Not Too Shabby
Not to shabby… here is something that is not too shabby:
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If that Rambler was restored Marina would be totally sexy driving around in it. Pink would be perfect. I love Marina and Ramblers
Aw i like your hair xD
I have a question to u.
can you talk german?
and i like this car
After driving a car like that; where would you park it?
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Have a grand day Mike!!!
Word request: [snapshot] – as in a photograph, picture… is it true this word was originally a hunting term?
Here is an unusual car that is….. well….. I don’t know if shabby should be mentioned, but…
Covini C6W
i want to know were the word “Martial Arts” comes from
me too
I’d like to learn about the word “Peculiar”, please.
WTF? Google ads for gay partnership!?
What does that have to do with anything? Are they suggesting that only gays would buy a Maybach?
It’s because you mentioned William Sledd silly
Sorry, I’ll have to wash the page out with soap.
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{See if that gets us lots of ads for detergent.
{…conjuring up some bubble bath ads }
thats why i am glad i have an ad block. Weightloss and dating. 2 things i couldn’t give a shit about.
@Bob, portmanteau another new word in my vocabulary
does it work with peoples name:
i.e. Bob & Marina are an item = Bobrina
@Bob “You sleigh me with your Christmas humor”
Be thankful I sleigh you and don’t Sledd you.
Oh! I thought you were going to pinch MY nipples
Are you trying to start a rumour, Che?
BTW My cousin’s name is Robina, so its a word in its own right.
Marina introduced us to portmanteau words in the Machinima lesson.
Best I go review that lesson
Maybe I’ll go in the tech forum and start a tread to list ‘portmanteau’ made up by students.
Great idea, Che. Whilst you’re in the Machinima, be sure to harvest the portmanteau that people posted earlier, to start your thread.
… just been reading the list of portmanteau by Lewis Carroll
Fav: Jubjub, uffish
i.e. Don’t get all uffish on me ……
When you ‘fart’ & ’sneeze’ at the same time = gasneeze
Hey, here´s Germany…
Marina i want to know the origin of the word Bujakasha
some americans say that to me and i have no idea what it is
but i know that Ali G. says that often too
many greetings
Chris
I never heard of Bujakasha, no matter which way I pronounce it, and I’ve been an American for longer than Obama has been black.
BTW, you’re not the Chris, are you? That Kringle guy?
Hey, do me a favor, will you? Click
Dashboard | Profile, type in a newNicknamethat includes your city and country, clickUpdate Profile, use theDisplay name publicly asdrop-down menu to select the new name and clickUpdate Profileone last time. Then everyone will know where you’re from. Thanks. (I’m on a mission to get everyone to do that. Somehow it is more exotic than having everyone pretend they are from the same neighborhood, even if they aren’t doing it intentionally.)It´s here http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=fOIM1_xOSro
and here http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=uRyVBU8UmwE at 0:41
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The Real Meaning of HotForWords
Just realized yesterday that I’m coming to this site not so much for Marina, as for the excellent company and witty banter of her fans. Many thanks, fellows, and boot me out if you see me here before 7PM tonight!
Evan
lol…then you should have logged into BlogTV/People/AnythingSarcastic last night and explained that to Michelle…the impression she had (before Marina changed her mind a bit) was that all we come here for is to gaze longingly at Marina’s chesticles…
the site and Marina are SO-O-O much more than that…
That’s a great portmanteau word you used there, Tom, chesticles …
those girls were not the brightest bulb on the Xmas tree
They weren’t even the brightest bulbs in the tulip bed!
Chesticles sounds like icicles hanging down from… Uh, you do know that Marina is in warm L.A., not Brass Monkey, Montana, right?
Glad to hear you figured that out
Yeah well, as an accountant I can be a bit slow on human relations matters.
I think it’s called “Asperger’s Syndrome.”
Good schabbich to you, even if you are a shikse! (Where’s my emoticon with the yarmulke?)
what is the origin of answer
hi marina first about all, I need to tell you that i can’t pay atantion to your lessons!!
i’m too focused on your beautiful eyes, mouth, hair et cetera.
please help to listen to you.
may be we could drink a coffee and discuss my probem.
your student and admirer ipatrino.
Edit function isn’t.
We’ll have to go back to doing it right the first time! 
Ratz! I was hopping I had seen the lost off him
I can still edit my posts.
See? This is an edit.
Homework
That picture of the dog and cats on the sofa too 
The only one I can think of is “Not bad”. You wreck a $8 million dollar car and you want a Aptera for Christmas 
No I think you’d better get this one: http://www.stillruns.com/rambler.jpg 
Awesome lesson Marina!
It’s even pink
I messed up! Look at reply 86, sorry.
