Nickname

My nickname is Koba… was little mermaid when I was younger…  but why the word nick in nickname?

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  1. My nickname is Max everybody calls me Max. My name is really Maxwell no one calls me that.

  2. MtnDood says:

    My name is Jeffrey Phan and I have several nicknames that are very strange… Phillip, Phan-Man, Jeff, Jephilly, Asian kid, and Smart guy. Phillip becuase of my friend thinking I really looked like a Phillip, and Phan-man my gym teacher just made up… Jephilly I have no idea… mystery :shock:

  3. vonratt says:

    Marina, how did you end up with the same nickname as Joseph Stalin? :wink:

  4. blueskies13 says:

    my name is nicholas rene’ gaspard and people just call me nick does that qualify as a nick name if not then i do not have a nick name

  5. ismaelinho89 says:

    My ekename is smiley… guess why! :smile:

  6. cekretkod says:

    Koba, the Indomitable. It was a childhood nickname of Stalin, who took it from a famous Georgian folk hero. I don’t see a link between you and Stalin, or folk heroes, but you do seem to be quite an indomitable woman. Does that nickname mean that no man has power over you?

  7. Hmm, deferonate…? To remove the iron from?

    Roachmeister actually is a nickname, because my last name is Roach. A friend of mine at the time named Robert Cummins tagged me with it, and it stuck to me when some of my gaming friends began to use it as well.

    If your nickname has anything to do with the story “The Patricide”, that makes my eyes misty. I wish I knew you well enough to know why in the blue blazes you are nicknamed Koba! :smile:

  8. protac6 says:

    Nickname: M. Pro

    I, too love seafood but not so much swimming. Lobster is crackin’ though. :grin:

  9. cgijoe says:

    Nickname: Scrod… Received in college.

    Extra Credit: Your nickname originates from your desire for water and seafood: Koba bears the meaning little mermaid.

  10. sunxshine says:

    My nickname from my family is bunny buns because on my first halloween my parents thought it would be cute to dress me up as a baby bunny. So my family still uses it haha

  11. whysoserious says:

    why Koba? Maybe because you bare the same characteristics to a fictional character of the same name? Anyway, my nickname is Tails because I usually have my hair in a pony tail. But I’m also called Joker because of the countless pranks I pull on my friends and family!

  12. lofkc says:

    was you originally a red head just curious. Larry my nick name not sure where it comes from my spanish equivilant is Lorenzo

  13. animalntaz says:

    When I was in the army, my nickname while I was in basic training was ’100′, because that was how many push-ups I was suppose to owe.
    But when I got io my permanent duty station, my new nickname was ‘Sparky’ for a while, before I got transfered elsewhere. :roll:

  14. jojokerus says:

    Eek = och/og (Scandinavian)?

  15. yankeegato says:

    Koba was a fictionalized name for a character who represented Stalin in a book I read once. I don’t remember the author off hand. Evedently you were a very demanding person when you were younger.
    Spanish-speaking friends (I have many) call me “El Gato,” though it’s too long a story to explain why.
    tt

  16. The “whole kit and kaboodle” :?: ….

  17. mead says:

    Just guessing without looking it up but I am thinking “seeded” must have been first used in tennis, probably Wimbledon.

    “Koba” is harder. There is a reference to Stalin and a game about who will survive. There are also 2 cheetahs and something to do with anime. I don’t think so.

    I think it has to do with one of the species is the fantasy world of Rym, called a Koba. They are good swimmers.

  18. gurrlsguy says:

    my ekename is mauiman. becuz I loved Maui so much I sold everything (business, house, cars, furniture, clothes, shoes, long pants, long sleeved shits, coats, gloves, and moved there for 3 years.

  19. James says:

    So many ask for the word word. Hard to find really I could do it but.. Marina is the one that does it… I am the one that will do the swear words.. James is… Fuked4swearwords..You bastard!! :lol: :lol:

  20. James says:

    are you sleeping marina??

    #15 – Most Viewed (Today)

  21. chiselstone says:

    Marina,
    I have a friend who has borrowed money from me over the years, and never repays me. I have given him the nickname of Moocher. I was wondering where the word Moocher came from.
    Thanks for the word lessons, I have learned a lot. It’s amazing how much one can learn from someone who is “Hot”, and Hot For Words.
    Paul, aka Chiselstone
    Manchester, NJ.

  22. tabbix says:

    BTW My nickname was Bill. :???:

    Usually followed with the request to not turn green on them! :mrgreen:

  23. wetsuit5 says:

    Oh sleeping beauty. :roll:
    Time for another lesson. :roll:

    Else we’ll walk around stupid all day. :twisted: :wink:

  24. iceflowers says:

    Hey Marina !

    I would like to make a request for the origin of ” Kogel mogel ”. Im not sure if people in america eat Kogel Mogel but im sure you Marina will know what is kogel mogel as you are Russian : ) and im sure we all ate it when we were little , i would really love to see an explanation back from you ; it would be a cheery on top !

    Have a lovely day Marina : ) Greetings from London : )

  25. reberi96 says:

    I wonder what is the origin of the word REBEL

  26. markinms says:

    My nickname since my mid teens has been muiff diver.

  27. teacher. lol thts so stupid.

    can u give me the origin of the words massacre and harlot.

    thanks (only if u got time)

    mike

  28. mijj says:

    koba

    Marina: “What’s that stripy, buzzy, stingy thing?”
    Insect expert: “A bee, ok? Don’t worry, it’s going away.”
    Marina: “A.B.O.K.? .. going away? … oh, you mean “backwards”!”

    koba

    koff :roll:

  29. interpretty says:

    Hi Marina,
    Do you know why shampoo ends with a poo?
    ; )

  30. mijj says:

    Mariiiiiinaaaaaaaaa!! …

    … does the word spell as in “to spell a word” have the same origin as in the witch-like use: “casting a spell“?

  31. I think I may have come up with a cool word request: good better best, bad worse worst, how come the comparison of adjectives is diffrent with these? Is there some etymological reason?

  32. mijj says:

    my nickname at school was mijj …
    .. i choose to spell it “mijj” because it looks the same upside down. Why is that a desirable trait? … [shuffles feet] … dunno.

    You don’t believe me!?!! … You bastard!
    Here’s proof … [inverting "mijj"]

  33. tabbix says:

    As I drove to work the other day I saw a sign that said “DIP” and I remembered the BC comic strip where guy on his stone wheel saw the sign and expected a depression in the road but actually ran his wheel over a person sitting in the road. I though you could have some fun with that. Thanks for you videos. :smile: Tom

  34. James says:

    Right I am start to film for teddy bear big brother today. So comments would be greatly appreciated.. Ta

  35. Hey MARINA my old nickname was MR LOVE. i think that video was very educational and sexy! i liked how ur tank top strap almost fell off =) :mrgreen:

  36. Hey, I watch your videos all the time :) I was wondering where did the Phrase Under the weather came from. I don’t understand the use of when your feeling sick. :idea:

  37. im so canadian so im just wondering where the wod eh came from?

