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”.
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.
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.
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 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!”
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
“Hell is paved with good samaritans.” – William M. Holden
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.
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.
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.
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 never knew you had to pay for it.. I thought finalcut came with the mac.. You can probably get off a torrent though
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.
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.
They just are the tops in their industry. You can use Pro Models vs Armature Models because they both are making money as a profession. Think of it this way. Very popular actors that make the big bucks vs average actors that get very little pay.
I think it started with, what’s her name? Janice Dickens? That former supermodel who’s looks are now like a roller coaster. Anyway, she claimed to be the first supermodel when she tried exaggerating her model status, back in the ’80s, I think.
OOH OOH OOH! Pick me for the next teacher’s pet Ms. Orlova pleaseeeeee!
Also did you hear a quote by this one supermodel named Linda Evangelista? It went like “It was God who made me so beautiful, if I weren’t I’d be a teacher.” Good stuff Marina for proving her wrong AND looking better than her!
Your expert abilities with words reminded me of my believe, rightly or not, that Russians were very good at reading between the lines of the formerly state controlled newspaper, Pravda, thus creating very critical thinkers of the political environment. (Am I over-thinking this? )
With this in mind, I wondered if Russians follow the United States’ Presidential election and what their reactions are regarding the candidates.
Спасибо.
I would dispute the premise that the western media has “blinkered” opinion better than the state run efforts of the former Soviet Union. On what do you base that allegation?
(i was referring to: “Russians were very good at reading between the lines of the formerly state controlled newspaper, Pravda, thus creating very critical thinkers of the political environment.”)
Thanks for your reply, Mijj. Perhaps, we buy the “pig in a poke” because we assume we are getting the real deal and don’t look in the bag first. The packaging is so impressive.
I think, because the USSR state view was so easily disseminated (centralized state control of information), there was no effort to actually make it become the receiver’s viewpoint. The state merely expected it to become the receiver’s viewpoint because it said so.
Along with that, i presume there was felt little need to get feedback on the effectiveness of the propaganda.
In the west though (US particularly), there’s much more knowledge of the psychology of effective propaganda. e.g. splash headlines might make a suggestive point one way and it would be contradicted in the body of the analysis. The mass of people are susceptible to the headlines. Those who go into details of political analysis are in the minority. So, propaganda is deniable.
Of course, G.Bush’s government is more in the style of the Soviet Union, hence it only made half hearted attempts to create effective propaganda and relied more on assertion and intimidation.
More subtle? Do you mean like getting knifed in the back instead of the forehead? Either way, you’ve been had. The press should be the entity shouting, “Watch out!” Not, “Ooooh, did you see that? Shock and awe, impressive.” Boneheads!
i mean more subtle in the way the propaganda works.
i.e. .. instead of the blustering machismo of the bush years, there will be a hand-wringing concern that certain actions must be taken in the best interests of … etc. … rather than the Bush years hysterical “we have to attack or we’ll be exterminated” type stuff.
e.g. .. Bush is rightly accused of war crimes committed against Iraq. However, why is Clinton rarely mentioned? .. he’s responsible for the same order of magnitude of deaths in Iraq. By sanctions designed to maintain the crippled state of iraq he also ensured a huge death toll because of lack of essential supplies.
e.g. “UN figures show that up to 5,000 children a month die in Iraq because of the sanctions against Iraq” http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/sanction/iraq1/2000/clinton.htm
okay, so argentina and england are arguing about the falklands, u.s. and russian hegemonies are in conflict. this shit seems very familiar. if one is really interested in words and rhetoric and their role in influencing world events, now is a great time to observe and analyze the communications occurring between governments.
just saying, if one is interested in understanding significant political events by studying rhetoric. the best opportunity is to analyze the earliest communications. frequently popular opinion is based on the headlines that emerge as a response to an escalation in aggressive posturing. i think that many miss the opportunity to understand the basic details of these events that are carried in the most immediate exchanges prior to front page attention.
i’ve been trying to follow the communications regarding a navy vessel bringing relief materials to georgia. accompanying them was an armed navy vessel. there was a lot of exchanges made regarding which port to enter, one was still in control of russian forces, how close should the armed ship be, what was the relief ship really carrying and so on. as well as the rhetoric by our lame duck president and that of putin and medvedev, the responses of ambassadors and other officials in associated countries.
this type of information became really relevant when england sunk that ship in the falklands war. to make a really informed judgment i think you have to start analyzing the most immediate rhetoric and stay on top of it and compare it to new information, instead of waiting around for a president or prime minister to tell you what to think.
I was playin’ dumb ‘cos i’m drawn to the subject. However, i promised to myself i’d keep schtum on politics ‘cos i tend to get a little vicious and shame myself.
well yes, that is what i meant. i wasn’t proposing that one poke around putin’s personal documents or bush’s crayon drawings to better grasp current events. but many of those public statements are limited to sound bites or ignored completely by media and/or the public. one needs to take initiative and do some research.
There once was a curious Giraffe,
who was teased for the odd verbal gaffe.
To impress all the herds,
He joined Hotforwords,
put an end to his errs and their laugh.
ELOQUENCE is Latin ELOQENTIA “easiness of speech”.
The word can be cut E-LOQUENT-IA :
E = EX = OUT + LOQUENT = SPEAKING (past participle) + IA = NESS (suffix). If I dare say it would be OUTSPEAKINGNESS in English.
give her some credit. when i first saw it, a few months ago, i was like, wtf? but i contemplated this. after all, it’s not a “miss thought” contest or something, it’s “miss teen.”
one of germany’s best soccer players once answered a question with “it’s like chess, only without dice” … ummm … okay, dude … same thing. it doesn’t really matter to me if he knows how to play chess or provide a correct analysis of a sentence. he’s a soccer player. he’s supposed to score goals. that’s what he does, and he’s pretty fucking good at it. — that’s knowledge, too. even intelligence. you get the ball, you got like half a second to decide what to do. regarding soccer, his brain works very fast. would yours in this situation?
