Ukulele… the next big thing! Sell everything and invest in ukulele stock 
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?
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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