The Proof is in the Pudding
I ate so much pudding trying to find this darn proof, I’m convinced it’s not there!
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Posted on July 24, 2008 · Filed Under Lessons
Looks like your in chocolate pudding because of your bed!
If you haven’t noticed, I’m catching up on my videos
please don’t give me detention.
Thanks for researching my word request teacher! You’re the best!
Now I have another one…
I’m curious about the origin of the word Dollar.
Was America the first to adopt this name for their currency when they became independent from England, or was it in use before that? What does it mean?
Also, why do many people say ‘buck’ instead of dollar? As in, ‘it only cost me 50 bucks’.
Also, for England, they use pounds. But in movies sometimes I hear them say ‘quid’. It cost me 50 quid. Where does that come from? Is it related to the old form of currencies used there? (ie, crowns or schillings)
I’m still trying to catch onto the rythm that your snapping your fingers to.
I should stick to wooden spoons on pan lids.
You have brilliantly disguised brilliance Marina. Is there some such more common phrase which might mean the same?
I haven´t seen a video for 1 day now, the result is………
………rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, give me more than just a video
Nice video
I have only ever known this expression as “The proof of the pudding is in the eating” A little like “Talk of the Devil” is actually “Talk of the Devil and he will beat a path to your door”
x for teacher x
Hi Marina,
What is the origin of the word “debutante”?
Is there an easier word for kdjjdurndkdkssmel;z;,lslkkdmmcjnndnjdjklcm?
Cheers!
New video is up.
or was it a stitch in time….
Wow, just in the nick of time!
There hasnt been a new teacher’s pet in the last few vids…
She’s working on it.
Hey Captain Jack, congrats on being teacher’s assistant! You deserve it. I enjoy your comments.
I want to be teachers assist so I can have that blue border
Maybe there should be a new term, First Mate To Capt. Jack.
The other day I was at wallyworld, aka wal*mart, and I saw these kids looking at video games. I heard one say to the other “That one is gay, don’t get it.”
So this brings me to the request
How did the word gay go from happy to meaning homosexual to meaning something is stupid????
i think she did that one on the maxim radio show
Thats great, but I don’t have accsess to maxim radio
oh..
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/07/11/maxim-radio- 10th-show
Thanx
Hi smokey36bear,
Scroll up to the top of the page and select the “Interviews” link for her off-site appearances. You’ll find all the remaining interviews and radio shows there (the ones that weren’t inadvertently lost when she changed over to a new server, that is).
Enjoy!
Thank you for the help
Why do they call a Hero Sandwich a “Hero”?
Mr. Purrington
Cause it saves me from hunger!!!!
OK.. everybody.. now I changed the comment thing and it did some different stuff that is out of my control.. it makes my comment color take up the whole thread whereas before it would just make my comments pink.. not the whole thread.. and it makes CaptainJack all blue.
Let me know if you like it or if I should revert to the old way. This way might break things anyway… so we’ll see if it will last anyway.
Thanks!
huh? i don’t see any changes …
aLx.. notice how your comment is surrounded by my comment color.. it didn’t do that before.
umm, okay, now i do … that isn’t too bad. baby blue on baby pink … maybe you got a subconscious desire to have children, huh.
the color indicates the type of movies you like, pink chick flicks , blue action adventure.
Im FEELING BLUE!!
i don’t know, man. blue on baby blue … that looks weird. why are you blue anyway?
Get back to work Captjack.
We need a new plant delivered to Marinas.
Get Kobe to the groomer for his summer puppy cut.
And Marina needs a back rub and a pedicure.
I like it. It suits you, being a man of the sea and all.
aLx, Marina upgraded my account level and on my comments on my post was pink like Marina’s. So she working on a setting that will keep her comments pink and mine blue. She is still playing with it.
RRR, Yes sir! Im on it! New plants? Hum. Take Kobe to get a shave and a hair cut (two bits). I think I could take him to a dog show show so he could check out the bitches. Back rub & pedicure? Gee next I’ll have to paint the house and mow the lawn. What are you getting me into?
Tnks PD.
hey, can i have my postings a bright gray on black? :DD
I think it is just lovely
Works for me I like it
I like it - psychedelic - maybe my wife put LSD in my tea.
The hostess with the doses! Party at Bob’s house everybody! Woo-hooo!
I LIKE it when El Capitano is illuminated in blue. It shows his status, AND is masculine. Nice.
Here is something use full you could be doing instead of…………
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epe7dteo5Gg
i’m down for that!
Let’s delve a little deeper…
why are we here?
