As long as we’re being frivolous, is it OK to ask if Teach really IS putting baby oil on her breasts?
What can I say? I’m an amateur philologist with a breast fetish. I was BOUND to have a crush on her!
Well, I ended up watching both parts of Lisa Nova’s Twitter Whore video.
I don’t think I’ll ever reach that level of Twittering. I don’t tweet that much, anyway, if at all.
I have the #1 most watched video on YouTube right now.. and the #13 is moving its way up http://www.youtube.com/browse
Now if YouTube could just not mess with the way it works, things would be good for me!
Dear Marina, every time you welcome us on your lessons you use the word “student/s”.I would like to know the origin of this one, and i hope you will surprise me with the answer because i think the only link of this word is to “studies”. Хотелось бы услышать ваш ответ, как русская- русскому.
That seems a bit extreme James.. I am uploading a 2:50 video and it’s only 95 MB. You need to compress a little more. Do H.264 (which is mpeg 4 I think) and do 2 or 4 mbs video and 128kbs aac audio
I know. It’s a wmv at 1280×720 made in vegas. I think thats the best I can get at the moment. I will look in to it more next week I am fed up of seeing movie editors on my computer. Thats all I did yesterday… I have no life! Oh well I have college tomorrow and my grandad is 91 so we will go say happy birthday to him. damn filesize!
I have wondered where I fit in this picture. I definately do not subscribe to disestablishmentarianism, but I am not against them, so I would not subscribe to anti-disestablishmentarianism either. Maybe, I will just subscribe to National Geographic and Guitar World.
That’s pretty cool! I use something called Twitterriffic which is a program not only on my mac but on my iPhone as well and it is a scrolling list of all the tweets of the people I follow.
Did anyone see the Sarah Silverman Show, the episode where she is trying to introduce a new word into the English language?
Let me see if I can find it on Hulu.
They are cousins to butt monkeys (bonkeys?); niether one is very pleasant. Sometimes, chonkeys and bonkeys will get together, and the cheese really hits the fan.
I heard someone talk of melding all the winter holidays in to one big all-inclusive celebration of unity and love and all that other touchie-feelie stuff:
hello! everyone! i got the calendar and am screaming with happiness! yes, i m now happier more than the words can say! welcome to Japan, “hot for words wall calendar”!!
In the movie. who was the smartest character in the Breakfast Club? I only ask because I remember the jock, the jerk, the depressed one, etc. – but I thought the premise was that they were all in detention for being miscreants – LOL!
(All of you are smarter than that…)
No mel.
We’re all smart enough to get into detention with Marina.
Bob (The Jock)
BTW, What do you think Sir Jock Stirrup’s nickname was in the Air Force?
@PK, the way I read it, you can always send a direct message to anyone. The difference is that direct messages don’t show up on the public time-line, or did I get that wrong too?
I have a ‘question’ regarding where the origin of the fourth word in this sentence came from. Is ‘Question’ related to ‘Quest’? HotForWords, please investigate
Hi wow is better in HD qualifty hehe
Well I wanna know where the word Sexy comes
Btw love you Marina and thankyou for being a good role model in the world and for being so beautiful
since its christmas time.. i was wondering what is the origin of the word “X-MAS” and what does the”X” have to do with christmas.. thanx marina i love your vids.. keep showing ppl that brains are beauties tooo!!
Hey hey. Great video! My requested word actually has to do with my nickname – Angus. I was wondering where that name comes from. I’ve taken a liking to it, but I’m not sure where it comes from. Thanks!
If you have nine minutes and fifty one seconds to spare… Perchance, are your middle initials SG? I know he is not playing one here, but I declare poetic liscence.
LOL! Actually, I am the AC/DC fan – hence my nickname. I OWN a Gibson SG with an Angus Young Signature Humbucker in it. My initials aren’t SG but my first name is Taylor – another GREAT guitar company.
On a totally opposite/unimportant note. Marina, can you do the word ‘Chlamydia’. And, you dressed very nice in this video. You should dress like that more often, it’s very fresh.
No, it wasn’t My Stepmother is an Alien. It’s the movie where the alien girl mixes up all the food in the blender and the other normal human girl asks her why she did that and the alien girl said ‘what does it matter, it all goes in the same place’ or something like that. WHAT IS THE NAME OF THIS MOVIE. I’m asking a ton of other message boards too. Hopefully, this one can help me, since there are so many smart people on this board, i’m sure a few of you can figure it out.
John go here and sign up for twitter and then you can add people on to follow and comment to other people on twitter. I think you have to be a member of twitter before you can comment
Marina, I’ve noticed that Russian women such as yourself seem to mispronounce the Latin ‘v’ as ‘w’. It’s like you are thinking that the German or Polish ‘w’ and ‘v’ are the same, and that since ‘w’ in English is pronounced like the Russian vowel ‘у’ (that’s ‘oo’ in English), that the ‘v’ must be pronounced like that as well.
Its because the Russian language doesn’t use the w sound in spoken Russian so they have too learn to use the sound when speaking other languages. Marina explains this in the blooper at the end of this video.http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/05/05/molotov-cocktail/
I saw a very interesting word that I would like to know where it came from and the word is: Quixotic
The word just stands out to me because within it there are so many letters that statistics show to be some of the most infrequently used when compared to others. BTW I find your videos very interesting. I like etymology and keep a lexicon handy but it doesnt get into word histories very much. Thanks for all of your info.
A writer, Miguel de Cervantes, wrote an immense novel–and actually considered by some people to be the first “modern” novel–entitled Don Quixote [say it, Don Kee-ho-tay]. It’s about a guy who’s infatuated with the idea of being an adventurous knight, a chivalrous gentleman and such. So he gets a horse, a sidekick named Sancho Panza, develops a devotion to a farm girl that he fancies to be a princess, and goes around in search of quests to do, suffering from the total delusion that all the stuff he’s read about courageous knights and the like is true. The most famous example is that he attempts to joust a windmill, believing it to be a loathsome giant. Anyways, the point is, the word “quixotic” refers to a task that is ridiculously impossible, even calling into question the sanity of the person trying to accomplish it, like jousting windmills.
Bob, if I had veto power, I would veto that request. Do you know how many of those I had to write this year? Perhaps, we could substitute:
word request: veto
or
word request: perhaps
I don’t twitter and I doubt that I ever will. By the way,right now I am chewing gum and blowing my nose while I am typing this comment. It is a tough job but somebody has to do it!
I was typing a note to Marina. She is not my honey but I’m sure she must be somebody’s honey. She is just too cute not to be. Why do I chew gum? I’ll tell you why-chewing gum this time of year makes my ears pop to the sound of Christmas music! And on top of all that,my nose is running and I can’t seem to catch it. And that is the name of that tune!! I think!!
Precocious brat!
Che, I’ve accepted your request – or at least I’ve tried to, but the request notification hasn’t gone away, so I don’t know if it worked.
