Satphones is a more correct term, since most of today’s mobile phones are connected directly to a satellite rather than a terrestrial cell unit, that is only good for a maximum of 5 to 8 miles.
Hi Marina: I think I understand where the word Shylock came from in refering to mob money lenders. Possibly from the Merchant of Venice. The lender’s name was Shylock, but where did the expression ” VIG ” come from. It is used to explain the interest charged by the Shylocks. Thanks,
Marina, you need to be at Chickipedia ( http://www.chickipedia.com/ ). Find someone who knows enough about you, or even better yet, do it yourself!
There can’t be a site dedicated to hot women, and you not be on it.
Hi Marina, hi everybody,
in German there is no German word vor Mobile phone or cell phone.
We call them “Handy”, which is – I think – abbreviated from “handheld telephone”.
By the way: has anybody an idea, what young Germans call “to text”?
The solution is very funny, I think, and the purists of German language don’t like it at all!
Well, since my cell phone’s provider company was eaten by another company, I consider my ‘cell phone’ to be more of an ‘oddly shaped rolodex’ *lol* And ‘cell’, I think, was termed for the fact that the batteries were lithium-ion cells *shrugs* I could be wrong.
They are called cell phones because of reception cells; which are the areas one antennae tower can cover. While moving about you move from one tower’s cell to another.
It is a cell phone. I am not so concerned with how correct that term is now, but with how good my reception is.
Word requests:
Inept (ept?)
Plethora (I just like this word)
Universe (one line of poetry?)
Investment (something to do with an article of clothing that looks better on you)
Since you are Russian and a teacher, should we be using your patrinomic?
Hey mijj, great music. I had not heard of King Crimson.
By the way, there is no need to add the note in your YT description to add the HQ format code. You already did that. Hover over your cursor over the link above and look at your browser status bar. You already added the code. One can also tell by the link underneath the video that says “Watch in normal quality”, which means the current video/audio is in high quality.
You might want to add to your description, “To listen in high quality, be sure to click on the “Watch In High Quality” link underneath the video. Also, add a quick note about who King Crimson is for those of us uninformed.
i added that note for whoever wanders in from a link elsewhere within YouTube. – in that case you get the lo-fi version and need to make an explicit change.
+ i’m shocked you ain’t familiar with King Crimson .. i have a genius track by the key guy, Robert Fripp here …
+ if you want a brilliant reference album: check “Discipline” … my other favorited YT King Crimson stuff’s been taken down cos of copyright stuff.
I used to have my father’s and grandfather’s old 78’s… man those were the days… they had lots of big band performers, but also lesser known artists like, oh, Stevie Wonder (when he was nine) and a group few have remembered, much less heard, The Inkspots. I wish I could remember where we stored these records.
Thanks annuddermale, I am listening to your song now. I love it.
Another great discovery on HFW.
Believe it or not, I listen to a wide variety of music and never came across King Crimson. If I did, I don’t recall. I noticed in wiki it said;
“King Crimson have garnered little radio or music video airplay, but gained a large cult following.”
Hey mijj, also watched the Fripp interview.
Catching up on the 70s. Grew up with In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida…. love that drum solo…
I don’t know if you told me or not, but In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida actually is, In The Garden Of Eden. The singer slurred his words so bad it sounded like In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. By the way I tried to stop the video at the spot that I wanted. I pressed Print Screen and nothing happened. The enlarged picture stayed the same. Can you elaborate some more please. Did you use that Tiny Pic web site to make the picture?
i’m having a look at that fripp interview right now … he seems a smart together guy .. not at all rock n roll! (which is a very good thing, in my opinion)
I was just thinking the word “mobile” when you said that the word “mob” was short for something.
HOMEWORK: cell phone
Come to think of it… After that lesson, I think it is kinda strange that these phones are either called cell or mobile. Since mob comes from the word mobile, and cell is also associated with prison.
You see how the 2 can go hand in hand with each other?
How about ‘Iron Curtain’ {serious} or ‘Rusian Roulette’{tongue-in-cheek}?
{driving tongue further into cheek} Perhaps contrast ‘Russian Roulette’ with the Polish version – same game, one pistol, one bullet, only the pistol is a semi-automatic…
{serious, again}Or perhaps some ‘loan word’ of russian origin, that few ppl would know IS of russian origin?
How about “comrade”? I used to hear that word in all of the cold war spy movies whenever a “Russian” spy would talk to an ally. Or “Sputnik” or even “balalaika”?
James, have you achieved a partnership yet? If you need views, do you need more channel views or video views (or both)?
You are a victim of your own success, my dear teacher. Normally your smiling face starts my day off right, and I love reading through your comments, but it’s getting to be too much to scroll through the hundreds of comments, searching for your gems.
Just one man’s oh so humble opinion, but you need to setup sections for comments/homework on the specific word for today; word requests, and idle chatter amongst your fans.
I assume you also know that Revolution is “going open source” at the end of this month, so things will change considerably for the people who built your theme. I cannot believe they don’t have your site as one of their showcase ones. You must be their most popular site ever. Might be time for a change?
Still having issues with your videos. Ran today’s on your site, and gave up after it stopped at least thirty times and wasn’t even half way through. Interestingly enough, when I clicked on the YT logo, it played straight through with no pausing on YT.
if you follow the instructions, you get something added to your firefox browser which will add a link to the YouTube page which will allow you to dload the video …
erm … what i mean is .. you get a thing added to firefox … if you are on a YouTube page where you’d like to dload the vid, you click the thing, and it adds a link to the YouTube page .. you then cllck the added link to dload the vid.
Thanks muchly. I am using IE. It’s not a big deal for me. I just click on the YouTube logo and it plays the vid there with no problems. I was just letting Marina know that something isn’t right with her site.
“I was just letting Marina know that something isn’t right with her site.”
There’s something not right with your internet connection… The ones she posts here are in Higher quality, so they take longer to load,it looks like your internet connection is to slow to download it fast enough for it to play smoothly.
You could just hit play and pause and let the red bar load fully if you wanna see it in HQ
Hi checmark, keep in mind that when you click the YT logo, it takes you to the low quality video (labeled as normal quality on YT) which makes sense that it wouldn’t stutter.
What happens when you click the link underneath the video that says watch in high quality? Does it stutter then?
If not, then it is an indication that the YT embedded player that shows the video above has different attributes. (in fact it does, but not sure about speed related issues)
If indeed you do find that the HQ version on YT plays without stuttering, and as you say it does stutter here, it is not the HFW site per se that is the issue, but the YT embedded player.
You may also want to try Firefox to see if there is a difference in the way the browsers cache data.
I want to know the origin of the phrase ‘hunky-dory’. I tried searching on web but, couldn’t get reasonable explanation. May be you should give it a try… Thanks HOT for anything!!!
It’s a slightly pejorative reference to a form of meditation where the devotee sits in the lotus position (but with the head tilted forward) and stares at his or her bellybutton.
NAVAL gazing is what the local prostitutes do from the pier at liberty call as the sailors come ashore. They size up the market and choose thei targets, bickering over who gets a crack at whom…
During my time in the USMC, random drug testing (by urinalysis) was done on a monthly basis. A few unlucky jarheads or swabbies would be assigned to make sure no one “cheated” their test sample by watching the… filling of the cup. These unfortunate few were called “meat-gazers”.
re: screen capture
When you press the “Print Screen” key on your keyboard, you are correct, nothing happens (that you can see). What happens is that the screen is placed into memory.
Once the screen is in memory, you have to get the it out. You do that with a Photo Editing program. You could use MS Paint (ugly to use), or
you may also have PhotoEd.exe or Kodakimg.exe or Kodakprv.exe on your PC. Look at the Program list to see what you have. You can also download Gimp from the web for free.
You also may have a Photo editor that came with your digital camera or printer. Open up any of these photo editing programs, then click Edit, Past New Image after having capatured the screen with the Print Screen. Once you have the screen, you can crop and save the image to a file.
TinyPic is just a web photo storage place like Flickr. Once you have an image on your desktop, you can upload it to Flickr or TinyPic to allow other people to see it.
I’m English and obviously our currency is U.K Sterling, but I noticed that around the edge of our £2 coins it says “Standing on the shoulders of giants”
And I just wanted to know the origin of this phrase or what it means.
