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As a non-fan of baseball or other spectator sports, I didn’t know that. But when I was young, the drive-in movies were extremely popular. For those of you who have never been to a drive-in movie, you pay your admission, and drive your car into a large parking lot that has a gigantic movie screen out in the open and watch the movie from within your car. Of course, if the weather turns nasty in the middle of the movie, as it was apt to do sometimes, the showing of the movie was interrupted, and you would be given a rain check that was good for admission on another occasion.
I had always thought that to be the origin of the word. But according to Marina’s lesson, the word came long before there were ever any drive-n movies. Live and learn! Thanks, Marina!
how old was the Rain Check?
I take rain checks from grocery stores — when they have a product on sale but are sold-out (and so do not have any more of the product on their shelves) they give a rain-check that guarantees the sale price for a future time when they have restocked the product.
I predict that humans will be able to control the weather in 30 years maximum, so this Rain Check business will die out soon.
Since it’s impolite to cancel or rain check a meeting.
Wonderful a women and wonderful a website!
[JOURNAL]…hello –onlycasperman! Did you ever get your interview with the “HotForWords” host, Marina? I think I remember your comment such as. This is just a random lesson a greeting of wishing your day to be great! A snowed check is a bad money exchange(in regard to the lesson).
OLE
COMMODE
PISSOIR
FEDERAL
BOOZE
TRAIN from TRAINING-did the word exist before railroad trains?
PEEPING TOM
LEEWAY
DRINK YOU UNDER THE TABLE
JACK OF ALL TRADES
FOUL-illegal in sports first, or name for birds
ARCADE
BREAKFAST
DIBS
FREESTYLE
ROCK AND ROLL
SUEY-pig call
TAXICAB and TAXIDERMY-what does TAXI mean?
SHAMPOO
ALECK
SCISSORS
LETTER-doesn’t let things
NUMBER-doesn’t numb things
BULLY
JERKY
LOUSY-anything to do with lice
COUNT-to count or be the count of something
MUTT
DRAG QUEEN
WEIRDO
BULLSEYE
BINGO
RIGHTS
No=NUMBER=#
MUMS THE WORD
BOX from BOXING and BOXER
a person being troubling is TROUBLESOME, but can a HANDSOME person be handing
BATTERY SIZES(a aa c d-how do they classify those)
BLOW A RASPBERRY
STRAITJACKET not STRAIGHTJACKET
PHONEY
MAYDAY
SPIC AND SPAN
SISSY
MARATHON
why is JAMES plural
BOGUS
COOKIES
TOMCAT
MC or EMCEE
She’s done Taxi dude. check the word list.
Cookies done
We were wondering, where the word “Pussyfoot” originated
I have a request…
The word “Huzzah”…my friends yell
All the time. Please tell.
Hello! I was wondering about the word “flat” not as in the table is flat, but as in an apartment. Why is an apartment called a “flat” in London?
Love you!
Bill
You are very sweet……
new vid is up
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C6CAE2800488054A
HOMEWORK: I’ve never took or seen anyone take a rain check.
I just saw a second “Feet’ish” video under my YouTube subscription, but I couldn’t watch it because it was labeled private. Then it disappeared after a few minutes.
That was weird.
I always wanted to know the origin of the word “Blond”.
Why don’t people call it “Yellow hair”? It is yellow!
Lol.. I am blond! ><”
Where does the phrase “riff raff” come from? Thanks!
Your word request of riff raff, hello jedifrei may the force be with you and marina to. Yes, hmmm.
but occurring only as an instance of a very long word.
Hey Jedifredi here’s a cool picture for your Gravatar if you want a symbol for The Order of the Jedi.
Mike
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/4/43/Jedilogosource.png
.. the North of England .. Yorkshire .. where i come from!
.. is where riff-raff comes from, i mean .. not the original phrase.
.. ahem.
Marina can you tell about the word masterbate?
Oooh! Another masterbating request. How touching.
.
.
…What? You people are afraid to “touch” the link above, because of the subject of the matter?
…Go ahead …Touch it! …Touch it! …You know you want to.
Hee hee hee hee hee
Word request: brownie points and brown nosing
Piggy compliments Teacher. Teacher gives Piggy brownie points. Class says he’s just brown nosing.
Brown nose all you want Piggy, Most of us all do to get M’s attention. Most of us all compliment her in one way or another.
Hey how about root me out some truffles. 
sorry cap .. i’m vegetarian .. i’ll have to forgo your pig devouring festivities.
you signed up for GU yet?
… well .. hurry up, make your mark in the counting thread, then get back here and forget about it till you need it.
.. oh .. and dont forget to subscribe to the thread .. when you go back, you clidk the “subscriptions” link to cycle through all the threads you subscribed to.
… what Capman says is right ..
.. and every Halloween, M chooses a student, pickles him, and eats his brains. … If you’re lucky, that could be you!
It’s that time of the year when it’s chilly outside, get yourself a nice size hog sorry Piggy and cook him all day long at about 250 degrees with some coleslaw and potato salad and lets not forget the baked beans and a keg, now that’s just some good eaten and fellowship with friends.
Mijj,
Pickle me, silly, and eat my brains? I might have the last laugh and a great “Trick or Treat”.
Capman,
The menu sounds great! But, Piggy might want to take a rain check on that.
My dad an I had a great pulled pork sandwich in La Jolla, CA. He told me taught me to put the cole slaw on top. Yumm! Great way to eat the sandwich!
Hey Marina nice box. Upgraded did you?. How about the frame around the video like in the test school.? That was a cool frame if you call it that.
The most comments, I wonder if this video is going to have.Yeeesss Hmmmm
oo! .. nearly 74,000 total comments for the site! … nearly my personal record for a Guardian forum thread!
(.. couldnt resist casually getting that in .. again ..)
Hey cool bro. Congratz on your amount of comments on your thread. I like to see that site some time?
oh .. that first thread ended years ago (prob 2002 or so) .. every now and then the Guardian forum (Guardian Unlimited) deletes threads they think have run their course .. even if they haven’t
… i grabbed a couple of quotes during the 3rd thread (the original and second thread were started by yours truly) …
Igglywigglygrid – 10:53pm Sep 4, 2003 BST (#16210 of 16314)
… The first counting thread got just above 74,353 I was into prime numbers at the time and have just had a rummage & unearthed the log I kept. Can’t remember what the 2nd thread “I’m bored of counted postings, 74,000 was enough” got to but nowhere near as many.
angelprof – 07:28am Sep 5, 2003 BST (#16222 of 16314)
… as for the second counting thread, it passed 36000
so .. my first thread got above 74,000
my second thread got above 36,000
other people started them after that.
fyi ..
.. i just posted “5 2 2 1″ on the latest counting thread (counting again – started by Rhino88 in feb this year) … they move very slowly nowadays .. the original rocketed by over 2000 comments/day for the first couple of weeks.
in fact, mr Capman .. i suggest .. when you have one of those spare moments when you have nothing to contribute, the counting thread in GU is waiting for you.
.. it’s ideal for people who are at that moment when they can’t be bothered.
here’s that site, btw …
[Guardian Talk]
complete range of stuff .. from insane ranting on israel/palestine threads .. to … complete vacuous nonesense on counting threads .. to … science: “Dawkins – phenotype extends beyond the body” .. to … “If You had to be one of the Seven Dwarves, which one would it be?”
etc etc
Thanks Mijj, I try it out
love you
Where does the word “porno” come from? I don’t get it…
i think you mean “promo” .. it’s an abbreviated form of “promotion” in the context of advertising.
Hey you bastid, he means pornography. WaWaWa
No, no… I actually mean “porno”, as in “pornography”.
I understand (at least from Wiki) that its from the Greek pornographia, and porne means “prostitute”, graphō means “to write or record”, and the suffix -ία means a “state of”, “property of”, or “place of”. Thus literally meaning “a place to record prostitutes”.
This doesn’t make much sense. Was there pornography in Greek times? How did they “record” it? Was there a bookkeeping record of prostitutes?
I see your point now. I didn’t it had two meanings. I hope Marina will do your word request of porno.
oh .. actually that’s interesting isn’t it ..
… i was being a wise guy .. you caught me out.
so .. yeh ..it’s worth M looking into.
morning, Marina .. how are you today? .. sobered up yet?
huh? she was drunk?
just a guess …
… i’m assuming that’s likely .. or … is M the kinda person who’d not drink on Halloween?
… or
is she striclty teetotal .. i mean .. i don’t generally drink, but do on occasion.
woah! .. halloween’s oct 31st!
why did i think it was oct 22nd?
oh .. i know what i did ..
i confused halloween with the anniversary of when Russia founded a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska in oct 22, 1784
Was this during your HFW denial period? This is after the glass was empty.
so… my instinct was right .. given the opportunity, she is a piss artist.
lovely word! zigzag
[captain beefheart - zig zag wanderer (1967)]
Good papers too…
you scallywag!
Ah, Halloween… the holiday when women dress up as hookers… and scalawags too.