I have friends on these sites, or I have friends that happen to also have pages; whichever you prefer.
I am just not one who updates them with any kind of frequency, or visits them past periodically deleting spam requests.
I keep in touch with my far away friends by chatting, or phone calls.
What do you feed an animal that is a cross between a monkey and a tiger? Answer: Anything they want but first you have to pick the fleas off their back.
Do you suppose that someday someone will try to use Twitter as an aliby?
“Your honor, I offer into evidence as Defendant’s A, my Twitter log, wherein at 8:04PM, the same time as the alledged murder was committed, it clearly states, ‘I’m climbing the Eiffel Tower as we speak. The people down there look like ants.’”
The sad thing is, CampKohler, I wouldn’t be surprised if they did. If you haven’t already heard of this story, a lawyer defending a rapist used pictures from the victim’s Facebook page showing her at a party and smiling as evidence that she wasn’t going through the sort of trauma indicative of having been raped.
I swear, it’s like sometimes I wake up in the morning and think to myself, “You know, this world could not possibly get any more stupid.” And then the world says, “Oh yeah? Well, fuck you: I just did.”
It’s just easier to say, same as sha’n't instead of shalln’t.
These are not real words {Bob still ducks instinctively, expecting a salvo of invective from aLx} but transliterations of colloquialisms which are frowned upon in formal writing.
I wonder who got one of the signed calendars? No one on here has admitted to getting one. It is kewl and a sexy calendar. Hung mine in my computer room right in front of me to look at every day.
Mine arrived this morning. It’s not signed, but so what? A copy with just a signature, which is just one of 100 which she signed and gave to her fullfillment house to distribute, has no added value unless you want to sell it on eBay.
One with a personal message would be completely different.
Marina, does this new program tie into our email system, so if I left you a message on the YouTube site subject you would receive it. If not I left a comment for you to look at about the YouTube algorithm. I hope it helps.
No it doesn’t yet.. thanks for the links.. this algorithm is new though.. so I think those articles refer to the general algorithm that I’ve been using up to now.
Hey Marina,
I know that this has nothing to do with what u and Capman911 were talking about. But would u check the ringtones section, I left a comment there and noticed a lot of confused people there wondering whether u were still doin those.
PS: Capman rocks!
There’s a binary star in constellation Perseus called Algol, in which the two stars rotate around each other, the larger, darker star eclipsing the smaller, brighter one once every three days. Among astronomers, this period is known as the “Algol Rhythm.”
Also, there’s a Mexican salsa group known as the Hidalgos. They’re popular for their “Hidalgo-rhythm.”
Have you figured out the new editing buttons, yet?
Some are obvious, but not all seem to work predictably.
The “grin” smiley worked ok, but MrGreen didn’t behave as I expected
Oh well! Still works here
Yea ChaCha I used them to send Marina her a comment. I didn’t have any problems with the edit button. I don’t know how long after you post something that you can’t go back and edit it. I didn’t use any of the other buttons, Marina is still tweaking the site so she may have to turn on or off a fixture of the site.
Currently the YT algorithm is no issue right now for they switch back to making ‘Most Viewed’ the default. But I believe they will revisit this again so might be a good idea to see if there is some logic to this ‘Most Popular’ tab. I suspect goggle is tracking this viral spreading of videos. I’ve abandon my last theory and now Im trying some other ideas. I’ve ran out of post-it notes. I have questions that only the PhillyD, Marina, and a few others can answer for me. They have the keys I need to completely solve the algorithm. Phil’s data is the most valuable.
Hi, Marina. I used the word, “lollygag” to let a coworker know that we had to get back to work. She barely believed that this was a real word. Can you investigate so I can enlighten her? Thanks you so much. By the way, LOVE what you are doing. Очень Хорошо!
hello Marina Orlova, would you be able to investigate the origin of the word: “Amen”? It’s used commonly to end a prayer or agree to one’s idea. People seem to know when to use it but where did originate from? Thanks!
Hi, Marina. I was listening to Britney Spears’ new album “Circus” when I came up with questions like: What is the origin of the word “circus”? And is it related to “circle”? Hope you can investigate
If I am reading this right, Twitter messages are 140-160 characters (max.). Since the maximum string length is around 255 characters, that leaves 95-105 characters for embedded code, including special characters.
A string walks into a bar and orders a beer.
The bartender says”Hey! you’re string.”
“Get out We don’t serve your kind here”
Having been kicked out, the string tells his
friend (another string) what happened.
His friend says “You’re doing it all wrong”
Then the friend bends and twists and
tousles himself up, and goes into the bar.
The bartender says”Hey! Aren’t you a string?”
to which his friend answers”No”
“I’m a frayed knot”
I have enough addiction to this site without wandering
around twittering about every orgasm thing that happens, as it happens
“Oh, I’m coming …to see you later”
I GOT MY CALENDER ON SATURDAY MORNING. AND WAS NOT ONE THAT GOT SIGNED. AND I ORDERED MINE THE FIRST DAY THEY WORE READY.
BUT I GOT ONE .THAT’S WHAT COUNTS.
Same here. What’s interesting they say not to use them in your ear but thats exactly what you plan to use them for. I mean what they heck are you going to use them for any way. I hear that they suck for makeup applications, cleaning windows, washing the car, digging up the garden, and pole vaulting in the Olympics. They know you use a lot of them for they sell them in the jumbo size packages.
I’ve cracked and joined twitter but haven’t found out how to use it yet. Weather in New York is currently -1 and clear with 17mph wind, so it will feel a lot colder with the wind chill factor.
Forecast low tonight of -8, Brrrr!
Wrap up warm and have a good trip,
Bob
I instantly connect “twitter” to “duckspeak”, from “1984″, one of George Orwell’s best novel, with “Animal Farm”. Two great novels from a great thinker, visionary and genius.
Twitter. Internet is a very useful tool. But it is also, at the same time, a big corporate-establishment invasion on everyone’s privacy, like cellphones, chat tools, email, sattelites, etc…
For those of you who are interested in astronomy, Jupiter and Venus just showed up again together tonight. Or Aphrodite and Zeus, call them as you want. They are dancing partners in the night for a couple of months. They are very easy to recognize, as they are the two brightest objects in the night sky after the moon. You can see them shining tall, flashing high and looking bright even in the NYC polluted skies. And no, they are not bright enough to make a wolf howl. They just don’t cut it in front of a full moon.
runawayscott, I am confused at WHO got the signed calendars! I will make it up to you and send you a signed picture.. just email me. I’ll check with the company to try to find out who got the 100 signed calendars!
Mayhap a group of thieves realized how valuable people would consider signed copies of Marina’s calendar, so they stole them from the delivery trucks and plan to resell them to her fanbase at exorbitant prices.
If you phrase it that way… Very interesting grammatical construction animalntaz. Yep, Lisa Nova is definitely more annoying than Marina. A lot more to be honest.
If you mean the Web site, Yahoo is an acronym for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle (meaning a search engine). As those last two words are a bit forced, it is obvious that it is a backronym.
