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Foiled again! Where does foiled come from?
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Randon:Banned Bugs Bunny Racist Scene…[fold]..rock on
The origin of the line “Curses, foiled again!” is from the wonderful and hilariously popular cartoon show, The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle, also known as for a time as Rocky and His Friends.
may be myself when i don’t get a teacher’s card
HOMEWORK: I’m guessing it is from Looney Tunes.
–animalntaz
Snidely Whiplash from Dudley Doright.
Curses, foiled again?
Let’s see, I can think of 2 possible cartoons now:
1. Scooby Doo (Those meddling kids!)
2. Powerpuff Girls (Mojo-Jojo)
Drizzle, drazzle, dradle, drone
Time for this one to come home.
Ha, ha, I was thinking the phrase “curses, foiled again” as Marina was about to say it. It was my barnyard buddy Daffy Duck, famous for being foiled.
Hi Marina! I would like to know why the phrase “book it” means run fast. Thanks!
Where did “Lost your marbles” come from?
What do marbles have to do with intelligence?
Like from the movie Hook.
Capman911 does’t know what he’s talking about he’s partly correct on some of his rambling but not entirely.
heh heh – I just got the word
… more change is coming!
Their just jokes Stokes and yea mostly ramblings. Something my wife sent me from the internet that’s all. Something to give people something kinda funny to read.
“I like walking through old scrap metal yards and thinking about the past. It inspires my creativity and it is a wonderful source for materials and ideas. The seemingly endless varieties of objects becomes my palette. For me, the process is like a “re-birthing”… recovering something old and bringing it forward to new life.”
SOUTHERN WOMEN
Southern women appreciate their natural assets:
Clean skin.
A winning smile..
That unforgettable Southern drawl.
Southern women know their manners:
‘Yes, ma’am.’
‘Yes, sir.’
‘Why, no, Billy!’
Southern women have a distinct way with fond expressions :
‘Y’all come back!’
‘Well, bless your heart.’
‘Drop by when you can.’
‘How’s your Momma?’
Southern women know their summer weather report:
Humidity
Humidity
Humidity
Southern women know their vacation spots:
The beach
The rivuh
The crick
Southern women know the joys of June, July, and August:
Colorful hi-heel sandals
Strapless sun dresses
Iced sweet tea with mint
Southern women know everybody’s first name:
Honey
Darlin’
Shugah
Southern women know the movies that speak to their hearts:
Fried Green Tomatoes
Driving Miss Daisy
Steel Magnolias
Gone With The Wind
Southern women know their religions:
Baptist
Methodist
Football
Southern women know their country breakfasts:
Red-eye gravy
Grits
Eggs
Country ham
Mouth-watering homemade biscuits with momma’s homemade jelly
Southern women know their cities dripping with Southern charm:
Charleston (Chawl’stn)
Savannah (S’vanah)
Fort Worth (Foat Wuth)
New Orleans (N’awlins)
Atlanta (Addlanna)
Southern women know their elegant gentlemen:
Men in uniform.
Men in tuxedos
Rhett Butler, of course!
Southern girls know their prime real estate:
The Mall
The Country Club
The Beauty Salon
Southern girls know the four deadly sins:
Having bad hair and nails
Having bad manners
Cooking bad food
Wearing too much makeup in the summer
Southern girls know men may come and go, but friends are fahevah !
Now…… Shugah, send this to some girls who were raised in the South or wish they had been!
If you’re a Northern transplant, Bless your little heart, fake it.
We know you got here as fast as you could.
You know the difference between a Northern girl and a Southern girl?
A Northern girl says “You can”.
A Southern girl says “Y’all can”.
Southernness
Only a Southerner knows the difference between a hissie fit and a conniption fit , and that you don’t ‘HAVE’ them, you ‘PITCH’ them.
Only a Southerner knows how many fish, collard greens, turnip greens, peas, beans, etc.., make up ‘a mess.’
Only a Southerner can show or point out to you the general direction of ‘yonder.’
Only a Southerner knows exactly how long ‘directly’ is, … as in: ‘Going to town, be back directly.’
Even Southern babies know that ‘Gimme some sugar’ is not a request for the white, granular sweet substance that sits in a pretty little bowl in the middle of the table.
All Southerners know exactly when ‘by and by’ is. They might not use the term, but they know the concept well.
Only a Southerner knows instinctively that the best gesture of solace for a neighbor who’s got trouble is a plate of hot fried chicken and a big bowl of cold potato salad. If the neighbor’s trouble is a real crisis, they also know to add a large banana puddin!
Only Southerners grow up knowing the difference between ‘right near’ and ‘a right far piece.’ They also know that ‘just down the road’ can be 1 mile or 20.
Only a Southerner, both knows and understands, the difference between a redneck, a good ol’ boy, and po’ white trash.
No true Southerner would ever assume that the car with the flashing turn signal is actually going to make a turn.
A Southerner knows that ‘fixin’ can be used as a noun, a verb, or an adverb.
Only Southerners make friends while standing in lines, … and when we’re ‘in line,’ ….. we talk to everybody!
Put 100 Southerners in a room and half of them will discover they’re related, even if only by marriage.
In the South, y’all is singular, . all y’all is plural.
Southerners know grits come from corn and how to eat them.
Every Southerner knows tomatoes with eggs, bacon, grits, and coffee are perfectly wonderful; that red eye gravy is also a breakfast food; and that fried green tomatoes are not a breakfast food.
