Pigtails
Pigtails.. not the cute little school girl look I’m going for… I’m going for something far more sinister! 
Pigtails.. not the cute little school girl look I’m going for… I’m going for something far more sinister!
Who’s the Boss? She’s the Boss!
I was but a student, now I AM THE MASTER!
I’ve been known to sport the “bedhead”, not that anyone would aim for that hair style.
Where does “mullet” come from? I know “skullet” is a modification of that term for the follically challenged mullet wearers, but who ever named a hair style a mullet?
My sister used to wear pigtails when riding the Ford tractor that pulled the brush hog.
I don’t know the name for my hairstyle. It’s beyond curly, but it’s not a ‘fro. Similar to David’s hair (son of Captain Kirk), or the father on the Brady Bunch, or Michelangelo’s David. Any suggestions?
Well I can tell I’ll get an F for this. I’m not good at hair, but er
cornrow, straight, curved, ceasar, flat top side drop, cropped,
Thats it. About the authority thing who’s in charge laugh out loud.
word request massacre and aspergers syndrome
mike
word request-diabolical
Love to hear about “ACME”
Marina, I once knew a dog like Gucci, his name was Buster however, his last owner did inform me last time we spoke, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSUHxFjcQlQ
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: ‘abstemious’ and ‘facetious.
Oh,no! Oh,yeah!!
It looks weird but believe it or not, you can read it.
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty
uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The
phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde
Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the
ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit
plae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
Actually, I can read this easily AND see the individual letters as I read. In 5th Grade, I beat the entire school (including the 6th Graders) in a spelling bee contest. I’ve always found spelling to be both easy and interesting. I simply cannot read a word without also looking at the letters that compose it. Maybe my mind workds twice as hard when it reads.
Did you spot the mistake? workds (Just testing.)
How about Mullet? Not that I like this kind of hair style just wanted to know who came up with the name for it. Love your website.
Hello my dear Teacher,
I’d like to know the origin of the word “Hearse”. How comes a funeral car is called a hearse ?
Thanks for the lesson
Hey Marina, I always wondered where the expression “Motherland” referring to Russia came from. investigate plzz
Thanks!
When I was a kid, my mother would tell me to “Mind my P’s and Q’s” before any big social situation. I never knew what it actually ment, just thought is was the kind of thing moms say.
Thanks,
Wolfsae
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts… So in old England , when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them “Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down.”
It’s where we get the phrase “mind your P’s and Q’s”
I always wondered that with no real answer.
smart hotties, part 3 : Delia Derbyshire
We already have Marina, and [YouTube: Siouxie Sioux],
there’s also Delia Derbyshire.
She’s the one who transformed a dots-on-paper music manuscript into this ear candy
[YouTube: Doctor Who - Original Theme Music Video]
in 1963.
Interesting: despite having a degree in Music and Mathematics from Cambridge Uni, she was denied work (in 1959) at Decca records because they didn’t employ women in their recording studios.
ps. she’s independently minded, brainy and creative, so she’s bound to be a hottie.
Oh!! .. i just found this inteview with Delia Derbyshire on YouTube
[YouTube: Delia Derbyshire Radio Scotland interview]
.. (isn’t YouTube marvellous)!!
seriously that is some cool shit. fucking hot. good stuff…
by the way, i’ve got morton subotnick’s, silver apples on the moon, on vinyl. what other shit, genres, do you listen to? doctor who, are you english?
I’ll just post this while i put together a considered reply …
i liked a lot (of what we call “krautrock”) from the 70s.
this is from the 1972 album, Wolf City by Amon Duul …
[Deutche Nepal] - this is sooooo chilling. sort of majestic evil.
yup .. i’m a brit.
I guess if you’ve never seen that QI tv program (i.e. that youtube clip where they discussed the origin of “hello”) then you’re not a brit.
that dr. who music is stunning isn’t it .. perfect mix of mystery, eeriness and excited energy. She took that kind of experimental electronic music out of the intellectual sphere into plain daylight.
category wise .. i think i gravitate to energetic, psychedelia, anything striking whacky creating intense atmospheres. .. a lot of early 60’s pre psychedelic, and, i guess, psychedelic before it took itself seriously
(excellent example: [Beck's Bolero (extended version)1966] - i love this track).
.. early UK punk (i think US punk was on the intelectual side.)
i tend to dig around within the genres cos, lets face it, you have to listen to loads of iffy stuff before you find a gem (e.g. Siouxie Sioux :))
What other music .. I loved the Syd Barret Pink Floyd, and Pink Floyd upto and including, but not beyond Dark Side of the Moon.
