“This is an old marketing tactic that I though was no longer in practice.”
Capt’n Jack, I thought your comments about marketing and Jay were pretty good. YT as well as other sites offer lots of contests. I have been thinking of entering one of those and if I enter one of them, I’ll be sure to aim for number ten instead of number one. Here is the YT offerings of contests. It’s under the Community tab. http://www.youtube.com/contests_main
Marina, would you enter another contest again? Despite the acrid experience of the last contest, I would like to see you enter many more. I think you have a great many talents in script writing, delivery and production as well as the obvious personality and star attraction. As Captn’ pointed out, maybe you’ll have to aim lower. Even if you don’t win, would it give you greater exposure to the HFW site?
Just a word request. If it’s a good word lol. It’s schadenfreude. It’s in the english dictionary, i know that. i think it might be german though, hmmm. Anyway, looking forward to your next video !
Dear Marina, here is an opportunity for you! Break into the MAIN stream OLD media! In today’s (8/16) New York Times, Dick Cavett has asked someone to explain the phrase “by and large.” This is your opportunity! Just to be sure you have the referencee I paste the quote from his column so go for it:
Few comedians kill themselves. (Maybe because audiences so readily do it for them.) Young Freddie Prinze comes to mind. At least two in recent years have indulged themselves to death (in different ways) — John Candy and Chris Farley — but I think the legendary funny folk outlive the general population as a rule. And I guess you could say Lenny Bruce — whose alleged genius largely escaped me — did himself in. And of course John Belushi, for whom I had great affection. But by and large (will anyone ever explain that phrase?) comics are long-lived. (See Hope, Burns, et al.) Quite a few hundreders.
Yeah! Similarly, there exists a st Petersburg, Florida (in which I reside)
and a St Petersburg, Russia. Perhaps by reason of immigrants from
the original area?
The world is a vampire ….
sent to drain. (Smashing Pumpkins!)
Leeches have found their way back into medicine along with maggots.
It seems that when certain wounds or arthitic conditions have a pain or
pressure build up, an alternative to addicting pain relievers like
morphine are leeches. Maggots have been found to eat away at dead
or dying tissues in cases of certain wounds.
Isn’t interesting that there is more empty space than there is matter? Frankly Im amazed that all my atoms stay together. I always wondered why I felt hollow or spacey.
Coincidence? Maybe… Have you heard of entanglement in regards of subatomic particles acting opposite directions of each other? The NSA, CIA, and a bunch of others now rely on entanglement of photons for secure communications. This entanglement is a proven fact as you may already know very well. Question is, do we as humans have the small ability to communicated using entanglement theory. Might be a clue on how my sister and I can communicate mentally or other people for that matter.
“Have you heard of entanglement in regards of subatomic particles acting opposite directions of each other?”
yes .. but … we’re missing the entanglement part of this, so we can’t blame it on that. (…except if the big bang theory is true, then everything is entangled anyway.)
I love that freaky elemental physics stuff, btw.
My favorite mind bender is the double slit photon experiment. Where, if you’re watching, a single fired photon particle goes through either one slit or the other .. and if you’re not watching, the single fired photon particle goes through goes through both simultaneously.
hey check this out, elemental physics is right. my question about this is what about the initial state of the universe and the role of the observer? as in the universe as a watched pot.
I love that experiment. You know you can take a simple pocket laser and cut two slits in some thick paper you can see the interference pattern very well.
Some cool Nova DVDs to check out if you haven’t
“The Elegant Universe” – The Unified Field Theory, String Theory, and 11 dimensions.
“Einstein’s Big Idea”
“Einstein Revealed”
“What the Bleep Do We Know” – Its and ok video. I think they reach a bit far in their assumptions. I do like it for the Dr. Quantum videos.
These are fun animated videos for all to watch.
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Dr Quantum – Double Slit Experiment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc
This video is a bunch of Profs talking about vibrations. Warning this video is a heavy subject for people to wrap their minds around. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eDqDcZm9EA
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cool if you not watching how do you know it goes through both simultaneously?
I think …
… if there’s a sensor checking a slit for photons, then there’s no resulting interference pattern on the other side …
… if there’s no sensors checking the slits, then the photon goes through both slits as waves and make an interference pattern (by … erm .. interfering with itself).
prob worth checking tho. I saw an example demo on YouTube where it was electrons rather than photons. It’s the same principle though. The electron, having larger mass, has a shorter wavelength in its wave form.
yeh .. i “think” the idea is that the “wave” existence is the potential form of the thing and the “particle” existence is the physical (manifested) form of existence.
i.e. if it’s not observed (or interacted with) then it’s in its potential form of existence. That potential is not localised to one physical place (i.e. the potential exists in both slits and beyond). Once an observation takes place, then that potential of the thing over space jells into a single particle at a physical location. With the likelyhood of the particle being at a particular location being defined by the potential form of the thing.
So, the resulting pattern on the screen after the two slots depends on if the thing was “observed” at a slit. If so, then the potential form ceases and it behaves as we expect a particle to behave and only goes through one slit. If it’s not observed at the slit, then the potential form has a wave shape, and that wave interferes with itself (reinforcing in places and weakening in others). Until it’s observed on the screen with the likelyhood as defined by the potential form of the thing.
… … that’s my interpretation of what happens … but, i don’t have any kind of physics education , so, i’m fully prepared to be shot down or corrected.
hey check this out, elemental physics is right. my question about this is what about the initial state of the universe and the role of the observer? as in the universe as a watched pot.
I only just checked out your link … probably too late for you to see this, but, thanks ..
Wow! .. It’s brilliant stuff .. nice to have new ways of having one’s mind twisted.
Hello captainJack,
Those quantum physics sites that you noted are interesting.
First time that I read about anything like that was in the book “Timeline” by Micheal Crichton. He explained the same thing.
Isn’t quantum physics just nuts? Rules change in the subatomic world that are much different in our larger world. Now if we can combine Relativity and Quantum theories into one unified field theory then we might be able to influence influence the world we live in. Maybe travel to other worlds without breaking the speed of light barrier.
Hey CaptainJack,
I just read an article and I couldn’t find the original source but I found this site I thought tat it was coincidental that you mentioned it.
Don’t give up utube. Some of your videos are where people are sent to explain the f word and other words that M has done. Fork videos are good examples of adding to the lessons. You can always be the v ideologist that adds the extra touch to Marina’s lessons. So don’t give up yet give it some more thought.
Mike
I am doing allright for subscribers actually. I got my 40th one today! They have gone up quite well. I think I am on a downer at the moment and it leaves me doubtful.. But rome wasn’t built in a day request?? My brother has just turned 14 now.. happy birthday to him… But I suppose I will keep soldiering on..
This link is on Marina’s site here. I was just reading it as it may give you some more insight as what you want to produce as videos and how to make them more attractive to the audience. It’s a good article to read. I think M put it there just for you.
Mike http://skateass.com/wordpress/increasing-your-youtube-video-view-count/
Maybe you should address the russian – georgian dispute in another video. I know a ton of people that are biased against russia and are making them out to be the ‘thugs’ in the situation. When it isn’t like that at all.
James, Marina had the same issue as you did. She was doing video just like everyone else. It take time. Duplicate what Marina, Philip DeFranco, What the Buck, and others are doing. You’ll do fine. Just have to work it. Do some googgling on the subject. You’ll find 100’s of tips.. Thats how we all learned.
Hi, gr8 video like always, id like to request a phrase used commonly by Football commentators in the English Leagues, “Sick as a parrot!”, thanks and keep it up
This has to be one of your funniest videos (if not the funniest) to date! From the OTT excitement of “I’m going out with a leech!” to propagating the urban legend of your ’sister’ (even if it is just a convenient device to ‘normalise’ talking to yourself…). And yet, in between the comedy, you still had time to not only explain the etymology of the three senses of leech, but allow it to sink in before the next round of silliness.
One quick tip: when ‘looking up’ a word, it would look more realistic if you had a dictionary or book open at the relevant page rather than a sheet of A4 (which probably doubles up as your prompt sheet!)…
Hi James, buy me one too. Mine is old and takes to long for it to warm up. How was your vacation? Fine I hope. RRR is right Consumer Reports will steer you in the right direction as far as picking out what is best for what you need.
MIke
James for the money you might spend on an HD camcorder.. maybe you should get a macbook (which has a built-in camera). I’m going back to recording on my macbook as it looks more personable than my HD shots.. PLUS you get all the editing programs as well with the mac. No viruses.. etc…
That is good marina.. But I have always been a windows guy. And I would like a mac but if youtube shots are anything to go by.. I may buy this within the next week qwertyuiop also Marina a mac is very high price. I have not had this laptop for long anyway. One problem I have noticed with hd camcorders though is that they have a black border..
Hi James, I was told by the raging beaver guy when I asked what he recommends
If you aren’t too fussy, I recommend a digital camera with a filming option.Something that takes “aa” batteries with a memory card.That way with two sets of batteries and 6 GIG of memory you can film for hours on end as opposed to an expensive video camera with special expensive batts and limited memory capacity.
I use fujifilm myself, love it.
Of course I have ordered An HDD Panasonic, with anti shake feature because I’m going to strap it into my kid’s race car, which does crash on occaision & does vibrate. The main reason I ordered it though is that it was a feature on My airmiles merchandise, so the money was already spent & somewhat tax deductable as I use my card for business. Using airmiles doesn’t feel like spending $$. Sadly, now I can’t go anywhere nice to use the camera… (should arrive next week)
If you just make vids at home, then Marina’s idea is best, as I remember you seem to be susceptible to nasty little viruses.
BTW my wife just ordered an I Mac, the first non MS unit to ever broach our threshold. I don’t know if I’ll like it. I like Marina, so I think I’ll still like my wife… although she is bringing a stranger into my house hmm.
i use a panasonic pv-gs320 digital video camcorder using mini dv to shoot low, low budget documentaries. i’ve been really happy with it, cheap and it takes very good shots. marina is right about compression, took me a while to figure this shit out. high definition isn’t worth it for most low budget video work. not to mention its the content that the audience should be impressed with.
That Buster Keaton clip brought back some happy memories, my dad had a library card that he used frequently to bring home some old movies that he would run for family entertainment. I remember that look. He portrayed all the emotions through his body language & slapstick but his expression, conveyed nothing.
What Marina said “.. you don’t need HD for the Internet…” is correct.
If you don’t plan on putting your videos on DVD intended for big screen TV, you don’t need HD. Also, don’t confuse HD with video format.
Your comment about black borders is not necessarily HD related, it is format related 4:3 ratio versus 16:1 ratio. Most web video players are 4:3 ratio. The dog video I shot on YT used a $250 Panasonic Lumex camera. It was shot in very low light conditions. (my YT is the same username)
How old were you?
I remember when I was 9, had surgery on my kidneys… was real bummed to have to spend the whole Christmas holidays in the hospital. I was what you call a Thalidomide Baby. Luckily the Leeches (Doctors) finaly figured out what was wrong with me at 9 years old, after I healed from the surgeries I was allowed to run around outside again whoopee!!
Sadly a friend at the time, who also had to stay in at recess & passed the time with me when I had to stay in, died of a brain tumour shortly after. I learned early that life isn’t fair, but to be thankful for every day.
Is your heart still working good? don’t mean to pry… you good now.
I had waterson shunt when I was 1. That year in 1979 I almost died then I had open heart surgery in 1983. Yes my heart is good and well. I’ve got an appointment for a check up in November for some tests.
Oh thats weird. I was just thinking of requesting that word last night when I was walking from the grocery store. I was thinking about one letter words that someone was talking about in an earlier post. I call short words like ‘a’ ‘the’ ‘had’ ‘on’ ‘to’ etc, glue words. Used for putting words together to make a sentence.
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each; every; per: ten cents a sheet; three times a day.
Forgot ooops GLUE WORDS?
I was asking the Captain if these were the type of words he was talking about as ( glue words ) ??
I had forgot that some are a little …but I sure the Captain got the idea.
Its just an analogy for that lack of a word to describe them, aLx. I find ‘to’ ‘is’ ‘got’ ‘the’ ‘a’ and many others just useless words that there only purpose is to fit proper grammar rules. Picture this: “Vacation Paradise” I didn’t need to say “I like to take a Vacation in Paradise” You already imagined taking a vacation in paradise. Its obvious you can’t take a vacation On paradise. That all I really was saying.
As for RRR I don’t know what he is talking about.
Sorry, Capt.
I thought you would understand.
Those little words have names like;
preposition
indefinite article
conjunction
adjective
adverb
My misunderstanding
ah, okay, jack. i was thinking of words like “or”, “and”, “if … then” etc.
so i guess you’re talking about all those words where it’s hard or impossible to find a semantic meaning. yeah.
“is”, by the way, is called a copula.
My mistake. ‘or’, ‘if’, ‘and’ are very necessary. Copula, new word for me. Cool Tnks for the link. I guess then I feel Copula words are useless for the fact they make sentences a bit more wordy. They don’t seem to contribute any information to get the complete thought across.
* The book is on the table.
Book on table.
