Morse is low tech .. you need to be able to fall back onto a low tech alternative, especially for emergency situations. It would be a disaster to abandon it.
Doesn’t anyone read other comments before posting?
t doesn’t stand for anything. It was originally SOE but E in Morse code is only one dit. They replaced the E with and S because it was easier to here in Morse code. Three dits, threee dah’s and three dits was very easy and quick to send in Morse code. The terms “Save Our Ship” and “Save Our Souls” were adopted as a bakcronym to help people remeber the letters SOS.
I would imagine that it stood for nothing at first, because three dots, three dashes, three dots? It is easy to remember, so it’s coincidence that we would think it is “Save Our Souls” or the like.
Hi M, so it’s deffo save our Souls….nothing else matters, a ship goes down, stuck in a dessert, plane falls from the sky, lost at sea with a bunch of Tiger Sharks, bang in the middle of a jungle, mozzies nipping away, leeches sucking you dry – so what you gonna do, where you gonna stay, who you gonna call??? – be — it’s pure optomism, fight, kick some serious butt, in what ever happens, no problems, only solutions……so SOS ( Seriously Only Solutions, so save our souls ) – am waffeling on again so signing out…..knowingly that it’s all good – hey M, you Rock, awsome lessons, awsome you, awsome HFW’s
actually, S.O.S has a variety of meanings for example: save our skins, save our surviviors, save our submarine. but that was just a few wxamples there are way more.
I used to have some pet rat coons. A male and a female. I called them Chipper and Dixie. I raised them since they were six weeks old. You could play with like any pet.
Is everyone still voting for their favorite video on Miss M verses Danny boy. Also don’t forget the best week end ever video.
v v o tttttttttttt eeeeee
v v o o tt ee
v o tt eeeeee
Hey, Marina! i was just wondering, what the word kiss comes from. because i ave done some research but i couldn’t find anything useful. maybe you could help me out.
I would also like to see “French Kiss” and perhaps why Europeans kiss one another on both cheeks in a greeting, while we “New-Worlders” shake hands, while our fellow students in the East bow when greeting.
*IF* it stands for anything, I would say it must simply be “Stop Other Signals”
However, I think it’s just easily sent and easily recognized brief code to indicate distress, initially meaning nothing, but acquiring “backronyms” as it became popularly known.
Just a SWAG, but it’s MY SWAG, and I’m sticking to it
Videos are too slow to download for me to watch this time of day. So I’m going to try again another time. But based on the answers posted, people are basically saying 3 different answers. So I’ll just throw out a new answer just for the hell of it and not care if I get it wrong…
S.O.S. is sometimes (erroneously) referred to as “Save Our Souls”. However, the CORRECT answer is – S.O.S. stands for “Nothing”.
Usually, anything done in ‘threes’ means it’s an emergency. If one is lost in the woods, desert, ocean, etc., one can and should signal with something in “threes”, for instance, blowing on a whistle three times, flashing a light three times (either by using a flashlight, or reflections from a mirror), building three signal fires, building a large triangle out of logs (building three signal fires in a triangular shape will also help), etc.
In this case (and as you’ve already presented), the letter “S” is three dots ( . . . ) and the letter “O” is three dashes ( – - – ) in Morse Code. Since these letters are in the “emergency standard” or “threes”, they fit the ‘requirement’ for emergencies. The second “S” ( . . . ) was probably included to balance it, as well as making yet another structure of “three”.
SOS doesn’t stand for anything. It’s not an acronym. It was chosen because it’s easily remembered and recognized as rendered in Morse Code. The spoken emergency code, “Mayday,” was chosen because it sounds like “M’Aider,” which, in French, means “Help Us!”
Buck is the adult male of some animals such as deer, antelope, or rabbit. but people also use the word buck or bucks to describe money I have $20 bucks. or I have a buck insted of the word dollar. so I was wondering where that came from.
OK, enough of these innuendos! Fudge is an American invention, a mixture of sugar, butter, milk and coacoa, which are baked into a great dessert called chocolate fudge. If it weren’t so fattening, I’d consume it more often. (Now if I say it tastes good, will more questions appear?) seesixcm6
re: “does anyone know if a history of video views is kept and available?”
Hi mijj,
Go to Marina’s YT site http://www.youtube.com/hotforwords
Click on the Videos link below the HotForWords logo.
There you will see 14 pages of videos. On page 14 is the first set of 15 videos. One of the lowest views is the Thank You video from one year ago.
The video entitled antidisestablishmentarianism has one of the largest views
Marina mentioned a few videos back, that video appears either as 3rd or 4th on the list when you do a Google search on that word.
That video has 4,249,095 views.
ooo – well … i was thinking more of a set of historical information kept by YouTube.
I think i’ll email em .!! .. maybe Marina gets emailed a set of figures each week or something ..
… anyhoo … it’d be interesting to graph the growth of interest.
See how bumpy it is … is it a steady increase or is it escalating of flattening? … plus .. how good will a prediction made from the info be? … etc etc .. (an excuse to see if i can dust off my stats abilities – or is it forever dead?)
– on the other hand … it may be a dead duck .. if the info is a struggle to get, i’ll drop it.
… except .. info is accessible by the uploader only .
YouTube Insight is YouTube’s external facing analytics and reporting product that enables anyone with a YouTube account to view detailed statistics about the videos that they upload to the site. This first version charts video views on an interactive time line and map, allowing users to drill down into different geographic regions and see the viewing activity in those regions over selected time periods. It also allows users to compare the relative popularity of their videos in a given region to all other videos in that region.
To see Insights on your own videos, log on to YouTube and click on the “Insight” button under “Account” > “My Videos” > “Insight.”
Over the next few weeks we’ll be launching new features and additional analytics including viewer demographics, how viewers are engaging with videos (playback length, ratings, comments) and a breakdown of how viewers are discovering videos (e.g. search, email, embeds etc.).
I was wondering were superserviceable came from and what it really means, i read that it means “offering unwanted services” but if super means like great why is unwanted services? Investigate meh word
mizu, funny how people gain knowledge from people and never ask how they learned that information. Maybe I should start a rumor that the world is going to be suck up in a big black hole when LHC goes online. Then I’ll back it up with that I read on the internet. Oh wait the darn thing is already online. Well so much for that false rumor. People are just to lazy to research the rumors, and go around blabbing their mouths off as they believe the rumor to be fact just because so and so said it was.
It DID, Captain:-) I was there when it hppened, and I’ll vouch for you by referring to my post from yesterday BTW, they must have turned it off long enough for me to return to this dimension
‘Tis getting boring now, can you just tell everyone it mean nothing at all.
Common belief is that SOS stands for “Save Our Ship” or “Save Our Souls” or “Stop Other Signals” or “Stomp Out Stupidity” or “Sale on Socks.” (Not really, I made those last two up.) In fact, SOS in not an acronym and it doesn’t represent anything at all…. I’ll say it as many times as i have too
Your result for The Beautiful Faces Test …
Mila Kunis
64% Eyes, 33% Nose, 42% Mouth, 55% SexyCute
You seem to prefer big eyes, smallish other features, and cute women. Altho they sexed her up for the Maxim shoot, Mila’s definitely a cutey, in a unique, Eastern European way. She plays Jackie on the very popular ‘That 70s Show’ as well as voicing Meg Griffin on ‘Family Guy’. If you scored in this category and don’t think Mila’s that great, Natalie Portman’s another choice. Personally, I think Mila’s adorable.
