Repair
How can repair mean to fix something when pair means two of something?
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Root-canal, oh you poor thing that hurts
. I have had a couple of them.
. Needles to say the dentist finished the job with an anaesthetic.
One time i had one, and the dentist placed an emergency crown/filling on top of it, The real crown one wouldn’t bee ready for another 3 weeks. After a couple of day’s it started to hurt. So i went back to the dentist, who without an anaesthetic removed the filling and then went in with a needle like file at first nothing happend, but then he pocked threw the bottom end of the emergency filling. And my head went trough the roof. In 2/100 off a second i had rotated my head 90 degrees and the dentist tried to hold on to the file. Strangely enough you don’t make a sound than
Thanks, an interesting lesson, I’ve wondered the same thing sometimes.
What have we repaired recently? The first thing that comes to mind is that recently my amp didn’t amplify my guitar so we looked inside the guitar and a wire had detatched from where it should be..We reattatched it and it’s working now.
I need to get a new monitor the upper right corner about the size of a golf ball all the pixels have died and the lower left corner in the shape of a quarter moon, the lower right corner in the shape of a white seagull and a spot about 7 inches along the bottom edge with some really strange shapes. Non repairable. Not a very old monitor’ was a nice 24 inch Acer widescreen. don’ clean them with windex, at least sprayed on directly to the surface.
currently repairing two broken ribs
Mountain Lions native of the americas
Interesting report on repair. Hope your tooth feels better
bill/`elliott
Hello Marina,
re ( + ) pair = fix, what about; re ( + ) peat = say/do it again but peat = vegetable matter
I learned that it’s better to take, whatever it is, to the professionals and pay up.
I just had my roof repaired. The recent severe weather in the Midwest didn’t like my old roof and removed it.
Начала слова KGB ????
Hello there.
I want you to please find the origin of the word >GingerGingerbread, Gingerman cookie, Ginger bread house, etc.< But this word is also a spice. Please find the origin of this word. I really need to know this word. Thanks so much for helping. Don’t make me ask you again….LOL
*Shorty*
Hello Marina,
Your show is really enjoyable.
I am interested in the word Right. You can turn right, be right wing, spell something right, draw a right angle, I have rights and I want it right away! Am I right?
Thanks
Brad
Right ON!
i was wondering… Boob is a funny word. where does it come from
Marina, I got my car repaired. If you think a tooth is painful, try the bill from an S class Benz. Still, didn’t hurt as bad as the Jag I used to have. Just trying to be humorous. I know root canals are no fun. Hope you’re feeling better/
Hi, hotforwords,
I always wanted to no why you use the word “french kiss” when you kiss with your tongue.
Maybe you can help me to solve this problem.
funuzi
hi,
i was just wondering what the origin of bamboo was.
Marina:
So as for the on-going inquisition, Re: your sister….I was wondering if the above video (Repair) contained a picture of you and your sister…OR…are those just some other random twin pics?!
Miss M. her’s a little interesting article about your Toblerone Candy bar.
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/13/hidden-bear-in-toble.html
Also.
http://fosta.typepad.com/sleepinginmyhead/2007/09/tobler-oh-yeah.html
hidden images…. .neat – http://snarfd.com/2007/11/28/the-bizarre-obscene-and-disturbing-hidden-images-in-leonardo-da-vincis-sacred-art/
These hidden images are cool: http://www.planetperplex.com/en/subliminal_message.html
I don’t get things repaired, I’m usually the one that has to repair things.
I hear you there!!!
If you and Marina need any help fixing something with the site that you don’t understand, I wouldn’t mind helping out.
btw, your running out of time: “Captain Jack WS is currently undergoing scheduled maintenance. Please try back in 15 days as of July 29th.”
Yea I know. I’ve been working on other projects and my site is taking longer than I had planned.
I just need to clone myself. Too many projects and so little time. 
I like the games idea, Captain sir. Carry on.
Thanks for you input. Buzzword had some great ideas too. So I’ll try to get something put up. Im getting close to starting a new USCG class this Monday so I’ll be a bit slow on this project until I get my students underway so to speak.
Inspiration for freedom to mean greed and that needs repairing.
Or how about remaing in need of### 
how did gay get its slang meaning
go up top in the menus and chek out her radio shows to find the answer
Agonist, antagonist, protagonist. In molecular cell biology there is a lot of talk about an “agonist” or “antagonist” of an activity. But many also talk of “inducers” and “repressors”. Is there any conceptual distinction between “agonist/antagonist” and “inducer/recpressor”?
And if “agonist” is opposite “antagonist”, why do we need a “protagonist”?
jojokerus , wouldn’t this be a question for a molecular cell biologist instead of a philologist?
A protagonist was originally the principal character in a story – the relevant prefix being proto- = first. However, much more recently it was misinterpreted as pro- = in favour of. So antagonist (anti = against) relies on a false etymology.
The biochemical meanings are different again.
Agonist = an ion / atom / molecule / drug that binds to a specific receptor molecule, and elicits some kind of effect.
Antagonist = similar to agonist, but doesn’t have any effect, so ‘blocks’ the receptor.
For a more comprehensive explanation, do as I did – search Wikipedia
Speaking of which, I wonder if Marina’s a Wikipedian (someone who edits / updates Wikipedia pages)…
Thanks for the input! I will look at Wikipedia with this in mind.
The usage of these words in mol.bio. seems to be interchangable (e.g. agonist = inducer and antagonist = repressor). Clearly, the intent is distinguish between things that either cause or prevent an action “downstream” of their contact with cellular compentents capable of the action.
If in fact the concepts connoted are fully equal I think it would have been better to have stuck to the terms “inducer” and “repressor” since I believe these are closer to common speach in English.
Next question: is “agony” related to “agonist” and “agonist” to “action”?
Could I respectfully request the word “INCREDIBLE” to be used in your next video. This student will be anxiously awaiting the teachers lesson for today. By the way, this student beleives the word INCREDIBLE describes the teacher…….. Have a wonderful day! HUGS!
What I got repaired lately was my cars’ gas line. Brainwashed.http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=8ehDDk9oCdU&feature=related
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=8ehDDk9oCdU&feature=related
Hey Marina… What A TREAT You Are!
Recently Repaired?… My Truck, My Computer, My House!!… DON’T ASK! 
I messaged you recently and told you that I only just discovered you. A serendipitous event INDEED!
Going through your older vids on YouTube… I commented on your LAME/COOL vid (the one in which you were outside… and bumping the table… and shaking the camera! 
)… and I observed that you were being too “fidgety” 
That’s my word request! LUV yer stuff… 
Oh!… and your videos are GREAT too! 
no repairs lately just recharge of my laptop. don’t use it so its back to shelf for it.
whre did porn come from
I’d like to know about the word “nincompoop”. Where did that word come from? Having submitted this question, I must ***repair*** to my kitchen and construct my patented oatmeal repast. (Raisins and finely chopped canned pears or peaches added to the milk in the pot, bring to a boil and stir in the rolled oats. A little bit of honey and topped with crumbs of toasted sourdough bread crust.)
May I offer a “repair” to an older lesson?
The “answer” to the “spitting image” game is not quite accurate.
To understand the actual source for that term, you have to understand the dialect of English spoken in the deep south of the United States, such as that spoken in certain parts of Charleston, South Carolina.
If you were to hear a very southern woman say “spirit and image” which would be shortened in everyday conversation to “spirit’n image,” the heavy southern accent sounds just like “spitten image” to a non-southerner. Of course, a northerner would not want to be thought to speak lazily or commonly, so they would add the “g” to what was mistaken as an abbreviation for “spitting”. Thus, they would say “spitting image”.
The fact is, this has nothing whatever to do with “spit”… but the term is derived from a dialectical misunderstanding. It is quite plainly, the southern dialect at work on the old expression “he’s the spirit and image of his father”. In other words, not only does he look like his father (image), he also has the mannerisms (spirit) of his father.
I hope you will not expel me for daring to “repair” the lesson.
