Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.” – Henry Ford 1863-1947
Old man Ford was quite a character he let his grandson (whom had been made president of Ford Motor Co.) build a coke processing plant( for steel processing) then he had the workmen tear it down just to show his grandson He was still the boss(?)
Watched this vid. the other day & first thing I thought was “she looks very uncomfortable”… WERE YOU??
You look good in the wide screen & found a way to use it all, but I squirmed the whole lesson & of course, had to view it more than once to get the points straight in me ‘ead. I know you’ve got some modeling experience… guess what, now I do too… is it allways an awkward & stilted proccess to get a good image?
Had the local newspaper’s photogtapher come to the shop to get a “snap” for the front page of the “B” section & he spent over an hour taking my picture in different poses & various angles, none of which were natural or comfortable. Turns out, it was all about the angle of reflection, of the light that was hitting the coin I was holding. Anyways, all was good, in the long run, it turned out to be free advertising. People are stiil coming up to me, calling me a celebrity ‘n all. Gives me chuckle.
You look so beautiful in this video! I have a Batchelor’s degree. I would have liked to have continued for a Master’s degree, but the Army had other plans for me.
Your dear student, seesixcm6
Don’t worry, i was drafted too, but after that did both Bachelor and Master.
You Already have your Bachelor, you just got to want it hard enough, if you do, you can do it too.
Right now, I have a BS in history. I am working on getting my Master’s in history, secondary ed. I almost do not want to get my MA, because I think a BS degree is very appropriate for me. Even if I do get another degree, my initials will still be BS so I guess it’s all cool.
I am majoring in Computer Information Systems. Marina I also have a word I was wondering about.
Mark as how did it come to mean someone you are trying to fool into buying something. I know it has origins in carnivals as in carnival games, but does it go back further?
Turns out that as with many words with different meaning featured on HotForWords, the various definitions of “Mark” all come from different roots, but over time their spellings have converged.
Mark (given name) is shot for “Marcus”, derived from the Latin Mart-kos, “consecrated to Mars” (the god of war)
Mark (currency) is derived from various 9th Century Latin words (e.g. marca / marcha / marcus), themselves derived from other languages. It was originally a unit of weight, then got applied to currencies.
Marches (borderland) is derived from Marko, derived from Mereg. As well as the Welsh Marches, this definition is also preserved in Denmark (boundary of the Danes)
Unfortunately that’s where the trail runs cold – I cannot discover how the term got applied to levels of development (Mk. I, Mk. II etc), signs, targets etc., although Wiktionary suggests they’re all derived from the “boundary” sense of the word. I suppose that it might be something along the lines of putting objects on the boundary to help define it, so the term got applied to the objects used to define the boundary as well as the boundary itself.
Priiet Marina,
I look forward to your lessons ever day.
I am trying to learn Russian,
I listen to language CD’s every day as I drive back and forth to work.
Marina, Please… Would you think about starting a second site for so many Russians in this country trying to learn English.
I would watch, and listen to hear you speack Russian, in hopes of learning your language.
Your student from Las Vegas,
Ron
hey, that’s a great Idea, she has done a video or two in Russian but… by the way, it great that you are learning Russian but just listening to it is not enough, you can be deceived by certain sounds, you need to be able to see and read the sound, even if you don’t know the words it helps with sound recognition. Hi in Russian is not priiet but pri-vet you missed the V sound; in Russian привет.. and as you get in to it you will find that there are voiced and unvoiced consonats that change but sound allmost the same, soo you really do need to see it read it.
I have discovered in the maritime world there is like 3 degrees of separation in many cases. Must be a small world.
The name of the 1959 Alfred Hitchcock movie, North by Northwest, there is no such direction. However, old-timers allow three letter directions to have a ‘by’ inserted between the first and second letter. Hence, NNW becomes North by Northwest, per Hitchcock’s title.
So I had a couple things randomly pop into my head the other day, and I was wondering if Hot For Words could answer at least one of them…
1. What does the Q in Q-Tip stand for? It’s not cotton, since that starts with a C…
2. How did a bow as in ribbon, and a bow as in bow and arrow, get the same name?
3. And in honor of Thanksgiving day, how did turkey get its’ name? In my other language, Malay, turkey is called Ayam Belanda, which literally translated means Dutch Chicken. Any similarities to turkey’s origin?
Thanks Marina!! I rant and rave about your site all the time!
The word “Q-tip” means “Quality tip”, with “tip” referring to the cotton tips at the end of the stick.
They are sometimes referred to by the British, Indians and South Africans as “ear buds” and are also known as ear-diggers, cotton-wool buds or ear-sticks
Yeah I remember “ear buds” from living in Singapore. It was a British colony before it gained independence, so alot of my manners in speaking and spelling lean more to the British way compared to the American way. Thanks for answering my question! Still curious about the other two though…
With Christmas coming, i figured if she got
more stars, from different galaxies, we could
give Hot For Words the “Constelation Marina”.
She has one one star named for her.
If more do this, it could be a gift of light in the
dark philological universe thingee…
Her first star is in LIbra – which is for balance.
Your link is faulty…big surprise.
…No luck at all. where says served
Are you asking a question?
well (a deep hole in the ground)
Do the work; get your education or
you could end up a well digger
melikadothechacha said “Do the work; get your education or
you could end up a well digger ”
I already work withethe most rarest of objects you’ve probably never seen, Take a fresh rock sample drilled up from the bottom of a well and you can honestly say ” see this sample, its a very rare thing, this is the first time its seen the light day since it was put from where it was taken.”
But all she would get on the Blvd
would be one star! If students all
get one, each bestowing their own
kudos commemorating Marina in
their own way, Constelation Marina
could be the could be the biggest
one ever formed! Take over the
whole visible hemisphere…bigger
than any Zodiac constellation. The
possibilty is there, I just can’t do
it with only one star. Others have
to follow suit or someone else will
catch wise and it’ll be the…
Constellation Danny Partridge!
Merry Christmas, Danny Bonaduce!
..or Constellation PopTub?
that will be sad…
Oh, I lately started to get the false impression that the measurement of degrees on a protracter was broken down by the 10 main angles. As a way to best decide the angles from horizontal to vertical. Such as 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, and 90 degrees. And that times 4 for a full revolution.
melikadothechacha said “Do the work; get your education or
you could end up a well digger ”
I already work withethe most rarest of objects you’ve probably never seen, Take a fresh rock sample drilled up from the bottom of a well and you can honestly say ” see this sample, its a very rare thing, this is the first time its seen the light day since it was put from where it
Leonard, errr…I mean stokesjrj1
aka nighteye
aka school_dean_hot4.u
aka 4hotwheels
aka John
aka Leonard (?)
You fell for the bait pretty easy, yourself.
I found the pattern in your behaviour.
Caught you like a fish
Bite my worm…
you have a subscription to Happy Slip it you would have gone to her YT profile page you would have found this:
FAQ:
What is a happy slip?
-While growing up, my mom was always quick to remind me to wear a half slip with my dresses or skirts. She would say “Be sure to wear your hap eslip!!”. So I grew up thinking the term was always “happy slip”, until I was corrected by classmates who asked me if I had a sad slip as well.
Hey Leonard! Did you notice you can set
the URL of your YouTube page to your
name? It’ll turn your name blue, like mine.
I think you set it from the dashboard,
(set and forget ).
I am only a dick to asses and pussies. Guess which one you are?
Your analogy to you being a cow turd is
close. Somebody should fuck you up
before you get shit on everything
What do you mean?
I’m just using your pissy</a? replies to
put links to Marina’s lessons up for the
serious students, who are having to read
your codswallop
They enjoy watching me shred nincompoops
like you
Let’s some good come from your jackanapes.
Time to throw another faggot on the
fire. There’s fish to fry
LOL! That’s your BEST shot?
“easy” over and over?
Nah, man, your sister is the
easy one, according to you.
stokesjrj1 on April 18th, 2008 11:38 pm
Marina, pretty as always, but i don’t
ascribe to the concept after seeing my
family almost destroyed by drug abuse
…. sister and niece… who did ascribe to
the concept but have since changed
their ways… too late for my sister
who is just a shadow of herself that
a knew as a young girl growing up
100.7 last night, but 100.0 this morning, so I will recover. Wierdest thing — no chills, no nausea, no sniffles, no sore throat, just a low-grade headache and slightly achey and tired for two days. I wish they were all that easy.
