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
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?
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!
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
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!
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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!!
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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=055ZA5kGfAs this is ” god’s punishment for teaching evolution in schools” accordance to kinship and the rules of fuck (fornication under consent of kindred) anything else is just fools gold.
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 : )
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?
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"]
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. Tom
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.
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 ??
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”?
A guy walks into a psychiatrist office and says “Doctor, Doctor. I’ve been having this reoccurring dream. First I’m a teepee then I’m a wigwam. It goes on and on night after night.”
The shrink says “Relax, you’re two TENTS.”
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.
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
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!
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.
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 ( ). I may very well write a complaining letter to the pope.
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.
Hey PD! Where have you been my friend. I missed you. No one seems to know where you went. You didn’t check out with me and the classroom hall monitor has cited you for not having a hall pass.
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?
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….
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. ..
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.)
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.
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”
I’ve been to Bielefeld. I have retired friends in Detmold. The husband used to be head of the hospital in Bad Salzuflen. I’ve toured the region, including Munster, and even went to Berlin by way of Tangermunde!
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??
yeah, pools have distinct regional variations. a well trained pool boy can easily distinguish subtle differences between the a northern and southern california pool as well as the vintage of pool water. california pools are known the world over for there ph balance, smooth chlorine flavor and minimal piss aftertaste due to the high consumption of bottled water in the region.
Keep up aLx.
It’s in 3nd person indirect as she does not to answer direct questions from me
I must ask questions in a way that someone else comments on it first. Then starts a dialog with someone else she will answer. [Shhh ..it's a secret]
aLx
I would have thought you could see it was a ploy, maneuver, tactic.
I thought I was being too overt?
I noticed the other people there.
Have you ever seen Russians in their bathing suits.
I can pick out an Eastern European at the beach from a mile away.
Prospero: I wonder what life would be like if they did talk
Buzz: I just repeated the saying, I didn’t make it up.
Perhaps the original sayer of the saying disqualified his knowledge of human nature. Or perhaps the original sayer was saying that people who brag are usually full of it, whereas people with real size and power don’t need to brag
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.
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”.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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
Quite an interesting video – good job!
In english “typhus” is pronounced “tie-fuss”, so
you did well to say it correctly. I just wanted to
confirm that for you. Thanks for participating
Last I saw, Captain Jack was investigating
the green screen software video tutorials
(for Marina?). He has done some solid work
helping Marina to keep the site functioning.
Don’t be surprised if his tour of duty gets
extended, Huzzah huzzah!
TA prospects.
Have you noticed there are other TA prospects on the page?
Reading through, there are 2 or 3 that would be her TA too?
Should there be a short essay contest.
A dithyramb of your everlasting, immortal love and devotion? .
What great word exercise, A wordsmith shoot out?
Or maybe a declamation on youtube to show your commitment to her.?
What about it guys are you up to it?
Maybe Marina ( Koba ) will come by and judge it. ?
May the best man prevail and the rest stay out of the way.
How cool must that swim club be?
They put a bikini clad babe Marina on a platform right in the middle of the pool.
Otherwise none of the guys would get into the water for watching the “Entertainment”
But then they might actually have to for growing stuff in the trunks.
Our Teacher, an International Vamperess.
Marina is always messing with stuff in the background. She would annoy film makers with her inconsistency with the props. There is a name of that position on a film crew that their job is to over see such issues. I can’t remember what the name was.
My nickname Wetsuit5 of course
My call sign was Crazyman (as in bold warrior) (akin to Charlie Sheen’s character in some movie) , however that translated VERY badly with my foreign counterpart and was changed to Gorilla (for physical reasons) .
As to Koba. I await the explaination from our teacher. There’s usually a story behind ekenames. I’m sure it’s as charming as she.
But again I love the choices for food. (Insert smiley for yum!!)
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 !!
Dear fellow student,
J’ai déjà vu cette explication, j’ai une impression de déjà vu. As aLx explained it, it means that you feel like you have already lived something or seen something.
