POPTUB
Maria from the POPTUB channel on YouTube asked me the origin of their name… so I investigated.
It’s a fun channel, you should definitely check it out.
They also interviewed me last week, and it was a pretty long interview. I talked about my other favorite channels (I mentioned lisanova, misscupcake1, filiskun), how I got started, what’s my secret ingredient to YouTube success, my upcoming book, etc… but none of that made it to the final piece which was rather short. So I am a bit bummed as I wanted to promote those other channels plus I feel that the other information was more interesting.
Byte
http://www.word-detective.com/back-a.html
Dear teacher don’t blame me I gave it 5 stars! I would give it 5 more stars if it I could rate it again!
I clicked the link! Quit yelling at me!
smoking pot
pot
So, Whatever happened to Kobe and the balloons? Maybe balloon would be an interesting word to know the origin of? Thanks, Sweetie!
Why must we guestion our Teacher SWEET, She knows what we need so SHUT UP & Listen PLEASE!!
What was the homework assignment? I guess I should shut up too!!
Jon X0X0X0
new vid is up
A Koby Kiss, must be like this.
i thought lisanova was fairly interesting too
kinda fun. They ain’t got no word origins there tho.
I think we hve generation gap and i am out of touch cuz my word requests so far seem not to ring pleasing to the young, distinguished ear of yourself. Perhaps continued viewing will bring me to present time.
Marina is always interested in word requests.
She is surprising in her selections, sometimes.
Vetting is an example of a word I had never even
thought twice about – yet the origin is interesting.
Keep making those requests and be as patient as
you can be. After all, it’s luck of the draw
Thank you. Vetting came up with the election and the Palin addition to the ticket. I hadn’t heard the word before. Marina is right with the news.
Marina.. What the hell is going on.. Its been nearly 3 days and no video.. I will die if this carries on!
ooh, that sounded agressive
Not agressive… pathetic
maybe even EMO don’t be come a 40 year old TA for Marina.
You’re still young and you can still get
a life and maybe have a live girl too
i bet you won’t. any takers?
Oh shittin* fuc*.. Someone sounds in a mood
only under !!!
I agree that it would be nice to have a fresh lesson.
Poop Toob isn’t what I, as a testosterone based
lifeform, find particularly interesting or enlightening.
I don’t think we can do anything but let time pass
and hope for the best. Maybe we should take a poll?
I hear ya James; Seems like a while, currently waiting to put the cat out only it hasn’t come in doors yet…..another lesson would be good……
Ok folks a little heads up. M had to go out of town Sunday and I guess she may be a tad late uploading the new video.
hey marina
i was wondering if you could tell me about how names got there meaning, was it a word in another language or what.
PS you could guess my name from my call sign. so y is it the meaning of my name?
I apologize if I’m making too many word requests at once, but I’ve had a very inquisitive weekend!
1) Pandora’s Box. Who is Pandora and why is opening her box a bad thing?
2) Mach. When did we start referring to the speed of sound as Mach 1, twice the speed of sound as Mach 2, etc. And why was Mach used as the term to indicate this?
3) Take it with a grain of salt, as in when someone tells you something that may or may not be correct. What does taking a grain of salt have to do with questioning the validity of something you hear?
4) a “scratch” golfer. Why does the term scratch mean someone who can typically shoot a even par round.
5) Staying on the golf theme from the Ryder Cup this weekend, why is a sand trap referred to as a “bunker”. Isn’t a bunker a military stronghold? Why did golf adopt this as a term for a simple sand box?
6) Last golf one… why does golf refer to the average score on a hole as ‘Par’, and shooting one less is called a birdie, two less an eagle, one over is a bogie, etc. Have they always kept score this way, or was it once just simply a number like in other sports?
7) Why is zero referred to as LOVE in tennis. And for that matter, why does the first two points count as 15, but the third and forth count as 10?
9) And finally, I’m curious about the words lunch, dinner, and supper. Breakfast is straight forward enough. You are breaking your fasting from not eating all night. Bruch is just a combination of breakfast and lunch. But where did Lunch, Dinner and Supper come from? And why do we have two words (dinner and supper) for the same meal?
Pandora’s Box is a good request. Heard it some time back. Some mythology thing. Perhaps marina will get the full story for us.
Don’t the schools teach Greek mythology anymore??
wow – that was basic primer stuff when I was in school…
You do have a few interesting requests. Marina is
getting quite a long list of new words to look at.
With all the golf word requests, I thought you might
like this bit by Robin Williams. ADULT HUMOR
they told a linguist joke on the radio today:
what’s the difference between language and dialect?
– a language is a dialect with a government and an army.
I heard an explanation of Pandora’s Box as actually being Pandora’s Jar. Boxes were not used in ancient Greece. Jars were used for containing cargo on ships, etc. I still say Pandora’s Box, too. The box contained all the evils that were let loose on Earth. Sounds like the story of Adam and Eve taking a bite of the forbidden fruit, doesn’t it? The box was closed before Hope could escape. Now, here is the riddle: Why would Hope be in the box of evils?
For question #7, she already done a video on “love” and how it relates to tennis, in one of her word/lessons.
The PopTub interview with Marina is back online.
The link above works or you can click here.
POPTUB Interviews Marina AKA HotForWords
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LMJ92HDtFI
I never heard of this channel, but I’m just glad they didn’t pick that name because its reverse for “BUT(T) POP”. Butt Pop… That kinda sounds like either the moment you first begin to fart (where it feels like a bubble coming out of your ass) or an unpopular soda flavor.
LMAO at that one very good
Very interesting!
Marina,
When are you going to publish a book?
She explained on one of the sirrus shows that the deal is inked. I’ll bet, once the grammatical errors are taken care of, you’ll probably be up for a signed copy… after I get mine.
You good with that?
I am handing in the complete book by October 15th but it won’t be out until August of next year (it takes that long for books to come out!).. but it will be worth it and a lot of fun
Can’t wait!
And, I do want a signed copy, please! After all, I am one of your oldest students!
It would be neat if you had a book signing and maybe give away a HFW pen or HFW bookmark or something like that to the first 100 people and then have lunch at Blu Jam.
The question that is begged, how do you manage 119,987+ people. Oh well, just a thought….
What’s your book going to be like? I hope you have a lot of content, as well as pictures. I think it will do really well, if you not only have hot pictures in it, but also have accurate and detailed explanations of what philology and etymology are, what you do to find the word origins, and detailed word origins. I.e. a serious book, with eye candy.
Word Requests
I posted some of these before, but I thought they might have been lost in the shuffle.
Clone
Mutation
Spelling
Zoo
Zebra
Zany
I think someone metioned this one before: Frenzy
I can’t believe POPTUB removed your interview!
That’s just
Thank you cufan71 for the way you did your word request. If everyone would be so gracious to do it that way then it wouldn’t take Marina or the TA’s very long to find all of the words being requested.
Mike
You’re welcome!
It’s very sad, they decided to remove the video of your interview from their channel.
I only saw it once and Kobe was awesome.
Nevertheless, if they’re not interested in you, we are, and I think everybody here would appreciate a “remake” of your interview (made by your sister for example). I’m sure you could obtain a really better and funnier result.
Don’t give up because of dumbs. You’re still my favorite teacher.
If you could do the word “Denali” that would be great, I’ll even make a video on youtube asking you to investigate if you desire!
Interview has been removed.
