Thank-You and your student helpers on the guick reply concerning the gravatar… Cool, if I worked it right…. O.K. Here’s a joke; I read that it was one of Jim Morrison’s favorites…. What is the difference between a smart midget and venereal disease? Give Up? A Clue… One is a Cunning Runt. Sorry if someone doesn’t get it (it’s perhaps better that way) but the Answer is not fit to print more than i done already. Have A Nice Day! Love Always
My ex-wife once got confused trying to say “sourpuss.” Instead, she said “sore pus.” That’s probably not a spoonerism, but it really cracked me up at the time.
Back in the 1980s, John Wathan, former catcher and manager for the Kansas City Royals, lived in Deer Run, an upscale community in Blue Springs, Missouri. My wife once got confused and called it Rear Dung.
My Grandmother (that died and that we used to call Nanny and still do), when she first was introduced to my niece and nephew (that are actually called Josh and Molly) called them Mosh and Jolly because she was getting very old and senile, but also because she always was very loquacious, yet always had a great sense of humor in everything.
Mosh and Jolly (called of their great grandmother Nanny),
Shawn M. Norris
In the game City of Heroes/City of Villains there is a city area called “Port Oakes” Well, while the Fan-based Cape Radio DJs were making some in game commericals for an in game party they were hosting in Port Oakes, DJ Attercap accidentally said “Pork Oats” so they ended up putting that in the commericial, saying the event was brought to you by “New Port Oakes Pork Oats”
Marina, do you have the story of Cinderella in Russia? if you want a stunny forry spull of Foonerisms, try this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaSMqttJSZQ
I guess if two people sleep like spoons then one of them doesn’t have to worry about getting forked?
I think you may be wrong on this one. It is much more likely that the O.E. spon was an old Norse loaning. Old Frisian also had the word spon. It is possible that this is loan into Low German from Greek sphen. the utensil meaning came about around 1300 and is specific to M.E. The spatula meaning was in Mid.Low.Germ. and coexisted with the M.E. meaning.
There’s been a vague memory nagging at me since this page appeared, and I’ve just recalled it.
When I was at University, there was a pub which was a favourite among the students, the name of which was a Spoonerism; it was called “The Boar’s Head”.
The phrase Hold a Candle to someone, where does it come from :O?
Oh and the Register/Password system you have on this site is terrible, Original account is Zeltir. The password I got in the mail didn’t work so I had to make another account :s
Hey pagedoll, I’m wets coast… haven’t even left work yet (I’ll leave that “wets” in, meant west, but it’s raining) I won’t get to catch the show on TV. Have been Bucking Fizzy, & Onth Mend on top of that, Wore Mork keeps comming in. I’ll have to wait for the Oill Brielly show on youtube or the website here.
How long was the “Marina” spot on the show??
Oh, I’d say inbetween 7-9 minutes. She always makes me laugh….I think fox replays his show a 8pm but Im not sure. I have Directv and on the west coast too. No rain in SD though(I wish)!
Меня достаточно давно интересует смысл и трактовка одной фразы, которую постоянно произносит персонаж одного знаменитого мультфильма. Не могли бы Вы помочь разобраться в смысловой нагрузке этой фразы, если такова имеется.
Фраза: D’oh!
Ссылка на видеоряд с этой фразой: http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=UO8QpRkOG1o
There really is no other research on where doh came from other than it was first done by the Simpsons I believe.
I usually speak in English on the site just because there are a lot of people from other countries and English seems to be the most common language that everyone can speak here.
Sorry I didn’t get back to you sooner, was traveling to NY and back!
Марина, спасибо за ответ!
Был приятно удивлён, уделённым мне вниманием с Вашей стороны. Жаль, Вы не приезжаете на родину. Буду просматривать Ваш сайт, если будут возникать вопросы с непонятными фразами или словами, обязательно обращусь за помощью!
Посмотрев видео, я понял что слово DUH больше подходит под формулировку слова “ДА”, но в тех же Simpson’s, Homer использует это выражение явно с другим смыслом, чаще всего выражение D’oh переводят как слово “Чёрт!”.
Марина, не могли бы Вы более подробно рассмотреть мой вопрос, т.к. мне кажеться, что слово “DUH” и слово “D’oh” в корне отличаються по смыслу.
P.S. Простите за нескромность, но не составит ли Вам большой сложности рассказать смысл этого слова на Русском языке?! Эдентично словам: “AK47>A4″
I would like to request a word, Pear shaped for example in the UK if some goes wrong, we could say its gone pear shaped would love to know the meaning of this. Hope you can help HOTFORWORDS
I just played that sucker six times, just to play all the different layered guitar work. Good thing I was already in tune, capoed two frets and schwing!
I can’t figure it out. How can staring at a camera get you better ratings than your educational videos. Maybe you should try one day and just stare at the camera for four minutes. We will still always watch no matter what you do.
I saw something on television the other day that in Japan they sell DVDs of women just staring at the camera like she does… so I think it’s actually a kind of Japanese pr0n.
Ok lets get off the pron issue. Who’s birthday was it? It’s a very big and nice looking cake. I know it wasn’t your birthday. You have left us in the dark as so to speak on that issue. A lady never tells her true age. Does she
How can that be considered pornographic? It doesn’t even qualify as soft porn. It’s a girl staring into a video camera. No nudity, no sex, no indecency whatsoever. I just don’t get how it can for one second be likened to porn. Or pr0n, for that matter.
As for the birthday cake, I think it should be accepted that Marina is being forthright when she states her age as 27. I too had some hesitation, because she seems too well educated to be that young, but I think her looks kind of speak for themselves. She may carry herself as more than 27 (apt, since her intelligent quotient would reflect such an impression), but things like her very nice skin tone bely a woman in her mid 20s, if not younger. I think it is safe to say that Marina is an honest, upfront person.
@ Errin. Marina stated, I saw something on “television” the other day that in Japan they “sell” DVDs of women just staring at the camera like she does… so I think it’s actually a kind of Japanese pr0n. Actually prOn is in the eye of the beholder. What ever turns them on can be considered prOn. PrOn is not limited to pictures of naked women or people in different positions. Some people get off on peoples underwear or bras. No one said that this lady was doing it for the same reason. She is just trying to learn the Japanese culture.
As for the cake, it’s has been an on going joke between Marina and myself about her birthday and her age for quite a while. She finally told us it was in December. It’s nothing more or nothing less. It’s just friendly chit chat between two people who have never met.
A long time ago one of the color commentators for the New Orlean Saint was a beloved former player Danny Abramowicz. During a game in the days prior to the 5 second delay, he spoonerized “punt coverage.” The resulting laughter caused the next play to be described after the fact rather than called live.
Hy Marina! My nick is.. lunapark. I know that “luna” means “moon” but can you explain to me why the lunapark is so called.
Thanks a lot!
Greetings from Italy.
You are great!!!
Hey, this isn’t actually a word request just something I wanted to point out. On your werewolf video you mentioned that the “v” pronunciation was changed to “w” overtime. I just wanted to mention that the pronunciation never changed, latin v’s were pronounced like w’s. Only in ecclesiastical latin are v’s pronounced as v’s, because of the churches close ties to Italy. I was just bored and felt like writing this, I have too much time on my hands
I like your article Errin, but I don’t think it should be used against harmless protesters. If they were caring objects to harm other people then maybe so. But everyone has a given right to protest against the government or it’s policies. It just tees me off to think that for every protest there has to be some kind of force used against them. Our society is going to hell in a hand basket.
I was going to mention the episode
of South Park where Cartman switched
the sheet music for the recorder band.
Glad I left it hang, Marina picked up on it!
Capman911 – The article is mostly preparing you for the onslaught of whinig lawyers, and their arguements against using non-lethal force to quell unruly and civily disobedient protesters. Your civil right to protest does not exempt you from the law, and is not a guaranteed right to disobey lawful orders, or put the safety of yourself or others at risk. Society has adopted non-lethal quelling methods in order to minimize damage to harmless protesters. If society was going to hell, people would die, not just sh*t themselves!
As a sound engineer, I think the brown note should be used on everybody just for fun. But that’s just me!
Seriously, I get a big kick out of these sonic cannons, ever since they first gained publicity after a British cruise liner used one to thwart pirates of the coast of Africa a year or so back. Thing is, you don’t really need the brown note… enough white noise at a high enough decibel rate will stun people without hurting their hearing.
On a side note, I really object to our Armed Forces using professional recordings to agitate or interrogate our enemies. That to me is a gross perversion of the recordings original intent (i.e. make an artistic statement and some $$$ to go with it), and our Armed Forces would be much better served creating their own recordings, which would actually be even more effective for breaking down wills, as pro recordings are all softened down by compression. Even a loud rock song blaring at high volume has been tempered via mixing and mastering. Using a recording not designed for agitation and interrogation is not as effective as using a recording specifically designed for breaking wills. If our Armed Forces are going to start using recordings as part of their psychological warfare weaponry, they should start being more dedicated and NOT use the intellectual property of recording artists from the music biz.