# You scored 50% on Eyes, higher than 23% of your peers.
# 20/100 You scored 33% on Nose, higher than 20% of your peers.
# 44/100 You scored 48% on Lips, higher than 44% of your peers.
# 76/100 You scored 65% on SexyCute, higher than 76% of your peers.
You seem to like small features and a sense of cuteness. Jessica Alba is pretty tiny, and so are her features (altho her lips almost count as big). She can be hot, but even in roles like Nancy the Stripper in Sin City, she has an inherent cuteness that can’t be hidden. Not an Alba fan? There are others who fit the bill.
well that was pretty accurate,
The SOS inquiry was good, as I always thought it meant “Save Our Ship.” My dictionary research turned up little, until I found this definiton:
Source: Online Etymology Dictionary
SOS
1910, from International Morse code letters, chosen arbitrarily as being easy to transmit and difficult to mistake. Not an acronym for “save our ship” or anything else. Won out over alternate suggestion C.Q.D., which is said to mean “come quickly, distress,” or “CQ,” general call for alerting other ships that a message follows, and “D” for danger. SOS is the telegraphic distress signal only; the oral equivalent is mayday.
The question and answer game reminded me of one I discovered on comedian, Steve Martin’s website, when I found an example of the music I enjoy. Perhaps something like this game would be good at your site.
On this anniversary of 9/11, I wonder if FBI agent, John Patrick O’Neill’s SOS calls are now viewed differently at the bureau.
SOS has no real meaning. It is a quick and easy way to send a distress signal via Morse Code by German signalers. However, Save our Ship and Save our Souls have been used as short sayings to remember the distress call.
I’m working today @ “S.O.S. Automotive Ltd.”. In1985 I wanted to start up my business as “Save on Service” but was not allowed to use that name because of an existing fuel sales company called “Save on Gas” so my second choise was what I used. I also run a Co. called S.O.S. Tire & Wheel. As a kid, in boy scouts, I was taught that SOS stood for save our souls. That being said, what it really was, was an internationally recognized distress signal, originating in morse code. I understand that morse code was put to rest a few years ago as a communication system & became totally passe’, therefore the answer to the game is #6… Marina’s question was, what does it mean, not, what is the origin?
Hmm, that’s a good one. My dad was a U.S. Marine, therefore, every time my mom would make hamburger or chipped beef and gravy over toast, SOS, meant we were having sh** on a shingle.
Marina, appropriate lesson for 9-11.
Number 1, Save Our Souls.
Marina, did you know that radio was once called a Marconi and radio operators were once called Marconi operators?
Do you know why?
And why do we call it a radio now?
I think that two answers are correct: “save our souls” and “save our ship”. The choice of the acronym “SOS” was made because it was easy to recognize, even if you are not familiarized with Morse. Another signal had been introduced before (CQD: come quick, distress!) but it didn’t survive. One of the first ships where the “SOS” has been used was the Titanic, in 1912.
Another famous signal is the message “mayday”, which comes from the French expression: “Venez m’aider!” (which means: “come and help me!”).
I wish one day Marina will come and save my soul if I send a SOS.
The option 6 is the correct one. The “help” is just used as SOS in morse because it’s easier to type and easier to understand (it’s just . . . _ _ _ . . .)
It doesn’t stand for anything. It was originally SOE but E in Morse code is only one dit. They replaced the E with and S because it was easier to here in Morse code. Three dits, threee dah’s and three dits was very easy and quick to send in Morse code. The terms “Save Our Ship” and “Save Our Souls” were adopted as a bakcronym to help people remeber the letters SOS.
BTW Marina, I have an ax to grind and a bone to pick. I am head over heels in love with HotForWords but you’re causing me to cry cocodile tears because you haven’t used any of my phrases. I will plight thee my troth if you will use something I have requested. I have also placed a picture of an elephant facing the door but I guess that’s just on old wives tale.
I got a page of garbage today like you did yesterday, I couldn’t get back to the SOS lesson. It did let me in some of the other lessons when I got the home page.
Word request or more like a number request: why in the USA 911 is used as the emergency number. Did the phone company reserve this number along time ago? The phone company gave us 411, 811, 511, ect.
It’s 5:41AM,I’m tired and I don’t have a clue! Maybe SOS means I have to work in the rain and need a way to get help out of it! I’m too old for that rediculous crap. I think I’ll grab my shower then drive my own truck so I have my own tools and can *leave* whenever I think it passes the point of dedication and enters the realm of stupidity.
It stands for Save our Souls, as the soul is connected to the body and out at sea the were in danger of dying. Hence the expression “many souls were lost at sea”.
Hello Marina,
These games are fun.
I think that you’re getting very tricky with these games.
Stretch seems to get lucky by trying to out guess you so that’s what I’ll do with this game and guess #6.
When are you going to some experimenting with the Green Screen?
Maybe you could get a small desk and do a late show look with a city of your choice in the background once in awhile.
Maybe have a video request or side-kick of the week/month from someone in your talented audience that would make it seem like they were sitting next to you.
Hmm.. what’s with that term- sidekick?
That sounds unusual now that I see it typed out.
Thank you, Marina
The answer is number 6. The three dots, followed by three dashes , followed by three dots, was selected because it was simple, easy to transmit and distinctive. At a later date, someone turned it into an acronym, probably a sailor since it was primarily used by mariners.
Popular accounts At the second Berlin Radiotelegraphic Conference of 1906, portray the adoption of “SOS” as being derived from “SOE,” which the Germans had used as a general inquiry call. These accounts suggest there was objection because the final letter of “SOE” was a single dot, hard to copy in adverse conditions. The letter “S” was substituted accounts say, for three dots, three dashes and three dots could not be misinterpreted.
I believe he was making a pun on gaff, which is an iron hook or a boat-hook used for extending one’s reach in order to grab hold of mooring lines, piers, jetties or for landing fish.
Hello mudder. Hello fodder.
My best friend is Harry Potter.
Hogwarts school is entertaining
But learning magic can be very draining!
(Lyrics by Spike Rowling)
All the Warlocks, hate the wizards.
And for dinner, deep fried lizards.
Dumbledorf is entertaining
And he says we’ll have some fun
if it stops raining
(with apologies to Allen Sherman)
On a lighter note, what is the origin of “scrimshaw” and the related word “scrimshander?”
Scrimshaw was used metaphorically in a National Geographic Adventure article to describe a chaotic network of caribou tracks after the annual migration up north. According to my dictionary, scrimshaw is “any of various carved or engraved articles made originally by American whalers usually from baleen or whale ivory.” The person who creates scrimshaw is called a scrimshander.
First, there’s the math. Only a very small fraction of women die with their virginity intact. And even if every woman died a virgin (which would put homo sapiens on the fast track to extinction), the ratio of women to men is about the same as the ratio of McCain supporters to Obama supporters. So where would the other 71 virgins come from? Are they recycled born-again virgins? (If they’re not recycled, what do deflowered virgins do for the rest of Eternity?)
Okay, forget the math. Let’s assume somehow there really are 72 virgins ready to give it up. Eternity is a very long time! If a guy decides to ration it out to, say, one virgin every 10 years, then after 720 years, his pleasure bed is no longer virgin territory. Eventually, those 720 years will be merely a sliver of time in his eternal lease on heaven. Okay, how about one virgin every one million years? Patience may be a virtue, but after 72 million years, the harem has dwindled to absolute zero. Is it posssible to be patiently abstinent, when there is absolutely no hope—ever? What virtue is there now?
Okay, let’s sum it up. This guy died and hit the virgin jackpot. Yippee! But, well, now he’s broke. No more virgins! And he faces billions and trillions and gazillions of millennia with nothing to do but moan and groan. And wish his soul had gone to the so that he could have spent Time Eternal in the lascivious company of Hell’s whores. And the good news is that in Hell, the brothel never closes.
P.S.–For some reason, the system would not allow me to make of this a single post. Too long? Too many red flags for a single post (words like Hell, whores, virgins, brothel? This comment is actually a reply to Fianchetto 1, whose post can be found below.
Your essence is in a place of crystal clear light, surrounded by a feeling of love. Sorry this is all I got, since I have had near death experience it’s hard for me to come up with a funny answer.
But if you would like I will put a box of condoms in your coffin.
Of course next time you take the Sex Purity Test, SPT, you will have to check yes for acts of necrophilia.
Who to say the 72 virgins are girls, maybe its 72 computer geeks guys who never even kissed a girl.
