Staedtler® Mars® Draft Technical Pencil Set is my favorite so far for a pencil.
The rollerball pens are nice for pens as long as you remember to put the cap back on them before sticking them in your shirt pocket. Nice solid unbroken lines. good for making copies of etc.
Hi Marina,
Home work: I usually use a pen, but when I know I might make mistakes I use a pencil.
While watch your class, I was reminded of a scene from “The Rock”. An FBI agent was trying to get John Mason (Sean Connery – one of my favorite actors) to cooperate. The agent says at one point, “It would be nice to get out of prison… while you still have lead in your pencil.” I don’t know if they knew the origin of pencil, but I thought it interesting.
I was just going back through some old emails I received from Marina and found this funny statement. I just had to share with you all.
“I will be bringing the pets back.. it’s just that I need to get around to shooting them.”
How could one not think of Marina running around with some kind of Nerf gun and shooting teacher’s pets. Maybe she feels a bit like shooting some of the pest pets that hang around this site. To think shooting them would bring them back. What she thinking here? heheheheh
*Sorry Marina. I had to poke some fun at your comment that I completely took out of contexts. It wont happen again. NOT!
Hi Marina,
i was wondering where the word “gabber” got its origin. i know it comes fom the netherlands but i don’t have any idea how the word was born.
I used to be. I was a huge Rusty fan. I got burned out from pro sports when baseball and football kep going on strike, and then basketball seemd like it was a bunch of thugs. NASCAR kept getting more high tech and commercial, so I just quit the whole thing.
Im not currently a NASCAR TV fan. I rather be in the pits if im going to watch. TV just doesn’t do it for me any more. I miss the roar of the engines. That something TV can’t do. I was raised around those cars. My dad was a sports writer for the newspaper so I was with my dad many times when he had to get stories done. I had access to the whole track most any time. I would get car rides from time to time. What a thrill going 100mph! I even had a chance to get my own car and start racing. I passed it up because I was interested in computer programming at the time. Damn I should have taken it up. It would have been fun.
I agree it’s more fun being there! I have never been in the infield during the race but, I get chills when the cars first fire up the engines and on the first green flag laps! Another thing you can’t get on TV are the smells! One time a car’s engine blew up right in front of us and I found out what burning oil smells like! So
Hi Marina,how are you.I would like to know how you came up with “hotforwords” as your site name.Is it because you have been referred to as “too hot for words” or is it simply you are hot for or in love with the meaning and origin of words.I think you are great,funny,very smart and I wish much success.
I hope you ignore the stupid comments posted on youtube because I find similar comments for just about every vid.(your vids. and others) posted there.People apparently have nothing better to do on this internet.Good luck, thetigtig
Hello thetigtig,
Marina briefly describes why she is hot for words in this video @1:04, meaning she is passionate and excited about words, and as you had already mentioned; “…hot for or in love with the meaning and origin of words.”
Your camera has to have the 16×9 wide screen setting and usually associated with HD, even though the term HD by itself is meaningless. When you process your videos, you also have to render the video to 16×9 wide screen format.
For video enthusiasts, this is no surprise as many other web sites have already had 16×9 and YT made a conscious decision to delay the entry of new technologies until now. The buzz about this has been going on since late last year and earlier this year.
Marina on the last video you mentioned about the email adresses. Well I used bugmenot but I have just noticed they have closed down. If I ever sign up for anything now I will just use http://dodgeit.com/ Just sign up with whatever you want (eg marinathehotphiloligst@dodgeit.com ) then tyoe it on on the webisite and any junk will go there too.
If you are worried about disclosing a primary E-mail address when signing up to a site, you can do what I do. I set up a secondary account, let’s call it goat.com. Then I set the preferences in the secondary to forward everything to my primary. Should a ton of spam start hitting the secondary, I can cut it loose and cancel the forwarding. If desired, I can then create a replacement and update the sites with it.
You could set up a secondary for each site you join, but if they’re like Hotmail, you’d have to log in to each one at least once a month to keep them from being cancelled, a major bother.
I like to use my a pencil for math calculations, but I must have a Pentel hi-polyer eraser* in the other hand for clean erasures. The erasers on the tips of pencils are too messy and tear the paper. Give it a try. Ooooh, so nice and clean.
* (The eraser is about 1″x2-1/2″ – white polymer. Other brands will work as well.)
Yeah, I have always wondered that also. My grandmother used to say that all the time. I always thought it was pigs were fed the best scraps. Grandma always cooked more food than we could eat just so there would be extra for the pigs and chickens.
I’ll guess it means the hog was just butchered and instead of saving some of the meat the person chowed it all down without a thought for the future,AKA,lived high on the hog.Perhaps too high.
Not sure where it comes from but without doing any research on the subject it may have something with the best (most expensive) cut of pork is up high on the pig, like the sirloin.
So when you live high on the hog you living the good life because you got money.
We were an Air Force family, and so didn’t have much money. I remember one treat my mom would get every once in a while. It was pickled pig’s feet. I guess, by definition, that would be living low on the hog.
Looks like there is a bug in the “THIS IS A LINK” example in the html practice area. If you copy/paste from the example, you will have a mal-formed link with a ” stuck on the end. The example in the practice area has incorrect double quotes enclosing the link.
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Hello Marina! Of course i use pencil, because it is more comfortable i think. But pen is more popular..
By the way, do you know that Russians cosmonauts use only a pencil in space, while American cosmonauts use a Special Space Pen!!!
When something doesn’t work (and you know what it must look like), you can examine it to see your mistake. Just right-click in a blank area (not in a photo) and choose View Source. This shows the HTML text for the entire page. Then type [Ctrl-F] to bring up the find box, type in a word or two that is unique to your work (in this case “space pen” would be good) and click Next (or press [Enter]). The search words will be highlighted, showing where your work is on the very large page. Then study it.
Too bad that after you see what is wrong, there is no way to fix it. Homeland Security took the Edit button away for fear we might alter our passports, print fake currancy or something else just as terrible.
My favorite pencil, by far, is the Movado Black Warrior (preferably with #1 soft lead). It’s a solid round pencil made from cedar with a waxed core, a shiny black cylindrical shaft, a brass ferrule and a pink pearl eraser. It leaves a smooth dark line. Even better, it’s made in the good old U.S.A. (Tennessee, I believe).
The video homage to adorable Gorby was a treat. Thanks!
If you quickly pull the lever that is used to refill the pen, the ink will come out like water out of a fountain. Since that is the last thing you would want to do with it, I don’t know why they chose that name.
I generally only use pencils when I am (trying) doing math stuff. For note taking, I almost always use gel pens. I like either purple or orange, so they show up more distinctly from the text. I keep a blue and black handy, just in case I need to look official-like.
As Che Volay commented below, YouTube is now in wide screen.
Marina, you can now encode your videos in 16×9 format.
Now we can have you and any graphics on the screen at the same time.
hmmm…i suspect we’ll hear a lot of “tall tails”[sic] ’cause of this one…
but i write mostly with pen or just electronically these days…i do love a good pencil, though, and carry ‘em in my ref kit because the young ‘uns keeping score at volleyball matches need to be able to correct errors…
since Gorby was in the vid, i have a “stupid dog” story: my husky, Illa, like all huskies, is a digger…i caught her burying some bones the other day – but they were not real bones, they were dogfood bones…i don’t think they’ll be there when she goes to get ‘em back…
it means tail huh… So when guys say they want some tail… haha Thanks for giving me the knowledge to make a good gay joke at the expense of some guy should the opportunity arrive.
oh, i think that would make a very tasty calendar, misscupcake – and i’m also glad to see you here a bit more frequently (which is an odd-looking word, now that i look at it)…
but you are a cutie, no matter how many times you disclaim it…
It depends, but I use a liquid roller ball pen at work if available. When I am drawing I prefer using a pencil. Of course holding one now is going to give me pause.
hey marina, over the weekend my beloved cat didi got sick
i found a tick on him and removed it, but it was a ‘paralysis tick’ so didi was starting to become paralysed so i had to take didi to the vet and they gavehim some injections and he is still in the hospital until tomorrow
so, i was wondering, where did the word ‘tick’ come from?
because we use it as… a way of marking something as done or completed or correct. but there is a parasite known as a tick also!
