Nincompoop
Nincompoop.. such a funny sounding word.
Also.. I TOLD you I was a nincompoop in the video… the term Nicodemite is from the 16th century and refers to a person resembling Nicodemus.. who obviously lived many years before.
Nincompoop.. such a funny sounding word.
Also.. I TOLD you I was a nincompoop in the video… the term Nicodemite is from the 16th century and refers to a person resembling Nicodemus.. who obviously lived many years before.
Holy Shit…woebegone…saltpeter…..”pernicious weed”…diptotious…dyptech
Salt dogs and thought bogs me down….
“Sweet Lips” which charted at #85 on The Billboard Top 100 April 1956. Another personal favorite. …see [hip-hop] was born way before me 
A Spoony……
Whoa, extreme kitchen echo
379 Before this comment this post is 380, huh reminds me of my oil field drilling days , a 379 was a hugh caterpillar engine used to run drilling rigs we worked on,oh well off topic, word topic, Nostradamus, word requests : parthenon, ruins,………….. also word phrase “Cat a Pillar of Strength” and the word phrase ” “I am become death, destroyer of worlds,” and the phrase “artifical sweetner as it relates too cat a Pillar of strength” and the phrase “future of mandkind as it relates to parthenon, ruins” and the phrase ” The pill as it relates to future of mandkind ” the phrase genocide as it relates to universialsuicidal” the phrase “universialsuicide relates to “No home for the Holy” and the word phrase “None shall be spared, not even the metal gods of the universe” and the word phrase “all of exsitence gone in a flash, none shall outrun not even the light” and how all this relates too “B. C. as definition of pursuit as the defination of happiness as the definition of money that is the root all evil.” and the phrase “none shall be spared, no man, woman, child of nature, man or machine, rock or stone, water or fluid, living or died, now or future, past or present” and the phrase ” thats why the female has the child whether she wants too or not” and the phrase ” THUS SPEAKTH THE FATHER FARTHEST AWAY OF ALL”
PS. John thank you for you time.
John, what happened to the oil you drilled for?…slippery when wet; with words we wept the dust….big pig pussy of NARD, little leo
Here this explains a little http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFdArzDAHMo&feature=related
Marina, interesting. Where did the phrase “poop deck” come from I wonder?
Other words for nincompoop?
How about : boob, ass, fool, moron, idiot, imbecile, ninnyhammer, dotard, retard, dullard. Is that enough, dear teacher?
Hello my dear teacher. I am brand new to the site, and look forward to many great lessons in the future! smart IS sexy after all.
Pssst! Wanna buy a hall pass?
Just kidding
Check out the Shout Outs on
the pulldown menu for some neat
pictures and stuff. You might
get a Gravatar that isn’t computer
generated, to. Another gimme;
The musical notes icon in the
email alert sign up box is a
media player with Marina’s
lesson music, Check it out
Marina et al.:
I wonder (In that picture w/ her friends), if Marina was you doing the Batman dance?!?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kR5eiFNNy0&feature=related
that’d be the ketchup song. nothing to do w/ batman.
can see the dance better in this version.
Seeing the ketchup dance makes me want to get some french fries!!
On the other hand, though, I didn’t see any evidence of Marina doing that in the picture. You see, where she has the pink top and either a black skirt or slacks her forefinger and middle finger were positioned in a “V” near her eyes. It looked almost as if she were sweeping hair out of her eye with the “V”, or the peace sign, just as Batman does in his dance from the first post.
However, the ketchup dance is different…VERY catchy and fun, but different
They first do some scissors-like motion with both hands in front of their body, followed by shaking their fists at the shoulders (as if they were shaking bottles of ketchup), followed lastly by putting one hand on the forehead and the other behind the shoulders as their knees knock together. I have no doubt that Marina would choose to do the much more stylish ketchup dance, yet there’s no movement with the “V” fingers around the eyes characteristic of the cheesy Batman dance 
how about this?
PERFECT!!!
It’s in way way better taste than the Batman AND it shows the “flying V” maneuver 
The true etymology is very simple. Nincom comes from “no income,” with the first and last letters dropped. Poop means you don’t get paid sh!t. So a nincompoop is someone who earns little or no money.
Any simpleton can tell you that the first letter of the word “no” is o.
Your Faux Frenchman here would like to point out that nicodème is pronounced nee-koh-dehm. The final “e” in nicodème is silent. I wonder if dotcompoop is a word? It would describe any web site put on the web by a nincompoop.
I requested some information on this many weeks ago and have not heard any reply. The word is “Charlie horse”. A very painful condition so way such a funny sounding word. I hope you don’t suffer from them while researching its origin.
Craigs_70345
tricky, oh I gotta go
Maroon, doofus (I forget how its spelled), and….. is stool pigeon one? I don’t know why that popped in my head, but I forget what it means. I’m blanked out at the moment.