Well, in all fairness, they have a question and answer segment so that the competition will, in part, be decided by the ability to think on one’s feet and formulate a good and poised answer on the fly. She failed miserably, but I think the way she was treated afterwards was abysmal. She was a 16 year old girl who fucked up a beauty pageant. She ought to have been able to walk away from it.
Correct, the top 3 voted-for videos enter the finals from which a winner is picked by the sponsors of the contest based on style, originality, skill, and humor.
what does tis mean it poppedup on a pop up andi havent been aqble to find out what it means Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis it has 45 letters and ive never heard it being spokn
Thanks for the FAQ check koalabear.
It’s weird. They have just under 60 submissions. The videos with the highest views all have the lowest votes. Out of the 50+ some videos, only 5 videos have votes over 100.
koalabear ,No they see you guys hitting the site really hard so they are going to run with it. Its all about promoting the movie to increase ticket sales.
Only one way to look at this …
Two more weeks for Marina to slaughter the opposition.
New target – 3000 votes? 30,000? How many subscribers does she have?
I would really like Marina to win, but I would bet a $1 on her wining. Im very interested in seeing who wins this contest. If she doesn’t win then my theory will hold true that the winner is always picked randomly on marketing contests.
yeah, but “yay!” is frightening when any adult uses it. it usually means ones rational thought is being overwhelmed with euphoria. terribly frightening when combined with weapons… speaking of 300.
The site sucks for speed. And having to register for what really is a throw-away promo site to be able to vote – I can see why there are not a lot of votes for anyone.
PS I did register, and voted for Marina repeatedly. I just didn’t use my real name, address, age, or anything else that the marketing guys wanted with the registration data.
hutchiee, Your a very smart man! Your one of those people that marketing people hate. But since there are so few of you that think like this, marketing writes off about 2% to 14% of invalid data in the price of the sale of that information. To this day it amazes me how companies can sell a list of contact data to other companies that would be interested in the type of people who would watch this movie. It almost looks like movie are made just for marketing and not for entertainment.Oops I should have said that. Now there are some men in black suits standing at the door of my yacht wanting to take me away.
This is the second time I have entered a contest and they’ve decided to extend it. With Ocean Potion I had 150,000 views vs. 4,000 views for everybody else combined.. they extended the contest, someone made a video last minute and they won. Charlestrippy just made a video, so be prepared for him to pass me.
Who’s Trippy… found him & watched 2 vids, one about seezing while driving??? One about, ah, I forget. no more… Reminds me of Spicoli. He may get a bunch of votes, but they”l fade, at about 4:20.
Yeah I liked your Ocean Potion entry too, winners don’t always win, that’s what makes it interesting, huh?
Well FOUL on so many levels.
The extention sucks.
Charlestrippy video generally sucks except for a cameo appearance.
Talk about plagiarizing the idea.
With a poor copy of the idea.
Talk about stealing video inserts.
And his final product sucks. Drinking and pissing.
FOUL FOUL FOUL
Hi koalabear, errr, hmmmm, sensitive subject. Marina entered a contest a few months back for a suntan lotion product. As you know, Marina makes the best videos in the world. It was a 31 seconds packed video with excellent storyline, execution and production without words. I think there are no copies on the web. I have a copy as it is an example of excellent movie making.
Hey Sexxybeast7, come on now that’s no way to ask Marina that kind of question now is it Please be nice with the questions, ok? Thanks for understanding.
REQUEST:
I was just checkin’ out the “What is your favorite day of the week” poll when suddenly curiosity strikes. Whats the origin of the whole 7-day week anyways?
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday…..
What do the names of the days of the week mean?
Is this same 7-day cycle used all over the world?
So yeah! Hook it us with some knowledge girl!
Interesting, but not solved it seems, “…borrowed from the Arabic word, which was most likely of African origin?” Sounds like there is more to investigate to me, or do we have a dead end here?
The problem is that Arabic زَرَافَة ZURAFA is certainly a Semitic root as old as the night.
When words are “pure” roots/stems it’s impossible to search further unless you have a time machine. Do you know that Language is certainly as old as humanity : 100 000 to 1 000 000 000 years old !
Let’s take a European animal like the dog. DOG is certainly mysterious but what about HOUND that was used maybe 3000 years again by Germanic ancestors…
Hello Marina, did you see the latest entry into the best Weekend Ever contest? Charles Trippy.
Click on the Recently posted link on that site. There are two “What Weekend?” videos. Don’t click on the video that shows Video Conversion in Process. He munged that one and it may lock your browser.
He is emulating your video, crying to sxephil’s show and colab’ng with your phone call. He is attempting a coup from 5th position with 94 votes. He already burned 86 votes on the munged upload.
Hello my dear teacher.
I thought you might be interested to know that there are two words for Giraffe in farsi (the language that people speak in Iran and parts of Afghanistan and Tajikistan) . One of them is “zarafe” which is so close to Giraffe and the other one is “shotorgavpalang” which literary means “camle-cow-pard”
I also like to let you know that I like your new videos with wide lenses better. Now I can see your bare feet as well and this is a lot sexier. (don’t get too confident though)
hi marina!!!! i love your channel!!! can you do the origin of “pun” as in….you can watch marina on the boobtube…uh…no “pun” intended…oh oh…i guess that would be another word…”boobtube” where the heck did that come from?!?!?!
I was just talking to my mom and we were talking about oranges. And I was wondering: In English, why are the fruit and the color the same? Is it simoly that oranges are named for their color?
Never heard that one before. I once had a young (not full-grown) seal spend the night in my bathroom, I was rescuing it from a storm. It slept with me on the floor, even climbing-up on me & cuddling on top of me so I was stuck there the entire night. Sea World came the next morning to get it. The guy had a long pole with a noose around it, I told him “No way!” and I carried the seal to the cage on the truck like you would a small child or pet–GREAT animal, like a dog with flippers. But more to point you see seals sleeping all over the place. Unless you’re talking about Navy Seals…
If you want to talk similartities to animals. The giraffe looks like it has the same physique as a Camel(Stature), Horse(Shape) and Leopard(The spots).