  38. rupp171 says:

    wasn’t koba the joseph stalin character in “the patricide” by kazbegi?
    …is there something you aren’t telling us, marina? haha

    oh…and my nicknames? hulk, robot, and ruppinator are what people used to call me back when i wrestled. now in rugby, im just the caveman. haha

  39. :grin: :grin:
    i know the word ‘coniption’ means basically to get angry, or stressed out, type idea but the dictionaries ive consulted havent been able to come up with where it came from… how goods your investigative skills ??

  40. andy w says:

    Origin of the word: iPod

  41. tedt says:

    Hello……long time no see :smile:
    Nice video :!:

    My nicknames are: Mori, Mo, Knödel (this one was given by my grandmother because I was a fatty when I was a baby, now Í can eat and won´t get fat :cry: )

    I´m lvling an character on Vanguard, would be here more often but gaining XP takes years (dump development :mrgreen: ).

    rrrr, missed your pics :shock:

  42. John says:

    Koba=Kobayashi Maru= no win situation?………….little mermaid= a Hans Christen Anderson story, hmmm ant=wingless wasps hmmm…….. have two of these http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=Ant+&searchmode=none

    water under the step and the lump under my jaw

  43. falstaff says:

    Good job on “nickname,” but why not also give the technical linguistic name for the transfer of a consonant from the end of one word to the beginning of another. Isn’t it “metathesis”? And by the way, what is the origin of “metathesis”?

  44. newton3788 says:

    Where does the word “Tent” come from, it’s used to describe a small mobile sleeping area. What made it become “Tent”?

  45. jaggededge says:

    I would like you to cover the phrase “drunk as a skunk.”

    Skunks don’t hit the booze… is it because people like rhymes?

    Thanks

    • True, rhyming words do sound more eloquent sometimes. Ever hear the expression,”stinkin’ drunk” as in someone on whom you can smell booze from halfway down the block? Maybe that led to the origin. But who knows? Good suggestion, jaggededge.

      Hotforwords must investigate!

  46. danielpool52 says:

    :lol: your nickname koba you and your friends have been to bangka island koba southern region of the island famous for its seafood and beautiful beaches you got the nickname their

  47. grandexandi says:

    Hey, Marina!
    I’m really intrigued by the months of September, October, November and December.
    I don’t know if english speakers see it, but I, as a portuguese speaker, clearly see that the prefixes “sept”, “oct”, “nov” and “dec” mean “seven”, “eight”, “nine” and “ten”.
    But I wonder why… After all, these months are, actually, months 9, 10, 11 and 12!
    Why is that?
    Thank you, bye bye!

    • smokey36bear says:

      Because Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar wanted monts named for them so then Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. All got bumped by 2.

    • smokey36bear says:

      A new question is: Why does Feb(my birth month) only have 28 days (not including leap years) I think I remember a story about Julius being jealous of Augustus because August had 31 days and July only had 30 (once opon a time) so he STOLE from Feb. I would like to know if thats true.

      • Sounds typical of those Roman despots. Always trying to one-up each other.

      • mijj says:

        smokey36bear replied on August 17th, 2008 9:03 pm:
        A new question is: Why does Feb(my birth month) only have 28 days

        I think the real question is: why don’t all the other months have 28 days? (with a special extra day to make up the year).

        13 x 28 = 364 + 1 = 365 !!

        So .. it would have been much more rational to have 13 months (where this “month” would actually more closely matche the moon cycle) of 28 days (= 4 weeks), + an extra celebratory day bolted on to mark the transition from one year to the next (or two days for a leap year).

        Instead we have the irrational bunch if hodgepodge “months” that we have now.

        I’m outraged ( :evil: ). I may very well write a complaining letter to the pope.

      • mijj says:

        :idea: … oh!

        … there would be an extra “month”, and it would need a name.

        I suggest: mijjember !! :neutral:

  48. duke veritas says:

    Actually, THIS (see above) is my nickname :wink:

    As for the manatee, one story is that sailors who have been too long without women would see tails in the ocean and think they were women..mermaids, actually. The manatee (now an endangered animal that frequents Florida shorelines) was a creature supposedly mistaken for the femme fatale known as the mermaid.

  49. PageDoll says:

    Marina, Did you go to a casino last night? My moher thought she saw you! :shock:

  50. kevinville says:

    Nice video, I was wondering where does the word ChickenPox come from? Does it have to do with chicken?

  51. chriskevin says:

    Hey Marina,

    I’ve always wondered where the american english word ‘boondocks’ came from. It sounds like it came from the Filipino word ‘bundok’, meaning mountain. Could you check this out for me?

    Great show b the way!

  52. scorptilicus says:

    How about the phrase “tongue in cheek”?

  53. Capman911 says:

    Lets see. Koba HMMMMM a seafood lover :!:

    • Captain Jack says:

      Oh S#!† :!: I was searching for a new Vietnamese restaurant to eat at . Well Im addicted to Salad rolls. Its a Vietnamese food. In my searching I found out there is a Korean BBQ restaurant here in Seattle area. Its called KoBa. Its short for Korean Barbeque.

      I have another nickname an old friend of mine (Eddie Garcia) used to call me was “The Salad Man”, because I would eat very larger bowls of the stuff. You know the size you would feed a family? I would eat the whole damn thing myself.

      Here’s my thought. Im thinking that if there is such a restaurant where she lived called Korean BBQ or KoBa and she is obsessed with eating at such a place that she would get a nickname like such. Well that’s my other theory.

      • Hey Captain,
        Try the salad rolls at Thai Ku in Ballard…. yum…. Now if I could just figure out what the hell is in Thai sausage…. well on second thought, never mind….
        :shock:

      • Captain Jack says:

        No I haven’t. I was looking for some other place to find salad rolls. There is this Vietnamese restaurants I eat at on Market st. I can’t remember the name but is a few door down from The Kitchen Store. I yet have to try all the restaurants in town. ..

    • Gettin’ ready to head up to the campground for a couple days. Hold down the fort, will ya? I’ll be back with the cavalry!

      Peace, bro.

  54. I was wondering where the term “Take your marks” or “On your marks, get set, go” comes from. Basically, anything to do with the start of a race. (Swimming, running, etc.)

    Thanks =)

  55. rdarr40 says:

    Why do people say “jinx” when when they say the same thing as someone else at the same time?

  56. lividemerald says:

    My father always called me Crockett when I was growing up. Interestingly, i have an ancestor with the same last name who actually helped Davy Crockett defend the Alamo, as he was a long time friend of his from Tennessee.

  57. James says:

    I have an :idea:

    Teddy Bear Big Brother.. it lasts for a few weeks and once a week viewers get to vote which teddy bear gets evicted (sounds awful)

  58. packyjack1 says:

    Marina,

    I had too many “cocktails” this weekend – I was wondering after the fifth one – where does the word “cocktail” come from?