Wiki says: “Dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants (Latin: nanos gigantum humeris insidentes) is a Western metaphor meaning “One who develops future intellectual pursuits by understanding the research and works created by notable thinkers of the past”; a contemporary interpretation. However, the metaphor was first recorded in the twelfth century and attributed to Bernard of Chartres. It was famously used by the seventeenth-century scientist Isaac Newton who wrote it as: Pigmaei gigantum humeris impositi plusquam ipsi gigantes vident (see below). The picture is derived from the Greek mythology where the blind giant Orion carried his servant Cedalion on his shoulders.”
Well. Cell refrered to the pattern or area covered by one relay station or antena i think. The cells made up the coverage area of a network like a honeycomb i suppose. If other think like statelites or the ‘wired’ network was involved in a call it wouldn’t strictly be a cell phone.
This is off the top of my head. You are the investigator and I will let you do that throrough work and await your enlightenment.
I sincerely appreciate your work here and it seems to reflect your true beauty as both a person and a teacher, both inside and out.
As a newly registered member, I must say that it’s really fascinating for me, one who is interested in matters both scientific and artistic. Learning the history and origin of words is always a pleasure.
I’ve been wondering about the true origin of the word “HITMAN”, a term we normally use to describe professionals paid to remove individuals of significant inconvenience to their paying clients.
I would be very grateful if you squeeze some time from your busy daily schedule to satisfy my curiosity. Thank you in advance.
a word please! marina, i would like to know the origins of the word ‘bredren’. I have my own theory, that in the idealistic life of married couples living in post war America, a housewife would greet her husband on his return to work ‘hello, my bread-winner’, meaning the man who provided for the family! please share your knowledge on the word!
my employer, a good ol’ southern boy, calls ‘em “mobiles”…
now, i must also point out that you are wearing a lovely lavender frock in this video…and since i spent a small (okay, not so small) amount of time dwelling on your outfit, i began to wonder…
Teacher-
Actually, I call my “mobile” phone a “cel” phone… “Cel” (not “cell” is correct, as the towers that relay your call from me to it’s destination were originally broken down into “cels”.. I think “cellular” was shortened to “cells” because people didn’t know about “cel towers”…
mijj, when you “complete” the series …wondering what it would look/sound like when played consecutively
It would be amazing if when played consecutively all the tones made a legitimate tune.
that would take a lot of planning though…..best see what happens by accident.
lol .. well .. i have all the raw files so it’d be easy to join em end to end.
i was planning to do the first 10 (or 11) strictly as the number of seconds .. after 10 (or 11) i’m not sure … the constraint of fixing to a specific length focuses the mind wonderfully – i have a terrible habit of going down endless blind alleys when i’m having a shot at creating stuff, and usually end tup getting little done.
i think it’d make it more interesting if it wasn’t planned – though the key of all the bits and pieces will be different .. and i think some of the time signatures will wander too – and tempo.
plus.. 3 was the last time i constrained myself to fixing the animation frames to exactly the timing of notes.
very good – the three primary colors of light! Did you ever get to see the Sierpinski gasket? My point being not that you should (have) use(d) it, but that you get to see it. looking very much forward to chapter four!
I presume that you mean that it looked like you were logged in, but you didn’t get the comment text box? This occurs due to expired cookies, which is a security measure.
If that is the case, all you need to do is to reload the page. If that doesn’t work, clear your browser cookies and possibly also your browser cache.
OK… I made a vid of the album cover, song that includes piano solo, but chickened out when I read the Youtube copyright info. So, I’ll just highly reccommend that you purchase Ms. Barber’s album ‘Modern Cool’ and get the rest. ‘Let it Rain’ is there, too.
THANKS!! I didn’t know I even HAD this on my computer! I downloaded a trial version of a movie editor and used it without knowing of thw windows movie maker Gotta go check out its options
thanks for the offer Fianchetto…will check this artist out some more. As with you, chicken on the copy laws plus like to see artists get their due — // when I can and the mood takes me, I love a night out at Ronnie Scotts club in Soho, have been many times before since I was a teenager. Wonderful place for music heads, even met the man before he passed at a friends 18th birthday, Ronnie comes on the stage all chilled out smokeing a herbal saying that hes got to stop smokeing this sh** – always great times at Ronnies whether alone, on a date or with friends is just a magical time, buzz for days after a night there
Marina, I noticed when I’m not logged in theres a very small smiley face in the bottom left corner of the page but when I log in its gone. Did you put it there? Just wondering.
James! He’s back… Yes, I was sure you have been first before, and likely several times on this site and YT. I was just being an idiot, beaming because I was first yesterday… can’t you see that nimbus around me that just screams “a fool easily amused”?
I say it’s cell phone. Speaking of which I need to make a few changes. I want to change my ring tone and the internet so I can keep track of scores while I’m at work.
Forgive me Pagedoll… I just suffered a cognitive disconnect
I just went to your YT page and saw all the Disney clips… then tried to account for the Black Sabbath respect you’ve shown. Are you a Dark Tinkerbell?
Sounds like a local epithet for oil well drillers and their families. They were probably discriminated against due to their almost migratory nature, which made them not likely to permanently join any community. Like gypsies, they would not stay long enough to be trusted or at least accepted with all their faults as long-time residents are apt to be.
Ok Marina, then how did the “ster” ending get applied to “gang” and “mob”, as in “gangster” and “mobster”?
Hotster Forster Wordster muster invester gatester.
(And FWIW I frequently refer to my mobile/cell phone in language that can’t be used in mixed company… )
sniperskayal, mobster actually came about in imitation of gangster… and the -ster suffix indicates that the word represents the trade someone is involved with, often in a disparaging manner… a mobster is someone who’s profession is in the mob, same thing with gangster, trickster, jokester.. they even had drugster back then.
Prior to the 16th century -ster was actually feminine… you had seamster for example as a woman.. but from the 16th century on, the -ster became masculine and now you have -stress for the feminine versions, like seamstress.
I nearly messed myself when I saw the name of your phone. Where I come from “chinga” and “chingar” are words that will (potentially) get you beaten and left for dead… depending on how they’re used.
I am in Southern Calif. And I know what it means, that is why I call it that.
In English It would be like calling the phone a 7uck or piece of 2hit. I hate cell phones or should I say the people that MIS- use them.
I hate cell phones or should I say the people that MIS- use them.
I’m with you… and I’m glad you know what those terms mean. I’d hate for you to get in a fight over a silly misunderstanding… you, talking about your phone while someone else thinks you’re talking about him.
You don’t need Marina for this one! A murderer with the blood of his victim on his hands would be “caught red-handed.” In another galaxy, it might be “caught green-tentacled.” If robots take over, “caught 10W-30-handed.” I’m sure you could think of even more examples (although you might be a bit sorry that you ever brought it up by now).
I noticed the ring. No, not a phone ring, but the one on her finger. It doesn’t appear to be a diamond. What’s the story?
She could get rich! She could promise to wear any ring sent in by a fan in at least one of her videos. The viewers would be watching every episode to see if their ring made it to the Royal Finger. So, fans would start looking at her hand instead of… no, no, they’re still going to look there anyway.
Oooh! I was responded to! It’s a warm, tingly feeling. A nice tingly, not that I’m-sitting-in-the-electric-chair kind of tingly. Let’s try for another.
Marina, have you learned to think in English yet? If so, when did it happen, before or after you immigrated? If you remember the moment, what went through your mind? I had a Japenese friend that came over at six and he remembered the moment, but I was too young/stupid to ask him what it felt like and what he thought about it. I’ve always regretted that, so I’m asking you.
PS: Like you, I don’t like rings or jewlery hanging on me. Or watches; I use my cell phone (whoops!, wrong lesson ).
I mainly just use phone. There’s not as much distinction from tethered ones as there used to be.
I thought I’d toss out a couple phrases that were used in a computer programming class I took at university that had to do with computers doing grammar checking. I don’t know where they come from but they stuck with me.
Time flies like the wind.
Fruit flies like the banana.
Similar structure and words but the nouns and verbs and such are all in different spots. Just amusing is all…
LOL!!!! I almost entered the love letter contest to win a whitesmoke for the techwriters at work… They all ways ewes there spell-checker, but it just ain’t the same as having a clue in the grammar department.