When you hear someone say, ‘Well, I caught myself lookin’,’ you know you are in the presence of a genuine Southerner!
Only true Southerners say ’sweet tea’ and ’sweet milk.’ Sweet tea indicates the need for sugar and lots of it — we do not like our tea unsweetened. ‘Sweet milk’ means you don’t want buttermilk.
And a true Southerner knows you don’t scream obscenities at little old ladies who drive 30 MPH on the freeway. You just say ,’Bless her heart’ … and go your own way.
To those of you who are still a little embarrassed by your Southerness: Take two tent revivals and a dose of sausage gravy and call me in the morning. Bless your heart!
And to those of you who are still having a hard time understanding all this Southern stuff, … bless your hearts, I hear they are fixin’ to have classes on Southernness as a second language!
And for those that are not from the South but have lived here for a long time, all y’all need a sign to hang on y’alls front porch that reads ‘I ain’t from the South, but I got here as fast as I could.’
I ♥ being a Southerner
Yee-Haw!!!!!
Must be a Yankee wrote this
(no mention of hush puppies)
When I ( a Yankee ) went to Auburn I learned that they were taught that if the car in front of you has his blinkers on you should put yours on to alert the cars behind that someone up ahead is ( or might be ) turning. Many turned without though, some preferring to make their intentions known on CB ( “Breaker one-nine; I’m fixin’ to turn left” ). And there was one car ( a white, 1962 Valiant ) that had his right turn signals on for the entire 4 years I was there. Near as I can determine he bought the car with them blinking and never figured out how to turn them off.
Why, Why, Why…
Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are almost dead?
Why do banks charge a fee on ‘insufficient funds’ when they already know there is not enough money?
Why does someone
Believe you when you say there are four billion stars; but have to check when you say the paint is still wet?
Why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard?
Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw a revolver at him?
Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
Whose idea was it to put an ‘S’ in the word ‘lisp’?
If people evolved from apes,
Why are there still apes?
Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white?
Is there ever a day that mattresses
Are NOT on sale?
Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?
Why do people keep running over a string a dozen times with their vacuum cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it down to give the vacuum one more chance?
Why is it that no plastic bag will open from the end on your first try?
How do those dead bugs get into those enclosed light fixtures?
When we are in the supermarket and someone rams our ankle with a shopping cart then apologizes for doing so, why do we say, ‘It’s all right?’ Well, it isn’t all right, so why don’t we say, ‘That really hurt, why don’t you watch where you’re going?’
Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that’s falling off the table you always manage to knock something else over?
In winter why do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in summer when we complained about the heat?
How come you never hear father-in-law jokes?
And my FAVORITE……
The statistics on sanity is that one out of every four persons is suffering from some sort of mental illness. Think of your three best friends — if they’re okay, then it’s you.
I understand what you are gettin’ at… I would answer you… BUT, WHY?
Just some joke or funnies my wife sent me. Something to give the rest of the world something to read.
I enjoy these write-ups/meanderings… kind of an interlude between Marina’s new words.
They’re needed to make new teenagers.
Man have descended from the apes.
Apes have descended from the trees.
Therefore …
Why do we say “you’re welcome” to
people we open doors for, even when
they don’t say “thank you”?
Why to most is be cause we think something will change.
Statistics show that 7 out of 5 people don’t really understand statistics.
ANOTHER PARK ANOTHER SUNDAY
I’d like to know about the word “shrink”, and also how psychiatrists came to be called this.
Worst Best Man Ever Funny 44 sec clip
Now, that is funny
MARINA ! PLEASE. PLEASE MAKE A LESSON ABOUT THE WORD HARBINGER I BEG YOU MARINA !!!
Is Boris Badanov of Rocky and Bullwinkle correct?
Jeez .. talk about on step forwards, two steps back, two steps to the side, three steps into a ditch, 5 steps up a ladder, 1 step … etc …
ok .. tarot card for the day … eeeeesssssszzzzz….
{.. shuffle .. suffle .. shuffle ..}
!! CUT !!
Queen of Cups!!
aha! .. how appropriate ..
the Lady of the Lake …
the one who keeps all us Merlins imprisoned to do her bidding.
Someone we know is definitely Queen of her cups.
lol .. oh yeh! .. you’re very interested in big cups, incha, capman!
Glory
halle … hallaloo .. hallieleui ..hall … aha hahahah .ahahahhahaahaha
teacher hit me a rulaahhh….
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Marina Can you make a video of the word “Allure”? I would like to know what the origins are. Thanks.
please please please, Marina .. if you throw up on your night out – please photograph it and put it up on twitpics!
Yes, Snidely Whiplash of course and here it is:
http://bullwinkle.toonzone.net/curses2.wav
And my other favorite clip from the perennially foiled Boris and Natasha:
http://bullwinkle.toonzone.net/rbplan.wav
You need to cut and paste the link. They do not allow direct linking.
Hi, I don’t know if this is appropriate but can you find out the word, “Red-neck” originated from? My friends and I just had this huge argument about why “Red-necks” are called, “Red-necks” thank you in advance. :]
therealhuy@gmail.com
red necks => implies working out in the sun. I.e. farmers or something like that.