(Echoes, Ummagumma = brilliant).
erm .. some (what was called over here) krautrock in the 70s.
.. Amon Duul (esp tracks :
Race From Here to Your Ears - can’t remember what that was from;
[Wolf city] - sorry about the visuals .. it’s all i could find.)
- oh .. Cosmic Jokers .. the band that didn’t know it existed!
Can (Future Days title track is one of my all time favorites),
Tangerine Dream,
Faust (Faust Tapes!!! … el primo!! … zany!! .. a collection of experiments with sounds and a couple of normalish sung tracks - unbelievably top selling album when it came out in the UK - 72 i think. I guess cos we were all brought up listening to that Dr Who intro music.)
erm .. Jimi Hendrix, Captain Beefheart (on reflection, i generally am not drawn to american music .. Captain Beefheart and Jimi Hendrix are definite exceptions.)
i’m completely unaware of anything that happened after punk. got beyond me i guess. - oh .. Cocteau Twins .. i like the singer’s habit of making up sounds instead using words - i mean … how often do people listen to the lyrics.
{… drones on for hours .. falls asleep and drools on keyboard …}
oops .. i forgot the faust tapes link …
[Untitled16-19 / Faust Tapes] - a nice segment from the album.
may as well bung in the others ..
[Wolf city] - embarrassing visuals.)
[Beck's Bolero (extended version)1966]
[Captain Beefheart - Bat Chain Puller] - he likes to bung in weird time signature stuff.
!! how could i forget Kraftwerk !!! (i only recently “discovered” this lot)
this is brilliant!! ..
[Kraftwerk - Radioactivity]
Hey buzz and mijj ditto all of the above…
Kraftwerk was founded by Florian Schneider who also produced the track Kernkraft 400 of the band Zombie Nation. I love that sport chant remix of Kernkraft 400.
Here is a short piece of Kernkraft 400 with Techno Viking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB5rca-EM5U
hey, i just noticed delia is listed in subotnick’s related video list. cool, cool, cool.
!! .. who’s subotnick ??
lol … {slaps self vigorously …
… maybe if i clicked your link.
oo..oo!
i found [Morton Subotnick - "Sidewinder"]
.. and lots of other stuff by him too!…
… good reccomendation, mr buzz.
eep! .. maybe i shouldn’t slap myself vigorously in public.
yeah, like your missing links, get it “missing links” ah hum…
doesn’t M have rules about terrible puns?
was reading one of your fucking comments. check out my “how to make an f-bomb” on the bisextile comments list. if i recall we, aLx and me, were catching shit for using “fuck” by another commenter. also, marina comes out of the closet in her video.
where’s this bisextile comments list?
oh .. i’m beginning to suspect “bisextile” is a word subject for an M vid!!
d’oh
i just checked the “bisextile” vid ..
… that’s such a pity …
M has sex only once every four years.
really digging beck’s bolero. what do you mean by u.s. punk being intellectual? asking, while i’m watching an iggy pop documentary. siouxie is real good. beefheart, hmm… cool. going to try some of this psychedelia stuff. do i need mind altering substances to enjoy listening?
you may want to check with aLx for some music recommendations. aLx is pretty cool, he’s a linguistics and philosophy student, east germany. he’s into a lot of different stuff. oh, yeah. i’m from the u.s. was an anthropology student working on my masters, now switching careers, 37 wife, three kids. there are only a few of us that have been here for a while. me, aLx, prospero811… bob. hey, you didn’t ask for a hfw history did you?
kraftwerk, yeah found them in the early 90’s, great stuff. you have an interesting blend of music, some of it very organic, earthy, intuitive other stuff more technological, minimal, cerebral. checking out the stuff you listed and related material. this is going to be good. looking forward to future correspondence. really digging the shit your posting.
quick recommendations:
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=KUxoughdYto
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=kzKiqk2iynY
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=uHdNCHomHlU
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=4b5lNKnqp_o
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=wIBw-lbxtT4
my background is :
I did general manual labouring type work for a few years while i did whatever i wished .. then i got weary of that and went back to get educated:
… i got an control systems engineering degree and a started a stupefyingly dreary phd … and dropped out
then got a job at the BT (telecom) research labs in speech synthesis
.. then got pissed off (annoyed) and went into management within BT
.. and then got ground down by that and dropped out
.. then became a student again
…i got a postgrad diploma in computational maths
.. but it was for entertainment ..
.. so now i’m kicking my heels.
i’m considering getting educated in websitey stuff and making myself useful.
fortunately, i have no responsibilities. So, as long as i don’t feel any desire for wealth, it’s a luxurious time. (considering possibilities with no pressures is a pleasant luxury)
——-
ANYHOOOOOO … !!!
yeh .. kraftwerk are at that crossover between art and music.