Hey I got a word request me and my buddies were talking about yesterday. The verb, to sic. Like when you sic your dog on someone. I know sic is Latin, but the attack-dog verb does related to the Latin meaning at all. What’s the deal with “sic”?
By my calcs, comments are high.
Now is the time to start looking for
the new lesson to appear.
Should be out within the next
three hours, if the past trend
holds true.
Mike if I had an extra grand to spare, I’d send you a Mac. I hate recessions. Im always the first to be hit. Discretionary income is what supports my business. Taking classes is aways the first thing that people cut in a down economy.
Just made a “run through the garden”
over at YT and caught up my ratings.
Should be good for a 0.00000008% bump,
but it all adds up in the end!
Love ya, darlin’
ciao XoxO
My math was way off the beat
today. #37 as of the time stamp.
ok – so first, Bill O’Reilly, then a
new lesson! Just like baseball,
Double-header under the lights!
This guy does a “mean cat” video I thought
Roadrunmch should take a look at.
Found it while trying to get some “barking dog”
bits to respond to tedt’s comment below.
No joy, yet, on that one
James.. I use music that people send me and some of the music is from loops that came with my editing program… so the reason why you may hear my intro is because these people use a similar program and happened to use the same loop that I use.
I haven’t seen you here before. Welcome to hotforwords! Howdy is a shortened form of the greeting “How do you do?” Since Marina has about a million word requests right now, I thought you might like to know. Hope this helps. See you around the campus.
To Answer
As i am a bargecaptain and of course a sailor before i often wondered where the confirmation “aye aye” on an order came from, also because it’s not country bound but is used in all marine based enterprises, whether they are military or not…. could you find out? thanks in advance.
Aye, Aye means;
I understand
I will carry the order out
SO the term Aye, Aye
zeilbeest, Some people don’t know how to read the entire post. These things happen from time to time. Its all in their good intentions.
I’ve heard of barge captain’s, but I don’t know what that entails? What inspired you to get your Masters ticket?
As you can see from my logname i’m not american
I’m from holland, and holland (or the netherlands as some of you know it), has the largest bargefleet in europe defenately, maybe even the world. Most of them are privately owned and the main business is providing the Rhinestates with product transport, either in the form of bulk,containers or tankers.
The other business is providing seavessels with the necesaries (food,water,fuel,luboil). I’m in that business… i sail a 700 ton heavy fuel barge in the Amsterdam,Rotterdam,Antwerpen(belgium) ports to provide seavessels with fuel.
Now you’d think fuel is fuel….. oh no, there’s all sorts… diferent centistokes (how luiquid it is) different sulfer content etc etc….
The nice thing about the job is that there’s always a challenge; figure out where the connection on the vessel is, how to get to it,pump exactly the right amount, getting there on time etc etc…..
So what inspired me to get my masters? Money of course…. if you want to make more money, you got to get the degree and put in the hours….. there are no free rides…. Does that answer your question captain Jack?
Every time that I come to your site, the word “cleavage” comes readily to mind. Is “cleavage” a contronym? Or is it only the form “cleave” which is truly a contronym?
I hope that you’re not chuffed that I would ask about the word “cleavage”. Or should I hope that you are chuffed? Wow, I seem to find it very difficult to ask such a beautiful woman so simple a question!
I wanna know the origin of the frase
(in swedish) ‘köpa grisen i säcken’
(in english) ‘to buy a pig in a bag’
if that is a saying in english? I dont really know, its really common i swedish anyway ^^
well keep it up
xoxo
Dear Marina!!! Please can u make lesson about latex!! I think it is important to know about it. There are a lot of things that are made of it. It is very interesting. And another ask – can u put on latex catsuit . With great gratitude, ur admirer.
I’m getting pissy with yt now.. Yeaterday I managed to get one of my videos to say watch in high quality. And the one i just did isn’t saying it!! Im going to try it on the one it did well in the first place now.
James it doesn’t always say it right away.. it used to take a few hours before it kicked in but now it’s pretty close to immediate for me… but that could be because I am a partner.
Thats interesting. I tried it with another video and it showed up straight away. I think it must be the lighting aswell then and filesize. Thanks for the help
Winston Churchill went into a lift drunk and a woman said “urrrgh your drunk” Winston said.” I may be drunk. And you are ugly. But at least I will wake up sober tomorrow”
James, nice quote! One of my favorites was in his running battle with Lady Nancy Aston who once said: “SIr, if you were my husband, I would give you poison.” To which Churchill responded: “If I were your husband I would take it.”
I need to film a conversation that I am having on the web…. now this would be comments going back and forth between me and someone or multiple people… something funny… and with a cliffhanger at the end. I am having writer’s block right now trying to think of something funny.. that people would watch in a video.. and would end up clicking on a link at the end to see where the conversation ends up.
Hey ! Marina ! What about a conversation with a French Old Dadie ?
It could be about English+Russian+French.
There are enough common words between French and English for making something interesting and funny.
How about the subject of the pros and cons of various eating
etensils (forks, spoons, knifes, chopsticks, etc) there sure has
been enough material from past comments over the last few
days to start with.
a new fad at the beach is making
martinis and margaritas using
liquid nitrogen. Breathing the
vapors makes your voice deeper.
[sexy girl with deep voice]
“Buy me a drink, Sailor”
(get some gender bender related humor)
Perhaps a discussion could emerge
involving the dangers of using helium
as a substitute when nitrogen is
unavailabe, or using helium to
counteract the nitrogen.
[not so sexy guy with high voice]
“Hey baby, can I buy you a drink?”
(just plain – funny)
Buildup of nitrogen in the bloodstream
leads to narcosis (the bends) while helium
tends to induce laughter, then suffocation!
Marina as the unaffected interviewer
with two panelists, a man on helium,
and a woman on nitrogen to set the
stage for a debate over which method
works better.
The cliffhanger would involve having
Marina test both methods, using
lip sync to produce both the chipmunk
vocal effect, and Yello’s “Oh yeah” for
the nitrogen method, as an outro.
Don’t know how practical this idea is
as I’ve written it here, but there may
be some fodder for an even better
idea from Marina.
melikadothechacha, “Perhaps a discussion could emerge
involving the dangers of using helium
as a substitute when nitrogen is
unavailabe, or using helium to
counteract the nitrogen. ” The only thing to counteract those two and still sustain life is a proper mixture of oxygen or air. You trying to get someone killed or brain damaged or maybe both?
This old joke has a bit of a cliffhanger to it. You think you can adapt this for your needs? Maybe at the least it might jump start your thoughts.
The Smart Blonde
A blonde woman boards an airplane. She is extremely exhausted and just wants to take a nap. She finally finds her seat and sits down next to a very curious young man.
He wants to test the whole dub blonde thing and possibly make some money out of it. “Hey, wanna play a game?” he asks her. “No thank you, i just want to take a nap.” “Please, its really easy, all you have to do is answer the questions that i ask you. If you don’t know the answer, then you give me five dollars, and if I don’t know the answer to your question, then Ill give you five dollars.”
“I really don’t want to do this. I just want to take a nap.”
“Oh but PLEASE pretty please. Okay, how about if I don’t know the answer to your question, I’ll give you five hundred dollars.” The blonde woman became interested and decided to play the game.
“Okay. How many moons does jupiter have?” the young man asked. The woman reached into her purse and took out a five dollar bill. “What goes up the mountain with three legs and comes back down with four?”.
The young man, determined not to lose, gets out his laptop and searches all over the internet for an answered. Flustered and confused, the young man hand the blonde five hundred dollars.
After a few hours, the young man was itching to know the answer to the question.”What was the answer to the riddle?” the blonde woman reached into her purse and handed the young man a five dollar bill.
Heres one cap , Three couples go to a motel, each couple wanting separate rooms, hotel keeper says 10 dollars each, or thirty dollars total. Each couple pays with a 10 dollar bill and the bellhop shows them to there rooms. later the motel keeper decides he overcharged 5 dollars for the rooms, says bell hop take this 5 dollars and give it back to the 3 couples, the bellhop on his way to carry out his task, can’t figure out how to how to divide 5 dollars between the 3 couples so he says , I will pocket 2 dollars and give each of the couples back each a dollar. Now each couple got back a dollar= 10 dollars minus 1 dollar is equal to 9 dollars times 3 couples is equal to 27 dollars plus the 2 dollars the bellhop kept makes 29 dollars, so what happened to the other dollar?
What? They never had 9 dollars in the first place. They each spent $10 and got back 3 and the Bellhop took $2. (30 – 5) + (3 + 2) = 30? Don’t over think it.
Marina,
How about come on and hang out, talk for a little bite.
Start a thread and stay to talk??
Just me, but if you try it, could work. XD
Try it today, What are your interests??
Is there something in the news that interests YOU?.
Her is an idea for a non-threatening thread,
How using one wrong word to explain your thoughts
cause people to misunderstand you entirely. Not understanding the words you use will hurt your argument..