Your diligent, and admiring student,
Nat Whilk
Thanks natwhilk
It turns out that “Spirit and Image” is a false etymology that came about years later when people were trying to interpret the phrase. It is true that people in the South were probably saying “Spirit and Image”.. but that is only because they thought that’s what the phrase was, since the word “spit” was no longer in popular use to refer to someone’s double… and I mean double as in what comes out of their mouth.. so someone’s “spit and image” would mean they looked the same and sounded the same. Spirit has a similar connotation to spit.
But the original phrase was “spit and image”.. as it was in use long before “spirit and image”.
Thanks for the feedback though.
You’re my hero, Marina!
I will study further… was not aware of the “your the spit” expression for “your the double(or twin)” … Thanks for writing back.
I guess what I wrote is still true with respect to the linguistic development of the word “spitting”… which relates only accidentally to the original because it emerges only later after the original term had been lost and confused.
I do wish you could hear someone say it in Charleston, SC — or in the deep south… it’s a beautiful thing… and “the spirit’n” sounds JUST like “the spitten”.
You’re a great teacher and role model!
I curtsy before you,
Nat
Here’s another wacky word pairing (not paring) I don’t get. In the old times, when you went to war against your enemy, you would flood their farms with saltwater or find some other way to get salt into their soil, thus rendering the farm land dead for years. Nowadays, though, when you meet someone really really great, she’s described to you as “salt of the earth.” Does that mean she’s poison? With friends like that, who needs salted earth? I don’t get. Can you please do your magic and investigate? I can’t find anything about the history of this phrase. Thanks, and wow what you’ve taught me!
P.S. Like my name? Know what it means?
I forgot to do my homework. The last time I had something repaired it was a tooth. I had broken two teeth (long story–don’t ask) and had to have their roots removed, so then I had these two holes in my jaw bone. The titanium implants are in now, and I will be getting real porcelain crowns in a few weeks. Well, I guess I haven’t been repaired yet. But I am prepared to be repaird.
salt was once very valuable. people were fighting over it.
So valuable enough to fight over means really really great person? That’s not how the phrase is used, as far as I can tell.
The source of the “salt of the earth” is from a teaching in the Bible’s New Testament. The expression derives from the church. See Matt. 5:13-14 and Matt. 28:18-20. In one instance Jesus teaches his disciples that they are not to remove themselves from the world, but to add savor to it by fulfilling the commission to “make disciples of all nations”. In the other teaching, like it, he is exhorting the disciples not to hide their “lamp under a bushel”… but, “bring the lamp out, and put it on a table so that all can see it, and by it”. That is a paraphrase from memory (likely imperfect). There is another teaching about a “light on a hill”, but that is not necessarily related. The point is, that a righteous person who is devout in faith need not sequester themselves from general society as many religious orders had done at the time (and still do today). So, rather, they were urged to be “salt and light”. However, the idea of being the “light of the world” commonly became a term reserved for Christ alone. Thus, in the church, people would say about a saint, or a truly devout person who was nonetheless respected and loved by those outside the church “he is the salt of the earth”. It had nothing to do with “earth” as in “soil”. It had to do with the “world” as in “people” and “society”.
I’m sorry to ruin the lesson… Ms Hot for Words is probably way more fun than her admiring student:
Nat (Natalia)
Thanks Billy Boy(?), I didn’t remember that part… I looked up “salt and light” on google… and the reference came up on some random religious site. But, the part about the teaching was a paraphrase from memory… and I was worried I might be mingling something there… although I’m sure of the facts stated e.g. that the notion of “salt of the earth” is nothing to do with soil, et cetera. Yours, Natalia
ha! natalia! good to see another female poster. there are too few of them on here. cool.
billy, i’ve used that site before to look up references, useful site. even the devil can quote scripture!
Thanks, Nat, but I have a hard time relying on “salt and light” as the means of getting to “salt of the earth” simply because “he is the salt” was used to disuss someone not hiding their light under a bushel? Am I supposed to understand that?
I still don’t get it.
Okay Meta-zestos-for-logos, I suppose you boys are not going to get this until I put up my own YouTube video, exposing my own (someone less impressive) cleavage while I explain.
But, I will try it once more, sans boobies:
The simplest way to get it is: “He is the salt of the earth” is like saying “He is a man of the world” and not like saying “He is a man of the soil”. That is the essential distinction. It should be plain now. And that you seem to know a little Greek, I suppose you understand this anyway, but, if you want, I’ll go on (flashing eyes to the corner of the screen):
Okay, your question began by pondering the militant tactic of flooding an enemy field (crops) with salt water — this tactic ruined the soil for farming for a time, causing a disruption in the enemy’s food supplies… and costing them a lot of money. Yes, ’salt-water’ is bad… and before the salt is leached from it, it was completely worthless (owing to its being so plentiful in the earth).
Another poster commented that “salt” was highly valued for most of human history and very costly. Of course this is true. However, I doubt many of you would drive across town to another grocer offering buy-one-get-one-free deals on salt today.
But, alas, it is not “salt” that is the confusing term in your original question. It is the word “earth” that is at the crux. And as everyone knows, sometimes “earth” means “the world” and sometimes it means “the soil”. Well, this I hope is very clear to anyone who speaks English. Therefore, it should also be clear that the expression “he is the salt of the earth” is not synonymous with “he is the salt of the soil” — that would be non-sense, and certainly not an honoring statement.
Rather, it derives from the biblical teaching of Christ to his disciples that they should be as salt is to food when they are in the company of non-religious society. They should add ’savor’ to that company, rather than making themselves a nuisance by behaving self-righteously and pompously, which would only be off-putting. It is a metaphor.
This was a provocative and daring teaching at the time, as many sects of Judaism were trying to out-do each other in piety by becoming more and more weird and separatist — always making a show of their piety and eschewing general society for a sort of separatist life. So, Jesus teaching was profound… “be a flavoring to the world… bring value to the world… be a preserving force… be not completely cut off from society… be the salt of the earth.” In other words, don’t be jerks like the Pharisees.
Like that teaching, he said “let your light shine among men” (”men” meaning ‘all society’ and not just male persons)… and meaning “don’t just reserve your spirituality for God alone, but be a benefit to the world and not just to yourselves (your own religious club)… the metaphor here is that to keep to your selves and be so elitist is like “putting your light under a bushel” — which is no good to anyone.
So, the church has often taught believers to be “salt and light” meaning something they were to do with respect to the society they live in… and this provides all the context you should need for understanding that it has nothing whatever to do with ’soil’… so….
Thank you my fellow-student… now I am ruffling my pleated skirt to show a little leg — though not as long and tan as the teacher’s– and trying to press my somewhat smaller breasts together enough to produce a little cleavage anyway… does that help at all?
Yours, Nat
PS Captain, you put your saltpeter away before we have an explosion here!
“you boys” … ? what the … ?
“you MEN!” is what I should have said… ooops… is that better? Sorry, my-b, no offense intended, Alex. Truly, Nat
“you men” … ? what the … ?
no, actually … i just didn’t feel like i should be included in some “you’re not going to get this until blablabla” comment.
Again, sorry Alex. I meant nothing by it but a little humor… please forgive… I can see now that it might have looked like I was putting men down… I love men… I’ll be more careful from now on!
I’ve always thought Marina was so successful in part because of her ability to keep the attention of her audience… which it seems to me is mostly, ahem, male. So, I was just playin’, that’s all.
PS Alex, I’m glad not to be the only women here… you’re right… shouldn’t have generalized so much.
that was excellent. do you study theology or are you a well versed christian? cause you stated your point rather well, the sarcasm wasn’t bad either. what the hell is a meta-zestos-for-logos, is that hebrew? as i furrow my brow in a scholarly manner and consider if your a threat to my academic ego. does a furrowed brow count as cleavage?
Haha, Buzz, I almost fell out of my chair reading about your impressive cleavage brow… you must have a very, very large brain to produce such cleavage!
I do not study theology… I am a Christian (Catholic) and for some reason I have an uncanny memory for things heard. I also love philology and my heroes besides Marina include C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien (who were good friends, and both philologists, as you probably know well with your bulging brain).
“Metahotforwords” (somewhere above or below) asked if Marina knew what his name meant… so, I was humoring him with the Greek. Meta is for “beyond”… and so I added the Greek for the rest of it as well: “zestos” for “hot” (where we get the term “Zesty”) and “logos” for “words”. All Greek… just a hobby of mine.