Dear совершенная Marina, Many of your students say they like you so much, but do they actually treat you right? Do they send you bouquets of flowers every week? When you described your favorite perfume in your “Cologne” video, did everyone mail you some perfume? (No one should send you chocolates because you keep yourself so slender.) “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend”, so they must send you lots of jewelry, hmm? Some commenters act so possessive of you, you’d think they’ve showered you with gifts. I hope this post shames them into being nice to you! Your dear student, seesixcm6
Oh aren’t you the smooth one.
Jump up here and make the rest of us look bad. Shame on you. 
How many flowers or jewelery or cologne have you sent to Marina. You make us sound like a bunch of non caring hoodlums. hahaha
Your dear classmate, Capman911
If Marina gets lots of presents now, my purpose has been served!
I haven’t mailed to Marina any jewelry, flowers, chocolates or perfume because I’m saving up for a nice camcorder. Oh wait, I’ll see if I have a leftover bottle of “Charlie” (a perfume) to mail. They stay good for years, don’t they? seesixcm6
Good going see6, I see your ploy now. Great job. Yes Charlie lasts a long time. We all need to get together and get M a gift in December. It’s her birthday and Christmas too.
I’m always nice to Marina! I give her word requests to keep her……oh.
I’m not WORTHY
We are all worthy cufan71 especially you.
You sound sooo lame, get over yourself
I’m saving up for the good lady….could take a while, flowers, chocos, parfume same ole same ole…….beside, don’t want to come across as an obsessive in any way
…..you know, what lies between Love and Madness, an obsession 
Besides, 100,000 plus Alphas males all lusting after one georgous, amazinly beautiful, perfect genius, kind, connected, spirited, dazzling, uber sexy,….( 
obsessing again!) wonder woman is, just weird, not my thing. You guys can send the Gloxinias, the latest nose spoiler to distract the senses (really need to brush up on, everything fashionable), chocos that lead to manic outbursts….where as I, I can only offer unconditional love to Marina, to worship the ground that she walks on, be her soulbuddy rain or shine, take the dog for a walk (this dog in a bag thing…bless, really could do with a good walk!)…showering with gifts can spoil, altough, can also enlighten (read that somewhere….), oh, pretty domesticated as it goes, which is a bonus 
My Dear Teacher,
I watched your interview by Poptub, but it seems they took it down. You asked for help with the word, gizmo. Below are the best results I could find.
http://www.answers.com/topic/gizmo
Word Origin: gizmo
Origin: 1942
How did we win the war? Well, we had the right gizmo when we needed it. The term is an honorable American invention, like doodad (1877) and doohickey (1914), the latter a Navy word that helped us win World War I. A couple of decades later, when we had to make the world safe for democracy all over again, we added to our arsenal both whatchamacallit (1942) and the modern gizmo.
Nobody knows where gizmo came from, but we think the Marines told it to us. The evidence is from two articles, both published in November 1942. Leatherneck magazine explained, “When you need a word for something in a hurry and can’t think of one, it’s a gizmo.” And Yank that month agreed: “Leathernecks…even have a name for a whatsis. They call it a ‘gizmo.’” Gizmo survived the transition to civilian life and has become an indispensable verbal tool of modern technological civilization.
Good job! The earliest reference i could find was
a 1958 episode of Ruff and Reddy (Hanna Barbara)
The Men from Muni Mula (aluMinuM spelled backwards)
with a character named Professor Gizmo.
Interesting that it was Marines who coined the phrase
Ruff & Reddy</a? are fond nostalgic memories
To pronounce aluminum as a British person,
think condo-minium ( alu-minium )
Thanks, ChaCha. Your suggestion finally made sense to me.
Now, I can speak British. 
Last hello to all for the summer. word request “theme for seasons ” FALL and not fell, oh what the hell!1
That’s a good request Leonard the seasons. I would like to know where they came from also.
Hi Marina:
I found a very interesting article on Times on line.
Check this link http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article4799560.ece.
Have a nice day.
Best regards
Alidor
Dear Marina:
This POPTUB video is nothing more than a cross-promotional commercial for you and them. I’m very disappointed that you’re allowing yourself to be used in this way and taking advantage of your loyal fanbase in the process. You do this at the risk of jeopardizing your own brand in the marketplace. You have the real talent. All of these hangers-on are going to ruin what you’ve worked so hard to create! Stop the insanity!!!
Hello SurfinRI, you are entitled to your opinion, but I am disappointed that you are disappointed. Did you read any of Marina’s descriptions and or comments above and on You Tube?
After Pop Tub interviewed Marina, it was totally Marina’s idea to promote Pop Tub via an etymology spin. So, Marina wasn’t being used. She is talented and knows the value of promoting herself and others. What comes around goes around.
I could go on about Marina’s success as I have watched her grow from day one through not only self promotion, but her selfless promotion of others. Marina goes out of her way to help others be successful.
She said on YT that the promotion of other sites is a good thing. Promotions can take many forms, such as collaborations or explicit requests to subscribe to a channel as SxePhil recently promoted Marina in one of his videos.
Promotions is the harsh reality of life and you may not have ever heard of HFW had it not been for some promotion of some kind to get you here.
I clicked on your name which took me to what looks like your commercial web site. Should I tell Marina that I am offended that she might be underhandedly be promoting your commercial site? So, are you really serious about what you said?
Your points are well taken but I just think the pendulum has swung too far. I became a “HotForWords” fan because of Marina’s clever and instructive videos and wasn’t seeking any sort of promotion for a site of my own. Too many of her recent videos have become pitches for some other endeavors and I think that her focus on etymology has suffered for it. The word origin of “POPTUB”? – Give me a break!
Hi SurfinRI, thanks for your reply. I can understand where you are coming from and like you, I have winced when the etymology lessons are interrupted with commercial promotions.
Marina is sensitive to feedback and I’m sure she will reflect on what you and I are saying. She has shown great interest in resolving advertisement issues in the past such as has happened on this site from time to time. But, she is juggling many issues including how to pay for server bandwidth and many other things.
I wished I had a magic wand to have all of her lessons be pristine and promotion free. Even PBS is running commercials and the biggest slap in the face is when you are paying money to your ISP, and they run tons of ads on your email and profile pages.
So, I’m with you on the interruptions of the lessons, but not sure what the answer is, other than understanding that it is a necessary evil of life. Maybe Marina has some words of wisdom to share on this subject.
By the way, I was looking at your site and I like the maroon cap and the aviator sunglasses. See if you and Marina can work out some discount plans. Just kidding.
I think it’s a perfectly reasonable thing to do. (cross promotional commercial)
In fact .. i think she should accept filthy lucre for this kind of activity if the opportunity arises. It’s entirely up to her. Provided she doesn’t alter word definitions to suit Pepsi Cola, then it’s fine by me. (and i say that as a devout socialist – a capitalist would be of a similar opinion, but wouldn’t object to word definitions being changed.)
I personally wasn’t taken by the POPTUB channel .. but i like the idea of being shown what’s going on out there and given the opportunity to nose around elsewhere.
M’s vids are v. nice. I watch them free of charge without any kind of obligation. .. and i don’t mind a commercial every now an’ then.
I know some people don’t like commercials or adds, but they pay the bills. You can’t run a site totally free, it begins to dig into the pocketbook after awhile. So you have to have some kinda compensation to help. I have even seen sites that ask for donations just to stay on the internet. I’ll look and read the adds and commercials just to help out. You might learn something new from them.
I have to agree that it is disappointing to have been served up with such an abbreviated version of Marina’s interview. It does make it appear that they were only interested in cynically profiting from her popularity.