See! That’s what I’m talking about. M is so relaxed and approachable. It almost seems like she is completely unscripted. She even pause to think about the date, at one point. A little bit of humor, some thorough research, and included the contemporary relevance. Great job, M! See folks, M does not have to act sexy to be sexy.
i’d like to know the origin of the expression “ivory tower.” where is it?
Here is one possibility.
Bottom line MARINA: please do more words on the tech revolution, like sound card and other miss leading language in this air age…love forever
Why is “sound card” misleading? Now if you had said, “Bug-free software,” that would be a horse of a different collar.
A card to me is like from the “deck of cards” or like a thank you card. Basically, CampKolher—the usb device was confused with the thing called the card?????????????what is the sound card
thanks
Quote
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” – Plato 427-347 B.C. from the hotforwords website
How is the CampKohler?…
..Austria/Kennedy take-over? 
“The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.” – Salvador Dali 1904-1989 ,,,,,,,, I have a story….best buy the store sold me wrong…or rather I tell ya. So I buy service for internet with usb modem(I guess they call it a card) and new cell phone and service, all verizon. Well anyway, a book fell and made loose the usb connecter and render my internet access not available. I tell ya…I was re-arranging my room for this new state of the art set up and had wanted to finish the job before going on line. HotForWords is my best reason, as most of us knows for this educational experience. Slow me or just stupid; I did not realize that the connection was broke. The punk at the store did not sell me insurance on that device(UM 175 USB MODEM) if I broke it. He knew that I wanted service for my new tech stuff because he sold me on my new phone. I wanted protection and service, thinking best buy is in every state…but I did not buy the protection for this devise making my rant possible…why would not I pay for the 39.99(insurance of store) let alone in less than 5 days of paying for the subscription and new laptop and first time cell phone and thinking I was playing it safe by paying the”GEEK SQUAD” Anyway my friends….I had to buy another usb modem
becareful of best buy and the story continues some other time with CARLA BRUNI
of what the state of art calls “sound card” to make my paid internet connection work. let alone being pissed that i just did not go with the hotforwords advise and go straight with Apple….You would think that they would had just replaced it. now I’ve got an extra 229.99 devise that is almost useless, yes I had to spend more after paying too much in the beginning At the store they might had thought I was mad
learning something new
You can probably send the modem back to the manufacturer for repair. Then when you get it back, you will have a spare modem. This is very important for troubleshooting connection problems, especially if Verizon tells you, “You probably have a bad modem, so it’s not our fault.” (This tried and true tech-support tactic is called “fingerpointing.”) At that point they want to go no further, but if you have a spare (and most importantly, known-good) modem, you can swap modems and prove them wrong. Then they have no excuse to get rid of you and have to deal with the problem. So, get it repaired, test it to make absolutely sure it works by swapping it with the “new” one and storing the “new” one away. If you do this, it is like having insurance and you will not have wasted your money at all. Another possiblity is to sell one to a nearby friend to use, so that you both can be each other’s backup in case of problems. (In that case, the entire PC is backed up!)
I cringe everytime I see someone plug a USB thumbnail or whatever into a PC, because I imagine a coffee cup or something falling on it, breaking it. To prevent accidents in the future, interpose a short USB extension cable between the modem and your PC. That way, if anything hits it, it just moves around and nothing gets broken. And a long cord allows you to put the modem higher up in the air, which could improve the quality of the connection, depending on how far away you are from the cell site.
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*If there are numbers stored in the modem that make it work on the system (like those in a cell phone), then you may have to call Verizon and read them the numbers and have them switch them in their computer that controls the system. (This is exactly the same as when you swap out phones, because they won’t allow two phones to access the same account.) Whatever process they have you go through to swap modems, write it all down and keep it with the modem so that it is no big deal when it comes time to swap again.
my lesson is that the salesman is only as smart as I’m STUPID and the store policy dictates my stupidity for shopping at best buy
Don’t get down on yourself. A lot of us probably got burned by Best Buy/Geek Squad at least once in some way or another. After I was burned, I always deal with an independent locally owned technician. And surprise, it’s cheaper!
What is funny, as of this date last saturday; it was three weeks to get back an item on warranty….from that time of posting! Thanks Pat, for the kind support!
Where does the word ~Kung Fu~ come from. One of my friends told me it actually means to have skill in anything. Only that the U.S. kinda made it more about Martial Arts movies. I got your HFW Calendar yesterday. Nothing shabby about it… lol.
Thanks for reading
Does anyone know what video it was where marina was wearing this?
http://twitpic.com/srvw
Trick or Treat
Hair looks right but not the apparel
She looks so like ysabellabravetalk in that pic. Maybe you’ve discovered Marina’s sister’s real identity.
