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America… I Love… Politicians (I hate) who want da common folk to have sympathy for them when dey Travel, Dine, n receive Free Gifts all at da Taxpayers Expense and from those rich lobbyist organizations, unions n corporations(Many Tax-Free) while breaking da backs of of the peoples to earn Boo-ku Bucks for their Ceo’s; all the while making monies on all different fronts, as consultants and other various jobs while only actually working half the hours on the Jobs they are Hired or Elected to do and screwing it up for everybody.Screw Arlen Specter: Liar, Traitor, Yes Man in the Gov’t Mob! …Yes I’m From PA!
My main pet peeve is when a comment/topic/video description is full of spelling errors and/or grammatical errors.
People should take the time to type texts without making mistakes.
So, your soul is sole rolled like roe;(fished and schooled before hatched) and role modeled in a pretty row!…be cool and correct me for better wRighting skills my english!
;…crap!!!.. I lost my [cognition]
People who chew with their mouth open
Funny video Karl
i like the video @ the end. 5 *’s
my brother
no seriously!!
Pet Peeve: Why do they make mute button on remote controls invariably the smallest, hardest to locate button? The mute button should be the biggest, easiiest button to located.
Related pet peeve: whoever is writing commercials for television and radio should fall on their swords. They create hideous looking and ugly sounding commercials that people want to mute. One would think that they would make commercials that were beautiful to look at, like some of the SuperBowl commercials. (Damn it, it’s tough to find the remote control when reclined back in a Lazy Boy lounge chair.)
I’ve had a little time to think about it and its hard for me to say what my biggest pet peeve is. I want to say people in general, but there are other people I have anger issues towards.
I don’t even care what people think of me. You can probably think of me as a rude, vulgar, perverted, offensive jackass for all I care….. I’d like to consider myself as fearless.
Nice Homepage/Profile, i look every Day on It! You look awesome as well!
Now my Request: Where exactly does the Word “Nuance” came from?
greetings,
burtons78
wair das the word Chihuahua cum from?
Another word thats quite common is Communism. I’m not sure if its from the French Commune or from other places.
One of my pet peeves:
It bothers me shen people say “less people” or “less players,” instead of “fewer people” or “fewer players.”
….and when people misspell the word “when.”
my word is BATTERY
my word is ROFLCOPTER i really don’t know what it means but most of the people i know say it all the time so if you know what it means could you please tell me because i don’t
Hey Marina
As always, beautifully educational! An interesting word for you – can you tell me what is so special about the word CLEAVE and where it originated from?
Look forward to hearing from you.
Eendraai
It is the special thing about CLEAVE that needs answering – what makes it different to any other word in the English language?
With the phrase “joe blow won hands down” where’d that phrase come from?
I have a word request: I learned in my Chemistry class what a mole was. It is a measurement in which you can measure how many atoms are inside an element. (6.022×10^23) So where did the word “mole” come from? thnx so much!
New vid is up.
DeeDoubleYou: I heard a program on BBC Radio 4 a couple of weeks ago which gave the origin of “Bees Knees”. I think it was around the 1920s or so, the media had a craze with inventing new words/phrases to mean “wonderful” or “fabulous” – and somehow combining an animal with a body part to form a phrase caught on.
(While searching to back the above up, found the following bit confirmed on Wiktionary, the dictionary counterpart to Wikipedia):
Some, like “Bee’s Knees” and “Cat’s Whiskers” survived, together with some even odder variants, like “Cat’s pyjamas” and “dog’s bollocks” (don’t ask!), others didn’t, like “eel’s ankle”,”elephant’s instep”, and “snake’s hip”.
Wiktionary (which sort of confirms the etymology heard on R4) offers additional potential etymologies:
“Slang coined in the 1920s. Stories in circulation about the phrase’s origin include: “b’s and e’s”, short for “be-alls and end-alls”; and a corruption of “business”.”
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Just thought – this could be an additional line of videos – for words where the etymology is uncertain, ask us to assist you in tracking the origins of the word! Sort of like an international version of the Oxford English Dictionary’s “Wordhunt” they had a couple of years ago (where they asked the UK public to help track down etymologies / first known usage of words/phrases, with the aid of a BBC TV programme called “Balderdash and Piffle” [yes, the programme did investigate it's own title!])
homework part 2 (do I get extra credit?): My “best” one is negativity. I like good Ju-Ju. Some call it Karma, positive energy, reaping what you sow… whatever. Sometimes, though, I get really negative about negativity. Does that make me a hypocrite? Ooh! Another pet peeve!
homework: My worst one is food-smacky noises. It drives me crazy. Now, I have got my kids so they cannot stand it either. Pet peeves and OCD seem to be related.
You asked for words for pants in another video. How about breeks = брюки = britches.
See A.A. Milne, “the old sailor” for example of the word “breeks”.
My pet peeve (at work):
People who disappear for a meeting or whatever, leaving their mobile turned on and voicemail turned off. So someone inevitably will ring them, and you’ll hear either (a) a dodgy rendition of a pop song, or (possibly even worse) (b) the default Nokia ringtone (that four bar “melody”) playing for minutes upon end before the caller finally realises that no-one’s going to answer the phone.
It happens with work phones as well – some people don’t divert them elsewhere when they’re not in the office, so the phone will just ring and ring and ring and ring…
-oOo-
Meanwhile, 290 videos posted so far – you’ll be up to 300 by the end of the month (if not before)! Another milestone to celebrate!
(Well, 292 if you count hot4words as well as hotforwords…)
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Since he features so much in your videos (but probably doesn’t realise it!), how about a page somewhere introducing your dog?