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v567477299d8YNX?autoWat ch=true
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=tzlnrW0lgsY
i think it’s fine…makes it easier to find threads where you have commented…
at the very least, it is not a distraction…
that is…you are a distraction…a very lovely distraction…
but the color does not detract from the posts…
annudder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drHjKhXi5Po
Can you do Apocryphal
Thanks
I saw your video about the para-prefix and decided to search for an unusual word with that prefix…and I discovered a gore/metal band called:
paracoccidiomicosisproctitisarcomucosis
but I have not discovered yet what that word means…could you please help me??
greetings from Mexico!
I saw your video about the para-prefix and decided to search for an unusual word with that prefix…and I discovered a gore/metal band called:
paracoccidiomicosisproctitisarcomucosis
but I have not discovered yet what that word means…could you help me??
greetings from Mexico!
Hello Marina,
This word makes me appreciate you even more (and is a discreet word, as well) …Callipygous
Thank you for what you do!!!
The best list of idioms I’ve came across yet:
http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/
CaptainJack,
Now that you are TA, you should be able to be FIRST on all the new videos.
What’s the origin of the word “score”.
My word is gorgeous as in “Marina, you are gorgeous.”
I once went the the Aberdeen Proving Grounds.
I met this printer who was driving a tank around (reservist).
I said, “Hey, let’s do a test”.
He asked, “Duh OK, what test you wanna do?”
I said, “Lets see what happens if we shoot this bowl of puddle with the cannon.”
So we did and it splattered all over the place. We cooked it properly thru the tank gun.
I asked, “Humm what did that just prove?”
He said, “I dunno, but let’s eat it anyway, I hungry.”
I said, “No thanks, I’m trying to cut down, I’ll have a sandwich instead, it has less calories.”
Then the tank driver got out and walked over to some nice smelling flowers.
It’s HotForWords and she want’s to do it!!
So I started to walk over and I got darted by a bird and buzzed by the bees.
The first tank guy stood up from his pudding and started to laugh.
I asked, “Hey listen you clown, what are you laughting at?”
He said, “That little thing in you detruncus, there uncle”
Oh, and you should add to the beginning of my story, Once upon a time or No shit this really happened to me.
Did I sum the week up correctly?
How about the phrase “everything is hunky-dorry?” Spelling may not be right, but that’s one I’d like to know.
Incredible ! HOTFORNAMES is almost as interesting as HOTFORWORDS !
it’s there => http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR29g9Eioaw
Hello dictionari, I’ve seen your video which was really instructive and send it to my Bernard friend.
Also put a comment on it, but not sure that worked.
I encourage you to continue as i suscribed and expect other vids on your channel.
By the way, my name is Olivier, i’m french too, so you can consider it like a request for your next investigations.
Good work !
yeah, cool vid. especially liked the historical background information you provided us with. subscribed as well.
“Beauty is only skin deep” and “Don’t judge a book by its cover” both seem to bear some similarity to the subject phrase because they both hint at the deeper meaning conveyed by the original version of it. You can’t know whether a book is entertaining or informative until you have read it, same as testing the pudding by eating it. Also, jumping to the conclusion that a good-looking person is a nice person to be around can set the stage for severe disappointment as well. It’s what’s in the heart that counts when the chips are down. Same goes for nice-looking cars or houses. Until you actually use them, it’s hard to know what you do or don’t like about them. Great lesson, Marina. This one made me think about it for a bit.
Where did “On the QT” come from?
Dictionary.com says “on the q.t., stealthily; secretly: to meet someone on the q.t. “
Can you try to find out why panties are sometimes called knickers, thanx. P.S. you are hot!!!
Where did across the board come from?
What is the origin of the word Reconnoiter?
Where does the word “punk” come from?
Bravo!!!! Proof that people basically make no sense.
“try before you buy”
Look before you leap.
But;
He who hesitates is lost.
He who hesitates is LAST.
Since I were so stupid to go mountainbiking with this temperature today
I wondered ,where does the phrase “sweating like a pig” come from?
In Dutch we say “zweten als een otter”= “sweating like an otter” ,
but neither one of those animals actualy sweat……..:S
Where the word Rock (rock ‘n’nroll) came from ?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAPTAINJACK!!!
Here, I got you a little something.
Hope you love it!!! 
LOL PD, Thanks! I even booked marked it.
You know its been over a year since I seen my first HFW lesson. I remember because it was like two weeks before my last B-Day I was viewing hundreds of YTV. My last B-Day was at work on the cruise ship Island SpiritIsland Spirit, and all I did was stand watch in a very dark room. Very boring night to say the least. I was a bit bummed. Today all you guys made up for that. __/)__
I liked his b-day present too. It’s in my favorites.
Here you go Jack Have fun. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClG_0DwjKL8
Thats an old movie. tnks.
Here is a nice one for your Birthday…enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_5ZO9WcZfU
Tnks BoArgMir.