I don’t recall seeing it in any lesson. Personally, I think the braided look is too harsh; I like the softly falling tresses, so that I can imagine running my fingers through her ha…
No, I don’t remember.
Here it is.
Great Vid Marina, Sounds like you did the right thing with that piece of metal, Not seen anything uglier for a while
very good
So when can we start putting pictures in our comments ? I mean i saw Marina post a comment with a picture here sometime ago and it seems like there are still some problems
cool beans
MARINA!! YOU FRIGHTENED THE HELL OUT OF ME!!!!!!
When that car sound came in I thought my stomach was rumbling then I realised I couldn’t feel it I got really freaked out until the car came in
on the subject of dead ringer it could be a hoax it could be a cls with a bodykit
ha I thought it was a maybach even before i saw the badge it looks a bit like a mercedes / bentley crossbreed.
Marina, I have a word request. I know that this one has an unusual origin..
DEAD RINGER
Thanks. I will start working on your promo soon
x
I wonder if it has to do with horse shoes? A ringer is a condition of the horseshoe having wrapped around the post (and causing the horseshoe to ring like a bell). Why a dead (meaning more positively certain, I guess) ringer would refer to someone with an uncannily-similar appearance to another, I can’t guess. Or could it have to do with telphones? I can’t imagine, though, why a malfunctioning ringer would be apt.
Isn’t is odd how we have all adopted these phrases for common use when we have absolutely no knowledge of where they came from and how they got started? It goes to hand gestures, too. A guy on the road made the “roll down your window” cranking motion to me the other day, when almost all cars now have electric windows. Will the next generation do that too, or, having never seen a car with window cranks, will they invent a new gesture?
There’s also a musical collective memory. Take this ditty by Allan Sherman, who was a star satirest from the early 60s. The song became so associated with summer camp, that even to this day, it is used as background music in commercials with a camping theme. Now the old fogeys that make these commercials absolutely know that this generation has never heard of A.S. or his song. Yet the song continues to be used, like the handcrank gesture. I wonder if you play this song for today’s teens, will they have the slightest idea what it means? And if they do, will they be able to tell you why?
Now, take this one step further. We have this collective memory from the vast reservoir of our life’s experiences. What if then Marina, or someone like her, comes into our culture with none of it? (Marina has a head full of stuff that applied to Russia, but unless she talks to other Russians, it is now entirely useless!) To prevent from getting lost, does she have to learn it all (instead of unintentionally absorbing it like natives do)? Is there a book that would teach that? Marina, there are hundreds of thousands of Russian immigrants, so possible you could publish a book in Russion that would teach this culture. It shouldn’t be hard; just squeeze a lifetime of learning into a few pages; it’s duck soup!
Those’re some interesting ideas, CampKohler. It just goes to show you how languages themselves evolve so dramatically and relatively quickly. I forget the actual statistic, but a huge portion of the English language comprises idiomatic expressions, which makes it difficult to learn as a second language. Imagine being someone like La Malinche, but having to learn the modern American language?
Dear HotForWords,
Saying Not To Shabby is alike, but not similar as saying State of the Art. I would prefer saying State of the Art for that car of yours, of which I want one, and I will so give you a ride in it (and then hand over the keys in exchange for a kiss
). And I’d say Not To Shabby for something such as a couch that is comfortable and still in good condition. 
Your Student,
ThoughtOnFire
PS My dad always says “Not To Bad”…and I really dislike this phrase. It’s saying it’s bad! but not to bad, to say it’s good. *sigh*
Homework: That car is choaby!
one-off? (what a waste…)
HOW MUCH
Das is zu viel gelbt fur ein auto, nur fur ein haus!
(That’s too much money for a car, or for a house!)
Where could you ever feel safe parking that thing?
Do you get gas for life to justify that cost?
Get real…
Hey, I bet that car ad paid to bring us this lesson!
I hope your christmas cards are hot! =) WORD REQUEST OF BRA!
Allegedly a Frenchman named Brassiere stole the invention from a German named Titsling.
The original name was to be, “The Over-The-Shoulder Boulder Holder.”
haha i see. MARINA DO THE WORD REQUEST COME ON!!!! WHO ELSE WANTS HER TO DO IT!??? EVERYONE DO WORD REQUEST FOR BRA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Милая Марина,
***WORD REQUEST***
There are several “word pairs” in English with related but slightly different origins:
“shabby” and “scabby” of course, but also
“shatter” and “scatter”
“shirt” and “skirt”
Will you do a lesson on these and how they entered English? My understanding is that the “sh” variation was Angle and the “sk” variation Danish (both Germanic tongues), and English kept both cognates of each pair since the subtle distinctions were useful.
Related afterthought: the Norwegian for “fish” is “fisk.”