I see that the video of the interview has now been removed from their site, so let’s hope they are having an attack of conscience and will soon post an unexpurgated version.
If not, I think Marina should put them on her black list … or maybe offer to do an interview with them and just publish the bits that suit her.
Bob I whole heartily agree on that matter. I think Marina got the short end of the stick on the video swap. But you know how soft hearted she is.
Hello. I would like to know the origin of the word “hotbed”. As in te show is a hotbed for new talent. Thanks Marina and whens your book coming out in the U.K.?
hiya misscupcake!
i’m trying to think of wise things to say.
… erm … cogito ergo sum
Ego reputo foris arca archa , ergo , forsitan ego vires exsisto.
I think outside the box, therefore, perhaps I might be.
I don’t think I like the Latin translation, though
Ciao,
Fianchetto
hmmm … maybe:
“i think outside the box, therefore i might be someone else”?
Is this you also. Pretending to be in America
http://www.youtube.com/user/mmjj2
could be!
how cool is my gravatar ay
I love your gravatar misscupcake, except it makes me hungry for one all the time. Every time I am in the grocery store and I see a cupcake, I can’t help but think of you.
So, does that mean we can now go for a walk sometime?
Loved that 21 emotions video. You had me on the floor on that surprise ending. That was way tooooo funny. Great video.
Hi, I hope you are doing fine and keep on the good job. you are doing great and I think you are a very interesting person. I was wondering about the word “willy”. You know, its like the nick name for the men tool. why they call it willy?
you mentioned me in the interview?
aww hehe
i watched it twice and didnt see it. i think they cut it out
i love the little quacks in this video LOL! (lmw)
They cut out about 90% of the interview.
3:22 am
, That should avoid the lawnmowers. 
But what about the crickets?
That seems very strange. When I get interviewed they ask me about 5 or so questions and only broadcast about 3 of the best questions. More than half of the interview. I have lost count on how many times I have been interviewed. When I get interviewed they always do at least 50 to 80% of the questions or none at all. To ask many questions and only to show 10% is very strange. It tells me that either they are amateurs and have no idea what they are doing or they have some other idea up their sleeve. Like why would you waste 90% of your time? Walks like a duck, talks like a duck, flaps it wings like a bird then it must be a duck. I have yet to see all the videos they are making.
honi soit qui mal y pense
Marina, you myserious young lady… who rose up from behind the ironing curtain, to teach the unworthy masses. Settling youself in the unsettled geography of SOCAL, so called… in the shifting geography of the San Andreas fault . Blooming in the veritable desert of youtube & rising to a status of the brightest light in the edutainment business.
You tried to reveal your secrets to the very people who were asking you questions & they were disinterested in the very soul… the quintessence of your life’s passion… (is this, too much?)
Do your own interview,
or sis. could ask the questions. Only she coukd know how to get to you & unravel the layers of mystery, like peeling an onion. Oh the intrigue, the revelation of your machinations, unleashed on the unsuspecting … eh, or not.
Mmm, Not Convinced Teacher, Will stay Learning with you, Much more fun and sexy.
Want an Apple?
pretty dress again, request word CARD
Marina Could you look into the origin of the word sick and send me a roll aid for my sick stomach i am sick of people What know the origin of FUCK
When she gives you a rollaid could you pass one on to me also?
She did do it… the origin… & it was on the erased nixon tapes or something. Some have asked & legit. others just get off on saying it, nevertheless the experiment continues.
Marina,
Could you look into the origin of the word “fuck?” I realize it’s not the most work-safe of words out there, however it does still play a huge and very versatile role in the English Language.
Thanks in advance.
James covered that word very well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVthSNUBre4
Marina
Isn’t time for a new BIO page yet????
May it would be a good job for your TAs to work on?
Or maybe a contest “The Best Bio Page Contest”
Let’s any one that wants to write one, Try.
Anyone else think this is a good idea post ((yes / no))
Maybe Marina will come by and think it is a good idea too.
Hi Greg, I don’t think it is wise to mess with the Bio page. That is someone’s calling card and that person knows best what will work for them. Marina seems to keep that page up to date often as I see little tweaks here and there often.
But, since you brought up the subject, I think what would be a good idea is to include testimonials, maybe below the Bio or on some other page. It would be quotes of people lauding the praises of HotForWords site in general and Marina specifically.
I think unsolicited testimonials are always great. There should be more than 200 video pages and I’m sure many if not most have some great quotable testimonial quotes. A contest of solicited testimonials might also work.
I had a whole page response to you p’karl, i laff everytime I read your name btw, & hit the wrong key & lost it
… jist… no contest…, just throw out the troll comments & the hustler / drooler comments & have some of the comments that do reflect Marina’s impact on folks, the simpler the better, as everone that has a comment has different ways of expressing thought… unsolicited, with no thought towards rewards or a pat on the head, signed HFW cofffeee mug… etc.
Not a show of creative writing, but you know kinda heartfelt stuff, I’m not talking hormones and androgens, but brain stimulating expressions.
“…unsolicited, with no thought towards rewards or a pat on the head…”
hey! .. what are you getting at?
If you start a contest for unsolicited testimonials, aren’t your thereby soliciting for them.
Bob your so right. If you solicit testimonials then it waters down them as not being sincere. I’ve seen people being interview on a product that they disliked only to say the loved it on TV because people will do just about anything to get their 15 seconds of fame.
Greg, the bio page is just fine. The TAs have their work cut out on other projects that are more important to Miss M at this time.
so we have two no’s
anyone else like a say?
and one maybe? I think..
yah her bio is changing, but posting every little change is not all that neccesary. Say, maybe on her birthday or on the anniversary of her graduation, with her university degrees.
Teacher @ 22, of 17 year olds… Final Exam. Couldn’t last. Only hot teacher I had in school, was in grade 5. One high school one thought she was hot… the girls liked her.
So my “maybe” vote doesn’t count for much.
like your thinking Greg but leaning towards okay as it is. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it….theres that ain’t word again! My guess would be Marina has always got some new ideas bubbling away; always tweaking away at things in any case.
Well sorry guys I did not think I was stepping on hallowed ground here.
I think that the bio is dry and unfitting for such a colorful Woman.
It does not need to be updated all the time but it has been a while.
With all the talent that comes to this site and that is the best we can do?
I update my site everyday or so just because people need something new or they will stop coming by. Why read it again if nothing is ever new.
Hey ……..then do nothing, Captjack is happy with it along with some others.
I would like to see Capman , James , Bob or mijj take a whack at writing it. Even old pt9 and buzzy and not to be forgotten CHACHA!!
Something that is befitting such a world renown celebrity.
But I will not bring it up again if like Jack you
all think it is just good enough and want to leave it alone.
Am I the only one that think she deserves better??
How often do you check her bio page?? i don’t that often, but if she is getting lots of hits on that page, she’d know… like you are aware of yours, so your idea isn’t bad… if deemed neccesary.
LOL mijj could probably do some real (surreal) imagery on a page he’d work on.
How often? NEVER because it never changes.
K
Her Bio is like so un-special?? Vanilla at best.
Store bought vanilla. Come on…..We can’t do any better?
I still think it would be cool if each month a new editorial
/ bio is posted. It would be another reason to visit?/?