Combining two homework assignments:-
A drunk goes into a bar and orders a drink, but the barman refuses to serve him because he’s already had too much, so the drunk commits a triple spoonerism, “I’m not as thunk as drinkle peep I am,”
Hi. Marina…
thanks 4 ur good new information .. I want to ask about..(AM) refers to the morning time and (PM) refers to the evening time..what are the differences?
never heard of electric blue. seems to be a little too pastel-ish for aqua, it’s definitely a light blue, but there are all kinds of blues that are “light”. baby blue … yeah … i once called it baby blue, but all those names are kinda vague — unless it’s one of the three rgbs or one of the four cmyks.
Hello Tavorite Feacher Marina, ( the hokin’ smottie with grood gammar, tot hopics… etc.)
Just a riendly feminder that you still haven’t klown a biss my way or givin’ me a moseup of your clesmerizing cleavage while naming me “your peacher’s tet!”. Oh yah, you also have a smeat grile!!!
Looks like I’ll just pave to be hatient. Flove is like a lower, it’s nice when you get it but it only wasts if you later it? hmmm?
I like the way you took the homework assignment to a whole new level!
Your site is interesting, haven’t subscribed, yet, but I’m checking it out.
Keep it between the lines and out of the ditches
I like your site to, but the other word “but” no offense, but it’s kinda hard to read with all of the bike stuff showing through. Don’t pay any attention to me it’s just my observation. You don’t have to please anyone but what you like.
Mike
We call them tarins. My aunt was on the train once and the electronic sign thing said ” O, welcome aboard the southwest tarins service, you are in Petresfield.” she was in southampton..
Hello Marina,
The plant keeps changing. You could place an ad there and make a bit more pocket change.
Was Kobe barking at your “sister” for trying to get into the picture?
I think it would be great if you used your “Green Screen” to create a show that showed “both” of you together.
Homework:
I was going to copy a few but instead here’s a few spoonerisms
Thank you
A friend recently used the word kowtow. Although I know what the word means, I wonder if its origin has anything to do with carrying beef? I thought I should ask my favorite instructor for her etymological opinion.
Here i have a well-known example of spoonerism: i do not remember who ,anyway someone quite famous made become ”The American way of life” something like the ”American lying of wife”…not bad… -Then Мариночка, i have something interesting to discuss: the meaning of the word ”TARTUFFE” -it has the same meaning both in English and in French and since you are an authority in the field of literature you’ll certainly like….
There was a satirical comedy program on the BBC in England a long time ago, which was called, “Not So Much A Weekend, More A Way of Life”.
I can remember one of my colleagues telling us that he was going away for a long weekend, to celebrate their wedding anniversary, and someone said, “Not so much a weekend, more a lay of wife.”
I had a thought marina,, Watching your billion video got me thinking.. If I had £4 billion then went to america I would end up with $4trillion.. But then I suppose the exchange rate would mess that up so I would still have the same amount?
As i am a bargecaptain and of course a sailor before i often wondered where the confirmation “aye aye” on an order came from, also because it’s not country bound but is used in all marine based enterprises, whether they are military or not…. could you find out? thanks in advance.
Aaar! Yer in luck thar matey!
Aside from the pseudo-pirates,
like me, there are a few serious
sea wayfarers here who are
into nautical word origins.
Captain Jack is our main source
in this regard. Other words requested
have been the usual: starboard,
leeward, astern and aft.
Your request rounds out the
list nicely. I’m just a landlubber
myself these days, but I still
get to go fishing in the deep water
from time to time. I loves it!
Marina may turn all this into
a lesson – look what she did
with “spoon”!
carry on, sailor
Peace!
Great question! I have wondered that myself and still do today.
I have my books open to the pages of words ‘ay,ay’ ‘Sir’ ‘No, no’ and ‘aye aye Sir’. I am pondering of whether or not to say anything. If I tell you then no video would be done for this word for sure. But if Marina is not going to do this word in the next week or so then your question would go unanswered. This is my dilemma.
Since both of us knows that it means and when to use it I won’t go into that detail. ‘ay’ was first attested in the late 16th century. As far as I can tell the origin is unknown or untraceable according to my references. Maybe our dear teacher can shed a bit more light? Marina not only finds origins but she also finds the stories behind the origins of the words.
Ok now i get the comment from roadrunmch, and it would seem obvious,but captain jack already said the origin lies in the 16th century, and at the time there were at least 4 great fleets, english , spanish,dutch and french (and don’t forget the portuguese), now everybody nows that crews were “drafted” (most of the time kidnap came more close to it) so that would explain the widespread trough all international fleets, but how come that particular word, and is the origin realy english?
I also did a few years in college and my major was history, and the 1st thing they teach you is never assume anything unless you have written proof..
So again, what would be the origin of the term “aye aye”and why is it so widespread international troughout all things maritime ?
I anxiously await the answer….
P.S.( roadrunmch: i know what it means, im a captain, i wanna know where it comes from.. )
melikadothechacha, Well you know I fly R/C Helicopters as a hobby. Its a great stress reliever and a hella lot of fun. You have to see this 4 year old Justin Chi. He’s now 6 years old. This kid is doing very difficult maneuvers I yet to learn. Now this heli cost around 2 grand. The crash was not his fault. Often helis break in mid flight because of the stresses we put these machines through. So sit back and watch in amazement.
AYE AYE The derivation of this is generally thought to be unknown, but some experts think it may possibly come from the German “Eiey!” – an exclamation of astonishment or admiration.
According to: http://www.etymonline.com
“assent,” 1576, perhaps a variant of I, meaning “I assent,” or an alt. of M.E. yai “yes.”
zeilbeest, I referenced all I can here. We may never really find out the origin of this word. This is really up to our Teacher to investigate. If there is anyone here that stands the best chance to answer your request and now mine, is Marina.
I was wondering where the phrase, “no sleep for the wicked” was originated. If you could help me out Marina, it would be greatly appreciated. I need sleep!
Yeay! Tnks jura! mrglv, aleighsen, pairadots, hotfor-hotforwords-, rogeriopx, hotbutnotthathotforwords, jgstargazer, and guardianjosha all requested this word. Even Buzzword made a link to a YT video Catch 22. That makes 10 of us requesting the term. Though here’s the catch, we are short 12 students requesting that term. Well…just wanted to make it 22 requests! Miss M might have to turn into Mighty Chipmunk again to name off that list.
The novel was initially going to be called Catch 18. However, it had to be renamed so people would not confuse it with the Leon Uris novel Mila 18. Amazing what you can learn when you watch Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
For those who are curious, there is more info in the following wikipedia page :
ILLUSION comes from Latin ILLUSIO that is the evolution of IN + LUSIO “in playing”. An illusion is something your brain invents, plays into your consciousness as in theater or in a movie. It’s not real, it’s “played in”.
Hi.
I have a word request. I’ve crossed this word several times, and have come to understand the meaning, but i just don’t understand where it came from.
To “bogart” something. Where you keep something (an object) selfishly to yourself.
Could it be that Humphrey Bogart was a selfish person? I have no idea.
Any way…
Love your clips!
All the best!
xxx
BoomVoom
hey i love watching your shows i learn alot, but i always wondered in the song “Everybody have fun tonight by wang chung” they say “everybody wang chung tonight” what is wang chung? is it just a band name with no meaning or is there an actual meaning?
I was watching your video discussing Skinny Dipping and made a sudden realization. I have no idea where the term Streaking came from. I would be much obliged if you could solve this mystery for me!
Sweet to see spoonerism mentioned in the video. As I remember mentioning spoonerism in the ‘blooper’ lesson on youtube about a couple of months or so ago
I mentioned stuff like swimney cheep instead of chimney sweep, and chooked cicken instead of cooked chicken
You half way stole my thunder, but here goes;
Q: What is the difference between a group of midgets and a women’s track team?
A: One is a cunning bunch of runts, while the other is a bunch of running cu…. ehhhh, errrr, ummmmm, there is Marina’s sister interrupting again.
You thought I was going to say cuties didn’t you?
Hey HotforWords, I was wondering where the word TOILET came from, and what it has to do with the terms “Going to the John, and Need the Lou”… who was John and Lou? and what they have to do with Toilets
Hi, Marina….I just took a course in CPR and the word VOMIT came up. And when it did I thot of you. Uhh…just because I thot it would be interesting to know the origin of the word. Not the most beautiful word in the world, but just saying it makes you want to….know where it came from! Thanks for the smiles and education! Stevie
my statement wasn’t political, it was intended as a personal insult toward the guy. what does congress have to do with bush being a moron? i don’t care what he does, whatever he does, he behaves like a fool, nothing political about it. bush’s ineptitude is a personal characteristic, probably genetic.
I know that there are others besides
President Bush who have been targets
for attacks. Shooting fish in a barrel
isn’t very sporting, and to bring it
here? well…i’m just sayin’
your right shooting fish in a barrel isn’t sporting, but admit it, its damn entertaining. as for bringing it here, i don’t see how its any more offensive than the frequent innuendo, friendly sarcasm, etc… besides i was just submitting my favorite spoonerism and backing it up. cool? lets move on to the next lesson.
1.) “It is kisstomary to cuss the bride” (”customary to kiss”)
2.) “Mardon me, padam, this pie is occupewed. Can I sew you to another sheet?” (Pardon me, madam, this pew is occupied. Can I show you to another seat?”)