.. anyhoo .. that’s my guess.
more’n u, nit…
nope, i asked, “what do i know?” – i didn’t imply that i knew nothing. the question has come up here before, and livin’ in redneck country got me interested…supposedly, the first “rednecks” were Scots who opposed Anglican rule and wore red bandanas to signify their solidarity with those who had signed a document opposing the Church of England in blood; when they emigrated to the US the term followed them…and, yes, poor farmers and share-croppers spending long hours toiling in the sun also may have given rise to the term…perhaps because they were often of Scottish & Irish descent…
btw, i wasn’t mad – takes a bit more’n that to rankle me…note the grin…
best i remember, “redneck” came from a group protesting something; to signify solidarity, they wore red bandanas around their necks…
but i’m a Yankee in cracker-land, what do i know?…
nuffin’
but you already implied you know nothin’, i was simply agreeing. .. and now you’re upset.
.. i think you’re confused and know nuffing’.
Annuder also it would keep the sun from burning their necks or turning them red as they bent over to work the crops.
yessir!
Hey Therealhuy, just a friendly tip, you may not want to post you email address on this site or any web site that has a open forum, as companies have spiders or programs that search through sites for email addresses to spam you.
TA Mike.
Thanks for letting me know Mike. :]
Okay, so my guess is the term “red-neck” regards to the lower class of Caucasians. Basically, it’s a slang term like (please excuse me) nigga, chink eyed, cracker, etc.
that whole “red bandana” thing is really stupid, in my opinion.
Can you explain the phenomenon of “initial-stress-derived nouns” as described at this URL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial-stress-derived_noun
* conflict.
as a verb, “I hope that won’t conFLICT in any way.”
as a noun, “There will be no CONflict.”
* record.
as a verb, “Remember to reCORD the show!”.
as a noun, “I’ll keep a RECord of that request.”
* permit.
as a verb, “I won’t perMIT that.”
as a noun, “We already got a PERmit.”
…and many other examples.
Is it Ricki Ricki, or meleschi? Anyways I could swear he called you Mrs. Hotforwords… ‘you get married in Hawaii
or is he just a respectful young man 
Sad about the radio show… Stretch would have you back on I’m sure, if he lands a similar job. Doors close & others open. Chose carefully from the many doors open to you M. & if your efforts are foiled, it’s just a test.
Hoping to catch you in the Live thingy, take some pics for the twits.
Marina .. make sure you keep taking pics for twitpics .. they’ll make a pretty good catalogue for when, in 20 or 30 yrs time, you get to write your autobiography and you need to remember what your food looked like.
that smell’foiled’ nice
Marina, please explain the origin of the word “bong” in relation to the smoking device so popular among marijuana smokers. I love you Marina.
xoxoxo
Alpha
This one is definitely not on the list…
Hmmm… Marina may have to investigate
(could it be another eponyn? LOL!)
“I can’t feel my skull!” – Spicolli,
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
lol .. in the same league as “my teeth itch” – dunno who said that tho.
“Someone Help! I can’t see my eyes!”
It makes me think of the Gong Show where they hit the bong and it made the big sound “bong!” when someone was nixed from the show. Maybe the sound “bong” from the gong was a way to describe “the big hit” of smoke you get from a bong.
I don’t know if this makes sense… will phone Mr. Chong to… ah… “clear the air over this issue”… if possible.
Marina, I bet that would have been really funny if you had been wearing a bikini made out of tin foil, or at least a tin foil hat.
Which leads me to request a word: why do we call it “tin foil” when it’s really aluminum foil? (Feel free to use the tin foil bikini idea.)
Why do we call (whatever it is) a(n):
1) auto trunk when there’s been no luggage strapped to the rear of an auto in this century,
2) keyless lampholder, when the key-shaped-knob-type switches were replaced with pull chains years ago,
3) waterpump pliers, when nobody has ever used adjustable pliers on a modern car waterpump?
It’s just left over from “the olden days.”
“Keyless lampholder”?? “Waterpump pliers”??? You must be British, right? Nobody I know of in the US uses those terms.
The only thing I can think of in relation to “waterpump pliers” are the pliers that have special cuts in them that allow you to remove and replace the locking springs that hold the hoses on the radiator and waterpump, but those are called hose pliers… interesting differences between British English and American English, lol.
It’s obvious you didn’t Google the handle. A friend of mine asked me where the waterpump pliers were at the shop just a couple of days ago. My dad and granddad called them that. Sometimes they’re called Channellocks after the prominent manufacturer of these.
As far the lampholder is concerned, any U.S. electrician would know what a keyless is. It’s probably the oldest product in most electrical product manufacturer’s lighting fixture line.
Smells like somebody is giving in. Cover up the scent? A skunk hides. The hound dog ate my homework. My toil foiled
The rose flower changed into a fruit. 
Thee economy was overly descented and lazy ass food eaters overly begged. 
Have you been hitting the bong?
Your comments are reminescent of those
posted by stokesjrj1 (aka school_dean_hot4.u)
…very odd…
With all your brains ChaCha, I played the word. Word request BONG[not the pilot]
bees are good
Beautiful Marina, people drank Kombucha in ancient China, and also in the Ukraine and Russia. That doesn’t always mean it is good for you! I hope you get some rest and also take other good liquids, such as green tea. or just aqua pura.
Kombucha
Kombucha
Hi HotForWords, I wanted to know the origins of the word “sex”…
Not one to pic nits, but I failed to make the leap from covering scents to thwarting evil plans. Doesn’t really matter. I’m developing a fetish for tanned tummies. More precisely, Russian tanned tummies freshly returned from Hawaiian vacations.
tho M is annoyed at hair flopping in her eye, the one-eye look is good, i think.
other damned fine one-eye looks …
<a href=”http://mijj.info/misc/alexClockworkOrange.gif”[clockwork orange eye]
<a href=”http://www.geocities.com/kundal/EyeTriangle.jpg”[triangle eye]
<a href=”http://www.greatdreams.com/eye/dollar.gif”[dollar eye]
<a href=”http://www.seattleonthefringe.com/Miss_Astrid_72(1).jpg”[almost, but not quite, a pirate]
d’oh!