To see Marina through some news eyes. A chance to show
off their wordsmith styles. OK so jack likes store bought vanilla
I would like see a little flair…style…some- some’um
The TIGER Yes the other one no WAY Marina is Beautiful like the TIGER
The most attractive still pics of Marina I’ve found so far …
[pussycat Marina]
[necromancer Marina]
Reminded meof an old album I had…ah youth… Brain Salad Surgery
Oh yah Nice Pussy
The image i called “necromancer Marnia” is actually called “Li I”: an image of Li Tobler, Giger’s wife who died in 1975.
and, i think, so too is the Brain Salad Surgery picture. (I’ve seen statements that this is so, but not explicitly from a Giger site.)
[ELP - Emerson, Lake and Palmer : Background history by HR Giger]
… and interestingly, from that page …
”
The title of the album was supposed to be Whip Some Skull On Ya
Translated it means fellatio and the obvious thing was to combine lips, penis and skulls.
….
Keith suddenly informed me that the title of the album was now going to be Brain Salad Surgery. I was dismayed until he explained to me that this expression, likewise, connoted fellatio.
“
oh yeh .. LOL @ gaffes
When I was looking up the pictures of the album cover to post, I was wondering why the colours were different
Back in the day… wow I sound old… Album art was huge, one of my favorite bands, “Yes” always had great “Jacket art”, I’d look at the cover art while listening to the music, for hours… Roger Dean & Alice Cooper’s, snakeskin textured Billion Dollar Babies, which recently took on new meaning for me.
yeh .. there was a batch of album covers done by Hipgnosis (i think it was) .. and for some reason, one of my favorites was the Atom Heart Mother cover – which was just a bloody cow standing in a field, fergawdsake.
{runs off to get ref for Hipgnosis…}
hey!! .. i found a [Hipgnosis gallery] !!!
[more cover art work by Hipgnosis]
striking like the nailpolish detail.
My wife and I went to the state fair and one of the first exhibits we stopped at was the breeding bulls.
We went up to the first pen and there was a sign attached that said,
‘ THIS BULL MATED 50 TIMES LAST YEAR’
My wife playfully nudged me in the ribs ……..Smiled and said, ‘He mated 50 times last year.’
We walked to the second pen which had a sign attached that said,
”THIS BULL MATED 150 TIMES LAST YEAR’
My wife gave me a healthy jab and said, ‘WOW~~That’s more than twice a week! ……….You could learn a lot from him.’
We walked to the third pen and it had a sign attached that said,
in capital letters,
‘THIS BULL MATED 365 TIMES LAST YEAR’
My wife was so excited that her elbow nearly broke my ribs, and said,
‘That’s once a day ..You could REALLY learn something from this one.’
I looked at her and said,
‘Go over and ask him if it was with the same old cow.’
My condition has been upgraded from critical
to stable and I should eventually make a full recovery.
GOOD ONE
lol + tsk
Does she know you wrote it here LOL… not expecting an answer, but I’ll bet its 50/50 that she told to to send it in, thanks for the laff.
I’ve heard of that one before, but my friend on the phone had not heard it so I read it to him. He side it was worth one or two chuckles. Tnks!!
Marina
??
If you are taking request for web site name origins?
Can I request: Gregs List sand and Gravel
The largest online materials yard in Southern California?
Maybe I can ship you a box of rocks for your garden.
Sand for your Beach Volleyball court
aLx said: what’s biloba?
Gingo biloba by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Gingo Biloba: German – English side by side
interesting .. i didn’t realise there was some kind of poetic fascination with Gingko (or is it Ginkgo?) Biloba.
Thanks mijj… the correct spelling is Ginkgo. Not sure if there are acceptable alternate spellings.
it seems no matter how hard I try, I can’t ever spell Ginkgo correctly. The page of the first link has it is spelled correctly everyplace except in the upper right with the yellow writing. So, what do I do, I make a like a monkey, monkey see – monkey do and spell it wrong.
POPTUB = anagram of…
top pub
pup bot
i think there’s more to their name than meets the eye.
{ .. suspicious mode .. }
I like it!!!
Tobe’s farts sound like a duck.
that’s interesting because the farts emanated from the PUP BOT – which is an anagram of POPTUB !!
yeah. or pot pub.
Marina! ..
do you need a Research Assistant? … if you do, i would like to apply.
in the “POPTUB Interviews Marina AKA HotForWords”
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LMJ92HDtFI )
You said you wished you could have a research assistant. Now .. that was probably just for the mood of the interview. But on the offchance that there might be some truth to what you say, i’m putting my hand up!
My hand is up too!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-967crKpg-M&feature=related
I’ll research the fresh apples that must be at Marinas’ abundance.
oh ! .. is this a research race?
.. erm … i’m going to .. erm .. research .. how many pens i have in that holder over there <—- next to my monitor.
4 biros – one of which works – the green one
1 propelling pencil
1 black dvd marker pen
4 rollerball pens – green, blue and red ones work
4 fibre tip pens – all work
!! .. i win the research race .. !!
oh .. and one ordinary pencil with an eraser on the end.
… and … erm … 4 highlighter pens (blue, orange, pink, red)
oops .. nearly forgot the ballpoint pen in the shape of a dolphin.
oh no .. i forgot the ballpoint pen which doubles as a pig with fan ears that light up!
the last two were gifts in case you think i’m some kind of girly freak!
gawd .. i hope M answers and doesn’t leave it hanging.
yep – Marnina’s been in the thread and ignored the straight question. How fucking annoying. How hard is it to say “no”, ffs.
Hi Marina I just watched your pop tub interview I think you did real good. You looked very pretty. I really like that lighted picture of you on the wall that is very nice That guy puting his foot on your furniture that was disrespectful . IS that way Kobe was braking.NEXT TIME GET GUCCI and let him come over he will get his foot off your furniture. GOOD JOB MARINA
is that why
Thank you Marina for adding more info about the interview below the video up above. I wasn’t aware of “filiskun” and I like that site. Lots of creative stuff.
Heavens to Betsy (and who the heck is Betsy), that YT crowd is vicious giving you two stars. I guess they just don’t get the idea of cross promotion and it looks like most of them never read the video description to the right of the video. Maybe there should be a warning before each video that says, if you haven’t read the description before watching the video, no more detention for you.
We all cross promote when some of us give opinions and links of other content we enjoy. By the way Marina, one of the things I look forward to very often is the “My Recent Ratings” panel on your You Tube profile page. I have discovered new channels that I enjoy via your ratings. I wished the panel were taller to see the ratings that I missed.
I enjoyed the DJ Rok’s Electro remix of I Kissed a Girl and many others. I also like your Favorites and Subscriptions pages as I find new channels there.
Maybe the style of PopTub may not be for everyone, but I like it’s utilitarian features of providing interviews and a review of other interesting You Tube channels.
Self promotion is important as you already know and I have a ton of respect for you Marina as you go out of your way many times to promote other sites. Continue being who you are as your efforts are being noticed. You are a five star in my book.
yes that is nice of her to be good to others she has a good heart
Yah, I like the utilitarian features too.
This video is for all the 4th level (and beyond) comments that Me, Marina, CaptainJack, Capman911, Mijj, Buzzword, and aLx have ever posted
And it dont fuckin work…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq1Am8tBg_A
!!
So when Kobe ‘Barks’, as dogs do, what relation to ‘Bark’ from a tree is there HFWs?
Is he barking up the wrong tree or is he barking mad?
all sounds a bit ruff to me!