The Arabs took over North Africa, so they brought Arabic. It’s from a dialect of Arabic.
Dialects work like this:
When I say Dog, I pronounce the o as aw in saw. In the midwest they would say Dawg aw prounounced like the “Aoooo” in a wolf howling. In Manhattan they would say DwOOg.
The simple way to explain dialects in Arabic is with the word Abdullah(Slave of God). In one region it’s pronounce Abdillah, in another it’s Abdallah.
hi miss i would like to know what are the origins of the word -agent-
and if you could search for another one -proctal-( i think i know though but i would like you to search it please . thank you
If my information is correct the SHARK never sleeps because he has something like two separate brains. When one brain does not work the other does.
The necessity of sleeping is in fact a strange phenomenon but, Marina, can you ask your uncle, DR POPOV, to explain us how he explains this necessity ?
They did find caves in deep water where the water keeps woving so the shark can sleep with out dying.
If a shark keeps still too long it could suffocate, because it needs the water to move over its gills to breath.
Chief is ever so honored to hold the “teacher’s pet” position. You shant be disappointed. Chief
ps. if I had a teacher like you in my schooling days I may never have wanted to graduate!
Another recipient of the coveted
Teacher’s Pet Award given the
old school Marina sexy sexy…
Was this you first time?
Thought I remembered you having
copped a mention for a word request…
Congratulations, Chief!
“Hail to the Chief, if you don’t he’ll have to kill you / He is the chief, so you’d better watch your step, you bastards.”
– ref. the film My Fellow Americans
I think ‘nymph’ comes from Greek Mythology, as maidens or lesser goddesses of mountains, forests, lakes, etc. But I could be wrong on whether it goes that way far back or not.
You weren’t confusing ‘nymph’ for ‘nympho’, were you?
Mijj and iamme097 were discussing which came 1st… the chicken or the egg! Allow me to get into it, and at the end I will cleverly request 2 terms.
Do you guys even realize that in the egg is an actual chicken, instead of your morning omlet?! )
Also now, the problem is reduced to this… what came 1st? The chicken or the egg shell?
Well… since an egg shell is made of keratin, a substance only found in living organisms… the answer becomes obvious and the problem simplistic. [but if your a redneck, this will do too: `dem darn alienz planted the eggs in the ground, and they grew into Crispy Strips]
So why did that chicken cross the road then? Because it was dead serious on not winding-up on the day’s menu.
Actually the chicken or biddy is not in the egg if the hen hasn’t been fertilized by a rooster. The only thing in the egg is the yolk and the white surrounding membrane. So when animals developed first on this earth mammals and reptiles gave birth to their offspring by different means “ie” live birth or eggs.
But to us rednecks we believe that eggs come from mushrooms that was planted by Aliens. When a mushroom pushes through the ground the top of it is called the egg in which we collect and fry or scramble in the pan. So there. That explains the origin of what came first chicken or the egg. I got that from Goober.
Seems that, at any moment and anywhere on the planet, 2/3 of cows are homesick and therefore face northward. By the time the cows do come home, the glaciers will have pretty melted already, and Al Gore will be skinny dipping with the Inuits.
HI! I just registered here, and I want to request my first word. I was wondering what the origin of the word MUG is. It refers to the cup of course, but also a persons face. Thanks, love your vids.
Great video about the Camel and the Leopard, i’ve got this burning question about a songtext called “Tainted Love” written by Edd Cobb
Gloria Jones sang it in 1964, I remember only the Soft Cell version being the first one, and as a child wondering what Tainted means. Sounds like Painted.. but why would anyone paint Love?
(btw your accent reminds me of a special Lady i’ve met years ago, she originally came from the north-western part of China, don’t ever try to hide it..;)
I am probably just a masochist, but I have been watching all of the convention this week and will do so next week as well. I was hoping that the Democrats was expand upon their platform with some specifics, not just their normal platitudes and pandering.
I have class tomorrow night, so I am recording it to be able to watch the entire thing.
I am a Republican and will probably enjoy their convention next week a great deal more.
I am a democrat but don’t always vote democrat. I have a tendency to analyze each candidate and decide on their qualifications who gets my vote. So far,I don’t see any qualifications for Obama-zip,zero,nada. I call em as I see em!! Now,I’m going to watch another movie.
Not sure the animal who get the least amount of sleep, but lions get a lot like 22 hrs a day. If I had to guess I would say flamingo; stand up sleeping is hard enough, but on long leg come on… Got to be short sleep time there.
They have a thin film over their eye that acts as an eyelid. I’m not sure whether or not this actually helps them go to sleep or whether they have something else as well. Though you don’t need eyelids to sleep.
Check this out, talk about dog days…
I usually make it to the end of the meal before I fall asleep, not always though.
I’m ok, as long as nobody scares me.
Hey Billy, how you doin? I’m doing good. I got my raise at work today and my cubbies are 33 above 500. Bring on the Phillies! I think I’ve been doing 2 much homework lately so I’m due for a break, at least for a while. That was a lovely outfit Marina had on! I hope you and everybody else have a nice labor day weekend! Cheers!
Hey labatt78… I’m good , but tired as well.
You got a raise…cool, do you get more work to do because you get more money?
You’re going to school too? summer time?huh You still surprise me…
I agree on Marina’s outfit, ideal for a hot day. She looked cool while the dog struggled to stay cool on the tile by the door.
Sleep related & human, I think… Inside the lab of Dr. Frank Yakazuki. Sorry ’bout that.
Noticed you like a little musical break every now & then, (loved the Shatner, oh Bill..lol).
