wikipedia is a great source for getting info because it’s checked every 2 minutes, so if there is info in there that is not true on wikipedia, it will be soon.
hutchiee on
August 25th, 2008 6:24 am
Wikipedia is an awesome reference but like anything, balance that against the credibility of the author.
It’s organic, so if it’s wrong, fix it - that’s how it gets better. Strange, there’s no article for “spill the beans” any more.
It took a swift eye to read Gullible’s Travels, and a keen eye to see that it’s not the book you’d immediately assume it was.
egrooms on
August 8th, 2008 2:52 am
Oh most definately not! Wikipedia is the last place I would go for information on anything that actually meant….well…..anything! I might go there for urban legend info or something like that, but I would definately NOT use it for a source of substantial research material. (Unless I was researching something like urban legends…or “pop culture”….)
ad4mskiii on
August 6th, 2008 5:41 am
lol you and wikipedia are both well suited… both are crap for information.
good day!
sk8ersrock2 on
August 5th, 2008 1:35 am
basically i think that wikipedia isn’t the best place for information.. but on the good side most of the information is trust worthy… also this is an excellent definition of the saying spill the beans… I wouldn’t mine learning where the saying “86″ came from… this is a term we use at my job and i’ve always wondered where it came from…
thanks
- sk8
blueskies13 on
August 4th, 2008 6:29 pm
its true wikipedia does not give as much info on a word or its origin as marina does i like the fact that she uses a multitude of different dictionary to describe a word and give its origin like from the latin or greek or french and old english and oxford i just read in my local telephone book word that were refuse to put in dictionary so they put them together and called it the cajun dictionary i think it mostly was a joke but there are a lot of people that did not grow up in the city whom actually use this terminology it is funny when i find my self using a few of these words
blueskies13 on
August 4th, 2008 6:21 pm
marina is that you in this picture its said to be out of focus and does not look like you and i almost agree but not sure if so what pistol are you holding
mrchex on
August 4th, 2008 12:51 pm
Your sister was giving you GUFF. good word for orgin. sounds like excellent timing
mrchex on
August 4th, 2008 12:50 pm
Well. Wikipedia is second hand stuff. I would imagine it might be hards because people with copyrighted stuff in books such as dictionaries or encyclopedias prob have more accurate data with the sources know. that is it for me off the top of my head.
gamefreak741 on
August 4th, 2008 10:26 am
hey can u do the word hamburger. I was wondering why it’s called hamburger if most of the common burgers don’t have ham in them?
prospero811 on
August 4th, 2008 7:34 am
Homework:
Wikipedia is a great source for quick ‘n dirty information, and is a good start for other research because often the articles are footnoted with other sources. It’s not something to rely upon in any scholarly sense, and should be cross-checked with other sources as much as possible.
thxeleven38 on
August 4th, 2008 4:47 am
Marina:
I have found Wikipedia to be very unreliable information source in my researches.
You need to spill the beans on your sister. We’e meet Kobe - very kool. We need to meet “sister” so people like me don’t think that it’s really you being edited with that fancy Final Cut Pro that you use! I use the cheaper “Toast” but I’m looking at FCP as well.
Spill the beans on your sister Marina! She’s got to be as hot as you or is you. grammer?
I didnt konw you could refresh by f5.. Im doing it a different way…
roadrunrnch replied on August 3rd, 2008 5:36 pm:
Cause it’s real hard to find a girl with this beauty to intelligence ratio true but………
But………sorry.
Marina is just an illusion. She is everything to everyone differently the same. My Marina is different then yours. This could be a good exercise . Each of us describe their idea of Marina.
Then have Her judge and pick to closest fit….??
There are smart and fun [ real ] people too.
My Son talks to a hundred or so Girls on MySpace from all over the world.
roadrunrnch replied on August 3rd, 2008 4:54 pm:
James
Why aren’t you out chasing young and wild British Girls?
Flesh and blood beats a PC monitor hands down.
I’ve quoted The Buddha in a reply to Buzzword below.
Here is another quotation of his, which is relevant to Marina’s homework question about Wikipedia:-
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
Never heard of it!
Guess that makes me an agnostic.
prospero811 replied on August 4th, 2008 12:16 pm:
You mean the early Christians who claimed to have superior knowledge of spiritual matters, and explained the world as created by powers or agencies arising as emanations from the Godhead? It’s a term used to describe the diverse, syncretistic religious movement consisting of various belief systems generally united in the teaching that humans are divine souls trapped in a material world created by an imperfect spirit, the demiurge, who is frequently identified with the Abrahamic God. The demiurge may be depicted as an embodiment of evil, or in other instances as merely imperfect and as benevolent as its inadequacy permits. This demiurge exists alongside another remote and unknowable supreme being that embodies good. In order to free oneself from the inferior material world, one needs gnosis, or esoteric spiritual knowledge available to all through direct experience or knowledge (gnosis) of God. Jesus of Nazareth is identified by some Gnostic sects as an embodiment of the supreme being who became incarnate to bring gnosis to the Earth. In others he was thought to be a gnosis teacher, and yet others, nothing more than a man.
Newbies….
Marina does not make mistakes…… very often.