Nice dresses your wearing in the videos Marina with some red on yellow in each , and the little rubber ducky that other lady was holding with the red on yellow accents is bound to rub off on you and her…
each and all
Hi Marina,
I like what you do and in the format that you have been using.
I went to POPTUB and wasn’t all that impressed with Maria, the format etc. I’m “turned-off and tuned-out” with these commercialized, hype-type, talking sites. Maybe the content of the guest videos are OK… BUT… It feels like I’m watching hype TV… entertainment tonight, extra, TMZ. etc…
That said, I gotta go watch my cactus grow, sip herb tea and listen to the wind. LOL
yeh .. even in the stupidest phase of my youth i (nor my buds) wasn’t into the frenzied, hyped up, angst ridden, running around this lot seem to think is at the cutting edge.
Example of a Gizmohttp://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5395pqpGiiI
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5395pqpGiiI ortra vez
Marina, to help you with gizmo, I made you this video.. I hope it may be of some help to you
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NzwWD_FyyHQ
James
xxx
Thanks James!
Quite alright..
to or too, who cares
jayham on September 19th, 2008 10:11 pm
“Not to bad”
I think that is what you mean to say
CampKohler replied on September 20th, 2008 3:53 am:
“Not too bad” would be better.
Maybe you meant, “To (be) bad or not to (be) bad.”?
That is a question!
Marina
You said: They also interviewed me last week, and it was a pretty long interview. I talked about my other favorite channels (I mentioned lisanova, misscupcake1, filiskun)????
What about ( James ) your biggest fan next Captjack & Capman
You can promote your minions too.
Marina can I give you a little design idea for your room?
Bed Roomjust a thought
I wondered that too..
I sure she still loves you, she just could not mention everyone.
Thanks Greg for the pat on the head. That is a beautiful bed room you put up.
She should have told him that she has a staff of 50,000,000 people that do her bidding and whatever she wants them to do. It would have been so funny and almost the truth.
I second that…
poptub looks great, will check it out some more
Word request: Gloze, love to know its origin, for you to explain away
“We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.” – Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962 — TUT Oh the shame Decca, the shame…..my Grandfather had alot to say on his deathbed. One comment as follows:- “If someone doesn’t like your trousers, that’s not your problem!”….not sure where i’m going with this…..did have a valid point and reason…..nope, it’s gone.
Maybe it hasn’t been done because it is considered a swear word, but it seems to be a big part of American slang, especially for soldiers, which I was during the first Iraq war. The word, Fuck; in its different forms it seems to be used as a noun, an adverb, adjective, and even possibly as a pro-noun.
Oh, this is also my first post. And I would like to say that you are absoultely beautiful woman. I would not have been able to concentrate in the least if you were my high school teacher. I am currently in training in the Czech Republic, Brno; I believe that is the closest I have been to your home townl
I did it..
i wonder how many times “fuck” has been requested? – and each time thinking it’s unique.
Hi James,
I think both cum and orgasm is for men and women.
“I had amazing orgazm” or “I cum so hard”
really can’t switch them wouldn’t saound right.
Both mean same and both for male and women
Just weird old English – have use one word with specific sents……
Jame’s video
Hi r1wolf, Welcome to HFWs! The F word has already been done. Look under ‘word/lessons’ at the top of the page, there you will find all the previous A-Z lessons. What are you training to be in the Czech Republic?
I looked under word/lessons and only see 12 words there, none of them being the F word, which is why I asked. As far as me in Brno, my company has a manufacturing plant here for Electron Microscopes, so I am here learning from the guys that build them.
Pinkard and Bowden, again
my mistake r1wolf; certainly is covered on the maxim radio shows, if I recall correctly go back to Feb/ March, maybe a bit sooner
orgasm
good for you ilonj99
Yes, it is good for me…
The best feeling ever
better then drugs
Absolutley, just no substitute for love….’orgasm….okay, so Organ kinda blows too..wonder if any relation going on?
Umm intersting – this is a good quetion…..
Hi ilonj99. You have a beautiful web site and one beautiful family. I wish you and yours a wonderful and happy life. I am a one of the Assistants to the site and I will add your word request of “orgasm” to Marina’s list of words.
Mike
thank you
Wait one second.. How do you know he wasn’t telling us he was having an orgasm..
The web site is listed to her. Men cum women have orgasms.
Check out her site it’s very nice.
Oh. That explains a lot.. LOL
Some women cum..
Perhaps this isnt the right place to talk about this.
I really wondering, how did you fin out about my web-site?
The clip art is simply amazing, I bookmark the page.
I have special hacking powers given to me by Marina. I can hack any body’s name and find any thing I want to know about them. Like the CIA.
No just kidding ilonj99. I just clicked on your name and your site came up. You must have listed it on your profile page here. Didn’t mean to startle you about knowing about your site. 
TA MIke
That cool, i have no problem with that. I hope you enjoy it my web-site.
This reason i have it so people can see it. I just was suprized that you find it. Clipart – i didn’t for a long time not up date it. But few pictures are.
You enjoy your rest of this day, its almost a Monday back to work-week.
Im not a big fan of family photo pages but yours what the exception. Very nice.
a showstopper of a comment!
nicely done.
I wonder if it comes from ‘orgy’. Which kinda makes sense in some ways.
I just watched the PopTub interview-with-Marina video.
I think that’s the first time i’ve seen Marina as a normal human being (as opposed to the presenter/seductress in her videos).
Actually, she seems quite pleasant and relaxed… i thought she’d be all tuff n aggressive.
And as for poor Marina having no help for research – ha! … M knows any one of us would be glad to help out .. i guess she thinks we’d want to muscle into her fortune.
hey mijj, M angry, oooh, go back through the history, may find some lessons with a meaner more evil M
, – best keep on teaches good side! 
i think i’d faint if M was like [this] coming at me!
stay naughty
– faint before, during or after??? 
lol .. stoppit!! … i’m trying to concentrate on leaning Python here! Visions of M punishing me isn’t helping.
(i’m going to have to stop taking that Ginseng)
definitely.
(.. and the Ginkgo Biloba)
what’s biloba?
“biloba” is the two-lobed leaf of the Ginkgo (or is it Gingko?) tree.
do have some of these chinese tiger balls that I purchased (ripped off, saw me coming) in Singapor, were intended for migraine, did not work, but nicely packaged. Biloba??? isnt that in women hair shampoo products? aLx, you should know
natural essence from some plant, makes all shiney, rids fuzzyness, strengthens too. Now even you can have that ‘just stepped out of a salon’ look….cant wait for the scientific bit….i’m in babble mode arn’t I – PYTHON 
monty python no less? ‘want a shrubbery, nice one, split level’ ….yep, deffo waaaay past my zzzzzz time 
wouldn’t suprise me if Python is named after Monty Python … {runs off to check…}
yeh! .. you’re right ..
According to Wikkipedia:
[Python (programming language)]
“An important goal of the Python developers is making Python fun to use. This is reflected in the origin of the name (based on the television series Monty Python’s Flying Circus), in the common practice of using Monty Python references in example code, and in an occasionally playful approach to tutorials and reference materials.[62] For example, the metasyntactic variables often used in Python literature are spam and eggs, instead of the traditional foo and bar.”
Watched a few of their videos.
Bronx Cheer!!!
Frankly, I had never heard of Poptub before, which brings me to a question. where did Frankly come from?
Frank and Lee …you know, Frank, Lee……
hi marenna sorry if i spelled your name wrong. but iwas wondering where did they get the word mirror from…thank you so much…..i was also wondering if you can send me a message after posting it on youtube pleaaassseeee….love ya bunches bye hun
Frank and Lee
…you know, Frank, Lee……
oops, next one up
Thank you loveme384 for the word request of where did “mirror” come from.
