Ja hear his latest music… [pay] or [pray] or [prey] and tax my soul {free the renters}…Al knows it all…know lost laws and have a GREAT day, greatest potential
There’s more biatches *just joshing* on the name calling stuff. Oh, yes. Never forget that Andy Warhol is the true father of YouTube and Andy Warhol knew his POP CULTURE like Tony the Tiger and Frosty knew their corn flakes.
~Get your 15 minutes of fame here~
So, there’s popularity contest and that’s like dancing with the stars text message your vote in, then we have viewership which is made up of viewers and that’s audience which translates to theater ticket sales and box office net take in$, and of course television ratings, we know it’s all about ratings, who makes the cut who gets their reality tv show on prime time slot and who doesn’t. etc.
Where’s the voice of reason been hiding out? At least Tom Cruise made sense to me when he shouted out “Show me the money!” Talking entrepreneurship here.
If most popular really won the vote Ron Paul would be the next President of the United States of America. In light of what has been going on in the Stock Market as of late would that really be such a horrible thing
I’ve been thinking about this most viewed and most popular issue and how hotforworders should raise their voice on this, who agrees? Don’t answer all at once, you might excite mr. popular here. Anyway, let’s talk. Here’s an idea: hotforwords peeps meets with the top 10 most viewed vlogger sites on YT and they all get together to make some sense of this, at least open a discussion and figure what the hell is going on. I’ve got other ideas and will post those also
I recently read an article on how household pets tend to pick up way more carpet dust and ground thingies than humans because pets will roll around on the floor and pets are lower to the ground. I will look for that article and re-read it. Perhaps there’s an advice column.
Speaking of overrated, Notre Dame is one of my favorite colleges but their football head coach Charlie Weis is so overrated. That fat ass has got to go.
This is new to me, Beck’s beer Yardbird’s Beck and that looser one. American Heritage: ode to the sodbusters and their children labor– –here kitty kitty ok, I beckon to reckon it snowed.
The guys at the senior center decide to get their friend a special treat for his 100th birthday.
Just before lunch a beautiful,young,buxom blonde girl knocks on his door,enters and says: “I’ve come to bring you supersex for your birthday”
The old man thinks for a few seconds and replies:
“I better take the soup”
OK,ONE MORE
An elderly man visits his doctor for a check-up.Upon entering the exam room the doctor gives the usual “how is everything?”
The elderly man says”well doc,I’ll tell ya,I take a piss every morning about 6:30 and I take a shit every morning about 7:15″
The doctor,without looking up from his clipboard says “OK,sounds like everything is working just fine”
The elderly man replies “yeah,but I don’t get up till 7:30″
An elderly couple, still very loving after all these years, is shocked when the woman’s doctor says she has a heart condition that could kill her at any time. She is to avoid stress, eat right, and never, EVER have sex again – the strain would be too much.
The couple reluctantly tries to live by these rules. Both get really horny over time, however, and the husband decides he’d better sleep downstairs on the couch to guard against temptation. This works for a few weeks, until late one night when they meet each other on the stairs – she’s coming downstairs, he’s heading up.
“Honey, I have a confession to make,” the woman says, her voice quavering. “I was about to commit suicide.”
“I’m glad to hear it, sweetie,” the man says, “Because I was just coming upstairs to kill you!”
That was cute… this came in my email the other day…
One night a fellow drove his secretary home after she had imbibed a little too much at an office reception. Although this was an innocent gesture, he decided not to mention it to his wife, who tended to get jealous easily.
The next night the man and his wife were driving to a res- taurant. Suddenly he looked down and spotted a high-heel shoe half hidden under the passenger seat. Not wanting to be conspicuous, he waited until his wife was looking out her window before he scooped up the shoe and tossed it out of the car.
With a sigh of relief, he pulled into the restaurant parking lot. That’s when he noticed his wife squirming around in her seat. “Honey,” she asked, “have you seen my other shoe?”
I feel your pain. You got shafted.
I am sure it is a tradition, but if their final game had been on Saturday night those few percentage points could have been conquered with a game fresher in voters memories.
Now you have to pull for Missouri and hope the ensuing chaos will help change the system.
At least we can be happy that undeserving Ohio State will not be in the championship game this year.
There are so many different theories about how a play off system would work, and so much opposition to it right now, who knows how that would work.
Part of the fun of college ball is the “what-if” part of it all.
Damn, amigo, you made my day! I still live Deep In The Heart, but I sure do appreciate that. The Stevie Ray clip brought back some good memories, especially. Thanks again. Hook Em’!
So I have been banging my head agianst a wall over something and ahve become very frustrated. I live in the State of Oregon that is located within the USA. I recently went on a search for the origin of this name and found a lot of nothing No one seems to know where the name Oregon originated. Was wondering if you could come up with something
It is sugggested that Oregon is a
corruption of the French word for
hurricane, used in early times to
describe the Columbia River.
Again – speculation, no proof
I use to briefly live near Portland area when I got out of the army. Use to go to a strip club called Stars Cabaret.
I also have family in Ashland… and use to in Coos Bay (grandparents died).
Her post said they will be available on 10 December… I would imagine those lucky 100 would be the first to go, if they aren’t already on their way, since Marina has already documented part of the signing process…
No no no! That theory is long since dead. Also your formula is way to complex and can be simplified. Scientists have been wrestling with the feasibility of Santa’s job description since the 1850s. The latest thinking is that delivering one kilogram of presents to the world’s 2.1 billion children (regardless of religious denomination) is entirely realistic, with a little lateral thinking.
Scientists at Nasa, reckon the man from Lapland relies on an antenna that picks up electromagnetic signals from children’s brains to know what presents they want. Assuming an average of 2.5 children per house Mr Claus must make 842 million stops tonight to fill his orders.
By allowing a quarter of a mile between each stop, he must travel 218 million miles with about a thousandth of a second to squeeze down each chimney, unload a stocking, eat a mince pie, swig cooking sherry and get his sleigh airborne again. To achieve this he must travel at 1,280 miles per second. Traveling east to west, he can stretch Christmas Day to 31 hours.
To have enough presents, Santa’s sleigh must carry 400,000 ton of gifts. With the average non-turbocharged reindeer capable of pulling only 150kg, Father Christmas would need 360,000 reindeer to heave his vehicle skyward.
The cavalcade would have a mass of about 500,000 tons which, at the required speed, would cause each reindeer to vaporise in a sonic boom flattening every tree and building within 30 miles. Father Christmas would have a mass of two million kilograms, causing him to combust when his reindeer come to their sudden halt. Poof!!!! So even this theory is disproved.
So what one has to attack the problem with theoretical physics. First, Einstein’s theory of relativity dictates that the faster an object travels, the slower time appears to pass. So at the speed he is traveling, .0001 of a second allows Santa to perform his tasks at leisure pace. Second, as an expert in quantum physics, Mr Claus knows wormholes in the fabric of universe allow him to move instantly from one dimension and place to another. His sleigh is a time-machine powered by an unknown limitless fuel which any economy on the world would have on its Christmas list. Problem solved in about 5 sentences.
Magic. Santa is a Mage of the highest order. Elves are also purported to have magic to lend to the endeavor.
Neither You nor I Capt Jack,have yet explained the real magic tho,Do ya spose it is born of loving parents wishing to make the children happy? The sparkling wonder in a kid’s eye when they still believe in Santa is the magic returning to the parents.
Remember when the Grinch’s heart grew and burst the box it was in? Proof positive.
Well Sir,if ya wanna know,maybe go rent/buy the animated movie The Grinch Who Stole Christmas,,little Cindy Lou Who from Whoville teaches the mean old Grinch a thing or two about himself.
I don’t think You are a grinch capt Jack! I just can’t believe You never saw that old show. I don’t pay much attention to any religious aspects,,just the fact that good nature can be found in the strangest of hearts/places.
LOL che! That’s how I started and was gonna stop there too,,I just couldn’t STFU!! Ahhhhh well,,,good posts all,,or,as Tiny Tim would say “each and every one”.
Russian, and many other children of former Soviet countries get their gifts on New Years Eve. That cuts down on the area immensely.
This must be one of the reasons it is Marina’s favorite holiday.
One Christmas Eve NORAD tracks Santa. So go to NoradSanta.org
to watch for yourself how it is done.
Yes,that would spread the calculations out quite a bit. I just wonder about the east to west theory,,wouldn’t that be going against the prevailing west wind and negate the time-change gains? Not to mention going with the wind might lessen the friction and subsequent vaporization of the reindeer,santa,and,the sled full of toys?
Of course,if there was a failed trial run of a hyper-speed prototype santa it just might explain the Tunguska explosion.
That could be the best explanation of the Tunguska explosion I have heard. The date of that would roughly fit when more metallic toys were being asked for. All that metal on his sled would have to have some effect on the magnetic fields.
If you look at the Norad site on the 24th, you will see his course. He leave the North Pole, and goes west first. So the European kids get their gifts first.
Hmmm,yeah,and around the turn of the century the population was growing rapidly so there may have been the need to develope a hyper-speed santa to get to all the homes in one night.
Tunguska has been studied much,I wonder if they ever thought to look for traces of an experimental sleigh and industrial age toys. Since Santa Claus is a Germanic Saint I wonder if there might be traces of a Steif Bear under one of the flattened trees?
Sadly, by the time anyone got out there to look there would not have been any remains to look for, and since this was Russia, and with the First World War was still a fresh scar any German found that far in the heart land of Russia would have been thought to be a spy.
Also, Russia kids know the gift giver as Grandfather Winter, so any reference to Steif Bear would have just added to anti-German feeling.
I’m sure You are right. I personally like to think that Father Winter and Santa Clause are one and the same,,much like The Great Spirit,God,and all The Gods of yore are one and the same.They took different meanings in the minds of Man so groups of men could have an excuse to control one another,or to fight about it. I’m sure the original concepts came from the hearts of good people looking to explain things they did not understand,then,some not-so-good people learned they could use it to exercise control,thus,the 1st Holy War was probably fought with rocks and clubs.I doubt either Santa or Father Winter would approve.
Not to worry tho,this convo started out cool and is all in good spirit,and,let’s not forget,,,,magic.
From family relations (I’m half Keebler on my mother’s side) I attribute it all to magic. But the science is cool. Does Santa see red and/or blue shift while he works?
Santa does not need to worry about the red and blue shifts while he is flying the reindeer are the only ones who need to see then, and like many animals deer are color blind.
