Chinchilla
Chinchillas.. like little bugs?
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i love that u dont like fur
and wow 2000$ wow lol
yes i have seen a chinchilla before
by the way chinchilla is the Chinese word for angry or mad…..you don’t want to see a chinese girl chinchilla!!I know I am married to one……………….疯狂洋鬼子 PS we have a toy poodle too his name is Nemo……………..
Quote…from the house of HOTFORwORds…animals…[creation]
“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” – Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948….self explanitory …soul much fun: have a good DAY to who reads this
Thanks!
Homework
I’m BACK!!!!! Cute lesson Marina!
I have seen chinchillas at a pet store and they were $$$$$
Chinchillas are so cute! I can’t believe they were made into fur coats!
HI, I’M IN BRAZIL, RIO DE JANEIRO. VERY GOOD VIDEOS.
HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!
Привет!
Марина когда ты говоришь БИ ГУД по мне пупырочные мурашки начинают бегать!
little bugs ride my horse, as I scratched my noggin and look for clothes
Nope , never saw one before .
By the way , two thousand dollars ??!! Bit overpriced for a little hamster thing
***A New Vid*** HotForWords 3D CGI “Do Me Babe” Rock & Roll version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b68tMk1oMM
The chinchilla is an animal from South America. The Quechuas used the term “Chin”, meaning “silent”, “sinchi” meant “strong” and “lla” meant “little”. They combined the words so “chinchilla” means “silent, strong and small”. More details here
The word “chinche” comes from Latin and it refers to a small bug.
For more details visit the Diccionario de la Lengua Española
Who’s the philologist here?
Tenemos mas que una!
THE CHRISTMAS CARDS WERE GREAT!!! THEY WARMED OUR WHOLE HOUE. WHERE DID YOU GET THE TAN YOU ARE SPORTING FOR XMAS, LOOKS FABULOUS. WE HAVE NOT SEEN THE SUN SINCE OCTOBER…
I’ve seen chinchillas at the mall once. back when I was in junior high. I thought they were so cute that I wanted one. But I remember it being worth about maybe $120 – $140 back then.
No never seen a Chinchilla Marina , That would have perhaps have made Gorby an Expensive Dish dont you think?
Hello marina,
Thanks for aswer my request nimrod, now I’d like to know what means and where these words come from: christmas bogus, merry textmas, christmastoe, Christmas cringe.
Thank you for the card!!!
bye.
Hi Marina…Happy Bday and merry christmas from a fellow sagitarius, (Dec 18 here)…Today I request the origin of the phrase “on the lamb”…Best luck in the new year and i also wonder, where do you keep your copy of the OED?…cheers, TommyG.
Word Request: Was Eartha Kitt, who just passed away, the person for whom the phrase “sex kitten” was originated? I thought I recently saw a reference that she was called a sex kitten circa 1952, but another etymology says the term was first used in 1958 in a comment about nymphet Brigitte Bardot.
I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CHRISTMAS CARD I’VE BEEN
OH MAYBE THAT COMES IN JANUARY.
WAITING FOR FROM MY DEAR TEACHER
ANYWAY, MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YA’LL AND GOD BLESS
chickenh0use, I didn’t realize you were posting all over the place. You have opened/read all of my cards going all the way back to my Greetings from Siberia. You opened my pre-holiday card and you opened my holiday card.
My mailing-list service gives me statistics on the mailings and tells me which cards were opened or not and by who.
All cards sent to you were opened.
So, if they weren’t opened by you, then someone else has access to your email account, opened the messages from me, and deleted them.
Time for some detective work
GRAAAGH
I CAN’T DO IT!! Really I have tried I have spent hours on it but can’t find a soloution. Guess thats me being teachers assistant in the future out of the window…Sorry
On the other hand misscupcake & I, finally realise your evil mind control
Hey James If your on a pc here some free software
http://www.nvidia.com/object/gz_plush_life.html
Its for making animations, If your into that sort of thing.
Now that iv’e thought about it its for nvidia vid cards only may not be so free after all, my bad
Hey Chickenhouse here is a copy of the card you can copy to your hard drive.
http://www.hotforwords.com/files/HotForWords-Holiday-08.jpg
Big Brother is watching you.
And I think little brother, too…have a good day, Bob
I can’t recall ever having seen a live Chinchilla but I have seen a Chinchilla coat, many years ago before models acquired consciences and lost their inhibitions … know what I mean?
