Indeed I’ve had a sisyphean task. I worked on radar in the navy and keeping it functioning was always a game of one step forward and zero to three steps back. Another good video. How about the origin of dregs, scum, or villany. Thanks.
After I came all over her titties and during when she was jerking me off. It came from me fucking her big titties with my big hard cock until I cum on her face.
I have a sisyphean task every day trying to do everything that my mom and my aunt want me to do – the works!
Marina, I’d like to know also how shirk and shark are akin, would you please do a video on them so I can know, because dictionary.com doesn’t have an answer as to how they’re obscurely related to each other.
I am a framing contractor and it seems that with the custom houses it is a sisyphean task to get the house completed. There are always tons of changes at the end and the home owner just can’t leave things alone. What do they pay the architect for? I especially like the 8×10 hand drawn porch detail.
Sisyphean life M !!!!!!! Seem-idly 95% of the task done then, as you say, back we go to the start, over and over and over and over and over and over again and again and again……….after a few swift Ales, a re-cap on self, a good meal, plenty of walks and sleep, it’s Next! Keep trying i guess. One day M, i WILL get there, one day…..
Take now for instance. You are thinking about a car over the rent, well, im either going to keep Duko (new found dog), home, wheels and possible new contract or I could be buskin’ the streets pitching a tent some place…..AAAAHHHHHHGGGGGGG……exhausting at times but NEVER stop!
At Josephs 7th B-day party yesterday, we all went Bowling, he beat everyone, then reminded us of it, alot, quite ofton……. however, all the wee lil gals ‘N guys were finding the task a challenge, lifting those heavy balls followed with a very sloooow bowl down to the pins. After a few attempts all were hitting strikes becoming most competitive. So there Sisyphean missons were completed.
Sadly, there is always one who ruins it for everyone by being the ball trying to be clever in causing mayhem as the machine stopped with yours truly stuck under the pins. Wasnt allowed to play for the remainder so had to declare a void. TUT! It was worth the laughter with the looks on their happy faces 100%
Anyhoo, got my boots back on so best get busy with it. Keep on rocking M, you make the best music in the world
This is a word that actually dl.tv podcasters (Robert Heron) wants to know the origin and made the request for viewers to let him know. So I am sort of requesting for them. The word is “Fanboy” Thanks Marina
I was wondering about a word actually, not one word… 2 words, since when did the words Yours truly (usually written in a letter) come to refer to the person whom is writing it?
As people say there is no god, there were none and there won´t be any, how it came to the story of Sisyphus, who made this story, and why, what reason or idea stands behind it ?
He/she just wanted to tell us that we have to keep on doing no matter how hard it gets, or was it a treatment for people ?
Any proposals ?
(I just ask because I want to know what people belived in the past, and what they lived for——-> What they belived when someone told them a story or “vision”, however you will call it. It formed what we have now, that´s why I want to know it)
I indeed have had a sisyphean task. I was once working On a car with my dad and it seemed ok at the start, we listed what would need restoration as so on and began. Though as we went on we found more and more problems which would set us back. after replacing many part on the engine, a vital piece was still found to be faulty meaning we had to dismantle the engine again…it was a nightmare…actually thats a point. Whats the origin of the word nightmare? thanks Marina =)
Marina & capman911,
Capman, the characters issue in your browser is a browser encoding problem and the source of the problem can be anywhere along the line from the hosting site, network packets dropped, your OS settings & changes, and on it goes.
ref: encoding issues UTF-8 versus ISO-8859
The HFW site pages uses a metatag encoding of UTF-8.
Marina & capman,
Another quick note. The original code for the search box in the upper right of the page was originally coded for ISO-8859-1, where the page is coded for UTF-8. That search box code is now commented out, so this is a non issue for normal operation.
However, since capman was doing page refreshes, it is possible that he disrupted the normal flow and caused a perturbation in the browser rendering. This is especially noticeable on slower PCs, / slow DSL connections. Therefore, cached page corruptions can affect normal viewing until cache is cleared and sometimes also cookies.
pedantickarl, That was my thinking also when he was refreshing quickly but I wasn’t sure if that was the case or not. I think your right on thinking that it was cached page corruptions from slower connections. I’ve see this before with 56k connections. I didn’t think I was still possible to get such corruptions with DSL speeds.
Thanks for the info Pedantickarl.
Thanks for the comment up above Captn. Also welcome back from your modem mishap.
Normally, if it was a browser mis-config, the characters would look differently. The broad definition of a slow Win PC can also imply many things including HD not defragged, spyware infections, corrupted files and so on.
The host (i.e http server, page coding) can also be an issue occasionally, especially when it comes to unicode and PHP programming. Capman’s issue and I think James’ may have occured when the voting thumbs were invoked, and then later revoked. People who were online at that time may have then seen the char issues.
By the way, I loved your photo album and also the website & map of your surroundings. Great stuff.
I saw it was many characters so I didn’t think it would have been encoding issue. Some time new plugins can affect php files if not properly written. There are lots of spaghetti programmers out there if you know what I mean. Thanks for the lesson. I’ve fallen behind the times because Im doing maritime work now. I might have to call on you sometime if I run into a problem that I can’t find a solution to.
Glad you like the photos. That was just a small sample of the city I’m living at. I like the town but I have not close friends here. Gets a bit lonely living in a town you don’t have good/smart friends to chat with.
@ HFW users, The photo album that pedantickarl was talking about is here: My photos of Kirkland, Wa and other things. Oh and my buddies on the “Time Bandit”. What a hoot that party was. I should have taken more photos. I was a bit… well intoxicated!
Well I have to suckle on something. Make me feel secure. Where’s my blanky! Waaawww. I want my blanky…
Hey, I notice the blog is loading faster. I wonder if the plugin was the cause of it? I don’t think it would be. Because its on Marina’s server side and not some remote site.
I wish there was a way to put our avatars on HFW server side and not have to rely on gravatar.com. Oh and have them all link to our HFW profile page. That would be so awesome.
I always have to clear my cache to get new gravatars to appear.Works for me every time. I just did it prior to this post and now I see James new gravatar.
I’ve read that word ‘origami’ started in the 19th century, when a European merchant tried selling paper in Japan, that was colored on one side. And paper folding had been going on for centuries before then, where folding techniques went by a number of different names, was rectangular shaped and white on both sides. I guess this merchant thought it would help sales, by making it square shaped and naming the paper itself ‘origami’. Which that name later adapted into paper folding when square shaped folds, such as the crane, became popularized. As to why he called it ‘origami’ or what it means, I don’t know. I’m not sure how well I did to explain what I know, but Marina or someone else might need to clear up a few things.
Sorry, I screwed up the facts a little. My reading comprehension has always been low. It wasn’t a European merchant, it was a paper dealer in Tokyo that had the colored paper IMPORTED from Europe, before he cut them in small squares and sold them as sets called origami. And I may have gotten it backwards of which was named after the other, so it’s probally best if I just leave it at that.
There is a virus going around called the Hallmark Card virus. If you get one from someone you don’t know or if you know them then don’t open it. It does something to your hard drive. I got this info from Microsoft anti virus protection site.
Mike
hey i got a hot word for you one i would like to see in your next video
its ( DUO PRIMA ) and i would like to know what it means and where it came from ? (I’m a new comer to your web site)
Cnacn6o yours truly ( Travis Korpiniski )
Greetings….I was wondering if you could check out the phrase “Son of a gun”…i’ve heard different answers and was curious as to what you could find out. thanx.
That’s a very difficult one to determine. I found one example in a nautical sense of the phrase. “Son of a Gun”: In days gone by, it was often very difficult to find and keep crews to man sailing ships. For this reason, when many of these ships returned to their home ports, the captain was very reluctant to grant shore leave, just in case the crew decided to make a run for it.
However, many of the sailors often had wives and /or girlfriends (i.e. prostitutes) ashore so, by way of compensation, the captain would often allow the ladies to come and stay on board the ship.
While certainly not approved of, some of these ladies where perhaps a little freer with their favors than would normally be considered appropriate. Inevitably some became pregnant. This , of course resulted in occasions when the father may not have been known.
Now, the main sleeping quarters on board a navy sailing ship were shared by most of the crew on the gun deck , and so where the fathers of a child was uncertain, he became known as the son of a gun-deck crew, which was eventually shortened to son of a gun.