Pig-in-a-Poke ~ nincompoop This is a good definition for me. My surname is German, as is poep. Thank you Dear Teacher.
Correction: as poep is a derogatory Dutch term for a German. Hmm, I wonder why the Dutch would say anything bad towards Germans. I heard the way you can tell a German is because you can’t tell him anything.
hi, could you please find out about the word… “Homie”?
Hi, What is the origin of the word odometer.
Thank you
Best you got? Duh
Additional homework: heard this one last night at
work Mooncalf
W.C Fields uses the term in “The Bank Dick”. He’s reasoning with his future son-in-law, trying to get him to steal from the bank. From memory the dialog went thusly, “You don’t want to be a mooncalf, do you? A fuddyduddy?”. “No.”. “Of course, not.”. Which brings up yet another word for your HotForWords sexpot, Marina, to investigate: Dick, as in detective.
Somebory could tell me be best translation to Spanish of the word nincompoop? Perhaps it is something like tonto, idiota….(I don’t know)
Is that why Lone Ranger’s partner was called “Tonto”?
- some kind of “amusing” slur foisted upon his poor assistant for not being the requisite race deserving of respect?
that bastard!! – {spits on Lone Ranger and kicks him in the nuts}
I get the end now.
Marina was practicing posing for a passport photo.
(Would you believe updating her KGB credentials?)
(P.S. for Marina’s countdown, we used to use the term “10 and a wake-up” until…)
I have always wondered why the term “I’m in stitches” means that somebody has made you laugh and I was wondering maybe you could investigate where it came from?
yes .. that’s right .. laugh at someone recovering from serious surgery.
You should be ashamed!
620 ChChing!!
Eaten dust 
#2 476
And we still have a few days to go.
Bust the thermometer.
did you see http://redhorsevector.net/
Why are you posting this all over the place stoeksjrj1?
stokesjrj1 on August 17th, 2008 10:18 pm
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+&se archmode=none
water under the step and the lump under my jaw
ANOTHER assumed identity??
I guess you just can’t be yourself
Here is stokes/redhorse/Sybil just before getting on this site every day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TcLfJQiGK0&feature=related
really a good lesson again
i like to request a word:
schadenfreude
as it is a german word, i was very a suprised to read it in an english book
thanks for reading, bye bye
i have a request how about the word:Scion(it sounds cool)
can u give us the orgin of miscellaneous & thanks
fan from egypt
miscellaneous
Hey hotforword can you tell me about Zobies.
How about:
springloaded in the dumb position
not the sharpest pencil in the box
a few cards short of a deck
The lights are on, but nobody’s home
Hey Hot For Words. I was wondering if you can investigate the origin of the word “stoked”. People use when they are excited for something.
Thanks!
Well, to stoke a fire is to make it burn bigger and hotter by either poking it, stirring the embers around, or putting on more fuel…like more coal, wood, or chemical like gas. When the fire is “stoked” it flares up & gets big.
Fire is often equated with the “heat” of your body being excited…people’s temperature starts to rise, their heart beats fast, they breathe faster, etc.
So, when a person is excited about something, it’s like their body was “stoked” by putting on more fuel or getting stirred up by something spectacular–like getting 100 million views or trying to win a contest
I bet Marina is stoked right about now 
Similarly, you may have heard “I’m on fire” or “I’m all fired up” in English, which both mean to be excited.
Since you did nicompoop, how about “dumb.”
I got a few words and phrases. The one I want to know the most is:
derriere
the others are:
pass the buck
the buck stops here
and last one is:
avatar.
Another word that is funny is Bafoon
Blonk
3rd
word request the thing we are all saying – WORD
omg! its actually made up of real words! i thought it was just made up by kids one day or something hehe.
reminds me of thingamabob or thingymajig.
my dad made some up, he says ’sploga’ (pronounced splow-gah) and gemundem (pronounced ger-moohn-duhm)
both words mean, yucky stuff. like vomit or sleep in the eyes or something like that.
LOL.
umm. vomit in the eyes? what?
lol nein aLx
sie wissen das
aber bitte bitte, wie sagt man ‘lol’ auf deutsch
bitte sagen sie zu mir
ich mochte das zu ihr sagen
entschuldigung, mein deutsch geht… nicht…
That would seem to fit with the set of things entitled “yucky stuff.”
umm, okay, i’ll copy and paste from yt.
“lol” is “lol”. visit any german chat room or forum … it’s always “lol”. some use ” *lach* “, though. but that’s different, it’s not an acronym.
umm. yeah.
“rofl, er hat ‘lol’ gesagt.” lol. uh huh.
ahhh, entschuldigung. ich habe mein youtube video comments nicht gesehen
oder gesehen nicht.
i try i try!
ich habe lol gesagt.
yay!
for you:
clickety bitte
click.
you’re welcome.
i like cake.
