As I work mainly from home, I have know need for a car presently. I enjoy cycling to keep fit as with seeing friends and family. If I need to get someplace quickly I will call up Ronnie the Terbonater taxi man who is most reliable. Also have good train network to London, 25mins or less. All being said, thinking of buying a new car soon as I love driving the B roads so a sports mid engine will be the go. Love to kick the back end out when PC Plod isn’t about
Sometimes, though, I DO not save gas. Today, I drove 95 miles round trip to Mt. Charleston so that I could escape the 100+ F heat in the Las Vegas Valley by hiking the Bristlecone Trail, which is a 6.1-mile loop trail between 8700 and 9400 feet altitude. I figured it would be 75 F or 80 F up there. And sunny! Boy, was I wrong! It began to get windy. The wind brought in a cold chill from the black clouds that were piggybacking the Spring Mountain peaks. Then it began to rain. Then it began to hail. And thunder! I was already a couple of miles into the trail, and standing under ponderosa pines with lightning possibly afoot didn’t seem wise. So I bucked up and walked and walked, the raindrops smearing my vision through the pair of glasses i wear, the hailstones bouncing like popcorn off my head. I got drenched, and then I got even wetter… But I finished the trail in just 2 hours and 20 minutes. Why did I tell this story? Oh, yeah. I used about 5 gallons of gas so that I could fight off rain, wind, hail, and chill. Now I’m back in my little humble abode. And it’s hot and sunny. I miss those wonderful little hikes. I’m off to the gas station…..
I’m trying to be a lot less feisty. That saves gas.
Capman911 replied on August 15th, 2008 7:44 pm:
Your comment to me on the Leeches video.
There are too many guys on this site. Marina is trying to reel in some gals by creating “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Plants.
Your right Lividemerald. More furnishing catering toward the feminine side would maybe help by getting some more ladies to join the site. It would also help if their comments wouldn’t be chided by the other members who disagree. I can see disagreeing with someone, but make sure you do it proper that the person does not feel offended by the other persons comment. I have seen at least 4 females leave because of comments that they had made and it didn’t suit someone so they were picked on for it. I think a little more kindness would help on every ones part. Discussions are creative thinking and people learn from them, but if a person feels like they are going to be ridiculed by each comment they make then they will leave. Sorry t take up so much of your time, but thanks for listening.
Mike
I’m lookin’ up how to make a water-car and am going to make one so I don’t have to pay for gas, but that I can go fetch some water and put it in my car and drive that way. No, no, that won’t do. I’m actually thinking of getting an air-car that runs solely on air. Like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcCyEKYwTos check that out, Marina.
Sincerely innovative,
Shawn M. Norris
rioedison on
August 1st, 2008 6:02 pm
hello im a new subscriber and really need help for this word “suffocate”
thankyou.
dirk_johansson on
August 1st, 2008 5:29 pm
Hello Marina!
When I look at your videos, I wonder why nobody asked you about marriage so far… :-))
Dirk
double_tap_jack on
August 1st, 2008 4:35 pm
For short trips to the store I walk but for longer trips I ride my Quarter Horse Fritz!
runawayscott on
August 1st, 2008 3:49 pm
someone has probably already said this but, you can get a piggyback ride from me any day Marina
sparkyinseattle on
August 1st, 2008 1:35 pm
Well shiver me timbers! sounds like horse feathers to me…..
wawaweewa on
August 1st, 2008 1:34 pm
I want to know why they call the viewing of a dead body before a funeral the “wake” The person is dead not awake! What the hell? Thanks
Interesting combination of requests there, chelsea.
Do you know why people are always looking for the end of the rainbow but never find it?
When you see a rainbow from an aeroplane or a helicopter you realise that they form a complete circle, so they never have an end.
You could say that, what comes around and goes around is a rainbow.
sniperskaya on
August 1st, 2008 12:41 pm
Marina, glad to see you’re saving gas! Sorry, but I don’t worry about the gas prices, so I’m not doing anything. I have a request: how did the phrase “I don’t cotton to that” come about? Since cotton is a plant and a fiber used in clothes, I don’t see how “I don’t plant/fiber” that” makes any sense, do you?
tryant on
August 1st, 2008 12:06 pm
Piggyback would be interesting for sure,but,carrying a sweet lady “Piggyfront” sounds *much* better to Me!
Sorry Folks,I tend to revert to My teen years on occasion.
Piggyback has another usage.. For when you go outside someones house and use an unsecured broadband connection. I did it once when i was on holiday to go on hfw.com
Jimmy ,
When you make your videos do you make mistakes or gaffs?
Try making your videos in front of Millions of people that are praying for the smallest mistake. And have the fate of the entire World rests on each word and facial tick.
No Pressure?
James.. I am a philologist.. and my videos have been seen over 90 million times on the Internet. over half a million to a million times each day. When you watch those videos you may notice something to the right side of each video on YouTube and on YouTube you may also notice something that appears along the bottom of each video about 10-15 seconds in.
It is the same business model that we have in the United States for something called Commercial Television. I think you have some versions of commercial television in the UK? How do those television networks survive and pay their bills? (I’m not talking about the government subsidized networks, btw)
I see now..
I think you should have a donate button, that is either a choice. Or that anyone who give your video less than 5 stars should be forced to pay at least $1000 for, That way you can have as many audi r8s as you like!
Well RRR… I am quite small so… Mind you 8 stone is quite heavy for postage
okay4now replied on August 1st, 2008 2:52 pm:
Yes, yes, yes but now how do we get paid?
wetsuit5 on
August 1st, 2008 10:00 am
HotForWords,
That was a very nice video.