Whether this is accurate or not, I do not have the resources to confirm this. Having to deal today with crew leaving the ship. I can understand captain’s not wanting to grant leave of the ship. Not that they would stay in port but they would get into trouble with authorities and end up in jail. Or they would be to drunk to remember to get back to the ship at first sailing. My old boss has left crew on the beach. 32 paying passengers are not going to wait for a crew member to get back to the boat. This has happened twice in the 3 years I worked with Fantasy Cruises. Both times it was the chef (and different ones each time), and we had to go back and get them. Boat can’t leave without a chef.
This might be something Marina could investigate. But I fear that she will come up with the same conclusion. The origin is still undetermined.
TRAILED BY 15 KIDS
A woman walks into the downtown welfare office,trailed by 15 kids… ‘WOW,’ the social worker exclaims, are they ALL YOURS???’ ‘Yep, they are all mine,’ the flustered momma sighs, having heard that question a thousand times before. She says, ‘Sit down, Leroy.’ All the children rush to find seats. ‘Well,’ says the social worker, ‘then you must be here to sign up. I’ll need all your children’s names.’ ‘This one’s my oldest – he is Leroy.’ ‘OK, and who’s next?’ ‘Well, this one he is Leroy, also.’ The social worker raises an eyebrow but continues. One by one, through the oldest four, all boys, all named Leroy. Then she isintroduced to the eldest girl, named Leighroy! ‘All right,’ says the caseworker. ‘I’m seeing apattern here. Are they ALL named Leroy?’ Their Momma replied! ‘Well, yes-it makes it easier.When it is time to get them out of bed and ready for school, I yell, ‘Leroy!’ ‘An’ when it’s time for dinner, I just yell ‘Leroy!’ an’ they all comes a runnin.’ ‘An’ if I need to stop the kid who’s running into the street, I just yell ‘Leroy’ and all of them stop. It’s the smartest idea I ever had, namin’ them all Leroy.’ The social worker thinks this over for a bit, then wrinkles her forehead and says tentatively, ‘But what if you just want ONE kid to come, and not the whole bunch?’
‘I call them by their last names.’
What would be more funny is if you would say moose and squirrel just say it at the end of a lesson, no introduction. We will stop bugging you after that.
Dear Marina . . . I’d like to request a lesson on the word “ratchet”. I think its origins are onomatopoetic, which also leads to interesting spinoffs like “Tom Cratchett”.
James are you making any money for advertising for Cocommnets. If you do then I’ll find me a gravatar to advertise for. like Microsoft oe Apple, or Hot For Words. You know I never thought of putting up a gravatar of Marina or something from her site. Must investgate.
No I put it up because I like the face. I don’t like advertising. I would NEVER EVER take money to advertise on here. Besides I have a new avatar which will be on soon.
Hi Marina, this new system with the karma keys hopefully will and has helped. But the big question is if someone gets to many bad numbers what will happen to them?
Mike
There is a virus going around called the Hallmark Card virus. If you get one from someone you don’t know or if you know them then don’t open it. It does something to your hard drive. I got this info from Microsoft anti virus protection site.
Mike
I went onto the contact page to ask if every comment could have a reply button underneath it (so you never end up having to reply to yourself) and this came up
Don’t know if anyone else is getting this. I clicked on contact then clicked the wrong page, clicked back and then got this
i had the same yesterday when i wanted to watch the new video..only thing that helped was using IE instead of firefox, after a few minutes I was ably to use firefox again…:S
I clicked contact then website problems then i pressed back then clicked it again i think. I also got it when i click on the vodka like water video. but i signed out then back in and it seems all all right now. What I wanted to ask was if it would be possible to have a reply button under every comment that way you don’t have to crawl around for ages looking for a reply button on long threads, and also sometimes you end up only being able to reply to a post you started. Take care, cant wait for next video
James… there is a reply link under every comment… except for the comments that are 2 deep.. then I turned it off… that way the comments don’t get too nested. But what exactly are you asking for as there is a Reply link under every comment.
chevolay on July 17th, 2008 7:23 am
Good Morning
Peace and Love
to all of you
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capman911 replied on July 17th, 2008 9:24 am:
I’ll have to say good afternoon Chevolay. It’s past 1200 here now. And the same back to you
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pennsyltucky9 replied on July 17th, 2008 10:29 am:
That would be about Beer:30 round about these here parts. Meet me back here with a frosty lager!
If I wanted to reply to pensyltucky9 I couldn’t as there is not a reply button under the comment
Whenever I get a reply Hotmail pops up and says I have a new message from hfw.l so if i wanted to reply to PT9 I would have to click reply under capmans or chevolays comment, thus sending my reply to them. This happened to me a couple of days ago when I thought someone was taking the mickey out of me but it was only yesterday after checking back I realised they weren’t. No worries about this anyway.. Just a suggestion.. Error seems to have gone now, will let you know if it comes back
My ears have been burning for a week! I just knew someone was talking about me, and here I finally find James using my lame comment as an example… Jeez, he could at least have selected one where I maintain some semblance of self-respect! Beer:30? Too funny. Guess I’ll have to be more judicious when jabbering with Mike. He’s such a teddy bear.
Marina, I have a confession to make: I sometimes use the third-tier comment area when I don’t necessarily want to hear peoples’ responses directly but feel an urge to voice an opinion nonetheless. This makes it a little harder for them to maintain the thread; if they want to reply directly to me they cannot, and so they must go search for another comment of mine and then respond in the dissociated location where it’s just a little less likely that they’ll have the entirety of the original comment to draw upon for inspiration (or ammunition, as it were). But I’m also learning to re-read at least twice and always, always make an effort to reconsider how my comments may impact others. More often than not (the truth here), I realize that what I thought might be a funny response is the opposite, and in those events I backspace it out before canceling my reply so it doesn’t inadvertently reappear in my next comment. School is hard, even this one. I’m always learning, and I have nothing but admiration and gratitude for your perseverance and diligence in maintaining our forum. Thank you my dear teacher.
I can’t seem to find an origin for fire, I am on about fire used in ” My house is on fire! the mother-in-law is in there… oh well” NOT “fire your weapons”
Would be nice to see a video on it. Of course internet has all the answers – but video on this “word” will make without a doubt most seen and most wanted video on youtube ever. at least most popular hotforwords video – I can even bet 100$ onit.
And why is that ? There is several reasons why it will be very poppular:
1. Most of viewers are guys – after all play on sex is not for nothing.
2. 1337 is one of the core “words” that reflex geek culture
3. There maybe the only example after 10-4 – where number became a word.
Marinas youtube comment page is mostly just for spam and abuse:
lovelove347 | July 17, 2008
you are shit and gay so back a way you dum freck your gay like shit and a bich your ass is so big you cant say a word because you are a big bich so dont be my friend but put comets ok bich bye ass dam and fuck your girlfriend bye gay bich
FuryofYungkilluh | July 17, 2008
you are not hot….. you have yellow teeth and a huge head like an asian but nice ( )( ) ’s
How could someone say things like this.. GRR. I would like to see them do what marina does
That’s why we don’t play over there James. Some of those people are so degrading toward Marina, but she handles it very well, plus you talk about a fire fight there would be a nice one. I visit to give her credit for the video count and read her articles and vote, but I stay away from the comments it just makes me mad to see what kind of people are in this world.
Mike
Thats because their I.Q. is below 90. So we could give the mentally challenge a bit of breathing room. Let them nay sayers speak what they want. Its almost free speech planet. We won’t let their rude comments affect what we know Marina is. The truth is well known.
Pee Pee Monger – one who advocates the looking at the bulge in a man’s pants; this is the polar opposite or the feminine version of Chi Chi Monger – One who advocates the looking at a women’s breast.
You know chevolay it is embarrising to have it done to you instead of you doing it to a lady. I know how women feel as a woman was staring up my shorts one day while I was getting a haircut. She was very obvious about it to. But she was also ugly so I just crossed my legs.
Okay, Mike, try this: Next time you get a haircut, pay a little extra $ for a bikini wax as well. If that doesn’t solve the problem , at least it’ll be easier for her to see what how you really feel about her (limp, that is).
I just like a woman to cut my hair. I seem to get a better cut. Plus my stylist is gorgious, she is 6ft.4 and about 160 lbs with bigums and loves to wear a short skirt. My 20 year old son put me on to her. He gets his hair cut by her too.
