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Calorie

This is a followup video on the word Calorie.

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  1. MtnDood says: 86

    Seems like calories have no effect on you. Or does the camera lose a few pounds :shock:

  2. leonard says: 85

    *****+******

    countless of stars for this RANDOM…
    “that old lady who lived in the shoe”…well, she wore boots and went into ‘heat’…”she got wayed downed and feather weighted…and now needs more

    [food & fat]

    :smile: {[baby(slang)]} :eek:

  3. kinsa says: 84

    Yeah somehow I don’t think Marina has a problem with calories. You really can’t beat her, intelligent and super sexy. The hotforprofits chick comes close but marina wins out.

  4. animalntaz says: 83

    :!: Today I just read a “Real Fact”, under a Snapple bottle cap, that a one-minute kiss can burn up to 26 calories. Hey Marina, you wanna burn some calories? :wink:

  5. Wtih respect to Wicked Loki (I think that’s pronounced LOW-kee rather than LAW-kee), did you notice that if you switch the syllables, Loki becomes Kilo? That adds some weight to the calorie issue, don’t you think?

  6. hutchiee says: 81

    Strange we don’t count joules for food instead of calories.

  7. davecodave says: 79

    Marina. Please tell me that it was not you tummy in that picture on the video? NOT POSSIBLE !!!

  8. tryant says: 78

    Well I was gone on the road this week,got My 41 hours in by 12 Noon today and made it back home,took a nap and wanted to catch up on lessons. I’m having problems with this calorie vid,I just get the spinny,vista thing but the lesson doesn’t play. Are there problems on Your end Marina or should I try My new laptop as a frisbee?

    Until now I was 100% caught up.

    Your student,Tryant,lost deep within Your charms. :smile:

  9. protac6 says: 77

    Marina the physics teacher :shock:

    I haven’t been keeping up with videos lately because of my summer league. I’m sorry Marina. :sad:

  10. BillyB says: 76

    Special undercover investigation… Fat Ride part 1, must stay tuned.

  11. stokesjrj1 says: 75

    Words requests: competition Requests words: Kiss = Keep it simple stupid = Where did this acronym originate ah from and what is the synonym and where did it end its journey? Kissey=Kissey

    aeiou and sometimes y

    • Words requests:……..”competition”……………Requests words: “Kiss = Keep it simple stupid” = Where did this acronym originate ah from and what is the synonym and where did it end its journey? Kissey=Kissey

  12. pagedoll says: 74

    Yes!! Cinderella-ella-ella is back! :grin:

  13. bryteayes says: 73

    I’d like to learn the origin of “Butter up.” Does it come from the practice of using butter as a sexual lubricant?

  14. kalaka says: 72

    Where does this expression comes from?

    wreak havoc

  15. medicguy007 says: 71

    Hello Marina,

    I caught myself saying a word the other day as I was driving behind some cars on the highway. The cars were driving slow and I said outloud, “Come on guys, don’t lollygag!” Could you please tell us where the word Lollygag comes from?

    Thank you!

  16. jesseibiza says: 70

    I would like to know the meaning of JESSE mi name. Thanks a lot i have been many years looking for it.

  17. the shaun says: 69

    hey Marina, you’ve done a GTA IV video about molotov cocktails, you did Ak-47, and military terms such as “left-tenant” and “leutenant”

    I probably spelled those wrong..

    What about other military terms such as “Semper-fi”, “Hooah”, “stay frosty”, “tango”, and others.

    If you do those terms, don’t forget your army outfit and face paint haha

  18. emeraldien says: 68

    Dear Marina,
    I would like to make a word request.This word is walkman.I would like from where this word comes from and the uses it has today(ok i know some but i want more :smile: ).i hope it’s an interesting world.
    Love,Panos.

  19. and of course i could even mention GRIGORY GREGOREVICH,ALEXEY FEDOROVICH,and many others!….

  20. Милая Мариночка,i have an interesting historical question to ask :are you a descendant of the great Russian hero ALEKSEY GRIGOREVICH ORLOV? it would also be so interesting if you did a nice video on your surname etymology since we know the origin of your first name very well….anyway i really think that the great Alexey is one of your ancestors… :cool:

  21. James says: 65

    This will be my last post until sunday. Going to stay with family for a bit BYE!

