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Sandwich…. it’s origin rooted in gambling! Plus sandwich jokes (??) at the end!
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Posted on July 23, 2008 · Filed Under Lessons
Sandwich…. it’s origin rooted in gambling! Plus sandwich jokes (??) at the end!
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Posted on July 23, 2008 · Filed Under Lessons
Thanks, Marina! Another honorable mention! By the way, the French say sandwich, and I wonder how many other languages also use the English word?
“Imitation is the sincerest form of television.” - Fred Allen 1894-1956
hate it when people say “sang-which”
Ha Ha Ha (sarcastic laugh for the end)
I do have a sandwich joke but it is a bit explicit but I did post it in your Bar & Pub video.
Hi Marina, Nice Vids, Very Educational, Thanks for the vids, and hope u had a nice day!
PB&J
hi marina,
i’ve been thinking of words to ask you about their origins and the other day an ambulance on an emergency call overtook me. so it got me thinking if you could tell me the origin of the word ambulance? love your work and your lessons by the way.
Hey Marina, is the Pete in the phrase “for Pete’s sake” have an origin? Or who was he that we must sake him for?
Hey hotforwords I was wondering if you can do the word f@#k.
I know its a curse word but I heard that it had a very interesting origin.
I was once told that many years ago in England the place and time where people were allowed to have sex was regulated by the King. when a man and a woman wanted to have sex they would ask the king for permission and if granted, the king would provide a designated room in which they would have sex. Now the word comes from the fact that a sign would be placed outside the room. this sign read:
Fortification
Under the
Consent of the
King
So by using the first letters of the words the word f@#k is today used to describe, in a vulgar manner, when someone has sex.
I wanted to know if this is true and how did its meaning also adapt to describe something bad such as “F@#k you” or to an adjective such as “this F@#king car!”
Please do this word. I’m not trying to be provocative, I just thought other people might want to know and sadly it is a very common word.
Hello
I was thinking about the origin of the word “salsa”, as a dance.
There is something at wiki, but still I see no connection between quite sexy dance and sauce.
Ya i was wondering the origin of the word hamburger. if there is no ham in it y do they call it that?
The hamburger is a slab of ground beef, common in the city of Hamburg, Germany
Hi ALL. How about the origins of the word ” Networking”. It’s one of those annoying words that people always use and tend to use it wrong.
MARINA, YOU ARE SO GREAT IVE BEEN WATCHING A BUNCH OF YOUR VIDEOS SINCE IVE BEEN ON YOUR YOUTUBE PAGE AND THIS SITE.. I HAVE A REQUEST, WILL YOU PLEASE EXPLAIN THE WORD “VISSICITUDE” IN A VIDEO? IT WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED
Me and this guy would be best friends, I always try it the easy way…….eat a sandwich here, do this there….. I´m forced to, womans always need something to be fixed, so….
You look rrrrr
If you meet a nice woman outside it is your duty to get some slices of meat, so you won´t forget her…..
… 
sXePhil is running YouTube videos on his blogtv show.. right now!
He also ran the Uncle video from HFW… ppl loved it!
Here’s a word….Pirate..or Landlubber
And here’s a joke to go with:
A pirate and a landlubber are drinking together in a bar.
The pirate has a hook, a pegleg and a patch on his eye.
The landlubber asks the pirate how he got his pegleg and pirate responds, “Argh! Me lost it to a croc down in the Keys”.
The landlubber looks amazed and says, “Wow, that must’ve really hurt”!
The pirate responds with a simple nod of his head.
They are getting more drunk and the landlubber asks how the pirate lost his hand. “Argh!” says the pirate. “A pirhannee took it in the Caribee”!
The land lubber winces in pain for the pirate and says “Ouch”!
Again, a simple nod from the pirate.
The two are completely drunk now and the landlubber gets up the courage to ask the pirate how he lost his eye.
“Argh! A seagull pooped in me eye” says the pirate.
“How did a seagull pooping cause you to lose your eye?” asks the landlubber in a state of confusion.
The pirate hangs his head down in shame and says,
“It happened the day after me got me hook”!!!!
lol
The “land lubber” appears to be a mispronounciation of
“land LOVER”.