Well, I was reading through Aldous Huxley’s Antic Hay, again, when I ran across a word that puzzled me ferociously. Upon looking it up I laughed my buns off because of the brilliance of it’s usage in the dialogue. I’d like you to share with your fans the meaning of the “Callipygian”, possibly an example as well? Thanks for everything you do HotForWords
i just call mine a phone, as in let me grab my phone, if someone asks me to anywhere. otherwise I just keep the battery pulled so it can’t be tracked on the cell phone network, supposedly.
I call it a phone. Technically no they are not cell phones. Cell phones are set up on a different system that is not used any more. They are digital phones now.
Who says? What we think of as cell phones today must still communicate via repeaters located in small, closely-spaced cells due to their low power (about 1/6th of what the original car phones had). They still are handed off from one cell to the next as they move by being commanded to change frequency to the strongest (best signal) adjacent cell. The protocols — first analog and now digital — used to communicate have changed through three generations of phones, but not the principle of the cell. That’s not going to change as we continue to demand smaller phones (read smaller batteries).or longer time between charges.
Portable satellite phones and two-way radios don’t use cell networks, but then we don’t call them cell phones either. All of this knowledge is available widely on the Web. He who puts the numbers embedded in the phones at the time of manufacture into the system’s computers has absolute control over who can do what, so there is no need for the secrecy that the Bell System maintained (or tried to) about how the system worked when hacking first stated. Now you can know everything and do nothing.
I just posted a blog about the current state of the economy and I said that people were losing money “hand over fist”. So, I’m curious, where did the phrase “hand over fist” come from?
Well, this is easy enough. The meaning is losing hand over hand, i.e. handing the cash out as fast as you can. But hand over hand is a boring phrase, so to jazz it up a bit, it is changed to hand over fist. The same principle of not wanting to repeat a word that is essentially repeated is applied to other phrases. Take falling ass over teakettle. It is really saying ass over ass, which would be rolling over and over. But to make it more interesting, the phrase is changed not to repeat ass. Same thing in it’s raining hammers and axe handles or that old standby cats and dogs. Which reminds me…
We have a local convenience store whose theme was It’s Raining Cats and Dogs. They bought dozens of full-sized fiberglass cats and dogs and suspended them just above head level on earthquake wire (that steel wire used to brace suspended ceilings in offices). Later the store was sold to another chain, but the new owners declined to go to the expense of hiring someone and renting a scissors lift to take them all down. And since no one cared about the whole theme business in the first place, it didn’t matter. Then one day, a large dog came loose and fell on a customer. Then it mattered and they were all gone. Imagine the tale the customer got to tell everytime someone said that phrase.
I call my phone a cell phone. No,I don’t actually call my phone. That would be silly and the number would be busy because I would be on the phone. So I only describe it as a cell phone. The service providers call them cellular phones but that is also silly. Everyone I know uses the words “cell phone”. In fact, some people even say,”I’ll call you on the cell.” To each his own!!
OK, I will “drop the other shoe.” Don Ameche was a famous actor (1908-1993) who played the lead in the 1939 movie, “The Story of Alexander Graham Bell.” In fact, it was so popular that soon Ameche = Bell = telephone. The usage faded out over time, but it’s still a good struggling-inventor-makes-good movie. See it on late night TV if you can. If they ever do a remake, I don’t think “I’ll call you on the Pitt” would be quite as catchy.
Now all this was before Marina’s time, of course, and mine, too. We are so lucky to live in an age that allows the historical archiving (is that redundant?) of performer’s works. My great aunt had a set of 78 records of Caruso that I listened to as a kid when I visited. Everything before that is lost forever. Scary. One way to look at it is that our time is the beginning of how performances will be perfectly (digitally) saved forever (barring WWIII, “1984″ or some other catastrophy befalling mankind).
Of course, you could always say,”I’ll call you on the Marina”. However, some poor slob might think you were talking about a place where boats are moored. That would really be silly!! On second thought, never mind!!!
Crap… er, BOLLOCKS! (I guess that’s rather English)
Well, I’ll find a way to share that vid with you. And if you like blues and rock, you’ll like this song. Thanks for Dragula. I’ve been looking for a good version.
Since you’ve been such a good sport, I’ll treat you to another song… from my Canadian brethren of the Great White North… Truimph, singing Lay It On The Line.
Sweet… I love GFR.
I must have constructed my description poorly, above. Great White North is a term of endearment for Canada. The band’s name is Triumph… they were greatly popular, along with Rush, in the seventies and eighties… as most in my youth chanted “Death to Disco!”
My favorite GFR song is Some Kind of Wonderful, which while we are being schmaltzy and dedicatory of Marina… this one is surely appropriate.
I paid my way through many a bar-tab during my years in the Marine Corps by singing this song at karaoke bars in Okinawa, Japan, Quantico, and Thailand… that and some CCR (Proud Mary).
I can’t find any good recordings elsewhere. The live recordings are bootlegged and distorted. Hey Mijj, click on my name… it should take you to my YT site. Then go to my playlists and select the 80’s, 90’s, etc. Scroll to the end of the list and click on the Big Head Todd and The Monsters “Broken Hearted Savior”. See if it will let you play that one, or do a search on your own and see what comes up in the UK scene.
Twentieth Century Fox – Doors (Fianchetto)
Some Kind of Wonderful – Grand Funk RR (Dez)
Love Hurts – Nazareth (Mijj)
Everywhere – Fleetwood Mac (Mijj)
Stairway to Marina – Pedantickarl (Capman911)
I’d like to add another, in honor of Pagedoll, who has reminded me of my Heavy Metal heritage. I submit for your listening pleasure All of You by Don Felder (from the Eagles).
Now I watch the video and think the furry man represents Mijj’s creativity, and the pink cosmic cows are societal expectations for artistic expression. Oh, how I have waxed poetic… *poses theatrically*… such metaphor, what allegory.
I think Chev olay mentioned something earlier about Xmas being short for Christmas, so I looked up Xmas and came up with that sign and the meaning of it and the story behind Xmas.
Ah yes, I see my error… I was adding, and not considering numeral placement… so 2A would be 42.. I was also thrown by your &h designation… I’ve never seen that used for hex. Learn something new every day.
That’s the joke! If you can tell that the number is wrong, you get it.
Hey! Sixteen states (0 – F) minus two is fourteen, not thirteen. Oh, well, since we are counting things and zero could be defined as not a thing, we’ll let it slide. Thanks for playing Wierd Geeks Talking About Things That No One Else Has A Clue About, the family game where some members finally get a chance to act superior to the rest.
Ah, true, but F=15… If there are F (15) kinds of people and you remove two, you leave D kinds (13). 0 is not a kind, but a placeholder, an absence of value and an ingenious Arabic (and Mayan) mathematical invention. Having any number of kinds removes the possibility of 0, removing it along with 2 kinds… so that shows 3 states (0, 1, and 2) out of 16 (0 – F), leaving 13 states (or D). This has been weird and fun, CK
That would be hard for me to do as I have a two year contract with Verizon and, have to pay for another phone, would I. So to your phone instead let me just put the hammer. Hmmmmmm.
*Puts on wrinkly mask and dark robes*
I feel the hate welling in you. Use your hate! Strike down your phone and your journey to the dark side will be complete.
It’s a pervasive symbol in Christianity, especially in the Catholic church… and it predates the celebration of Christmas or Christ-mass. It isn’t unusual that you would have associated the symbol with the papacy.
man-oh-man, Marina – I just viewed that Taiwanese commentary-thing. Sounded like something about lesbian S & M dungeon/kung pao longdong/poosie whatever. Not that amusing, but just…bizarre. What do you make of it? I love your site, Sweetie! Just discovered it/you, and I’m new to computers, the Net, etc., if you can believe it, so please bear with me at times. All the best to you, Originalistrick.
Hey Karl. I need to ask you a question. I stopped the video at 12 seconds. The picture of Marina, how can I pull that image and make it into a picture?
in German we call a mobile phone or cell phone a “handy”.
Satphones is a more correct term, since most of today’s mobile phones are connected directly to a satellite rather than a terrestrial cell unit, that is only good for a maximum of 5 to 8 miles.
Woow, so many new videos, it’s so fun catching up, and being able to view them one after the other.