And the “sh” sound in Norwegian is spelled “kj”.
So clams are “kjell fisk”?
Without taking the kjanse to go downstairs to the kjeller to kjekk on it, I’m pretty kjure that would be korrekt, men jeg syns at du er kjempe kjekk å kjøre op med å lage ordspill på fremmede språk.
Hey Cap’n Jack, you pick up much Norski when you’re boating around Ballard? Maybe you can interpret.
Videos are in High Def. on the website now
Woo Woo
Cool. Not Too Shabby Marina.
Time Test
Can you please tell me the origin of the word Family. Since it is getting close to that time of the year where we all want to spend time with our family and loved ones.
Test
let the dance begin
inside joke to alx.
where is alx
germany
Test Time
edit plug in needs more debug
This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. The broadcasters of your area in voluntary cooperation with the FCC and other federal, state and local authorities have developed this system to keep you informed in the event of an emergency. If this had been an actual emergency, you would have been instructed where to tune in your area for news and official information. This concludes this test of the Emergency Broadcast System…………….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VrqEdUPSpI
The latest official EBS radio test announcement script:
I wonder when the rain will ever stop …. makes the skies dark
Where are you? Put your city and state in your nickname.
why cant you sleep when there’s a full moon?
is that you bob?
My name is Bob but I don’t know what Bob your looking for.
In Russia beauty and brains must run together. A Russia engineering student was just crowned :Miss World” here is a link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/lifestylemissworldwomensafrica;_ylt=ApToBt_IX7xDI2PBbnHJ5iF.KcMA
But I think Marina could beat her in a beauty contest any day
Yeah, but I wouldn’t kick her out of my Maybach for eatin’ crackers.
I wouldn’t boot either one of them. Still, I don’t think Miss Russia would be wearing that outfit in Nizhnevartovsk about now.
You mean under her parka?
Marina, you had Michelle swooning all over the place.
Amazing how you affect guys and gals as well.
Love it.
Especially when she was saying horrible things about me before I got there
It all worked out fine in the end!
I didn’t get there until after they got rowdy. I got there when you got there and you handled it perfectly. I couldn’t comment as I was a guest. But, I can imagine what went on with lots of wine. I loved your come-backs. You were superb as always and definitely all class!! That Michelle can sure put away those F words. I thought I was bad.
sounds interesting. who the fuck is michelle?
Welcome back aLx
I have no idea. Just ran across her from some event that happened on her blogtv channel.
As Marina mentioned above, Michelle and Jill were live on blogtv and said some bad things about Marina. I caught the tail end of it when Marina joined the tv chat and everybody turned faces. It was precious.
i was impressed with your handling of the situation…frankly, i would have shrugged my shoulders and moved on, but you turned Michelle (a bit, anyway) from a basher into a gusher…bravo!…
Did I miss a catfight?
not really, Bob, just a couple of cammers with a mistaken idea of what Marina is “selling” on the site…by the time the convo concluded Marina had the “feminist” (love it how feminism somehow is supposed to equate with non-sexy in Michelle’s world) blushing and gushing when Marina subscribed to her channel…
can you send a link>?
http://www.blogtv.com/People/anythingsarcastic
not sure if the currently running recorded vid is last night’s, but it does look like it…
’twas a marvel to see Marina go in and turn Michelle into more of a friend than a foe…
I watched it. It’s the only one from December, but I didn’t see them talk about HFW at all. Does anyone have another link?
Marina, you pronounced the German word “schäbig” perfectly fine, with that cute accent.
I pronounce it as “ché-big” and Marina
pronounced it closer to “cha-big”.
Keep in mind, Marina speaks with an accent that sometimes has the sounds of British, French or Italian, as when she says “answer”, which she sometimes pronounces as “ahn-ser”.
Mind you, this is not a criticism of Marina, but people who expect her to pronounce it perfectly in one language (ie German), but forgive her when she speaks with an accent in English.
Marina, as you said in that one interview, keep your accent, I love it no matter what language you speak.
I’ll be the last one, if ever to criticize Marina’s pronunciations.
Is that better logic? 
Is there some reason you chose the name “pedantic”?
Yes, dick head was already taken
Don’t let little things like that stop you. The Internet, as young as it is, has a well-established protocol for such situations. Here, let me demonstrate how you could have easily solved this problem:
What is the origin of the word ‘Doggone?’ For expamle this doggone computer is not working right!
Where did it come from? If your computer is not working right, the answer is Redmond, Washington. —->
… I’ll be dipped… say yuck yuck, I though it came from yander tribe from somewheres over in Aferica (hach and spit)… think it is the Dogon tribe… shucks… Dirpa Dirpa, ripa dipa Hanky tank’n
“Doggone” comes from somewheres a hoot ‘n’ a holler from “gol dern.”