I wonder if pudding was a first attempt as fast food??? hmmm.
What is the root of the phrase rock-n-roll and why is music called rock?
You spoke about pudding, which brought up a term in my mind which I’ve heard, “pie hole”. Now this is usually used to tell someone to be quiet or to stop talking. But how did this become the term “pie hole”?
THX
hello everyone. The test of my technique is in the bed….
Ohaiogozaimasu, felicity.
That’s a thought-provoking response, to be sure.
Can you find the origin of the term ‘boondocks’? It means ’someplace remote’
Actually, I do still hear the full phrase sometimes. “The proof of the pudding is in the eating” tends to be used for emphasis, to suggest that the speaker is definitely right or that the listener definitely should put it (whatever is being talke about) to the test. Whereas the “proof is in the pudding” is a more offhand statement that something is probably true, or that it would probably be a good idea to test it, but possibly one can’t be bothered.
Nick
Hello
My Word request is the slang term “86ed”
Thanks
I’m still voting on Quack, as in fake Doc, I recently joined up here after finding you on YouTube Miriana, and saw the one about Duct Tape, lots of Ducks, and Ducks Quacks…
Best Wishes, Ath =)
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=NOwxf7GMfE8&feature= related
Good day my dear teacher,
Looking great as usual. Yellow is always good on you.
anyway. I have a word request, or more of a phrase request. I was just out taking a smoke break with one of my co workers and he was done ans said to me. “Well, back to the grind.” it made me think. Where did that come from. what is he grinding? we work for a electronic component distributor, we talk on the phone all day.
Request Req Reque
Hello,
My word request is
“CV”. I know the meaning I don’t know where it came and why? If it stands for something could you find oral pronouncing? 
Cheerio!
curriculum vitae? latin.
In what context?
Constant Velocity Joints are common on front wheel drive cars.
Hello Marina,
You almost danced- had me fooled.
I was ready to stand up and join you if you did start dancing.
Homework-
I looked these up (I’m not going to take up too much space by explaining the them in full length):
Tip of the tongue; Bitter sweet; Black sheep; Blessing in disguise;
Break the ice; Speak for yourself; Point of no return; Out of the woods; No quarter given; Misery loves company; Lock, stock and barrel; In the bag; Hand to mouth; Four corners of the earth; With all due respect; Do or die; Cut and run
cliches are like proverbs-
They’re a short sentence based on long experience.
What old song?
Must be even older than me!
Since “Having a bun in the oven” and “Being in the pudding club” are euphemisms for being pregnant,
“The proof of the pudding is nine months later.”
Amatuer etymologist here;
Euphemism= you+ feminine+ ism
Have to guess the meaning or I should know, right?
See, this is why I’m twice divorced.
p.s.
I was talking about my ex-wives, not your comment.
a word i would like to know about is “zodiac” could u help me?
who is john jacob jinglehimerschmit
His name is my name too.
what about the phrase “monkey business”?
and the word company? company of Marines (i am a USMC career vet, thankyou), ford motor company, would you like some company? etc…
How did the word cock go from meaing chicken to meaning male genetalia? You should do one about that
The origin of that goes way back as the following excerpt from Shakespeare -King Henry V - Act II, scene I, shows, with much Double Entendre :-
“[Enter PISTOL and Hostess]
BARDOLPH: Here comes Ancient Pistol and his wife: good
corporal, be patient here. How now, mine host Pistol!
PISTOL: Base tike, call’st thou me host? Now, by this hand,
I swear, I scorn the term; Nor shall my Nell keep lodgers.
Hostess: No, by my troth, not long; for we cannot lodge and
board a dozen or fourteen gentlewomen that live
honestly by the prick of their needles, but it will
be thought we keep a bawdy house straight.
[NYM and PISTOL draw]
O well a day, Lady, if he be not drawn now! we
shall see wilful adultery and murder committed.
BARDOLPH: Good lieutenant! good corporal! offer nothing here.
NYM: Pish!
PISTOL: Pish for thee, Iceland dog! thou prick-ear’d cur of Iceland!
Hostess: Good Corporal Nym, show thy valour, and put up your sword.
NYM: Will you shog off? I would have you solus.
PISTOL: ‘Solus,’ egregious dog? O viper vile!
The ’solus’ in thy most mervailous face;
The ’solus’ in thy teeth, and in thy throat,
And in thy hateful lungs, yea, in thy maw, perdy,
And, which is worse, within thy nasty mouth!
I do retort the ’solus’ in thy bowels;
For I can take, and Pistol’s cock is up,
And flashing fire will follow.
NYM: I am not Barbason; you cannot conjure me. I have an
humour to knock you indifferently well. If you grow
foul with me, Pistol, I will scour you with my
rapier, as I may, in fair terms: if you would walk
off, I would prick your guts a little, in good
terms, as I may: and that’s the humour of it.”