    Thank you so much!!

  59. pedanticKarl says:

    Marina, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right? Check out spricket24 latest vid entitled “…retard”, middle of vid, HFW imitation. Not for kiddies, rated F. Your new opening tag line; “Often Imitated, but Never Duplicated” :grin:

  60. pedanticKarl says:

    As a kid, after I got my hair buzzed where I looked like a hedgehog, they called me Mecki, named after a hedgehog mascot.

  61. braveheart says:

    I would like to know the origin word of contender (was it made by a war)?

  62. GREG says:

    Someone already caught the the glass disappearing from in front of the micro wave. sharp….eyes
    But I would like to know, The pool picture looks like it was taking in So, Calif. How long has Marina lived here??

  63. Miss M I found this site giving you some more credit for your work. You may already know of it.

    http://steamcommunity.com/groups/hotforwords

  64. rcool says:

    Hey Marina, I always wondered where the word ‘Britva’ comes from

    Thanks!
    Ernest

  65. erikm says:

    Hi Marina — Something I have wondered about in the shower — how about the origin of the word “shampoo”

    Thanks!!

  66. ashunn says:

    Where Does The Word “Wangle” come from?

  67. Prospero says:

    They call me Dick for long. The the Orient I’m called Hung Phat. My Latin name is Phallus Maximus.

    :lol:

  68. orion_ss1 says:

    My first real job ( after about a year of schools ) in the Navy was airborne sonar on a P3C Orion. There were three Sensor Stations; I sat at Sensor Station 1. ORION_SS1.

    I’d go back if they’d let me fly again.

    According to Wikipedia and other unclassified sources the P3C is soon to be replaced with the P8, a military version of the 737.

  69. okay4now says:

    Yeah, okay, shit HwK: pooh bear, pooh, drewper, hogen, drewhogen, the hogg, large one, the kid,…the rest forget about it I demand privacy.

  70. bigtig says:

    Hey Teacher

    I am going to take a guess that “Koba” is tied to your heritage and relates to the famous Georgian hero from “The Patricide” by Kazbegi.

    Perhaps when you were young(er) your family saw in you the same qualities of truth, justice and friendship that Koba held so dear.

    At any rate, that’s my thought for a dollar :idea:

    Bigtig

  71. :cool: Tokah is my ekename, and I’m sure you can figure out where it came from by my gravatar.

    ~Tokah

  72. taxevasion says:

    What about the word ‘ain’t'? i always under the impression it had its origins from the people of the smoky mountains or american country folk in general. i still say it myself from time to time. when i was a kid the school kids had a goofy saying that went ” ‘ain’t’ ain’t a word so i ain’t gonna say it no more”. :smile:

  73. wetsuit5 says:

    Should we start a pool as to when 100,000,000 will occur? :idea:

  74. Capman911 says:

    Here is the Little Mermaid in Russian :smile:

    Mermaid”>

  75. noble sponge says:

    i want 2 know the origin of the phrase mud slinging
    and if the running candidates were throwing mud at each other

  76. wetsuit5 says:

    AH HA! :twisted: :idea: :razz:
    HotForWords Green Thumb Secret Revealed. :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
    She sets the plants on the Nuking device. :wink: :wink:
    So that’s why Mr. Bamboo grows grows like that. :oops:

  77. Chemikal says:

    I had a genuine Sh0ck! when the video started with what I thought was : “Vladislav, come here!”
    :) )))))))))))))))
    haoopssy.. fluffy fluff came as a relief, as I was expecting to see some tall, dark, handsome, Russian dude appear in the video. :D
    roadrunrnch isn’t the only one who needs to watch again for a more accurate picture. :-)
    But another thing that came to mind was…. How did you decide to name your pet Kobe?! It is so similar to your old nickname, so any relation?

  78. Doctor Chop was what the production crew in the backroom of the newspaper office where I worked used to call me. I was the only person in there who could be trusted to fix typos using an ex-acto knife in bodies of text with tiny type sizes like 8 point type without leaving visible evidence of the correction in the finished paste-up (visible evidence included letters that were crooked or weren’t perfectly aligned or spaced within a word, “cut lines” or shadow lines remaining around the edges of the correction, or descenders like the tails of “p” and “q” getting inadvertently severed…btw, I believe this was the origin of the phrase “mind your p’s and q’s!”) after the typesetters had long since gone home. If someone else tried it, you could alsways tell where the patch was when reading the finished newspaper. But that was before cheap PCs and programs like PageMaker took my job. I named my band Doctor Chop as well, but we were only together for 2 or 3 years and never did any professional recordings.

    • buzzword says:

      dude, i was an anthro. major. what school are you going to if i may and do you have a area of concentration, physical, cultural, archaeological ?planning on a career or just doing it for kicks?

      • Hi Buzz,

        Actually, there are four areas of concentration in my anth department: physical, cultural, archaeological, and linguistic. I have to get ‘un peu du tout’ (some of each) to get the general Anth degree, so I’m keeping it simple. No double major, no specific area of focus, just a BA. My school is way out-of-state, so not local to the Upper Ohio Valley area.

        Trust me on this one: I didn’t take out a student loan and go deep into perma-debt just for kicks! I’ve never been in debt before so this is a bit of a leap of faith for me. Always managed to live a ‘cash-on-the-barrelhead’ existence and never suffered too hard for it, but….I now have an industrial injury that has required me to reorganize my priorities. Used to be, I liked doing work that had me actively scurrying about and I stayed trim and strong and lived for my evenings and weekends. Now, I need to use my brain and stop doing anything physical for a living. Knowing stuff and talking to people about it is my only plausible escape route from the welfare rolls.

        So I plan to try to work as an interpretive ranger for the National Park Service when I graduate. Not a Law Enforcement ranger, mind you. Damn, they need more school than an MD for that job. Interpretive programs bring technical facts and information about your park resource to within the grasp of a non-technical audience by using examples from commonly-known objects, processes, or events that have widespread familiarity and thus relevance to an average and diverse audience. They are really fun. I get a lot of practice interpreting stuff I know something about to a generalized audience by posting here, in fact. Keeps me on my toes. I have a couple 2-year degrees (one in Natural Science and also one in Environmental Conservation: Parks Mgmt/Outdoor Recreation) that should help my resume float toward the top of the stack when hiring time comes. Plus, I managed to put in a couple summers as a seasonal ranger in the last few years, so chances for realizing my goal seem pretty good unless the Federal gov’t decides to dice up our parks and sell them off to the various resource extraction agencies.

      • buzzword says:

        cool, my department took the four fields approach as well, thanks papa boas. my wife is an occupational therapist, and i am supplementing my education and hopefully income by getting an associates in physical therapy. my father, a pipe fitter fell out of the steel, i know how catastrophic an accident can be on an individual and family. i hope it all works out for you, let me know, and if you got any questions or thoughts send em’ my way.