It follows therefore that I don’t have a Chinchilla but, as you can see from my picture, I do have a Chin-warmer which looks somewhat similar.
Word Request: I have been trying to find out whether the term “sex kitten” may have originated in circa 1952 with reference to a then young Eartha Kitt. All I have found so far is a “first use” reference to Bridgitte Bardot in 1958. Bridgitte Bardot was younger and sexier, so I can understand why she was epitomized with the word “sex”, but that doesn’t explain the word “kitten.” On the other hand Eartha Kitt was both sexy and had a cat-like purr in her voice, plus her name was, after all, “Kitt”.
@Marina:
[Lipogram Audio-Visual Supplication]
Very nice narration Fianchetto.
Thanks! …realising that should she do it as requested, she won’t be able to mention my name as requestor of the word…
Cool video Fianchetto. I hope she does the word.
If she does it, I just want to see her make the lesson a lipogram itself! THAT would be the coolest!
“Ahoy, my darling pupils”
“HotForWords must look into this topic”
“No homework today, – it has an ‘e’!”
I thought a lipogram was a message written in lipstick on a mirror.
Is [THIS] the lipstick used to make the “4ever” message, Bob?
this one, more likely.
hey marina
i would like to know the origin of the word Christmas
thanks
love you xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello geoffrey1991,
Marina did the origin of the word just two videos ago.
You can still see the video under the Recent Posts at the
far right side of the page.
Here is the link to the video.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/12/23/christmas/
Marina also did the word Christmas on the O’Reilly show.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/12/11/oreilly-factor-show-holiday-words/
new vid is up if you want to be second
Hi, I’d like to know the origin of the word hitchhike.
THANK YOU !
Can you help with the origin of the phrase “Hunky-dory”?
I have never seen a Chinchilla.
I dated this lady with a chinchilla g-string,,,no wait,,She was naked.
While in Mexico I’ve see bugs so big I thought they were little animals.
There is this one spider looking bug with huge serrated crab like claws. Don’t remember the name of it, but it was a good bug since it ate scorpions.
Hello Marina,
One of my friends thinks that I don’t watch enough HotForWords videos. I thought you would get a kick out of this book that I got for Christmas, to remind me to watch more HotForWords.
What is that elegant looking pink water vase with the sticks coming out of it that is on your night stand all about? Anything more to it than just Zen elegance?
Oh maybe a culture who likes things as big and dramatic as bullfighting would think of a chincilla as a little bug. Perhaps the word was formed when they were abundant as the stars as well. They do look mighty cute.
I liked the look on Bill Rielly’s face when you suggested Xmas came from Χριστούγεννα the Greek. I mean you are so BLONDE and well you know, ahem,
cough, rawr, that it may have shattered a bit or stereotyping. Shocking bit of scholarly research for a ukranian vixen perhaps.
Oh do you know where vixen comes from? I am not even sure if is is a compliment or derogatory.
I wonder how many old geezers can keep their teeth from falling out if they visit here. Perhaps a poll could be taken.
Gosh I am facetious.
Hope you had a great Holiday!
That voting site is a little odd.
Can tell if I voted once or several hundred times.
WORD REQUEST – didn’t see it in the list – TELEVISION SET. Although assuming the television part was made up for something transmitted (telegram, telegraph, telephone) where did “set” come from. Set of what? Just curious. HotForWords must investigate.
Marina, you can save $1,980.00. For only $20 (which covers the cost of a really large litter box), I will be your pet! I will even wiggle my nose for you.
Well, we have got the opening theme music back at last. You should keep it as play time with Gorby.
Are you going nuts with the candles? There seems to be more every day. Please don’t set your apartment on fire.
And I would sure like-a to polka them dots-a.
@Captain Jack,
Did you look at the Wired’s Sexy Geeks of 2008 list lately?
I see someone has posted your picture.
I saw two entries for you.
Currently, one entry is on the 2nd page and the other one w/o picture is on the last page. Some of Marina entries are also on the last page.
I have never seen a chinchilla in person. Thank you for the Christmas card.
I want to know what “Marines” means.
They mean business.
Ooo Ra!
More snow this AM, & I’m thinking of a Russian expression: “Idiot sneg!!!” (OK, Marina will get it.)