(and omg they are so freakin ugly)
AND PLS NO-ONE ELSE ANSWER COS I WANT MARINA TO TELL ME COS SHE IS MY TEACHER, NO-ONE ELSE !!@21111!!!1!!
Oooh! Oooh! I want to not answer, too! So here is my feline non-answer:
Last Thursday I visited my two cats in my workshop to feed, water, brush and pet them. I had to keep them there, because one, a HUGH calico, had some kind of hip problem and couldn’t (or didn’t want to) get around, say to actually get in the litter box. Her name was Her Royal Majesty, because she reminded me of the queen in Alice in Wonderland. She like to have her head scratched and her belly rubbed so much, that if I did both at the same time, her purring started to sound like slobbering.
I lifted her into my lap and started brushing her (she can’t clean herself below the neck). She started panting heavy breaths, so I paid close attention in case it was a precursor to coughing up a furball. She wanted off and quickly started climbing down before I could lift her down; she almost fell on the floor, where the panting eventually went away. I had never seen this before. The next day I found her dead.
I still have Sweetie Pie, who is a normal, active cat and I give her extra petting in case she misses her friend. Sweetie Pie uses the litter box, so I could take her home if I choose. I found both of them on a very rainy day three years ago abandoned in a soggy box next to the Dumpster at my office. So, it was raining cats that day; no dogs.
There are several meaning of fetch. It is also a common CPU command that retrieves data from memory for immediate use. If data is retrieved well ahead of it’s anticipated use (to save time), it is a prefetch.
Sometimes dogs prefetch and bring the ball to you before you command it. They do this to earn brownie points.
{Marina in a sexy voice}
There are several meaning of fetch. It is also a common CPU command that retrieves data from memory for immediate use. If data is retrieved well ahead of it’s anticipated use (to save time), it is a prefetch.
Sometimes dogs prefetch and bring the ball to you before you command it. They do this to earn brownie points.
So I vainly thought
That I shall receive everything, that I want
Day and night in the dreams
I Flied in clouds
Me and you on stars we go
Our love and only we together
You bear me on hands
And I am already in clouds
And I all flied
But I knew
That dreams only a little
For love la-la-la
And I all flied
But I knew
That dreams only a little a little la-la
La-la la-la la-la
As always in clouds
I float you
Have thawn in them and has left one
Know, remember as were with you
Ours store love
Without you as without the sky the moon
Night so is dark, and I is cold
But do not think,
I do not long
So I want
And I all flied
But I knew
That dreams only a little
For love la-la-la
And I all flied
But I knew
That dreams only a little a little La-la
All flied And knew
All flied La-la-la-la
All flied And knew
All flied la-la-la-la
And I all flied
But I and knew
That dreams only a little
For love la-la-la
And I all flied
But I and knew
That dreams only a little a little
And I all flied
But I and knew
That dreams only a little
For love la-la-la
And I all flied
But I and knew
That dreams only a little a little la-la
MCC, Ok Im going to put in my vote for ‘Fetch’. I did a quick search in the etymology dictionary and found there might be some interesting facts about the word ‘Fetching’ use as crafty, scheming. Let’s see if we can get M to make a lesson on the word.
The concept of using graphite as a marking tool was a good bit older than the history indicated in koalabear’s note.
Cave dwellers used charcoal from fires to draw on cave walls .
That company just found a convenient way to package the idea.
Great lesson Marina. Always had this nagging suspicion that pencil and pen had something to do with penis…
When it comes to writing tools, I’ll use whatever suits a given purpose best or whatever that’s available. Use the best tool for the job, but when unavailable, use whatever’s available to get the job done.
Gorby’s really cute, like it’s (someone please confirm if it’s male or female, though I’m guessing it’s male at the moment) master.
I am tempted to say that my wife is living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be divorced, but luckily my wife is from Thailand so we are Siamese twins – we’re joined at the wallet.
Beyond writing little notes to myself, I rarely write anything anymore, but when I do I use a pen. I am left handed, and a pen is just neater. Pencils tend to smear when I use them as my hands drags across the paper.
During the space race, NASA spent millions of dollars developing a pen that would work in zero gravity. A normal pen just will not work in space. The Russians just used a pencil.
I am using a Pelikan Fountain Pen when I write post cards, letters, etc.
We had to use fountain pens only in school. My handwriting is absoultely 99% better when i use it. Otherwise I like micropens and many others!
***WORD REQUEST***
Milaya Marina,
Since you ended the video with a guitar solo, what is the origin of “dobro guitar”? The word looks suspiciously like “dobroi” as in “utro”. Any connection?
Evan
“Dobro guitar” is an English expression for a special kind of guitar. But the “dobro” may be of Slavic origin.
“Dobroi utro”: I’m trying to write “good morning” without Cyrillic letters.
WTF was that action?! Showing a primarily male audience/class Your dog’s dick?! LOL! I suppose it could be deemed a “learning aid” to accompany the penis referances in today’s lesson
To see You in a collar was ok but to see Your roommate’s pecker was a waste of bandwidth IMO,,kind of reminds Me of the immortal words of Dr Hook “Ohhhh Goldie,how could You do dis ting to Me?!”.
I write with whatever is handy pretty-much like the rest of the world,unless of course,I’m too busy with changing My outlook on life.I’m due for that
I think it’s because females think penises are “cute,” especially their very own little dog’s, whereas we guys mentally fit them in to the “mighty weapon” category. It’s a Venus/Mars sort of thing.
I dated a Venution Wench,,Her desctirption of My penis was “Oooooowwwch” then “aaahhhhhh” then “stay for the whole night Earthman!” as she had more uses for it.
One time,doing Her missionary style,She came so hard Her face twisted up and becam very red just before She came screaming and pooped on the carpet! LOL,I made Her clean it up of course,I did clean My own balls tho.She said “never agin with You” but 15 minutes later She said “Hoooonnnneeeyyyy”.
Oh I see you got the bug too. It’s been over a year now for me. I started out just causally watching her lessons on YouTube. Then I visited her site about 6 months later. Now I’m a freaking TA. Ya think I’m a bit over addicted? Well its not all bad. Im learning a lot. Not only from the video lessons but the people who commenting here. So as long as your learning something new every day I guess it’s a healthy addiction.
My dad turns his paper sideways and writes from down to up. The ink dries before he gets to the 3 sentence. It wouldn’t be so bad if one could write and read sentences right to left.
I’ve heard of people who can allegedly write both, left to right with the right hand and right to left with the left hand, and even do both simultaneously.
Now that would be confusing.
No, although I do have Russian friends, one of which I worked for for a year in the countertop and flooring biz. The business went bad here in Sacramento, so they closed it and opened a store in Portland. I’m in the old office now and E-mail their bills to them, do research, etc. BUT THERE’S NO BUSINESS DONE HERE. THERE’S NO NEXUS. DID YOU HEAR THAT, CALIFORNIA STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION AND STATE FRANCHISE TAX BOARD? NO BUSINESS AT ALL! Gotta keep things straight around here. The gummint is always after your money.
OK, so “piro” is of Hungarian origin and “karandash” was originally caran d’ache from French. Sounds like Russian etymology is just as convoluted as English!
Teach, I have a phrase request actually. My hubby’s Grandmother tonight said “Easy as pudding” which I assume is a vary of “easy as pie” (simple, second nature kind of thing). Why do we use this term? My YouTube screenname is Grimmistress666 in case you needed to know!!
now this one just worked I copied the URL from the address bar instead of right clicking and copy location, maybe if you enlarge it there is a short life span to it, go figure.
I think the problem may be that Google has arranged things so that the image is made available only if you come through the front door, i.e. the server will not provide the image to any other system but Google’s. If you try to link to the pix directly from a foreign system (like HFW), it fails.
Are you sure it has nothing to do with the origin, marina?
