such a “nuclear” word in England where guys call each other the C-word all the time. It’s a bit different here though…You’re a ballsy girl, so you could get away with it.
Really, i say that all the time
I have read it as a surname (i have a book of stupid names throughout the ages (phil mike hunt was one))
Fanny Cun*
born colchester, essex, c.1839
Fanny Cun* lived in the seaside resort of hastings along with a bunch of other cunts, her son richard ( one hopes otherwise but must assume he was known as dick cun*) and her daughters ella and violet cunt
Also
Cun*y Hoel
Wife of Dick Hoel
Sorry for the obscene language but I hope as these are genuine names I will be let off
The book is called Potty,Fartwell, & Knob I suggest you get a copy its a really good book and the first time you read will have you in stitches
sorry I missed some stars out
James, such language! I am shocked! We’ll have to wash your mouth out with soap, isn’t that what they used to do in the old days?
Faute de goût ! I concede that “ballsy” may have been a little inapt in the context….
Also may I remind you in the old days that they had forks. I dont know why that is relevant now but hey. AVATAR IS STILL NOT WORKING
Je vous demande pardon, ma chère maîtresse, pour vous avoir offensé ; mes erreurs étaient irréfléchies mais sincères.
phrase* i mean lol
hello marina i d like to know the origin of the frase ‘skid row’.Thank you
Leave us not forget Elvis’ “Do the clam” arguably the worse song ever recorded.
wet sweaty hands is what you have if you have clamy hands.
I Want to know the word fosters come from its austrlian beer try findout plz jamie from uk newcastle xxxx
Hello, everyone. This is felicity from tropical Japan in which the summit was just over safe and sound.
I can’t eat ice cream without getting my hands to be clammy. This hot season came again when it tastes best.
BTW,are there any other countries where a tomato is considered a kind of vegetable, besides Japan???
If you know the answer, please writh them in the reply below.
Hi felicity. Tomato is botanically a fruit, but due to it’s particular taste and therefore it’s use in soups, salads, sauces, salsa and condiments, the tomato is considered a vegetable, in the US, but my guess is that this may be true everywhere.
Hi P-K
Help me out here please. I remember someone saying ( I think) a berry has only one seed, more than one seed is a fruit thus making a tomato a fruit. So a strawberry is a fruit so can’t be a berry, so should be called a strawfruit?? hhmmmm avacado is a berry…..so what do we call a seedless grape?
Thanks, Matt
re: so what do we call a seedless grape?
An abortion? how about grapenuts?
Just kidding. I have no idea, other than, a seedless variety is called a cultivar or seedless cultivar.
First time seeing your vids!
I’m a russian(/latvian)-american and your accent sounds just like my grandfather’s!
Anyway, a word..
how about “hot” in it’s colloquial meaning of “sexy”?
and a “privet” to you!
It has been done already
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/06/21/hot/
I want to meet your grandfather nobody101! I could listen to Marina speak all day. The smoky voice, the way she pronounces origin, she says “me” with a special something…
I have another word request, well more of a phase request, “Quantum Of Solace”. I will admit that as a James Bond fan I do know what it means but with the movie coming out many people don’t know what it means so was hoping our trusty Hotforwords could clear it up
THIS DAMN VIDEO!! MOVIE MAKER PUBLISHES BUT ONLY PLAYS HALF I SHALL KILL IT!
Hello Marina,
Another great show, leaving in the minor bloopers was a good touch.
Thank you for the card that you sent to everyone.
Gamblerman had a good suggestion that I would like to second- Pun.
I like to listen to music as I’m sure everybody else does, so…
How about any one of these: Music, lyric, verse, melody, sing.
Also- poem
Were Homer’s epics called poertry at the time they were written or did the word come along later?
Thank you Marina
Hi Warren hows it going. Haven’t heard from you in a while. Have you been on the road? Glad that you are back. You and Jack must have gone somewhere together. He’s been missing for a while too. Now everyone is home. Take care.
Mike
Clammy hands =, sweaty hands, usually as a result of stress/tension.
Not much point of me saying it though as by the time i get to watch the class/lesson about 30 or so people would have already answered it
Curse my time difference and availability
Thanks for the card marina, you made me as happy as a clam
great pic as well, it shows that you can be cool and hot at the same time
ICEALITY > asking for the word.
in the international eco and pop culture scene but not so much in the US.
The word seems to be hot and fresh like you
And since you are travelling more globally I thought I would let you know about it so you can be first to address it.
Google search “ICEALITY” is the best way to find who is using it.
Have a safe trip and hurry back home.
testing avatar…
and it would be awesome if you made a video about the word “Indeed”
Thank you for the card, Marina.
Let’s go make snow angels.
How is your memory Bob. What was the TV show commercial that Marina was in? That picture reminded me of those little spots she did way back in the day… only seems so long ago.
OH yeah, clamy hands from being a part of a Hotforwords video, kind of like a nervous, scared reaction, sweaty, yet cold.
See foxbow15′s reply to the stoker below for the links to those Fuel TV slots.
I’ll try not to be late to the party again, thanks I totaly missed that
Snow Angels new winter olympic sport?
Hey Marina, I would like to know the origin of the word “Bullet”.
Salut Marina,
Your work is really awesome, and it’s always a pleasure to follow your investigations . You’re right, Intelligence Is Sexy ! And it helps me to improve my English !
For my first comment, i would like to know the origin of the word “avatar”
Merci à toi !
LaPassionDesMots
avatar comes from a rat called ava hence avatar backwards is rat ava lol
La passion des mots looses a bit by comparison to HFW, n’est-ce pas ?
Um.. “loses” is better
Hi,can you please tell me the origin of the word wich is “Knife”
Nicely Done
ВЕЛИКОЛЕПНО,шикарно…спасибо тебе огромное за карточку
ты снова исполнила одное из моих желаний 
by the way i just have clammy hands when i am particularly anxious before an examination…i know it is not particularly pleasant when i should shake someone’s hands but fortunately this always occurs after the examinations 
Hi!
I want to know the origin of the word ” World ” ?
WORLD comes from WERE-ELD in Saxon “Man-Age”.
Well that answers my whole werewolf question.
werebearpig!
no do they take time before the upload
no
did you use the same e mail as you used to register to this site?
Also James, you have to activate your gravatar on gravatar.com
Click on the gravatar in your list. A confirmation box will be presented, at which time you click confirm. Also, above the list of gravatars, there is a test gravatar link.
testing if avatar works
the origin of the word “GOD”
GOD is connected to the verb GUSH. In old Germanic the word had the meaning LIBATION “drink offered for the gods” and was taken by the priest :->
GOSH, I never knew that before.
what are the “Anunnaki”
just some niburu ,armegedon, weird allien talk -.-
I would like to request for the word “coprophagia”.
i’m pretty sure if you check the roots of the word you’ll get a shit-eatin’ grin on your face…
Of course thats the meaning.