Oops! my bad…
I meant THIS!
.
Note to self: When using the time index
feature on YT videos, go to the YT video.
(it doesn’t work for videos on this site)
LOL… when I watched the video, just as Marina said “Abracadabra”, an ad popped up that asked “Pregnant and Confused?” Magic pregnancy… sounds like something from my theology classes.
Marina – I’m one lesson behind. My favourite fish flavour is anchovy, which is considered an aphrodesiac…..leading to my next word request – aphrodesia.
HEY MARINA! please read…. this is EliteKuZo from youtube, and I was just wondering if you can do a video on the word: ‘autarkic’
Please review it! THANKS MARINA, YOUR VID R AWESOME!
The word for turkey as in the meat is ‘pavo’
but there is another word to refer to the animal
wasn’t in any book someone told me this in MX it’s a difficult word to remember.
Pavo… yes, that’s the word. Thanks, Che. I have found that the Spanish that I learned in school was Castillian… and that most Latinos in my neck o’the woods call my Castillian Spanish “Pretty Spanish”. Sometimes I wonder if they are calling me “puto” by saying this. Maybe I should speak with a Castillian lisp…
“So, you’ve met Mr Pareto….” Yeah Im getting to know him very well. Im also looking at Fractals, Power Law, and the famous bell curve and I’m discovering some interesting things that might produce a theory to explain how luck works.
About luck. I don’t have very much good luck. I have found if I bet on something I always loose. I have found if I bet against myself (prepare for if I lose) I usually win. This seams very strange to me. The best case should be somewhere 60-40. But it’s not. It’s more like 20-80. I believe luck can be influenced. In fact precisely monitored and controlled. I see patterns in luck. Much like how waves affect a boat. I see lucky things happen vs unlucky. Up and down. When another boat passes by that patters is changed from its wake that it makes. But you can see that patter take over for a short while then return to the normal pattern. I wish I had a super computer that could measure this theory I have. I think luck can be predicted and influenced.
Très joli exposé mademoiselle. For some funky reason, “degree” makes me think of Ivan Pavlov and his famous work on psychic secretion. What’s even funkier though is to replace Pavlov and his dogs by a wild bunch of monkeys, a cage and a big huge hanging banana. Funky.. Where does that come from?
Dearest Professor Marina,
As a long time student of yours, I just want to thank you for HFW (HAVING FOUND WISDOM). I just can’t get enough of your wonderful insightfulness. Your lessons are mesmerizing. Which brings me to my word in question; “YUMMY”. I have faith in your intelligence. Looking forward to a private tutoring lesson. Joelie
Do you mean as the functional description
implies? … or the derogatory term it has
come to mean? We get the word douche
from the French (also lavage – same thing).
i ment both meanings of the word. in german language we have a similar word called “waschlappen” for a weak or very sensitive word. “waschlappen” originally means washrag – which is something you use, when you shower. to shower in german language means duschen – which is similar to the word “douche”… i was wondering if there may be a connection.
Hello Marina Do i have a degree no i don’t. That is a bad thing. I wish i did. But why is intelligence measured buy something that is on a piece of paper. What is better Marina knowledge or WISDOM HAPPY THANKSGIVING MARINA
Not really. I have improved the signal and the videos are downloading a bit faster. Still takes about 5 mins. to download. Im moving back to Kirkland again so I’ll have a new internet provider. Hope to get some faster speeds.
It’s 1:18am EST and I’m off to catch some
ZZZ’s. Read through your comments and
I think you have the aptitude for the physics.
There’s some math involved, but you can do
it if you find time to go through a school.
I am self-taught on AutoCAD. When I found
time to take the courses, I ended up helping
(as a self appointed TA – LOL) my classmates
during the labs. I was asked if I wanted a job
teaching and turned it down since I was in
the butter zone already with the engineering.
Taking classes let me to pick the teacher’s
brain for every trick not in the books, so it
was worth the effort. I used to dream about
it, I was so immersed. Now, it’s second nature
2D, 3D, rendered animations, etc. All the nuts
and bolts to create, well just about anything
For example: I can make floorplans, or take a
set from an architect, make it 3D; render it
with texture maps; set cameras and lights;
and script out camera paths for virtual
walk throughs – on the fly. I also taught myself
DAPPER and CAPTOR, two programs used
for electrical system selectivty. It is only
taught in Santa Barbara twice a year and
the classes are mucho dinero. College is
really where you learn to be your own
teacher through eduction and deduction
I am a big fan of higher education.
High school will only get you work at a
burger joint, these days – if you can read!
Yawn – tuckered out, long day….
See you guys in a few hours -G’nite!
Yeah I think I do. I used to visit the physics lab to barrow lasers and other cool toys. The professor would tell me to stop answering the question or take the class. He really wanted me as a student.
I learned autocad too. Fun program. Now I build things in ‘Second Life’. Now there is classes you can take in the world of ‘SL’ to learn architecture. I plan to hold the worlds first USCG approved school in ‘SL’.
Have a good night…;-)
Homework: I don’t have a college degree. After the first year of engineering, I was so bored with the schools curriculum, I decided to just take classed that I needed at the time. 2 1/2 years later I only did self study education. Books, videos, O.J.T.
I do have one piece of paper that says Im a Master. I hold a Masters license of motor and steam. It’s the best document I ever received. Had I known how much it was worth I should have skipped college and got my masters license. I later found out it’s worth $100k to $240k a year. Much more than I would ever make at engineering.
That said I would like to return to college and study physics. That was my reasoning to go to college in the first place but was side tracked.
Hey Captain Jack,
I kinda know what you mean.
I have a Class A drivers license and pay starts at 65K up to 90K (good enough for me) and that’s not owning my own rig. Owner operators make more than that. But, I just recently opted out since to make that you pretty much live the lifestyle and I don’t like it. I make less but I like free time for hobbies and being home every night with weekends off.
Yeah, same kind of thing with skippering. You have to live out at sea. Which is not to bad. The money is good. Also its hard to spend money at sea so it feels like more when you get back home. I like teaching for I get to live on my yacht. Speaking of my motor boat I’ve had to sell my boat back to the owner and move back into my old sailboat. The economy took a dump on my business and I have to cut way back. No worried because it wasn’t the dream yacht I had plan to buy for my circumnavigation. The motor yacht was just a stepping stone. Im going to miss the bigger boat.
Marina, I just saw the new Victorias Secret show is coming up. Do you suppose you could sneak in and mingle amonst them, so that we could see you walking down the runway? Be sure to carry Gorby on your arm!
Marina, I like the “Blog” link above. Nice granular way to organize things. I love it when you talk tech (down below) and make your site the best of them all. Great stuff!!!
I have a word request….and i don’t know if it will get a response…..
the word is “CUM” or “CUMMING”
“CUM” is male ejaculate ( semen ) and “CUMMING” is male ejaculation ( orgasm )
this word is slang of course…is it just an American slang or do other parts of the world use this word(s) to describe the act of orgasm?
Sorry for seeming like a pervert…but this is actually a serious request. Im sure you have recieved this request before, yet i didnt see it on your list.
After listening to Christina singing “Genie in a Bottle” and then the Spanish version “Genio Atrapado”, I have been struck by the fact that “to come” is translated in the romance languages as “venir”, which brings to mind the word “venereal” – co-incidence?
I don’t believe in coincidences.
– Special Agent Jethro Gibbs, NCIS
Weni, Widi, Wici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)
– Julius Caesar.
Wiki, Weni, VD. (I had a quickie, I came, I have an embarrassing exotic disease.)
– Jolly Jack Tar.
Hi Minions
What the f#ck ..all ya’ll. Just came by to see if anyone is still coming here.
Some? ….Hi. Does Marina come by much?
Well….. bye guys. gobble gobble
Homework: Associate’s degree Paramedicine. But that’s only the documented part of my knowledge base. I love to learn, and agree with Plutarch when he said, “The human mind is not a vessel to be filled, but, rather, a fire to be lighted.”