Anyway, I noticed that you claim intelligence is sexy, and I agree, but while thinking that I was reminded that you’ve yet to do the origin of sexy. Wouldn’t that be interesting?
Pencil is probably my first choice. especially when you just want to doodle, the pencils seem more refined. pens are too sharp, and markers just bleed through the page.
I got a few suggestions for future lessons: where does the phrase an eye for an eye come from? how about the word etymology? and what of the verb to “own” someone?
An eye for an eye was a saying quoted from Exodus (in the Bible). Earliest relation might be from the Code of Hammurabi, which was a form of law enforcement when if you caused harm to someone’s eye they would take yours in return. It works for all parts of the body. Eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. That is the basis of the Code of Hammurabi.
I prefer a pen, doesnt smudge like a pencil. dont write much anymore. How far would i have to go, I mean what would i have to do to get close to Marina? wow that kinda sounds a little stalkery huh?
Some ball point pens use an ink that remains eraseable for a time. When allowed to age, the ink becomes as permanant as that of an ordinary ball point pen.
Hey Marina,
Love what you do, I’ve learned a lot!
I was wondering if you could help me find where the phrase “riding shotgun” came from.
Seems to me like just riding in the passenger’s seat!
Good luck and have fun!
I like the “click a box below” thing at the beginning, but wouldn’t it be better at the end? Allowing you to link into other videos after you watch the first one?
I have a word request…and the word is “Mannequin.” Now that it is almost the holiday season, mannequins are everywhere displaying clothes in department stores or at malls. But why is a mannequin called a mannequin. I mean, not all MANnequins are men. Some are obviously woman.
Well! I thought I was being funny when I wrote, “The penis mightier than the sword.” Just goes to prove that there’s many a true word spoken in jest.
I rarely use a pencil these days, more often a ball-point pen (whatever I find lying around as they are so cheap that people don’t take care to keep them), but usually I use a plastic stylus on the touch sensitive screen of my PDA.
Gorby is still living the life of Reilley and is obviously as happy as a dog with two tails Does he have a girlfriend yet?
OK, get ready to practice for a possible future episode on the word origin of; eraser. I presume the question will be; Erase or strike out as in strike out
Word Request: eraser, erasure, expunge
Funny looking different forms of words with similar meanings.
I used to be a #2 pencil guy for many years, aaaaaaannnd, since I used to make mistakes, it had an eraser at the end. Now, I bet you guessed, I no longer mkae mistaekes, so I write with a pen – with no eraser, even. Now, that’s what I call confidence. Ohhhh, yeah, and we don’t need no edit button either.
Homework: In my line of work I use pencils daily. I prefer ink. It seems to flow better. But I make so many mistakes you just can erase ink very well, go figure. My penmanship sucks. I write on the white board daily and im very conscience of how my penmanship looks. Im slowly replacing writing on the board with over transparencies that I make on the computer. Later I’ll have it all put on Keynote presentation. My transparencies will be the back up in case something fails.
In charting, we have to use mechanical pencils because we need to draw consistent thickness lines and have to erase our work to redraw. I use pencils when ever I need to be able to erase. Other than that I like to use a gel pen. Love the smooth free unhampered feeling of ink. That and I hate it when the lead breaks!
Well that’s not a problem with me. Mine is always stocked with lead. I even bought extra case of lead to us in case I get low. I’ve been thinking of switching from a .07 to a .05 pencil lead. The .07 seems to be a bit overwhelming and causes errors that doesn’t leave to the problem being satisfied. I prefer accuracy over ’slam bam’ the .07 does. Someone suggested .02 lead to increase accuracy even more but that would just poke tinny holes in the project. The lead would break way to often and nothing would get accomplished. It’s best to apply a yen and yang balanced approach to the problem. So far the point O’ five seems to solve the problems every time and everyone is happy.
I saw your comment where Marina gave your secrete sign three times, what was your sign Bob? and congratz for getting yours. Mine was her twirling around. She may have turned around a couple of times , but no twirl.
You know it makes you wonder while Marina was at the UTube party all she ate was a lot of oysters. Now today’s video is on pencils or the etymology of pencils. Maybe she has to much lead in her vanilla ice cream.
Homework:
I can write my name in the snow!
Not with ink, but it’s often yellow…
Not with a pencil, not with a pen…
…but seriously…
I write with whatever’s handy
pencil, pen… chainsaw…
Che likes mechanical pencils when a pencil is needed, Che owns some excellent AT Cross pen/pencil sets. The mechanical pencil writes thin, this make writing look cleaner and neat.
Today Che rediscovered some small antique mechanical pencils that his mother carried in her purse.
Back in the day before PDA’s ladies would carry fancy gold/silver mechanical pencils.
Oh that was entertaining ending. Is Gorby working on his modeling career? If that doesn’t get the bitches barking at his door nothing will. I see his hair is getting longer. Looks good on him.
Nope. But I remember one time, as a kid, I tried peeing in a toilet with an erection. I had to stand back about 2 feet trying to make an accurate shot, and my mom caught me when I forgot to close the bathroom door. She was so angry at me for standing so far away from the toilet that I don’t think she even noticed my erection.
Dear совершенная Marina, I’m glad you’re back home safely from that YouTube event. You look so good in red short-shorts!
To answer your question, I use ball-point pens most of the time. My favorite type is the Papermate 98 retractible pen. I also have a Parker fountain pen, but seldom use it. I use mechanical pencils, because they’re more comfortable and less messy than wood pencils. I also had a nice set of drafting pens and instruments, but I gave them away because I now use computer-aided design (CAD).
t was nice to see your view of Gorby. Your dog really likes you and is interested in what you do. I also noticed you have nice, new background music in this video.
I look forward to receiving your new Calendar! I hope it will be soon!
Your dear student, seesixcm6
In the Navy all logs had to be kept in ink and I just got in the habit.
Now I even do crossword puzzles and sudokus in ink just to irritate people ( it usually works ).
I am somewhat surprised you didn’t include ‘pen’ in the analysis; I’m reasonably certain its very similar if not directly connected. I assume pens ( quill types ) came before pencils but I am not certain. Enquiring minds want to know
I write with a Pen, because pencil’s cannot be used at work. I am getting deja vu here, and I swear I talked about this on the deja vu video. Man…
I have an itching desire to use chalk on a chalk board though, and in school they are converting to markers on marker boards. Which is alright too…
I don’t write with pen or pencil and paper all that much really.
It is not surprising that something so phallic as a pencil would be similar to penis in origin, but actually having the same latin origin is actually quite fascinating.
I wonder what penis was in latin though? Phallus? Is that even latin? I want to learn latin, it’s one of my 5 year goals.
Funny thing. I used to a shelf full of 3rd place trophies and like three first place trophies and two second place. I was wondering why I was always getting 3rd place. I must have been missing that one thing, whatever that was. Damn! I wish I knew what it was. Though I was always proud to at least place well enough to get the darn thing. To me 3rd is like a respectable spot to be in. You never get accused of cheating at 3rd place. You don’t get looked at with a microscope. You do get to stand on the same podium as the first and 2nd place people do and get your picture taken. I like 3rd. Just wish 1st would happen a little bit more often.
Gorby is such a cutie!!!
i hate writing with pencils
Ooh! A typo! intersting
I write with mechanical pencils, ball point pens, and keyboards, in different contexts.
I write with a pen
Plz hold my penicl!
Would it be wrong for me to say that the penis is mighter than the sword?
Staedtler® Mars® Draft Technical Pencil Set is my favorite so far for a pencil.
The rollerball pens are nice for pens as long as you remember to put the cap back on them before sticking them in your shirt pocket. Nice solid unbroken lines. good for making copies of etc.
And there you have it. thanks for asking.
You can borrow my Pencil anytime.
Pencil=PENIS?!?!
Request: Where does the expression “cool as a cucumber” come from?
Thanks.
Jerry
Hi Marina,
Home work: I usually use a pen, but when I know I might make mistakes I use a pencil.
