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Giraffe.. or is it camelopard?
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In South Africa, the word is pronounced with a hard g, and the vowels are shorter. It sounds like gear-off. The accent is on the second syllable, too.
Like gear-OFF.
I read recently that dolphins (porpoises, that is) sleep with only half their brain at a time, so technically they don’t sleep at all.
great info, ddull2000….[boats and boots]
Marina, you missed a point here. The word “giraffe” is not coming from the arab language. “girafe” is the form used in french, but the arabic word is “zarafa”.
good job as always…rain coming with ice snow…bees are good and so are you
I’ve heard of a few inventors and creators who can’t sleep for more than a few hours at a time. That’s as close as you can get I think Marina. Though it seems like you and HFP barely get any sleep anyways.
I just heard a joke which I have to share:-
Q. What do you get if you cross a camel with a leopard?
A. A fire-side rug that you can have a good hump on.
I am totally in love, you are an angel.
Marina, the name kangaroo has an interesting origin too.
Fish, whales, sharks, etc., don’t require much, if any, sleep.
Do ants sleep? Who cares?!
Apparently there is a Camelopardalis constellation (first recorded in 1624 by Dutch astronomer Jakob Bartsch). The head of the constellation is near Polaris, and unfortunately the constellation is rather faint. But a point-to-point drawing of the major stars within it does make a crude stick figure of a giraffe.
Party animals don’t seem to need much sleep…
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Where does the F-WORD come from? I mean fuck ofc..
Marina, what does pigeon-livered mean? I know a Chinese woman who actually takes pride in being pigeon-livered!
sounds cooler is right, borrowed from? sleep is deep
Homework: I’d say it would have to be an animal being chased by hordes of hungry predators, like a turkey on the eve of Thanksgiving.
What “animal” gets the least amount of sleep?
…Well, I do suffer from insomnia from time to time.
for some reason goldfish comes to mind, but honestly I have no clue lol! maybe they have the shortest attention span?
I would like to know why the English language is full of so many heteronym’s.
Such as…
Live
Abuse
Duplicate
Dove
Elaborate
Perfect
Record
Sewer
And so on.
I’d guess it has a lot to do with being a conglomerate as well as an inclusive and growing language.
If you have to record a song before you can put it on a record and you have to duplicate an item to make a duplicate; then why doesn’t something become elaborate when you elaborate on it. Also, why do you suffer from drug abuse if you abuse drugs?
I forget how young this crowd is
… Fact is… you don’t have to record a song before you put it on a record. You can record, live, directly to the record… which is how the process was done for generations before magnetic tape was developed. Perhaps you’re wondering what magnetic tape is… don’t worry, it was the technology that preceded compact discs. True, you must duplicate to make a duplicate. It is even possible to elaborate on a topic, making that topic seem elaborate… and if you have abused something you leave evidence of abuse. In the examples you provide you are comparing verb usage of a word to noun (or adjective) usage… with a slight change in pronunciation to identify one from the other. This is not a big mystery. The humorous sewer/sewer difference should illustrate the need for differing pronunciation most admirably.
i collect vinyl and actually sales are slightly up as cd sales continue to plummet.
In Spanish only exist the word JIRAFA for this animal
That would make sense, as there is a great deal of Arabic influence on the Spanish language… 750 years of occupation by the Moors.
Marina,
Pardon my obsequiusness, but your physiognomy is breathtaking!
Sorry for the mis-spelling.
Obsequiosness.
Obsequiousness!!
I finally got it right.
Hello Professor Marina. What’s the good word?
A neat word at the present moment is probe, and vote isn’t exactly off the top of the list either.
Oops, wrong reply …
Legs.
Legs
923 votes
933
Marina vote explosion ahead. Not taking it lying down…
shes got it there is no competition against her
can u investgate miscellanaus plz
Fan from egypt
Hello, Marina
will you marry me?
By the way, I want to know the origin of the word “buzzerbeater”.
yours sincerely,
gudlak
I was going to say Jehova’s Witnesses, but…. Never mind! Mi buzzer es su buzzer.
Hi Marina,
I like to know why there is a difference in english between the words zero, null, nil and even love (in sport).
yeh .. there’re a lot of words for nothing, aren’t there
… erm … nothing, naught, nought, nada, zilch, diddly squat, zip, zilch .. etc
Yes there are. But I think only zero, null, nil and love are used to describe this -> 0
I could not help it. When I read this post, I instantly thought of Jethro saying “Uncle Jed that ain’t the family truck, that is my new naught-naught-seven spy car!”
you mean in a mathematical sense?
in that sense, i think “null” means “void” or “empty” as in not even 0.
e.g. .. the “null set”.
903 votes. Marina is over 900 votes now.
908
933
I think Charles Trippy is having video problems. His video is under conversion. Maybe they have seen he violated the rules and he’s having to reedit his video.
http://www.bestweekendevercontest.com/watch/973207858/What-Weekend?
Charles Trippy has 2 videos… his first one did not compress.. so he uploaded it again. He’s at 337 votes, in the #4 position after one night. So he’s going to probably pass me. He used part of my video in his, with my permission of course
But I’d still like to win!