A few more:
Not the sharpest tool in the shed
Not the brightest bulb on the tree
Not the sharpest/brightest crayon in the box
Not the sharpest Knife in the drawer
How about “Sharp as a Tennis Ball”?
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nincompoop = daft as a pot cuckoo
word request-Dylanologist
This is sooooo neat
This is my first trip here, I only catch her on YT.
Did we ever find out what “Koba” means
Wow look at all the smiles
Ooops Homework:
Slow witted
dunce
meat head
fat head
fool
How long did you hang out @ youtube before you popped in to the ’site. Don’t get too excited about the smiley things… unless you’re a girl or something. Remember smiling faces tell lies & that’s the Undisputed Truth.
I’ve seen no word on Koba…except
Just messing with aLx
Don’t just gawk, get to work
Check out the pulldown menus.
There’s some cool stuff in the
Shout Outs. Take a look.
Nice Gravatar!
not any of that rhymed, melike
that was a terrible poem.
You should do the word: whatever.
now she is #1 with 529 and 2nd place is at 473
Who are you going to take with you
didn’t read the rules, huh?
“Representatives of the Sponsor will make the final selection among the three (3) Finalists to select the one (1) Grand Prize winner, based on style, originality, skill, and humor.”
so, as i understand it, it doesn’t matter if she comes in first, second, or third.
looks like you could use some joy in your life
wtf. go away.
point prooven
Damn O key “proven”
no.
haha 42frogs
its kind of aggravating. you didn’t say anything in your post other than the facts, nothing negative. everybody wants to post or read nothing but sweetness, like its candy for marina.
i guess to post and satisfy the children in the class room you should post like this, “Oh yippie skippie yum yums!!!!!! http://www.hotforwords.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif http://www.hotforwords.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif good news, good news!!!!!! even if our wonderful http://www.hotforwords.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif sweet http://www.hotforwords.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif adorable marina, comes in 3rd or 2nd she still has a chance at winning!!!!!! judges select the winner from the top three!!!!! http://www.hotforwords.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif wooo hooo!!!!!! i bet she’ll just charm the judges like she charms all our hearts http://www.hotforwords.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif here at hfw, hee hee!!!!! but that doesn’t mean we should all stop voting, oh no!!!!!! we all have to vote with as much love and devotion as we have for our precious delightful marina!!!!!! http://www.hotforwords.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif gosh oh golly this is just super duper news!!!!!! http://www.hotforwords.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif http://www.hotforwords.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif hugs, kisses and toe tickles, aLx”
now see, if you would have said it that way you wouldn’t get so much shit for clarifying the rules. excuse me i have to vomit now, typing that made me sick.
Buzz & aLx,
I agree w/ Buzz. I don’t care if you ask me to jump off a building, if it has “yum yums” and “toe tickles” I’m sooooo there.
Bombs away!!
Just like the USA Basketball team, Marina is running away with the gold.
Marina moved up 24 votes and #2 stayed the same.
YOU DON’T MESS WITH THE CREW OF HOTFORWORDS.COM!
http://redhorsevector.net/
ok
the vote 521 you got it toyota you are #1
have a good time marina happy for you 
She is now at 515!!!!!!
marina look in to this one someone says you are a fruitcake
So, Marina, I was watching the Olympic diving and was struck by the fact that I had no idea of the etymology of the word “somersault.” Yes, I could investigate but it would be far more fun to hear you explain it.
Thanks in advance!
Tourguide
hi marina good video it was interesting i cant understand why anyone would say that Nicodemus naive he was a very highly educated man that picture of you nincompoop one on the side you look like uma therm-an in pulp fiction
500! Sucka!
Nice!!
In another hour, it’s another voting day and more votes to come.
Hey Marina I would like to know the meaning of polyamorous. someone told me the word but wouldn’t tell me the meaning.
Marina 471 next 468
You Are Officially On Top Marina.
Took me about 18 accounts = 90 votes.
Ehh what the hell. I’ll keep going.
Everyone else should too.
Wow… Nice!
Hi Marina, My Irish Dad, now age 83, used Nincompoop
when we were kids… long ago… he also more commonly
used the word “Eejit”….
This is Irish (Gaelic) for a total Idiot, a nincompoop.
It also has a nice ring to it….
“You Eeeee- Jit, What were you thinking?”
It has a bit more of a fatherly affection to it than
some of the current USA slang. At least, I
remember it more fondly.
Other words in the same vein… thicko, moron, nitwit, gobshite
Don Imus, … now there’s a real pant load. Though Imus himself is fond of referring to certain, former guests to his shows, political types, as pant loads.