Do you prefer Distant Dreamer/a>or Dreamcatcher?
yeh .. i feel dirty and ashamed for posting pic links and music links – this is a words site – but i do it anyway! Please, Marina!! Forgive me!!
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Inside steve’s mind = LOL! – that’s brilliant .. added to my favorites so i can chase up the others.
“I’d like for you to have this job .. if you do we can have dirty sex.”
I had a job interview like that once .. without the offer of dirty sex, though.
and .. finally, a resume that everyone can believe!
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The duffy one was the better of the two, i think .. the other one was too mournful.
… if you like the sound of a lady beltin’ out a song, here’s [Siouxie Sioux]
(i’ve put this link up before, so you *may* already have seen it)
Hi hot for words, i have always wondered the Meaning of the word “GRINGO”. so can you please look that up and tell me wut does that means, and i will be very happy
I have been told I am a gringo. Since I am an anglo with white skin,I guess that means that white,anglo-Americans are gringos. I beat Marina to solving this mystery! Yeaaa!!
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
xx
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!
Also Marina can you derive the word “super model”? Are they really “super” to begin with? Whats so differerent between supermodels and models
Thanks Marina
They just are the tops in their industry. You can use Pro Models vs Armature Models because they both are making money as a profession. Think of it this way. Very popular actors that make the big bucks vs average actors that get very little pay.
Armature Models
your elec eng background seeped into your post, CJ.
I think it started with, what’s her name? Janice Dickens? That former supermodel who’s looks are now like a roller coaster. Anyway, she claimed to be the first supermodel when she tried exaggerating her model status, back in the ’80s, I think.
I always seem to think of like super heroes when I hear the word supermodel. Must be my inner child kicking in.
OOH OOH OOH! Pick me for the next teacher’s pet Ms. Orlova pleaseeeeee!
Also did you hear a quote by this one supermodel named Linda Evangelista? It went like “It was God who made me so beautiful, if I weren’t I’d be a teacher.” Good stuff Marina for proving her wrong AND looking better than her!
Привет мой дорогой преподаватель,
Your expert abilities with words reminded me of my believe, rightly or not, that Russians were very good at reading between the lines of the formerly state controlled newspaper, Pravda, thus creating very critical thinkers of the political environment. (Am I over-thinking this?
)
With this in mind, I wondered if Russians follow the United States’ Presidential election and what their reactions are regarding the candidates.
Спасибо.
С уважением,
Ваш Дорогой Студент
If that’s true, then why hasn’t the average american (or brit) managed to develop the same ability with his own news media?
Western corporate media has been much better at blinkering opinion than the state run efforts of the ex-USSR. Why is that, i wonder?
I would dispute the premise that the western media has “blinkered” opinion better than the state run efforts of the former Soviet Union. On what do you base that allegation?
(i was referring to: “Russians were very good at reading between the lines of the formerly state controlled newspaper, Pravda, thus creating very critical thinkers of the political environment.”)
Thanks for your reply, Mijj. Perhaps, we buy the “pig in a poke” because we assume we are getting the real deal and don’t look in the bag first. The packaging is so impressive.
I think, because the USSR state view was so easily disseminated (centralized state control of information), there was no effort to actually make it become the receiver’s viewpoint. The state merely expected it to become the receiver’s viewpoint because it said so.
Along with that, i presume there was felt little need to get feedback on the effectiveness of the propaganda.
In the west though (US particularly), there’s much more knowledge of the psychology of effective propaganda. e.g. splash headlines might make a suggestive point one way and it would be contradicted in the body of the analysis. The mass of people are susceptible to the headlines. Those who go into details of political analysis are in the minority. So, propaganda is deniable.
Of course, G.Bush’s government is more in the style of the Soviet Union, hence it only made half hearted attempts to create effective propaganda and relied more on assertion and intimidation.
The next US government will be more subtle.
More subtle? Do you mean like getting knifed in the back instead of the forehead? Either way, you’ve been had. The press should be the entity shouting, “Watch out!” Not, “Ooooh, did you see that? Shock and awe, impressive.” Boneheads!
i mean more subtle in the way the propaganda works.
i.e. .. instead of the blustering machismo of the bush years, there will be a hand-wringing concern that certain actions must be taken in the best interests of … etc. … rather than the Bush years hysterical “we have to attack or we’ll be exterminated” type stuff.
e.g. .. Bush is rightly accused of war crimes committed against Iraq. However, why is Clinton rarely mentioned? .. he’s responsible for the same order of magnitude of deaths in Iraq. By sanctions designed to maintain the crippled state of iraq he also ensured a huge death toll because of lack of essential supplies.
e.g. “UN figures show that up to 5,000 children a month die in Iraq because of the sanctions against Iraq”
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/sanction/iraq1/2000/clinton.htm
yeah, i’m tired of the propaganda
hi there…
i wonder if there is something about word ”Botox”
maybe it’s just for me, but i think this word is weird + i dont like how it sounds…
tnx.
I might need that.
Botulinetoxine…I think it’s like one of the most toxic matter know to humans, and that’s what millions of people inject in their face, kinda weird
that would be Botulinum toxin in English…
Marina,
I would like to know where the phrase, “Knocked up” came from.
Well, it definetly would not come from no “40 year-old virgin”. That’s for sure.
Doesn’t nacht up mean to stay awake at night?
okay, so argentina and england are arguing about the falklands, u.s. and russian hegemonies are in conflict. this shit seems very familiar. if one is really interested in words and rhetoric and their role in influencing world events, now is a great time to observe and analyze the communications occurring between governments.