From your clues yesterday I was totally baffled as to the “Pick a Pack” connection.
Like the starfish and the can of spam and riding the pig’s back. Great illusions.
The opening picture really looks like your choking Kobe,
But Oh My, Marina is becoming an elitist. Piggy Back to Star Bucks. (Hope it’s not one that’s closed)
At least let the neighbor break out a rickshaw.
Even the ancients had multiple folks carrying around in the chair.
Oh, I get it, your economizing on the neighbor power.
And what about the rest of us who can’t detruncus the real trunk cause we ate your whole birthday cake? Gonna be more than a couple of bucks.
To save gas I’m doing a couple of things besides complaining.
I ride a motorcycle whenever the weather permits.
And I building and experimenting with the water car and HHO.
The technology is real, you really can run a car using water as a fuel.
I’m not saving gas, I am using as much of it as I can before we run out! Why save fuel? When it is gone then there will be no more polution. All you are doing is prolonging the polution. Besides with all the global warming it causes, it will open up new places to drill for oil when all thoses usless glaciers, are gone. I bet the north pole is hiding lots of oil, and then the oil drillers can have a nice climate to work in. With global warming we won’t be cutting down as many trees for fire wood, and will be using less fuel in general for warming us up in the winter. Remember that the northern most part of the hemesphere was once a tropical area. So it will be again, thanks to us gas burners!! Hooray for us!! We are the real heros!
pennsyltucky9 replied on August 5th, 2008 2:58 pm:
Oversimplification of the perceived positive(?) effects of our corporate addiction to oil is great since we’re the only species on the planet. After all, who needs all those pesky other plants and animals anyway? We’re the only ones that matter because we can REASON and God is on our side. Rest assured there’ll still be plenty of wildlife as far as those nuisance species that thrive on human civilization are concerned: rats, crows, ants, fleas, lice, cockroaches, and mice (among other pests).
Wow, you really must tell all the scientists your great discovery before they succeed in arresting the galloping climate changes!
Then I woke up.
I have a Natural Science degree, and a degree in Environmental Conservation (with honors), so I have actually studied some of this stuff and a couple clues have been offered me. Here they are: the effects of warming will include massive climate and weather-pattern changes such as droughts and desertification in areas which are now well-watered, as well as huge die-offs of major stands of forests (for just one example, trees can’t migrate, so when the environment changes even a little, they’ll no longer be within their natural comfort/rainfall/temperature range and thus become weakened and far more susceptible to pest invasions and virulent diseases) taking with them all the wildlife that are so well-adapted to live among them. The loss of forests will forever change the transpiration balance that affects humidity and rainfall levels planet-wide. Flooding, erosion, dust storms, hurricanes, and tornadoes will multiply exponentially, and (this is the BIG what-if—–>) there will be changes in the thermohaline subsurface ocean currents, of which we really have NO idea what will ultimately be the result. We can look back into the geologic and paleontologic records to see what these changes brought in the distant past, but that only gives us the tip of the proverbial iceberg. In fact, there has never been such a rapid rise in the amount of greenhouse gases as there is currently. The fuse is lit; some of us are trying to put it out before it reaches the bomb, but most of us just stand back and watch because we “can’t afford it” or “don’t want to get involved.” Global ice age or global desert, which is better? That’s where it’s heading, toward one of those two and we won’t know which until we get there. I kind of like it in between, where we are now. Don’t be duped. These are the good old days, my friends. Remember them well, because they won’t be back.
Sorry to be such a downer. But science isn’t just about a bunch of liberal treehuggers. The planet is choking on our fumes, and it’s getting ready to get way uncomfortable on our asses because of it. If I didn’t care about my friends, why would I waste my time telling you all this?
geronimo replied on August 5th, 2008 3:53 pm:
30 years ago the scientist were scaring everyone with global freezing, now it’s warming. I will never believe that humans have the ability to warm or cool the earth and only time will prove me right. Remember the ozone crisis? How about Y2K? More brilliant scientist hard at work. The minuscule rise in temperature in the last 100 years has not been caused by humans. Even one of the founding global warming scientist who came up with the whole global warming recently admitted that the test they have been conducting is showing that they may have to rethink the belief of human cause. The world has it’s problems I don’t believe in intentionally ruining it, but this warming trend is completely beyond our ability to change since we are not the cause. I know you think this is a fact and I am an idiot, but everyone said the same to me when I laughed at them for the other previous mentioned hoaxes. I hope you know I was just making a joke in my comment that you responded to. But, on the other hand don’t be taken in so easily. Look up the global freezing scare of the 70’s.
pennsyltucky9 replied on August 5th, 2008 4:41 pm:
No need. It was based on the discovery that the timing of past ice ages have followed a regular 11,000-year cycle that had to do with Earth’s axis being tilted 23 degrees and the “wobble” it occasionally experiences during the course of its travel through its orbit. And that we were overdue for the next one. That doesn’t mean the next one is imminent, just that there was a pattern. I’ve spent too long in school studying my ass (okay, my arse) off to discount it all as hoax. Believe whatever you want. It won’t make any difference to the truth. Y2K? Bacon over the trail. The ozone “scare” resulted in much higher incidence of skin cancer (ask any Australian oncologist) and a huge rise in the sale of sunscreen. I’ll be willing to bet those with skin cancer don’t think it was a hoax.
Bottom line is that the 35 years that have elapsed since the 70s were but a microsecond in global time and what happens in our piddly lifespans won’t prove you or me right (one can only hope), but just give us plenty more opportunities to argue. I, for one, prefer to agree to disagree with you on this one because I like interacting with you and all the others here at HFW. So I’ll let it lie and allow time to pass. One thing I can guarantee: our grandchildren will know who was right by the time they get to be our age. Meantime, we’re way off subject! Thanks for your well-thought-out responses, geronimo. It’s good to know you’re using your analytical powers to do some critical thinking on this subject, regardless of how I might view your conclusions. Now back to work. There’s a lesson I have to watch.