In canada they where never called mobile phone they are called cellular phones ” cell phone”
Hi Marina: I think I understand where the word Shylock came from in refering to mob money lenders. Possibly from the Merchant of Venice. The lender’s name was Shylock, but where did the expression ” VIG ” come from. It is used to explain the interest charged by the Shylocks. Thanks,
brickabrack
Here, in Hungary, we call the cell phone as “mobiltelefon” which means “mobile telephone”. So maybe we use the longest name for it in the world…
I call it a cell phone. I thought it came from the use of cell towers which covered an area, called a cell, for phone transmitions.
I have also heard this explenation.
Not even calling it a cell phone, I just call it a cell. Even if it’s a Blackberry or iPhone, that’s too long and it’s just a cell.
There is a lot of truth in what your saying Marina. I’ve started calling my cell phone “my cell”. Who has time to say “phone” anymore?
I’m too busy !!
Marina, you need to be at Chickipedia ( http://www.chickipedia.com/ ). Find someone who knows enough about you, or even better yet, do it yourself!
There can’t be a site dedicated to hot women, and you not be on it.
Mobilia vulga is the plural because vulgus is neuter.
Hi Marina, hi everybody,
in German there is no German word vor Mobile phone or cell phone.
We call them “Handy”, which is – I think – abbreviated from “handheld telephone”.
By the way: has anybody an idea, what young Germans call “to text”?
The solution is very funny, I think, and the purists of German language don’t like it at all!
Guten Morgen torsten, It is simsen, meaning to send an SMS message.
i thought he was referring to the (german) verb “texten”.
Spoken word poetry by and for people who can’t hear the spoken word: [DEAF POETRY JAM]
mobile vs cellular…
both come from ancient greek verbs “ameusasthai” (move) and “kalyptein” (cell)….
Well.. an old word refering to a modern object doen’t mean that the object existed in the old times. Such a silly answer.
Well, since my cell phone’s provider company was eaten by another company, I consider my ‘cell phone’ to be more of an ‘oddly shaped rolodex’ *lol* And ‘cell’, I think, was termed for the fact that the batteries were lithium-ion cells *shrugs* I could be wrong.
They are called cell phones because of reception cells; which are the areas one antennae tower can cover. While moving about you move from one tower’s cell to another.
Ooo, cool, good to know
word request navistar
It is a cell phone. I am not so concerned with how correct that term is now, but with how good my reception is.
Word requests:
Inept (ept?)
Plethora (I just like this word)
Universe (one line of poetry?)
Investment (something to do with an article of clothing that looks better on you)
Since you are Russian and a teacher, should we be using your patrinomic?
In French we say PORTABLE.
Speaking of music videos… Check out this mob…
Good one, Taz! I love this song!
Thanks for the invite Dez.
Aw heck, anytime… my privilege.
word request: pidgin .. as in “a pidgin Russian language was invented for use in a Clockwork Orange”.
…pigeon???
new music vid …
[King Crimson - Walking on Air]
Hey mijj, great music. I had not heard of King Crimson.
By the way, there is no need to add the note in your YT description to add the HQ format code. You already did that. Hover over your cursor over the link above and look at your browser status bar. You already added the code. One can also tell by the link underneath the video that says “Watch in normal quality”, which means the current video/audio is in high quality.
You might want to add to your description, “To listen in high quality, be sure to click on the “Watch In High Quality” link underneath the video. Also, add a quick note about who King Crimson is for those of us uninformed.
omg…what will we do with the youth of the world? Never heard of King Crimson? Yipes!
In the Court of the Crimson King: one of us has this on vinyl…
i added that note for whoever wanders in from a link elsewhere within YouTube. – in that case you get the lo-fi version and need to make an explicit change.
+ i’m shocked you ain’t familiar with King Crimson .. i have a genius track by the key guy, Robert Fripp here …
+ if you want a brilliant reference album: check “Discipline” … my other favorited YT King Crimson stuff’s been taken down cos of copyright stuff.
… the “Fripp here…” .. got hijacked cos of copyright takedown.
I used to have my father’s and grandfather’s old 78’s… man those were the days… they had lots of big band performers, but also lesser known artists like, oh, Stevie Wonder (when he was nine) and a group few have remembered, much less heard, The Inkspots. I wish I could remember where we stored these records.
big hit redone by original singer http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QNc6aiOncGE
Ink Spots
Thanks annuddermale, I am listening to your song now. I love it.
Another great discovery on HFW.
Believe it or not, I listen to a wide variety of music and never came across King Crimson. If I did, I don’t recall. I noticed in wiki it said;
“King Crimson have garnered little radio or music video airplay, but gained a large cult following.”
Hey mijj, also watched the Fripp interview.
Catching up on the 70s. Grew up with In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida…. love that drum solo…
I don’t know if you told me or not, but In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida actually is, In The Garden Of Eden. The singer slurred his words so bad it sounded like In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. By the way I tried to stop the video at the spot that I wanted. I pressed Print Screen and nothing happened. The enlarged picture stayed the same. Can you elaborate some more please. Did you use that Tiny Pic web site to make the picture?
i’m having a look at that fripp interview right now … he seems a smart together guy .. not at all rock n roll!
(which is a very good thing, in my opinion)
oh, btw .. i uploaded a bit of Fripp music earlier ..
[Robert Fripp & The League Of Gentlemen - God Save the King]
I was just thinking the word “mobile” when you said that the word “mob” was short for something.
HOMEWORK: cell phone
You see how the 2 can go hand in hand with each other?
I would love to hear you do another video in russian.. I just cant think of a good word to do in russian….
How about ‘Iron Curtain’ {serious} or ‘Rusian Roulette’{tongue-in-cheek}?
{driving tongue further into cheek} Perhaps contrast ‘Russian Roulette’ with the Polish version – same game, one pistol, one bullet, only the pistol is a semi-automatic…
{serious, again}Or perhaps some ‘loan word’ of russian origin, that few ppl would know IS of russian origin?
how about M discusses the pidgin Russian used in the Clockwork Orange?
Viddy this, my droogs. In Clockwork Orange “horroshow” means “good”.
How about “comrade”? I used to hear that word in all of the cold war spy movies whenever a “Russian” spy would talk to an ally. Or “Sputnik” or even “balalaika”?
James, have you achieved a partnership yet? If you need views, do you need more channel views or video views (or both)?
Everything..Views but mainly subscribers
Hey, I’m in… I like your videos… I find you to be quite a wit and creative.
Word Requests
Type A & Type B (Not Blood!)
This is used to describe a person’s personalty.
I believe the cell phone was invented by a Type A person!
How about the word “spanking” just because I want to hear you say it!
You are a victim of your own success, my dear teacher. Normally your smiling face starts my day off right, and I love reading through your comments, but it’s getting to be too much to scroll through the hundreds of comments, searching for your gems.
Just one man’s oh so humble opinion, but you need to setup sections for comments/homework on the specific word for today; word requests, and idle chatter amongst your fans.
I assume you also know that Revolution is “going open source” at the end of this month, so things will change considerably for the people who built your theme. I cannot believe they don’t have your site as one of their showcase ones. You must be their most popular site ever. Might be time for a change?
Still having issues with your videos. Ran today’s on your site, and gave up after it stopped at least thirty times and wasn’t even half way through. Interestingly enough, when I clicked on the YT logo, it played straight through with no pausing on YT.
you could try downloading the vid to play on your pc.
M provided a webpage that showed how to do this … i’ll see if i have it saved ..
found it ..
if you follow the instructions, you get something added to your firefox browser which will add a link to the YouTube page which will allow you to dload the video …
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/04/download-youtube-videos-as-mp4-files.html
erm … what i mean is .. you get a thing added to firefox … if you are on a YouTube page where you’d like to dload the vid, you click the thing, and it adds a link to the YouTube page .. you then cllck the added link to dload the vid.
does that make sense?
Thanks muchly. I am using IE. It’s not a big deal for me. I just click on the YouTube logo and it plays the vid there with no problems. I was just letting Marina know that something isn’t right with her site.
“I was just letting Marina know that something isn’t right with her site.”
There’s something not right with your internet connection… The ones she posts here are in Higher quality, so they take longer to load,it looks like your internet connection is to slow to download it fast enough for it to play smoothly.