Thanks Marina. I think I will be getting a mac soon. I looked at one in a shop.. But I never figured out how to turn the camera on!! Thanks for all of the help you have given me
James
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Even with your permission he is still in violation of the rules.
Non “Original” content and “Third Party” content.
If you gave permission you couldn’t sue for using it, but then he couldn’t use it for contest purposes in the first place.
Besides being a REAL CRUMMY video.
I think by the rules they have to pick you if you are in the top 3, but the winner is decided by the website without regard to the number of votes. They pick what they think is the best video out of the three.
winning would be nice, but your getting good exposure. nice idea to let him use your footage, double exposure.
Hi cap, Trippy has been averaging about 20 votes per hour in the last 12 hours. If Trippy surpasses Marina, all we have to do is keep Marina in the top 3 voted-for videos so she goes to the finals.
Note – if you have more than one email address, you can register on that website multiple times, giving yourself 5 votes per day per email address.
Moose and Squirrel and Capman911 have that part covered about more than one address
Hey Marina,
if u could help me out with the origin of the word “cigarette”!
French for “Small Cigar.”
How about a sloth? It requires a lot of sleep, I think.
A three toed sloth is 14.4 hours.
That’s 4.8 hours for each toe. But wait, if a sloth has three toes per appendage, then the sloth requires 1.2 hours per toe. I know quite a bit about sloths, actually, thanks to my friend Sid.
Okay, Phrase request please…
“Freudian slip”
I still see spots….
The unconscious act of making something conscious.
See also references to “Freudian girdle” and “Freudian push-up bra.” Unlike Michael Salvage, Freud wasn’t quite ready to engage in psychological nudity. He felt compelled to leave some of his undergarments on.
I’m such a savage. I misspelled Michael’s last name.
Just trying to salvage my reputation as a good speller.
Maybe it was a Freudian slip?
Some fish don’t sleep at all, and 1/2 of a dolphin’s brain goes to sleep, while the other half stays alert to sense predators.
predators? depends on the type of dolphins. some species don’t have any.
sharks
Just ’cause we can’t see the action while sitting on the beach doesn’t mean that there isn’t any.
umm … you think any shark is gonna mess with him?
Your right Alx, dolphins can actually and do kill sharks just by ramming them. Plus they can out swim and out maneuver even a great white.
We generally call those “Killer Whales” which, although the species is a member of the dolphin family, they aren’t typically referred to as dolphins. Nevertheless, they sleep the same way (1/2 brain at a time).
[these sharks] certainly ain’t gonna mess with him.
doesn’t matter what you call them, they’re dolphins. and they don’t have to fear any predators.
Well, they still sleep half a brain at a time, and since that was the import of the question speculation on natural selection are collateral. Perhaps in the case of the Killer Whale it’s a vestigial feature, or perhaps it provided survival advantages for other reasons.
Hi prospero811, just answering your question down below:
“Were the rules different before?”
Yes, the original ending date of the contest was supposed to be this Sat. Aug 30. About a day or two ago, the contest people extended the contest by two weeks to Sept 13.
have i ever disputed that they sleep with one half of their brain? frankly, i don’t care if and why they do.
Another theory on dolphin sleep is that their method keeps them from suffocating or drowning.
As I said – the portion about why they sleep with one half of their brain was collateral to the main issue.
Bottle Nose Dolphins actually sleep 10 1/2 hours per day.
A Guppy sleeps 7 hours per day.
The mammal that sleeps the most is a brown bat @ almost 20 hours per day.
how about god! god doesn’t sleep. unless one believes jesus is god, then he probably slept. but then jesus also spoke with god and called him father, so maybe he wasn’t god but the son of god, no wait, he was god but a god that slept and the god the father didn’t have to, so the big god didn’t sleep and the little god did. so one half of god slept while the other half of god didn’t. like dolphins do. yeah, wait… no. never mind.
No keep working on it, Don’t give up, our (my) little pea brain can’t take it all in. Our (my) lineal thinking conflicts with my conceptual thinking & then I get tired & go to sleep, or if I’m in the mood to slack off, back to work.
Jesus slept while the others feared for their lives, in the storm & he was awake while the others couldn’t stay awake, in the garden.
yeah billyb, my wife tried explaining the holy trinity to me, didn’t get that. but then she describes compassion, sacrifice and forgiveness. then we started agreeing on things.
You know if humans could do like dolphins and put half their brain to sleep and keep working with the other half think of all the over time you could make. Only if your body could stand up to not resting.
It depends on where you live. Sleepless in Seattle, for example.
as long as you don’t see dead people
I see dumb people.
every time he looks in the mirror.
Im noticing something interesting about the ‘Favorite day of the week’ poll. Ok I know Friday and Saturday were going to be very popular, but I never would have guessed Monday would out rank Wednesday & Thursday. You hear many people talk about the Monday blues. I wonder why this is?
mondays are the days that many go to work and waste time on the internet. popularity of weekdays decrease after that as people are trying to make up for slaking off earlier in the week and must do increasing amounts of actual work toward friday.
Do a lot of people “slake off” at work?