While watch your class, I was reminded of a scene from “The Rock”. An FBI agent was trying to get John Mason (Sean Connery – one of my favorite actors) to cooperate. The agent says at one point, “It would be nice to get out of prison… while you still have lead in your pencil.” I don’t know if they knew the origin of pencil, but I thought it interesting.
What about ‘Stool Pigeon’?
Why does this mean telling on someone or revealing a secret? What does a pigeon or a stool have to do with these things?
Is that what it means?
I thought it was someone who is used as a decoy in a sting.
Or worst yet… a pigeon making stool!
I was just going back through some old emails I received from Marina and found this funny statement. I just had to share with you all.
How could one not think of Marina running around with some kind of Nerf gun and shooting teacher’s pets. Maybe she feels a bit like shooting some of the
To think shooting them would bring them back. What she thinking here? heheheheh 
pestpets that hang around this site.*Sorry Marina. I had to poke some fun at your comment that I completely took out of contexts. It wont happen again. NOT!
Running like the wind!
With a turkey gravitar like that you better start running!!!
Hi Marina,
i was wondering where the word “gabber” got its origin. i know it comes fom the netherlands but i don’t have any idea how the word was born.
hello marina, what is the origin of the word convoluted?
I have a brand new video uploaded! Carl Edwards signing autographs I was wondering are there any NASCAR fans here?
I used to be. I was a huge Rusty fan. I got burned out from pro sports when baseball and football kep going on strike, and then basketball seemd like it was a bunch of thugs. NASCAR kept getting more high tech and commercial, so I just quit the whole thing.
I know what you mean! I miss the beating, banging, cussing, and fighting the way NASCAR used to be!
Oh I forgot. I’m a big Greg Biffle #16 fan and if I didn’t have a driver to root for, I would stop watching!
Im not currently a NASCAR TV fan. I rather be in the pits if im going to watch. TV just doesn’t do it for me any more. I miss the roar of the engines. That something TV can’t do. I was raised around those cars. My dad was a sports writer for the newspaper so I was with my dad many times when he had to get stories done. I had access to the whole track most any time. I would get car rides from time to time. What a thrill going 100mph! I even had a chance to get my own car and start racing. I passed it up because I was interested in computer programming at the time. Damn I should have taken it up. It would have been fun.
I agree it’s more fun being there!
I have never been in the infield during the race but, I get chills when the cars first fire up the engines and on the first green flag laps! Another thing you can’t get on TV are the smells! One time a car’s engine blew up right in front of us and I found out what burning oil smells like! So 
Look out for my man Mark Martin next year with the Hendrick organization! Class AND balls-that’s Martin.
What’s for lunch or tea time?
Mtn. Dew
lot of caffeine in a can of Mt. Dew
Yes, I know. Somehow I got a little too much blood in my caffeine system.
Hi Marina,how are you.I would like to know how you came up with “hotforwords” as your site name.Is it because you have been referred to as “too hot for words” or is it simply you are hot for or in love with the meaning and origin of words.I think you are great,funny,very smart and I wish much success.
I hope you ignore the stupid comments posted on youtube because I find similar comments for just about every vid.(your vids. and others) posted there.People apparently have nothing better to do on this internet.Good luck, thetigtig
Hello thetigtig,
Marina briefly describes why she is hot for words in this video @1:04, meaning she is passionate and excited about words, and as you had already mentioned; “…hot for or in love with the meaning and origin of words.”
country plz i want to know its origin
Gorby’s a Ham?
AARRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH Youtube has gone all widescreen. As soon as someone works out how to make videos widescreen can you let me know?
Dang if they didn’t. Now everyone that uploads a video will have to change to the wide screen format or stay the way they are.
I have a solution. Why don’t they just have it so it automatically adjusts to the video.
Your camera has to have the 16×9 wide screen setting and usually associated with HD, even though the term HD by itself is meaningless. When you process your videos, you also have to render the video to 16×9 wide screen format.
For video enthusiasts, this is no surprise as many other web sites have already had 16×9 and YT made a conscious decision to delay the entry of new technologies until now. The buzz about this has been going on since late last year and earlier this year.
Marina on the last video you mentioned about the email adresses. Well I used bugmenot but I have just noticed they have closed down. If I ever sign up for anything now I will just use http://dodgeit.com/ Just sign up with whatever you want (eg marinathehotphiloligst@dodgeit.com ) then tyoe it on on the webisite and any junk will go there too.
James how about your comment replies from here, do they go to your inbox of your email?
if u signed up to hfw.com with a fake adress then all reply mail would go the fake adress
If you are worried about disclosing a primary E-mail address when signing up to a site, you can do what I do. I set up a secondary account, let’s call it goat.com. Then I set the preferences in the secondary to forward everything to my primary. Should a ton of spam start hitting the secondary, I can cut it loose and cancel the forwarding. If desired, I can then create a replacement and update the sites with it.
You could set up a secondary for each site you join, but if they’re like Hotmail, you’d have to log in to each one at least once a month to keep them from being cancelled, a major bother.
Marina! I also asked for pencil. No worries though.
I thought you were going to say
“for your homework. Do you have a penis? If you know the answer write it in the comments below
!
XX
that is funny
that is very funny
it’s vulgair..
Oh that would have been funny. I was thinking the same thing! Can you imagine the comments that would produce?
I like to use
mya pencil for math calculations, but I must have a Pentel hi-polyer eraser* in the other hand for clean erasures. The erasers on the tips of pencils are too messy and tear the paper. Give it a try. Ooooh, so nice and clean.* (The eraser is about 1″x2-1/2″ – white polymer. Other brands will work as well.)
Hi Marina,
I have a word request. Where did the word MEZZANINE come from.
Thanks,
Ken
Marina,
Where did this expression come from?
Living “high on the hog”
Do people who live high on the hog all own Harley-Davidsons?
Funny you ask… I wondered about that too… given that HOG is short for Harley-davison Owners Group (for those who didn’t know)
Yeah, I have always wondered that also. My grandmother used to say that all the time. I always thought it was pigs were fed the best scraps. Grandma always cooked more food than we could eat just so there would be extra for the pigs and chickens.
I’ll guess it means the hog was just butchered and instead of saving some of the meat the person chowed it all down without a thought for the future,AKA,lived high on the hog.Perhaps too high.
Not sure where it comes from but without doing any research on the subject it may have something with the best (most expensive) cut of pork is up high on the pig, like the sirloin.
So when you live high on the hog you living the good life because you got money.
We were an Air Force family, and so didn’t have much money. I remember one treat my mom would get every once in a while. It was pickled pig’s feet. I guess, by definition, that would be living low on the hog.
Hi Marina i have a word request, what is the origin of the word: folks
P.S you ar very beautiful
I am always marking sluts with my pencil
I have a question for you, Marina; Where does the phrase “Beat the Band” come from?
ПРИВЕТ
regards
привет!!!
Well I did, but now I am sure I will never put one of those things in my hand again. Thanks for the tip…..I mean advise.
Good Grief, this is becoming complicated.
russianboy
TongueTwislers
what is TongueTwislers?
That’s when you’re tongue gets so twisted it comes out “twisler.”
Do you want to see the battle: Pen VS Pencil
I bet you meant this non-malformed link…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM1J22s5sCQ
thank you very much for correction)) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM1J22s5sCQ this link is better
That’s a cute one you can show the little ones. When the marker says “Curses!”, did you mentally add, “Foiled again?”
Hi russianboy
How do you create your links?
Looks like there is a bug in the “THIS IS A LINK” example in the html practice area. If you copy/paste from the example, you will have a mal-formed link with a ” stuck on the end. The example in the practice area has incorrect double quotes enclosing the link.
That mechanical pencil was predictable.
HOWEWORK
Hello Marina! Of course i use pencil, because it is more comfortable i think. But pen is more popular..
By the way, do you know that Russians cosmonauts use only a pencil in space, while American cosmonauts use a Special Space Pen!!!
And, of course you really meant this link, no?
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/s/spacepen.htm
Ahem …
Astronaut
i don’t know what happens with this links
Hi russianboy, my guess is that you either pasted your link to the left of the two double quotes, or you only used one double quote.