.. eh?
just saying, if one is interested in understanding significant political events by studying rhetoric. the best opportunity is to analyze the earliest communications. frequently popular opinion is based on the headlines that emerge as a response to an escalation in aggressive posturing. i think that many miss the opportunity to understand the basic details of these events that are carried in the most immediate exchanges prior to front page attention.
i’ve been trying to follow the communications regarding a navy vessel bringing relief materials to georgia. accompanying them was an armed navy vessel. there was a lot of exchanges made regarding which port to enter, one was still in control of russian forces, how close should the armed ship be, what was the relief ship really carrying and so on. as well as the rhetoric by our lame duck president and that of putin and medvedev, the responses of ambassadors and other officials in associated countries.
this type of information became really relevant when england sunk that ship in the falklands war. to make a really informed judgment i think you have to start analyzing the most immediate rhetoric and stay on top of it and compare it to new information, instead of waiting around for a president or prime minister to tell you what to think.
oh… apologies for the diatribe then. i wonder if there is a hotforpolitcs.com?
this is why an attached forum would be a good idea. :X
forum attached to what?
attached to this site.
for what it’s worth …
I keep track of a few sites (via rss) for alternative opinion and info.
e.g.
http://exiledonline.com/
http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/
http://english.aljazeera.net/
http://www.eff.org/ (tracking crackdown on sw, comms and internet)
http://www.antiwar.com/
http://www.iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/tiki-index.php
http://www.russiatoday.com/en (only recently found this when looking for info on Georgia invasion of S.Ossetia)
thanks, some cool sources. i’m probably a slightly larger dot on the homeland security map of evil doers now. yay!
The text of communications between governments is hard to come by. Pretty much we’re limited to public statements reported in the media.
well yes, that is what i meant. i wasn’t proposing that one poke around putin’s personal documents or bush’s crayon drawings to better grasp current events. but many of those public statements are limited to sound bites or ignored completely by media and/or the public. one needs to take initiative and do some research.
It so happens I’m in daily contact with someone in the TSA .. i’ll send her your name and picture.
{emails “buzzword” and pic of audiophile chimp}
been there done that
i’m trying to get her to circulate your picture at all airports.
I don’t think she’s going for it.
Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.
Cute Cashy!
Underneath Chuck Norris’ beard, is not a chin… but another FIST!
The cure for cancer is in Chuck Norris’ tears… too bad he never cries.
During his childhood, there was a boy who hit a girl in school. CHUCK got angry. CHUCK dealt with the boy. That boy’s name… Stephen Hawking.
Hey Hotforwords:
I’d like to know the origin of scantily-clad.
thank you!
Marina, what’s the etymology of the word “eloquence”?
(as demo’ed in this vid [Miss Teen USA South Carolina 2007 with Subtitles])
ELOQUENCE is Latin ELOQENTIA “easiness of speech”.
The word can be cut E-LOQUENT-IA :
E = EX = OUT + LOQUENT = SPEAKING (past participle) + IA = NESS (suffix). If I dare say it would be OUTSPEAKINGNESS in English.
A slow motion train wreck.?
give her some credit. when i first saw it, a few months ago, i was like, wtf? but i contemplated this. after all, it’s not a “miss thought” contest or something, it’s “miss teen.”
one of germany’s best soccer players once answered a question with “it’s like chess, only without dice” … ummm … okay, dude … same thing. it doesn’t really matter to me if he knows how to play chess or provide a correct analysis of a sentence. he’s a soccer player. he’s supposed to score goals. that’s what he does, and he’s pretty fucking good at it. — that’s knowledge, too. even intelligence. you get the ball, you got like half a second to decide what to do. regarding soccer, his brain works very fast. would yours in this situation?
i was thinking along those lines …
.. but then i thought: meh .. what the hell .. it’s funny … and isn’t that what’s most important when posting on the internet?
Well, in all fairness, they have a question and answer segment so that the competition will, in part, be decided by the ability to think on one’s feet and formulate a good and poised answer on the fly. She failed miserably, but I think the way she was treated afterwards was abysmal. She was a 16 year old girl who fucked up a beauty pageant. She ought to have been able to walk away from it.
I was wondering where the word punk came from(as an insult
). Hot 4 words must investigate this!!!
@ 864 and looking good.
#2 @ 571 and running on a flat tire in the dust.
#3 @ 528 with gas can in hand.
Viva Las Vegas!!
Gee, Marina could headline her own one girl show there.
HotForWords Does Vegas.
(I was thinking a word show not some porn crap)
don’t bet on it .. someone mentioned that the winner is selected (somehow) from the top three highest votes. … seems plausible.
Correct, the top 3 voted-for videos enter the finals from which a winner is picked by the sponsors of the contest based on style, originality, skill, and humor.
Horse – 2.9 hours
Donkey – 3.1 hours
Sheep – 3.8 hours
Cow – 3.9 hours
Asiatic elephant – 3.1
Pilot whale – 5.3
Dead Fly 24.00 hours
Hi Marina,
I love your lessons!! Keep it up!
I was also wondering where the word “voluptuous”, came from.
It turned up in your “Hot Synonyms” video.
Please investigate!!!
what does tis mean it poppedup on a pop up andi havent been aqble to find out what it means Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis it has 45 letters and ive never heard it being spokn
Is the love letter contest over yet?
Holy Murphy’s Law! Can someone check the FAQ on the contest site to verify that the contest has been extended by 2 week? Link is above.
It was supposed end this Sat, but it shows a new ending date of Sept 13.
which is an additional two weeks.
I checked FAQ and the Rules.
It now looks like :-
Upload period : 21 July -> 7 Sept
View Phase: 8 Sept -> 13 Sept
I guess, they want more videos uploaded?
Thanks for the FAQ check koalabear.
It’s weird. They have just under 60 submissions. The videos with the highest views all have the lowest votes. Out of the 50+ some videos, only 5 videos have votes over 100.
koalabear ,No they see you guys hitting the site really hard so they are going to run with it. Its all about promoting the movie to increase ticket sales.
Only one way to look at this …
Two more weeks for Marina to slaughter the opposition.
New target – 3000 votes? 30,000? How many subscribers does she have?
Yep
Another couple of weeks for Marina’s army, to kick serious butt.