Well, lunch break is over… back to studying. See y’all later.
My son’s zodiac is cancer and this made me wonder if there was any relation between the disease and the zodiac? Do you think you could help?
lol , i found this hilarious website http://www.engrish.com/ . I think Marina should be pissed off by them ….
Thanks for the link, fatbuffalo. Very appropriate in this erection year.
my word is SPAZ.Iam not sure if Iam one.
What does my music say about me. I have everything from Neil Diamond, AC/DC, Guns n Roses, White Stripes, to…. Pink
…now is the time we rock (Asian Edition) The Ballad or you and me and Pooneil – Jefferson Airplane
AIRPLANE
Hi,
I have a word/phrase request.
Who coined the term ‘coined the term’ and why? Is there money involved?
Здравствуйте Marina!
(I hope that I got it right!)
Hi again Marina, I came across these words recently and was wondering if you could tell me what they mean? I hope our trusty, hot-for-words can tell me the answer!
1. Hanging Chad
2. Hoi Polloi
3. Baker’s Dozen
4. Geronimo!
5. Filibuster
6. Jargon
7. Libertarian
8. Hoity-Toity
Thanks & Пока Marina!
….now some evening music for the West coast lovers Indian Summer – The Doors
doors eh?
.. i never really got the hang of that west coast stuff. I liked individual on-off tracks … but not the general stuff..
jefferson airplane .. doors .. erm … grateful dead … ummmmm … byrds … … hmmmm … must be dozens more ..
… that reminds me of a classic one-off ..
[canned heat - on the road again]
Go to my channel and review my subscriptions you will find a lot of “off the track stuff” better than college radio, better than early FM. mijj I pride myself in my music taste, I can find the right song for any occasion.
That canned heat song I have a story for that.
West coast stuff mijj, let me go find some decent Fever Tree
contributions.
i was thinking about what lies behind it …
… i think it’s a cultural thing …
.. that west coast US stuff environment is affluent, relaxed, layed back in the sun stuff ..
… whereas my background is working class intense industrial .. and i tend to go for the noises that suit that background .. e.g. the Who, Led Zep, Black Sabbath, etc.
mijj put your headphones for this San Francisco Girls – Fever Tree
mijj, my friend, you need to put yourself in the correct time frame. If you’re listening to the music after the fact then you will never get it.
Fever Tree! . listening now!
mijj, my friend Saturday Afternoon – Jefferson Airplane from my all time favorite album
ah ..well .. that Fever Tree thing … dint like the start (i was dreading it’d be like that throughout) .. picks up though –
..
I find Captain Beefheart to be generally acceptable.
[Captain Beefheart - Dropout Boogie]
There are better cuts on the Fever Tree album but YT is limited
Ella Ella Guru
…..now is the time for cool morning music (London Edition)
Ghost Song – The Doors
“Ok dear, let me post this and I will be back in bed”
Mr. Mojo Risin
Ok Mr. Mojo Risin – Doors Rock on bsomebody
[i'm the urban spaceman, baby. i've got speed. i've got everything i need.]
Apparently I’m still addicted to this site. But I promise I did do some actual study today. Tomorrow there will be more study. Good night (for me) and good morning to you, sir.
PS: We all look forward to X, er ten.
I need to follow your example. I have been “studying” for the last three hours.
jeez guys .. i dont know how you do it .. all this internet and study too!
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…
see ya! … plus .. yeh .. X … i had a reasonable idea for that earlier .. so i have to scrap my earlier random efforts and start again!
.. so .. more days yet!
Oh NO!!1 The cops are here
ha, i ought to be studying… 1:17am going to bed, class at 8:00am
Hello, Marina!
If I’ve been “gobsmacked” have I been assaulted or am I simply agape?
@mijj, I like 5
wha…?
i’m not abso… on . you mean the anim vids?
well .. i guess that means you’re a satanist!! (.. calls the police ..)
hello lovely marina,ive heard this word in movies,sports and tv shows its “scapegoat”did the origin come from a person seeing a goat escaping from a farm or on the loose?can you investigate?
a very good word suggestion… I hope she picks it. I know the answer, but I’m betting you’d rather have Marina answer it instead. If she doesn’t answer right away, don’t be discouraged. Be patient. She’ll get to it in time.
i dont think i never have,but i think i heard other people take a rain check.
Aphorism is my upload today, rush with a hush.If you see the teeth of the lion, do not think that the lion is smiling at you. — Al-Mutanabbi
This might be a good time for John and Yoko.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-NRriHlLUk
before we have peace…
Even John and Yoko can have a rough go of it…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBxuPO5wmSw&fmt=18
It can even bring George to tears…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHChc2I7FKk&fmt=18
george was my fave.
mine too… he seemed more into the blues in his music than the others (talented as they were). Long ago I always confused him with Clapton.
i always confused clapton with god.
Clapton has profits… God has prophets.
It’s easy to mix up.
ha!
Hi Dezdkado! how are you doin my friend?
Hey m3v4n! Sorry I missed you. I had just gone to bed when you posted. I’m fine, thanks. See ya later, I hope.
surely you mean [The Rutles - Give Booze a Chance]
lol
Nice one Mijj
helping white guys dance since…
…the dawn of time.
play that funky music…
…in a Brick House.
Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and to God the things that are God’s. — Jesus Christ, Matt. 22:21 KJV music and dance–snow check
dude, my wife and i were just discussing politics last night and she quoted that exactly… which is of no consequence what so ever.
Hello Marina! What’s the Scuttlebutt? Can you please give us the Scuttlebutt on scuttlebutt? Thanks for the videos, you make learning fun.
Ask an old sailor for the scuttlebutt on scuttlebutt
Thanks for the tips, but anyone can critisize, a good person would have taken the time to go to my channel and comment there, and perhaps you should also look up the definition of the word “plagurism” what i did is qualify my knowledge by using the Wikpedia definiton of those words, what you mere mortals need to learn is that the history of all words came from the ancient Summerian and Babylonian texts, not only the Latin and ancient greek that our lovely hottforwords teacher mentions.If you want the ALL SOURCE
see if you can find reference to a mystical book called THE BETA CODEX or BOOK OF ALL BOOKS or simply “THE BOOK” from it sprang ALL THINGS in our universe and all entities.It wasn’t creation, it wasn’t a “Big Bang” it was just a BOOK, the BETA CODEX.
look forward to your response, if you have one?
WOLLFENGONZG 14 PHD’s
I just hope people do not judge your etymological expertise based on your spelling
Like i have said before, i type 300 wpm sometimes i make a typo, and sometimes i really don’t think people will nit pic my spelling errors, well please forgive and excuse me for being human, i feel saturated living in a world with people so petty towards each other when your energy could be better used to end Poverty, Homelessness, or War, and Famine. But I will try to maintain civility(even thought i have the right to be angry)and say “thank you, and have a nice day.”
Wolffengong
As long as your fast, I guess quality does not matter?
Dude, I am just jerking your chain. Have a great night
Don’cha just hate it when you’re referred to as “mere mortal”? Apparently we’ve gone from PhD to a god complex.
Not “god” it’s GOTH. God is actually an ancronym for G.O.D. Genome Observation Device.Reference for anacronym from Wikpedia: Etymology
Blend of anachronism and acronym
[edit] Noun
Singular
anacronym
Plural
anacronyms
anacronym (plural anacronyms)
1. An acronym the original meaning of which is not known to most speakers.
Actualy i am classified as Demi-Human (half godl, half human, godlike, or DJIIN possessing supra human attributes))
Sorry if the reference “mere mortal” offended you, truthfully i am jealous that i cannot be human like you.”until next time, take care of yourself, and each other.” -Jerry Springer
Pardon the sarcasm, but…
May I be the first to welcome a semi-divine being to this website? May I also ask, if you’re half god, what do you need with a PhD, or 14 of them for that matter? Why would a divine being need to quote from Wikipedia? Do you grant wishes, oh djin-like one? Why does a divine being need a channel on YT?
excuse me, i’d just like to ask a question.
Live long and perspire, Buzz.
Please pardon me for my sarcasm, Wolffengong. You do present yourself as a polite person, and I have no intention of calling you names or antagonizing you. That being said, I think you’ve got to expect a degree of incredulity on our part… just a tad.
Thanks Dez for the info on the PHD fellow.
dude, please provide a link to your channel. please.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Wolffengong
prep yourself… get a snorkel, ’cause it gets deep.
From a description of the channel: “An introspective look at the life and anthology of our civilization from it’s migration from the Lima galaxy to Planet Earth.”
http://www.youtube.com/user/Wolffengong
i welcome ALL of your comments and critiques, if we can’t laugh at ourselves what is the purpose of living?
namaste
WOLFFENGONG
do demi-human’s have a sense of humor?
I think so, Buzz… without malice I say that either he’s pulling our legs (for the fun of it), or half a bubble off plumb. I’m hoping for the former.
He who limps is still walking.
he who pimps is still talking.
He who wimps is still balking.