Hover your cursor over your links above and look at the status bar. Notice that you have one single double quote at the end of your link.
For the example, I am using square brackets instead of angle brackets so you can see what I mean. I’ve also added extra spaces for easier viewing.
The is the link template: [ a href = " " ] Some text [/a]
What you want is. [ a href = "http://myurl.com" ] …
Possible error #1: inserted link to left of the two quotes.
[ a href = http://myurl.com" " ]
Possbile error #2: missing quote before http:
[ a href = http://myurl.com" ]
Hope that helps.
My GOD!! pedantickarl thank you for your great work man!! I don’t have words!! I am touched!
When something doesn’t work (and you know what it must look like), you can examine it to see your mistake. Just right-click in a blank area (not in a photo) and choose View Source. This shows the HTML text for the entire page. Then type [Ctrl-F] to bring up the find box, type in a word or two that is unique to your work (in this case “space pen” would be good) and click Next (or press [Enter]). The search words will be highlighted, showing where your work is on the very large page. Then study it.
Too bad that after you see what is wrong, there is no way to fix it. Homeland Security took the Edit button away for fear we might alter our passports, print fake currancy or something else just as terrible.
BTW, what went wrong with the link is that you omitted “http”. Without that, the server doesn’t know it’s a Web request, so it returns an error.
Homework
Back when I was in grade school I used pencils. Now I use ballpoint pens.
Dear Marina,
My favorite pencil, by far, is the Movado Black Warrior (preferably with #1 soft lead). It’s a solid round pencil made from cedar with a waxed core, a shiny black cylindrical shaft, a brass ferrule and a pink pearl eraser. It leaves a smooth dark line. Even better, it’s made in the good old U.S.A. (Tennessee, I believe).
The video homage to adorable Gorby was a treat. Thanks!
Q
I Use a Fountain pen ? Why Fountain I Wonder? Can I Request that word Teacher?
If you quickly pull the lever that is used to refill the pen, the ink will come out like water out of a fountain. Since that is the last thing you would want to do with it, I don’t know why they chose that name.
I generally only use pencils when I am (trying) doing math stuff. For note taking, I almost always use gel pens. I like either purple or orange, so they show up more distinctly from the text. I keep a blue and black handy, just in case I need to look official-like.
I’m Back !
! Bwaahaahaa 
WELCOME BACK!!! MUHAHA!!!
As Che Volay commented below, YouTube is now in wide screen.
Marina, you can now encode your videos in 16×9 format.
Now we can have you and any graphics on the screen at the same time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ic8j90p0I8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2de9f8H5R9U
hmmm…i suspect we’ll hear a lot of “tall tails”[sic] ’cause of this one…
but i write mostly with pen or just electronically these days…i do love a good pencil, though, and carry ‘em in my ref kit because the young ‘uns keeping score at volleyball matches need to be able to correct errors…
since Gorby was in the vid, i have a “stupid dog” story: my husky, Illa, like all huskies, is a digger…i caught her burying some bones the other day – but they were not real bones, they were dogfood bones…i don’t think they’ll be there when she goes to get ‘em back…
it means tail huh… So when guys say they want some tail… haha Thanks for giving me the knowledge to make a good gay joke at the expense of some guy should the opportunity arrive.
i can has calender?
i want to has too
ja we can both has
i can has own CC
sorry you can not has
oh…now if misscupcake put out a calendar…
yummy!…
LOL
misscupcakes calender would have pictures of cupcakes and cookies and candy and….. possibly… some IKEA furniture
misscupcakes would has sales not.
oh, i think that would make a very tasty calendar, misscupcake – and i’m also glad to see you here a bit more frequently (which is an odd-looking word, now that i look at it)…
but you are a cutie, no matter how many times you disclaim it…
It depends, but I use a liquid roller ball pen at work if available. When I am drawing I prefer using a pencil. Of course holding one now is going to give me pause.
hey marina, over the weekend my beloved cat didi got sick
i found a tick on him and removed it, but it was a ‘paralysis tick’ so didi was starting to become paralysed so i had to take didi to the vet and they gavehim some injections and he is still in the hospital until tomorrow
so, i was wondering, where did the word ‘tick’ come from?
because we use it as… a way of marking something as done or completed or correct. but there is a parasite known as a tick also!
(and omg they are so freakin ugly)
AND PLS NO-ONE ELSE ANSWER COS I WANT MARINA TO TELL ME COS SHE IS MY TEACHER, NO-ONE ELSE !!@21111!!!1!!
or maybe aLx.
this is not an answer.
Bob BEAMed from ear to ear
way down there below:
“Yippee! I got my secret sign at least three times.”
The magic sign was:
“…taking your eyes off the camera and
glancing off to her left :-> Bob”
Indeed Bob, she did give you the secret sign.
: thumb’s up :
Oooh! Oooh! I want to not answer, too! So here is my feline non-answer:
Last Thursday I visited my two cats in my workshop to feed, water, brush and pet them. I had to keep them there, because one, a HUGH calico, had some kind of hip problem and couldn’t (or didn’t want to) get around, say to actually get in the litter box. Her name was Her Royal Majesty, because she reminded me of the queen in Alice in Wonderland. She like to have her head scratched and her belly rubbed so much, that if I did both at the same time, her purring started to sound like slobbering.
I lifted her into my lap and started brushing her (she can’t clean herself below the neck). She started panting heavy breaths, so I paid close attention in case it was a precursor to coughing up a furball. She wanted off and quickly started climbing down before I could lift her down; she almost fell on the floor, where the panting eventually went away. I had never seen this before. The next day I found her dead.
I still have Sweetie Pie, who is a normal, active cat and I give her extra petting in case she misses her friend. Sweetie Pie uses the litter box, so I could take her home if I choose. I found both of them on a very rainy day three years ago abandoned in a soggy box next to the Dumpster at my office. So, it was raining cats that day; no dogs.
I use both a pen and a pencil. The pencil is used for things like filling out crossword puzzles.
room for error is good
http://twitpic.com/nwij
Do you like my candles?
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761557663/Solar_System.html
Do you like my planets?
“My Planets”?
-
The “second coming” is a month earlier then expected.
I have no use for artificial sweetners.
November 25th,
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=taucQyUO3cY
Awwwww. Gorby the model. And all in one take, too. What a pro.
The music choice was impeccable.
i only use pencils at IKEA
what about the word ‘fetch’ ?
i mean, we know what it means. especially when used with a dog.
‘FETCH!!!!!’
i occasionally use it in everyday conversation, but it feels like an ‘olden day’ word.
so where did it come from and who decided to use it with dogs but not with anyone or anything else ?
There are several meaning of fetch. It is also a common CPU command that retrieves data from memory for immediate use. If data is retrieved well ahead of it’s anticipated use (to save time), it is a prefetch.
Sometimes dogs prefetch and bring the ball to you before you command it. They do this to earn brownie points.
thanks but, i want marina to tell me in her sexy voice, where the word originated from
dont tell her i said that
{Marina in a sexy voice}
There are several meaning of fetch. It is also a common CPU command that retrieves data from memory for immediate use. If data is retrieved well ahead of it’s anticipated use (to save time), it is a prefetch.
Sometimes dogs prefetch and bring the ball to you before you command it. They do this to earn brownie points.
Okay but then why the saying “far fetched?” You know saying that several times fast after just waking up becomes a tongue twister. Blah, tired!!
Hey! Don’t keep tacking on words, now. Next you’ll ask about “mayonnaise far fetched.”
misscupcake IT will be a secret!!^_^
i couldnt ‘reply’ to your comment below so i thought id reply here so you’d get an email from the site letting you know about my reply
i would like to know the translation for that russian song, yes
thanks if you can do it! 