You could just hit play and pause and let the red bar load fully if you wanna see it in HQ
Hi checmark, keep in mind that when you click the YT logo, it takes you to the low quality video (labeled as normal quality on YT) which makes sense that it wouldn’t stutter.
What happens when you click the link underneath the video that says watch in high quality? Does it stutter then?
If not, then it is an indication that the YT embedded player that shows the video above has different attributes. (in fact it does, but not sure about speed related issues)
If indeed you do find that the HQ version on YT plays without stuttering, and as you say it does stutter here, it is not the HFW site per se that is the issue, but the YT embedded player.
You may also want to try Firefox to see if there is a difference in the way the browsers cache data.
Also, the HQ video and the Normal quality video does come from different You Tube caching servers.
You can go to the YT Help section and search for “problem viewing video” it will explain everything I just said.
Since you have no problem with other web site HQ videos, it may be a problem with the YT caching server for your locale.
I have zero issues with the embedded videos on this site.
Hi,
What about “Red Letter Day”? Sounds like an interesting one to do.
I want to know the origin of the phrase ‘hunky-dory’. I tried searching on web but, couldn’t get reasonable explanation. May be you should give it a try… Thanks HOT for anything!!!
Have searched the web for the meaning of the word “naval gazing” let alone the origin. Can you help?
It’s a slightly pejorative reference to a form of meditation where the devotee sits in the lotus position (but with the head tilted forward) and stares at his or her bellybutton.
Hotrocky THAT would be ‘Navel gazing’.
NAVAL gazing is what the local prostitutes do from the pier at liberty call as the sailors come ashore. They size up the market and choose thei targets, bickering over who gets a crack at whom…
Oops! Guess I gratuitously corrected the spelling there.
Is all good, friend – I enjoyed your post, and hope you enjoyed mine as well!
During my time in the USMC, random drug testing (by urinalysis) was done on a monthly basis. A few unlucky jarheads or swabbies would be assigned to make sure no one “cheated” their test sample by watching the… filling of the cup. These unfortunate few were called “meat-gazers”.
Hello! I am from Germany.
… The Term we use to express “Sell Phone” or “Mobile Phone” in Germany is “Handy”
lg ChW
Guten Abend chwforbmw,
“Sell Phone” ? cell phone
Hi Teach.
What is the origin of the word “Vessel” and can you say it three times fast? I love that accent.
“wessel” “Wessel” “wessel” 
OK Teacher,
This is for you.
Must be a cultural thing, bare chested Russian guys in skirts.
“Feel like I’m bun again”?
Whoops!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPqbe12zgFM
I just call it mobile phone, it seems to be a more popular term globally than cell phone.
On the plus side, I turn 1 day older today
Happy birthday, kaibanator.
Have a few stubbies for me.
Happy Birthday kaibanator
Hi Mike,
re: screen capture
When you press the “Print Screen” key on your keyboard, you are correct, nothing happens (that you can see). What happens is that the screen is placed into memory.
Once the screen is in memory, you have to get the it out. You do that with a Photo Editing program. You could use MS Paint (ugly to use), or
you may also have PhotoEd.exe or Kodakimg.exe or Kodakprv.exe on your PC. Look at the Program list to see what you have. You can also download Gimp from the web for free.
You also may have a Photo editor that came with your digital camera or printer. Open up any of these photo editing programs, then click Edit, Past New Image after having capatured the screen with the Print Screen. Once you have the screen, you can crop and save the image to a file.
TinyPic is just a web photo storage place like Flickr. Once you have an image on your desktop, you can upload it to Flickr or TinyPic to allow other people to see it.
Happy birthday!
Very cool video… very sad
Here kaibanator, I hired a stripper for your B-day
Thanks for the birthday wishes and links fellas
It just makes a birthday that much better
I have a request, but it’s a phrase.
I’m English and obviously our currency is U.K Sterling, but I noticed that around the edge of our £2 coins it says “Standing on the shoulders of giants”
And I just wanted to know the origin of this phrase or what it means.
Thanks Marina.
-BradleyA
Wiki says: “Dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants (Latin: nanos gigantum humeris insidentes) is a Western metaphor meaning “One who develops future intellectual pursuits by understanding the research and works created by notable thinkers of the past”; a contemporary interpretation. However, the metaphor was first recorded in the twelfth century and attributed to Bernard of Chartres. It was famously used by the seventeenth-century scientist Isaac Newton who wrote it as: Pigmaei gigantum humeris impositi plusquam ipsi gigantes vident (see below). The picture is derived from the Greek mythology where the blind giant Orion carried his servant Cedalion on his shoulders.”
The quote for the day has mob wrote all over it.
What is her accent?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQM5TZqoaUE
She sounds French to me… but I am not sure.
answer spleen, borrow whomevers your plugged into if one is not enough
Well. Cell refrered to the pattern or area covered by one relay station or antena i think. The cells made up the coverage area of a network like a honeycomb i suppose. If other think like statelites or the ‘wired’ network was involved in a call it wouldn’t strictly be a cell phone.
This is off the top of my head. You are the investigator and I will let you do that throrough work and await your enlightenment.
can you do a video on what boxing means?
Dear HotForWords aka Miss Martina Orlova,
I sincerely appreciate your work here and it seems to reflect your true beauty as both a person and a teacher, both inside and out.
As a newly registered member, I must say that it’s really fascinating for me, one who is interested in matters both scientific and artistic. Learning the history and origin of words is always a pleasure.
I’ve been wondering about the true origin of the word “HITMAN”, a term we normally use to describe professionals paid to remove individuals of significant inconvenience to their paying clients.
I would be very grateful if you squeeze some time from your busy daily schedule to satisfy my curiosity. Thank you in advance.
a word please! marina, i would like to know the origins of the word ‘bredren’. I have my own theory, that in the idealistic life of married couples living in post war America, a housewife would greet her husband on his return to work ‘hello, my bread-winner’, meaning the man who provided for the family! please share your knowledge on the word!
It’s an ethnic mispronunciation of the archaic word, “brethren,” meaning “brothers.”
I like to call it мобайл фон.
….another original quote by Che Volay:
As far as fame and fortune is concern, you can keep the fame I’ll just take the fortune.
i call my cell phone “you piece of crap”…
but generically i refer to them as “cell phones”…
my employer, a good ol’ southern boy, calls ‘em “mobiles”…
now, i must also point out that you are wearing a lovely lavender frock in this video…and since i spent a small (okay, not so small) amount of time dwelling on your outfit, i began to wonder…
where the heck does “frock” come from?…
Teacher-
Actually, I call my “mobile” phone a “cel” phone… “Cel” (not “cell” is correct, as the towers that relay your call from me to it’s destination were originally broken down into “cels”.. I think “cellular” was shortened to “cells” because people didn’t know about “cel towers”…
Why “cel” and not “cell”?
to recap …
[the first video]
[the second video]
[the latest video]
Cool… and I noticed the tri-color too… like florescent pixels in a video screen.
yeh .. i’m going to allow myself any colour i like after this.
oh…now you have a spikey male icon…are you gonna put it up with the wavey female?
dont’ you mean :
“are you gonna put it up the wavey female?”
That could be a chime logo for an electronic company
…..give you an English pound for the copyrights
i’m holding out for £1.37 inc VAT
…..what % VAT
i mean .. + VAT !!
i think the going rate is 17.5% ?
however, i’ve finished the music for 4 now … so you may want ot hang on to your cash.
(the graphics are a real pig .. takes me ages to do in proportion to the sound, and i dont know what i’m doing so it’s real rough.)
mijj, when you “complete” the series …wondering what it would look/sound like when played consecutively
It would be amazing if when played consecutively all the tones made a legitimate tune.
that would take a lot of planning though…..best see what happens by accident.
lol .. well .. i have all the raw files so it’d be easy to join em end to end.
i was planning to do the first 10 (or 11) strictly as the number of seconds .. after 10 (or 11) i’m not sure … the constraint of fixing to a specific length focuses the mind wonderfully – i have a terrible habit of going down endless blind alleys when i’m having a shot at creating stuff, and usually end tup getting little done.
i think it’d make it more interesting if it wasn’t planned – though the key of all the bits and pieces will be different .. and i think some of the time signatures will wander too – and tempo.
plus.. 3 was the last time i constrained myself to fixing the animation frames to exactly the timing of notes.
very good – the three primary colors of light! Did you ever get to see the Sierpinski gasket? My point being not that you should (have) use(d) it, but that you get to see it. looking very much forward to chapter four!
i didn’t attempt to implement your algorithm .. but i vaguely remembered the gasket from long ago when i checked out fractal geometry ..
i found a fair example here (well .. Sierpinski pyramid …)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Sierpinski_pyramid.jpg
mine was only a 2d ‘gasket’…yours a 3d ’sponge’. Very good!
nope, didn’t mean
at all.
but i’m sure you’ll find a way to do something funny…
Cell phone.
