Artichoke
Did the first person who ate an artichoke, choke on it, hense the name?
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Posted on July 14, 2008 · Filed Under Lessons
Did the first person who ate an artichoke, choke on it, hense the name?
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Posted on July 14, 2008 · Filed Under Lessons
For some reason… I can post on any other thread except the Feisty thread…. I’m logged in everywhere, except on the Feisty thread it says I must be logged in to post. Yet, here I am posting. I posted on Sisyphean thread, and then went to Feisty and could not post there. Then posted on Skinny Dip and went back to Feisty and could not post there…… that happens sometimes, and I thought I’d point it out in case others had the same issue.
You are lovely and talented as always, Marina.
The website added some kind of sophisticated cookie thing that is supposed to protect everyone… but the result it that you may need to clear out your cookies for anything hotforwords.com related.
Can you try that and then let me know if it helps?
This problem has gone on for a while. It usually simply requires some time. Like I didn’t even clear out cookies, but clicked around and checked my yahoo mail and stuff. When I came back, I could post. It’s puzzling.
protect from what? how?
I had that problem when I first arrived, being able to post everywhere except the latest thread. I tried various things and eventually discovered that if I changed my browser connection(in Firefox 3) from ‘manually select a proxy server’ to ‘no proxy server’ it works if I sign in again, even if I change it back later. I’m not sure exactly why that should effect only one thread. And it probably means hotforwords has infected my computer, but hey, she already has my soul, so what the hell?
One time I choked on a soy wrap while eating a piece of sushi. It got caught in the back of my throat and I couldn’t cough it out. So I had to use my fingers to reach back there and yank it out. Irritated my throat all night.
And this part isn’t a vegetable or exactly choking, but recently I had an incedent while eating a white peach. Before I had a chance to swallow what I was chewing, I laughed at a joke and it went up my nose. It’s not a pleasant feeling, it is kinda of similar to getting water up your nose, but a little bit more acidic. It took me over an hour before I could completely blow it out of my nose. The biggest chunk of peach was about 3/4 of a cubic inch. I know, it’s disgusting.
Er, teacher, isn’t the word “hense” actually “hence”? For your homework, and for our entertainment and enlightenment, might you tell us where the word “hence” comes from? Mmmmm? Please?
Can you give us any . . . hints?
I choked on a carrot and i am not telling you how that happened okay I will tell you I was talking to my mom and I AM A VEGGIE PERSON I took a
peice of carrot and and bit it and my sisy was playing a joke and I started to lagh so hard I choked and fell on the ground
Ah. that was amusing thank you
is aspsarigus related to artichoke
ALOHA~ MARINA
SOMETIMES YOU JUST TRY TO HARD!
LMFAWO; you yahoos are a trip! Now to set the record straight; 1: I’m a retired Web Master living in Paradise in the South Pacific. I use a Mac Server and a T3 wireless broadband ramp to the net. 2: Spend most of my time on the net’s largest 3D Virtual World designing for fun, speculating on virtual land for profit. When I’m not there I’m in another social networking site that is a Virtual Bar; making new friends & entertaining old ones with Vlogs. 3: I repost Marina’s Hot For Words there for the past two months, every day for entertainment purposes solely. I became a member here to be a Critic, which apparently her viewership’s skin is too thin to tolerate. She hasn’t asked me to leave or complained on my words here! So get a life Kiddies & Suck it Up! Aloha~
I think your sage is needed here. A few 24 hours-a-dayers are taking over this site as they comment on everything, always. They call themselves the ‘minions’ and all of this, in a socialogical way, is absolutely fascinating…but also from a business perspective I am extraordinarily interested in how to manage and/prevent such stuff, I have some strong ideas on ways if you have any ideas you’d like to share I’m all ears…
okay4now Mahalo for the Heads Up on the, what did you call them. ‘Minions’! I was making my bones on the net when these Minions were learning which way to wipe. They had better clear a path, for the Big Cat is on the prowl here now & as anyone has seen I won’t tolerate any sh*t on my watch. I always can give better than I get but cross me at your mortal peril. 24/7 would make them hackers or unemployed slackers either way they’re no threat & if they’re the latter, they won’t be here long. It take money to access the net & when that runs out they’ll be history out looking for a job or panhandling on the corner for food. Look for all intents & purposes this is a discussion thread; unless your in the computer or software business would you care from a business perspective? The problem wouldn’t exist in those two cases. This site has turned into a Social Networking meeting ground; while I don’t think that was Marina’s intentions at the onset. Like many of us web publishers, she was seeking content for her HFW Videos! Aloha~
Yeah, creating a private (members only) site & trying to consider how to theme & set a discussion thread type atmosphere without an active ‘cop’, and I agree it would not be the same issue as here but I won’t stand for any of it and I could see how it could develop, even on a small scale, as friendships turn into some cliche of the teenage years–and it is based on a professional trade so the problem would be different but in creating a positive freeflow area that is welcoming I see a big benefit & victory. I trust Marina will get ahold of it at HFW, (she has massive volume feeding into this site from youtube) and it’s painful to watch it being so actively chased away by future panhandlers…cheers!