That’s a good question! Yes he would… sort of. As you travel close to c (the physicist’s way of saying ‘the speed of light’) time for you slows down. If you shine a flashlight ahead of you still see the light because even though you are close to c and the light beam is right at c time for you is running so slow that the beam seems to shoot out ahead of you just like it normally does. If you were traveling through space, however, strange things begin to happen. As you pick up speed the stars behind you begin to darken to red and then disappear altogether as the Doppler effect causes their wavelength relative to you to fall well below the visible spectrum. However the stars ahead of you brighten into the blue end of the spectrum as the Doppler effect causes their relative frequency to go up past the visible spectrum into the region of X-rays. They too disappear. The only stars you see are to either side of you close to a right angle to your direction of travel. You’d see a rainbow effect as the stars slightly ahead of directly to the side and slightly behind directly to the side are shifted toward the upper and lower ends of the visible spectrum. Yeah I would venture to guess he would.
Santa Yoda here. Marina would you like to sit on my lap and tell me what you want for Christmas, besides the pink car that’s for your birthday. Whaaahahahahahah
1) No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.
2) There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn’t (appear to) handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total – 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that’s 91.8 million homes. One presumes there’s at least one good child in each.
3) Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc. This means that Santa’s sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second – a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.
4) The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized Lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that “flying reindeer” (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload – not even counting the weight of the sleigh – to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison – this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.
5) 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance – this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecrafts re-entering the earth’s atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy… per second… each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.
In conclusion – If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he’s dead now.
I need to explain what I was taught about how Santa handles the space-time continuum. See, Santa stretches the year’s time out like a giant rubber band, so he has the time of about 200 work-days to make all the deliveries. When Santa’s finished, he returns the space-time continuum to it’s original shape, so it’s like he made all the deliveries in one night!
Thnk of all the happy children, this way!
@John – if you would like, I can teach you to rename those incredibly long links to make them more pleasant and easier to read for our fellow students. reply here if you like, but please do it soon, as I am past my bedtime already.
@CaptainJack – $30k sounds pretty reasonable, I hope I can swing it when they go into production. I remember salivating over the newly retro-designed T-birds a couple of years back – til I saw they wanted $40k for them. Thanks for the info!
Sorry to hear about your yacht deal falling through – times are tough all around. I am sure that the economy will turn and things will work out for you that you may have the yacht of your dreams soon!
Yeah, thats what I heard. It’s the same price that the Corbin Sparrow was going for. I also looked into a local company that is now producing a electric car called Tango http://www.commutercars.com/ It has some impressive performance figures. Then when I heard of the Telsa’s performance I was very impressed. But when I saw it I was disappointed. Im tired of the JELLY BEAN cars that are out there today. I want something that is different. That’s why the Aptera caught my attention. I fell in love with it the first time I seen it on the local news. The only thing that worries me is the battery technology is still in its infancy. I use Li-pos in my R/C helicopters and they work great. But the life span of them is crap. I bought 4 lipos for my little heli at $20 each and got about 8 flights out of them. I bought 2 lipos for my big bird which run about $60 a piece and Im at about 40 flight and still going. But not sure how long they will last. I hate paying for maintenance costs. I want to buy it once and have it last a 10 years at least.
With all that said I would still buy one because you can just put in better batteries later on. If you buy one make sure you get the hybrid. On my electric scooter it was a challenge to find an outlet. You would be surprised where I found power. I should take photos of the places I pugged in to.
I was lucky that there was a second buyer to take over the yacht. Boats aren’t selling right now. But I see tough times a great opportunities. Things are going for cheap. We are kicking out the evil empire and we have some new leaders that are going to do some house cleaning. We are going to see some really great times in the future.
Twitter me if you like – I just posted pics of my new house Housing prices at an all-time low, plus willing seller = two winners walk away from the closing table!
ok.. 4 if you count the attorney and the dual agent
There is a phrase I hear sometimes that I don’t really understand: “Four ways from Sunday”. When it’s used, I suppose I know what is being said, but it’s such a surreal expression that I would love to have its origin explained.
@Capman LOL at the car pic – I’ve visited the site 4 times, and have yet to find that one – must be randomised or something, and I am rolling a string of sevens. Thanks for the faerie pics yesterday, too, BTW.
A man went to church one day and afterward he stopped to shake the preacher’s hand. He said ‘Preacher, I’ll tell you, that was a damned fine sermon. Damned good!’
The preacher said, ‘Thank you sir, but I’d rather you didn’t use
profanity.’
The man said, ‘I was so damned impressed with that sermon I put five thousand dollars in the offering plate!’
Marina I have a word request Scientology. As some people like Tom Cruise believe in this. I don’t know what it means or understand it’s origin or meaning. Is it a different form of religion or evolution. I know you try to stay away from religion, but does it have anything to do with religion?
This was (is) a religion(???) Created by L. Ron Hubbard.
The people involved with this are very sensitive about it. Isaac Hayes (voice of Chef) left South Park when they made fun of Scientology. Funny he had no problem when they made fun of:
Catholics
Blacks
Mexicans
Canadains
Jews
Mormons
Gays
The disabled
Im at my sisters cat Axel’s beck and call. Dog’s have masters – cat’s have servants. I have never had anyone at my B&C that I can remember. It would be nice to have someone at my B&C. But I would only allow it if I could return the favor. The guilt trip would drive me nuts. I believe life should be a two ways street. You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours ( bit longer ).
Oh wait.. I just remembered. Im at Marina’s Beck and Call. Yea that TA thing. Funny thing is I don’t get called on that much. M is very independent. I like that in a woman. Those are the kind of people I like to serve. The ones who don’t need it but deserve it. Well there’s not much one can do over the internet. I did find a way to buy her a cup of coffee. I even found a servant to make it and pour it for her. All M had to do is go out and get it. Yea I haven’t figured how to get it delivered to her door yet. So in a way Im at M’s B&C and so are the other TAs.
Hey thats my dream car! How did you know that? You been spying on my computer again? Oh wait I think I posted a link about the Aptera and the Gizmo somewhere here.
I have already looked into it. The guys I emailed said it would be around $27k for all electric and $30 with gas engine. Thats what stopped me from further considering it for now. I want to use bio-diesel in it but Cali law won’t allow any diesels. Once that is solved then I might look into it more. I almost bought the gizmo. Too ugly for my taste. I looked at Corbin but they went bankrupt. Now I hear they are back. Still Aptera is to my tastes.
Oh, noooooo! I would stay away from that thing if I were you, Marina. The design is snazzy, but my gut says it is more suitable for aviation than travelling in ground traffic.
Look at the front. Where is the bumper? Does it meet mandatory automobile standards for anything other than being a subject for photography? Yikes! Think of how the three-wheel stance will react to being T-boned by a Volkswagon Beetle, much less a big SUV; it’s going to go rolling down the street like an empty garbage can in a high wind. And should it come up quickly on the rear of anything bigger than a tricycle, the swoopy-doopy shape will shoehorn it right underneath. Ouch. If you ever set foot in that deathtrap, at the very least, you’d better set up a videocam inside so you can make that final video,The Last Moments of HotForWords, A Study in Hollywood’s Deadly Dalliance in Chic Transportation.
Compared to a stainless steel morgue slab, your kitchen floor is a warm as comfy a feather bed, so get a (relatively) bulletproof Crown Victoria and come back home to us safely; it’s not sexy, but it’s intelligent.
I met a guy up at YouTube Live who was doing or may be doing some business with them and he told me about them. Cool that you wrote about them as well! I think I would look dandy tooling around town in my pink one!!!
No not all pink Marina you would look like a Mary Kay cosmetics woman they all have pink cars. How about a black one with pink flames that would be HOT
Well I wouldn’t be caught dead in a pink Aptera, But if that’s what you like then that’s the color your Aptera shall be. I think it would be fantastic to see you flying around town with a pink Aptera.
If I where to get an Aptera, I would have some kind of custom air brushed graphics on it. I seen some cool looking Corbin Sparrows around town with some interesting graphics on them.
Corbin was all set to go with preorders, and then Ford bought the company that was going to make the transmissions and queered the deal by refusing to supply Corbin!
At Ford Quality is job 1 Sabotage is job 1
No wonder OPEC still has US by the throat…
DUCKS IN HEAVEN!!!
Three women die together in an accident and go to heaven.
When they get there, St. Peter says,
‘We only have one rule here in heaven: don’t step on the ducks!’
So they enter heaven, and sure enough, there are ducks all over the place.
It is almost impossible not to step on a duck, and although they try their best to avoid them, the first woman accidentally steps on one.
Along comes St. Peter with the ugliest man she ever saw.
St. Peter chains them together and says, ‘Your punishment for stepping on a duck is to spend eternity chained to this ugly man!’
The next day, the second woman steps accidentally on a duck
and along comes St. Peter, who doesn’t miss a thing.
With him is another extremely ugly man.
He chains them together with the same admonishment as for the first woman.
The third woman has observed all this and, not wanting to be chained for all eternity to an ugly man, is very,
VERY careful where she steps.
She manages to go months without stepping on any ducks,
but one day St. Peter comes up to her with the most handsome man she has ever laid eyes on …. very tall, long eyelashes, muscular.
St. Peter chains them together without saying a word.
The happy woman says, ‘I wonder what I did to deserve being
chained to you for all of eternity?’
The guy says, ‘I don’t know about you,
If ducks are in heaven, then Gilligan’s Island is in hell…
The Seven Deadly Sins of Gilligan’s Island theory is quite simple. Each of the seven characters on the island represents each of the seven deadly sins. Now, this theory seems to fit upon initial inspection, there are technical difficulties when you get down to THE MAN himself, Gilligan.
Run with me on this one…
Most obvious is the Professor, who fits PRIDE to a T. Any man who can make a ham radio out of some wire and two coconuts has to be pretty cocky. (His character was later revised and given a series of his own, called MacGuyver”.)
For the sin of ENVY we need look no further than Maryann, who may have worn those skimpy little tops, but could never achieve Ginger’s glamour. (As an interesting and completely irrelevant side note, a nationwide survey of college students a few years ago revealed that the professor and Maryann were voted the most likely couple to have ‘done it’ on the island.)
And who could doubt for a moment that Ginger is LUST incarnate? Sure, the kids were supposed to think she was ACTING, but we all know what being deprived episode after episode was doing to her. You know and I know that glazed look wasn’t boredom, my friends.
What kind of person takes a trunk full of money on a three-hour cruise? Mr. Howell gets my vote for GREED.
We are now left with three characters and three Deadly Sins. We have Gilligan, the Skipper and Mrs. Howell to whom we must match GLUTTONY, SLOTH and ANGER. As you can see, there is a Gilligan problem here.
Certainly we can further eliminate Mrs. Howell from this equation by connecting her with SLOTH. She did jack shit during her many years on the island and everybody knows it.