      • You’re on. Thanks for your support, Buzz.

  79. John says:

    Nice turquoise looking bracelet you have there.

  80. Capman911 says:

    I looked all over for anything related to Koba, but it kept bringing me back to Stalin and the little mermaid. I did find a beach that has the same name as Marina. What else Marina Beach :cool:

  81. John says:

    When i was just a boy my sisters called me “tractor legs” but I have never actually had a nickname that was permanent. My dad would sometimes call me pokeus and horsefly. My friends usually just called me by my last name mostly, if you can call that a nickname………….. perhaps Koba is an intentional misspelling of the name of Coba=Koba= ancient Mayan temple/city complex on the Yucatan peninsula One the rulers there was known as Lady K’ aiiwl Ajaw …………….Anoher site Ek Balam = Star Jaguar or Black Jaguar seem to be in that area also.

  82. wordymouth says:

    Dear HotForWords,

    Monday, Tuesday…
    Where do we get the names of the seven days?

    WM

    • People have asked this question before, and since she hasn’t answered them, I think she may have decided this one isn’t interesting enough for a lesson. These are easy enough to look up, though. In English, the days of the week derive mostly from Norse mythology, and also from astronomy as in saturn-day, sun-day and moon-day (monday).

      Our close neighbors the French also have a weekday named after the planet Mercury (Mecredi) instead of using Wednesday, which we had named after the ruler of the Norse gods, Odin (also spelled Wodin, Woden or Wotan as in Woden’s day). The French also have a day named after Mars (Mardi) for Tuesday and Lundi (Lunar-day) which closely resembles our moon-day or Monday. Thursday was named for the Norse god of thunder, Thor. Friday derives from another Norse god named Freya. Probably the god of paychecks or something! :wink:

      Damn! I forget what Tuesday is derived from in English and I’m too lazy to look it up…. Now I’ll probably get a beatin’ and it’s all your fault, WM :grin:

  83. kaibanator says:

    My pet’s nickname is Makitu. I always liked Nintendo games when I was younger, particularly the old Super Mario Bros. franchise.

    One of the characters was called Lakitu, and with my cat being called Mac, it caught on as his nickname :lol:

    random word request :wink: “Planet”

  84. braveheart says:

    I would like to know yhe origin word of contender (was it made during a war)

  85. leoNard says:

    mischievious domestic spirit of german folklore or old russian novel [Run spot run, fluffy will chase you down :razz: ]

  86. James says:

    Hmm isnjt captain jacks time as TA over yet??

  87. wetsuit5 says:

    How cool must that swim club be? :cool: :cool:
    They put a bikini clad babe Marina on a platform right in the middle of the pool. :razz: :razz:
    Otherwise none of the guys would get into the water :wink: :wink: for watching the “Entertainment” :shock: :grin:
    But then they might actually have to :twisted: for growing stuff in the trunks. :lol: :lol:
    Our Teacher, an International Vamperess. :roll:

  88. wetsuit5 says:

    To be a proper peanut in the gallery. :idea:

    LOOK OUT she has … Lotsa Knives. :razz: :razz:

  89. wetsuit5 says:

    My nickname Wetsuit5 of course :arrow:
    My call sign was Crazyman (as in bold warrior) :evil: (akin to Charlie Sheen’s character in some movie) :twisted: , however that translated VERY badly :evil: with my foreign counterpart and was changed to Gorilla (for physical reasons) :razz: :razz: :lol: .

    As to Koba. :idea: I await the explaination from our teacher. There’s usually a story behind ekenames. :oops: I’m sure it’s as charming as she. :cool:

    But again I love the choices for food. (Insert smiley for yum!!)

    (And Muhaah!!)

  90. sirfrey says:

    Marina,

    How about the word “CORPULENT”

  91. poweron2408 says:

    Hey Marina.
    I was wondering if u could explain this word to me ….
    Its called : Déjà vu.
    I really dont know what it means exactly, and where it comes from.
    And no one else can explain it to me cause i dont understand it.
    Hope you’lle help me !
    Byeee !!

  92. sirfrey says:

    Where did this phrase come from? “DUMB KLUCK”

  93. James says:

    Haha foxbow still isnt here :twisted:

  94. sirfrey says:

    How about “OUTFANGTHEF”

  95. sirfrey says:

    Hi, my nick name is “SirFrey” The first part is simply “sir.” I’ll let you figure out the other part….

  96. sirfrey says:

    How about the word “ANFRACTUOSITY”

  97. Bob says:

    I’ve had a number of nicknames which were very uncomplimentary, and which I won’t risk having revived by posting them.
    The only one I liked was when colleagues were calling me “The Man who’s Got Everything”.

    As for Koba, Check Check this out.

    BTW, where does the Australian nickname “Cobber” come from?

  98. This was a reallyy cool lesson! I absolutely adored it! My nickname is TG, since we had 3 kids in the class called Gergő and we needed to differenciate and they started using my initails, that was 12years ago but since then everyone calls me that.

  99. Dear teacher,
    I guess mermaid was evident, your name is marina and “mer” (mare in latin) is the word for sea and the maid is a girl isn’t she? And like in the “Omer’s Odysseus”, you are the siren that drives men out of control! So, it suits you well. Back in the past, I had a lot of “eckename” I was called “géant vert” or green giant because I am tall and always wear green sweat shirt. Then at 17, my friends called me “George”, in reference to “george of the jungle”, because I had long hair. After that, they called me “Jaymz” because I look like James Hetfield metallica frontman. Recently my workmate called me Don Felipe because I tried to speak spanish at work with the spanish teacher and I had this famous quote: “I am perfectly bilingual in two words”
    Amicalement
    Don Felipe that has multiple personnalities

    • A mmh I didn’t understood the question until I read the previous posts…. Shame on me ! I found that Koba is a russian world champion of Ju Jitsu. Were you a great fighter when you were a child?
      Amicalement,
      Don Felipe Gonzales

    • lividemerald says:

      I think that would be Homer’s Odyssey. As for géant vert, there is a Green Giant brand of canned and frozen foods here in the States. He’s always laughing: “Ho! Ho! Ho!” Reminds me that the most popular brand of baby food here is Gerber. Kind of makes you want to throw up, just thinking about it, right??!!??

      • Dear fellow student,
        I didn’t remember if there was an “H “, it seemed too Simpson like to me! Well, our green giant here in France also always laughs ( HO! HO! HO!) So, he is surely american! We don’t have this “Gerber” brand out there, but on every box it is written “ne pas gerber” which means “don’t put boxes one on the other” (if it means anything in english!), so it is forbidden to throw up on boxes. France is a clean country !
        Amicalement,
        Don Felipe

  100. Dear HotForWords, I was wondering about the origin of the word ‘cocktail’? Why this word to describe a mixture of drinks? Why the tail of a rooster (I really hope it’s not the other meaning of the word cock :razz: )?