I think I saw that Plutarch guy sitting at a park bench next to Keith Moon last year. They were mumbling something like… “life is way too important to take seriously”. Then Keith got up and started hooting… Who Who… Who are you! to the birds. It was a weird flashbackish kinda thingy!
I did a dumb thing… I got hit by a car and used the money to go to Harvard University. Dropped out, drank beer, played chess, scratched my head and wondered to what degree had I miscalculated the true inner me? Often times, holding degrees in high value can seduce people into meaningless pursuits and drudgery… having “wooshed” they had followed a more personal dream.
Hi Marina,I would like to know how bikini,a two-piece bathing suit,got its name from Bikini atoll in the Marshall islands,where atomic bombs were tested.Please investigate!
And speaking of bi,how can I get paid bi-monthly but get my checks bi-weekly.I’m confused.My landscaper said he would plant flowers bi-annually,two times a year I thought,but I didn’t see the a** hole for two years.HUH!!!!!!!!!
Fianchetto… (re: that link you have above) I heard Hugh Hefner kicked these “bikini clad bombshell” girls out of the mansion for not going topless!
What a mean guy… LOL
I heard it was some of the other girls complaining.Something about the water level in the pool.If they didn’t get out first they couldn’t get out at all.
The bikini came about in 1946.The first H bomb test on Bikini was 1954.The first H bomb test ever,in 1952 was on Enewetak atoll,also in the Marshall Islands.I think HOTFORWORDS Marina should investigate!
Marina looks scholarly wearing her mitre board
Did Marina do a thesis for her second degree?
Homework: I only have the one degree and got
into computer related stuff, so I am short of
another degree by 3 credits and a thesis.
I found one degree was enough, along with my
other aquired skills. School only gets you so
far in the private sector, but experience gets
you farther. I understand theory and it’s all
well and fine, but application (what you can do)
is all that matters to employers (unless you
have nepotism working for you.
.
I am so stuffed! The turkey came out primo!
Pumpkin pie with walnuts – awesome…
Pleasant conversation around the table,
nostalgic family stories – good time for all.
How was your Thanksgiving?
I estimate that I had approximately .15-.20 parts turkey myself, but we had 5 people, leaving about .55 parts turkey remaining for the casserole tomorow OH – I forgot to include the leftover .40 stuffing, .35 gravy, .25 sweet potatoes, not to mention the uncalculated (but not so improportionate from the others) remainder of pumpkin pie and cranberry sauce.
Absolutely wonderful, ChaCha – dinner with family at Grandma’s house, getting settled into my new house, just got off the phone with Mom and Dad. I have it all, friend. I have been richly blessed and installed in my home many reminders of this that I may continue to give thanks for so many blessings throughout the year. I have it all. Even some pretty cool friends to share my gratitude with here at HFW, present company certainly included, friend.
Could you mean mortar board? I never heard of a mitre board. I’d like to see her on a motor boat. {CK ties the anchor to Captain Jack’s ankle.} Marina, you wanna see Captain Jack do a trick?
Degrees? Well, the 360 day per year belief was known to me quite a while ago, but I had no idea where the word really came from. Based on your video, one can also easily deduce where the word degrade comes from too. It’s amazing how much and how well you can explain so many things in such a short while.
The beauty of serendipity. It’s like looking for a needle in a giant haystack and ending up finding the farmer’s beautiful daughter one marries for lifelong happiness.
Speaking of Christmas Che has a yule time word request
even though he feels this may go the way his T-Day request went, (ignored) { Che folds arms across chest & gives Marina a dirty look }
Word request – yule / yuletide & Xmas yes with the ‘X’
Baileytehkid—good request, they say high foreheads, have high IQ’s and common intelligence—then the degree of hardness achieved by tempering, steps into the intellectual elite of society and the circle uses an excessive number of words to arti-culate an idea. That word circumlocution; masters job protection. Turkey day songtemperature rising”cold turkey”JLennon Regional Analysis with Communication Processing for back-up [hotforwords is the HOTTEST degree ] What is the lowest highest degree? agree to be free and temper that piano
Take the one that makes the most money down the road with the least expense now,,vocation doesn’t matter cause You’ll be miserable after 30-50 years of the same-old-same-old anyway.
Wild turkeys are very aggressive, if you meet up with a flock they will chase you.
They haven’t been hunted for many years and lost their fear of humans.
Naaaa,they are hunted in areas where they made a good comeback after stocking back in the 70s-80s. I remember when it was illegal to hunt them and even a sighting was rare.
If you knock back a bottle of Wild Turkey you should have enough “courage” to deal with them. I suggest a hockey stick and a large doggie cage. Just stick handle them into the cage and you are good to go! While catching your breath from all the action… toss some fire crackers into the cage… just to show them who’s the boss!
We have Wild Turkeys here in The Driftless Area.Ben(not Benzo)Franklin wanted the Wild Turkey to be the National bird,good thing He was voted down and the Bald Eagle was named instead. Turkeys are kinda cool but eagles got Em beat big time.
Goes like this; gobble gobble WOOOSH SCREEEEECH big ole THUMPIN roll and SQUEEZE OF TALONS,,then,,turkey dinner for the eagle!! “Heyyyy,Who put all these damn feathers on My dinner’!!”
Not bad choices Mr Volet,could be alot worse. I Ya snag into too much caffeine just counter it with a couple tryptophan sandwiches and return to snoozeville.We’ll miss ya but You’ll be back.
Celebrated 1/2 hour overtime today (less then usual). Tonight celebrate national sport, except it’s the old guy, none skating version, floor hockey. After that I’ll celebrate some food and a hot shower, folowed by some celebration on the sealy postrupedic.
i have three degrees (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.)…none of which i now use (long story)…i also have a couple of computing certs, and an accounting cert, plus other coursework adding up to way too much schooling and not enough earning…i’ll never be able to retire…
Nice lesson, happy to sit in that class.
Can I make small addition called “strange stories of words”? Polish “stopień” (similar to Russian, right?) means both degree in geometry and in scientific career (not so modest homework – I have a PhD by the way , but also means “a stair”.
Fitted with governors?! Fit Yer stickshift with S Palin and never need to leave the pit! With enough high-test fuel in the tank the other drivers might as well be stalled! Matter of fact,they *better* be stalled,Ya don’t want anybody bringin up the rear!!
Out in Newfoundland… (the eastern-most? province) they do a lot of “huffing” because they are seeking something fun to do. They spray glue, Lysol, gasoline or whatever is available into a bag to see where it will take them. It is understandable how bored some can get and how easily influenced young people can be… just sad how twisted and damaging it is. Makes smokin’ grass look sane.
I have a Fire Science Degree. Even though I can’t fight fire anymore I can still teach fire courses and do live burns. Great lesson Marina. Degree has many meanings and I am glad you cleared that up with a great lesson.
This lesson did not mention degrees of longitude or lattitude. Nor why those got divided into minutes and seconds.
And please get back off the floor. All I can think about is how your hipbone is grinding away at your poor, tender flesh. You will need a massage I am sure to recover. Call me.
You would make a fine Chef Smokey. I know your a cook, but just think of what you have learned and you could apply it towards that. Chef’s make a lot of money and a great Chef has a great reputation.
If you find something you like ( something that you can make a living doing ) stick with it. Money is nice, but being happy at work is something a lot of people with good PAYING jobs would kill for.
Math is my passion but I do see why some could be less than enthused.
Marina – great lesson; You have encircled me, 360 degrees with heated (a high degree of) contemplation – you have my undivided attention. I have two degrees – one in emotional geography and one in spatial analysis; your linguistic space drives my emotion. My word request is EMOTIVE (feelings in space) Thanks – luv your channel.
it should be back to high quality. When I first upload videos, the high quality version is not available right away.. so I embed the low quality version on the website (or else it shows Video No Longer Available) and then when the HQ version is available I manually go in and embed the HQ version.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING Marina
What are you thankful for?
Me I’m thankful for the close friends that I have, my son, and to have a wonderful teacher like you who comes into my house (via internet) every day. GOBBLE GOBBLE
Dear Teacher, I have responded to your question below. Please let me know if I have answered to your satisfaction, or if you want to ask me something else on the topic.