This leaves ANGER and GLUTTONY, either of which the Skipper had no shortage. He was, after all, a big guy with the tendency to hit Gilligan with his hat at least once an episode. After much consideration, I have decided that he can easily do double-duty, covering the two remaining Deadly Sins.
So here we have the Seven Deadly Sins trapped in an endlessly recurring Hell of hope followed by denial and despair, forced to live with each other in our TVs until the last re-run ends. And who is their captor? What keeps them trapped there?
Hmm… putting myself in Satan’s shoes, in order to acquire more souls in hell, would’t I wish to unleash these sins on the world, rather than have them safely contained on an inescapable island?
Or, in God’s shoes, it’s exactly where I don’t want them either. I would want the seven unleashed on the world to tempt man, that salvation be worthy of attainment – or, rather even the attempt at attainment – else, why would man bother?
moreso, as God, would I want an untested man in heaven? to be sure, there are many prisoners behind bars right now who haven’t committed crimes in years… because they are behind bars!
I like todays quote of the day.Here is one I heard recently,”experience is what you will get when you don’t get what you want”,as stated in the “last lecture” speech by the late Randy Pausch.Check it out!!Maybe someone can post a link,truly inspirational!
Good judgement is the result of experience.
Experience is often the result of poor judgement.
I can’t remember where I read that or who originally said it; maybe someone knows?
The corollary is, you should never be afraid of making mistakes because if you don’t, you’ll never learn anything.
However, smart people learn from the mistakes of others, believing that they will never have the time to make all the mistakes themselves.
Bob said “smart people learn from the mistakes of others” but isn’t the only thing they learn is how to make mistakes, most smart people only reveal thier successful ways to a select few. Or am I incorrect?
Should I make some mistake in life, John, I would gladly share with all my friends, and anyone who asked, as well as anyone who I discover to be about to enter into a similar situation, freely and without reservation. Perhaps someone with whom I share my mistakes with will share with me theirs, should our positions be reversed.
Thank you very much for the rational post, absent of blatant abuse toward other users. Please continue similarly.
I have been labeled as being brutally honest not so much to offend as to get ideas and thoughts across to others Things i could do without thinking about have somehow become things that i have to put much thought into since becoming a member of this forum.
I think,in today’s society,people are saying “call me on the cell”,or “I’ll call you on the cell and we will meet somewhere”. It pretty much means the same as “beck and call” but updated to the electronic age of cell phones. And in the UK,people refer to the cell phone as “the mobile”, pronounced mo-bile. Have a great day!!!!
Well I am late for class again, but it’s nice to sleep in late. I don’t really have to beck and call any more as being like Bob and a few others on here retired and all. I do help my friends when they need it. So I guess that is a little B&C left in me.
@Marina is Gorby feeling better today? I sure hope so.
We are so used to seeing faces not look truly expressive and natural in animation, that this unique technique is really a knockout. There have been some very amateurish use of it on TV, but there’s been no attempt at really doing a good job like this. I wonder when this clip’s quality will enter TV on a big scale?
Hey, Marina, this would be a good media for demonstrating word origins, but I have the feeling that the labor involved in doing the animation would highly cost-prohibitive.
Copied and edited from my post yesterday to originalistrick – maybe something here for you, friend:
You’ve been here a little while, now – all noobs are given a mutant alien image on their posts… if you click it, you can upload a photo to personalise it. As well, the ‘Dashboard’ tab at the top right of the page will take you to a profile page wherein you can change your display name to be equal to your ‘nickname’ – whatever you like, spaces and some punctuation are allowed. Thirdly, there you can add an URL in the Website field. This will turn your name blue, like mine, and link it to that URL. Most use their YouTube channel, but mine is a bit different. Enjoy!
* to change your display name, first enter desired name in the ‘nickname’ field, Update Profile at the bottom, select Display Name Pubicly as drop-down list, and update again. your next post or reply will reflect changes made here.
Changing your photo, or ‘Gravatar’ is retroactive to all your posts on this site.
Thanks friend!I will be changing my gravatar soon but will always keep some form of tigtig in my usernames as an homage to the best cat in the world…Tigger, RIP
Methinks most people on earth are simply the beck and call of materialism. They’d do pretty much anything provided you put a short term gain on it. If they are more resilient, they’ll run for mid term gains. Long term? Forget about it. Prostitutes or Mercenaries? I’d say so, motivated solely by a desire of some material gain.
“You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You have all the fears of mortals and the desires of immortals.”
A rational approach to materialism is what gives you the luxury of considering other things. Cave men were busy hunting/gathering food and fighting off woolly mamoths to consider the importance of prime numbers. Once you have saved food for the winter you can devote some time to other pass times.
I believe you should have a balance of living as if you will live for 100 years AND as if you might die tomorrow. 80 is not a great age to start sky-diving; but before a 25 year old with a family gives it a try he/she should know that their family will be provided for ( forgive me for ending my proposition with a preposition ).
It isn’t ( shouldn’t be ) fear but rational acknowledgement of one’s responsibilities; both to yourself and to those who will have to take up the slack if you are killed or injured.
If you have a family, but have an adequate insurance policy that will provide a living and an education for your children should you die, go sky-diving and enjoy it! The odds of getting killed are slight ( but not zero ) and a responsible adult should be able to have some fun, but responsibly.
Some do take materialism overboard, but more do not take it seriously enough, and expect others to reshape their lives around their mostly self created tragedies. There is generally a lot of disappointment with this type of ‘plan’.
“A rational approach to materialism is what gives you the luxury of considering other things. Cave men were busy hunting/gathering food and fighting off woolly mamoths to consider the importance of prime numbers. Once you have saved food for the winter you can devote some time to other pass times.”
Orion, I have some trouble agreeing with what you said. Think about the men who painted the Altamira and Lascaux caves, 17,000 years ago. They had time to observe and paint the skies, to see the taurus constellation in the form of the aurochs they hunted. So you can’t tell me they had no time left to think about their condition. They were perhaps much closer to the reality of things and to the essence of the universe than we are today. I think we are the ones that live in some kind of virtual, messed-up, fuzzy world, where black becomes white and white becomes black, where virtue becomes vice and vice becomes virtue. Hunting aurochs with obsidian knives was probably much more thrilling and fullfilling than typing on a computer keyboard or answering some comment on the net from someone you don’t know at all.
Having said this, I respect your opinion, which is of course as valuable as mine, because none of us can be proved right or wrong.
I will go out on a limb and say that the care artists weren’t starving at the moments they drew their paintings and made man’s first astronomical observations; I’m darn near certain they weren’t drawing with one hand and fending off a sabre-tooth tiger with the other.
Should you wish to go hunt deer ( or cattle ) with a knife instead of a gun I won’t give you any argument ( PETA will, but not me ).
You probably have a job; you may or may not be happy with it. As you and I type on the keyboard we may or may not have other interests. I study Math in my retirement years; something I can afford to do because I prepared for my retirement, mostly material preparations.
Cavemen PROBABLY didn’t live to be my age ( then again when Elvis was my age he’d been dead for 18 years ). I like my reality, however convoluted it is. For the most part I enjoyed my time in the Navy. I’m not much of a farmer ( if vegetable gardens are an indicator ) and less of a fisherman. I truly doubt I’d make it as a hunter. I used to be a fair mechanic, and I got true enjoyment working on my own car, but I couldn’t have made a living at it. But society’s 40 hour work week ( actually I usually put in more ) gave me the opportunity on my off time to explore these things and many others.
BTW I also enjoy these conversations with folks face to face.
I too respect your opinion; you have the liberty ( with few restrictions ) to live the life you choose, but I draw the line at ‘have-nots’ who got that way by being ‘work nots’ and now think that I should ’share’. I promise not to dissuade you from you sharing what you earned with others to whatever extent you feel appropriate.
I am an Engineer by education ( I never worked as an Engineer in the Navy or after but it makes a dandy hobby ). In the Navy I swore an oath to defend the Constitution; which pretty much covers defending YOUR right to seeking YOUR happiness. I have pretty much found mine ( which includes blathering to the point think I am a philosopher ).
Good luck seeking what makes you happy. Sincerely.
Wow! This is a too-rarified atmosphere for me. {CK stuffs another forkfull of leftover Thanksgiving stuffing in his mouth and clicks the TV remote to skip over the commercial in the middle of America’s Most Filthy, Vile, Disgusting AND NUDE Shocking Videos XVII.}
Hey there, engineer… I’ve got a few engineering jokes for ya!
Two engineering students on their way to class meet on the side walk.
“Hey nice bike you have there! Where did get you it?”
“A nice looking girl rode up to me on the way home yesterday, jumped off her bike and took off her clothes and said I could have anything I wanted.”
“Good choice, the clothes probably wouldn’t have fit”.
*****
Three engineering students were gathered together discussing the possible designers of the human body. One said, “It was a mechanical engineer. Just look at all the joints.” Another said, “No, it was an electrical engineer. The nervous system has many thousands of electrical connections.” The last said, “Actually it was a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area?”
*****
A Mathematician, a Biologist and a Physicist are sitting in a street cafe watching people going in and coming out of the house on the other side of the street. First they see two people going into the house. Time passes. After a while they notice three persons coming out of the house.
The Physicist concludes: “The measurement wasn’t accurate.”
The Biologist concludes: “They have reproduced.”
The Mathematician concludes: “If exactly 1 person enters the house, then it will be empty again.”
A priest, a lawyer, and an engineer are sentenced to die on the guillotine. The priest is brought up first, asked if he has any last words, and is laid on the plank. The rope is pulled but the blade doesn’t drop. The priest jumps up and yells ‘Its the will of God, you must set me free’. THe judges confer and agree; the priest is set free. The guillotine is inspected and found to be okay. THe lawyer is brought up, asked if he has any last words, and he is laid down. The rope is pulled, but again the blade fails to drop. The lawyer jumps up and yells ‘You’ve set a precedent; you must set me free too’. Again, the judges confer and agree and the lawyer is set free. One more time the guillotine is inspected and found to be okay. The engineer is brought up, asked if he has any last words. The engineer says ‘Oh, wait, I see the problem….’
Yeah, it was nice to see Billie Piper nude. I wish they showed a little more than her brief nipple shots, but at least I got to see a nice view of her bare ass! They use to have a link of Billie Piper nude on YouTube, but it looks like it got removed.
Hey Bsomebody. I don’t know if I have sent you this message from Mijj yet, but he needs for you to get up with him about your video. You can get him at the Frosty enumerator site..
I am at NOBODY’S beck and call,,,unless of course,,they PAY Me!! Alright,that’s not entirely true,I will get up and go help My Family or friends when I truly believe they need it,if I think they fu@#ed up after they were warned then they are pretty much on their own to learn their lessons the hard way,tough love like that is needed(sometimes)as a memory aid and it is how it went/goes for Me. Then there’s forgiveness,gotta toss that in the mix too,maybe I’m just an old softie after all.Dangitallanyway.