I orininally heard them way back when they first released Autobahn .. but i thought it was a bit thin and didn’t “get” it. I much preferred Tangerine Dream’s Phaedra and Rubycon.
As far as psychedelia goes .. (for me) the pinnacles are early Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix.
ps. Captain Beefheart did a lot of stuff that was weird in that it tended to throw you off the rhythmic balance. It’s one of those things that’s sort of odd and grating til you suddenly “get” it .. and then it’s a world of its own. .. and .. oh yeh .. his style is, he’s not so much a singer as a poet interwoven with backing music.
ok … I’m going to dip out to check the links
oh yeh .. my “US punks were intellectual” …
… well .. my impression is, the US bunch had a philosophy, whereas the UK lot were just in it for the chaos and destruction.
ps. … did you see the Dark Knight?
.. apparently the Joker characteristics were based on :
[Sid Viscious of the Sex Pistols]
and
[Alex of the Clockwork Orange] (a sort of proto-punk).
Test Dept. - Total State Machine
!! .. stellar .. !!
Tom Waits - I Don’t Want To Grow Up
- meh .. acquired taste, methinks .. like C.Beefheart
Nick Cave & P.J Harvey -Henry Lee
- confused me .. some of it i found instantly likeable, others, not so much. I kept being distracted by how close to death the girl seemed to be. - and i dint like that guy poking his finger at me!! (grrr)
Jill Scott & the Roots - You got Me
Wow! .. that was brilliant!
!! .. another instant hit .. yes .. great in fact. - outstanding.
Beck - Gamma Ray
- It sounds ok .. but i’d have to listen to it a few times to hook into it.
funny thing is .. if it sounds like someone throwing a load of old pots and pans down the stairs i have a lot easier time getting into it than if it’s something like a normal song.
Id like to know where we got the word “grocery” THANKS! (and of course id like to be teachers pet!)
Logged Inn
knocked -word request
hi Marina,
would u please help me find the origins to the word/phrase ‘ southpaw ‘ ? y are left handers referred to by tht name? thanks!
Thats odd. When you click on Marinas honour saying no1 guru she isnt on the list at all. YT works in strange ways ..
Wikipedia had the same origin
I would like to know the Entomology of Mrs Malaprop if possible.
Oodles of advanced thanks.
Mwah mwah.
Hey Cashy, I not picking on you, but entomology is the study of insects. Etymology is the study of words, a common mistake because the words look so much a like. I made that same mistake on here at one time and got razzed for a long time. Give Miss M some time as she will add your request to her list.
Mike
Eagle eyes Mike but slightly out of focus this time.
I’m profoundly dyslexic so an error such as the one above is not out of the question even with the spell checker turned up to 11. On this occasion however I was being facetious, a stab at irony if you will.
Thanks for the heads up anyway.
Capman
Been out, what is up with the new look?
Are you a new TA or Ta ??
Did she ever come out and post that Koba is because she is a Boss-y Hot Chic? Never would have thought it.
but anyhow
Yes I am a Ta Jack is still LTA. No she hasn’t mentioned anything about Koba yet. Still waiting for that answer.
Very cool
It’s always good to know someone in the front office
Not forget about us little people now.
Capman911,
Congratulations on your new and improved position
No more hours mowing your lawn, you need more time for research.
If anyone is in helpful mode I have been trying to get a “gravatar”, but no matter what image I select all I get is a black square. Can someone send me in the right direction for help please? Thanks.
I had that problem which occurs when you do the CROP & FINISH improperly right after the image upload.
Upload your image again, then, when you do the CROP, make sure that your cursor is still on the picture when you let go of the mouse button. Monitor the results in the Preview. Once your image is correct, then click Finish.
Also, if you did everything correctly, but rated your gravatar an “X”, then it will also show up as black.
Look Kilroy is here. Good one Karl.
I did all that and the small and large previews show just fine, but then when I click to finish it is just a black square. I also rated it “G” so that shouldn’t be an issue.
Maybe it’s the type of image that’s messing it up. What image type are you uploading; GIF, JPG, BMP, PNG? Can you upload your image to a public site like Flickr? I’ll grab it and try it.
he’s got a *.png. humm … better try the same pic as *.jpg or *.gif?
If your image wasn’t a GIF, convert your image to a GIF and try again.
your img is a *.png, too. ;P
uploading directly to Gravatar?
24 bit color
96 dpi resolution
works no problem.