Amicalement,
Don Felipe
OH GOOD GOD. *I can kiss goodbye to 1st comment positions here then.. I swear you have some kind of robot. You have been 1 too many times now MY TURN MY TURN MY TURN GRRRRRAHH
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”.
And another thing – you looked great as a Copper-top.
I used to work with a redhead who said that a Blonde was just a Redhead with the fire f***ed out of her.
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.
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
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
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 )?
Oh and as for the homework, my nickname is on my username
Guys
She’s hot and she lives in LA…
Young hot beauty women don’t hang out at web sites.
Or guys that do. For long at least.
My guess is She went to the beach with some
under wear model looking guy with all his hair and teeth.
And a really big……..wallet
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
To put a fine point on it, it should be a bale of hay. To put an even finer point on it, I have seen rolls of hay in farmer’s fields, so they can make round ones.
Now, don’t go getting huffy, Bear, – the smoke getting in your eyes?
CampKohle was also making a joke (Big Round Ones indeed – don’t we all like those?).
Now, a joke for CampKohle – Is the “Camp” in your logon name an adjective or a locative? Are you a Gay Cabbage?
could be that the originally there were four food groups and they were often arranged into a square, each food group occupying a corner. one was supposed to each an item from each food group, meat, bread, vegetable, fruit. thus completing the square. three meals each consisting of a square (4 food groups) meal. that’s my guess.
Completing the square reminds me of college-level Algebra classes (shudder)…bad memories of crawling through an endless tunnel with no light at the end. So much homework! By the end of it, I was twisted into a pretzel by the endless hours hunched over my desk clenching a pencil. I did have some excellent tutors, however. I finally made it out of there by passing a placement test so I could move on with my education. Why did I settle on an Anthropology major? Read my lips: no more math classes!
I think this is a good one for Marina’s games. There are a few common origins that are false.
•• Marina, Im going to request you take this one on. I think you can make a good game out of it. I have a link that I can email you, that can get you started. You can then do a follow up with your OED for verification.
Yea I thought it was of nautical origin but doing some searching in my books I found there was some notes referring to some other words describing squares as in sails of a tall ship, but not relating to meals. So I did some goggling and found out there was much more to the story.
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.
Ok – James, I’ll second that, as well.
With Halloween being so far down
the road, maybe a “practise” video
incorporating the Ukraine accent
for a “moose and squirrel” episode?
You could green screen “Boa-reese”
into the lesson and interact like you
did for the “Bad Grandma” video
My nickname is DICK 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
oops 3rd cousin, and that was a family secret. He and his wife just went to Mexico on vacations…some of my brothers don’t even know this stuff–or care.
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.
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.
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.
?! 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.
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.
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.
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.
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/
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.
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.
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…’
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.
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.
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 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?
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?
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
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
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.
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.
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
my nickame is hamburgler
Marina, how did you end up with the same nickname as Joseph Stalin?
A friend gave me that nickname.
If your friend thinks you have some resemblence to Stalin, then there must be an interesting story!
My nickname is “Bad Man,” but I am actually not so bad.
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
My ekename is smiley… guess why!
Sobriquet……
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?
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!
Nickname: M. Pro
I, too love seafood but not so much swimming. Lobster is crackin’ though.
Nickname: Scrod… Received in college.
Extra Credit: Your nickname originates from your desire for water and seafood: Koba bears the meaning little mermaid.
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
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!
was you originally a red head just curious. Larry my nick name not sure where it comes from my spanish equivilant is Lorenzo
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.
Eek = och/og (Scandinavian)?
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.
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The “whole kit and kaboodle”
….
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.
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.
“long sleeved shits”
Yikes! LOL! I guess you know what I meant to say.
I lol’d too, that’s pretty jokes man.
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!!
Out of the mouths of Grownups and children thus is the origin of words, words. And antonymous also.
what happened here? http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/01/04/those-darn-lbs/
are you sleeping marina??
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maybe she’s very kind and made breakfast for the dude that stayed over. haha.