This means war, this is Sparta…. not giving up now…
I would really like Marina to win, but I would bet a $1 on her wining. Im very interested in seeing who wins this contest. If she doesn’t win then my theory will hold true that the winner is always picked randomly on marketing contests.
huh? why?
I guess a lot of the people who view the videos don’t care to vote.
It’s not the fastest web site on the planet.
Marina’s army of supporters are like “fire ants”! Point us in the right direction and we will not stop.
I even recruited Marina’s sister to start voting…I’m recruiting more neigbors… this is Sparta!!!
This is Sparta!!!
I liked this one.
but you do realize that 299 out of the 300 spartan warriors got killed, right?
aLx, your going to catch some shit again for pointing that out.
yeah, i’m the biggest fan on here. umm. get it? fan? ambiguous? i made a joke! yay!
and you said “yay!” you must have some new meds.
actually, one too little. don’t worry, though, gonna pick up a new prescription today. did it scare you? my bad. i got carried away or something.
yeah, but “yay!” is frightening when any adult uses it. it usually means ones rational thought is being overwhelmed with euphoria. terribly frightening when combined with weapons… speaking of 300.
well, it wasn’t combined with weapons.
right, you were just frightening. had you said that holding a machete and a dandy hat… terribly frightening.
This is Lesbos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WyafqUoKak&feature=related
The site sucks for speed. And having to register for what really is a throw-away promo site to be able to vote – I can see why there are not a lot of votes for anyone.
PS I did register, and voted for Marina repeatedly. I just didn’t use my real name, address, age, or anything else that the marketing guys wanted with the registration data.
hutchiee, Your a very smart man! Your one of those people that marketing people hate. But since there are so few of you that think like this, marketing writes off about 2% to 14% of invalid data in the price of the sale of that information. To this day it amazes me how companies can sell a list of contact data to other companies that would be interested in the type of people who would watch this movie. It almost looks like movie are made just for marketing and not for entertainment.Oops I should have said that. Now there are some men in black suits standing at the door of my yacht wanting to take me away.
This is the second time I have entered a contest and they’ve decided to extend it. With Ocean Potion I had 150,000 views vs. 4,000 views for everybody else combined.. they extended the contest, someone made a video last minute and they won. Charlestrippy just made a video, so be prepared for him to pass me.
Who’s Trippy… found him & watched 2 vids, one about seezing while driving??? One about, ah, I forget. no more… Reminds me of Spicoli. He may get a bunch of votes, but they”l fade, at about 4:20.
Yeah I liked your Ocean Potion entry too, winners don’t always win, that’s what makes it interesting, huh?
Well FOUL on so many levels.
The extention sucks.
Charlestrippy video generally sucks except for a cameo appearance.
Talk about plagiarizing the idea.
With a poor copy of the idea.
Talk about stealing video inserts.
And his final product sucks. Drinking and pissing.
FOUL FOUL FOUL
What happened with the Best Weekend Ever contest? Your running away with it.
Marina,
Maybe not so bad.
Charlestrippy submission violates the contest rules.
(b) the video must be the submitting entrant’s original, previously unpublished work and not contain any third party copyrighted material;
With his copying parts of your video he has violated the rules.
I voted for you.
The rules say the contest phases go through 9/7 and 9/13. Were the rules different before?
Can you show us the video of Ocean Potion for the one’s that missed it?
Never mind Miss M Karl posted after I did so I know you deleted it. Thanks anyway.
Ocean Potion??
What have I missed ?
Hi koalabear, errr, hmmmm, sensitive subject. Marina entered a contest a few months back for a suntan lotion product. As you know, Marina makes the best videos in the world. It was a 31 seconds packed video with excellent storyline, execution and production without words. I think there are no copies on the web. I have a copy as it is an example of excellent movie making.
Here is a dialog about that topic few videos back regarding that video.
Hi love your lessons!!! I was wondering if u knew where the word “tottie” originated.
Thxs .xxxx
i think you should do the worlds camel toe and then show us yours as an example
Nice try
Hey Sexxybeast7, come on now that’s no way to ask Marina that kind of question now is it
Please be nice with the questions, ok? Thanks for understanding. 
you first
Just voted at “Best weekend ever”, Marina is ahead 843 votes to 571.
She should make the finals and win the whole kit and caboodle.
I understand the “kit” bit but where does “caboodle” come from?
Is it like “canoodle”?
REQUEST:
I was just checkin’ out the “What is your favorite day of the week” poll when suddenly curiosity strikes. Whats the origin of the whole 7-day week anyways?
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday…..
What do the names of the days of the week mean?
Is this same 7-day cycle used all over the world?
So yeah! Hook it us with some knowledge girl!
Interesting, but not solved it seems, “…borrowed from the Arabic word, which was most likely of African origin?” Sounds like there is more to investigate to me, or do we have a dead end here?
The problem is that Arabic زَرَافَة ZURAFA is certainly a Semitic root as old as the night.
When words are “pure” roots/stems it’s impossible to search further unless you have a time machine. Do you know that Language is certainly as old as humanity : 100 000 to 1 000 000 000 years old !
Let’s take a European animal like the dog. DOG is certainly mysterious but what about HOUND that was used maybe 3000 years again by Germanic ancestors…
I can understand why her comment sounded less definitive now. Maybe we can narrow it down to a specific African click…
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/african-click-language-holds-key-to-origins-of-earliest-human-speech-591505.html
Hello Marina, did you see the latest entry into the best Weekend Ever contest? Charles Trippy.
Click on the Recently posted link on that site. There are two “What Weekend?” videos. Don’t click on the video that shows Video Conversion in Process. He munged that one and it may lock your browser.
He is emulating your video, crying to sxephil’s show and colab’ng with your phone call. He is attempting a coup from 5th position with 94 votes. He already burned 86 votes on the munged upload.
Friends, we need to stay in first place.
Hi ya,
I was wondering about the origins of the word: cleavage.
can you help me
from you dear stundent
word request
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
The horse sleeps for approximately 2 hours a day.