From social psychology, it’s common to call groups of people names by the jobs they do, their preferences, or their appearance in order to feel better about themselves.
It would fit that sailors would distinguish themselves by calling all the guys who won’t go to sea for months at a time “Land Lovers,” which could be said in a derogatory way 
. That would serve as a way for seamen (sailors) to bond, and also for them to “protect” themselves against the slurs launched by the hoity-toity people who look down their nose at the rough-hewn sailors 
.
Wow! I didnt know it was spelled out as “Land Lover”. You would think they would teach things like that in college. It was a “joke” dude. Landlubber was intentional.
LOL…besides, with Marina’s accent it would probably sound like landlubber anyhow…lmao
Stenosisdude,
Yeah, I know that YOU know how to spell lover, I was saying that I think over time that drunken sailors mispronounced lover as “lubber”, and that people then wrote it that way. I do not doubt that YOUR personal knowledge of how to spell is intact and I wouldn’t think to question it. 
I was giving a social psychology account of how things like that happen 
I think everyone on here is cool and that we’re all having a good time so have a good night, bro.
I would like to know about the word Indian Thanks
the ones with dots on the forehead or feathers in the head?
Seriously though, the word Indain came from when the first explorers set foot in the new world. They were looking for a faster way to India and when they saw land they thought they had made it. So the first people they saw they, mistakenly, called indains because they thought they were in India.
The word I mean is “Shaman” which can mean anything from a Holyman, medicine man, witch doctor, healer, priest or priestess, or in some cases even a monk.
In English its self, there are about 3 ways to pronounce this word which are all considered correct in the Dictionary: Some people say: “Shah-men”, “Shay-man”, and “Sham-uhn”… and I’ve heard it other ways, as well… including the last syllable “man” being propounded different ways with different vowel sounds.
Yet, the word “Shamanic” has only 1 correct pronunciation.
So, does the origin of the word have something to do with the word “Sha” + “man”? But, what is a “Sha”?
Or perhaps is it “Sham”? as in “Sham” + “man”
i think you should search the origin for the word “wedgie”, it was mentioned a few times in your “Say Uncle” video. It would be a funny one, and hopefully your sister won’t give you any during the process!
im in love with the iphone 3g its fantastic
im gonna buy it ,and then i can check miss hot on my mobilephone
how cool is that
im wondering since amerika is often years ahead with gadgets .
do you have a better version already or is the iphone 3g the latest????
anyways it supercool
I’d like to know the origin of the word “pussyfoot”. Thanks
It would make sense that to “pussyfoot” is to “tread lightly” into new situations and to be noncommital about their actions. Being tentative, indecisive, and/or noncommittal are traits that make a LOT of people in the business world lose their tempers
…at least, that’s what I’ve noticed about a couple of my old bosses.
Hi Marina. I just wanted to say that your lessons are great and I also wanted to request a word. The word is LUTHIER, I don’t know how you call there, but here (in Brasil) is that guy who make and fix musical instruments. Thanks…
i have often wondered how the word “fanny” became to be used as a polite word for “ass” as in “get your fanny in gear” or “get your fanny out of here”. Thanks for investigating.
Malan
How about looking into the word “moment,” which means so many different things: a brief unit of time, something important (as in the word “momentous”), having to do with movement (as in “momentum”), having something to do with force. And while I’m at it, what about “minute,” another unit of time and pronounced differently (MY newt), a small quantity. And how did “second” get to be both a unit of time and the place after first?
let’s get back to some harder words lol your still hot
Here is a serious question for everyone from Japan. Then exactly what did the earl call the food???? Do you know that, anyone???
He called it an Earl after the famous Duke who had the same eating and gambling habits.
Or some of these =)
Loranthaceous
Woggle
Woofits
and Zany = D
Hi Marina =D.
I think you should do the word Lugubrious, Or Lugubriosity.
It is my all time favorite word, just because of how it sounds =).
While as people say depressed, I say lugubrious ^^.
I am sorry Marina, but I am a bit disappointed by your last posts.
Where are the special or strange words, with surprising origins?
Everyone could figure out your last words by picking a dictionary.
I see lots of good suggestions for words by your visitors.