Peace and safe journeys, my friend. Trust me, I hope I’m wrong about all this.
I read an article that stated that not only does the Northwest Passage open up a couple of months every year now, but that in the near future, nearer than previously thought possible, the Arctic Ocean will be ice-free. As for me, I’m not worried about global warming. it’s already 115 F in Las Vegas, so I say, “Bring it on!”
prospero811 on
August 1st, 2008 9:48 am
I do not know what I am doing to save on gas.
mittheman on
August 1st, 2008 9:40 am
Upset. A term used to deescribe an underdog that defeats a winner. Man O’ War only lost one race to a horse named Upset. Since then the term Upset has been used whenever an underdog defeats a winner. Which brings up my next word, underdog??
I told my neighbors that I am following some ancient Native American values. My uncle was up visiting the “Natives” in Bella Bella, near Bella Coola, which is in the Haida area of the British Columbia coastline of western Canada. They state, “Indian’s don’t cut grass!” Kinda saying it’s another “dumb whiteman thing”. That said, I can no longer see or use my gas lawnmower since the grass is so high it somehow “disappeared”.
The other thing I started doing to save on gas was stop eating cans of cold beans… along with the three cloves of garlic, 4 boiled eggs, two cups of sauerkraut and a 6-pack of beer. I used to do this late at night before I went to bed.
I got myself a 4 foot long Mexican credit card from a website called…
gaspricessucksosuckthis.com. They claim that if you dip one end into richcar’s gas tank and suck hard you become Jose Hood… the Spanish robin hood. Quite a marvel idea. It’s a handy hose to siphon gas with no strings attached.
melikadothechacha replied on August 1st, 2008 9:37 am:
Way cool! Where can I get one!
Hope he gets the patents done
so we can see the technology.
geronimo replied on August 1st, 2008 9:41 am:
Can you imagine how the government will tax water and then make it illegal for people to gather water from natural resources? Seems stupid but there is no way they will give up all the tax revenue they get from gas.
Marina, I am making a video about spoonerisms and one of them ends up in me swearing.. Can I please use the you saying “james, with that language you are staying after school for detention” at the end of the video. I will do the editing now and depending on what you say I shall use it or not. Thanks
James
XX
The Indoeuropean root *SPE- means more or less “fortune”.
PRO-SPE-R- means in Latin “leading to fortune”.
The root exists also in Slavic : SPE- “success, maturity”.
Martin Cashman on
August 1st, 2008 8:01 am
What’s the best movie speech from a pure wordsmith point of view? That is, placing more emphasis on the use of words as opposed to the pure potency of the oration.
On the subject of ‘V’, what is the correct translation of the Russian word ‘Vozvrashcheniye’? It’s the title of one of my favourite films, ironically quite sparse on dialog. The translated version is titled ‘The Return’ but often the title is changed rather than translated when releasing in other markets. Also if it’s not too much trouble does anyone have a phonetic spelling, as I wouldn’t be too confident of my current pronunciation.
melikadothechacha replied on August 1st, 2008 9:46 am:
Hugo Weaving was excellent as “V”
Thanks for the link
quote of the day –>
“Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things.” - Epictetus 55-135 A.D.
Men are not disturbed by things, they are excited by them.
He who dies with the most things, wins.
What men are disturbed by, is women’s view of their things.
when I seen you on fox news I was hooked. I made that statment on my profile and that got me thinking “hooked” I woundered where did that come from? any idea? John
melikadothechacha replied on August 1st, 2008 9:56 am:
Bob goes fishing
Catch any or just drownin’ worms??
jdett78 - Here’s a link to the “hooker” game
lesson. To get the answer, second pulldown,
far left button - words / lessons (top of the page)
enjoy! http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/03/15/hooker/
Hey Marina! I have a question for you! It’s not really a Word orgin, but i was wondering where the symbols for Man and Woman came from. You know, the ones with a circle and a cross on the bottom for girls and a circle with an arrow on the top right for guys. I’d really love to know!!! Thanks!!
koalabear on
August 1st, 2008 6:16 am
Yeah the server is back again.
koalabear replied on August 1st, 2008 6:28 am:
Hello
koalabear replied on August 1st, 2008 6:33 am:
Everyone must be asleep, but I bet kobe is awake and attacking his food bowl.
Yea the server went down about 4am. I wasn’t able to post anything. I could not find the rest button so I gave up and went to bed. I knew Marina would wake up and fix it.
melikadothechacha replied on August 1st, 2008 10:05 am:
James spent the time working
up a video about spoonerisms!
Guess it caught him around
midday… prime time for him.
Marina ! Why did’nt you explain GULAG ? From GLAVNOIE UPRAVLiENIE LAGIERIEI “General Direction for Camps”. I know it’s difficult to translate it into English.
GOULAG is something like POLCAMP for “Political Camp”. It’s like FBI or CIA nothing more.
melikadothechacha replied on August 1st, 2008 10:30 am:
I doubt it’s like FBI or CIA, seriously.
Cody Banks was just a movie.
The magic of letters is big : Let’s say “I am working for the CDMI”, it’s more impressive that saying “I am working for the CENTRAL DEPARTEMENT FOR MODERN IDIOTS”
But with marinas audience some probably may not be able to understand. It also seems pretty pointless to use symbols when you have letters, Google has a haxx0r version too! http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/
What will hack speak put some where in her videos have any affect on wheither people talk about her plants. People are just joking and kidding about them anyway. Just another way of passing time on her site or picking at her about her plants.