It took me ten tries to log in
is it my keyboard or have others had difficulties
I presume that you mean that it looked like you were logged in, but you didn’t get the comment text box? This occurs due to expired cookies, which is a security measure.
If that is the case, all you need to do is to reload the page. If that doesn’t work, clear your browser cookies and possibly also your browser cache.
Thank you, Karl
“God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.” – Robin Williams
–explains why my homework is usually late!
I have a personal one and a work one, so I call them electronic leashes.
If I had a mobile phone, I would say cell phone.
Marina have you changed the layout slightly?? Things feel fresher
James–I feel with my hands.
Word Requested: Latter
Incredible piano solo [HERE].
Lyrical genius perfectly spoken with the Double Bass all taking me home…..beautiful song
Her (absent here) piano solo, present on the album is exponentially better. I have the CD in my computer now, any way I can send it to you?
I notice that many YOUtube vids are simply a song played , video being an image of the album cover or a slide show…anyone know how to do this?
OK… I made a vid of the album cover, song that includes piano solo, but chickened out when I read the Youtube copyright info. So, I’ll just highly reccommend that you purchase Ms. Barber’s album ‘Modern Cool’ and get the rest. ‘Let it Rain’ is there, too.
http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Cool-Patricia-Barber/dp/B00000K3BE
….you can even do that in Windows movie maker,just drag and drop a picture in the video line…
THANKS!! I didn’t know I even HAD this on my computer! I downloaded a trial version of a movie editor and used it without knowing of thw windows movie maker
Gotta go check out its options 
thanks for the offer Fianchetto…will check this artist out some more. As with you, chicken on the copy laws plus like to see artists get their due
— // when I can and the mood takes me, I love a night out at Ronnie Scotts club in Soho, have been many times before since I was a teenager. Wonderful place for music heads, even met the man before he passed at a friends 18th birthday, Ronnie comes on the stage all chilled out smokeing a herbal saying that hes got to stop smokeing this sh** – always great times at Ronnies whether alone, on a date or with friends is just a magical time, buzz for days after a night there 
I found Patricia Barber playing the Green Mill in Chicago. I don’t know if she still plays there or not as it was a LONG time ago
It’s Raining here
Word request: Gorgeous
Marina, I noticed when I’m not logged in theres a very small smiley face in the bottom left corner of the page but when I log in its gone. Did you put it there? Just wondering.
Too much pixie dust for you, Pagedoll…
I have been first
James! He’s back… Yes, I was sure you have been first before, and likely several times on this site and YT. I was just being an idiot, beaming because I was first yesterday… can’t you see that nimbus around me that just screams “a fool easily amused”?
Then this seems doubly appropriate.
LOL… and here I was thinking you were going to post “Fool on the Hill” by the Beatles
Yes, that term comes up in “The Mob Rules”.
got any more? You DID bring enough to share with the entire class, right??
Thanks for the {sniff} pixie dust, babe…
Dude! She’s right! right there on the homepage… a wee, tiny, little black
rotated 90 degrees!
Hi pagedoll, we discussed that smiley in the lower left sometime back early this year also. It is a Wordpress blog thing.
Here it is for those that can’t see it do to being logged in.
It’s normally in the lower right of the page.
http://stats.wordpress.com/g.gif
Lower LEFT (remind me to learn my left from my right)
Wow! that is so tiny that I have to conclude all my blood is going somewhere other than my head.
My Mob is my Phone , I Think your behind scenes Mob Teacher, has Stolen your Seat Lately
I call my mobile phone a cell phone
I say it’s cell phone. Speaking of which I need to make a few changes. I want to change my ring tone and the internet so I can keep track of scores while I’m at work.
You are very sweet!
The Mob Rules
Me too!! I think I was in grade school and I just remember that movie being the coolest thing ever at the time.
Hanover Fist from
Heavy Metal
I have an angle…
STERN!!!
hilarious
Black Sabbath
old skool Ozzy
If I remember correctly, this was done with Dio, not the Oz-meister
I’ll never forget that name, good ol’ Hanover.
That movie clip kinda reminded me of The Trial …like I said, kinda. 
Forgive me Pagedoll… I just suffered a cognitive disconnect
I just went to your YT page and saw all the Disney clips… then tried to account for the Black Sabbath respect you’ve shown. Are you a Dark Tinkerbell?
Dark tink, I like it! The Disney clip is just to go along with the av., but as for music its SLAYER!!!! to Sinatra for this kid.
Could you tell me what Oil Field Trash
I would like to know what it is
Thank you very much
Sounds like a local epithet for oil well drillers and their families. They were probably discriminated against due to their almost migratory nature, which made them not likely to permanently join any community. Like gypsies, they would not stay long enough to be trusted or at least accepted with all their faults as long-time residents are apt to be.
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Ok Marina, then how did the “ster” ending get applied to “gang” and “mob”, as in “gangster” and “mobster”?
Hotster Forster Wordster muster invester gatester.
(And FWIW I frequently refer to my mobile/cell phone in language that can’t be used in mixed company… )
Like a POS.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/10/10/the-mob/#comment-69694
[RIVES]
sniperskayal, mobster actually came about in imitation of gangster… and the -ster suffix indicates that the word represents the trade someone is involved with, often in a disparaging manner… a mobster is someone who’s profession is in the mob, same thing with gangster, trickster, jokester.. they even had drugster back then.
Prior to the 16th century -ster was actually feminine… you had seamster for example as a woman.. but from the 16th century on, the -ster became masculine and now you have -stress for the feminine versions, like seamstress.
bloody ‘ell, marina .. getting up early is one thing .. mind bending analysis at dawn is another!!
chingar or chinga is the name of my phone. like cellular
request: typical, like all the others, same as all the others.
I nearly messed myself when I saw the name of your phone. Where I come from “chinga” and “chingar” are words that will (potentially) get you beaten and left for dead… depending on how they’re used.
I am in Southern Calif. And I know what it means, that is why I call it that.
In English It would be like calling the phone a 7uck or piece of 2hit. I hate cell phones or should I say the people that MIS- use them.
I’m with you… and I’m glad you know what those terms mean. I’d hate for you to get in a fight over a silly misunderstanding… you, talking about your phone while someone else thinks you’re talking about him.
I refer to my Cellular Phone merely as phone, so does everyone I know.
Word Request!!
We all know what Etymology is and what an Etymologist does, but what is the Etymology of ‘Etymology’?
I would really like to see you explain the phrase “caught red-handed”
also you should get on the pbs language show “a way with words” you’d certainly spice up the radio waves!
You don’t need Marina for this one! A murderer with the blood of his victim on his hands would be “caught red-handed.” In another galaxy, it might be “caught green-tentacled.” If robots take over, “caught 10W-30-handed.” I’m sure you could think of even more examples (although you might be a bit sorry that you ever brought it up by now).
i want to know the meaning of the word BUTT or BUTTHOLE
Where is your head at, dude?
Marina,
Are you going to be a regular on O’ Reillys show??
A few of us would like to know where “going to hell in a handbasket” originates. Thanks.
Wow, that’s a killer pix at 00:10! It begs to be a poster. I’d buy one.
Please send $ 998.42 to the address in the Contact link up at the top.
http://i35.tinypic.com/jpu7o9.jpg
Next time remind me to tripple check.
http://i35.tinypic.com/jpu7o9.jpg
I noticed the ring. No, not a phone ring, but the one on her finger. It doesn’t appear to be a diamond. What’s the story?
She could get rich! She could promise to wear any ring sent in by a fan in at least one of her videos. The viewers would be watching every episode to see if their ring made it to the Royal Finger. So, fans would start looking at her hand instead of… no, no, they’re still going to look there anyway.