Hey Wolffengong what brought this on. Did I miss something somewhere?
If you look lower in the thread Mike, you’ll see where Wolffengong enters the scene, introduces himself as a fellow PhD in philology and pastes a huge chunk of reference material… then asks for help with the word “myopic”. A few of us responded to him there… comment 74350.
am not sure, really i find all of this banter painless, and chalk it up to prime verbal diaherra. Yes, i have a sense of humor, otherwise you would all be NUKED by now HA HA HA take care all, and please re-direct your comments and exasterbastions to your “trustee, hottforwords teacher.”(Marina)
Namaste, Wolffengong the Antichrist and Dijin
gravatar not working!!!!!!!!!!!
Yay
Now it is 
It suppose to take 15 minutes, but after I’ve waited half an hour, I got tired and logged off. I have to log of this computer and wait a while before my gravatar uploads, for some reason.
I dug under the fence to say hi guys. miss me? much
Got a little dirt on your forehead Kobe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1TMulrUYME&feature=related
ccr. who’ll stop the rain
damn i missed that one, see below.
Where does the term “belly” come from?
test. please respond… once
eh?
‘tworked. ‘tanx
time for a good music vid [pulp - common people]
this is one of the best captured live bits ever .. starts off from exhaustion and works up to a brilliant climax.
it’s the story of an ordinary college lad who’s used by a posh lass to increase her street cred.
oops .. that has a squashed video .. ..
this link is better for the video .. but not as good for sound …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb7IVGag4kY
i like pulp. i’m sure i listed that original song and video on my youtube. shame they took it off.
no, wait. i think this video is the one i use. “this is hardcore” is a great album.
i posted this a while back along with a live tv studio william shatner version (which is very good) .. i think it’s the shatner version tha twas taken off.
however .. after searchign around .. i found it here …
http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2008/william-shatner-common-people-p1.php
“ha! i’ve got donovan’s hits on vinyl. i love “epistle to dippy””
that’s great .. i love that Catch The Wind thing.
i’ll see what else i have that reminds me of that era
ok .. what about this one then ..
[Donovan & Jeff Beck- Barabjagal] (1969 i think)
yeah, we named our second son barabjagal!
hello i wanna request a word
the word is:PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
were did it come from and what dose it mean???
Hello yipyip3369, back in April this year, Marina answered that question. In Marina’s answer, she includes a link to the floccinaucinihilipilification video, which is an excellent video to watch.
Click here to read Marina’s comment.
hey marina i was wondering about the origin of the word Chauvinism, cause i saw on tv last week, would like a lot if you could help me out with that. thanks.. and you´re sooo cute by the way.
Marina. I LOVE the show.
What is the origin of the word, ‘bonfire?’
Thank you
well, van morrison, stoned me and prince, purple rain all suck or unavailable from youtube. but then i remembered tom waits, rain dogs great lyrics.
duh! singing in the rain! anyone else got some music to rain dance to?
I have a soft spot in my heart for Cyndi Lauper . I guess ’cause I had a girlfriend just like her.
i like cyndi, her speaking voice is so different from her singing. you might like this gentle rain.
you had a girlfriend just like her!
Didn’t quite dress the same, but same white, spotless skin & similar looks, with same free spirit… just reminds me of Cindy. She’s married now & went from being a 911 operator, to an aspiring artist, and pretty good too. She went through some tough health issues & I’m glad to see (I don’t check that often) that she seems to be doing quite well now.
Peter Gabriel: Red Rain.
Eurythmics: Here Comes the Rain Again.
Cascades: Rythm of the Falling Rain.
Blind Melon: No Rain.
damn, red rain! and i’ve got that album. i listened to, “rhythm of the falling rain” when i was kid digging into my parent’s music. oh, b.j. thomas, classic.
yeah, blind melon. the bee girl, oh the 90′s.
Oh yeah… classic… BJ Thomas. Who could forget? Hell that was playing through my house when I was but a wee nipper.
ever listen to echo and the bunnymen, ocean rain. i suspect mijj may like them.
I know Echo and the Bunnymen, but I’ve never heard this song before… I like the bass.
yeah! the violent femmes, i hear the rain. local group, lots of irreverence.
James Taylor: Fire and Rain.
missed this, love taylor. this song is good.
Not many can sing (controlled scream) like Roger Daltry
i’ve never heard that one, thanks.
here’s another classic, dinah washington.
jill scott is smoooooth!
mijj might appreciate this psychedelic tune
hey mijj, this one as well.
sorry … dint see you down here .. i usually only see replies to my posts.
(… goes off to check the suggested vids …)
If I can’t find on Youtube, I check Deezer… lot of stuff there & new stuff gets featured as well. I don’t download it, just like to listen to different versions sometimes.
oh yes .. that second one’s very good!
goes on a bit tho .. for some reason i expect anims with music to last no more than a few seconds.
.. checks first one ..
re marmalade:
yeh .. i like that innocent era pop psychedelia ..
try this one: [status quo - pictures of matchstick men]
yum. you got to send me some of this stuff. i’ll make a new playlist.
oh .. you like htat kind of thing .. well .. i’ll check out my collection on winamp on my pc and see if there’s any YTube versions.
this one’s good …
… it’s slightly pre-psychedelic (1964) ..
unfairly called a second class bob dylan …
.. but he’s a first class donovan.
[donovan - catch the wind]
another .. (1965)
[donovan - sunshine superman]
now we’re in psychedelic land (1968)…
[donovan - hurdy gurdy man]
ha! i’ve got donovan’s hits on vinyl. i love “epistle to dippy”
Buzzword, you say local band for the Violent Femmes–that mean, you from Milwaukee?
doh, no. but they had an apartment near the ohio state university campus for a while. been to milwakee, nice town. you from?
After the Rain gtg.
oops
another good song. that site has a nice selection of music. you use it much? i’ll throw some buddy guy and john mayer back at you. my wife loves him (j.m.), thanks for that recommendation.
Yeah John Mayer I like… nice to see the young guy’s carrying on & appreciating the old blues guys.
Interesting… all these music links, will keep me busy for awhile, dang I’m late for floor hockey now LOL.
whoa… this isn’t related to rain, but that song and video made me think of nina simone and her classic strange fruits.
No speech, no book, could portray what that song says.
This music is from a buddy of mine, Tony Denikos… he does folk, acoustical rock, blues, etc. If you go to this site and select Track 1, you’ll get a song called “Save Me”. It’s connection to the rain is within the lyrics of the song.
nice, and available on itunes, cool. i like all those influences he listed. i really dig the americana stuff.
Amazon Rain
It’s nice to see some people are doing Church a little more nontraditionally. Not only that but they are relevant to kids.
cool, i’ll share this with my wife.
Hey Buzz I know this is your looonnnggg thread but it’s good to see everyone still caring on as though it was a new video. “Friendship as I see it.” Sorry to have just joined in and missed all the fun with the rain song, but I guess they have all been mentioned by now. I see M’s put up a cool new reply box.
G’day Sunshine… or rather, Good day Sunshine.
Well done, You have created biggest superthread I have ever seen
A friend came into the shop & added another good song Come in from the Rain… (from Gary)
How about a little night listening music. A great Russian band calledAriya
Hello, Ma ri na!
How are you!? What is the origin of the word, panhandle? How did begging on the street come from ‘handling pans’?
Hi Marina,
I am wondering why in Britan they call them flat and in USA they calling apartments?
.. especially as apartments appear to be joined together, and flats actually do have the dimension of depth.
krayseeee!!
Hi Marina, Trait is a word that, I have been told, is French in origin and should be correctly pronounced ‘Tray’ Is this true?
Ha, i getting a lot of rain check from one of my friends, like day before we meeting up.
Dear, Marina
I have a word for you
“tsunami”
just curious, where this word is from
thanks
It’s Japanese
TSU- meaning “harbor”, -NAMI meaning waves.
Hi Marina,
, which logically should exist already…An example: the word useless is opposed by useful, but the word “ruthless” has no opposite!
I want to introduce a new word
So, I propose the word “ruthful”, which would signify someone generous and caring, of course.
Any ideas where ruthless originates from
bye bye
actually “ruthful” is an archaic word, meaning as you implied, “generous and caring…” nice artwork by the way. collage is a great medium. do you cut the stuff out or do you use digital images?
Thanks for the info. and comments about my artwork! Everything is cut out with scissors from National Geographic magazines and glued onto collage board…between 200 and 600 photos per collage…
here is a link to the origin of “ruthless”.
Word Request
Hoedown
I’m going to the Chitlin Hoedown in Yatesville, Ga this weekend! I requested chitterlings a while back and i was wondering Marina if you could do a lesson on the word chitterlings or hoedown this weekend!
If you give a rain check i’ll understand!
Chittlings, sow snout, pickled pigs feet, Hog Malls, brains and eggs man just give me a glass of tea and some corn pone and lets feast. Yuuummmmy. Then we’ll take the hoe and put her down. Yeeehaaa
You Tube put a limit on you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2rlX0rF2oE&feature=PlayList&p=416807DFC7515E05&index=0
lovely .. punks ‘avin a good time!