Here is the best word ever found in a dictionary:
calipigeon
YES!!! It is a real word. Please look it up and you will be enlightened!
..DUUUUDE !! nice but I think you misspelled it …
…. callipygian …. gettcha game right pleya …
Marina,
I would love for you to investigate the meaning of the words. Caddy Wompus.
Thank You,
Random Darkness
Aloha stokesjrj1; take your hand out of your pocket & tell her not me! I don’t award points for gushing, but maybe she does!
whitebyrd, If I Had my hand in my pocket i wouldn’t be typing this while using them. I don’t need your points.
Be sides points for what? Do you think I am a gambler or something?
I would like to know the history behind the phrase ‘fly by night’
I have nothing to apologize for, never said I was humble or civil & of course you can Troll, Your are one! Aloha~
Hi Marina,
I’ve got a worthy mission for hotforwords. What is the origin of the phrase: “A penny for your thoughts?”
I’d love to hear your “two cents” on the matter.
pedantickarl Congrats you can read & write emails but can you do more than play with your hands? Again you really believe she built this site & services it Duh if she’s as smart business person as I believe she is; she has a team of IT professionals working for her! An it takes a team to keep a site up 24/7 unless its your Blog. What do you know of my background? Are you retired young, well before retirement age from making a fortune on the net? I am & did & now live in the South Pacific on an Atoll! Where do you live? Aloha~
Hi whitebyrd,
Thank you for your reply, but you still didn’t apologize to Marina. You may be all you say, but humble and civil isn’t one of your attributes.
I call Troll!
whitebyrd, you are correct… my website is hosted on my own server that is maintained by the hosting company… but it still requires me alerting them to problems when they happen.. and the only thing they fix are core computers functions… so any time to encounter issues, I appreciate the heads up!
Now, don’t go getting into arguments here… there have been some really nasty people that have made their way over here from YouTube… and I think people here are trying to keep it a little more civil than what you find on YouTube.. so that may be why there might be an overreaction at times to what people say!
The people here are actually pretty cool.. so please give them a chance! I think you can have some fun here!
I left you a nice video response Marina but I don’t see it so I suppose your site doesn’t allow such things! But I’m sure you saw it. You know when I was doing web site design & virtual web hosting & e-commerce; I would use every browser that was available to see how my builds appeared on all platforms. It was much easier to tweak the code before I uploaded, than to have the client emailing me with a complaint. From what you’ve related to me, I suspect a line of code is the guilty errant between HFW & YT! Have your programmer clean up the code & I bet these problems will cease to exist. Aloha~
By the way.. glad to see that you are a mac guy! I am mac all the way as well!! So much better than pc!!