Woohoo! I got it! Thx, Fianchetto. Cookies did not help, but I deleted my history, and that fixed it. I did not know that was a peace symbol. I also have no idea what a mandala is. I thought Che was writing in Spanglish. {Somebody sneaks off to google mandala}
OIC! Okay, that is preddy kewl. I have been thinking of what to do to refresh my gravatar. I had thought of a yin-yang, but they are overused and under appreciated. I am Christian, and I do not like to use a cross. The mandala rocks! {Somebody scratches his head, pondering the multitudes of possible gravatars…}
Of course not! I like it when people pose questions about the lesson! You had a valid concern and expressed it! Just realize that I am always right and everything will be fine! JUST KIDDING!!! Now what I can’t figure out is WHY ARE ADS NOT SHOWING UP ON THIS LESSON AS WELL??? I understand dick not showing ads but beck and call???
I thought it was kind of a “swords into plowshares” kind of thing. I was not bagging on your gravatar. I meant it is still a turkey. I still see your old gravatar. I want to see this; NM is a huge hero of mine.
Has nothing to do with NM not even pronounce the same, I think you are just joshing with me
(mŭn’də-lə) Pronunciation Key
n. Any of various ritualistic geometric designs symbolic of the universe, used in Hinduism and Buddhism as an aid to meditation.
Between houses recently, I used a relative’s older computer to keep up here. On her machine, the gravatars never were updated from the first time I logged on there – on her machine, capman is still a green Harley, ChaCha is still a Joe Cool Goldfish, and Che is still a turkey (LOL sorry, Che – I just noticed how that reads, but I’m gonna leave it anyway, brother;-) On my blackberry and my ~2-year-old computer, everybody’s gravatar updates properly. Perhaps try deleting your cookies/browsing history/cached files might help, but I never could get hers to update. Hope something works for you, mate!
Marina, you haven’t told us which day in December is your birthday, so, as it’s the first day of December already in New Zealand, I’m going to be the first to wish you a Happy Birthmonth.
and when are the calendars being mailed?…i have to do my holiday decorating, you know, and if i put the calendar up on my mantle, Santa is sure to leave me better gifts…
Recently re-retired I am not at anyone’s beck and call except for theose in my life who would drop everything if I asked for help. It’s a good feeling.
If i have anyone at my beck and call they should let me know, and if I am at someones beck and call they should let me know, ( as long as its not my fathers widow or a money lender)
Just caught up on Twitter.
Congratulations on getting to 150,000 subscribers.
Very sorry to read about Gorby’s illness. I hope he’s on the mend and will soon be back to his old self.
I nearly died laughing @ 55 seconds into the video, when you threw Gorby onto the sofa beside you and pulled a face.
The look on Gorby’s face just said, “What have I done now?”
He obviously wants you to be at his beck and call, Marina.
As for me, I’m at my wife’s beck and call, but when we go to Thailand she spends all her time with her mother and leaves her five younger sisters and our three nephews at my beck and call.
Can it get any better? Beautiful women without the commitment and kids who can be handed back to their parents if they start to misbehave.
But I love them all.
No I thought Bob was an Englishman who married a Thai women he lives in Scotland where they put a lot of butter on the food. Teatime is anytime with ginger cookies is fine.
Che is right about the nationality but wrong about the baldness. OK, it’s receding but there’s still a brown crew cut in place – not bad for a 65 year old. also, the beard was red, which was very popular with the ladies when I worked in Africa and Egypt, but is more salt and pepper now.
Bsomebody, is right about the meals though. Some are a bit too interesting – at the moment, she’s stir-frying Chickens feet and chilli of which I shall not be partaking.
It’s bad enough smelling it cooking – no surprise that the Thais always do their cooking outdoors.
I’m at my country’s Beck and call
~Get your 15 minutes of fame here~
POPULAR would be an interesting word request
So, there’s popularity contest and that’s like dancing with the stars text message your vote in, then we have viewership which is made up of viewers and that’s audience which translates to theater ticket sales and box office net take in$, and of course television ratings, we know it’s all about ratings, who makes the cut who gets their reality tv show on prime time slot and who doesn’t. etc.
Seems fun to have people at your beck and call …. I would like to someday
I recently read an article on how household pets tend to pick up way more carpet dust and ground thingies than humans because pets will roll around on the floor and pets are lower to the ground. I will look for that article and re-read it. Perhaps there’s an advice column.
Happy Early Birthday Teacher! You said this is what you wanted. Sorry, this was all I could afford – http://www.helloboquete.com/marina.html
I think you are at Kobe’s beck and call.
I always had that one wrong. I am generally at beck and call for my mother, but she doesn’t abuse it.
Yes, took forever to get in…don’t know what was wrong. As usual, great video!
Word Request-Overrated
Speaking of overrated, Notre Dame is one of my favorite colleges but their football head coach Charlie Weis is so overrated. That fat ass has got to go.
This is new to me, Beck’s beer
Yardbird’s Beck and that looser one. 
American Heritage: ode to the sodbusters and their children labor– 
–here kitty kitty 
ok, I beckon to reckon it snowed.
The guys at the senior center decide to get their friend a special treat for his 100th birthday.
Just before lunch a beautiful,young,buxom blonde girl knocks on his door,enters and says: “I’ve come to bring you supersex for your birthday”
The old man thinks for a few seconds and replies:
“I better take the soup”
OK,ONE MORE
An elderly man visits his doctor for a check-up.Upon entering the exam room the doctor gives the usual “how is everything?”
The elderly man says”well doc,I’ll tell ya,I take a piss every morning about 6:30 and I take a shit every morning about 7:15″
The doctor,without looking up from his clipboard says “OK,sounds like everything is working just fine”
The elderly man replies “yeah,but I don’t get up till 7:30″
LOL… yuck
An elderly couple, still very loving after all these years, is shocked when the woman’s doctor says she has a heart condition that could kill her at any time. She is to avoid stress, eat right, and never, EVER have sex again – the strain would be too much.
The couple reluctantly tries to live by these rules. Both get really horny over time, however, and the husband decides he’d better sleep downstairs on the couch to guard against temptation. This works for a few weeks, until late one night when they meet each other on the stairs – she’s coming downstairs, he’s heading up.
“Honey, I have a confession to make,” the woman says, her voice quavering. “I was about to commit suicide.”
“I’m glad to hear it, sweetie,” the man says, “Because I was just coming upstairs to kill you!”
That was cute… this came in my email the other day…
Dear Teach – Sure glad your boy’s home! Hope he continues to recover fully. Always.
I would like to Know where the word Quest/Adventure comes from. Thanks in advance.
Mevinv
Since Marina and I both share the same birthday (Dec. 10th), does this mean we’re both at eachother’s beck and call?
Don’t get too excited. It only takes 27 people in a group for there to be a high likelyhood of two of them having the same b’day.
It doesn’t really matter anyway…I was born in ‘62 and am old enough to be Marina’s father!
That’s okay. As I’m administering her birthday spanking, I’ll be singing, “who’s your daddy?”…
Marina!!! I am a sapiosexual for you!!!
Can you do that word in your next lesson please???
sapiosexual!!! come on baby!!!! I came to your site to request it huahuahua!
xoxox
Guess what I saw!!!
Wood?
If you had said “who” I would have guessed “Elvis”
Wood!!!
huhhuh, he said “wood”.
I saw the sea.
I see the saw.
It was an old saw…
What did you see?
kerf
Swarf.
How about the word Carnival?
The St. Louis Carnivals? Sorry, I don’t follow baseball.
Never heard of the Carnivals and what kind of the name is that?
You mean St. Louis Cardinals.
It’s nice that Cynthia Ettinger went topless in that show Carnivale.
(She would have been one hot Martha Kent for that show Smallville.)
God DAMN the BCS!!!
Longhorns fan?
Yep. Alum.
I feel your pain. You got shafted.
I am sure it is a tradition, but if their final game had been on Saturday night those few percentage points could have been conquered with a game fresher in voters memories.
Now you have to pull for Missouri and hope the ensuing chaos will help change the system.
At least we can be happy that undeserving Ohio State will not be in the championship game this year.
Thanks for the condolences, Pandion. You’re right. Until there’s a playoff, this B.S. can happen to ANY team.
There are so many different theories about how a play off system would work, and so much opposition to it right now, who knows how that would work.
Part of the fun of college ball is the “what-if” part of it all.
I work at a college that looks like they will win another NAIA football championship (this will be #6 in 7 years)
For Rick’s pleasure…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z8l9YNSEbM
Dezdkado, you are the MAN!
IF you are far from Texas, Rick, here’s something to remember her by…
Texas Our Texas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5UXmzseb2w&fmt=18
ZZ Top: La Grange
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO8FNXXKvWo&fmt=18
Stevie Ray Vaughn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWLw7nozO_U&fmt=18
Bluest Eyes in Texas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGeEtYDZNJQ&fmt=18
Willie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8b8I2_Ik3E&fmt=18
Damn, amigo, you made my day! I still live Deep In The Heart, but I sure do appreciate that. The Stevie Ray clip brought back some good memories, especially. Thanks again. Hook Em’!
Texas wants you anyway
Good one, BillyB
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&vid=a5b4e253-fbe4-4b07-82eb-a43517e3680c
Weird Turkey
or perhaps, “strange bird”
Guss what I herd!!!
Sheep
Smokey sheep i don’t get it
OK GOT IT
Montana – where men are men,
and sheep are nervous
I swear I was only helping him over the fence
Nuh-uh… I saw your velcro gloves
So I have been banging my head agianst a wall over something
and ahve become very frustrated. I live in the State of Oregon that is located within the USA. I recently went on a search for the origin of this name and found a lot of nothing 
No one seems to know where the name Oregon originated. Was wondering if you could come up with something 
Some American place names have no origin. They are just made up names.
Nothing definite here, but lots of good info…
http://www.oregonlink.com/namingoforegon.html
It is sugggested that Oregon is a
corruption of the French word for
hurricane, used in early times to
describe the Columbia River.
Again – speculation, no proof
I use to briefly live near Portland area when I got out of the army. Use to go to a strip club called Stars Cabaret.
I also have family in Ashland… and use to in Coos Bay (grandparents died).
Her post said they will be available on 10 December… I would imagine those lucky 100 would be the first to go, if they aren’t already on their way, since Marina has already documented part of the signing process…
hey marina!, i think you should find out about the word “Bong” please make a lesson!
@ Dezdkado
No no no! That theory is long since dead.