Dagnubit… Awe fiddle sticks (Slap my knee with large shit kicker hat)
Yo Teach!
I’d like to request the word “hypocrisy”. I think it’s a pretty good one, with a very old story.
Thanks in advance for your good and hard work.
thats a form of government, right?
Good point. Yes indeed, I believe that’s a form of government. Didn’t visualize it that way to be honest. I must admin, Buzzword, that you don’t seem as dumb as the look of your Gravatar.
That’s a good one buzzword!
That’s a good one neuroway!
Hippocracy = Government from horseback.
You’re prescient!
100
I like the car but where do you fit the cook stove and where is the sleeping area?
Haven’t you heard of a Car-BQ?
It’s a neat invention that lets you cook “ON” the engine
It would take some time to exhaust all the possible Car-BQ recipes (a veritable horn of plenty), and, of course, by then new ones would be sparked. Most involve pan frying in oil, for which the newest models are equipped with a turn signal to tell the cook when to flip the food (alternating from one side to the other). Gas, controlled by a battery of valves, is the fuel, so charcoal and starter are not required. The cooking can also be done on a grill, with the fumes being removed by a hood. An optional washer increases hygene and blocks the transmission of bacteria to the food (available at your nearest distributor).
Yeah, but how do you smog it?
RV ?
Sweet car! I was thinking 1.8 mill but 8 million dollars!? If I was a billionaire I’d take two. Then I’d drop $200,000 each on bringing the interiors up to snuff…Id have to get two so my buddies and I could race them.
So your buddy, HotForWords, could race with you!
Don’t fall for it PD!
Marina’s a terrible driver she’s already wrecked an 8 million dollar car; she needs to start out on go carts.
You want to race? Heres a good place to start. So fun, you’ll dig it.
You will never beat me though, for I am the master at K1.
German Shabig: isn’t pronunced the ä like an e?
hey hitman. got your message. and yeah, i’m really happy. i’m counting down the days.
the days to what?
damn, i’m cut off from the rest of the world. i’m used to having access to all kinds of global information. like, russian porn, american porn, australian porn … goddamnit.
I have no idea.. probably if you are asking!
aLx can helpp us right here.
Asking, because germans replace ä with ae (in letters, streets) and the pronunciation is lika an E but I am not sure
of course he can.
behold.
we replace ä, ö, and ü only when they’re not available, say, on a keyboard.
(no, i’m not back. someone’s still sabotaging my fucking internet access. probably the russians, who else can it be? maybe gazprom or something.)
No. In German, when “a” has an umlaut–”ä”–it is pronounced like the “long a” in English.
Some examples: acorn, play, name, rake, remain, splay. And so on.
Burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
It is -7 (-22C)
Sould see about -20 (-29C) by Sunday night
damn bruh thats pretty chilly, im from boston so i hear yah haha, hope you got a wood stove or some cheap fuel
Hey Smokey… whereabouts are you?
It’s -31C and -48C (wind chill) here in Saskatchwan, Canada
Serious Brrrrrrr!!! going on around here!
I live in Montana
I’ve been to Montana in the winter. I remember walking across a parking lot in Bozeman with the snow crunching beneath my feet like I was walking on broken glass. I also set my alarm clock for 3AM, to get up and warm the car up, because I was skeeered that it would be frozen solid and wouldn’t start in the morning. I guess you don’t have to worry about being cold in the kitchen.
Previously I had spent a week working there in the summer (Helena, Bozeman, Missoula, Miles City, Wolf Point and others) and had a fine time walking around to see the sights.
Today in Sacramento, it was in the 60s and the sunshine streaming in the office window brought it up to 70, with no heater needed (windows pointed in the right direction). “Never get cold or wet on purpose,” that’s what I say.
-20 WOW!
I almost feel guilty for being where I’m at! …almost. 
It was in the mid 40’s to low 50’s here just the other day.
I don’t mind the cold so much, you can always put more layers on. When it gets above 100 there is so much you can take off and still go out in public
I suppose staying in a country near the equator is not so bad after all
Homework:
Cool
Keen
Neato
Groovie
Excellent
From the sounds of it (in the end) that car is worth less (now) than my ‘87 VW
Hey HFW, i always wants to know the origin of the phrase “paying attention”. because why are you paying for it? did people back in the have to pay someone if they weren’t paying attention or something. Hope you can help me out.
That is a good one koryz14.. I’ll research it.