    Oh and as for the homework, my nickname is on my username :wink:

  101. smokey36bear says:

    Hey I just noticed that our dear teacher has yet to post a comment.

    Miss Marina…… Where are you. Miss hearing from you.

  102. bald11 says:

    Can you tell me the origin of the words “fair dinkum” and “struth”, I have enjoyed all your lessons, I look forward to more :lol:

  103. pedanticKarl says:

    Marina, I love the old classic look – kitchen, closeup and nice color saturation and contrast and sharpness. Skin, eye and hair tone colors look great. Very :cool:

  104. Hi HotForWords,
    Could you please investigate the origins of the expression ’3 square meals’?
    (What is so ‘square’ about meals?! :smile: )

    Thanks!
    Love all your vids!

  105. athoorth says:

    Morning Marina, nice show as always.

    Homework: My nickname has become “Ath” becaus I use it online all the time, otherwise my nickname would be my surname, and I don’t feel like writing it out here hehe.

    Best Wishes, Ath.

  106. James says:

    homework : j.. Jamesington.. Jamesingtonthethird.. fay whale…

    MARINAS.. when it is haloween can you make a video (maybe on the word spooky) filmed ONLY in that sexy vampire voice…..

  107. My nickname is DICK :mrgreen: because I love dictionaries and I make them also.
    Concerning EKE : this verb is extremely interesting because it is the old anglo-saxon verb for GROW. In German GROW was also AUCHEN and these two twins EKE=AUCHEN are connected to their Latin cousin AUGERE = GROW.
    By the way MARINA ORLOVA ! What is your faher’s name ? MARINA PETROVNA ORLOVA ??? Just curious.

  108. dudeitsmelle says:

    Hey, HotForWords!

    Do you think you could investigate the word Flashlight?

    Thanks! :grin:

    • Don’t have to bother. The first examples used carbon-zinc cells, which could only sustain the current delivery required of them for a short time and then a recovery (rest) period. Hence, purportedly, the light was available only in flashes. If true, I suspect it was because the cells did not contain a depolarizer, an added chemical that cleared bubbles of gas from the central carbon rod that choked off the cell’s chemical reaction until the bubbles dissipated.

      Persons of maturity (geezers), will remember the time when all flashlights were equipped with, in addition to a switch to turn it on, a pushbutton that turned on the light for as long as it was pressed. This allowed for flashes for signalling, which is what I grew up thinking the term meant. Some modern LED keychain types have only the button, would be actually truer to the name. I think this second explanation makes more sense than simply crappy batteries.

      Brits call them torches. Perhaps the polarizing problem was solved by the time they started using them.

      • Captain Jack says:

        Just a reshash of what you already correctly stated.

        The tubular flashlight as we know it was invented in 1896 by David Misell. Early flashlight models were very inefficient due to limitations in both battery and light bulb design. They were capable of producing only short pulses of light, hence the name flashlight. Also, they were big and bulky due the large size of the batteries at the time. Development of more reliable flashlights followed closely with the evolution of batteries and light bulbs. The invention of the smaller and lighter weight D cell battery in 1888 made possible the development of the first truly practical hand-held portable flashlight. Brighter and longer lasting light bulbs were made possible in1906 with the replacement of Edison’s carbon filament with tungsten.

        I think someone already covered this in greater detail in an earlier post.

      • Capman911 says:

        Hey watch out who you call a geezer. I am just an old fart. :lol:

  109. I so requested Nickname a little while back T_T

  110. qiyun1021 says:

    my nickname is 大炮 or 蜈蚣.

  111. fighter says:

    my nickname was/is “bournvita boy “, actually bournvita is a sort of
    health drink in India for good fitness. Hey I am a Tennis star of my school.

    also NICK mean impression on surface thus nickname means name providing impression

  112. I’d say you’re nicknamed Koba after Fitzroy Island in Queensland (Also known as Koba), which is a great getaway to do activities like snorkelling, which would link to you being a mermaid.

  113. okay4now says:

    HwK: Yes, yes I knew I’d heard it somewhere, Stalin was Koba, but beyond that I don’t know. I had a second cousin that went and spent time with Trotsky in Mexico a few times, never worked one day in his life but believed communism was best.

  114. sniperskaya says:

    Marina, just out of curiosity, but does your dog understand you equally well when you speak Russian, or does he just understand English? I’m curious as to whether animals can be bilingual.

    • smokey36bear says:

      I think they can be trained no conditioned to respond to tone of voice.

    • BillyB says:

      Those little breeds of dogs are muttylingual, they will ignore your commands in the language of your choosing.

    • I have a Russian friend who bought a cocker spaniel puppy. She would say, “Foonikka” to the dog in a stern tone whenever it peed on the floor (which it did often). Since it is custome to leave their shoes at the door, I would find these puddles with my socks from time to time. I tried to look up this word on the ‘Net, but got nowhere. Later I learned the dog’s name was Nikka, and she was scolding the dog by saying “Foo! Nikka.”

      Nikka likes to have her belly rubbed. She doesn’t pee on the floor any more.

      • pedanticKarl says:

        Hi CampKohler, regarding your request for comment’s edit and spell checker; Many months ago, Marina invoked the the edit feature for a short time, and everyone re-wrote their messages where the context of the commentary got lost. For spell checker use any of the Mozilla browsers (Seamonkey, FireFox).

        I think what might be useful would be to have a preview button.

    • buzzword says:

      ?! um okay… here is a link. animals do not learn languages, they are conditioned to produce a variety of responses. a word such as, “come” is merely a conditioned stimulus that provokes a response. that word could take on any form, any language. the animal could be conditioned to produce a response to any signal, word, gesture, sound, whatever. so your dog does not understand or use language the way you understand and use language.

      • sniperskaya says:

        I find that a little doubtful. I know someone who trains attack dogs. The command to attack is given in a foreign language to lessen the chance the command will be given accidentally, so that leads me to believe that some animals have the ability to discern certain words from others. Like humans, it depends on the individual creature’s intelligence. Interesting subject. Marina might be able to start a video series for dogs. Now if she could just find a way to make it profitable.

    • aLx says:

      wtf. he just told you.

      a word such as, “come” is merely a conditioned stimulus that provokes a response.

      of course they won’t be conditioning the dog to attack when they say “and”. that’d be kinda awkward. he’d attack all day long.

      different stimuli produce different reactions.

    • buzzword says:

      yeah, what aLx said. the trainer is just picking a conditioned stimulus that isn’t used frequently so that the dog doesn’t attack every time it hears that cue. i mean, you could condition an attack dog to kill every time it heard the the phrase, “nice doggy” or “no” that would be fucked up. you can condition a dog to attack every time it hears a fart. that doesn’t mean your dog is fluent in fart. so a trainer picks a foreign word that is relatively uncommon as a conditioned stimulus. any cue could be used, a pattern of whistles, clicks, gestures, whatever. an animal could be conditioned to respond to each of those cues with a different response. so yeah, the animal can discern differences between conditioned stimuli and unconditioned stimuli and associate them with certain responses. that doesn’t mean an animal is multi-lingual.