Hye Mijj I was first on M’s video on utube and said hi there and was going to first on this video , but got my snouzer kicked in the dirt by the bad down load. I couldn’t care what they think. I know James made a comment a few videos back about if you comment first on You Screw you get thumbed down. So it was just in jest to him about it
great album.
What was the glitch?
BRAINZ!!!
I commented first on utube and got thumbed down. Can you believe that. Oh well live is what it is.
Jealousy
commented first on yt about what?
plus .. surely you dont care about the opinion of a random person from the mass of yters?
oki doki cap!
message received and understood.
How’s number 10 coming along?
struggle, cap .. i’m yearning to take a break .. but i darent .. cos the stuff i’ve been learning .. it’s there by the skin of it’s teeth .. if i dont keep those plates spinning i’ll lose it all.
so i’m slowing down. trying to get ideas for the anim for #10 is tricky .. i dont want ot repeat myself, but my range of abilities is limited.
well .. thanks cap .. you made me think out what i should do for 10 properly instead of doodling my way into it .. i think i have a handle now.
i need to scrap what i’ve done already and start again. (it was half hearted)
Don’t take it badly, Capman… I read through many of the comments. Taking a thumbs down from those idiots is no insult.
I know on the comments. If you check other sites it’s the same way. I wouldn’t expect anything different. assholes hehehe
I was sad to discover, but not surprised, that most of those nuggets of failure claim to be American.
didn’t you say you were abandoning hfw in favor of acquiring lofty academic info?
Damn… even the nice folks want me to piss off.
Dear Marina,
Did you get a tan for this video?
You look great either way
YS,
TOF
I have been wondering if the word “cannibal” has any connection to the old testament story of Cain and Able. . .CainAble. . . Cannibal.
Thanks for all that you do!
odd that no one has mentioned this one yet (maybe I overlooked it)
He’s fun, talks a bit weird, but in a fun way
(marina is in it…for the people who think why the hell is he posting that video of a guy talking)
Marina and Asa has done a video before. He came over and done one on her site so she is just reciprocating the favor.
yes I know, he did the cologne request
Fox it’s the first time I have seen it also. I think we were supposed to sub to Asa’s channel when he was doing the cologne video then we would have known of the video.
I had allready done that
I subbed to him at one time and cleaned out some of my subs I really didn’t visit. I think his was one of them.
Maybe we could get M to let us know when she does other vids like that so we can keep up with her like the cocomments thingy.
Fox it must be my keyboard or something about my motherboard that want let me use control / alt and the ?/ to do the ¿
mmmh weird… did you know that they use the ¿ sign in spannish when they begin a question?
like ¿what is your name?
you must have installed some other keyboard layout then me…
It doesn’t work for me either, but I have installed a Firefox extension called AbcTajpu which allows you to insert characters from a wide range of foreign languages with a single click from the toolbar.
Well that vacuums, your video just disappeared from page 2 of the top rated videos.
most viewed today page yes, don’t worry it’ll come back, somehow it always disapears for a moment before getting higher in rank.
I hate vacume cleaners
It’s on page one now.
Marina.. Is there a new video? Or is it the fetish one? What i mean is.. will i get chance to be first comment todya?
Where have you been….
nope, http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/10/19/fetish/#comment-74547
Things happen like that so take the afternoon off and play with Kobe. We will still be here tomorrow waiting for your sweet smile.
I don’t use rain checks. I have a rain credit card.
Rocky that’s the best one I have read in a while.
I M A LOLperson!
BTW, I gots a LOLpage: http://www.lol-aminuls.com/
That’s a cool site Rocky. I watched some of the cat videos and they were outrageously funny
{Good afternoon Marinaville!} How are Ÿ’all doing¿
where does the word cop, comes from?
I think it’s short for copper , don’t aks me where copper comes from lol
it might actualy be interesting
It’s a mispronunciation of the word, “carpe,” which means to seize or grab.
Cop – Guess the origin
Cop – Answer
To see a list of links to Marina’s previous lessons, click on “Words/Lessons” at the top left side of any HFW page.
Enjoy.
Word Request – opsisarticulate
yea like that emoticon
It means something about visually talking.
hi yomero .. not see you around for a while
your up ck YT in box soon
yip .. done
Any kid would like a Rain Check.
Oh & don’t forget “it’s” also the job of the Weather Channel
What a wonderful way to be told “No”.
With a kiss.
Marina,
Ahhhh!!!
Maxim Rain Checked you.
The Bums.
I’m canceling my subscription.
Until they put you on the cover.
What did they do Wetsuit cancel her next appearance?
Her thing said 2 or 3 days, now it say 23.
Bummer.
Hi merina,
were did the “phrase “copy cat” come from
hey marina, i would like to request the word “fungi” as i have heard 2 types of pronunciation of the word.
1. fung-i (the ‘fung’ rhymes with the word ‘tongue’ added with an ‘i’ pronounced like the ‘i’ sound from the musical note ‘Ti’)
2. fun-gi (the ‘fun’ is pronounced like the word ‘fun’ added with the ‘gi’. The ‘g’ is more like a ‘j’ sound and the ‘i’ sounds like the ‘y’ in ‘cry’)
which one is the right one and what are the origins? please make a video of it on youtube cause i would love it if you do so.
Word request Ginger, when used as a verb means to inject some spirit or mettle into an action, but yet gingerly means timidly, cautiously or fastidiously. What’s going on
pls i really wonder amd wamt to see the video Fetish pls marina can you send it on my e mail pls thank you my birthday was in the 20th and i really would like tyhat as my gift pls pls pls thank you
WORD REQUEST: what about word “KISS” ???
Hi, Marina!
Could you do the word “fetch”? I sometimes hear people use the word but I don’t know the meaning or how/when to use it.
Thanks. I always watch your videos
WORD REQUEST: Since Halloween, is just around the corner. You should go over the world “BOO”!!!
might post a word request that I posted months back, just to see if there’s any interest.
The word is deluge
I can’t remember from the top of my head when I last did a rain check. However, I will probably check for rain tomorrow
In America the season following summer is ‘Fall’, I assume from the fall of leaves.
Here in the U.K. and in the Romance languages it is called ‘Autumn’. Can you tell me where that comes from, please?
Marina here’s a little song for you and your video
.
Let It Rain
Capman, mijj taught me how to send those links in HQ stereo
I’m sure you know but will remind you to tack on &fmt=18 to the end of the URL.
Thanks Che I forgot to add that on.
Just that, Che, 4:43 in the afternoon and I’m enjoying a nice cuppa and some ginger biscuits.
Hey, Bob I had tea and ginger cookies yesterday
they were so good I almost ate the whole box.
Was the ^^^^Box^^^^ as good as the cookies?
Let it Rain in Stereo
….. remember cranking up the volume for that guitar solo.
You’ll need two umbrella-ellas then.
Bob, your wit is quite sharp today
is it tea time over there?
works just fine for me…¿¿¿¿¿ ctrl alt ?/…
Where is capt. Jack?
The last email I got from him was about a week ago. He has had to move because his boat is bigger and the internet service where he is at now sucks. He says it’s very slow. I hope he will be back soon. You can send him an email by going to the TA at the top of the page and send it to him from there. Or here.
http://www.hotforwords.com/ta/. Just fill out the email for to write him.
Hi Marina!
Please please please tell me the meaning of the word: etymology 
We do it all the time when we try to organize lunches at work.
My god Marina!!! You look so lovely…
…..got a new game
…….let set it up
^^^^Whisper^^^^
(Hoarse box)
^^^^^^
^………^
^^^^^^
Thinking
(Outside the box)
It don’t take much to amuse us does in Capman
but we are learning here, i.e. how to center our box replies when needed, …….so it’s all good
yep
Capman where did you get those little squiggly thingy
They are upside down question marks. Hold down you alt key and type in 0191 from your key pad. and it gives you ¿
I’m going out and play for the rest of the day have fun with the box game. Tootles
See Ya
or just ctrl,alt and the ?/ button
Fox my keyboard want let me do that maneuver.I tried and no luck.
Hi Marina, Please would you tell us about the meaning behind the word Camouflage
Thanks.
Just thought your missing an apple smile so we can give an apple to the teacher too
ok Che, i’ve produced a new tune
so when i ask, dont play the loon
put on your critical cap
and say if it’s crap
i don’t want honey fed from a spoon
(same address as before, if you can remember it, but 10.new.mp3)
…..got it……..look for reply @YT
OK, got it. It’s crap.
Just kidding. I like the fading echo echo echo at the end.
Actually, I like it as is. I personally might tweak it to have less grunge or maybe less staccato, but, it is fine as is. Nice echo overall.
hmmmm … not sure if you’re bluffing .. good bluff if you are.
but, i was thinking the timing needs attention… i dont have a guitar that’ll feed into the program .. so i have to nudge the positions using a mouse .. and it’s hard work getting those tiny little timings just right.