WORD REQUEST
CLAIRVOYANCE
There is a test for that.
I’ve got a secret…what is it?
Word request : Metaphor
It’s greek META-PHOR- = TRANS-PORT-
Example : THE SUN = THE EYE OF THE SKY : it’s a transportation of one meaning to another in fact.
209 !!!
Hello my dear teacher.
I thought you might be interested to know that there are two words for Giraffe in farsi (the language that people speak in Iran and parts of Afghanistan and Tajikistan) . One of them is “zarafe” which is so close to Giraffe and the other one is “shotorgavpalang” which literary means “camle-cow-pard”
I also like to let you know that I like your new videos with wide lenses better. Now I can see your bare feet as well and this is a lot sexier. (don’t get too confident though)
hi marina!!!! i love your channel!!! can you do the origin of “pun” as in….you can watch marina on the boobtube…uh…no “pun” intended…oh oh…i guess that would be another word…”boobtube” where the heck did that come from?!?!?!
filibuster
I just love the word, and would love to have you tell us about its origin…
It’s dutch VRIJ BUITER = FREE PLUNDERER
I was just talking to my mom and we were talking about oranges. And I was wondering: In English, why are the fruit and the color the same? Is it simoly that oranges are named for their color?
Thanks,
Jennie
Marina has now broken through the elusive 800 barrier and is standing at 802 votes.
bestweekendevercontest.com
Request for a word: Boob Tube
I’ve seen people call the TV a boob tube, even though a TV has nothing to do with boobs and tubes.
Cathode ray tubes? The boobs who watch TV?
Thank you to all who voted for Marina. It’s a new voting day (Thur). Three more nail biting voting days left (Thur, Fri, Sat). Going for the gold.
I would like to request a word
The word is: Diva
I know its a modern twist on the word Prima Donna but where and how did it originate?
Thank you Marina
keep up the good work
I’m an AVID fan of the word DIVA. Even if it’s scarlet.
An animal that sleeps less than 2 hours a day…. hmmmm…. A foreign correspondent for the TV.
seals sleep very little
BiLL
Never heard that one before. I once had a young (not full-grown) seal spend the night in my bathroom, I was rescuing it from a storm. It slept with me on the floor, even climbing-up on me & cuddling on top of me so I was stuck there the entire night. Sea World came the next morning to get it. The guy had a long pole with a noose around it, I told him “No way!” and I carried the seal to the cage on the truck like you would a small child or pet–GREAT animal, like a dog with flippers. But more to point you see seals sleeping all over the place. Unless you’re talking about Navy Seals…
If you want to talk similartities to animals. The giraffe looks like it has the same physique as a Camel(Stature), Horse(Shape) and Leopard(The spots).
The Arabs took over North Africa, so they brought Arabic. It’s from a dialect of Arabic.
Dialects work like this:
When I say Dog, I pronounce the o as aw in saw. In the midwest they would say Dawg aw prounounced like the “Aoooo” in a wolf howling. In Manhattan they would say DwOOg.
The simple way to explain dialects in Arabic is with the word Abdullah(Slave of God). In one region it’s pronounce Abdillah, in another it’s Abdallah.
SHE IS NOW AT 781
hi miss
i would like to know what are the origins of the word -agent-
and if you could search for another one -proctal-( i think i know though but i would like you to search it please . thank you
If my information is correct the SHARK never sleeps because he has something like two separate brains. When one brain does not work the other does.
The necessity of sleeping is in fact a strange phenomenon but, Marina, can you ask your uncle, DR POPOV, to explain us how he explains this necessity ?
They did find caves in deep water where the water keeps woving so the shark can sleep with out dying.
If a shark keeps still too long it could suffocate, because it needs the water to move over its gills to breath.
I ment water keeps Moving not
Woving water
makes me sea sick.
Chief is ever so honored to hold the “teacher’s pet” position. You shant be disappointed. Chief
ps. if I had a teacher like you in my schooling days I may never have wanted to graduate!
!!!!!CONGRATS!!!!!
Hey Chief, thumbs up
You’re right to come here & study with the best.
Another recipient of the coveted
Teacher’s Pet Award given the
old school Marina sexy sexy…
Was this you first time?
Thought I remembered you having
copped a mention for a word request…
Congratulations, Chief!
“Hail to the Chief, if you don’t he’ll have to kill you / He is the chief, so you’d better watch your step, you bastards.”
– ref. the film My Fellow Americans
I feel fortunate to have classmates such as you all. HotForWords is a phenomenon not to be forgotten soon. Chief
There are quite a few chiefs in Kansas City.
I would also like to know about the words
‘Nymph’ and ‘Notorious’
Thank you, my dear Teach!!!
I think ‘nymph’ comes from Greek Mythology, as maidens or lesser goddesses of mountains, forests, lakes, etc. But I could be wrong on whether it goes that way far back or not.
You weren’t confusing ‘nymph’ for ‘nympho’, were you?
Hello my dear Teacher!
I would like to know why someone would say
‘Go Fly A Kite’ when they are upset with somebody?
I know you can find tne answer.
Mijj and iamme097 were discussing which came 1st… the chicken or the egg! Allow me to get into it, and at the end I will cleverly request 2 terms.
Do you guys even realize that in the egg is an actual chicken, instead of your morning omlet?!
)
Also now, the problem is reduced to this… what came 1st? The chicken or the egg shell?
Well… since an egg shell is made of keratin, a substance only found in living organisms… the answer becomes obvious and the problem simplistic. [but if your a redneck, this will do too: `dem darn alienz planted the eggs in the ground, and they grew into Crispy Strips]
So why did that chicken cross the road then? Because it was dead serious on not winding-up on the day’s menu.
Actually the chicken or biddy is not in the egg if the hen hasn’t been fertilized by a rooster. The only thing in the egg is the yolk and the white surrounding membrane. So when animals developed first on this earth mammals and reptiles gave birth to their offspring by different means “ie” live birth or eggs.