You should see about getting into the Masons. You can meet a lot of influential and connected people that way. The only problem is that another Mason has to invite you to come to one of their meetings. You just can’t walk in and want to join.
Master of Science (Architecture)
Wow. Both erudite & attractive. Great combination.
“Being right is winning half of a battle to a war I do not care to engage in.” ~ GreatestPotential
Every other peep gets their quotation a mention and I want my share too!
Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.” – Henry Ford 1863-1947
Old man Ford was quite a character he let his grandson (whom had been made president of Ford Motor Co.) build a coke processing plant( for steel processing) then he had the workmen tear it down just to show his grandson He was still the boss(?)
DEC,1st Quote
“Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.” – Henry Ford 1863-1947 soybean requst and check your mail
Watched this vid. the other day & first thing I thought was “she looks very uncomfortable”… WERE YOU??
You look good in the wide screen & found a way to use it all, but I squirmed the whole lesson & of course, had to view it more than once to get the points straight in me ‘ead. I know you’ve got some modeling experience… guess what, now I do too… is it allways an awkward & stilted proccess to get a good image?
Had the local newspaper’s photogtapher come to the shop to get a “snap” for the front page of the “B” section & he spent over an hour taking my picture in different poses & various angles, none of which were natural or comfortable. Turns out, it was all about the angle of reflection, of the light that was hitting the coin I was holding. Anyways, all was good, in the long run, it turned out to be free advertising. People are stiil coming up to me, calling me a celebrity ‘n all. Gives me chuckle.
I have a BS degree and am working on my Master’s. The Army is paying for my degrees.
You look so beautiful in this video! I have a Batchelor’s degree. I would have liked to have continued for a Master’s degree, but the Army had other plans for me.
Your dear student, seesixcm6
Good luck out there
Thanks, I’m no longer on active duty. I did have plenty of good luck when I actually was “out there.” I’m all good, now.
seesixcm6
Don’t worry, i was drafted too, but after that did both Bachelor and Master.
You Already have your Bachelor, you just got to want it hard enough, if you do, you can do it too.
you forgot to explain about degree in:
1- degrees of separation (have you heard of that facebook application called 6 degrees of separation?)
2- degrees of freedom (for example any 3D object has 6 degrees of freedom, 3 rotational, and 3 translational)
I am so disappointed.
4 total:
Associates, Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorate.
Right now, I have a BS in history. I am working on getting my Master’s in history, secondary ed. I almost do not want to get my MA, because I think a BS degree is very appropriate for me. Even if I do get another degree, my initials will still be BS so I guess it’s all cool.
I am majoring in Computer Information Systems. Marina I also have a word I was wondering about.
Mark as how did it come to mean someone you are trying to fool into buying something. I know it has origins in carnivals as in carnival games, but does it go back further?
Let’s see what Wikipedia can dig up…
Turns out that as with many words with different meaning featured on HotForWords, the various definitions of “Mark” all come from different roots, but over time their spellings have converged.
Mark (given name) is shot for “Marcus”, derived from the Latin Mart-kos, “consecrated to Mars” (the god of war)
Mark (currency) is derived from various 9th Century Latin words (e.g. marca / marcha / marcus), themselves derived from other languages. It was originally a unit of weight, then got applied to currencies.
Marches (borderland) is derived from Marko, derived from Mereg. As well as the Welsh Marches, this definition is also preserved in Denmark (boundary of the Danes)
Unfortunately that’s where the trail runs cold – I cannot discover how the term got applied to levels of development (Mk. I, Mk. II etc), signs, targets etc., although Wiktionary suggests they’re all derived from the “boundary” sense of the word. I suppose that it might be something along the lines of putting objects on the boundary to help define it, so the term got applied to the objects used to define the boundary as well as the boundary itself.
where does the phrase “read my lips” come from???
Priiet Marina,
I look forward to your lessons ever day.
I am trying to learn Russian,
I listen to language CD’s every day as I drive back and forth to work.
Marina, Please… Would you think about starting a second site for so many Russians in this country trying to learn English.
I would watch, and listen to hear you speack Russian, in hopes of learning your language.
Your student from Las Vegas,
Ron
hey, that’s a great Idea, she has done a video or two in Russian but… by the way, it great that you are learning Russian but just listening to it is not enough, you can be deceived by certain sounds, you need to be able to see and read the sound, even if you don’t know the words it helps with sound recognition. Hi in Russian is not priiet but pri-vet you missed the V sound; in Russian привет.. and as you get in to it you will find that there are voiced and unvoiced consonats that change but sound allmost the same, soo you really do need to see it read it.
where did the word Avocado come from?
… and then, there is “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon”
a.k.a. “Six degrees of separation”
I wonder how many degrees I’m separated from Marina?
Ohhh, probably 30 degrees WNW by 42 miles…
I have discovered in the maritime world there is like 3 degrees of separation in many cases. Must be a small world.
The name of the 1959 Alfred Hitchcock movie, North by Northwest, there is no such direction. However, old-timers allow three letter directions to have a ‘by’ inserted between the first and second letter. Hence, NNW becomes North by Northwest, per Hitchcock’s title.
will you please do (eye) because you can use it in 2 other ways
So I had a couple things randomly pop into my head the other day, and I was wondering if Hot For Words could answer at least one of them…
1. What does the Q in Q-Tip stand for? It’s not cotton, since that starts with a C…
2. How did a bow as in ribbon, and a bow as in bow and arrow, get the same name?
3. And in honor of Thanksgiving day, how did turkey get its’ name? In my other language, Malay, turkey is called Ayam Belanda, which literally translated means Dutch Chicken. Any similarities to turkey’s origin?
Thanks Marina!! I rant and rave about your site all the time!
Wiki had this to say:
Etymology
The word “Q-tip” means “Quality tip”, with “tip” referring to the cotton tips at the end of the stick.
They are sometimes referred to by the British, Indians and South Africans as “ear buds” and are also known as ear-diggers, cotton-wool buds or ear-sticks
Yeah I remember “ear buds” from living in Singapore. It was a British colony before it gained independence, so alot of my manners in speaking and spelling lean more to the British way compared to the American way. Thanks for answering my question! Still curious about the other two though…
There is an unofficial/offical format for word request i.e.
Word request – bow
Word request turkey
This helps the TA to search for request
the bold is not necessary I just like to do it.
Is your name Lydia Squid or Lydlle Squid?
Remember Marina’s “100 million served” video?
She earned a star from me
With Christmas coming, i figured if she got
more stars, from different galaxies, we could
give Hot For Words the “Constelation Marina”.
She has one one star named for her.
If more do this, it could be a gift of light in the
dark philological universe thingee…
Her first star is in LIbra – which is for balance.
a trampoline would make a nice present
for us{ today’s lesson, the origin of the word ‘gravity’
let me demonstrate }
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/08/23/100-million-video-views/….
where says served
Your link is faulty…big surprise.
where says served
…No luck at all.
Are you asking a question?
well (a deep hole in the ground)
Do the work; get your education or
you could end up a well digger
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/08/23/100-million- video-views/ where says served
melikadothechacha said “Do the work; get your education or
you could end up a well digger ”
I already work withethe most rarest of objects you’ve probably never seen, Take a fresh rock sample drilled up from the bottom of a well and you can honestly say ” see this sample, its a very rare thing, this is the first time its seen the light day since it was put from where it was taken.”
That was a very nice thing you did for Marina naming a star for her. That was better than getting one of those Hollywood stars on a sidewalk of fame.
But all she would get on the Blvd
would be one star! If students all
get one, each bestowing their own
kudos commemorating Marina in
their own way, Constelation Marina
could be the could be the biggest
one ever formed! Take over the
whole visible hemisphere…bigger
than any Zodiac constellation. The
possibilty is there, I just can’t do
it with only one star. Others have
to follow suit or someone else will
catch wise and it’ll be the…
Constellation Danny Partridge!
Merry Christmas, Danny Bonaduce!