  22. :wink: i was wondering at the origin of the word sexy, due to the fact that you are very sexy. please investigate

    ty,
    priest

  23. wolfie06 says: 63

    Word Request
    This is more a phrase than word and I’m not sure you do phrases, but I hope you’ll consider this one! I’m wondering where “Cute as a button” came from. I’ve heard it a lot and have found myself describing a person or thing as “cute as a button”.
    Thanks for your consideration and your great videos!
    Wolfie06

  24. WORD REQUEST.

    “Godspeed” or “Gods-speed”, I have always wounder were did this curios word came came from.
    I hope you like to review this word.

    Godspeed…
    -Abe M-

  25. James says: 61

    Don’t know if anyone else has seen this but I found Marina asking someone from CoComment about the origin of paparazzi

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se8Xyr20NQ0

  26. chiefakira says: 60

    nothing beats chinese food,
    mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm :wink:

  27. chiefakira says: 59

    :mrgreen: i dunno what to say.
    im stuned by your beauty today.
    your sweet.

  28. wetsuit5 says: 58

    So when is the Best of LA announcement?
    I’m getting hungry. :twisted:
    I could eat a Moose and Squirrel. :wink:

  29. Blujam Café is listed as the #1 winner. :cool:
    ref: click Home above, scroll down center column to Vote section.
    Voting Results

  30. hypertank says: 56

    craps (as in Casino craps)

  31. johnnyloves says: 55

    Hi Marina. I’m a diplomat but have no idea where the word came from. Can you tell me?

    Thanks,

    Johnny

  32. I wand to know what the word “Rad” means because everyone calls me B-Rad because my name is brad, but i want to know exactly what “Rad” means. :shock:

  33. orion_ss1 says: 53

    Nothing relating to the video – I just wanted to be the first to wish everyone a HAPPY PI APPROXIMATION DAY ( 22/7 ) :smile:

  34. okay4now says: 52

    :arrow: (Handing in homework late): The photo above is a good example of a sisyphean task. :smile: …dependig on the lighting… :roll:

  35. checmark says: 51

    Marina, no question your are “numero uno”, at least in the mind’s of most men who visit you here. I’m a recent fan, but I must say, from looking at your older videos and pics, you are only getting better and better. Love the new look, especially the clothes! Your site should be called TooLovelyForWords.

    As a newbie here I would only suggest that the comments section be sorted into some logical order, and maybe you could add chat? Anyone who visits the site who is actually interested in more than watching you, as in the actual “word”, is interested in the comments about the specific word. It takes forever to sort through all the totally unrelated comments (like this one) to read about the word.

    And much of the “commenting” is more “chat” than comment on the word, like “I’m going to bed now”. How does this relate to the word? Obviously with your gazillion visitors you have created quite the community, so it would be great for them to be able to “talk amongst themselves”, and leave this thread for actual comments on the word.

    Keep up the great work! I thoroughly enjoy my daily dose of Marina to learn about the words we use every day, and thanks also for improving my fantasy life.

    • Welcome to HFW Checmark. :mrgreen: Maybe I can answer a few questions here for you. We do talk about the lesson of the day. Some days we spout off more than others. It really depends on the word and how it excites us into discussion. I do agree that the comments do look like idle chat. We have grown to become a community of friends that share a common interest. The idle chat tends to bond us a bit more. Yes, we do get off topic many times. Thats ok. You will even see Marina do the same. I hope this doesn’t discourage you.
      Having comments on different pages puts people all over the website. Marina even puts new word requests on discussion of the current lesson. I agree that Marina has a good idea of keeping everything on one page so it is easier to manage. Yes it take a bit of skill filter through all the comments but in time it gets very easy.
      As for you other questions and suggestion I’ll leave that up for Marina to comment on when and if she gets a chance. She does the work of 20 people to teach a gazillion students. I really don’t know how she does it.