3.)”We’ll have the hags flung out” (”flags hung”)
Thank-You and your student helpers on the guick reply concerning the gravatar… Cool, if I worked it right…. O.K. Here’s a joke; I read that it was one of Jim Morrison’s favorites…. What is the difference between a smart midget and venereal disease? Give Up? A Clue… One is a Cunning Runt. Sorry if someone doesn’t get it (it’s perhaps better that way) but the Answer is not fit to print more than i done already. Have A Nice Day! Love Always
I think one of the original Spoonerisms still makes me grin…
“May I sew you to your sheets?”
instead of
“May I show you to your seats?”
HotForWords,
My spoonerism goes like your cunning stunt.
It goes:
Hot For Words
Wet For Hers
TOF
The is a children’s book written in spoonerisms called “The Runny Babbit” or something like that.
One I’ve always found funny is the spoonerism for
“A Tale of Two Cities” which becomes “A Sale of Two… ”
you figure it out.
I would love to do this lesson however I jsy keep getting my mucking words fuddled up……
So Марина, what explains the use of the term “spooning” for sexual coitus in the side supported, rear entry format?
My ex-wife once got confused trying to say “sourpuss.” Instead, she said “sore pus.” That’s probably not a spoonerism, but it really cracked me up at the time.
Back in the 1980s, John Wathan, former catcher and manager for the Kansas City Royals, lived in Deer Run, an upscale community in Blue Springs, Missouri. My wife once got confused and called it Rear Dung.
Don’t know if this is true Spoonerism. But, my brother had one – “Bushy eyed and bright tailed”. (Bright eyed and bushy tailed.)
My Grandmother (that died and that we used to call Nanny and still do), when she first was introduced to my niece and nephew (that are actually called Josh and Molly) called them Mosh and Jolly because she was getting very old and senile, but also because she always was very loquacious, yet always had a great sense of humor in everything.
Mosh and Jolly (called of their great grandmother Nanny),
Shawn M. Norris
In the game City of Heroes/City of Villains there is a city area called “Port Oakes” Well, while the Fan-based Cape Radio DJs were making some in game commericals for an in game party they were hosting in Port Oakes, DJ Attercap accidentally said “Pork Oats” so they ended up putting that in the commericial, saying the event was brought to you by “New Port Oakes Pork Oats”
Origin of the word ‘Erect’ or ‘Erection’ please?
Please… stand up when you ask a question.
OOPS! Almost forgot to turn in my homework! How about “Queer Fish” instead of “Fear Quiche”? Or “Waterfords” instead of “HotForWords” ?
Marina, do you have the story of Cinderella in Russia? if you want a stunny forry spull of Foonerisms, try this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaSMqttJSZQ
I guess if two people sleep like spoons then one of them doesn’t have to worry about getting forked?
I think you may be wrong on this one. It is much more likely that the O.E. spon was an old Norse loaning. Old Frisian also had the word spon. It is possible that this is loan into Low German from Greek sphen. the utensil meaning came about around 1300 and is specific to M.E. The spatula meaning was in Mid.Low.Germ. and coexisted with the M.E. meaning.
There’s been a vague memory nagging at me since this page appeared, and I’ve just recalled it.
When I was at University, there was a pub which was a favourite among the students, the name of which was a Spoonerism; it was called “The Boar’s Head”.
What is that a spoonerism of? The Whore’s Bed is all i can think of…
That must be why it was so popular with the student body.
I think the spoon ran away with the fork in “ancient” times………lol Gotz to love the word “ancient”
There is one known to Metal Gear Solid fans, where the game would say “Fission Mailed” instead of “Mission Failed”.
The phrase “In the tank”. I can infer a general meaning from the context in which it is used but I would like to know exactly what it means.
Here is my request
‘Ballbuster’
What a dichotomy. Men ‘have balls’ when they’re assertive, but assertive women are ‘ballbusters’. Incredible!
The phrase Hold a Candle to someone, where does it come from :O?
Oh and the Register/Password system you have on this site is terrible, Original account is Zeltir. The password I got in the mail didn’t work so I had to make another account :s
Marvelous on O’Reilly (sp)
Mark Twain used the word “blatherskite” a number of times.
Origin of the word BLATHERSKITE, please.
I would like to know why people says “I’m feeling blue” to mean to be a bit sad. Regards
O’Reilly was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She will be back NO doubt.
I heard the word ‘man’ mean’t a physical manifestation of the moon.
Where’d they get that?
Thanks
Just saw the O’Rielly show, good job!!…You look like totally different person compared to the first time you were on.
Hey pagedoll, I’m wets coast… haven’t even left work yet (I’ll leave that “wets” in, meant west, but it’s raining) I won’t get to catch the show on TV.
Have been Bucking Fizzy, & Onth Mend on top of that, Wore Mork keeps comming in. I’ll have to wait for the Oill Brielly show on youtube or the website here.
How long was the “Marina” spot on the show??
Oh, I’d say inbetween 7-9 minutes. She always makes me laugh….I think fox replays his show a 8pm but Im not sure. I have Directv and on the west coast too. No rain in SD though(I wish)!
“Доброй ночи Мария, хотя для Вас скорее вечер
Меня достаточно давно интересует смысл и трактовка одной фразы, которую постоянно произносит персонаж одного знаменитого мультфильма. Не могли бы Вы помочь разобраться в смысловой нагрузке этой фразы, если такова имеется.
Фраза: D’oh!
Ссылка на видеоряд с этой фразой: http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=UO8QpRkOG1o
Заранее благодарен.
С уважением, Илья.
P.S. С приветом из России “
I did a video on the word duh recently… and supposedly doh is a variant of duh… here is the video: http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/07/01/duh/
There really is no other research on where doh came from other than it was first done by the Simpsons I believe.
I usually speak in English on the site just because there are a lot of people from other countries and English seems to be the most common language that everyone can speak here.
Sorry I didn’t get back to you sooner, was traveling to NY and back!
Marina
how’s the let jag?
Марина, спасибо за ответ!
Был приятно удивлён, уделённым мне вниманием с Вашей стороны. Жаль, Вы не приезжаете на родину. Буду просматривать Ваш сайт, если будут возникать вопросы с непонятными фразами или словами, обязательно обращусь за помощью!
Посмотрев видео, я понял что слово DUH больше подходит под формулировку слова “ДА”, но в тех же Simpson’s, Homer использует это выражение явно с другим смыслом, чаще всего выражение D’oh переводят как слово “Чёрт!”.
Марина, не могли бы Вы более подробно рассмотреть мой вопрос, т.к. мне кажеться, что слово “DUH” и слово “D’oh” в корне отличаються по смыслу.
P.S. Простите за нескромность, но не составит ли Вам большой сложности рассказать смысл этого слова на Русском языке?! Эдентично словам: “AK47>A4″
С уважением, Илья.
Марина, вас не напрягает то, что я пишу, на русском языке, на вашем сайте?
Илья
I would like to request a word, Pear shaped for example in the UK if some goes wrong, we could say its gone pear shaped would love to know the meaning of this. Hope you can help HOTFORWORDS
Top notch video! Yes that is my request: TOP NOTCH, How did that start?
458th
A word: GOO
This is from
A Boy called Goo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkhXa1iN3nM
I just played that sucker six times, just to play all the different layered guitar work. Good thing I was already in tune, capoed two frets and schwing!
pfff yt is slow today….And wth is that magibon girl doeing ahead of Marina :S
I’m going to TRY to have some sleep -.- it’s still like 30°C in my bedroom
goodnight everyone
g`night foxbow, I’m attempting the same thing!
I can’t figure it out. How can staring at a camera get you better ratings than your educational videos. Maybe you should try one day and just stare at the camera for four minutes. We will still always watch no matter what you do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUohprNRUHc
You could try to hypnotize us. Stare into my big blue eyes. We would sit there for hours staring back.
Dude, check the lessons. Marina already did a “mexican staring frog” episode back when it was cutting edge. Made my eyes burn!
Cool! aLx posted the link!
I saw something on television the other day that in Japan they sell DVDs of women just staring at the camera like she does… so I think it’s actually a kind of Japanese pr0n.
I think men over there like the real young girls. Kinda sickening if you ask me.
mike,
according to wikipedia (see below), she’s born in 86.
hey, you did japanese pr0n yourself! ;P
capman,
Man over there can buy school girls panties in vending machines.(used)
and your point is …?
Are we going to have a stare contest again?
That was fun last time.
A mist for you and a mist for me first.
Prauns? Prauns are cool, use ‘em for bait or eat ‘em if the fishies aren’t bititng.
Ok ok – my lameness…
What is a prOn??
pr0n = porn.
b00n.
Marina,
Can you imagine how well you would do if you need this. Face the camera and just look around, close up.
aLx made me laugh, callin’ me a bOOn!
are there other code words I’ve missed?
XD XD XD XD XD XD XE Ooops!
Cap911; Joke: What are the three sexiest words in the English languge?