Good morning folks, I say that because it’s 8:22 here in the Eastern part of the US. Here’s a little brain training exercise to see which side of your brain is dominant or can you switch sides of you brain.
Brain Tease
good morning, (even tough it’s 2.45 pm
…..)
wtf is that…. it’s turning clock wise….
Keep trying it until you get it to turn ccwise.
i’ve seen this before , if you look from the bottom , it spins anticlockwise , from the top , clockwise . btw i’m a right brain guy
I read in the video’s comments if you stare at the feet you can get it to spin in different directions. I first see it spinning clockwise.
yes , took some time to figure it out . btw the optical illusion videos on the related videos are quite fun
Good Morning Grandpaw! That made my brain hurt!
It’s too early for that! 
video!
In order not to run out of video, here is that dancer in GIF format where it will spin forever.
The trick to cause the dancer to spin either left or right at will is to focus on the bend where the foot joins the ankle.
If you focus on the main foot (black image) the body will rotate one way. Focus on the reflection (gray image) and the body will spin the other way.
it’s impossible
so if i could get it to spin cclockwise…would that mean that if I stared at a clock for long enough i’d go back in time…… 
What does it mean when you stare at the figure and her breasts get bigger? Is that left or right brain?
I think the spinning was being manipulated by the creator of this video…notice it changes on cue with what she says or she is controlling my brain,
gee I just kackelled like a chicken
Look at the shadow at the bottom, you’ll see when the spin is changed by the edit, it’s manipulated I tell ya.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah i can’t do it…. so that black figure is… nevermind, ! got it!!!!!!!!!!!!1
lol 
weird.. 
I could not get it to go anything other than counter-clockwise. After training myself that the foot is either passing in front or behind, I could see it either way.
Ouch my brain hurts
To get it to change direction I stared at the shadow of the figure’s foot… oh damn, back to that fetish subject again.
When I focused on the shadow, I could change the direction at will. It made the dancer act like a windshield wiper.
Oh yeah, that’s a fun one…
Well… I’m easily amused. Simple pleasures for a simple mind.
She would only spin clockwise. I think I broke something
I’m having trouble geting my mind around the concept of anyone taking a rain check to meet with Marina.
What do these morons have to do that is more important than meeting with her?
I’d jump at the opportunity.
I’d even go for a knock down, drag out, work out session.
It’s 1:08 in London, is it tea time yet?
Oh waitress, I’ll have some tea and a taste of your crumpets….
…..*slap* you be behaving yourself young man and stop opsisarticulating me tasty treats, I can see ya doing it from across the room>/i>
no! .. you silly boy!
the waitress is the crumpet!
….i know
oh !! .. i thought you were under the impression “crumpets” was referring to the young lady’s jubbly wubblies.
….can’t you hear her Irish accent, she doesn’t know the difference…
……it was just a misinterpretation of me speaking with my eyes
your eyes are such scallywags!!
….thanks, it’s a gift and a curse
I’ll gladly do my homework on Tuesday,
for a rain check today.
oh goodie! Alex is giving me a class
on how to create stuff that’s not quite so crass
i hope he’ll be pleased
(he doesn’t like to be teased)
(so i wont end the last line with “ass”)
Hey mijj, when are we gonna see you do infinity? You know I don’t have all eternity. :∞)
∞ ∞ ∞
dang!.. i should have stared on the other end with infinity and counted backwards!!
He’ll do it in(a)minutey. He doesn’t have all maternity.
alex would like to be a good poet
he sees my magic and he wants me to show it
he could be just as good as me
if only he’d try and be free
to wrap up his giant brain and stow it
the metrics really sucks, you know.
i’m not sure what you mean. Can you explain?
the amount of syllables and the stresses in one line don’t really go together with other lines.
he COULD be JUST as GOOD as ME
if ONly HE’d try AND be FREE.
that would work but that is probably not how you’d like to have it pronounced.
but “if ONly he’d TRY and be FREE” is too short. it’d work with:
if ONly he’d TRY and FUCKing be FREE.
i was only kidding, i don’t really care
you see, it’s my feelings i really want to share
the poems a joke
mere mirrors and smoke
a vehicle for my soul to bear
…..your poetry is linear and one dimensional
…….is that how they do it in Yorkshire?
lol .. yes .. i guess .. if i knew what you meant i’m sure i’d take it on board gladly ..
… while we’re on teh subject …
… hmm too narrow here .. i’ll post in the main stream ..
ok, so i’m starting again
the page is blank and so is my brain
through the aether i’ll search round
till a spark can be found
for music that wont cause so much pain
you trying to become a poet or something?
why do you say that?
are you trying to hurt my feelings?
… because … (wobbly lip) .. you’re succeeding!
alright, let me rephrase this.
are you a poet? ^^
you’d better remind me of how to determine poeticity.
Mijj is playing at being a gadfly… or would that be a midge?
a gadfly?
… i’m just making little limerick posts. I cant see how that’s annoying.
If the fly is stinging someone else, it’s never annoying to me… in fact, it can be quite amusing.
i recently wrote a guitar bit
i was so proud! It was a hit!
i heard it so many times
it was like heavenly chimes
but it turns out it was really shit
Turn the volume up to 11. That always works for me
lol yeh .. it’s the afterburn that turns it into pure melody
lol… hehe Spinal Tap… nice reference.
Terry unable buy uterus more of game of love?
tubemogul
Terry unable buy uterus more of game useless love?
There only 1 thing you able better me !!! babymaker
actually 3 in 1 babymaker
besides you not of age yet.
Bathing towel material cannot purchase womb increase of pleasureable pastime of intense devotion or nothing.
a fluffy could is filling the sky
is it wearing a big kipper tie?
no, certainly not
a cloud can’t tie a knot
(.. ahem .. not-knot? ..)
just let it get on with floating on by
Nope, I’m a frayed knot
splinter
Sphincter.
not a good place for a splinter, bob.
***WORD REQUEST***
Marina,
I was wondering why we use the word “Noggin” to refer to someone’s head.
Thanks, Jonathan
I don’t use the phrase ‘rain check’, so the last time i was involved in a conversation using ‘rain check’ was when i got one for a sale item at a grocery store.
Hi Marina, my sexy hottforwords teacher, and fellow PHD philologist of etymology (i misspell words from time to time)
Philology:Philology, derived from the Greek φιλολογία (philologia[1], from the terms φίλος philos meaning “loved, beloved, dear, friend” and λόγος logos “word, articulation, reason”) is a branch of the human sciences dealing with language and literature, specifically a literary canon, combining aspects of grammar, rhetoric, historical linguistics (etymology and language change), interpretation of authors, textual criticism and the critical traditions associated with a given language.
Philology considers both form and meaning in linguistic expression, combining linguistics and literary studies.
Classical philology is the philology of the Greek, Latin and Sanskrit languages[2]. Classical philology is historically primary, originating in European Renaissance Humanism, but was soon joined by philologies of other languages both European (Germanic, Celtic, Slavic etc.) and non-European (Sanskrit, Oriental languages such as Persian or Arabic, Chinese etc.). Indo-European studies involves the philology of all Indo-European languages as comparative studies.
Any classical language can be studied philologically, and indeed describing a language as “classical” is to imply the existence of a philological tradition associated with it.
Because of its focus on historical development (diachronic analysis), philology came to be used as a term contrasting with linguistics. This is due to a 20th century development triggered by Ferdinand de Saussure’s insistence on the importance of synchronic analysis, and the later emergence of structuralism and Chomskian linguistics with its heavy emphasis on spoken language (performance) and syntax.
Etymology:”Etymologies” redirects here. For the literary works by Isidore of Seville and J. R. R. Tolkien, see Etymologiae and The Etymologies (Tolkien) respectively.
Not to be confused with Entomology, the scientific study of insects.
Evolution of the word “ma”
Evolution of the word “ma”
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Lexis
Semantics
Lexical semantics
Statistical semantics
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Etymology is the study of the history of words — when they entered a language, from what source, and how their form and meaning have changed over time.
In languages with a long detailed history, etymology makes use of philology, the study of how words change from culture to culture over time. Etymologists also apply the methods of comparative linguistics to reconstruct information about languages that are too old for any direct information (such as writing) to be known. By analyzing related languages with a technique known as the comparative method linguists can make inferences about their shared parent language and its vocabulary. In this way, word roots have been found which can be traced all the way back to the origin of, for instance, the Indo-European language family.
Even though etymological research originally grew from the philological tradition, nowadays much etymological research is done in language families where little or no early documentation is available, such as Uralic and Austronesian.
Now that we took care of the basics, here is my word challenge for Marina, hottforwords sexy teacher: “Myopic” or “Myopia” can you please investigate this word, thank you Marina, your NAUHGTY STUDENT~)WOLFFENGONG
next time just link wikipedia: philology or at least site your source. a ph.d. should get in the practice of avoiding plagiarism. academics tend to frown upon that behavior.
i don’t even know why the hell he posted it.
strut display
lol .. you’re just jealous cos you’re not a PhD.
no, i’m something far more dangerous.