..or Constellation PopTub?
that will be sad…
Oh, I lately started to get the false impression that the measurement of degrees on a protracter was broken down by the 10 main angles. As a way to best decide the angles from horizontal to vertical. Such as 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, and 90 degrees. And that times 4 for a full revolution.
I sound like some kind of math nerd.
What’s the conversion for metric system?
heh heh
Is there one?
2008 4:22 pm:
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/08/23/100-million- video-views/ where says served
John replied on November 28th, 2008 4:34 pm:
melikadothechacha said “Do the work; get your education or
you could end up a well digger ”
I already work withethe most rarest of objects you’ve probably never seen, Take a fresh rock sample drilled up from the bottom of a well and you can honestly say ” see this sample, its a very rare thing, this is the first time its seen the light day since it was put from where it
taken
Leonard, errr…I mean stokesjrj1
aka nighteye
aka school_dean_hot4.u
aka 4hotwheels
aka John
aka Leonard (?)
You fell for the bait pretty easy, yourself.
I found the pattern in your behaviour.
Caught you like a fish
Bite my worm…
pair a noid melikadothechacha
“easy” see above the above comment
“pair a noid melikadothechacha”
Thank you! It’s a compliment
coming from a schizo…
“easy”see above comment
hey can you please tell me origin of happy slip ( like the yt channel) (http://www.youtube.com/happyslip) please send me a pm at this channel (http://www.youtube.com/sasori1235) if you decide to do it thank you very much
{ *SIGH* }
you have a subscription to Happy Slip it you would have gone to her YT profile page you would have found this:
FAQ:
What is a happy slip?
-While growing up, my mom was always quick to remind me to wear a half slip with my dresses or skirts. She would say “Be sure to wear your hap eslip!!”. So I grew up thinking the term was always “happy slip”, until I was corrected by classmates who asked me if I had a sad slip as well.
Quote
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826 seems right to me
Hey Leonard! Did you notice you can set
).
the URL of your YouTube page to your
name? It’ll turn your name blue, like mine.
I think you set it from the dashboard,
(set and forget
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826
You out of luck?
(you sure ain’t mr. wisdom!
(wis-dumb?)
All I have to do is type the word/name Marina and you come buzzing along like a fly to a fresh cow turd.
I am only a dick to asses and
pussies. Guess which one you are?
Your analogy to you being a cow turd is
close. Somebody should fuck you up
before you get shit on everything
You realy are “easy”
see below this comment
What do you mean?
I’m just using your pissy</a? replies to
put links to Marina’s lessons up for the
serious students, who are having to read
your codswallop
They enjoy watching me shred nincompoops
like you
Let’s some good come from your jackanapes.
Time to throw another faggot on the
fire. There’s fish to fry
“easy”
Oopth! I mithed one!
Should be pissy</a?
“easy “really” easy”
LOL! That’s your BEST shot?
“easy” over and over?
Nah, man, your sister is the
easy one, according to you.
Your still being “easy”
Leonard – is John a close friend of yours?
Why does he think I’m talking to him here
when I’m talking to you, Leonard? Can you
explain that?
I have a 102 degree temperature right now…I took my own temperature…..(the hard way)
100.7 last night, but 100.0 this morning, so I will recover. Wierdest thing — no chills, no nausea, no sniffles, no sore throat, just a low-grade headache and slightly achey and tired for two days. I wish they were all that easy.
Take two asprin and call me in the morning.
I know what I want for Christmas
More of THIS!!
Woo Hoo!
Oops! my bad…
I meant THIS!
.
Note to self: When using the time index
feature on YT videos, go to the YT video.
(it doesn’t work for videos on this site)
LOL… when I watched the video, just as Marina said “Abracadabra”, an ad popped up that asked “Pregnant and Confused?” Magic pregnancy… sounds like something from my theology classes.
I just watched this video again about 5 min ago.
You know what I wanted her to do after she said abracabra and appeared in the swim suit?
“SAY IT ONE MORE TIME!!!!”
@ CampKoler I don’t think that was a swim suit. i think it was Bra and panties. At lest I wish
Capman911 – hoped you’d like it
Looked like Victoria’s Secret
lingerie model attire, to me
Those <a href=lmost dental floss
Hmm…. “panties” are broken links…
HFW Word List error. Sorry.
as I was saying…
…those “panties” were
almost dentai floss
yay! I have got widescreen working. I look kinda stretched though.
What did you do I can’t get it to work and my cam won’t do 640×360
can you make a video for the origin of the word “Jello” and “Jelly”? thanks!
no degree. I am a closet student.
Bailleythekid came up with a good one keep em coming!
Marina – I’m one lesson behind. My favourite fish flavour is anchovy, which is considered an aphrodesiac…..leading to my next word request – aphrodesia.
HEY MARINA! please read…. this is EliteKuZo from youtube, and I was just wondering if you can do a video on the word: ‘autarkic’
Please review it! THANKS MARINA, YOUR VID R AWESOME!
Ok that was good, but where did the term radian come from!
word request: rifle and/or sniper
Marina has already done a video on
Sniper. Enjoy
You can also find more videos in the Words / Lesson section at the top of the Page.
eating turkey barley soup with turnips at this very moment
turnips mash together with carrots is an excellent combination
mash like you would do mash potatoes with butter, milk, s&p
Tomatillos
…..off to the kitchen
{ hoping Marina will share her special Ukraine turkey soup recipe with Che }guessing this soup will have turnips & potatoes in itIf you want a good recipe, you can’t beet borscht.
If it has turnips and potatoes in it I bet it is good. Please Marina share that recipe with us.
I love turnips I can eat them raw or cooked with the greens. Had some at Turkey day and collards. two great greens.Yummy
The base for a good salsa verde…
i wont the word
super sexy <===== the word
by the its you
This new Gravatar of a ‘Peace Mandala’ is soothing to look at,
Che may keep this Gravatar for a while.
{ the orange color makes me hungry though }
On today’s menu:
Turkey Mole Verde
Turkey Mole Rojo
Turkey Pot Pie
Turkey Tacos
Turkey Burritos
Turkey Soup
{ all this will be accomplished with no degree of difficulty }
Enchiladas verdes con turkey (forgot what turkey is en Espanol… and I can’t find the tilde symbol either)
The word for turkey as in the meat is ‘pavo’
but there is another word to refer to the animal
wasn’t in any book someone told me this in MX it’s a difficult word to remember.
The Spanish says, turquía but that Spain Spanish
It written in my notes somewhere
Don’t forget the toasted peanut butter, banana and turkey sandwiches.
u r either impregnate or have been tokin’ it
after a reasonably good spliff… these uncommon combos are all the more laughable
Pavo… yes, that’s the word. Thanks, Che. I have found that the Spanish that I learned in school was Castillian… and that most Latinos in my neck o’the woods call my Castillian Spanish “Pretty Spanish”. Sometimes I wonder if they are calling me “puto” by saying this.
Maybe I should speak with a Castillian lisp…
God, I HATE the BCS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I call it the Bull
CarpSystemFor anyone that wants to know why some people are lucky, like Marina for example, here is the reason why.
“I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have.”
- Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826
melikadothechacha, I just noticed that you had commented on that quote also, down below.
“So, you’ve met Mr Pareto….” Yeah Im getting to know him very well. Im also looking at Fractals, Power Law, and the famous bell curve and I’m discovering some interesting things that might produce a theory to explain how luck works.
“Chance favors the prepared.”
About luck. I don’t have very much good luck. I have found if I bet on something I always loose. I have found if I bet against myself (prepare for if I lose) I usually win. This seams very strange to me. The best case should be somewhere 60-40. But it’s not. It’s more like 20-80. I believe luck can be influenced. In fact precisely monitored and controlled. I see patterns in luck. Much like how waves affect a boat. I see lucky things happen vs unlucky. Up and down. When another boat passes by that patters is changed from its wake that it makes. But you can see that patter take over for a short while then return to the normal pattern. I wish I had a super computer that could measure this theory I have. I think luck can be predicted and influenced.
re: “It’s more like 20-80…”
So, you’ve met Mr Pareto….
Fractals, power law, etc. good stuff.
Do you know what luck stands for?
Laboring Under Constant Knowledge
No, he’s prepared to.