Naw – I’m a gentleman. I made her breakfast.
that one was so lame …
Well, nobody bats 1000.
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.
BTW My nickname was Bill.
Usually followed with the request to not turn green on them!
Got a little storm coming in…
http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?zoommode=zoom&num=1&delay=15&rbscale=0.4369565217391304&scale=1.000&noclutter=0&ID=AMX&type=N0R&lat=26.08679008&lon=-80.18675232&label=Fort%20Lauderdale,%20FL&showstorms=0&map.x=389.5&map.y=204¢erx=400¢ery=240&lightning=0&smooth=0&showlabels=1&rainsnow=0
Is that the storm they were talking about at the end of Terminator?
This is the one they call “Fay”
Once they start rolling, they
tumble through regulary until
October. This is an itty bitty one.
Oh, I bet it god’s punishment for teaching evolution in schools, isn’t it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=055ZA5kGfAs this is ” god’s punishment for teaching evolution in schools” accordance to kinship and the rules of fuck (fornication under consent of kindred) anything else is just fools gold.
those creatures are scary!
I’m gonna set my [dragon] onto em.
your fucking nuts!
Oh sleeping beauty.
Time for another lesson.
Else we’ll walk around stupid all day.
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 : )
I wonder what is the origin of the word REBEL
My nickname since my mid teens has been muiff diver.
teacher. lol thts so stupid.
can u give me the origin of the words massacre and harlot.
thanks (only if u got time)
mike
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
Hi Marina,
Do you know why shampoo ends with a poo?
; )
Mariiiiiinaaaaaaaaa!! …
… does the word spell as in “to spell a word” have the same origin as in the witch-like use: “casting a spell“?
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?
I think: good, better, best
should be replaced by:
good
plus good
double plus good
(I can’t remember where i saw this … either 1984 or Clockwork Orange, maybe)
Sorry, no nickname.
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"]
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.
Tom
Right I am start to film for teddy bear big brother today. So comments would be greatly appreciated.. Ta
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 =)
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. 
im so canadian so im just wondering where the wod eh came from?
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
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 ??
Origin of the word: iPod
ask apple
Sorry I went over my post and it seems rude. So sorry, but Apple is the one who named it. (ipod, iphone, isleepy)
Hello……long time no see
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
)
I´m lvling an character on Vanguard, would be here more often but gaining XP takes years (dump development
).
rrrr, missed your pics
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
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”?
That sounds similar to the way “a naranj” turned into “an orange.”
http://www.falstaffbrewery.co.uk/
Where does the word “Tent” come from, it’s used to describe a small mobile sleeping area. What made it become “Tent”?
A guy walks into a psychiatrist office and says “Doctor, Doctor. I’ve been having this reoccurring dream. First I’m a teepee then I’m a wigwam. It goes on and on night after night.”
The shrink says “Relax, you’re two TENTS.”
good one smokey
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!
Koba was a nickname for Josef Stalin, from the name of a character in a Russian novel.
kazbegis patricide one who kills fatter joseph stalin’s pseudonym
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!
Because Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar wanted monts named for them so then Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. All got bumped by 2.
Oooooooohh, I seeee…!
I knew about August, but not about July.
Can’t believe I never thought of it!
Thanks!
I think it would be interesting too if Marina did a video on all months origins…
By now I know about July and on, but what about June down?
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.
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 (
). I may very well write a complaining letter to the pope.
… there would be an extra “month”, and it would need a name.
I suggest: mijjember !!
Actually, THIS (see above) is my nickname
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.
Marina, Did you go to a casino last night? My moher thought she saw you!
WOW, that sure is a bright blue you’ve got goin’ here. I like it!
and now its gone
hi pagedoll;) what does ‘pagedoll’ mean? hotforwords must investigate
Its for my friend PAGE who is a DOLL.
Hey PD! Where have you been my friend. I missed you. No one seems to know where you went. You didn’t check out with me and the classroom hall monitor has cited you for not having a hall pass.