But what is the origin?
Cop-ro-pha-gia
What does cop has anything to do with shit?
“cop” has nothing to do with it…
copro-, copr-, kopro-, kopr- is the Greek word for feces, dung, dodo, shit…whatever you call excrement…
and phago-, phag-, -phag, -phage, -phagic, -phagia, -phagism, -phagist, -phagous is Greek for consume or eat…
a combination of letters fforming a word within another word does not always mean that word is relative…”eek” is part of Greek…but i don’t think Gr’s go ’round shrieking…
how do you add an avatar?
Click on the HELP button on the top of this website.
how about now (testing)
go to http://en.gravatar.com and follow directions
i did use the same email….
James, you don’t need to create a comment to test your gravatar.
Once your gravatar works, it is viewable on all of your previous posts.
1 Day Left to Vote! Winners Announced July 22, 2008
Ok I wouldn’t normally vote for a place I didn’t even eat at. But from what I gather by watch Marina eat on camera. My guess is I would love the food also. I know I might eat there someday. So I thought to myself, hey I can travel through time. I zipped to my time machine and bing there I was eating breakfast with Marina and friends. I had a great meal. Then bing! I was zapped back to right now. So I placed my vote for my future experience at Blu Jam. Well thats my story and im sticking to it..
Oh who where the friends. I don’t know. Every thing was a blur except Marina’s pretty little eyes.
I was there too.
you too? So was I…until I realised I was dreaming
I thought I saw a bird in th restaurant. It just struck me as very odd. I worked all last night trying to fix the time machine but it seemed ok.
Hi Captn, Since we are in the Republic of Lexicon, Marina is our congressional representative and it’s OK or not OK to vote on the bills she presents us with.
Well you surely got be baffled on that one.
Boy I hate using that word ‘got’! Makes be feel like a hick. If I wasn’t raised by rodents I might have had a more polished use of the language. I don’t understand I have this craving for peanut butter sandwich.
hey what is the origin of the phrase 911 as in the number you call when in trouble and does it have anything to do with the catastrophic date? good lesson, lovely
911 was just a number the phone company picked that could be used as a universal number to call for help. The terrorist attack was just a date they picked out. Nothing special here.
Clammy hands are ones that are sweaty and cold, usually a sign of stress.
Hi Marina,
What is the origin of the word ‘Prophylactic’,
“Clammy Hands”, are moist and sticky like they would be if you were working with wet clay or mud so the expression is believed to come from the old anglo word for mud/clay – “Klam”. So when your hands are clammy they feel like they do when you are working with clay/mud – think potters hands.
Hey marina…. I was Thinking where the word “Chav” and “Chavette” Originates from as i hear it alot in my area with all the viloence going =]
Thanks.
Hi Marina, there’s this word I always wanted to know where it came from. Since, I say it alot.
Where does the word “dude” originate from?
Hi Marina,
Here’s a perculiar word request for you: Party pooper
Why do we call a person a ‘party pooper’ when he doesn’t even poop at a party?
Does Hot for Words suspect something foul smelling here? Will you investigate this mystery?
Hey, Marina, “clammy” hands are hands that are damp and “cool as a clam.”
I have a word request… “HOCUS POCUS”; I actually know the interesting story behind it, but it is not as interesting when I tell it. Please, let me hear you say, “This is my body!!!”
Answer: you just finished your job processing clams; or you have hands that are sticky, sweaty, damp, cool. P.S. didn’t know that lividemarald is a she, I stand corrected. Miss HFW, you have asked for feedback, video continuity/passed, lighting/ too bright.
LividEmerald assures you that “she” is a he. (hehe!)
I think clamy hands are ones that are cold and sweaty.
I have always wondered where the name church key came from for the tiangle shaped can opener. I looked it up in a set of dictionaries that goes into detail on origin of almost any word out there. The set has 27 books in it. Anyway all it said for church key was a key to lock or unlock a church.
thanks for the card
a five star video
Dear Marina,
thanks for the nice card from Siberia. But you don’t look dressed warm enough. I guess you don’t need a parka because you’re hot enough without one. And you look happy as a clam, without a whole shell.
Well clammy hands are sweaty hands, but does that mean my hands can be happy as clams when they’re sweaty?
The clams in the poem from Alice in Wonderland (or was it Alice Through the Looking Glass?) called “The Walrus and the Carpenter”, ended up being really unhappy when they were eaten. So yes, clams are not always happy.
Hi Marina:
I am a fan of James Joyce and if you have not read Finnegan’s Wake yet it is a complex book of puns. Each sentence of the wake has multiple meanings in a humorous way.
I doubt there is anything like this in Russian.
What is the origin of the word PUN?
Spasibo
Michael ( Misha )
i thought they had all the puns locked up at the Punitentiary…
but, almost seriously, i suspect “pun” comes from the punishment inflicted on the victim of the joke…
I wish I had a pun for every time I’ve had a bad pun punned down my throat, especially since encountering prospero811.
I could take a punt at this, but I too would like Marina to do it.
When one says that one has clammy hands one is saying that one’s hands are very greasy, but with the effect of also being very nasty and not in a cool way. One should not shake Marina’s hand when one has such hands as such.
One who doesn’t shake hands clammily anymore,
Shawn M. “happy as a clam in high water” Norris
How about u do the word ” Dream ”
:]
DREAM belongs to an Indo-European root “DRM- “sleep” : DREMAT’ in Russian, DORMIR in French :->
Greeting dictionaricdotcom. Welcome to HTW. Let me introduce myself. Im Jack. Yes… just Jack… Don’t believe anything you heard about me. It not true…heheheh
Sorry, been out of class for a while. Other weapons: Takarov, Makarov, AK-74
Hey guys check out this video of Marina.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8epS979yIs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwug4wjUetI&feature=related
and this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07l2nbpMtto&feature=related
and this realy weird one… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upoUM1SKr7k&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPfV3gqNKh8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz_WOLTFy4I&feature=related
yeah…
.. I just watched them again and had just way to many ” wth…. :S ” moments..
Fual TV is pretty cool…wish they would do more on BMX racing . ..first time in the Olympics this year!! Also one of hobbies.
poor thing they don’t do mountainbiking, i’m kind of a mtb freak
btw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llc2hFJTxyE is that marina left of the wheel ? yeah, i think so:P
So that’s where the set in the card came from, not the outfit though.
Is this stuff older than HFW? Looks like it.
The same outfit is there to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPfV3gqNKh8&feature=related
…….winter fresh….*sigh*
right!