These are the guys who scored very, very innocent on the Sexual Purity Test.
God likes to put a twist on life; like a Twilight Zone episode.
You’ll will have to wait until you die to find out what heaven is like.
In the meantime have sex, here on earth.
If you’re lucky you might find one virgin.
If you speak to anyone who has had a near death experience they may tell you that when you die you no longer have a physical body, you have no appendages, no hand, no arms, no dick.
So if these suicide bombers and terrorist think they’re in heaven with 72 virgins they are not……. those idiots are in HELL!
Everyone knows that Paradise is not up in the clouds but here on Earth.
I haven’t counted them, but there looks to be approximately 72 Islands in the Virgin Islands chain, which is known as America’s Caribbean Paradise.
According to Wickedpedia, the Virgin Islands were named by Christopher Columbus, “Santa Ursula y las Once Mil Vírgenes”, shortened to Las Vírgenes, after Saint Ursula and her 11,000 virgins, so there should be plenty of virgins to go around, if one considers all the other countries sending their women to the Virgin Islands for recycling.
I also heard it stood for Sailor Over Seas when I was a kid, but in reality it doesn’t mean a thing. So I have to pick #6 for the answer.
My Dad is a Ham radio user and he told me that it doesn’t mean anything. It was just an easy way to call for help.
The key is it is a simple signal in Morse code. For most people the only Morse code they knew was SOS. It did not matter what it stood for. It signaled distress.
Of course I’m happy, Mate.
Happiness is not a reaction to a situation.
Happiness is a choice, a decision that you make.
I hope YOU decide to be happy today.
I think it stood for nothing. I know they used to use CQD but some time after the Titanic sinking changed it international to SOS because it was easier to transmitt.
…In popular usage, SOS became associated with phrases such as “Save Our Souls,” “Save Our Shelby,” “Shoot Our Ship”, “Sinking Our Ship”, “Survivors On Shore”,”Save our skulls”, “Save Our Ship”, “Sink Our Ships”, “Survivors On Ship”, “Save Our Sailors”, “Stop Other Signals”, “Sink Or Swim”, “Send Out Sailors”, “Save Our Skins”, and “Send Out Someone”. However, these phrases were a later development, most likely used to help remember the correct letters—something known as a backronym.
I’m going to say #4. My reasoning is that it’s for direction finding purposes to aid in locating the distressed vessel… If there is a lot of other morse traffic on the same frequency it would make it difficult to pinpoint the distressed vessel with all of the other interference. Much the same as if you had a room full of people all talking at once you wouldn’t be able to identify one of the crowd by their voice.
As you all know I am a ship captain. You might not know I am also an amateur radio operator. I wonder if I tell everyone my answer that many of you would pick my answer based on the fact they know it comes from someone very qualified to answer this question. If I gave out my answer who is to say I am correct? How would you know?
Laura Petrie cooked up some great dishes on the Dick Van Dyke Show. I put my faith in what she cooked, and had a terrific dinner one night. I then spread the recipe to my friends.
I appear to be an expert in the maritime industry and I say I’m a ham radio operator, but have you seen any proof that I am? Maybe you have. Maybe you haven’t. I claim I am a USCG Licensed Master of 100 tons of motor or steam powered vessels and USCG Licensed Instructor. I claim I am a Federally licensed amateur radio operator for just under 20 years. With this level of experience, you could conclude that whatever answer I choose, this would be a safe bet.
For those who want to go with my claimed expertise in these areas, then choose #3.
For those who want me to show my sources of my information, for you to make your own conclusion, the choose #6
Upon further recollection, I remember my Navy training and they taught us to use Save Our Ship. So I think #2 would be my choice based on what they taught me.
Right now, it stands for shit on a shingle but, that is just because I
feel hungry. Secretary of State and Swing Out Sister are included
in the acronyms. It refers to various songs by ABBA, Rhianna, etc.
There are so many I have found but, If I’m correct it was used on
the Titanic as she went down as a nonsense keystroke that the
radio operator could quickly repeat and get his point of distress
across to any ships. Receivers of the transmission merely
concocted the idea: “He must be saying – Save Our Ship or Save our Souls”. Therefore I think the answer is a duality answer.
Hi Marina, S.O.S. means Send Out Soccur, because here in Mexico is Solicito Oportuno Sucorr, which means the same thing, but in other language (obyiously, jejeje lol ).
SOS means “Save Our Ship”. Before the year 1912, ships at sea used the Morse code distress signals “CQD”, which means, “Call To Quarters – Danger!” In 1912 when the Titanic was sinking the crew of the Titanic kept sending out the SOS signal but that signal was not universal known at that time so none of the nearby ships understood what the signal meant and took no action.
My understanding is this: When the Titanic struck the iceberg, it was the very first use of the (then) brand new S.O.S. signal, which means Save Our Ship. I wasn’t there, so I suppose this could be another urban legend or some such. Save Our Souls also sounds plausible as another reasonable meaning for the acronym S.O.S. HMMMM…..
An element of doubt….. screw it – #2 with a bullet
Unfortunately, the 1906 Conference proceedings do not give an account of the discussions nor the origin of SOS. The proceedings merely specify what the signal will be. In the Service Regulations Affixed to the International Wireless Telegraph Convention, paragraph 6a, “Signals of Transmission” states::
“Ships in distress shall use the following signal: …—… repeated at brief intervals.”
The Marconi Yearbook of Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony , 1918 states, “This signal [SOS] was adopted simply on account of its easy radiation and its unmistakable character. There is no special signification in the letter themselves, and it is entirely incorrect to put full stops between them [the letters].” All the popular interpretations of “SOS,” “Save or Ship,” “Save Our Souls,” or “Send Out Succour” are simply not valid. Stations hearing this distress call were to immediately cease handling traffic until the emergency was over and were likewise bound to answer the distress signal.
Although the use of “SOS” was officially ratified in 1908, the use of “CQD” lingered for several more years, especially in British service where it originated. It is well documented in personal accounts of Harold Bride, second Radio Officer, and in the logs of the SS Carpathia, that the Titanic first used “CQD” to call for help. When Captain Smith gave the order to radio for help, first radio officer Jack Phillips sent “CQD” six times followed by the Titanic call letters, “MGY.” Later, at Brides suggestion, Phillips interspersed his calls with “SOS.”
i thought it was “tack” .. but then i thought .. maybe that’s just into the wind on the zig side and maybe there’s another term for into the wind on the zag side. .. so i decided to play safe.
I think, that, your dress is pretty. Save OUR sOUl
Nick Lowe I Love The Sound of Breaking Glass
…good night for hot words
no. 3 think it was an Italian ship.
On 12 July 1999 the last commercial Morse code message in North America was sent from a Globe Wireless station south of San Francisco.
Here’s the link – http://www.radiomarine.org/lastmorse.html – to the rest of the article – The End of Morse
it doesn’t seem like a sensible idea either.
drought day 5!!
SOS – has no meaning. (That would be choice 6.)
The three dots, three dash, three dots, . . . were easy to send and easy to receive.
By the way, using Morse Code has been discontinued. (Modern communication has made Morse Code obsolete.)
that doesn’t sound like a good idea.
Morse is low tech .. you need to be able to fall back onto a low tech alternative, especially for emergency situations. It would be a disaster to abandon it.
Posted a reply to your comment. Just look above.
Probably Save Our Ship
WORD REQUEST !
I heard once that the words “Salt” and “Salary” were related. is it true ? What are the origins of those words ?
Funny comments!!!
Nothing. It was chosen for it’s simplisty to send.
Seriously Oversized Saucers…
SOS=save our souls
evry postion yuor comnecated the learn……?
Phrase request…
“Liar, Liar, Pants on fire.”
The only thing I can find is from the poem “The Liar” by William Blake.
Deceiver, dissembler
Your trousers are alight
From what pole or gallows
Shall they dangle in the night?
Is this the origin???