She is referring to a different book written in 1917.
check it out on the net. There is such a story ” Gullible’s Travels,” She’s not just being silly and cute-r.
prospero811 replied on August 4th, 2008 12:17 pm:
Did you know that “gullible” is the only English word that can’t be found in any English dictionary?
You caught capman911 with this and Bob caught me with it a couple of months ago. That is a good one. I tell others about it now and I’ve caught one so far.
Wikipedia is in most cases interesting for a general starting point. The type of information I look up and the articles I have read/written/edited has a high quality. But the truth cannot be decided by voting. I’ve always been using OED and in most cases looking up encyclopedia britannica. Wikipedia is so easy to find and easy to edit. But on some topics eg. radar better articles exists.
Your appearance on the (Bill) O’Reilly Factor Show was great.
Hi Marina, Can you tell me the origin of the word Pornography ? It is usually just called porn or porno as everyone knows. And most people have looked at some and everyone knows what it is when they see it. But what is the origin or the word ” pornography ” itself ? Thank you, Ghost Legionary
dellforce on
August 3rd, 2008 3:04 pm
…And since you raised the subject of pissing… How did the phrase ‘pissed off’ come into use. I mean, has anyone long ago really said, “I’m so mad I could piss, right now”! Or “You made me so mad I want to piss on you”! I really didn’t start to hear the phrase until I got in high school (1980 to 1984). And furthermore, doesn’t anyone remember the joking twist on the old ‘Rolaids’ commercial, “How do you spell relief? P-I-S-S” When you finally do do that you have a feeling of great relief, not anger. And even furthermore, thanks to Dr. Kegel, men and women can use the act of pissing to strengthen the pubococogeal muscles to enhance and prolong sex (I love it when a woman is strong there ). So, Marina please investigate how “… (don’t) piss me off” came into great use. I mean I could check it out on Wikipedia.com, but you’re so much more beautiful than a jigsaw globe with some pieces missing Peace, baby!
spill,
spill the beans
spill your guts
spilled milk
take a spill [ crash ]
clean up the spill
spill your heart
spill blood
dontpokemesohard on
August 3rd, 2008 1:25 pm
can you please do the origin of Mad Libs? its that game where you have to fill in nouns and verbs, stuff like that!! iv always wondered what it meant . THANKS ALOT!!
-DontPokeMeSoHard
Ok I have a long “spill the missen beans’ but I will give you the short version. The tall ship “Endeavor” and the “Lady Washington” where in Westport Washington to do some Tall ship stuff. We (LW) where playing jokes with each other. They called us the Mini Brig, in reference of Austin Powers movies. They where sneaking aboard our ship to plant mini sails on the mast and we would put LW souvenirs on their ship. This went on for days. We wanted to have the last laugh as they would leave port. We hid bags full beans in their missen sails. Missen mast is the last mast on their type of boat. Not all tall ships have Missen masts. So this missen sail is located right over the bridge where all the driving is done. As they got underway we had one of our PR guys sail with them to the next port. He would key up the VHF radio so we could hear what was going on. As the ship got underway the captain called for them to set sails. They had all sails up except the missen sails. The captain called to let the missen sails free. Our PR guy keyed up the radio and we could hear all the beans raining down on the deck of the ship. The PR guy yelled Let free the Missen Beans! We heard this over the radio and almost died laughing so hard. Reports of beans covered the deck of the tall ship made their way to decks below. Beans everywhere! So thats my ‘Spill the Missen Beans’ story that sticks in my head the most.
pennsyltucky9 replied on August 3rd, 2008 1:29 pm:
Hahahahahaha! Prank up, I mean crank up that capstan!
melikadothechacha replied on August 3rd, 2008 2:14 pm:
Hey Marina, Did you add something new on your site about a week and a half ago, that causes the page to reposition twice. For example I post a comment and the page reloads so I can see that in fact my post is now live. I start to scroll up the page reading other comments and a few seconds later the site zaps me back down to my last comment. You know what Im talking about?
Occasionally but it comes and goes. I wanted to thank you for making me think about Wikipedia and newspaper reporting. Although I have my share of typos, having to write quickly and on deadline, I take research and accuracy seriously. I found what you wrote about your father to be very interesting because I find that no matter how balanced I try to be, presenting the facts (although I’ll give relevant personal experience, if desired by editors, experience where I’ve got paperwork or other information to prove my points) readers often have their own, very strong opinions.
In a sense, that means the reporter can be the bearer of news but interpretation will be up to the reader. I’ll bet your father dealt with this. Luckily, when it came to Marina, the consensus was that Hot for Words is a very good thing
roadrunrnch replied on August 3rd, 2008 1:08 pm:
Yes the same thing here too.
Marina is likely out, maybe the beach or shopping.
So it’s your job to get to the bottom of this…..
Hi Marina, Im sitting here buying new gear for mixing one of my favorite drinks at the moment, the Mojito, but were and how did the word COCKTAIL came into the English language, and is it put together by two words - and would they be COCK and TAIL, witch has no sense at all…..?!?
suprstock on
August 3rd, 2008 11:55 am
Comon sense proves this to be false……
blueskies13 on
August 3rd, 2008 11:30 am
i want to request an origin COCO BEAN & CHOCOLATE where did this stuff com from and why do so many people love it especially girls some say it as good as sex i want to know what can make a sweet brown substance better than sex
pennsyltucky9 replied on August 3rd, 2008 12:54 pm:
Cacao is native to Central America I believe. There’s an alkaloid in it which have a positive effect on pleasure centers in the brain, hence the “better than sex” attributes (plus, you don’t have to change the sheets afterward ). The Aztecs of central Mexico used cacao beans as a form of currency.