Perhaps it does in an evolutionary sort of way. As the evaluation of a woman in comparison to the subconscious image of a mans ideal woman encoded in the chromosomes. Or it could be the process of a mans brain of encoding chromosomes for the future generations of man?
Hey! My gravitar works! How y’all are today? Hello most beautiful and intelligent teacher we all love. Listen, I just wanted to ask for a word. It’s an expression that may be a regional thing but here ya go; BUMFUZZLED Maybe capman has heard it around his location. I used to live in his vicinity so he may have heard it a time or two in his travels.
May you all have an excellent day, prosperous in body and soul. Bass players thump!
Quite a mental picture!
It’s used usually to describe someone who’s confused or clueless but I was wondering if it was a made-up word or if it really did have some sort of genuine source other than cousin Homer’s lack of schoolin’
RE: Bob’s reply: “A preposition is not a good word to end a sentence with!”
*shakes head, looks at shoes, sighing* Is there no end to the carnage? *waves arms, looking skyward* Our language has been nothing short of eviscerated! Such flagrant misuse constitutes a travesty up with the likes of which I find myself disinclined to put! Allow me to rephrase:
A preposition is not a good word with which to end a sentence, Bob!
Yes, Deep Purple was the inspiration. I used it on a date site once, got some interesting contacts because of it. People think it’s one thing but it’s really not. Totally a “G” rated nic-name
Request a word: I don’t think it’s obscene or too risque, kind of a cute word. How about:
canoodle
v. intr.
To engage in caressing, petting, or lovemaking.
v. tr.
To win over or convince by cajoling or flattering; wheedle: “his matchless ability to charm, bamboozle, or canoodle most of his political associates” (Timothy Garton Ash).
SEASON is taken from the French SAISON which has the same meaning but which comes from Latin SATIO “sowing”.
The Indoeuropean root of SATIO is the same as SEED.
why the people say about something incredible or awesome WOW when the people started say this word W W can you find out the answer for me Marina … PLEASE
wow = windows on windows, a feature of the windows operating system, allowing newer operating systems to run older programs written for older operating systems, or to have the ability to mimic older operating systems.
Hi,
I would like to know if it is just a coincidence that wigwam and teepee sound similar to wig and toupee. It may be that, because as the first two are tents and the latter hair pieces, they both cover your head. No one else has managed to answer this query so please, please, please help me, hotforwords!
Thanks in anticipation, yvanovicz
I once had a dream that I was first a wigwam and then later a teepee. I asked my doctor if there was any significance and he said “yes, it means you two tents” (too tense)
Some people may not like the new rating system, anybody that sees this comment, give me a thunbs down please…curious to see what happens. I’m older than most so nobody will miss me if I vanish.
Hey, who thumbed up me? The bluezoe is winning now…should I write a long diatribe or something? play fair, be nice to me…
LOL Marina says hello & 11 T/U so far, hehe.
I Know I’ll ask for the word, F— which by the way some have asked for legit & got shouted out. This is a sisyphean task to get down votes.
PT9 I got a remote control door on my cell, can get out fast now.
Goin’ for a drive now…bye
Someone said this’d be a nice car… woooheee….
Eureka, I done figured it out.
I had to sleep on it and it came to me at 3 am in the midst of a thunderstorm.
(This Greek Mythology stuff is hard)
The video really helped and had the answer.
Sexy Marina rolling a rock.
Sexy Marina rolling a rock.
(No Comments on Wet Dreams)
Rolling Rock.
Rock Rolling.
Rock-N-Roll.
THAT’S IT!!
Sisyphean task is the genisus of Rock-N-Roll.
For your homework, What would a Ancient Greek Mythology Rock song sound like (Harp, Pan Flute, etc…)
Does a sisyphean task necessarily have to be unpleasant or a chore? Since Sisyphus was condemned to perform his task as a punishment, it would seem so.
If not, we all have that most agreeable of repetitive tasks, watching and responding to Marina’s videos – before you’re finished with the current one, there’s a new one uploaded by our prolific professor.
I must say, I like the thumbs up/down rating system. Let’s hope that people just use that to show disapproval of other’s posts, instead of shooting their mouths off in flame wars.
Excellent observation, Bob. I had mixed opinions about it at first, but the utility is apparent, especially if it’s anonymous. Keeps us from wasting valuable time as well as comment space on people who will probably never get the point if argued in personal comments. Plus, we’re still free to put our thoughts to words should we so choose, getting the best of both! I hope it streamlines things a bit. Let’s face it; there are definitely some personality clashes amongst the student body from time to time.
My top 10 Sisyphean tasks (the 2nd five):
6. Shopping, there’s just too many stores and things to look at and buy.
7. Surfing the Internet, I won’t live long enough. Search engines are know it alls! Who’s got the best indexer?
8. Avoiding government bureaucratic interaction at any level.
9. Earning enough money to not have to.
10.Answering the question: “Are we there yet?”
Dear Teacher:
My top 10 Sisyphean tasks (the 1st five):
1. Any household chore.
2. Building sandcastles on the beach.
3. Upgrading and maintaining my computers(their worse than babies).
4. Reading all comments posted to your videos,(you just had to go and find co-comments!)
5. Chasing women, I’m just too slow and getting slower. (Don’t know if I’m chasing them away or trying to catch them, I’ve forgotten which or its a case dependent decision.)
a sisyphean that everyone has is … learning. That’s why you got those sayings as: You are never to old to learn and Every answer brings a new question.
So, I guess that would be mine sisyphean.
Also included are 17 professional voiceover tracks by Joe Cipriano. You’re sure to recognize his voice as he’s done voiceover work for broadcast networks like ABC and FOX. His recordings are short segments like, “Now, welcome back to the show,” [note: my bolding - annudder] and “Coming up next in our show…”
anywho, announcing for HFW would be a gig i’d love…
I was watching the Military Channel on tv and they was talking about how fast the average Military boat travel and they kept saying this boat goes 40 knots and this boat goes 50 knots and hour but why dont they say this boat goes 40 or 50 miles per hour why the word knots.
Knots is short for Nautical Miles per hour; a nautical mile being 2,000 yards ( 6,000 feet ). The reason for this is the distance between lines of latitude ( and longitude at the equator ). Instead of asking why sailors use nautical miles the real question should be why does every one else use the 5,280 foot mile.
That gives me a thought. I would like to know why fiery is not spelled firey even though they both relate to heat.. actually scrap that idea, I would just like to know the origin of the word “fire” I can see it now.. HotForWords is on fire..
Getting to sleep last night seemed like a sisyphean task-.- I went to bed at like 1 am and the last time I looked at the clock it was 3 am must have been arround 3.30 am when I finaly fell asleep
When having trouble sleeping… read up on more of HFW’s past comments… that’ll knock you right out! )
That works for me.(most of the time) — I’m on here now for more than 30 hours… can’t sleep… gotta read, gotta comment.
Eh, don’t worry about me though, I rather browse HFW website then lie motionless for 8 hours at a time.
I’ll be going into re-examination session soon, so I guess I’m trying to get as much as I can out of the little free time I have left.
My sisyphean task is to watch a naked teacher. Meaning I get so close to it, for example in your “naked” video, but I never get it. Also, I would like to know the origin of the word “big time” as in “I got you big time”.
Hey everyone! Im Back online! Did you miss me? Oh… you didn’t … Ok.. I’ll go back to my little cubby hole.
Homework: Yes, my current Sisyphean task is getting a class going. I have had to cancel my last 3 classes for the lack of turn out. I’ll get about 3 to 6 students register and then only one will show up for class. Im going broke spending $$$ for room rentals. I now have 4 students registered for my next class. Will I actuality get to start a class this summer? Will find out Aug 18th.
Good lesson Marnia! I’ll to add this word to my vocabulary. I think it a word I can find useful. Good job my dear teacher
Thanks James. You should stop eating with your fingers and use chopsticks like I do. If anyone asks why your eating with chopsticks then tell them you haven’t figured out how to use a fork and spoon.
The proper word to use is “Broken”. (adjective, Past participle of break.) Im just playing with you!
The Mac was not broken. It was the radio modem. It sits way up high near the window. I think I was damaged from the storm I had in June. It was the power plug that failed. Now if they had used a magnetic plug like Apple Inc. uses on their laptops this would have been a non-issue.