So I vainly thought
That I shall receive everything, that I want
Day and night in the dreams
I Flied in clouds
Me and you on stars we go
Our love and only we together
You bear me on hands
And I am already in clouds
And I all flied
But I knew
That dreams only a little
For love la-la-la
And I all flied
But I knew
That dreams only a little a little la-la
La-la la-la la-la
As always in clouds
I float you
Have thawn in them and has left one
Know, remember as were with you
Ours store love
Without you as without the sky the moon
Night so is dark, and I is cold
But do not think,
I do not long
So I want
And I all flied
But I knew
That dreams only a little
For love la-la-la
And I all flied
But I knew
That dreams only a little a little La-la
All flied And knew
All flied La-la-la-la
All flied And knew
All flied la-la-la-la
And I all flied
But I and knew
That dreams only a little
For love la-la-la
And I all flied
But I and knew
That dreams only a little a little
And I all flied
But I and knew
That dreams only a little
For love la-la-la
And I all flied
But I and knew
That dreams only a little a little la-la
MCC, Ok Im going to put in my vote for ‘Fetch’.
I did a quick search in the etymology dictionary and found there might be some interesting facts about the word ‘Fetching’ use as crafty, scheming. Let’s see if we can get M to make a lesson on the word. 
Is she asking which came first the pencil or the pen?
Where did the idea of placing a rod of graphit in a hollow tube come from?
http://tinyurl.com/5ff8lr
shrug. maybe they got sick of plucking feathers from poor birds to use with ink wells.
and maybe they realised graphite is better cos you can erase it
and hey, why do we call them ‘lead’ pencils when really, they contain graphite
The concept of using graphite as a marking tool was a good bit older than the history indicated in koalabear’s note.
Cave dwellers used charcoal from fires to draw on cave walls .
That company just found a convenient way to package the idea.
Great lesson Marina. Always had this nagging suspicion that pencil and pen had something to do with penis…
When it comes to writing tools, I’ll use whatever suits a given purpose best or whatever that’s available. Use the best tool for the job, but when unavailable, use whatever’s available to get the job done.
Gorby’s really cute, like it’s (someone please confirm if it’s male or female, though I’m guessing it’s male at the moment) master.
“I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.” – e e cummings 1894-1962
How true this is today….
I am tempted to say that my wife is living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be divorced, but luckily my wife is from Thailand so we are Siamese twins – we’re joined at the wallet.
I think my income has moved interstate.
just found a YT channel with Russian pop music Blestyashie: A ya vce letala
misscupcake thanks you very much
do you want to know the translation of the song?
Yes Marina, my “little tail” would like to get some “tail”.
Hello, dear teacher!
Could you tell me the origin of the word “platonic”?
Is it related to Plato?
YouTube now in wide screen
Yay! Now Marina can show us her profile.
Whatever is handy on my cluttered desk.
Beyond writing little notes to myself, I rarely write anything anymore, but when I do I use a pen. I am left handed, and a pen is just neater. Pencils tend to smear when I use them as my hands drags across the paper.
During the space race, NASA spent millions of dollars developing a pen that would work in zero gravity. A normal pen just will not work in space. The Russians just used a pencil.
I usually write with a pen.
I was wondering if you could be so kind as to inform me of the origin of the phrase “fashionably late”. Thank you Marina.
I usually write with a penis…er…um… pencil.
I am using a Pelikan Fountain Pen when I write post cards, letters, etc.
We had to use fountain pens only in school. My handwriting is absoultely 99% better when i use it. Otherwise I like micropens and many others!
Crayons.
About the clip at the end with the guitar solo and Kobe the dog.
Ha-haw….that’s okay, we don’t need to see Kobe’s pencil.
***WORD REQUEST***
Milaya Marina,
Since you ended the video with a guitar solo, what is the origin of “dobro guitar”? The word looks suspiciously like “dobroi” as in “utro”. Any connection?
Evan
it is a russian or english expression?
“Dobro guitar” is an English expression for a special kind of guitar. But the “dobro” may be of Slavic origin.
“Dobroi utro”: I’m trying to write “good morning” without Cyrillic letters.
I like the quote of the day
seems to fit alot of people now days
Pen or pencil. Whichever is handy. But to be more specific, I am partial to mechanical pencils or gel pens. Take from that what you want.
Dear Marina,
What is the origin and correct pronunciation of the word “bruschetta”?
Thanks, Jim
WTF was that action?! Showing a primarily male audience/class Your dog’s dick?! LOL! I suppose it could be deemed a “learning aid” to accompany the penis referances in today’s lesson
To see You in a collar was ok but to see Your roommate’s pecker was a waste of bandwidth IMO,,kind of reminds Me of the immortal words of Dr Hook “Ohhhh Goldie,how could You do dis ting to Me?!”.
I write with whatever is handy pretty-much like the rest of the world,unless of course,I’m too busy with changing My outlook on life.I’m due for that
I think it’s because females think penises are “cute,” especially their very own little dog’s, whereas we guys mentally fit them in to the “mighty weapon” category. It’s a Venus/Mars sort of thing.
I dated a Venution Wench,,Her desctirption of My penis was “Oooooowwwch” then “aaahhhhhh” then “stay for the whole night Earthman!” as she had more uses for it.
One time,doing Her missionary style,She came so hard Her face twisted up and becam very red just before She came screaming and pooped on the carpet! LOL,I made Her clean it up of course,I did clean My own balls tho.She said “never agin with You” but 15 minutes later She said “Hoooonnnneeeyyyy”.
Batteries not included revisited
may be a time limit on this link, let’s experiment
I’ve gone in past lessons and find that sometimes the link doesn’t work anymore.
Nice link
does looks a bit like Marina
Change the hair to blond and use a bit smaller mouth (or at least close it) and I think it’s there. The bod’s definitely right.
Marina is better! I don’t know how to say it in English: она намного лучше! Sorry
I enjoyed watching that movie when I was a kid.
Hey, is there a Hotforwords addiction support group? I just killed another hour watching her videos and reading associated comments.
You’re in it.
{All in unison.} “Hi, Evan.”
The first stage of rehabilitation is to define the problem.
Evan, tell us why you’re here.
Oh I see you got the bug too. It’s been over a year now for me. I started out just causally watching her lessons on YouTube. Then I visited her site about 6 months later. Now I’m a freaking TA. Ya think I’m a bit over addicted? Well its not all bad. Im learning a lot. Not only from the video lessons but the people who commenting here. So as long as your learning something new every day I guess it’s a healthy addiction.
OK, I just discovered that my AA group is a drinking club.
Cheers!
Speaking of addicts, what happened to Mijj?
He seems to have moved over to Twitter.
Answer to the homework: I don’t use pens much anymore because they smudge for me (I’m left-handed).
I am also left handed and find this problem as well. lol
I have the same problem with erasable pens. I always end up with more ink on my hands than the paper!
I as well. That is one of the only negative aspects for being a “southpaw”! lol
My dad turns his paper sideways and writes from down to up. The ink dries before he gets to the 3 sentence. It wouldn’t be so bad if one could write and read sentences right to left.
I wonder if that’s why the Chinese write in vertical columns?
Nah! they wouldn’t have a problem using a calligraphy brush.
Yeah I confuse myself writing forward, I can’t imagine doing it backwards. I don’t think anything would make sense at that point!
I’ve heard of people who can allegedly write both, left to right with the right hand and right to left with the left hand, and even do both simultaneously.
Now that would be confusing.
speaking of which where does the word: Demon come from? =o
ahh! o.o lol its prounouced Korean Demon O.O
its my nick name: D Min o.o lol hehe ^__^ but ty!!! ^__^ now i know where the word pencil comes from… O_O
Hey Marina, Dr. of Russian philology,
Is the “instrumental case” what you carry your guitar in?
Ya pishu s karandashom
Evan Owen
(’cause I forget the instrumental case ending for “piro”)
Piro sounds like Biro.
are you russian?
No, although I do have Russian friends, one of which I worked for for a year in the countertop and flooring biz. The business went bad here in Sacramento, so they closed it and opened a store in Portland. I’m in the old office now and E-mail their bills to them, do research, etc. BUT THERE’S NO BUSINESS DONE HERE. THERE’S NO NEXUS. DID YOU HEAR THAT, CALIFORNIA STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION AND STATE FRANCHISE TAX BOARD? NO BUSINESS AT ALL! Gotta keep things straight around here. The gummint is always after your money.