[clockwork orange eye]
[triangle eye]
[dollar eye]
[almost, but not quite, a pirate]
Nice eyes.
The clockwork range thingy doesn’t display. And it messes up the other links until the site is closed and reopened.
Rorscharsch test:
Do you see the eye?
(copped this image from warrenayoung’s page)
oh.. and another fancy schmancy [one eye look].
and [wassername from kill bill]
Daryl Hanna, also from the Tom Hanks movie Splash.
Did you know that she lives “off the grid” out in the middle of the woods? She is very into green.
oh yeh .. daryl hannah ..
… she’s had some good looks ..
[Clan of the Cave Bear]
[pris - pleasure replicant]
That’s pretty dang good. Twitter is stressing out right now and can’t delete my account. Such bull crap.
why are you trying to delete your acct?
Don’t need it. There’s no need to follow anyone that doesn’t respond back to your questions or comments.
yeh .. i guess we keep trying to use it like email. .. but i dont think it’s really suited to that kind of thing is it. You can’t really say much in those few characters anyway.
This how you feel about “ttwwiitttteerr” now?
I feel sorry for her… looks like she might have to spend a lot more money on T.P.
Hey Billy, how you doing? I’ve had another subscriber and a few more friends on youtube as of late. I was able to watch the canucks 4-2 on NHL network(It was on CBC). I hope the bears win another one vs. Green Bay like last year.
I mean they beat the leafs 4-2. Vesa Toskola allowed 4 goals in 9 shots? Ouch.
One girl, two …
This is the email I got back from Twitter.
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User deletion remains off as it still represents a significant problem for the stability of the service. In the past several months, we’ve had to turn off user deletion many times in order to keep things running smoothly. Each time we turned it back on, we’d hoped we had sufficiently patched the existing system to prevent it from being a problem.
We’ve now concluded that the user deletion system needs to be rewritten and we’ve started that effort. Until we finish, user deletion will remain off. There’s a number of places throughout the site where we will need to message this better. We’ll be making those changes as well.
Snidely Whiplash from the Rocky and Bullwinkle show! Usually foiled by Dudley DoRight of the RCMP.
Evan Owen
Man, that brings back memories…
I think you are right, although it sounds like the kind of thing that Daffy Duck used to say.
oh brother marina i got confused
I think u are goodenuf for Badinov.
Lemon
what’s a lemon?
It’s a game of words. Start with a word and someone adds to it like and orange.
Loquat
Sidney Braithwaite
Poirot.
Albert Tatlock
Lime
no no no. Boris Badinov your dear cousin said that on the rocky and bullwinkle show.
Or maybe Dudley Do-right. I am confused now.
Snidely Whiplash on Dudley Do-right. You had the right show just the wrong characters.
Thanks Chapman the mind was just confused there. i was in a fog.
Bullwinkle! Rocky and Bullwinkle! Snidley whiplash perhaps
Did that guy that his buddy named a nut after also give his name to macadam? Another name for the stuff they use on roads?
Macadamia is actually the genus of plant that von Mueller named after his friend, a common practice since it is poor form to name anything after yourself…
von Mueller was dang rich and did a lot of work in Aussieland – enough that there is even an Australian stamp named after him
well, honoring him…lol…
oh, and Wiki says macadam road construction is named after a Scot named McAdam…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macadam
“Curses, foiled again!” was uttered by Snidely Whiplash in the “Dudley Do-Right” cartoons.
Well then, Goodbye Cruel World
Is There Anybody Out There?
so it just suddenly changed its meaning ? from throwing off scent to thwarting plans ?
Maybe a caption in between got lost.
Hey, did you guys notice at the end of the vid, yesterday, when M was signing the calendar, her scarf had my gravatar on it! Thanks, M! Maybe she can sign the scarf for me
She’s sending you a subliminal message.
How sublime
Don’t be silly! There is nothing sub about her. All her messages are liminal.
Hmm… Why are sublime and subliminal used so differently?
http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/08/04/sub-limen-works/
Where is this video of Marina signing calendars? I’d like to see it.
I rarely have anything to say but somehow I’m always compelled to make some comment on every video possible.
understandable
Foiled, OK but how did it come to mean, like aluminum foil? Does it have anything to do with the whol cloth part of the origin? Just a thought.
hehe heh! “curses foiled again”
Boris Badanov tag line from
The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.
Boa-reese!
Does anyone remember who said
“Heavens to Mergatroid?”
(hint Hanna Barberra cartoon)
Snagglepus said “Heavens to Mergatroid?”
“Exit stage right” also a Stagglepus tag line
Snagglepuss exited in whatever direction suited him at the time; mostly left, but right, up & down were all apparently used…
Snagglepuss…which really was about the worst cartoon character name ever, i think…
You spelled Stagglepuss correctly my spelling has something to do with a dry vagina
(ref: Urban Dictionary)
hmmm? Exit… stage left even? Same character?
it is exit stage left, just wanted to see if anyone was paying attention
hope they bought it
as Che said…stage right…and, yes…
Boris Badenov (bad enough)
I used to phone my Mom and she would say, “call me back in a few minutes… I gotta go smoke a gagger.”