But to us rednecks we believe that eggs come from mushrooms that was planted by Aliens. When a mushroom pushes through the ground the top of it is called the egg in which we collect and fry or scramble in the pan. So there. That explains the origin of what came first chicken or the egg. I got that from Goober.
My homework answer is ME. I only need about 8 hr. a week
Hi again hotforwords! I would like to update my phrase request, i now have 2 that i would love for you to research for me!
Through thick and Thin
When the cows come home
Thanks in advance again, and keep up the great videos!
Seems that, at any moment and anywhere on the planet, 2/3 of cows are homesick and therefore face northward. By the time the cows do come home, the glaciers will have pretty melted already, and Al Gore will be skinny dipping with the Inuits.
As far as I remember, the one “animal” that doesn’t get much sleep EVER is… that grumpy drummer from the Muppets. LOL
hey hotforwords! great video as usual, and heres one thing for you to ponder, what is the origin of the phrase
Through Thick and Thin
? That is my request for today! Thanks and keep up the great work!!
Hi, im marco gonzalez
my word request is first sight love. because thats what i feel when i saw your video!
Thx bye
HI! I just registered here, and I want to request my first word. I was wondering what the origin of the word MUG is. It refers to the cup of course, but also a persons face. Thanks, love your vids.
Also, when people get married, they begat mugwats.
Warren has told me:
.. anyone have any links?
http://www.hotforwords.com/category/interviews/
thanks, mate.
Hi Marina!
I heard that dolphins don’t sleep at all until they are a few weeks old!
I was also wondering where the word “-Quack-” refering to an incompetent doctor comes from.
Thanks from your favorite student!
oh, that’s an interesting one – i second that.
… and is it only generally applied to doctors?
Hi Marina,
Great video about the Camel and the Leopard, i’ve got this burning question about a songtext called “Tainted Love” written by Edd Cobb
Gloria Jones sang it in 1964, I remember only the Soft Cell version being the first one, and as a child wondering what Tainted means. Sounds like Painted.. but why would anyone paint Love?
(btw your accent reminds me of a special Lady i’ve met years ago, she originally came from the north-western part of China, don’t ever try to hide it..;)
Leon P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ne4X6ucn_Q
well koalas are definitely out of the picture. Do sharks and fish sleep a lot. Insmoniacs don’t sleep at all. How about insomnia?
A word I am requesting is engineering or engineer. I’m currently studying mechanical engineering and was just curious. Thanks.
i checked the french for “engineer” -> “ingénieur “.
my wild random guess (because that’s what i like) is:
I bet it has something to do with ‘one who is employed to be “ingenius”‘.
I can’t think of any animal that requires so little sleep.
However, I do have a word request after watching the Democratic National Convention – Pander!
I am probably just a masochist, but I have been watching all of the convention this week and will do so next week as well. I was hoping that the Democrats was expand upon their platform with some specifics, not just their normal platitudes and pandering.
I have class tomorrow night, so I am recording it to be able to watch the entire thing.
I am a Republican and will probably enjoy their convention next week a great deal more.
Still all style and no specifics on Barack Obama.
Hi M,
Not sure the animal who get the least amount of sleep, but lions get a lot like 22 hrs a day. If I had to guess I would say flamingo; stand up sleeping is hard enough, but on long leg come on… Got to be short sleep time there.
#1 Student
Marina is in first position with 767 votes by moose and squirrel.
Do sharks have the ability to actually sleep? I thought they didn’t have eye lids.
They have a thin film over their eye that acts as an eyelid. I’m not sure whether or not this actually helps them go to sleep or whether they have something else as well. Though you don’t need eyelids to sleep.
the film is just to protect their eyes when they atack something.
Interesting.
ok .. time for a music break [youtube: common people]
[youtube: better live version]
for yanks who can’t understand english from the english
either:
[Archie Comics story version of lyrics]
or
[vid: Captain Kirk sings 'Common People']
Check this out, talk about dog days…
I usually make it to the end of the meal before I fall asleep, not always though.
I’m ok, as long as nobody scares me.
those dogs – that’s ‘orrible.
lol .. fainting goats tho .. they’re crazy.
while we’re at it … beware of [the yawning hippo]
Hey Billy, how you doin? I’m doing good. I got my raise at work today and my cubbies are 33 above 500. Bring on the Phillies! I think I’ve been doing 2 much homework lately so I’m due for a break, at least for a while. That was a lovely outfit Marina had on! I hope you and everybody else have a nice labor day weekend! Cheers!
Hey labatt78… I’m good , but tired as well.
You got a raise…cool, do you get more work to do because you get more money?
You’re going to school too? summer time?huh You still surprise me…
I agree on Marina’s outfit, ideal for a hot day. She looked cool while the dog struggled to stay cool on the tile by the door.
Sleep related & human, I think… Inside the lab of Dr. Frank Yakazuki. Sorry ’bout that.
Noticed you like a little musical break every now & then, (loved the Shatner, oh Bill..lol).
Do you prefer Distant Dreamer/a>or
Dreamcatcher?
yeh .. i feel dirty and ashamed for posting pic links and music links – this is a words site – but i do it anyway! Please, Marina!! Forgive me!!
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Inside steve’s mind = LOL! – that’s brilliant .. added to my favorites so i can chase up the others.
“I’d like for you to have this job .. if you do we can have dirty sex.”
.. without the offer of dirty sex, though. 
I had a job interview like that once
and .. finally, a resume that everyone can believe!
—
The duffy one was the better of the two, i think .. the other one was too mournful.
… if you like the sound of a lady beltin’ out a song, here’s [Siouxie Sioux]
(i’ve put this link up before, so you *may* already have seen it)
Hi hot for words, i have always wondered the Meaning of the word “GRINGO”. so can you please look that up and tell me wut does that means, and i will be very happy
Thank You.