Do you read them? Still, I love you.
marinade, if I did primarily strange words then I don’t think people would find my lessons as interesting. If you look at my complete list of words (www.hotforwords.com/words/) you will see that I have done quite a few un-common words.. but what I think most people find interesting is that common words have such interesting origins.
So there will always be a mix of strange words (Coulrophobia, Sisyphean) with ordinary words… whatever words have an interesting story.
Hi Marina. Thank you very much for telling us the origins everyday. Your explanations are very intriguing. If I read them in a dictionary or something, I would feel bored. I m sure everyone wants to get information from you!
Marina ! You are absolutely right ! Words are living beings, they are born, they live, they are successful or have accidents, they can even die.
I am going to take the world WICH in SANDWICH. Everybody forgot that WICH means “village” like in GREENWICH. The word is cognate to Latin VICUS “village” and Slavic VES’ “village” (ВЕСЬ in old Russian). I know that you know and that telling that should have made a too long movie for some who are not as hot as you are for words.
Wow! Thanks dictionaricdotcom! I often overlook the most basic parts of words as well.. and didn’t even think to go into the detail on the actual name Sandwich! Very helpful! Bonus points for you
Didn’t we also discuss some time ago that “vik” meaning “village” was the first part of “Viking” and that the Vikings got their name from the fact that they were “Village People”? No, not those Village People, nor these, these ones.
Hi Marina! Can you find out what the phrase, “Viva La” means? I hear it all the time, and I think it would make a fun video for all of us!
Requesting the word Noob, also known as nub, nab, nubzoid, nubazour, nubcake, or nooby. The first time I ever heard it I thought it was spelled newb, because it was suppose to point out that I’m a new comer to that domain. Well which is it HotForWords?!
Chemikal, I think a lesson on that might be in order! People already forget where the noob comes from! So I think it could be a fun lesson.. maybe I’ll address a couple 1337 speak terms.
Thanks!
hey! i was first!
:PP
I just herd another one today… noobsauce! people make up the weirdest words.
Very entertaining…
When you mention my name (for the 1st time, on your show) please don’t say it with a bored tonality, that’s just not me.
Have fun with this one… I’m sure we will!
All the best,
Chemikalzz
aLx no one is taking anything away from you… But can’t you let a brother have his moment? I clearly requested a different word than you (you requested leetspeak on the Molotov lesson, I remember).. so… Tough!
lol, chemikal, don’t worry. sometimes even i am trying to be funny. :/
so, i second your request without whishing for being mentioned.
have your moment, bro.;)
You should find the origin of the word “Geomatics” I graduated college with a degree in Geomatics Engineering. Nobody knows what this is. I figure lots of people will learn if you do a bit on it!
Thanks and Take care!!
Can you do the origin of the word “wedgie”?
A guy walks into a pub and sees a sign hanging over the bar-
Cheese Sandwich: ?1.50
Chicken Sandwich: ?2.50
Hand Job: ?10.00
Checking his wallet for the necessary payment, he walks up to the bar and beckons to one of the three exceptionally attractive blondes serving drinks to an eager-looking group of men.
“Yes?” she enquires with a knowing smile, “can I help you?”
“I was wondering”, whispers the man, “Are you the one who gives the hand-jobs?”
“Yes”, she purrs, “I am.”
The man replies “Well wash your bloody hands, I want a cheese sandwich!”
Good Morning Daniel.
epiphany
All you need to do Melora is make one post with your word requests.
ephemeral
doggerel
Cryptobiologist.
Sorry, I meant that to be Cryptozoology!
My story (sorry for the bad English) :
It’s on the planet beezbeez populated by green shit flies. Two youngsters are in a fastfood.
The first one : “I want a sandwich with shit and onion, please !”
The second one “I will take the same but without onion, tonigh I have a rendez-vous with my sweetheart !”
Is is a good one, LOL
Thanks !
Bar joke: One fly sat on a dog turd, savoring its freshness. Another one flew close by and asked politely, “Is this stool taken?”
Dear Marina,
I just watched your Female vs. Male vid where you said Male = evil.
I was wondering is there a connection between evil and live if you spell one backwards you get the other. Does that mean since we live we are evil or do we have to be evil to live????
There are only so many letter combinations possible, it’s bound to get some silly coincidences once in a while.