I go away for a couple of days and everything changes. Nobody asked me if she could change her site. I was under the impression one had to fill out form DL 682-7 and have it approved from Ronald McDonald before any changes can be done.
Young grasshopper. You just need more practice. One can not be expected to master juggling the first time trying. I like to eat Phở with chopsticks. It’s a traditional Vietnamese rice-noodle soup dish. Its very easy to make. Just need bowl with hot water and throw it all in. I just had some yesterday for lunch.
This photo is of a restaurant located in Bellevue, Wa. I laughed so hard when I read this sign. Phở is pronounced ‘Fu’. Oh and you have to try the spring rolls. Which is a bit harder to make but I have it down fairly well now. Good healthy food.
I was in a sisyphean relationship! no matter how hard we tried to make things work something always came up and stopped it from happening lol. i dunno if that makes sense but if it doesn’t i guess i’m talking to the right girl!
Ratings.. ? arrgh I don’t like change!!! Is this because, RRR & myself got into a flame war yesterday, and now anyone who gets a thumbs down is sent to the fiery depths of hell
cleaning lol it sux
cleaning lol it sux
Wow=Wow==like doggod
Now…this was a task…this random lesson
who’s the sissy?
500!
Exploitation. Builders push rocks. My ass too.
I always thought Sisyphus was a dung beetle.
Keeping up with comments here is a sisyphean task.
Indeed I’ve had a sisyphean task. I worked on radar in the navy and keeping it functioning was always a game of one step forward and zero to three steps back. Another good video. How about the origin of dregs, scum, or villany. Thanks.
I was wondering where tittyfucking came from?
What the hell? Before or After? During? Where did that come from?
After I came all over her titties and during when she was jerking me off. It came from me fucking her big titties with my big hard cock until I cum on her face.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49jEClEVrlI
What is the origin of the word sin?
There is no origin, it’s Original Sin.
I agree with prospero811. This matrix borg life is sisyphean, resistance is futile.
73 and 88
N8ZU
yea its called a relationship. you get so close, only for it to bad again…
thats true good one
How come this is under the Interviews section
everyting is sisyphean when you lose your heart .
I have a sisyphean task every day trying to do everything that my mom and my aunt want me to do – the works!
Marina, I’d like to know also how shirk and shark are akin, would you please do a video on them so I can know, because dictionary.com doesn’t have an answer as to how they’re obscurely related to each other.
Thanks!
-Shawn
I am a framing contractor and it seems that with the custom houses it is a sisyphean task to get the house completed. There are always tons of changes at the end and the home owner just can’t leave things alone. What do they pay the architect for? I especially like the 8×10 hand drawn porch detail.
My life feels like a sisyphean task! Aaaaarrgh!
Well, thank God it’s Friday!
Thank you M, never new about this word before……
Sisyphean life M !!!!!!! Seem-idly 95% of the task done then, as you say, back we go to the start, over and over and over and over and over and over again and again and again……….after a few swift Ales, a re-cap on self, a good meal, plenty of walks and sleep, it’s Next! Keep trying i guess. One day M, i WILL get there, one day…..
Take now for instance. You are thinking about a car over the rent, well, im either going to keep Duko (new found dog), home, wheels and possible new contract or I could be buskin’ the streets pitching a tent some place…..AAAAHHHHHHGGGGGGG……exhausting at times but NEVER stop!
At Josephs 7th B-day party yesterday, we all went Bowling, he beat everyone, then reminded us of it, alot, quite ofton……. however, all the wee lil gals ‘N guys were finding the task a challenge, lifting those heavy balls followed with a very sloooow bowl down to the pins. After a few attempts all were hitting strikes becoming most competitive. So there Sisyphean missons were completed.
Wasnt allowed to play for the remainder so had to declare a void. TUT! It was worth the laughter with the looks on their happy faces 100% 
Sadly, there is always one who ruins it for everyone by being the ball trying to be clever in causing mayhem as the machine stopped with yours truly stuck under the pins.
Anyhoo, got my boots back on so best get busy with it. Keep on rocking M, you make the best music in the world
143, as always….
Be…., you
This is a word that actually dl.tv podcasters (Robert Heron) wants to know the origin and made the request for viewers to let him know. So I am sort of requesting for them. The word is “Fanboy” Thanks Marina
I was wondering about a word actually, not one word… 2 words, since when did the words Yours truly (usually written in a letter) come to refer to the person whom is writing it?
“HECK” where does this word come from? and why do we use it as slang for “Hell”? my last name is Heck and from my understanding its German.
tittyfucking
What? Butthoney
toelicker
I saw you asked us to resquest words in one of your videos, so where does the word request come from?
Well im not exactly sure if this would be appropriate but I saw the balls to the walls video so it couldnt be much worse..
Im curious of the origin of the word: Masturbation
Its a really strange word and it would be kinda cool to know where it came from.
Hum, just a background question.
As people say there is no god, there were none and there won´t be any, how it came to the story of Sisyphus, who made this story, and why, what reason or idea stands behind it ?
He/she just wanted to tell us that we have to keep on doing no matter how hard it gets, or was it a treatment for people ?
Any proposals ?
(I just ask because I want to know what people belived in the past, and what they lived for——-> What they belived when someone told them a story or “vision”, however you will call it. It formed what we have now, that´s why I want to know it)
the greek people did say there was a god i think was zeus the god of the sky
I just realised you’ve already done nightmare, I haven’t seen that one. sorry
I indeed have had a sisyphean task. I was once working On a car with my dad and it seemed ok at the start, we listed what would need restoration as so on and began. Though as we went on we found more and more problems which would set us back. after replacing many part on the engine, a vital piece was still found to be faulty meaning we had to dismantle the engine again…it was a nightmare…actually thats a point. Whats the origin of the word nightmare? thanks Marina =)
How about the word restroom?
We don’t really rest in there, its just a place for you to do your “business”.
Hi Marina and everyone
Yellow!
Submarine
Sup.
We all live
Someone parked a Yellow Submarine under my yacht.
Why can’t reply directly to capman aka Mike
I sound like James T. Kirk
Chevolay, Its because HFW site only is allowing comments being nested 2 deep. It just looks weird.
hello
Hi. Someone start a conversation while we wait for the next video.
Miss M. I just got this again. All I was doing was hitting reload to refresh the program waiting for the new video.
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It’s Jack hacking you Tee hee
Yea I wish it was me. Im not that good anymore. There are 15 year olds that can hack better than I.
Could you email me the code.. as it looks like nothing to me when you make it a comment.
Marina & capman911,
Capman, the characters issue in your browser is a browser encoding problem and the source of the problem can be anywhere along the line from the hosting site, network packets dropped, your OS settings & changes, and on it goes.
ref: encoding issues UTF-8 versus ISO-8859
The HFW site pages uses a metatag encoding of UTF-8.
Here is a URL that discusses the issue, but it still may not resolve specifically yours.
http://www.ccs.uottawa.ca/webmaster/templates/faq/weird-characters.html
If you still need help capman, I’ll help you off-line. Send me a message at YT where the username is the same as mine here..
Marina & capman,
Another quick note. The original code for the search box in the upper right of the page was originally coded for ISO-8859-1, where the page is coded for UTF-8. That search box code is now commented out, so this is a non issue for normal operation.
However, since capman was doing page refreshes, it is possible that he disrupted the normal flow and caused a perturbation in the browser rendering. This is especially noticeable on slower PCs, / slow DSL connections. Therefore, cached page corruptions can affect normal viewing until cache is cleared and sometimes also cookies.
pedantickarl, That was my thinking also when he was refreshing quickly but I wasn’t sure if that was the case or not. I think your right on thinking that it was cached page corruptions from slower connections. I’ve see this before with 56k connections. I didn’t think I was still possible to get such corruptions with DSL speeds.
Thanks for the info Pedantickarl.
Looks like there was an error in the code. I think we are looking at raw data. I think its just a bug in the browser. Just try refresh again.
Thats what I was doing when it put up the code was refreshing.
Thanks for the comment up above Captn. Also welcome back from your modem mishap.
Normally, if it was a browser mis-config, the characters would look differently. The broad definition of a slow Win PC can also imply many things including HD not defragged, spyware infections, corrupted files and so on.