There are too many guys on this site. Marina is trying to reel in some gals by creating “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Plants.”
socksandviolins on
August 1st, 2008 12:30 am
I’m driving an electric car, but I keep running out of extension cords every time I try to leave town.
roadrunrnch on
July 31st, 2008 11:43 pm
GUYS,
Check out this video from the sultry Marina video phase.
I must say, I miss those videos. The New and Improved Marina is very good, but those videos are ((:twisted:)) good. ………..BEST OF MARINA……….
I prefer the new Marina.
If intelligence is sexy, then you don’t have to dress like a rapper’s groupie to be sexy.
Marina’s personality is what makes her so engaging.
Hmm. I didn’t say it’s bad. You can be classy and sexy at the same time. She’s never looked like a rapper’s groupie in any of the videos that I’ve seen. But sexy does sell and she is “HotForWords”. That’s my point!
Hmmm, in my post above I said she was “engaging”; I’ve just watched the second O’Reilly show and I have to say she is not merely engaging, she is captivating, mesmerizing, enchanting and bewitching.
So vivacious.
I like her earlier works better, i don’t like the “golden girl” as well asa the earlier works.
melikadothechacha replied on August 1st, 2008 10:54 am:
Nice to hear that music, again
the “barking dogs” added to
the appeal. Marina had a
menagerie of graphic animals
“…that damn mouse…” LOL
roadrunrnch replied on August 1st, 2008 11:54 am:
Sorry Guys
I make a miserable Marina Groupie.
She is defiantly in my top 20 list though.
1. Ann Coulter
2. Michelle Malkin
3.Laura Ingraham
4. Martha MacCallum
5. Dr. Jennifer Ashton
6. Megyn Kelly
7. Julie Banderas
8. Pattie Ann Browne
9. Gretchen Carlson
10. E. D. Hill
11. Jane Skinner
No real order just as I thought of them.
You get the idea though. There are lots of
intelligent women out there in the world.
Really, I would not shit you!
woohoohoo! lolololol for a moment I thought Marina was wearing dippers, at 2:18 =))
Piggyback riding… kids… => Dippers! Hey, it could have happened, haha
I thought it was old lady panties. I ran it again just to see that they were shorts.
geronimo on
July 31st, 2008 11:18 pm
As a child growing up in Riverside Ca. we raised pigs and had two breeder pigs Henry and Hazel that weighed 500 pounds each. We use to ride them around like horses all around the farm. We used their ears like reigns and they didn’t seem to mind.
We rode goats G. They didn’t mind sometimes and sometimes they would butt us off. So we made a goat cart just like a buggy. harness one up to it and away we would go. Many things one can do on a farm to have fun. The funny thing about a male goat, he will stand and pee all over his own front legs. We ended up smelling the same way by the end of the day.
Marina,
11:09 pm Jul 31, the youtube/hotforwords page is messed up. Clicking the video name, in order to rate or comment, directs you to either youtube/user or back to youtube/hotforwords, not to the video (last night the link should have been youtube/watch?v=9hc1_GgKLRk, which I got to only from the Most Watched Video page) I don’t knwow the path now. If we can’t get there, we can’t rate you 5 stars. Last night was the same.
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I save gas by bike riding but I use 1/4 of gas to go from my house to Indiana then back home almost every week.
silverfyre on
July 31st, 2008 10:12 pm
Dear teacher,
What is the origin of the word TROJAN???…….as it is well known as TROJAN HORSE……n y is that called a VIRUS???
geronimo replied on July 31st, 2008 11:14 pm:
If you knew how the Trojan horse was used then you would have a good idea why a computer virus that sneaks in you computer in another program is called a Trojan virus.
geronimo replied on July 31st, 2008 11:15 pm:
I wonder why a Trojan condom isn’t shaped like a horse?
or why they would use Trojan for a condom name. Just by name alone wouldn’t it let in what you are trying to keep out???
roadrunrnch replied on August 1st, 2008 1:15 pm:
In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta. (WIKKI)
It’s a great story, check it out.
athoorth on
July 31st, 2008 10:06 pm
Dear Marina, I wish there was a way for me to save on gas, but unfortunatly living in the middle of nowhere with no public transportations the only means of traveling for me is to takr the car *sigh*
And I also do a lot of driving at work, but atleast the company is paying for that hehehe.
Best wishes, Ath, I’ll see you in the rear-view mirror,
leonard on
July 31st, 2008 9:48 pm
To save on gas—I’m eating less beans and cabbage.
psychobabbler4yu on
July 31st, 2008 9:47 pm
“Bodkin”
I know it is a medieval word word for a sharp “needle” or “Knife” the word is used in many of Shakespeares plays describibng a knife. Perhaps the most famous being in the “To be or not to be” speech in Hamlet.
What I would like to know though is its
Walk or take the train
As I work mainly from home, I have know need for a car presently. I enjoy cycling to keep fit as with seeing friends and family. If I need to get someplace quickly I will call up Ronnie the Terbonater taxi man who is most reliable. Also have good train network to London, 25mins or less. All being said, thinking of buying a new car soon as I love driving the B roads so a sports mid engine will be the go. Love to kick the back end out when PC Plod isn’t about
Sometimes, though, I DO not save gas. Today, I drove 95 miles round trip to Mt. Charleston so that I could escape the 100+ F heat in the Las Vegas Valley by hiking the Bristlecone Trail, which is a 6.1-mile loop trail between 8700 and 9400 feet altitude. I figured it would be 75 F or 80 F up there. And sunny! Boy, was I wrong! It began to get windy. The wind brought in a cold chill from the black clouds that were piggybacking the Spring Mountain peaks. Then it began to rain. Then it began to hail. And thunder! I was already a couple of miles into the trail, and standing under ponderosa pines with lightning possibly afoot didn’t seem wise. So I bucked up and walked and walked, the raindrops smearing my vision through the pair of glasses i wear, the hailstones bouncing like popcorn off my head. I got drenched, and then I got even wetter… But I finished the trail in just 2 hours and 20 minutes. Why did I tell this story? Oh, yeah. I used about 5 gallons of gas so that I could fight off rain, wind, hail, and chill. Now I’m back in my little humble abode. And it’s hot and sunny. I miss those wonderful little hikes. I’m off to the gas station…..