W.O.R.D. R.E.Q.U.E.S.T.
the word is syllable
since ive started watching your vids ive seen words with alot of syllables so im wondering… where does it come from
Hi, Marina
In the past year or 2, I have often heard commentators on news programs (such as CNN, MSNBC) use the term “sea change”. What the heck is that? I can assume from context that it refers to a dramatic change, but my husband and I do not know the exact definition or origin of the phrase. Help, please?
I often do word games and Spanish “modismos” with my students, so I enjoy your videos.
Marilyn
Season of the Witch
Voodoo Child
nice one!
Marina are you ready to upload another video. Your already at number 26, wow so fast on this one.
Pet Peeves, hmm…Congress?
fingernails across the blackboard,
bandwidth robbing spam,
buying gasoline, buying food,
Ugh! I’m going to stop, now
Yea it doesn’t look like your eating enough.
Out of gas already,
Pet peeves: Students who screw up and then say “I’m going to tell my Mom>”
People who cut you off in traffic or jump a long line.
Still got a full tank
See you tomorrow, Gus-Gus!
Dear совершенная Marina, For your homework, my (mild) pet peeve is that I am always (yes, always) “Mr. Fixit” at the office. I’m called upon to fix paper jams in the copier, the printers, typewriters, PC glitches, coffeemaker problems, furniture adjustments and other repairs. I still do it for two reasons: (1) If I can fix it in ten to fifteen minutes, it prevents “downtime” and loss of production. (2) It usually saves lots of money over calling for an expensive repairperson to do the job. Besides, it my evaluations as employee and adds to my resume.
I missed this video last night because I went out. But I can forecast something: That the zipper on the left side of your mini-skirt has “YKK” marked on it! 
Your dear student, seesixcm6
Much like the late George Carlin(RIP), I don’t have pet peeves. I have major, psychotic f****** hatreds *lol* One of which is being kept in the dark about anything concerning my family/friends.
@ Chevolay. Yea I just crawled out of bed about an hour ago. We ran out of stumps and pallets and started on anything we could find to burn. The weather was just perfect for a night out in the yard killing some cold ones and and listening to some music. I got to bed about 2 am this morning. I stayed up a little longer after talking to you. Had a few more to finish off. No bad hang over really.
Good afternoon Capman!
Sounds like you had an awesome party! 
Yea it was great. The only thing that could of made it better would have been for all of my HotForWord’s friends could have been there.
Hi, Just got back, glad to hear you had a good time
Tks again, I now can do the links with words,
As you know if you saw the Fire on the Mountain song
Yes I did and congratz.
My biggest pet peeve is people that cut you off in traffic, without using a turn signal. Just one more the house phone a waste of money having one.
Great video, great lesson and a great wall for the green screen.
Views: 44,444
Odd number..
Looks like YT have sorted things out though
YAY
Err … Even number.
One of my pet peeves is poor grammar!
I also have a word request, rather a phrase request.
It is:
Bee’s Knees
As in he/she is the “bee’s knees”
Thank you!
Who sent me the Boston University shirt? I can’t find the comments in the past where someone said they were going to do that. Do any of you remember someone saying that?
I wanted to thank him!
Marina
I don’t know… Hmm… Lets just say it was me… No.. When I have the money I am sending a bottle of poison… Dior poison
I went to the search feature and typed in several words including shirt, Boston and came up with nothing. Sorry.
Look who finally woke up
Last of the stump burners
Maybe it was on your YouTube site.
or her.
I remember it being a guy.. but of course I could be wrong!!!
‘cut to the chase’
OLE
TARMAC
COMMODE
PISSOIR
FEDERAL
BOOZE
TRAIN from TRAINING
PEEPING TOM
LEEWAY
DRINK YOU UNDER THE TABLE
JACK OF ALL TRADES
FOUL
ARCADE
BREAKFAST
DIBS
FRESTYLE
ROCK AND ROLL
SUEY
TAXICAB and TAXIDERMY
SHAMPOO
ALECK
Hotforwords!!! Can you do a video on the word, appetizer?
my pet peeve, zealots.
DentalStu3
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Hi-
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Hi-
Hi there i saw ur video and was wondering if you would be able to do one for me Im a studying dental student on a stupid Dental assignment lol. I Really would need to see ur mouth and teeth, Please let me know when/if you can do it And have it emailed to me Thanks alot for your help with this
HAHA Nice try Mr MouthFetish
a pet peeve everyone thinks they should have a voice in how a couple should have sex and then they find out it backfired on them
My word request: What does the P and the U stand for in P U that stinks! Thanks!
Good one et00880! I’ve actually been researching that one and it’s TOUGH!!! I literally CANNOT find anything yet… but hammering away! If anyone here can get some clues, please fill me in.
Always though it was from saying “Pew”
the onomatopoeia sound you make when
you encounter a foul smell
Or sounds more like “phew” or “pheu”
spell checker likes “phew” ni red line under it
I agree with chevolay; onomatopoeic.
PU is an abbreviation for “phew”
because PU sounds like “phew”
people didn’t know how to spell “phew” when writing
so they wrote PU
That all I got
huh? i thought it was “phew” or “iew” or something. an interjection expressing disgust?
but “p u”? pee you? :/
Pepe La Phew
Try this Miss M.
P.U.
Capman911, I think you are right on.
My word request: jeopardy ! ;D
If I second that, is it double jeopardy?
annudder pet peeve is when someone misrepresent themself as more or different than what they really are…
hmmm…oh, and word request: juxtaposition…
hello! my pet peeve is people who have smoke around me. i havent had cigarettes for 2 days. i will absolutely quit smoking.