      • sniperskaya says:

        I think you’re reading too much into Pavlovian responses. You have to take other factors into account. There have been many instances of animals going for help when their owners were incapacitated without any commands being given, even the animal’s risking their own lives to do so. That kind of thinking doesn’t involve conditioned responses (to which humans are also susceptible) but independent thought. Animals are a lot smarter than I think you give them credit for. Marina’s dog obviously knows he’s got a good thing going.

    • I asked the same thing on the last video sniperskaya. The police dogs here are Belgian Malinois. The police officer is taught the language of where the dog came from so people around him can’t give the dog orders or commands. The dog will not respond to anyone else, but that one police officer or another one that knows the language.

      Belgian Malinois

    • buzzword says:

      i think what your referring to is something different than a dog trained to respond to commands. here are some articles.

      seizures

      yawning

      • sniperskaya says:

        Not at all what I was talking about. An animal’s ability to “predict” a seizure has about as much to do with conditioned response and their ability to demonstrate independent thought as an animal’s ability to sense or “predict” a typhoon or earthquake. (Which has also been demonstrated.)
        I am talking about things like the link below, where animals saved human lives without having been conditioned to do so, without having been given a command:
        http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7792445/

        http://socialitelife.celebuzz.com/archive/2007/01/18/salma_hayeks_dog_saves_her_from_gas.php

        There was a story on TV recently about a pet pig whose owner had a heart attack. Unable to rouse her, the animal got outside and went in the road and played dead until someone noticed and came to investigate. When they did, the pig led them to its’ owner.

    • buzzword says:

      okay, that stuff is way outside of my sphere of understanding. i asked around and someone recommended the subject of inter-species communication, they mentioned the name john c. lilly. after looking at google results it all seemed to be beyond my comfort zone. thats all i can offer.

  115. okay4now says:

    1/2 HwK: I give nicknames, especially to pets or people younger than myself. Usually, I’ll have 4, 5 or 6 for any person or friend. If someone were to pick-up my cel. and look at the phonebook they’d have absolutely no idea what the names meant or who the people were–none. Even, if under duress, I have to stop sometimes & think, ‘okay, which name did I use, common think…’

  116. Neanderthal says:

    Friends used to call me Bobby after a kid with a learning disability I used to watch couldn’t remember my name and always called me Bobby. Growing up farming in the summer months with my grandparents attached the common country nickname Zeke.

    I’m guessing Koba was your nickname as you were a do-gooder.

  117. subconcious says:

    Word Request: GRAFFITI! GRAFFITI! GRAFFITI! GRAFFITI! Please? :’ (
    I would REALLY appreciate it : )

  118. sniperskaya says:

    Thanks for mentioning me, Marina. I was almost afraid you were going to name me as your teacher’s pet and I was going to have to post a picture for my icon.
    Anyway, on to your nickname, “Koba”. The logical assumption is that you were named after the main character in the Georgian novelist Alexander Kazbegi’s story, “The Patricide”. In the novel, as you may know, Koba was a thief in the tradition of Robin Hood who had contempt for authority, a tendency towards violence and strong belief in vengeance. The character of Koba inspired Iosef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, or Joe Steel, aka Uncle Joe Stalin.
    So if this is true, then I can only assume that you were a holy terror as a child,always running off to swim when you were forbidden by your parents to do so, skipping school to spend the day at the pool, lake or sea shore, and that you were the leader of a band of like minded urchins who terrorized your neighborhood, holding the local populace in a grip of both fear and awe.
    Either that or you looked like Joseph Stalin as a child. :razz:
    P.S. Marina, be glad you aren’t a real mermaid. Apparently from this video on YouTube, some Russian fishermen caught one and ate it! (Though I daresay there are probably more than a few of your viewers who have dreamed of doing the same with you!)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tfTMjYsS-U

    • I ruled out “The Patricide” and “Koba”,
      the english play pretty quick. Koba
      and Iago going to prison, escaping,
      et al, not a likely Marina nickname.

      Hey – fluffy fluff! you got mentioned!
      Congratulations! :mrgreen:

      • sniperskaya says:

        I don’t know, melikadothechacha, I can see Marina getting into trouble (especially with her sister helping her) and then escaping, to run off to the nearest pool or beach. Marina, did you ever do any skinny dipping when you were younger? Or now that you’re older? :twisted:

  119. labbatt78 says:

    My alternate names are e-dog, e-rock and Rock(y) or(o).

  120. barmar says:

    I was watching “Generation Kill” on HBO, and one of the characters referred to “scuttlebutt”, which is slang for “rumor”, and often used by military types. Where did this word come from?

  121. ranaronama says:

    Hi :)
    I like your videos. You are so with the words.
    Could you please tell me about the origin of word “horizon”? I heard that it is actually came from two words “hori” and “zone”, but I am not sure.
    Thanks :)

  122. leoNard says:

    knick knack—kobaburra natives of australia Uncle Joe? :evil:

  123. seesixcm6 says:

    Dear Marina, It’s easy to say “differentiate.” I forgot to complement you on your nice blue dress Friday. You look so wonderful in your bikini near the pool and while enjoying seafood. (Lobster nose?) Today’s yellow summer dress was also very nice, along with the background of your neat, clean kitchen and microwave. For your homework, my nickname, seesix was my call sign when I ran air defense communications, from the saying, “you need to see them six ways from Sunday.” Also for your homework, your nickname, Koba was a reference to Josef Stalin. It’s also an acronym for Korea International Broadcasting, Audio & Lighting Equipment, an electronics show. According to Wikipedia, there’s a Koba Island in Queensland, Australia, and cities named Koba in Indonesia and India.

    Marina, I hope you noticed that I’m the only one who does your homework every time. Many others don’t try or even bother. This must prove my love and affection for you. Not the carnal love of a man and a woman, but true love, that deep, spiritual connection that poets dream about! :-) (Well, I actually do your homework!) Your dear student, seesixcm6

    • buzzword says:

      i do the homework, i just tattoo the homework on my body and then email her photos of myself. now if that’s not love what is?

      • BillyB says:

        Do you have any real tatoos, like say, an old girlfriend’s name, or something that is a nice reminder to you of love or former love. Don’t answer that… but it made me think of a friend who decided not to break up with the girlfriend, because of a tatoo. A little more permanent than a ring, that can be removed @ the wearer’s convenience. I won’t take mine off, well not just because I can’t, but I wear it even in the heat of battle, if you know what I mean.

      • buzzword says:

        no, never did the tattoo thing. could never settle on anything. body piercing yes. i have six, largest i went was a 4 gauge. each represents an important event, including my wife.