Vivian kicks ass! I had forgotten about that show. Notice the actors/comics that went on to other great shows like Blackadder and V for Vendetta.
Hey Buzz, your buddy wolfengong is back… check his credentials now… toward the top of the page. Now 14 PhD’s, and immortality to boot… what kind of strut display is this? Mating dance this is not… lol
Good job Marina, but the problem is, I already know this phrase and its origin years ago, despite of my non-western background.
Now waiting for more videos about stuff I don’t know. As always, your work is well appreciated.
since its the monsoon season in my country , i guess i’ll be making a lot of rain checks …. i hate rain in the afternoons
I LOVE a hard thunderstorm!!! I dated a nurse who taught me a wonderful way to … celebrate… the heavenly gift of rain!
Yellow showers ¿
the more common term is “golden showers.”
I haven’t had enough coffee yet, I knew it was something like that, never had one myself.
good for you , for me i just want to ride my bike without the water spraying at my back ….
please don’t say capman *barf* is right ….
did she also gave you a brown shower or something…..
I could not remember the last time I had a rain check.
Hello Marina!
while reading the news this morning, I ran across a odd phrase and I would like to know its origin – “to curry favor” – what does curry have to do with trying to be in someone’s good favor?
Peace all:
Paper money will be a thing of the past. The next currency shall be WATER.
The Romans got payed in salt; where the term Salary came from.
Native Americans used belts of beads called Wampum.
In America we use cotton and linen and plastic, the matterials that make up dollar bills. We use cloth here.
….now it’s time for some morning music (Europe Edition) The Wind Cries Mary – Jimi Hendrix
You can never go wrong with Jimi
damn right, mate!
So true…
My favorite is “Angel”.
Everyday is a rain check. In America, we are reign checking. checkup terror http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CG9-X3q5yis
*******************
*** Word Request ***
Why do Septembre (Sept = 7) , October (Octo =
and November (Nov = 9 ) are respectively the 9th, 10th and 11th months ?
***Word Request***
*****************
* October ( octo = 8 )
don’t forget about December (Dec = 10)
At one time they were the 7th(Sept), 8th(Oct), 9th(Nov), and 10th(Dec)
you can thank Agustus and Julius Caeser for the change
“Hogwash”?
Hi and here’s 2 phrases. ” Tid Bit ” or how about ” Tad Bit “?
Hey I just want to know where the words ” cut and dry ” come from. Can you help me out?
Without looking anything up, I will make two guesses:
1) Some kind basic preparation process that supposedly anyone could do, e.g. cutting and drying fish or perhaps some kind of skins.
2) Counterfeiting: After the money is printed (the hard part), one only has to cut and dry it (the easy part).
No clue, otherwise.
hello miss marina this not a word request but a trivia question…are zebras black w/ white stripes or are they white with black stripes?
black…ask Gould…
oops, he’s deceased – well, read Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes…
From a distance they’re just grey.
huh a catch 22 take a rain(run) check have black baby don’t take rain(run) check have white baby you see the old does King still runs the show. Him Justice makeing modifications in a flawed problem. Tell Mack your little whie rat hell be back to Knourmale next gimp round
were did the word hypnosis come from
The Rain check video is already at the bottom of the third page.
AW come on bring out those beautiful feet.
Great video marina!!!
Марина, were you trying to make a political statement by wearing the colors of Украйну upside down, or was it just coincidence?
hi my most inteligent teacher and most beautiful
Marina do you have an Ipod touch or the Ipod touch phone ¿ I was thinking of getting a least one of them for myself. Any suggestions please.
hey capman i have an iphone and its pretty cool i can see marina where ever im at it has youtube. but iphone you need to get a contract with at&t. i have about 2,000 songs i can still download about 3,000 more but im cool for now.it comes with navigation system,stocks,weather,camera 2mgpix,itunes,calendar,weather any where you wish to see and you can download alot more things. my phone is 16gb.
Thats is kewl, I don’t know how many gigabytes my sons is but I would guess it has quite a bit. I have seen by his you can do a lot with them. Technology, where will it go from here.
ipod touch phone
I can get the nokia n96 for 20 euro’s a month where the iphone costs 30 euro’s(plus the cost of the phone which is € 159,95) a month with both the same ammount of texmessages and minutes(150)…..
The iphone is a great phone
I wouldn’t buy it tough.. freaking expensive over here, nowhere that 200 dollars that steve guy is talking about
Marina has an Iphone yes,
I knew that one!!
Too many rain checks to be able to remember when the last one was..
But I don’t like it when people use it as a way out of telling you they are standing you up.
you used it. What is it? Where did it come from?
FREAK ME/YOU OUT
I’d love to know.
Love your site.
I hope it makes you lots of money but you keep it up.
Steve
HotForWords,
You got a tan didn’t you?
Your
Student,
ThoughtOnFire
Hi Marina and fellow students,
If you take a rain check on a rain check… where does this leave you?
In a wet season!
“holding the bag”
Good answer
Heya Marina!,
Hmmm… as a die hard Chicago Cubs fan, we know about rain checks….hehe…. next year will be 101 years and counting… Pray for us….hahaha….lol
Anyway, I have a dumb question about shoes… why are sneakers called sneakers and loafers called loafers… Never seen a sneaker sneak, and never seen a loafer loaf….. Had to ask…. Where do these terms come from? Thanks! — Tom
Kind of like why do we drive on the park way
and park in the drive way?
Exactly….. haha
Sneakers are shoes for sneaking about in, also known as Brothel Creepers, because they have soft rubber soles which don’t make a lot of noise as you walk.
Loafers are to be worn for loafing about in, so they are informal shoes, usually without laces, and not perceived as suitable for business use or formal occasions.
Hi Marina,
A “determined” vacuum cleaner salesman came to my door and did a demo in my living room. I told him, “I’ll take a rain check.” He said he didn’t have that model. I said,” No, No, No, I mean that I am not interested.
WORD REQUESTS: How about mumbo-jumbo and also haphazard.
wooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwww….MUMBO JUMBO….
THAT IS A GREAT ONE 
I stumbled apon you on youtube, and think your passion for words (and history for that matter and costumes…teehee!!) is fantastic!!!(maybe that should be my word)… In any case I think the word ‘quit’ is quite the paradox. Please help me with this, your my only hope!!!
Hey Leophil and welcome to the site. At the top of the page is a Word / Lesson section. You can find all of Marina’s videos that she has done in the past. Have fun on the site and join in on the comments that people make. Keep and eye out to see if Marina does your word request of “quit”. Enjoy.
I still believe she needs some good clothes for her birthday. It is around or the week or two. I know, do you?
Some good Autumn/Winter clothes.
A hoody and beanies and gloves/scarfs etc.
how about she wear a nice sexy evening gown.
I’m beginning to really like these videos where Marina sprawls on the floor
Reminds me of Jane Russel
My last raincheck was in 1962 when the Cincinnati Reds got rained out at Crosley Fields, without enough innings completed to call the game.
AMEN to that! Talk about a drop-dead FOX. Jane Russel ALWAYS made my heart race!
I heard someone comment before that only video requests make it and I am thinking that person was right. I know I have made over a dozen good words but doing videos is not my thing. We will see but after four decades on this planet, this “old Penny” knows a thing or two for sure and will be hopeful but until then…..the jury is out!!!!!!!!
Not true! Video requests get equal time as other requests. If you go back over the other 300 or so videos, you’ll see that Marina gets around to most of them. It was about six monthes before she did spoon, which was one of my more obscure requests. Keep making those requests, persistence and patience are the keys!
Okay, I will take your advice. I requested 86 and she said she would do it and to be patient. I guess I was not being a good student
Actually I’ve requested only a few words, but I’m real old & have some patience (a speck), some (at least one) are done & while waiting, I’ve had fun, learned lots & brought back some memories. What are words for anyways?
great vid
Is that the longest pair of legs in the world, or what?
Can I get a rain check on doing the homework? If “yes” then I just did it.
tryant
“Rain check” seems to me to have been around for quite some years – but I only hear it in movies that come from America – it doesn’t seem to have caught on in Britain for some reason.
Nick
Britons don’t play Baseball.
Hello Marina,
I thought that Kobe was so spoiled that he wasn’t scolded. I’m so far behind right now will I get to go to detention?
If you dressed yourself up to look more like Kobe, you might even get you belly rubbed.
Arf arf
….mingling recyclables…
Hey Warren whaaaasssuuuppp.
My son just bought and IPod touch about $300.00. But the cool thing about it I was putting in some of my replies to members on here by it. It works through WIFI and off of the router in our house. I like it so much I think I am going to get me one for Christmas, as I know no one else will. Did I ever show you the picture of your new job you could apply for. I have a picture of it if I haven’t show it to you yet. It’s a doosy. 
!! i’ve done the “music” for 10 !!