Good for you Felicity. We are all proud of you for trying. I know you will succeed.
My pet peeve is so normal and that is between what makes civil of people. Sundays are best at the tea-t-chers snuglet of shelter and food.
no one is ever late—so much work—you are my pet
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Hi Marina, i’d like to know the origin of the word “Sexy”.
Thank you, bye bye!!!
I have several, but one pet peeve that I have is people who do not know how or care to return shopping carts to the right place! They either leave them in the middle of the parking lot or they just roll the toward the return without taking time to keep them in order!
But, one of the funniest things I ever saw was a CAR in a cart return!
That’s funny cufan71, a CAR! It must have been a real small car, right?
Oh yes! Another funny thing was that other people were putting carts behind the car to block it in!!!
Reminds me when my mother couldnt find a slot at a super market. She removed the trollies then ‘shoved’ her mini into the slot; only this action sent the front bumper flying a few rows just avoiding somebody! Crazy woman when she is on a mission, almost dangerous to man kind!
pet peeve!!
When someone has a problem with what you say or do and doesn’t come out and say what the problem is to your face! .. the one’s of the “if you don’t know, then i’m not going to tell you” frame of mind. .. they keep to themselves and get into a mysterious huff.
real annoying.
i don’t really know why, but for some weird reason i think my pet peeve is related to yours.
i’m surprised that this is apparently no-one’s pet peeve.
i hate it when people don’t keep their promises, when they say they’d do something and then don’t do it. that’s just … disappointing and annoying as hell.
yeh .. like they don’t have the nerve to be honest in the first place.
(resets the counter for quitting the site for a few days)
i ain’t got time to be dealing with extra bullshit. if people hate me or got some problem just fucking say it. so many great ways to convey that message. like, “i fucking hate you.” that makes my life so much more simple, doesn’t even piss me off. and promises yeah, like what the fuck is a promise supposed to mean? if something happened beyond ones control that makes fulfilling that promise difficult or impossible then i understand. but to just renege on a promise pisses me off, then i’d explain, “you broke your promise, i fucking hate you.” both peeves mentioned could really simplify life, promises and honesty. yeah, looks like i have a kennel of pet peeves.
i hate you.
oh .. i forgot …
+
(.. resets the timer for quitting the site for a few days ..)
Have some Cheery Pie before you go
I WANT SOME CHERRY PIE
(.. resets the timer for quitting the site for a few days ..)
+
i thought i should offer up something in return.
not quite as good, but in the right spirit, i think.
[ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin]
(.. resets the timer ..)
ditto, you shit head! har har har
i applaud you for your honesty!
{… applauds, then kicks buzz in the nuts ..}
oh… was that you? right left
oh .. btw … re your rant about people not coming out and saying they hate you …
… i’m temporarily breaking my self-imposed exile cos it occurred to me last night that the opposite of love is indifference (not hate), and if they’re indifferent to you, you’re not likely to be told.
Marina. Here is the audio.. Its only viewable by you so its pointless anyone else clicking it!!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kb0IQf_MiX0
wth is that
So funny James!
I know! He still won’t tell me what programme he used. He said he didn’t.. You actually said it to him..
yeah, it’s hard to accept to truth sometimes, right ?
-.-
ok now show me !!! is that the thing i send you or wat….
Yes.. If it was the truth
James… don’t be so gullible! I think I need to feature your remix video… I’ll put it in the Shout-Out area.
He said you told it to him which I don’t believe at all, I think I worded it wrong. Thanks for feature by the way!!!
still not exactly knowing wat is in that video he’s showing, but still…. im sorry if i ofended you in any way, it was just to tease james and he took it to srsly….again -.-
@james, just check the mens dictionary vid and the rest was from some vid she was stretching in…
maybe one day………. 
i’m off to bed again ,i’m so freaking tired this aint normal!! I think I might have kissing desease….. nah can’t be that ….marina, r you tired to? just joking hehe srry (lame-,-), bad humor must be a symptom to of this thing I have …
Hey I got a new word, Bafflegab. I heard it oneday when I was in class.
Can someone help me please. I shut the lid on my laptop and now the screen size is huge like in safe mode and I can’t turn it off I have got into the screen resolution bit in the control panel but I don’t know what to press. It doesn’t help that my brother isn’t in either.
If you mean huge as in huge letters, icons, etc then your resolution is low (perhaps 640Xnnn etc.) bump it up a resolution. they usually
have only a set amount of choices.
If it doesn’t do anything, perhaps something has re-arranged
data in your “Graphics Driver” – which is also in your Control-Panel.
Get to that section (Control Panel; Graphics Driver) and instruct it to
download the latest update.
its OK I have sorted it
Pet peeve? I like doing things and getting them done. So, to do
most anything twice in a work-like sense becomes a pet peeve.
Not everything though. i like old re-runs of TV shows, ie. It’s just
those things considered a chore.
* LOL !! * You are coming along fine with your training. Now, If you
can project your voice without moving your lips and adversely keep
your lips moving while making no sound at all, you can join the many
martial – arts kick-butt B – films!
And Chuck is a good start, being old and busted ….
Can you own Jackie Chan ? Jet Li, next – you know – together ?
(Always Fun! Thanks!)
* – Pick HURRICANE next ! There are other words for such storms:
Cyclone, tornado is not quite a hurricane and storm just to generalize.
Why does HURRICANE so special that it even gets a name?
uuuhh….. I think i can go on all day ranting but i’ll try to name a few, …..
i hate slow people!! whether they’re driving a car or riding a bike i can’t stand it -.-
people that let they’re dogs take a shit on the middle of the street or childrens playgrounds and don’t clean it up.
people that lie about all kinds of litle things real obviuously , stinking people, Rude and mean people. and all kinds of other things…
i also hate the word LOL -.- which i say a 1000 times a day
-.-
Marina! .. it’s been nearly 10 hours and no new video! I think we’re all getting impatient!