Hello Marina, I have just subscribed to your page and have also (obviously) just became a member of your site.This is my first comment and I would like to start off by saying thank you for all your efforts in spreading knowledge to the global public. In the last hour me & my girlfriend learned the origins of soccer, sandwich, the birds and the bees, and also many other words because of you. I’m excited and eager to view your catalog of words and also anticipate future videos. Unfortunately, I do not have any sandwich jokes but I do have a word request. Me and my girlfriend would like to know the origins of the word condom. Thank you once again.
Hey Davidjuaquin, Im the unofficial doorman. Capman911 had to go to bed, so I’m filling in for him. I welcome you to HotForWords. There are many interesting lessons here. Marina is always here to help us get the true fact of word origins. Feel free to visit often and comment and post your homework here. Many of us talk a bit off topic but we generally get back on track by the next lesson. Hope you both enjoy your etymology adventures here.
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Hey Captin,
I’ve been here for about a week and have learned alot. I have also requested alot (as you can see if you follow the logs). I have noticed some people request the same word on many lessons. Does this help or just anoy everyone? and also I know Marina has a ong list to go through, do you know HOW long?
Her list is over 2,000,000 words long. So she is taking popular request first and/or words that she is able to find something interesting to talk about. One person repeating the request doesn’t necessarily move it any further up in the list. But if many request the same word sometime moves it up the list. It takes her time to do research on the word and then make up a video. She does this full time. Im not sure if she even takes any time to eat. LOL
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Maybe this is too easy, but it is such a nice word: serendipitous.
Chuck, the canopenerguy
i would also like the know the origin of the word “referee” it is an unusual word too many e’s
i would like to know the root to the word “poker” the card game
Марина, as you have done “sandwich” and “tomato”m how about doing the sandwich type of food that is associated with tomatoes:
Пицца
Also, something that is also similar:
Паста
(I will bet that these two words are related somehow.)
Пака
i have a word suggestion, where does the word “word” come from. its such a weird word.
How about the threat of having to eat a “Lard sandwich”!
I though you said Leonard sandwitch.
Hey marina i am niks12 from youtube or Nikhil (in life) I wanted to know the origin of the word ‘FLIRT’
People use it almost everyday in life you know 
Thanks for reading this and i hope you investigate it 
FLIRT comes from French FLEURETTE “little flower”.
In oldish French “conter fleurette” means “to tell about little flowers” very similar to BEES and BIRDS.
Making love surrounded by little flowers, bees, birds and nettle is so romantic !
oh thanks
That word has been requested in an earlier post. Maybe Marina will do a lesson on it.
@ Dictionaric, Wow that sound romantic….
Boy I hope she can do a video on this word. I think she can come up with something romantic to go with it. 
Now thats asandwich
By the way one of my pet peevs: the word is SANDwich NOT SAMich as some people say.
Hey wait could you tell us the orign of petpeev?
Yeah I want to know the origin of the word petpeev
Awrgh! That sandwich was gnarly, smokey!
Pet peeve? It’s 2 words, btw.
Cheers, bro.
Everyone must have gone to bed early. Ate to many sandwiches and now they are sleepy. Are you still up Miss.M.
It sure has been a lot nicer around here. I don’t know haw many students you have, but you keep us all under control. Bravo 
hey cap man nice looking bike what year is it
Hi Marina,
How about investigating the origin of the word “bourgeois”?
Plexusmaster
BOURGEOIS is once again a French word.
A BOURGEOIS is etymologically the dweller of a BOURG or BOROUGH, a town.
In the Middle Ages the urban population was made up by the richer class of the people. In the modern time the word got a still more social meaning of “rich capitalist vs poor worker”.
hi hot for words! i was wounding about the word…Cafeteria! please tell me where this word comes from! pretty please!
i was always told that sandwich was made to keep the grease of the meat off of his hands while you played cards so you put the meat between pieces of bread and that is where sandwich was made
once again, you look great. where’s Kobe? will you investigate the origins of “booze” or “hootch” ? thanks in advance
i want booze too
hey capman you’re everywhere.
I am trying to catch up for being at the doctor today. I missed the early video.