No threat here… just another philo (lover) of logos (words). Everyone should be a philologist in my view, don’t you agree?!! By the way, your name is fabulous. It should be on everyone’s lips.
have you read the screwtape letters? my wife likes c.s. lewis and j.r.r. tolkien as well. she to is catholic. we make an odd couple, i was working on my masters in anthropology when we got married. i visualize our relationship as that popular monkey contemplating a human skull stealing a glance at eve holding out an apple. yeah, i bit into it.
anyway, like aLx said, “good to see another female poster” you mentioned your interest in words, aLx is a good resource, he is studying linguistics in germany.
I appreciate your efforts, and I don’t need to see your cleavage nor your legs at all to be convinced by any good explanation or argument. You’re right, Natalia, and I probably would enjoy Marina’s philological exposition more than your biblical diatribe. Your argument for the only etymology (at least the one to which you keep returning) being solely biblical leaves me less convinced than your prior explanation. I have nothing against the bible, however I am convinced that language was used long before its existence and I was looking for a little something outside of a religious context. Sometimes it’s ok to say “we don’t know” and then that would lead me to wonder whether our trusty teacher would enlighten us. Having gone this long, though, and being so full of radioactive baggage like lights and soil and legs and pressed cleavage, well I would be surprised if our trusty teacher didn’t care to enlighten we dear students who wish she would do so.
meta, i wouldn’t presume to speak for nat. it is my understanding that many words and phrases in the english vernacular have their origins in popular texts. marina has cited the bible as a source on several occasions. the bible is indeed a popular text and influential in western history and culture. it is a historical document and has been a valuable resource for many scholars in various fields of study. it has been used extensively in history, anthropology, philology and many others.
much of its content can be attributed to a variety of oral traditions most significantly jewish, and thus represents word usage functioning at that time. so indeed you are correct, language was used long before its existence. however, your expectation of finding something outside of a religious context indicates a bias. if the bible offers the earliest documented use of a word or phrase then the bible is cited as the source. sometimes a word or phrase can be traced to a single individual, usually they are traced to a document that represents a common word or phrase already in popular use. the older the text the more valuable it may be, as it may offer the earliest documented usage of a phrase or word.
documents as old as the bible are rare, but luckily its popularity has preserved it. so it is a valuable source for knowledge and access to a ancient culture. my background is anthropology, my theory is evolution. i do not believe jesus was the son of god, nor performed miracles or rose from the dead.
however i am well aware of the wealth of information available in the bible. some very important archaeological discoveries have been facilitated by biblical content. middle eastern cultural studies as well rely on the bible for insight into life in those times. to deny its validity as a resource on the basis of its religious claims is just unscientific.
hope you enjoyed my diatribe.
Once, when I was twelve, we picked my girlfriends house to T.P. I decided, along with our extraordinarily advanced TPing methods (dressed in black, silent, really draping a place in toilet paper), to bring along a box of salt and write “I Love You M…” in the grass, then it would burn in and even after they cleaned-up my message would still be there. Romantic, no? When we finished I yelled those words and I’ll never forget her Dad’s car screaming down the street (with toilet paper streaming from the back of it) trying to catch us—he even got out and chased us on foot. Never found-out if the salt did what it was suppose to have done, maybe I’ve been a little disappointed with salt ever since. But I still love my notion of my message in burnt brown dried grass coming through on their perfect lawn…Deny, deny, deny, wink and deny again.
Well said, Buzzy! You’ve got my vote for class prez, anyway!
PS Ahem, Meta-biblical-phobe, you might look into your religious, ah, “issues”. Can you really sanitize history from religion just because it (seems) to offend you?
PPS I simply gave you a history of the phrase “salt of the earth”. If you wish to think of it as being derivative of the field-sabotaging in warfare described above, be my guest… perhaps you should consider applying Ockam’s razor…. Regardless, I enjoy our exchanges and thank you for your provocative questions… next time, I promise to let our esteemed teacher do the investigation though — I am also more than assured no one is here (even partly) to see anything sexy… so, I’ll pipe down on that too — you are so cerebral! Thank you might delightful classmates, Nat
Hey natwhilk, don’t pipe down… Me being somewhat of a one finger typist, try desparately to keep up to my brain in the communication department, but I do learn a lot from the folks that post here. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge with us & aLx may or may not agree. (on the us bit). You may or may not have understood me on the salt water thing… I have no Idea if someone flooded their fields with salt water, but the salt in the water would have been the agent that would render the soil sterile… enough a’ that.
True, I know Jesus was speaking to the disciples about the world & their responsibility to it, so please don’t temper your attitude with a lid.
I have offended folks with my posts here on the site before & been quite shocked at what can offend people… I posted a phobia link to someone that I didn’t know had a severe phobia about something & got their back, up about it. Whew.
“Religion|” the word itself scares me, unless you have context. I like James1: “26 Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. 27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” (What you said kinda’)
I grew up attending a small church, so I know (head knowledge) a lot of stuff. I’m 50 now & seems just starting to learn to apply a little of that knowledge, but must confess I am much less sure of success now than I was at 30yrs.
I don’t think I’m ‘worth my salt’ in making any comment here. I’m just an old ’salty’ dog. I might get salt in my wounds if I mention ’saltpeter’ was used on sailors back in the day. Saltpeter isn’t even salt. I hope I getting all ’salty’ on you doesn’t get you upset.
you man.. salpeter.. kno3 =potasium nitrate… that’s a salt..
oh it’s saltpeter in english..
Funny! I always tell people don’t believe a word I say until you researched my facts. Good Job Foxbow!
I know you know this but this is for the benefit for the students that might not know.
Potassium nitrate is the oxidizing component of black powder. Potassium nitrate can cause gastroenteritis (violent stomachache), high blood pressure, anemia, kidney disease, and general weakness and torpor. It also has an alarmingly depressive effect on the heart. Too strong a dose and not only would you not be able to get it up, chances are you wouldn’t be able to get up, period.
Sodium nitrate, also called salt peter, shares many applications with potassium nitrate. Both can be used to manufacture nitric acid, to propel model rockets, and to increase the shelf life of meats and other foods. Sodium nitrate is also used to manufacture glass and enamel. Like potassium nitrate, sodium nitrate may increase one’s likelihood of developing cancer, but it also occurs naturally in leafy green vegetables and may have some health benefits. Salt is a dietary mineral essential for animal life, composed primarily of sodium chloride. Chloride and sodium ions, the two major components of salt, are necessary for the survival of all known living creatures, including humans. Salt is involved in regulating the water content (fluid balance) of the body.
So when I say its not salt, what I meant its not ‘table salt’ as what most people refer to when they hear the term ‘Salt’.
Hi metahotforwords, as aLx said salt was very valuable… the properties of salt make it useful, no nessesary, for survival. It has many good uses & the planet (earth) would be baron without it’s essetial qualities, the poisoning of the earth (ground) you mention was just one of the methods of warfare, using a good thing (salt) in a way to protect one’s right to the land. Remember Sadam (madass spelled backwards) sabbatoging the oil wells. He wrecked the place with the oil wells that were at one time the very thing he sought…greed
So “salt of the earth’” is a compliment, honourable, a person of great value…in many ways.
If your name means what I think it does, I’m jealous. ‘nuf said.
Okay Billyboy and Metazestos, I already said it above, but they didn’t flood the fields with “salt” did they? Wasn’t it with “saltwater”? One, was very valuable way back when; the other, perhaps the most common thing on earth (and thus not very valuable).
Anyway, the key to the original question isn’t the context of the term “salt” but rather the context of the word “earth”… perhaps the most famous prayer in the world says “in earth as it is in heaven” … which is probably not suggesting that something be put into the soil… isn’t it more likely saying that human society ought to be like heavenly society… peaceful, loving, orderly and good? Don’t you suppose?
In ancient times, when this phrase was coined, salt was an absolutely indispensable commodity. Not only is it a “necessary nutrient,” for humans and livestock, much food was preserved using salt as well.