Mike TA
hello mike whatever happen on the best weekend ever did marina win
I haven’t heard yet, she has been so busy with other priorities and out of town business. I haven’t even heard about the Best love letter yet either. Maybe well get some answers this week.
ok thank you
Advertisement for an ersatz company as heard on the radio:
“Brute Force Cybernetics. We create a need, then we fill it”
This site is a result of an experiment? My site is very much
experimental. PopTub is a next level jump from where I’m at.
Power to ‘em – hope they get hits
If I ever get eager, I might do it, too – someday…
For now, it’s just fun and games
do we need a new quiz? (I’m still bitter an’ twisted ‘cos M never patted me on’t head for my other honorable efforts.)
“Don’t beg at the table” LOL!
People eat first, THEN the pets.
Did you post a new Marina video?
I would love to see surfin’ Marina
“Watch out for that big wave!!
It’s got a knife!”
it’s going to be a while before i post a new attempt at a M vid. I want to make a proper attempt, and to get started i need to learn how to write scripts using Python.
.. you like the idea of huge gushing waves splashing all over M, do you? … hmmmmm … i have to say .. that suddenly sounds very appealing. … i’m not sure why.
actually .. i was looking for some green background headshots of M .. i don’t think she’s done any. (dang) .. if i’m wrong, can you let me know? … i only need a few seconds worth … i intend to only use a few seconds of video and slow it right down over a couple of minutes. (with tweening to smooth the transitions – if that looks ok)
….huge gushing waves splashing all over Marina…
Now, there’s an idea! Can you do that? LMAO
It’s never been done before…
… actually .. i think i’d better stick to my first notion of psychedelic Marina imagery.
no, continue with the wave effect
Put us up a new quiz Mijj. So we can see how we rate on it.
i suppose it’s a bit late now .. a new M-vid will probably be up soon.
Usually when her current video gets to number 24 on the site listings she up loads a new video. Sometimes it might be a little later but usually at number 24. Here is the list to go by. It is on the second page top row on the far right. That’s the 24th position from the first. Comes in handy when you want to keep an eye on when to get ready to be first to comment.
She is still listed on the fourth page now.
http://www.youtube.com/browse?s=mp&t=t&cr=US&p=2
I wonder what Marina has planned for <a href=http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/10/18/halloween/ this year?
well .. that’s interesting .. i was wondering earlier if there was a strategy to the timing of the uploads or if it was ad-hoc.
What the?? Let’s try this AGAIN!!!
I wonder what Marina has planned for Halloween this year?
…that’s more like it!
I have been going through her videos and trying to pick out Halloween related words and forwarding them to her. So who knows but Miss M.
She filled us in on that little secret about 10 videos back.
you mean the TAs or everyone? …. i must have missed that! .. .not paying attention!
That was to everyone she told in a comment to us.
Mijj do one of the Detrunkus video .That way you could get waves splashing on her and maybe detrucus too.
yeah, mijj, that way you could show your butt, too.
Why do we say, “suit yourself”? Isn’t that just telling the other person to get dressed?
Hi Marina, how are you ?
I live in Morocco and I was wondering what the word ‘morocco’ comes from. Actually, in local language, we do not call the country ‘morocco’.
Thanks abv for the word request of morocco.
TA Mike
I think there are other countries that don’t go by foreign names, but are called that for some reason. For example: Japan is called Nihon in Japanese.
Hey James I just got out of bed here at 1:30pm. I thought I would sleep in late since I waited up so long for the new vid, but it never came so I went to bed. I am still tired so I think I am going back to bed. See you later.
I would like to request the my favorite word ‘Heretic’, if at all possible
Thanks trayus for your word request of ‘Heretic’,
TA Mike
Hello,, Anyone here>?
nope
First person to reply to me 2 day. Thanks
Hey young pal I replied to you two comments up about 11:06 am.
Oh, that was handy.. Just reset my alarm clock (electricity was turned off earlier) to 1:31 until I looked again then realised I was fine and its half past midnight.. I still need sleep though.. Long train journey tomorrow..
Be safe my friend and come back to us in one piece.
I will do.. And as someone who don’t like going to deep, I would like to congratulate you on not doing X level replies and replying to me like this. this is a prime example of how a good thread should be.
LOL WHAT BOLLOX
Hey, HotForWords!
I was wondering, what’s the origin of the word “balderdash”? I thought this was a good one because Balderdash is also the name of a game about interesting words. Please respond if you can!
Thanks for listening!
Thanks preevyew for your word request of “balderdash”.
TA Mike
совершенная Marina,
Your dear student, seesixcm6
Your homework assignment was to watch Pottub, then tell you what I think: Well, I watched both Pottub and Maria’s site, mariagsansone, and I think: Maria Sansone speaks with more energy, at a faster pace, and without an accent. Her hair is nice and thick, her breasts seem placed higher, she moves her body with energy. She seems to be a fun person and she’s easier to understand, since I won’t have to learn the Russian language.
Of course, I’m still loyal to you, Marina, because you told me you are a great cook, and I don’t know if Maria can make a nice cup of tea, yet. I also noticed you put new bed coverings on your bed. Did we get them messy, last night?
What an interesting comparative analysis.
You may have given this more thought than
it really needed, but you point of view is…
entertaining.
It might be because I’m one of the few who does Marina’s homework every time. I hope Marina appreciates that and that I’m still loyal to Marina, even after seeing fresh, new, Maria who has thicker, longer hair, speaks my language and smiles more often! seesixcm6
…..just to even think about comparing Marina to whoever
….just not an option. How could you, just what were you thinking…sure, I do confess, there are many beautiful women that grace this planet, all unique as we all are but Marina, oh my, is certainly one of a kind. The one and only, number one GODDESS of this world, the one……the bench mark for all women, Sexy & Intelligent, clever & georgous, super fun just so scrummy. I weep at your comments, “Fresh new Maria” 
……then go seesixcm6, leave us to join your fresh new class, if you seek longer hair with accent less of a challenge, watch porn i guess 
….loyal, my arse 
…..no offence intended Maria, you are very, you, doing a great job of that, keep that going…..learn from Marina. Seesixcm6, shame on you 
My Goodness, it’s so easy to be misunderstood, here! Just the other day, Marina was The Perfect Woman, and mijj hinted Marina and I, seesixcm6, were going to have a baby! The point of my post was that I’m still loyal to Marina, regardless of Maria. (And no, I won’t describe Maria’s looks, again.)
seesixcm6
maria? who the fuck is maria?
Describe Maria or any other lady all you want too seesixcm6. I like the way you describe them. We all know which lady is number 1 here. Oh and by the way she is promised to me. I have the proof.
Capman911, Is your proof a Marriage Certificate with Marina? Maybe it’s a Birth Certificate? Because I have Army Signal Corps secrets in my head, I doubt if our DOD would let me marry an FSB agent, anyway. совершенная Marina and I could make beautiful music, together.
ALX, I think you were trying to make me describe her, again.
Maria
seesixcm6
…hhhmmmm, just dont you be going having any affairs seesixcm6
Here you go seesixcm6 my proof where we got engaged.
You have to read it all. 