Clammy hands are after you’ve gone on a clam dig, means wet, sandy, and smelly.
I ummmmmm … .. . .. … won’t expound too much on the concept of the bearded clam.
These days probably too many people shave, so the phrase is largely archaic.
word request: chess / checkmate -thanks
dragonvariation, is that name your using be a form of a style of chess opening.
I think the origin of the word is Arabic ASH SHAKH MATA = The King Died.
Wow! I’m a bit speechless. A Siberian card? Totally Awesome!I’m totally happy as a clam! Thx for the card dear teacher. You’re the best!Nice picture!
My son is going to impress his biology teacher so much with this one and he says that if you ever say “Hello, Claudio’ he will save that forever. I don’t know how he will do that but I’m putting it out there because he now has just about every teen boy he knows checking out your site and learning words, surprising their parents with their new information
Oh, yes, I think clammy hands are sweaty and cold, traditionally.
This is good JCR! Nice to have kids learn something on the internet. I call it distances learning. Marina is a quality instructor. She does her home work all the time. Funny thing, homework never ends, but if you find something you like then its hellva fun..
Have him read my comment I made about GeoDucks. I think his teacher will be impressed about that also…
I’ll check it out. I just finished an article and it is…um… nearly 6 am here and I didn’t sleep all night (yawning). I’m going to crash and then wake up and check it out.
Hello. Are the words “horse” and “hoarse” related? I doubt it, but the origins of words can be awfully peculiar.
Thank you for your precious card Marina!!!
Now, the thought of being shipped to Siberia would be a welcomed proposition. I would keep you warm.
i’m always happy as a clam
… wait, not always 
, but i’m usually as happy as now 
Congratulations, you have a great attitude.
Happiness is not a reaction to a situation, Happiness is a decision.
Very good advice dad.
You know now I have adopted you as my dad and mental advisor or should I say mentor. 
Oh I forgot to mention, you can claim me on your income taxes.
hi marina, i’ve always wanted to know where the word: POOZLE originated…i heard jack nicholson use it in ‘one flew over the cuckoos nest”, i believe. as in: a little cup of warm poozle!
Hello, lovely teacher!
I want you to tell us the origins of the word NYLON.
Thank you.
Thanks for the card and your more than welcome!!…ya lil’ snow bunny!
Do you think our bikes will make it to Sibera?
NOt if I’ve got to pedal!!! I don’t have a motorcycle, just a 24″ BMX bike that I race on the weekends and sometimes on wed. Now, one of my buddys has a wicked Honda 959RR with 153HP and that thing might…real quick like…hes hit 174mph!! Did I mention hes a nut job!!
I have an electric scooter. Maybe I can use that. It gets about 1 mile per charge. I think I better find a better one.
Captain Jack’s scooter is going to need one hell of a long mains cable.
We will get Jack a small generator.
Can’t use a generator. It might change the environment and I would surely die. I was thinking of putting on a wind generator. But I heard that doesn’t work very well. Something about taking more energy to produce energy. Damn laws of physics! Hey if I break a law of physics do I got to jail or get a prize?
You get detention, Jack – in Siberia and (as the name suggests – de-tent-ion) without a tent.
I used to try and out run the rain on my harley, but did you know the faster you go the more that stuff stings. me dumb ass. I finaly figured out to ride slow and just get wet.
Capman, I use Firefox 2 and I think it’s brilliant.
Clammy hands usually refers to cold, sticky or sweaty palms and fingers.
Where did the word Goosebumps come from
Thank You
samuel3d1
Oh im getting Goosebumps just thinking where that word came from.
Dear Marina, I asked a clam several times this very question but she just clamed up. Or maybe it was a he. I couldn’t tell. I’ll wait untill the tide comes in and try again.
marina are you ok jesus it is ok
where i am from i always heard the expression as “happy as a clam at high tide”.
clammy hands are moist and cooler than normal body temperature so they feel like holding a clam.
my dear teacher, you just keep getting better and better….
mille grazie
Matteo
Marina has”t posted this video to YouTube Maybe this ones only for her web page.
It’s been posted on my YT home page for 6 hours now…maybe its different depending on where you live???….hmmmm?
YA know, I saw it on my home page as a new vid from one of my subscriptions and just now clicked it and the Tomatoes vid came up…I guess I lied…sorry
OK, now I saw it on YT but it only had 2000+ veiws, but it also said it has been up for 6 hrs…something must be screwy.
Yes its up now but was up just 2 hours ago when i checked here in the central time zone.
wasn”t
About 3-6 posts/videos ago, Miss HFW said something close to this: she posts her new video on youtube, then when that video gets to be number two on youtube, she posts it here for us older students. Maybe another fellow student can remember that post.
I remember that comment about when she posts on UTube. She even gave us the url to check from time to time to see when her video reached the second spot.
http://www.youtube.com/browse?s=mp&t=t&cr=US&p=2
Sorry transposition thought pattern error on reading you post. Disregard.
Marina – I think I spelled it wrong. What’s the origin of the name POMPEII. I should stay after class, huh?
Great episode!
But, do you know where ‘a chip on your shoulder’ comes from?
What a strange expression!
^_^
Thank you for the card. It was worth waiting for. I have saved the picture to my desktop. It was a shock to see in my emails a Hot For Words from Sibera. I didn’t know what to expect when I opened it.:)
I know what yo where thinking…
Dear capman Mike, i am happy as a clam to read your comments again
it’s so great to have you back here, it’s like seeing the rainbow after a storm…i was also astonished to receive that unexpected gift from Siberia! 
Please tell me Marina, what is the origin of the name “Pompei?”
The root POMP- could have the meaning of “five”. In latin QUINQUE is FIVE but 2000 years ago there were many dialects in Italy. Latin is only one dialect among others.
Thank you for the info. I was told that many millenniums ago there was a giant miraculous accient city, in what is now Italy, named PEI. In time became corrupt and was completely destroyed the same as Pompeii was later. “Pom” meaning huge explosion. “Pei” the original city. And an addition of 2nd Roman numeral at the end of “PEI I” establishing it to be the 2nd city named PEI. All destroyed by volcanos. DO YOU HAVE ANY INFO ALONG THOSE LINES?
It means your palms are sweaty
Hey Marina!! <3
would love to know the origin of Indeed.
always love watching your videos.
— Steve
A hoy hoy Marina, first off I like to congratulate you on a job well done. You have reestablish sexy as being smart, something that has been missing for far too long. My question is this, what is the origin of the word Sandwich?
Cheers,
BlairSandwich
Dear Marina,
I was wondering if you could look into red handed. Some of my students were asking me about it.
Yours,
Dr. Thorpe
Thats a good one Dr.Thorp. I haven’t heard that phrase in a long time. That would make a good lesson. If someone else doesn’t answer it before Marina gets to it.