I think she had this problem with Yahoo’s internet servers before.
I know I have problems with their e-mail system giving me an icon
listing 2 or 3 e-mails waiting. I go and check and they don’t exist.
So, if anyone has similar incidents then it is likely Yahoo to blame.
From your post: “She must be up to something .. but what?”
….. Scheming to take over the world for …. ONE MILLION DOLLARS !!
?
Word requests
Apostrophe
Comma
That was some trance that Kobe was in.
He was throughtly charmed.
Couldn’t make out what the third picture in the introduction was.
Looked like a map, but couldn’t tell.
HW =
Fools, I don’t suffer them gladly.
People who make decissions based on criteria that have nothing to do with the matter at hand.
People that demand or receive advantage based on attributes that have nothing to do with the matter at hand.
Blaming the messenger.
CONGRESS.
Hi there again! I would like to ask about the word “flummoxed” again. It’s my nickname, and I really want to know where did it come from. Could you investigate?
I’d like to know the origin of the word “smithereens” as in “blow something to smithereens”.
Marina, How can I send you that audio file.. What I cant send attachments to you on your page.. If you can send me an e-mail then i can reply to it with an attachment from there. Also its in wma. What format will i need to convert it to?
Hi James, There are several ways to do it.
There are many music storage sites like this one.
You can upload WMA. http://www.mp3-upload.net
If you have a MySpace account, they have music storage.
You could also create a video using the audio and a black screen or picture and upload to your YT account. If you don’t want others to see the video, set it to private designating Marina to see it. Then message her with the video.
Pet Peeves:
1. All of the below .
2. + probably most of the above.
3. Inanimate objects that wilfully refuse to do whatever you’re trying to make them do.
4. Apostrophe Abuse
But I don’t allow any of them to affect me …
””””””””””””””””””””’
””””””””””””””””””””’
””””””””””””””””””””’
””””””””””””””””””””’
””””””””””””””””””””’
I””””’m
Marina, at 2:45 AM, I took a snapshot of the YT
“All – Most Viewed (Today) ” videos page.
The “Perky” video is #1 and the “Mind your p’s and q’s” video is #12.
Two authoritative videos (pigtails).
I took a full screen shot of the whole page in case it is much different from the time you get to see the page.
http://i33.tinypic.com/2zp5fo8.jpg
P.S.
When viewing the image in the widget, click the green arrow at the bottom to view full scale or Right click on the link and
then click “Open Link in new Tab (or window)”.
lol@your comment below re: commas
im so lazy with typing.
i have an extensive vocabulary and i am aware of the correct placement in regards to commas and apostrophes, but i am far too lazy to type them out.
in german, all nouns are spelled with capital letters at the start.
ie: nouns like ‘bed’ (Bett)
‘cat’ (Katze)
‘dog’ (Hunde)
etc
I like your philosophy about the apostrophes being fallen commas. If you need further proof, consider that inverted commas are really apostrophes flying in formation; in fact I reckon that inverted commas would be a good name for an aerobatic team and should always be written in Red
wanna know a pet peeve of mine?
probably not, but i’ll type it out anyways.
one pet peeve of mine is when people get all cranky about not being replied to.
im a nobody in the grand scheme of the internet, yet i get enough mail to keep me very very busy. and often i am unable to reply to every single message i get. if i replied to every message i received, i would have to quit my job and become an insomniac by giving up sleep and give up eating and showering.
i love doing all those things. eating, showering, working, sleeping. etc.
and i love receiving nice messages but unfortunately i cannot reply to all of them.
so it really bothers me to read comments from people on my own videos, and then on marinas videos, about not getting a reply from me or her.
marina has over 100,000 subscribers on youtube… she makes at least one video every day… she researches the words herself.. and she has her own personal life to live. and she has kobe to entertain too!
please understand that marina does not have endless minutes in the day to read every comment she receives. and even if she could read every single one, her fingers would not have the strength to type out a response to every single person that contacts her.
/end rant.
i forgot a smilie.
Well said Miss CC,
}
We all need to remember that we are not the centre of the universe.
{Thinks … now do I exclude aLx from those two wee “we” words?
Cunningly avoiding the abuse of an apostrophe
DISCLAIMER:
May/not Include aLx
shh!
just because aLx is my friend and i made him a bday video.
misscupcake wishes she could make a video for everyone she is friends with.
but she does not have the time to do that.
if misscupcke made a video for someone everytime they asked, her channel would have to be renamed to
thededicationchannel
and its (it’s but im uneasy about using an apostrophe
) entire content would be videos dedicated to other peoples!
and who on earth would wanna watch that?
(apart from the one person mentioned in each dedication)
oh man i havent eaten a proper meal today
ive only eaten chocolate
i have far too much energy
Hmmmm, you’re not trying to abuse the comma, are you?
A comma is just a fallen and damaged apostrophe.
I think until you blocked.. You probably had more emails than marina in a day.
i wouldnt mind if the emails were normal.
his emails are abusive, antagonising, and freaking obsessive.
I know. But well done for blocking him.. I don’t think he will have been expecting that. I suppose I had better go on your channel and see what your new info is.. Can you also accept my friend request so I can talk to you on youtube since you have spam proofed yourself.
i can still receive youtube messages from non friends.
i accept all friend requests i get, after checking their channels to see if they are real people or not
if you send one you shall be accepted sir jamesalot
OMG NO SMILIE IN LAST POST
omg why didnt the rolling eyes one work
They don’t always work. I requested to be added as a friend a while ago actually.. It still says its pending or something
So, what kind of chocolate did you have all day today? Milky Bar?