No Prospero, what he meant was that people take steaks off the barbecue when they are done. It’s called staking off.
hey cut me some slack i’m posting while i’m at work.
I never really had a favorite day. Working 24 hour shifts and then off for 24 hours we only worked 10 days a month. But we worked a 56 hour work week. Then we had 4 days off straight every week. Then work three 24 hour shifts again then off 4 days in a row. This for 33 years and it gives you an excellent opportunity to work another full time second job at the same time. So now that I am retired I bring home three retirement checks each month and that doesn’t include Social security yet.
Monday was my favorite when I loved my work and could escape the “starter wife”…. go figure….
The last Monday in January is apparently the worst day of the year…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KWsnSRUAmk
The science:
formula — 1/8W+(D-d)3/8xTQMxNA
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4187183.stm
“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.”
- Emma Goldman -
ha! thats funny! and so true in a very general kind of way ignoring the times in which voting did change things. u.s. citizens ought to vote more frequently, really.
People that vote as I do should vote more frequently. Other people can stay home.
Jack you know for the first time in my life since I have been voting I really don’t know yet who I want to vote for. That kinda scares me a little. I afraid of what the republicans put us through for the last 8 years so I am concerned about voting Republican. I don’t know about Democrat because of Obama and what I personally think of his back ground. If I don’t vote I can’t blame anybody but myself for not voting. This to me is a scary year for America.
On Thursday at the Democratic National Convention, Gov. Bill Richardson said more than a few words in Spanish. Then, almost immediately afterwards, he cried, “Let’s take back America!” I was kind of wondering who “us” referred to…
I’m also a bit perturbed that the campaign slogan for the Obama camp is “Yes we can!” which is a direct ripoff of “Si se puede,” the Hispanic battle cry that a Hispanic lady got all of the delegates to shout earlier at the convention this week. I have nothing against HIspanics. In fact, virtually all my students are Hispanic, and I love them dearly. But the campaign slogan, and the speaking of Spanish at the convention, is speaking to a divided America–one where Americans are no longer asked to speak English. It’s not inclusion; it’s pandering. At least my students will grow up speaking English. Being bilingual is a blessing. Refusing to learn English, and expecting politicians to pander, is simply not getting with the program.
I’m sticking my neck out on politics here. Nothing to do with giraffes, who, uh, stick their necks out… Disclaimer: My name is LividEmerald, and I do not necessarily support this message!
Is it possible to retract our political statements? No, no se puede.
The “Best Weekend Ever” website is a lot faster now.
Vote for Marina.
I would like to Request the word ( glib. ):
and glibc
How about jibjab? (They have a political web site, as we all know.)
Hi, i`m Brazilian and would know the origin of the word LAND.
I realy like you, good job.
O lot of kisses
Today’s quote might be poetry
I’d say a more acurate description would be, the “road to” hell is paved with good samaritans. Run over by the croud, because they were going the wrong way. Slay me, if you will.
I agree with that 100% Billy.
Thanks for your comment on my video Marina! I want camelopard too. I am getting closer to a mac though. I just hope final cut pro isn’t to hard to use
dude if you don’t want to spend the money for final cut pro, imovie would work just fine for the basic video your shooting. i can’t afford final cut pro, and i’ve done all my video and audio editing with imovie, it comes with your mac. i’d try imovie out first and then consider the final cut pro purchase.
How much is Final Cut Pro?
About $1,200 US
nah, you can get it 100% free to
You could always try out Final Cut Express for about $200. See the comparison if Express would fit your needs. http://camcorders.about.com/od/videoediting/a/FinalCutCompare.htm
I never knew you had to pay for it.. I thought finalcut came with the mac.. You can probably get off a torrent though
iMovie used to come with the mac years ago. Now its part of ‘iLife’ package. Final Cut is a professional app that was never intended to be offered for free. Yes you can find any popular mac app on torrent. Copy protection on the mac side you will find very lax vs the pc side.
One thing that does piss me off is this i in front of everything.. liKe thiS: iTunes iPod iLife. For gods sake apple let iT diE. iT iS so annoyiNg.
iagree
yeah…mac sucks…I got crazy of that jumping update thing and installed some mac osx 10…..pack ,and now i get THIS message everytime i start it up…..I think i’m gonna reinstall mac ,cause if have no idea how to fix this applecrap
I would suggest (my personal view) that a torrent source for the sw is valid for a copy that you’d use to asses the sw and develop skills. But, i’d say, once you intend to use the sw to post the material for general public use, get a paid-for copy.
I am 16. And starting college.. I can’t afford ANYTHING
James… iMovie comes with the Mac for free and does everything you need. You only upgrade to Final Cut once you have exhausted everything that iMovie does.. but you will be fine for quite some time to come.. then when it’s time for Final Cut.. there are ways (academic for one) to get the program for practically nothing. I cna help you out there.
16 starting college?
oh!
.. of course .. 
http://thepiratebay.org/search/final%20cut/0/99/300
make sure you check the comments
what do you want to use your computer for? just surfing the web, making videos, do some text processing?
the animal that sleeps the least is the elephant. no wonder they always look so haggard!