Yeah, but the word yahoo itself originally came from Jonathan Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travels. The yahoos were creatures that were humanlike but brutish, savage, and nonintellectual.
Dear совершенная Marina, Twitter is defined as the succession of short sounds made by a bird, or when people do it, to talk rapidly or chatter about trivial matters. I try not to twitter. I signed up to twitter on the Internet to see the photos you post.
In this video, you dog, Gorby, seems to be better. I hope Gorby fully recovers and will play with you often.
Happy Birthday to you. I hope it is very good for you and your birthday presents bring you happiness. I hope you have many future Happy Birthdays.
Once again, good luck to you on your appearance on the O’Reilly show. I hope you do very well, and also have a safe trip there and back. If you’re away tomorrow, this might mean we won’t get a new video from you, then.
Your dear student, seesixcm6
Camp: where are you from? It might depend on your accent. In “average American,” the front teeth touch in “dog” and “dirt”, but not in “middle” and “griddle,” producing a sound halfway between “d” and “th”.
Another example of “soft d”: listen to a Mexican say “d” (“Buenos dias.”) They put their tongue in back of their top incisors instead of touching their top and bottom incisors, producing a softer “d” sound.
well i’m sorry, that is because the sound doesn’t really excists in english i think.. the soft d has a complete other sound than the normal d, and that is also why it’s so hard to learn the danish language to many people.. it is about the same sound as ‘th’, fx in ‘the’, only the soft d only occurs in the middle of a word.. don’t know if this helps anything..
I would agree with request; it is logical argumentation and what Marxism is based on. Talk about regional speech; look at India and China speaking anglo(english)……speechless#############speaking tube, IiIiIiI
Im not addicted to the service yet. Im on it all the time for I find it useful for a back channel of communication that works with cellphone and the web. I also have been using loopt.com with my best friend for its GPS capability. It helps us meet up for coffee when we are sort of lost in town. We can even find the closest coffee shop in relation to both of our locations. Loopt also sends updates to twitter which is nice for twitter users. So I use twitter for large group communication and Loopt for close friends that live in my area and have no issue with them knowing where im at.
Marina, thank you for your video avatar apologizing for the pronunciation. I understand how difficult it can be to speak another language correctly. I am trying my hand at speaking Russian, so I am the first one to never criticize your pronunciation, but will give feedback as needed.
I got plenty of feedback growing up here in the US.
Amazing the things I learn here every day; I hadn’t heard this word “zwitschern” in a long time. Did I tell you I loved this lesson?
If a bunch of people don’t say something, how can any one of them know they are the first to not say it? The only thing you could go on for that is your birth date, because that’s when you started not saying it. So, unless you know everyone else’s birth date, you can’t know you are the first.
The above logic is so impeccable that there is hardly any reason to go on to a second paragraph.
I thought I would be the only one to notice “the first one to never criticize.” Hmm… at least two of us. I do not know if this is a good thing; one thorn keeps the group honest, more than that and we are just a bunch of pricks.
Homework I got a word request answered I doubt I will sign on to twitter. I follow you just fine on Hotforwords.com
Marina check out my last comment on Model.
Whats kind of nice about M being on twitter is you get to see more behind the scenes of her day to day life. Things that just is not appropriate for her site. We have been getting many Gorby’s health updates which is nice to know.
I wish we could get some of those Gorby updates passed on to us here. Many of us are concerned about the little guy and his girl. The last thing I heard was that he was finally starting to eat a little, but still was not drinking.
Its entirely up to you. A few handfuls of HFW students are on twitter sharing little nib lets of information. Try it out for a week or so and if you don’t like it then just don’t use it.
No, I do not twitter. I spend too much time on HFW as it is. Believe it or not, right now I am writing my final project for my class. Hmm… I wonder why it is not finished yet. ???
I wish we could get some of those Gorby updates passed on to us here. Many of us are concerned about the little guy and his girl. The last thing I heard was that he was finally starting to eat a little, but still was not drinking.
I did update you To get further updates one might have to install an internet plug to Groby’s butt for up to the second updates. Maybe its a good reason to use twitter hu? You can always turn it off when your done with it. If you look at the tweets on this page (if the darn thing is working ) you can read them here.
Ouch! Up to the minute? Once a day, is all I ask. Holy-caring-for-a-sick-dog, Jackman! I ask in this forum daily, b/c I notice others here are also concerned. I guess I will go find out my own lazy self. Sheeesh! {somebody puffs up like a blowfish, pouts briefly, scratches his head, and begins contemplating this whole twitter thing.}
I remember back in the day when there was a soda maching connected to the internet. It was for good reason. The machine was located on the other side of campus and they could check it without having to make a trip every 2 hours. Yea it was heavily used. There was a coffee pot that was connected to a web cam so anyone could see if there was any coffee left. I even seen a refrigerator and a hot tub connected to the net. This was all when dial up Internet was just getting popular.
Oh for your update: At this time of 1525 hundred hours on December 7th Sunday of 2008 on the third planet from the sun, no update has been made since my last Gorby posted update.
I looked and looked for this vid, but I could not find it, so streeeeetch your imagination on this one. Picture De Niro in Goodfellas, “You bustin’ my bawls? Are you f^@kin’ bustin’ my bawls?!”
How cool! I already signed up to “follow” HFW on Twitter last week. For my homework should I unsubscribe? Hmmm.
It works beautifully, even in Hong Kong. So you’ve taught me about words and technology! Thanks!
Wait a minute…
You can deflower a virgin.
You can defrock a clergyman.
What defrock is with deflower?
(was Lisa Nova a virgin queen?)
Shades of Elizabeth!
Ha Ha Ha! Foxbow must be sleepin’
Cogratulations, you are Number One today
@ Che – So who died and made Lisa Nova
the Queen? (was it all the queens from the
YouTube Live Special? LMAO) They were
doomed, anyway…
I like this comment editing thing.. cool
i don’t now this expression, but thanks and i want my chrismas cart beatyfull woman and sexy teacher, by the way happy bhirtday
As long as we’re being frivolous, is it OK to ask if Teach really IS putting baby oil on her breasts?
I was BOUND to have a crush on her!
What can I say? I’m an amateur philologist with a breast fetish.
What the hell is baby oil?…English?…teach me ol’ soveigh
The Bastard Fairies – Apple Pie 
i have no idea how the fuck you use twitter
I had not heard of Lisa Nova before this video, and I don’t think I want to hear of her anymore.
I am with you on that comment… what a “pain in the ear” etc…
I’ll say this, though: she’s kind of cute.
Well, I ended up watching both parts of Lisa Nova’s Twitter Whore video.
I don’t think I’ll ever reach that level of Twittering. I don’t tweet that much, anyway, if at all.
Twitter Ruined My Life!”
Thank you for the Edit feature. Now, is there a way to find all my comments?
One could become twitterpated by HotForWords.