It is critical to to your survival to replace the salt in your system that gets lost daily through the sweat glands, especially if you have to work hard in hot climate areas. And most people did, if they wanted to store enough grain, put up enough dried meat, etc. to survive the following winter.
I think it’s also important to recognize just how rare a usable supply of salt from naturally-occurring salt sources was, when you live farther inland than just a couple days walk from the sea. Salt simply dissolves into water solution when it rains, so it doesn’t exist on the surface of the planet anywhere that rains can wash it down to the sea (except in collection basins like the Great Salt Lake in Utah, USA, which are very rare: why do you syppose the Mormons settled there in the first place?).
Underground salt sources (often known as salt domes) left over from the drying out of ancient seabeds wouldn’t remain in place long unless they had been covered by impermeable rock layers (those which water can’t penetrate) that necessitate hard-rock mining (impossible prior to the advent of advanced metallurgy: copper, tin, or bronze tools were useless for this). Otherwise, if covered by porous rock layers like sandstone, it would have long since dissolved into the groundwater and once again irretrievably lost and sent to the sea. So typically there wasn’t ANY salt to be found in the uplands of the continental interiors unless you could get it by trading with people from the coast.
Now take a look at the size of the Eurasian continental mass. Imagine how many people lived in those massive landlocked areas where no access to sea salt could be had without trading for it. If you were a subsistence farmer living, say, in on the steppes of eastern Europe, or the Mongolian plateau, and the coastal traders/travelers who happened by your area once a year took a different route or were waylaid or beset by a natural disaster, you were plumb out of luck as far as your annual salt supply and so you had better not sweat for a year or your metabolism would rebel and you would be in seriously deep doo-doo!
Today, we probably get more than enough salt from the traces added into processed food recipes. Eating a quarter pounder with cheese and a large fries at McDonald’s almost makes me sick with all its saltiness, unless I’ve been out backpacking in the desert for a week or something like that (I normally don’t salt my food, and I sweat a lot in hot weather). So we in the modern day tend to take salt for granted because there is such plentiful access to giant underground salt mines and coastal evaporation ponds with all our sophisticated mining and collection technologies, and so it’s fairly cheap now. But it wasn’t always this way. Just 100 years ago, it was common to hear the expression, “Any man worth his salt…..” i.e, anybody whose value as a human was greater than the value of the trace amounts of salt left after we boil down his body and scrape off the salt crystals left over.
With the recent fighting between Russia and Georgia(sounds like it’s over now)I thought,maybe,Our esteemed Professor might do the word “confrontation” if it was requested,wich I think I just did.
TY Marina.
tryant
hy there ! i was wondering ….what exactly meant “strong wash” in the old days ..i couldn’t find it to save my life in the dictionaries…. i was reading a book and the word “strong wash” was an ingredient ,part of a sorcer’s recepy and i was intrigated that, i could not understand what was he using !i would appreciate it if u could shed some light of what this substance really was ….thank you! by the way!i like your videos
nice job !:) keep it up !
Hmmm,I’m no Sorcerer nor an Alchemist but,I would venture a *guess*,,again,stress the word *”guess”*.
Could “strong wash” be some form of acidic solution? Lye? Lime? I really dunno the answer but the question I liked.
tryant
That’s probably right.
see ..i thought so too ..but i really want to know what is the true meaning of it !:) ….if anybody want to help …feel free!thx
If You don’t get the deffinate answer You seek aeonxavier,maybe try contacting a Wiccan group or maybe a Pagan group,I believe there are several on the net. Many of the Folks on those groups are kind and intelligent,also,They study the old ways.Never know,might work.
tryant
About Germanic languages. The Aryans settled in the Indus valley in India, so naturally they brought along the language. If you analyze the root words of the words we use today, they have Indo-European roots that come from that shared language of the Indians and the Germanic Aryan immigrants to the Indus Valley. Sanskrit I believe developed from that interaction. Look for parallels in pronounciation in English and Hindi.
I think the Aryans were Persian, not Germanic.
I recently repaired my copy of Grand Theft Auto IV. It seems that the Xbox 360 version is compressed, and if you play other games that use the hard drive cache, then play GTA IV, GTA IV fills up the rest of the cache, and unable to delete the files from the other game, the Xbox 360 cries “DISC IS UNREADABLE” since it cannot decompress the files. So, it seems due to a flaw in the Xbox 360 not clearing it’s damn cache properly, I need to go to the “memory” tab and hit Y X LB RB X before I play GTA IV every time I play another game.
Makes me wonder if it’s possible for Microsoft to patch that flaw, or if it’s a hardware issue.
Oh, and on that note, if you are like me and have the Xbox 360 version of GTA IV, and get the constant errors, it’s not Rockstar’s fault, it’s your 360 not clearing the cache properly. So you need to go to the system —> Memory tab, and enter “drive options” then put in the little code, X left bumper, right bumper, X to clear your cache. Also, you will have to redownload patches for games (but not extra content) which is no big deal, just can be scary if you don’t know it’s going to happen.
Watch out, you don’t want to get the Red Ring of Death!
EARTH in all its (Germanic states)
Guys, maybe you know that there are right now 7 official Germanic languages + 2 dead but very old and precious ones = 9 different forms for EARTH :
Gothic : AIRÞA
English : EARTH < old English EORÐE < old Saxon ERÞA
German : Erde < old German ERDA
DUTCH : AARDE
VIKING : JÒRð
Icelandic : JÖRð
Norvegian : JORD
Danish : JORD
Swedish : JORD
I just had to repair my CESSPIT full of SKIT ! It’s like chocolate, dense, brown, heavy but with another taste.
REPAIR = REPARE are twins like SHIP and SKIP
I had to get the blower on my hot tub repaired. Fortunately in is under warranty. Drop by Marina anytime and check it out!
I had a blower in my hot tub, but she drowned.
OMG that was funny!!!!!!
Q: How can you tell the stage isn’t level?
A: The drummerhas drool coming out only one side of his face.
(thought you needed a good
joke)
Hey! my joke was awesome chacha. Much better than those drummer jokes.
hello marin1 i have a word request
it is the word… CHRESTOMATHY. jaja 
Q: What’s the difference between a drummer and a savings bond?
A: Eventually, the savings bond will mature and earn money
I just had my new Ford F-150 fixed some electrical problems and the other day I looked out my living room window and it was totally on fire. It burned to the ground, so nice repair mechanic guys! Thanks! Anyways regarding Marina flipping us all off at 15 sec in the vid, here is a great bird flipping vid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtSc0tFWh7s
YIKES, that’s sucks!
I just got my car suspension repaired. The car is fine, but now I need my wallet repaired
Cool video G. Some countries if you give the thumbs up sign it means the same thing
You should get “the flight of the concords” DVD’s they are a lot more funny than that video shows.
Bush gives you his one finger salute
I was just watching the olympics and heard them talking about the US men’s gymnastics team being underdogs. That got me thinking – where did the term “underdog” come from? Would you investigate?
THIS will help
Hello:
You don’t know? Dog fighting! I assume people would place bets on the dogs. The one with little chance to win would be placed at the “bottom” of the ‘betting pool’ or would be on the bottom of the list, if they wrote one.
Keep well
hey wwhere does the word sexy some from?
Q: Do you know how to confuse a drummer?
A: Put a piece of sheet music in front of him.
Can there also be this?
A pair is a unit of two..
To then split the unit up would be to un-pair them.
Now there are two separate units.
To re-unit-e them or to re-pair them,
To put back together ?
A word just came to me , INSANE, should it not be UNSANE?
Hello:
The reasoning doesn’t hold. Pair means two of the same. If I break a grass trimmer, I will have the handle and the cutting ‘head.’ Do I have two of the same thing? Ex: “A pair of sneakers”
what?
Two of the same thing, This is not the
same as cut one thing in half.
Your glass trimmer is one thing.
Breaking it in half you now have one
thing in two pieces, not a pair.
Take two trimmers ( a pair ) and break them ,
Now you have a pair of heads and a pair of handles
Why do we call pants a pair of pants?
Q: What do you call a beautiful woman on a drummer’s arm?
A: A tattoo.