Thanks!
hello my teacher!
wicked sweet video today!
i was hoping you might be able to shed some light on the word “DUDE” for me…i say it alot and never knew where it came from.
forever your student
Jeff
I use that word all the time. I used to live in Toms River, NJ, and being so close to the beach, I guess I talk with sort of a beach lingo. now that I moved, people are always asking me why I talk like a surfer. But, I have no problem with it. So, HFW, I second the request on the origin of the word “dude”.
yeah i got some beach lingo goin on myself. i think its got something to do with my dreds man
awsome. i always wanted to know what it would be like having dreds. my dad, for ome CRAZY reason likes my hair to be short as possible, Grr. But lately iv been able to keep it long then normal cuase i changed how it appears, so it looks shorter to the eye, lol.
thats pretty sweet man, i started mine when i was maybe 19(im 21 now) so they’re gettin pretty gnarly and i got some sweet beads in em plus chicks digg em dude
of course the chicks digg them man, how could they NOT!?
I think “Dude” started out on ranches in the west as in “Dude Ranch”, but I’m not sure. So I would have to Third this REQUEST
That’s an excellent request. If people knew where “dude” comes from they might use it less, and those to whom it is applied might be offended.
I was wondering where the word “gay” comes from. It means SO many diffent things like: Happy, Stupid,homosexual, ect. Could you find out where it comes from and how did it get to mean SO many diffent things? Thanks
Hey cluedoking123,
She did this in a radio show. The link is at the top of the page.
If you can’t find it there try the home page.
without the grille the front looks like a mazda r8 or a honda s2000 . If you have 8 million dollars would you really buy this car ?
Marina could u send me pictues of your feet with thoes socks u had in the feetish ep. And also, can u do an ep about your feet soles and don’t forget to show yours with those socks in the clip
Astriboy,
You are cool.
) 
8 million dollars ….
I prefer Lamborghinis myself , much more aggressive
OK mystery solved: I found the definition for ‘one-off’
teacher taught me a new word today
Funny.. I just posted it on your comment below:
From the Oxford English Dictionary:
One-off: n. A manufactured product made as the only one of its kind; a prototype; (more generally) something not repeated.
Thank You
Damn I had to look up that word also. I guess it was short for one-of-a-kind. Humm Marina is just being weird again. That’s ok, we all still love her.
I had a car like that once but i traded it for a Yugo.
no shit ?
do they still make Yugos?
there isn’t a yugoslavia to make yugos anymore. gone back in 05 or 06 i believe. became serbia, montenegro and kosovo. i don’t know if any of them are manufacturing cars.
I just read about this in the news about a month ago. November 20th was the final day.
Zastava builds the final Yugo…
"Cao, nema više" reads the piece paper affixed to the tailgate of the red Serbian hatchback, as a small throng of proud workers gathered around the car to bid it "Goodbye, no more" this week. After a 20-year run, the last Zastava Koral, #794,428, quietly made its way to the Zastava museum and the scrappy Eastern European automaker has wound down production on all but one of its models. The very last Zastava, a Skala 55, will be the last of its kind when it makes its way down the production line on November 20th. After that, the proud, tenacious people who have been working at the Kragujevac factory aren't sure of what the future holds. Zastava has long been linked to Fiat, and when the lines restart, the Zastava 10 will be badged as a Fiat Punto, which it is.What kind of Slav would ask such a thing? Any rude reply Serbs you right! You’re just Croating havoc here! Messy, don’ ya think? Churn ya gore (OE for “make your blood boil”), it will! At the risk of Bossn’ya, knock it off!
Speaking of Slavs…извините пожалыста, Марина!
Nice, Evan. What’s better than some Balkan punnery?
OMG I had a girl friend that owned one. I thought I was going to die in the passenger seat! You know the first versions had cable brakes.
Oh, so it was built for use in San Francisco?
Hello – I have a word request. What is the origin of the word ‘rasher’ as in “a rasher of bacon”? Thanks very much!
Why we call ” doll ” a part of HUMAN BODY and the same name refering a GIRL’S TOY ???
50 th
I love automovilistic world
Its been a long time Gio.forever! Welcome back!
I was beginning to think he was gone.forever.
Marina, Why can’t you sleep when there is a full moon?
Because she’s a Wifwolf.
For any baffled HFW newcomers, see Marina’s “Werewolf” video.
49th !!!
$8 mill for that car?!?!? It tell a lot about a person that forks over that kind of dough for a car.
That $8 mil price cannot be accurate.
It is a one-off custom car.
By the time they have finished “Job 1,” they had used up so much money that all they had left over for the next one was a steering wheel and an ashtray.
I think it is more expensive, Doc.
I echo that sentiment, Captain Jack. Personally, I think land-based travel technology should have stopped with the bicycle.