Proposal
OK, Capman911, I’ve read it all and smehow I didn’t reach the same conclusion. Now, you could provide tangible evidence if you would send Marina a nice bouquet of flowers every week. (In Southern California, florists have flowers throughout the year.) In her “Cologne” video, she told us which perfume is her favorite: Are you mailing her more of that perfume? Oh, and mail her jewelry, too. As they say, “diamonds are a girl’s best friend.”
I’ll look forward to Marina’s video where she describes all the gifts and flowers you’ve showered upon her! You know how to treat a girl right, don’t you? 
seesixcm6
…didn’t even get down on one knee
..so, before you do get married capman911, I guess the only bit of advice I could give right now would be that there are in-laws and there are out-laws. The out-laws are always wanted!
Ok. The only flowers I have sent her is by pictures of them on here. I have sent her Roses other items from here also from cakes to cupcakes you know little sweet things. I still have her ring when she wants it, but she really hasn’t committed herself yet.
I have tried, but I think Kobe has taken the place in her heart over me. 
So I’ll have to take second place for now. And yes I do know how to treat a Lady, especially this one. So I guess we can all still flirt with her as she hasn’t made up her mind yet. Let the best person win 
I am not giving up though. There is always hope. 
Dear Koda:
My homework (Koby stay away from this!):
I’m sorry to say POPTUB doesn’t arouse me whereas YouTube, HOTTUBS and you do.
P.S. I’m waiting for your “double U” video.
P.S.S. Remember your posture, striate back, shoulders back and chest out.
P.S.S.S Gee, I hope Koby is alright
On the “double u” topic, I think it is interesting how the Welsh use the “W” as a long “u” sound. Like in English, we use “Y” for either an “i” or “e” sound.
For instance, “blaidd drwg” is Welsh for “bad wolf”. I don’t know… I’m kind of a Doctor Who fan. I wonder what other languages use “W” in the same manner.
Well “Whovians” in the know
, know there is no Doctor Who, just “THE DOCTOR” 
. The current regen in the image of Dave Tennant is an impersonator 
. He in reality actually is, Barty Crouch Junior, a convicted Death Eater 
, cause when JK 
casts her charms no one is able to resist them, that includes all Time Lords and Ladies 
. When the EXPERALAMUS! Hits, you lose it all, which tends to make your clothes very messy 
.
re: 0:59 “…the original idea was to call the new channel The Tube”
Incidentally, the name “The Tube” (a TV music network) was founded by Les Garland of MTV / VH1 fame and was a subsidiary of The Tube Media founded in 2003.
In L.A., “The Tube” aired music videos 24/7 on digital channel TV 5.5 from 2003 – 2007 similar to the original MTV / VH1. The music programming was awesome and is now dead.
“You Tube” was founded in Feb 2005 and was bought by Google in 2006. Interesting coincidences?
Oh well, back to watching the Ministry of Sound.
Hey Karl. Have you watched V for Vendetta yet. I watched it last night with Natalie Portman and it was a great movie. I would watch it again if it came on tonight. Have a good one.
Mike
Once owned a 1971 AMC Gremlin its name was Gizmo. Pay $100 for it and it ran real good, never got around to pimp it out though.
What’s the name of your car
first car named it, Mini. gets vauge from there on however do remember other cars; Bessy, Toady, Bluey, Sexy Beast, moomin mobile, Dave, Top Dog, Ted Rogers, Sambo. All ranging from £50 cheap n chearful to uber sports waste of money. Ted Rogers was best, three, two, one…3 cars in one, part Ford mixed with some Japanese, glued with wet paper, chewy gum accoumpanied with an ‘offical’ looking bit of paper saying it was all good! Pimp would have loved to get on that little number
Looks like Kobe had a good interview. Marina wasn’t bad either
Kobe was cute wasn’t he. It seemed like he didn’t like the closeup the camera man was giving him towards the end.
So far this old duffer isn’t thrilled with poptub at all,Marina’s interview was good and that Maria Sandoz(?) chickie sure has it all in the right place and is a looker but other than that,I saw nuthin fantastic. I was not a happy camper when I clicked on the ACDC one and it was dancers! WTF?! I guess the “so far” says alot tho,I *may* check it out again someday,You know,to see if it improves.
I friggin **love** seeing links within Your vids Marina,it is a *great* idea,at least until/unless they become commercial links. There’s more than enough commercials on television.
I better finish My coffee(mississippi mud style)so I can break negative mood1
“Sandoz” = Sansone,,,,oops.
The blacker the older the better for me on the coffee. I like the way the old Navy guys used to make, strong and black.
Princess,On,Pill,Tiller,Up,Babys
Dear Marina:
On youtube, someone hast just said we were all twats.
Could you please give us a vlog lesson about the origin/s, meaning/s and story/ies of the word “TWAT”? Thank you!
Your trustful
HotForNumbers.
We’re not all twats .. are we? … surely not!
{.. wonders whether to be outraged .. or nod sagely in agreement ..}
oh, the price of being in the biggest, most evidently famous educational class in the world. Twats have uses so I’ll take that as a compliment….
I remember the last time someone on Marina’s YouTube site said something bad about us we went over there and had one hell of a flame war with the blok. But it didn’t do any good the next day someone else said something else so we left it alone so they wouldn’t follow us back here and continue the war. M chewed our areses out for it for having flame wars on her site. So we kinda learned another lesson “verbally” from the teacher that day. So we stay calm and collective and overlook the hatred from others.
Hi everyone.. I have been jailbreaking my ipod for ages.. I hate the 2.0 software.. Was up til 2o clock last night sorting it out
OK Marina,
Just being honest.
My thoughts during your interview with them visiting you…
“Hey A$$ H@#% get your filthy shoes off the furniture”
Glad to see Kobe has landed.
Was the book he is chewing on his pilot’s log book.
Interesting pattern on your bed spread. Hope Kobe wasn’t being artistic on his flight.
Gizmo is the shortened form of Gizmacho.
Gizmacho is a nonsense word without meaning that is uttered during a brain fart by a worker to a helper when the worker is so strongly concentrating on a problem at hand and it’s solution that he can’t recall the specific name of the tool he needs.
Or the helper is so unfamiliar with the name of tools he wouldn’t bring the correct tool.
Usually accompanied by specific pointing at the tool desired.
As in “Hand me the Gizmacho”.
It’s akin to calling a hammer a ham banger and not a bangey thing.
It’s not macho for a man to refer to tool as ‘ey’ or ‘ee’ anything.
So why do they call their tools “Willy”?
when decorating the other evening accidently sending everything flying across the room, my helping friends called me a tool, “Matt you tool” implying that I was being a knob
what? y’all haven’t ever been to Giz, MO?…
nice town, but the economy suffers there ’cause all they do is work on crazy inventions that never sell…
y’all should get out more…
Word Request: plagiarism – meaning to steal and pass off the ideas or words of another as one’s own. This seems to have an interesting origin which is also being challenged.
silly buggers ..
they should have called it the Choob
“Gizmo” The Neighborhood Electric Vehicle
Kinda looks like a sawn-off Messerschmitt KR175/200
More info on the word Gizmo.
The following is highly speculative. If you are not into speculative thoughts, read no further.
In my other comment below, I provide sources in time where the word gizmo may have started, and until the details can be uncovered, there still is no clue as to how the word came about. The following speculations may shed some light on the origin of the word gizmo, but lots of research is needed to back up these speculations.