Doesn’t anyone read other comments before posting?
t doesn’t stand for anything. It was originally SOE but E in Morse code is only one dit. They replaced the E with and S because it was easier to here in Morse code. Three dits, threee dah’s and three dits was very easy and quick to send in Morse code. The terms “Save Our Ship” and “Save Our Souls” were adopted as a bakcronym to help people remeber the letters SOS.
I don’t think SOS stands for anything.
Answer posted, guys!
Ciao,
Fianchetto
Two more voting days left for the Best Weekend Ever contest.
Marina has a massive lead with 3675 votes. She is also getting ready to overtake the second position most viewed video.
Interestingly, out of the four Top Voted videos, Marina’s video is the only one that appears in the four Most Viewed videos. Great combination.
originally it stood for nothing. it was simply adopted as a distinctive signal. all the “meanings” it has been attributed are projections and guesses.
I would imagine that it stood for nothing at first, because three dots, three dashes, three dots? It is easy to remember, so it’s coincidence that we would think it is “Save Our Souls” or the like.
Just checking my link
My server took a _hit ie Server is down ( S.I.D ) or save my site. ( S.M.S )
new name guys
the other link is f.u.b.a.r…
Hi M, so it’s deffo save our Souls….nothing else matters, a ship goes down, stuck in a dessert, plane falls from the sky, lost at sea with a bunch of Tiger Sharks, bang in the middle of a jungle, mozzies nipping away, leeches sucking you dry – so what you gonna do, where you gonna stay, who you gonna call??? – be
— it’s pure optomism, fight, kick some serious butt, in what ever happens, no problems, only solutions……so SOS ( Seriously Only Solutions, so save our souls 
) – am waffeling on again so signing out…..knowingly that it’s all good 
– hey M, you Rock, awsome lessons, awsome you, awsome 
HFW’s 
actually, S.O.S has a variety of meanings for example: save our skins, save our surviviors, save our submarine. but that was just a few wxamples there are way more.
My guess is “Stop Other Signals”.
It’s time for me to go feed my pet rat, Butler, Rat Butler, that’s what we call him.
I used to have some pet rat coons. A male and a female. I called them Chipper and Dixie. I raised them since they were six weeks old. You could play with like any pet.
You could play with them like any pet.
Like I know what you mean man,
BTW you’re not a mean man.
Is everyone still voting for their favorite video on Miss M verses Danny boy.
Also don’t forget the best week end ever video.
v v o tttttttttttt eeeeee
v v o o tt ee
v o tt eeeeee
Hey, Marina! i was just wondering, what the word kiss comes from. because i ave done some research but i couldn’t find anything useful. maybe you could help me out.
P.S i love your vids!
I like that! Great suggestion! I’ll second the motion.
All in favor, say “Aye”.
All opposed may take your leave…
Excellent, Speedster:-)
Ciao,
Fianchetto
I would also like to see “French Kiss” and perhaps why Europeans kiss one another on both cheeks in a greeting, while we “New-Worlders” shake hands, while our fellow students in the East bow when greeting.
again,fabulous request, Speedy!
Ciao,
Fianchetto
Homework:
*IF* it stands for anything, I would say it must simply be “Stop Other Signals”
However, I think it’s just easily sent and easily recognized brief code to indicate distress, initially meaning nothing, but acquiring “backronyms” as it became popularly known.
Just a SWAG, but it’s MY SWAG, and I’m sticking to it
Ciao,
Fianchetto
Welcome back to this dimension, you are no longer a negative image of anti matter from a parallel universe.
Who are you? Your not the same Fianchetto that I know.
You must be an impostor from a parallel universe. Everyone set your phasers to vaporize! 
NO!…Wait….I’m really back, and it’s really me….HERE!….look at my voter registration card…SEE…it says Republican….
don’t shoot!
which brings me to a poll I’d like to see:
McPalin or O’Biden… what’s your liking (all) fellow students?
Ciao,
Fianchetto
Videos are too slow to download for me to watch this time of day. So I’m going to try again another time. But based on the answers posted, people are basically saying 3 different answers. So I’ll just throw out a new answer just for the hell of it and not care if I get it wrong…
SOS: Seeking Out Salvation
S.O.S. is sometimes (erroneously) referred to as “Save Our Souls”. However, the CORRECT answer is – S.O.S. stands for “Nothing”.
Usually, anything done in ‘threes’ means it’s an emergency. If one is lost in the woods, desert, ocean, etc., one can and should signal with something in “threes”, for instance, blowing on a whistle three times, flashing a light three times (either by using a flashlight, or reflections from a mirror), building three signal fires, building a large triangle out of logs (building three signal fires in a triangular shape will also help), etc.
In this case (and as you’ve already presented), the letter “S” is three dots ( . . . ) and the letter “O” is three dashes ( – - – ) in Morse Code. Since these letters are in the “emergency standard” or “threes”, they fit the ‘requirement’ for emergencies. The second “S” ( . . . ) was probably included to balance it, as well as making yet another structure of “three”.
SOS doesn’t stand for anything. It’s not an acronym. It was chosen because it’s easily remembered and recognized as rendered in Morse Code. The spoken emergency code, “Mayday,” was chosen because it sounds like “M’Aider,” which, in French, means “Help Us!”
-Rocky
It’s 10:43 in London, are your children home from “pub crawling” yet?
It’s 9:15 here in the eastern USA and no he’s not home yet. Maybe about 2:00 he’ll be home.
***Word Request***
The word is buck
Buck is the adult male of some animals such as deer, antelope, or rabbit. but people also use the word buck or bucks to describe money I have $20 bucks. or I have a buck insted of the word dollar. so I was wondering where that came from.
- TheEndBegins2009
If you had
50 female pigs and
50 male deer you would have a
100 sowsandbucks
Good one Yomero
does anyone know if a history of video views is kept and available?
it’d be interesting to see how the view figures have grown … and see if we can make any predictions.
oh!!…. prize for the person who predicts which day HotForWords hits 200 million!
OK. On December 17, 2008. And the prize I’d like is dinner with Marina, with fudge for dessert.
seesixcm6
… and second prize is dinner with Kobe.
Why fudge for dessert?
Are you implying you are a back door man?
Kobe had his hair done & don’t forget to dress formal
OK, enough of these innuendos! Fudge is an American invention, a mixture of sugar, butter, milk and coacoa, which are baked into a great dessert called chocolate fudge. If it weren’t so fattening, I’d consume it more often. (Now if I say it tastes good, will more questions appear?) seesixcm6
re: “does anyone know if a history of video views is kept and available?”
Hi mijj,
Go to Marina’s YT site http://www.youtube.com/hotforwords
Click on the Videos link below the HotForWords logo.
There you will see 14 pages of videos. On page 14 is the first set of 15 videos. One of the lowest views is the Thank You video from one year ago.
The video entitled antidisestablishmentarianism has one of the largest views
Marina mentioned a few videos back, that video appears either as 3rd or 4th on the list when you do a Google search on that word.
That video has 4,249,095 views.
ooo – well … i was thinking more of a set of historical information kept by YouTube.
I think i’ll email em .!! .. maybe Marina gets emailed a set of figures each week or something ..
… anyhoo … it’d be interesting to graph the growth of interest.
See how bumpy it is … is it a steady increase or is it escalating of flattening? … plus .. how good will a prediction made from the info be? … etc etc .. (an excuse to see if i can dust off my stats abilities – or is it forever dead?)
– on the other hand … it may be a dead duck .. if the info is a struggle to get, i’ll drop it.
this looks interesting ..
[YouTube Insight]
… except .. info is accessible by the uploader only .
damn .. forgot blockquote throws away linebreaks .. again!!
I was wondering about the origin of the phrase “In cahoots”, as it is a really funny sounding word, if a word at all.
Thanks,
Later,
Wolfsae
Thanks for the face book add.
Word Request:
I was wondering were superserviceable came from and what it really means, i read that it means “offering unwanted services” but if super means like great why is unwanted services? Investigate meh word
Alex
Everybody in the world knows its save our ship
Not everyone in the world is correct.