We call it a pair of pants because we look at pant as being defined as the covering of only one leg. The original word was Pantaloon, and it considered covering of both legs when defined. So say Pant. I put on a pant not a pair of pants.
Saying things like Glasses is correct because it is two individual lenses that are in use.
Another example of this type of stupidity is saying Binoculars. Bi is the Latin for 2. So it’s 2 nocular. Ergo I’m looking through a binocular, not binoculars.
Another: Akbar the great. Akbar in Arabic means great. So youre calling him great the great? Redundant!
Don’t know
I call mine Wranglers….
Recently I had to have my car repaired. After hitting something on the road my tire blew out. When I took it in to get the tire replaced, the mechanics found that what ever I hit cause more damage to the front of my car than I originally thought. So I had to take it to my regular mechanic to get the necessary repairs.
In rememberance of isaac Hayes, can you please fine out where Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic came from.
shaft
god bless isaac hayes he did welcome home isaac
Actually I believe it was L. Ron Hubbard who welcomed him home.
Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic
overstimulated divided symbol with a secondary consequence in a hallucinatory vessel or just gibberish?
I just had the car in the shop for a timing belt replacement. As far as my health is concerned, I don’t ever have to worry about it again. I’m dead already!
If you don’t repair the car… dead man walkin’
Hi Sexy. Can you tell us where the phrase “roll in the hay” came from?
I’ve always been a fan of the word ‘prelapsarian’!
~*.:!Hey Marina!:.*~
I have a WORD REQUEST!
DO you know where the word PAINT comes from? I’m so confused about it lol! :I
Thanks and I love your vids :]
-Snowstylez
The last time I repaired anything was when I had to anchor a salad bar unit so it didn’t roll away from the rest of it. Boring story, but it’s better than when I bought new wipers for my car and let them sit for a week before getting them on my car.
Trusty ….. indeed…….khot feir werds ha-ha-ha
good one marina 5*
i hope all of your pain is gone from your tooth i know how that can be noting worse then a toot hake
I must have a sympathy toothache. I am on antibiotics right now for one.
This video answered a question I’d had about this word, good to know! You have all my sympathy for those root canals. Don’t let the dentist skimp on those pain killers! I finally found one who doesn’t let me feel ANY pain during a root canal, before or after. The ones who try to save money and skimp on the pain meds are sadists, in my opinion.
by the way your response regarding journalism and bias was appreciated. i was thinking rather narrowly of political bias. but your right about the importance of a journalist’s personal experience of events being crucial to adding depth to a story. i was listening to npr and thought, “yeah jcr has a point, otherwise i wouldn’t still be sitting in my car listening to the radio and late for an appointment”.
also, because of the antibiotics eat some yogurt, stonyfield is the best.
Yogurt! Why didn’t I think of that? Running for the yogurt. Did you know you can get yogurt that has fiber in it now? What will they think of next? If you like journalistic reporting with a personal slant, wait till you see the one on prenuptial agreements, a topic of controversy for many folks out there
for some reason. I actually find them very, very romantic and have told my children that they might look for the romance in the word, “prenup” , lol. I’d ask Marina what the word prenuptial means but I think it means pre marriage or before marriage.
Daniel pool – I can’t go to the Candy man or even handle Vicodin. Wish I could but the stuff makes me so sick that I’d rather have the pain. It is really horrible because II had major surgery once and all I could take was Tylenol. I opted for the Tylenol PM but it wasn’t much better. Pain, lots of pain!
Buzzy
NPR…Really
naive peoples radio ??
I like NPR.
They even took one of my phone calls once and then I got the thrill (not) of listening to myself sound like a total idiot, live, on the radio. I wish I could go back and redo that moment, only with some advance warning.
i think thats really cool, participating in a dialogue like that. i’ve wanted to call in a couple of times, c-span has tempted me too. i think i’d write my question down first and read from it and then take the response off air. what show did you call in on?
because of my schedule i’ve been listening to the diane rehm show, radio diaries makes history really compelling, and is well produced. i also like radio lab, if you know someone who is into science they may enjoy that one. great audio production as well. i don’t know what i would do without podcasts!
Repair can also mean to go someplace, as in, “let’s repair to the parlor for some tea”.
I like to use the word in that context when the opportunity arises. Although it’s more typically, “let’s repair to the bar….”
hmmm…i repair all sorts of things, from things around the house, to mistakes made at work, to technical glitches the users at work can’t figure out…
but from where does the the repair in “he repaired to the drawing room” come?
i will be a jitter with anticipation of your response…
oh, and what the dickens is a “jitter”? and is “dickens” good ol’ Charles?
annudder
So you are all a jitter. HMMMM she must investigate.
or a Valium would work well 
maybe i should’ve asked for “jitterbug” – then she could do the cha-cha…
oh…maybe i shouldn’t mentions that…lol
annudder
Hi Mike,
Hope all is well in Fayetteville this day. Hey I heard you might have lost one of your goats. I corraled it and tied it up to your front fence for ya, so no problem, dude.
Peace.
Capman
I got your goat ha ha ha !
PT9 is so cleaver, but trying to stir up more
trouble will not work if we do not let Him. OK?
I am over it. Most of the others are too.
KumByha mutter uckfer
I do what it says on the Aspirin bottle; Take two and keep away from children.
Roseanne Barr
I think the picture with Marina sitting on the bench in the white hat giving the finger was meant for me
Just kidding I hope 
Hello Marina, greetings:
The plural of mouse is mice, ” of louse is lice, why isn’t the plural of house hice?
Joke:
What do you call someone who specializes in science? A scientist
” in therapy? A therapist.
” in competitive running? (Pause) A racist!
Cool joke Tommaralem1987
Q: What’s the difference between a drummer and a large pizza?
A: A pizza can feed a family of four.
wasn’t there a drum roll before the punch line?
“Mommy, can I be a drummer when I grow up?”
“Sorry, honey, but you can’t do both”
I came home late, and my wife “repaired” my attitude with a baseball bat.
Oh Im so sorry for you man! LOL that was so funny!
ORGANISE/ORGANIZE
See I thought Organ reffered to something living, like an Organ, Organic, or Organism. But then i thought Org must mean like a collection of things, like in an Organisation, and a collection of cells/tissue in an organ, but then the word Orgasm doesn’t make sense unless its talking about a collection of nerve triggers or something…
So what does Organise, mean and the Prefix= Org
Hey Marina, I’ve always wanted to know where the phrase “kicked the bucket” came from. I know its a phrase meaning death or to die but I just want to know where such a goofy phrase came. Thanks!!!
Hi, rocknball 101,
You gotta check out the opening sequence of “It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world,” a comedy film from the mid-1960s. You’ll find the all-time classic bucket-kick scene in there that should be required viewing for all film students, script-writers and cinematographers.
Marina, I wanna know why Monkey Bread, the delicious cinnamon yummy treat, is called Monkey Bread…there’s no Monkeys in there! I hope not…
Probably because people “go ape” over the cinnamon-a-licious treat
Just kidding
Last Saturday I repaired a section of My sub-floor,cut it,tore it out,then repaired it to stronger than original,not sure what I’ll do as the finish yet but no hurry there,I can wait as long as I want/need for deals on material. I also raised one side of the door jamb wich helped the latch and deadbolt line-up and work easier,that door will be replaced sometime too.
Sunday I got drunk as hell and today I paid the price for that! Ouchie!!
As to the 15sec vid spot,I’ve never been flipped-off so beautifully,and I’m gettin old!
tryant
Q: How many drummers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: 17. one to hold the bulb while the other 16 get so drunk
the room starts spinning
How many teenagers does it take to change a light bulb? Just one, but they just hold the bulb and let the world revolve around them.
Melika–art thou a drummer? There’s lots of drummer jokes today
How many Macintosh support people does it take to repair a lightbulb?
–None. “According to this manual, your lightbulb should be working correctly. Try shutting it off and turning it back on again.”
How many Drunks does it take to screw-in a lightbulb? Ans; Well 2 of course,but,where will they find a bulb that big?
Iknow I know,the answer is another question and the – in “screw-in” is misleading,helps the joke work tho.
Q: What do you call a drummer who breaks up with his girlfriend?