* The weather seems good.
Weather good.
Funny sounds like classical N. A. talk from the movies.
Welcome to the forum, mijj! Hey, it’s easy and costs nothing to put a favorite photo or graphic next to your posts if you go to gravatar.com and sign up. Then all you need to do is download a pic you have saved to your computer and you’re done.
responding to your udder post, and givin’ out way TMI…
they did not have to shave me…i already shave (mainly for personal comfort – have for years)…
itwas a laser surgery, completely painless; just a couple of snips to find the tubes…
‘course, i’m in my 50s & didn’t want to take the chance, were i ever to be with a woman again, to father a kid who would have to put up with a really, really old fart for a dad…
as it is, i have a lovely matched set (g & b) already, and my 10-yr-old son will have a dad who’ll enter his 60s while the boy is in HS…
He said he had a training exercise to attend today, and we (with the possible exception of aLx, naturally!) were anticipating that you’d take the opportunity to jump into the “first comment” spot but I guess you were a bit late for that. Stand by for the next lesson, though. It’ll be interesting to see who wins the race for first this time…
You’re the reincarnation of a character in the Brit, early ’60s puppet underwater show “Stingray”.
She was called “Marina” too. She was the femme fatale love interest of dashing wooden hero Troy Tempest. … and …. SHE WASN’T ABLE TO SPEAK! … and she was reincarnated as you who, ironically, SPEAKS INCESSANTLY!
Oh that was eerie in a cool sort of a way. I don’t quite know what to think about that one.
I was role playing online with a girlfriend of mine and I was a sea serpent and she was just a girl on the beach. About a year later I found a ceramic candle holder that Boris Vallejo and his wife Julie Bell designed. It was a sea serpent with a naked girl next to him. Original art work – Sea Serpent My scan of the candle stick holder
It was an incredible find for our role playing story.
Wow, that was a cool show which didn’t air in my neighborhood apparently. We watched Fireball XL-5 every Saturday morning when I was in second grade, though.
Great theme song! Marina should try to get permission to use it. Awesome! Nice work, mijj!
I’m glad you remember those! .. this place is mainly full of yanks so they’re uncouth n unsophisticated n have mostly never heard of the Stingray puppet show like wot we have.
What’re you doin’ all the way back here in this dusty ol’ thread?
Dusty yes, I guess time does fly when you’re busy. I’m catching up and having fun doing it. So much to read and I’m looking stuff up as I read so it’s taking quite awhile.
Thanks
… this is what i was jabbering on about on my first day.
from what you say i guess you’re a hardened HotForWordser. I thought you were a baby fresh to the site, lost in the archives and dint know how to return.
She was called “Marina” too. She was the femme fatale love interest of dashing wooden hero Troy Tempest. … and …. SHE WASN’T ABLE TO SPEAK! … and she was reincarnated as you who, ironically, SPEAKS INCESSANTLY!
you know, Marina .. i was joking when i said that — you don’t talk nearly enough in your threads with your thread buddies.
i have a word request: (well two actually)
husband
wife
husbandry has to do with taking care of animals, so does this prove women who marry are animals?
Hi ho and a jolly welcode to all you surfwide’n interwebber lopers. Here beholdy manifold things Stanley Unwinmost – all deep joy and thorkus for great laugh’n tittery. O yes.
Just in case Marina doesn’t, I took a quick trawl through Wikipedia…
It’s all a bit murky, but Greek was possibly the first to emerge. However, Greek itself didn’t influence Hebrew (or vice versa). Both were based on the earlier Phonecian alphabet, but took different routes, customising it to suit their needs. Oh, and this alphabet (the one we’re using today!) is also derived from Phonecian…
Meanwhile, apparently the Phonecian alphabet itself can trace its ancestry… all the way back to Egyptian heiroglyphics!
It didn’t occur to me that one may not be derived from the other.
Hieroglyphics, eh?
Which spins me onto Chinese written language .. can you (by which i mean anyone) learn to read and write Chinese without needing to learn to speak it? – because that sounds handy.
Actually, i just got done taking a class on the emergence of civilizations, and we learned that according to the radiocarbon dates, physical evidence in terms of artifacts, and the stratigraphic record, the Mesopotamian civilization and the Egyptian civilization developed independently for quite awhile before the Egyptians started borrowing a couple things from the slightly more regimented Mesopotamians (that is, present day Iraq, or what we now refer to as “Babylon”, Uruk-Warka, the Ubaid culture, etc. in the Tigris-Euphrates basin). Apparently, the need to organize citizenry in order to accomplish widespread public works such as agriculture by irrigation of large areas of the Tigris-Euphrates basin was far greater in Mesopotamia than in the Nile valley due to the area being such a wide, featureless, silt-and-clay plain where the rivers meandered back and forth willy-nilly across the basin quite a bit and changed course flooding large areas at inopportune times (late spring to early summer– right when the plants were beginning to mature), so much more control needed to be exerted over the floodwaters than in the Nile valley, where the river pretty much had incised itself down into a comparatively narrow channel surrounded by higher desert lands that would have been near-impossible to farm. Also, the annual rainfall in that area (also in Egypt) is so minimal that the growing season would have been too short to accomplish sufficient production to support a permanent year-round population without using water from the either the Tigris or the Euphrates rivers which were fed by snowmelt from the Taurus Mountains and Anatolian uplands. So during the late paleolithic, the early leaders began to create an administrative organization to manage and direct the collective public workforce in Mesopotamia in order to 1.) help mitigate the flooding problems they had annually, 2.)make sure everyone did their part, collectivizing the food production over the entire area, and 3.) creating a system of accounting wherein the people could all be fed according to the amount of work output and food production they put in. This means they had to keep records. That’s why they were first to come up with a recognizeable system of pictographs and numerals. The Egyptians had river-bank farmland resembling narrow strips along the edges of the river where the rich soil provided bounteous production for the relatively sparse populations living there. The Nile was confined to a deep valley it couldn’t escape from (with the possible exception of the Nile Delta, where it all fans out and floods every year). Egyptian leaders had their own system of picture-writing which developed into hieroglyphics, and we see Egyptians using Mesopotamian symbols here and there as time passed, but not the other way around. Trade between the two was a relatively late development, compared to each civilization’s interior development, from what I’m taught. Yes, I got an A in the coures, thank you.
Actually, i just got done taking a class on the emergence of civilizations, and we learned that …….
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…… was a relatively late development, compared to each civilization’s interior development, from what I’m taught. Yes, I got an A in the coures, thank you.
Ok, there probably is some truth to the idea that, if one seeks to accomplish a task or reach a goal of some kind, people will think up and devise to employ what is commonly referred to as a gimmick.
Sure, sometimes I need a gimmick. Marina needs gimmicks sometimes probably, too. We all need gimmicks.
… if the word gimmick isn’t worthy of investigation, consider going from the word leech to maggot. Maggot therapy is a medical practice brought to light during the American Civil War.
It was a practice called phlebotomy and involved removing blood from a person to re-balance their “humors.”
Leeches are still applied today to help repair blood vessels and restore circulation. In June 2004, the Food and Drug Administration cleared the first application for leeches (Hirudo medicinalis) to be used in modern medicine as medical devices. Surgeons who do plastic and reconstructive surgery find leeches especially valuable when regrafting amputated appendages, such as fingers or toes
Nice quiet summer night.
Cool crisp fresh air.
Should have slept like a baby.
But NO!!!! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053611/
Nightmare time
And no Kobe to protect me.
In medieval and early modern medicine, the medicinal leech (Hirudo medicinalis and its congeners Hirudo verbana, Hirudo troctina and Hirudo orientalis) was used to remove blood from a patient as part of a process to “balance” the “humors” that, according to Hippocrates, must be kept in balance in order for the human body to function properly. (The four humors of ancient medical philosophy were blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile.) Any sickness that caused the subject’s skin to become red (e.g. fever and inflammation), so the theory went, must have arisen from too much blood in the body. Similarly, any person whose behavior was strident and “sanguine” was thought to be suffering from an excess of blood.
Hirudotherapy, the use of medicinal leech for medical purposes, was introduced by Avicenna in The Canon of Medicine (1020s). He considered the application of leech to be more useful than cupping in “letting off the blood from deeper parts of the body.” He also introduced the use of leech as treatment for skin disease. Leech therapy became a popular method in medieval Europe, namely the leeches from Portugal and France, due to the influence of his Canon. A more modern use for medicinal leech was introduced by Abd-el-latif al-Baghdadi in the 12th century, who wrote that leech could be used for cleaning the tissues after surgical operations. He did, however, understand that there is a risk over using leech, and advised patients that leech need to be cleaned before being used and that the dirt or dust “clinging to a leech should be wiped off” before application. He further writes that after the leech has sucked out the blood, salt should be “sprinkled on the affected part of the human body.”[1]
since illnesses were thought to be caused by an imbalance, or, alternately, an overabundance, of blood, a blood-sucker such as a leech was held to be the obvious solution…
Speaking of myths, I looked up leeches in my Encyclopedia Britannica that I have installed on my computer and it associated “Ebisu” and that entry mentioned “Hiru-ko”. Ebisu is one of the Seven Gods of Luck – the patron of fishermen and tradesmen and is sometimes identified with Hiru-ko which is translated “Leech Child”. I really enjoy browsing through my reference tools.
MARINA ! You forgot to say that the word LEECH “medecine man” is etymologically connected to Slavic ! In Russian ЛЕК = LEK = medecine. ЛЕЧИТЬ = LECHIT’ = CURE.
I think it is a good opportunity to show that european languages are like sisters and brothers.
In the olden days when Wartime surgeons performed limb amputation they would intoxicate the patient with alchohol and give them something to bite on, like a stick or a bullet(as it was readily available). It is now defined: To face something difficult.
Aha, another possible source. During the British Imperial days, when Britain controlled India. Muslims and Hindus were conscripted to serve as Military auxillary units. The bullets they had were encased in paper and lubricated with Pig fat. The procedure for opperating the weapon was to hold the gun with one hand and to tear off the bullet casing with the teeth. Muslims and Hindus are not allowed to ingest much less handle pig or pig derivatives. The British ordered them to do counter to what religion comanded, ergo the saying “They’ll just have to bite the bullet.”
Hi all, I seem to remeber leechs being used to suck out poison and bad blood like what was mentioned before. Now today some doctors use leechs to promote blood flow to areas of the body were the blood isn’t flowing like it should. As far as knowing a leech, my ex-wife was like one. She spent and spent even when I asked her to stop. She spent all of my money. She doesn’t any more.
Leeches(Liches) were thought to be a cure for disease because according to medical belief, it was thought that leeches would only remove polluted blood, thereby removing the source of illness in the body.
Olympics were named after the City of Olympia where the first games were held.
The word Infant is also defined to be something in the first stages of growth or development. Correct me if I need it, the infantry is the first mode of assault in battle. I think this definition came later. Most of the definitions list it as a child not able to speak. I think the nomenclature people wanted to put an innocuous name to it so the Infantry wouldn’t be seen as something aggressive.
hello miss marina, me and my brother each have a word to request, he was wondering if there were any reason the Olympics got its name, and i was wondering if the military word infantry had anything to do with babies?
Hi Marina, I have a word request!
Why do we say someone has a “chip on their shoulder” when they are upset about something or hold a grudge?
Thanks!
-Adam
I got upset at the company.. I had 250,000 views on my entry.. the next most viewed submission was at about 400 views. The contest video starring Chuck Woolery had about 2,000 views. And they awarded the prize to the kid with 400 views and didn’t even offer me a free bottle of lotion…. NOTHING. I got so upset that I had promoted that company for nothing, and they didn’t even thank me, that I deleted the video.
Steven Colbert was a fun addition to the Daily Show with John Stewart, but giving him (Colbert) his own show has downgraded my appreciation of him quite significantly because his delivery style is just way too silly for me (okay in short bursts, but not as a solo act) and in my opinion his show has become irritating. The writers have some humorous ideas, but I don’t watch the Colbert Report because it’s just too over-the-top ridiculous. The slightly more deadpan delivery style of John Stewart is still funnier by far, in my view.
If you were to appear on one of them, I would love to see you on The Daily Show with John Stewart. But as you say, it would be good to be invited in the first place.
“I got upset at the company.. I had 250,000 views on my entry.. the next most viewed submission was at about 400 views. The contest video starring Chuck Woolery had about 2,000 views. And they awarded the prize to the kid with 400 views and didn’t even offer me a free bottle of lotion…. NOTHING. I got so upset that I had promoted that company for nothing, and they didn’t even thank me, that I deleted the video.”
Did you even keep a copy ? Perhaps you could have relabeled it and just kept it for artistic value. Not everything has to be all about gain and loss. Thats my opinion only, and comments could be attributed to a gain. Your decision though any thoughts you would like too share with all of us?
You can dance and you have a dog . But if you really want to be noticed?
Tell them you hate G.W and you are an Obama Girl and dis on O’Reilly and your in. You might even get a spot on Howard”s show too.
