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!
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
Great reply! What’s a girl to do with all that attention? Me snuffles the truffles, but can’t snuffle a word from Teacher. She’s paining me by silence, I suspect to force me to let the “cat out of the bag.” This little piggy has built a brick house as she might be a Russian wolf in disguise. Aaaoooohh! I see that she answered my first word request, listed under brownies, yumm, already.
.. 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.
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.
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.
.. 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.
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?”
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 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!
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 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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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
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
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?
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.
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
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hi Marina,
I want to introduce a new word , which logically should exist already…An example: the word useless is opposed by useful, but the word “ruthless” has no opposite!
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…
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!
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
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
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.
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)
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.
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.
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 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
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
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.
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!
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