      __/)___

    • BillyB says: 51.2

      I don’t know how many calories I burned, reading you post, but I do know I made no trip to the fridge, Never went to the fridge before responding either… Thanks for the food for thought.
      Your post is not typical of a newbie, although mine may be typical of an “oldtimer”. My wife, to me is “numero uno”, I have three grown kids, “right up there”, run two succesful, time demanding businesses, built & maintain a race car on the side. And yet I took the time to read your post & respond… which was O/T.
      Glad to read it to, Marina has made for herself, in a very short time, a good name in a very unusual manner. She tweeks the website often & if it isn’t to her liking she will change it or let you know, or not.
      Anyways enjoy, the site & the lessons, and the body of work Hotforwords has & is putting together. I find it & her fascinating… & forgive me, I probably hang around here too much, I’m going to work now. Cheers

  36. madphoto says: 50

    Hello Marina

    I would like to request a term
    I have been wondering how this term came to be

    and this term is…

    “quite frankly”

    I was just curious about this
    and i hope you do research on it

    thanks for your time Marina

    -your student-

    by the way this is my first comment and request :mrgreen:

  37. Bob says: 49

    The quote of the day.
    “The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.” – Gloria Leonard

    So, let’s see if I’ve got this right.
    It’s erotic with the lights out, but if you do it with the lights on it’s pornography? :???:

  38. I think James is wrong.
    The unit calorie has historically been used in two major alternate definitions that differ by a factor of 1000:

    * The small calorie, gram calorie, or calorie (symbol: cal) is the amount of heat (energy) required to raise the temperature of one gram of water by 1 °C.

    * The large calorie, kilogram calorie, kilocalorie (symbol: kcal), or Calorie (capital C) is the amount of heat (energy) needed to increase the temperature of one kg of water by 1 °C, exactly 1000 small calories, or about 4.184 kJ.

    Now… for my request :smile: Can you please tell me the origin of Bodacious? I think it suits you very well. :cool:

  39. James says: 47

    I always thought a calorie was the amount of energy that could raise a liter of water by 1 degree not a gram….. also liquid isn’t measured in grams

  40. James says: 46

    GOT MY K850I!! No more shitty videos now.

  41. Chemikal says: 45

    CoComent is slowing me down.

  42. Chemikal says: 42

    Do we have a teacher’s assistant any more? How about pet?
    We all loved teacher’s pet, why remove it?

  43. bobsully says: 41

    All I get is “We are sorry, this video is no longer available.”

  44. Chemikal says: 40

    I’m a subscriber, right? So why do I keep clicking on the subscribe button at the end of every video?
    Oh I know, because Marina keeps sending these subliminal messages “Please subscribe…”. After hearing that, what else can you do? That’s right, click subscribe… just in case maybe it didn’t work the last 200 times you’ve clicked it at the end of past videos. :-)

    Have used my poetic licence in order to prove a point.
    Do you know what I’m talking about when I say “poetic licence”? Is that like a licence to drive a book, or something? No… not really, but would make for a fun lesson. Consider it requested!

    Chemikal

  45. tedt says: 39

    Nice video, I have to get the same you use then I will stay tuned the whole day :cool: you look great again !
    ……should make my teacher look like a *calorie*……what about some cake and chocolate ? :razz: (then you can hibernate next winter when it is cold outside :mrgreen: :razz: , I will wake you up in summer :wink: :lol: )

  46. labbatt78 says: 37

    I know there’s a lot of calories in any energy drinks. my favorite is the AMP. That drink is electrifying!

  47. Hey here’s one: PADDY WAGON (prisoner tranport) why paddy? I think I know why, but I want you to reasure me.

  48. blueskies13 says: 35

    i was wondering you give out valentine & christmas cards would you send me a birth day card to you trully dedicated student me :wink: :grin:

  49. challiboy says: 33

    HI im new i wanna know the word THE ahaha everyone says it but does everyone know it means

  50. Request Phrase : Im in a Pickle… :S

  51. arcangelfa says: 31

    Marina,
    Here’s a word. BLATHERSKITE.

  52. :?: :?: :?: marina you ever get dashavu i am getting right now it funny dashavu could you investigate dashavu

  53. jmcargal says: 29

    Two mistakes:

    Polar bears do not hibernate in the winter (the picture you showed was of a polar bear). Humans can certainly use fat later. In fact that is why some of us get fat. Our bodies store fat for later conversion to energy. This is because it helped our ancestors to survive. It is an evolutionary mechanism that we can’t turn off.

  54. don t Bogart that joint my Friend pass it over to me

  55. bobmando says: 24

    Hi Marina,

    That old scratched “fake film” efffect is so 1960’s…. I bet some viewers don’t even know that it was caused by dirt in the film path that scratches the film, typically appearing after many showings. Of course, with video this is impossible…even with videotape that runs like film. Hey, I was a projectionist in high shool in the 60’s.