In fact, lots of people say it’s “Save our Souls”.
50 million people in China are Wong.
mizu, funny how people gain knowledge from people and never ask how they learned that information. Maybe I should start a rumor that the world is going to be suck up in a big black hole when LHC goes online.
Then I’ll back it up with that I read on the internet. Oh wait the darn thing is already online. 
Well so much for that false rumor. People are just to lazy to research the rumors, and go around blabbing their mouths off as they believe the rumor to be fact just because so and so said it was. 
It DID, Captain:-) I was there when it hppened, and I’ll vouch for you by referring to my post from yesterday
BTW, they must have turned it off long enough for me to return to this dimension 
answer : save our souls
‘Tis getting boring now, can you just tell everyone it mean nothing at all.
Common belief is that SOS stands for “Save Our Ship” or “Save Our Souls” or “Stop Other Signals” or “Stomp Out Stupidity” or “Sale on Socks.” (Not really, I made those last two up.) In fact, SOS in not an acronym and it doesn’t represent anything at all…. I’ll say it as many times as i have too
I like the ‘Stomp Out Stupidity’.
i just took [The Beautiful Faces Test]
I ended up with
[Hillary Duff] (whoever she is)
Similar: Uma Thurman (sexier), Mila Kunis (smaller nose)
{waits by the postbox}
Your result for The Beautiful Faces Test …
Mila Kunis
64% Eyes, 33% Nose, 42% Mouth, 55% SexyCute
You seem to prefer big eyes, smallish other features, and cute women. Altho they sexed her up for the Maxim shoot, Mila’s definitely a cutey, in a unique, Eastern European way. She plays Jackie on the very popular ‘That 70s Show’ as well as voicing Meg Griffin on ‘Family Guy’. If you scored in this category and don’t think Mila’s that great, Natalie Portman’s another choice. Personally, I think Mila’s adorable.
Similar: Natalie Portman, Keira Knightley (sexier)
i’m suprised, aLx .. i thought you’d end up with SexySavage (if that exists) or something like that.
[Mila Kunis]
Hillary Duff- Disney child star, Lizzie Mcguire.
Now over 18, looks hot in the movie War Inc.
Disney child star!! eek!
almost, but not quite, jailbait!
I thought i preferred older women.
# You scored 50% on Eyes, higher than 23% of your peers.
# 20/100 You scored 33% on Nose, higher than 20% of your peers.
# 44/100 You scored 48% on Lips, higher than 44% of your peers.
# 76/100 You scored 65% on SexyCute, higher than 76% of your peers.
You seem to like small features and a sense of cuteness. Jessica Alba is pretty tiny, and so are her features (altho her lips almost count as big). She can be hot, but even in roles like Nancy the Stripper in Sin City, she has an inherent cuteness that can’t be hidden. Not an Alba fan? There are others who fit the bill.
well that was pretty accurate,
http://is0.okcupid.com/graphics/cwb/faces/girls/results/jessicaalba.jpg
that pic isn’t anywhere near sexy enough for this site …
{… hunts around in Google Images …}
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/rtiojan2/SUMMER%202005/Jessica%20Alba%2025.jpg
from chikipedia:
savage enough?
yeh!!
I’m skeered for you!
oh… she does the voice of the daughter in Family Guy .. which is a double plus credit.
Good score.
Keira Knightley for me… but I’m not sure Marina Orlova was in the test
i had to hunt down a pic of [Keira Knightley] to see for myself.
My Dear Teacher,
The SOS inquiry was good, as I always thought it meant “Save Our Ship.” My dictionary research turned up little, until I found this definiton:
Source: Online Etymology Dictionary
SOS
1910, from International Morse code letters, chosen arbitrarily as being easy to transmit and difficult to mistake. Not an acronym for “save our ship” or anything else. Won out over alternate suggestion C.Q.D., which is said to mean “come quickly, distress,” or “CQ,” general call for alerting other ships that a message follows, and “D” for danger. SOS is the telegraphic distress signal only; the oral equivalent is mayday.
The question and answer game reminded me of one I discovered on comedian, Steve Martin’s website, when I found an example of the music I enjoy. Perhaps something like this game would be good at your site.
On this anniversary of 9/11, I wonder if FBI agent, John Patrick O’Neill’s SOS calls are now viewed differently at the bureau.
Sincerely,
Your Dear Student
I have known this since I was about 7…
its Save our
slutssoulswhat is the origin of the word “slut”?
[This cat just spat out your pancreas]
mijj, are you down at the cathouse again?
lol … yeh
one kitty too far.
ooops,typo,school
i remember in scholl it stands for nothing,easy to transmit
send our secor
[This cat hates you!]
S.O.S means “Save Our Souls”
Hey there Hot For Words. I say that SOS stands for Save Our Souls.
Marina
SOS has no real meaning. It is a quick and easy way to send a distress signal via Morse Code by German signalers. However, Save our Ship and Save our Souls have been used as short sayings to remember the distress call.
bendej1
Welched, as in “he welched on his bet.”
Hello Marina,
I’m one of your biggest fans from Brooklyn, New York..
I was hoping you can teach us the origin of the word:
GULLIBLE
…thank you….
suerte!
RickHunter77
Hi Marina i wonderd where the word Awesome comes from
thank you
your honest Jekler
SALE ON SOCKS!
If you are hungry, “Soup or Sandwiches”
#1, save our souls sounds good
sos sink or swim
I’m working today @ “S.O.S. Automotive Ltd.”. In1985 I wanted to start up my business as “Save on Service” but was not allowed to use that name because of an existing fuel sales company called “Save on Gas” so my second choise was what I used. I also run a Co. called S.O.S. Tire & Wheel. As a kid, in boy scouts, I was taught that SOS stood for save our souls. That being said, what it really was, was an internationally recognized distress signal, originating in morse code. I understand that morse code was put to rest a few years ago as a communication system & became totally passe’, therefore the answer to the game is #6… Marina’s question was, what does it mean, not, what is the origin?
It means nothing; just the easiest to send and recognize in Morse code.
its number #1 Save Our Souls but if a teenager would put in txt twhen talkin with his/her gf/bf the say S.O.S somebody Over my Shoulder…^^ hehe
sos stands for ’save oyr souls’
I think that might be nr. 1 – Save Our Souls.
Hmm, that’s a good one. My dad was a U.S. Marine, therefore, every time my mom would make hamburger or chipped beef and gravy over toast, SOS, meant we were having sh** on a shingle.
Just saying Hello
Amateur Radio Operators are called “Hams”, why?
Why is it commonly called “Ham Radio” ?
Matt
Maybe this will help you K2mfwHAM.Good Luck
Marina, I just realized that there is another answer: Scrub Our Sink! (S.O.S. scouring/scrub pads, get it?)
Tough crowd…
Good one
really?
Who’s cooking spam? I smell a foul odor, put that shit back in the can mate.
Nothing is correct answer, but Sick of School is a good one that was left out…
#1 Student
Schools not so bad I went for 45 years.
Marina, appropriate lesson for 9-11.
Number 1, Save Our Souls.
Marina, did you know that radio was once called a Marconi and radio operators were once called Marconi operators?
Do you know why?
And why do we call it a radio now?
SOS Teacher!
Video Word Request
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLyEdsv0TWc
Talk Like a Pirate Day is fast ahead!
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/
Cheerio
Nothing. It’s a simple code to remember.
[Cute Bird]
save our ship
`elliott
It doesn’t mean anything! The answer is nothing!
… — … was choosen becaus it is SIMPLE to send SIMPLE to recive and has NO other meaning, SOS basicly doesn’t mean anything.
The answer is: Nothing, it was simply choosen becaus it is an easy thing to send and recive fast.
Best Wishes: .- – ….