I am eighteen…
Ok lets get off the pron issue. Who’s birthday was it? It’s a very big and nice looking cake. I know it wasn’t your birthday. You have left us in the dark as so to speak on that issue. A lady never tells her true age. Does she
How can that be considered pornographic? It doesn’t even qualify as soft porn. It’s a girl staring into a video camera. No nudity, no sex, no indecency whatsoever. I just don’t get how it can for one second be likened to porn. Or pr0n, for that matter.
As for the birthday cake, I think it should be accepted that Marina is being forthright when she states her age as 27. I too had some hesitation, because she seems too well educated to be that young, but I think her looks kind of speak for themselves. She may carry herself as more than 27 (apt, since her intelligent quotient would reflect such an impression), but things like her very nice skin tone bely a woman in her mid 20s, if not younger. I think it is safe to say that Marina is an honest, upfront person.
@ Errin. Marina stated, I saw something on “television” the other day that in Japan they “sell” DVDs of women just staring at the camera like she does… so I think it’s actually a kind of Japanese pr0n. Actually prOn is in the eye of the beholder. What ever turns them on can be considered prOn. PrOn is not limited to pictures of naked women or people in different positions. Some people get off on peoples underwear or bras. No one said that this lady was doing it for the same reason. She is just trying to learn the Japanese culture.
As for the cake, it’s has been an on going joke between Marina and myself about her birthday and her age for quite a while. She finally told us it was in December. It’s nothing more or nothing less. It’s just friendly chit chat between two people who have never met.
Sorry to keep posting on your personal comments page. I know it’s heck on the e-mail.
Mike
magibon.
She is popular alright.
She doesn’t look that old. That’s why she is so popular in japan.
I see it, but I don’t know
what to make of it.
Pedophiles, maybe?
My Spoonerisms:
Donald Rumsfeld becomes Ronald Dumsfeld
A dyslexic cop would say to a criminal, “Ass, Freezehole!”
my word is tickling, or tickle torture. have fun! jason
Still no sign of o rielly vid.. Or me being number 1 comment…. Suppose there will be other days. Goodnight from england.69
Night James
How about a guessing game until you up load the new vid. Give us some clues and let us guess to see if we can figure it out.
Pick a pack…
Playing cards?
pickled peppers
Pick a 6 pack?
But it’s already past 6 in the east.
crowd? gaggle?
wolves
cigarettes?
What a great game!
Okay, umm… How’s the weather?
Here’s my local radar
http://www.wsvn.com/weather/animated_radar/broward_radar.php
of packed picks
It is only 88 F here in Montana
pack rat pack leader pack horse pack mule pack of gum
of doublement chewing gum
Here’s our weather.
http://vortex.accuweather.com/adc2004/common/images/locallayers/cities/KILM_cities.gif
Well something didn’t turn out right. so don;t click on the url.
Well you have twelve more slots before you reach number 24.
A long time ago one of the color commentators for the New Orlean Saint was a beloved former player Danny Abramowicz. During a game in the days prior to the 5 second delay, he spoonerized “punt coverage.” The resulting laughter caused the next play to be described after the fact rather than called live.
Hy Marina! My nick is.. lunapark. I know that “luna” means “moon” but can you explain to me why the lunapark is so called.
Thanks a lot!
Greetings from Italy.
You are great!!!
Or how about lunatic.
why is winking considered a flirt?
Because they can see you
have
lustdust in your eyes.Hey, this isn’t actually a word request just something I wanted to point out. On your werewolf video you mentioned that the “v” pronunciation was changed to “w” overtime. I just wanted to mention that the pronunciation never changed, latin v’s were pronounced like w’s. Only in ecclesiastical latin are v’s pronounced as v’s, because of the churches close ties to Italy. I was just bored and felt like writing this, I have too much time on my hands
When will the o’reilley vids be on here?
Any hour now… In the meanwhile, you can pass the time reading this important news article:
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/06/10/activists-preparing-against-use-of-brown-note-at-dem-convention/
It’s all you need to know about the dreaded brown note, courtesy of FOXnews.
Tough to be “cool ” with a load in your shorts.
Ups the ante too maintain a civil protest
Isn’t that from an episode of South Park?
I like your article Errin, but I don’t think it should be used against harmless protesters. If they were caring objects to harm other people then maybe so. But everyone has a given right to protest against the government or it’s policies. It just tees me off to think that for every protest there has to be some kind of force used against them. Our society is going to hell in a hand basket.
I was going to mention the episode
of South Park where Cartman switched
the sheet music for the recorder band.
Glad I left it hang, Marina picked up on it!
Capman911 – The article is mostly preparing you for the onslaught of whinig lawyers, and their arguements against using non-lethal force to quell unruly and civily disobedient protesters. Your civil right to protest does not exempt you from the law, and is not a guaranteed right to disobey lawful orders, or put the safety of yourself or others at risk. Society has adopted non-lethal quelling methods in order to minimize damage to harmless protesters. If society was going to hell, people would die, not just sh*t themselves!
As a sound engineer, I think the brown note should be used on everybody just for fun. But that’s just me!
Seriously, I get a big kick out of these sonic cannons, ever since they first gained publicity after a British cruise liner used one to thwart pirates of the coast of Africa a year or so back. Thing is, you don’t really need the brown note… enough white noise at a high enough decibel rate will stun people without hurting their hearing.
On a side note, I really object to our Armed Forces using professional recordings to agitate or interrogate our enemies. That to me is a gross perversion of the recordings original intent (i.e. make an artistic statement and some $$$ to go with it), and our Armed Forces would be much better served creating their own recordings, which would actually be even more effective for breaking down wills, as pro recordings are all softened down by compression. Even a loud rock song blaring at high volume has been tempered via mixing and mastering. Using a recording not designed for agitation and interrogation is not as effective as using a recording specifically designed for breaking wills. If our Armed Forces are going to start using recordings as part of their psychological warfare weaponry, they should start being more dedicated and NOT use the intellectual property of recording artists from the music biz.
I left you a comment here.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/07/30/spoon-spoonerism/#comment-45354
Hey I got a word request me and my buddies were talking about yesterday. The verb, to sic. Like when you sic your dog on someone. I know sic is Latin, but the attack-dog verb does related to the Latin meaning at all. What’s the deal with “sic”?
I meant the verb DOESN’T relate to the Latin meaning by the way.
By my calcs, comments are high.
Now is the time to start looking for
the new lesson to appear.
Should be out within the next
three hours, if the past trend
holds true.
Who’ll be first today???
All I know its going to be a close one.
This dang computer crashed again last night. It has taken me all day until now to get it back to where I hope it will last a while.
Mike if I had an extra grand to spare, I’d send you a Mac.
I hate recessions. Im always the first to be hit. Discretionary income is what supports my business. Taking classes is aways the first thing that people cut in a down economy. 
Who knows me-lika-do-the-cha-cha! Things seem to be moving rather slow today on YouTube
We can’t all be #24 marina………… (upload now! upload now! upload now!
) I can edit it so you are number 1 if that would make things better 
Just made a “run through the garden”
over at YT and caught up my ratings.
Should be good for a 0.00000008% bump,
but it all adds up in the end!
Love ya, darlin’
ciao XoxO
How did you develope the 24 algorythm?
My math was way off the beat
today. #37 as of the time stamp.
ok – so first, Bill O’Reilly, then a
new lesson! Just like baseball,
Double-header under the lights!
WSUIT5 This is because by the time it is at 24 its at the peak. So I think marina said that thats the best time to add the new video
Smpfilms used marinas opening music… look at 8:29 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bXdKTDAa_s
This guy does a “mean cat” video I thought
Roadrunmch should take a look at.
Found it while trying to get some “barking dog”
bits to respond to tedt’s comment below.
No joy, yet, on that one
http://www.youtube.com/themeankitty
James.. I use music that people send me and some of the music is from loops that came with my editing program… so the reason why you may hear my intro is because these people use a similar program and happened to use the same loop that I use.
I’ll be glad when Ronald Jenkins releases that one of the guitar music from his key board that you use on your site form time to time.
Im a big fan of Ronald Jenkins. That guy if phenomenal.
That’s Jenkees, not Jenkins.
Hi!!!the word that i request is:Howdy!
thanks
Hi stefgabo,
I haven’t seen you here before. Welcome to hotforwords! Howdy is a shortened form of the greeting “How do you do?” Since Marina has about a million word requests right now, I thought you might like to know. Hope this helps. See you around the campus.
pennsyltucky9
To Answer
As i am a bargecaptain and of course a sailor before i often wondered where the confirmation “aye aye” on an order came from, also because it’s not country bound but is used in all marine based enterprises, whether they are military or not…. could you find out? thanks in advance.
Aye, Aye means;
I understand
I will carry the order out
SO the term Aye, Aye
sigh… again i’m a captain; i know what it means, i wanna know the origin….
zeilbeest, Some people don’t know how to read the entire post. These things happen from time to time.
Its all in their good intentions.
I’ve heard of barge captain’s, but I don’t know what that entails? What inspired you to get your Masters ticket?
For I was a Captain too. But I commanded a task force of firefighters. Loved the job. Hated to retire.
As you can see from my logname i’m not american
Does that answer your question captain Jack?