Your web pages are awesome, dude.
The soundtrack was like playing Doom!
Very sci-fi, very hi-tech – impressive
testing one, two, three, … testing …, and the trick is to keep it from being spam.
And I sure wish I can, could’ve thought of things to make, have made Marina shine brighter through it all. 
ok … what about …
capable v. able = same(ish)
what gives, Marina??!!
In my opinion ABLE has nothing to do with the suffix of CAPABLE.
ABLE is 100% Germanic. There was certainly a kind of contamination after the French invasion in the year 1066 but for instance AFLI in scandinavian means ABLE (FÄHIG in German).
If somebody can bring some water to my mill I will be thankful.
were you inviting somone to thow water on me? …
.. oh! .. mill
Its airplane video 465, Marina’s video 456 votes.
I voted again now it is at 491 She #1
Hey Teacher !
I doubt if you saw my reply to your last video, so i write back again !
I’ll request another word cause i found out regarding the word bureau i requested last time
I want to learn what quinquagesima means and it’s origin !
I wish you give me a lesson !
In the Best Weekend video our teacher was dancing in her sleep.
But I can’t find a name for “Sleep Dancing”.
There’s a song for Dancin in the Streets but not Dancin in your Sleep.
(Marina leaves #2 in the dust tomorrow)
Viva Words Vegas!!
I just voted more than 5 times today..was more like 6 or 7 so far
406 votes now
Hi Marina,
Not sure if you saw my response to your last video, since it quickly became older than this one. Just in case, I requested the origin of the word “Cap-a-pie”.
Thanks,
-mizu
Could this be what you are thinking about?
Nope, there is actually a word spelled Cap-a-pie. Meaning all points on your body from head to foot.
Well well! So there is. Never heard of it before.
Hotforwords must investigate.
I made like 5 emails to vote.
You WILL win Marina. 
silly goose
Hey, don’t be rude to your sister…
It’s a bad example for your fragile students…
As a replacement for the word nincompoop we can use the words inapprehensive, obtuse, purblind, thick, imbecile…
And a word request… What is the origin of the word origin?
Homework done, now I’m off… See ya!!!
Ignoranus
lol .. i’ll bet this is the most requested word that hasn’t yet been analysed.
oh, yes it has.
… here’s an appropriate poem for you to be getting on with ’til Marina tuns up with the vid …
[Evidently Chicken Town - John Cooper Clarke]
Go to the Maxim Radio shows that Marina has done in the past.
Good fun and Stretch has a great sense of humor.
Here’s your description and etymology. By none other than James.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVthSNUBre4
visible v. invisible ……… = opposite
flammable v. inflammable … = same
what gives, Marina?
Hey Mijj, Here is her Flammable inflammable video if you haven’t already seen it. That might take care of part of your equation, but invisible, visible part is up to her. Just trying to of a little service for you.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/10/05/inflammable-flammable/
Hi cap, we answered at just about the same time again. I watched the video first. In the video Marina does give the various meanings of “in” where in the case of invisible, the “in” means “not”.
wow .. thanks guys .. someone actually reads my posts!!
Hi mijj, she gives the answer in this great video.
She explains the different meanings of “in”.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/10/05/inflammable-flammable/
We must be on the same wave length or something. We can read each other minds from that great of a distance.
I didn’t watch the video again, but I am glad it covered both items for Mijj.
Karl here is a cool song my wife put me on today by Jimmy Buffet. I thought it was rather funny and close to home.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i6OrOZwtmA
wow .. thanks guys .. someone actually reads my posts!!.
I read your comments all the time Mijj. You have some very excellent comments and explanations and make very good sense.
Instead of flattering me, you should be punishing me for digging for compliments!!!
I’m so ashamed.
{flagellates self}
Mjj, Perhaps Capman would agree, but of COURSE he wouldn’t punish you…
After all, when somebody punishes themselves as well as you do, it’s like running against Bolt, the Jamacian sprinter
Sometimes we just have to sit back & let people have their space so that we don’t interrupt people’s creative genius 
Hello, Professor! I’d like to know if there is any word origin to laughs. Like haha or hehe or mwuahaha or bwuahaha or, in korean, kekeke. I’m guessing it’s just a natural sound that comes when laughing, but it’d be interesting if there was etymology behind it.
If not that, then uhhh… how the munch in munch, munchies, and munchkins all refer to something small.
And if not that, then how baloney got to mean something silly or ridiculous.
She likes to do food so baloney or bologna would be an excellent choice to do. From it being a meat to that’s just a bunch of hoohoo or baloney. Very good choice.
If you ask again soon or she doesn’t answer put your word like boloney in bold letters so she can see it better. Just a little suggestion for you. 