Should M be messin’ around in here? Does she have a TV taping soon?
Maybe she’s in the green room, wonder what kind of nosh Fox puts out? Photo op for mijj, phomera (phone + camera) the snack table.
I have the #1 most watched video on YouTube right now.. and the #13 is moving its way up
http://www.youtube.com/browse
Now if YouTube could just not mess with the way it works, things would be good for me!
Atta girl!
If the do I will kill them… And ExpertVillage and householdhacker
According to the current standings is it time for a new vid, since you used to upload at number 24.?
Marina is in the back seat of a cab right now, driving around NYC with her laptop open looking for some WiFi
Dear Marina, every time you welcome us on your lessons you use the word “student/s”.I would like to know the origin of this one, and i hope you will surprise me with the answer because i think the only link of this word is to “studies”. Хотелось бы услышать ваш ответ, как русская- русскому.
“I’d like to hear your answer, as Russian to Russian”?
I hope she does it in English, too.
“Ivan” Owen
Marina, You are #3 most subbed now… WHATS GOING ON HERE!!!
oops! you have already done that one. how about zamboni?
Are you uploading at the moment Marina? I am. 222MB for 3 mins of film…….. This had better be good
That seems a bit extreme James.. I am uploading a 2:50 video and it’s only 95 MB. You need to compress a little more. Do H.264 (which is mpeg 4 I think) and do 2 or 4 mbs video and 128kbs aac audio
I know. It’s a wmv at 1280×720 made in vegas. I think thats the best I can get at the moment. I will look in to it more next week I am fed up of seeing movie editors on my computer. Thats all I did yesterday… I have no life! Oh well I have college tomorrow and my grandad is 91 so we will go say happy birthday to him.
damn filesize!
anti-disestablishmentarianism
will you marry me?
I have wondered where I fit in this picture. I definately do not subscribe to disestablishmentarianism, but I am not against them, so I would not subscribe to anti-disestablishmentarianism either. Maybe, I will just subscribe to National Geographic and Guitar World.
Meh-disestablishmentarianism?
No
Marina, here is a new tool for keeping track of your fav Twitter users(probably not me tho:P):
http://tinyurl.com/6pqduj
That’s pretty cool! I use something called Twitterriffic which is a program not only on my mac but on my iPhone as well and it is a scrolling list of all the tweets of the people I follow.
Bah! Humbug! I refuse to twitter my life away.
Scrooge
Word game: take two existing words and use part of each to make one new word.
Plastal = plastic + metal
chillax = this one has been around for a while now and is in common use.
Like:
SURprised + imPRESSED = SURPRESSED
Excellent
Did anyone see the Sarah Silverman Show, the episode where she is trying to introduce a new word into the English language?
Let me see if I can find it on Hulu.
chonkey
CHOpped + moNKEY = CHONKEY?
CHOcolate + doNKEY = CHONKEY?
crotCH + mONKEY = CHONKEY?
so you going to tell us?
cheese + monkey. I used to just call them cheese monkeys, but I like Che’s idea more gooder.
monkey made of cheese? monkey addicted to cheese? I’m still a bit lost, mate…
They are cousins to butt monkeys (bonkeys?); niether one is very pleasant. Sometimes, chonkeys and bonkeys will get together, and the cheese really hits the fan.
I heard someone talk of melding all the winter holidays in to one big all-inclusive celebration of unity and love and all that other touchie-feelie stuff:
CHANUkah + RAMAdan + winter SOLSTIce + KWANZaa + christMAS = CHANURAMASOLSTIKWAANZMAS
so nobody feels left out or offended.
now this why people just say happy holidays
I used to know this cat who had a cherry ‘57 Chevy. He called it his Che Volay.
cheeky monkey
guts
Wow, step away for 2 seconds and the place has a bunch of changes. I like em all. Bigger gravatars, a link to the HFW YT channel. Very nice.
& of course….. she IS always right
Yeh!! LOVE these big gravatars! Even the mutant aliens don’t look so bad!
all i want for christmas is … http://twitpic.com/r6o1 lol
Re: Editing buttons Seen this yet?
The HotForWord video forum
http://bb.hotforwords.com/
melika,
I tried editing comments before.. maybe I’ll try it again.
Umm.. it’s on the pulldowns as Tech Talk.
Did you get a signed calendar?
The twitpic link made me laugh
(I like my apples polished – LOL!)
It looks like we have NC, CA, Scotland, Japan, and Germany all covered this morning. Good job!
Oops! I forgot Canada, sorry. Go Canucks!!
hello! everyone! i got the calendar and am screaming with happiness! yes, i m now happier more than the words can say! welcome to Japan, “hot for words wall calendar”!!
Awesome!!
Bigger Gravatars are a good thing…
Breakfast Music!
“forge your creativity closer to the heart!
That solves the problem of why Marina can’t sleep on The Plane … flying by night gives her too much of a Rush.
Darn it! wrong link!
Fly by night.
Good one!
Marina, can u look for the origins of the word Boss
thanks
I feel like Che, Bob, and bomebody are the HFW Breakfast Club
Where’s Molly Ringwall?
In the movie. who was the smartest character in the Breakfast Club? I only ask because I remember the jock, the jerk, the depressed one, etc. – but I thought the premise was that they were all in detention for being miscreants – LOL!
(All of you are smarter than that…)
the character played by Michael Anthony Hall
No mel.
We’re all smart enough to get into detention with Marina.
Bob (The Jock)
BTW, What do you think Sir Jock Stirrup’s nickname was in the Air Force?
Since Che has not posted the morning music, yet (slacker!), I thought I would fill in today. So, come on folks, it is time to get up
Good tune, I went back to bed after I had some
hot tea……um hottieVery imaginative! Me-lika…
Let me get my rifle, he’s closer to me now.
have to be real quite now ssshhhhBANG! Aw Cap you MISSED
You know: “Nothing Runs Like A Deere” 
Oh well you know the old tradition. Someone has to rip the tail off of my shirt. Glad I missed anyway.
Marina’s tweet, she wants to know why she can’t sleep on airplanes?
Marina, you’re afraid if you fell asleep on the plane the guy next to you would spoon you.
Che you left that one wide open for a fork joke, but I want do that to Miss M. she did away with the forkers.
Cap either needs to fire his proofreader or give high fives around the house.
Capman911 said
“John you can use Twitter on a regular PC or a Mac.”
I have only seen instalation files for a mac. I can read the twitter posts but am unable to post their unless there is someting i haven’t found yet.
Can u read the name on my Santa hat?
No, only me & Bob knows it says Che
I knew it Che, I cut and pasted it to another program when you and Bob where talking about it.
I bumped my screen resolution…
“Look Gretchen, a gingerbread house”
.
I see it, too
[Let's eat it! - LOL!]
Oops – her name was Gretel, my bad
YAY bigger gravatars.. I was going to ask if that was happening.. Is this part of the update Marina?
now everyone can see it says “I love MaAina”
Haven’t you seen a neon sign before?
now everyone can see yours is tripe.