Mayday mayday! It means save our shi*
I think that two answers are correct: “save our souls” and “save our ship”. The choice of the acronym “SOS” was made because it was easy to recognize, even if you are not familiarized with Morse. Another signal had been introduced before (CQD: come quick, distress!) but it didn’t survive. One of the first ships where the “SOS” has been used was the Titanic, in 1912.
Another famous signal is the message “mayday”, which comes from the French expression: “Venez m’aider!” (which means: “come and help me!”).
I wish one day Marina will come and save my soul if I send a SOS.
Very good Celebornmars. I had to call out Mayday calls before, and at the time you don’t care what it means, only that the message is clear.
“SAVE OUR SOULS” – Those who say “Nothing” are liberals…
The option 6 is the correct one. The “help” is just used as SOS in morse because it’s easier to type and easier to understand (it’s just . . . _ _ _ . . .)
S.O.S. stands for save our ship I believe.
It doesn’t stand for anything. It was originally SOE but E in Morse code is only one dit. They replaced the E with and S because it was easier to here in Morse code. Three dits, threee dah’s and three dits was very easy and quick to send in Morse code. The terms “Save Our Ship” and “Save Our Souls” were adopted as a bakcronym to help people remeber the letters SOS.
BTW Marina, I have an ax to grind and a bone to pick. I am head over heels in love with HotForWords but you’re causing me to cry cocodile tears because you haven’t used any of my phrases. I will plight thee my troth if you will use something I have requested. I have also placed a picture of an elephant facing the door but I guess that’s just on old wives tale.
Well i could say #s 4,3,5,2,6,1
hye
SOS stands for save our souls.
@ 3665 fair winds, following seas
#2 @ 1693 … — … …—…
#3 @ 1441 blub blub blub
I want to request a word.
People in the game community use the word 1337 a lot. But what’s the exact meaning of this ?
Tnx.
!! red alert !!
… on following link into HFW from email notification:
[Wordpress Database error]
… worked ok on second attempt
Yea something weird just happen to me:
word press error then a coComment page show up
lost my last post for a while.
i got into the habit of constructing my posts in notepad first.
These Wordpress addons .. don’t trust em.
You know Mijj, my computer didn’t start messing up until I activated cocomments as soon as I uninstalled it and rebooted everything was ok.
i only ever used the cocomments thing once .. it’s ‘orrible. {spits on cocomment thing}
what is really needed is a comments plugin that’s one column wider than this one .. and allows for much more depth for nested replies.
in defense of this style though .. it’s spatially clearly laid out.
I truly agree with that.
d’oh
i dont mean plugin .. i mean addon.
course, easier said than done.
poor ol’ Marina’s assistant .. i hope she isn’t too cruel with him
that’s because it’s a damned fine argument: clearly stated, and rational.
umm. no. it’s subjective, based on personal opinion.
you’re not contradicting me, aLx.
i’m not? well … in my opinion (haha!), “rational” doesn’t fit in with “subjective”.
rational refers to the process
subjective / objective are supposed positions of bias. (of course, there’s no such thing as an objective point of view)
your start points of information can be subjective and conclusions drawn through a rational process.
i don’t even see the rationality in your posting. you just stated your opinion.
I got a page of garbage today like you did yesterday, I couldn’t get back to the SOS lesson. It did let me in some of the other lessons when I got the home page.
yes, you’re right aLx
no reasoning there, just opinion .. i was seeing where this would go.
ended all too quickly.
does M have a tech assistant who deals with all this Wordpress stuff? Or is she hacking it on her own?
SOS MEANS NOTHING. I LEARNED THAT ON THE HISTORY CHANNEL.
History is written by the victors
Good one ChaCha. Now if everyone will read this then we will know sos means nothing but SOS or help.Excellent find
HISTORY IS NOT ONLY WRITTEN BY THE VICTORS. IT’S ALSO WRITTEN BY THE LOSERS.
Word request or more like a number request: why in the USA 911 is used as the emergency number. Did the phone company reserve this number along time ago? The phone company gave us 411, 811, 511, ect.
That’s a very good request Chevolay. I wish Marina would do that one too as I would like to know the origin of 911.
I like your tribute to the Twin Towers. I think that’s what they are.
You are correct on the WTC towers, it’s in honor of souls lost on that day, especially FDNY.
It’s 5:41AM,I’m tired and I don’t have a clue! Maybe SOS means I have to work in the rain and need a way to get help out of it! I’m too old for that rediculous crap.
I think I’ll grab my shower then drive my own truck so I have my own tools and can *leave* whenever I think it passes the point of dedication and enters the realm of stupidity.
6, nothing
how about a age old Aussie term “fair dinkum” ??????????
Love your work!
Besides the old WW II term for “shit on a shingle” –it means nothing!!
#6 nothing
It stands for Save our Souls, as the soul is connected to the body and out at sea the were in danger of dying. Hence the expression “many souls were lost at sea”.
It means Nothing.
Hello Marina,
These games are fun.
I think that you’re getting very tricky with these games.
Stretch seems to get lucky by trying to out guess you so that’s what I’ll do with this game and guess #6.
When are you going to some experimenting with the Green Screen?
Maybe you could get a small desk and do a late show look with a city of your choice in the background once in awhile.
Maybe have a video request or side-kick of the week/month from someone in your talented audience that would make it seem like they were sitting next to you.
Hmm.. what’s with that term- sidekick?
That sounds unusual now that I see it typed out.
Thank you, Marina
I vaguely remember hearing about the Send Out Succor origin, but that doesnt mean its the real origin. Still I’ii pick that cause its sounds nice.
The answer is number 6. The three dots, followed by three dashes , followed by three dots, was selected because it was simple, easy to transmit and distinctive. At a later date, someone turned it into an acronym, probably a sailor since it was primarily used by mariners.
wy the hell do they always need to change the youtube interface….
6, …didn’t the russians start with SOS?
Popular accounts At the second Berlin Radiotelegraphic Conference of 1906, portray the adoption of “SOS” as being derived from “SOE,” which the Germans had used as a general inquiry call. These accounts suggest there was objection because the final letter of “SOE” was a single dot, hard to copy in adverse conditions. The letter “S” was substituted accounts say, for three dots, three dashes and three dots could not be misinterpreted.
I thought it was some russian guy called Alexander pavlov
oh wait pavlov is that dog saliva guy, I ment Alexander POPOV
rofl.
It`s origin number one, definitly
I've got 5 he can have for free!
He can have 10 if he'll take P3's
SOS karaoke?
.
Call the Police!
Hello melikadothechcha,
The old discussion on which system is better brought me to this
comparison
ps3 defenitly!!!
i’m talking about the system..not the woman, they both suck big time 
The girl on the right looks like a montage
of several girlfriends (I still have)
I dunno, got a weak spot in my head for blondes
Before I forget, thanks for the link to
Library of Congress! I use that a lot
No offence or anything Marina but this game was really simple nearly everybody knows that it is origin number 2.
Or is it???
bye for now
I’ve always thought SOS stood for Save Our Ship.
I’d like to know the origin of GAFFE
This one should be within our grasp.
Thanks, Gaffer.
you mean i should try and look for myself?
I believe he was making a pun on gaff, which is an iron hook or a boat-hook used for extending one’s reach in order to grab hold of mooring lines, piers, jetties or for landing fish.
what?! i could never tell that…
not that the pun wasn’t good, i just didn’t know the word gaff…
It’s cool that guess the origin game is not retired. Anyways, Here’s another way of SOS-”Save our season.” My real guess is “save our ship”.
I think it stands for ‘Save Our Souls.’
Where did @ originate and how? Why not just write the word”at?” Takes as much effort, right? Hmm…tell me my love.
KISSJRJ
Ok, how about the word “fodder” as in celebrities are fodder for the tabloid press. Origin please, my love.
KISSJRJ
Hello mudder. Hello fodder.
My best friend is Harry Potter.
Hogwarts school is entertaining
But learning magic can be very draining!
(Lyrics by Spike Rowling)
All the Warlocks, hate the wizards.