Since it’s well documented that most women love it, you can probably understand how it became popular as an exchange item, especially for guys who appreciated attention from the women.
According to one article in Nature, scientific pages in Wikipedia have four factual errors or omissions per article- not surprising. However, in the online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica a team of professionals uncovered three factual errors per article! So, when it comes to science-related articles, it seems that Wikipedia isn’t too bad a source. Also, textbooks, in an effort to be politically correct, often omit historically relevant information, such as the use of sheep bladders as prophylactics or the fact that Benjamin Franklin was an irreverent ladies’ man with a penchant for sick jokes, sometimes even aimed at royalty. Why leave out the best stuff? For shame!
buzzword replied on August 3rd, 2008 11:44 am:
which is why cross checking facts and researching a variety of resources is necessary.
of course history texts have to omit a lot of details to effectively provide a succinct documentation of historical events. how important are sheep bladder prophylactics to understanding general historical events? unless your studying a specific subject in history such as human sexuality then its not really necessary to include.
by the way, benjamin franklin making sick jokes aimed at royalty shouldn’t be too surprising, i mean he did sign the declaration of independence.
parthenophilast replied on August 4th, 2008 12:22 am:
I admit it’s not surprising that Benny Franklin was disrespectful to royalty, but sheep bladder prophylactics are a very important aspect of history in that they acted as a form of birth control and may have prevented the spread of disease. Plus, my history books always had a lot of boring facts in them that really didn’t matter. It was always clear to me that they omitted certain facts and ideas out of political correctness. Heaven forbid a few parents complain!
My muscles need time to recuperate, Marina! I don’t even want to check dictionary.com for this one! I want my trusty Hotforwords to investigate for me! Woodja please (would you please)???? I need some recuperation, Marina, could you help me in my plight?
Weapon is out of focous, but the Slide release seems to be there, S&W 59?
blueskies13 replied on August 3rd, 2008 11:19 am:
s&w 59 is a 9 mm parabellum with target site that was produced in 1970 and the u.s. navy used ut to make there mark 22 and added a silencer and called it a mark 22 hush puppy and used it in there seal program i believe they are using what is one of my favorites the berreta M9A1for side arm witch the us military adopted in 1985 after the long used 1911a1 .45 acp by colt but it is now kimber who makes the best 1911 model pistol and is used by the us olympic shooting team chambered in .22LR
forager replied on August 3rd, 2008 11:50 am:
The origanal comment that got My attention was if the pic was reversed. I went and dug out My “Janes” and “Small arms of the World”. It’s not a 59. Who really cares? the pix is out of focus enough so that might not be Marina. I guess She can confirm that better than anyone else. Have a good day everybody:)
blueskies13 replied on August 4th, 2008 6:17 pm:
ok i get it now the pic is out of focus you are right it does not look like marina it either is a bad pic or it is brittany spears funky ass so it is not your weapon what did you mean about you dug out your ”janes” i have never heard of that expression before by the way what is your favorite military side arm and infantry rifle and do you own any mil arms i have the berreta M9A1 & bushmaster ar-15 w/ 16” extra heavy bbl set for medium range sniping duty i love to shoot tiny objects at far distances also over & under 12 gd shot gun i load my own shells and shoot hundreds of clay at a time between bird season
mitchtheman on
August 3rd, 2008 10:06 am
Hello Marina, I have a phrase that I would like to know about. What does the phrase “break the ice” come from and how did it come to mean to talk with somebody? Please try and do a video of this phrase. Thank you so much.
-You’re best subscriber
Mitch
Homework: sometimes it is, depending on the material. No, not everything on Wikipedia is reliable, so it depends on who wrote it, what they know, and what their background is to actually see if what they’re saying is actually verifiable.
Later, Marina,
Shawn
crimsonxenon on
August 3rd, 2008 9:57 am
When someone says “Let’s blow this popsicle stand”
I am wondering about the word, “nincompoop”. Sounds Russian.
runawayscott on
August 3rd, 2008 9:48 am
I dont usually trust wikipedia unless I have another source to go on.
ente on
August 3rd, 2008 9:39 am
Hello,
I saw your “wop” video and this is why my word request is “padman”
take care, ENTE
danielpool52 on
August 3rd, 2008 9:14 am
a phrase request flim-flam the flimflam man
melikadothechacha on
August 3rd, 2008 9:04 am
a word request, simple is best
I would like “the dirt” on the word dirt
all the way “back to dirt”.
Ajax is “stronger than dirt”
Bet we see more “dirty politics” and
politicians with “dirty hands” before
this election cycle is over. It’s not
a “dirty little secret” anymore.
Keepin’ my body clean and my thoughts…too!
You wanted to edit videos with quiktime?I didn’t know that was possible, try sony vegas , takes a while to understand but you can do a lot more with it that you would with Windows movie maker.