I am a pc guy.. People here are pretty cool. Such as myself lol I’m only cool right now because I am sitting infront of a fan
Been with Apple since the Lisa, even did telephone tech support for one of the larger Mac resellers. I think I need to qualify one thing, my server is the next to the last model Apple made using the Motorolla processors. They run extremely fast & Hot (this is why Apple switched to the Intel chip) but I have two in my server & they both have their own water jacket to keep them cool like your car has a radiator to keep it cool. I’m a tie-dyed in the wool mac man (not many of us left) since the Intel inside happened. I won’t buy a new mac now; the intel makes too many math errors for my tastes. I buy old mac & upgrade them to my specs & eat Intel macs & pcs for breakfast! Aloha~
Aloha pennsyltucky9 Are you Anal Retentive or do you always keep you head up your ass? I f you paid to be a member here then your a Smuck too!
I don’t think Playboy or TopMusic are small potatoes roadrunrnch but Hot for Words can take the heat or it’s time to get out of the kitchen! Besides who said I hated Hot For Words or Marina for that matter? Not Me! Are you people all so small minded that you can’t tell the difference between Hate & a Constructive Critic? Or is it your all just Hot For Marina; go take a cold shower! Aloha~
whitebyrd, God Knows Marina is performing exceptional, and someones wanting to assign blame, have to realize that some things are just not within our abilities to negotiate…………..
pennsyltucky9, Don,t let this guy speak to you that way. Take up for your self.
I need the answer to this, teacher, it’s driving me bananas [oops]!
Here it is:
When you have had a good time, a wonderful time doing something [like breakfast at the Blujam?]…
then it may be said that you have had a whale of a time.
A WHALE OF A TIME ?
What does a whale have to do with this? If it’s the whale who swallowed people, it doesn’t sound like fun. Where is this whale, anyway? Was there a whale-sighting somewhere, I mean, a sighting of a very very special whale? Well, what did they see that was so special with this whale? Why did this warrant bringing his name, and this very idea, into eternity? Enshrined in language just ‘cos he’s a lousy fish? I don’t think so! It’s also not fun to be caught in a whaling ship, it’s not fun to be burned for heat and oil, and it’s certainly no fun to sacrifice body parts for the fertility rites of another species!
Please help me out, I really could go bananas!
Regards,
Sweet2
Whale done!
I have a word that I’d be interested in knowing the origin of: stymie, as in to hinder the progress of something.
Also, the caption for the video uses the word ‘hense’ is this an Americanism? or just a spelling mistake? I only ask because I’ve just finished watching the latest Teacher’s Tip which promotes a grammar and spelling checker, then I saw this caption - it made me chuckle.
I would like to know where the word kitsch comes from?
melikadothechacha replied on July 15th, 2008 5:07 am:
word request - ersatz! As in oK4now?
Funny lesson! I would like to know where the wolf whistle comes from?
perspective
Dear Teach,
More to my sumptuous breakfast at Blujam last Friday I have a word request which that delicious meal brought to my mind: flapjacks.
Vsyego Dobrogo, Q
quiggles, I stopped by there to try to meet you but didn’t know who was who… so I missed you! Bummer!
My huge loss! I’m crying. I travel between Seoul/Tokyo & DC a lot. When next I am in LA it would be wonderful if HFW would hold a seminar at Blujam.
Oh how I wish I lived in L.A
aaaahhh, I have to cross the Atlantic to meet you at Blujam, this hurts a lot
HFW on location: coming soon to a city near you…
first stop…Atlanta (well, forty miles south of there, burg called Griffin)…
not as seriously, tho’, maybe take HFW on the road, Marina - vids with some of your fans…
but make it very, very public…
I have never risked to choke with vegetables but when i was four years old, i was on the mountains with my father far from everything and from everyone and i was going to die choked by a plum stone…my father managed to save me at the very last possible moment with the force of despair… i was blue almost lifeless,i looked death into her eyes…but thanks God i’m still here now.
is anyone having a problem to see this video? I mean YouTube is broken
It’s all good on the east coast..
All videos working at this time.
Maybe clear your cache files?
if I knew that means cache files.
Russia in ass, like all time
Hey, melika
I know you are in Fla. What server are you receiving this video from?