Thank you for making the Gravatars bigger.
No your acceptance hasn’t showed up yet, Twitter is sometimes so slow
Found out why. I had ajax turned off.
…sent you a reply on twitter but you can’t read it since you are not following me
Not true.. replies come to me even if I am not following you.
Marina is correct Che. You can reply and she will see it.
I believe that you cannot send a
“Direct” message (i.e. private) unless she follows you.
The reason I can’t read it is because twitter is down for 80% of the time.
@PK, the way I read it, you can always send a direct message to anyone. The difference is that direct messages don’t show up on the public time-line, or did I get that wrong too?
I have a ‘question’ regarding where the origin of the fourth word in this sentence came from. Is ‘Question’ related to ‘Quest’? HotForWords, please investigate
I can’t touch my computer often enough to start being obsessed with twitter ==
Hi wow is better in HD qualifty hehe
Well I wanna know where the word Sexy comes
Btw love you Marina and thankyou for being a good role model in the world and for being so beautiful
since its christmas time.. i was wondering what is the origin of the word “X-MAS” and what does the”X” have to do with christmas.. thanx marina i love your vids.. keep showing ppl that brains are beauties tooo!!
Maybe “X” has something to do with crucifixion, or Christ sounds close to “cross” and may serve as a reminder. I don’t know.
Hey hey. Great video! My requested word actually has to do with my nickname – Angus. I was wondering where that name comes from. I’ve taken a liking to it, but I’m not sure where it comes from. Thanks!
Angus Gibson
The first time I heard this name was on the final MacGyver show.
Latin: angustus=narrow.
I hope it doesn’t refer to your mind.
I like these larger gravatars. Is that Marina sitting on your lap?
I cannot tell a lie …
If she is on your lap, are you talking about the first thing that pops up
BTW, were your parents AC/DC fans by some odd chance?
If you have nine minutes and fifty one seconds to spare… Perchance, are your middle initials SG? I know he is not playing one here, but I declare poetic liscence.
Oops… my bad; he is playing the SG.
LOL! Actually, I am the AC/DC fan – hence my nickname. I OWN a Gibson SG with an Angus Young Signature Humbucker in it. My initials aren’t SG but my first name is Taylor – another GREAT guitar company.
One of my nephew’s middle name is Marshal. Good thin my brother-in-law does not play a Strativarius.
On a totally opposite/unimportant note. Marina, can you do the word ‘Chlamydia’. And, you dressed very nice in this video. You should dress like that more often, it’s very fresh.
No, it wasn’t My Stepmother is an Alien. It’s the movie where the alien girl mixes up all the food in the blender and the other normal human girl asks her why she did that and the alien girl said ‘what does it matter, it all goes in the same place’ or something like that. WHAT IS THE NAME OF THIS MOVIE. I’m asking a ton of other message boards too. Hopefully, this one can help me, since there are so many smart people on this board, i’m sure a few of you can figure it out.
Coneheads???
Or was it the TV show 3rd rock from the sun??
It would help if you knew about when this movie was made.
The 80’s 90’s. is it new or older than the 80’s?
Earth Girls Are Easy?
John go here and sign up for twitter and then you can add people on to follow and comment to other people on twitter. I think you have to be a member of twitter before you can comment
https://twitter.com/signup
What is red and smells like blue paint?
Red paint
But do they TASTE the same
No, blue tastes more metallic, Yuck.
great explanation!! Now I know-!
But did you know that in German (colloquial language)we use the word zwitschern also for drinking alcohol : einen zwitschern!!
Marina, I’ve noticed that Russian women such as yourself seem to mispronounce the Latin ‘v’ as ‘w’. It’s like you are thinking that the German or Polish ‘w’ and ‘v’ are the same, and that since ‘w’ in English is pronounced like the Russian vowel ‘у’ (that’s ‘oo’ in English), that the ‘v’ must be pronounced like that as well.
I’m reading a Learn Latin book, the pronouncing it says for v is w.
Its because the Russian language doesn’t use the w sound in spoken Russian so they have too learn to use the sound when speaking other languages. Marina explains this in the blooper at the end of this video.http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/05/05/molotov-cocktail/
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/05/05/molotov-cocktail/
John you can use Twitter on a regular PC or a Mac.
I saw a very interesting word that I would like to know where it came from and the word is: Quixotic
The word just stands out to me because within it there are so many letters that statistics show to be some of the most infrequently used when compared to others. BTW I find your videos very interesting. I like etymology and keep a lexicon handy but it doesnt get into word histories very much. Thanks for all of your info.
A writer, Miguel de Cervantes, wrote an immense novel–and actually considered by some people to be the first “modern” novel–entitled Don Quixote [say it, Don Kee-ho-tay]. It’s about a guy who’s infatuated with the idea of being an adventurous knight, a chivalrous gentleman and such. So he gets a horse, a sidekick named Sancho Panza, develops a devotion to a farm girl that he fancies to be a princess, and goes around in search of quests to do, suffering from the total delusion that all the stuff he’s read about courageous knights and the like is true. The most famous example is that he attempts to joust a windmill, believing it to be a loathsome giant. Anyways, the point is, the word “quixotic” refers to a task that is ridiculously impossible, even calling into question the sanity of the person trying to accomplish it, like jousting windmills.
An excellent précis, nathan.
Word request Précis.
Bob, if I had veto power, I would veto that request. Do you know how many of those I had to write this year? Perhaps, we could substitute:
word request: veto
or
word request: perhaps
(You’ll have to come up with something amusing for the chewing gum part yourself).
Please explain the origin of the word “Door”.
If romance is a word that originated from Roman times… what was it called before that?
Are Rudolph Valentino and St. Valentine related?
Did French kiss originate in France or were people doing this sort of thing as soon as they stepped out of the Garden of Eden?
What makes you think Adam and Eve hadn’t gotten to first base before they got kicked out?
If Adam and Eve had found out about French Kissing they would have also covered their mouths with fig leaves.
I’ve been French kissing since Junior High
Precocious brat!
Che, I’ve accepted your request – or at least I’ve tried to, but the request notification hasn’t gone away, so I don’t know if it worked.
Hey Che, check out the gizmo. Got em on there now.
I have accounts on several social networking sites, and rarely visit any of them.
We look foward to you including us in your non-circle of friends. Or is it your circle of non-friends? (How can we tell?)
I have friends on these sites, or I have friends that happen to also have pages; whichever you prefer.
I am just not one who updates them with any kind of frequency, or visits them past periodically deleting spam requests.
I keep in touch with my far away friends by chatting, or phone calls.
Me-lika…
whats the origin of HO-HO-HO
It’s just a kind of jolly laughter that got popularized and associated with Santa.
What do you get when you cross a canary with a lawnmower???
I’ll bite, Smokey – What DO you get when you cross a canary with a lawnmower???
Shredded tweet
LOL! Cute one
You got another?
Q: What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rhinoceros?