Ah,
run away Shakespere!!!! 
In French we use to say : “On reconnait l’artisan à son travail” that means “One recognizes the worker in his work”.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=M_bvT-DGcWw this one should go with everything,the realm
What about the phrase Im in a pickle…?
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=juWKClwh3Ss nice song for captain Jack, and how are you going to get your meat if you don’t eat your pudding?
Oh thats funny!!! I love it! I just had to bookmark that one. Tnks
Happy birthday and everything else
Hi Marina,
I was wondering if you could identify the origin of the phrase “pretty penny” as in “This new laptop sure cost a pretty penny, but it was worth it in the end.”
Thanks so much, LOVE what you do!
MARINA!
HOW ABOUT:
CHEERS! …
You look a person that likes to go out and have a drink or two so why not research the word most of the people use when drinking?
Marina! I really want to know where the heck the word “shampoo” came from.
Thanks!
Do you have any formal, higher education, Marina? You seem somewhat intelligent … Maybe Ukraine University?
Marina Orlova was raised in an Eagle Nest !
ORLOVA means EAGLE in Slavic ! By the way OREL “eagle” in Slavic = ORNIS “bird” in Greek = ARN “eagle” in Germanic (like in ARNOLD). It’s an indoeuropean root *ORN/ORL “bird”.
Russian Eagle
So now we know that she doesn’t really have a twin sister - she just has two heads!
So if her first name means sea scape. She must be a sea eagle.
As a G4TV profile of Orlova indicates, she received two degrees in philology from the State University of Nizhny Novgorod in 2002, and taught English and world literature to high school students in Moscow, before moving to the United States to pursue further education.
Hello Bob,
Remember that old song-
Bob and Marina, sitting in Wikipedia, saying SNAP!
I was trying to make a joke about Uncle Bob in wiki.
I guess I’ll keep my day job.
Can’t you just imagine having a high school teacher that looks like Marina. WOW.
This just seemed like the perfect song to end yet another great day here in SoCal with our loveliest teacher, Marina. Thanks for all you do Sugarpop!
um this may be an inappropriate word but i need to know why it means what it means. blow job. why does blow job mean sucking on penis? it has nothing to do with blowing?
Hi Marina,
StarDragon here requesting a word (actually 3 words to be precise)
I was in my college math class today learning about trigonometry, I am wondering where the following Mathematical words came from and their meaning:
Tangent (Tan)
Cosine (Cos)
Sine (Sin)
Thanks in advance! and best wishes
Michael
Tangent is a refined man who has been out in the sun.
Here’s another one
It takes one to know one
okay two
I know you are, but what am I
oh Marina Marina, I could watch your Youtube specials until I pass out.
You’re so good at deciphering words and phrases in the english language. One word that I can’t understand is “GORGEOUS”. I do not see how the word gorge connects with gorgeous.
Please discuss it in your next show. Thanks a million.
adrenaLeo
P.S. You’re hot for words, but I’m hot for you ;D
I am not sure but for me GORGEOUS is from the French GORGE “throat” or “woman’s bosom”.
In modern French BRA is “soutien-gorge” = “throat holder”. It’s a kind of taboo word. It was certainly considered as more convenient to use the word THROAT for BREAST. The distance is not very big.
HOPEFULLY!
I have a friend that has a bra on his car. Looks something like this.
Bra
Strange that they use substituted throat for breast. I wonder why they would do that?
Homework:
“There is no try, only do” -Yoda
The force is strog with this one is.
Marina, You are looking spiffy as ever!!
Captain Jack, congratulations. I know you spend a lot of time on here, so this is a fitting reward.
Does anyone know how to change my gravatar? I didn’t pick ANYTHING pink. I’m a 6′3″ male, who is VERY heterosexual and has 0 objects in my house that are pink. My gravatar is a cute pink freakish little creature that would be PERFECT for a little girl, but doesn’t really fit me. It’s like when a gorilla wears a tutu…or should I say, when “a handsome, intelligent young stud” of a man like myself wears a tutu–it doesn’t fit.
Homework:
–We will find out when we get there
–I’ll believe it when I see it
–The only way to do it is to do it
go to gravatar.com set an acount up(it’s free) and pick a picture you have on your hard drive.
Thanks, Smokey!
In return, I promise not to start forest fires
Aw, c’mon! You look pretty in pink!
Spiffy! Now there’s an interesting word to investigate! But whether Marina will do it is . . . iffy!
Testing, testing… is this thing on?
How about the phrase I propose a toast… You know TOASTING at a dinner. Its so strange to say I propose a toast when it has nothing to do with toast. Where does it come from?