I’m watching a show and they just mentoned that.
I hear the tune from “Twilight Zone” playing.
Or blue-blooded.
Or Yellow Bellied.
Wasn’t there a saying that mentioned a yellow streak on someones back?
if you have clammy hands, it means your hands are sweaty.
Also, I wanted to thank you for the card.
I saw that someone asked about the F-word. From what I have learned it is not meant to be a verb at all. It dates back to Henry the VIII. Apparently Henry wanted a divorce. this was completely unacceptable in those days.
The pope would not allow such a thing. Henry had a different idea.
He was the King after all, so he said, I am King, I will do as I please.
Henry ended up having many divorces. The people seeing this got the idea that they too could follow Henri’s example. Thus the Acronym
Fornication Under Command of the King.
Marina, you may not explore such words or you can and see what you find. Did not Henry also later found his “own” church”- The Church of England? Cheers!
pagedoll replied on July 8th, 2008 7:14 pm:
fuck
a difficult word to trace, in part because it was taboo to the editors of the original OED when the “F” volume was compiled, 1893-97. Written form only attested from early 16c. OED 2nd edition cites 1503, in the form fukkit; earliest appearance of current spelling is 1535 — “Bischops … may fuck thair fill and be vnmaryit” [Sir David Lyndesay, "Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaits"], but presumably it is a much more ancient word than that, simply one that wasn’t likely to be written in the kind of texts that have survived from O.E. and M.E. Buck cites proper name John le Fucker from 1278. The word apparently is hinted at in a scurrilous 15c. poem, titled “Flen flyys,” written in bastard L. and M.E. The relevant line reads:
Non sunt in celi
quia fuccant uuiuys of heli
“They [the monks] are not in heaven because they fuck the wives of Ely.” Fuccant is pseudo-L., and in the original it is written in cipher. The earliest examples of the word otherwise are from Scottish, which suggests a Scandinavian origin, perhaps from a word akin to Norw. dial. fukka “copulate,” or Swedish dial. focka “copulate, strike, push,” and fock “penis.” Another theory traces it to M.E. fkye, fike “move restlessly, fidget,” which also meant “dally, flirt,” and probably is from a general North Sea Gmc. word, cf. M.Du. fokken, Ger. ficken “fuck,” earlier “make quick movements to and fro, flick,” still earlier “itch, scratch;” the vulgar sense attested from 16c. This would parallel in sense the usual M.E. slang term for “have sexual intercourse,” swive, from O.E. swifan “to move lightly over, sweep” (see swivel). Chronology and phonology rule out Shipley’s attempt to derive it from M.E. firk “to press hard, beat.” As a noun, it dates from 1680. French foutre and Italian fottere look like the Eng. word but are unrelated, derived rather from L. futuere, which is perhaps from PIE base *bhau(t)- “knock, strike off,” extended via a figurative use “from the sexual application of violent action” [Shipley; cf. the sexual slang use of bang, etc.]. Popular and Internet derivations from acronyms (and the “pluck yew” fable) are merely ingenious trifling. The O.E. word was hæman, from ham “dwelling, home,” with a sense of “take home, co-habit.” Fuck was outlawed in print in England (by the Obscene Publications Act, 1857) and the U.S. (by the Comstock Act, 1873). The word may have been shunned in print, but it continued in conversation, especially among soldiers during WWI.
“It became so common that an effective way for the soldier to express this emotion was to omit this word. Thus if a sergeant said, ‘Get your —-ing rifles!’ it was understood as a matter of routine. But if he said ‘Get your rifles!’ there was an immediate implication of urgency and danger.” [John Brophy, "Songs and Slang of the British Soldier: 1914-1918," pub. 1930]
The legal barriers broke down in the 20th century, with the “Ulysses” decision (U.S., 1933) and “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” (U.S., 1959; U.K., 1960). Johnson excluded the word, and fuck wasn’t in a single English language dictionary from 1795 to 1965. “The Penguin Dictionary” broke the taboo in the latter year. Houghton Mifflin followed, in 1969, with “The American Heritage Dictionary,” but it also published a “Clean Green” edition without the word, to assure itself access to the lucrative public high school market. The abbreviation F (or eff) probably began as euphemistic, but by 1943 it was being used as a cuss word, too. In 1948, the publishers of “The Naked and the Dead” persuaded Norman Mailer to use the euphemism fug instead. When Mailer later was introduced to Dorothy Parker, she greeted him with, “So you’re the man who can’t spell ‘fuck’ ” [The quip sometimes is attributed to Tallulah Bankhead]. Hemingway used muck in “For whom the Bell Tolls” (1940). The major breakthrough in publication was James Jones’ “From Here to Eternity” (1950), with 50 fucks (down from 258 in the original manuscript). Egyptian legal agreements from the 23rd Dynasty (749-21 B.C.E.) frequently include the phrase, “If you do not obey this decree, may a donkey copulate with you!” [Reinhold Aman, "Maledicta," Summer 1977]. Intensive form mother-fucker suggested from 1928; motherfucking is from 1933. Fuck-all “nothing” first recorded 1960. Verbal phrase fuck up “to ruin, spoil, destroy” first attested c.1916. A widespread group of Slavic words (cf. Pol. pierdolić) can mean both “fornicate” and “make a mistake.” Flying fuck originally meant “have sex on horseback” and is first attested c.1800 in broadside ballad “New Feats of Horsemanship.” For the unkillable urban legend that this word is an acronym of some sort (a fiction traceable on the Internet to 1995 but probably predating that) see here, and also here.
nookie
“sexual activity,” 1928, perhaps from Du. neuken “to fuck.”
frig
“to move about restlessly,” c.1460, perhaps a variant of frisk (q.v.). As a euphemism for “to fuck” or “to masturbate” it dates from 1598.
…hope you don’t mind me takin’ this one Teacher….JEEEEZZZ!!!
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Dang RRR did you memorize all of that from when PD wrote it back when ever.
No just kidding I know you cut and pasted it. But it looks really cool.
Just keep on postin’ man, maybe the clue will sink in…thats a BIG maybe!
Wow, that was some reply, that long comment and actually educational.
Maybe Marina should do a video of words she is just not going to do no matter how many people ask. Maybe that would put and end to it.
Or how about this video that already has been made about the word?
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Thank you for the Picture card all the way from Siberia, Marina. Very Thoughtful. I’ve never been there, but does everyone over there live in cardboard houses with cardboard trees covered in fake snow? haha
Love the outfit though, those pants look comfy.
lol
Tell me about the word fuck. When did it become a euphemism for sexual intercourse and when and how did it become a “dirty” word.