A: ‘Ell if I know! (If you’re slow to get it, read it aloud quickly.)
Clever.
Know any dead baby jokes?
Decorum prohibits me from posting any here.
Thought you might want to learn some for
the next time the kids come over! LMAO
Chacha, those are a bad memory from the ’60s! One I had, until now, successfully repressed!
Here is my Twitter page
Do you suppose that someday someone will try to use Twitter as an aliby?
The sad thing is, CampKohler, I wouldn’t be surprised if they did. If you haven’t already heard of this story, a lawyer defending a rapist used pictures from the victim’s Facebook page showing her at a party and smiling as evidence that she wasn’t going through the sort of trauma indicative of having been raped.
I swear, it’s like sometimes I wake up in the morning and think to myself, “You know, this world could not possibly get any more stupid.” And then the world says, “Oh yeah? Well, fuck you: I just did.”
@ nathan19, I agree, it reminds me of the maxim, “invent something that’s idiot-proof and the world will invent a better idiot.”
MARINA WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF THE WORD ALLEY-OOP. The TERM THEY USE IN BASKETBALL. PLEASE DO THIS ONE!!!
sorry for double posting but could you do the word “wenis” I want to prove to my friend that it isn’t a word so he’ll stop using it
Post as often as you like, friend! Until she gets around to it, check out [This nifty talk on new words]
please do bike
If can+not=can’t and should+not=shouldn’t, why doesn’t will+not=willn’t? Where did they get won’t?
It’s just easier to say, same as sha’n't instead of shalln’t.
These are not real words
{Bob still ducks instinctively, expecting a salvo of invective from aLx} but transliterations of colloquialisms which are frowned upon in formal writing.
Yippee! just got the calendar! No coveted ‘holy inscription’, but looking forward especially to February and December!
I wonder who got one of the signed calendars? No one on here has admitted to getting one. It is kewl and a sexy calendar. Hung mine in my computer room right in front of me to look at every day.
I just twittered mine
I like it signed or not! (if I had gotten a signed one, probably would have sent it to James and bought another for myself 
I could have sworn ‘Laverne and Shirley’ used to do something like that to the Beatles… maybe only one particular season…
I have my suspicions on what happen to the signed copies.
What are you thinking, Che?
I’ll find out on Tues.
Mine arrived this morning. It’s not signed, but so what? A copy with just a signature, which is just one of 100 which she signed and gave to her fullfillment house to distribute, has no added value unless you want to sell it on eBay.
One with a personal message would be completely different.
Marina, does this new program tie into our email system, so if I left you a message on the YouTube site subject you would receive it. If not I left a comment for you to look at about the YouTube algorithm. I hope it helps.
No it doesn’t yet.. thanks for the links.. this algorithm is new though.. so I think those articles refer to the general algorithm that I’ve been using up to now.
Thanks though!
sigh
i cant use twitter if its only for the mac?
Hey Marina,
I know that this has nothing to do with what u and Capman911 were talking about. But would u check the ringtones section, I left a comment there and noticed a lot of confused people there wondering whether u were still doin those.
PS: Capman rocks!
@Marina ***Word request: Algorithm***
There’s a binary star in constellation Perseus called Algol, in which the two stars rotate around each other, the larger, darker star eclipsing the smaller, brighter one once every three days. Among astronomers, this period is known as the “Algol Rhythm.”
Also, there’s a Mexican salsa group known as the Hidalgos. They’re popular for their “Hidalgo-rhythm.”
Have you figured out the new editing buttons, yet?
Some are obvious, but not all seem to work predictably.
The “grin” smiley worked ok, but MrGreen didn’t behave as I expected
Oh well! Still works here
editing button?
Yea ChaCha I used them to send Marina her a comment. I didn’t have any problems with the edit button. I don’t know how long after you post something that you can’t go back and edit it. I didn’t use any of the other buttons, Marina is still tweaking the site so she may have to turn on or off a fixture of the site.
Currently the YT algorithm is no issue right now for they switch back to making ‘Most Viewed’ the default. But I believe they will revisit this again so might be a good idea to see if there is some logic to this ‘Most Popular’ tab. I suspect goggle is tracking this viral spreading of videos. I’ve abandon my last theory and now Im trying some other ideas. I’ve ran out of post-it notes. I have questions that only the PhillyD, Marina, and a few others can answer for me. They have the keys I need to completely solve the algorithm. Phil’s data is the most valuable.
Homework: Since I already follow you on twitter, does that mean I get an “F”? Is it too late to ‘opt out’?
Hi, Marina. I used the word, “lollygag” to let a coworker know that we had to get back to work. She barely believed that this was a real word. Can you investigate so I can enlighten her? Thanks you so much. By the way, LOVE what you are doing. Очень Хорошо!
OK, how do you do the Kyrillic lettering?
Evan, if you’re using Firefox, you can get an add-on called abcTajpu which will allow you to input special characters and foreign alphabets.
I just have the font and used my word processor to insert the characters one-by-one… the I cut and paste into the text box here.
If you write in other languages, there are several good word processors out there that have advanced features.
Bob, thanks for the idea of abcTajpu – sounds like a good free approach if you use Firefox…
hello Marina Orlova, would you be able to investigate the origin of the word: “Amen”? It’s used commonly to end a prayer or agree to one’s idea. People seem to know when to use it but where did originate from? Thanks!
Hebrew for “so be it.”
on Twitter we all tweet…like Tweety-bird…
well, maybe not quite like Tweety…
You are going to get a kick out of this video. The last part uses some of Marina’s music.
http://www.minimovies.com/film-128460-McCain-Obama%20Dance-Off
Oh that was funny! Good one Mike.
” what PD said.
Hilarious! But now I can’t even believe it when I see it.
You a very lucky having Marina sitting on your lap in your Gravatar.
Yeah, that photo shoot was a lot of fun.
The word BANTU
I just had an epiphany, Marina should go mobile!
Also, epiphany would be a sweet word.
heh couldn’t find anything better today eh? meh is a good word to describe the word twitter
meh! times 2!
Hi, Marina. I was listening to Britney Spears’ new album “Circus” when I came up with questions like: What is the origin of the word “circus”? And is it related to “circle”? Hope you can investigate
Check out Marina’s video on “collar.”
who the fuck listens to britney spears. i bet everyone who’s not lame would have stopped reading your post after Spears’.
rosiecheeks: Save your flaming for YouTube. This site is a “no-flame” zone. “Students” have been “expelled” for being repeatedly abusive.
What is the orogen of lol or laugh out loud?
Why is it used the way it is? 
Why is it used in IMing? 
Where did everything go? Marina must be tweaking the site.
Why is the word “booze” used to describe drinks?
If I am reading this right, Twitter messages are 140-160 characters (max.). Since the maximum string length is around 255 characters, that leaves 95-105 characters for embedded code, including special characters.
A string walks into a bar and orders a beer.
The bartender says”Hey! you’re string.”
