Ukulele – The Next Big Thing :-)
Ukulele… the next big thing! Sell everything and invest in ukulele stock 
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Here is the famous Ukulele Joe and the Uke Tones track.
You can download it here.
Also, for some amazing ukulele playing, check these guys out!
Also, are friends electric?
Greatest Potential on 
Capman911 on 
star magic on 
..a playlist
Ukeleles: good, bad, or ugly?
Very Clever! Great Scripting and use of effects. You are great!
I see your farm family grows flowers…pretty choice master of uke (wizard of strings) …How much was the stock back then? ain’t this HOT Roy must be an uncle of HOTFORWORDS…from the homeys of Etymologia*****Republic of LEXICON*****
{[silk]}flowers 
Marina,
I see you are a ukulele fan, too. Here are a couple links to some nice George Harrison tributes. It was said by his son, Dhani, that George would carry 2 ukuleles so that others could play along.
George Harrison’s While My Guitar Gently Weeps, performed by Jake Shimabukuro on ukulele.
Introduced by Dhani Harrison, George’s friend Joe Brown played a memorial tune on a ukulele, See You in My Dreams, as the final act in A Concert for George.
Also, nice babushka! I don’t mean to call you an old lady, but the traditional apparel is dated, but appreciated.
Piggy
P.S. I loved your family pictures. I thought you might enjoy the site I use for my off and on genealogy hobby. You can add pictures, create a family tree, post recipes, family stories and much more at http://www.myfamily.com
I was going to mail her my answer BUT the post office charged too much to mail the charcoal drawings on that big slate of rock that I used to write on! We should also be thankful that granny did not use footage of Tiny Tim singing “Tip Toe Through the Tulips” while playing the ukulele! THE HORROR!!!!!
thanks grandma!
i lost al my money on the ukelestock, i’m broke, and i’m living in a house with 200 useles ukeleles
did you know, that Jimi Hendrix was famous in de ukelecene?
They used to call him Ukelele Jim
sir Paul excellent random lesson
Марина, instrument like the ukulele:
балалайка
Dear teacher,
I really love that kind of videos, when you let your inventive wit draw a funny storyline.
the more glimpses of nonsense you add, the better it tastes for me !
thanks for those minutes of pure joy…
Thanks also for trusting us enough to post your family’s pictures,
( hope they don’t mind for the oldest ones, as they probably are
in the skies now..) anyway I had a warm thought of gratitude
towards them, for bringing us such an extraordinaire teacher as you !
Your faithfull student
The next big thing is the ukulele. The last big thing belonged to Fascinus.
I would like to tiptoe through the tulips, through the two lips….
Mandolin is that thing that slices when preparing food.
Another word for ukulele? hmm….A Little Lyre?
Hi Marina, excelent production!
please tell me who are in that old pictures, is there your real grandma??
all the best for you
Hehttp://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=IYnjASLYKdA&feature=related
re is one Song from your granny’s time++
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=WlKsmgafHwE&feature=related
Thanks for the tip-off.
Another great video, Marina! Thanks for the timely information, I always learn from your lessons.
Guitar, sitar, sarod, lute, banjo, balalaika, koto, viola, mandolin, and ukelele all function using the principle of gut strings or wires stretched tightly across a box (or drum head) with a fingerboard or fretboard on the neck to adjust string length and therefore change pitch. Many of those have different names depending on their size and scale (bass viol, bass guitar, guitarron, piccolo bass, violin, cello, mandocello, tenor guitar, etc.) but you get the idea. I’m pretty sure there are many I missed, but those are the main ones I can think of offhand.
My ukelele is an old soprano one made of rosewood. I know it was a cheap one in its day because the fretboard dots are stencil-painted on and the brand name (Y’keke) was applied to the peghead using a simple wet-transfer decal instead of inlay. Even so, being of solid rosewood construction with brass frets makes it sound much better than those cheap plywood and veneer imitation instruments on the market today. The luthier said he thought it was probably from the late 1940s or early 50s.
I found it 15 or 20 years ago in a box of broken toys, old books and worn-out baby clothes that were left over from a garage sale, sitting in the blazing noonday sun on a sidewalk and marked “FREE.” It needed a new bridge and a set of strings for which I paid a total of sixteen dollars at the local luthier shop. The Mel Bay ukelele chord book cost twice that! It was worth every penny though. I like it for canoe and backpack trips because it’s tiny and lightweight and it’s a great accompaniment for off-key firelight serenades.
OKAY Marina, the deal is if you go “Rob Townsend/THE WHO” on a ukelele you get the weekly pay-check!!!!!
Check out ukes on ebay. The old good ones, like a Gibson, sell for thousands of dollars. People make ukuleles, either the cheapies made of similated wood, or the hi-end models made with exotic hard woods in Hawaii and China and Eastern Europe. they commonly come in four sizes: Soprano (the common uke), tenor, bass, and brontisaurus.
Did she say Russer?
New definition for the word “imagination” – seeing Marina topless way back when in the pic and projecting to now. lol
This is the answer to all those teen weenies who beg and moan for marina to do a topless video, at last! There must be at least several thousand requests for it in all the replies. Now we can just send ‘em here!
There are two “topless” photos: 4:28 and 4:38. Woo-hoo!
Which came first the violin or the ukulele?
what about the word ‘word’? were did it come from?
request for the word VACATE and VACATION, unless they are some how in relation
NEW VIDEO IS UPPPPPP
Preposition puzzle: why is it “attorney-at-law,” rather than “attorney of the law”?