The host (i.e http server, page coding) can also be an issue occasionally, especially when it comes to unicode and PHP programming. Capman’s issue and I think James’ may have occured when the voting thumbs were invoked, and then later revoked. People who were online at that time may have then seen the char issues.
By the way, I loved your photo album and also the website & map of your surroundings. Great stuff.
I saw it was many characters so I didn’t think it would have been encoding issue. Some time new plugins can affect php files if not properly written. There are lots of spaghetti programmers out there if you know what I mean. Thanks for the lesson. I’ve fallen behind the times because Im doing maritime work now. I might have to call on you sometime if I run into a problem that I can’t find a solution to.
Glad you like the photos. That was just a small sample of the city I’m living at. I like the town but I have not close friends here. Gets a bit lonely living in a town you don’t have good/smart friends to chat with.
@ HFW users, The photo album that pedantickarl was talking about is here: My photos of Kirkland, Wa and other things. Oh and my buddies on the “Time Bandit”. What a hoot that party was. I should have taken more photos. I was a bit… well intoxicated!
That half of page of jiberrish is now gone
Marina must have erased it.
Capman, I just added some more info to Marina’s comment below.
I am Jack three tabs to be exact
ehheheheheh… Her last video is at #16 now. She is getting behind her work. I wish I was behind her…
I uploaded it and it will not process.. uploading again
Damn YouTube! Grrrrrrr…
Ok sweetie. Not your fault. Your doing great work even though this is a Sisyphean task.
The word Existential
Have a nice day Prof. Marina
Dear Hot for words,
I’d like to know the origin of the phrase “with baited breath”
Thanks
Retlaw0001
Now it is
Oh that was a great lesson. It just blew me away! I really learned something on that vid.
I know where we will be after we comment here.
captain jack marina will make you walk the plank
Marina’s twin just told me she went out for dinner and should be back in about an hour and a half. I guess we don’t have to wait like Pavlov’s Dogs.
I am running three programs at once, utube, Marina’s site and my e-mail . I got all covered, but watch me get left out again.
Hey Mike I’ll let you in on a little secret. Open this link in a new tab: http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/07/17 then just refresh as you please.
Oh new video is up…….
Not yet but were waiting.
LOl how many did I get on that one???? hehehe Im just devil hu?
Hey! Its 4:20pm ….
Probably quite a few, jumped to the utube channel.
Jack check out this site rite quick then click on her name. the her My space site wow.
http://www.youtube.com/user/PrettyKimberly89x
Nice trick Mike. Trying to get me distracted. Not going to work you fool!
Its #24 on YT!! New vid coming soon then
i tought you said you signed out like an hour ago
I did
well i’m gonna shut of my pc now
i’ll let you guys be first now 
How bout ’shampoo’? Its a funny word!
…I totaly know what you mean!
woah!
i read your reply, then i started watching the “in penthouse” video,
and you were the teachers pet!
cool
hey mintymax, TP for the day was fantastic, am aiming for a second run
Keep the suggestions coming and I am certain Marina will be very happy if you do. You never know, if you are a good student you could be TP too
Hope Marina does your request for Shampoo, it is a funny word, washing your hair with some kinda poo!!!!!
Be well
Signing out now.. watch new vid tomorrow whatever it may be Interestingdf
New idea for a video.. Me singing shut up and let me go.. but instead calling it shut up and let me vogue.
James, how 80’s of you
Duh, I meant like where “IT” came from.
I have long wondered why we use the word sandwich and where is came from. Thanks Catsarefreaks in AR
Sisyphean=dog knot=wild radish=genus Raphanus – radish=wild radish
Hey! Where did all the thumbs go?
Come on guys, you’re all too old, take your thumbs out of your mouths.
I don’t know, I switched to three different browsers thinking something was wrong with each one. I glad I am not the only one to see this.
Well I have to suckle on something. Make me feel secure. Where’s my blanky! Waaawww. I want my blanky…
Hey, I notice the blog is loading faster. I wonder if the plugin was the cause of it? I don’t think it would be. Because its on Marina’s server side and not some remote site.
How Good Is Your Vocabulary?
I found this link in my Gmail bar. Enjoy….
no use
page not found
Sorry. It just needed a “/1″ on the end of it.
How Good Is Your Vocabulary? – Fixed
thanks
Here’s another you might like…
http://freerice.com/index.php
Hey capman, you been going to Bikes, Blues and BBQ regularly? Did you hear The Allman Brothers are gonna be there this year? Should be a great time!
Is anyone else running firefox 3.0. Some of my gravatars aren’t showing up. Any help.
I’m running 3 with no problems… I see all the gravatars.
It must be the computer I am on. Thanks
Hello dear Teacher, I hope your day is going well. You brighten my day with your lessons . . . And your FINE SELF
Your moving up fast on utube, just five more spots till you reach number24.
So do I firefox is the best
now i can see my gravatar
Its a gravatars website related problem. they have some speed issues. browser can sometimes cache empty gravatar
I dislike bumper stickers but I do have a Firefox bumper sticker on my truck. Even paid money for it.
I wish there was a way to put our avatars on HFW server side and not have to rely on gravatar.com. Oh and have them all link to our HFW profile page. That would be so awesome.
I always have to clear my cache to get new gravatars to appear.Works for me every time. I just did it prior to this post and now I see James new gravatar.
__/)__
Oh BTW, Im only running Firefox 2.0.0.16 (newest version of 2.0 for older OS as of last night) Im still on OS 10.3.9
Sad, yes, very sad. 
Just did that and it worked. Another mystery solved by good ole Captain Jack.
>> This solution and many more are brought to you by your local computer hacker <<
Hey Where are all these rating icons gone? they here earlier now there gone.
The word i want to request for is “ORIGAMI”
It’s been associated with the Japanese but i think it is dated all the way back to the Chinese.
Thanks
With a name like you have do you do a lot of origami
I’ve read that word ‘origami’ started in the 19th century, when a European merchant tried selling paper in Japan, that was colored on one side. And paper folding had been going on for centuries before then, where folding techniques went by a number of different names, was rectangular shaped and white on both sides. I guess this merchant thought it would help sales, by making it square shaped and naming the paper itself ‘origami’. Which that name later adapted into paper folding when square shaped folds, such as the crane, became popularized. As to why he called it ‘origami’ or what it means, I don’t know. I’m not sure how well I did to explain what I know, but Marina or someone else might need to clear up a few things.
There is a virus going around called the Hallmark Card virus. If you get one from someone you don’t know or if you know them then don’t open it. It does something to your hard drive. I got this info from Microsoft anti virus protection site.
Mike
Thanks For the “heads up”, bet Hallmark is really liking that one
I have heard of that one for ages
its ( DUO PRIMA )
Cnacn6o yours truly ( Travis Korpiniski )
Welcome korpiniski, We are glad to have new members.
new new new new new
in a good way of course
Greetings….I was wondering if you could check out the phrase “Son of a gun”…i’ve heard different answers and was curious as to what you could find out. thanx.
That’s a very difficult one to determine. I found one example in a nautical sense of the phrase. “Son of a Gun”: In days gone by, it was often very difficult to find and keep crews to man sailing ships. For this reason, when many of these ships returned to their home ports, the captain was very reluctant to grant shore leave, just in case the crew decided to make a run for it.
However, many of the sailors often had wives and /or girlfriends (i.e. prostitutes) ashore so, by way of compensation, the captain would often allow the ladies to come and stay on board the ship.
While certainly not approved of, some of these ladies where perhaps a little freer with their favors than would normally be considered appropriate. Inevitably some became pregnant. This , of course resulted in occasions when the father may not have been known.
Now, the main sleeping quarters on board a navy sailing ship were shared by most of the crew on the gun deck , and so where the fathers of a child was uncertain, he became known as the son of a gun-deck crew, which was eventually shortened to son of a gun.
Whether this is accurate or not, I do not have the resources to confirm this. Having to deal today with crew leaving the ship. I can understand captain’s not wanting to grant leave of the ship. Not that they would stay in port but they would get into trouble with authorities and end up in jail. Or they would be to drunk to remember to get back to the ship at first sailing. My old boss has left crew on the beach. 32 paying passengers are not going to wait for a crew member to get back to the boat. This has happened twice in the 3 years I worked with Fantasy Cruises. Both times it was the chef (and different ones each time), and we had to go back and get them. Boat can’t leave without a chef.