      • buzzword says:

        cancel that, largest was a 6 gauge, a 4 gauge would make me a freak.

      • BillyB says:

        Iroicaly I wrote a paragragh on piercings in my post above & deleted it. Mentioned somethimg about the symbolism of the gold wedding ring & how it would be much better permanently attached rather than worn around the finger, which can be removed. (written that way on purpose). Any guage, at my age, would me a freak, make.
        When you mention, including your wife, I assume you mean… I can’t assume anything, just imagine…. Does she partake, by being pierced or does she just have to be carefull around you to avoid being… Don’t answer that, but thanks for the answer back on the tats.

      • buzzword says:

        actually my wife doesn’t have any piercings or tatts. although my kids have frequently become entangled on my earrings. good thing the piercings are a large gauge, the kids would have ripped em’ out years ago.

    • GREG says:

      Yah…….we all send it to the other email for extra credit. :lol:

    • smokey36bear says:

      Not only that I can name a few more that also do the homework:
      CaptainJack
      pagedoll
      melikadothechacha
      Cman911
      need I go on??????????????????????????????

    • smokey36bear says:

      I think you might need to pick up some of THIS I hear it works great

    • BillyB says:

      When I do the homework I get Razzed at work. I did the homework on the skinnydipping video & found out one of my mechanics is reading the stuff on the website. Needless to say I’m trying to save face by not giving out too much potentianly embaracing info on the site anymore.
      I used to wonder why I wasn’t getting the latest Video on my youtube subscription, ’til I found out it was being hyjacked, on my own computer, by the employees.
      If I give out my nickname here, I’ll never by respected at work again.
      But I can give a little blurb about one of my former employees. Found out his old boss used to call him scooter, so of course he hated it & it became a little bit of an instrument of torture, (he was good natured enough not to take it too bad). After he left the company, his curse (so called) remains. whenever one of us that knew him says the word “scooter”… within 24 hours he shows up, i swear its true.

      • embaracing? I’ll tell you what is embaracing: misspelling on a site that deals with words!

        Marina, howcumzit you don’t have a spellchecker feature on this thing? Or an edit capability that allows one to correct mistakes? These have existed since the start of the Internet, so you should get them installed, by say, next Saturday, noonish. Then we’ll have a nice little lunch.

      • BillyB says:

        hey my spellchecker is google & mostly I type w/2fingers & ifn’ I thot I spell sometin rong I type it into google to see wUT IS SUJESTED, THANX. I spell gooder frum now on.

      • mijj says:

        CampKohler replied on August 17th, 2008 2:44 am:
        Marina, howcumzit you don’t have a spellchecker feature on this thing? Or an edit capability that allows one to correct mistakes?

        My bet is: she likes to keep us vulnerable.

    • dnafragment says:

      i do the homework but i never hand it in :razz: … because I want a detention :wink:

    • smokey36bear says:

      Who’s jealous??? Not me. I’m just pointing out how WRONG you are. I haven’t missed a single lesson since I joind. I also back tracked an caught up on must of the past ones. I haven’t seen your posts on EVERY lesson. So before you start to put others down get your facts straight. And yes I have done homework on all the lessons that I have seen :razz:

    • Glad to see you post your homework. :mrgreen:
      Google gives 2,000,000 + hits for “koba”!
      Tough to zero in on the one used as Marina’s
      nickname. I went to the urban dictionary to
      get my answer, knowing that Marina has a
      wild streak. It didn’t make sense, but it’s
      funny. Don’t let all the fuss faze you.
      You are not alone being HotForMarina!

    • Neanderthal says:

      Kobe keeps eating my homework…

    • C6,

      Pardon me, but I beg to differ. Although I’ve only been a member since April, I have never failed to turn in the homework. Sometimes it was late, or I turned in several lessons’ worth of homework at once a couple times in later lessons, but as a full-time university student who slaves for hours per day on the real thing, this is stuff is what I do to take a break, just pure fun and so I have always participated as if it were for credit. Go back and check if you have the time and inclination: if you find a lesson which proves me wrong, I’d be interested to know what it might be.

      Now you might argue that I recently refused to announce for whom I would be voting in November, but I wrote an entire dissertation (for a blog board, it was pretty long) on why I felt this was an unfair question and, as such I should exempt myself from announcing to the world what is guaranteed by the constitution to be secret and private, so in effect, I did turn in homework.

    • aLx says:

      this is getting annoying as hell. cut the crap.

      • Wow, that back beat SO reminds me of the hardcore punk days 1979-1983. I was on the West Coast and did door security at a local club. We had bands every night of the week. Lotta fun!

        You’re right, of course, aLx.

        All C6 needed to do was to affirm that he’d done all the homework since, what a couple weeks ago or whenever he joined. But making the claim that he is the ONLY student to turn in ALL the homework was a silly thing to say, and near-impossible to back up as well. Lessons: we learn as we go..

      • okay4now says:

        aLx – Nice song, but too polished/produced

        P9 – I new I’d seen you before [the under-age guy with the fake 'medical' I.D.--that's me!]

        So funny going to clubs now and very few even ‘Mosh’ pits and no one even understanding what a ‘slam pit’ is or where it started etc., etc.

    • Prospero says:

      Word request: apple polisher.

    • okay4now says:

      That’s weird, but you win! Congrats, putz. Now nothin’ left to do but pick out what engraving you want, I guess. But, glad you’re so in love it’s the only major exponential we ever really know. I think you’re completely blind. Oh, yeah, love is blind…guess it’s a one way street as well.

    • Captain Jack says:

      C6, So just doing only your homework every day is proof of true love? :???: I think there might be a bit more than doing homework everyday. :smile:

    • John says:

      “seesixcm6 said and while enjoying seafood. (Lobster nose?)” Marina the red knowed roe deer. nickname=Red Eva?

  124. They started calling me “Greyhound” in high school, because I was a long lean dude who ran the 100 yard dash on the track team. The name stuck, and my friends still call me “Greyhound.”

  125. pedanticKarl says:

    Extra credit:
    You were named Koba meaning “the boss” as you were telling your kid brother what to do. Am I close?

  126. smokey36bear says:

    Tedward
    Teddy (I only let the women call me this) :mrgreen:
    Teddy bear (again only woman) :grin:
    Bundy (oddly it was with affection) :???:
    Monkey boy
    That’s all I can do in mixed company :grin:

  127. Captain Jack says:

    Marina, Im guessing you were some kind of Robin Hood of sorts.