Marina, thanks for the update and I understand how you feel because I was highly upset at their selection as I had watched the results. Your’s was 30 seconds of superb storytelling and execution. I saved that video. I’d be happy to send it to you. Also, I’ll see if I can re-edit it to promote HotForWords instead of the lotion.
Most contest are to accomplish only one thing. “Product recognition and to collect data.”
Sometimes contests work better than a commercial on TV. Because you can get a lot of information from your customer. This is an old marketing tactic that I though was no longer in practice. Its all about marketing products to sheeple. They don’t care who wins the contest. They almost never pick the first place person because there might be a dispute if that person cheated some how. Marketing departments don’t want to deal with that headache. They are getting paid top dollar to get product exposure. Its a very aggressive war to capture your dollars. If you fight fair you will lose the advertising war. Did you all see Jay lose the contest he should have won? The grand prize winner was in 8th place. Are you seeing a pattern here? I never enter contests that are promoted by a large brand. Nor do I fill out any sweepstakes forms. Those forms are to put you on a mailing list. They make so much money from those list that they can afford to give away a car.
Do what I do. I prefer mom and pop businesses. So support your locally owned business or smaller companies. Yea they cost a bit more and not as efficient as a large company. But they rarely cheat you. You get a lot more from them. I’ve gotten free meals, free products, Free car rental, free hotel room, free internet, etc etc. Scratching backs with small companies goes a very long way. You just have to know how to ask and sometime offer something in return. Even my sister has eaten more free susi than she has paid for.
pennsyltucky9 replied on August 16th, 2008 9:47 am:
Steven Colbert was a fun addition to the Daily Show with John Stewart, but giving him (Colbert) his own show has downgraded my appreciation of him quite significantly…
I think that going on the David Letterman Show would be great for your Web-site. Don’t you?
I don’t know if he has ever invited you though….has he?
He should.
Leeches are used to remove infected blood, so that the clean blood can replace it.
Actually a funny sort of thing on that, in the werewolf movie Ginger Snaps Back (Ginger Snaps 3), there is this guy that denys he has been bitten, so this doctor tosses a leech on him and he starts screaming and his chest starts changing color really fast, because well… he IS infected and so the leech is pulling the lycanthropy to the surface.
I sort of “know” that “hell” comes from a Scandinavian word for hot .. but “hell” is somewhere generally unpleasant and not just hot (isn’t it?) .. so why “Hell” and not “Unpleasant” (or similar)?
dude, you’ve mentioned some interesting stuff. i came across your youtube address, i could contact you there to discuss some of these things further. cool with that?
youtube seems to be down for maintenance. i’ll just send you a message from my youtube account later. the messages are not the same as comments so they aren’t public. i’ll add my personal email address so you can contact me there. that way my email address won’t be public. you should receive an email from youtube notifying you when you receive a message. so there, with that i’m off to the land of nod
hi marina! kak dela? ya xotel znat esli ti smojiw ” investigate husband and wife”…..ya dumayu interesno budet znat otkuda eti slova….spasibo tebe….vidno 4to ti o4en umnaya jenwina
can you do “strategical” please? or strategy? something along the lines of that word. you are the best. intelligence is definitely sexy. hooah. >:) (perhaps do the origin of the word hooah?) >:)
I remember hearing about leeches being used as a form of medical treatment. I always thought it sounded odd. I does remind me of this clip from Blackadder.
There is a computer term called “leeching” which means grabbing data from other people’s PC’s.
Long ago, it was common belief that sicknesses were concentrated in the blood, and so it was thought that sick people could be cured by “bleeding” them, or taking some of the “bad blood” from them. Barbers used to perform this as an extra service, then wrap the bloody bandages around a pole out front of their place of business so that people would know they could have this service done there as well as the barbers’ normal jobs of haircutting and shaving. That’s where the spiral red-and-white striped “barber pole” we see today originated. Leeches were also used to drain blood from people because they could be placed on the sick person’s arms or legs and allowed to suck out some of the “bad blood” without cutting their skin open with a shard knife or scalpel. But only the wealthy could afford this special “no-knife” treatment. I’ve been attacked by leeches while wading in a stream and I can tell you that being bitten by leeches isn’t comfortable. But it is far less painful than having an incision by a blade without anaesthesia, Less-wealthy people had to bear the pain of having incisions cut into them so the so-called “bad blood” could be drained when they fell ill. Leeches were a doctor’s prized possessions, and had to be carefully guarded, cared for and fed to be kept healthy so the physician could prosper whenever the leeches were needed (and the patient could afford it!). Leeches were still in use to relieve unsightly bruising as in the case of a black eye also, right up until recently, from what I understand. I seem to recall seeing a picture of a jar of “medical leeches” swimming around in water in an encyclopedia when I was young, so that would have had to have been less than about a thousand years ago. Okay, I was kidding about that. I’m only 852 years old, really. See my gravatar? I look pretty young in that picture!
I thought he was older. Sometimes I see him at Saturday night bingo, but he’s very selective about only hanging out with people of his own generation…so, uh… I’ll ask him about it if I can pry him away from his best buddies Cher and Keith Richards.
Miss M. what happens to the comments that we put on your You Tube site? I added one and so did Seesixcm6. When I went back to the site the comments where no longer there.
I don’t remove comments… they are there.. it takes time for the comments to go from the video page to the view all comments page… so go back later.. and view all.. they will be there.
Interesting origin. And since we’re on the subject of dating, my friend and I were wondering where the origin of the word “date” as in dating came from. I hope you get around to answering this, and make sure to mention us (Jeran and Patrick) if you use it. We love your videos and you don’t disappoint!
I don’t look like that guy but I still can break a brick with my bare hands and climb up a line without using my legs and feet. Thats all the buff I think I need for now. I do need to work on my gut. It’s just starting to get that beer belly look. I used to hold the junior high school record of 300 sit ups in P.E. No I don’t think I could do 30 of them.
Ballard! That where my mail box is. You know where Archie Mcphee’s is? Yea, its right next door to it. I should have you go pick up my mail. Just kidding. Last winter I was teaching at Fisherman’s terminal. Might have to do it again this year. I don’t know yet. I hope to stay in Kirkland.
Oh yea there is a lot of Bling Bling here. I think even the homeless people own Ferraris & Lamborghins here. I swear there is like a party in this little town every night.
Oh Kent, too much concrete and not enough trees.
Leech does seem to be a more appropriate appellation for a lawyer – a bloodsucking, slimy, little worm…. the only thing worse are politicians, but then most of them seem to be lawyers too…
So ok here is an answer for the homework: Inside the leeches “saliva,” they have an anti-coagulant(Something that stops your blood from clotting), sometimes people can suffer from disorders that make it so that you blood can’t clot. So when a leech releases it’s anti-coagulant it’s kind of like doing a system reset. Your body will realize what’s going on and try to correct the problem so when the leech is taken off the blood will start to clot again!
Then I have a word request, Trunks as in Swimming trunks
I once saw an elephant on the beach. Must have been an exhibitionist. He was going around with his trunk down….Tusk! Tusk! you say? Yeah, it’s an OLD joke…..
Lividenerald, how much caffeine have you had today. Are making up for lost time. You are all over the place today-tonight. Your going to wear out your keyboard. If you need a break, here’s a beer on me [] if you don’t drink then think of it as a soda. More caffeine.
Trying to catch up with over a month of missed videos, Capman911. Most of the letters have worn off my keyboard, and yes, I did take a break yesterday, and, yes, I could use some caffeine. I’m getting ready to grab a bite to eat right now! Nice ride, by the way. I like your gravatar.
Marina
Your dress is very nice, I am just glad you’re not doing the Mr Rodgers sweeter thing. Do you think you could ask your sister to make more videos?? If she had a web page I ‘d be her First member. Hell there would be a lot of us would go to the dark side . With two sisters and two sites? One for the sweet and one for the sour. It could double the Orlova stock.
I’ll even be her starter TAss . A class room for the bad boys Hotforbadboys
Good suggestion RRR. You could name the site HotForBadBoysandGirls. Lets don’t forget them they like to flame also. You could get a stand up copy of Marina and sit next to it and talk all the sh1t we wanted. A site just to vent on and on each other. You tube would be on us like flies on a turd. But it would be grand while it lasted.
my dear teacher:) so where did the word doctor come from? interesting.. The term doctorate comes from the Latin docere, meaning “to teach”, shortened from the full Latin title licentia docendi, meaning “license to teach.” This was translated from the Arabic term ‘ijazat attadris’, which was a distinction granted to certain Islamic scholars, thus qualifying them to teach:)
“But teachers…” But what? What where you going to say about teachers? Teachers are leeches? hehehe LOL. Your so funny when you mess up and start laughing. It cracks me up.
Homework: Im skipping the first part because it will leech too much of my time today. I have classes to prepare for. Second part, Leeches. Evil Ex-girlfriends and Bills. I kept running into women that only wanted me for my money. Many just wanted a free dinner. I would lie and tell them I lost all my money in the stock market and I was broke. They never stuck around after that. I did have one stick around. I later found out she was poking holes in my condoms. Now I just don’t trust women in general. Last count I had 8 or 9 women wanted to marry me. Its a classic catch 22 for me.
Bills. Companies are charging for every little thing. I got my cellphone bill down to $60 from $100 a month. How much does it cost them to for cell service? $10 – $20 a month and still make a profit. Rents are outrageous. I down from $2,300 a month to only… Hold on your hats.. $375 a month and thats expensive. Some docks charge around $270 for the same size yacht. On my next sailing yacht I’ll be able to dump having top pay electric and water by making my own electricity and water. Oh I almost forgot other leeches. The manufactures of disposable products. Im talking about product that are not normally disposable. Cars, TVs, DVD players, Kitchen appliances, Computers, etc. for example. They leech money from use about every 5 to 10 years.
shiver me timbers capn jack 8-9 women you lucky jack sparrow!:) if you get a stowaway on board, that’d be me aye, waitin for them lasses aye, I’d take your rejects captn, but youd probably make me walk tha plank
Do you really believe him. He has blow up dolls he puts on the deck of his boat in bikinis just so people will think he has a bunch of fine ladies on board. Just like Aerosmith’s song big 10 inch——— record. Sorry Jack I had to give your secret away. Or as some are called inflate a mate maybe part of his crew too.
dnafragment, Oh thats nothing. Its really annoying when you have to beat them off your yacht with a baseball bat. I should send you photos of the half naked ones. You can have all the one I kick overboard. You can rescue them and be an instant hero. !!! You better practice your mouth to mouth resuscitation.
Captain! Yea thats exactly what I do. The girls see that I have no more room they just leave. Also the blow up dolls are low maintenance. I don’t have to feed them, buy expensive bags and outfits, drinks, etc. Only problem with them its they are lifeless in bed.
CaptainJack, that is the most depressing post I’ve seen in a while. I hope you someday meet a woman who knows the value of work and developed her own work skills. As for bills, I try to live simply and don’t own a cellphone, ipod, HDTV or other gadgets. I still use a 35mm film camera. By this Christmas, I’ll save up enough to buy a camcorder and post some video responses to Marina.
Oh sorry seesixcm6. Didn’t mean to. I have a many girlfriends. Nothing serious. Just friends. Some are happily married. Some divorced. Some single. Some just with kids. Some widowed. Some in the US. Some over seas. Some are afraid of the water. Some are smart. Some are hot. They all are my friends. They believe I will find someone and they say that girl will truly be the luckiest girl on the face of the earth.
I love my gadgets. I don’t mind them. As long I only have to buy them once and have no monthly contracts attach to them. Thats good your getting a camcorder. I turned mine in for a cleaning and they completely replace the insides with some defective auto focus. Now I hardly use it. I plan to pick up a new HD camera to do my some training videos. So great, get your video camera and make some video responses.
We if you want to attract sluts, then yea get a boat. I think some women just board the boat to show off to the other girls that they are with a wealthy man. They only appease the boat owner so they can get a boat ride. There is this guy on my dock that has girls on his boat twice a week. He goes out for only about an hour or two. In the morning the girls and a guy or two are one by one leaving the boat.
That said, a boat is a fantastic way to pick up women. It works better than a car and you can buy cheaper booze.
$500 bucks! Wow that’s cheap. It cost me that just to get a few stitches on my finger. The condom problem among others things like women becoming leeches is one reason I don’t have any sleepovers. Plus all the relationships are based on sex which makes them hollow.
I don’t know if I would get snipped just for causal joy ride in the hay. If I was in a serious relationship with a woman and she though it would be a good idea then yes I would do it. There needs to be more options for birth control for men.
A couple other things, oh pardon me…udder things to remember about the operation are:
First, you get your pubes shaved, which can take months to grow back in… ..meantime, all the pokey little sharp cut-off ends are driving your nuts, well, frankly, NUTS. So says my baby brother. He was itchin’ to get back to normal, shall we say.
Secondly, once you do (okay, if you ever) find that woman who completes you in every way, things can change quite a bit. You may start to look at the world so differently that you could decide to go the distance and put another family member or two at the table just to keep thinks lively and break up the monotony. Decisions like that will also be made jointly, not individually. Plus, what man doesn’t secretly want a son with whom he can share his wisdom and skills? Nudder can no doubt relate to this part.