This might be something Marina could investigate. But I fear that she will come up with the same conclusion. The origin is still undetermined.
Here’s a little joke to lighten things up, I hope
TRAILED BY 15 KIDS
A woman walks into the downtown welfare office,trailed by 15 kids… ‘WOW,’ the social worker exclaims, are they ALL YOURS???’ ‘Yep, they are all mine,’ the flustered momma sighs, having heard that question a thousand times before. She says, ‘Sit down, Leroy.’ All the children rush to find seats. ‘Well,’ says the social worker, ‘then you must be here to sign up. I’ll need all your children’s names.’ ‘This one’s my oldest – he is Leroy.’ ‘OK, and who’s next?’ ‘Well, this one he is Leroy, also.’ The social worker raises an eyebrow but continues. One by one, through the oldest four, all boys, all named Leroy. Then she isintroduced to the eldest girl, named Leighroy! ‘All right,’ says the caseworker. ‘I’m seeing apattern here. Are they ALL named Leroy?’ Their Momma replied! ‘Well, yes-it makes it easier.When it is time to get them out of bed and ready for school, I yell, ‘Leroy!’ ‘An’ when it’s time for dinner, I just yell ‘Leroy!’ an’ they all comes a runnin.’ ‘An’ if I need to stop the kid who’s running into the street, I just yell ‘Leroy’ and all of them stop. It’s the smartest idea I ever had, namin’ them all Leroy.’ The social worker thinks this over for a bit, then wrinkles her forehead and says tentatively, ‘But what if you just want ONE kid to come, and not the whole bunch?’
‘I call them by their last names.’
ahhahaha that was funny Mike!
That was funny capman911!!!
What would be more funny is if you would say moose and squirrel just say it at the end of a lesson, no introduction. We will stop bugging you after that.
Well, there ya go
capman911 You must be the kirby county court jester
Now THAT, was good!!
Glad You liked it.
Dear Marina . . . I’d like to request a lesson on the word “ratchet”. I think its origins are onomatopoetic, which also leads to interesting spinoffs like “Tom Cratchett”.
Can you find the origin of the word Jesus?
Jesus is a name.. Not a word
RRR is online..! But his posts don’t look too hopefull
uuh….who’s rrr…..
roadrunrnch
Err… how do you know he’s on-line?
TEST (icles)
I have never had a report card before… What are they like ?
James are you making any money for advertising for Cocommnets.
If you do then I’ll find me a gravatar to advertise for. like Microsoft oe Apple, or Hot For Words. You know I never thought of putting up a gravatar of Marina or something from her site. 
Must investgate. 
No I put it up because I like the face. I don’t like advertising. I would NEVER EVER take money to advertise on here. Besides I have a new avatar which will be on soon.
Hi Marina, this new system with the karma keys hopefully will and has helped. But the big question is if someone gets to many bad numbers what will happen to them?
Mike
detention.
You couldn’t have put up a better video than that Alx. JC is and was the man. Good ole memmories.
best johnny Cash
I guess Marina will come round your house and get you
WITH A FORK!!!!!
Send ‘em a tasty, terminal, virus to wipe the drive!
Nothing left but an empty shell, a handy place to set a house plant . . .
There is a virus going around called the Hallmark Card virus. If you get one from someone you don’t know or if you know them then don’t open it. It does something to your hard drive. I got this info from Microsoft anti virus protection site.
Mike
I have that virus contained on my Mac. Some people collect stamps I collect virus. Do note though, the Mac is immune to the Hallmark card virus.
hey marina for your new word you should do prick i have no idea where it comes from or wat it means thanks
I went onto the contact page to ask if every comment could have a reply button underneath it (so you never end up having to reply to yourself) and this came up
Don’t know if anyone else is getting this. I clicked on contact then clicked the wrong page, clicked back and then got this
�������….. etc…
interesting !
i had the same yesterday when i wanted to watch the new video..only thing that helped was using IE instead of firefox, after a few minutes I was ably to use firefox again…:S
I just had it happen to me also. It has done that quite a few times. I just go back to the log in page and start over.
James.. how do I replicate what you say you got?
I clicked contact then website problems then i pressed back then clicked it again i think. I also got it when i click on the vodka like water video. but i signed out then back in and it seems all all right now. What I wanted to ask was if it would be possible to have a reply button under every comment that way you don’t have to crawl around for ages looking for a reply button on long threads, and also sometimes you end up only being able to reply to a post you started. Take care, cant wait for next video
xx
James… there is a reply link under every comment… except for the comments that are 2 deep.. then I turned it off… that way the comments don’t get too nested. But what exactly are you asking for as there is a Reply link under every comment.
I have found an example
chevolay on July 17th, 2008 7:23 am
Good Morning
Peace and Love
to all of you
[Reply]
capman911 replied on July 17th, 2008 9:24 am:
I’ll have to say good afternoon Chevolay. It’s past 1200 here now. And the same back to you
[Reply]
pennsyltucky9 replied on July 17th, 2008 10:29 am:
That would be about Beer:30 round about these here parts. Meet me back here with a frosty lager!
If I wanted to reply to pensyltucky9 I couldn’t as there is not a reply button under the comment
Whenever I get a reply Hotmail pops up and says I have a new message from hfw.l so if i wanted to reply to PT9 I would have to click reply under capmans or chevolays comment, thus sending my reply to them. This happened to me a couple of days ago when I thought someone was taking the mickey out of me but it was only yesterday after checking back I realised they weren’t. No worries about this anyway.. Just a suggestion.. Error seems to have gone now, will let you know if it comes back
James
xx
My ears have been burning for a week! I just knew someone was talking about me, and here I finally find James using my lame comment as an example… Jeez, he could at least have selected one where I maintain some semblance of self-respect! Beer:30? Too funny. Guess I’ll have to be more judicious when jabbering with Mike. He’s such a teddy bear.
Marina, I have a confession to make: I sometimes use the third-tier comment area when I don’t necessarily want to hear peoples’ responses directly but feel an urge to voice an opinion nonetheless. This makes it a little harder for them to maintain the thread; if they want to reply directly to me they cannot, and so they must go search for another comment of mine and then respond in the dissociated location where it’s just a little less likely that they’ll have the entirety of the original comment to draw upon for inspiration (or ammunition, as it were). But I’m also learning to re-read at least twice and always, always make an effort to reconsider how my comments may impact others. More often than not (the truth here), I realize that what I thought might be a funny response is the opposite, and in those events I backspace it out before canceling my reply so it doesn’t inadvertently reappear in my next comment. School is hard, even this one. I’m always learning, and I have nothing but admiration and gratitude for your perseverance and diligence in maintaining our forum. Thank you my dear teacher.
Never had a sisyphean task…but I do wonder the origin of the words “guacamole” + “knapsack”
I can’t seem to find an origin for fire, I am on about fire used in ” My house is on fire! the mother-in-law is in there… oh well” NOT “fire your weapons”
How a word become numbers ?
Request a word:
1337
In the “geek” world
Love your videos
Ti prosto super!
1337 is LEET which means elite. used by people with big heads such as my brother
Would be nice to see a video on it. Of course internet has all the answers – but video on this “word” will make without a doubt most seen and most wanted video on youtube ever. at least most popular hotforwords video – I can even bet 100$ onit.
I very much doubt that.
And why is that ?
There is several reasons why it will be very poppular:
1. Most of viewers are guys – after all play on sex is not for nothing.
2. 1337 is one of the core “words” that reflex geek culture
3. There maybe the only example after 10-4 – where number became a word.
A video on numbers as words would be really great!
Marinas youtube comment page is mostly just for spam and abuse:
lovelove347 | July 17, 2008
you are shit and gay so back a way you dum freck your gay like shit and a bich your ass is so big you cant say a word because you are a big bich so dont be my friend but put comets ok bich bye ass dam and fuck your girlfriend bye gay bich
FuryofYungkilluh | July 17, 2008
you are not hot….. you have yellow teeth and a huge head like an asian but nice ( )( ) ’s
How could someone say things like this.. GRR. I would like to see them do what marina does
Those people must be realy ugly……
These are best ignored. They stink up the place. Hope you didn’t get any on your shoes.