    • Captain Jack says:

      Nicknames: The Computer Wizard (TCW), Inspector Gadget, Admiral Byrd, Meoff, And of course Captain Jack. ;)

      • Captain Jack says:

        Oops I forgot one… :oops: Jack Sprat…

        Oh that reminds me. I know this gal in Seattle that roller skates where I used to live. Her name is Jill. You know Jack and Jill went up the hill….. :mrgreen:

        Ok I have to go for me walkabout. Im still a bit freaked out. :razz:

      • Bob says:

        Jack, you may be able to help me with some nicknames. I know that the Navy has nicknames for their ships – HMS Illustrious is known as Lusty, rather obviously, and the USS Franklin D Roosevelt is known, more creatively, as The Big Stick from FDR’s advice “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”
        I was looking for the nicknames of the USS Harry S Truman and found “Hairy Ass”, and of the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN72), for which I only found “Baberaham” in honour of her being the first ship to embark female flight crew.
        I seem to remember hearing another nickname for the Lincoln – any comments?

      • Bob says:

        Ha! What an idiot! I got the wrong Roosevelt. :oops:
        It’s the USS Theodore Roosevelt that is called The Big Stick.

      • Captain Jack says:

        The only one I could suggest was the nick name of the Battleship USS Missouri BB-63. They called her the Mighty Mo. Some of us called her the USS Misery. Interesting side note, we had two mess hall lines in our galley. One was called the Roosevelt line the other I think was called the Truman line. :cool:

    • BillyB says:

      Short walk?
      I couldn’t get on the site either, I thought I had a chance @ first…and I could die happy… alas not to be. I remain, a tortured soul.
      Going for a walk too. ‘ Got to give Revenue Canada some money, only way is to walk it into the deposit slot, keeps my blood pressure down.

    • dnafragment says:

      ok capn whats freakin you out? if you dont wanna type it here, then if you want to feel free to pm me.

      • Captain Jack says:

        It would take me hours or days to explain why. So Im not going to. :wink: Im fine, really. Just had to get my bearings and sort it all out in my mind. It all started from a phone call I received. You might say data overload with no explanation of what it all means. :mrgreen:

    • aLx says:

      ah. i know those calls. women. yeah, freaks you out big time.

    • Captain Jack says:

      Well the phone call was just part of the whole picture.

      The phone call was about the USCG doing an audit on me. They do a paper audit on my exams and the likes. I had one student that I had a hard time pleasing. I even had to give her a discount on the cost of the class for she was expecting much more from the training. I don’t know how much more you could want from a class that completely eliminates the need to exam out with them. :roll: Well as I have mention before. I have almost the worst luck in the world. The USCG inspectors choose to interview her! OMG I thought I was going to get axed. Here is the problem with audits. If my teaching certificate gets pulled the whole faculty get there certificates pulled. So if one messes up we all mess up. The whole company gets shut down. I PASSED WITH FLYING COLORS. :mrgreen: So a bunch of twilight zone stuff all was happening at once. The timing of the phone call, puppet video, swimming, seafood, comments, weird goings on my yacht, and the sky was very odd that many took pictures of the glowing red sky, all and all really took the cake. I just had to go for a walk to digest it all in. Note this all happen in a 60 minute time period. The evening was finished with a lightning storm. I just gave up and went to bed. :roll:

    • PageDoll says:

      Hey Captain!! I know, long time no talk! :sad: I can tell you I’ve been here the whole time though. Watching. Reading. I seems like its been pretty mellow from what I can tell. I looks like teacher is bringing back teachers pet, slowly but surely :smile: and let me lell ya, I’ve laughed out loud more than once. Some good lessons, I tell ya.
      I’ve just been wokin’ alot lately. I picked up a little puppy just about 2 weeks ago. You can guess what kind. Thats right, a little male maltese. Hes so fun and playful. Hes about 12 weeks old and his name is Skippy, or Skip or Skippy Poopers. He loves for me to throw the ball and he brings it back to me like it was built into his DNA ! :shock: I almost have him house trained… I’ll try to chime in a lil’ more in the future. Hope alls well and I’ll type to ya soon! :grin:

      • Captain Jack says:

        Good to hear from you. I was beginning to think bad thought of you be abducted by aliens from Saturn. Yea chime in on once in a while just to let us know that you haven’t been abducted. I don’t want have to build a spaceship to come looking for you. :mrgreen:

  128. Why is Monkey Bread called Monkey Bread?!?!?

  129. PageDoll says:

    Hmmm, my nicknames…Burn, Burnel, Smoothie, easy money, chuey, oh ya, and smike. :smile:

  130. dnafragment says:

    ‘Hi guys’ :smile: what happened to ‘my dear students’? :grin: anyway my dear teacher you have a very very nice apartment <-word request. Ive been called derogatory names before but no nicknames.& Marina you have a cute….nickname:)

  131. billionsix says:

    Where does the name “flea market” come from? There is one in my area, and I have never seen them sell fleas.

  132. GREG says:

    You were nick-named after a snake?
    Nice kitchen, very clean do you cook?

    • GREG says:

      Was anyone else watching that damn strap
      She saying lovey love for Kobe?

    • GREG says:

      Koba
      Is it the play based on Stalin’s life ??
      had to look it up but? really?

    • Bob says:

      Don’t read too much into this Koba nickname; it’s just a portmanteau word for KOBe’s mamA. :grin:

      • Captain Jack says:

        We really don’t have enough information to solve the Koba question. For all versions of Koba could relate to Marina. We could deduce which one would be the most logical. But then since when people follow logic?

      • GREG says:

        She should have given you the answer to help us.
        If you hear from her I would be interested in the answer.
        That was a good question. not a google answer.
        Koba after Stalin is not that crazy..
        Try to remember Stalin is loved in Russia.
        He is/was like Hilary Clinton is here.

      • aLx says:

        here’s a thought.
        “кобелъ” means (male) dog. “кобелёк” is a young dog. she could’ve just dropped “-лёк” or “-лъ”. this way, we get “кобе”. kobe.
        “-a” is usually a suffix indicating female nouns. so we’d get “коба”, koba. which would most likely be something female relating to a dog, and that’d be … a little bitch or something? bicce?
        pretty far-fetched but nonetheless definitely not worse than all those other suggestions.

      • GREG says:

        aLx
        Someone has already hit the best theory.
        As it has to do with good hearted, big hearted…?
        A DO..Gooder of some sort.
        Kobe is Japanese and is the highest quality beef
        Maybe because she is such high quality or….? :lol:

      • aLx says:

        she’s high quality beef? what?

      • Captain Jack says:

        aLx, I was thinking that same thing when I was comparing her nickname with her choice of name for her dog Kobe vs Koba. I don’t think its that far fetched. I think you might be on to something that I gave up on. Fluffy Fluff is to be an embarrassing name for Kobe? Might be. It kind of strips him from his manly dog portray. Most nicknames come from something that was embarrassing to that individual. I think we are just missing the definitive clue. Maybe we are just over analyzing it. :smile:

  133. annuddermale says:

    dit-dit-dit…

    i was Willy (’til i figured out what it had come to mean), Will, & Tommy at one time or annudder…only Tommy stuck through my formative years…and now i’m Tom ( the nick for Thomas, ‘natch)…

    as for the extra credit, maybe you are Stalin’s lost daughter?…

    annudder :cool:

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