Hi Evan,
You should appreciate this song then by Glukoza, “Sneg idiot”
Болшой спасибо!
Karl thats a nice song, didn’t understand a word of it. I just have to enjoy the artistic value. I found something else however, an article
http://www.politplatschquatsch.com/2008/12/sneg-idiot.html
“Idiot sneg” translates to “snow falls”
Marina, As a follow up to Chinchilla could you explain the origin of ermine.
Larry
Hey Marina,
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen Chinchillas at various pet stores. If you’re interested in furthuring your little set of animal-name origins, may I suggest the Aye-Aye? It’s scientific name is Daubentonia madagascariensis. But I really have no idea where it got the colloquial name Aye-Aye, unless it’s just the Malagasy word for the creature, since they only live on Madagascar.
Merry Christmas!
Do you greet by saying Privit in Russia? I was wondering that as well. I knew this girl from Ukraine who said that was how they greeted in her country, and I thought somebody greeted you similarly.
Привет!
Great tune. I can’t understand most of what she’s saying, but I enjoyed it anyway!
Her voice can be mellifluous.
Hi hotforwords. This my first comment ever. I actually saw a black chinchilla in 5th grade. My science had a bunch of animals, but everyone loved the chinchilla. It was very cute. It also had its own ball to roll around the classroom. I would like to ask, because it’s Christmas, I was drinking a lot of eggnog and wondered where it came from. I know the egg part comes from that it is made of eggs, but what does “nog” mean? Also I would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thanks a lot Hotforwords!
that alex dude is nothing but a rabblerouser.
Would you be my little chincilla?
$2000.00 is a lot of money. Never knew that a rodent could take that much money to tame it. I can not recall ever petting a chinchilla. Can you eat ‘em like rabbits after they tamed? I guess, my dog ate my homework.
so it is christmas and a holiday at the same time…shame on extortion labor 
bm and bs
Hey Marina! Merry Christmas!
I’ve been wondering about the origin of the word alpaca. As you may know, alpacas are similar to llamas. They have very soft coats and are very smart.
Just as you wanted the chinchilla, my family wanted to purchase an alpaca, but unfortunately they were a bit on the expensive side as well. This made me think. Where did the word alpaca originate? Maybe you could inform us of the origin of llama as well. That’s an interesting word considering it is spelled with two Ls.
Love you and your vids!
-Goldhunt (goldude5 on YouTube)
Q: How do you ask a llama what its name is?
(OK, Che will get it…)
A: ¿Cómo se llama, llama?
But seriously folks…
The alpaca got its name when it was first domesticated, which according to Inca folklore happened as follows:
Once, during a time of famine in the Andes, an alpaca hungrily watched an Inca, laboring up the mountain trail with a heavy load of hay on his back. The alpaca approached the Inca and offered, “Alpac-a you load if you feed-a me hay!”
It’s true, I tell you!
Neighbor raises Llamas. Transports them in a Llama Hauler.
It seems Campkohleritis is a communicable disease.
The doubled “l” is to distinguish New World llamas from their Tibetan cousins.
i’ve never seen one.. and since you are talking ’bout animal names what about rhe word snake i really love that word or moose it’s sounds funny to me
The Chinchilla has a neat sounding name… maybe also good name for a cover band.
RED HOT CHILI CHINCHILLAS
never seen one, since you are doing animal names
REQUEST: Moose and Squirrel, are they not cute too?
Marina,
I have never seen a live chinchilla up close or personal. But after seeing a couple of videos On You Tube I can imagine them live, affable, and personal if needs be.
Oh yea that word “chinche” is slang around my neck of the words for anyone that could be though of as the following “a tightwad” or a “penny pincher” or someone “who is frugal” and or any number of derogative combinations of name callings.
Merry Christmas John to you and all your family GOD Bless you
Thanks danielpool so too you!
150 mil views milestone approaching! (before this year is done)
I wonder if your 2008 new year’s resolution had something to do with it.
I remember you taught us to break it down into simpler parts, to achieve our resolution. So how did you break down such a thing as 150 mil view counts?
Actually to have seen a chinchilla in real life multiple times first in around 3rd grade then later at the pet stores around my house.
Marina, Could you teach me about the work KAJIN and it differnent pernounciations and uses throughout the world?