Check the status bar of your browser.
In So Calif the video is coming from: v18.cache.googlevideo.com
The HQ video is coming from 74.125.15.155
Thanks melika for the letting me know the server you are getting this video from. I did some research and the v18… server has issues that affect other YT users’ videos as well. Good stuff. Thanks.
Yes subverse, I am also having the problem in So. Calif - sporadically.
It is mainly YouTube issue, and Internet high packet losses in certain areas don’t help. Besides that, Anaheim has a router out of commission.
I just sent another message to YouTube about this problem. Their Help system is very deficient and it appears they are trying to fix that also.
PS
Watch the High Quality version of the video on YouTube. It works.
ok - here’s the dope
bf.vp.video1.google.com <- youtube standard
204.246.232.31 <———– youtube hi res
Ach so! Can you tap into that?
Wy do we call sweaters sweaters? is it because they make you sweat?
Marina,
Have you stopped commenting with CoComments? The CandyKirby post has been there for a really long time.
Have you heard that BLOGTV.com The RUSSIA SITE IS UP AND RUNNING. How cool would it be for you to do a spot, Where you were the go between and teacher . People learning about each other though you.
OK.. couple things… I made it so that the “noobs” all get random monster avatars if they haven’t chosen one for themselves. Do you guys LIKE that.. or do you prefer the generic icon that forces people to go an get a gravatar?
ALSO.. I made the login button take you back to where you were and not the dashboard.
Let me know your thoughts on both of these things.. does the login thing work like before and generic icons or random monster icons?
it’s fine… but how do you get to you’re dashboard now..
WORK WORK WORK! You are so good to the unworthy
o nvm, figured it out.. I clicked my name above the comment box on top.
I like the idea. No more looking at a blank avatar. Can you set it up to where if we go to a personal site that someone left in a reply it will bring us back to the same comment when we hit the return button?.
can you give them a choice
of blue (for guys) and
pink (for the other guys)?
Trouble maker
It randomly assigns a monster is you don’t have a gravatar. This way, maybe it will still force someone to go and get a gravatar. Even thought it randomly assigns a monster.. that monster sticks with the person until he gets a gravatar… http://www.splitbrain.org/projects/monsterid
The dashboard thing was only a problem for me a few times. I’ve been clicking on the “you must logged in to leave a comment” at the top of the comments and never had a problem, so, all good here.
I’m glad you explained to us you’re now giving the new folks a avatar…I was begining to think a whole class of school kids went to a avatar site and pillaged it for everything it was worth!! 
…I’m fine with it.
You also may be glad to know (or not) that I’m about this | | far away from picking up a new iMAC.
pagedoll, iMac kicks SERIOUS butt!!!! You will be SOOOOO happy.. I can GUARANTEE IT
There is just not as much to do with it.
It’s a lot simpler to use. Like playing the Bass, vs. Lead Guitar.
Or mabe, R8 vs B210
what’s with the mac crap? why would you buy an imac?
I like monsters
Generic Icons, and get a dashboard link, it is anoying to jump through all pages.
I think when you login you start at the page you are atm, then go free.
every time i come back i have to log back in again…
pisser…IMO…
as for the avatars, *shrug*…maybe it will help newbies feel like they fit in, but they also would be less likely to take advantage of gravatar…and be seen at other sites…
my 2.5¢…
ok…checking the “Remember Me” box AGAIN seems to have fixed the login problem - i was being logged out everytime i closed the browser…
movin’ on…
I was going through my horoscope online and it said: Meanwhile, the Sun’s quincunx to Neptune creates a slippery slope of tough decisions. So I was wondering what is a “quincunx”.
I know you already have a lot of words in the making to do, but could you consider breakfast as in the morning meal. Does it come from break fast or to take a break first thing in the morning.
yeah.. i tought of that many times but tougth it was someting everyone knew except me :p
capman911, breakfast , lets not be destructive here, break= to stop something, fast= fast is a period of time between the last meal of the day and the first meal of the new day.