I’m trying to be a lot less feisty. That saves gas.
Your comment to me on the Leeches video.
Your right Lividemerald. More furnishing catering toward the feminine side would maybe help by getting some more ladies to join the site. It would also help if their comments wouldn’t be chided by the other members who disagree. I can see disagreeing with someone, but make sure you do it proper that the person does not feel offended by the other persons comment. I have seen at least 4 females leave because of comments that they had made and it didn’t suit someone so they were picked on for it. I think a little more kindness would help on every ones part. Discussions are creative thinking and people learn from them, but if a person feels like they are going to be ridiculed by each comment they make then they will leave. Sorry t take up so much of your time, but thanks for listening.
Mike
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmqpGZv0YT4&NR=1 Here’s another one, Marina, you might just want to pick one up sometime.
That is fantastic! I just wish these cars weren’t so dang ugly!
I wonder how the gov. will tax the air?
I’m lookin’ up how to make a water-car and am going to make one so I don’t have to pay for gas, but that I can go fetch some water and put it in my car and drive that way. No, no, that won’t do. I’m actually thinking of getting an air-car that runs solely on air. Like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcCyEKYwTos check that out, Marina.
Sincerely innovative,
Shawn M. Norris
hello im a new subscriber and really need help for this word “suffocate”
thankyou.
Hello Marina!
When I look at your videos, I wonder why nobody asked you about marriage so far… :-))
Dirk
For short trips to the store I walk but for longer trips I ride my Quarter Horse Fritz!
someone has probably already said this but, you can get a piggyback ride from me any day Marina
Well shiver me timbers! sounds like horse feathers to me…..
I want to know why they call the viewing of a dead body before a funeral the “wake” The person is dead not awake! What the hell? Thanks
The video is at 26 at the moment but at 24 has 40,613 views. Do you thin k the new vid may be up before midnight?? GMT
And i have another request: where does the word “Robot” come from and what does it means
Thanks
Hey Marina… i was wondering
what is the different off a beer and a lager..
Thanks Marina.
the word: Rainbow
the phrase: what goes around comes around
Thats a good one… i wanna know too
Interesting combination of requests there, chelsea.
Do you know why people are always looking for the end of the rainbow but never find it?
When you see a rainbow from an aeroplane or a helicopter you realise that they form a complete circle, so they never have an end.
You could say that, what comes around and goes around is a rainbow.
Marina, glad to see you’re saving gas! Sorry, but I don’t worry about the gas prices, so I’m not doing anything. I have a request: how did the phrase “I don’t cotton to that” come about? Since cotton is a plant and a fiber used in clothes, I don’t see how “I don’t plant/fiber” that” makes any sense, do you?
Sorry Folks,I tend to revert to My teen years on occasion.
Piggyback has another usage.. For when you go outside someones house and use an unsecured broadband connection. I did it once when i was on holiday to go on hfw.com
Oh dear, poor george bush http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0GPtOivFMY&feature =related
Jimmy ,
When you make your videos do you make mistakes or gaffs?
Try making your videos in front of Millions of people that are praying for the smallest mistake. And have the fate of the entire World rests on each word and facial tick.
No Pressure?
Of course I make mistakes.. I add them in at the end then laugh at them
Does anyone know what marina does for a job? I cant see how studying words all day can make any money?
James, try googling for making money on the internet.
Oh…
you mean like clicking on e mails everyday day:P that has earned me somewhere arround 50 euro’s
in like uuh.. 4 years 
25 million web sites for you to read.
Bob, Thanks for that. Will give me something to read while I wait for the next video.
James.. I am a philologist.. and my videos have been seen over 90 million times on the Internet. over half a million to a million times each day. When you watch those videos you may notice something to the right side of each video on YouTube and on YouTube you may also notice something that appears along the bottom of each video about 10-15 seconds in.
It is the same business model that we have in the United States for something called Commercial Television. I think you have some versions of commercial television in the UK? How do those television networks survive and pay their bills? (I’m not talking about the government subsidized networks, btw)
I see now..
I think you should have a donate button, that is either a choice. Or that anyone who give your video less than 5 stars should be forced to pay at least $1000 for, That way you can have as many audi r8s as you like!
James - You don’t get it……
James,
, anyONE else can be sent to:
She does have a donate button.
Fan mail, GIFTS and DONATIONS FROM JAMES.
Marina ℅ HotForWords, LLC
287 South Robertson Boulevard #133
Beverly Hills, California 90211 USA
Donate away
Oh yeah!
Can you send annoying family members then?
I am going to send something…. Trying to think what…
Do you think you could fit in a box??
Well RRR… I am quite small so… Mind you 8 stone is quite heavy for postage
Yes, yes, yes but now how do we get paid?
HotForWords,
That was a very nice video.
Piggy Back to Star Bucks. 
(Hope it’s not one that’s closed)
Gonna be more than a couple of bucks. 