Cool video marina
The costume fitted the video very well. Good to see ukulele get a mention as well, it’s the next best thing to the banjo.
I finally got to see you in one of the Fuel TV commercials on cable, ironically I didn’t see the ad on Fuel TV
You looked cool and hot 
Keep rockin’
Hi Marina,
Would you do the word HUSKY?
Thanks a lot!
hey marina you should do a video on the word FART
i know its gross but it would be a intersesting word to hear the origin of
Watching many of your videos and learning the origins of so many words, I’ve come to wonder where the word cleavage came from. I believe a cleave can also come crom cleaver, as a weapon.
Dictionary.com defines it as cleaved or clove, cleft or cleaved or clo·ven, cleav·ing.
–verb (used with object) 1. to split or divide by or as if by a cutting blow, esp. along a natural line of division, as the grain of wood.
2. to make by or as if by cutting: to cleave a path through the wilderness.
3. to penetrate or pass through (air, water, etc.): The bow of the boat cleaved the water cleanly.
4. to cut off; sever: to cleave a branch from a tree.
–verb (used without object) 5. to part or split, esp. along a natural line of division.
6. to penetrate or advance by or as if by cutting (usually fol. by through).
and then age… certainly wouldn’t be implying to a numerical representation of a person’s physical maturity… so how did the two come together to form a word describing as does cleavage?
words request ; “kindred” as in “fornicate under consent of kindred”
Hello myteacher,
I want your gard more b/c i think u so beautiful and also intelligent .
i will try to learn with u again and again ….and again
Maybe i will intelligent like u
Hello Marina,
I forgot to mention that I used your thumbnail for your “Fascinate” show on a channel I use at my Mevio page. If you don’t want me to use it just let me know and I’ll remove it.
I did a search for your show there and the Maxim show is posted but none of you HotForWords shows are there.
Is that because of a YouTube exclusive rights sort of thing?
Wow….10 stars rating in a 5 stars world!!
Now, since we are now on the letter “U” I think it a good time to tell us the origin of “Up the creek” or “Up the creek without a paddle”. I’ve heard this expression all my life and have always wondered where it came from. There is also a close expression called “Up shit creek” with out the paddle too.
Hello Marina,
Psst…your talent is showing.
Hi Warren Whhhaaaasssuuuppp. Her talent always shows. You are correct on that statement.
Hey Mike, Yes, she is getting better and better. I sent a comment to you on YT.
Hello this is felicity from a country on which atomic bombs were dropped in the early August of 63 years ago. How do you guys define the word “peace”?
Peace is won when your enemy is
vanquished to a point where he is
unable to make war anymore and
must sue you for peace to survive.
Emperor Hirohito was willing to
sacrifice all the lives of his own
people rather than discuss peace
diplomatically with America and
end the war!
When it was made clear that
the bomb could be used to kill
all Japanese, if America intended,
Hirohito finally admitted defeat
and surrendered unconditionally,
PEACE!
How do you?
Marina, please forgive me if I get on my soapbox for a minute here.
Felicity, and all others who take this position, you must be truly ignorant of the facts of history.
“Peace”, for those of you who don’t know, is defined as a cessation of hostilities.
The United States was at peace until our country was attacked on a quiet Sunday morning without warning, without provocation. Our troops were bombed by cowards who gave no notice of their intentions to declare war on our nation.
During the war the Japanese troops committed unspeakable atrocities on women and children who were non-combatants. Women were raped, babies thrown in the air and used for bayonet practice. Their treatment of prisoners of war was against the Geneva convention of 1929 which Japan signed.
Our experiences on the islands we took while fighting towards the Japan homeland showed us that the Japanese would rather die than surrender since they regarded all non-Japanese as sub-humans and saw themselves as a superior race, as did their allies, the Nazis. We dropped the atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima to force the Japanese to surrender rather than have to go in and kill every man woman and child in their country, which the Japanese had indicated they were willing to do. The atomic bombs forced the Japanese to stop making war and surrender, thus ending the war in the Pacific theater. The Japanese killed hundreds of thousands more innocent people than those two bombs did, so in a case of cosmic karma, they got what they deserved. The Japanese were forced to abandon their conquest of Korea, China, Burma, Indonesia, Taiwan, Manchuria, the Philippines, et al. The Japanese were forced to relinquish the military dictatorships of the countries they had conquered and remove all their troops from them. The United States did not establish military dictatorships in any of the countries she occupied on the way to Japan as Japan had done when she conquered countries. We did not rape and pillage Japan the way Japan did with Korea, China, Manchuria and the Philippines. We helped Japan rebuild her country and her economy and allowed them to have an autonomous government. Japan never did that with any of the countries she took over. For example, when Japan took over Korea they made it illegal to speak, read or write the Korean language under penalty of death. They kidnapped thousands of young women to use as prostitutes for Japanese troops. Were the bombings of HIroshima and Nagasaki horrible? Yes. But no more so than the rest of the war. If the Japanese had not started the war perhaps it could have been avoided. They paid the ultimate price for their actions. Forcing Japan to surrender saved millions of lives on both sides, but you seem to think that ’s a bad thing. But then as I said at the beginning, you are truly ignorant.
Felicity, now let me ask you a question:
How do YOU justify the atrocities that Japan committed during the war?
dude.
he just asked about the word. he did not accuse you of anything.
besides, there are not only americans on this site. maybe he wanted a general opinion from people regardless of where they live.
taking his question automatically as a provocation to americans is pretty self-centered and, well, ignorant.
in dubio pro reo.
aLx, he (could be a she, or is that just you being sexist? After all, “Felicity” is generally a female name, at least in the West.) said they are from “…a country on which atomic bombs were dropped …” “A country”??? If they weren’t trying to put a guilt trip Americans (since the US was the country which used atomic weapons) , why not simply say “I’m from Japan”?