I bought a ring back then but after wearing it for a day I decided that I really don’t like wearing rings as they are uncomfortable for me.
Oooh! I was responded to! It’s a warm, tingly feeling. A nice tingly, not that I’m-sitting-in-the-electric-chair kind of tingly. Let’s try for another.
Marina, have you learned to think in English yet? If so, when did it happen, before or after you immigrated? If you remember the moment, what went through your mind? I had a Japenese friend that came over at six and he remembered the moment, but I was too young/stupid to ask him what it felt like and what he thought about it. I’ve always regretted that, so I’m asking you.
PS: Like you, I don’t like rings or jewlery hanging on me. Or watches; I use my cell phone (whoops!, wrong lesson
).
I mainly just use phone. There’s not as much distinction from tethered ones as there used to be.
I thought I’d toss out a couple phrases that were used in a computer programming class I took at university that had to do with computers doing grammar checking. I don’t know where they come from but they stuck with me.
Time flies like the wind.
Fruit flies like the banana.
Similar structure and words but the nouns and verbs and such are all in different spots. Just amusing is all…
LOL… fruit flies… love it
LOL!!!! I almost entered the love letter contest to win a whitesmoke for the techwriters at work… They all ways ewes there spell-checker, but it just ain’t the same as having a clue in the grammar department.
It’s why computers will never duplicate our minds. They couldn’t tell when you’re joking.
As one frog said to another:
“Time’s sure fun when you’re having flies”
Frog … flies
frog v. superfly
In “the great white north” both are used. The name cell phone is more commonly used term for the transportable, wireless, miniature telephone.
I call it a cell phone, or just cell.
Well, I was reading through Aldous Huxley’s Antic Hay, again, when I ran across a word that puzzled me ferociously. Upon looking it up I laughed my buns off because of the brilliance of it’s usage in the dialogue. I’d like you to share with your fans the meaning of the “Callipygian”, possibly an example as well? Thanks for everything you do HotForWords
In the UK they’re called Mobiles.
Germany and the UK they are more often called “Handy” or “Handi” phones.
Just my 2cents for what it worth now
Marina has anyone heard anything from the best weekend ever yet. I had something in my junk mail from I phone and deleted it before I could read it.
Mike
i just call mine a phone, as in let me grab my phone, if someone asks me to anywhere. otherwise I just keep the battery pulled so it can’t be tracked on the cell phone network, supposedly.
I call it a phone. Technically no they are not cell phones. Cell phones are set up on a different system that is not used any more. They are digital phones now.
Who says? What we think of as cell phones today must still communicate via repeaters located in small, closely-spaced cells due to their low power (about 1/6th of what the original car phones had). They still are handed off from one cell to the next as they move by being commanded to change frequency to the strongest (best signal) adjacent cell. The protocols — first analog and now digital — used to communicate have changed through three generations of phones, but not the principle of the cell. That’s not going to change as we continue to demand smaller phones (read smaller batteries).or longer time between charges.
Portable satellite phones and two-way radios don’t use cell networks, but then we don’t call them cell phones either. All of this knowledge is available widely on the Web. He who puts the numbers embedded in the phones at the time of manufacture into the system’s computers has absolute control over who can do what, so there is no need for the secrecy that the Bell System maintained (or tried to) about how the system worked when hacking first stated. Now you can know everything and do nothing.
Word request:
I just posted a blog about the current state of the economy and I said that people were losing money “hand over fist”. So, I’m curious, where did the phrase “hand over fist” come from?
I’m glad you posted that comment because i’ve wondered that for a while.
EDIT: I’ve wondered what that meant
I know, it almost sounds like it should mean something dirty, but that’s now how it’s used in conversation—at least not ALL conversation, hehehe.
Well, this is easy enough. The meaning is losing hand over hand, i.e. handing the cash out as fast as you can. But hand over hand is a boring phrase, so to jazz it up a bit, it is changed to hand over fist. The same principle of not wanting to repeat a word that is essentially repeated is applied to other phrases. Take falling ass over teakettle. It is really saying ass over ass, which would be rolling over and over. But to make it more interesting, the phrase is changed not to repeat ass. Same thing in it’s raining hammers and axe handles or that old standby cats and dogs. Which reminds me…
We have a local convenience store whose theme was It’s Raining Cats and Dogs. They bought dozens of full-sized fiberglass cats and dogs and suspended them just above head level on earthquake wire (that steel wire used to brace suspended ceilings in offices). Later the store was sold to another chain, but the new owners declined to go to the expense of hiring someone and renting a scissors lift to take them all down. And since no one cared about the whole theme business in the first place, it didn’t matter. Then one day, a large dog came loose and fell on a customer. Then it mattered and they were all gone. Imagine the tale the customer got to tell everytime someone said that phrase.
Morrison for Me
…..love to have all my vinyl back
I miss the album covers, but the quality of cd’s blew me away.
Remember this one that Karl made.
Stairway to Marina
Just saw it… very sweet and endearing. Good job, Karl
Good job, Karl! thanks!
Love the floating head like Wizard of Oz
W.O.R.D. R.E.Q.U.E.S.T.
where did the phrase “all is fair in love and war” come from?
Maybe it is “all is fare” since no matter in love or in war, you pay… oh lordy you pay
Trivia Question of The Day: At one time people would say, “I’ll call you on the Ameche.” Do you know why?
Never heard the phrase myself… can’t think of any telephone manufacturers either… Please do tell!
OK, I will “drop the other shoe.” Don Ameche was a famous actor (1908-1993) who played the lead in the 1939 movie, “The Story of Alexander Graham Bell.” In fact, it was so popular that soon Ameche = Bell = telephone. The usage faded out over time, but it’s still a good struggling-inventor-makes-good movie. See it on late night TV if you can. If they ever do a remake, I don’t think “I’ll call you on the Pitt” would be quite as catchy.
Now all this was before Marina’s time, of course, and mine, too. We are so lucky to live in an age that allows the historical archiving (is that redundant?) of performer’s works. My great aunt had a set of 78 records of Caruso that I listened to as a kid when I visited. Everything before that is lost forever. Scary. One way to look at it is that our time is the beginning of how performances will be perfectly (digitally) saved forever (barring WWIII, “1984″ or some other catastrophy befalling mankind).
Hey where does the word “kill” come from???
Hand me that knife and turn around and I’ll show you.
If mobile is a disorderly crowd I guess it’s appropriate that Mardi Gras, in the US, began in Mobile, Alabama.
I guess the origins of the word gives a darker vision of Mobil oil.
Exxon, Pure, Shell, BP, ConaCo, and all of the rest of the price gougers.Herh Herh, Herh.
Hey Capman…Exxon IS Mobil (XOM on NYSE) and they’re off 30% since the summer…
ok .. i found this live version (wassisname and the broken heads)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV5eKEiK0-I
Nah… that recording totally sucks ass… check my response in the thread below, as I found an alternate site with the video and a great recording.
ps. i noticed you had zombie’s More Human Than Human in there ..
.. i think this is a partic good one …
[rob zombie - dragula]
I also have Thunderkiss 65 from La Sexorcista… one of my all time fave songs. I love how he fuses funk and metal.
oops .. wrong link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1MQW5e6KcE&fmt=18
that BHTM location … the vid wouldnt play!
looks like there’s a conspiracy!
Crap… er, BOLLOCKS! (I guess that’s rather English)
Well, I’ll find a way to share that vid with you. And if you like blues and rock, you’ll like this song. Thanks for Dragula. I’ve been looking for a good version.
Since you’ve been such a good sport, I’ll treat you to another song… from my Canadian brethren of the Great White North… Truimph, singing Lay It On The Line.
dezdk…… GWN sounds a lot like Grand Funk RailroadI’m your Captain
Sweet… I love GFR.
I must have constructed my description poorly, above. Great White North is a term of endearment for Canada. The band’s name is Triumph… they were greatly popular, along with Rush, in the seventies and eighties… as most in my youth chanted “Death to Disco!”
My favorite GFR song is Some Kind of Wonderful, which while we are being schmaltzy and dedicatory of Marina… this one is surely appropriate.