Marina… I gues you removed James his comment because he was promoting something illegal…that’s ok, but now people think i’m an idiot talking randomly abouth video editing software… :S
Marina uses Quicktime for all her videos. Apple uses QT for all their software video needs, for example Final Cut Pro uses QT. If you own a Window machine, QT is useless to you. If you want to use QT then buy a Mac.
You could also just install mac os x leopard on to a pc like I did that saves you a lot of money
But I don’t like mac ,it´s realy weird, I won’t start ranting tough cause apple groupies will jump me I think…
i don’t really get it. you’re talking about the qt player, right?
you can get qt for pc, too … so … if you want to use qt, get a mac or a pc. if you want all other video files to play, get a pc. hehe.
What great about Mac and Windows that it gives users a choice of OS they prefer or works best for them I prefer Mac over MS. Yet I told my sister to buy a Dell because of her needs at the time. I will not argue which OS I better. That’s just childish behavior.
Foxbow, If you don’t like OSX why did you install it? For your need you clearly need a Windows machine. Stay away from OSX.
aLx, No, Im talking about the QT drivers that power the apps in OSX. Im not talking about the player. This is really a mute point if your on a WinPC.
Watch out how you talk about her plants. Errin chided us on the last lesson about commenting about Miss M’s plant. So I chided back that is was all in fun and games an we were just picking at Marina about her plants and candle she has from time to time. I am still going to pick about the plant.
it’s funny she moved over to grass now ,instead of flower like plants:P
I can’t keep that spot next to my bed that tidy:p it stacks up with books and magazines in no time lol
dash257 on
August 3rd, 2008 7:02 am
Nicely done Im a Fan now. Your funny and wise. so I thought I’d ask you this. Where does the phrase “Kick the bucket” come from? why do I hear it ever so often? I know what it means but whats the story behind the phrase?
Because I thought it was good at editing now I want wmm Back and it keeps saying xvidcore.dll Not found and if I press ok everything messes up… Its awful
I hate them all! They all suck. I can get VLC to work most of the time. I also have Mplayer which works much better for me than VLC. I just use them all until I find something that works then I move on. I have a Mac which uses QT on most of their software. If you use Windows you really don’t need QT because Microsoft has their competing video format. Until the industry agrees on a standard of making videos we will be suck in this format war forever.
no, if you use windows you don’t need quicktime not because ms has their own format, but because there are hundreds of players out there that will play every format, including that totally superfluous *.mov format of apple.
“Spill the beans” sounds much like “loose lips sink ships” without the military inferrance I spose.
Hot damn!! You in sexy garb with a gun!! I might have the next poll question for Your website-”Would You like to see Marina teamed with Angelina in the next Tomb Raider movie?” I *KNOW*,without doubt,I would!
Dunno Bob.Maybe colored contacts would do the trick?! I remember this sweet brown eyed blonde doing naked cartwheels across the livingroom floor,quite the sight wether looking in Her eyes or not,,yummy!
Umm,since when would Marina *need* brown eyes to team with AJ and kill everything in sight? The only question in My mind is “Could/would AJ like the competition of co-starring with Marina”?!?!
If you look in some of here earlier videos some of the shots look like she has brown eyes. I don’t think the lady in the still shot is Marina. Her checks are a lot more fuller where Marina’s are concaved.
melikadothechacha replied on August 3rd, 2008 1:59 pm:
Bingo! Capman said it!
“I don’t think the lady in the still shot is Marina. ”
Looks more like Britany Spears…
My point was that I’m not convinced that is Marina holding the gun in the video.
The girl has brown eyes and the face proportions don’t seem quite right, though it’s difficult to tell due to the angle of the shot.
Maybe she just reversed the image again. Can any gun experts tell if it’s been reversed?
tryant replied on August 3rd, 2008 10:26 am:
Oh,ooops. You may well be correct now that I pause it and look longer. Do Ya spose the lookalike is Marinas famed “twin” only not identical?
I think most semi-auto pistols have the spent shell ejection port on the right side wich would mean the pic is unaltered,that is,if I understand correctly and if it is a real gun in the still. I have only owned 1 semi-auto pistol and am far from expert on all guns.
test
check
you are my only source !
wikipedia is a great source for getting info because it’s checked every 2 minutes, so if there is info in there that is not true on wikipedia, it will be soon.
Wikipedia is an awesome reference but like anything, balance that against the credibility of the author.
It’s organic, so if it’s wrong, fix it - that’s how it gets better. Strange, there’s no article for “spill the beans” any more.
It took a swift eye to read Gullible’s Travels, and a keen eye to see that it’s not the book you’d immediately assume it was.