Also your formula is way to complex and can be simplified. Scientists have been wrestling with the feasibility of Santa’s job description since the 1850s. The latest thinking is that delivering one kilogram of presents to the world’s 2.1 billion children (regardless of religious denomination) is entirely realistic, with a little lateral thinking.
Scientists at Nasa, reckon the man from Lapland relies on an antenna that picks up electromagnetic signals from children’s brains to know what presents they want. Assuming an average of 2.5 children per house Mr Claus must make 842 million stops tonight to fill his orders.
By allowing a quarter of a mile between each stop, he must travel 218 million miles with about a thousandth of a second to squeeze down each chimney, unload a stocking, eat a mince pie, swig cooking sherry and get his sleigh airborne again. To achieve this he must travel at 1,280 miles per second. Traveling east to west, he can stretch Christmas Day to 31 hours.
To have enough presents, Santa’s sleigh must carry 400,000 ton of gifts. With the average non-turbocharged reindeer capable of pulling only 150kg, Father Christmas would need 360,000 reindeer to heave his vehicle skyward.
The cavalcade would have a mass of about 500,000 tons which, at the required speed, would cause each reindeer to vaporise in a sonic boom flattening every tree and building within 30 miles. Father Christmas would have a mass of two million kilograms, causing him to combust when his reindeer come to their sudden halt. Poof!!!! So even this theory is disproved.
So what one has to attack the problem with theoretical physics. First, Einstein’s theory of relativity dictates that the faster an object travels, the slower time appears to pass. So at the speed he is traveling, .0001 of a second allows Santa to perform his tasks at leisure pace. Second, as an expert in quantum physics, Mr Claus knows wormholes in the fabric of universe allow him to move instantly from one dimension and place to another. His sleigh is a time-machine powered by an unknown limitless fuel which any economy on the world would have on its Christmas list. Problem solved in about 5 sentences.
Magic. Santa is a Mage of the highest order. Elves are also purported to have magic to lend to the endeavor.
Neither You nor I Capt Jack,have yet explained the real magic tho,Do ya spose it is born of loving parents wishing to make the children happy? The sparkling wonder in a kid’s eye when they still believe in Santa is the magic returning to the parents.
Remember when the Grinch’s heart grew and burst the box it was in? Proof positive.
I wouldn’t know.
Well Sir,if ya wanna know,maybe go rent/buy the animated movie The Grinch Who Stole Christmas,,little Cindy Lou Who from Whoville teaches the mean old Grinch a thing or two about himself.
I don’t think You are a grinch capt Jack! I just can’t believe You never saw that old show. I don’t pay much attention to any religious aspects,,just the fact that good nature can be found in the strangest of hearts/places.
one word – MAGIC
LOL che! That’s how I started and was gonna stop there too,,I just couldn’t STFU!!
Ahhhhh well,,,good posts all,,or,as Tiny Tim would say “each and every one”.
Russian, and many other children of former Soviet countries get their gifts on New Years Eve. That cuts down on the area immensely.
This must be one of the reasons it is Marina’s favorite holiday.
One Christmas Eve NORAD tracks Santa. So go to NoradSanta.org
to watch for yourself how it is done.
Yes,that would spread the calculations out quite a bit. I just wonder about the east to west theory,,wouldn’t that be going against the prevailing west wind and negate the time-change gains? Not to mention going with the wind might lessen the friction and subsequent vaporization of the reindeer,santa,and,the sled full of toys?
Of course,if there was a failed trial run of a hyper-speed prototype santa it just might explain the Tunguska explosion.
That could be the best explanation of the Tunguska explosion I have heard. The date of that would roughly fit when more metallic toys were being asked for. All that metal on his sled would have to have some effect on the magnetic fields.
If you look at the Norad site on the 24th, you will see his course. He leave the North Pole, and goes west first. So the European kids get their gifts first.
Hmmm,yeah,and around the turn of the century the population was growing rapidly so there may have been the need to develope a hyper-speed santa to get to all the homes in one night.
Tunguska has been studied much,I wonder if they ever thought to look for traces of an experimental sleigh and industrial age toys. Since Santa Claus is a Germanic Saint I wonder if there might be traces of a Steif Bear under one of the flattened trees?
Sadly, by the time anyone got out there to look there would not have been any remains to look for, and since this was Russia, and with the First World War was still a fresh scar any German found that far in the heart land of Russia would have been thought to be a spy.
Also, Russia kids know the gift giver as Grandfather Winter, so any reference to Steif Bear would have just added to anti-German feeling.
I’m sure You are right. I personally like to think that Father Winter and Santa Clause are one and the same,,much like The Great Spirit,God,and all The Gods of yore are one and the same.They took different meanings in the minds of Man so groups of men could have an excuse to control one another,or to fight about it. I’m sure the original concepts came from the hearts of good people looking to explain things they did not understand,then,some not-so-good people learned they could use it to exercise control,thus,the 1st Holy War was probably fought with rocks and clubs.I doubt either Santa or Father Winter would approve.
Not to worry tho,this convo started out cool and is all in good spirit,and,let’s not forget,,,,magic.
Good job captain jack WELL DONE
LOL, nice Captain…
From family relations (I’m half Keebler on my mother’s side) I attribute it all to magic. But the science is cool. Does Santa see red and/or blue shift while he works?
Santa does not need to worry about the red and blue shifts while he is flying the reindeer are the only ones who need to see then, and like many animals deer are color blind.
That’s a good question! Yes he would… sort of. As you travel close to c (the physicist’s way of saying ‘the speed of light’) time for you slows down. If you shine a flashlight ahead of you still see the light because even though you are close to c and the light beam is right at c time for you is running so slow that the beam seems to shoot out ahead of you just like it normally does. If you were traveling through space, however, strange things begin to happen. As you pick up speed the stars behind you begin to darken to red and then disappear altogether as the Doppler effect causes their wavelength relative to you to fall well below the visible spectrum. However the stars ahead of you brighten into the blue end of the spectrum as the Doppler effect causes their relative frequency to go up past the visible spectrum into the region of X-rays. They too disappear. The only stars you see are to either side of you close to a right angle to your direction of travel. You’d see a rainbow effect as the stars slightly ahead of directly to the side and slightly behind directly to the side are shifted toward the upper and lower ends of the visible spectrum. Yeah I would venture to guess he would.
Lately, “Beck and call” makes me think of conservative commentator Glenn Beck.
Santa Yoda here. Marina would you like to sit on my lap and tell me what you want for Christmas,
besides the pink car that’s for your birthday. 
WhaaahahahahahahHere’s a funny about Santa…
Is There a Santa Claus?
1) No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.
2) There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn’t (appear to) handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total – 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that’s 91.8 million homes. One presumes there’s at least one good child in each.
3) Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc. This means that Santa’s sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second – a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.
4) The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized Lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that “flying reindeer” (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload – not even counting the weight of the sleigh – to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison – this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.
5) 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance – this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecrafts re-entering the earth’s atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy… per second… each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.
In conclusion – If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he’s dead now.
THANKS A LOT I believed in him until now. One good thing we can always believe in and always count on is the Marines SEMPER FI
What!!?! No Santa?!!? I’m shocked
Who puts the presents under the tree then?…Oh, thats right, Visa does. 
“Visa– Its everywhere under the tree.”
I need to explain what I was taught about how Santa handles the space-time continuum. See, Santa stretches the year’s time out like a giant rubber band, so he has the time of about 200 work-days to make all the deliveries. When Santa’s finished, he returns the space-time continuum to it’s original shape, so it’s like he made all the deliveries in one night!
Thnk of all the happy children, this way!
Ok everyone read my post just above here. With my buddy Albert’s help, I think this problem can be easily explained.
Dezdkado some of santas elves telling you otherwise,
http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&vid=919a70fa-266e-4d41-9cbc-a9a27ef4fa35&playlist=videoByTag:mk:us:sf:WeeklyCount:st:1:sd:-1:ns:VC_Supplier:tag:Stupid%20Videos:vs:0&from=MSNHP&tab=m3>1=42003
http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&vid=919a70fa-266e-4d41-9cbc-a9a27ef4fa35&playlist=videoByTag:mk:us:sf:WeeklyCount:st:1:sd:-1:ns:VC_Supplier:tag:Stupid%20Videos:vs:0&from=MSNHP&tab=m3>1=42003
@John – if you would like, I can teach you to rename those incredibly long links to make them more pleasant and easier to read for our fellow students. reply here if you like, but please do it soon, as I am past my bedtime already.
This should have been Dezdkado some of santas elves telling you otherwise,
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&vid=a5b4e253-fbe4-4b07-82eb-a43517e3680c
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&vid=07b70c47-72f4-473f-96cc-49f7683b2800
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq8qPRnwmyw
Dear HotforWords,
how about giving us the low down
on “epistemology”?
thanks, kweb
@CaptainJack – $30k sounds pretty reasonable, I hope I can swing it when they go into production. I remember salivating over the newly retro-designed T-birds a couple of years back – til I saw they wanted $40k for them. Thanks for the info!
Sorry to hear about your yacht deal falling through – times are tough all around. I am sure that the economy will turn and things will work out for you that you may have the yacht of your dreams soon!
Yeah, thats what I heard. It’s the same price that the Corbin Sparrow was going for. I also looked into a local company that is now producing a electric car called Tango http://www.commutercars.com/ It has some impressive performance figures. Then when I heard of the Telsa’s performance I was very impressed. But when I saw it I was disappointed. Im tired of the JELLY BEAN cars that are out there today. I want something that is different. That’s why the Aptera caught my attention. I fell in love with it the first time I seen it on the local news. The only thing that worries me is the battery technology is still in its infancy. I use Li-pos in my R/C helicopters and they work great. But the life span of them is crap. I bought 4 lipos for my little heli at $20 each and got about 8 flights out of them. I bought 2 lipos for my big bird which run about $60 a piece and Im at about 40 flight and still going. But not sure how long they will last. I hate paying for maintenance costs. I want to buy it once and have it last a 10 years at least.
With all that said I would still buy one because you can just put in better batteries later on. If you buy one make sure you get the hybrid. On my electric scooter it was a challenge to find an outlet. You would be surprised where I found power. I should take photos of the places I pugged in to.
I was lucky that there was a second buyer to take over the yacht. Boats aren’t selling right now. But I see tough times a great opportunities.
Things are going for cheap. We are kicking out the evil empire and we have some new leaders that are going to do some house cleaning. We are going to see some really great times in the future.