A: Homeless
On that note;
The musical business is a cruel and shallow trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men lie like dogs. There is also a negative side.
Hunter S. Thompson
Almost looks like a big bandade that your holding.
Sense it’s half way through the racing (Motor Sport) season, mostly Formula 1… I got to thinking. Where did the term, “Sunday Driver” come from and does it have anything to with, motorist driving fast on public streets, motorways, and freeways like the drivers on a racing track? Please have a look into this, Detective Marina. I will be waiting and watching for your findings. Thanks in advance.
Regards Lindo
When I was a kid a Sunday Driver was someone who went out just to go for a drive. They were someone that went slower than the flow of traffic holding up everyone behind them. Because Sunday was the best day for these kind of outings they were then called Sunday Drivers.
Close smokey, but the real reason they are called Sunday drivers was because people would go to church that day and felt the day was holy, so they would go the speed limit or slower.
Smokes, that was my impression, too. Right on the money.
Sunday seems to be the day when the majority of out-of-town weekend motor-tourists tend to explore those places they can’t usually access during the week when they are working, so it stands to reason that they drive slowly as well as inaccurately whilst gawking at unfamiliar scenery when they should be watching the road (and getting lost!). I usually try to stay home on Sundays unless it’s the off-season just to avoid the frustration of encountering them.
Marina,
I purchased a used car, I was saving for the downpayment on a new vehicle.
Then it struck, I had put 2G’s into it and then I was forced to complette the job.
It is a Dodge that is very close to being a new 160,000 Mile vehicle.
Greg
Those are a nice pair of twins.
Nevermind.
Well, er… uh, not Marina’s “pair”, the other pair I was refering to…
but Marina’s look nice too…..
I was just enjoying sounding like an idiot.
But those are some nice looking women. Are they covered in rose petals or tulips? Because all I see are 2 lips.
I was wanting to comment on that photo also. It was very nice looking photo of the ladies laying there among the petals. I even did a screen shot of it for future reference when Im looking for ideas for taking photos .
Looks like there nude too
It appears that way but I think they where wearing something like a tube top. Their mammary glands seem to be bulging a bit more than gravity would do. But I’ll just pretend they where nikid.
I would like to request the phraze “Hard Bitten”. I have been hearing it describe determined people. What has been biting all these people?
while being eaten allive by mosquitos right now
I wondered how come mosquito is called that way in English since it’s a spanish word meaning litlle fly ?
You get extra credit for requesting a word & answering it in the same sentence.
i just want a realy short answer of how it came in to english language. cause mosquitos are not something particulary spannish or something…
Just don’t confuse it with Spanish Fly.
You know Bob when we were in high school we always tried to find that elusive Spanish Fly, but never did. We were told of the effects it would have on women, but never found it or anything like it.
Okay, so my comment was answered by foxbow15. Well, I want you Marina, to explain me the word “Feng Shui” Thanks
- Larrey
where does the phrase “skeletons in the closet” come from?
Hi Marina. I was wondering where the word “millenium” comes from. That is what I have been wondering all time. Have a good day now
- Larrey
mille is 1000 in latin and anum means year
I have a fishing boat that is constantly in need of repair!
Click here to see my bassboat!
Also, do you know the origin of the word, ‘Bassdozer’?
Your kidding! Wow. But I know the feeling. I have ships I worked on that needed more than constant repair. Things always broke, but it was a working ship that ran 6 months without a day off. Only the off season it would get a rest and catch up on repairs.
Nice boat.
Bassdozer? I think it means sleepy bass.
Do you know whats at the bottom of every bass lake? Bass turds.
The term “Scott free” keeps coming up lately….
Of course “to get off scott free” is usually a good thing, but whom do I have to thank?
Care to investigate?
Hey Sparky, What part of Seattle are you from? Im just a stones throw from you. Im in Kirkland right now.
Marina, I’m interested in long words. The record was once held by “disestablishmentarianism,” and then was captured by “floccipaucinihilipilification.” The first was a political position and the second is the act of judging something to be worthless.
Do you know any other really long words?
How about antidisestablishmentarianism? See the Lessons page from the menu bar at the top of the page.
Whaaassssup. Thanks for tying up my goat. I’ll have to put him in the back pasture.
I had my computer repaired just before this lesson. A car had hit a power pole and the outage was a “brown-out” so the date had been set back to the earliest default date and the BIOS had been reset to the defaults, which removed my overclocking. My neighbor, Hugh, who had originally set up the system, had been on vacation in Colorado until yesterday. He had come over and reset the BIOS settings and we rebooted the computer and went to your site to see if it would load the video fast enough to avoid hesitations. There was the lesson on “repair.” I have made up a word for things like this. I call it “synchrondipity.”
sounds a lot like synchronicity (1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhmjnYKlVnM&feature=related
Yes, exactly, but with two tablespoons of serendipity added.
Awesome vidoe Marina.
Homework: Umm, I live on a farm so I could say our Tractor.
Best Wishes, Ath, And on the farm they had a dog…..
…everywhere a moo moo?
I had my bike repaired last Friday. I was able to ride it on the bridge by the waterfall/dam yesterday where I like to gaze at
. The weather was picture perfect.
My computer was repaired in late May/early June. Meanwhile, I continue to get hit and miss blue screens of death, especially on start-up. It’s very frustrating. But I digress.
start -> Run -> /formate C:
It is your friend, BSoD is generally caused by something on your computer and not in it, virus or lakefunctioning OS (if Windows it goes under virus).
My suggestion is to whipe the computer compleatly clean and reinstall it all. I had a smiliral problem with my computer a few years back, the problem for me was that the Motherboard had a burned circuit(sp) sending fals info to my harddrive causing windows to generate a BSoD… So new items solved it for me =)
Most of the BSoDs have been related to my NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller. Updating the drivers did nothing to help.
BSoD related to NVIDIA in my past experience may be inadequate power supply for startup.
malefunctioning*
now someone’s gonna make a stupid joke about femalefunctioning …
I remember staying at a remote hotel in the Scottish Highlands.
It had been one of those rare, hot sunny days and as we returned to the hotel in the evening, the only thing that broke the peace was the sound of the gardener mowing the extensive lawns.
As we were showering and getting ready for our dinner, all the lights and other electrical appliances went off.
Later, we came down to a candle-lit bar and the hotel owner was telling the other guests that he had checked all the fuses and not found any faults. He then checked the mains supply and found there was no power coming into the building at all so he followed the main power cable into the building, towards the supply poles at the road.
What he found was that the cable had been cut, but the two ends were joined with a neat bow.
He asked the gardener if he had, by chance, had an accident during the day.
“Well, Aye,” replied the old boy, ” I was trimming a branch that hangs over the lawn and it fell on the power line and broke it. But” he added, “I mended it.”
Hahahahaha! You never cease to amaze and amuse me, Bob.
Your analysis re: my use of my own advice is well taken, thank you. I recognize that I may have flirted briefly with initiation. In truth I merely wished to allow enough line to pay out so that my initial point could be illustrated by its subjects, then allow others to judge the result.
Dear teacher,
Always a pleasure to hear you speak french. Incredibly interesting lesson, I missed the old lesson about perare… I should be more serious ! I did repear my Personal computer and it was not a good idea!
Amicalement,
Don Felipe
Of course, the word is pronounced like ray-pah-RAY. AnyWAY…..
Dear fellow student,
Indeed !
Amicalement
Don Felipe
Maybe that’s a sign of what the next video is going to be about.
Finger signs and what they mean
I will be re-pairing alot of things around the house as I re-re-tire.
Similar question for retire : re = again; tire = ? ( car tire, tire as in exhausted ? )
Re + tirer (to draw) = to re-draw = to withdraw.
OK, speak up now or hold your peace.
Who’s offended by teacher’s gesture at time 0:15?
And what is she doing with that thing between her legs?
Toblerone baby!
@ All,
(Yea Marina got your message, Im comming right over to take care of that for you. :p 
) So was does the international sign and a foot long chocolate aphrodisiac between her lower appendages mean? 