Nice video, I was wondering where does the word ChickenPox come from? Does it have to do with chicken?
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!
WHERE DID THE WORD “WORD” COME FROM? XD XD XD
my nick name is Bob.
Do you sleep this soundly?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N2hHJv2-Cs&feature=related
How about the phrase “tongue in cheek”?
Lets see. Koba HMMMMM a seafood lover
Whhaaaaaassssuuuuuppp!
You are my friend. How’s it hanging. Your looking “nice” today.
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….
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.
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 =)
Why do people say “jinx” when when they say the same thing as someone else at the same time?
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.
I have an
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)
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!!
No henpecking, please.
Big Pecker
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”
As a kid, after I got my hair buzzed where I looked like a hedgehog, they called me Mecki, named after a hedgehog mascot.
damn. me too. where are you from?
Grew up in Heppen bei Bielefeld, Westfalen… now live near L.A. Calif.
I’ve been to Bielefeld. I have retired friends in Detmold. The husband used to be head of the hospital in Bad Salzuflen. I’ve toured the region, including Munster, and even went to Berlin by way of Tangermunde!
I would like to know the origin word of contender (was it made by a war)?
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??
why don’t you ask her?
I thought I just did?
Oh…do you mean, why don’t I ask the question some were she will see it?
yeah, pools have distinct regional variations. a well trained pool boy can easily distinguish subtle differences between the a northern and southern california pool as well as the vintage of pool water. california pools are known the world over for there ph balance, smooth chlorine flavor and minimal piss aftertaste due to the high consumption of bottled water in the region.
I don’t remember seeing her with red hair in any of her modeling photos. Must have been when she first arrived here.
@ Buzz since you seem to be a pool connoisseur. Where would you guess that pool is located?
well, judging from the shadows, angle of light and water reflection… that pool, as pictured, is located in broad daylight.
Nothing like a nice warm pool with minimum piss aftertaste.
The pool is now open
“how long has marina lived here?” is not exactly a question directed to marina. it should’ve been: marina, how long have you lived here?
Keep up aLx.
It’s in 3nd person indirect as she does not to answer direct questions from me
I must ask questions in a way that someone else comments on it first. Then starts a dialog with someone else she will answer. [Shhh ..it's a secret]
aLx
I would have thought you could see it was a ploy, maneuver, tactic.
I thought I was being too overt?
I noticed the other people there.
Have you ever seen Russians in their bathing suits.
I can pick out an Eastern European at the beach from a mile away.
What gives them away RRR?
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
Here is a example Of Russian fashion
Why???? Oh God why did I click on that
Long time no see. Good to see you again
Hey Marina, I always wondered where the word ‘Britva’ comes from
Thanks!
Ernest
Hi Marina — Something I have wondered about in the shower — how about the origin of the word “shampoo”
Thanks!!
Well it’s either shampoo or real poo – take your choice!
It’s only the real thing for me!
Don’t listen to him, What he is telling you is a sham!
Where Does The Word “Wangle” come from?
They call me Dick for long. The the Orient I’m called Hung Phat. My Latin name is Phallus Maximus.
…please…
As it goes we as humans get one large blood using organ.
In some it’s their brain, others it’s their heart and yet others…..:lol:
txt mssg rply c u there.
dke msp4 % in fugue
fugue you, bach hole!
Ouyay areway osay upidstay itway akestay ouyay otway ourshay
otay atchway ixtysay inutesmay.
Ok Buzz I fell for that. Now kneel for this.
Just kidding 
Interesting. There’s a Zen saying:
Those who say do not know,
Those who know do not say.
I’m wondering if that rule applies to Johnson size as well…
Yeah, but, mine can’t talk.
but then, don’t you have to say that saying? which implies that you don’t know.
Prospero: I wonder what life would be like if they did talk
Buzz: I just repeated the saying, I didn’t make it up.
Perhaps the original sayer of the saying disqualified his knowledge of human nature. Or perhaps the original sayer was saying that people who brag are usually full of it, whereas people with real size and power don’t need to brag
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.