Twitter me if you like – I just posted pics of my new house
Housing prices at an all-time low, plus willing seller = two winners walk away from the closing table! 
ok.. 4 if you count the attorney and the dual agent
RE: JELLY BEAN cars – Thanks for the Tango pic, but no thanks! I’m with you on that, 100%.
well, since we’re all waitin’ on the next vid, and Mike has posted a couple of jokes, here’s my contribution…
Warning: real juevenile humor follows (you know, the male-testosterone exudin’ kind) 99 Words
good one funny
We needed that one for the Richard video,
my kind of video Tom. I’m a checker chest and poker man myself. 
Just so you know, I’ll be repeating that one at work tomorrow.
My Grandmother has a cedar chest.
LOL… my favorite is “MRE”… damn, I wish we’d had those when we went into the field.
I liked the old C rations. I could eat them all day long and stay on the john all night long.
McIlhenny Tabasco Sauce is a life saver, indeed
Holy shit @ 1:24!
There is a phrase I hear sometimes that I don’t really understand: “Four ways from Sunday”. When it’s used, I suppose I know what is being said, but it’s such a surreal expression that I would love to have its origin explained.
@Capman LOL at the car pic – I’ve visited the site 4 times, and have yet to find that one – must be randomised or something, and I am rolling a string of sevens. Thanks for the faerie pics yesterday, too, BTW.
anytime
Marina, back to your birthday. It is the 10th of which month?
December
thanks
Hi Hot For Words!
What is the meaning of the word
highfalutin
Thank you.
Love the show!
By for now………
Girl
Loser
Beck and Beck ( no Call? LOL ):mrgreen:
A man went to church one day and afterward he stopped to shake the preacher’s hand. He said ‘Preacher, I’ll tell you, that was a damned fine sermon. Damned good!’
The preacher said, ‘Thank you sir, but I’d rather you didn’t use
profanity.’
The man said, ‘I was so damned impressed with that sermon I put five thousand dollars in the offering plate!’
The preacher said, ‘No shit?’
What’s the difference between a fairy tale from the North and one from the South?
In the North a fairy tale begins: “Once upon a time…”
In the South a fairy tale begins: “Y’all ain’t gonna believe this shit…”
Marina I have a word request Scientology. As some people like Tom Cruise believe in this. I don’t know what it means or understand it’s origin or meaning. Is it a different form of religion or evolution. I know you try to stay away from religion, but does it have anything to do with religion?
This was (is) a religion(???) Created by L. Ron Hubbard.
The people involved with this are very sensitive about it. Isaac Hayes (voice of Chef) left South Park when they made fun of Scientology.
Funny he had no problem when they made fun of:
Catholics
Blacks
Mexicans
Canadains
Jews
Mormons
Gays
The disabled
True about the hypocrisy… but I refute that it is a religion… hell, it isn’t even good science fiction.
Im at my sisters cat Axel’s beck and call. Dog’s have masters – cat’s have servants. I have never had anyone at my B&C that I can remember. It would be nice to have someone at my B&C. But I would only allow it if I could return the favor. The guilt trip would drive me nuts. I believe life should be a two ways street. You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours ( bit longer ).
Oh wait.. I just remembered. Im at Marina’s Beck and Call. Yea that TA thing. Funny thing is I don’t get called on that much. M is very independent. I like that in a woman. Those are the kind of people I like to serve. The ones who don’t need it but deserve it. Well there’s not much one can do over the internet. I did find a way to buy her a cup of coffee. I even found a servant to make it and pour it for her. All M had to do is go out and get it. Yea I haven’t figured how to get it delivered to her door yet. So in a way Im at M’s B&C and so are the other TAs.
Yes and proud of it.
@ Marina. What day is your birth day on. It’s present time, if you want a birthday gift from your admirers we would like to know.
The 10th
But no presents are necessary.. except for maybe this in pink 
The man or the car or both
Hey thats my dream car! How did you know that? You been spying on my computer again? Oh wait I think I posted a link about the Aptera and the Gizmo somewhere here.
Damn you beat me to it. Read your email!
@Marina – That is
one cool car 
not available in pink yet, couldn’t find pricing info, do you have any idea?
@Capman – What man?
I have already looked into it. The guys I emailed said it would be around $27k for all electric and $30 with gas engine. Thats what stopped me from further considering it for now. I want to use bio-diesel in it but Cali law won’t allow any diesels. Once that is solved then I might look into it more. I almost bought the gizmo. Too ugly for my taste. I looked at Corbin but they went bankrupt. Now I hear they are back. Still Aptera is to my tastes.
This is the picture I got when I clicked on it. It rotates images.
http://www.aptera.com/images/home2.jpg
Oh, noooooo! I would stay away from that thing if I were you, Marina. The design is snazzy, but my gut says it is more suitable for aviation than travelling in ground traffic.
Look at the front. Where is the bumper? Does it meet mandatory automobile standards for anything other than being a subject for photography? Yikes! Think of how the three-wheel stance will react to being T-boned by a Volkswagon Beetle, much less a big SUV; it’s going to go rolling down the street like an empty garbage can in a high wind. And should it come up quickly on the rear of anything bigger than a tricycle, the swoopy-doopy shape will shoehorn it right underneath. Ouch. If you ever set foot in that deathtrap, at the very least, you’d better set up a videocam inside so you can make that final video,The Last Moments of HotForWords, A Study in Hollywood’s Deadly Dalliance in Chic Transportation.
Compared to a stainless steel morgue slab, your kitchen floor is a warm as comfy a feather bed, so get a (relatively) bulletproof Crown Victoria and come back home to us safely; it’s not sexy, but it’s intelligent.
I met a guy up at YouTube Live who was doing or may be doing some business with them and he told me about them. Cool that you wrote about them as well! I think I would look dandy tooling around town in my pink one!!!
ah, Marina – the obvious response: you look dandy all the time…
but the full phrase is “jim-dandy” – who was Jim and what made him dandy?…
That is one
car! But it looks kinda $$$$$$$ 
Would you like one the size of a Hot Wheels car! 
I don’t think I can afford it!
I planned initially to keep my Lincoln for Sunday drives, but would gladly sell it to make room in my 2-car garage next to my white one…
No not all pink Marina you would look like a Mary Kay cosmetics woman they all have pink cars. How about a black one with pink flames that would be HOT
Please disregard my offer above – I wouldn’t want you to have to harm any ducks on my account.
Well I wouldn’t be caught dead in a pink Aptera, But if that’s what you like then that’s the color your Aptera shall be. I think it would be fantastic to see you flying around town with a pink Aptera.
If I where to get an Aptera, I would have some kind of custom air brushed graphics on it. I seen some cool looking Corbin Sparrows around town with some interesting graphics on them.
True! I’m also at Nibblet the Wonder Kitty’s beck and call. (My feline roommate.)
Tharzool
I have grand parents with the last name of Nibblet! Wow!
I bet you get those crack of dawn wake up calls to put more food in the dish.
Corbin was all set to go with preorders, and then Ford bought the company that was going to make the transmissions and queered the deal by refusing to supply Corbin!
At Ford
Quality is job 1Sabotage is job 1No wonder OPEC still has US by the throat…
Yeah and now they want a bailout. I say screw them and lets use the money to bailout all the employees when they company folds.
HOW IS GORBY?
Or as the dog might ask, “WHO IS GORBY?”
Lol!
Happy Holidays Everybody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXaO6-wH0Kw
Enjoy!
I like that kind of Holiday cheer. WOW Santa Babes
Let’s send a reporter up to the North Pole to get Mrs. Santas’s reaction.
I am most definitely at my fiance’s beck and call.
Tharzool
Congratz on the engagement.
Have you two set a date yet? Wish you lots of happy times together. 
If they have, he’s probably forgotten it already.
Cloth Word Requests
Spandex 
Satin
Velvet
Polyester
Corduroy
I am at your beck and call Marina. God that was so corny wasn’t it?
Naah, we are all here for her.
Who is included in the “we” ?
Someone is conjuring the spirit of Alex
A-maize-ing!
Really had to reach for that one
DUCKS IN HEAVEN!!!
Three women die together in an accident and go to heaven.
When they get there, St. Peter says,
‘We only have one rule here in heaven: don’t step on the ducks!’
So they enter heaven, and sure enough, there are ducks all over the place.
It is almost impossible not to step on a duck, and although they try their best to avoid them, the first woman accidentally steps on one.
Along comes St. Peter with the ugliest man she ever saw.
St. Peter chains them together and says, ‘Your punishment for stepping on a duck is to spend eternity chained to this ugly man!’
The next day, the second woman steps accidentally on a duck
and along comes St. Peter, who doesn’t miss a thing.
With him is another extremely ugly man.
He chains them together with the same admonishment as for the first woman.
The third woman has observed all this and, not wanting to be chained for all eternity to an ugly man, is very,
VERY careful where she steps.
She manages to go months without stepping on any ducks,
but one day St. Peter comes up to her with the most handsome man she has ever laid eyes on …. very tall, long eyelashes, muscular.
St. Peter chains them together without saying a word.
The happy woman says, ‘I wonder what I did to deserve being
chained to you for all of eternity?’
The guy says, ‘I don’t know about you,
but I stepped on a duck.
Funny!
Sounds like heaven sucks.
Or full of duck crap.
Oh too funny!
If ducks are in heaven, then Gilligan’s Island is in hell…
The Seven Deadly Sins of Gilligan’s Island theory is quite simple. Each of the seven characters on the island represents each of the seven deadly sins. Now, this theory seems to fit upon initial inspection, there are technical difficulties when you get down to THE MAN himself, Gilligan.
Run with me on this one…
Most obvious is the Professor, who fits PRIDE to a T. Any man who can make a ham radio out of some wire and two coconuts has to be pretty cocky. (His character was later revised and given a series of his own, called MacGuyver”.)
For the sin of ENVY we need look no further than Maryann, who may have worn those skimpy little tops, but could never achieve Ginger’s glamour. (As an interesting and completely irrelevant side note, a nationwide survey of college students a few years ago revealed that the professor and Maryann were voted the most likely couple to have ‘done it’ on the island.)
And who could doubt for a moment that Ginger is LUST incarnate? Sure, the kids were supposed to think she was ACTING, but we all know what being deprived episode after episode was doing to her. You know and I know that glazed look wasn’t boredom, my friends.
What kind of person takes a trunk full of money on a three-hour cruise? Mr. Howell gets my vote for GREED.
We are now left with three characters and three Deadly Sins. We have Gilligan, the Skipper and Mrs. Howell to whom we must match GLUTTONY, SLOTH and ANGER. As you can see, there is a Gilligan problem here.
Certainly we can further eliminate Mrs. Howell from this equation by connecting her with SLOTH. She did jack shit during her many years on the island and everybody knows it.