Sadly yes. But is ok because i went back and wiped it over them
haha that FuryofYungkilluh guy, his influences are: Zezima
lol that’s the biggest runescape(mmorpg video game) nerd on the planet 
Can’t really say I know what that or runescape is. I have heard of it, but never paid attention.
That’s why we don’t play over there James. Some of those people are so degrading toward Marina, but she handles it very well, plus you talk about a fire fight there would be a nice one. I visit to give her credit for the video count and read her articles and vote, but I stay away from the comments it just makes me mad to see what kind of people are in this world.
Mike
I agree. People like that make a good case for ethnic cleansing.
Friends don’t let friend read YouTube comments!
Stop reading them James! 
Why do you think we only comment here? 
I know it makes me feel murderous. especially people who think bitch os spelled bich
Thats because their I.Q. is below 90. So we could give the mentally challenge a bit of breathing room. Let them nay sayers speak what they want. Its almost free speech planet. We won’t let their rude comments affect what we know Marina is. The truth is well known.
Pee Pee Monger – one who advocates the looking at the bulge in a man’s pants; this is the polar opposite or the feminine version of Chi Chi Monger – One who advocates the looking at a women’s breast.
You know chevolay it is embarrising to have it done to you instead of you doing it to a lady. I know how women feel as a woman was staring up my shorts one day while I was getting a haircut.
She was very obvious about it to. But she was also ugly so I just crossed my legs. 
Next time don’t get your haircut in a beauty salon, go to a barber.
Okay, Mike, try this: Next time you get a haircut, pay a little extra $ for a bikini wax as well. If that doesn’t solve the problem
, at least it’ll be easier for her to see what how you really feel about her (limp, that is). 
I just like a woman to cut my hair. I seem to get a better cut. Plus my stylist is gorgious, she is 6ft.4 and about 160 lbs with bigums and loves to wear a short skirt.
My 20 year old son put me on to her. He gets his hair cut by her too. 
Chi Chi Monger, advocates, strange way to express something that eye think most men are hardwired for.
Goes back to breast feeding.
Perhaps it does in an evolutionary sort of way. As the evaluation of a woman in comparison to the subconscious image of a mans ideal woman encoded in the chromosomes. Or it could be the process of a mans brain of encoding chromosomes for the future generations of man?
Hey! My gravitar works! How y’all are today? Hello most beautiful and intelligent teacher we all love. Listen, I just wanted to ask for a word. It’s an expression that may be a regional thing but here ya go; BUMFUZZLED
Maybe capman has heard it around his location. I used to live in his vicinity so he may have heard it a time or two in his travels.
May you all have an excellent day, prosperous in body and soul. Bass players thump!
BUMFUZZLED ?
I KNOW THIS!!
bum (backside)
fuzz (fluff)
led (light emitting diode)
It means you have a fluffy bum of which light shines out.
Quite a mental picture!
It’s used usually to describe someone who’s confused or clueless but I was wondering if it was a made-up word or if it really did have some sort of genuine source other than cousin Homer’s lack of schoolin’
Ya think if light’s shinin’ out of it, that they must have swallowed a flashlight?
Or maybe it was “installed” from the other direction! YEOWCH!!!
or the sun
A preposition is not a good word to end a sentence with!
BOB!! you caught me out… I suppose you have seen me telling people off for doing that, and are now doing it to me for being a hippocrite ….
RE: Bob’s reply: “A preposition is not a good word to end a sentence with!”
*shakes head, looks at shoes, sighing* Is there no end to the carnage? *waves arms, looking skyward* Our language has been nothing short of eviscerated! Such flagrant misuse constitutes a travesty up with the likes of which I find myself disinclined to put! Allow me to rephrase:
A preposition is not a good word with which to end a sentence, Bob!
Okay, I’m breathing normally again. Sorry, James. Got carried away there.
Hi Commoncunninglinguist. Oh yes we have used that word quite a bit. I like your guitar avatar. And may you live long and prosper.
Maybe I should call it my “gravguitar”
It’s not good music without the bass player.
interesting name, by any chance a Deep Purple fan?
Yes, Deep Purple was the inspiration. I used it on a date site once, got some interesting contacts because of it.
People think it’s one thing but it’s really not. Totally a “G” rated nic-name 
Where does the expression You Silly Goose come from?
geese are silly…
Hot For Words
I was outside and I heard someone yell at there child saying ” get in its ranning cats and dogs ! ”
Where did u expression its ranning cats and dogs from ?
Request a word: I don’t think it’s obscene or too risque, kind of a cute word. How about:
canoodle
v. intr.
To engage in caressing, petting, or lovemaking.
v. tr.
To win over or convince by cajoling or flattering; wheedle: “his matchless ability to charm, bamboozle, or canoodle most of his political associates” (Timothy Garton Ash).
WOW, holy cow, now we can rate our comments
could you explain the meaning behind the word “Season”
both in terms of television seasons and seasons of the year, maybe even behind seasoning
SEASON is taken from the French SAISON which has the same meaning but which comes from Latin SATIO “sowing”.
The Indoeuropean root of SATIO is the same as SEED.
Hey Marina,
as requested on youtube pleaaaassseee explain “Onamatapoetry” to us. Thank you very much,
magigg
I forgot to add that the modified small picture on the left by any body’s user’s name including mine is totally cool!
the story of my life lol peace to u all
I’m interested in learning the origin and meaning of the word “dote”, as in to “dote upon”.
why the people say about something incredible or awesome WOW when the people started say this word W
W can you find out the answer for me Marina … PLEASE 
wow is an acronym for
Wow
Oh
Wow
Acronym=A Cryptic Rehash Of Names You Made up.
wow = windows on windows, a feature of the windows operating system, allowing newer operating systems to run older programs written for older operating systems, or to have the ability to mimic older operating systems.
I’ll have to say good afternoon Chevolay. It’s past 1200 here now. And the same back to you
That would be about Beer:30 round about these here parts. Meet me back here with a frosty lager!
Word request
Hi,
I would like to know if it is just a coincidence that wigwam and teepee sound similar to wig and toupee. It may be that, because as the first two are tents and the latter hair pieces, they both cover your head. No one else has managed to answer this query so please, please, please help me, hotforwords!
Thanks in anticipation, yvanovicz
Did the Injuns use a scalpel to scalp their victims?
Yes, but only after careful sterilization, and anesthesia.
I once had a dream that I was first a wigwam and then later a teepee. I asked my doctor if there was any significance and he said “yes, it means you two tents” (too tense)
Oops again, I meant “YOUR two tents.” Dang I hate when I mess up a joke!!!
Yes, it’s a coincidence. These terms originate in completely different cultures from different sides of the globe.
Here’s your beer [] [] or two
(give me +10 please
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Some people may not like the new rating system, anybody that sees this comment, give me a thunbs down please…curious to see what happens. I’m older than most so nobody will miss me if I vanish.
As requested, I gave you a thumbs down.
Does anyone know what we are supposed to do with this stuff?
Sorry Billy I can’t do that to you. You have been to good to me and others.
I’m with capman. Now get the hell back in your cell, BillyB!
Did you repaint your car. It looks like a fresh coat of red on it. It looks redder really
Hey, who thumbed up me? The bluezoe is winning now…should I write a long diatribe or something? play fair, be nice to me…
LOL Marina says hello & 11 T/U so far, hehe.
I Know I’ll ask for the word, F— which by the way some have asked for legit & got shouted out. This is a sisyphean task to get down votes.
PT9 I got a remote control door on my cell, can get out fast now.
Goin’ for a drive now…bye
Someone said this’d be a nice car… woooheee….
BillyB I already made a video on the origin of the word fuck..
Can you explain the meaning and origin of the phrase “chip on your shoulder”
I know this one and it would be a good one.
Kids were still doing this when I was in school.
I got hit upside the head with mine. Left a big ole knot.
I used to work with a bloke who had a very well balanced personality.
He had a chip on each shoulder.
Where is RRR?
I think he is afraid of Karma.
I think he turned into a chameleon, and is hiding somewhere on this page.
Detention, after school.
Oh,
HotForWords,
Eureka, I done figured it out.
I had to sleep on it and it came to me at 3 am in the midst of a thunderstorm.
(This Greek Mythology stuff is hard)
The video really helped and had the answer.
Sexy Marina rolling a rock.
Sexy Marina rolling a rock.