I’m from holland, and holland (or the netherlands as some of you know it), has the largest bargefleet in europe defenately, maybe even the world. Most of them are privately owned and the main business is providing the Rhinestates with product transport, either in the form of bulk,containers or tankers.
The other business is providing seavessels with the necesaries (food,water,fuel,luboil). I’m in that business… i sail a 700 ton heavy fuel barge in the Amsterdam,Rotterdam,Antwerpen(belgium) ports to provide seavessels with fuel.
Now you’d think fuel is fuel….. oh no, there’s all sorts… diferent centistokes (how luiquid it is) different sulfer content etc etc….
The nice thing about the job is that there’s always a challenge; figure out where the connection on the vessel is, how to get to it,pump exactly the right amount, getting there on time etc etc…..
So what inspired me to get my masters? Money of course…. if you want to make more money, you got to get the degree and put in the hours….. there are no free rides….
This clip says it’s “funny”
but I bet the guys below
deck thought the world
was going to end!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whHQaTYGAjg&feature=related
it’s raining cats and dogs!!!
here is the link for gods and cats. click it
My fav spoonerism: Bass Ackwards
Bass? that’s a GOOD fishy!
So, what’s your favorite contronym?
Every time that I come to your site, the word “cleavage” comes readily to mind. Is “cleavage” a contronym? Or is it only the form “cleave” which is truly a contronym?
I hope that you’re not chuffed that I would ask about the word “cleavage”. Or should I hope that you are chuffed? Wow, I seem to find it very difficult to ask such a beautiful woman so simple a question!
I know you did the “Cat out of the bag” phrase, but what about “the cat’s got your tongue”? That phrase has always been intriguing to me.
Can you discuss the origin of the phrase, “saved by the bell”? It would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
woo nasty ( I live where the porche drive comes from) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2480068/Passengers-escape-injuries-as-open-topped-bus-overturns-in-Dorset.html
Здравствуйте, Марина, красоты и интеллекта, wow. я думаю, вы замечательный преподаватель. Как мой русский английский за человек?
I wanna know the origin of the frase
(in swedish) ‘köpa grisen i säcken’
(in english) ‘to buy a pig in a bag’
if that is a saying in english? I dont really know, its really common i swedish anyway ^^
well keep it up
xoxo
Marina posted this lesson
about a similar request for
“Let the Cat out of the bag”
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/04/29/let-the-cat-out-of-the-bag/
To get the answer lesson, refer to the
words/lessons list (second pulldown)
Dear Marina!!! Please can u make lesson about latex!! I think it is important to know about it. There are a lot of things that are made of it. It is very interesting. And another ask – can u put on latex catsuit . With great gratitude, ur admirer.
I’de rather be a smart feller than a fart smeller…. Ok, I’ll grow up now…
That’s a good one
I’m getting pissy with yt now.. Yeaterday I managed to get one of my videos to say watch in high quality. And the one i just did isn’t saying it!! Im going to try it on the one it did well in the first place now.
James it doesn’t always say it right away.. it used to take a few hours before it kicked in but now it’s pretty close to immediate for me… but that could be because I am a partner.
I have an idea for the website but I don’t know if it is possible. You know how you have on the main page
“9373744636463 views on youtube”
Could it be possible to have something like that, but with where it is on the most viewed list?
Thats interesting. I tried it with another video and it showed up straight away. I think it must be the lighting aswell then and filesize. Thanks for the help
Huh James? That counter is a widget.. you click on it and he gives you the code to put on your website.
Oh, I had never clicked it before
I am going to put that widget somewhere.
My dad told me of a good quote once
Winston Churchill went into a lift drunk and a woman said “urrrgh your drunk” Winston said.” I may be drunk. And you are ugly. But at least I will wake up sober tomorrow”
James, nice quote! One of my favorites was in his running battle with Lady Nancy Aston who once said: “SIr, if you were my husband, I would give you poison.” To which Churchill responded: “If I were your husband I would take it.”
Hey James, Your on the Marina elevator now, Next stop is the twilight zone.
I need to film a conversation that I am having on the web…. now this would be comments going back and forth between me and someone or multiple people… something funny… and with a cliffhanger at the end. I am having writer’s block right now trying to think of something funny.. that people would watch in a video.. and would end up clicking on a link at the end to see where the conversation ends up.
Any ideas anyone?
Hey ! Marina ! What about a conversation with a French Old Dadie ?
It could be about English+Russian+French.
There are enough common words between French and English for making something interesting and funny.
Good one… kinda like Monty Python….
Im not suprised you havegot block.. That sounds very hard to do! I can’t think of anything.. But lood guck.
Cliffhanger… Me endorsing forks!! dah-dah-dah
no comment on this one i think ill just listen and shut up
ill, should be i will
I wanted to just shut up but i can be argumentative at times.
How about the subject of the pros and cons of various eating
etensils (forks, spoons, knifes, chopsticks, etc) there sure has
been enough material from past comments over the last few
days to start with.
utensils
helium and nitrogen, with a twist!
a new fad at the beach is making
martinis and margaritas using
liquid nitrogen. Breathing the
vapors makes your voice deeper.
[sexy girl with deep voice]
“Buy me a drink, Sailor”
(get some gender bender related humor)
Perhaps a discussion could emerge
involving the dangers of using helium
as a substitute when nitrogen is
unavailabe, or using helium to
counteract the nitrogen.
[not so sexy guy with high voice]
“Hey baby, can I buy you a drink?”
(just plain – funny)
Buildup of nitrogen in the bloodstream
leads to narcosis (the bends) while helium
tends to induce laughter, then suffocation!
Marina as the unaffected interviewer
with two panelists, a man on helium,
and a woman on nitrogen to set the
stage for a debate over which method
works better.
The cliffhanger would involve having
Marina test both methods, using
lip sync to produce both the chipmunk
vocal effect, and Yello’s “Oh yeah” for
the nitrogen method, as an outro.
Don’t know how practical this idea is
as I’ve written it here, but there may
be some fodder for an even better
idea from Marina.
melikadothechacha, “Perhaps a discussion could emerge
involving the dangers of using helium
as a substitute when nitrogen is
unavailabe, or using helium to
counteract the nitrogen. ” The only thing to counteract those two and still sustain life is a proper mixture of oxygen or air. You trying to get someone killed or brain damaged or maybe both?
Read it again, over and over
until the meaning of the word
“danger” registers! Duh!
I only had to read the that first time too see the danger in your stupid idea!
This old joke has a bit of a cliffhanger to it. You think you can adapt this for your needs? Maybe at the least it might jump start your thoughts.
The Smart Blonde
A blonde woman boards an airplane. She is extremely exhausted and just wants to take a nap. She finally finds her seat and sits down next to a very curious young man.
He wants to test the whole dub blonde thing and possibly make some money out of it. “Hey, wanna play a game?” he asks her. “No thank you, i just want to take a nap.” “Please, its really easy, all you have to do is answer the questions that i ask you. If you don’t know the answer, then you give me five dollars, and if I don’t know the answer to your question, then Ill give you five dollars.”
“I really don’t want to do this. I just want to take a nap.”
“Oh but PLEASE pretty please. Okay, how about if I don’t know the answer to your question, I’ll give you five hundred dollars.” The blonde woman became interested and decided to play the game.
“Okay. How many moons does jupiter have?” the young man asked. The woman reached into her purse and took out a five dollar bill. “What goes up the mountain with three legs and comes back down with four?”.
The young man, determined not to lose, gets out his laptop and searches all over the internet for an answered. Flustered and confused, the young man hand the blonde five hundred dollars.
After a few hours, the young man was itching to know the answer to the question.”What was the answer to the riddle?” the blonde woman reached into her purse and handed the young man a five dollar bill.
Brilliant!
Heres one cap , Three couples go to a motel, each couple wanting separate rooms, hotel keeper says 10 dollars each, or thirty dollars total. Each couple pays with a 10 dollar bill and the bellhop shows them to there rooms. later the motel keeper decides he overcharged 5 dollars for the rooms, says bell hop take this 5 dollars and give it back to the 3 couples, the bellhop on his way to carry out his task, can’t figure out how to how to divide 5 dollars between the 3 couples so he says , I will pocket 2 dollars and give each of the couples back each a dollar. Now each couple got back a dollar= 10 dollars minus 1 dollar is equal to 9 dollars times 3 couples is equal to 27 dollars plus the 2 dollars the bellhop kept makes 29 dollars, so what happened to the other dollar?
the 1 dollar out of the original 30.
“What goes up the mountain with three legs and comes back down with four?”. Any 4 legged creature.
What? They never had 9 dollars in the first place. They each spent $10 and got back 3 and the Bellhop took $2. (30 – 5) + (3 + 2) = 30? Don’t over think it.
roadrunrnch , Yes i knew the answer.
However you make it sound like they each spent 10 and each got back 3 is equal to 21. Be more specific in you answer please.
Marina,
How about come on and hang out, talk for a little bite.
Start a thread and stay to talk??
Just me, but if you try it, could work. XD
Try it today, What are your interests??
Is there something in the news that interests YOU?.