I choked on brussel sprouts that is also my word request brussle sprouts
My word is ”SUICIDE”
Ofcourse I’m not going do that
Suicide is the best you’ve got?
oy gevalt!
this is a link to the hara kiri lesson
(sepukuh)
enjoy!
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/06/23/hara-kiri/
Marina - I think you should have a separate site on words relating to vampires. Think of it: Hot for Vampires. Just he name is very evocative, even if you aren’t hot for vampires and I assume you are not. But they are very trendy right now. I have no idea why.
I agree with you jcr. My wife and a few other school teachers are trading around a collection of vamprire books all in a secquence like the Harry Potter books. They are waiting for newest one to come out now. I hope they don’t make this into movies, as if we don’t have enough on tv as it is. Do you remember the old soap opera Dark Shadows that came on in the day time. That was a while back for some of us. Nice chatting with you. Talk to you soon.
Mike
I’m rereading The Historian right now. Not bad. And yes, I remember Dark Shadows very well as well as Count Chocula cereal (which they probably still make). What series are you reading?
It’s Twilight by Stephanie Meyer.
Nice, a German Maintainance announcement. But come on, you know what it means……….Thank you for understanding.
The news made me jump…..don´t do that again
I was wondering about the origins of the word zombie
Hi Marina,
So I’m new to this, but I am a dyslexic english Major, If that make any sense. Oh well, I love your lessons and I think you really hit the right nerve so to say with your approach. Anyways I am Interested in knowing the origins and some background info on the word “soul”. My Professors aren’t really helping maybe you can. Thank you for you time and consideration. Catch you later Bright eyes.
I was wondering about the origins of ‘awesome’ and ‘awfull’, as they don’t seem to make much sense. Somthing fantastic has some-awe were as something dreadfull is full of awe.
Check out this video she already made on both words.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/12/13/awful-and-aw esome/
Hi jamesesprott, the Lessons List above shows that it was done.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/12/13/awful-and-aw esome/
where did we get the word “ass” from?
An ASS is what people called a donkey in olden times. You are saying donkey when you say ass.
Now that avatar is you
test comment
Its working
,Marina when I log in the browser goes too the dashboard?
Hasn’t always done that? I mean, you pretty much only need to log in once in a blue moon.. and it’s always taken me to the dashboard.
It’s just started this behavior. Spooky huh
I will logout and see if its still doing it. it always used to go to the profiles page, now its taking to the my account page or as its called the dashboard.
I just upgraded the website software today stokesjrj1, so maybe that’s a feature of this new version. I’ll look into it.
I logged ion and out and in and in again and the software may default to the dashboard now instead of the profiles page. the profiles tab was there eye only had to poke it with my pointy tale to change it.
Hum, go to a lesson and login there, you will stay on the side you are. I don´t like the login link on the right, it pulls you to your account, and you have to open window after window to get to the side you want to.
stokesjrj1 gets a twofer
Yes she said triplets was more than sh could handle at this time.
sh = she
What a difference! It’s like the web site now run on electricity whereas before it was a mixture of steam and treacle.
Did you down load the turbo edition of this site. It’s in your login page at the top next to logout. It’s both on the dashboard or profile page.
Thanks my gravatar is up.
When I log in I’m always sent to the dashboard page too. I just figured that was how it worked. Is there another to get to the dashboard page without logging in?
Che ‘World Citizen’
Found it, click on my account.
All the nOObs get a pic now?
It’s just not the noobs RRR. Mine is doing it too. It used to log in to your profile now it’s the dashboard. No problem though you can still go to her vids from both of them. PEACE MY MAN
By the way what is your gravatar now. It looks like a penis
thats the northbound end of a southbound buzzard breeder
No RRR it’s not Firefox thats causing the problems. I like Firefox.
Mine is taking me to my dashboard page now too. It used to login to my profile page.
Marina I am also getting alot of you have already posted that comment before. When I have’nt posted one like it. I hope you understand what I am trying to say. The site is alot faster.
Mike
Hope foxfire is not messing you up?