On second thought don’t answer that. Boy your boredom makes your imaginations just run wild hu? I need to find some activity for you all. You guys are like typical students, if Marina is not teaching you tend to get way out of hand. I need to send her some rulers so she can slaps some desks to get your attention.
Boy and I thought I was dense on hints like that.
About activities. Im working on that as we speak. I’m going to be linking some word games and puzzles that should keep you all entertained between the lessons. Im open for any suggestions that might interest you and the student body. I will be posting some articles soon. I had 3 of them ready to go but had to trash them. I also set up a new email address for you to respond to. Watch for my new posts comming soon.
Yes I misspelled a word twice. Its a joke on me that only teach can understand.
Captjack
( word game )
There are 5 misspelled words, can anyone find them all?
Capt Jack,
You said “I need to send her some rulers so she can slaps some desks to get your attention.”
If we’re noticing the Toberlone and finger positioning, we are ALREADY paying attention.
Why use punishment when natural sources of positive reinforcement are plentiful 
However, the fun and games are a good idea! How about a word search?
Oh Oh.. I didn’t even notice that! I don’t think I was intentionally making that gesture!
Muhaaaah!!! Teach!!
My grin is as big as your’s.
Dear fellow writers,
What are we talking about? The finger means in azerbaïdjan : “learn your lesson well” and the stick between the legs is a gri-gri from a voodoo priest of Haïti, it is to give luck….
Anybody dig it?
Amicalements
Don Felipe
Toblerone? Ah! Schock-o-la-day!
“I didn’t even notice that!”
10 points for style
word request – dirt
dirty tricks,
dirty martini,
dirty old men?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhmjnYKlVnM&feature=related
(it’s funny – i promise)
Err … Marina, your having a baby?
That would be Toddlerone baby wouldn’t it?
It might explain your interest in younger and younger boys – James, Johnjohn …
That was intended for me. I made a comment about that on the Hot-Synonyms video.
Is that the chocolate bar for hell or what
Is that a joke picture?
It looks like Her right side is melting ?
Maybe She’s has a candie 4ss.
She is a tiny little thing. 00 size?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtSc0tFWh7s
You will like this.
Koyaanisqatsi
I have done this many times
, but why is it called ‘Flipping the Bird’? In Europe (I think) they use two fingers (the middle and index) kind of like the piece sign only the back of the hand faces the person it is directed to. Other places thumb scrape against the upper teeth. Are there any other ways to ‘Flip the Bird’?
My roommate was from Korea and he regularly pointed things out with his middle finger. I had to ask him what the deal was. It turned out that it was a chance occurence and that people commonly point with their middle fingers there. We both laughed a lot. However, I still KNOW there were times that his thoughts included “F U, Buckaroo”
Marina: Looks like you’re tooth was good enough to go to the park and break into the chocolate with a smile on your face.
Glad to see it, Darlin’
If you are a chocolate fan, Marina, I recommend you try some Norwegian chocolate – very underrated.
http://www.katysimports.com/norwegian.htm
My preference is the melkesjokolade, but if you like nuts in your candy bar then the Firklover is the way to go.
They kick Toblerone’s ass.
It was a Freudian Flip
Warren; That is way 2 funny…!
A tale of two orifices, How a girl got hooked into riding the big black D, and the consequences that resulted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtSc0tFWh7s
Please watch!
ha!
Here geronimo http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/3349/12622 this is a good brew for you.
I think that gesture was directed to the photographer, which asked her for piece of that Toblerone!
Gotta trust teach.
But your reasoning sure fits the picture.
excellent video! 5 stars!
I do a lot of repair work on lots
of broken things. I am semi-retired as such
so I get to pick and choose my work.
Last week, I demo’d and retiled a
shower bath, fixed three computers,
did a brake job, collected oil for the
biodiesel gig, painted an apartment,
did some roof repair. Did some sink
plumbing, too – burst pipe, water pickup.
I get asked to do a lot of freebies,
like these – mostly from working Moms.
Guess I’m a soft touch, I hardly ever refuse
but there are a few who try to take advantage.
One older gal in particular always seems to
have a list….(dammit MOM!)
dock repairs, house remodeling, etc.
Blue collar, white collar – samey same.
Q: What do you call a drummer with half a brain?
A: Gifted
Beautiful Dragon in honor of the Olympics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxfzm9dfqBw
(Now Marina, please don’t be uspet with the last little bit)
foxbow15 should watch that.
And, during all the nonsense that happened yesterday, Marina should have called out, “Tea’s ready” and everything would have quietened down.
I’m out of the country repairing my life, does that count? Is that what’s meant by repairing TO somewhere? Is there repairability with such intangible things? Are these linguistic questions or should I hop them over to the philosophic site
Dear Marina, I’m sorry to hear you had a root canal done, and I hope you feel better, now! I no longer eat sweets, to save my own teeth. The photo of two beautiful young women with rose petals was very nice! For your homework, I can only think of the father of this beautiful girl I wanted to date. His double-barrel shotgun was old and both barrels were worn out. To fix it, he had both barrels replaced, so in other words, he “repaired” them!
Your dear student, SeesixCM6
Awe the perfect video at a perfect time.
Homework: I tried to fix my stove. I discovered a wired fuse was blown. Im sure radio shack doesn’t carry parts like this anymore. It probably cheaper and faster if I just throw it into a land fill and by a new one. Damn our disposable economy.
Root Canal! Ouch! … I know of your pain. I had 4 molars, 2 eyes, and a rouge tooth extracted. I had braces for 2 years. I think about 6 grand was spent and my teeth still goofy looking, and yet have never had a cavity.
Jack
not…… just cheaper $$
Online stores have everything and can have it to you in 3 days.
Save a landfill
I do a lot of buying on HSN haven’t had any problems yet.
He’s not trying to stir the pot. Really that’s an on going joke we pull on each other. But thanks for the heads up.
Use the Internet to buy things? You can do that? But I heard people get ripped off from doing that!
The planet doesn’t need saving. Its us that needs saving. In time the planet will kill us off. When people mess with the balance of nature, it has the ability to re-stabilize it’s self at all costs. Im amazed we are still here. Just remember the pendulum will swing back, and its will take out whatever it needs to return to its balanced state.
Comin soon to a outdoor theater near you: “The Year After”
Discovery News
Okay Hollywood, so you were only off by 300 or 400 days. In the movie The Day After an ice age literally chased the heroes down the street. That’s what movie makers call “rapid climate change.” The reality is that rapid climate change is generally though of in terms of decades, at fastest. Here’s a bit of research that cuts that down to a single year.
Use PayPal it makes online shopping safer I do it all the time, for years now.
I was just kidding.
My students pay me via paypal. I’ve had my account for like 8 years now.
i got gum graphs…..
did you take any photografts?
Hi Marina I was wondering the origin of the phrase “break the ice”
Thanks!
-UmbaFlicks
What is the best one liner for dating a philologist?
Ok it should be a Jeopardy question…
You’re like a dictionary – you add meaning to my life.
I’m still trying to repair my enthusiasm for this site after yesterday’s events.
The trouble is they seem to resist recognising that the alternatives have already been exhausted.
You can say, “Did you spray windex on your pants?” She asks “why?” and then you say “because I can see myself in them!”
Or, you can say, “Was your father a thief or something?” She asks “why?” and then you say, “because someone stole the stars and put them in your eyes….”
Or, you can say, “Hey, my magic watch tells me that you’re not wearing any underwear.” When she says, “I am so wearing underwear.” Then you say, “Damn thing must be 15 minutes fast!”
If She likes the way you look anything you say will work.
Girls love Me because I am SEXy, so all my lines work.
@ Bob, A dictionary. Wow I don’t think I have been referenced like that before. I know dictionaricdotcom has many times.
Yea I liked that quote. It was perfect timing. Which I find that weird. Even the lesson and Foxbow getting first again. I wonder if there is a connection with all that an I eating tacos on taco Tuesdays.
@prospero811, those where funny. Do I have to pay you any royalties if I use them? LOL. You gave me an idea for something to do tonight. Im going to stare at the stars. I was hopping ISS would be out tonight but nothing on the radar until later in the month. You know that the stars can help you find your way?
@ Ok4N, That went over my head.
I think my blond roots are showing again. 