I got that one wrong on your lolympics.
But, if you want to send me all of your Bounty chocolate bars I’ll be sure to send you lots of Milky Bars.
nah i dont like milkybar anymore LOL
after that video when i ate it, i realised i dont like it much anymore.
but i still like it so much more than the others. i hated those. ew.
today i had guylian chocolates. theyre belgian and v nice
(re my complaints that M doesn’t properly check and respond to solid questions in the threads.)
I always thought Guilin was in China, but those mountains look more like Toblerone.
It is therefore sometimes close to a lottery that anyone gets a
specific person to respond.
!!!!!
(Wished I phrased it like that.)
well, that got a lol-apalooza of a grin outta me…
feel free to write me, ’cause i don’t get e-mails and have all the dang time in the world to answer ‘em…
but only hawt wimmen…no lol-ygaggers…
Holy massive metrics explosion!
Marina, did you see that TubeMogul chart explode into
the sky as I knew it would. Onward and upward.
Hi marina
my brothers a big comic book and superman scifi fan
and he says that there IS such a word as kryptonite and it is a green rock! i dont think so.Is there such a word as KRYPTONITE? and if so what does it mean please. THANKS X
i have a word request:
biblioxenodochiophobigraphy
Thanks!
Word Request: Sex…Sexy.
TVE.
Word Request: Word
The Word is Word
Word
This is my first time posting but i been watching your show since the word Antidisestablishmentarianism, and I want to request the word topless.
I’m definetly going to hear it from at least 2 of my pet peeves this Monday. I was very disappointed from earlier tonight and I thought this is the year. I don’t know what else to say.
Take heart, Your team is good, beaten by Marinas’ team (I think)… she may be a dodgers fan? I watched a ball game in Dodge Stadium once. What an evening… warm summer breeze, sun setting on the hills over left field, smells & sounds coming back to me now… Note the Seattle Mariners hat in the picture. I went to a few games in seattles old Kingdome, but it didn’t come close to the outdoor warm evening game in LA. Hope next years team does better for you L78. Cheer up, you’ll get through monday OK.
Ty, Billy B. I’m ok now. The dodgers are a much better team than we all think. I was very disappointed we got knocked out 1st round. Worse, got swept. We at least had an excellent season. I got the bears and the blackhawks on my back now.
Homework: Pet peeve… bullies.
one of my favourite Pink Floyd tracks …
[pink floyd - several species of small furry animal gathered together in a cave and grooving with a pict]
Pet peeve…“lethologica” setting in when talking to people about whatshername’s videos on word origin thingies.
how about narco-logica – hers are more potent than 10mg morphine as a sleep aid
Congratulations on your request friend!
hey marina!
what about the word ‘limelight’
did it originate when someone had a lime coloured light
ahaha
i had some sugar this afternoon.
congratulations on winning the love letter contest!
who told you
Marina.
I hope you appreciate my comments [HERE] as well.
Hello misscupcake,
my congratulations to you for your winning love letter.
From the Online Etymological Dictionary: limelight
1826, popular name for Drummond light, a brilliant light created by the incandescence of lime (1), adopted for lighthouses and later for the Victorian stage, where it illuminated the principal actors, hence the figurative sense of “on stage, at the center of attention” (1877).
thanks…
but but but
i wanted marina to tell me
Sorry, Miss Cupcake… I guess I found your newest pet peeve… strangers butting in on your word requests… oops. I shall restrain myself in the future.
However, Marina could still pick up the topic. There’s likely a lot more to tell concerning that term than a brief entry from the EOD.
ever had iCupcakes?
is it really like [THIS] in Austrailia?
haha i havent seen those iCupcakes before…
theyre cute
but they should have/of added a lolcat one.
and nah, it isnt like that in australia. lol
Fianchetto! Even-steven is one that is “milking her” for all its worth!…have you wondered how “moth-nuts” smell and the flutter of butter that {[KERMIS]}…
AIR~MARKit<………..One of my major ones is smoking. I can’t stand it and I won’t date a woman who does.
Rock on! If you don’t start, you won’t have to quit, and EVERY smoker quits, sooner or later.
i quit 8 yrs ago! … { beams with pride }
…
and a few years later i had to create a strategy for getting back to my healthy weight … { beams with pride }
Bravo, mijj! I quit many years ago as well.
how did it go?
i found the decision to give up was the difficult part (it took me weeks to !!
decide 
!!) .. after that it was easy.
I wonder how Meany Women are puting the cigarettes out to get a date
not this woman
i never smoked and never will
according to a survey 50% of all people polled (smokers and nonsmokers alike) would not date a smoker.
according to a survey 98% of people are hypocrites.
and 7 out of 5 people don’t really understand statistics.
Hi Marina,
No, I don’t have a pet peeve. How much do they cost and where can I get one?
My friend said they are a nuisance to take care of and you can’t take them on airplanes. She said they get easily irritated which causes most owners of pet peeves to trade them in for three-eyed billy-goats.
This chick peeves me with her treatment of Marina.
Those words she did I have seen being requested here
yeh .. she’s a pseud.
- she belongs to the dusty crowd who would rather knowledge was elitist and revered and devoid of any vitality / heart, etc.
I think Marina should return the volley with a vid in a business suit, no images of exposed skin. I bet she could make a video as engaging and lively as all the rest, and still out-do this woman by an order of magnitude. On her personality alone.