Her is an idea for a non-threatening thread,
How using one wrong word to explain your thoughts
cause people to misunderstand you entirely. Not understanding the words you use will hurt your argument..
the classic confusing conversation
annudder
have them arguing descriptionist v.s. prescriptionist. ugh!
Combining two homework assignments:-
A drunk goes into a bar and orders a drink, but the barman refuses to serve him because he’s already had too much, so the drunk commits a triple spoonerism, “I’m not as thunk as drinkle peep I am,”
Hi. Marina…
thanks 4 ur good new information .. I want to ask about..(AM) refers to the morning time and (PM) refers to the evening time..what are the differences?
monther
Marina, as much as I love my border, can you please change it to red.. I shall keep it forever, I think yellow is too bright.. Thanking you
x
Somebody already has red.. so you have to be blue.. is that ok?
I was thinking about blue, didnt want to copy capman. I like it even more than red! thank you!
Hey! James gave up yellow?
Could I have it, pleeeeze!
Then I can be yellow, black
and rectangular (with wedge
shape inside!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlIDdxtj6JE
you better not take my color James.
As it kinda matches Miss M’s.
I’m very privileged to have two border colors. When I post a comment my border is white and when I reply, it is cyan. Now, is that special or what?
that is not cyan.
sry, in this case, i want to be pedantic, too. ;P
How about baby blue, maybe aqua, electric blue, light blue…?
Hey, pedantic is good.
looks to me like neither
My box color is so specular that only
the coolest people can even see it.
never heard of electric blue. seems to be a little too pastel-ish for aqua, it’s definitely a light blue, but there are all kinds of blues that are “light”. baby blue … yeah … i once called it baby blue, but all those names are kinda vague — unless it’s one of the three rgbs or one of the four cmyks.
Have you ever seen a Blue Baby?
Hello Tavorite Feacher Marina, ( the hokin’ smottie with grood gammar, tot hopics… etc.)
Just a riendly feminder that you still haven’t klown a biss my way or givin’ me a moseup of your clesmerizing cleavage while naming me “your peacher’s tet!”. Oh yah, you also have a smeat grile!!!
Looks like I’ll just pave to be hatient. Flove is like a lower, it’s nice when you get it but it only wasts if you later it? hmmm?
Will you slease pubsribe to my brand new youtube channel?
http://www.youtube.com/bikengruvin
Enjoy being in your class… even when it’s pam jacked.
Cheers!
David
I like the way you took the homework assignment to a whole new level!
Your site is interesting, haven’t subscribed, yet, but I’m checking it out.
Keep it between the lines and out of the ditches
She did David
I like your site to, but the other word “but” no offense, but it’s kinda hard to read with all of the bike stuff showing through. Don’t pay any attention to me it’s just my observation. You don’t have to please anyone but what you like.
Mike
I went for the simple look so I could read mine. MikeMX32. Take a look. It’s mostly Marina’s things on there.
Mike
Thanks for the reply.
I fixed the background at http:www.youtube.com/bikengruvin so it is easier to read.
Cheers!
David
I went into the chinese once and asked for egg flied lice..
Check out Fish(er) Stevens in this
Short Circuit rip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6TLYwelOPk&feature=related
more…? quick one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLu1SQlNnos&feature=related
Do you what a LAPID TLAIN is in Chinese ?
It’s a TLAIN GOING VELY FAST !
We call them tarins. My aunt was on the train once and the electronic sign thing said ” O, welcome aboard the southwest tarins service, you are in Petresfield.” she was in southampton..
Im at the tarin station
Marina’s example reminded me of that old nasty joke… What’s the difference between a troupe of performing midgets and a girls track team?
The first is a group of cunning little runts….
enough said
Q. What is the collective noun for Bankers?
A. They’reI a Wunch of Bankers.
Hello Marina,
The plant keeps changing. You could place an ad there and make a bit more pocket change.
Was Kobe barking at your “sister” for trying to get into the picture?
I think it would be great if you used your “Green Screen” to create a show that showed “both” of you together.
Homework:
I was going to copy a few but instead here’s a few spoonerisms
Thank you
Good link!
Covers the gamut.
A robber runs into the store and says, “All right you mother-stickers, this is a fuck-up!”
Anybody know what’s going on with the banks in the U.S.?
Just another “fail & bail”
at taxpayer expense…
Yeah; I’ve been paying my mortgage regulary and now I feel like an idiot.
Here is word for you, Acorn. You get Walnuts from a Walnut tree; you get Pecans from a Pecan tree, why do you get Acorns from an Oak tree not Oaknuts?
For though thy toils are many
And though thy joys are few
Remember that the mighty oak
Was once a nut like you
Sorry the muse made me do it
I could not think of a spoonerism , so I asked my neighbor, if he could find one, and he said “no wucking furries” and then left.
My neighbor has just returned with “no wuckers”.
Why do I have a blue background colour?
Dear Hot,
A friend recently used the word kowtow. Although I know what the word means, I wonder if its origin has anything to do with carrying beef? I thought I should ask my favorite instructor for her etymological opinion.
Best,
Rob
It’s Chinese, so no it doesn’t have anything to do with beef.
Here i have a well-known example of spoonerism: i do not remember who ,anyway someone quite famous made become ”The American way of life” something like the ”American lying of wife”…not bad… -Then Мариночка, i have something interesting to discuss: the meaning of the word ”TARTUFFE” -it has the same meaning both in English and in French and since you are an authority in the field of literature you’ll certainly like….
There was a satirical comedy program on the BBC in England a long time ago, which was called, “Not So Much A Weekend, More A Way of Life”.
I can remember one of my colleagues telling us that he was going away for a long weekend, to celebrate their wedding anniversary, and someone said, “Not so much a weekend, more a lay of wife.”
I had a thought marina,, Watching your billion video got me thinking.. If I had £4 billion then went to america I would end up with $4trillion.. But then I suppose the exchange rate would mess that up so I would still have the same amount?
Yeah but 4 trillion dollars is only worth like 120 pounds these days, so best to keep it in pounds!
£120!!! I wish!
Sorry but Today 1 € is almost 1 £ worth !!!
dictionaricdotcom.. Roll in the cheap fags ‘n booze!
It’s our plot to get the whole of Europe to adopt the Pound and ditch the Euro.
Today Europe, tomorrow the World.
But does that mean more import tax bob?
They don’t?
so your the bill the u.s. owes the former u.s.s.r.?
where did the word magic come from will if i could get some advice that would be great its been drive-ing me nuts
Drive-ing the magic bus?
rock and roll and GTA!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2IU1uMpodo
and real life.
10 years old http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le6WlCLOm3w&feature=related
Hey Marina. Im from Austria and watching your show regulary on Youtube. Now you got famous through it so i wondered
why it is called You tube.
Regards, jubjub
Jub Jub? What a cool name!
Marina is getting “world” famous
thanks to your participation.
Beware of the Chubb Chubbs!
http://www.jibjab.com/view/22245
Man, that was funny. I’m going to see what else they have at that site.
You said something about that boy had streaks of me.. Well I made one myself, added my own voice in though. Its only about 20 seconds long.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJqtZc83jyU
As i am a bargecaptain and of course a sailor before i often wondered where the confirmation “aye aye” on an order came from, also because it’s not country bound but is used in all marine based enterprises, whether they are military or not…. could you find out? thanks in advance.
Aaar! Yer in luck thar matey!
Aside from the pseudo-pirates,
like me, there are a few serious
sea wayfarers here who are
into nautical word origins.
Captain Jack is our main source
in this regard. Other words requested
have been the usual: starboard,
leeward, astern and aft.
Your request rounds out the
list nicely. I’m just a landlubber
myself these days, but I still
get to go fishing in the deep water
from time to time. I loves it!
Marina may turn all this into
a lesson – look what she did
with “spoon”!
carry on, sailor
Peace!
Captain Zeilbeest,
Great question! I have wondered that myself and still do today.
I have my books open to the pages of words ‘ay,ay’ ‘Sir’ ‘No, no’ and ‘aye aye Sir’. I am pondering of whether or not to say anything. If I tell you then no video would be done for this word for sure. But if Marina is not going to do this word in the next week or so then your question would go unanswered. This is my dilemma.
Since both of us knows that it means and when to use it I won’t go into that detail. ‘ay’ was first attested in the late 16th century. As far as I can tell the origin is unknown or untraceable according to my references. Maybe our dear teacher can shed a bit more light? Marina not only finds origins but she also finds the stories behind the origins of the words.
It wasn’t “Eye, eye!” – regarding the first day with yer hook?
Funny Warren.
You bring up a good point. I see many people write ‘ay ay’ or 
‘aye aye’ as ‘eye eye’ which is incorrect.
Where do I find this stuff??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKYAhVSBxsQ&feature=related
Aye Aye. Aye is old English for “yes.” A bluejacket says, “Aye
aye, sir,” meaning, “I understand and I will obey.”
Ok now i get the comment from roadrunmch, and it would seem obvious,but captain jack already said the origin lies in the 16th century, and at the time there were at least 4 great fleets, english , spanish,dutch and french (and don’t forget the portuguese), now everybody nows that crews were “drafted” (most of the time kidnap came more close to it) so that would explain the widespread trough all international fleets, but how come that particular word, and is the origin realy english?