I got the black square when I
tried uploading hi-def images
directly to Gravatar
32 bit color
200 dpi
Thanks everyone. My image is 200 dpi, 64 x 64 GIF.
Hi checmark, your 64x 200 dpi GIF should be OK. Try a different browser; if you are using MSIE, try Firefox or vice versa, assuming you are on Windows. If that fails, send an email to “support at gravatar dot com”
Thanks, yes, I did send the email when nothing else worked. Hopefully they will solve the mystery of what went wrong.
Okay, under the heading of “when something doesn’t work, try anything and everything”, I changed the tranparent GIF to a merged image, then did the “crop and finish” again. Nothing different. I had been using the “crop and finish” button below my image but still got nothing but black. Just for the heck of it I used the button above my image and, surprise, surprise, my avatar showed up fine and wasn’t just a black square. I think it actually worked! Hope so.
Why does the word NAP (that meant to snatch/pinch/pull) now means a short period in which you sleep?!
request: rap
“nice shoes”… wanna… ?
Oh wait… she wasn’t making that kind of a joke..
zzzoips
vvord request : DISCO>/i<
(the place not the music genre).
You like how I wrote word with two Vee’s ?
>.<
corn rows
bob
brush cut
crew cut
bangs
I wonder what you call all that “hair” between the kernels in an ear of corn?
corn silk
What is the origin of the word Boss. 100,000,000 Holly S%it. Congratulations!
Marina, There is no doubt in my mind that you are the Boss!
hello teacher,i really enjoy your class and your class.i need to find out why a hand file is called a bastard?
by the way, awesome achievement on the 100 million views. That just blows my mind away
Keep on rockin’
Marina,
Congratulations on exceeding 100 Million views!
I’ve only been a subscriber since July 3rd, so I’m only a small part of your great statistics. Many countries have a smaller population than your stats! Your dear student, seesixcm6
great video marina
I noticed you weren’t wearing pigtails in this particular lesson
(apart from the pics of course)
Hope you win the best weekend contest!!
WOW MY CHANNEL GOT AN HONOUR!!!
#78 - Most Viewed (This Week) - Comedians
Congrats James. I knew you could do it. HURRAH
hmm… so what your doing is supposed to be funny? interesting.
har har
Great job! Love this one a lot!
Salut ma belle
i would like to know the name: LANCIA
its a car perhaps u remember it from peak really in the 80ies against Audi Urquattro… pls say with ure sweet mouth this car name and tell me something about the Lancia inventors 102Years ago
Greez out of Suisse
ure Lancisti
Where do the expressions come from:
“Tom, Dick, and Harry”,
“OK”,
” Kilroy was here”,
“gremlins”
M in Michigan
Kilroy was here? Where? I don’t see him….
I remember seeing that Kilroy was here with the half face and hands in a movie Robert Mitchum starred in where he was on an island with a nun hiding in a cave while the Japanese swarmed all over the island looking for him. Now when I hear or see that saying I remember that movie. It was a good movie too.
Mike
Where does the expression “double-cross” come from?
M in Michigan.
Marina,
:smile
:
ALL RIGHT the overnight success!!!
Congradulations!!
100 Million.
A tremendous and very cool achievement.
And THANK YOU for all the wonderful and entertaining lessons.
It’s been a particular and sincere pleasure to be your guest.
Looking forward to many, many more.
Please give your Little White Fluffy Co-Star a nice pat on the head and a treat.
Wetsuit where are you getting the results form
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/08/04/one-mileston e-reached-100k-subscribers/
I found it. I hardly ever visit the home page that’s why I couldn’t find it.
Thanks FB.
Mike
Hi Gallaghersangel. That is a cool name you made for yourself.
I have never heard of either of the two words so I am interested myself in their meaning. Marina will see your request and add them to her list, so give her some time or she may answer you back right away. If you want to look at any of her other lessons go to the Words / Lessons section at the top of the page and it will give you a list of words that she has already done, plus click on that word and it will take you to the video. Have fun. 
Mike
Disregard this one Gallaghersangle . Some how my computer retained this message I wrote to you and duplicated it.
Mike
Congrats on the promotion, Mike.
First word is from something my nana slipped up and said
A Jobbernowl ? what is that
Secound is something my math teacher used to say
Dactylonomy
Thanks
Hi Gallaghersangel. That is a cool name you made for yourself.
I have never heard of either of the two words so I am interested myself in their meaning. Marina will see your request and add them to her list, so give her some time or she may answer you back right away. If you want to look at any of her other lessons go to the Words / Lessons section at the top of the page and it will give you a list of words that she has already done, plus click on that word and it will take you to the video. Have fun. 