This leaves ANGER and GLUTTONY, either of which the Skipper had no shortage. He was, after all, a big guy with the tendency to hit Gilligan with his hat at least once an episode. After much consideration, I have decided that he can easily do double-duty, covering the two remaining Deadly Sins.
So here we have the Seven Deadly Sins trapped in an endlessly recurring Hell of hope followed by denial and despair, forced to live with each other in our TVs until the last re-run ends. And who is their captor? What keeps them trapped there?
Gilligan.
Gilligan is SATAN. Think about it.
Hmm… putting myself in Satan’s shoes, in order to acquire more souls in hell, would’t I wish to unleash these sins on the world, rather than have them safely contained on an inescapable island?
Or, in God’s shoes, it’s exactly where I don’t want them either. I would want the seven unleashed on the world to tempt man, that salvation be worthy of attainment – or, rather even the attempt at attainment – else, why would man bother?
moreso, as God, would I want an untested man in heaven? to be sure, there are many prisoners behind bars right now who haven’t committed crimes in years… because they are behind bars!
I like todays quote of the day.Here is one I heard recently,”experience is what you will get when you don’t get what you want”,as stated in the “last lecture” speech by the late
Randy Pausch.Check it out!!Maybe someone can post a link,truly inspirational!
Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams …thetigtig is right, a must see!
Thank you
Woah! I didn’t know YouTube videos can go over an hour!
Mr. Pausch did a shortened version on Oprah.He also did many follow up interviews,where you’ll find he achieved his NFL goal.
My sincerist apology!It is “experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted” Randy Pausch(1960-2008)
Good memory,not great!
I can’t remember where I read that or who originally said it; maybe someone knows?
The corollary is, you should never be afraid of making mistakes because if you don’t, you’ll never learn anything.
However, smart people learn from the mistakes of others, believing that they will never have the time to make all the mistakes themselves.
Edison on the light bulb;”I have not failed I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”.
Talk about try and try again!
“Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.”
— Jim Horning
Bob said “smart people learn from the mistakes of others” but isn’t the only thing they learn is how to make mistakes, most smart people only reveal thier successful ways to a select few. Or am I incorrect?
Should I make some mistake in life, John, I would gladly share with all my friends, and anyone who asked, as well as anyone who I discover to be about to enter into a similar situation, freely and without reservation. Perhaps someone with whom I share my mistakes with will share with me theirs, should our positions be reversed.
Thank you very much for the rational post, absent of blatant abuse toward other users. Please continue similarly.
@John but, then again, I might not, in fact BE a ’smart person’, not knowing the criterion requisite to be properly labeled a ’smart person’.
I have been labeled as being brutally honest not so much to offend as to get ideas and thoughts across to others Things i could do without thinking about have somehow become things that i have to put much thought into since becoming a member of this forum.
Beck n’ The Call
Hey Mike, the Call is a great song. Thanks for the memory
Well I am late for class again, but it’s nice to sleep in late. I don’t really have to beck and call any more as being like Bob and a few others on here retired and all. I do help my friends when they need it. So I guess that is a little B&C left in me.
@Marina is Gorby feeling better today? I sure hope so.
Hey Bob,I think her birthday is December 10th.Am I right
??
My money is on the 8th.
Damn! I lost … but at least I was not late.
I believe I won, but forgot the prize
test
rgfb
I hope that means your Really Good, Feeling Better!
How’s your brother? Drop a ‘get well soon’ his way from me, friend. 
Homework (Part Two): “The two beasts leagued against me whose most imperious commands I must obey, and their names are Bread and Cheese.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, commenting on a period of hard financial times in his life.
A little lost for words..
))
NATASHA THE SECRETARY
ROFLOL! Annuddermale’s female TA interview!
That was a kewl video.
I like Natasha she is, healthy. 
well, i saw the T…where’s the A?…
We are so used to seeing faces not look truly expressive and natural in animation, that this unique technique is really a knockout. There have been some very amateurish use of it on TV, but there’s been no attempt at really doing a good job like this. I wonder when this clip’s quality will enter TV on a big scale?
Hey, Marina, this would be a good media for demonstrating word origins, but I have the feeling that the labor involved in doing the animation would highly cost-prohibitive.
Marina,where did “igpay atinlay” speak come from?
oolcay equestray! emay, ootay!
hanktay ouyay,ianchettofay
Here’s a similar thing from Rives:
[Op-Talk]
Neat vid.,no doubt based on the “pig”.I remember “pig” from the 70’s but what was before it and how did it get so popular and have staying power.
Copied and edited from my post yesterday to originalistrick – maybe something here for you, friend:
You’ve been here a little while, now – all noobs are given a mutant alien image on their posts… if you click it, you can upload a photo to personalise it. As well, the ‘Dashboard’ tab at the top right of the page will take you to a profile page wherein you can change your display name to be equal to your ‘nickname’ – whatever you like, spaces and some punctuation are allowed. Thirdly, there you can add an URL in the Website field. This will turn your name blue, like mine, and link it to that URL. Most use their YouTube channel, but mine is a bit different. Enjoy!
* to change your display name, first enter desired name in the ‘nickname’ field, Update Profile at the bottom, select Display Name Pubicly as drop-down list, and update again. your next post or reply will reflect changes made here.
Changing your photo, or ‘Gravatar’ is retroactive to all your posts on this site.
Thanks friend!I will be changing my gravatar soon but will always keep some form of tigtig in my usernames as an homage to the best cat in the world…Tigger, RIP
After that, you will be required to learn the [HFW Secret Handshake] to be used anytime you should meet a fellow student publicly.
Fianchetto: That’s nothing new. I saw kids do that when I was young. It’s called playing pattycake.
Atwhay ethay uckfay?!
You mean hatway hetay uckfay?
Methinks most people on earth are simply the beck and call of materialism. They’d do pretty much anything provided you put a short term gain on it. If they are more resilient, they’ll run for mid term gains. Long term? Forget about it. Prostitutes or Mercenaries? I’d say so, motivated solely by a desire of some material gain.
“You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You have all the fears of mortals and the desires of immortals.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A rational approach to materialism is what gives you the luxury of considering other things. Cave men were busy hunting/gathering food and fighting off woolly mamoths to consider the importance of prime numbers. Once you have saved food for the winter you can devote some time to other pass times.
I believe you should have a balance of living as if you will live for 100 years AND as if you might die tomorrow. 80 is not a great age to start sky-diving; but before a 25 year old with a family gives it a try he/she should know that their family will be provided for ( forgive me for ending my proposition with a preposition ).
It isn’t ( shouldn’t be ) fear but rational acknowledgement of one’s responsibilities; both to yourself and to those who will have to take up the slack if you are killed or injured.
If you have a family, but have an adequate insurance policy that will provide a living and an education for your children should you die, go sky-diving and enjoy it! The odds of getting killed are slight ( but not zero ) and a responsible adult should be able to have some fun, but responsibly.
Some do take materialism overboard, but more do not take it seriously enough, and expect others to reshape their lives around their mostly self created tragedies. There is generally a lot of disappointment with this type of ‘plan’.
“A rational approach to materialism is what gives you the luxury of considering other things. Cave men were busy hunting/gathering food and fighting off woolly mamoths to consider the importance of prime numbers. Once you have saved food for the winter you can devote some time to other pass times.”
Orion, I have some trouble agreeing with what you said. Think about the men who painted the Altamira and Lascaux caves, 17,000 years ago. They had time to observe and paint the skies, to see the taurus constellation in the form of the aurochs they hunted. So you can’t tell me they had no time left to think about their condition. They were perhaps much closer to the reality of things and to the essence of the universe than we are today. I think we are the ones that live in some kind of virtual, messed-up, fuzzy world, where black becomes white and white becomes black, where virtue becomes vice and vice becomes virtue. Hunting aurochs with obsidian knives was probably much more thrilling and fullfilling than typing on a computer keyboard or answering some comment on the net from someone you don’t know at all.
Having said this, I respect your opinion, which is of course as valuable as mine, because none of us can be proved right or wrong.
For me materialism is a means and not the goal.
I will go out on a limb and say that the care artists weren’t starving at the moments they drew their paintings and made man’s first astronomical observations; I’m darn near certain they weren’t drawing with one hand and fending off a sabre-tooth tiger with the other.
Should you wish to go hunt deer ( or cattle ) with a knife instead of a gun I won’t give you any argument ( PETA will, but not me ).
You probably have a job; you may or may not be happy with it. As you and I type on the keyboard we may or may not have other interests. I study Math in my retirement years; something I can afford to do because I prepared for my retirement, mostly material preparations.
Cavemen PROBABLY didn’t live to be my age ( then again when Elvis was my age he’d been dead for 18 years ). I like my reality, however convoluted it is. For the most part I enjoyed my time in the Navy. I’m not much of a farmer ( if vegetable gardens are an indicator ) and less of a fisherman. I truly doubt I’d make it as a hunter. I used to be a fair mechanic, and I got true enjoyment working on my own car, but I couldn’t have made a living at it. But society’s 40 hour work week ( actually I usually put in more ) gave me the opportunity on my off time to explore these things and many others.
BTW I also enjoy these conversations with folks face to face.
I too respect your opinion; you have the liberty ( with few restrictions ) to live the life you choose, but I draw the line at ‘have-nots’ who got that way by being ‘work nots’ and now think that I should ’share’. I promise not to dissuade you from you sharing what you earned with others to whatever extent you feel appropriate.
Very well said Orion. Quite interesting post indeed. You sound like a philosophy teacher
I must admit I have nothing to add. Even if we have two different ways of seeing and feeling things, I can’t really say that yours is wrong.
Best regards
I am an Engineer by education ( I never worked as an Engineer in the Navy or after but it makes a dandy hobby ). In the Navy I swore an oath to defend the Constitution; which pretty much covers defending YOUR right to seeking YOUR happiness. I have pretty much found mine ( which includes blathering to the point think I am a philosopher ).
Good luck seeking what makes you happy. Sincerely.
Wow! This is a too-rarified atmosphere for me. {CK stuffs another forkfull of leftover Thanksgiving stuffing in his mouth and clicks the TV remote to skip over the commercial in the middle of America’s Most Filthy, Vile, Disgusting AND NUDE Shocking Videos XVII.}
Hey there, engineer… I’ve got a few engineering jokes for ya!
Two engineering students on their way to class meet on the side walk.
“Hey nice bike you have there! Where did get you it?”
“A nice looking girl rode up to me on the way home yesterday, jumped off her bike and took off her clothes and said I could have anything I wanted.”
“Good choice, the clothes probably wouldn’t have fit”.
*****
Three engineering students were gathered together discussing the possible designers of the human body. One said, “It was a mechanical engineer. Just look at all the joints.” Another said, “No, it was an electrical engineer. The nervous system has many thousands of electrical connections.” The last said, “Actually it was a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area?”