From your clues yesterday I was totally baffled as to the “Pick a Pack” connection.
Like the starfish and the can of spam and riding the pig’s back. Great illusions.
The opening picture really looks like your choking Kobe,
But Oh My, Marina is becoming an elitist.
At least let the neighbor break out a rickshaw.
Even the ancients had multiple folks carrying around in the chair.
Oh, I get it, your economizing on the neighbor power.
And what about the rest of us who can’t detruncus the real trunk cause we ate your whole birthday cake?
To save gas I’m doing a couple of things besides complaining.
I ride a motorcycle whenever the weather permits.
And I building and experimenting with the water car and HHO.
The technology is real, you really can run a car using water as a fuel.
I was wondering when?
I’m not saving gas, I am using as much of it as I can before we run out! Why save fuel? When it is gone then there will be no more polution. All you are doing is prolonging the polution. Besides with all the global warming it causes, it will open up new places to drill for oil when all thoses usless glaciers, are gone. I bet the north pole is hiding lots of oil, and then the oil drillers can have a nice climate to work in. With global warming we won’t be cutting down as many trees for fire wood, and will be using less fuel in general for warming us up in the winter. Remember that the northern most part of the hemesphere was once a tropical area. So it will be again, thanks to us gas burners!! Hooray for us!! We are the real heros!
Completely agree !
geronimo For President!!
I know I spelled pollution wrong and said “thoses”. Oh well
Now thats the best solution I have seen yet.
Oversimplification of the perceived positive(?) effects of our corporate addiction to oil is great since we’re the only species on the planet. After all, who needs all those pesky other plants and animals anyway? We’re the only ones that matter because we can REASON and God is on our side. Rest assured there’ll still be plenty of wildlife as far as those nuisance species that thrive on human civilization are concerned: rats, crows, ants, fleas, lice, cockroaches, and mice (among other pests).
Wow, you really must tell all the scientists your great discovery before they succeed in arresting the galloping climate changes!
Then I woke up.
I have a Natural Science degree, and a degree in Environmental Conservation (with honors), so I have actually studied some of this stuff and a couple clues have been offered me. Here they are: the effects of warming will include massive climate and weather-pattern changes such as droughts and desertification in areas which are now well-watered, as well as huge die-offs of major stands of forests (for just one example, trees can’t migrate, so when the environment changes even a little, they’ll no longer be within their natural comfort/rainfall/temperature range and thus become weakened and far more susceptible to pest invasions and virulent diseases) taking with them all the wildlife that are so well-adapted to live among them. The loss of forests will forever change the transpiration balance that affects humidity and rainfall levels planet-wide. Flooding, erosion, dust storms, hurricanes, and tornadoes will multiply exponentially, and (this is the BIG what-if—–>) there will be changes in the thermohaline subsurface ocean currents, of which we really have NO idea what will ultimately be the result. We can look back into the geologic and paleontologic records to see what these changes brought in the distant past, but that only gives us the tip of the proverbial iceberg. In fact, there has never been such a rapid rise in the amount of greenhouse gases as there is currently. The fuse is lit; some of us are trying to put it out before it reaches the bomb, but most of us just stand back and watch because we “can’t afford it” or “don’t want to get involved.” Global ice age or global desert, which is better? That’s where it’s heading, toward one of those two and we won’t know which until we get there. I kind of like it in between, where we are now. Don’t be duped. These are the good old days, my friends. Remember them well, because they won’t be back.
Sorry to be such a downer. But science isn’t just about a bunch of liberal treehuggers. The planet is choking on our fumes, and it’s getting ready to get way uncomfortable on our asses because of it. If I didn’t care about my friends, why would I waste my time telling you all this?
30 years ago the scientist were scaring everyone with global freezing, now it’s warming. I will never believe that humans have the ability to warm or cool the earth and only time will prove me right. Remember the ozone crisis? How about Y2K? More brilliant scientist hard at work. The minuscule rise in temperature in the last 100 years has not been caused by humans. Even one of the founding global warming scientist who came up with the whole global warming recently admitted that the test they have been conducting is showing that they may have to rethink the belief of human cause. The world has it’s problems I don’t believe in intentionally ruining it, but this warming trend is completely beyond our ability to change since we are not the cause. I know you think this is a fact and I am an idiot, but everyone said the same to me when I laughed at them for the other previous mentioned hoaxes. I hope you know I was just making a joke in my comment that you responded to. But, on the other hand don’t be taken in so easily. Look up the global freezing scare of the 70’s.
No need. It was based on the discovery that the timing of past ice ages have followed a regular 11,000-year cycle that had to do with Earth’s axis being tilted 23 degrees and the “wobble” it occasionally experiences during the course of its travel through its orbit. And that we were overdue for the next one. That doesn’t mean the next one is imminent, just that there was a pattern. I’ve spent too long in school studying my ass (okay, my arse) off to discount it all as hoax. Believe whatever you want. It won’t make any difference to the truth. Y2K? Bacon over the trail. The ozone “scare” resulted in much higher incidence of skin cancer (ask any Australian oncologist) and a huge rise in the sale of sunscreen. I’ll be willing to bet those with skin cancer don’t think it was a hoax.
Bottom line is that the 35 years that have elapsed since the 70s were but a microsecond in global time and what happens in our piddly lifespans won’t prove you or me right (one can only hope), but just give us plenty more opportunities to argue. I, for one, prefer to agree to disagree with you on this one because I like interacting with you and all the others here at HFW. So I’ll let it lie and allow time to pass. One thing I can guarantee: our grandchildren will know who was right by the time they get to be our age. Meantime, we’re way off subject! Thanks for your well-thought-out responses, geronimo. It’s good to know you’re using your analytical powers to do some critical thinking on this subject, regardless of how I might view your conclusions. Now back to work. There’s a lesson I have to watch.