Thank you, Ya lablu tebya;)
Chris
Or in other words:“Я люблю тебя”
HI Marina that was very interesting. I never seen one before. I have all-ways thought they where bigger.I was reading about them and they said it took 130 to 200 chinchillas to make a fur coat
I think it could be more then that it was a very interesting lesson good job MERRY CHRISTMAS 
I really still wish to know where the word marshmallow originated. Several years back a German couple visiting the usa met & ended up staying with me a few days. I remember saying “icky-poo” and “Marshmallow”. They were overwhelmed with laughter & asked me what each meant. The marshmallow was much more difficult to explain than “icky-poo” heh heh.
Gordon aka firep0w3r
Can’t say as I would want one for a per.
Dog person here.
Merry Christmas to all!!!
Marina,
I have two Word requests for you!
First, I have endured PhD’s who think that our name “Slav” is from the Latin word for slave. They never think that it is what we call ourselves across more time zones than the Roman Empire.
Second, having just enjoyed a seasonal replay of the “Muppets Christmas Carol”, I wonder about the Word “Humbug”.
These requests are not related in any way that I can imagine. They have nothing to do with Chinchilla, either.
I just added another picture of Marina to the Sexiest Geek site. Click on newest and you will see it. Does anyone know how often we can go back and vote again? It says they will add all of the entries to one amount no matter how many Marina’s you vote for, all of them go toward Marina.I voted for all Marinas and thumbed down everyone else. I about wore the scroll wheel off of my mouse. But it’s worth it.
Good strategy Capman, I didn’t know about the votes counting method.
Great way to rally up more votes at once, by thumbing all instead of just one!
I read it at the top of the page about adding all of the votes together for that one person. It didn’t say how often you could vote. I guess it’s a 24 hour time period, but don’t quote me on that last part.
I voted at least four times on the “Irina Sky” post for Marina today, and several times on others…
when i got there is morning there were but two Marina posts, and she was behind in the count with several others…now there are too many Marina posts to count, and the others are hard to find…amazing!!!…
btw, i simply scroll down and continue to vote on each Marina post i find – the votes all seem to count…i think (and this is an educated guess) that closing your browser, then going back to the site later allows the multiple voting per day…although i haven’t tried just going back while my browser is still open…
so, go stuff the ballot boxes!…
I’ll try the close out the browser and see if I can load down the votes too. Don’t forget to thumbs down everyone else. I think that counts against them. If you click on hot I think that’s the name it will bring up all of Marina’s posts.
It’s “Hot” Tom not top viewed.
I can try and hack it so when i press i give 10000 votes instead of 1
Wow Im getting behind on the lessons.
Homework: Yes I have. I used to sell them at this really cool pet store I worked at; Marshall’s Garden and Pet. I loved working there. Where else can you play with dozens of animals and get paid for it?
$2,000 for a Chinchilla??? What a rip! I was selling them for like about $100 bucks and that was from a award winning breeder. Chinchilla a fun little animals. It’s very entertaining watching them take a dust bath. Oh and their fur is so very soft. Fun little rodents but not my favorite choice. For rodents I would pick a rat. Why? Oh I could write a book on just that subject alone. I’ll mention one. Trainable! I’ve trained rats to ‘Come’, ‘Stay’, and ‘Beg’. All by hand signals.
Rats you say? Cool…
I’d be curious if you could ever convince Marina to get a rat as a pet, even by writing a book about how great they are as companions, or as housekeepers, or youtube video editors, or website coders. They’re just not too revered these days among the women’s order.
I was actually a woman that got me into rats. Between the sexes I thing women are naturally better adapted for caring of rats. I guess it’s that rats respond to the maternal extinct women have. I introduced my sister to ‘Varmy’ during a Christmas gathering. He fell a sleep on her shoulder. Something I was never able to do with him. Later on she purchased a rat for herself. She said her rat ‘Oscar’ was one of the best pets she ever had. If a woman can get over the look of the rats tail, I think more of them would get one. There was some experimental breeds of rats without tails. I think that takes way from the rats amazing appendage that severs a useful function for rats.
So I have a little Chinchilla story for ya all. While working at the pet shop one morning I found two of our Chinchilla’s where missing. We looked all over the store. We had thought they left the store. Later I heard some scratching over head. I looked up over the fish tanks and seen a little gray Chinchilla walling along a shelf near the ceiling of the store.