Oh most definately not! Wikipedia is the last place I would go for information on anything that actually meant….well…..anything! I might go there for urban legend info or something like that, but I would definately NOT use it for a source of substantial research material. (Unless I was researching something like urban legends…or “pop culture”….)
lol you and wikipedia are both well suited… both are crap for information.
good day!
basically i think that wikipedia isn’t the best place for information.. but on the good side most of the information is trust worthy… also this is an excellent definition of the saying spill the beans… I wouldn’t mine learning where the saying “86″ came from… this is a term we use at my job and i’ve always wondered where it came from…
thanks
- sk8
its true wikipedia does not give as much info on a word or its origin as marina does i like the fact that she uses a multitude of different dictionary to describe a word and give its origin like from the latin or greek or french and old english and oxford i just read in my local telephone book word that were refuse to put in dictionary so they put them together and called it the cajun dictionary i think it mostly was a joke but there are a lot of people that did not grow up in the city whom actually use this terminology it is funny when i find my self using a few of these words
marina is that you in this picture its said to be out of focus and does not look like you and i almost agree but not sure if so what pistol are you holding
Your sister was giving you GUFF. good word for orgin. sounds like excellent timing
Well. Wikipedia is second hand stuff. I would imagine it might be hards because people with copyrighted stuff in books such as dictionaries or encyclopedias prob have more accurate data with the sources know. that is it for me off the top of my head.
hey can u do the word hamburger. I was wondering why it’s called hamburger if most of the common burgers don’t have ham in them?
Homework:
Wikipedia is a great source for quick ‘n dirty information, and is a good start for other research because often the articles are footnoted with other sources. It’s not something to rely upon in any scholarly sense, and should be cross-checked with other sources as much as possible.
Marina:
I have found Wikipedia to be very unreliable information source in my researches.
It is not a good reference resouce.
Marina
You need to spill the beans on your sister. We’e meet Kobe - very kool. We need to meet “sister” so people like me don’t think that it’s really you being edited with that fancy Final Cut Pro that you use! I use the cheaper “Toast” but I’m looking at FCP as well.
Spill the beans on your sister Marina! She’s got to be as hot as you or is you. grammer?
Spill the beans! Spill the beans!
Hahaha - “Gullible’s Travels” indeed!!!
I would like to know where the phrase “Dust Bunnies” came from.
I have a word request.
Why do people call Gifts, Presents?
Perhaps it’s because they are presenting a gift? I have no idea. That’s a good on for HfW.
diddle as in diddling and the phrase monkey business
I’m getting those funny symbols sometimes while I am refreshing (bye bye broadband limit)
lol
I think she just sits there,laughing and thinking abouth all the people F5ing right now 
I didnt konw you could refresh by f5.. Im doing it a different way…
Cause it’s real hard to find a girl with this beauty to intelligence ratio
true but……… 
But………sorry.
Marina is just an illusion. She is everything to everyone differently the same. My Marina is different then yours. This could be a good exercise . Each of us describe their idea of Marina.
Then have Her judge and pick to closest fit….??
There are smart and fun [ real ] people too.
My Son talks to a hundred or so Girls on MySpace from all over the world.
James
Why aren’t you out chasing young and wild British Girls?
Flesh and blood beats a PC monitor hands down.
Cause it’s real hard to find a girl with this beauty to intelligence ratio
Marina has signed on yt recently perhaps vid is uploading
Hey # 2
There is a fine line between fan and stalker
total kidding James your own videos look good on boobtube too.
have you met lisanova yet? She likes to help out nOObs too.
Stalker??? I am refreshing so much to try and get number 1. I have seen lisa nova before but.. hmm
I’ve quoted The Buddha in a reply to Buzzword below.
Here is another quotation of his, which is relevant to Marina’s homework question about Wikipedia:-
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
- Gautama Siddharta, 563-483 B.C.
am i supposed to believe that?…
The answer to that is the last sentence in the quote.
Bob
What do you think of Gnosticism as a religion or a psychology?
Philosophy… did you mean?
Never heard of it!
Guess that makes me an agnostic.
You mean the early Christians who claimed to have superior knowledge of spiritual matters, and explained the world as created by powers or agencies arising as emanations from the Godhead? It’s a term used to describe the diverse, syncretistic religious movement consisting of various belief systems generally united in the teaching that humans are divine souls trapped in a material world created by an imperfect spirit, the demiurge, who is frequently identified with the Abrahamic God. The demiurge may be depicted as an embodiment of evil, or in other instances as merely imperfect and as benevolent as its inadequacy permits. This demiurge exists alongside another remote and unknowable supreme being that embodies good. In order to free oneself from the inferior material world, one needs gnosis, or esoteric spiritual knowledge available to all through direct experience or knowledge (gnosis) of God. Jesus of Nazareth is identified by some Gnostic sects as an embodiment of the supreme being who became incarnate to bring gnosis to the Earth. In others he was thought to be a gnosis teacher, and yet others, nothing more than a man.
It’s as good as any other religion, I suppose.
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver’s Travels - (from the Home Page) should be the correct spelling.
This has been mentioned allready, read Marina’s post bellow .
Gullible’s Travels, Etc.
Ring W. Lardner
http://www.eldritchpress.org/rl/gullible.htm
versus
# Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/17157
Any better comparison?
Newbies….
Marina does not make mistakes…… very often.
She is referring to a different book written in 1917.
check it out on the net. There is such a story ” Gullible’s Travels,” She’s not just being silly and cute-r.
Did you know that “gullible” is the only English word that can’t be found in any English dictionary?
did you know i heard that before?
and i came so close to believing you…
not.
You caught capman911 with this and Bob caught me with it a couple of months ago. That is a good one. I tell others about it now and I’ve caught one so far.
I got a word for you.
“Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis”
Pronounced: Pneumono-Ultra-Microscropic-Silico-Volcano-Con-Eye -Osis
It is said that this word is coined to be the longest word.