I also did a few years in college and my major was history, and the 1st thing they teach you is never assume anything unless you have written proof..
So again, what would be the origin of the term “aye aye”and why is it so widespread international troughout all things maritime ?
I anxiously await the answer….
P.S.( roadrunmch: i know what it means, im a captain, i wanna know where it comes from..
)
melikadothechacha, Well you know I fly R/C Helicopters as a hobby. Its a great stress reliever and a hella lot of fun.
You have to see this 4 year old Justin Chi. He’s now 6 years old. This kid is doing very difficult maneuvers I yet to learn. Now this heli cost around 2 grand. The crash was not his fault. Often helis break in mid flight because of the stresses we put these machines through. So sit back and watch in amazement. 
4 year old Justin Chi and his R/C Heli.
“:aye, there’s the rub;”
William Shakespeare
Hamlet
circa 1599-1601
P.S.( roadrunmch: i know what it means, im a captain, i wanna know where it comes from..
)
That is the known origin….??
I am not so sure that non-English speaking sailor said Aye-aye, or ARR??
Spanish may have just said; Si’-Si’ Captain.
To all students. zeilbeest and I know the meaning of this word very well.
Problem is we don’t know the etymology (aka origin) of ‘aye aye’. 
According to: http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk
AYE AYE The derivation of this is generally thought to be unknown, but some experts think it may possibly come from the German “Eiey!” – an exclamation of astonishment or admiration.
According to: http://www.etymonline.com
“assent,” 1576, perhaps a variant of I, meaning “I assent,” or an alt. of M.E. yai “yes.”
zeilbeest, I referenced all I can here. We may never really find out the origin of this word. This is really up to our Teacher to investigate. If there is anyone here that stands the best chance to answer your request and now mine, is Marina.
Now THAT was a funny reprise of the pirate joke from a prior vid!
“Warren replied on July 31st, 2008 7:14 am:
It wasn’t “Eye, eye!” – regarding the first day with yer hook?
Whereupon CaptainJack replied on July 31st, 2008 8:01 am:
….You bring up a good point…”
OW! That hurts just laughing at it!
Ohh my god, I’m “sick as a dog”. Where did “sick as a dog” come from
?
You can Google anything, these days!
Found this on the first go.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-sic1.htm
this one is too fupped duck!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6kXiuWkGhk
enjoy!
I was wondering where the phrase, “no sleep for the wicked” was originated. If you could help me out Marina, it would be greatly appreciated. I need sleep!
Wy do we say “as easy/simple as pie” or “a piece of cake ” when something can easily be accomplished?
Good question,
Also, A piece of ass? why would anyone want just a piece of a donkey?:lol:
How about ‘drain bramaged’ in lieu of ‘brain damaged’
Here’s one for you Marina: Where did we get the term “catch 22″ from?
Yeay! Tnks jura! mrglv, aleighsen, pairadots, hotfor-hotforwords-, rogeriopx, hotbutnotthathotforwords, jgstargazer, and guardianjosha all requested this word. Even Buzzword made a link to a YT video Catch 22. That makes 10 of us requesting the term. Though here’s the catch, we are short 12 students requesting that term. Well…just wanted to make it 22 requests!
Miss M might have to turn into Mighty Chipmunk again to name off that list. 
I am also asking fo catch 22 then..
Add me to the list for catch-a-22.
We will all have squeak names then.
Catch 22 sounds good to me
The novel was initially going to be called Catch 18. However, it had to be renamed so people would not confuse it with the Leon Uris novel Mila 18. Amazing what you can learn when you watch Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
For those who are curious, there is more info in the following wikipedia page :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22
This term is not all that interesting.
It comes from the psychological test / report the Military give combat troops.
ok. forgot the homework!
“Don’t dam the sloors!”
where did “illusion” come from?
ILLUSION comes from Latin ILLUSIO that is the evolution of IN + LUSIO “in playing”. An illusion is something your brain invents, plays into your consciousness as in theater or in a movie. It’s not real, it’s “played in”.
Hi.
I have a word request. I’ve crossed this word several times, and have come to understand the meaning, but i just don’t understand where it came from.
To “bogart” something. Where you keep something (an object) selfishly to yourself.
Could it be that Humphrey Bogart was a selfish person? I have no idea.
Any way…
Love your clips!
All the best!
xxx
BoomVoom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1Ija-2vAPM
roooooooooooooooooollllllll another one…
hey i love watching your shows i learn alot, but i always wondered in the song “Everybody have fun tonight by wang chung” they say “everybody wang chung tonight” what is wang chung? is it just a band name with no meaning or is there an actual meaning?
Oh too funny. I just heard that song play on my radio about 2 hours ago!
where did the word fan come from? as in “your a fan of somthing”. figure this out for me so i can finally know!!
Short for “fanatic.”
I was watching your video discussing Skinny Dipping and made a sudden realization. I have no idea where the term Streaking came from. I would be much obliged if you could solve this mystery for me!
Nice picture! Right now you’re making me thirsty.
Sweet to see spoonerism mentioned in the video. As I remember mentioning spoonerism in the ‘blooper’ lesson on youtube about a couple of months or so ago
I mentioned stuff like swimney cheep instead of chimney sweep, and chooked cicken instead of cooked chicken
I remember when you did that!
Your request was answered
subliminally! Not bad….
time
Ouch THATS gotta hurt
Is that why older parents hit their kids with wooden spoons and not metal spoon? haha
The links on your Youtube home page http://www.youtube.com/user/hotforwords for Belly Jeans are messed upas of 10:52 pm PDT July 30. The Belly Jeans hyperlink goes to http://www.youtube.com/user which is my or other utubers home page. So does the Views hyperlink.
The result is there is no way to rate, favorite or comment to your Spoonerism video.
Yours.
aka WEAKKNEED
I love how you try to hide your “bad” side from your professional teaching.
Also Marina, can you please accept my request on PS3 online pleaseeeee?
You half way stole my thunder, but here goes;
Q: What is the difference between a group of midgets and a women’s track team?
A: One is a cunning bunch of runts, while the other is a bunch of running cu…. ehhhh, errrr, ummmmm, there is Marina’s sister interrupting again.
You thought I was going to say cuties didn’t you?
Red raspberries ready for pluckin’
Girls out of high school ready for….
(college?)
fu… ehhhh, errrr, ummmmm, there is Marina’s sister interrupting again. You thought I was going to say fun didn’t you?
You reminded me of this
Porky Pig blooper:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI4otTziYjk
hi marina! great vid and i hope the cake was tasty
i wanted to request the origin of the word: hurlyburly
thx!
This is a little wierd,
but it’s funny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyvhMHDi6Mo
Hey HotforWords, I was wondering where the word TOILET came from, and what it has to do with the terms “Going to the John, and Need the Lou”… who was John and Lou? and what they have to do with Toilets
TOILET is a French feminine noun TOILETTE “little web”. TOILE being “web, tissue”.
Rich people used “tissues” for wiping their bottoms !
And what do “The Dirty French” use?
We already went over this in the loo video
Here’s “Marina on the loo” Woo Hoo!
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/07/04/the-loo/
So where does “John” come in? and how did “tissue” come to be a Toilette?
Hi, Marina….I just took a course in CPR and the word VOMIT came up. And when it did I thot of you. Uhh…just because I thot it would be interesting to know the origin of the word. Not the most beautiful word in the world, but just saying it makes you want to….know where it came from!
Thanks for the smiles and education! Stevie
That mat fan loves to eat neer buts.
Vista is not woing dell.
Higher gas prices hurt the war cash.
Your friend contacted me. Thanks for the tip.
Is the queen queer? How about the singing pitch fork, slinging ditch stork. knew clear —Why spoonfed and not forkfed?
buck fush he’s nucking futs.
blame congress, not President Bush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_zZKEtoPpM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1teACBS-1cc&feature=user
probably best not to politicise, huh?
my statement wasn’t political, it was intended as a personal insult toward the guy. what does congress have to do with bush being a moron? i don’t care what he does, whatever he does, he behaves like a fool, nothing political about it. bush’s ineptitude is a personal characteristic, probably genetic.
I know that there are others besides
President Bush who have been targets
for attacks. Shooting fish in a barrel
isn’t very sporting, and to bring it
here? well…i’m just sayin’
your right shooting fish in a barrel isn’t sporting, but admit it, its damn entertaining. as for bringing it here, i don’t see how its any more offensive than the frequent innuendo, friendly sarcasm, etc… besides i was just submitting my favorite spoonerism and backing it up. cool? lets move on to the next lesson.
I found a few that I found humorous.
1.) “It is kisstomary to cuss the bride” (”customary to kiss”)
2.) “Mardon me, padam, this pie is occupewed. Can I sew you to another sheet?” (Pardon me, madam, this pew is occupied. Can I show you to another seat?”)
3.)”We’ll have the hags flung out” (”flags hung”)
Poor Kobie….he can´t perform his god-given barks
…. 
Check this out!
a “barking” cat!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX20X6Vbui8&feature=related
I’d love to do the homework, but it’s been a hot day, and I need to shake a tower.