Ohhhh! Bad Americans! You used atomic bombs in time of war!
The fact that they tied the bombs to the definition of the word “peace” is not accidental and indicates the writer probably has an agenda which is not related to the topic of this particular thread.
And unless you’re a surfer, calling people “dude” went out with the Bill and Ted movies.
Felicity I define peace as a time when all things are pleasant and happy and there are no wars. Where everyone gets along together and there is no hostilities among people of different races or countries or even with in your own country like civil wars or unrest. Where you feel that everyone is your friend.
Mike
request- why do we use the word ‘mother’ to refer to something being the biggest or best?
eg. ‘the mother of all horror films’
I have been arguing the oringin of the “F” word with co-workers. You seem the best person to ask. They have said it is an ancronym meaning “For Unknown Carnal Knowledge” I have understood it comming from ancient times meaning “Fornication Under Consent of the King”. Can you help? Thanks for your time and your lessons. I too am a word person.
Sincerely
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=26UA578yQ5g
she did that months ago on the Sirius radio.
Another fabulous lesson Marina!!
I feel like I’m learning so much from you!
I have another question for you, and I hope you can help out. In the English language, why do we capitalize the word “I”???
Request: make out
you are great teacher, bye
Request – “Bob’s Your Uncle”
Hi, Marina. For years I’ve heard Brits use the phrase “Bob’s your uncle” as some variation of “all set” or “everything’s ok”, or something similar. I’ve never been able to find a definitive meaning and origin for this, so I’d be grateful if you could Investigate. Thanks, my wonderful teacher!
That was a fun one. The thing that most resembles a ukulele is another ukulele! har har. well if have to guess something else and look silly i will say.. a mandolin, or, that instrument Spencer Tracy played in the Academy Award Winning movie Captains Courageous. Whatever that was it was from Portugal as well and is likely as rarely played. Do you know that instrument Marina?
Great video.
Love the “black and white” special affects and the family photos.
Now, was Marina in those photos and how many times?
Making a photograph look old is called a sepia affect, what’s the equivalent terminology for movies?
Teacher –
When I hit this video, I get “Sorry, this video is no longer available, but it still plays (behind a darkened background)… What’s up with that??
Also Marina, I am probably going to start winding you up now, keep pointing out errors, ie tonque,etc etc etc but your front page says
93,320,317 Total Video Views Total Video Views on YouTube
sorry please don’t hate me!!
Marina’s elves have fixed this.
Marina you did make me laugh
Yea she totally worked out all the details of this lesson.
Amazing Marina.
Amazing Ukulele.
P.S. Ukulele is pronounced “You cool Lady”.
B-Nice cover, for my money that’s better than Ukulele Joe & the Uke Tones’ version.
I heard a way to teach someone how to Yodel ( it came to mind as I read your comment)-
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Little old lady.
Little old lady who?
Hi Marina
Latly i have heard the word ‘Gay’ alot in the wrong sentences used for offending people! Could you explain what the propper meaning is on an upcoming Youtube video?
People are bound to listen to you. -Jamie
HI sweetheart
Im really interestested in knowing where the word social path came from and why it is difficult for a empathic society like yours in russia to combo like: social paths versus a cunning linguist like your self . funny huh:P anyway if this is wierd for you to illustrate or find offensive I only doubt that because i hear russian women are very satirical…sarcastic and funny..then maybe the word empathic and where did that come from….best wishes and pryers to you and your family sincerly
bobguerra3rd@yahoo.com
lol that’s so dirty!
“if you were going to give anyone cunning linquist I suppose you’d give a cunnilingus to Hot For Words!”
Cunnilingus. Oral sexifying of the famale bird. omg the monopoly board is taking over my brain!!!
hay i have a puzzling phrase and that would be where does “flipping the bird” originate?
I’ll back you up on that one. I asked for that about two vids ago. I also asked her about finger language from other countries and how they evolved. I hope you get your request.
Mike
I have a slightly naughty word for you… The F word… You seem to use it alot when you mess up your words. It is used all the time when something goes wrong but the meaning clearly doesn’t match.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVthSNUBre4
Yes well, its just not the same without miss smarty pants…Marina! Does this guy speak the truth?
Of course I do. Marina is not likely to do it (the word) anytime soon, so I did!
Well speak for your self why don’t you.
Ok then
check out her sirius radio segments
I have a word requst it has puzzled me for years. The origin of the word stoner and also the phrase word to your mother??
Hi marina, i was wondering the word origin where did it come from?
Thanks for showing us the photos of your family and also the photos of you as a child.
No wonder you’re such a sincere and real person.
Someday, you too will be a nice, little round-faced baboooooooshka
…some day. Maybe you can marry Hiugh Hefner! He’ll be 100 soon!
Gracious and amazingly wonderful godess of entomology, please help me in my quest!
I am curious about the word “Gaelic” and whether there is a relationship between this word and “Gaul”. It seems that there should be, with Astrix and Obelix and the Celts in Bretagne and Britan and Irish men drinking in pubs.
By the way, Wikipedia did not help me in this matter. Perhaps you can call on forces more powerful!
Marina, i has a word and a phase for you too choose from:
the is, lollypop
the is, As right as rain
Your choice
Shawn L
Dear Marina,
I noticed in movies, that take place during the renaissance era, that they say things like “I’ll see you on the morrow”.