Like this? Deep, profound subject matter…heady stuff & delivered in a style so unique, one cannot look away to avoid learning something of substance.
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haaahahahahaha
hahaahaahhahaha
ahahahaha
i was expecting to see a woman trying to be sexy like marina, but i soon realised that is not.. her.. style.
i agree with fianchetto’s second comment too (i think it will appear above this comment of mine
)
about how, if marina did a video with a full suit on, and didnt show skin, her personality alone would make it much more engaging than that other ladies attempt..
aahahaha she comes across as though she doesnt want to use sex to sell her videos, yet she wanted to talk about testicals.
i dont think marina has anything to worry about when it comes to that psychelady whatever her name is
and then she shows splashes of bikini-clad women (boobs, just not her own)
and for icing on the cake, hers are visible, though covered by the sweater, in their entirety every time she appears. In [Break a Leg], Marina briefly shows body shots but zooms in for shoulders-up for the rest of the vid
Though I agree with Mijj, what has this chick done that denigrates Marina? And even if she did, so what?
Fine point, well taken. Marina ased what our peeves were, without qualification that they be rational. perhaps I am acting on 1 and 3 that [This guy] is talking about.
i see your point..
i just have a personal thing against copy cats.
like the time amy walker came along and got famous by doing her 21 accents video.
when i had been doing accents on youtube for months before her.
i felt like my talent had been stolened
have a hug (((misscupcake))) .. i know what it’s like to have my creation (at work) stolen too.
I guess we all looked at “treatment” a little differently. I looked at the young lady wondering if she had been insulting, or had belittled Marina. Others looked at her content and style of delivery. And there is some evidence that she thinks more highly of her presentation than that of Marina’s. I definitely agree with Karl (below), as well as Fianchetto’s observations of this girl’s minor hypocrisies. Cupcake, yes it sucks when we’re copied, especially without being given credit; but that is the burden of innovators… sometimes it’s flattering, sometimes new ideas grow from it, but most of the time copying just sucks.
Thanks Fianchetto for the TED video link you provided. That discourse on morality was pretty interesting.
Hi Fianchetto, I agree with what you say and you took the words out of my mouth. Regarding the business suit, I would say that even if Marina were in a straight jacket with her hands tied behind her back, Marina would win more minds and hearts.
I don’t like to criticize the other woman as she is very attractive and is probably a very nice person off camera. On camera, that other woman does not project charisma like Marina. She seems distant, almost talking down to you and lacks a warm engaging delivery.
Compare the other woman’s video to one of Marina’s earliest videos (5th one) where Marina only shows herself from the neck up.
Watch this very classic Marina video, “Hello hello! Ahoy ahoy!”
Even though Marina’s delivery was not polished, didn’t you get the feeling that Marina was talking to only you and that you have known Marina all of your life and that Marina was your best friend ever.
Her vid reminds me of [THIS]
Your comment reminds me of [THAT]
I agree that other than the points I make, She is a lovely young lady and I would not shirk her a place at my dinner table.
Thats why I had requested advocado!
I think Fianchetto is making the comment about being peeved because the lady says right in the description: “Etymology girl gives you the derivation of words. Shes like Hotforwords with less boobs showing but more words per video. Intelligence might be sexy but you don’t have to have your boobs hanging out but you will learn more word origins in one of her videos.”
Exactly. In fact, in at least one of her videos, she verbally presents this statement as well.
{Hey mijj … How about some rhubarb pie for dessert following our honey-basted crow?}
the youtuber is a guy, the video may have been done by a girl. but the post and description is all by the guy, he is referring to her. check out the myspace page. the girl is not responsible for the description, and reading that description biases your experience of the video. excluding the description what she did was cool with me, more people searching and sharing. there are thousands of books on word origins, lots of sites, why the hell couldn’t somebody else do etymology on youtube? think before you get peeved off. everything get reduced into popularity contests, from women to wars.
Very good points, buzzword. I also fell into the error of assuming that the girl was responsible for the page owner’s text. I will need to go back and check myself.
I found the video BORING!!!
It was informative but not entertaining!
Some have brains
Some have beauty
Thank goodness Marina you have both!!!!
So much for my word request on robot!
This lady’s explanation on robot is vague
There is room for a better lesson
Do you think she is monitoring this site to lift word request?
Yea! Marina’s lessons on all of the words would be ALOT better
If she is a word thief, she must be stopped!
She has two huge sweater monkeys
lol, chevolay, a master of analysis, gets to the heart of the matter succinctly. Just don’t go off on a long string of slang breast terms. The ladies might think you to be insensitive.
I thought of that but since I
just made up the term
I was looking for excuse to use it
You gave me my word of the day, ‘succinctly’ Tks
its so… entertaining. the knights of camelot defending marina’s virtue. if you guys finally get this girl don’t bother inviting me to her inquisition, the angry mob mentality has never really appealed to me. keep in mind most of your comments are vaguely similar to the ones left on marina’s youtube channel, petty criticisms. a lot like the description thats pissing everyone off.
I’m wondering where the phrase “cover my ass” came from.
Ian puts some rock in Bach
oh yeh .. love this track.
I bet when You step on one of
His level of cuteness and good nature probably work well to cancel it tho.
toby’s gooey brown land mines You get pretty peeved at him.
tryant
Hey! =) Considering we havent had any drugs yet, how about ecstasy? Cocaine? Weed? Whatever floats ur boat
Speak for Yourself Friend,My Doc makes house calls. Got Me all snoozy and content about now. G-night.
I’ve got more pet peeves than Carter,Lilly,or,Roche ever made pills,My peeve at the moment is,I can’t remember the other peeves!