Peace and safe journeys, my friend. Trust me, I hope I’m wrong about all this.
I read an article that stated that not only does the Northwest Passage open up a couple of months every year now, but that in the near future, nearer than previously thought possible, the Arctic Ocean will be ice-free. As for me, I’m not worried about global warming. it’s already 115 F in Las Vegas, so I say, “Bring it on!”
I do not know what I am doing to save on gas.
Upset. A term used to deescribe an underdog that defeats a winner. Man O’ War only lost one race to a horse named Upset. Since then the term Upset has been used whenever an underdog defeats a winner. Which brings up my next word, underdog??
Hi Marina,
What have I been doing to save on gas? hmmm?
I told my neighbors that I am following some ancient Native American values. My uncle was up visiting the “Natives” in Bella Bella, near Bella Coola, which is in the Haida area of the British Columbia coastline of western Canada. They state, “Indian’s don’t cut grass!” Kinda saying it’s another “dumb whiteman thing”. That said, I can no longer see or use my gas lawnmower since the grass is so high it somehow “disappeared”.
The other thing I started doing to save on gas was stop eating cans of cold beans… along with the three cloves of garlic, 4 boiled eggs, two cups of sauerkraut and a 6-pack of beer. I used to do this late at night before I went to bed.
I got myself a 4 foot long Mexican credit card from a website called…
gaspricessucksosuckthis.com. They claim that if you dip one end into richcar’s gas tank and suck hard you become Jose Hood… the Spanish robin hood. Quite a marvel idea. It’s a handy hose to siphon gas with no strings attached.
Cheers!
David
A car that runs on water.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKM4pb9Oxrg
Way cool! Where can I get one!
Hope he gets the patents done
so we can see the technology.
Can you imagine how the government will tax water and then make it illegal for people to gather water from natural resources? Seems stupid but there is no way they will give up all the tax revenue they get from gas.
Chacha do you have a YT account? Maybe I have already added you or not. I forget, it’s the old age see
Our state was talking about puting meters on peoples private water wells to help conserve water usage.
Slowly but surely all governments get out of control.
That technology has been around for years.
The biggest problem is the sum gain is not there.
It takes to much energy to produce bhp.
Marina, I am making a video about spoonerisms and one of them ends up in me swearing.. Can I please use the you saying “james, with that language you are staying after school for detention” at the end of the video. I will do the editing now and depending on what you say I shall use it or not. Thanks
James
XX
Also. I only film with my phone. You camera looks great! what is it called?
HwK: I haven’t driven a car (or ridden a ‘Hog’) since May 20th–all Metro & walking…
what does the word prosperity mean and where did it originate?
The Indoeuropean root *SPE- means more or less “fortune”.
PRO-SPE-R- means in Latin “leading to fortune”.
The root exists also in Slavic : SPE- “success, maturity”.
What’s the best movie speech from a pure wordsmith point of view? That is, placing more emphasis on the use of words as opposed to the pure potency of the oration.
For me it has to be the V Speech from V for Vendetta.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Q0dfrbr10
Hugo Weaving was excellent as “V”
Thanks for the link
Oh mistress of all words great and holy, I beseech thee to enlighten this poor soul and explain to me what the origin is of the phrase by-and-by!
Thank you, and may the great dictionary in the sky bless you a thousand times over.
That’s how it’s done!
pretty classy…
10 points for style
The Great dictionary in the sky
Men are not disturbed by things, they are excited by them.
He who dies with the most things, wins.
What men are disturbed by, is women’s view of their things.
Good one Bob. Very good!
Hello,
when I seen you on fox news I was hooked. I made that statment on my profile and that got me thinking “hooked” I woundered where did that come from? any idea? John
Can’t answer that. Gone fishing!
Bob goes fishing
Catch any or just drownin’ worms??
jdett78 - Here’s a link to the “hooker” game
lesson. To get the answer, second pulldown,
far left button - words / lessons (top of the page)
enjoy!
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/03/15/hooker/
Thank you for the feed back.
That was scary…
Hey Marina! I have a question for you! It’s not really a Word orgin, but i was wondering where the symbols for Man and Woman came from. You know, the ones with a circle and a cross on the bottom for girls and a circle with an arrow on the top right for guys. I’d really love to know!!! Thanks!!
Yeah the server is back again.
Hello
Everyone must be asleep, but I bet kobe is awake and attacking his food bowl.
Kobe’s fast asleep.. I’m only half awake
Marina your fully awake
Yea the server went down about 4am. I wasn’t able to post anything. I could not find the rest button so I gave up and went to bed. I knew Marina would wake up and fix it.
James spent the time working
up a video about spoonerisms!
Guess it caught him around
midday… prime time for him.
Its here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYdZ-3R7sgo
I have a word request.. surprise
Actually the word is misspelled it’s hypermill as in hypermilling…..lol
Almost forgot; saving gas, I am keeping the ole jeep tuned up, slowing down, and learning to hypemill……………
I have a new word request; how about “wedgy” lol
Do you mean a “Melvin”?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEurK8VPVOM
It’s a long bit, but Melvin is covered
in the first two minutes
I save gas by staying home and watching hotforwords all day.
i’ll give piggyback rides for free
lol
I don’t drive hehe
just my mtb,I drive about 300-500 kilometers a week on that thing for free 
Marina ! Why did’nt you explain GULAG ? From GLAVNOIE UPRAVLiENIE LAGIERIEI “General Direction for Camps”. I know it’s difficult to translate it into English.