Mike
Oh, a bunch of hoohoo. I like that description a lot better than standard words such as silly or ridiculous :p
Thanks for the advice, I’ll put baloney in bold with the description as “a bunch of hoohoo”. How could she resist then? ^^
I didn’t realize she liked food words though. I’ve watched the first half of her episodes (up to page 7-8), and I don’t remember a food word yet. Though I’m prone to daydreams just like in a real class T_T
ooo! .. good one .. and while we’re at it…
Marina, you know that sound you make when you choke on a peanut?
what’s the etymology behind that?
Hey Marina, I sent you some fan mail. How often do you check it? Must be overflowing huh?
Hi teacher I would like to know where “Twin” came from thought you could help later one of your loyal students
where did “psst” come from. as in trying to get someone’s attention.
I would like to know where the word devastate came from. HELP TEACHER
teacher!!!!
what does the word ‘Seven up” mean from the drink pls answer 
Wow, that’s a good question.
well, living in the South, goober & Gomer come to mind for simpletons…
‘course…we’re all goofy goobers…
surprise, surprise, surprise!!!…
annudder
Annuder my wife watches that show Andy Griffith every day hour after hour. It was good when it first came on years ago, but to keep watching the same thing again I leave the room and go get on the computer. I have a tv next to the monitor so I can watch something else. I guess to each his own.
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Hi Marina,
Where does the word “arsehole” come from
Jay
Go to the words/lessons tab at the top. There is a link for the ar**/a** video.
Can you please find the origin of the word “working out” because I’ve been curious about this for a long time while I go to the gym or work out. I’m sure you should know since you certainly must know how to work out with your tremendous body. Do you have to go literally WORk OUTSIDE or what? The results also have names such as “cut”, “ripped”, and “yolked”.
Help Teacher!
Thanks
I know a lot of simple foolish people, but none on the Hotforwords web site!
Depends on what you mean by foolish. I might be one of them! haha
Also, where does the origin of the words “fast food”? I didn’t know food can be fast except when the animal is not dead yet.
Thanks Marina
Well, if it’s dead it can’t be healthy, it can only be healthful.
Have you ever watched Man Vs. Wild? That guy is literally a beast! Also fast food is good but disgusting.
I like to watch that show Man verses Wild. I guess if your hungry enough you’ll eat almost anything to stay alive.
Even boiled okra. 
Seriously, I bet that show must have a lot of vegetarians hating on that show huh.
The best way to save on books IMHO is to downloads e-books via torrents
. If you have better source, please share.
Hmm… You can substitute it for wacko, fool, or dummy. However, I really don’t use these words in my everyday language.
By the way, was that your sister in the picture?
Does the word polish have anything to do with the Polish?
The same root as RUSSIAN and RUSH
Loved the Olympics this year, best ever IMO.
Lightening Bolt was cream of the crop but don’t remember it being this easy…. lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzSpPaCIG0g
Hello dear Marina!I’d love to know the origin of the word “douchebag”!please Marina investigate!
As in “sxephil is a…”?
72 more votes to beat the number one spot.
66 now! Hopefully we can pull it off!
The first place’s video numbers haven’t moved in a while.
Marina can you in your now video tell me more about the word “Zombie”?Please Marina i need it for a thing befour school.Ill get much problem if i dont tell more about that word.Are teacher tell as tou tell more about Zombies.
nice video!! i love your vidoes because they actually make learning fun!
and i have a request please, it’s not really the orgin of a word but i’m sure you could solve it!
why do the words “oversee” and “overlook” mean opposite things when looking at the words they theoretically should mean the same thing!
i really hope you consider doing this
thankyou!
Good question… for that matter why does “slim chance” and “fat chance” mean the same thing when they appear to be opposites.
Looking and seeing aren’t the same thing though. Looking is more of an active decision. If you simply open your eyes, you are seeing. If you hear something and turn around to find the source, you are looking. Also, you don’t go seeing for treasure, you look for treasure.
word request: what is the origin of the word ‘warning’?
My favorite day of the week is Monday. I used to hate Mondays back when I worked at a job that I had Saturday and Sunday off. I now tend to prefer Mondays over the weekend because so many places are crowed with people. When I take a Monday off all the parks, malls, movie theaters, lake, etc., are nearly empty. Sometimes I feel like I have the whole town to myself. I do like Sunday evenings. Its so quite, and peaceful. Number two is Tuesday because it its TACO TUESDAYS! Im not talking about that Americanized crap. Boy its making me hungry just thinking about it.
I think I would recognize Marina on the street if she had brown hair. I know from her younger pictures she was a brunette. But seeing her every day as a Blond and now in that grown up picture as a brunette it would defiantly have to be those eyes that would give her away. Those are some beautiful eyes.
I have preferred brunette over blonds because I always thought blonds were trying to be over the top in a show off type of way. Now Marina has changed that. Im seeing blonds in a new light and it has become a new favorite of mine.