Thanks PT, You just talked me out of that operation.
I can go either way with deciding to have kids or not. I’ve helped other peoples kids over the years. Mostly in sea scouts. I have many friends that have cats and dogs as their children. I worked for Captain Jeff, and he was more into his dog than kids. He always said if his dog fell overboard that he didn’t care if the cruise ship was full of passengers and we where doing 22 knots that he would jump overboard for his dog. The unwritten rule was if his dog fell overboard that it was the crews job to jump overboard and rescue the dog. Now we wouldn’t actually do that but it the attitude of importance I was pointing out.
monotony? Don’t have time for that. Hey if my hair is not on fire then somethings wrong.
Abstinence is what im doing now. Problem is im wasting years of perfected talent. Abstinence during marriage? I keep hearing that once you get married it all goes away. You might as well cut the darn thing off and place it in a museum. Well Im telling you that will never happen. Not on my watch.
I empathize, Capn! I’ve been working on a story for two years now.
It started as half of an idea over 10 years ago. I put the project down
until I met someone who held key information that was missing.
Great – right?! She had to be dropped/was getting married and I
couldn’t stop the feelings, etc, etc.
So, I joined a certain website (not this one) that had 3 people
helping out. One with poetry, one who inspired(and ran the site),
and finally a lawyer who proposed that he perform the agent duties.
Now, since they absolutely could not communicate with one
another.
I could only add it up that they had their own agendas. So, here I am -
- two chapters short of complete (the chapters are in my mind – ready)
and all of these people will not have the thousands to be had in a
hardcover printing, the millions it might bring in for all the action and
drama. Forget about the sequel. Lastly, all the equality that I try to
portray gets *FLUSHED* because I will not complete a leeches
formula to success.
Dear Marina, For your homework, leeches are still used in medecine to remove blood and improve bloodflow near a wound, or postsurgery. I know some people who are leeches and stay away from them. They have no character and no skills.
I need to make a speech six months from now, in January, 2009. So I’ve watched your excellent presentations. You keep good eye contact with your camera, speak clearly and distinctly, but not too fast. You use humor well. You use small hand gestures that don’t detract from the lesson, and you always look well-groomed and attractive! Of course, I can’t look as good as you do, but I want my speech to be as clean and smooth as yours. It’s amazing that you do this almost every day! I’m lucky to have six months to prepare! Your dear student who learns from your good examples, seesixcm6
Seesixcm6 Hi, You spoke of having to prepare for a speech I presume you are a teacher or professor or a student of some kind. You have a lot of knowledge of video and audio set ups. I am not trying to pry into your personal life, but you have me at an awe of what you do.
Mike
CaptainJack, don’t be too overawed. I work in Silicon Valley, where only the survivors stay employed over the decades. I studied electronics on an ROTC scholarship, did time in the Signal Corps, including duty in South Korea and West Germany, where I learned that Soviet-era Russians were not very nice people. (So this site fascinates me.) Without trying to sell anything, my speech involves retirement strategies for this new, global economy.
I dated a Russian for a good stretch, she was a Soviet and then liberated Russian. (In my opinion) That was a hard shift for any social system (people) to go through…and then the mafia (not a nice subject but a real one). She would often tell me “One phone call, just one phone call is all it would take.” And I mimicked her for years, “You are so estupid. You are such estupid guy…” But I never really thought that she represented all of Russia and any personality particularties I considered to be her’s alone and not a country’s, insight yes, sure, but not representative of the entire culture–or maybe I really am estupid guy.
okay4now, No. Maybe I’ll try that later. For the time being, I’d want to avoid conflict-of-interest difficulties. In Silicon Valley, there’s this old joke: Q. How do you address an electronics engineer? A. You say, “Oh Waiter.”
Hello seesixcm6,
another joke:
A graduate with a science degree asks: “Why does it work?”
…with an engineering degree: “How does it work?”
…with an accounting degree: “How much will it cost?”
…with an arts degree: “do you want fries with that?”
Hello my dear teacher,
I would like to know how the term, “The worm will turn”, came about.
Why is it used to refer to bad people getting paid back for evil things that they have done?
I’m waiting for Captain Jack to tell us about the leeches on the sails of his boat; they are the only leeches I have ever had, apart from hotforwords.com, which is a time-leech and apparently keeps me from doing the washing up, according to my wife.
Come to think of it, that proves that not all leeches are bad.
LOL good one Bob!!! Leeches, clew, sheets, halyards, bunts, braces, rattens are all names of lines on a sailboat. There are no lines on a sailboat that doesn’t have a name. There are two types of basic lines, standing and running rigging. Just watch the movie ‘Captain Ron’ when they do that little sailing quiz. Oh and there are no ropes. Once a rope is put on a boat its called a line. Ropes are a land term.
I looked at two or three places for the blue that was added in on the poles but can’t find any reference to it. It shows the red and white poles and then some with the red, white and blue, but no explanation. I could mean blue was added as our nations colors are red, white and blue. I don’t know if other countries use poles now or not.
Dear dear Marina..
first of all, thanks SO much for doing the lesson about spilling beans It was my suggestion and I love it
Another question.. how do you think about the whole Russian-Georgian thing going on over there? And where does the name Georgia come from? Is it named after a certain George?
Anyhow, good luck with everything and much love from the Netherlands
Groetjes Maxim
Dear Marina, I have a word request to make and this particular word has been…troubling me, for days now Think you can help?
It’s the word ‘right’, but the question is not really it’s origin but how did it get different, irrelevant to each other. meanings, such as privilege, the opposite of left and being exact/correct.
Leech suck bad blood out of our body .
Leech are slimy disgusting stuff .
Leechers have something to do with bittorrent stuff .
What about Lich ?
i dont have any leeches but i do have a sponge for a brother…
Regarding Captn’s comment below.
Capt’n Jack, I thought your comments about marketing and Jay were pretty good. YT as well as other sites offer lots of contests. I have been thinking of entering one of those and if I enter one of them, I’ll be sure to aim for number ten instead of number one. Here is the YT offerings of contests. It’s under the Community tab.
http://www.youtube.com/contests_main
Marina, would you enter another contest again? Despite the acrid experience of the last contest, I would like to see you enter many more. I think you have a great many talents in script writing, delivery and production as well as the obvious personality and star attraction. As Captn’ pointed out, maybe you’ll have to aim lower. Even if you don’t win, would it give you greater exposure to the HFW site?
any relationship to m. dutch word leken, which gives us the word, leak? also, how about the word leach, from old english leccan?
what is the origin of the word “Afflatus” looking forward to your reply
gerad
Hery Marina =]
Just a word request. If it’s a good word lol. It’s schadenfreude. It’s in the english dictionary, i know that. i think it might be german though, hmmm. Anyway, looking forward to your next video !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdD9ypqoBk4
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Dear Marina, here is an opportunity for you! Break into the MAIN stream OLD media! In today’s (8/16) New York Times, Dick Cavett has asked someone to explain the phrase “by and large.” This is your opportunity! Just to be sure you have the referencee I paste the quote from his column so go for it:
Few comedians kill themselves. (Maybe because audiences so readily do it for them.) Young Freddie Prinze comes to mind. At least two in recent years have indulged themselves to death (in different ways) — John Candy and Chris Farley — but I think the legendary funny folk outlive the general population as a rule. And I guess you could say Lenny Bruce — whose alleged genius largely escaped me — did himself in. And of course John Belushi, for whom I had great affection. But by and large (will anyone ever explain that phrase?) comics are long-lived. (See Hope, Burns, et al.) Quite a few hundreders.
Hi
Why Georgia in Asia have same name as Georgia in USA?
Interesting…. I second the request!
Yeah! Similarly, there exists a st Petersburg, Florida (in which I reside)
and a St Petersburg, Russia. Perhaps by reason of immigrants from
the original area?
I live near Hollywood, Wa
The USA Georgia is there because Asia Georgia was trying to set up an alibi.
Revisionist history will show both were named after George Bush.
I was just wondering what the origin of the word Janitor is and why some Janitor
Prefer the word custodian.
All back to normal.
Went SCUBA diving today.
Was under for over an hour.
NO LEECHES!!
You were able to hold your breath for over an hour! Wow you must be some diver!!!
The world is a vampire ….
sent to drain. (Smashing Pumpkins!)
Leeches have found their way back into medicine along with maggots.
It seems that when certain wounds or arthitic conditions have a pain or
pressure build up, an alternative to addicting pain relievers like
morphine are leeches. Maggots have been found to eat away at dead
or dying tissues in cases of certain wounds.
Not for me.
The leech video is moving up fast on utube. I think I am going over there and watch it again and vote to push it up even further.
“In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.” -Carl Sagan –
by an astonishing coincidence i just happened to have returned from wandering YouTube where i saw this (!!!) …
[YouTube: The Matrix Vs. Carl Sagan]
Isn’t interesting that there is more empty space than there is matter? Frankly Im amazed that all my atoms stay together.
I always wondered why I felt hollow or spacey. 
i always thought that dudes voice sounded really familiar, now i know. i wonder if it was intentional?
maybe it wasnt a coincidence .. i arrived at that vid via …
http://www.reddit.com/comments/6wm7t/carl_sagan_is_the_original_agent_smith/
maybe you were reminded of the quote via the same source.
Coincidence? Maybe… Have you heard of entanglement in regards of subatomic particles acting opposite directions of each other? The NSA, CIA, and a bunch of others now rely on entanglement of photons for secure communications. This entanglement is a proven fact as you may already know very well. Question is, do we as humans have the small ability to communicated using entanglement theory. Might be a clue on how my sister and I can communicate mentally or other people for that matter.
Here is and interesting story I found on my phone today.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/16/189248&from=rss
“Have you heard of entanglement in regards of subatomic particles acting opposite directions of each other?”
yes .. but … we’re missing the entanglement part of this, so we can’t blame it on that. (…except if the big bang theory is true, then everything is entangled anyway.)
I love that freaky elemental physics stuff, btw.
My favorite mind bender is the double slit photon experiment. Where, if you’re watching, a single fired photon particle goes through either one slit or the other .. and if you’re not watching, the single fired photon particle goes through goes through both simultaneously.
cool if you not watching how do you know it goes through both simultaneously?
hey check this out, elemental physics is right. my question about this is what about the initial state of the universe and the role of the observer? as in the universe as a watched pot.
I love that experiment. You know you can take a simple pocket laser and cut two slits in some thick paper you can see the interference pattern very well.
Some cool Nova DVDs to check out if you haven’t
“The Elegant Universe” – The Unified Field Theory, String Theory, and 11 dimensions.
“Einstein’s Big Idea”
“Einstein Revealed”
“What the Bleep Do We Know” – Its and ok video. I think they reach a bit far in their assumptions. I do like it for the Dr. Quantum videos.
These are fun animated videos for all to watch.
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Dr Quantum – Double Slit Experiment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc
What is Quantum entanglement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja0UUKbVlhA
Dr Quantum – Flatland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWyTxCsIXE4
Carl Sagan 4th Dimension Explanation of Flatland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9KT4M7kiSw
This video is a bunch of Profs talking about vibrations. Warning this video is a heavy subject for people to wrap their minds around.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eDqDcZm9EA
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Enjoy..
Wow server crashed while I was posting.
I think …
… if there’s a sensor checking a slit for photons, then there’s no resulting interference pattern on the other side …
… if there’s no sensors checking the slits, then the photon goes through both slits as waves and make an interference pattern (by … erm .. interfering with itself).
prob worth checking tho. I saw an example demo on YouTube where it was electrons rather than photons. It’s the same principle though. The electron, having larger mass, has a shorter wavelength in its wave form.
hmm have to think on this some, each slit represents four surfaces, still if theres no sensors , any form of observation is a form of sensor.
yeh .. i “think” the idea is that the “wave” existence is the potential form of the thing and the “particle” existence is the physical (manifested) form of existence.
i.e. if it’s not observed (or interacted with) then it’s in its potential form of existence. That potential is not localised to one physical place (i.e. the potential exists in both slits and beyond). Once an observation takes place, then that potential of the thing over space jells into a single particle at a physical location. With the likelyhood of the particle being at a particular location being defined by the potential form of the thing.
So, the resulting pattern on the screen after the two slots depends on if the thing was “observed” at a slit. If so, then the potential form ceases and it behaves as we expect a particle to behave and only goes through one slit. If it’s not observed at the slit, then the potential form has a wave shape, and that wave interferes with itself (reinforcing in places and weakening in others). Until it’s observed on the screen with the likelyhood as defined by the potential form of the thing.
…
… that’s my interpretation of what happens … but, i don’t have any kind of physics education 
, so, i’m fully prepared to be shot down or corrected. 
I only just checked out your link … probably too late for you to see this, but, thanks ..
Wow! .. It’s brilliant stuff .. nice to have new ways of having one’s mind twisted.
Hello captainJack,
Those quantum physics sites that you noted are interesting.
First time that I read about anything like that was in the book “Timeline” by Micheal Crichton. He explained the same thing.