FUcK,
Two posts up from yours Everything your ever wanted to know about !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(*___FUCK___*)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!
Very nice web site you have there Snakebite. Some good reading of your daily journals. The picture that was taken through the windshield of the car showed some beautiful scenery. You must be in great shape to be able to ride that far with that much weight. Very nice life you have there. Living every mans dream. Keep on biking.
Mike
THANK YOU MAIRINA FOR THE PICTURECARD YOU HAVE BEAUTIFUL EYES I SUGGEST THE WORD DEADRINGER GOD BLESS YOU THANK YOU
me too.. i was late for class. Am i gonna get to have detention, teacher?
What Marina didn’t tell you is, that I am taking the detention class!
Hey, I was there first.
me too.. i was late for class, teacher.
What Marina didn’t tell you is, that I am taking the detention class.
I was late for class….
What Marina didn’t tell you is that I am taking the detention class.
ID like to suggest Approach as a word. is seems liek one with confusing background and i have no ideas
Hello teacher, all your videos are great and thank for your greeting card, learn english is easier in this way, write that you are special I think so is redundant, I did not know you are psychologist, gua, like german people say fantastich und super.
Sticky like the mucus membrane of a opened clam
BiLL
Check your emails students! Cards are out……Very sweet too…….and kitsch in a very cute way!
There’s a word: kitsch
you need to adjust the f/stop, you are too bright. Or is that bright as in intelligent? Hmmm.
word request: battology
If you have clammy hands – you have Clammyhanditia !!!
That was a reach but still kinda funny
Or how about clamidia a STD.
word request plzz hun : foot fetish? thnx
Don’t you just mean fetish? A fetish can be for any body part or object.
Word request please: picnic?
Word request: Guru.
GURU means “heavy, important” in Sanskrit.
to have clammy hands is to have perspiring hands. usually occurs when one experiences some type of anxiety, such as nervousness or being scared. the best case of clammy hands i can think of is when one first asks out a woman. hmm, asks out. perhaps a new investigation for hotforwords, where did the term “ask out” or “going out” come from?
What does it mean to be “Hot for words” Marina?
Please could you give the origin of hypertext?
Anyone here a Razor clam digger?
I thought I saw one on the bus on the way back from work this evening. She flipped the phone lid open with her chin.
I don’t know what that is so maybe your making a joke. I do dig for Washington clams in Bodega Bay. They are huge, and great eating. I caught my limit of 10 last time I went. I will be in Bodega this Sunday again but just for a deep sea fishing trip. So what a are razor clams?
Pictures of Razor Clams
See also, Captain Jack’s pornographic links, below.
Nope, not I, CJ. There is too much clay soil here in Indiana to even begin to dig down 4 feet in the back yard for those critters.
OK, yeah, I cheated/googled it, but that was better than to respond to what my mixed up brain told me: Do I know what a razor clam sounds like when it is digging? here/hear English what to do with it?
This is a Pacific Northwest past time. For many generations people would go out for a weekend of clam digging during the season. I remember when I was little all the relatives would meet out at the beach with trailers or motor homes for a weekend. I remember going out at wee hours of the morning to dig for the little bastards. We would each get our limit then go back to camp to clean the little sh!#$. We would eat some of them or bag 100s of them to freeze for later use. Did you know there is like a million ways to server Razor Clams? Reminded me of the movie Forest Gump. Shrimp gumbo, shrimp stew, shrimp fries, shrimp candy, shrimp wall paper, shrimp class mates, shrimp… well you get the picture.
The Pacific razor clam, Siliqua patula
Razor Clams Washington
People digging for Razor Clams
Man showing boy what a clam looks like.
Clam digging Gun and shovel
How about this guy. Panopea abrupta or GeoDuck
And the very large Geoduck
Native to the Pacific Coast of the United States and Canada (primarily Washington, British Columbia, and Southeast Alaska), it is the largest burrowing clam in the world, weighing in at an average of one to three pounds (0.5 – 1.5 kg) at maturity, but specimens weighing over 15 pounds (7.5 kg) and as much as 2 meters (6 ft) in length are not unheard of.
– Now for the interesting part. Listen up:
Geoducks are one of the longest-living organisms in the Animal Kingdom. They have a life expectancy of about 146 years, with the oldest recorded at over 160 years. Scientists speculate that the geoduck’s longevity is the result of low wear and tear. A geoduck sucks plankton down through its long siphon, filters them for food and ejects its refuse out through a separate hole in the siphon. Adult geoducks have few natural predators, which may also contribute to their longevity.
You can wiki the rest if your interested. Weird little critters hu?
Well thats it for your biology lesson for the day… Enjoy!
Thanks for the lesson CJ.
I hope you get that spot on the Discovery Channel. Nice lesson Jack. Could we get your autograph before you become faimous like Marlin Perkins.
Jack knows about Red Tide, Clams are off limits for eating, during Red Tide. Happens up here in the PNW from time to time & thats why when I use the expression… I changed it a bit to “happy as a clam in a red tide”.
<a href=”“>Interesting page Sashimi is quite popular with more & more people. Beautiful piece of meat
BTW Jack, love the pics on the beach. Cheers
Billy, Tnks for the video. I was going to make the Geoduck in your pants joke but you beat me to it. I think Mike Rowe was made for that show. He really needed to get away from the shopping channel. You could tell that show drove him nuts.
At the beginning of the clip, it looked like the town of Shelton, WA; which I have visited many time years ago.
Capman, No Mike I’m not going to be on Deadliest Catch. I like my new job too much to go fishing with the boys. My name might get mentioned; who knows? Im aiming for the water channel if they get going again. He is a sexy promo. I think they used a bit too much sexapeal to sell the show. But Im not complaining. LOL
The Water Channel promo
You know PD and CM. Im thinking about doing some educational video on YT. I had plan to do them on DVD to replace the old outdated videos that are currently out on the market. That plan was far into the future when I get a large offshore boat to do them on. But recently Im thinking about doing little 5 min clips for YT which I don’t think would take away from my DVD sets I plan to make. Yes I know DVD will go the way VHS did, but many boaters don’t have high speed internet yet.
Im so frustrated with boaters that do unsafe practices and just don’t know any better. I feel it my obligation not to loath over it but to do something constructive. Who knows, it might save someones life one day.
Sound like a good idea hu?
CM, Marlin Perkins? I loved watching that show when I was a kid!
Thanks Jack cousteau
Lol very funny. My dad used to call me that. Its was one of my favorite shows to watch when I was little.
amazing video.
as always.
etymology is actually sounding very tempting for me to study at college :O
i was watching the video of the tomatoes, and we had to think of a food that is eaten with the hands.
sandwiches came to mind.
and i wonder, where does the word sandwich come from?