Très joli exposé mademoiselle. For some funky reason, “degree” makes me think of Ivan Pavlov and his famous work on psychic secretion. What’s even funkier though is to replace Pavlov and his dogs by a wild bunch of monkeys, a cage and a big huge hanging banana. Funky.. Where does that come from?
Let’s try a link:
Monkeys and Bananas
i am studying for my degree and i hope i get it
Never really understood the need for the “wide-screen” format, until now, that is. We get to see more of Marina! Yippee!
Now if it could only help to get her to answer her email? Bonus!
Marina see Wisdom never needed a degree
HA! As if you would know
now, go sit in the hall and wear the
pointy hat
Link
melikadothechacha gee your “easy” too “easy” for mr.wisdom
You out of luck?
(you sure ain’t mr. wisdom!
(wis-dumb?)
As a long time student of yours, I just want to thank you for HFW (HAVING FOUND WISDOM). I just can’t get enough of your wonderful insightfulness. Your lessons are mesmerizing. Which brings me to my word in question; “YUMMY”. I have faith in your intelligence. Looking forward to a private tutoring lesson. Joelie
i’d like to know where the word “douchebag” comes from…
yeah , me too
Do you mean as the functional description
implies? … or the derogatory term it has
come to mean? We get the word douche
from the French (also lavage – same thing).
i ment both meanings of the word. in german language we have a similar word called “waschlappen” for a weak or very sensitive word. “waschlappen” originally means washrag – which is something you use, when you shower. to shower in german language means duschen – which is similar to the word “douche”… i was wondering if there may be a connection.
i’m sorry, i guess i was a little bit confused. of course i ment “for a weak or very sensitive person”, not word.
The English word ’shower’ translates to ‘doucha’ in Spanish
Hey Marina HOW COME WE ARENT GETTING A THANKSGIVING CARD? ITS A NATIONAL HOLIDAY!!
nice thinking cap….is that a mortarboard?
Hello Marina Do i have a degree no i don’t. That is a bad thing. I wish i did. But why is intelligence measured buy something that is on a piece of paper. What is better Marina knowledge or WISDOM HAPPY THANKSGIVING MARINA
yes i agree with that . But now even the people who have degrees can’t even get a job
YouTube now has wide screen?!?!? Now I have a reason to turn on the 16:9 format on my camera.
IT Sounds like everything is alright with your computer service
now
Not really. I have improved the signal and the videos are downloading a bit faster. Still takes about 5 mins. to download. Im moving back to Kirkland again so I’ll have a new internet provider. Hope to get some faster speeds.
Wish I had that!
Well I have no life. Im the only one on the planet commenting on HFW site at 10pm on a US holiday.
I’m right there with ya pal.
Thanks buddy. I was getting a bit lonely.
I haven’t talked to a sole all day today. I’ve never seen the streets of Seattle empty.
Not the only one.
Just finished dinner with friends.
Family is all over this country and in different time zones.
Damn that’s what I forgot to do. Make dinner! Been snacking all day. Well back to work…
It’s 1:18am EST and I’m off to catch some
ZZZ’s. Read through your comments and
I think you have the aptitude for the physics.
There’s some math involved, but you can do
it if you find time to go through a school.
I am self-taught on AutoCAD. When I found
time to take the courses, I ended up helping
(as a self appointed TA – LOL) my classmates
during the labs. I was asked if I wanted a job
teaching and turned it down since I was in
the butter zone already with the engineering.
Taking classes let me to pick the teacher’s
brain for every trick not in the books, so it
was worth the effort. I used to dream about
it, I was so immersed. Now, it’s second nature
2D, 3D, rendered animations, etc. All the nuts
and bolts to create, well just about anything
For example: I can make floorplans, or take a
set from an architect, make it 3D; render it
with texture maps; set cameras and lights;
and script out camera paths for virtual
walk throughs – on the fly. I also taught myself
DAPPER and CAPTOR, two programs used
for electrical system selectivty. It is only
taught in Santa Barbara twice a year and
the classes are mucho dinero. College is
really where you learn to be your own
teacher through eduction and deduction
I am a big fan of higher education.
High school will only get you work at a
burger joint, these days – if you can read!
Yawn – tuckered out, long day….
See you guys in a few hours -G’nite!
Yeah I think I do. I used to visit the physics lab to barrow lasers and other cool toys. The professor would tell me to stop answering the question or take the class. He really wanted me as a student.
I learned autocad too. Fun program. Now I build things in ‘Second Life’. Now there is classes you can take in the world of ‘SL’ to learn architecture. I plan to hold the worlds first USCG approved school in ‘SL’.
Have a good night…;-)
(I wasn’t here at all.)
Well I have no life. Im the only one on the planet commenting on HFW.
oops… I guess i didn’t hit the stop button fast enough.
“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.” – Yogi Berra
I just love Yogi’s thinking. Smart man.
Great lesson Marina! Im going to forward your lesson to some USCG instructors.
Homework: I don’t have a college degree. After the first year of engineering, I was so bored with the schools curriculum, I decided to just take classed that I needed at the time. 2 1/2 years later I only did self study education. Books, videos, O.J.T.
I do have one piece of paper that says Im a Master. I hold a Masters license of motor and steam. It’s the best document I ever received. Had I known how much it was worth I should have skipped college and got my masters license. I later found out it’s worth $100k to $240k a year. Much more than I would ever make at engineering.
That said I would like to return to college and study physics. That was my reasoning to go to college in the first place but was side tracked.
Hey Captain Jack,
I kinda know what you mean.
I have a Class A drivers license and pay starts at 65K up to 90K (good enough for me) and that’s not owning my own rig. Owner operators make more than that. But, I just recently opted out since to make that you pretty much live the lifestyle and I don’t like it. I make less but I like free time for hobbies and being home every night with weekends off.
Yeah, same kind of thing with skippering. You have to live out at sea. Which is not to bad. The money is good. Also its hard to spend money at sea so it feels like more when you get back home. I like teaching for I get to live on my yacht. Speaking of my motor boat I’ve had to sell my boat back to the owner and move back into my old sailboat.
The economy took a dump on my business and I have to cut way back. 
No worried because it wasn’t the dream yacht I had plan to buy for my circumnavigation. 
The motor yacht was just a stepping stone. Im going to miss the bigger boat. 
Marina, I just saw the new Victorias Secret show is coming up. Do you suppose you could sneak in and mingle amonst them, so that we could see you walking down the runway? Be sure to carry Gorby on your arm!
Sneak in. Never happen. She is over qualified. The girls would be jealous. VS would be groveling at her feet to model for them.
Where there is a fashion show there is always a malfunction.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wqNz61-jneo
Marina, I like the “Blog” link above. Nice granular way to organize things. I love it when you talk tech (down below) and make your site the best of them all. Great stuff!!!
Ain’t she such a geek! hehehe
Somewhere in the world,
it is now this –> cold <–
I’d always wanted to see real snow !!
Never get cold or wet on purpose.
… and Ed said, How cold is it?
Three degrees below Zero.
Yeahhhh!!!! and Bob wins a new shiny watchamacalit,
Hotnessmeter?
I have a word request….and i don’t know if it will get a response…..
the word is “CUM” or “CUMMING”
“CUM” is male ejaculate ( semen ) and “CUMMING” is male ejaculation ( orgasm )
this word is slang of course…is it just an American slang or do other parts of the world use this word(s) to describe the act of orgasm?
Sorry for seeming like a pervert…but this is actually a serious request. Im sure you have recieved this request before, yet i didnt see it on your list.
You mean you’re not just jerking us off?
cum as in come ?
Girls like it. too, y’know
Like, when Christina Aguilera sings
“I want you to come on over baby“
Or “Genie in a Bottle”
After listening to Christina singing “Genie in a Bottle” and then the Spanish version “Genio Atrapado”, I have been struck by the fact that “to come” is translated in the romance languages as “venir”, which brings to mind the word “venereal” – co-incidence?
I believe the Babylonians were doing arithmetic base 60 which divides 360. And didn’t they know the number of days a year more accurately than 360?
Dezdkado mentions this WAAAYY down at the beginning of the section here…pretty kewl info!