Isn’t quantum physics just nuts? Rules change in the subatomic world that are much different in our larger world. Now if we can combine Relativity and Quantum theories into one unified field theory then we might be able to influence influence the world we live in. Maybe travel to other worlds without breaking the speed of light barrier.
Hey CaptainJack,
I just read an article and I couldn’t find the original source but I found this site I thought tat it was coincidental that you mentioned it.
Urgh thinking about giving up youtube.. Im not getting anywhere
Don’t give up utube. Some of your videos are where people are sent to explain the f word and other words that M has done. Fork videos are good examples of adding to the lessons. You can always be the v ideologist that adds the extra touch to Marina’s lessons. So don’t give up yet give it some more thought.
Mike
What, not getting enough subscribes and views?
I am doing allright for subscribers actually. I got my 40th one today! They have gone up quite well. I think I am on a downer at the moment and it leaves me doubtful.. But rome wasn’t built in a day request??
My brother has just turned 14 now.. happy birthday to him… But I suppose I will keep soldiering on..
What do yo mean your not getting anywhere James?
.Have you thought of trying something new like this site. why not?
This link is on Marina’s site here. I was just reading it as it may give you some more insight as what you want to produce as videos and how to make them more attractive to the audience. It’s a good article to read. I think M put it there just for you.
Mike
http://skateass.com/wordpress/increasing-your-youtube-video-view-count/
That is my guide.
Great video marina.
Maybe you should address the russian – georgian dispute in another video. I know a ton of people that are biased against russia and are making them out to be the ‘thugs’ in the situation. When it isn’t like that at all.
James, Marina had the same issue as you did. She was doing video just like everyone else. It take time. Duplicate what Marina, Philip DeFranco, What the Buck, and others are doing. You’ll do fine. Just have to work it. Do some googgling on the subject. You’ll find 100’s of tips.. Thats how we all learned.
I would like to request the word “hammer”
isn’t that a drink? I knew a guy who would order it all the time. All it is is straigt vodka
No, I mean the tool
stop. hammer time.
Sorry, it was a joke
no problem
Hi, gr8 video like always, id like to request a phrase used commonly by Football commentators in the English Leagues, “Sick as a parrot!”, thanks and keep it up
Thanks for the nice comments on the miley video capman and melika
This has to be one of your funniest videos (if not the funniest) to date! From the OTT excitement of “I’m going out with a leech!” to propagating the urban legend of your ’sister’ (even if it is just a convenient device to ‘normalise’ talking to yourself…). And yet, in between the comedy, you still had time to not only explain the etymology of the three senses of leech, but allow it to sink in before the next round of silliness.
One quick tip: when ‘looking up’ a word, it would look more realistic if you had a dictionary or book open at the relevant page rather than a sheet of A4 (which probably doubles up as your prompt sheet!)…
James
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I am going to buy an hd camcorder soon… But which one
James
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Hi James, buy me one too. Mine is old and takes to long for it to warm up. How was your vacation? Fine I hope. RRR is right Consumer Reports will steer you in the right direction as far as picking out what is best for what you need.
MIke
James for the money you might spend on an HD camcorder.. maybe you should get a macbook (which has a built-in camera). I’m going back to recording on my macbook as it looks more personable than my HD shots.. PLUS you get all the editing programs as well with the mac. No viruses.. etc…
SWEET
That is good marina.. But I have always been a windows guy. And I would like a mac but if youtube shots are anything to go by.. I may buy this within the next week qwertyuiop also Marina a mac is very high price. I have not had this laptop for long anyway. One problem I have noticed with hd camcorders though is that they have a black border..
level 4 comment!
Hi James, I was told by the raging beaver guy when I asked what he recommends
Of course I have ordered An HDD Panasonic, with anti shake feature because I’m going to strap it into my kid’s race car, which does crash on occaision & does vibrate. The main reason I ordered it though is that it was a feature on My airmiles merchandise, so the money was already spent & somewhat tax deductable as I use my card for business. Using airmiles doesn’t feel like spending $$. Sadly, now I can’t go anywhere nice to use the camera… (should arrive next week)
If you just make vids at home, then Marina’s idea is best, as I remember you seem to be susceptible to nasty little viruses.
BTW my wife just ordered an I Mac, the first non MS unit to ever broach our threshold. I don’t know if I’ll like it. I like Marina, so I think I’ll still like my wife… although she is bringing a stranger into my house hmm.
Get this James.. you don’t need HD for the Internet… as you compress the heck out of it anyway. Pamela Anderson is shooting major parts of her TV show with this camera (for TV broadcast)… and it’s only $150.
http://www.theflip.com/
http://coolspotters.com/actresses/pamela-anderson/and/cameras/flip-video-ultra-series#medium-7926
i use a panasonic pv-gs320 digital video camcorder using mini dv to shoot low, low budget documentaries. i’ve been really happy with it, cheap and it takes very good shots. marina is right about compression, took me a while to figure this shit out. high definition isn’t worth it for most low budget video work. not to mention its the content that the audience should be impressed with.
That Buster Keaton clip brought back some happy memories, my dad had a library card that he used frequently to bring home some old movies that he would run for family entertainment. I remember that look. He portrayed all the emotions through his body language & slapstick but his expression, conveyed nothing.
What Marina said “.. you don’t need HD for the Internet…” is correct.
If you don’t plan on putting your videos on DVD intended for big screen TV, you don’t need HD. Also, don’t confuse HD with video format.
Your comment about black borders is not necessarily HD related, it is format related 4:3 ratio versus 16:1 ratio. Most web video players are 4:3 ratio. The dog video I shot on YT used a $250 Panasonic Lumex camera. It was shot in very low light conditions. (my YT is the same username)
Correction: Lumix
Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ4
what about the term “french kisses” or “french kissing” where the french really the 1st to use tongue?
I once had heart surgery when I was a lot younger. I almost died that year.
How old were you?
I remember when I was 9, had surgery on my kidneys… was real bummed to have to spend the whole Christmas holidays in the hospital. I was what you call a Thalidomide Baby. Luckily the Leeches (Doctors) finaly figured out what was wrong with me at 9 years old, after I healed from the surgeries I was allowed to run around outside again whoopee!!
Sadly a friend at the time, who also had to stay in at recess & passed the time with me when I had to stay in, died of a brain tumour shortly after. I learned early that life isn’t fair, but to be thankful for every day.
Is your heart still working good? don’t mean to pry… you good now.
I had waterson shunt when I was 1. That year in 1979 I almost died then I had open heart surgery in 1983. Yes my heart is good and well. I’ve got an appointment for a check up in November for some tests.
Word request: @
Oh thats weird.
I was just thinking of requesting that word last night when I was walking from the grocery store. I was thinking about one letter words that someone was talking about in an earlier post. I call short words like ‘a’ ‘the’ ‘had’ ‘on’ ‘to’ etc, glue words. Used for putting words together to make a sentence.
A,
Preposition
indefinite article
adjective
glue word
rrr,
how is “a” a preposition or an adjective? and what are “glue words”? logical operators?
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) – Cite This Source – Share This
A;
Audio Help /ə; when stressed eɪ/ Pronunciation Key – Show Spelled Pronunciation[uh; when stressed ey] Pronunciation Key – Show IPA Pronunciation
–preposition
each; every; per: ten cents a sheet; three times a day.
Forgot ooops GLUE WORDS?
I was asking the Captain if these were the type of words he was talking about as ( glue words ) ??
I had forgot that some are a little …but I sure the Captain got the idea.
Its just an analogy for that lack of a word to describe them, aLx.
I find ‘to’ ‘is’ ‘got’ ‘the’ ‘a’ and many others just useless words that there only purpose is to fit proper grammar rules. Picture this: “Vacation Paradise” I didn’t need to say “I like to take a Vacation in Paradise” You already imagined taking a vacation in paradise. Its obvious you can’t take a vacation On paradise. That all I really was saying. 
As for RRR I don’t know what he is talking about.
Sorry, Capt.
I thought you would understand.
Those little words have names like;
preposition
indefinite article
conjunction
adjective
adverb
My misunderstanding
ah, okay, jack. i was thinking of words like “or”, “and”, “if … then” etc.
so i guess you’re talking about all those words where it’s hard or impossible to find a semantic meaning. yeah.
“is”, by the way, is called a copula.
rrr — wtf r u talking about?
Not today aLx not in the mood for a “what is the definition of IS ” pissing war with you. but thank’s for the offer.
My mistake.
‘or’, ‘if’, ‘and’ are very necessary. Copula, new word for me. Cool Tnks for the link. I guess then I feel Copula words are useless for the fact they make sentences a bit more wordy. They don’t seem to contribute any information to get the complete thought across.
* The book is on the table.
Book on table.
* The weather seems good.
Weather good.
Funny sounds like classical N. A. talk from the movies.
Hey thats a word for the glossary!
Just trying to help CJ . maybe later aLax
I can’t remember now how i lucked on the HotForWords YouTube channel, but it’s a bit of a brilliant find.
It’s only been a day or so now, and it’s still a nice buzz to be here.
Anyway .. after seeing the HotForWords vids:
saucy
and
wench
sprang to mind. It’d be interesting to fathom the origins of those words.
Ooh, now that’s deep.
Welcome to the forum, mijj! Hey, it’s easy and costs nothing to put a favorite photo or graphic next to your posts if you go to gravatar.com and sign up. Then all you need to do is download a pic you have saved to your computer and you’re done.
See you around the campus!
-pennsyltucky9
thanks .. i was wondering how the avatar pics were managed.
I added a pic and associated it with the email address i use here. I guess the pic takes time to come through. … or .. i’m missing some step or other.
responding to your udder post, and givin’ out way TMI…
they did not have to shave me…i already shave (mainly for personal comfort – have for years)…
itwas a laser surgery, completely painless; just a couple of snips to find the tubes…
‘course, i’m in my 50s & didn’t want to take the chance, were i ever to be with a woman again, to father a kid who would have to put up with a really, really old fart for a dad…
as it is, i have a lovely matched set (g & b) already, and my 10-yr-old son will have a dad who’ll enter his 60s while the boy is in HS…
annudder
Ethereal
demegbasznám….
Welcome home, James.
Now where’s all the homework from last week? You don’t want to get downgraded for tardiness….
Has it been 10 days
ALREADY??
How was the vacation?
6 days
Oh Gawd you scared me there for a moment. I though you where the axe murderer.
Welcome back.
Foxbow hasn’t commented today.. wo ho ho I am SO going to get him now for all of those number 1 comments he stole off me!!
He said he had a training exercise to attend today, and we (with the possible exception of aLx, naturally!) were anticipating that you’d take the opportunity to jump into the “first comment” spot but I guess you were a bit late for that. Stand by for the next lesson, though. It’ll be interesting to see who wins the race for first this time…
and here i always thought of you as affront…
ok, i didn’t…
isn’t this the lame vid?
annudder
You always have the answer but what is the origin of the word Quiz?
Quiz
Quiz
?
? Quiz
Quiz
?
???????????????????????????????
Marina, i’ve always wondered what the word ‘moonraker’ means? need some explanation i think
Marina!
I know where i’ve seen you before!
You’re the reincarnation of a character in the Brit, early ’60s puppet underwater show “Stingray”.
She was called “Marina” too. She was the femme fatale love interest of dashing wooden hero Troy Tempest. … and …. SHE WASN’T ABLE TO SPEAK! … and she was reincarnated as you who, ironically, SPEAKS INCESSANTLY!
Pic of gorgeous, pouting Marina
Website about Stingray
They made a few of those puppet shows
Supercar and Fireball XL5 were on TV
in the midwest. Here’s a recent example
of a puppet movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6u0-77Q88E&feature=related
oh yeh .. i think the South Park guys got the idea for Team America after seeing an episode of the Thunderbirds puppet show (follow up to Stingray).
plus, melikadothechacha …!!
.. YouTube .. why didn’t i think of that!?!!?!
I found an end credit sequence of Stingray with a serenade to Marina … the likeness is uncanny… (maybe puppet Marina isn’t quite as boobiferous.)
[YouTube: Stingray TV Show Outro (1964) Aqua Marina]
That was a real good find!
Underwater Marina – LMAO
… a fish dream come true
Was that Captain Jack in the min sub?
Who do you think was singing?
Oh that was eerie in a cool sort of a way.
I don’t quite know what to think about that one.
I was role playing online with a girlfriend of mine and I was a sea serpent and she was just a girl on the beach. About a year later I found a ceramic candle holder that Boris Vallejo and his wife Julie Bell designed. It was a sea serpent with a naked girl next to him.
Original art work – Sea Serpent
My scan of the candle stick holder
It was an incredible find for our role playing story.
Wow, that was a cool show which didn’t air in my neighborhood apparently. We watched Fireball XL-5 every Saturday morning when I was in second grade, though.
Great theme song! Marina should try to get permission to use it. Awesome! Nice work, mijj!
hello mijj,
When I was a little guy those shows used to make my saturday. Thanks for reminding me, that was a cool clip to find amongst the many.
hey!!