I’m still kind of paschal to jet black straight hair with bangs with bedroom eyes. Anyway I like the gray stuff between the ears the most. 
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Hey Jack. I have brown “bedroom eyes” ….wanna go steady?
Oh Ya, !! I also have jet black hair.
Oh look, another comic is in the house!
hi guys
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Marina, do you have a favorite or admired philologist, etymologist, or linguist? (For example: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, et al.) Has your education, particularly your degree work, given you an appreciation for (or love of) history?
I have heard that the phrase “the whole nine yards” originates with WWII bomber crews, specifically the gunners. The ammunition for their machine guns was linked into “belts” that were 9 yards long. So to give someone the whole nine yards was to deliver all that you possibly could… to be completely spent. I have never found any evidence that would prove or disprove this explanation. Can you help?
Loved the old photo of you and your friends. You look like a fun person to hang out with.
I see your birthmark Marina Monroe.
That was a cute response to my comment. Your always thinking on so many different levels I actually have to think more to keep pace. 
Homework: clown, fool, moron, ninny, Tomfool, half-wit, simpleton, imbecile, dunce, dope, dupe, (Slang) knucklehead, greenhorn, boob, (Military) rock [dumb as a], target, cannon-fodder, (Criminal) mark, easy mark, (Anthropomorphic) goose [silly as a], ass, dumb ass, jackass, dodo, (Yiddish) schmuck, putz, yutz, (Spanish) bobo, sangano, payaso, (Related Phrases) ate-up-with-the dumb-ass, ate-up-from-the-neck-up, (Southwestern Colloquialisms) Half-a-bubble-off-plumb, galoot, dipstick, dizzy-bitch
I want “Brazil” Please!Pleaseeeee!!!!!!!!!
I love you!!!!!
I want tou now more about the word “Zombie”
I want to know where this expression came from : “to toast”
And I’m not talking about no burnt bread!
the picture of you as a nincompoop is like a myspace pose…lol….i would like to know the origin of the word pimples and how they got the name” ZIT”….plese and thank you : )
What was that at the end?
Don’t piss off the teacher.
Cold stare to make the wind blow.
Tell us who did it teach, we’ll fix it.
she is reading my posts
It was the North Wind trying to get Marina to disrobe.
what’s so gentle about making a man feel hot as hell? god, how i hate those stupid little stories.
Doesn’t Marina make us feel as hot as hell?
Are you saying she’s stupid?
yes, of course. i think she’s one of the stupidest persons in the universe, what makes you believe otherwise.
logic, where art thou?
dude, for once, how about not consistently trying to drag her into all kinds of crap? i don’t understand you. for real. your questions are not only childish, they’re downright moronic.
before you told your little story, you stated that it was marina that the fucking wind was trying to disrobe, so, she’s not the sun, and therefore, in your story, doesn’t make anyone feel hot.
second, marina is, given your statement above the story, the man. did i say the man is stupid? no i did not.
but i think you’re intelligent enough to see all this. then why ask those questions? trying to put me in a position where i’m the really, really bad guy insulting and offending her, and you’re the really, really good guy defending her “honor” or something like that? lol. this is just stupid.
Bob, this little back and forth was almost the same as in the movie Serenity. What’s that saying- Life imitates art. Or is it the other way around?
cold stare? .. don’t piss off the teacher?
that was the look of analysis afoot, surely.
I liked that serious look- she looked a bit dangerous.
Smiles are great but intense thoughtfulness is sexy.
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Marina has 381 votes
71 to go to catch #1.
Moose and Squirrel and myself can’t vote any more today. We need more votes so M will be first.
I went and voted today.
Where’s the word ‘rural’ from?
RURAL is in Latin RURALIS “from the countryside”, adjective of RUS “countryside”.
RURAL is used in modern French.
Joke :1) L’HABITAT RURAL ET L’HABITAT URBAIN sounds like :
2) LA BITE À RURAL ET LA BITE À URBAIN
1 means “the rural and urban environment”
2 means “the dick of Rural and the dick of Urban”
Enough with the English words !!! …
[Some Useful French Phrases]
You forgot ‘Voulez vous dance avec moi?’ Not sure if spelling is right. It has been 17 years since French class.
dancer … (or coucher)
danser
Touché (not couché
)
isn’t the phrase you’re looking for :
voulez vous couchez avec moi?
ahem …
I don’t mean me .. i mean your phrase in the context of the quotes in the original post’s link.
Anglo-saxons thieves !
Norman plunderers and imperialists!
ah .. but interestingly .. the norman invasion words are layered on top of the original anglo-saxon substrate.
i.e. .. anglo-saxon remains for all those words to do with the basic functions of the world .. parts of the body, simple clothing, anything to do with farming, basic foul swearing, etc – e.g. .. the kind of stuff you’d grunt about in the morning.