Your avatar is the same on my page. all is good and right.
Thanks to Marinas Diligent work.
Hi, this is Zank. I have an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Durham (1985) and I never got a satisfactory answer to this one while I was there. Q) what is the origin of the word ’sinesis’. It is a grammatical term used to describe the apparent contradiction in statements like:
‘EveryONE must bring THEIR own textbook.
I am now an EFL teacher in Japan and no student has asked me this, but I would like to know where it came from. BTW this may be unanswerable, but I like your eye-candy approach to etymology. One of my students put me on to you! Be good (and if you can’t be good–be careful ;-))
Hello, I tried to find something about this word sinesis and just could find it attached to flowers
, is this the sinesis you meant ?
Yeah >> same thing happened to me, flowers or green tea. I must check again .. Maybe I ‘m spelling it wrong. Thanks for trying anyway.
I’ll be back…
Hum, I think it is just a botanical code for specific plants, mabe when they match in some attributes or what else. I found a site that holds some botanical code …….(whatever). I think they just gave the name to place them into a class of plant, so there won´t be any background info on the word I think.
There truly are flowers that match to a specific symbol, e.g. Sun or whatever…but I think sinesis is just a code.
If Marina find something she can disabuse us/me.
)
(hope it´s the right English grammar
Hum, sinesis…sinensis, the only background info you will get is as I mentioned it in a other comment……no word was spoken without a reason, the only info on thisone is the code I think, “a classification or family for their attributes, or…..whatever”.
Stomp me if I´m wrong
I read this word in an article in the now-defunct Mainichi Daily News, one of the English-language newspapers of Japan over 25 years ago. But now I can find no reference at all, except for the plants/green tea. Maybe I was hallucinating. Forget it chaps–sorry to waste your precious time.
I noticed you did research for Booby, but what about boobs? Also, how about the term Chickens coming home to roost…
M
where does the word “metal” come from (metal music)
cool “Firefox” has a grammar checker
Hi Marina,
I know the word hippie comes from hipster which is derived from hip, but where did hip come from? Thanks!
Ponygirl
i think Hippopotamus cause there sow cool
Vegetables seem to behave & always go where they should, but I once had a fish bone stuck in my throat. Before the E.R. Dr. got there it went up, into the sinus cavity so I left it, and it stayed…for such an impossibly long period of time I won’t even say it—it’s too unbelievable.
We were at work one day and I got a fish bone stuck in my throat and like you went to the er. The doc looked in there and plucked it right out. That was a good feeling because it was very irritating and kinda scary. Since I was in FD uniform they didn’t charge me.
Have a good day. 
You were lucky with your Dr., mine was on a date but on call; 1.5 hours later comes in pissed about cutting his date short I sat there trying to breath without constricting.
I owned a restaurant for years and the Fire Department would come in 6, 10, 15 times a week, which as you know is a lot—I loved it. Many times we’d have to wrap and hold their stuff mid. way through their meals…they always kept us in mind too, I had sweatshirts, shirts, shorts, carry bags all with their logos, very cool relationship.
Oh you changed the flower in your room from the single stem one to red one!
I guess she got tired of us picking on her poor little plant. So she up graded to a newer one.
My favorite. Too bad I can not find any in the midwest like the ones in California. How about “turnip”? Where did the phrase, You can’t get blood from a turnip, come from anyway?
I’ve thought of your next assignment: CORNY. Please feel free to be as corny as possible when making the video.
i cant watch this vidio, my computers being gay, it goes to the part were your talking about the king artherIII and it cuts off the rest
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anyways, just wanted to let you know and request a word. why are homo sexuals called gay and lesbians
….i only hear huaabaha (or something weird) that aint a language…
The artist is Frank Klepacki and he’s polish…. but that song…..There’s no singing so how could you ask what language that is
Try the YouTube Hi res version.
gay
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/07/11/maxim-radio- 10th-show/
lesbian
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/05/18/the-l-word-g ame/
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/05/19/the-l-word-a nswer/
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