I always wondered what it meant and why she said this.
Marina, will you look it up?
#100
Dear совершенная Marina, In the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons, the character, Sindely Whiplash often says, “Curses! Foiled again! This phrase was also used ib Batman! cartoons by a character called “the Penguin.”
You look great black, in this video and in your Twitter photo last night! It looks like you wore 6″ high stilletto high-heeled shoes last night! That would make you 6 ft, 3 inches tall! What a towering, beautiful woman! Your photographer must be just as tall, judging from the camera angle. You must have a tall photographer. both here and in Hawaii!
Your dear student, seesixcm6
MARINA! .. more pictures of food on twitpics, please!
mijj, I have not got skeered! Doubling up on my work schedule (pronounce sked-jool), I will get it done on Mon or Teus.
oh .. erm ..
.. since our little exchange of emails .. i’ve gotten 2 projects for myself …
i want to do the first one as mine .. then yours .. then mine ..
my first one will take about a week tho .. i have lots of barnacle scraping to do.
… so take your time.
Whatever you do, don’t get burned in a three way script!
I have a similar problem with logging in… when it doesn’t give you the comment box… try “refresh” page and, for me, it often shows up!
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After typing in my previous msg in the dialog box and clicking Submit Comment, Word Press gave me the “You must be logged in…” message. (And of course the entire thing got wiped and I had to type it in from scratch, not that it didn’t get editorially improved by the process*.) How could that be? If the dialog box was present, that is proof positive that I was logged in in the first place.
After I got the msg, I opened the site in a new tab and found that I was not “remembered;” I no longer was automatically logged in. I logged in manually and now I am remembered once more. Did a cookie get erased while I was merely typing? How could that happen?
Signed,
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I get the same problem every day I restart my browser. You need to do a refresh and that will fix it. Im using FireFox web browser if that is of any importance to you.
I use Firefox 3.0.4 and similar thing happens… refresh works!
Jack if you’ll look at Stokes comment earlier some of the members are having that problem so did I. I wonder if the server or Wordpress is giving problems. Sometimes when I refresh, the recent comments section on the right is jumbled up and looks like code.
Ok, I sent her an email to reboot her servers in Florida. Hope that fixes it.
Thanks for the info!
Hum… she might have to send a reboot to the servers. That might fix the problem. It happens from corruption from the data moving through the internet.
Let’s give corruption the boot… and if that doesn’t work, let’s leave no tip for the server… I’m with ya… on this one!
Refresh what? If you mean the page where the error msg occurs, it’s too late, because the server has already tossed my text. If you mean the page where I try to log in, I don’t think it will help, because opening a whole new tab won’t log in. Or do you mean something else?
I use I.E. and have had no problems, yet. (knocking on my head.)
jeez, mate .. i was reading your comments and i thought you said :
“Hum… she might have to send a robot to the servers. That might fix the problem.”
!!! .. i suddenly felt real iggrunt not havin’ heard of this fancy web technology afore.
LOL…
Yea she might have to send a robot to go kick the damn servers. Actually it’s an old term that I remember back .. hummm. late 1970s. You can google the word for more info. It had an interesting history with boot straps. There was even a cartoon animation that was called “Reboot”. It was a cartoon about people who lived in your computer.
Welcome back to America, Marina!* How did you feel about leaving Hawaii behind? Some want to stay forever and some get homesick or “rock fever” from being cooped up on such a small island. Did you bring back any souvenirs? I don’t know about now, but it used to be that all the airlines would fly one case of pineapples home with you for no charge.
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I am sorry to see your set is still the cold, hard, forbidding trackless wastes of your kitchen floor (the Siberia of your apartment). You look so uncomfortable without um, an excess of natural padding. We want you to appear on something soft and comfortable like, oh, I don’t know, my lap. Hey, look out! You are sitting on Gorby. I guess he qualifies.
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This is the first of your lessons that I recall using unvocalized captions. The blind will be unaware of this and will not know they need to use a text-to-voice reader to get the entire lesson. (Were the captions edited in as an afterthought?) I encourage you to always use vocalized captions and investigate making your site comply with Website standards for the handicapped. You know, I have never seen or heard of a site for the blind that has audio that pops up on mouseovers and no video content at all. Perhaps you could try a large easy-to-hit button in one corner of the page that would lead to such a site. Then the primary site would not need to be altered.
BTW, read about a huge company’s blind-user woes ($6,000,000 worth!) <a href=”http://fiercestreetnetworks.com/weblog/2008/08/28/target-settles-lawsuit-national/”here. There’s also a really neat picture of something inapropriate parked in a handicapped space. Talk about insensitivity…
Along these lines, here’s a new product for you, a calendar for the blind. It consists of an audio cassette with a lesson for each day. It starts with a “this day in history” reading and then you can use up all those word origins you have in the bottom drawer of your dresser. You know, all the ones you investigated but decided not to use. You only need 365 of these. After the user listens to the day’s lesson, he pops out the cassette and it is ready to go back in the next day. A great gift idea for the blind. It’s either that or take your current calendar and “braillefy” it by adding little goosebumps in the appropriate areas. (Hey, that would sell to sighted guys as well!
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What happened to your opening theme? We old fuddy-duddies** get used to something and we don’t want it changed.
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*This really pulls the chain of the natives. They will inevitably remind you that Hawaii is a state and that you should say mainland.
**Word request.
Darn it. The link is http://fiercestreetnetworks.com/weblog/2008/ 08/28/target-settles-lawsuit-national.