I would rather have a solar powered electric bike or car. It just seems to be a waste to have all that solar energy just buzz by us and not using it. I’ve been a fan of solar power when I was a little boy playing with my electronics set. I powered many of my projects with this little tiny solar cell. It just blew me away that the darn thing worked. Imagine free electricity that you can fill up your batteries just about anywhere on the planet.
I had a feeling as soon as I saw the pics, that the car was a Maybach. The length and shape reminded me of past Maybachs.
I woulnd’t be surprised if this Maybach was close to or over 1 million pounds. Previous Maybachs were mostly that expensive.
The weird thing about the Exelero it seems is that although it looks more like a limousine or very classy Mercedes car, it has racing car seats
Hopefully it goes as fast as it looks. It looks great by the way, great choice
My guess for car price, would be 700,000-800,000 pounds.
Being a Maybach, and what looks more like a sportscar (going from front seat interior), I’m thinking their sportscar version won’t be as expensive as their normal gadget filled comfort version.
I could be wrong though
If money was no object and I wanted a fast car. I would look into a Grand Pix Formula 1 car. It’s capable of going 0-60-0 in 1.7 seconds. It sucks about 3 gpm. I could pick one up for around 6 to 15 million. Differently a high performance car for the money.
Yeah the Formula 1 cars are pretty fast with the 0-60 times. However, I would choose the Bugatti Veyron. I think that the Veyron’s 0-60 was 2.5 seconds.
This particular Veyron has 1001 Horsepower, and only 20 were supposedly made. It cost 5 million pounds (I think) each, but was sold for 800,00 or so pounds.
The actual top speed I hear is faster than Formula 1 cars. The Veyron goes as fast as 407kmph (253mph)
It’s actually $8 million
Do you mean it is a ‘one of a kind’ custom car?
{never heard the phase ‘one-off’ }
What does it do? Fly you to the moon?
From the Oxford English Dictionary:
One-Off: n. A manufactured product made as the only one of its kind; a prototype; (more generally) something not repeated.
Yeah, One-off is definitely a phrase, like Marina said, one of a kind/prototype
8 Million for the Maybach?? Wow is all I can say
If money was no object, I would go for a Bugatti Veyron. Also the Maybach Exelero, and Lamborghini Reventon (pronounced Rebenton)
Oh and maybe the Ford Mustang (customized by Shelby) used in the new Knight Rider series.
Is there any other cars that you like Marina?
marvelous
stupendous
exquisite
scintillating
exhilarating
breath-taking
lovely
beautiful
holey moley! check it out!…
oh, and virtually all, of course, apply to Marina…
So do you still want the Aptera or do you prefer the Maybach Exelero for Chritmas
Did I hear someone mention this sweet hanky-panky little thing?
Dear совершенная Marina, “Not too shabby” is an example of understatement. If you receive something that is superlative or magnificent, like a Maserati luxury car, you might say it’s “not too shabby” to indicate that it’s an ordinary item for yourself.
Similar phrases to “not too shabby” would be dismissive ones like “can’t complain”, “not too bad”, or “it’ll do.” 
Two days ago, I made a word request for “czar” (spelled “tsar” in France, and “Zar” in German). It would have been the first Russian word in all your videos about word origins. Now that I’ve thought about it, I must withdraw that word request. Why? Because “Czarinna Marina” sounds like something from those bad websites we shouldn’t look at!
Your dear student, seesixcm6
That’s how you can tell I’m salivating. I typo like crazy
Your taste in cars is not too shabby! $8,000,000.00
Marina, I want a car just like
Maybe we can get matching EXELLERO’s silver or black if fine with me. Do they have that same style of automobile in pink 
Hello there Marina,
In the wake of a scandal I read about in the Times today, in which older investors were paid out of funds deposited by newer investors, I was wondering if you could explain the etymology of the word, “Ponzi,” as in “Ponzi Scheme.”
Is it Mafioso jargon? I feel like I have heard it used in the context of the old Sicilian Cosa Nostra.
At any rate, you seem lovely and I hope your holiday season has been fun so far. I’m still in exams, but your youtube videos are a fun distraction from less engaging forms of learning. Ha.
Many thanks,
JWH
It’s an eponym, from Carlo Ponzi, a famous swindler who invented such schemes.
That’s a good one jwilderharrington! Timely.. I’ll investigate further.
Homework; Brilliant, excellent, outstanding, wonderful.
or 2. “Oh yeah, I should remember that.”
This is a pet peeve of mine – I hate it when, in response to the question, “How are you?”, people say, “Not to bad.” (or shabby)
I say, “I’m sorry to hear that, what’s wrong?
{Puzzled expression} “Nothing’s wrong.”
“But you said, “Not too bad.” That means BAD but not unbearably so.”
{Two possible responses}
1.