(hit your [End] key to get there in a hurry, mate) 
Hi Minions
What the f#ck ..all ya’ll. Just came by to see if anyone is still coming here.
Some? ….Hi. Does Marina come by much?
Well….. bye guys. gobble gobble
No degree of the academic unless theres one given in Squirrelly
Were you in the top of your class?
…or did others soar high above you?
my temperature just went up a degree or two after watching this video
fever ?
[Precisely, mate]
Homework: Associate’s degree Paramedicine. But that’s only the documented part of my knowledge base. I love to learn, and agree with Plutarch when he said, “The human mind is not a vessel to be filled, but, rather, a fire to be lighted.”
Ciao,
Fianchetto
next time you see this Plutarch guy ask him, “if it’s already a fire why would you have to light it”
{ must be some kind of control burn }
So does a Paramedic jump out of airplanes?
No – a (life-loving) paramedic waits on the ground for those who do jump out of airplanes…
A paramedic are two medics.
10^12 Microphones = 1 Megaphone
10^6 bicycles = 2 megacycles
500 millinaries = 1 seminary
2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
10 cards = 1 decacards
1/2 lavatory = 1 demijohn
10^-6 fish = 1 microfiche
453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
10^12 pins = 1 terrapin
10^21 piccolos = 1 gigolo
10 rations = 1 decoration
100 rations = 1 C-ration
10 millipedes = 1 centipede
3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent
5 holocausts = 1 Pentecost
10 monologues = 5 dialogues = 1 Decalogue
2 monograms = 1 diagram
8 nickels = 2 paradigms
2 snake eyes = 1 paradise
2 wharves = 1 paradox
I think I saw that Plutarch guy sitting at a park bench next to Keith Moon last year. They were mumbling something like… “life is way too important to take seriously”. Then Keith got up and started hooting… Who Who… Who are you! to the birds. It was a weird flashbackish kinda thingy!
Were they, perchance, eyeing little girls with bad intent?
neat vid!
response to a neat post, mate
the mind is a vessel to be filled with gasoline , then set alight
{…yields a nod in respectful deference to fatbuffalo}
I did a dumb thing… I got hit by a car and used the money to go to Harvard University. Dropped out, drank beer, played chess, scratched my head and wondered to what degree had I miscalculated the true inner me? Often times, holding degrees in high value can seduce people into meaningless pursuits and drudgery… having “wooshed” they had followed a more personal dream.
yes , do what you like and be happy
Art is not a pastime, if you love it, it can become your lifestyle.
You’ve proven that.
The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize what they know.
Maurice Blondel
one more-
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The word Christmas.
Is Chrst of Chirstmas sectular or non-sectular.
e.g. Christ as in Christian or Christ as in Chris Cringle
Or the German vinacular.
In other worlds what is the origin of the world chistmas or Xmas?
Thanks Wylie K
Hi Marina,I would like to know how bikini,a two-piece bathing suit,got its name from Bikini atoll in the Marshall islands,where atomic bombs were tested.Please investigate!
Hey,thats a good question,I would like to know too!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah,is a one piece a kini?????????
And speaking of bi,how can I get paid bi-monthly but get my checks bi-weekly.I’m confused.My landscaper said he would plant flowers bi-annually,two times a year I thought,but I didn’t see the a** hole for two years.HUH!!!!!!!!!
Is a one piece a unikini?
[gird your loincloth]
Are all girls in bikinis bombshells?
[Bikini-clad bombshells?] A matter of opinion, tigtig.
Fianchetto… (re: that link you have above) I heard Hugh Hefner kicked these “bikini clad bombshell” girls out of the mansion for not going topless!
What a mean guy… LOL
@Hef
Superficial bastard!
I heard it was some of the other girls complaining.Something about the water level in the pool.If they didn’t get out first they couldn’t get out at all.
[Sorta like this?]
Exactly like that, lol
I can’t believe you asked that. Have you seen a bikini? BOOM!
BTW, it wasn’t atomic bombs, it was hydrogen bombs.
Your right,I dont want to “hear” Marina do a lesson on bikinis either.**SIGH**
I am pretty sure they exploded nuclear bombs on that atoll.
BTW the first test of the H bomb was 1952,they were testing on Bikini in 1946.
If it were atomic bombs instead , radiation suits would be called bikinis
The bikini came about in 1946.The first H bomb test on Bikini was 1954.The first H bomb test ever,in 1952 was on Enewetak atoll,also in the Marshall Islands.I think HOTFORWORDS Marina should investigate!
Which is toohotforwords on Marina
bikini or unikini
Tough choice but I vote unikini
I hope I get extra credit for enthusiasm
Marina looks scholarly wearing her mitre board
Did Marina do a thesis for her second degree?
Homework: I only have the one degree and got
into computer related stuff, so I am short of
another degree by 3 credits and a thesis.
I found one degree was enough, along with my
other aquired skills. School only gets you so
far in the private sector, but experience gets
you farther. I understand theory and it’s all
well and fine, but application (what you can do)
is all that matters to employers (unless you
have nepotism working for you.
.
I am so stuffed! The turkey came out primo!
Pumpkin pie with walnuts – awesome…
Pleasant conversation around the table,
nostalgic family stories – good time for all.
How was your Thanksgiving?
excellent ratio of turkey to people
in geek speak, 0.334 parts turkey per person
I estimate that I had approximately .15-.20 parts turkey myself, but we had 5 people, leaving about .55 parts turkey remaining for the casserole tomorow
OH – I forgot to include the leftover .40 stuffing, .35 gravy, .25 sweet potatoes, not to mention the uncalculated (but not so improportionate from the others) remainder of pumpkin pie and cranberry sauce. 
Please accept my apologies for only two decimal places in my tryptophan-impaired calculations…
Absolutely wonderful, ChaCha – dinner with family at Grandma’s house, getting settled into my new house, just got off the phone with Mom and Dad. I have it all, friend. I have been richly blessed and installed in my home many reminders of this that I may continue to give thanks for so many blessings throughout the year. I have it all. Even some pretty cool friends to share my gratitude with here at HFW, present company certainly included, friend.
a slide rule is the way to go for three places to the right of the decimal
Could you mean mortar board? I never heard of a mitre board. I’d like to see her on a motor boat. {CK ties the anchor to Captain Jack’s ankle.} Marina, you wanna see Captain Jack do a trick?
Guess the turkey is making me sleepy!
Being as a mitre is the Pope’s headgear..!
[gives CJ a scuba and a hacksaw] LOL!
Dear Marina,
Another excellent video.
Homework:
Degrees? Well, the 360 day per year belief was known to me quite a while ago, but I had no idea where the word really came from. Based on your video, one can also easily deduce where the word degrade comes from too. It’s amazing how much and how well you can explain so many things in such a short while.
The beauty of serendipity. It’s like looking for a needle in a giant haystack and ending up finding the farmer’s beautiful daughter one marries for lifelong happiness.
Like you, I also have 2 degrees.
Bachelor of Science and Engineering.
Speaking of Christmas Che has a yule time word request
even though he feels this may go the way his T-Day request went, (ignored)
{ Che folds arms across chest & gives Marina a dirty look }Word request – yule / yuletide & Xmas yes with the ‘X’
Che reads up on how to upload a video request, then finds a disguise of a adolescent boyHi Marina,
I agree.
you are hot for words.
My Russian friend is having trouble understanding so many different meanings of one word.
Baileytehkid—good request, they say high foreheads, have high IQ’s and common intelligence—then the degree of hardness achieved by tempering, steps into the intellectual elite of society and the circle uses an excessive number of words to arti-culate an idea. That word circumlocution; masters job protection. Turkey day songtemperature rising”cold turkey”JLennon Regional Analysis with Communication Processing for back-up [hotforwords is the HOTTEST degree
] What is the lowest highest degree? agree to be free and temper that piano 
The new peace mandala Gravatar is up.
Che will use this until he finds a Christmas Gravatar.
So Marina who copied who in this style of sitting on the floor in a sports bra & shorts with the submissive camera angle?
Did Tania (AtheneWins) copy you or was it vice versa
How did this concept of cinematography come about?