“Get out We don’t serve your kind here”
Having been kicked out, the string tells his
friend (another string) what happened.
His friend says “You’re doing it all wrong”
Then the friend bends and twists and
tousles himself up, and goes into the bar.
The bartender says”Hey! Aren’t you a string?”
to which his friend answers”No”
“I’m a frayed knot”
I have enough addiction to this site without wandering
around twittering about every
orgasmthing that happens, as it happens“Oh, I’m coming …to see you later”
I GOT MY CALENDER ON SATURDAY MORNING. AND WAS NOT ONE THAT GOT SIGNED. AND I ORDERED MINE THE FIRST DAY THEY WORE READY.
BUT I GOT ONE .THAT’S WHAT COUNTS.
Wow Marina, u got it all. It’s good to see someone who’s beautiful and smart these days.
PS: Where does “posterity” come from?
can you do the word sex? im pretty curiousas to where it comes from…thanks
Hi Marina,
Where did the phrase “New World Order” come from? By the way, I really admire your intellect and your incredible beauty.
Take care,
070469blueboy
well, since i’m on Twitter already, i guess that makes me an official twit…
‘course, i’ve been an unofficial twit for a long time…
i’ve had a couple of friends find me on Twitter, so now i’ve got to be careful what i say…
unless i decide to be a total twit…(-;
Hi Marina,
I was wondering where the word Q-tip came from?
http://www.RolandBuckles.com
Same here. What’s interesting they say not to use them in your ear but thats exactly what you plan to use them for. I mean what they heck are you going to use them for any way. I hear that they suck for makeup applications, cleaning windows, washing the car, digging up the garden, and pole vaulting in the Olympics. They know you use a lot of them for they sell them in the jumbo size packages.
Trying out a new forum where I will answer technical aspects of posting videos on YouTube… plus you all can post as well.
You should already be logged in if you are logged in to this website.. if you, go ahead and log in over there with the same credentials.
http://bb.hotforwords.com
Great Forum Marina!!!
Love it.
I think it still has a bug or two. I will wait a few days and try it again. Sorry about commenting twice in there; I did not mean to.
Don’t worry.. I fixed the thing where it took a while to post.. it should be fine now.
Thanks M! I have been receiving a few emails regarding that subject lately. I was about to make a standard reply email.
I’ve cracked and joined twitter but haven’t found out how to use it yet.
Weather in New York is currently -1 and clear with 17mph wind, so it will feel a lot colder with the wind chill factor.
Forecast low tonight of -8, Brrrr!
Wrap up warm and have a good trip,
Bob
Oh! you’re using a Celsius thermometer
didn’t think it was so cold there
Bob, what is you Twitter handle?
I found you, I just sent you an invite, for a crash course
Twitter – Lisa Nova
I may not get around to Twitter for a bit.
The forum looks sweet! Like having a
backstage full access pass. Bookmarked
that sucker…
Amen, brother!
I don’t think I have everyones twitter link. Here’s mine.
Nice hat Capn’ Jack. whats that saying?
“Stick with Jack and you’ll make it back.”
♫ ♫ You just slip out the back, Jack! ♫ ♫
PAUL SIMON - 50 Ways To Leave Your LoverYeah unfortunately it only lists 5 ways in the song, I saw a site once that listed another 45 ways to include in the song.
LOL! Groby? How many names does that poor little doggie have?
(I know it was a typo – but I still laughed)
itsa whats i meent ands noots which me types.
LOL….
I instantly connect “twitter” to “duckspeak”, from “1984″, one of George Orwell’s best novel, with “Animal Farm”. Two great novels from a great thinker, visionary and genius.
Twitter. Internet is a very useful tool. But it is also, at the same time, a big corporate-establishment invasion on everyone’s privacy, like cellphones, chat tools, email, sattelites, etc…
For those of you who are interested in astronomy, Jupiter and Venus just showed up again together tonight. Or Aphrodite and Zeus, call them as you want. They are dancing partners in the night for a couple of months. They are very easy to recognize, as they are the two brightest objects in the night sky after the moon. You can see them shining tall, flashing high and looking bright even in the NYC polluted skies. And no, they are not bright enough to make a wolf howl. They just don’t cut it in front of a full moon.
I got my Hotforwords calendar the other day and I’m pretty disappointed that mine wasn’t signed. still pretty coold though.
runawayscott, I am confused at WHO got the signed calendars! I will make it up to you and send you a signed picture.. just email me. I’ll check with the company to try to find out who got the 100 signed calendars!
Marina, FedEx said they would have it here on Dec 9, two more days to go. It’s in transit, still in Chicago. Wow, all those other lucky people.
You could deliver the calendar in person, you know, and it would be here in 1-1/2 hours.
Never say you are confused…..some people will use(quote) the phrase back asswards. twitter sounds like sweeter
henry Sweet 1845-1912 British philogist 
Thank you so much Marina, I emailed you about the whole thing like you asked and you have no idea how sweet I think this is.
Two more days till I get my calendar!!!!!!!
Mayhap a group of thieves realized how valuable people would consider signed copies of Marina’s calendar, so they stole them from the delivery trucks and plan to resell them to her fanbase at exorbitant prices.
twits
Sure looks like you are getting bigger muscles. Gorby getting stronger too? Love your work and of course(corse) HOTFORWORDS
twitter rocks
cool vid
I always found that LisaNova video a bit annoying. And I don’t understand this Twitter website. Sounds like it’s made for a bunch of “twits.”
If you phrase it that way… Very interesting grammatical construction animalntaz. Yep, Lisa Nova is definitely more annoying than Marina. A lot more to be honest.
….now have two tabs open that say Twitter
HFW: Twitter Twitter/Home
Web Site Word Request
Yahoo!
If you mean the Web site, Yahoo is an acronym for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle (meaning a search engine). As those last two words are a bit forced, it is obvious that it is a backronym.
Yeah, but the word yahoo itself originally came from Jonathan Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travels. The yahoos were creatures that were humanlike but brutish, savage, and nonintellectual.
Homework: Yes I joined Twitter, but the only way I keep up with it is at home on the pc.
30th comment Awesome lesson Marina!
Dear совершенная Marina, Twitter is defined as the succession of short sounds made by a bird, or when people do it, to talk rapidly or chatter about trivial matters. I try not to twitter. I signed up to twitter on the Internet to see the photos you post.
In this video, you dog, Gorby, seems to be better. I hope Gorby fully recovers and will play with you often.
Happy Birthday to you. I hope it is very good for you and your birthday presents bring you happiness. I hope you have many future Happy Birthdays.
Once again, good luck to you on your appearance on the O’Reilly show. I hope you do very well, and also have a safe trip there and back. If you’re away tomorrow, this might mean we won’t get a new video from you, then.
Your dear student, seesixcm6
Looks like Gorby is doing better
‘pends on when the vid was actually made…i imagine Marina has a pile of unreleased vids…otherwise she’ll never get a night off, or a real vacation…
but i do hope Gorby is better…
About to check out twitter for the first time thanks to the lovely Marina. xoxoxoxo
well, there’s an F right there.
what is the origin of the word, underworld?