    Oh and tonight when on the abcnews site and watching a news clip there was an ad (for a cell phone i think) that used YOUR theme song… I was expecting an ad promoting HotForWords… now I don’t even remember the cell phone brand. Is that a STOCK music track… It’s become, like your musical trademark.

    - Bob ManDo

  56. blueskies13 says: 23

    hello my dear teacher i have been reading some of the replies on this calories video some about cleavage some about you being one of the hottest women on the internet some say #5 and i want to say that is foolish who can be hotter i believe you are the #1 hottest women on the internet who else can give me a lesson and look so good doing it and with a sexy russian accent and as for as for hottest women on the net i can only think of one maybe dora ventor a hungarian porn star but then again what is she teaching me how to go down on a women and for the cleavage i have a great imagination so marina i vote you #1 so bye bye my teacher i love you and please keep the words coming also i have a special request it is on name origin i am french cajun from the deep south of louisiana like a half an hour from the gulf of mexico and my name is Nicholas Rene’ Gaspard i really would appreciate it if you could give me the origin of my name

  57. can you please do a video on the term “going to the crapper”

  58. :cool: hay (hotforwords) im ceries about the word “pompous” as in pompous wind bag!!!!! :grin: thank you very much love ya

    bond_servaint

  59. Hey Marina,
    I was wondering why we use the term “kipe” (don’t know if it’s spelled right) when referring to stealling. as in ‘Someone kiped my bike parked ouside!’

  60. BoArgMir says: 19

    :arrow: There has been some discussion on how Marina is not showing cleavage anymore.

    Well, I think that is ok, but my husband has a message for her. He is not going to watch the videos anymore unless she shows more cleavage again:!:

    I am not jealous as I am above average in that department, but I think he is silly that he can’t still be educated without cleavage being a part of it. :wink:

  61. By the way, the word calorie was first mentioned in the Nonchalant video where Marina talked about it’s word origin, meaning and homework assignment.
    http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/03/25/nonchalant/

  62. seesixcm6 says: 17

    Dear Marina, Another nice video. I rated it five stars, even though I missed a kiss from you. According to Wikipedia, the calorie was first defined by Professor Nicholas Clement in 1824. At the University under my ROTC scholarship, I learned two definitions:
    (1) In science courses, the calorie was defined as the amount needed to heat one gram of water by one degree Centigrade. It is spelled with a small “c”, or calorie. This is the definition provided by thewickedloki in your video.
    (2) In nutrition courses, I found they use the Kilocalorie. It is spelled with a capital “C”, or Calorie. It is the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1,000 grams of water by one degree Centigrade. So, a large egg may have 78 Calories in nutritiopn, or 78,000 calories in the scientific definition.
    It’s an important difference which you might share with your viewers in another video.
    Your dear student, seesix CM6

  63. rael says: 16

    I WANT TO KONW WERE DID THE PHRASE “THATS WHAT SHE SAID” COME FROM AND WHY? :lol:

  64. alexisexy says: 15

    Hi! i would like to know where the saying ‘The Apple of my eye’ came from.
    i mean it does not make sense! :???:

  65. BAT vs WAT…this just in – humans & other mammals have two forms of fat, Brown Adipose Tissue and White Adipose Tissue. WAT is used for energy storage; BAT was thought to disappear in adult humans, but:

    We conclude that a substantial fraction of adult humans possess active brown adipose tissue that thus has the potential to be of metabolic significance for normal human physiology as well as to become pharmaceutically activated in efforts to combat obesity.

    Unexpected evidence for active brown adipose tissue in adult humans

    I’m not sure where Marina got the idea that humans have “lost” the ability to use fat – we most certainly can and do gain, use & lose fat (fitness & diet-plan companies would go out of business if we couldn’t alter our fat content)…the problem may be the percentage of fat our bodies become programmed to accept as normal:

    It appears that the brain can be programmed to accept a higher body weight by early-life factors, including the environment of the womb in late pregnancy and the individual’s activity level in early life. These early factors may alter development of brain pathways which regulate energy homeostasis (balance). Once the tendency to obesity develops, it can be nearly impossible to reverse weight gains. However, these early factors can be manipulated to provide a more desirable outcome and may hold promise for prevention of obesity in human beings.

    http://www.news-medical.net/?id=24545

  66. capman911 says: 13

    Miss M. you put a video on calories and have a advertisement about Hostess Cakes. This is kinda of a conundrum isn’t it :?: :lol:

  67. huston we have a problem good one marina5* :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: I request rogerbeep

  68. raven62 says: 11

    Miss teacher, I just heard a word on a game show, Quaint. It was discribed as skillfully or cleaverly made, and at sometime the meaning changed to old fashioned attractiveness or charm. I thought it was a interesting word to request you to investigate. :???: :smile:

      • raven62 says: 11.1.1

        How are you dong tonight (day), I here it is raining there. My ex IM’ed me and said she was sick, but she was enjoying the rain. It must have cooled it down some she said last we you was in the 40’s. :eek: Of course here Phoenix it is in the 40’s a lot.

    • Chemikal says: 11.2

      wow, after reading your reply it instantly started to rain. thanks for the heads up. It has been really hot, but it doesn’t bother me much since I have 3 AC units for only 4 rooms :D AC is no luxury, it’s a necessity, if you take into consideration the crazy weather Romania’s been having ;)
      Get well soon for your ex, I think it’s really great you guys still talk.
      It’s not even 12 o’clock yet, so I’m just doing a little HFW browsing in the morning… it helps me wake up! :shock:
      Keep posting, and I’ll keep reading raven. :cool:
      Chemikalz

      • raven62 says: 11.2.1

        I know what you mean about the AC. :shock: Our little 1 bedroom apartment we had there we put 2 units in. :cool: She has it now :cry: ,it is in what the RO Post used to call sector 3. I think she also had one put in her parents place. :?: It didn’t have one when I was there. I am going to call it an early night, 2AM :lol: I will post and talk with you tomorrow. Have a good day :cool: Chemikal

  69. CaptainJack says: 10

    Now how did I miss that homework assignment? Must have been one of those days I was out of the office or I was getting brain surgery. :roll:

  70. pagedoll says: 9

    I’m requesting the word Craps, as in the dice game. Why is it called craps? Who came up with it? Why is it when you lose you say, “I craped out”. :???: How about the word Dice as well. What came first, the dice or the craps ? :smile:

  71. capman911 says: 8

    Miss M. Was the lines in the video suppose to make it look like it was an old movie?

  72. wetsuit5 says: 6

    I don’t get it. :sad:
    Is this because BlueJam is about to win and she doesn’t want us to over do it? :cool:

  73. dr.kindo says: 5

    Marina, can you investigate the phrase “Pipe Dream”.

  74. capman911 says: 4

    That is almost the definition for British Thermal Unit. The quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water one degree.

    • capman911 says: 4.1

      A little bit of Knowledge. In a house fire one gallon of water will expand 1700 times its normal size in steam to help put out and cool down the inside of the structure.
      Mike

      • Wow! Now if I can get my blood to expand at lease 2 times its normal size, I would really be happy! :roll: :lol: :lol:

      • pagedoll says: 4.1.2

        Hmmm, interesting, I like little factiodes like that. :smile:

      • I just had to look up factoid for some reason. And found a wiki post.

        A factoid is a possibly spurious (unverified, incorrect, or invented) and often allegedly counterintuitive “fact” with little significance outside the possibility of its own statement. It appears in the Oxford English Dictionary[1] as “something which becomes accepted as fact, although it may not be true”, namely a speculation or an assumption. The term was coined by Norman Mailer in his 1973 biography of Marilyn Monroe[2] (this being, incidentally, an archtypal factoid itself). Mailer described a factoid as “facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper”, and created the word by combining the word fact and the ending -oid to mean “like a fact”

        Now that was a bit interesting.

      • pagedoll says: 4.1.4

        Ok, I like little FACTS like that. :smile:

      • Well FACTS are just part of an ACT or ACTS. The F is false so you have to drop it. This leaving you only with the ACT of the information that was corrupted with the letter F to which was found to be false. We can conclude that all FACTS are false or ACTS.

        My sister and I sometime go to see a movie together. Before the movie starts there is this 60 second slide that says Lowes Theaters.
        We get bored easily so we take the word
        T H E A T E R S
        and see what words we can come up with. Now you can NOT rearrange the order of the letters. You have to read them left to right.
        For example EAT THE HAT AT THE E.R.

        Yes I can be left in a dark room with one word and be entertained for hours. :roll:

  75. felicity says: 3

    good morning! here is felicity from Japan. I won 1st!!