GOULAG is something like POLCAMP for “Political Camp”. It’s like FBI or CIA nothing more.
I doubt it’s like FBI or CIA, seriously.
Cody Banks was just a movie.
The magic of letters is big : Let’s say “I am working for the CDMI”, it’s more impressive that saying “I am working for the CENTRAL DEPARTEMENT FOR MODERN IDIOTS”
Is there anything you won’t do to get some coffee?
If Marina does a video on “1337 speak” I wonder what message she will have on have her tshirt?
http://flickr.com/photos/28204470@N00/49242499/
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Don’t start
Hi James
Translated it means “we love hot forwords”,
or do you mean something else?
I thought, that if Marina did a video on “hack” speak, she might encode a message like “subscribe” or “please rate my video” somewhere in the video.
It might stop people commenting on the state of her indoor plants.
But with marinas audience some probably may not be able to understand. It also seems pretty pointless to use symbols when you have letters, Google has a haxx0r version too! http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/
darn it… i supposidly need to get laid
lol
Alx?
?
What will hack speak put some where in her videos have any affect on wheither people talk about her plants. People are just joking and kidding about them anyway. Just another way of passing time on her site or picking at her about her plants.
There are too many guys on this site. Marina is trying to reel in some gals by creating “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Plants.”
I’m driving an electric car, but I keep running out of extension cords every time I try to leave town.
GUYS,
Check out this video from the sultry Marina video phase.
I must say, I miss those videos. The New and Improved Marina is very good, but those videos are ((:twisted:)) good.
………..BEST OF MARINA……….
……………………
They are good. I miss ‘em.
Yup. I godda admit you’re right. She’s looking a little conservative these days.
I prefer the new Marina.
If intelligence is sexy, then you don’t have to dress like a rapper’s groupie to be sexy.
Marina’s personality is what makes her so engaging.
Hmm. I didn’t say it’s bad. You can be classy and sexy at the same time. She’s never looked like a rapper’s groupie in any of the videos that I’ve seen. But sexy does sell and she is “HotForWords”. That’s my point!
Hmmm, in my post above I said she was “engaging”; I’ve just watched the second O’Reilly show and I have to say she is not merely engaging, she is captivating, mesmerizing, enchanting and bewitching.
So vivacious.
I like her earlier works better, i don’t like the “golden girl” as well asa the earlier works.
Nice to hear that music, again
the “barking dogs” added to
the appeal. Marina had a
menagerie of graphic animals
“…that damn mouse…” LOL
Sorry Guys
I make a miserable Marina Groupie.
She is defiantly in my top 20 list though.
1. Ann Coulter
2. Michelle Malkin
3.Laura Ingraham
4. Martha MacCallum
5. Dr. Jennifer Ashton
6. Megyn Kelly
7. Julie Banderas
8. Pattie Ann Browne
9. Gretchen Carlson
10. E. D. Hill
11. Jane Skinner
No real order just as I thought of them.
You get the idea though. There are lots of
intelligent women out there in the world.
Really, I would not shit you!
When you said dr.jennifer ashton, I thought it said dr jennifer anniston I was puzzled by that for quite a while….
Intelligent
Don’t forget Paris Hilton. She knows word origins… Like…. Money… And RatDog… And spoiled…..and….. thats about it…
also, gratz for making the full screen option work on HFW website also!
woohoohoo! lolololol for a moment I thought Marina was wearing dippers, at 2:18 =))
Piggyback riding… kids… => Dippers! Hey, it could have happened, haha
I thought it was old lady panties. I ran it again just to see that they were shorts.
As a child growing up in Riverside Ca. we raised pigs and had two breeder pigs Henry and Hazel that weighed 500 pounds each. We use to ride them around like horses all around the farm. We used their ears like reigns and they didn’t seem to mind.
We rode goats G. They didn’t mind sometimes and sometimes they would butt us off. So we made a goat cart just like a buggy. harness one up to it and away we would go. Many things one can do on a farm to have fun. The funny thing about a male goat, he will stand and pee all over his own front legs. We ended up smelling the same way by the end of the day.
Good morning!
Marina,
11:09 pm Jul 31, the youtube/hotforwords page is messed up. Clicking the video name, in order to rate or comment, directs you to either youtube/user or back to youtube/hotforwords, not to the video (last night the link should have been youtube/watch?v=9hc1_GgKLRk, which I got to only from the Most Watched Video page) I don’t knwow the path now. If we can’t get there, we can’t rate you 5 stars. Last night was the same.
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Same problem here
I save gas by bike riding but I use 1/4 of gas to go from my house to Indiana then back home almost every week.
Dear teacher,
What is the origin of the word TROJAN???…….as it is well known as TROJAN HORSE……n y is that called a VIRUS???
If you knew how the Trojan horse was used then you would have a good idea why a computer virus that sneaks in you computer in another program is called a Trojan virus.
I wonder why a Trojan condom isn’t shaped like a horse?
or why they would use Trojan for a condom name. Just by name alone wouldn’t it let in what you are trying to keep out???
In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta. (WIKKI)
It’s a great story, check it out.
Dear Marina, I wish there was a way for me to save on gas, but unfortunatly living in the middle of nowhere with no public transportations the only means of traveling for me is to takr the car *sigh*
And I also do a lot of driving at work, but atleast the company is paying for that hehehe.
Best wishes, Ath, I’ll see you in the rear-view mirror,
To save on gas—I’m eating less beans and cabbage.
“Bodkin”
I know it is a medieval word word for a sharp “needle” or “Knife” the word is used in many of Shakespeares plays describibng a knife. Perhaps the most famous being in the “To be or not to be” speech in Hamlet.
What I would like to know though is its