.. whew ..
.. sorry .. i’m just glad that wasn’t as bad as i thought ..i just had to shout about it. 
turns out it’s crap .. oh well .. start again.
Howdy, Marina – Just saw the trashy novel spot. I totally agree with you that folks need to indulge in a little escapism once in a while through entertaining books. Good for the heart, and one cannot help but learn something from reading. Are you familiar with Dean Koontz? I’ll bet you’d like him. As a fellow lover of dogs, make Watchers a priority read if not the first. Also, One Door Away From Heaven is one of my favorites. Romance, Sci-fi, Horror, Comedy – he does it all in virtually every work. Thanks so much for all you do, and for being you.
Real Estate
Went to a ‘Rain Dance’ once but was canceled due to lack of rain………just messin’ with ya all.
Which reminds me of a Word Request – ‘draw the line in the sand’
This one originates in 3000 B.C. A guy with a branch…
That line wasn’t made by a branch, it was some cave kid on a stone wheeled unicycle.
a really pimped out stone wheel unicycle
Now that I think about it… are you sure it wasn’t a really stoned out pimp on a unicycle!?
David…..went to your web site,all I can say is you know how to
……commingle recyclables……
Thank you!
Hey Recycle-logical-1, You don’t need any special software to crop and paste from a youtube video. Just Paint Shop from Windows and an upload program that’s free called Tinypic.com. Alex taught me how to work the programs so I can show you. I’ll leave you the instructions on my utube site so we don’t make a long thread on M’s site.
Recycle-logical-1. First you find a video you want to pull a picture from. Stop the video on the spot you want to save. Now enlarge picture by the little button on the lower right hand side of the video screen. Then Press your print screen button, this will look like it does nothing, but it saves the image to your memory. Minimize the whole page you are looking at and bring up Windows paint or if you have a Mac maybe it has something like a paint program. Open paint and on the Edit menu press the paste function, this should bring up the picture that you saved by pressing print screen. Now take the crop screen imager and out line the parts of the picture that you want to save. Now go back to edit and hit cut and the picture will disapear. Now go to the file menu and hit new, a screen will pop up asking do you want to save this image say no. No go back to edit menu and hit paste again, this will bring up the picture that you cropped out of the original. Now go to File menu and click on save as and save it to what ever name you want to but make sure you select jpeg or jpg file and not a bmp file. Once you have that down then I can step you through Tinypic.com. You can go ahead and sign up to Tinypic and have it waiting for you. You may be able to figure out how tinypic works. if not let me know. Let me know if you need any more help.
Mike
Hi Mike,
Far out! It worked. Thanks alot.
Only time I took a rain check was at restaurant… They had a water leakage..
I wonder where the word boom fire originated from. During this season we see and hear a lot, can hot for words investigate?
I USED to get rain checks all the time. Now a-days I do most of my buying on line. If its not in stock they mail it within a week or ask if I want it on back-order. Similar to stadiums ( ? stadia ? ) with roofs, rain checks are really OBE.
Welcome to the new millenium.
Congratulations, Capman911! That’ s wonderful!
Thanks
Can you show us more of your feet like in the last video? They’re lovely Marina.
Guess I have more of a foot fetish than I admitted on my last comment.
Marina’s Feet
heh heh! I just noticed one of her tube socks is on upside down! Thanks for the excellent still shot, Mike
….her floors are dirty, she needs someone to mop her floors….
………..any volunteers?
…..a breeze fills the room, office chairs are spinning as everyone rushes out the door with mop in hand
Yea I noticed that after I cropped the picture, sorry Marina
Dear совершенная Marina, No, you can’t cash a raincheck. Instead, they are redeemed for a produt that was out of stock, or for seeing another baseball game, if you got a raincheck for a game that was cancelled.
For your homework, I get rainchecks for out-of-stock sale priced items frequently at grocery stores or department stores.
You looked very beautiful in your new short-shorts made of denim, just like blue jeans. I’d never seen them on you, before, so I’m glad you buy new clothing, occasionally.
BTW, if you didn’t post a video yesterday, could you compensate by posting two videos today? No, it wouldn’t be a raincheck. It just would be nice to see more of you.
Your dear student, seesixcm6
Here you go See6
Marina looks extrememy beautiful in all of the clothing selections she’s made!
Marina did on Asa the comic she did the word doormat
she looks pretty in a yellow dress
Scrump-didly-icious!
She could wear as Mijj says an old rain coat and a floppy hat and she still would look good or make the clothes look even better.
What?
They don’t have Kmarts giving rain checks in Beverly Hills?
Then I guess it must be true that “It Never Rains in California”.
Kobe must be jealous of the big fluffy rug.
But I couldn’t tell, was Marina stroking the rug or Kobe.
And Marianna has a fluffy bed spread.
Must have been a sale and I didn’t get a Rain Check.
That rain check says no cash refunds.
Emil Sick gets to keep the whole dollar.
Wonder what his name on this site is?
They must have given away a lot of them in Washington.
Sounds like a fun idea to give out social rain checks.
Wonder if Office Depot carries them?
Dear Miss Orlova,
The first time I ever heard the term “Rain Check” was at my work. I work at Walgreens and there we give out Rain Checks left and right. I still didn’t know the origin of the phrase. Thank you Marina, now my work will be a little clearer. Oh that reminds me, they play that song, I can see clearly now the rain is gone, over and over and over, like all the other songs.
YS,
TOF
Hey TOF, can you get discounts on prescription drugs. Mine are pretty expensive. I pay out over $2,000.00 a year just on copays.
No hope without dope. 
You know I do not actually know, though I will assuredly say that it’s probably going to be a yes. Because it’s Walgreen’s, and that’s what we do, we give good prices. Anyways I work in the Photo Lab and the Pharmacy is really non-existent to me. Almost even exotic
Of Course,
There is always the Prescription Savings Club:
https://webapp.walgreens.com/MYWCARDWeb/servlet/walgreens.wcard.proxy.WCardInternetProxy/RxSavingsRH?
How’s that?
I had an infected bug bite and was prescribed an inexpensive antibiotic. I went to Walgreen’s as it is around the corner, and the brand-name stuff was $100! Generic was $22. Then I got the generic at Costco for $5. When I told the doc, he about fell over.
Thanks, I check into that one.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5GJ1v2gfTqc&feature=related
Hi Marina that was a very interesting video. I like it when you showed the picture of the rain check at 1.52 never seen one before good job Marina could you please do the phrase like it or lump it you looked so pretty in the daisy dukes WOW
I have never seen one like that before either. So I saved and cropped it to my pictures on my computer.
RainCheck
Interesting! How do you save and crop stuff off of YouTube Videos? Do you need special software? hmmm?
Does M know the date of the rain check? I looked, but could not see the date on it.
HEY MARINA I HAVE A PHRASE ‘Just in the nick of time’
Like OOH I made it ‘Just in the nick of time’
Hey folks just sharing a little family joy. My first grandbaby
congaulations happy for you
Thanks Daniel.
Hey, look at that! cool. Whats up GRANPA!?!
Whaaaaassssuppp Mike.
Do you know if it is a boy or a girl
Not yet Daniel.
Just checkin’ out some Rivet De Cru jeans. I was thinkin’ about pickin’ up a pair or two…NOT!! Besides, I couldn’t find any prices. I geuss if I have to ask I can’t afford ‘em anyway.
I like good old Wranglers jeans. Looser fit, I hate anything that binds up my go-daddys.
Yea Mike a lot of places are like that, no price on it. If you have to ask they figure you can’t afford them. 
nice! .. cute as a button!
thank gawd the baby doesn’t have your looks…
Congratulations Mike.
How many does this make?
this is the first.
I don’t see no Yoda ears on the li’l nipper.
Congratulations, Mike.
What galaxy was the picture taken in & how many light years will it take to get here.
Seriously though congrats’ & hopefully that first picture turns into a whole series of pictures… probably best not to put that one up on the mantle just yet.
yes I know.
Is that the eye, or just the twinkle in the eye?
Wish you much joy.
CONGRATULATIONS, CAPMAN!!!
Are the parents taking Lamaze? I hear the classes are a cake walk, but the final exam weighs nine pounds…
There not taking Lamaze yet, but that last statement I LMAO. Thanks Fianchetto
Congratulations Grandpaw Cap
Thanks Cufan71
Hey Mike, congratulations on being a first time grandpa.
I think that little tyke is trying to make a word request.
That kid ain’t far from the grandpa tree, if you know what I mean.
He and you noticed I said he, we don’t know what it is yet, but grandpa is hoping for a little grandson. Far from the tree is right it’s probable a little bald on top.
Canned rats!!!!