I know this means tomorrow, but when did we add the ‘TO’ to the word morrow?
hi marina how about a penny for your thoughts no OK see you tomorrow
If they give you a penny for your thoughts, but you have to throw your two cents in …. hey! Somebody’s pocketing a penny!
i have not played the ukulele before.
cute, internet love song, Mai Tai Rumble, Taimane, real Hawaiian
Marina, if you think the ukelele player was good, check these two out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddn4MGaS3N4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm8nbGzN3us
Sorry, love music! Couldn’t resist!
Wonderful stuff, I’m subbed to “candyrat”, so don’t resist lol
Going to California
Marina, sorry, but I forgot that some time ago a friend sent me this link to a phenomenal ukelele player: Definitely not Arthur Godfrey!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J30S6hkiyU
you cant get better then that that was good
touch
that was good BILLYB
I think that was a great idea in combining the old with the new and inserting some personal info sort of into this video. I can’t wait for the blue screen. The ventures will be even better. Keep up with the great imagination on making videos. Never a dull moment.
Funny you said blue screen. Nobody uses them any more. Its green screen now. Blue had many issues that green doesn’t. I used the old blue screen and Adobe Premier in college. Some of the crazy stuff we would do would just make you burst a gut watching. I wish I still had the footage we shot. The things they are doing today with green screens is just a mazing. Hell they are even able to do the same effects without green screens. I should play with screens again. I could use it for a teaching tool on still photos I have.
CaptainJack they still use blue.. it depends on the colors used in the scene.. if a person has blond hair they are supposed to use blue.
Oh your exactly right Marina. Blues seem to bring out flesh tones better because skin and hair is brighter. In your case it shouldn’t matter other than your eyes. Movie industry has made the very bright Green screens work for them probably to make lighting easier and they normally use darker colored props for special effects. Darkness hides a lot of problems. Bright subjects will be easier to key with a blue background. Dark subjects work better against green.
Also you can pull better chroma keys with Green than Blue. You can use any color you want. I think green screen would work fine for you. If you have both screen you can try them and see which works best for your needs. I’ve seen blonds use green screens with no problems that im aware of. In college my boss had problems with his blonde hair. But we where using 1990’s technology. I don’t see any problems today. Bed sheets are cheap so one can experiment with both.
Marina, check out the charango, a ukelele sized instrument from Peru that has a resonator that is made out of the shell of an armadillo! Could this be where Ovation guitars got the idea for a round back from? If you want to hear it find a CD of Paul Simon with the Peruvian group Machu Picchu, (named after the highest mountain in Peru) on the “Live Rhymin’” album.
(I was at that concert when it was recorded.)
Here is a modern version of El Condor Pasa:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpJkDZ9g9z4
Hello my dear teacher,
Great video today. Very creative and clever.
Also, I would like to know the origin of the word ‘Playboy’.
Its good to see my favorite twins – “Ama” and “Zing”!
85th !!!!
good one marina 5 *
very creatively done good job at the end of the video 4.14 cousin 4.18 you 4.23 you and your mother 4.43 mother 4.53 grand parents mother side 5,02 cousin you and your father 4,28 you and your brother YES 
Fire the wardrobe person!
An opportunity wasted!
A chance to see Marina in a grass skirt dancing the hula on Hot for Words… wasted!
Love
Larry
Oh Larry… you bring up a good point. However, for EVERY opportunity, there is a cost.
We had to “pay” the cost of a mere chance see Marina in a grass skirt, BUT we got a rare treat in exchange.
Today, we
NOT ONLY got to see Marina’s grand sense of silliness and skill as a etymology, we ALSO got to see Marina’s grandmother throughout the lifespan. Remember that this stroll down memory lane included her grandmother’s black lacy teddy phase, which apparently occurred twice in her lifetime
Are you guys seeing the little stars under the video?
I didn’t know what they were for, at first. You can rate
this video with one easy click and Marina will see it!
77 comments and 14 votes? If you leave the page
and come back, you can rate it again! Just sayin’
Food for thought. And you new guys need to make
better Gravatars. The computer generated ones
make it look like your only transients passing by.
Oh you found the little secret. The rating system does nothing. YouTube lets you import video but you have to go to YT to rate the video. I searched the net for some tool the would import YT rating system to no avail.
I agree with you about the Gravatars. If someone has been here for a spell should take some time to make themselfs a custom Gravatar. Yea its a bit corny but it helps puts a face on your name so we can identify you people easier.
I wasn’t sure…
Good thing I’ve been going to YT
hence, my 5 star x 2 posts!
ok – so the one here is just so
Marina feels good? I’m down
for that, too.
Thanks, Jack!
Well maybe. But I remember many people that only visited the site and not YT where asking her where they can rate the video. Im guessing she put the little WP plugin to satisfy those requests.
Yea its a bummer that all those clicks go to waste. If there was a YT plugin Im sure Miss M would have installed it.
Funny thing. Even though I know the WP rating plugin is fake I still find myself clicking on it. Am I just odd?
No odder than I am. I click on the stars on every video she makes. Whether they count or not. It makes me feel better for voting for her. You know I wish there was a rewarding system for how long you’ve been a member of the site. Like a different colored star or something next to your gravatar. But the more she adds the more it slows down the system and the more work she would have to do. Try to keep upgrading someones attendance. Just yakking here, probably to myself by now. I’ll settle for my red outline box. I am very happy with it.
Thank you Marina
That’s my little reward for being a member here.
CaptainJack, Please explain! I’ve watched on the HotForWords Channel, instead of YouTube. These HFW ratings don’t count???