OK, so “piro” is of Hungarian origin and “karandash” was originally caran d’ache from French. Sounds like Russian etymology is just as convoluted as English!
Alrite teach!
i have a word and the word is…. Televison.
have a good day/night wherever u are
IamNOTaFish (i seriously aint)
Teach, I have a phrase request actually. My hubby’s Grandmother tonight said “Easy as pudding” which I assume is a vary of “easy as pie” (simple, second nature kind of thing). Why do we use this term? My YouTube screenname is Grimmistress666 in case you needed to know!!
Marina I have a word request= Floosie
Marina I have a word request= hussy
Marina i meant to say word request definition=hussy and Floosy
is that the same as BITCH?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGBQQI-v_08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43Qm5H_8wL0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnKfvwsM21o
what do you want to say with these links?
Kto znaet?
Ceci n’est pas une pipe. Tuyau peut-être? Can you rollback the word “pipe” to its origins?
Personally, I don’t think intelligence is sexy at all. Beauty is sexy. Not intelligence.
Batteries not included
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_q6TxLGfMLQU/SDmlnqrMlzI/AAAAAAAAAJY/iHvZNmvh1ds/schoolgirl-cartoon-pinup.gif
I tested it right after I posted it worked now it doesn’t, go figure
It still doesn’t work Che.
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_q6TxLGfMLQU/SDmlnqrMlzI/AAAAAAAAAJY/iHvZNmvh1ds/schoolgirl-cartoon-pinup.gif
.
how did you know picture I was doing
It’s a girl riding a giant pencil try this
now this one just worked I copied the URL from the address bar instead of right clicking and copy location, maybe if you enlarge it there is a short life span to it, go figure.
It works now for some reason. If she was blond she would remind of you of M.
Didn’t function as required to view the .gif
unless the .gif was a bunch of little lines chasing it’s selves around in a circle.
Oh your link just worked for me this time
404 not found?
I think the problem may be that Google has arranged things so that the image is made available only if you come through the front door, i.e. the server will not provide the image to any other system but Google’s. If you try to link to the pix directly from a foreign system (like HFW), it fails.
That’s my theory and I’m stickin’ to it.
I like the feel of a pencil. And no, I am not a chronic masturbater.
Just not chronic, but still a master of the baiter
I knew there was no way to make that comment safely…
Are you sure it has nothing to do with the origin, marina?
Anyway, I noticed that you claim intelligence is sexy, and I agree, but while thinking that I was reminded that you’ve yet to do the origin of sexy. Wouldn’t that be interesting?
http://www.cross.com/catalog/pendetail.aspx?cat_name=Classic+Century+Pens&id=2802
my favorite pen thought they keep disapearing because everyone will steal them if they get the chance.
I rarely do much with a pencil except on scratch pads for writing down ideas that i want to work on later.
I like for the name not their elegance.
http://www.cross.com/catalog/pendetail.aspx?cat_na me=Classic+Century+Pens&id=2802
I like for the name not their elegance.
http://www.cross.com/catalog/pendetail.aspx?cat_na me=Classic+Century+Pens&id=2802
See someone already stole that link in a simple copy and paste
http://www.cross.com/catalog/pendetail.aspx?cat_na me=Classic+Century+Pens&id=2802
I like for the name not their elegance.
http://www.cross.com/catalog/pendetail.aspx?cat_name=Classic+Century+Pens&id=2802
See someone already stole that link in a simple copy and paste
Twice
I like for the name not their elegance.
John is getting crosser and crosser.
Perhaps he’s talking at cross purposes?
Pencil is probably my first choice. especially when you just want to doodle, the pencils seem more refined. pens are too sharp, and markers just bleed through the page.
I got a few suggestions for future lessons: where does the phrase an eye for an eye come from? how about the word etymology? and what of the verb to “own” someone?
An eye for an eye was a saying quoted from Exodus (in the Bible). Earliest relation might be from the Code of Hammurabi, which was a form of law enforcement when if you caused harm to someone’s eye they would take yours in return. It works for all parts of the body. Eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. That is the basis of the Code of Hammurabi.
I prefer a pen, doesnt smudge like a pencil. dont write much anymore. How far would i have to go, I mean what would i have to do to get close to Marina? wow that kinda sounds a little stalkery huh?
i prefer using pencils for writing coz it can be erased . Room for error
Room for error is always a great thing!! I just wish pencils didn’t smudge as much! >.< But then again, I am left handed!
Some ball point pens use an ink that remains eraseable for a time. When allowed to age, the ink becomes as permanant as that of an ordinary ball point pen.
yes , but its quite uncommon . I dont find many in shops
pleaz
I WANT TO HEAR HOW devil came about
The origins of some words
cannot be determined, ok?
An example is the word dog
(guff guff)
It’s an acronym:
Dame
Orlova’s
Gorby.
Needledick!
This lesson has reminded me of an old joke:
“Is that a pencil in your pocket?”
Or are you just happy to see me?
Mae West. But I think she said “pickle.”
She said pistol. It was to a policeman assigned to escort her home from the L.A. train station. But mouse is commonly used.
“Is that a mouse in your pocket or is that some other cursor-poitioning device?”
Gorby really is precious. Look at his eyes looking at Marina. I swear, you can see his love for her in those eyes!
Yeah, what’s so special about that? My eyes do the same thing.
He’s probably channelling her fan club!
Hey Marina,
Love what you do, I’ve learned a lot!
I was wondering if you could help me find where the phrase “riding shotgun” came from.
Seems to me like just riding in the passenger’s seat!
Good luck and have fun!
I always liked the word scrumptious. Tell me about scrumptious. Where is it’s origin? What does it mean? How would I use it in a sentence? Scrumptious
Google has done it again. M teaches about pencils and Google puts up pen adds. It’s a good thing it wasn’t penis adds
I like the “click a box below” thing at the beginning, but wouldn’t it be better at the end? Allowing you to link into other videos after you watch the first one?
I agree! I was kind of confused with it at the beginning.
Hey Marina!!!
It’s the Hoodster!
I have a word request…and the word is “Mannequin.” Now that it is almost the holiday season, mannequins are everywhere displaying clothes in department stores or at malls. But why is a mannequin called a mannequin. I mean, not all MANnequins are men. Some are obviously woman.
So that’s my word request!
Thanks for EVERYTHING!!!
Heehee I never thought of it that way. As I see it more mannequins are woman based than anything. It’s a great question, can’t wait for the answer!
MAN is the name of our species, so all women are also men.
They’re called women because they cause us so much woe.
Um, do we really cause you men so many woes?
No, but we like to go for the sympathy.
Well! I thought I was being funny when I wrote, “The penis mightier than the sword.” Just goes to prove that there’s many a true word spoken in jest.
Does he have a girlfriend yet?
I rarely use a pencil these days, more often a ball-point pen (whatever I find lying around as they are so cheap that people don’t take care to keep them), but usually I use a plastic stylus on the touch sensitive screen of my PDA.
Gorby is still living the life of Reilley and is obviously as happy as a dog with two tails
This is my happy Dog Bob.
No doggie picture there Mike, just a little white line twirling around. Maybe it’s Marina giving you a belated secret signal.
How did the term you smell or that smells came to mean that smells bad. why did we drop the bad and just say that something smells.
At a party, a lady guest said to Samual Johnson, the 18th-century lexicographer, “Dr. Johnson, you smell.” He replied, “No madame, you smell, I stink.
OK, get ready to practice for a possible future episode on the word origin of; eraser. I presume the question will be; Erase or strike out as in
strike outWord Request: eraser, erasure, expunge
Funny looking different forms of words with similar meanings.
Klaus, don’t forget that in the UK an eraser is called “a rubber” as befits it’s position on the end of a pencil.
Good one Bob
in the US a rubber means something else
Rubber got it’s name from being able to rub out pencil marks.