Over your head, Jack? Are you a submariner now?
A loan – alone – get it?
P.S. I made a Freudian slip when I typed “submariner” just now – I put “submarina”, but I suppose, as TA, that’s what you are. Lucky boy!
A loan word…
I got the “alone’ part. Im not that dense.
“You’re too original to be alone.” This is an abstract sentence to me. Original and Alone being used in the same sentence confuses my images. I guess its just my lack of understanding English…
Totally cool Jack; You said a line for a philologist right? A loan word being borrowed from another language, or, not a loan word & basically originating from inside the language itself, so it was meant to be a play on original (special, unique, not a copy) & a loan (single, alone), and really the whole thing was a bit abstract, no doubt, but just read it as ‘You’re (a word that is) too…” to the beginning of it & that’s where I was going. But a line is only good if it works as communication, right & if this really were ‘pick-up’ time she might have already left with the dictionary:?: But if it’s a speed bump or stumbling block throw it out & really it’s not the line but the sincerity (person) behind it that matters–so cheers & thanks for taking the time to try and understand
Thats exactly where my trouble lyes with words. Its a word that requires longer sentence or more context. “I love Shelby”. There not enough information in the simple sentence to understand what I mean by love and who or what is Shelby. Am I speaking of a woman, car or the man? Love as in new shoes or as in your partner. Im also missing body language and voice tones. You see It leave room for misinterpretation. Wars get started from that. Thats why I think language is almost the weakest form of communication. You have to write pages of words to get a clear message across. You have heard the expression ‘A picture is worth a 1000 words’? Why do you think that expression is? One reason I like movies. Billions of words that are almost a complete thought. Mind melding (like in Star Trek for example), is not a common practice at this time. Speaking of shared thought the ST Borg society interested me much. They looked weird, yea, but being able to share complete thought in their entirety. A collaboration of thoughts. Wow! Now that look like the perfect form of communication as long as you can unplug and have some privacy. Sometimes not communication at all is good communication. You seen how 15 words is not enough?
Im just trying to understand why people insist of using short sentence when there are words that have more than one meaning and are lacking context to define them. Don’t get me wrong. Im not attacking you personally. Im asking people of the world why are we still using primitive languages. Its like using internal combustion engines. Why are we still using them???? Sorry to vent like this. This has been an issue with me since I was 4 years old.
Jack; Your question(s) is/are very profound–I think. Communication shouldn’t be passive on either end, give & take. Some people try to be obscure or obtuse and I generally find them passive agressive. You have a unique mind, everyone does actually, but I need and want to think about your question for bit. English is the most expansive language we have so far–more words & more definitions to words than any other, but the key is when you say “lacking context to define them”. Let me think about this…
The problem with Language is now its governed my monkeys. When you no longer have any rules then there is chaos. Its really gets difficult to follow rules when there are many exceptions. So in short my greatest problem with language is there is no standards. Nobody regulating those standards. Since many nations are now learning English I think its time that we get our acts together and start working on cleaning it up and set some well define rules and are flexible but still don’t cause so much confusion. I think this is way passed due. Is there any thing like a .. United ‘Words’ Union or something?
Since I stated above I like to eat Tacos on Tuesday. I want to state that I don’t eat at any American/Mexican taco joints. i.e. Taco Bell, Taco Time, Azteca, etc. Those are not real Mexican restaurants. I request you try to eat at one of those taco stands on the side of the road. You know the places where genuine Mexicans eat at. The places that server tacos that are only like the size of a coffee coaster. Yea you have to eat like 6 of them to fill yourself up. They are small because they are for lunches or snack food, But my gawd they are so awesome!! My favorite is steak tacos with lots of cilantro, onions and squeezed limes. OH man that stuff is good. I wash it all down with that white stuff.. hmmm I forget what they call it. It has coconut milk and cinnamon. It helps with the burning of the hot peppers.
CJ – I owned a Mexican restaurant for 9 years, extra authentic; sometimes out of 18 employees I’d only have 2 others that spoke English, many of our customers were Mexican nationals. The drink is called Horchata, and it is rice & milk based, some days we’d sell hundreds of 16 ounce drinks of this.
oops 20 ounce drinks…
Horchata! Yea thats it. Fantastic stuff. I can drink thats stuff by the gallon!
So you know what I mean about americanized Mexican restaurants? They are just plastic imitations of the real thing. Thats great you had an authentic Mexican restaurant. 
I always feel a bit sick after eating at Taco Time and Taco Bell. I sometimes eat at a Taco De Mar. They are not too bad but not as good as other whole in the wall authentic restaurants.
It came from an overly friendly and over weight eskimo
my leg and my mtb recently got repaired… 7 stitches in my leg and i repaired my rims cause they both had a runout.
that’s how you say it in english right? a run out? when your rims are not traight ,so they woble when you spin them…
Runout would be correct even if not used very often. It’s pretty hard to do anything other than runout or taco a rim while riding. I’ve yet to see someone change the dish of a rim riding. The very rare hop caused by a hard landing is probably the biggest pain to true.
Are you a flyer or do you stay grounded? You may like some pics I took at Crankworks when I went with my kid. He has our back yard torn up with dips & jumps built into the landscape, with “skinnies” snakinging around things. He spends 95% of his “bike time” building or repairing his jumps & things, 4% fixing the bike & 1% riding
He is right now under repair himself, broken collarbone (rugby). Ironicly I’m the one who broke a collarbone biking. (years ago)
Nice pictures you got there
i’m more in to racing in the woods, last week I went to this trail and i was going 50 km/h downhill and suddenly there were 2 old people sitting there i turned and squeezed my brakes as hard as I could but to late -.- i hit a tree and flew right in to a barbed wire fence… 
Luckely i’v never broken my collar bone, i’v badly injured it ones tough ,almost all of my mountainbike friends have broken theyr collar bone from falling or from hitting a tree
my parrents would never let me do that ,the go mad even if i stick a spade in the ground to look for worms or something
Do you still ride yourself?
gnarly kewl! Saw some cross ups, flares
and even a superman! the eye candy
at 2:10 had sweet gams – yeow!
great link
Hi Billy, my son growing up had 4 wheelers and ended up with me buying him a Suzuki 125 racing bike. Well it was a broken tailbone, cuts that required stitches mashed and torn fingers and a lot of repairs on the bike. I had to rebuild the top end every month. That is only how long the rings and piston and water pump as it was water cooled would last. He had one of my fields made into a track that he had jumps, whoopdis, round turns, dugouts mud pits you name it it was there. I took me a whole winter after he got through with racing to fix the field back so soy beans could be planted on it. There would be sometimes 5 to 6 riders at a time having fun out there. But I felt it was better to have them there than roaming the streets. Now the bike he wants is a Harley. He’s buying that one
My kid has had his lawyer draw up a pre moveout ryder on the growing up document that the backyard will be pristeen when he gets his own place (I wish).
I ride enough to get into a little trouble with seat pain, but my downhill days are over, I don’t heal quickly enough anymmore. I don’t jump in the race car much anymore either (my older son drives now). I’ll jump under, to repair etc.
I know it’s hard to be carefull on you’re bike when going for speed & I know if you try to be carefull when atempting a jump or such, being carefull usualy causes a crash, funny how that works. But you are not invincible on a bike. My dad, a very careful & thoughtful man, was killed on his bike, in traffic, hit from behind, never saw it coming. I’ve never thought to fear dying the same way as I know that it will come in the way I don’t expect it. After that … Cheers, and as Marina says at the end of the vid. “be safe”
i’m sorry to hear about your dad.
probably that’s because when i was young i had a tendency to have lots of stupid crashes 
I had to quit being a bike messenger cause my mom thinks it’s to dangerous
yea you are..
Captainjack
Link 
Chocolate Horse 
not first again…-.-
How do you do that?
oh god this is getting weird, I realy don’t know
…
how long did you wait?
not at all…I just got on to my pc…I duno….it’s weird….:S…people probably think i’m a stalker now or something
Yea I seen your F-16 parked down the street from Marina’s condo.
darn it !
Starting a new streak? Damn!
good job – Congrats
Err … He was streaking on his “mounting” (sic) bike?