More importantly, do the statistics for number of views improve Marina’s income on the HotForWords site? Or, should I be a viewer on YouTube to help Marina’s advertising income?
SeesixCM6
seesixcm6, What part did you not understand? Try re-reading and maybe that will answer your first question.
I can not answer your second question without violating some contract. Just keep doing what you have been doing. Your doing fine.
you got a contract?
CaptainJack would be killed per his “contract” if he divulged information!
(Just kidding)..
The ratings used to be a big thing at one point on YouTube as the layout of the menu items on the homepage was:
Most Viewed Videos
Top Rated Videos
Latest Videos… etc…
And the result was that people would first click on the most viewed to see what’s up.. then they would click on the Top Rated.. and if I had a video on the Top Rated page I would get about 500-1000 views an hour The result was that they most viewed pages had higher quality videos.
NOW… a few months back, someone at YouTube decided to make the menu items alphabetical.. and let me tell you.. I don’t think there is a website on the PLANET that has an alphabetized menu.. but the result is that Tp Rated doesn’t mean as much as most people don’t click on it any more as its all the way to the right.. and the quality of the videos on the most viewed page has come down as a result.
So rating my videos is not as important as it was.. but it still helps to a certain degree.
The ratings on the site don’t help at all.. in fact I might remove them right now as they slow down the site significantly.
aLx, No I don’t have a contract with Marina. Im just aware of her contracts with other entities. If I said what I want to say Marina would rip my head off and … well use your imagination.
Marina, My tests have shown its not all the plugins slowing things down but any plugin that is accessing data from other sites that slows things down. For example gravatar & coco. When I block service like that (using adblock plus) your site flies faster than a speeding bullet on my little 1.5 mbps connection. Am I incorrect in this observation?
It will tell you sometimes to only vote once. I have had it do it to me. I voted twice and it scolded me and beat my arse for clicking on it twice. I couldn’t take it back then if I wanted to. Oh well.
As far as I know the little stars have always been there on this site too 
Let me tell you about the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees and the moon up above, and a thing called love. Its late and I am sleeply and tired after cutting six acres of grass today. With a 20 inch push mower.Ha. Cha Cha your catching hell tonight sir. I feel like yakking alnight to someone. MI spelling is getting a little slurred so I let you go to bed now. Nite Nite yall.
Hi, Marina. Can you investigate why some people say “luke-warm” when they mean warm? Like : “How hot is your coffee? “Luke warm.”
Thanks
Use the Force, dolphinbite :mrgreen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hshybhpA2ZA
Thats a good word. It’s roots go back to 1200 hundreds. I don’t see any relationship that Luke is a name nor Warm means a temperature. But your coffee might be “lacking in zeal”. I think it would be proper if Marina looked into this term for you.
I live in Hawaii, and I always hear “ukulele” pronounced as “oo-koo-lay-lay.” I’ve always wondered where the word “Mandolin” came from.
So, Marina…if those are some of your baby pictures we were looking at, then I guess technically speaking, we’ve now seen you topless???
—REQUEST—
how are you so smart!!!!!! ur amazing!!!! is it okay if i request a word??? i would liketo know why the television is called “The Tube”
its something that ive always wondered, then when the website “youtube” came out i was like wtf am i tubing?!?!?!?! please hotforwords….why do they call it “The Tube”??
Oh this is an easy one for me. I learned how to repair TV in high school. Even that most TVs where solid state back then, we had to learn about how Vacuum Tubes worked. I was programing computer chips back then. It seem ridiculous to learn about Vacuum Tubes.
I remember one morning I was very sleepy (it was my first class of the day) and my finger touched the test probe and 250 volts of DC current went through my body. Oddly enough I was wide a wake the rest of the day.
Back to your question, sorry. Before LCD TV and Plasma TVs that we see today. TVs (TeleVision) had large glass tube (CRT or Cathode Ray Tube) to generate a picture. Its just a giant vacuum tube that shoots electron beams that make the phosphors glow. This creates a picture. Over time we used slang words to describe a TV. i.e. Boob Tube, electronic baby sitter, picture box, etc. I guess we just brought back the old term of Tube to a new form of watching videos.
For more informations watch this Tube, I mean TV… No internet video.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/tv.htm
I hope that explains it for you. Thanks for asking.
Here’s a little word game I found. Give it a try and tell me what you think.
See how many of the 100 most common words in the English language you can guess in 5 minutes…
That was not so easy!
I copped 39 and missed
some really easy ones…
How did you do, Captain?
I sucked. I wasn’t focused and only did like 22.
I was more interested in how many of us would be interesting in playing the little brain game. I found some cool word games we might get Marina to put on the site. 
I’m looking into fun word games that should not draw any local server side resources and crash HFW.
that was fun captainjack only 19 ouch
yeah
lol I got 57 right 
And and English isn’t even my first language 
Good job Foxbow. I should try it again. I haven’t really looked at the list yet so I think I would do much better next time. Im not a fast thinker. The clock is a bit intimidating to me. Im more like Albert E. and take my time to solve the worlds greatest problems.
Though over time Im seeing something in words that I have never seen before. Its hard to describe but the best example I can give is like the movie Matrix where they see all that code on the screen and they are able to see what people are doing in the Matrix. To this day I still do not know how to read. All I see is letters that represent pictures that I am able to assemble as a thought.
it’s easy, just pretend you’re writing a letter and you’ll get like 50 at least.