Damn.. how can you have such a nice dialect?? i like it..
so why don’t you investigate the origin of the word “dialect”?
btw, the danish word “kvidre” is pronounced with a soft “d”…
C U ( I will..
)
I got no idea what “soft d” means. Can you give any English words that use the sound?
Signed,
Stupid
Griddle.
Btw, catchy new gravatar you’ve got. Making sure I won’t forget you again?
I’m afraid I don’t get the difference. Dog, griddle, dirt. All the same to my ear.
Camp: where are you from? It might depend on your accent. In “average American,” the front teeth touch in “dog” and “dirt”, but not in “middle” and “griddle,” producing a sound halfway between “d” and “th”.
Another example of “soft d”: listen to a Mexican say “d” (“Buenos dias.”) They put their tongue in back of their top incisors instead of touching their top and bottom incisors, producing a softer “d” sound.
well i’m sorry, that is because the sound doesn’t really excists in english
i think.. the soft d has a complete other sound than the normal d, and that is also why it’s so hard to learn the danish language to many people.. it is about the same sound as ‘th’, fx in ‘the’, only the soft d only occurs in the middle of a word.. don’t know if this helps anything..
I would agree with request; it is logical argumentation and what Marxism is based on. Talk about regional speech; look at India and China speaking anglo(english)……speechless#############speaking tube, IiIiIiI
Homework: Damn! I failed that assignment.
Im not addicted to the service yet. Im on it all the time for I find it useful for a back channel of communication that works with cellphone and the web. I also have been using loopt.com with my best friend for its GPS capability. It helps us meet up for coffee when we are sort of lost in town. We can even find the closest coffee shop in relation to both of our locations. Loopt also sends updates to twitter which is nice for twitter users. So I use twitter for large group communication and Loopt for close friends that live in my area and have no issue with them knowing where im at.
Marina, thank you for your video avatar apologizing for the pronunciation. I understand how difficult it can be to speak another language correctly. I am trying my hand at speaking Russian, so I am the first one to never criticize your pronunciation, but will give feedback as needed.
I got plenty of feedback growing up here in the US.
Amazing the things I learn here every day; I hadn’t heard this word “zwitschern” in a long time. Did I tell you I loved this lesson?
If a bunch of people don’t say something, how can any one of them know they are the first to not say it? The only thing you could go on for that is your birth date, because that’s when you started not saying it. So, unless you know everyone else’s birth date, you can’t know you are the first.
The above logic is so impeccable that there is hardly any reason to go on to a second paragraph.I thought I would be the only one to notice “the first one to never criticize.” Hmm… at least two of us. I do not know if this is a good thing; one thorn keeps the group honest, more than that and we are just a bunch of pricks.
The more the prickier I say.
Dear HotForWords,
I so seriously was wondering “wtf does twitter mean?” the other day
You are welcome btw!
YS,
TOF
MARINA WILL YOU JUST CUT IT OUT I HAVE HAD ENOUGH!!!
WHY DO YOU KEEP TEASING ME WITH THAT CALENDAR…..
She thinks it’s fun to watch you squirm and wriggle around.
Do you suppose she was annoyed by your video about your pencil and her vanilla?
Test
Homework
I got a word request answered 
I doubt I will sign on to twitter. I follow you just fine on Hotforwords.com 
Marina check out my last comment on Model.
Whats kind of nice about M being on twitter is you get to see more behind the scenes of her day to day life. Things that just is not appropriate for her site. We have been getting many Gorby’s health updates which is nice to know.
I wish we could get some of those Gorby updates passed on to us here. Many of us are concerned about the little guy and his girl. The last thing I heard was that he was finally starting to eat a little, but still was not drinking.
Its entirely up to you. A few handfuls of HFW students are on twitter sharing little nib lets of information. Try it out for a week or so and if you don’t like it then just don’t use it.
Wow!!! that was a long lesson and had me on the edge of my seat. Great lesson Marina!
I have word requests dear Teacher.
They are….
CORPUS DELICTI
and
EX POST FASTO
No, I do not twitter. I spend too much time on HFW as it is. Believe it or not, right now I am writing my final project for my class. Hmm… I wonder why it is not finished yet. ???
I did update you
To get further updates one might have to install an internet plug to Groby’s butt for up to the second updates. 
Maybe its a good reason to use twitter hu? 
You can always turn it off when your done with it. If you look at the tweets on this page (if the darn thing is working 
) you can read them here. 
Ouch! Up to the minute? Once a day, is all I ask. Holy-caring-for-a-sick-dog, Jackman! I ask in this forum daily, b/c I notice others here are also concerned. I guess I will go find out my own lazy self. Sheeesh! {somebody puffs up like a blowfish, pouts briefly, scratches his head, and begins contemplating this whole twitter thing.}
I remember back in the day when there was a soda maching connected to the internet. It was for good reason. The machine was located on the other side of campus and they could check it without having to make a trip every 2 hours. Yea it was heavily used. There was a coffee pot that was connected to a web cam so anyone could see if there was any coffee left. I even seen a refrigerator and a hot tub connected to the net. This was all when dial up Internet was just getting popular.
Oh for your update: At this time of 1525 hundred hours on December 7th Sunday of 2008 on the third planet from the sun, no update has been made since my last Gorby posted update.
I looked and looked for this vid, but I could not find it, so streeeeetch your imagination on this one. Picture De Niro in Goodfellas, “You bustin’ my bawls? Are you f^@kin’ bustin’ my bawls?!”
Dear Marina,
How cool! I already signed up to “follow” HFW on Twitter last week. For my homework should I unsubscribe? Hmmm.
It works beautifully, even in Hong Kong. So you’ve taught me about words and technology! Thanks!
Cheers from China, Q
not surprised i mussed this one. I have been doing video tests all day
Lisa Nova’s last Twitter was on November 24th
So I deflowered her
Wait a minute…
You can deflower a virgin.
You can defrock a clergyman.
What defrock is with deflower?
(was Lisa Nova a virgin queen?)
Shades of Elizabeth!
Does PD have the trifecta?
No. I missed it yesterday! I did hit an exacta though.
Flower me!
Oh no! I have been deflowered!
hi
minefield aint that fast….
(new upcomming firefox
)
Lisa Nova is the Queen of YouTube
Twitter is down, Oh no!
Where you here when LisaNova had her b-day party live on a video feed? Marina was there, it was fun.
Never seen that live B-day video
First again! You’re awesome.
Ha Ha Ha! Foxbow must be sleepin’
Cogratulations, you are Number One today
@ Che – So who died and made Lisa Nova
the Queen? (was it all the queens from the
YouTube Live Special? LMAO) They were
doomed, anyway…
Yea! lol, didn’t see the other implications
Congrats!
Foxbow must be grounded on the flight line.