I’m glad you remember those! .. this place is mainly full of yanks so they’re uncouth n unsophisticated n have mostly never heard of the Stingray puppet show like wot we have.
What’re you doin’ all the way back here in this dusty ol’ thread?
Dusty yes, I guess time does fly when you’re busy. I’m catching up and having fun doing it. So much to read and I’m looking stuff up as I read so it’s taking quite awhile.
Thanks
i feel quite sentimental here ..
… this is what i was jabbering on about on my first day.
from what you say i guess you’re a hardened HotForWordser. I thought you were a baby fresh to the site, lost in the archives and dint know how to return.
Yes, I guess that I am in a way. I found Marina’s YT site at the begining of this year and I’ve been stopping by as often as I can.
you know, Marina .. i was joking when i said that — you don’t talk nearly enough in your threads with your thread buddies.
that is a very interesting piece on leech. The word “craic” would be fun for you to do, plenty of research might be needed.
Great video, Marina.
But it raised another question: where did the word Happy come from? I’m sure it’ll be an interesting lesson…
i have a word request: (well two actually)
husband
wife
husbandry has to do with taking care of animals, so does this prove women who marry are animals?
Marina, for your consideration, do a lesson on the ‘mind’s eye’
We can shut our eyes and see things in our head, or in the ‘mind’s eye.’
Keep up the good work. It is very nice for you to share so much of yourself with everyone. We appreciate you.
- Russ
This is the original by Small Faces
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btRpt6LsSxY
good request
Small Faces .. i love them .. i love that mid ‘60 exuberant energetic proto-psychedelia.
+ … that reminded me of this …
[YouTube: The Small Faces -Ogdens Nut Gone]
… a “peculiar” narration by Stanley Unwin on a Small Faces album.
My bet is, anyone who’s at all interested in language will find that interesting too.
Oh, the wonders of the Interwebs …
[the world of Stanley Unwin]
[YouTube: Stanley Unwin - The Populode of the Musicolly]
Several points for style
Ogdens nut gone – wow!
If you like malapropisms
delivered at high speed,
Stanley Unwin, wins.
Oh, Marina!! …
which came first (and who influenced who, as far as the alphabet/numbers goes) …
greek: alpha, beta, gamma, delta (etc)
hebrew: aleph, bet, gimel, dalet (etc)
I guess this doesn’t fall within the bounds of what you cover .. but .. it’s still intriguing? I’d be interested in anyone looking in had an answer.
Just in case Marina doesn’t, I took a quick trawl through Wikipedia…
It’s all a bit murky, but Greek was possibly the first to emerge. However, Greek itself didn’t influence Hebrew (or vice versa). Both were based on the earlier Phonecian alphabet, but took different routes, customising it to suit their needs. Oh, and this alphabet (the one we’re using today!) is also derived from Phonecian…
Meanwhile, apparently the Phonecian alphabet itself can trace its ancestry… all the way back to Egyptian heiroglyphics!
oh! .. good thinking. Thanks.
It didn’t occur to me that one may not be derived from the other.
Hieroglyphics, eh?
Which spins me onto Chinese written language .. can you (by which i mean anyone) learn to read and write Chinese without needing to learn to speak it? – because that sounds handy.
Actually, i just got done taking a class on the emergence of civilizations, and we learned that according to the radiocarbon dates, physical evidence in terms of artifacts, and the stratigraphic record, the Mesopotamian civilization and the Egyptian civilization developed independently for quite awhile before the Egyptians started borrowing a couple things from the slightly more regimented Mesopotamians (that is, present day Iraq, or what we now refer to as “Babylon”, Uruk-Warka, the Ubaid culture, etc. in the Tigris-Euphrates basin). Apparently, the need to organize citizenry in order to accomplish widespread public works such as agriculture by irrigation of large areas of the Tigris-Euphrates basin was far greater in Mesopotamia than in the Nile valley due to the area being such a wide, featureless, silt-and-clay plain where the rivers meandered back and forth willy-nilly across the basin quite a bit and changed course flooding large areas at inopportune times (late spring to early summer– right when the plants were beginning to mature), so much more control needed to be exerted over the floodwaters than in the Nile valley, where the river pretty much had incised itself down into a comparatively narrow channel surrounded by higher desert lands that would have been near-impossible to farm. Also, the annual rainfall in that area (also in Egypt) is so minimal that the growing season would have been too short to accomplish sufficient production to support a permanent year-round population without using water from the either the Tigris or the Euphrates rivers which were fed by snowmelt from the Taurus Mountains and Anatolian uplands. So during the late paleolithic, the early leaders began to create an administrative organization to manage and direct the collective public workforce in Mesopotamia in order to 1.) help mitigate the flooding problems they had annually, 2.)make sure everyone did their part, collectivizing the food production over the entire area, and 3.) creating a system of accounting wherein the people could all be fed according to the amount of work output and food production they put in. This means they had to keep records. That’s why they were first to come up with a recognizeable system of pictographs and numerals. The Egyptians had river-bank farmland resembling narrow strips along the edges of the river where the rich soil provided bounteous production for the relatively sparse populations living there. The Nile was confined to a deep valley it couldn’t escape from (with the possible exception of the Nile Delta, where it all fans out and floods every year). Egyptian leaders had their own system of picture-writing which developed into hieroglyphics, and we see Egyptians using Mesopotamian symbols here and there as time passed, but not the other way around. Trade between the two was a relatively late development, compared to each civilization’s interior development, from what I’m taught. Yes, I got an A in the coures, thank you.
!! Bloody ‘ell, pennsyltucky9 !!
I hope we’re not being tested on that!
Ok, there probably is some truth to the idea that, if one seeks to accomplish a task or reach a goal of some kind, people will think up and devise to employ what is commonly referred to as a gimmick.
Sure, sometimes I need a gimmick. Marina needs gimmicks sometimes probably, too. We all need gimmicks.
… if the word gimmick isn’t worthy of investigation, consider going from the word leech to maggot. Maggot therapy is a medical practice brought to light during the American Civil War.
It was a practice called phlebotomy and involved removing blood from a person to re-balance their “humors.”
Leeches are still applied today to help repair blood vessels and restore circulation. In June 2004, the Food and Drug Administration cleared the first application for leeches (Hirudo medicinalis) to be used in modern medicine as medical devices. Surgeons who do plastic and reconstructive surgery find leeches especially valuable when regrafting amputated appendages, such as fingers or toes
Gee Thanks Teach…NOT!!!
Nice quiet summer night.
Cool crisp fresh air.
Should have slept like a baby.
But NO!!!!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053611/
Nightmare time
And no Kobe to protect me.
On leeches and “bad blood” wiki has this:
since illnesses were thought to be caused by an imbalance, or, alternately, an overabundance, of blood, a blood-sucker such as a leech was held to be the obvious solution…
thank gawd they didn’t resort to mosquitoes…
but leeches still have medicinal uses:
http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2004/504_leech.html
sometimes the reality outlives the myth…
annudder
Speaking of myths, I looked up leeches in my Encyclopedia Britannica that I have installed on my computer and it associated “Ebisu” and that entry mentioned “Hiru-ko”. Ebisu is one of the Seven Gods of Luck – the patron of fishermen and tradesmen and is sometimes identified with Hiru-ko which is translated “Leech Child”. I really enjoy browsing through my reference tools.
Hi Marina, what is the etymology of the word ‘crush’, as in “being infatuated with someone”? Thanks!
-Snowblee
Lack of brains?
just kidding…..it’s dangerous to lob such a softball up there and expect somebody not to hit it out of the park……
Sometimes playing softball is just plain fun, golly darn it…(14 posts below)<—-
Hi Marina,
Can you help me define the word: emancipation.
Be happy – words2008
MARINA !
You forgot to say that the word LEECH “medecine man” is etymologically connected to Slavic ! In Russian ЛЕК = LEK = medecine. ЛЕЧИТЬ = LECHIT’ = CURE.
I think it is a good opportunity to show that european languages are like sisters and brothers.
Slavs are Caucasian immigrants to Europe and North Asia. Russia is a conglomeration of Slavs, Mongoloid and Ethnic Iranians pravda?
Whats the origin of the saying “to bite the bullet” ?
In the olden days when Wartime surgeons performed limb amputation they would intoxicate the patient with alchohol and give them something to bite on, like a stick or a bullet(as it was readily available). It is now defined: To face something difficult.
Aha, another possible source. During the British Imperial days, when Britain controlled India. Muslims and Hindus were conscripted to serve as Military auxillary units. The bullets they had were encased in paper and lubricated with Pig fat. The procedure for opperating the weapon was to hold the gun with one hand and to tear off the bullet casing with the teeth. Muslims and Hindus are not allowed to ingest much less handle pig or pig derivatives. The British ordered them to do counter to what religion comanded, ergo the saying “They’ll just have to bite the bullet.”
The bullet was encased in paper and lubricated with pig fat so it would slide in to the barrel of the rifle with ease.
[bet they said this a lot]
(Sniff sniff) Do you smell bacon?
Hi all, I seem to remeber leechs being used to suck out poison and bad blood like what was mentioned before. Now today some doctors use leechs to promote blood flow to areas of the body were the blood isn’t flowing like it should. As far as knowing a leech, my ex-wife was like one. She spent and spent even when I asked her to stop. She spent all of my money.
She doesn’t any more. 
Leeches(Liches) were thought to be a cure for disease because according to medical belief, it was thought that leeches would only remove polluted blood, thereby removing the source of illness in the body.
Olympics were named after the City of Olympia where the first games were held.
The word Infant is also defined to be something in the first stages of growth or development. Correct me if I need it, the infantry is the first mode of assault in battle. I think this definition came later. Most of the definitions list it as a child not able to speak. I think the nomenclature people wanted to put an innocuous name to it so the Infantry wouldn’t be seen as something aggressive.
Chip on the shoulder:
” To start a fight, men used to put chips of wood on their shoulder and challenge others to “try to knock it off”
Goenglish.com
Hello Marina, i’m sorry to say but i’m glad you lost intrest in that guy.
Good thing your sister was there!
hello miss marina, me and my brother each have a word to request, he was wondering if there were any reason the Olympics got its name, and i was wondering if the military word infantry had anything to do with babies?
much appreciated
Hi Marina, I have a word request!
Why do we say someone has a “chip on their shoulder” when they are upset about something or hold a grudge?
Thanks!
-Adam
p.s. … How come you’ve appeared on a Bill O’Reilly TV show but you haven’t appear’d on the Colbert Report? Surely you’ve been invited .. haven’t you?
She is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too smart for him. Great show, but still.
mijj, I have not been invited.
Would you if he did invite you?
Maybe we should petition him to do so.
I bet he’s skeered.
I would be!
+ dagnabbit! .. Why doesn’t this comment post system provide an edit after the comment’s been posted?
been there, done that. editing sucks.
hi smokey36bear – I made a request to Colbert Nation on this address …
Colbert Nation email form page
i couldn’t find an email address to use for Colbert Report.
Of course I would go.. I almost did the Tyra Banks show last week, but they opted for the dancing guy all over the world and a cat playing the piano.
that would be because you would outshine the host in beauty…
and because Tyra is a mite vacuous…
ok…more’n a mite…
annudder
Marina, where is you suntan lotion video contest video or have i just forgotten its name?
I got upset at the company.. I had 250,000 views on my entry.. the next most viewed submission was at about 400 views. The contest video starring Chuck Woolery had about 2,000 views. And they awarded the prize to the kid with 400 views and didn’t even offer me a free bottle of lotion…. NOTHING. I got so upset that I had promoted that company for nothing, and they didn’t even thank me, that I deleted the video.
Steven Colbert was a fun addition to the Daily Show with John Stewart, but giving him (Colbert) his own show has downgraded my appreciation of him quite significantly because his delivery style is just way too silly for me (okay in short bursts, but not as a solo act) and in my opinion his show has become irritating. The writers have some humorous ideas, but I don’t watch the Colbert Report because it’s just too over-the-top ridiculous. The slightly more deadpan delivery style of John Stewart is still funnier by far, in my view.
If you were to appear on one of them, I would love to see you on The Daily Show with John Stewart. But as you say, it would be good to be invited in the first place.
you could’ve bleeped their name out and all.
pennsyltucky9
“I got upset at the company.. I had 250,000 views on my entry.. the next most viewed submission was at about 400 views. The contest video starring Chuck Woolery had about 2,000 views. And they awarded the prize to the kid with 400 views and didn’t even offer me a free bottle of lotion…. NOTHING. I got so upset that I had promoted that company for nothing, and they didn’t even thank me, that I deleted the video.”
Did you even keep a copy ? Perhaps you could have relabeled it and just kept it for artistic value. Not everything has to be all about gain and loss. Thats my opinion only, and comments could be attributed to a gain. Your decision though any thoughts you would like too share with all of us?
You can dance and you have a dog . But if you really want to be noticed?
Tell them you hate G.W and you are an Obama Girl and dis on O’Reilly and your in. You might even get a spot on Howard”s show too.
stokesjrj1 replied on August 16th, 2008
( Did you even keep a copy ? Perhaps you could have relabeled it )
What a great idea,
Call it Obama Lube!!