Where’s the edit button when you need it?
Even that didn’t work right because a space got in there.
http://fiercestreetnetworks.com/weblog/2008/08/28/target-settles-lawsuit-national.
I must join the ‘Extreme Ironing’. I think I can top all of them! What do you think?
Jack if your talking about ironing clothes then you need a dryer. It takes out enough of the wrinkles to get you through the day. Especially jeans and t-shirts, as that mostly what I live in now or jean shorts. But I can understand your uniforms need to be crisp and proper..
Oh yea that’s how I get most of the wrinkles out of my clothes except my uniforms require a real Iron. Have you seen those Extreme Ironing calendars? What?!?!? Im the only one that finds this kind of stuff? You got to be kidding!
i think takin’ ‘em to a cleaner’s would be easiest…
but i occasionally use Downy Wrinkle Releaser when on the road with my volleyball uniforms…works great in a pinch…i do have a travel iron for the times the hotel doesn’t have something in the room, just prefer to avoid it if i can…
Ok I just found your Extreme Ironing. Looks like fun.
Yep that’s it! I was thinking of ironing on a crab boat with a breaking wave just over head. Or taking out my sailboat and ironing on the top of the mast.
I’m glad you cleared that UP (What another one?), Mike.
For a while I was wondering if people were talking about the computer mouse specially designed for women.
Marina, i want to know the origin of the word “Aryan”.
Regards
The word that i would like to request is “NYLONS”. What is the difference between nylons and silk stockings? They feel the same. Ugh
Thank You, Adam
You can read this,“The Nylon Drama” or wait for Marina to get to it.
Just made me laugh a little when you said “They feel the same. Ugh”… which do you prefer to wear, Adam… jk jk
Ever been UP to your neck in something… READ THIS
Lovers of the English language might enjoy this. It is yet another example of why people learning English have trouble with the language. Learning the nuances of English makes it a difficult language. (But then, that’s probably true of many languages.)
There is a two-letter word in English that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is’UP.’ It is listed in the dictionary as being used as an [adv], [prep], [adj], [n] or [v].
It’s easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP ? Why do we speak UP, and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report? We call UP our friends and we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.
At other times the little word has a real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.
To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.
And this up is confusing:
A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.
We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UPabout UP !
To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP , look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takesUP almost 1/4 of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions
If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don’t give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP . When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it wets UP the earth. When it does not rain for awhile, things dry UP.
One could go on & on, but I’ll wrap it UP , for now. My time is UP.
Oh…one more thing:
What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night?
U P
Don’t screw up. Send this on to everyone you look up in your address book.
Now I’ll shut up
Also you “air up” your tire (which actually goes upwards in the process) or “rev up” your engine (which just sets there). However, there are those phrases that don’t use it. You “knock up” a woman, but “smack down” a wrestler, who can be “taken down.” Grub is “rustled up,” but a horse “put down” when euphanized. Jams and jellies are “put up,” but to be preserved, thoughts are “put down” on paper. Sometimes it goes both ways. A notice or a tent or a telephone connection can be “put up” or “taken down.” (There is such a thing as a “nailed up” telephone connection, which is “taken down” when done with.)
I think UP has a connotaion of expansion or starting something and that’s why it gets included in so many phrases. However, I have never heard of a woman wanting her lover to “go up.”
Hey that’s good reply… and we wouldn’t even be here if that last part never happened!
I have been up a few times for air.
Oh you have 1UP on me, but I don’t believe your DOWN on all this. You might like to go UP town, but I prefer to go DOWN town. You might like to sit UP in your chair but when I finish my dinner I like to get DOWN from the table. Oh and there is this song that mentions what goes UP must come DOWN. Today people prefer to have faster DOWNload speed over UPload speeds when purchasing internet connections. I prefer buying a car with no money DOWN instead of paying all of the UP front costs. Speaking of cars did you know the cost of fuel went DOWN? Much better that prices going UP! heheheh oh this is so fun!
I agree it’s a bit confusing. Until there is a day that someone sets up better rules or guidelines on how words are used, I think what you ever come up with is fair game. Are you down with that?
I will leave this UP in the air until we get DOWN to the bottom of this.
There really isn’t any logic to this, is there? In the UK we say UP north and Down south, but do they say UP south in Australia?
And what about the destitute tramp who is DOWN on his UPPERS?
word requesst: slkskkkjsiphhttt … i heard this the other day on the tube. .. not sure what it means.
Sounds that are made when a car runs over a frog?
One time I backed over a frog with my car and the sound went like this…
….ttthhpisjkkkskls!
ew… yuk
lets see some fucker pinch that and make a video request out of it.
It sounds like your computer speaker might be shorting out. Did you spill coffee on it again?
Marina mina moo, where are you? we got some words for you now. . .
Is it scooby doo? or did they just say “curse you kids, and that dog!” I cannot remember..
snollygoster
I know one of them, he’s one our County Commissioners.
Kewl word. I’ll have to remember that one.
How about Marina’s “gollywobblers?” What’s a gollywobbler? I don’t know, but when they wobble, I think, “Ooooh, golly!”
Good Golly Miss M …
I think it was whats his name The Canadian Mountie
Oh you must mean Bob.
Yah.. Doogley Dug-right!
anybody remember the old tv dinners before there were microwaves? were they made from aluminum foil or tin foil? all i remember is that they were strong and heavy enough to kill someone with.