Capman, Your going bonkers again. You talking to yourself?
i wanted to know the origin for whiskey voice
Aloha Marina,
What’s the origin of the word “reefer” as in ganja, mary jane, weed, pakalolo, you know marijuana? Just wondering. Aloha.
Hey Hot, I Got A Great Word. This Is The State Fish Of Hawaii; Humuhumukununukuapua’a. Please Tell Us.
Is the fish as long as it’s name.
Dear Marina, I rated your video five stars. For your homework, I’ll call a hamburger a sandwich (which it is), so here are three jokes: (1) How do you make a sad cheeseburger? You make it with blue cheese!
(2) Where would you take a hamburger on New Year’s Eve? To a meat ball! 
(3) In Hawaii, how can you enjoy a hamburger and dance the hula at the same time? You have a burger and a shake!
I’ve been a subscriber since July 3rd (almost two weeks) and this was a very good homework assignment! Your dear student, Seesix CM6
I’ve got a word for you… while listening to your interview with the Maxim guys, one of them used the word “bamboozle”… where does that come from? I looked through your word lists and couldn’t see it anywhere…
hi there,
id like to learn a little russian, so if u could make summin about ur mother tongue id be glad! anyways keep up the great teachings!
Here’s one to get you started on until she does some more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGBQQI-v_08
hey capman you’re everywhere
the word I’m asking for condom and where it came from, and how was it made
WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT
yes do the word orgasm. please say my name in the video if you do decide to do this word. thank you. (:
John was visiting France, and while in Paris John decided to take a guided tour around the beautiful cathedral on the banks of the Seine. As he were being shown around the building, all of a sudden John spotted a sandwich box lying on the floor.
So John picked it up, and handed it to the guide. He was very apologetic, and hurried off with it. After a few minutes, John could hear him calling up the bell tower,”Quazimodo! You left your sandwich box lying around again!”
When the guide returned, he apologized again, and when John asked him about the sandwiche box, he said, “Don’t worry about it… it’s just the Lunchpack of Notre Dame.”
anuddermale,
I checked out the link next to your name and the photobucket link
I recently bought a CanonEOS 40D and two lenses:
EFS 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS and EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III USM.
Now the fun starts.
Oh, and about the trucker joke-
nothing is cheap, everything is relative
oh, boy…Warren, paparazzo at ur service…be careful who u snap - sometimes they snap back, ’specially on the nude beaches (which, i hasten to add, i have only heard, never experienced)…
the photobucket account should only let you peruse the “open to the public” folder…pretty cheap at $40/year…
Sooo bad its great. Thank you for sharing this one.
The user guide is my first project.
I’ll stick to landscapes until I build up some confidence.
Marina, you look gorgeous as usual.
Hi HotForWords! I want to know the origin of the word orgasm, can you please tell us?
Life is like a sh*t sandwich: the more bread you have, the less sh*t you have to eat.
i know ’bout hollerin’, dabnabitall…but i fergot…and there’s no flippin’ edit function once you’ve posted…
Do what I do Annud. Take a magic marker and rub it over the screen until it’s blocked out.. But just don’t move the comments
Recycled Wish Sandwich bow bow bow
what’s “shasteriskt”?
alx what is it
well, i’m asking pt9, he wrote it. :/
Hey Alx check out this web site. I didn’t know if you could use any of it on your personal page.
http://profile.myspace.com/Modules/Applications/Pa ges/Canvas.aspx?appId=104107&appParams=%7B%22showI mage%22%3A%22458804%22%7D&track=share
lol. “everything is funnier with the word ‘fuck’ in it”? ha! you bet!
shasterisk on a shingle…mmmm…
It’s a board game of world domination that was specifically developed to be played only on the summit of Mt. Shasta! What’d ya think it was?
A trucker who has been out on the road for three weeks stops into a brothel outside Vegas. He walks straight up to the Madam and hands her $500.00. “I want your biggest woman, a bologna sandwich and a glass of Kool-Aide”.
The Madam is astonished. “For that kind of money you could have one of our best girls and a great meal”.
The trucker replies, “I ain’t horny, I’m homesick”
Ha! That was great.
and cheap…
Yep, when I first read it I couldn’t stop laughing for awhile.
Warren since your a trucker is this about you
One part is.
Go ahead, have a sandwich
that funny