Are you serious abouth that can’t read all i see is letters thing? sounds realy confusing
I wasn’t referring to the game. I was just making an observation about they way I see words. Yes, Im not kidding, do not know how to read like everyone else does. When I see a word I see an image. Not the word. For example 2+3=5 and 3+2=5 are two very different answers in my head or to images. I have to learn what 2+3 is and also learn what 3+2 is. I could never memorize my multiplication tables because the numbers look so similar. I use phases to learn them. i.e. 2×6=12. I say Two sixes is twelve. If I see 6×2 then I quickly reverse the numbers to 2×6, so I can solve the problem. That way I don’t have to remember 6×2. I know my two’s and fives. I use some sort of formula to solve for other tables. weird hu? Thats why I can’t understand English. There are rules with exceptions to the rules depending on the arrangement of those words. So I have to apply rules to the images I see. Which photo goes first and which goes last. When I write I assemble letters to look like the photos of the words I want to type. Sound a bit complicated but it has its advantages. If you where to give me photos of each gear in a mechanical wrist watch I can assemble it in my head and over a phone call tell you how to assemble it without ever touching or watching you put the watch together and not even ever putting that watch together. It also allows me to wrap my mind around new concepts like “String Theory” as it where like the theory of gravity.
So, this string walks into a bar…OOPS wrong lesson.
Funny.
Homework:
Ukaleles:
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain ownage
Ukulele Orchestra of GB – The Good the Bad the Ugly
Ukulele Orchestra of GB – Teenage Kicks
Had some trouble here. Was uncertain below post made it through.
ROFL! ROFL! I can’t breathe.
ROFL! HELP! I need mouth to mouth resuscitation.
Thank you Marina.
Homework:
Ukaleles:
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain ownage
Ukulele Orchestra of GB – The Good the Bad the Ugly
Ukulele Orchestra of GB – Teenage Kicks
Mandolins:
Modern Mandolin Quartet plays Russian Rag
Brilliancy on the Mandolin
Grandfather’s Clock
Irish Reel on an old Gibson F4
Matt Witler playing Whiskey Before Breakfast
St. Anne’s Reel – Daley Mandolin
Midnight on the Water / Bonaparte’s Retreat
Michael Rubin and Scott Gates at Mandolin Symposium 2007
Vivaldi – Concerto for Two Mandolins in G RV532 – Mov. 2-3/3
Aqua Rhythm#2 for Mandolin Quartet-Hiro Fujikake
Dean Martin – The Man Who Plays The Mandolino
Se Avessi un Mandolino – Carlo Buti
Perry Como ~ Mandolins In The Moonlight (1958)
Glenn Miller’s Moonlight Serenade on Mandolin
Campanula” Russian romance – String Quartet SKAZ
Nirvana In Russian style. Balalaika “SKAZ”
Balalaika. String QUARTET “SKAZ” Isn’t this really so Hungarian!
Lara’s Theme from Dr. Zhivago – balalaika – Alex Siniavski
Five Folk Dances – The Boys (Die Knaben) for Mandolin
russian_girls
Ukrainian bandura instruments and chorus
The mandolins rule!
Your Grandma’s Ukelele was a Mandolin.
extra credit:
Anatole, true maestro of the balalaika!
2 dudes, an accordion, a balalaika and a chick
Five Folk Dances – The Boys (Die Knaben) for Mandolin
russian_girls
Sydney Balalaika Orchestra
Stormy six- Stalingrdo/ La Fabbrica (very good italian song)
(You found some good ones!)
Jimmy Page – Battle of Evermore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5zUqpK65p0
Marty Stuart plays an excellent mandolin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJiHlV5O_1w&feature=related
Marty Stuart displayed a phenomenal performance, a virtuoso.
thanks buddy
or should I say, good job thxeleven38
Not related to this particular video, but something that may be of interest…
In 2005 and 2007, the OED (Oxford English Dictionary) launched “Wordhunt”, a national appeal asking members of the public to supply etymologies / first known usages of a variety of words their researchers had been unable to trace. It also launched a spin-off TV programme, called “Balderdash and Piffle”…
Surprisingly enough, Wikipedia’s entry on “Wordhunt” contains the full list across both series, and most words link to entries on Wikipedia or Wiktionary.
Another useful resource to add to your collection
(Oh, and as for the pronounciation of “mittfh” – it doesn’t have a standard pronounciation. It’s an acronym – Mad IT Techie From Hell [don't ask - it's a long story!])
that was soooo funny , professional and talent
*chuckles*
You’re funny Marina, love the vid, and you’re awesome.
Homewrok: Guitarr, Cello, Banjo, Harp, Violin, Lute, Mandolin…
And then the special Swedish one: Key-Harp… It is the Swedish name of it translated and to my knowledge it has never really been used in any other country.
Best Wishes ♪ ♫ Ath ♫ ♪
that was marvelous…and i managed to find great-great-grandpa Annudderguy’s homework from when he was in class…
thank you for sharing the personal photos, but don’t go topless too often…or use sunscreen…
annudder
I can tell that was you annuder. I know your hand writing anywhere
What did you do to get that to pop in that way.That was neat.
just a jpeg scan of great-great-grandpa’s homework uploaded to Photobucket…
but old stuff like that IS neat…
annudder
mike,
it’s just a plugin she uses on this site.
oh, by the way, she had something like that before, only not for pictures you link in a comment, but for screenshots she posted in articles. that was probably lightbox. both are really great scripts / plugins for presenting images without linking to another page or making a new window open up.
Nice touch with the Etch-a-Sketch
anuddermale,
I was thinking (the same as Capman911 ?)- How do you make the picture show up without leaving this site?
huh? you’re not leaving this site when you click on it …?