So I volunteered to climb up a latter and get into the ceiling. This was a very old building that had little crawl spaces. I made my way to the fish department and grabbed one of them and stuffed her in my shirt. I made my way back to the access door. The second one was a bit harder to convince to come but eventually he came up to me. To this day I still don’t know how they made it out of the back room, then up to the ceiling. 
I saw one. It was doing backflips in its cage. Liking the hair marina! its starting to look like the butterfly video again
AAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!
I JUST SPENT £200 ON CLOTHES!!
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Funny ad — “Find your Russian beauty today!” Like we haven’t already found her?
I know, right? It seems like a weird service to advertise on a philology website, other than that Marina is Russian. Just because we watch Marina talking about etymology doesn’t mean we’re pining away for the company of a beautiful Russian woman……regardless of what a lot of our creepy comments may seem to indicate.
On the other hand, Marina’s probably unattainable, given the competition; but some of these other young ladies are definitely available. I had a 28-year-old woman named Vera from Penza, east of Moscow, hitting on me on Match.com, even after I told her I was 53. (Well, OK, I did send her my swimsuit photo.
) She looked a lot like Marina, actually. 
But to be fair, I explained to her she could get her ticket to America AND have a good man more her age.
Most people pay money to have rodents removed; to pay $2,000 to GET one doen’t make much sense to me. A couple of bucks for a hamster or a white mouse, okay, but gosh golly gee.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Your Very Pretty
Replay Back
what is the meaning for football or soccer
welcome…please see http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/07/06/soccer/ for your answer…
Homework: If I have, I wouldn’t have known it. They do seem the cute little critters, tho! I think I’ll stick to feeding the wild birds and squirrels as opposed to actually keeping and owning a pet, at least for now. BTW, Do chinchillas remodel kitchens like those raccoons?
Merry Christmas Marina!
Thanks so much for the lovely email greeting card I received today
But I just have to point out to my favourite teacher that she made a spell error (or typo?) in the accompanying text. She wrote “by they way…”, where she obviously should have spelled ‘by THE way…’.
But I can imagine Marina’s accent would make her pronounce the word ‘the’ as ‘they’. It’s actually quite funny to see her mix up the actual spelling of the word with her way of pronouncing it…’ ..sigh.. could she be any cuter?
LOL …. I completely missed that. But in my defense, I was too busy drooling, over the candy cane of course
Welcome, Getalife,
As part of your site orientation: we have a designated nit-picker named pedantickarl, whose job is to point out such minor gaffes, so as to free your mind for more creative observations and witticisms.
One of her more endearing phrases is to say “You will be naughtified…” when she means “notified.” Highly appropriate doble-entendre. There’s a reason she has to keep telling us to be good.
A-w-e-s-o-m-e remark! =))
Evan, “You will be naughtified…” is the best pearl Marina ever spit out! It’s just great =))
Naaaaaaiisssss…
Good eyes, getalife75!
Hey getalife, another thought:
What’s it like for Marina to be writing not only in a foreign language, but a foreign alphabet? Here’s what:
I’ve been trying to write her little notes in Russian, proofreading before I post, but a half hour later I’ll come back and some evil gremlin has changed Вас to Бас and Милая to Милаяа. Arrrgh!
I don’t think I have ever seen a real one except on here or on tv. I don’t think I would want one as a pet, just another animal to keep up with. Don’t get me wrong I like animals they taste real good.
Thank you again Marina for the beautiful Christmas card.
The $2000 Chinchilla you saw must have been a hand muff.
Homework:
Don’t think I would get one. I had a hamster when I was 13. It lived longer than most hamsters. When he got older he didn’t like to be played with as much. He bit me a few times.
Merry Christmas
I do hope it was a happy one for you Marina.
Hey Smokey, that’s why I got rid of mine when we were young. The older they got the more they would bite.
Perhaps, it wasn’t the hamster getting older that was the cause of the problem. Maybe as you got older, you tasted better (more seasoned).
Merry Christmas Marina
I know December 25th is not a holiday in Russia, but I do not think anyone would begrudge you a day off.
I’ve never seen a chinchilla. They do look cute though.
Hi guys hope you all have had a fine day so far.
Did that link work? The one I sent via YT
Hey Che, I haven’t tried it yet, I was on my son’s Ipod Touch when I sent that last comment. I am on my laptop now so I will look into it. Thanks
Yep it worked. I just saw Christmas at the end.