Such is life some days. Stay happy.
tryant
Since Summertime is almost gone
Fianchetto1, what post (comment) are you talking about that I didn’t reply to in Left-wing Right-wing? I have trouble keeping up with the comments at times.. especially when there are catastrophes happening! This past week was a very bad week technical-wise for me, which is why I missed a few days uploading videos.
But what did you ask, as I cannot seem to find it?
I was on a ‘Jethro Tull’ binge. mijj posted a dominatrix quiz, reminded me of ‘Hunting Girl’. Not leaning myself very far into the kinkiness end of the scale, remembered ‘Velvet Green’. I asked which of the two you identified with. The whole thing is in italic, as I apparently misspelled the endflag. I’ve yet to learn to link to within the pages here.. it was 30SEP @ 5:55 am. Thanks!
Also, you should be emailed when people reply to. Are you not?
Actually, happily not.
I have adopted the practice of checking one or two lessons back, and scrolling manually through my own posts for replies. Works for me and keeps my mail box cleaner.
Thank you very much!
BTW – I am a pretty good cook myself, and will be happy to prepare the crow on which mijj and I will be dining this evening… {thinking: what wine to pair with crow …viognier? no, …MERLOT!}
Ciao,
Fianchetto
i’m very happy to be wrong
maybe M isn’t the hideous malformed ice monster i make her out to be.
(.. resets the timer for quitting the site for a few days ..)
and another lilty fave
you like Jethro Tull, don’t you .. i kinda lost em after the Stand Up album.
last one I had was ‘Minstrel in the Gallery’ – on vinyl, no less.
Just checked with my pet cat
she has no peeves along as she has fresh water
food, belly rubs and can sleep most of the day
she is quite content….purrrrrrrrr….rrrr..
Marina .. were you unduly influenced by this song when you were a girl ?
[Pet Shop Boys - Go West]
i may as well throw in my [Soviet-style Heroic Star] design while i’m here.
like that, eh? ..
… well, how do you like the [emblem for the Squadron of the Psychic-Slayers].
very good… both of them!
mijj, am wanting to get your opinion on something as I was just reading that we only use one third of our brains. So, what happens to the other third?
umm. the other two?
he’s using that exclusively for Marina – no room for maths
welll .. i guess the other two thirds had the arithmatic hidden away.
my guess it’s scientist arrogance …
.. i.e. .. scientists can only fathom the use of 1/3 of the brain. Therefore the other 2/3 of the brain isn’t used.
happens all the time .. it’s the scientist elevating himself to priest. The typical scientist absolutely hates admitting to the general public that there are gaps and scruffy and confused bits in the model of the world they’re creating. So .. if there’s any doubt about their knowledge, then it’s the universe that got it wrong.
* .. and the speeling.
.. now i realise i was being baited but someone spotted teh 1/3+1/3 thing before i stepped on it … still .. i can never miss an opportunity for a rant.
i can hold back no longer …
[Pet Shop Boys - You Are Alway On My Mind]
Hi Marina, I have a word request. Where does the word kumquat come from? Apparently there are several kinds of quats. I like kumquats. Do you?
Jmall
pet peeve .. pet peeeeeeeve … hmmmm …
…. pettt..t.t.ttt.t.t …. peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeve …
… hmmmmmmm
.. while i ponder .. a song about somone who steals clothes from washing lines …
[Pink Floyd - Arnold Layne]
ahhh..yep. that one was weird! Thanks for sharing it
help me get into the bizarre playful mode that seems to work best around here 
yeh .. psychedelic era music is best for bizarre and playful.
Don’t sit on the park bench while pondering.
Thought of you mijj… you’d probably like to Bungle in the Jungle.
More classic Tull…
Marina still not replied to my post in leftwing/rightwing… rats.
{..slap..} .. haven’t you got it yet?
Marina doesn’t answer questions because she doesn’t look for them.
M may browse around in a thread and happen upon a question, – even then she won’t feel bound to answer, regardless of its sincerity.
I think this is absolutely Marina’s worst quality.
For me it easily counters any good impression she gives in her videos, because this is real M in the thread, and hte vid is projected M.
{… grits teeth and resists extending the rant}
it’s my pet peeve, in fact!
{.. looks around nervousely ..}
oops
my arrogance is showing ..
“I think this is absolutely Marina’s worst quality.” – it’s not a problem with Marina ..
that should read: “it’s quality of M’s that subverts my warm image of her”.
eek!
i just read my post in the cold light of day .. M seems to have a significance to me that doesn’t seem quite healthy. 
i think i should try and stay away for a few days til i’ve gathered my wits.
Ian Anderson’s at his best… a man possesed it seems.
.. and a song about a black cat and another about a scarecrow …
[Pink Floyd - Lucifer Sam / Scarecrow]
pet peeve .. that i don’t throw away pens when they dry up. .. like .. somehow magically they’ll fill themselves up again. .. or is it that i get a sentimental attachment to a coloured plastic tube?
ooo! pedanticKarl .. you got your greenscreen stuff in there … nice one.
I’m tempted to do one for Evil Marina .. but she’s only got that one vid where she’s all dark … and it’s not got a wipeable background.
you can edit mpegs? what software do you use? When I get moved in, I would like to give you guys a tour of the place, as well, I’d like to make a video word request or two..
mpeg .. is that what your video source generates?
i usually only deal with video in the sense of ripping from dvd and compressing them (for personal use only, of course
)
i’m not familiar with mpgeg i’ll have a check of the format.
ok … mpeg-2 is the standard that’s used for dvds
mpeg-4 is what’s produced by divX and XVid compressors.
your video source could be producing either of those .. but in any case .. it’ll be editable .. but i have no idea what’s good for video editing .
given that pedanticKarl produced that video, i guess he’s the person who’ll be genned up.
actually is .wmv files
oh .. wmv .. that’s MSoft’s own proprietary standard .. which means that you’re not going to get any open source of any other kind of free sw that will deal with it.
but i guess you’re not looking for free software.