If you link to an image, it pops it up in that shutter-reloaded thing.. that aLx pointed out.. it’s a pluging I just added earlier this week. If you link to a page it will leave the site but an image will launch it in the viewer.
Oh now you tell me. All this time I’ve been right clicking links to open on a new page.
i figured it was site-related, as i hadn’t done anything out of the ordinary. i’m surprised that there isn’t a way to make links open in new tabs or windows rather than move you from the site. i’ve tried the html commands for that, but they don’t work here.
Dear Marina, I rated your video five stars!
For your homework, here are some American musical instruments similar to the ukelele: Guitar, double guitar, bass guitar, double bass, banjo, harp, lute, mandolin, (Stradivarius also built mandolins), the cigar box guitar is fascinating, the cello may be plucked, and the Zither. As a child, I learned to play a cheap ukelele from Sears, and I still have a folk guitar (all wood with six metal strings) and it sounds very piano-like, made in California by the Santa Rosa Folk Guitar Co. (Perhaps you’ll let me serenade you, someday.) From other places, there’s the balalaika (which has many sizes and types), the domra (also from Russia), the sitar, the tanbur, the guitarron (from Mexico, and many other stringed instruments from China and Japan.
Your video made me happy. It was nice to see your family photos and wonder who they are. It was also a treat to see your modern self, looking so beautiful, to hear your wonderful voice and even receive some information! I want our relationship to last a long time. As you become more and more successful in your business, you’ll produce more and better videos, and enjoy better profits. I want to see all your new videos. And after you accumulate so much, and it becomes time for you to retire happily, I hope you transfer your business to another excellent philologist, even though your replacement, she probably wouldn’t be as beautiful and intelligent as you are!
Your dear student, Seesixcm6
That was kind of kool – black and white. Casablanca is still one of my all time favorite movies. Even though the plane flying away looks as fake as anything you could film. sigh.
HotForWords does the Parthenon , I’ll consult the stone tablets…
HotForWords does Ancient Egypt, For your homework write in hieroglyphics…
HotForWords does BedRock, Fred wants to know the origin of Bam, Bam.
(Oh, she did that origin last week, right honey?)
wetsuit5, Yes, I’ve seen some of those in my history classes
Here are a couple others I found as I was looking back 
HotForWords entertains King Aurthur’s court: Muh Lady, Muh Lord, the origin of the word Joust comes from ye olde word…
HotForWords does the Middle Ages: For those of you who are bored as you stand guard at the castle wall, next week’s homework is to talk about the word “en guard.” Those of you pouring hot oil on the castle’s invaders will be excused with a note from your Officer.
HotForWords, as written by Shakespeare: Forsoothe, the time is neigh for a nubile notice of noble knowledge to be uncovered!! Hark, I see it even now, as the sun’s soothing rays of dawn come sliding across the yard.
BANG! You are making it hard not to tune-in! Here’s a flea who could really make the ukulele sing, Hawaiian legend IZ:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=PL-uL2M3xvM&feature=related
and if anyone wants/can stand 1 more this guy could really play!: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=k_YfyKahP-0&feature=related
Didn’t he do one about summo wrestlers call “These Are Our Champions” Akebono…
Nope–that was Bad Manners: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=F6fQnTyEniM
I first heard Iz on the radio, singing “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” and I didn’t know what he looked like, so I thought it was a beautiful version of the song. Later, when I did know how he looked, I still appreciated the beautiful song. Too bad he is no longer with us.
Seesixcm6
ah, mike, i see what you meant now about the links. that’s weird. if you put the url as it is in a comment, you can’t click on it in the e-mail you automatically get: http://www.google.com
but if you do it like this it works.
right?
just noticed that when chacha replied to one of my comments.
what the hell?
uh, no, it’s always been like that. never noticed. weird. oO
Thanks I thought I was experiencing microsoftshitaphobia again
Hello aLx,
No, I didn’t leave the site- I can see it through a gray-ish haze as I look at the picture. I thought everybody was getting more clever as the time passed.
I haven’t heard anyone else mention it except Capman911.
Marina just answered my question- Thank you both for your prompt replies.
OK, I see now. I followed the links that you posted.
Not too impressed.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=2-dmSr7ygKg I just love this video.
Hi Marina!! I was wondering where the term “Lime Light” came from? I think it’s a way of describing someone’s popularity, like a celebrity being in the tabloids/media a lot. So I was wondering what it actually meant and where it originated from.
Thanks! My husband and I and BIG fans!!
xoxo Tean
from http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=limelight
popular name for Drummond light, a brilliant light created by the incandescence of lime, adopted for lighthouses and later for the Victorian stage, where it illuminated the principal actors, hence the figurative sense of “on stage, at the center of attention” (1877).
Like taking a vacation to Hawaii,
via time machine! 5 stars x 2
Your friend was pretty good, too!
Even with his hand up a cow’s
tookus, I didn’t see his lips move.
I see by the comments so far, a lot
of pretty guitar music is posted.
The pictures at the end require
an explanation (no more of my
guessing!).
Homework: a box guitar is the
closest match to a ukulele
here’s an update on an oldie
but a goodie, Canon by Pachelbel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GLoYg-4xrc&feature=related
How about —Sheephead the card game? http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=TizD8hHJCEg
Wow, that was AMAZING! Love the family photos, though I wish you’d put captions on them. Wish you could’ve used a real ukulele instead of the not very ukulele sounding keyboard.
I wonder how far back the joke about “cunning linguist” goes. Actually, I think there is more than one joke that references it. This is the one that I know.