I hope you have many more. I have eight, so far. For all of you parents: grandchildren are our reward for not killing our teenagers
I took a rain check at Costco for their Chocolate Cake
Something worth going back for…. Indeed…
They no longer give rain checks for baseball in Seattle as we now have a roof on the stadium…
Well, I can’t really remember when the last time I used the words “rain check”. Must have been a long time ago. But here’s something else I’ve always wondered; Why are widom teeth called “Wisdom Teeth”? It would be so great if you could help me out with this. I’ve always wanted to know. Thanks Marina.
i haven’t received or given a rain check in ages…i’ve canceled, but not postponed…
okay, not true…somehow my proposed dates seem to be “rain checking” me…but is it a rain check if it NEVER happens?…
and if i get a date rain check from one woman, can i cash it in with annudder?…
‘er, Marina?…
jalapeno
Marina, I don’t get why are we the pronunciation of “jalapeno”is h how come not J?
That is a good question leonardoqquang. If you say Jesus here in America it is said with a J. But in Spanish countries it is pronounce as an H as in Hesus so why shouldn’t jalapeno be pronounced like you said. I hope Marina does your word request.
Capman, the ‘h’ is silent, so you pronounce the next letter
_alapeno & e sound like eh so ehsus.
The vowels sound in Spanish never change they say in books but I’ve notice some regional dialect differences.
Jola , my name Jose Jimenez.
Marina, we all know the Term MySpace as from myspace.com, but what does My Space really mean?
It means… not someone else’s space!
Are you sure it doesn’t mean the rate at which small rodents proceed about their business? Mice-pace.
Marinate
Marina te amo.
scrofula
TB or not TB?
eek!
ever grab someone by the scrofula neck?…
In that context so to say
Not Web as in Spider Web
Hi Marina, we all know that WWW stands for World Wide Web, but what does “Web” mean?
Thanks from Sweden
It describes the interconnected sites in a manner everyone can understand — a spider web. The word web also gives some alliteration; World Wide Networkofinterconnectedcomputers just wouldn’t roll of toungue as nicely.
I have never given a rain check, but my Dad has given me a rain check once or twice on our weekly lunch meetings.
Will you please “investigate” the word PUSSY. Not trying to be rude, just wondering.
Taint
Hant
Shant
tisto
Zesto
Pesto
Homework
I can’t remember giving a rain check or receiving one. By the way, I love those Daisy Dukes
Daisy Dukes
AWESOME
Thanks Cap 
Mijj, are you going to bring out “11″ today?
OK… I’ve goofed off enough… back to my studies.
See y’all later.
i ent even started 10 yet!!
i’m doodling round in my music prog this very moment trying to get a handle on 10 .. no chance for 11 yet.
I was about say where’s 10
I was about say where’s 10
or what Cufan71 said 
Marina’s a “10″
i guess from our little discussion, i shudda brought out 11 between 3 and 4 (according to my understanding). … and i guess it should be before 10 at least. but .. i’m going to stick to the usual numbering scheme!
(.. my mindset was thrown by your gravatar! ..)
Actually, I was thinking that, according to your schema, 11 would naturally follow 9… since it is the transcendence of 9 to the position of 11 that brings 11 to complete fulfillment. 10 is the basest of numbers, as it is closest to the material, and furthest from the heavenly. But following the order of numbers is legitimate.
My gravatar threw your mindset? How amusing! It’s just Letterman
I think it should be 10teen then 11teen, then 12teen, then 13teen. Remember M’s video on why numbers should be like this.
I’ just a recent addition to this site… only been here two months… so I didn’t see that video. I’ll have to go back and check it out.
Does anybody know the context of today’s quote?
Just a guess, but it sounds like he wants the mans illness to be of not importance or very bad.
Capman911, he wants the guy to have a VERY BAD illness. You read it incorrectly
I don’t know the context though.
I thought that at first, but after looking up the word trivial I read it to mean not important. Thanks
You’re both correct. This is good reason not to use double negatives in a sentence. Wait, how many negative were in my last sentence? It is confusing, but a clever way to make insults. In the quote, Mr. Cobb hopes a person’s illness is NOT ‘not important’. Not, not. Who’s there? It’s affirmative, Cappy.
Thanks P.I.A.P.. I see what you mean.
i would not say this is a double-negative, but it is an insult…Cobb was a humorist, and by saying “not trivial” he implies that he hopes the illness is serious.
similar to “you have many admirable qualities that do not suit you”…
I guess that means nobody knows the context. About whom was Cobb speaking, and under what conditions? Or, (perhaps M’s point) the context is not relevant; it is the irony of the quote.
What was the quote?
I don’t remember what the quote was now. But it was a bit of a brain teaser as you can see from the comments. It was a quote from someone named Cobb. Sorry.
At the very great risk of being a PITA, Lovely Marina, you were kind enough to update your subscription graphic to stop showing the same number all the time, as I suggested. Thank you, again.
Although far more risky to suggest, as I might incur your wrath, I also suggest you update the header graphic as well. You have so many stunning pictures of yourself, and, well, the one you have there now is, ahem, not exactly your best. Your hair color is so much nicer now and the eye makeup in that shot is a little overdone and you certainly don’t need it! You are naturally gorgeous and don’t need any help.
Although I do try to read as many of your comments as I can, I haven’t seen anything on the “Best Week-end Ever” contest, or your battle with Danny. Can you give us a quick update? Thanks!
Your devoted fan.
ditto, ditto and ditto….
Hey Karl… that would be a great word to suggest. Where does ditto come from?
A rain check is almost like a promise. I am just not comfortable making promises.
I don’t think I have personally gave someone else a rain check. I know what you mean about making promises as they can easily be broken, not on purpose, but by forgetting that you made it or other circumstances.
dazzle !!
….trizzle dazzle trizzle dome
…….time for this boy to home
i want to know how or where the word “cum” started.
troubadour
Labrador
lol .. troubled labrador
Matador
Conquistador
Bedroom door. Good night.
10th
Cufan71 check out another HotForWords rip off on the name.
HFWs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7YSClZ7O3c&feature=related
This abuser is using Marina’s fame to pimp a singles site… has about 5 videos using HFW in their titles… what a tool.
Hot chicks, butts I didn’t learn any new word origins!
This is not imitation. This is fraud and theft.
That’s what I though. She is using Marina’s LLC name for her own benefit and gain.
Marina’s proven that she’s a very easy going person, and unaffected by negative or abusive people… but this (I believe) she should report to YT.
Look at the comment someone posted at that rip off site
it looks like it could be someone who visits here
I agree on that issue.
That’s just
The last time I took a rain check was when Walmart was out of a certain item so they gave me a rain check so when the item came in I would be called and receive one of the first ones.
I see M took someones request and wore blue jean shorts or Daisy Dukes.
That must have been quite a while ago. Wal-Mart has not given rain checks in quite a while.
It was quit a while back.
But I haven’t been any where since that didn’t have what I needed. 
that vid won’t even load… i’ll watch it when I get back home
Foxbro, you want me to do your homework for you..
I’ll do it, no problem, if you really want me to I just do it unless you want to do it, do you want me to show you how to do it, I can get you an book or a video that tells how to do it or you can always ask alex….. what’s that foxbro you’ll take a rain check…..
Huh !!!
Yea I got a big kick out of Foxbro not understanding what you were talking about. I asked him if he was still a virgin. I know he is young, but you know by the time we reached his age we had already been there and done that and got the panties to boot.
Hey Capman does your “we” include aLx?
Don’t include me in there either… knew how it was supposed to fly… but no use taking the risk of disaster too early.
Huh…..? uh..
….could you do my homework…???
I did understand “IT”,.. offcourse
i’m not retared or something 
but it’s kinda weird that “IT” means sex 
Definetly slow….
I watched it, but it was a little jumpy. But still a great lesson and video.
Oh, I was saying this computer is slow. I refreshed it a number of times, but ended up 2 minutes slower than everyone below. But even this video seems to be packed with viewers, I guess. So I will probably have to wait another time before I watch it.
Capman ref, “Huh!!!”, we were having fun on the last lesson to a comment I made…..about doing it with a girl that expression doing it didn’t translate with foxbow, he never heard it before. So alex had to explain this expression to him.
So I was teasing foxbro a little.
Now if he ever visits the US he can ask a girl, “Do you want to go out to my jet and do it?”
I can see, foxbow may get lucky, if she has a Jet fetish.
lol, …..man this friend of mine has freaking slow internet
tell him he’s a tw*t and say you’ll have to reconsider your friendship.
good
nap time
….siesta time
……….bundling……. in the colonial sense
That sounds like Deja Vu
….bed time …bam!…. a Hat Trick
Hello
Marina,
A friend of mine uses the phrase “Good enough for government work” to describe an effort that is merely adequate or meets a minimum requirement. However, I have heard that in the past this phrase meant achieving a result that is considered perfect or next to perfect. Where does this phrase come from, and did its meaning change?
Homework: my last raincheck was for a concert in which the main act was unable to attend. I was disappointed by the delay, but the band did eventually return to the area to play to a full house of fans.
Hey
sneak attack
Congrats on being 1st!
Hmmm… Faster than you think, Yoda is…
To go capman way. Yes, hmmm.
Little secrete, capman911
yodahas. Hmmmmmm.Thanks everyone