Mike
well done on 100miliion marina!
Someone sent me this on youtube mail
would it be cool if i made a shirt showing your doodle of amy on the cooker and the text “ouch heated myself”? it makes me laugh so hard i cry. i promise not to sell any!
Odd.. But I will let them do it!!!
James where are you reading the numbers from? I can’t find what your talking about.
Mike
On the front page. Where it says how many views she has
Thanks James. I found it.
i voted more than 5 times for the best weekend ever thing. does that mean, i was misinformed when i read that people can only vote 5 times a day? or does that mean, after my 5th vote, it didnt matter how many times i clicked around?
i know the start to marinas entry now. after viewing it so many times to vote.
I had the best weekend ever. the best.
click. click. vote.
I had the best weekend ever. the best.
click. click. vote.I had the best weekend ever. the best.
click. click. vote.I had the best weekend ever. the best.
click. click. vote.
hehehehe
hey this video was great! i bet hardly anyone would of realised that it used to be a derogatory term for chinese people! interesting!
i wonder why they call it pig tail though, instead of.. ox tail.. or fox tail.. or cat tail.. etc.
maybe the lengths of tobacco were curly? and since pigs have curly tails.. they called it that?
i still wanna know where the word zombie comes from
i wonder which little girl started wearing pig tails to look authorative, but failed and made herself look cute, and then started the trend hehe
everyone likes the video i have of myself with pig tails. but i used them to look younger, not authorative.
ok i think ive typed more than im supposed to LOL
plus one for alx:
ah? it’s only one today? what did i do to deserve that?
That Gravatar is very fitting alx
No limits on typing or clicking , just don’t wear yourself out. Using too many
thingys does make an unusual glow from your part of the page… kinda feel like I was just pulled over by a cop.
Watch this fullscreen if you don’t have a headache.
The hair authority thing…Size Matters
Over 100,000,000!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nice going Marina
Keep up the great work!!!
Where are you coming up with these numbers. I can’t find them
Please help me
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/08/04/one-mileston e-reached-100k-subscribers/ there they are, they used to be on the frontpage, dunno wat happened to that.
oh they’re on the frontpage now to
Buzz cuts are my specialty. i had several people think I’m in the marines.
with cubby blue highlights & red trim… for the season anyways , right?
Yes Billy, Once in a while I temporarily dye my hair red and blue to show my colors. Chris Chelios brought the Stanley Cup with him to Wrigley yesterday. He also threw the 1st pitch and conducted the 7th inning stretch.
Word Request: Radar
What a coincidence, I was going to ask you to fine the origin of the hair cut “line up”. Its kind of like a buzz cut but everything is aligned straight. But why the name “line up”? Please help Marina.
Also some other haircuts:
-Fade
-Taper
-Ball Taper
-Ball Fade
-Bowl Cut
-Disheveled
-Braids
-Corn Rows
-Dreadlocks
-Spiky
-Flat Top
-Buns
-Mohawk
-Slick back
That’s all that I know of right now
Thank you beautiful Marina
The only popular hairstyles I know are updos. It is strange how they have become popular again after being so dated for awhile.
over a million views. let’s party.
100,030,827 views - Party Time
Marina, did you see the TubeMogul chart for Aug 21 - it was 821K views
which messed up my prediction by a day and a half.
Hey aLx, thanks for the Nietzsche update “was mich nicht umbringt…”.
I kind of remember it that way, “umbringt” instead of “tötet”, even though umbringt also means killing.
Loved that party video. For some reason my video kept freezing at 0:35
Love Europe.
I used to watch videos on clipfish.de but now they block the US. I haven’t found a DE proxy server that works.
they do? huh. why would they do that? globalization can’t be it …
ah, damn. you couldn’t watch the heide klum vid, right? what a drag. she doesn’t show boobs. it’s funny though. it’s a clip for victoria’s secret.
errr … heidi.
Here is what I see when I try to access them. It used to work about a year ago, then they changed. Same with the BBC, which I understand has to do with contracts with cable and Satellite providers, where the Internet is free viewing, the cable/dish contracts pay money to the BBC.
http://i37.tinypic.com/oqbta8.jpg
Correct, I was not able to see the Heidi video.
You are too funny when you first typed Heide. My friend across town is named Heide. She always emphasizes the “e” as opposed to “i”
this sucks. it sometimes happens on youtube, too. “this video is not available in your region” or something. heide. that reminds me. i got this email somewhere which i meant to … uh …
anyway, i tried to find that heidi klum thing on youtube, couldn’t locate it yet.
here.
you mean the shooting boobs video
?
heh. ya.