And for dinner, deep fried lizards.
Dumbledorf is entertaining
And he says we’ll have some fun
if it stops raining
(with apologies to Allen Sherman)
On a lighter note, what is the origin of “scrimshaw” and the related word “scrimshander?”
Scrimshaw was used metaphorically in a National Geographic Adventure article to describe a chaotic network of caribou tracks after the annual migration up north. According to my dictionary, scrimshaw is “any of various carved or engraved articles made originally by American whalers usually from baleen or whale ivory.” The person who creates scrimshaw is called a scrimshander.
I have a real problem with the 72 virgin concept.
First, there’s the math. Only a very small fraction of women die with their virginity intact. And even if every woman died a virgin (which would put homo sapiens on the fast track to extinction), the ratio of women to men is about the same as the ratio of McCain supporters to Obama supporters. So where would the other 71 virgins come from? Are they recycled born-again virgins? (If they’re not recycled, what do deflowered virgins do for the rest of Eternity?)
Okay, forget the math. Let’s assume somehow there really are 72 virgins ready to give it up. Eternity is a very long time! If a guy decides to ration it out to, say, one virgin every 10 years, then after 720 years, his pleasure bed is no longer virgin territory. Eventually, those 720 years will be merely a sliver of time in his eternal lease on heaven. Okay, how about one virgin every one million years? Patience may be a virtue, but after 72 million years, the harem has dwindled to absolute zero. Is it posssible to be patiently abstinent, when there is absolutely no hope—ever? What virtue is there now?
Okay, let’s sum it up. This guy died and hit the virgin jackpot. Yippee! But, well, now he’s broke. No more virgins! And he faces billions and trillions and gazillions of millennia with nothing to do but moan and groan. And wish his soul had gone to the
so that he could have spent Time Eternal in the lascivious company of Hell’s whores. And the good news is that in Hell, the brothel never closes.
P.S.–For some reason, the system would not allow me to make of this a single post. Too long? Too many red flags for a single post (words like Hell, whores, virgins, brothel? This comment is actually a reply to Fianchetto 1, whose post can be found below.
glad to see someone else creates long branches of discussion with noone else involved.
Your essence is in a place of crystal clear light, surrounded by a feeling of love. Sorry this is all I got, since I have had near death experience it’s hard for me to come up with a funny answer.
But if you would like I will put a box of condoms in your coffin.
Of course next time you take the Sex Purity Test, SPT, you will have to check yes for acts of necrophilia.
The face test gave me Alyson Hannigan, the flutist in American Pie,
I’d rumpy pumpy her for eternity.
romping with 72 virgins v. sitting on a cloud playing a harp.
…hmmmmmmmm
tough call.
lets listen to some music while we contemplate the pros n cons …
[Regiment - Byrne/Eno]
Who to say the 72 virgins are girls, maybe its 72 computer geeks guys who never even kissed a girl.
These are the guys who scored very, very innocent on the Sexual Purity Test.
God likes to put a twist on life; like a Twilight Zone episode.
In defense of the computer geeks, they make lots of money and end up marrying some hot babe who then help them shed their innocents.
Look above just sent you reply
oops below
You’ll will have to wait until you die to find out what heaven is like.
In the meantime have sex, here on earth.
If you’re lucky you might find one virgin.
If you speak to anyone who has had a near death experience they may tell you that when you die you no longer have a physical body, you have no appendages, no hand, no arms, no dick.
So if these suicide bombers and terrorist think they’re in heaven with 72 virgins they are not……. those idiots are in HELL!
i think maybe those ppl who think when you die you get to sit on clouds playing harps aren’t taking it literally.
ok .. deflowering 72 virgins isn’t your idea of heaven
.. so what is?
72 hookers?
mijj,deflowering 72 virgins is not heaven, it’s propaganda
I’ll let you know what heaven is like when I get there, look for a sign in the future. Dee dee dee dee, dee dee dee dee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzlG28B-R8Y
so somone’s idea of heaven is deflowering 72 virgins ..
.. that’s not your idea of heaven .. what is?
You’ll just have to wait …..
waits patiently for chevolay’s version of heaven which doesn’t involve sex
we’re inventing the kind of heaven we’d like.
you say you dont like the idea of a heaven with girls and sex in it.
so i’m wondering what kind of heaven you’d like.
that’s all. YOu dont need to wait to die to imagine your heaven.
ok .. at last … some people like the idea of rumpy pumpy with 72 virgins for eternity …
… you prefer to be “in a place of crystal clear light, surrounded by a feeling of love”
that wasn’t so bad, was it?
yeh .. i had Alyson Hannigan picked along the way …
… yes indeed .. she’s a very gifted flute player.
Everyone knows that Paradise is not up in the clouds but here on Earth.
I haven’t counted them, but there looks to be approximately 72 Islands in the Virgin Islands chain, which is known as America’s Caribbean Paradise.
According to Wickedpedia, the Virgin Islands were named by Christopher Columbus, “Santa Ursula y las Once Mil Vírgenes”, shortened to Las Vírgenes, after Saint Ursula and her 11,000 virgins, so there should be plenty of virgins to go around, if one considers all the other countries sending their women to the Virgin Islands for recycling.
I agree that they must be virgin Women. After all, no Man is an island.
I thought Ursula was a Bond Girl.
#6, it doesn’t mean a thing
could you tell the origin of the word whipperwheel?
I
aynnoe ntioce how if you srmcabe the idsine of a wrod it’s sltil rzibalgoence
(the last word is stretching this theory)
damn .. that should be …
i missed the l out of srmlcabe
hey… ur really hot and im russain also =) and my word i would like to know the origin is nipple well thanks alot … ur a babe
sorry .. i’m not russian at all. I think you’re mistaking me for someone else.
I also heard it stood for Sailor Over Seas when I was a kid, but in reality it doesn’t mean a thing. So I have to pick #6 for the answer.
My Dad is a Ham radio user and he told me that it doesn’t mean anything. It was just an easy way to call for help.
Nothing.
The key is it is a simple signal in Morse code. For most people the only Morse code they knew was SOS. It did not matter what it stood for. It signaled distress.
Save Our Souls/ Save Our Ship
the answer is the number six it means nothing
save our ship because its in morse code and they could use morse code to call for help!
SOS – is your No. 1 option: Save Our Souls
related vid:
[Man Behind Morse Code]
This just goes to prove that trying to get rich by working for someone else is to no avail.
oh ffs, bob!!
.. you spoiled my entire day!!
I hope you’re happy.
Happiness is not a reaction to a situation.
Happiness is a choice, a decision that you make.
I hope YOU decide to be happy today.
I think it stood for nothing. I know they used to use CQD but some time after the Titanic sinking changed it international to SOS because it was easier to transmitt.
I think it stands for Save Our Ship, if not than it must stand for Some Other Shit.
What about the Creamed chiped beef on toast? Shit on a shingle.
…In popular usage, SOS became associated with phrases such as “Save Our Souls,” “Save Our Shelby,” “Shoot Our Ship”, “Sinking Our Ship”, “Survivors On Shore”,”Save our skulls”, “Save Our Ship”, “Sink Our Ships”, “Survivors On Ship”, “Save Our Sailors”, “Stop Other Signals”, “Sink Or Swim”, “Send Out Sailors”, “Save Our Skins”, and “Send Out Someone”. However, these phrases were a later development, most likely used to help remember the correct letters—something known as a backronym.
It has no direct meaning.
I’m going to say #4. My reasoning is that it’s for direction finding purposes to aid in locating the distressed vessel… If there is a lot of other morse traffic on the same frequency it would make it difficult to pinpoint the distressed vessel with all of the other interference. Much the same as if you had a room full of people all talking at once you wouldn’t be able to identify one of the crowd by their voice.