Yea I have eaten a few of them when I was a lot younger. The mashed potatoes were hard to get warm no matter how much you heated the dinners up..
I am sure it was tin… I took a magnet and it stuck to my mashed potatoes.
i wonder if they are still made… tv dinners for the conventional oven or toaster oven. yeah the mashed potatoes never heated up and it took over 30 min to cook the shit
Microwaves are so common and quick to use that I think the day of the aluminum-foil-packaged TV dinner is long behind us. It might even be cheaper to make the paper version, in which case the aluminum version would have bitten the dust for economic reasons and not because of marketing.
“CURSES! CARDBOARDED AGAIN!”
One time I tried to cook a TV dinner inside a black plastic bag at the beach… a big beach bird came along and carried away while I was out swimming.
ah, the nefarious Snidely Whiplash used to utter that phrase whenever Dudley Do-Right
) one of SW’s schemes…the show was, of course, Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties…
luckedspoiled (see below, but leave out the “p”Snidely Whiplash in later years…
//*———- Word Request ———-*//
DATE ! and you know what I mean…
The fruit of the date tree?
Which reminds me of the time I was in Manhattan walking around. There was this large black woman in a nicely-pressed business suit leaning against a skyscraper, uh, plying her trade. She asked me, “Honey, would you like a date.” I replied, “No, thanks. I’m a fig man.” She laughed.
I think she was a figman of your imagination.
Wacky Races
Hi Marina…. I wonder if you can tell me Where is the word JAZZ came from?… Is it really an afrcan or arabian word?… It would be wonderful that you can tell me, because I love this sort of music… By the way I like Bossa Nova…. please tell me what it means…. PS Excuse my english, I’m not an native speaker!!
powder pack powder
How much powder pack powder could a woodchuk chuck if a woodchuk could powder pack powder?
According to the literature, this was scientifically determined by one P. Piper, who was able to successuflly pick a peck of powered pack powder.
Excellent!
I know the cartoon! It was Duddley Doright and the “Curses, foiled again!” was the evil Snidely Whiplash!
Or as they say in New Jersey, “Coises, ferled again!”
i would like to request the word
Gazoontite
Hey Killersw1, I just looked up your word. It has two meanings but I want say cause I think Marina could do it a lot better. One of the definitions is very funny. Good luck and I hope she does it soon.
Senntigraid!
Hi Marina!
I think the phrase came from Rocky & Bullwinkle, but I was always partial to Natasha and her alluring Russian accent.
Know I know about foiled but why are some swords called foils (and others epees & sabres)?
Das Vadanya, Q
The weapons have different physical designs. Some are for stabbing and some for cutting. Avoid them all.
Speaking of R & B, Natasha’s evil colleage was named Badinov. I thought this was just made up until I found out it was a clever takeoff on this real guy. I wonder what else I missed?
What a great wikipedia entry. Thanks!
Marina… that Black and Gold combination is .. erm .. {.. searches for word from amongst pitiful vocab ..} .. luxurious … kind of reminiscent of when you see gold jewelry laid on black velvet.
oh yeh .. maybe you can do one dressed in ripped up revealing rags.
How about dressed as a Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader.
nooooooooooo!!! .. please .. nooooooooo!!!
no bloody cheerleaders!! .. fergawdsakes .. Marina .. please no!
Belly Dancer. yea
That’s not too far from the hula hooper is it? You’d have to dance fast enough, though, to keep the hoop up. You can keep your hoop up nowadays, can’t you Cap?
Save the cheerleader … save the world.
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Some of us has gotten that lately Stokes. I get that and slow loading of the site. The server or Marina’s site must be having problems.
Try to clear your cache and reboot your computer. That will help a bit. I get the same errors. Some time just doing a refresh will help. Marian is so popular her servers get a bit overloaded. It will clear up. Hope that helps.
i think the cartoon character famous for “curses, foiled again” was George W. Bush.
foiled again
I need to privately talk to you one day about doing a me doing a video request and how would be the easiest way to do it.
..buy a ball cap with some antlers
ooo .. cap .. bear in mind that i’ve not actually produced any video requests yet.
i offered to do an anim for bsomebody, but he didn’t follow up .. skeered i guess.
but .. if you want to do an anim of some sort, get in contact via youtube email – frostyEnumerator would be the most appropriate.
ps. you’ll have to wait in the queue. I’m doing a thing for myself first.
on the other hand .. i guess you can already create a vid of some sort, but want to get it in the right format and upload it? .. is that it?
Dude you would be so awesome! You must do a video request.
dont forget to polish your ears for the vid request.
Yea that was it. Klaus emailed me about how to do it with my digital camera since it does video takes also. So that should work for me.
do’h .. i knew i felt something jump on my back! ..
Speaking of Foil . This is an interesting article. I have to make me one.
you’re already wearing one, cap.
Hey! I was wondering where the word “pizzazz” comes from.
Wasn’t “curses, foiled again!” from the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show?
Was there a Maximum radio show yesterday?
dunno, mate .. don’t listen to those.
Oh dude your missing out. She covers all the words that no other philologist would cover. That’s one thing that make Marina so cool about. She goes there! She educates us on words you might not find in the text books. I don’t believe for one second there is no guarded word out there she won’t unveil. I think her only concern is where she will uncover the mystery of that word in a place that will not offend too many people. There was a lesson that blew me away of what she uncovered. I thought I knew of many nautical word origins but she was able to put me in my place with the BJ word. I think the word blew me a way so to speak. Gawd I love that woman! So check it out if you wish. I hope you won’t be disappointed. I can give a rats ass about maximum radio but when she is on Im all ears!
i listened to part of one of those once .. the style jangles my nerves.