Yeah, okay, shit HwK: pooh bear, pooh, drewper, hogen, drewhogen, the hogg, large one, the kid,…the rest forget about it I demand privacy.
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
Bigtig
~Tokah
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”.
Should we start a pool as to when 100,000,000 will occur?
100K on Sunday, Aug 24 2:42 PM PDT
Of course I reserve the right to change my mind at any time up to and including two seconds before we reach 100K.
Dang, someone switched my K and M keyboard letters. I meant 100 M
Here is the Little Mermaid in Russian
Mermaid”>
i want 2 know the origin of the phrase mud slinging
and if the running candidates were throwing mud at each other
Yep, seems pretty self-explanatory to me.
Oh God, They’re doing abortion,
right on cue….
AH HA!
HotForWords Green Thumb Secret Revealed.
She sets the plants on the Nuking device.
So that’s why Mr. Bamboo grows grows like that.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Nice turquoise looking bracelet you have there.
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
Hey Mike, thanks for the nice message. I just replied to you….
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.
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!
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
I thought that they were named after Roman Gods/Planets-Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jove, Venus, Saturn and Sun.
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
random word request
“Planet”
I would like to know yhe origin word of contender (was it made during a war)
Contend: To strive(but often used connoting vie).
Tribute to you MARINA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIzrCjEwCNE
About IZBA
Quite an interesting video – good job!
In english “typhus” is pronounced “tie-fuss”, so
you did well to say it correctly. I just wanted to
confirm that for you. Thanks for participating
@dictionaricdotcom good video bro,. well done, & its a nice tribute to our dear teacher.
Dear fellow student (and teacher now),
I am really amazed! Excellent! More!
Amicalement,
Don Felipe Gonzales
mischievious domestic spirit of german folklore or old russian novel [Run spot run, fluffy will chase you down
]
Hmm isnjt captain jacks time as TA over yet??
Last I saw, Captain Jack was investigating
the green screen software video tutorials
(for Marina?). He has done some solid work
helping Marina to keep the site functioning.
Don’t be surprised if his tour of duty gets
extended, Huzzah huzzah!
I’ll second that ChaCha. Jack is doing a excellent job at helping M. I would hope she keeps him for a long time.
Hmmm … If Marina is “M”, and Captain Jack looks after the technical aspects, his new nickname should be “Q”.
TA prospects.
Have you noticed there are other TA prospects on the page?
Reading through, there are 2 or 3 that would be her TA too?
Should there be a short essay contest.
A dithyramb of your everlasting, immortal love and devotion? .
What great word exercise, A wordsmith shoot out?
Or maybe a declamation on youtube to show your commitment to her.?
What about it guys are you up to it?
Maybe Marina ( Koba ) will come by and judge it. ?
May the best man prevail and the rest stay out of the way.
GO!
looks like jacks job is safe.
no one else wants the job?
Or can out write the CapTAinJack……:wink:
are you talking mutiny?
NO ……..not at all Jack takes apps on his page for TA.
Besides I like to read the stuff that is written …so more stuff….more?
james, are you talking mutiny?
NO
James, hang on to your hat. Im working on that.
Hey JAck
Isn’t it the rule, TA’s are 18 to 30-ish and built like a brick shit house?
haha after not saying it for ages 3 days ago I adopted brick shit house as one of my new phrases..
And I am 18.. I have a fake id proving it too
playboy
How cool must that swim club be?
for watching the “Entertainment” 
for growing stuff in the trunks. 
They put a bikini clad babe Marina on a platform right in the middle of the pool.
Otherwise none of the guys would get into the water
But then they might actually have to
Our Teacher, an International Vamperess.
To be a proper peanut in the gallery.
LOOK OUT she has … Lotsa Knives.
And where did the glass in front of the microwave go?
Marina is always messing with stuff in the background. She would annoy film makers with her inconsistency with the props. There is a name of that position on a film crew that their job is to over see such issues. I can’t remember what the name was.