As you all know I am a ship captain. You might not know I am also an amateur radio operator. I wonder if I tell everyone my answer that many of you would pick my answer based on the fact they know it comes from someone very qualified to answer this question. If I gave out my answer who is to say I am correct? How would you know?
that is true captainjack but you could say that of anyone how would you know you have to put faith in someone
put your faith in experience, not people!
mijj, i put my faith in a petri dish and discovered that it wasn’t spreading.
why you did not alaouite
Laura Petrie cooked up some great dishes on the Dick Van Dyke Show. I put my faith in what she cooked, and had a terrific dinner one night. I then spread the recipe to my friends.
your faith, or your .. face
hahahahaha {…laffs at puerile joke}
I would go with your answer.
I appear to be an expert in the maritime industry and I say I’m a ham radio operator, but have you seen any proof that I am? Maybe you have. Maybe you haven’t. I claim I am a USCG Licensed Master of 100 tons of motor or steam powered vessels and USCG Licensed Instructor. I claim I am a Federally licensed amateur radio operator for just under 20 years. With this level of experience, you could conclude that whatever answer I choose, this would be a safe bet.
For those who want to go with my claimed expertise in these areas, then choose #3.
For those who want me to show my sources of my information, for you to make your own conclusion, the choose #6
As long as you don’t claim to be a duck, we’re fine
Ducks are natural born sailors, y’know?
My own conclusions were incorrect, so
I’ll go with #6
Last time I checked ducks don’t have sails. So how could they be called sailors? Think about that one for a bit.
Don’t forget about Donald.
Touche! – Never know what you’ll learn around here
Upon further recollection, I remember my Navy training and they taught us to use Save Our Ship. So I think #2 would be my choice based on what they taught me.
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as you the expert can you tell me why does
forth and fourth sound same but mean different please
thanks
#6 is correct
following was posted by Bob on Mayday game
http://www.telegraph-office.com/pages/arc2-2.html
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Yea! a new Game! Thanks Marina! Glad to see your game is back. Love the new effects.
my guess would be save our ship.
Right now, it stands for shit on a shingle but, that is just because I
feel hungry. Secretary of State and Swing Out Sister are included
in the acronyms. It refers to various songs by ABBA, Rhianna, etc.
There are so many I have found but, If I’m correct it was used on
the Titanic as she went down as a nonsense keystroke that the
radio operator could quickly repeat and get his point of distress
across to any ships. Receivers of the transmission merely
concocted the idea: “He must be saying – Save Our Ship or Save our Souls”. Therefore I think the answer is a duality answer.
I read somewhere that it meant “Save Old Souls”
S.O.S. – Sea of Sharks!
Sink or Swim. As in emergency, please come, we are sinking and soon we will be swimming.
sos no meaning originally but save our souls got attached to it soon after.
Hi Marina, S.O.S. means Send Out Soccur, because here in Mexico is Solicito Oportuno Sucorr, which means the same thing, but in other language (obyiously, jejeje lol
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HFW, could you please explain the background of the English phrase “bollocks”?
I have always heard ‘Save Our Souls’ whenever S.O.S was mentioned. So i’ll go with option number 1.
S.O.S is also a song by ABBA
it is the second option “save our ship”
‘CQD CQD CQD’
CQD…WTH?
Sorry its old school.
come quik distress
even I knew that lol
just googled it…and it seems like I was wrong
SOS = Sorry, it’s Old School?
I thought it meant “Sage Old Sailor”.
SOS stands for save our ship…I’m possitive that I think that it might……In fact I’m sure that it might…..I think…..
SOS means “Save Our Ship”. Before the year 1912, ships at sea used the Morse code distress signals “CQD”, which means, “Call To Quarters – Danger!” In 1912 when the Titanic was sinking the crew of the Titanic kept sending out the SOS signal but that signal was not universal known at that time so none of the nearby ships understood what the signal meant and took no action.
Looks like the best week end contest is a lock.
Did she say which T.A she is taking?
She could get several videos out of the trip.
It would be great.
#67..!!!! YA.
#69 Yea!
OH Capt….You always know what to say to make me blush…
Is this the real Dave or am I talking to the guy in the orange shirt holding you up in front of the camera?
My understanding is this: When the Titanic struck the iceberg, it was the very first use of the (then) brand new S.O.S. signal, which means Save Our Ship. I wasn’t there, so I suppose this could be another urban legend or some such. Save Our Souls also sounds plausible as another reasonable meaning for the acronym S.O.S. HMMMM…..
An element of doubt….. screw it – #2 with a bullet
The answer to this game can be found on this website. – hint hint
Mum’s the word – LOL
Awe I see your playing with people hu?
Who, me?
I’m no succor….
Unfortunately, the 1906 Conference proceedings do not give an account of the discussions nor the origin of SOS. The proceedings merely specify what the signal will be. In the Service Regulations Affixed to the International Wireless Telegraph Convention, paragraph 6a, “Signals of Transmission” states::
“Ships in distress shall use the following signal: …—… repeated at brief intervals.”
The Marconi Yearbook of Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony , 1918 states, “This signal [SOS] was adopted simply on account of its easy radiation and its unmistakable character. There is no special signification in the letter themselves, and it is entirely incorrect to put full stops between them [the letters].” All the popular interpretations of “SOS,” “Save or Ship,” “Save Our Souls,” or “Send Out Succour” are simply not valid. Stations hearing this distress call were to immediately cease handling traffic until the emergency was over and were likewise bound to answer the distress signal.
Although the use of “SOS” was officially ratified in 1908, the use of “CQD” lingered for several more years, especially in British service where it originated. It is well documented in personal accounts of Harold Bride, second Radio Officer, and in the logs of the SS Carpathia, that the Titanic first used “CQD” to call for help. When Captain Smith gave the order to radio for help, first radio officer Jack Phillips sent “CQD” six times followed by the Titanic call letters, “MGY.” Later, at Brides suggestion, Phillips interspersed his calls with “SOS.”
Whats your answer? And are you sure it’s correct?
looks like it’s pure ergonomics .. which makes sense for a safety issue.
ahem ..
i dont think “ergonomics” is the right term.
what’s the right term?
sort of perception equivalent of optimising the Man Machine Interface.
.. / .– .. .-.. .-.. / -. — .– / … .- -.– / … — — . – …. .. -. –. / -.. . . .–. .-.. -.– / .–. …. .. .-.. — … — .–. …. .. -.-. .- .-.. / .. -. / — — .-. … . / -.-. — -.. . / —… / -. .. .–. .–. .-.. . … / —… / – …. .- -. -.- / -.– — ..- .-.-.-
- …. . -. -… ..- -.– .- -.– .- -.-. …. – .- -. -.. –. — …. .- …- . … — — . .-. . .- .-.. ..-. ..- -. .-.-.- -.-. .- .–. – .-.-.- .— .- -.-. -.- -. –… — ..-. .
hmmm .. scraping the morse off the screen messes it up somehow .. letters are missing. … or maybe it’s because the character seperators arent there.
…. ..- ….?
i had a sail in my brother’s girlfiend’s “yatch” on the Berlin Wansee(?) yonks ago .. does that count?
Learned how to do the zig zag thing with the sails.
thanks for remindin me .. i almost forgot about that!!
Sorry I just tried to recode it and it didn’t work. I had the same problem with your code also. DAMN ASCII!!!!
I’m using this page
http://morsecode.scphillips.com/cgi-bin/morse.cgi
because it puts the “/” between the characters .. i think that heps a lot.
oh yeh .. scraping it off the screen doesnt work at all , does it!
In American please
It IS in “American”, otherwise known worldwide as “English.”
They wrote to each other in Morse Code, which is usually presented as an auditory code of short or long tones, and is written as dots & dashes.
I would translate, but my special nerd talent is in human behavior, NOT nautical codes
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The zig zag thing, would that be tack?
i thought it was “tack” .. but then i thought .. maybe that’s just into the wind on the zig side and maybe there’s another term for into the wind on the zag side. .. so i decided to play safe.
One side is Tick, the other is Tack, and if you can’t master it and SOS you get a Tow.
what is “ticky tacky” anyway?