We are all going to need a lot of Lube when He bends us over.
Marina, thanks for the update and I understand how you feel because I was highly upset at their selection as I had watched the results. Your’s was 30 seconds of superb storytelling and execution. I saved that video. I’d be happy to send it to you. Also, I’ll see if I can re-edit it to promote HotForWords instead of the lotion.
I got upset at the company.. I had 250,000 views on my entry.. the next most viewed submission was at about 400 views. ???
Not that hard to understand Marina.
People remembered the model ( YOU ) and not their product.
You are too pretty and the product is just crap. So?
Most contest are to accomplish only one thing. “Product recognition and to collect data.”
Sometimes contests work better than a commercial on TV. Because you can get a lot of information from your customer. This is an old marketing tactic that I though was no longer in practice. Its all about marketing products to sheeple. They don’t care who wins the contest. They almost never pick the first place person because there might be a dispute if that person cheated some how. Marketing departments don’t want to deal with that headache. They are getting paid top dollar to get product exposure. Its a very aggressive war to capture your dollars. If you fight fair you will lose the advertising war. Did you all see Jay lose the contest he should have won? The grand prize winner was in 8th place. Are you seeing a pattern here? I never enter contests that are promoted by a large brand. Nor do I fill out any sweepstakes forms. Those forms are to put you on a mailing list. They make so much money from those list that they can afford to give away a car.
Do what I do. I prefer mom and pop businesses. So support your locally owned business or smaller companies. Yea they cost a bit more and not as efficient as a large company. But they rarely cheat you. You get a lot more from them. I’ve gotten free meals, free products, Free car rental, free hotel room, free internet, etc etc. Scratching backs with small companies goes a very long way. You just have to know how to ask and sometime offer something in return. Even my sister has eaten more free susi than she has paid for.
well … after seeing this YouTube clip, I have very high regard for Colbert.
[Colbert roasts Bush to his face]
… except .. you ain’t gonna see this post, are you? .. oh well. I’ll post for posterity.
I think that going on the David Letterman Show would be great for your Web-site. Don’t you?
I don’t know if he has ever invited you though….has he?
He should.
Leeches are used to remove infected blood, so that the clean blood can replace it.
Actually a funny sort of thing on that, in the werewolf movie Ginger Snaps Back (Ginger Snaps 3), there is this guy that denys he has been bitten, so this doctor tosses a leech on him and he starts screaming and his chest starts changing color really fast, because well… he IS infected and so the leech is pulling the lycanthropy to the surface.
I’d be interested to know the origins of the words :
Heaven
Hell
either one .. or maybe both as a matching pair
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=NUJH7y1yK_E&feature=related
nice touch .. appropriate vid ..
(they shouldn’t be allowed to sing about Heaven and Hell with Ozzie absent, though.)
ps.
I sort of “know” that “hell” comes from a Scandinavian word for hot .. but “hell” is somewhere generally unpleasant and not just hot (isn’t it?) .. so why “Hell” and not “Unpleasant” (or similar)?
dude, you’ve mentioned some interesting stuff. i came across your youtube address, i could contact you there to discuss some of these things further. cool with that?
oh .. i’m not used to YouTube . i dont know how getting in contact via YouTube works.
Youre going to have to give me instructions.
youtube seems to be down for maintenance. i’ll just send you a message from my youtube account later. the messages are not the same as comments so they aren’t public. i’ll add my personal email address so you can contact me there. that way my email address won’t be public. you should receive an email from youtube notifying you when you receive a message. so there, with that i’m off to the land of nod
ok .. thanks.
hi marina! kak dela? ya xotel znat esli ti smojiw ” investigate husband and wife”…..ya dumayu interesno budet znat otkuda eti slova….spasibo tebe….vidno 4to ti o4en umnaya jenwina
hmmm … has the word “gobbledegood” been investigated?
damn! .. i mean “gobbledegook” .. with a “k”.
can you do “strategical” please? or strategy? something along the lines of that word. you are the best. intelligence is definitely sexy. hooah. >:) (perhaps do the origin of the word hooah?) >:)
…high school
if you can be disgusted
how about being GUSTED?
Know just what’cha mean, reekzilla.
I’ve been combobulated for months now.
I didn’t realise I had that effect on you, PT9.
If you are blown in gusts, then you have been gusted (past tense intransitive verb form of “to gust”).
Sounds frustrating. I’ve never been gusted except while sailing. But there’s a first time for everything.
i found out GUST means to have appetite
or something
My whole life is filled with leeches. [Where's your mother?] Maggots are used too>
Word request: Battlefield
I was wondering what the word Battlefield came from, and what it means/what language it came from?
I remember hearing about leeches being used as a form of medical treatment. I always thought it sounded odd. I does remind me of this clip from Blackadder.
There is a computer term called “leeching” which means grabbing data from other people’s PC’s.
Loved the dress by the way
Cool, KBn8r.
Loved the chart with the arrows. “Toss a few down my codpiece before bed!” Oh, man that really SUCKS. Hahahahahahahaha!
How do you look so good every day teacher!!!!
[ hands teacher an apple ]
I have a leech in my life, but out of respect I will not mention them here.
I can answer that – because she’s extremely hot. Hot girls look good.
Long ago, it was common belief that sicknesses were concentrated in the blood, and so it was thought that sick people could be cured by “bleeding” them, or taking some of the “bad blood” from them. Barbers used to perform this as an extra service, then wrap the bloody bandages around a pole out front of their place of business so that people would know they could have this service done there as well as the barbers’ normal jobs of haircutting and shaving. That’s where the spiral red-and-white striped “barber pole” we see today originated. Leeches were also used to drain blood from people because they could be placed on the sick person’s arms or legs and allowed to suck out some of the “bad blood” without cutting their skin open with a shard knife or scalpel. But only the wealthy could afford this special “no-knife” treatment. I’ve been attacked by leeches while wading in a stream and I can tell you that being bitten by leeches isn’t comfortable. But it is far less painful than having an incision by a blade without anaesthesia, Less-wealthy people had to bear the pain of having incisions cut into them so the so-called “bad blood” could be drained when they fell ill. Leeches were a doctor’s prized possessions, and had to be carefully guarded, cared for and fed to be kept healthy so the physician could prosper whenever the leeches were needed (and the patient could afford it!). Leeches were still in use to relieve unsightly bruising as in the case of a black eye also, right up until recently, from what I understand. I seem to recall seeing a picture of a jar of “medical leeches” swimming around in water in an encyclopedia when I was young, so that would have had to have been less than about a thousand years ago. Okay, I was kidding about that. I’m only 852 years old, really. See my gravatar? I look pretty young in that picture!
I know you that were only kidding… jeeezzz … does everybody think I’m that dumb?
Okay, I’m leaving that one alone.
(You’re welcome, OK4N.)
P-9,
He’s a vampire to be that old.
Wampire, Mike. It’s pronounced Wampire.
Can you say nuclear vessels?
Oh thats classic!
Can/will you say sub-atomic level?
Where are the nuclear wessels?l
Methuselah got nuttin’ on u, ‘eh?…
annudder
I thought he was older. Sometimes I see him at Saturday night bingo, but he’s very selective about only hanging out with people of his own generation…so, uh… I’ll ask him about it if I can pry him away from his best buddies Cher and Keith Richards.
Word request: Trivia
I know “trivia” (tri-via) in Latin literally means “three-way,”
but why does “trivia” in English mean: “Insignificant or inessential matters”?
As you say it TRIVIALIS means in Latin “common, met at any crossway, at any place called TRIVIA = WAYS CROSSING EACH OTHERS.
Hello Miss.Marina,
I have a word request
I was wondering how did the word depression/depressed come to be?
Now that everyone has been talking about him I would request the word: JOKER but Joker is somone who makes jokes, so I maybe request the word JOKE.
jokers can also be wild cards in a deck of cards,”Wild” as they can be used as any card needed.
Can’t think of anything positive or interesting to say about leeches.
Wouldn’t even want to use one as bait.
And sehceel doesn’t spell anything.
Hummm, OK folks after today’s lesson, does anyone feel like eating Escargot??
Snot me
Miss M. what happens to the comments that we put on your You Tube site? I added one and so did Seesixcm6. When I went back to the site the comments where no longer there.
She probably forgot to pay her monthly comment’s fee…
I blame iphone
Jack found them, but he knows the ins and out of where to look for things like that.
Its easy. Just look at the bottom of the comments page for :
Pages: 1 2 3 …
View all 139 comments
As you see there are 139 comments. You can go page by page or just click on view all 139 comments.
I don’t remove comments… they are there.. it takes time for the comments to go from the video page to the view all comments page… so go back later.. and view all.. they will be there.
Jack showed me how to find all of them. Thanks for the reply.
I for one can attest that she most differently
does NOT remove comments.
Marina,
I noticed you dropped the old email address. Is it dead now.
I was just wondering if you got a email I sent there?
From roadrunrnch?
Capman
))
Your question……nice and intelligent ((
Interesting origin. And since we’re on the subject of dating, my friend and I were wondering where the origin of the word “date” as in dating came from. I hope you get around to answering this, and make sure to mention us (Jeran and Patrick) if you use it. We love your videos and you don’t disappoint!
Im surprised no one commented this quote yet.
“Imitation is the sincerest form of television.” – Fred Allen 1894-1956
I left you a funny on Marina’s You Tube site, but it’s gone now. Sorry you want get to read it.
I found it. Its was just on another page.
I don’t look like that guy but I still can break a brick with my bare hands and climb up a line without using my legs and feet. Thats all the buff I think I need for now. I do need to work on my gut. It’s just starting to get that beer belly look. I used to hold the junior high school record of 300 sit ups in P.E. No I don’t think I could do 30 of them.
Ahoy Captain! Getting back to you, I’m in beautiful Ballard during daylight and in not so beautiful Kent during the darkness…
Kirkland = Bling Bling! 
~
Sparkz
Hey Sparkz!
Ballard! That where my mail box is. You know where Archie Mcphee’s is? Yea, its right next door to it. I should have you go pick up my mail. Just kidding.
Last winter I was teaching at Fisherman’s terminal. Might have to do it again this year. I don’t know yet. I hope to stay in Kirkland.
Oh yea there is a lot of Bling Bling here. I think even the homeless people own Ferraris & Lamborghins here. I swear there is like a party in this little town every night.
Oh Kent, too much concrete and not enough trees.
See you on the flip side!!
Fred Allen also said, “Television is a medium. Anything well done is rare.”
How about this to please some of your more militant partisans?
“Limitation is the sincerest form of appeasement.”
Marina, I would have thought that lawyers would have been associated with leeches and not doctors…
Hey! We get enough grief with analogies to sharks and snakes! Jeez! You wanna saddle us with leeches too!
what? are you a lawyer?
Leech does seem to be a more appropriate appellation for a lawyer – a bloodsucking, slimy, little worm…. the only thing worse are politicians, but then most of them seem to be lawyers too…
So ok here is an answer for the homework: Inside the leeches “saliva,” they have an anti-coagulant(Something that stops your blood from clotting), sometimes people can suffer from disorders that make it so that you blood can’t clot. So when a leech releases it’s anti-coagulant it’s kind of like doing a system reset. Your body will realize what’s going on and try to correct the problem so when the leech is taken off the blood will start to clot again!
Then I have a word request, Trunks as in Swimming trunks
Thank you!
I once saw an elephant on the beach. Must have been an exhibitionist. He was going around with his trunk down….Tusk! Tusk! you say? Yeah, it’s an OLD joke…..
Haha! Yes I love puns! You get 5 cool points
Lividenerald, how much caffeine have you had today.
Are making up for lost time. 
You are all over the place today-tonight. Your going to wear out your keyboard. 
If you need a break, here’s a beer on me [] if you don’t drink then think of it as a soda. More caffeine. 
Trying to catch up with over a month of missed videos, Capman911. Most of the letters have worn off my keyboard, and yes, I did take a break yesterday, and, yes, I could use some caffeine. I’m getting ready to grab a bite to eat right now! Nice ride, by the way. I like your gravatar.
Marina
Hotforbadboys
Your dress is very nice, I am just glad you’re not doing the Mr Rodgers sweeter thing. Do you think you could ask your sister to make more videos?? If she had a web page I ‘d be her First member. Hell there would be a lot of us would go to the dark side . With two sisters and two sites? One for the sweet and one for the sour. It could double the Orlova stock.
I’ll even be her starter TAss . A class room for the bad boys
Good suggestion RRR. You could name the site HotForBadBoysandGirls. Lets don’t forget them they like to flame also. You could get a stand up copy of Marina and sit next to it and talk all the sh1t we wanted. A site just to vent on and on each other. You tube would be on us like flies on a turd. But it would be grand while it lasted.
….I think Marina would look quite good in a sweater…. yum!
Didn’t one homework assignment involve listing slang words for boobs? I wonder if sweater puppies was mentioned…..
Yes, they were
Yah sweAters are good too, The key word was ( Mr Rodgers) I think She has a yellow fuzzy that kills. I believe so but if she like to comment
?