Hey Captain I think the guy you are thinking of is a continuity consultant.
My nickname Wetsuit5 of course
(akin to Charlie Sheen’s character in some movie) 
, however that translated VERY badly 
with my foreign counterpart and was changed to Gorilla (for physical reasons) 
.
My call sign was Crazyman (as in bold warrior)
As to Koba.
I await the explaination from our teacher. There’s usually a story behind ekenames. 
I’m sure it’s as charming as she. 
But again I love the choices for food. (Insert smiley for yum!!)
(And Muhaah!!)
Marina,
How about the word “CORPULENT”
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 !!
Okay, poweron2408
You’re on your own on this one, pursuant to your request. Best of luck, this would probably be a fun lesson.
Hotforwords must investigate!
french.
déjà — already.
vu — seen.
I’ve seen that explanation before.
Dear fellow student,
J’ai déjà vu cette explication, j’ai une impression de déjà vu. As aLx explained it, it means that you feel like you have already lived something or seen something.
Amicalement,
Don Felipe
Where did this phrase come from? “DUMB KLUCK”
Haha foxbow still isnt here
He’s doing a flight training weekend!
They’re letting him fly the sinulator.
sinulator? Whoa!
i meant “siMulator”
SINulator sounds good too.
waasssaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa , just got back
OH GOOD GOD. *I can kiss goodbye to 1st comment positions here then.. I swear you have some kind of robot. You have been 1 too many times now
MY TURN MY TURN MY TURN GRRRRRAHH
How about “OUTFANGTHEF”
Hi, my nick name is “SirFrey” The first part is simply “sir.” I’ll let you figure out the other part….
How about the word “ANFRACTUOSITY”
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?
Sorry, forgot the URL – KOBA CHECK CHECK
And another thing – you looked great as a Copper-top.
I used to work with a redhead who said that a Blonde was just a Redhead with the fire f***ed out of her.
Bob you know what they say about red on the head.
Fire in the whole
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.
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
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
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
)?
Oh and as for the homework, my nickname is on my username
Hey I just noticed that our dear teacher has yet to post a comment.
Miss Marina…… Where are you. Miss hearing from you.
Hi smokey, it’s 2 am on the west coast when you posted, should I see if she’s home yet… she might even be asleep. shhh
Must have been a really long night. She hasn’t made one comment at all today.
Guys
She’s hot and she lives in LA…
Young hot beauty women don’t hang out at web sites.
Or guys that do. For long at least.
My guess is She went to the beach with some
under wear model looking guy with all his hair and teeth.
And a really big……..wallet
Can you tell me the origin of the words “fair dinkum” and “struth”, I have enjoyed all your lessons, I look forward to more
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
Hi HotForWords,
)
Could you please investigate the origins of the expression ‘3 square meals’?
(What is so ’square’ about meals?!
Thanks!
Love all your vids!
think its to do with staple foods they are caled square meals because they are important andsquared off
Did you know farmers CAN’T make those roubd hay bails any more?
The government says that the cows need 3 SQUARE meals a day
DAMN I mess up a joke with typos should be ROUND hay bails not ‘roubd hay bails’
To put a fine point on it, it should be a bale of hay. To put an even finer point on it, I have seen rolls of hay in farmer’s fields, so they can make round ones.
I like big, round ones.
Thanks, CampKohle, but like I said “It was a JOKE”
Now, don’t go getting huffy, Bear, – the smoke getting in your eyes?
CampKohle was also making a joke (Big Round Ones indeed – don’t we all like those?).
Now, a joke for CampKohle – Is the “Camp” in your logon name an adjective or a locative? Are you a Gay Cabbage?
could be that the originally there were four food groups and they were often arranged into a square, each food group occupying a corner. one was supposed to each an item from each food group, meat, bread, vegetable, fruit. thus completing the square. three meals each consisting of a square (4 food groups) meal. that’s my guess.