… the norman invasion words are layered on top via … lawmaking, anything to do with pretension, .. erm .. stuff like that. – the kind of language you’d use to impress someone in a resume or in defending yourself in court.
- note .. this is a clumsy description of what may actually have a grain of truth.
Yo Marina, do you happen to know the origin of the word “shoo-in” meaning someone who is sure to win something.
thanks
If you mean “shoe” in, that might be a reference to the Cinderella story.
wild guess: “shoo in” sounds awfully close to “sure thing” … maybe it’s some kind of slang-type contraction.
In a movie a guy was going to explain it, he said “The romans used to…” and then he got interupted and never finnished his sentence, Duno if it’s true abouth the romas tough, maybe it’s just like you said.
When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
-Samuel Langhorne Clemens ‘The Prince and the Pauper’ 1882
oo .. good .. a “worth of the mind” branch …
dang … lost line spacing in the blockquote thing!!
why the hell is anybody quoting this tao and lao crap? this shit doesn’t make any sense. and, no, i don’t have to think about it really hard. nobody has. no wisdom in bullshit.
aLx, sure it maks sense.
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
– Albert Einstein
he couldn’t be right on everything.
What are your limits then, aLx?
multiple orgasms.
You can’t achieve them or can’t give them?
could it be both?
aLx replied on August 25th, 2008 1:47 pm:
why the hell is anybody quoting this tao and lao crap? this shit doesn’t make any sense
ah .. you see? .. I knew it! .. I lost the line spacing cos i put the quote the blockquote thingy. And now aLx is angered.
I hope you’re happy, WordPress – you’ve tortured a sensitive soul!.
In tarot, mind/intelligence/thought/analysis is represented by the suit of swords and the element air.
more bon mots …
Rulers are considered knowledgeable according to their ability to see, and are considered capable by their ability to hear.
.
- Sun Tsu, The Art of War
whatever
I was buying the morning paper and when I asked for my change, I pooped myself!
was you skeered?
how about
CAR TRUCK VAN
That was totally uncalled for… what did poor sister words do to get called a nincompoop ?!
Get along, you two! Or one of you will wind-up getting hurt.
Wait a minute, what does anything have to do with wind?(from the term wind-up)
Yea, poor Kobe caught in the middle. He will become withdrawn and nervous.
Does anyone know the name of HTW sister’s channel?
Here you go 100percentjacob.
http://www.youtube.com/user/hot4words
Thanks for helping me out. Apparently I didn’t know what I was getting in to.
No wonder they are fighting… 
I have multiple word requests, hoping you’d pick one of them: react and request, because both have the re prefix without meaning to do something again which is strange. And astronaut and cosmonaut, untill the soviet union fell everyone called spacers cosmonauts here in Hungary, but after that they started calling them astronauts, why?
“cosmonaut” was the eastern version, “astronaut” the western version. and that’s that.
Homework: Meathead, fat head, idiot,
that is all for now.
Marina now has 369 votes and 2562 views per Moose and Squirrel
I did my 5 again.
Ok, what are you know?
ouroboros
a circular symbol of a dragon devouring its tail,
Ok, like some of the snake rings you see made just like that.
looks like a bloated, inflated rabbit from behind.
James needs to go back to his cabbage head.
That should read now, not k-now
I have tried to get to the site and keep getting errors. I think we are overloading it
I will try after work.
Hey when does the voting end???
11:59 p.m. ET on August 30, 2008
I believe the 30th of this month. So we don’t have much longer.
whats up http://redhorsevector.net/
Thanks to my neighbor down the street, Marina is back in 2nd position with 364 votes.
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i think u should do the word
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis,
Marina mentions that in this lesson
Floccinaucinihilipilification
And the Teacher’s Pet?
hitman! dude! where you been? hey, you’re russian, explain that коба thing, damnit!
Long time Alx…
What is the problem with коба?
Yea I second that motion or request or ultimatum
If you have to go to my web site attached to my name an leave me an email.
Welcome back, Hitman.
You been in deep cover?
Or deep under somebody’s cover
YepCome cover Me
problem is, i don’t know what the hell it means. it’s in no dictionary, yet it exists. there must be another meaning to it other than maya riuns and a character in a book. damn. what does it mean?
err … ruins.
Koba is marina’s nick name. and she will not say why.
She will remain as The Riddler.
yeah, thanks for ruining the chance to find out.
I don’t care anymore, but I now know about everything that has Koba in it’s name.
I too have been thinking about this nickname. Im beginning to think this is a no-win scenario. Like the Kobayashi Maru test on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Oh 2#!T
did I just stubble upon the link? 