(No Comments on Wet Dreams)
Rolling Rock.
Rock Rolling.
Rock-N-Roll.
THAT’S IT!!
Sisyphean task is the genisus of Rock-N-Roll.
For your homework, What would a Ancient Greek Mythology Rock song sound like (Harp, Pan Flute, etc…)
teacher, look who shows up, Machinima Marina
Damn, your good!!
I liked the Teacher video Billy. The guy with the beard looked like Captain Jack without his hat. Even had that sailors walk
Lets put a band together and see. We may be “rock” stars.
I am not playing the flute though. 
It almost sounds like rock, paper, scissors 
Does a sisyphean task necessarily have to be unpleasant or a chore? Since Sisyphus was condemned to perform his task as a punishment, it would seem so.
If not, we all have that most agreeable of repetitive tasks, watching and responding to Marina’s videos – before you’re finished with the current one, there’s a new one uploaded by our prolific professor.
I must say, I like the thumbs up/down rating system. Let’s hope that people just use that to show disapproval of other’s posts, instead of shooting their mouths off in flame wars.
Excellent observation, Bob. I had mixed opinions about it at first, but the utility is apparent, especially if it’s anonymous. Keeps us from wasting valuable time as well as comment space on people who will probably never get the point if argued in personal comments. Plus, we’re still free to put our thoughts to words should we so choose, getting the best of both! I hope it streamlines things a bit. Let’s face it; there are definitely some personality clashes amongst the student body from time to time.
BOB!! you caught me out… I suppose you have seen me telling people off for doing that, and are now doing it to me for being a hippocrite ….
As the English proverb so astutely remarks, “If the cap fits ….” (You don’t need to use a condom.)
Haha. I very rarely laugh at things on the net or the tv when I am on my own, but I laughed at this ” that would be a cat ”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8xLFtSJkvQ&feature=related
Bravo! The new rating system matches the theme and could very well work, especially if not over-used, abused or turned into just a game—karma is real.
Dear Teacher:
A friend of mine recently said: “Hotforwords is the Bee’s Knees.”
That made me wonder where the expression “Bee’s Knees” came from.
Could my trusty Hotforwords solve this mystery for me?
Thank you
Purrington
My top 10 Sisyphean tasks (the 2nd five):
6. Shopping, there’s just too many stores and things to look at and buy.
7. Surfing the Internet, I won’t live long enough. Search engines are know it alls! Who’s got the best indexer?
8. Avoiding government bureaucratic interaction at any level.
9. Earning enough money to not have to.
10.Answering the question: “Are we there yet?”
Dear Teacher:
My top 10 Sisyphean tasks (the 1st five):
1. Any household chore.
2. Building sandcastles on the beach.
3. Upgrading and maintaining my computers(their worse than babies).
4. Reading all comments posted to your videos,(you just had to go and find co-comments!)
5. Chasing women, I’m just too slow and getting slower. (Don’t know if I’m chasing them away or trying to catch them, I’ve forgotten which or its a case dependent decision.)
where did the word masticate come from
Hello my dear teacher
a sisyphean that everyone has is … learning. That’s why you got those sayings as: You are never to old to learn and Every answer brings a new question.
So, I guess that would be mine sisyphean.
Regards,
i think the announcer is Joe Cipriano…is this off of GarageBand?…
from http://learninginhand.com/blog/archive/2006_12_01_archive.html :
anywho, announcing for HFW would be a gig i’d love…
I was watching the Military Channel on tv and they was talking about how fast the average Military boat travel and they kept saying this boat goes 40 knots and this boat goes 50 knots and hour but why dont they say this boat goes 40 or 50 miles per hour why the word knots.
HOT FOR WORDS MUST INVESTIGATE
Because its nautical! Really we need to ask CaptainJack!
Knots is short for Nautical Miles per hour; a nautical mile being 2,000 yards ( 6,000 feet ). The reason for this is the distance between lines of latitude ( and longitude at the equator ). Instead of asking why sailors use nautical miles the real question should be why does every one else use the 5,280 foot mile.
That gives me a thought. I would like to know why fiery is not spelled firey even though they both relate to heat.. actually scrap that idea, I would just like to know the origin of the word “fire” I can see it now.. HotForWords is on fire..
Getting to sleep last night seemed like a sisyphean task-.- I went to bed at like 1 am and the last time I looked at the clock it was 3 am
must have been arround 3.30 am when I finaly fell asleep 
I know! I fell asleep at 2
When having trouble sleeping… read up on more of HFW’s past comments… that’ll knock you right out!
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That works for me.(most of the time) — I’m on here now for more than 30 hours… can’t sleep… gotta read, gotta comment.
Eh, don’t worry about me though, I rather browse HFW website then lie motionless for 8 hours at a time.
I’ll be going into re-examination session soon, so I guess I’m trying to get as much as I can out of the little free time I have left.
since when can you rate comments….kinda weird that you can rate your own one…
i’m sure i could just rate my own comment…. must have been some glitch.. :S
I think its because of yesterday
o yeah, I can rate all my comments I made yesterday but not the new ones.
My sisyphean task is to watch a naked teacher. Meaning I get so close to it, for example in your “naked” video, but I never get it. Also, I would like to know the origin of the word “big time” as in “I got you big time”.
Is that like when you are dreaming of falling and you wake up before you hit bottom.
Hey everyone! Im Back online! Did you miss me? Oh…
you didn’t … Ok.. I’ll go back to my little cubby hole.
Homework: Yes, my current Sisyphean task is getting a class going. I have had to cancel my last 3 classes for the lack of turn out. I’ll get about 3 to 6 students register and then only one will show up for class. Im going broke spending $$$ for room rentals. I now have 4 students registered for my next class. Will I actuality get to start a class this summer? Will find out Aug 18th.
Good lesson Marnia! I’ll to add this word to my vocabulary. I think it a word I can find useful. Good job my dear teacher
Always learning, always learning…
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Hi CJ! welcome back.
Thanks James. You should stop eating with your fingers and use chopsticks like I do. If anyone asks why your eating with chopsticks then tell them you haven’t figured out how to use a fork and spoon.
welcome back, cap’n…i see you fixed the broke mac…
The proper word to use is “Broken”. (adjective, Past participle of break.)
Im just playing with you! 
The Mac was not broken. It was the radio modem. It sits way up high near the window. I think I was damaged from the storm I had in June. It was the power plug that failed. Now if they had used a magnetic plug like Apple Inc. uses on their laptops this would have been a non-issue.
Of course we missed you. Welcome back.
Thanks Bob. Its been a long….what 2 days?
Welcome back Capt’n.Jack.
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There’s been a bit of “?*&%” happening.
Now we have these up and down things , not sure what happens with them.
I guess someone might get voted off the island.
I go away for a couple of days and everything changes. Nobody asked me if she could change her site. I was under the impression one had to fill out form DL 682-7 and have it approved from Ronald McDonald before any changes can be done.
Or made to walk the plank.
Man I just love this lsland of ours. I hope it isn’t me anytime soon.
Hey guys! If we get voted off the island, I have a sailboat we can ride on. There are many other islands we can go visit.
Strawberries and cream for pudding, got chopsticks at the ready now.. along with video
Cannot be done, had to eat with hands. vid will be up soon. I will ask marina to put it on my pager aswell
Young grasshopper. You just need more practice. One can not be expected to master juggling the first time trying. I like to eat Phở with chopsticks. It’s a traditional Vietnamese rice-noodle soup dish. Its very easy to make. Just need bowl with hot water and throw it all in. I just had some yesterday for lunch.
This photo is of a restaurant located in Bellevue, Wa. I laughed so hard when I read this sign. Phở is pronounced ‘Fu’. Oh and you have to try the spring rolls. Which is a bit harder to make but I have it down fairly well now. Good healthy food.
I was in a sisyphean relationship! no matter how hard we tried to make things work something always came up and stopped it from happening lol. i dunno if that makes sense but if it doesn’t i guess i’m talking to the right girl!
Ratings.. ? arrgh I don’t like change!!! Is this because, RRR & myself got into a flame war yesterday, and now anyone who gets a thumbs down is sent to the fiery depths of hell
I DON’T WANNA GO
I’m sorry
ooh, btw hope you like my new gravatar
Which isn’t working…
awesome that way, isn’t it?…
Haha who thumed down me ? Hope that makes sense