This video seemed to go fast paced
How about the origin of “horse feathers” it’s an old expression…
Happy as a lark! ~
Wow I haven’t heard that one in ages!
my wife and I really enjoy what you do. we have been trying to find out where the word blowjob comes from. we have tried to find it, but have just found the definition. any chance you can help us find the answer? thanks.
Marina someone posted a hateful video on Youtube about you.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU
He’s a dweeb. But hateful….
And in the running for serious case of cracker moves…
Thats an old video. Its just a joke vid.
I don’t get it. Did I miss something? Hateful to Marina?…maybe I need to watch again…
Don’t feel Bad PD I didn’t get it either.
Its a video prank.. Stupid does what stupid is.
Did I see the same video as you?
Rick Astley singing “Never going to Give You Up”?
Quite appropriate, considering the effect Marina has on some of us.
OK, the girl with the long blonde hair looked a bit like Marina, but I was watching Barack Obama behind the bar.
So I take it your not going to vote for him. Another good one Bob.
of course clams are happy in high water…at low tide they get steamed!…
clammy hands are those with sweaty palms, particularly when it’s a cold sweat. Sometimes it’s nervousness, sometimes it’s just part of who a person is. Whichever, it’s icky to <a href=”shake hands with a sweaty palm…
and wtg, lividemerald & BillyB…
…
That vid with the hands sure was odd. I wonder what tha twas from?
dnk…looks like some sorta blacklight or thermal imagery…but i’m no digital god…
Perhaps you have heard “happy as a pig in shit”. Personally, I think this is probably a bit unfair, but nevertheless it is said. Hmmmm, “nevertheless” is an interesting one — how about that one, HotForWords????
i heard if a pig is given clean conditions it will keep clean never heard about pig in shit though.. interesting
Homework: Clammy hands means one has sweaty palms and icy fingers – all the better to grope you with, little Red Riding Hood.
Bob, your mind’s in the gutter again, or perhaps it always is!
I’m gutted that you think that.
‘er, Bob…with sweaty palms, Marina would slip right thorough your fingers…
and right into my arms…
<<<—cool song, btw…
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days hit me all at once.
Do you think Marina is having us on? What does clammy hands mean? Oh yes teacher, it means sweaty hands!
i guess that would leave you in a dayze, then…
If your hands are clammy then you better see your doctor, you might be having an issue. It could be a disorder called hyperhidrosis.
Has anyone seen of captainjack??
It is what two videos and no CJ?
I must be psychic, I thought about you and their you are.
Ok, is anything coming to you for the lotto numbers for tonight?
Your scaring me RRR! hehehe. Funny thing is I get that alot.
The way I heard it, it was, “Speak of the devil and he’ll appear.”
Hey marina, can you tell me why people say eagle, birdie, par, and bogey in golf? thanks =)
BillyB!, even go your avatar in there!…sweet
Well Im happy as a Gooey Duck at high tide!
Im back! Did anyone miss me? No?!?! That figures.
I was still on Bluetooth…
What did I miss? Oh wow! Oh gee, and look at all the lessons I missed.
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Yes, we missed you! Just figured you were out sailing the high seas agin…or working on the holes in the boat!
The boat already has holes in it so what a few more? Notice Im calling it a boat an not a yacht anymore? LOL…
Yes, I missed you. Check through the tomato post!
Ok tnks. I’ll get to asap. I love tomatoes! But only home grown ones. Store bought kind are horrible.
There you are I had not seen you.
Thats because I had my clocking device activated.
i missed you…but then, i always did have bad aim…
I didn’t need to know about your personal problems!
Oh and no I don’t want to shake your hand ever! LOL.
PD, LFW & RRR, and the rest of the HFW gangsters. Tnks, Missed you all. I was going through withdraws.
PD, I’ve decided its going to be someone else’s problem. Im not to spend too much time & $$ to fix the rip in the side of the boat. Im going to sell it as is and by a boat in SoCal since the market it much better there than in NW. Prices are much better too. Also it will save me the trip of having to sail down the coast in bad season.
No high seas stuff for me right now. I’ve been working on some tv projects like the Discovery Channel and The Water Channel. Also been working on my new Kirkland class. New city, new class room, new this, new that, more USCG red tape, etc. etc,. I have 2 classes to teach before I decide what Im going to do. I might stay in Kirkland for the winter (which I don’t want to do) or move to either SF, LA, or San Diego. USCG wants me to teach in LA because of the high demand of calls they receive for instuctors. I can’t seem to convince myself to want to live there. I guess its all of the bad memories I have of the place. When all this is going to happen is still undetermined.
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Well, if you ever make it to LA lets go eat some chow at Blujam! If you ever make it to SD(my stompin’ grounds) let me know, you, PAGE and I will go grind some fish tacos at Wahoos!…deal?
Hey when you mention food, Im their like a speeding bullet.
Btw I love Fish Tacos! I like just about any taco. I even like saying the word Taco, Taco, Taco, Taco, Taco. And what the heck is Blujam? Is that very sad jam? Sounds like a breakfast joint you throw in eggs, ham, cheese, green & red peppers, and roll it up in a large tortilla and
smokeeat it.Hi Jack,
Glad you come home for awhile. Let us know if you have any tv specials coming out as I want to make sure I record them. Then I can say I know that man. Besides I love the Discovery Channel, but never heard of the Water Channel. I will have to find out what channel it comes on here. Sorry about not being able to fix up your boat maybe you should do what the Skipper and Gilligan did and just glue some boards to the side of it. A little paint you won’t know the difference from a mile away. OK, enough for now on burning your ears. Good luck finding a new boat and a home. Don’t stay gone so long next time.
Mike
Glad to be back Mike. I was only like 3 days and yet it felt like a week, Weird….
To get TV show gigs going it take years sometimes. My buddies are up in Alaska getting ready for next crab season. Your going to see some rubber duckies I gave to the crew of the F/V Time Bandit. Maybe even a big black spider on Eddies grill of his truck. Eddie has a fear of little spiders so I just had to buy him a giant rubber spider. Your also going to see the first hot tub ever on a crab boat. I have some photos I’ll upload soon. Then you can brag to your friends on some trivia of the Time Bandit.
The Water Channel’s main offices is up here in Everett, Washington, about a 30 minute drive from where I’m at. Funny thing, I bough my sailboat in Everett. Anywho, The WC is a cable channel just for things related to water activities. Like boating, sailing, cruising, fishing, etc. They are always looking for content. The show is suspended right now for I think some investors pulled out. I’ll let you know when its back on.
Ok I’ll try not. hehehe
Blujam. Check out Marinas annoucement on the home page about “the best cafe in LA”, then vote if you want to.
…says she loves it and if you mill around there long enough you may even see her. 