I looked up the spelling of Kobayashi Maru to post it here, and noticed Koba. Hummm. Im willing to guess Marina, being so smart, that she would out smart guys as they would never win a debate. 
Smart guys are always talking about Star Trek. I thinking this link makes sense. Being a Trekker, Why didn’t I make this connection earlier? 
I watched Star Trek Nemesis last nigh. That was a good movie. To bad about Data though. Some how he’ll be resurrected if they make another movie.
Smart guys are always talking about Star Trek……..really?
We really do come from different worlds.
Those story’s are just so ridicules.
I know this for sure, Don’t bring up the fact that you a Trekkie on your first date
with a really Hot Chic if you are planing on a second one. Like… oh by the way I live with my Mom and I go to Star War conventions. I am Dork Skywalker ,Do you want to see my light saber?
RRR, Ok not 100% of the guys talk about ST.
Im sorry that I excluded you. 
I never mentioned that I would talk about ST on a first date. 
Im not that stupid. I was referring in general conversation. 
No we do come from the same world. You where born on the third rock from th e sun, aka earth and so was I.
hey hitman, good to see you back.
Dunce, knot head, rocket scientist, dolt, oaf, punk, loser, twit, I may have duplicated someone else, but that’s all I can think of right now.
Hey Im a rocket scientist!
I even have a hydrogen powered rocket. 
You calling me dumb!! Whats up with that?
LOL…
You look like Cathrine Zeta Jones with black hair.
WAIT! How do we know that the first example is a false etymology? It seems to make far more sense than than the second. How do you turn Nicodemus to ‘NIN’?
What happened to the 5 stars we could give? I noticed they have been gone a while
They didn’t really count towards anything on this site James. It counts on You Tube so they have them for accountability. Marina took them off to help speed up the site.
hi Marina,>>>>i want to ask you about this word,But please dont miss anderstand.I just want to know from where this word(d i g) come from……………………please dont miss anderstand.You are the only one ho can answer me .
349 but in 3rd place.
Medal round, but let’s go for gold.
452 is 1st place.
OK 354.
Time to go schizooo.
361 is 2nd place.
Amadán, Head the Ball, Cretin, Cabage, Feckin Eejit, Sh1t for Brains, Spacer, Gom,
Marina,
Sister Words isn’t a nincompoop.
She’s a party poop.
Here you had a great big and wonderful achievement.
And she didn’t even give you a recognition video.
Other words for nincompoop.
Humm most aren’t nice.
To quote Chief Ramsey: “Donkey!”
Dip $#!&
$#!& for Brains
To quote my niece: “Poopy Head”
Rocket Scientist (not)
Need to move the camera slightly to our left so we can count.
LOOK OUT SHE HAS A KNIFE!!
Now that the DNC is having its Convention this week the term that comes to mind is;
Useful Idiot,
A naive person easily fooled into believing some pie in the sky rhetoric,,
in turn going out among their brethren and excrete said poop as fact.
Hello Marina,
Did you mean to say 1st century as opposed to 16th century when referring to Nicodemus? I can’t find any reference to a Nicodemus in the 16th century.
Do you want to see a funny? Go to http://www.etymonline.com/
Then in the search box, enter, nicodemus.
Guess what pops up? nincompoop
duh. default search mode is obviously a full text search. so?
enter “pedantic”. guess what pops up, among others? “rhinoceros”.
You are correct, but it struck my funny bone when I saw it pop up.
It’s similar to that gag Google page where you type in a phrase (I forget what it was) something like “incompetent leader” or something like that and it comes up with Bush.
hm, i just know about the “weapons of mass destruction” search when this page popped up.
not anymore, though. too bad.
They put the halts to that page didn’t they?
hey, mike. i don’t know. it’s been quite a while. but, yeah, most likely they did. idiots. :/
OK, I found one of those gag pages. The gag is actually has to be invoked by the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button.
Go to Google, enter this: find chuck norris.
Don’t press enter or click search, but click “I’m Feeling Lucky”.
dude, the page still works. read the content. the links are amusing.
Yes, it was not the 16th century but the first. Jesus was born around 1-4 A.D. (anno domini). Good catch pedantickarl.
First century meaning of Nicodemus :”A fairly common Greek name
in the 1st century meaning “conqueror of the people.”
…”though some give it a Hebrew derivation meaning innocent blood.”Hebrew-Aramaic NAQIA = innocent M = blood
Vincent, Marvin Richardson, Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2002.
You are correct pedantickarl, I meant to say, the term Nicodemite comes from the 16th century and refers to a person who resembled Nicodemus. Whoops! I’m looking at my notes and it looks like I left out a whole passage that I wrote down! I wish I had a proof reader, instead of using a half a million people as my proof readers!
but you have a whole batch of toadying TAs!! – get them to do something useful for a change.