I paid my way through many a bar-tab during my years in the Marine Corps by singing this song at karaoke bars in Okinawa, Japan, Quantico, and Thailand… that and some CCR (Proud Mary).
let me reciprocate …
[You'll Never Walk Alone]
That’s just mean!… You know I’m a Manchester United fan… hehe (jk)
Morrison for Marina
oh …schmalzy songs about marina, is it?
… [Nazareth - Love Hurts]
Nice… my favorite schmaltzy song of the seventies
eek! .. the bit right at the end is … erm … a little overboard.
Oh what planet this time
any excuse for extravagant theatric displays of emotion.
… all the benefits of the pain and anguish without suffering the expense.
If it hurts you’re stickin’ it in the wrong place
How about this rock-bluesy tune from Big Head Todd and the Monsters?
YouTube wont let me see it .. it’s thrown this in my face: “This video is not available in your country.”
What a crock of sh**… lemme find you another one… hold a mo’
I can’t find any good recordings elsewhere. The live recordings are bootlegged and distorted. Hey Mijj, click on my name… it should take you to my YT site. Then go to my playlists and select the 80’s, 90’s, etc. Scroll to the end of the list and click on the Big Head Todd and The Monsters “Broken Hearted Savior”. See if it will let you play that one, or do a search on your own and see what comes up in the UK scene.
Crap, sorry… sent you the wrong way… open up all playlists, go to Blues, and then go to the last song on the list.
You could also go to this VH1 site and check the video from BHTM
Love that song
oh .. it’s represents the tarot card for Art = Alchemy .. it’s the astrological symbol for saggitarios.
mijj….. no wonder, couldn’t make the other reply fit
here’s another competition entry for the “super-schmalzy song for marina” contest …
[Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere]
So far we have:
Twentieth Century Fox – Doors (Fianchetto)
Some Kind of Wonderful – Grand Funk RR (Dez)
Love Hurts – Nazareth (Mijj)
Everywhere – Fleetwood Mac (Mijj)
Stairway to Marina – Pedantickarl (Capman911)
I’d like to add another, in honor of Pagedoll, who has reminded me of my Heavy Metal heritage. I submit for your listening pleasure All of You by Don Felder (from the Eagles).
It doesn’t get any schmalzier than this.
There’s only one thing to do.
Good ones, Bob… I’m surprised you didn’t post up “Unchained Melody”
Actually you kinda bring us full circle, as the Everly Bros. were the ones who wrote “Love Hurts” that Nazareth played so well.
Oops, forgot to mention “Broken Hearted Savior” by Big Head Todd and the Monsters… man, Mijj it’s too bad you can’t see this vid…
There’s something to replace the favourite days of the week poll: compile the list of vids, and put them to a poll. Capman – You there?
actually .. i’d like to modify my songs for Marina ..
this
[Nazereth - Love Hurts]
.. should be paired with this ..
[exuberant song (ignore the title, this is about feeling)]
In that case, I’m switching out “All of You” for this classic tune.
lol
Now I watch the video and think the furry man represents Mijj’s creativity, and the pink cosmic cows are societal expectations for artistic expression. Oh, how I have waxed poetic… *poses theatrically*… such metaphor, what allegory.
Mobile Blues Again Dylan
you know, sometimes i think Marina give out boring homework.
It would have been much more interesting if …
“For your homework, i want you to smash your mobile with a hammer and count the pieces. Please write the number in the comments below.”
Actually, I was quite happily relieved to be out of the negativity of the “What’s your pet peeve?” zone.
I think Chev olay mentioned something earlier about Xmas being short for Christmas, so I looked up Xmas and came up with that sign and the meaning of it and the story behind Xmas.
Greek chi and rho = Christ, whence Xmas.
42
forty-two
XLII
101010
&h2c (I think)
quarante-deux
Mem Bet (Hebrew)
FFC (hexadecimal)
cuarenta y dos (Sp)
zweiundvierzig (Ger)
quarantadue (It)
I still think is 2c (hex) {running off to check}
is &h2a
2*16 + 10
ffc = 4092; 2c = 44
Ah yes, I see my error… I was adding, and not considering numeral placement… so 2A would be 42.. I was also thrown by your &h designation… I’ve never seen that used for hex. Learn something new every day.
If 6 was 9 Hendrix
There are F kinds of people in the world: those who can count in hex and those who can’t.
What about the other &hE (13) remaining kinds?
That’s the joke! If you can tell that the number is wrong, you get it.
Hey! Sixteen states (0 – F) minus two is fourteen, not thirteen. Oh, well, since we are counting things and zero could be defined as not a thing, we’ll let it slide. Thanks for playing Wierd Geeks Talking About Things That No One Else Has A Clue About, the family game where some members finally get a chance to act superior to the rest.
Ah, true, but F=15… If there are F (15) kinds of people and you remove two, you leave D kinds (13). 0 is not a kind, but a placeholder, an absence of value and an ingenious Arabic (and Mayan) mathematical invention. Having any number of kinds removes the possibility of 0, removing it along with 2 kinds… so that shows 3 states (0, 1, and 2) out of 16 (0 – F), leaving 13 states (or D). This has been weird and fun, CK
That would be hard for me to do as I have a two year contract with Verizon and, have to pay for another phone, would I. So to your phone instead let me just put the hammer. Hmmmmmm.
Yoda speak. Yeeeesss
*Puts on wrinkly mask and dark robes*
I feel the hate welling in you. Use your hate! Strike down your phone and your journey to the dark side will be complete.
Emperor speak
*whispers* Do it… you know you want to
You reply wave your arms as my email is down. To get their ass in gear waiting on Microsoft. Herh herh herh. Yodaology
Mijj what do you think of this sign?
Labarum
pax?
peace?
Greek chi and rho = Christ, whence Xmas.
Christ
This is, as church legends and history tell, the sign under which Constantine conquered.
…now ya pippin for the Pope
Well, he does have the pimp-est hat around… unless you’ve got a big English bear hat! Them’s the shiz
….when I saw that symbol the hat immediately pop into my head, how strange
Like THIS, dez??
It’s a pervasive symbol in Christianity, especially in the Catholic church… and it predates the celebration of Christmas or Christ-mass. It isn’t unusual that you would have associated the symbol with the papacy.
Fianchetto, no that photo makes me think of Buckingham Palace
HELL Yeah!!! Fianchetto… you da man!
As our Lady M is an alleged Louis Vuitton fan {number two is for you, mijj}
She’s lookin’…. perky *blush*
…and 21 is some vinyl for you, Che
Maybe we could pool our money and get one of these for Marina to do a vid in? Personally, I’d like to see her in 15, 36 or 48.
sorry… 15, 36, 38 – but 48 not so shabby, either
….yellow vinyl vaguely do I remember this as an album
maybe it was a kid album not a rock & roll album
just plain “cell”.
Mobile phone (or just mobile) here where I am in the UK.
man-oh-man, Marina – I just viewed that Taiwanese commentary-thing. Sounded like something about lesbian S & M dungeon/kung pao longdong/poosie whatever. Not that amusing, but just…bizarre. What do you make of it? I love your site, Sweetie! Just discovered it/you, and I’m new to computers, the Net, etc., if you can believe it, so please bear with me at times. All the best to you, Originalistrick.
My phone is my cell.
Of course cell phone is appropriate, the area covered by a transceiver is called a ‘cell’.
Nice silver ring on your ring finger which
appeared to match the bracelet/bangle.
…scary
i don’t see a ring …
… do you have hyper micro laser vision, or something ?
Super-Karl
It’s at the beginning of the video when she is sitting and messing with a fingernail. I saw the ring and the bracelet as Karl described.
ah … well .. now Cap has pointed it out it seems you dont have supernatural ring and bangle spotting powers at all.
what can i say? … i’m disappointed.
It scarred me for a minute. I thought she was betrothed to me. Well at least in my mind she was for a second or two.
betrothed… now that’s a great “old school” term. So Cap, are you as old as Yoda, or just an old romantic?
Just an old romantic
Yea I guess the robot Marina.
I think it would be cool if someone did an homage to Metropolis using the pic of “Robot” Marina… alas, a video man I am not… yet.
>”It scarred me for a moment.”
Boy, is that typo a freudian slip or what? Or was it a typo? Hmmmm.
Hey Karl. I need to ask you a question. I stopped the video at 12 seconds. The picture of Marina, how can I pull that image and make it into a picture?
do you mean robot-marina?
Did you mean this one?