I just wonder, what it stems from and if It has anything to do with Pneumonia
W000000000t only 200 more subs till 100k!!!!!!!!
Wikipedia is in most cases interesting for a general starting point. The type of information I look up and the articles I have read/written/edited has a high quality. But the truth cannot be decided by voting. I’ve always been using OED and in most cases looking up encyclopedia britannica. Wikipedia is so easy to find and easy to edit. But on some topics eg. radar better articles exists.
Your appearance on the (Bill) O’Reilly Factor Show was great.
Marina you are the best.
Numbskull I would like to learn about it
Vid is #22.. Don’t event think about it wt5
#15
Hi Marina, Can you tell me the origin of the word Pornography ? It is usually just called porn or porno as everyone knows. And most people have looked at some and everyone knows what it is when they see it. But what is the origin or the word ” pornography ” itself ? Thank you, Ghost Legionary
…And since you raised the subject of pissing… How did the phrase ‘pissed off’ come into use. I mean, has anyone long ago really said, “I’m so mad I could piss, right now”! Or “You made me so mad I want to piss on you”! I really didn’t start to hear the phrase until I got in high school (1980 to 1984). And furthermore, doesn’t anyone remember the joking twist on the old ‘Rolaids’ commercial, “How do you spell relief? P-I-S-S”
When you finally do do that you have a feeling of great relief, not anger. And even furthermore, thanks to Dr. Kegel, men and women can use the act of pissing to strengthen the pubococogeal muscles to enhance and prolong sex (I love it when a woman is strong there 
). So, Marina please investigate how “… (don’t) piss me off” came into great use. I mean I could check it out on Wikipedia.com, but you’re so much more beautiful than a jigsaw globe with some pieces missing 
Peace, baby!
couldn’t you leave out your piss fantasies …..
innit
spill,
spill the beans
spill your guts
spilled milk
take a spill [ crash ]
clean up the spill
spill your heart
spill blood
can you please do the origin of Mad Libs? its that game where you have to fill in nouns and verbs, stuff like that!! iv always wondered what it meant . THANKS ALOT!!
-DontPokeMeSoHard
Ok I have a long “spill the missen beans’ but I will give you the short version. The tall ship “Endeavor” and the “Lady Washington” where in Westport Washington to do some Tall ship stuff. We (LW) where playing jokes with each other. They called us the Mini Brig, in reference of Austin Powers movies. They where sneaking aboard our ship to plant mini sails on the mast and we would put LW souvenirs on their ship. This went on for days. We wanted to have the last laugh as they would leave port. We hid bags full beans in their missen sails. Missen mast is the last mast on their type of boat. Not all tall ships have Missen masts. So this missen sail is located right over the bridge where all the driving is done. As they got underway we had one of our PR guys sail with them to the next port. He would key up the VHF radio so we could hear what was going on. As the ship got underway the captain called for them to set sails. They had all sails up except the missen sails. The captain called to let the missen sails free. Our PR guy keyed up the radio and we could hear all the beans raining down on the deck of the ship. The PR guy yelled Let free the Missen Beans! We heard this over the radio and almost died laughing so hard. Reports of beans covered the deck of the tall ship made their way to decks below. Beans everywhere! So thats my ‘Spill the Missen Beans’ story that sticks in my head the most.
Hahahahahaha! Prank up, I mean crank up that capstan!
I hope they were “navy” beans!
Great story!
Hey Marina, Did you add something new on your site about a week and a half ago, that causes the page to reposition twice. For example I post a comment and the page reloads so I can see that in fact my post is now live. I start to scroll up the page reading other comments and a few seconds later the site zaps me back down to my last comment. You know what Im talking about?
Does anyone else here experience this also?
Occasionally but it comes and goes. I wanted to thank you for making me think about Wikipedia and newspaper reporting. Although I have my share of typos, having to write quickly and on deadline, I take research and accuracy seriously. I found what you wrote about your father to be very interesting because I find that no matter how balanced I try to be, presenting the facts (although I’ll give relevant personal experience, if desired by editors, experience where I’ve got paperwork or other information to prove my points) readers often have their own, very strong opinions.
In a sense, that means the reporter can be the bearer of news but interpretation will be up to the reader. I’ll bet your father dealt with this. Luckily, when it came to Marina, the consensus was that Hot for Words is a very good thing
Yes the same thing here too.
Marina is likely out, maybe the beach or shopping.
So it’s your job to get to the bottom of this…..
Its time for video up load. So who is going to do it?
She can’t do that
People will be murdering each other on here!!!
Yes.
I know what you are talking about:
Think it’s a CONSPIRATION
Captjack
I gave it some thought and I believe it’s the adds loading slower then the rest of the page………..?
I thought it was just my computer messing up again.
Mine also does it on the utube channel also.
What translator are you using there capman911?
http://translate.google.com/translate_t
Hi Marina, Im sitting here buying new gear for mixing one of my favorite drinks at the moment, the Mojito, but were and how did the word COCKTAIL came into the English language, and is it put together by two words - and would they be COCK and TAIL, witch has no sense at all…..?!?