Hi Fianchetto, I use Sony Vegas Movie Studio ver 6. Platinum edition ($85). There are four price points. Google Sony Vegas, it’s the first link. The new version does Blu-ray and HD.
For web work I edit in 640x and render to 640x WMV which YT converts nicely. I tweak the rendering to stay around 15-30 MB, which will provide both Std and HQ YT links.
I can also edit mpeg1&2, AVI and mp4
If you have a Mac, you’ll want to use Final Cut Pro like Marina uses.
Thanks, pKarl!
hey – another one?
yeah…I just got the email for the last one in my inbox! I think there is some delay, I always get notified for the previous one when the current one is posted
nice to see you, mijj!
now hurry and do your homework so we can play!
oh .. homework!! .. i didnt notice!!
{… runs to look again ..}
actually .. i dont get notified .. i haven’t got round to subscribing to HotForWords.
oh .. bizarre playful .. yeh .. i guess that’s the best mood for HFW.
Thanks Marina for answering my question!! My pet peeve is when people eat while talking on the phone and then try to talk to you when munching on their food!
Homework: my inability to use HTML in comments is rapidly rising on the list…
peeve’s…….oh I dont know Marina (actually I do); maybe (deffinetly)when putting up word requests and phrases for best part of a year only to see someone else getting the credits for them….(opportunistic things!)…could go on but instead, shall mind my P’s & Q’s! –
I don’t think I particularly have a pet peeve.
One of pet unpeeves (if there is such a word) is coming to this site – always refreshing
Nick
hmmm…i would phrase a bit differently: a “pet peeve” is the peeve that irritates you the most & nothing seems to be done to correct it, so you complain to yourself about it most often…it is the peeve you “pet” (or caress) repeatedly – by complaining about it…
anyway, mine is simple: talking on a handheld cellphone while driving. i think all cell phones have headset capabilities these days, if not bluetooth also.
i’ve been behind slow drivers chatting on the phone (i guess they were being careful – except for their weaving, that is), those who can barely turn the car one-handed (let alone actually use the turn signal, too) and the ultimate: the lady who was being extremely safe while she talked on her cell phone – she pulled over and stopped. Except she was on a two-lane street with no shoulder, stopped about five feet from the stoplight! she was smiling and laughing on the phone, so it was obvious she was just chatting and there wasn’t a breakdown or anything of that nature. Just moronic addiction to the “constant connection.”…
p.s. – stunning look – it would be a great start to a witch’s outfit for All Hallows’ Eve…
I just want to say:
“Sweater Monkeys”
Homework:
Having to repeat myself to people
Peolpe who are late
Having to repeat myself to peple
People who think they can dive the same way in winter and summer
People who take up two spaces when they park
People who don’t leave messages when they get voice mail when they call
Having all my keys have the ridges face the same way on a keychain (oops this one is OCD)
could you repeat that?
smokey36bear, did you say that you…
dive differently in winter than…
in summer… oops, am I triple parked? (don’t want the car scratched you know)
Ohhhhhhhhhhh my gaaaaawwwwwwdddd, Marina, don’t do that, my poor stomach is aching from laughing sooooo hard. Before you know it I’ll have a six pack in no time…. That was wayyyyy too funny. What a surprise!!!
I was going to say I loved your scene cuts with the distant shot, then closeup, then you holding Kobe. Great editing. I know it is more work, but that was neat. Thanks for the honors. That WAS better than being teachers pet.
Hey, BillyB, I saw your name in lights.
Nice going I was hoping she would do this one.
I heard my name again & I don”t get used to hearing it in a hotforwords video, causes me a little (extra) distraction as I try to consentrate on the word lesson.
Hey congrats’ on the loveletter win Klaus… & cool edit that made it into a hotforwords vid.
Thanks Billy.
That little extra distraction is good once in awhile. Makes you feel like your sixteen again.
My biggest pet peeve is people who take advantage of other’s kindness.
Can you start doing something where you find origins of food products? For instance: Why is the candy-bar Snickers called Snickers?
Marina
I forgot to tell you and all your students.
Go to Urban Dictionary and word search hotforwords
All your student can write an update too, so far I am the only one
Where would you rather have us post at? Here or on YouTube? Or would you prefer if we posted on both?
I really only get annoyed by the small things, but for one of my pet peeves, is when i’m looking in the refrigerator the door starts to close, and then the door hits me.
again
I always wanted to know where the term “fired” came from as in “You’re fired!”
Maybe when someone lost their job they set FIRE to them.
?
We (except you) congratulate you dude
Well done on the disclaimer
Fantastic gravatar!
alx, happy b-day for the other day fella, hope you had fun. Thought you may like the follwing as I recall you being a bit of a mathmatical genius and all that
111,111,111 x
111,111,111 =
12,345,678,987,654,321
…mixing up with some linguistics too….
Q. If you were to spell
out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the
letter ‘A’?
A. One
thousand ….i dont really get that last one but sounds cool
111,111,111 x
111,111,111 =
12,345,678,987,654,321
One more proof that a mathematic phenomenon shows the existence of God
ah yes .. but ..
god requires that there be no proof, for if there were proof, there would be no requirement for faith.
so, if there’s proof that god exists, then that’s proof that he doesn’t.