*****
A Mathematician, a Biologist and a Physicist are sitting in a street cafe watching people going in and coming out of the house on the other side of the street. First they see two people going into the house. Time passes. After a while they notice three persons coming out of the house.
The Physicist concludes: “The measurement wasn’t accurate.”
The Biologist concludes: “They have reproduced.”
The Mathematician concludes: “If exactly 1 person enters the house, then it will be empty again.”
Dez: Just so you know, the EPA says sewage outside of a sewer is toxic waste; sewage inside a sewer is not. They have lotsa rules like that.
A priest, a lawyer, and an engineer are sentenced to die on the guillotine. The priest is brought up first, asked if he has any last words, and is laid on the plank. The rope is pulled but the blade doesn’t drop. The priest jumps up and yells ‘Its the will of God, you must set me free’. THe judges confer and agree; the priest is set free. The guillotine is inspected and found to be okay. THe lawyer is brought up, asked if he has any last words, and he is laid down. The rope is pulled, but again the blade fails to drop. The lawyer jumps up and yells ‘You’ve set a precedent; you must set me free too’. Again, the judges confer and agree and the lawyer is set free. One more time the guillotine is inspected and found to be okay. The engineer is brought up, asked if he has any last words. The engineer says ‘Oh, wait, I see the problem….’
Reason for no Google ads, there is a “dating” service named Beck and Call Girl
Beck is dating a Call Girl?
(Hey, Jack Black is in that video!)
Dr. Who’s girl has gone porno.
Always wondered what she looked like in pretty little clothes. 
What’s the matter with you, Capman? Where’s the link?
Yeah, it was nice to see Billie Piper nude. I wish they showed a little more than her brief nipple shots, but at least I got to see a nice view of her bare ass! They use to have a link of Billie Piper nude on YouTube, but it looks like it got removed.
can u do the word “skateboarding” maybe?
thanks!:)
Marina’s quote from below, well there is always a little truth in kidding Marina.
Sounds like every women I ever met
{I thought the same thing, but with one foot still in the doghouse, I thought I would keep my mouth shut this time}
Whoops! Did that post? Uh…. I am going to bed, now.
Hey Bsomebody. I don’t know if I have sent you this message from Mijj yet, but he needs for you to get up with him about your video. You can get him at the Frosty enumerator site..
and most every time, every woman is right…
{i didn't want to admit that }Philosophical question:
If a man is alone in the woods where no woman can hear him, and he utters an opinion, is he still wrong?
Homework
I’m always at your beckon call er.. beck and call Marina!
I am at NOBODY’S beck and call,,,unless of course,,they PAY Me!! Alright,that’s not entirely true,I will get up and go help My Family or friends when I truly believe they need it,if I think they fu@#ed up after they were warned then they are pretty much on their own to learn their lessons the hard way,tough love like that is needed(sometimes)as a memory aid and it is how it went/goes for Me. Then there’s forgiveness,gotta toss that in the mix too,maybe I’m just an old softie after all.Dangitallanyway.
Woohoo! I got it! Thx, Fianchetto. Cookies did not help, but I deleted my history, and that fixed it. I did not know that was a peace symbol. I also have no idea what a mandala is. I thought Che was writing in Spanglish. {Somebody sneaks off to google mandala}
You’re most welcome, friend!
{Whispering so noone else hears but you and Che – pssst it’s Nelson Mandela, and peace mandala}
Glad we cleared that up
Goggle up images of mandalas for examples
OIC! Okay, that is preddy kewl.
I have been thinking of what to do to refresh my gravatar. I had thought of a yin-yang, but they are overused and under appreciated. I am Christian, and I do not like to use a cross. The mandala rocks! {Somebody scratches his head, pondering the multitudes of possible gravatars…} 
I was looking at yin yang images but decided there was more symbolism in a mandala.
Will send you an e-mail when I change to my Xmas Gravatar
@bsomebody, that page snapshot is either an elaborate photoshop or maybe you are telling the truth.
I see the new Gravatar of an orange mandala, it’s a geometric shape like a flower that I uploaded the day after T-Say
no.
bebe’s bedroomis kinda messy.
TOF, do you see Che’s new gravatar?
whoops! I misread your name. Sorry.
Looks like a dove maybe which is a symbol of peace maybe.
It’s turkeylike too cuz of the tail but turkey’s ain’t white.
I don’t think it classifies as a mandala. but he had a mandala before perhaps.
By the way, do you think I offended M yesterday? I hope I did not blab myself out of a Christmas card.
Of course not! I like it when people pose questions about the lesson! You had a valid concern and expressed it! Just realize that I am always right and everything will be fine! JUST KIDDING!!!
Now what I can’t figure out is WHY ARE ADS NOT SHOWING UP ON THIS LESSON AS WELL??? I understand dick not showing ads but beck and call???
It is the gremlins, I say. Your ads must be with Che’s gravatar and my lost socks in the dryer. Thx for the good word; Peace, my friend.
re: no ads – perhaps it (the ai filter) associates ‘call’ with presumtion of online …uh …escorts?
Marina, do you see an orange mandala as my Gravatar or the turkey in the pilgrim hat?
Computer programs are finnicky. perhaps you got a bug. Oh, bug is a good word for derivation in the computer technical sense. Fun
i get a google ad for “Talking Phrase Books” when i play the vid…
or are you talking ’bout some other place?…
Marina. You have only been wrong once. That was this comment.
Just kidding was the wrong bit.
You are always right.
If anybody else is in here, when you look at Che, do you see a turkey or some kind of geometric peace thingy? Time for a census.
Mandala.
I’m up to the minute.
Hi bsomebody!
Looks like turkey feathers in a ring.
Turkey. His gravatar, I mean, not Che per se.
if you want an answer to your philosophical question, you’ll have to ask a woman…
I like it.
@ Che: Your gravatar is still a turkey to me. Whassup?
My Gravatar is a ‘peace mandala’ yours is a ‘peace sign’ I think we are related.
Hey cuz how come you have a bomber in your peace sign?
Is that any way to keep the peace
I thought it was kind of a “swords into plowshares” kind of thing. I was not bagging on your gravatar. I meant it is still a turkey. I still see your old gravatar. I want to see this; NM is a huge hero of mine.
I also do not see the comment you left after my comment to Bob. I know it is there, because my e-mail said it was. Hmmmm…… Gremlins, methinks.
Has nothing to do with NM not even pronounce the same, I think you are just joshing with me
(mŭn’də-lə) Pronunciation Key
n. Any of various ritualistic geometric designs symbolic of the universe, used in Hinduism and Buddhism as an aid to meditation.
But really, I see a f^@&ing turkey in a Pilgrim hat!! Fer real.
Also notice it gets to the e-mail in box before it is posted at times
I see the comment, but still a turkey.
Now I know your yanking my chain….cousin
Okay, I snapshotted this page for you. If you go to my YT page and leave a message with your e-mail, I will send it to you. I see turkey, I tell ya!
Between houses recently, I used a relative’s older computer to keep up here. On her machine, the gravatars never were updated from the first time I logged on there – on her machine, capman is still a green Harley, ChaCha is still a Joe Cool Goldfish, and Che is still a turkey (LOL sorry, Che – I just noticed how that reads, but I’m gonna leave it anyway, brother;-) On my blackberry and my ~2-year-old computer, everybody’s gravatar updates properly. Perhaps try deleting your cookies/browsing history/cached files might help, but I never could get hers to update. Hope something works for you, mate!
OK Fianchetto your explanation is plausible, let me go clear private data.
OK check out your YT channel
I am usually at my wife’s beck and call. Of course, I always at my grandaughters’ beck and call (or would that be becks and calls?)
Marina, you haven’t told us which day in December is your birthday, so, as it’s the first day of December already in New Zealand, I’m going to be the first to wish you a Happy Birthmonth.
John on November 20th, 2008 3:44 pm
hotforwords , I’m 28 in 20 days.
Happy Birtthday if i don’t remember to say it later.
Bob its somewhere around the tenth, depending on which calendar she would use
I’m in the military, so I am a beck-and-callee. One day, I may become a beck-and-caller…
What branch? As far as I know, we do not have any soldiers represented, yet.
I’m a walker and Uncle Sam Ain’t Released Me Yet!
Marina, when you first saw yourself in widescreen, did you think “my god I look really stretched”
I think I look stretched.
Did you have to get used to it?
Don’t wear horizontal stripes
Don’t wear football shoulder pads
Don’t have a Pinhead
i see the white turkey in the pilgrim’s hat too dude. you mandala went away
i am a beck-and-call-ee, not a beck-and-call-er…
and when are the calendars being mailed?…i have to do my holiday decorating, you know, and if i put the calendar up on my mantle, Santa is sure to leave me better gifts…
Recently re-retired I am not at anyone’s beck and call except for theose in my life who would drop everything if I asked for help. It’s a good feeling.
I miss the out takes
If i have anyone at my beck and call they should let me know, and if I am at someones beck and call they should let me know, ( as long as its not my fathers widow or a money lender)
No.
besides when they beckcon how can i call when i havenot the ######
Just caught up on Twitter.
Congratulations on getting to 150,000 subscribers.
Very sorry to read about Gorby’s illness. I hope he’s on the mend and will soon be back to his old self.
I nearly died laughing @ 55 seconds into the video, when you threw Gorby onto the sofa beside you and pulled a face.
The look on Gorby’s face just said, “What have I done now?”
He obviously wants you to be at his beck and call, Marina.
As for me, I’m at my wife’s beck and call, but when we go to Thailand she spends all her time with her mother and leaves her five younger sisters and our three nephews at my beck and call.
Can it get any better? Beautiful women without the commitment and kids who can be handed back to their parents if they start to misbehave.
But I love them all.
So, Bob is a Scott married to a Thai? If so, I bet you folks have some really cool meals. {Somebody prepares to squirm his way to Bob’s table.}
No I thought Bob was an Englishman who married a Thai women he lives in Scotland where they put a lot of butter on the food. Teatime is anytime with ginger cookies is fine.
{ the biography of Bob }
He’s bald but has a red beard
Che is right about the nationality but wrong about the baldness. OK, it’s receding but there’s still a brown crew cut in place – not bad for a 65 year old.
also, the beard was red, which was very popular with the ladies when I worked in Africa and Egypt, but is more salt and pepper now.
Bsomebody, is right about the meals though. Some are a bit too interesting – at the moment, she’s stir-frying Chickens feet and chilli of which I shall not be partaking.
It’s bad enough smelling it cooking – no surprise that the Thais always do their cooking outdoors.