3rd degree burns
3rd degree black belt
Nth degree
Ah Ha!
i still don’t know what degree to take
Take the one that makes the most money down the road with the least expense now,,vocation doesn’t matter cause You’ll be miserable after 30-50 years of the same-old-same-old anyway.
Just kiddin,do what will make ya happy.
I’m stuck between choosing to be a game artist and business man . I want money , but i love games too . Maybe business in the gaming industry
There Ya go,design games then market them yourself,cut out the middle-man Man,Give Marina a piece of the action and advertise here!
Marina,just think,a hot game that was only available thru Your site! You could both make more dollars than Carter ever made pils.
love ya and thanks to all
Wild turkeys are very aggressive, if you meet up with a flock they will chase you.
They haven’t been hunted for many years and lost their fear of humans.
Naaaa,they are hunted in areas where they made a good comeback after stocking back in the 70s-80s. I remember when it was illegal to hunt them and even a sighting was rare.
If you knock back a bottle of Wild Turkey you should have enough “courage” to deal with them. I suggest a hockey stick and a large doggie cage. Just stick handle them into the cage and you are good to go! While catching your breath from all the action… toss some fire crackers into the cage… just to show them who’s the boss!
The one I ate today had totally lost it’s fear of humans.
This is why turkeys are dumb, if you got a shotgun and they walk right up to you it’s dinner time.
Have you seen this?
Pay attention to the background.
Happy Thanksgiving Class and Teacher!!
We have Wild Turkeys here in The Driftless Area.Ben(not Benzo)Franklin wanted the Wild Turkey to be the National bird,good thing He was voted down and the Bald Eagle was named instead. Turkeys are kinda cool but eagles got Em beat big time.
Goes like this; gobble gobble WOOOSH SCREEEEECH big ole THUMPIN roll and SQUEEZE OF TALONS,,then,,turkey dinner for the eagle!! “Heyyyy,Who put all these damn feathers on My dinner’!!”
The School Of Hard Knocks gives bruises and cuts instead of degrees,it doesn’t care for Bachelor,Baccalaureate,Bitch or Bastard,,education hurts
getting sleepy now, very sleepy
too much Tryptophan Zzzzzzzzzzzz
Tryptophan huh? Ever try that over Benzo’s house? Just don’t chew,ole Benzo cooks for effect,not good taste
only got two choices
take a nap or
caffeine
Not bad choices Mr Volet,could be alot worse. I Ya snag into too much caffeine just counter it with a couple tryptophan sandwiches and return to snoozeville.We’ll miss ya but You’ll be back.
Try L-Arginine and Taurine instead.
Same location, different occupation.
Hey all you Canucks don’t you celebrate something today?
Like Harvest Day or something.
Celebrated 1/2 hour overtime today (less then usual). Tonight celebrate national sport, except it’s the old guy, none skating version, floor hockey. After that I’ll celebrate some food and a hot shower, folowed by some celebration on the sealy postrupedic.
Our Canadian Thanksgiving happens in October… probably because we get real hungry up here and can’t wait that long!
Do you put Maple Syrup on your turkey
Nope… we use ketchup… just like you guys do!
i have three degrees (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.)…none of which i now use (long story)…i also have a couple of computing certs, and an accounting cert, plus other coursework adding up to way too much schooling and not enough earning…i’ll never be able to retire…
but i do appreciate your inclination…(-;
I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Communication Arts from C.W. Post. Haven’t gone for my Master’s yet.
Nice lesson, happy to sit in that class.
, but also means “a stair”.
Can I make small addition called “strange stories of words”? Polish “stopień” (similar to Russian, right?) means both degree in geometry and in scientific career (not so modest homework – I have a PhD by the way
STOP-POTS
racecar
Palindrome.
{ . o O thinks … is a palindrome somewhere where people go to race cars fitted with governors?}
Hannah
redivider
Otto
Eve
radar
Fitted with governors?! Fit Yer stickshift with S Palin and never need to leave the pit! With enough high-test fuel in the tank the other drivers might as well be stalled! Matter of fact,they *better* be stalled,Ya don’t want anybody bringin up the rear!!
gocart
chariots
instead of stopping Pots can’t we just dead Pan?…
for all you ppl with OCD just give it up today because your food is going touch the other food in your plate today
I makes all the flavors so much better when they touch. It’s all going to mix when it hits the ole tummy anyway.
that was why i had six different plates…
yeah, that was why…
Yum Food Brands has come up with a super easy way to eat food. Takes less work and is convenient while driving and so on…
Gobble-Gobble-Gobble!
Those feedbags are ideal for glue sniffers
Out in Newfoundland… (the eastern-most? province) they do a lot of “huffing” because they are seeking something fun to do. They spray glue, Lysol, gasoline or whatever is available into a bag to see where it will take them. It is understandable how bored some can get and how easily influenced young people can be… just sad how twisted and damaging it is. Makes smokin’ grass look sane.
that behavior has to damage some brain cells
Some were interviewed on TV and Yup!… they were at a point of no return… really sad.
Darwin seems to have hit upon something.
I have a Fire Science Degree. Even though I can’t fight fire anymore I can still teach fire courses and do live burns. Great lesson Marina. Degree has many meanings and I am glad you cleared that up with a great lesson.
Bachelor of Science degree
Huh, what happened?
Where’s a [delete] key when you need it.
Bachelor of Science
My only degree is in the School of Hard Knocks.
This lesson did not mention degrees of longitude or lattitude. Nor why those got divided into minutes and seconds.
And please get back off the floor. All I can think about is how your hipbone is grinding away at your poor, tender flesh. You will need a massage I am sure to recover. Call me.
No degree here. Was in school to be a teacher of mathematics. On summer break I got into cooking, liked it, and stuck with it ever since.
Would love to go back to college just to go. I would study History, Math, Politics, buisness, and what ever else intrests me.
You would make a fine Chef Smokey. I know your a cook, but just think of what you have learned and you could apply it towards that. Chef’s make a lot of money and a great Chef has a great reputation.
Thank you Capman
If you find something you like ( something that you can make a living doing ) stick with it. Money is nice, but being happy at work is something a lot of people with good PAYING jobs would kill for.
Math is my passion but I do see why some could be less than enthused.
Marina – great lesson; You have encircled me, 360 degrees with heated (a high degree of) contemplation – you have my undivided attention. I have two degrees – one in emotional geography and one in spatial analysis; your linguistic space drives my emotion. My word request is EMOTIVE (feelings in space) Thanks – luv your channel.
Homework
I have two degrees, one in history and another in graphic design!
What is it? Does everybody at this site have a history degree? I feel like such a conformist.
If ur going to have Gorby on the mat while you do the lesson you need to get him a matching outfit.
{ way to go mess with Gorby’s sexual orientation }
Marina:
Hi. Excelent lesson. I wanted to know the origin of the word “cakewalk”, as in an easy process or an easy time.
Hugs and Kisses (chocolate ones).
When I was stationed at Fort Knox, KY, I remember my First Sergeant telling me that this duty station was a cakewalk.
Go easy on the mash potatoes today.
Kinda lost video quality on this one. IS it just me or did everyone notice?
Did you notice she removed this vid off YT for a while then uploaded it again? Must have been some type of technical flaw.
Che Volay, the version I first uploaded was shifted to the left.. so I pulled it and uploaded a corrected version.
Damn liberal video
it should be back to high quality. When I first upload videos, the high quality version is not available right away.. so I embed the low quality version on the website (or else it shows Video No Longer Available) and then when the HQ version is available I manually go in and embed the HQ version.
What are you thankful for?
Me I’m thankful for the close friends that I have, my son, and to have a wonderful teacher like you who comes into my house (via internet) every day.
GOBBLE GOBBLE
Thanks for the clarification, Happy Thanksgiving Marina
Dear Teacher, I have responded to your question below. Please let me know if I have answered to your satisfaction, or if you want to ask me something else on the topic.
Body temperature 98.6 – Keith
The mysterious Masons have degrees also
You should see about getting into the Masons. You can meet a lot of influential and connected people that way. The only problem is that another Mason has to invite you to come to one of their meetings. You just can’t walk in and want to join.
{ psssst giving you the secret handshake }