… it’s the shouty overenthusiastic jump up an down at everything style i’m not keen on.
i think it’s a common style for radio .. i guess that’s why i never listen to loud shouty enthusiastic DJ hosted radio.
the ultimate music dj for me was John Peel (R.I.P.) – gave the big break to many big name international music stars .. very sober and relaxed. .. the antithesis of the pop DJ.
… erm .. i seem to have wandered off the subject ..
.. but .. in any case .. [John Peel interview]
Oh same here! Stretch (the DJ) drives me nuts but it grows on you. Like beer. Taste awful at first but you acquire the taste later.That said Beer is not for everyone. Not sure if Mr Stretch is for you but I enjoy Marina running the show!
Yeah, John Peel was good; the thinking man’s DJ.
beer i like .. stretch (to me) is saturated fizz n saccharine.
not even M can compensate for the style.
to me – the radio thing more offputting than the thing with O’Reilly. I can watch the O’Reilly thing .. the style is fine – good, in fact (tho O’Reilly’s patronising, and M is a little too keen to please) – but the radio thing has an atmosphere prob for me .. but then, tha’s just me
Ok that works for me. I think M is making a radio appearance is a big step to getting on the bloody radio. At least she is getting on the radio. Might not be her first choice but maybe her only choice. Just have to say your missing some words that she will never mention on this site. I myself feel the same about O’Reilly is that I can tolerate him just to watch the master at work. Im even giving a bit more respect for O’Reilly because he was able to get M on the show. Im not trying to defend M. She can stand on her own two feet. Just a thought there are some words that you might want to know the etymology of. I still will not even subscribe to the maximum channel ever but Im glad she post it on this site.
if you check here ..
http://twitter.com/manertainment
it looks like Maxim Radio got cancelled.
actually, even though i didn’t like the program, i feel kinda sad about it.
At least YouTube wont get … wait on a minute!! …
… that guy who did the program with Marina and the words could still do a spot and put it up on youTube. .. erm .. he just wont be paid, i guess.
Marina was mention on Stretch’s blog. Sad to see all their jobs go by by..
Thanks for the update Mijj!!
How about tin foil? Any way related?
Curses foiled again means you failed again or were out smarted..
Rocky and Bullwinkle and Dudle Do Right and what Che ovlay said.
Err … has Che laid an egg?
I think Tin Foil along with Aluminum Foil were related and from a similar background going back to one of the Lost Tribes of Metallurgy.
Hi Marina,
I was wondering what the origin of the word ‘foiled’.
Thanks.
Marina has the answer.
Just click on the triangle pointing to the right in the picture at the top of this page. If you require more help… Yikes!
hello earthings!
ahhh… earthlings!
Well, if you’re not from around here, we’ll excuse the misspelling.
I have never met miss pelling and I didn’t do it!
5th
Sorry Jack I didn’t count you so I am 6th. I would have been a little earlier but I was ogling at Marina’s picture of her going out last night.
In order to count to 6 you need to use your other hand. If your run out of fingers you can always use your toes. After that then your left with using your nose and tongue. Pretty much anything that sticks out of your body. Yes, I was thinking about going there but had to stop.
If you use your right hand then you have six errra appendages sticking out.
That’s nonsense, Jack, I can count up to 31 on the fingers of 1 hand, and I bet you can too.
Oh I can count higher than that. With both hands I can count up to 110. I can add, subtract, multiply, but I don’t remember how to divide. The answer can’t go over 110 though.
Bob, yes I got your joke.
I guess it good no one reads down this far on the page after a day or so..hehehe 
Using the same method on two hands I could (Theoretically) count to 1023.
Yo
“Curses, foiled again” quoted from villain Snidely Whiplash in the Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties segment of Rocky & Bullwinkle Show
MOOSE AND SQUIRREL
Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit outta my hat. Presto!
Great Cartoon.
Well done there comrade!
In the nick of time, a hero arose
A funny-looking dog with a big black nose
He flew into the sky to seek revenge
But the Baron shot him down – “Curses, foiled again!”
Snoopy vs The Red Baron – sung by The Royal Guardsman
Oh soooooo close to Moose and Squirrel
Marina is such a tease,
It’s like Koba, she teased us with that for so long. I am going to have to do a video request on that subject to get her to say it. We are not making fun of her it’s just a fun thingy to do.
Who’s Koba?
She best say it soon before she loses her accent.
Maybe one day in an interview the reporter will ask her to say Moose & Squirrel.
She told us a few videos back about Koba, I forgot which one, but it was a nick name a friend gave to her but still didn’t give the origin of it.
The word Koba first surfaced in the Nickname video. Marina asks where did her nickname Koba come from @1:53
Marina finally gave the answer here:
3rd!
Word request: Assassin, thnx!
Hi northerexile, the word Assassin was done on July 19, 2007
Check out the excellent video here
http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/07/19/assassin/
Thanks Klaus, Jack and I are falling down on the job.
No problem, you guys have your eyes full, errr…
I mean hands full, errr…
I mean you are busy so I am un-offically TAing.
yo! …..?
damn!
damn’s not a number.
But it is 4 letters.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/08/17/female-vs-male/
well done. I thought i would see if you could go at least 1- lessons without being first. And u did ,
http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/08/10/ketchup-vs-catsup-or-whats-up-answer-to-gtw-iv/