Желаю тебе приятного Рождества и Нового года. Пускай твои ресничинки будут благоухать как и прежде.
Ты замечательная, весенная и…удивительно харизматичная леди. 
Милаяа Марина,
Friend of yours? When I was young, we didn’t address people we didn’t know well as “ты”.
Милая…sheesh, it’s taking me awhile to get used to that “Виртуальная Русская Клавиатура”
“I have nothing to declare except my genius.” – Oscar Wilde – upon arriving at U.S. customs 1882 1854-1900
Once when I cross the US/MX border I was asked if I had anything to declare, my response was “I’m hungover, dirty and need a bath”
Lucky for me that was back in the day when border officials still had a sense of humor.
have you taken that bath yet?…
Why yes, yes I have
hmmm…you might need another…
…lol yea! …always room for annudderfemale
careful, che – annudderFemale is my daughter…16 might get you 20…or annudder foot where the sun don’t shine…
where do you live?
From his description of yesterday’s activities, he might need a cold shower!
That and the video he sent me surely would make you take a cold shower.
Do tell! Send me a link?
We have two feet of snow here, may as well make good use of it!
(On YouTube, I’m “CantwrCymreig”, since evanowen and WelshSinger were already taken.)
Never get cold or wet on purpose. A cold shower is a double-whammy.
LOL I WANT ONE, whoa, thats alot of money………..
nope, never saw a chinchilla in vivo…but scanning the web, i’d say if you saw one for $2K, someone was makin’ a killer profit – most seem to go for $125-250….and so, since they’re rodents, i’d have to say “rats” to the two grand…
oh, and Happiest of Days to all…(-;
Hey anuddermale,
Has anyone mentioned to you that males don’t have udders?
*sigh*…yes – those who don’t notice the extra “n” or recognize that “annudder” is just a dialectual pronunciation of “another.”
several long months ago i had a knockdown-dragout flame war with a frenchman who just couldn’t understand my sometimes dry, definitely-not-serious brand of humor and took one of my homework papers to be derogatory of Marina…he, too, misunderstood what “annudder” meant…
now, are you evan or are you odd?…
I didn’t know RRR was French?
i never argued with RRR, i don’t think…did i?…
Probably not Annud, just razzing you. I figured everyone had a round with him at one time or another.
Oh, you can definitely call me “Odd Evan!”
Homework: I saw them once at the zoo.
)
Cute little buggers… ($2G’s a pop?
EXPENSIVE little buggers – LOL!
for the last time Doug, they are not BUGS!
Merry Christmas Marina. Thank you for the email greeting card.
Hi
how about the term,….Back-Stabber?
merry x mas
tsk
What have we here…another recent divorcé?
Merry Christmas everyone!!! Hope you all have a safe and fun one. And thank you Marina for a most excellent card.
Dear Miss Marina Orlova,
I have never had or seen a chinchilla. I’ve had fish, birds, and cats as pets.
YS,
TOF
PS Merry Christmas!
Hello Marina
Merry Christmas
You’ve got a great thing here.
Wow, I got my card in the spam directory… THANK GOSH I didn’t empty it like I normally do.
Super card! Marina is a regular sweetheart, handing out candy canes to all her good students and since she doesn’t have any bad students, theres no need for the lumps of coal Santa used to give out to naughty children. That’s a good thing too, because I think her Prada just wouldn’t take it
So this guy chinchilla picks up a lady chinchilla in a bar and takes her home. While they’re gettin’ busy, he notices she’s rather unresponsive, and he says to her, “What are you, a friggin’ COAT?!”
There use to be a Chinchilla Farm at the bottom of Questa Grade in SLO county. It was right on HWY 101 North, The Californians in the audience may have seen it, just North of Cal Poly.
Hi Marina!
Merry Christmas!! You are so good.
quiggles
Hey HotForWords
I have a request for you!!!! I want to know the meaning of the word(number combination) 404. All i know that it is used to stand for a error. Thanks!!! Hope that you know a origin for this word(number combination)
This is not a word in the normal sense; it is assigned a meaning by Web standards people. They had to use some number, so that just happened to be it. There is no meaning to the number itself; the meaning is in what was assigned to the number, i.e. the error message.
And that’s the 411 on that.
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