A prostitute approaches a koala bear and invites him to have sex with her. All night long, the bear performs oral sex on her. Then, without warning, he jumps out of bed and heads for the door.
“Hey, wait a minute”, the whore shouts. “Are you going to pay me?”
“Pay you?”, the bear asks. “Why?”
“Since you’re such a cunning linguist, look it up” and hands him a dictionary and tells him to look up prostitute. There it reads, “One who performs sexual favors for money.”
The bear hands her back the dictionary and points to the definition of koala bear. “Brown, furry creature who eats bushes and leaves”.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lpGtqeMH4Rs
nice song and great album
Homework: guitar
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=T7qpfGVUd8c
Five stars is not enough for this performace more like 10
That was outstanding Marina!!!! You are really getting those creative juices working now.
I am not so sure I like where this seems to to heading.
Next thing you know she is going to be wearing a Burqa.
Really,
Marina I /We can look up words for my self.
The ONLY reason I come to this site is because You make it entertaining.
I would tune in to watch you read the phone book.
You could teach me Russian or ,,,,,,, OK?
At he risk of being completely shun , May I please ask you, keep to your original idea. ie HOTforwords??
You mean like this ?
raodrunmuch, in my opinion you have a rather limited sense of what is attractive or hot. it is unfortunate that your appreciation of women is so unsophisticated. yet i must admit your pursuit is comical and very entertaining. in an elmer fudd hunting the rabbit kind of way.
Buzzard
Un-sophomoric your right.
I like what I like that’s all.
I’ll be shun by true believers.
But if I don’t ask, She will not know..
I under no dilution it matters but hey??
Just one old straight guys opinion..
MMMMMmmmmmmmmmmm…. Marina’s creative juices…….
Be careful Jack
I don’t want Marina to think She just a pretty face.
Maybe a pretty face with a mind ……….Ok then,
But come on, Does she need to dress like a old
school mam to look smart??
I only speak for one straight old guys?
Am I the only one ?? Really??
Dude, Marina is on a higher plain of thinking. Every comment she makes is accomplishing two goals. Sometimes its three or four levels deep. Marina is a rocket scientist, or at least she should be.
My friend Jack it is you that is on a higher plain. Out there in the stratosphere.
Marina is a woman?
Roadrunmch – Marina is having more time to
experiment with post production. You can still
go back to recess, like I do!
Jack – berka girl, wow! – hotness…
dirka dirk ! jihad jihad !
Word request: Can you tell us the origin of the word model because you look like a model have you ever modeled marina?
Welcome to HFW seby12. The short answer is yes she is. Take some time and go through her lessons and you will see many pictures of her modeling. A good place to start is here.
Are the pictures at the end your family?
ukulele looks good.
Great pics at the end. Very nostalgic…
BTW great vid. loved how old time movie you made it.
Great pictures at the end. Were they old family photos?
Yeah granny looked good. I would go out with granny
With Uncle Jed and Jethro as chaperones? No way!
you mean this granny
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vRZzfGphzFE&feature=related
me too
generation is my nation and upon the time past and now—generation? nick names oh pretty dame
So how is it pronounced then?
a guitar maybe a banjo (hick guitar)
I wonder if they played “Ukulele Hero” back then???
He he BANJO
so… wat are those pictures at the end…
HotForWords,
Caught some errors in your video.
I think you need to add a few more “Great”’s for your grandmother to get her into the correct time period.
Or not, Humm your a vampiress, a generation for you might be quite a while.
At time 4:04 “Rusher”, What would Comrade Borris Badinoff say.
Don’t mind me, I’m having a slow day.
It took me 3 times reading your warm up jacket to figure out that “AMA” “ZING” wasn’t a Russian sorority.
And please introduce us to the people at the end of your video.
“Rusher”……. You caught that too
self explanitory/the word for (Forniction Under the Concent of the King) was it really a way of attempting to enbread subserviance into the Irish???
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=26UA578yQ5g&feature=related
Hey Tayjim here’s your granny
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=E8NkCCu3BKg&feature=related
James has a video covering that word.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVthSNUBre4
Where is video?
Did you get it to work yet? Loaded up fine for me.
I went to utube and watched it there. Utube was very slow so I figured that was the problem. By the time I got back here it was working fine. Thanks Smokey
George Formby eat your heart out.
why do we say eat your heart out?
Well, a ukelele is similar to a guitar. How about the lute?
Maybe the bouzouki? Or the gusli?
Or, mandolin?
Such tremdious imagination and talent.
Very enjoyable video.
great
Thought this one, “These Boots Are Made For Walking” is cool…uke on
You’re a zing?
Marina, I know the video has been up for about 3 secods but the quality is awful!! My videos look better than that ( dont think i am being rude)
huh. maybe like “death proof”? trying to do it tarantino style?
Here’s some Robert Rodriguez style
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I3tH6tUr8s&feature=related
Strumming
2 wtf
yo
faster james!
I think we can call this a tie foxbow
Don’t worry, James.
If foxbow keeps using his afterburners so much, he’s going to end up having a flame-out on finals.
Remember the tortoise and the hare.
No! Clearly Foxbow post made it faster than your post.
But don’t feel bad. Foxbow life consist of hitting F5 all day and night long. 
Nah :p I can’t even remember the last time I hit f5…he was the one hitting f5 all the time:P
You can’t be that lucky?
I wa shitting f5 for a while.. Thing was foxbow was talking to me on MSN!!
Shitting F5 sounds painful.
Do you mean it was coming out like machine gun bullets, James?