When I was still working, if I was asked how I was, I would say, “Wonderful.” to the point that the girls all called me Mr. Wonderful.
Awesome! Mr. Wonderful
{..sounds like a movie title..
THE AWESOME MR. WONDERFUL }I agree.. same as “Same ol’ same ol’” or “Getting by”.. you might as well kill yourself!
Wow, didn’t really see something like that coming fom you Marina.
Ha ha ha. You totally made my day, Marina. I think I would really enjoy your sense of humor: when I read this, I just imagined you doing a lesson on “ennui” while petting Gorby. Then at the very end you say something like, “So, if you feel like you’re starting to deal with ennui, you may as well kill yourself. There’s really no point to going on. Isn’t that right, Gorby? [Cooing] Yeesss.”
irregardless, i could care less…(-;
My comeback to, “how are you doing”, is:
“I’m terrific! and getting better!”
I have a great friend who is somewhat the pessimist by nature. He can be looking at the most beautiful sunset, or biting into the most succulent piece of ribeye, and he’ll invariably say, “That’s not REAL bad”, or “That’s not TOO bad.”
Or like that line from the radio commercial done by that serious-sounding PBS announcer, Will Lyman, “He’s the most interesting man in the world.”
Your bad ass ride looks real Eco-friendly
(sarcasm)
Opposite end of the spectrum when compared to the Aptera
Che, bad ass ride? I’d guess our sexy teacher doesn’t really like bad ass rides. She’d rather need a good ass ride And little Gorby too.
This was Marina quote on Twitter:
hotforwords “Check out my bad ass ride”
Not bad
Better than a stick in the eye
Edible raw or cooked
(Hey this is a good follow on to “Scarcastic”)
Did I miss something you said when (1975) it came into use in the US but not where or by whom, no example of its source.
Well then I’ll tell you it was me, I was the first person to use this expression.
Back to the food theme again, Marina?
So who knows what kind of car that is?
The back end looks like a Mercedes and the front looks like Darth Vader.
Only $330,000 – $470,000 depending on model
Isn’t that a Maybach badge on the hood?
Yes it is.
Yea! I was just going to post the same image,
Might be the Fluda
Car is a one off.. and it’s $8 million dollars.. or it was before I wrecked it!!!
Good one less not so ecofriendly vehicle gone
“One-off” – hmmm – might Hot For Words want to investigate?
Dear Originalistrick,
I’ll take a guess on this one and say she might not want to investigate. It’s pretty cheap stuff for our Teacher…
Ok I can see $300k or $400k for something like that. But not paying $8 mill. That’s just stupid person with too much money. I think who won on this deal were the builders of the car, that helped a fool and his money separate.
Deal? Winners?
I see a wild bunch of losers.
ok – the full moon is shining. Arrivederci bambini. I have had more than enough of your little games for tonight.
Aaaah cool, now I know what this word means ^^
btw. Can I send Private Messages to Users or to my (trusty) teacher here?
One could say Marina is “not too flabby.”
That car is a disaster waiting to happen. It looks like anything in its path over two inches high will induce more excitement into the driving experience than the operator anticipated. The only reason that it wouldn’t be illegal in California is that the tires have such an extreme low profile, that the rims manage to be the lowest point of the body (a legal requirement).
Marina! Working hard on a Saturday? NTS!
Cheers, Q
Marina, I had no idea how much I’d need her
In peaceful times I hold her close and I feed her
My heart starts palpitating when I think my guess was wrong
But I think Ill get along
Shes just a girl – shes a bomb
Marina, all I ever want to do is please her
My life has been so settled and shes the reason
Just one word from her and my troubles are long gone
But I think Ill get along
Shes just a girl – shes a bomb
Marina, my heart felt like a shattered glass in an acid bath
I felt like one of those flattened ants you find on a crazy path
Id of topped myself to give her time she didnt need to ask
Was I a suicidal psychopath?
Shes just a girl – shes a bomb
(Adaptation of the Who song ‘Athena’)
Marina, I swear I never knew I needed you until I saw you.
A loyal subscriber since the word Mischievous,
Always yours,
Runawayscott
Might as well put a link in to this song Athena – The Who
That’s a cool song ain’t it? One of my favorites Che, and I think it applies very well to Marina, don’t you?
Twitterpated!
Nice car, You would look good in it Marina. Then again you would look good in any car; old, new, mine… Hey I can dream can’t I?
Yes, I am.
Outstanding! (HW as well)
My first hat trick, three #1 spots in a row
Not too freaking shabby
Congratulations!!!
You must be camping on Marina’s doorstep.
….in need of new keyboard, the F5 key is worn out
Even though I was refreshing like crazy, it didn’t appear until 23 minutes after your post. Must take a long time to swim the Atlantic.