Ok thanks. I shouldn’t vote because I have not tried it. Maybe I can fly down there someday and check it out. I have some work to do there anyways.
Clamy hands for me means I’m driving over a long bridge usually wih any kind of arch to it, but any ol’ brigde will do it to me…don’t know why
, this just started happening to me recently. Funny thing is, if I’m not driving I can stick my head out the window and look over the edge, no problem…who knows 
…like the Coronado bridge , forget about it, I going all the way down and around up the silver strand 
Because the video I am making tomorrow of fork free day will be filmed on my phone, and is on a quicktime format does anybody know of any movie editors like movie maker but for quicktime videos (free)
Hi, Marina:
I’ve just discovered your website by watching your videos on Youtube, and I’d like to tell you that I really like it. It’s interesting to learn about the origin and meaning of the words.
I also want to request a word.
As you can see on my user name I am a Black Sabbath fan, so I’d like to know about de origin of the word Sabbath and its meaning, because although I’ve got an idea, I’m not really sure, you know, so I’d like to know what exactly it means and where does it come from.
Hi blcksbbth,
Great request. I requested that word a while back also.
Here was my request.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/06/14/handicap/#comment-25832
PDK how do you go back and find a comment like you did and url it so you can put it up for the rest of use to read. me not so brite when it comes to things like that.
I know I know, but I won’t spoil it. It would be interesting to see Marina do it.
Great lesson!
Kudos to Lividemerald
(another girl?!)
and BillyB – Congrats!
IHomework:
sweaty palms?
how about..
clammy with the flu?
5 stars x 2
Interesting as usual. Thanks so much. I was wondering about the origins of possible, plausible, and deniable. Looking forward to the next video.
Hum, you have clammy hands when you are nervous/stressed.
Nice video (feast for the eye), and a very nice picture again ———–>
….informative too….
can you tell me the origin of “cabaret”
Phrase request: Sense of humor. We all think of it as liking jokes or humor, but that is not really the origin.
Marina
Great job once again.
And may I say Your Orchid is FABULAS, SUPEDOUS Out of this WORLD!!
And You are such a Happy little Clam .
RRR
happy, happy, joy, joy
A 5ER
See when I am a happy guy no one even notices.
I misspelled fabulous and stupendous. Nothing?
Or you knew I was trying to spell with a Gay accent?
I did notice that someone else thinks Her plant is looking ……..sleepy..
rrr
This is a very interesting word I think almost no one knows what it really means.
Person
So, I’d like to request the word Person. ^_^ PLEASE!
can you do “burying the hatchet?” I’ve been trying to do that lately but i dont know where it came from
I just have to share this with you.
http://zecster.lbbhost.com/Pics/Kiss.html?41
They’re not dumb, just tasty. Just kidding, that is a great picture and story. My brother-in-law is a Sacramento firefighter, I’ll bet he will like this.
I bet he’s seen his share of woods fires?
Probably tastes like chicken.
That was a good one…almost had me wellin’ up over here! …’sup C-dog?!
Hey bud, just chillen today. I feel good so no more under the skin the comments will get.
Aaaaah. (soppy
)
I want some of what you got…Diazepam?
Percosets, two big bottles plus muscles relaxers.
They are for pain in my neck or ass sometimes. 
I have 4 arthritic disks in my neck.
GERONIMO
Hey, trying to jump ahead in the line?
I know it’s been said before but ask Geronimo what he says when he jumps from a plane.
MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Time to go eat, I think I’ll have fried catfish and oysters with a side of cole slaw and hushpuppies and tator salad. See yall later.
bye, i’m going to bed:P
u better not eat that with a fork!!! If you had clammy hand would you have clammy hands?
James, you wish you had clammy hands…..
yes.. yes i do
Terrible how you catch a whiff of them when you scratch your nose…..
urggh.. nice . yum yum. I have never eaten clams oysters etc. im not really a seafoody person
James, I thought you were with me on this one….
Actually, terrible is the worng word; fabulous is a better one!
wait.. i said i have not eaten clams mussles and etc, didnt say anything about mussels and.. wait that was i typo i meant i have not eaten hams and truffels
sorry in england its 12:10 am its the tiredness i probably dont even know what i am typing now so i will stop before i twitter on about something random like pillows.. mmm. pillows SEE IT HAPPENING ALREADY
!!
I think it’s beginning to sink in, but I am not sure…….
yes i know what u mean haha
need sleep but im not going to, will u watch the first part of my fork free day tomorrow?
Only if you promise to have clammy hands……
oh…. allright then. I will post the link when its done
While you’re at it get an avatar
“MMMM….pillows” Funny!
Is your avatar going to be a fork, a clam, or clammy hands?
What is the origin of language? Like, how did words and all come about?
You can read Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s “On the Origin of Language.” Metaphysically speaking, language cannot have an origin……
LFW its tough to get out of you womb broom too
36th!
GERONIMOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay Marina,
What is the origin of the war cry “Geronimo”?
You’d make Geronimo happy; you’d end up by saying it many times…..
I third the motion for the word GERONIMO
i have found the origin of the word geronimo http://www.answers.com/topic/geronimo-word-origin-mexico
ssssshhhhhhh!!!! we want Marina to do it!
James! Do I have to hit you upside the head? Let Marina do it! Can you somehow remove that post? Thank you everyone else for the suggestion and support.
No we can’t remove or edit posts. I wrote Marina a website suggestion about that. I’ve been on lots of other fora where you could…Over here it’s set in stone.
oops.. sorry im up for geronamio too sorry of didnt read all of it damn sorry again, dont hate me arrgh
Roast one of those pigs to go along with the clams we are having.
Sorry we ate all three of them in only 6 months. They were awesome. Just the right size.
The editors of the magazine changed a lot of the story. The original was much more funny. But…what are ya going to do?
Prediction: oysters
Maybe oysters with a dirty martini to wash them down?
What is the origin of Origin
ORIGIN comes from the Latin word ORIGO “place where the sun is going out from the earth”. The verb ORIRI mean “to get out from”. The root OR- “mouth” could be well the stem of the stem.
Marina, do you prefer clams, mussels or oysters?
oysters ,yuck, slimy ,salty snot
Not when smoked or fried! I love them
How do you feel about clams, foxbow15?
I never realy got to eating clams………..I like mussels tough, i just don’t need to look what’s inside it
ok…… now i’m realy going to bed!! it’s like 1am and i have to get up at 7 hehe
I like clams too but not as much.
You have clammy hands when ur hands are all damp
can u tell me why people say cheese when they take pictures it seems like an odd word to use
Thx
Souljablacc66
aka Vgwiz28 <—Youtube Acc
When I was a photographer I would tell people to say ‘whiskey’ It has the same affect but is less cheesy. (pun intended) It just puts the subjects mouth in generally the right position.