Comon sense proves this to be false……
i want to request an origin COCO BEAN & CHOCOLATE where did this stuff com from and why do so many people love it especially girls some say it as good as sex i want to know what can make a sweet brown substance better than sex
Cacao is native to Central America I believe. There’s an alkaloid in it which have a positive effect on pleasure centers in the brain, hence the “better than sex” attributes (plus, you don’t have to change the sheets afterward
). The Aztecs of central Mexico used cacao beans as a form of currency.
Since it’s well documented that most women love it, you can probably understand how it became popular as an exchange item, especially for guys who appreciated attention from the women.
Maybe they are just better cooks then Lovers?
no i do not beleive so
Oh god. Computer messed up, Reinstalled Vista, all seems to be working now
Completed so far
Checked emails
Installed Firefox
Set Marina as desktop background
Still to do:
Put all files on
Install everything else
I have strange priority orders…
not as strange as the need to share those priorities with the rest of us.
Except, aLx, of course!
What are you thinking
Checking your email before adding Marina to your desk top?
Here’s the source: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-12-14-natur e-wiki_x.htm
According to one article in Nature, scientific pages in Wikipedia have four factual errors or omissions per article- not surprising. However, in the online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica a team of professionals uncovered three factual errors per article! So, when it comes to science-related articles, it seems that Wikipedia isn’t too bad a source. Also, textbooks, in an effort to be politically correct, often omit historically relevant information, such as the use of sheep bladders as prophylactics or the fact that Benjamin Franklin was an irreverent ladies’ man with a penchant for sick jokes, sometimes even aimed at royalty. Why leave out the best stuff? For shame!
which is why cross checking facts and researching a variety of resources is necessary.
of course history texts have to omit a lot of details to effectively provide a succinct documentation of historical events. how important are sheep bladder prophylactics to understanding general historical events? unless your studying a specific subject in history such as human sexuality then its not really necessary to include.
by the way, benjamin franklin making sick jokes aimed at royalty shouldn’t be too surprising, i mean he did sign the declaration of independence.
I admit it’s not surprising that Benny Franklin was disrespectful to royalty, but sheep bladder prophylactics are a very important aspect of history in that they acted as a form of birth control and may have prevented the spread of disease. Plus, my history books always had a lot of boring facts in them that really didn’t matter. It was always clear to me that they omitted certain facts and ideas out of political correctness. Heaven forbid a few parents complain!
My muscles need time to recuperate, Marina! I don’t even want to check dictionary.com for this one! I want my trusty Hotforwords to investigate for me! Woodja please (would you please)????
I need some recuperation, Marina, could you help me in my plight?
recuperating,
Shawn Norris
Is your father called chuck?
Nope, but we probably are related somehow, although I don’t really know for sure.
later
hehe
Weapon is out of focous, but the Slide release seems to be there, S&W 59?
s&w 59 is a 9 mm parabellum with target site that was produced in 1970 and the u.s. navy used ut to make there mark 22 and added a silencer and called it a mark 22 hush puppy and used it in there seal program i believe they are using what is one of my favorites the berreta M9A1for side arm witch the us military adopted in 1985 after the long used 1911a1 .45 acp by colt but it is now kimber who makes the best 1911 model pistol and is used by the us olympic shooting team chambered in .22LR
The origanal comment that got My attention was if the pic was reversed. I went and dug out My “Janes” and “Small arms of the World”. It’s not a 59. Who really cares? the pix is out of focus enough so that might not be Marina. I guess She can confirm that better than anyone else. Have a good day everybody:)
ok i get it now the pic is out of focus you are right it does not look like marina it either is a bad pic or it is brittany spears funky ass so it is not your weapon what did you mean about you dug out your ”janes” i have never heard of that expression before by the way what is your favorite military side arm and infantry rifle and do you own any mil arms i have the berreta M9A1 & bushmaster ar-15 w/ 16” extra heavy bbl set for medium range sniping duty i love to shoot tiny objects at far distances also over & under 12 gd shot gun i load my own shells and shoot hundreds of clay at a time between bird season
Hello Marina, I have a phrase that I would like to know about. What does the phrase “break the ice” come from and how did it come to mean to talk with somebody? Please try and do a video of this phrase. Thank you so much.
-You’re best subscriber
Mitch
Homework: sometimes it is, depending on the material. No, not everything on Wikipedia is reliable, so it depends on who wrote it, what they know, and what their background is to actually see if what they’re saying is actually verifiable.
Later, Marina,
Shawn
When someone says “Let’s blow this popsicle stand”
What does that mean?
I am wondering about the word, “nincompoop”. Sounds Russian.
I dont usually trust wikipedia unless I have another source to go on.
Hello,
I saw your “wop” video and this is why my word request is “padman”
take care, ENTE
a phrase request flim-flam the flimflam man
a word request, simple is best
I would like “the dirt” on the word dirt
all the way “back to dirt”.
Ajax is “stronger than dirt”
Bet we see more “dirty politics” and
politicians with “dirty hands” before
this election cycle is over. It’s not
a “dirty little secret” anymore.
Keepin’ my body clean and my thoughts…too!
not to mention some of the politicians are “older than dirt”
Amen to that Smokey
I have used wikipedia in the past (and still do sometimes). It’s not a bad site if you’re looking for small bits of trivia.
Information-wise, wikipedia could probably be described as “Some info about everything, but not all info about something”.
where does “tickled pink” come from?
my word is tickle*
my word is ticke
All i can trust is you, Marina! Love your lessons.