1. Mis-vocalizations (butchering) of foreign phrases.
A person on a Linguist List forum speculated that gizmo may have come from butchering the honorific form of thank you in Japanese which would be “arigato gozaimasu”. This person asks the question if it was possible that the Japanese phrase became butchered to “arigato gizmo”. Further speculation on “arigato” would turn into “a rig” which would turn into “a rigged up gizmo” which eventually would point to a contraption.
Listserv on linguistlist.org
2. Mis heard phrases due to dialects, accents, noise, homonyms, etc.
I was in the service and have experienced lots of these types of situations. Perhaps a Marine barked an order like, “Get some more…” maybe referring to some hardware. With a dialect or accent, that might have sounded like “git sum mo” which may have been heard as “git’sm mo” which became “gizmo”?
3. The US has a base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba which is sometimes abbreviated GTMO or Gitmo. The only way I could speculate in how the word Gitmo evolved into gizmo would be via radio operators who may have misheard Gitmo referring to a radio contraption.
4. When using the word contraption, Rube Goldberg comes to mind. In France, a similar contraption is “usine à gaz”. Since Rube was Jewish, perhaps gizmo has a Yiddish origin and the Marines made some reference to a Rube Goldberg contraption.
– End of Speculations –
Straws with you, Marina.
As a possible origin for “gizmo”, the author in this link may be clutching at straws, but it’s a fun idea anyway, and worth a look (for a giggle, if nothing else).
That’s funny Bob, I found that same reference and just posted my comment above, but had not seen your post yet until now.
“a whatchamacallit” or “thingymajig”…gizmo. Leaning towards the Japanese place of origin. Sounds Japanese
An ex-wolf certainly must be on his metal when handling his tools … or is that on his Mattel when playing with his toys.
Hmm … Russian Barbie or American Girl? No contest.
[Financial crisis: Default by the US government is no longer unthinkable]
[video: The Money Masters - How International Bankers Gained Control of America]
Hello mijj,
NWO. and
Fedreral Reserve
Our posts are off topic but interesting.
How about a break from this serious note.
i dunno, Warren.
i believe that throwing in some stuff that’s in stark contrast to the tone of this site highlights its benefits magnificently.
that 3 1/2 vid is good rational stuff, btw .. erm not like the weird wacky stuff you seem to be pointing to.
Honest. (illuminati, indeed. New world order .. ha! … what’s wrong with plain old greedy bankers?)
Its nice to see you back in the bedroom Marina
Marina, I found a very interesting paragraph regarding gizmo with enough information to start the “ball of wax rolling”. Geeez, where did that phrase come from?
From the word detective page link that Warren also supplied below, it says about gizmo:
The following info goes deeper:
Leatherneck Magazine
Now, to find the Marine (not to be confused with Marina) that started it all. Who knows, maybe he is a HFW subscriber.
I obey blindly MASTER MARINA ! woof !
MISTRESS MARINA, surely?
checks ddc’s spex
a new kind of mechanical clock:
[The Corpus Clock and the Chronophage]
Nice video ! It shows the human genius but it is also scary ! The time eats us !
Yea I just seen that in the news yesterday. Thats an awesome clock. I hear they might offer something for the public. If they do I might get one. Thanks for the post. I was just too busy to post it myself.
yw …
… i thought i should have posted it in the Grandfather Clock thread … but noone goes back to the old threads usually do they?
Not really. It’s best to post things like that there. We are always talking off topic here anyways. I don’t see any harm. In fact I think it really generates more discussions and keeps the site active. Im all for it and I think Marina is too.
mijj said:
“…i thought i should have posted it in the Grandfather Clock thread”
Hey mijj, go post a comment on the Grandfather Clock page and say something like, “And now let me travel to the future and provide this link for you”, which points to your comment here.
That’ll freak someone out that visits that page.
but
i’d have to travel into the past to do that – and i don’t know how.
i definitely liked the “click the link” bit at the end.
I wasn’t going to click the link … i had no intention of clicking the link .. i held out .. but M got through to me in the end .. she’s damned persuasive!!
i’m going to watch that “click the link” bit again – it’s cute
a bit about olympic gold something or other
a bit about big night of stars
other celebrity stuff
hmmm .. not a big fan of shouty excited celebrity stuff. .. .i hate celebrities.
i guess the selecton of what’s interesting on the tube is ok .. but i feel dirty for being on the poptub channel (cos of celeb fixation).
i’ll stick to Digg and reddit for random stuff that’s popular and worth looking at.
however .. a good idea to use an occasional slot to promote someone else’s stuff.
I agree.
I’m certainly not clicking a link to see some bird shouting, when Marina is still sitting there pouting.
yeh .. what is it with these yank presenters? .. don’t they realise shouting and jumping up and down getting excited is scary?
Hello Marina,
Ok, Homework- I visited POPTUB and I subsribed.
Maria Sansone was great on “The 9″. Thank you Marina for the link to POPTUB channel. I have to get back to catching up with your shows but I found a refrence to gizmo- not the origin of gizmo unfortunately.
Also some gizmo fun
So it originated in the U.S.Navy?
must investigate!
Captain Jack, a.k.a. Hachtforyachts,
What the heck are you guys talking about?
Hello Bob,
Just like Jimmy Durante once said; “Everybody wants to get into de act”. I thought that I scared you off with that obscure reference to
Guy Fawkes.
I was going to call you a “clever guy” at the time as I was looking through the Morris reference dictionary and then I thought that maybe “guy” was a bad name in your parts.
I looked up “guy” and that was the only reference that was in there.
Sometimes I type things out and the words come out wrong
Hi Warren,
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I must have missed your Guy Fawkes post, probably lost amongst other people’s chatter. Can’t keep up with everything on here; I don’t know how Marina manages (or womanages
Anyway, don’t ever worry about offending or scaring me; my skin is thicker than a rhinoceros’s (Spearmint-proof – another obscure reference for you to ponder on
Hello Bob,
Good. Let’s hit the pub and play some darts.
Those Guys really don’t like caravans, do they?
ok .. ok ok .. i clicked the link!!
tsk .. nag
Thanks for the info Marina. I used to watch Maria Sansone when she was on Yahoo. I also watched your great interview on PopTub with Nick Vitale.
POPTUB Interviews Marina
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LMJ92HDtFI
Since you can’t find the origin of gizmo, maybe it was I who started that?
Been using that word for a long time. Hmmm, I’ll let you know what I find.
Gizmo… isn’t that the name of the little furry guy from gremlins
i think M should have spent more time thinking about church this morning and less about getting the word lesson up. She’ll go to hell if she’s not careful.
i get up and what do i find?
a poptub!!
what in tarnation is a poptub?
Yahoo used to have a daily vlog video compilation show called “The 9 on Yahoo” hosted by Maria Sansone
http://www.mariasansone.com/
The show is no more http://9.yahoo.com/index.php
and has now evolved into Popub which is about YT stars and viral videos, favorite celebs, etc.
http://www.youtube.com/poptub
aha! .. thanks. See? .. you did a better job than M.
I caught that site while messing around on YT. I have added it on my subscriptions. Great channel.
Guess it is a slow night.
I have to be up for work in less than 6 hrs. I think I’ll go to bed before people think I’m weird for talking to myself
You are talking to yourself. Im not really here.
HELLO???
Hello Hello Hello Hello oooooo Echo Echo oooo
Testing 123. test test…
123
where is everyone
I’m here. Congrats on first post. I was surprised she posted a vid this late in the day.
Thank goodness your here I was getting a little stir crazy (WORD REQUEST???) here all alone
ONE
I knew that that link woul;d be that