Thats the second time lividemerald’s gotten an expression in
=
I guess the women stick together
with a cup?
Like clams?
Synonyms for “happy as a clam”:
Happy as a goblin
Happy as a pig in slop
Happy as a dog with two dicks!
Anyone have any others?
a dog with two dicks–that’s a new one. Are you in oz?
Negative – I’m an Amurrican.
But, I do love the Outback Steakhouse chain, and shrimp on the barbie! Not sure aboutr Vegemite sandwiches, though….
Would’t that be : “murcan”?
and the Opossum has a forked dick
and a pigs looks like a cork screw
Uh?
How can a dog have to Richard Cheneys?
Sound like double speak if you ask me… 
Richard Cheney? two?
If you want start that war, It could really get ugly.
Bush and Cheney bashers, Have never been in charge.
The Big Dog,
Would have my statement made more sense if I said Dick Cheney?
In French we say “Happy like a Fish in water” :->
Heureux comme un poisson dans l’eau.
Teacher,
Thanks for the happy smiley face on your home page introducing this video.
It becomes you.
clammy hands=sweaty hands hmmm…?????
I agree with Prospero it is a sign of nervousness or an illness. By the way your Orchid is just fine. I was told this by a person with a green thumb.
Come on Prospero tell us some more jokes. We needs a good laugh.
thats an awsome suggestion
Hi capman911, I am giving you the answer down here to your question up above. I couldn’t reply to you there. I don’t know any easy way to do it. Someone else may have an easier way.
In general, find the page of a previous comment, then copy the URL of that page to notepad, then tack on a #, and then tack on the comment ID. The final general URL would look like this:
hfwsitecom/otherstuff/#commentID
Here are the specific steps. You can use any Mozilla browser. For other browsers, the steps are different.
1. Go find a previous comment on some page.
2. Copy the URL of that page to notepad and at the end tack on a lb/hash sign: #
3. Left click on the bullet of your comment, which highlights the comment.
4. Right click on the highlighted comment, then click “View Selection Source”.
5. The first line of the highlighted block shows you the comment ID.
Example: id=”comment-35927″
6. Copy the comment ID w/o quotes and tack it on to the URL in notepad.
7. The final URL would look something like this.
hfwsitecom/otherstuff/#comment-35927
How do you make it work for replies? There’s no bullet on replies for you to click on.
OK, found out myself.
Click and drag to highlight the whole of the answer comment.
Thanks alot pedantickarl, sorry it took me so long to get back to you to thank you.
Mike
Wow I leaned a new html trick. I aways wondered what that feature was for. I would search for hours in just the raw source code.
Like on other sites doesn’t trackback or whatever they call it now, feature do a similar thing?
you can find the comment number in IE by using “View Source” and searching for the comment…CaptainJack’s comment above appears as id=”comment-36571″…
Why did the clam go for a massage? He needed his mussels relaxed!
Actually mussels do have “beards” not clams….
Dear Marina, I’m happy when you’re happy. “Clammy hands” refers to hands that are cold and wet. That might be like that if you went digging for clams.
For a word suggestion, how about “darling.” How did it become a term of endearment? (Just don’t pronounce it like Boris and Natasha did, which was “dah-link.”)
seesix CM6
PS: Because you’re so young, you might not know that Boris and Natasha were cartoon characters in a TV cartoon series called “Rocky and Bullwinkle.”
If I’ve been following teacher instructions right, I’ve been eatting the clams with my hands and then have clam juice all over them, hence the clammy hands.
Cold, Moist and Sticky. 
The clams were happy and not steamed up to be eatten raw and not steamed. 
What other way is there to eat clams but raw?
I tried to stop, but you egged me on.
Clam omelet
OK, that will be different.
(Put catsup on it, hold your nose)
Here’s a clean joke, though.
A clam walks into a bar and the bartender says “we don’t serve clams in here” and the clam says “Shucks!”
Did the clam have a beard?
It was going to get there sooner or later, so I got there sooner. Sorry, very juvenile
I’ll use your word you don’t like LOL that was good.
lostforwords, don’t listen to prospero811, and his jokes, he would sell his immortal soul to the devil for any kind of material goods. Then in the future there would be no more prospero811, just long forgotten memories with a demon living his future life. Your question “did the clam have a beard” No, but the “Beard had a clam”.
Huh?
and the moustache was capable of raising a beard.
I am not joking when I say that I think Stokes is insane. His thoughts are so far out there and some of his comments are completely irrelevant to the comments he is responding to. This occasion is not a good example of that, but just an example of his weirdness and overall disdain with life.
I am not at disdain with life, I am in Relevance of life, i am in disdain for materialist, gluttony, and greed.
And who here has shown those characteristics that you make such comments to prospero and others?
So you are going to vote for Obama. If you vote at all.
Stokes or should I say Tokes sounds like an old burned out Hippie of late 60s. Bald with a pony tail , jeans with holes, open toed shoes.
And smokes my weight in pot a week.
His references to life are out of your focus. Try not to take him literally. He speak in generalities. With wide brush stokes in water colors. You need to stand back, Far Back, to see what it is he is trying to get across.
Or he is just insane.
RRR
Here you go boys a video for for you whatevers.
He’s too stoned to add the video “for for” us whatevers.
stokesjrj1 click me. stokesjrj1 replied on July 9th, 2008 5:30 pm:
Here you go boys a video for for you whatevers
Marina has”t posted this video to YouTube Maybe this ones only for her web page.
Here you go boys two videos for for you whatevers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeeAtTZAWj8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f08zxRtbz5A
“lostforwords, don’t listen to prospero811, and his jokes, he would sell his immortal soul to the devil for any kind of material goods. Then in the future there would be no more prospero811, just long forgotten memories with a demon living his future life.”
Hmmm…where did this come from?
There are so many jokes available here that my head is going to explode……
Well, I’ll just do my homework and be a good boy. Clammy hands occurs when one has cold, sweaty palms, usually a result of nervousness or illness.
as in “breaking out in a cold sweat”…
so dang humid today i took a shower just walking from the car to the door of the house…
I got my shower while jogging when a storm popped up within minutes, turning the sunny sky to clouds and pouring rain and it was NOT in the weather forecast. Oh, well, rain happens. I dodged the lightening.
that sucked , had to login first -.-
3rd
Sweaty hands–yuck!
Marina, the homework’s too easy….
you’re hands would be wet
sweaty that is…
I am not sure teacher realized she’d stepped on this particular landmine……or maybe she did!
Ta Dah
I got first on youtube lol:P
You must have swam in under all of us
At least it isn’t the root eater. 
what’s a root eater?