BTW, dead squarepants = expunge.
homework: pens
request: yellow as in cowardly
Good REQUEST tayljim. I have wondered that myself.
I think Marina was alluding to the expression, “Git me some tail”. Phewwwww!!!!, glad I never used that expression.
“Git me some tail” ain’t gonna happen in it,s current version
Marina, loved Gorby at the end with great winding down music. Loved Gorby playing peek a boo. Just beautiful…
Yeah, and we got to see Gorby’s pencil.
I used to be a #2 pencil guy for many years, aaaaaaannnd, since I used to make mistakes, it had an eraser at the end. Now, I bet you guessed,
I no longer mkae mistaekes, so I write with a pen – with no eraser, even. 
Now, that’s what I call confidence. Ohhhh, yeah, and we don’t need no edit button either. 
Homework: In my line of work I use pencils daily. I prefer ink. It seems to flow better.
But I make so many mistakes you just can erase ink very well, go figure. My penmanship sucks. I write on the white board daily and im very conscience of how my penmanship looks. 
Im slowly replacing writing on the board with over transparencies that I make on the computer. Later I’ll have it all put on Keynote presentation. My transparencies will be the back up in case something fails.
That and I hate it when the lead breaks! 
In charting, we have to use mechanical pencils because we need to draw consistent thickness lines and have to erase our work to redraw. I use pencils when ever I need to be able to erase. Other than that I like to use a gel pen. Love the smooth free unhampered feeling of ink.
It’s even worse when you have no lead in your pencil, Jack.
Well that’s not a problem with me. Mine is always stocked with lead. I even bought extra case of lead to us in case I get low. I’ve been thinking of switching from a .07 to a .05 pencil lead. The .07 seems to be a bit overwhelming and causes errors that doesn’t leave to the problem being satisfied. I prefer accuracy over ’slam bam’ the .07 does. Someone suggested .02 lead to increase accuracy even more but that would just poke tinny holes in the project. The lead would break way to often and nothing would get accomplished. It’s best to apply a yen and yang balanced approach to the problem. So far the point O’ five seems to solve the problems every time and everyone is happy.
I saw your comment where Marina gave your secrete sign three times, what was your sign Bob? and congratz for getting yours. Mine was her twirling around. She may have turned around a couple of times , but no twirl.
You know it makes you wonder while Marina was at the UTube party all she ate was a lot of oysters. Now today’s video is on pencils or the etymology of pencils. Maybe she has to much lead in her vanilla ice cream.
yesterdays lesson was the affect of all them oysters
Sorry Capman, I can’t reveal my secret sign – it’s a secret.
Hey, I just remembered that Katy Perry wasn’t the first to kiss a girl.
i want to now where double agent came from or whats its origin.
Homework:
I can write my name in the snow!
Not with ink, but it’s often yellow…
Not with a pencil, not with a pen…
…but seriously…
I write with whatever’s handy
pencil, pen… chainsaw…
what do you write on with a chainsaw ?
Plywood, of course!
I’ll bet you don’t do much underlining.
Che likes mechanical pencils when a pencil is needed, Che owns some excellent AT Cross pen/pencil sets. The mechanical pencil writes thin, this make writing look cleaner and neat.
Today Che rediscovered some small antique mechanical pencils that his mother carried in her purse.
Back in the day before PDA’s ladies would carry fancy gold/silver mechanical pencils.
i like mechanical pencils too . The ones from Pilot does well
Oh that was entertaining ending. Is Gorby working on his modeling career? If that doesn’t get the bitches barking at his door nothing will. I see his hair is getting longer. Looks good on him.
Writing with a penis.
Have u ever written your name in the snow?
Nope. But I remember one time, as a kid, I tried peeing in a toilet with an erection. I had to stand back about 2 feet trying to make an accurate shot, and my mom caught me when I forgot to close the bathroom door. She was so angry at me for standing so far away from the toilet that I don’t think she even noticed my erection.
My pen is stuck in the printer, dang.
Dear совершенная Marina, I’m glad you’re back home safely from that YouTube event. You look so good in red short-shorts!
To answer your question, I use ball-point pens most of the time. My favorite type is the Papermate 98 retractible pen. I also have a Parker fountain pen, but seldom use it. I use mechanical pencils, because they’re more comfortable and less messy than wood pencils. I also had a nice set of drafting pens and instruments, but I gave them away because I now use computer-aided design (CAD).
t was nice to see your view of Gorby. Your dog really likes you and is interested in what you do. I also noticed you have nice, new background music in this video.
I look forward to receiving your new Calendar! I hope it will be soon!
Your dear student, seesixcm6
The Video of us at Youtube Live is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIDcL-CNwnA
Sean, thank you for sharing that video. Marina was adorable.
Yippee! I got my secret sign at least three times.
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I cannot get that vid to load. Hmm…
Marina It was AMAZING Meeting You at Youtube Live! You are So Smart and Gorgeous in Person! I LOVE YOU!
Hope You Do My Word Request for the word “Matrix”!
Hope to see you at the Next Gathering!
I use a pen, because the pencil tends to fade or smudge alot
In school I always used pencil.
In the Navy all logs had to be kept in ink and I just got in the habit.
Now I even do crossword puzzles and sudokus in ink just to irritate people ( it usually works ).
I am somewhat surprised you didn’t include ‘pen’ in the analysis; I’m reasonably certain its very similar if not directly connected. I assume pens ( quill types ) came before pencils but I am not certain. Enquiring minds want to know
HOMEWORK: I usually write with both pen and pencil.
I write and draw with pens and markers… pencils rarely.
I write with a ball point pen.
Eric M
Hey that was quick. or I am slow.
I use both pen or a pencil. But mostly now I use a word program to do my writing or typing.
Surprise me, I wasn’t even paying attention.
you are slow))
5….. The number of times Marina has mentioned the word “penis.”
Dear Miss Orlova,
I write with a Pen, because pencil’s cannot be used at work. I am getting deja vu here, and I swear I talked about this on the deja vu video. Man…
I have an itching desire to use chalk on a chalk board though, and in school they are converting to markers on marker boards. Which is alright too…
I don’t write with pen or pencil and paper all that much really.
It is not surprising that something so phallic as a pencil would be similar to penis in origin, but actually having the same latin origin is actually quite fascinating.
I wonder what penis was in latin though? Phallus? Is that even latin? I want to learn latin, it’s one of my 5 year goals.
Your Student,
ThoughtOnFire
PS Awwwww…that ending made me want to pet him….
After some thought I don’t like pens. I don’t even like pencils…
I’d rather just say what I want to say with my voice.
“The pen is mightier than the Words.”
But then, that would be where men got two heads to think with…isn’t it? =
Of course,
Using sticks to write in the dirt has always been my thing.
I josh I josh.
I really always want the power that artists have with creating art.
Nice work thoughtonfire you wrote a very big comment!!
whats the origin of the word sex?
i always wanted to know:)
hey,
just heard another term on the news…”flim-flam” which I think means to speak a bunch of nonsense, or double talk.
any clues to its origin?
hi
ПРИВЕТ
Privyet!
http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=fUhSLvTJvwA&feature=PlayList&p=8C40417C3898F94F&index=1
3rd.
Funny thing. I used to a shelf full of 3rd place trophies and like three first place trophies and two second place. I was wondering why I was always getting 3rd place. I must have been missing that one thing, whatever that was. Damn! I wish I knew what it was. Though I was always proud to at least place well enough to get the darn thing. To me 3rd is like a respectable spot to be in. You never get accused of cheating at 3rd place. You don’t get looked at with a microscope. You do get to stand on the same podium as the first and 2nd place people do and get your picture taken. I like 3rd. Just wish 1st would happen a little bit more often.
2nd
Hooo… I’m getting a little faster.
(And no, I’m not calling anyone a ‘ho’)
yo
saw Gorby’s pencil, now when I see a girl chew on her pencil I going to wonder…..
That’s interesting…. a gnawing desire….
Lucky me, didn’t know this lesson was coming, just finished watching a TV show on Hulu