You wanted to edit videos with quiktime?I didn’t know that was possible, try sony vegas , takes a while to understand but you can do a lot more with it that you would with Windows movie maker.
Marina… I gues you removed James his comment because he was promoting something illegal…that’s ok, but now people think i’m an idiot talking randomly abouth video editing software… :S
I missed that one about James foxbow, can you fill me in on my utube site?
Marina uses Quicktime for all her videos. Apple uses QT for all their software video needs, for example Final Cut Pro uses QT. If you own a Window machine, QT is useless to you. If you want to use QT then buy a Mac.
You could also just install mac os x leopard on to a pc like I did
that saves you a lot of money 
But I don’t like mac ,it´s realy weird, I won’t start ranting tough cause apple groupies will jump me I think…
i don’t really get it. you’re talking about the qt player, right?
you can get qt for pc, too … so … if you want to use qt, get a mac or a pc. if you want all other video files to play, get a pc. hehe.
What great about Mac and Windows that it gives users a choice of OS they prefer or works best for them I prefer Mac over MS. Yet I told my sister to buy a Dell because of her needs at the time. I will not argue which OS I better. That’s just childish behavior.
Foxbow, If you don’t like OSX why did you install it? For your need you clearly need a Windows machine. Stay away from OSX.
aLx, No, Im talking about the QT drivers that power the apps in OSX. Im not talking about the player. This is really a mute point if your on a WinPC.
I installed mac cause so many people said it was great
I think it’s just fancy and……………..useless 
LOL , you got one of those weird curly bamboo plants now
Watch out how you talk about her plants. Errin chided us on the last lesson about commenting about Miss M’s plant. So I chided back that is was all in fun and games an we were just picking at Marina about her plants and candle she has from time to time. I am still going to pick about the plant.
I can’t keep that spot next to my bed that tidy:p it stacks up with books and magazines in no time lol
Nicely done Im a Fan now. Your funny and wise. so I thought I’d ask you this. Where does the phrase “Kick the bucket” come from? why do I hear it ever so often? I know what it means but whats the story behind the phrase?
Wy would you want quiktime…? VLC is way better.
Because I thought it was good at editing now I want wmm Back and it keeps saying xvidcore.dll Not found and if I press ok everything messes up… Its awful
lol. hahahahaha. quicktime. fucking apple crap. ;D
I don’t understand Quick time either. I have it down loaded but don’t use it.
I hate them all! They all suck. I can get VLC to work most of the time. I also have Mplayer which works much better for me than VLC. I just use them all until I find something that works then I move on. I have a Mac which uses QT on most of their software. If you use Windows you really don’t need QT because Microsoft has their competing video format. Until the industry agrees on a standard of making videos we will be suck in this format war forever.
no, if you use windows you don’t need quicktime not because ms has their own format, but because there are hundreds of players out there that will play every format, including that totally superfluous *.mov format of apple.
get a pc.;)
I still need to find a format that vlc can’t play…
heikki,heikki,HEIKKI KOVALAINEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO wins without FINS!!!!!!!!!
srry just had to say that
Please stop taking the Mika!
Perkele!
You Fins, psht, we Swede’s are way better ~_^
With Somewhat friendly Wishes, Ath.
Wikipedia will do in a pinch.
“Spill the beans” sounds much like “loose lips sink ships” without the military inferrance I spose.
Hot damn!! You in sexy garb with a gun!! I might have the next poll question for Your website-”Would You like to see Marina teamed with Angelina in the next Tomb Raider movie?” I *KNOW*,without doubt,I would!
Since when has Marina had brown eyes?
Dunno Bob.Maybe colored contacts would do the trick?!
I remember this sweet brown eyed blonde doing naked cartwheels across the livingroom floor,quite the sight wether looking in Her eyes or not,,yummy!
Umm,since when would Marina *need* brown eyes to team with AJ and kill everything in sight?
The only question in My mind is “Could/would AJ like the competition of co-starring with Marina”?!?!
If you look in some of here earlier videos some of the shots look like she has brown eyes. I don’t think the lady in the still shot is Marina. Her checks are a lot more fuller where Marina’s are concaved.
Bingo! Capman said it!
“I don’t think the lady in the still shot is Marina. ”
Looks more like Britany Spears…
sense when her sister sits in for her
Word Raider : The Adventures Of HotForWords
Now Yer talkin! I like the way You think.
My point was that I’m not convinced that is Marina holding the gun in the video.
The girl has brown eyes and the face proportions don’t seem quite right, though it’s difficult to tell due to the angle of the shot.
Maybe she just reversed the image again. Can any gun experts tell if it’s been reversed?
Oh,ooops. You may well be correct now that I pause it and look longer. Do Ya spose the lookalike is Marinas famed “twin” only not identical?
I think most semi-auto pistols have the spent shell ejection port on the right side wich would mean the pic is unaltered,that is,if I understand correctly and if it is a real gun in the still. I have only owned 1 semi-auto pistol and am far from expert on all guns.
All information is true untill proven false…….
I have some very desirable ocean-front property in Nevada for sale.
Send the money NOW before it is all snapped up.
You may joke Bob, but if the big earthquake hits you’ll have some expensive land next to the ocean.