Completing the square reminds me of college-level Algebra classes (shudder)…bad memories of crawling through an endless tunnel with no light at the end. So much homework! By the end of it, I was twisted into a pretzel by the endless hours hunched over my desk clenching a pencil. I did have some excellent tutors, however. I finally made it out of there by passing a placement test so I could move on with my education. Why did I settle on an Anthropology major? Read my lips: no more math classes!
Buzz you forgot the fifth food group BEER
Maybe like as in a square deal?
Right, equally balanced, not out of whack.
I think this is a good one for Marina’s games. There are a few common origins that are false.
•• Marina, Im going to request you take this one on. I think you can make a good game out of it. I have a link that I can email you, that can get you started. You can then do a follow up with your OED for verification.
Your prop master
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Script_supervisor
Thanks Captain!
hey, m&s
that response was out of sequence.
cappy, your right about the origin of that phrase. more to it than i guessed.
Yea I thought it was of nautical origin but doing some searching in my books I found there was some notes referring to some other words describing squares as in sails of a tall ship, but not relating to meals. So I did some goggling and found out there was much more to the story.
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.
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…..
I second this request
why thank you.. COME ON PEOPLE MORE 3RDS AND 4THS AND 5THS ETC
I concur. SPOOKY would be a good word for a lesson.
also near haloween the word Pumpkin
Ok – James, I’ll second that, as well.
With Halloween being so far down
the road, maybe a “practise” video
incorporating the Ukraine accent
for a “moose and squirrel” episode?
You could green screen “Boa-reese”
into the lesson and interact like you
did for the “Bad Grandma” video
I’ll third and fourth that request.
MOOSE AND SQUIRRELL
Funny that you mention that. Recently I noticed that Marina will be on Stretch’s maxim radio show on the 31st of October.
My nickname is DICK
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.
just found out yesterday that my great grandfathers middle names were
Stribbly Tallick
His firstname was richard (dick)
I have wonderd this for a long time. Why is Dick short for Richard? I have had many friends named Richard and they have no idea why either.
Why is Jack a nickname for John as John F. Kennedy. He was called Jack in the Navy
In the Navy, we address each other by out last names. I was sometimes called Dicks. Richards is my last name.
Hey welcome back Moose and Squirrel
Hey, HotForWords!
Do you think you could investigate the word Flashlight?
Thanks!
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.
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.
Hey watch out who you call a geezer. I am just an old fart.
I so requested Nickname a little while back T_T
my nickname is 大炮 or 蜈蚣.
大炮 dà pào = big cannon
蜈蚣 wú gōng = centipede
Maybe he has a big canon that crawls around like a centipede.
my name is 吴红 which spells like 蜈蚣 .it seems that Marina do understand Chinese.very nice.
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
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.
Also, I used to be called “Skinny McNugget” back in elementary school. Now everyone just calls me “Nick” or my last name.
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.
oops 3rd cousin, and that was a family secret. He and his wife just went to Mexico on vacations…some of my brothers don’t even know this stuff–or care.
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.
I think they can be trained no conditioned to respond to tone of voice.
Those little breeds of dogs are muttylingual, they will ignore your commands in the language of your choosing.
NIce one, BillyB!
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.
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.
?! 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.
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.
wtf. he just told you.
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.
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.
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
And now a Public Safety Announcement.
i think what your referring to is something different than a dog trained to respond to commands. here are some articles.
seizures
yawning
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.
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.
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…’
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.
Bobby? (Here’s Howie!)
great clip…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fRqh657jHs&feature=related
Simple Awesome! You made my morning!
Word Request: GRAFFITI! GRAFFITI! GRAFFITI! GRAFFITI! Please? :’ (
I would REALLY appreciate it : )
Easy ! GRAPHEIN = WRITE in Greek.
GRAFFITI is an italian form for “written words”.
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.
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!
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?
My alternate names are e-dog, e-rock and Rock(y) or(o).
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?
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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
knick knack—kobaburra natives of australia Uncle Joe?
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
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?
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.
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.
cancel that, largest was a 6 gauge, a 4 gauge would make me a freak.