Maybe, sissy has one?
my dear teacher:) so where did the word doctor come from? interesting.. The term doctorate comes from the Latin docere, meaning “to teach”, shortened from the full Latin title licentia docendi, meaning “license to teach.” This was translated from the Arabic term ‘ijazat attadris’, which was a distinction granted to certain Islamic scholars, thus qualifying them to teach:)
can you compare people running governments as leeches:)
“But teachers…” But what? What where you going to say about teachers? Teachers are leeches? hehehe LOL.
Your so funny when you mess up and start laughing. It cracks me up. 
Homework: Im skipping the first part because it will leech too much of my time today. I have classes to prepare for. Second part, Leeches. Evil Ex-girlfriends and Bills. I kept running into women that only wanted me for my money. Many just wanted a free dinner. I would lie and tell them I lost all my money in the stock market and I was broke. They never stuck around after that. I did have one stick around. I later found out she was poking holes in my condoms. Now I just don’t trust women in general. Last count I had 8 or 9 women wanted to marry me. Its a classic catch 22 for me.
Bills. Companies are charging for every little thing. I got my cellphone bill down to $60 from $100 a month. How much does it cost them to for cell service? $10 – $20 a month and still make a profit. Rents are outrageous. I down from $2,300 a month to only… Hold on your hats.. $375 a month and thats expensive. Some docks charge around $270 for the same size yacht. On my next sailing yacht I’ll be able to dump having top pay electric and water by making my own electricity and water. Oh I almost forgot other leeches. The manufactures of disposable products. Im talking about product that are not normally disposable. Cars, TVs, DVD players, Kitchen appliances, Computers, etc. for example. They leech money from use about every 5 to 10 years.
shiver me timbers capn jack
8-9 women you lucky jack sparrow!:) if you get a stowaway on board, that’d be me aye, waitin for them lasses aye, I’d take your rejects captn, but youd probably make me walk tha plank 
Do you really believe him.
He has blow up dolls he puts on the deck of his boat in bikinis just so people will think he has a bunch of fine ladies on board. 
Just like Aerosmith’s song big 10 inch——— record. 
Sorry Jack I had to give your secret away. 
Or as some are called inflate a mate maybe part of his crew too. 
dnafragment, Oh thats nothing. Its really annoying when you have to beat them off your yacht with a baseball bat. I should send you photos of the half naked ones.
You can have all the one I kick overboard. You can rescue them and be an instant hero. !!! You better practice your mouth to mouth resuscitation. 
Captain! Yea thats exactly what I do. The girls see that I have no more room they just leave. Also the blow up dolls are low maintenance. I don’t have to feed them, buy expensive bags and outfits, drinks, etc. Only problem with them its they are lifeless in bed.
I left you a little something just above this comment.
CaptainJack, that is the most depressing post I’ve seen in a while. I hope you someday meet a woman who knows the value of work and developed her own work skills. As for bills, I try to live simply and don’t own a cellphone, ipod, HDTV or other gadgets. I still use a 35mm film camera. By this Christmas, I’ll save up enough to buy a camcorder and post some video responses to Marina.
I left you your first message on your YouTube site. Check out mine if you like and enjoy.
Mike
Oh sorry seesixcm6. Didn’t mean to.
I have a many girlfriends. Nothing serious. Just friends. Some are happily married. Some divorced. Some single. Some just with kids. Some widowed. Some in the US. Some over seas. Some are afraid of the water. Some are smart. Some are hot. They all are my friends. They believe I will find someone and they say that girl will truly be the luckiest girl on the face of the earth.
I love my gadgets. I don’t mind them. As long I only have to buy them once and have no monthly contracts attach to them. Thats good your getting a camcorder. I turned mine in for a cleaning and they completely replace the insides with some defective auto focus. Now I hardly use it. I plan to pick up a new HD camera to do my some training videos. So great, get your video camera and make some video responses.
Teachers are leeches only if they suck.
gawd, i need a boat…
then i could have all of Cap’n Jack’s wimmen…
oh, and Jack, the solution to the condom problem is a mere $500 bucks away…
snip, snip…
annudder
We if you want to attract sluts, then yea get a boat. I think some women just board the boat to show off to the other girls that they are with a wealthy man. They only appease the boat owner so they can get a boat ride. There is this guy on my dock that has girls on his boat twice a week. He goes out for only about an hour or two. In the morning the girls and a guy or two are one by one leaving the boat.
That said, a boat is a fantastic way to pick up women. It works better than a car and you can buy cheaper booze.
$500 bucks! Wow that’s cheap. It cost me that just to get a few stitches on my finger. The condom problem among others things like women becoming leeches is one reason I don’t have any sleepovers. Plus all the relationships are based on sex which makes them hollow.
I don’t know if I would get snipped just for causal joy ride in the hay. If I was in a serious relationship with a woman and she though it would be a good idea then yes I would do it. There needs to be more options for birth control for men.
A couple other things, oh pardon me…udder things to remember about the operation are:
First, you get your pubes shaved, which can take months to grow back in… ..meantime, all the pokey little sharp cut-off ends are driving your nuts, well, frankly, NUTS. So says my baby brother. He was itchin’ to get back to normal, shall we say.
Secondly, once you do (okay, if you ever) find that woman who completes you in every way, things can change quite a bit. You may start to look at the world so differently that you could decide to go the distance and put another family member or two at the table just to keep thinks lively and break up the monotony. Decisions like that will also be made jointly, not individually. Plus, what man doesn’t secretly want a son with whom he can share his wisdom and skills? Nudder can no doubt relate to this part.
Thanks PT, You just talked me out of that operation.
I can go either way with deciding to have kids or not. I’ve helped other peoples kids over the years. Mostly in sea scouts. I have many friends that have cats and dogs as their children. I worked for Captain Jeff, and he was more into his dog than kids. He always said if his dog fell overboard that he didn’t care if the cruise ship was full of passengers and we where doing 22 knots that he would jump overboard for his dog. The unwritten rule was if his dog fell overboard that it was the crews job to jump overboard and rescue the dog. Now we wouldn’t actually do that but it the attitude of importance I was pointing out.
monotony? Don’t have time for that. Hey if my hair is not on fire then somethings wrong.
there is an alternative…
it’s called abstinence…
it’s a harsh alternative, but one i lived with for years…
even during marriage…
annudder
Abstinence is what im doing now. Problem is im wasting years of perfected talent. Abstinence during marriage? I keep hearing that once you get married it all goes away. You might as well cut the darn thing off and place it in a museum. Well Im telling you that will never happen. Not on my watch.
I empathize, Capn! I’ve been working on a story for two years now.
It started as half of an idea over 10 years ago. I put the project down
until I met someone who held key information that was missing.
Great – right?! She had to be dropped/was getting married and I
couldn’t stop the feelings, etc, etc.
So, I joined a certain website (not this one) that had 3 people
helping out. One with poetry, one who inspired(and ran the site),
and finally a lawyer who proposed that he perform the agent duties.
Now, since they absolutely could not communicate with one
another.
I could only add it up that they had their own agendas. So, here I am -
- two chapters short of complete (the chapters are in my mind – ready)
and all of these people will not have the thousands to be had in a
hardcover printing, the millions it might bring in for all the action and
drama. Forget about the sequel. Lastly, all the equality that I try to
portray gets *FLUSHED* because I will not complete a leeches
formula to success.
You think they should have a sign? “Take caution, I’m a leech!” That way you can turn and run the other way!
PART OF THE AMBIANCE my fellow Capn …………
Dear Marina, For your homework, leeches are still used in medecine to remove blood and improve bloodflow near a wound, or postsurgery. I know some people who are leeches and stay away from them. They have no character and no skills.
I need to make a speech six months from now, in January, 2009. So I’ve watched your excellent presentations. You keep good eye contact with your camera, speak clearly and distinctly, but not too fast. You use humor well. You use small hand gestures that don’t detract from the lesson, and you always look well-groomed and attractive! Of course, I can’t look as good as you do, but I want my speech to be as clean and smooth as yours. It’s amazing that you do this almost every day! I’m lucky to have six months to prepare! Your dear student who learns from your good examples, seesixcm6
I’ve seen her disheveled at times. Check out a video where Kobe is tugging on her hair. Funny thing is, she is even SEXIER that way.
Seesixcm6 Hi, You spoke of having to prepare for a speech I presume you are a teacher or professor or a student of some kind. You have a lot of knowledge of video and audio set ups. I am not trying to pry into your personal life, but you have me at an awe of what you do.
Mike
CaptainJack, don’t be too overawed. I work in Silicon Valley, where only the survivors stay employed over the decades. I studied electronics on an ROTC scholarship, did time in the Signal Corps, including duty in South Korea and West Germany, where I learned that Soviet-era Russians were not very nice people. (So this site fascinates me.) Without trying to sell anything, my speech involves retirement strategies for this new, global economy.
could you elaborate on that?
No. I’m sorry I included that fact. My personal history is not a proper subject for this board, or any other. Seesixcm6
I dated a Russian for a good stretch, she was a Soviet and then liberated Russian. (In my opinion) That was a hard shift for any social system (people) to go through…and then the mafia (not a nice subject but a real one). She would often tell me “One phone call, just one phone call is all it would take.” And I mimicked her for years, “You are so estupid. You are such estupid guy…” But I never really thought that she represented all of Russia and any personality particularties I considered to be her’s alone and not a country’s, insight yes, sure, but not representative of the entire culture–or maybe I really am estupid guy.
seesix – Do you do consulting?
okay4now, No. Maybe I’ll try that later. For the time being, I’d want to avoid conflict-of-interest difficulties. In Silicon Valley, there’s this old joke: Q. How do you address an electronics engineer? A. You say, “Oh Waiter.”
Hello seesixcm6,
another joke:
A graduate with a science degree asks: “Why does it work?”
…with an engineering degree: “How does it work?”
…with an accounting degree: “How much will it cost?”
…with an arts degree: “do you want fries with that?”
Hello my dear teacher,
I would like to know how the term, “The worm will turn”, came about.
Why is it used to refer to bad people getting paid back for evil things that they have done?
HwK: (extra) I have a LARGE family… In my next life I will be an orphan without siblings, God willing.
Hey Marina, Leeches are good for getting the bloodfloow, to a severed and stitched on body part, back again.
Best Wishes, Ath, A real bloodsucker.
I’m waiting for Captain Jack to tell us about the leeches on the sails of his boat; they are the only leeches I have ever had, apart from hotforwords.com, which is a time-leech and apparently keeps me from doing the washing up, according to my wife.
Come to think of it, that proves that not all leeches are bad.
He was over at the utube site. He should be here soon. Helping Marina get video views to boost her rating and make the video go to number 24 faster..
LOL good one Bob!!! Leeches, clew, sheets, halyards, bunts, braces, rattens are all names of lines on a sailboat. There are no lines on a sailboat that doesn’t have a name. There are two types of basic lines, standing and running rigging. Just watch the movie ‘Captain Ron’ when they do that little sailing quiz. Oh and there are no ropes. Once a rope is put on a boat its called a line. Ropes are a land term.
Hello Bob,
HFW is a Time Leech and also a Time Capsule.
Yes google is being a leech at this time , I am able to log in to my account but unable to edit my favorites list.
or youtube, maybe both
Barbers did blood letting too. Thus the red and white pools in front of their shops.
Yes, but where did the blue come from?
Maybe it came from the bleeding aristocracy.
I looked at two or three places for the blue that was added in on the poles but can’t find any reference to it. It shows the red and white poles and then some with the red, white and blue, but no explanation. I could mean blue was added as our nations colors are red, white and blue. I don’t know if other countries use poles now or not.
Here you go the origin of the barber pole.
http://www.barberpole.com/
This link had a few tasty bits, adding
some further insight
http://www.gothamcityinsider.com/2007/08/origin-of-barber-pole.html
Dear dear Marina..
It was my suggestion and I love it 
first of all, thanks SO much for doing the lesson about spilling beans
Another question.. how do you think about the whole Russian-Georgian thing going on over there? And where does the name Georgia come from? Is it named after a certain George?
Anyhow, good luck with everything and much love from the Netherlands
Groetjes Maxim
Dear Marina, I have a word request to make and this particular word has been…troubling me, for days now
Think you can help? 
It’s the word ‘right’, but the question is not really it’s origin but how did it get different, irrelevant to each other. meanings, such as privilege, the opposite of left and being exact/correct.
That’s a toughie, older than dirt!
pre-biblical – some words cannot be sourced.
Dog, is another example
Here’s a video from Marina’s list:
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/05/20/teachers-pet/
Guess what… I have another request:
‘The Dog Days of Summer’
What does this mean and when did it come into use?
Please help me on this Miss Marina.
Is this a sirius question?
sirius = DOG STAR dog days? Very good P811
Those must come after the
Days of wine and roses
…right before the halcyon days….
Nothing is wrong with it. Google dog days and sirius.
Holy smokey36bear!
I’m catching up on Marina’s shows and the latest is “Dog Days” and here you are asking about it. Wow, that was fast.