☞Hey guys. Marina informed me of a cool little easter egg in her “Contumelious” video. No one has mentioned it yet. It’s hidden very well in plain sight. Can you find it? [Update:] “I’ll give you a clue. Remember the first movie “The Matrix”? What was wrong with the cat?” Here is another clue. On thing in this video is just an illusion from a previous video.
Well, it certainly helps if one is looking at the correct video – you sure led us up the garden path with this one, Jack, albeit unintentionally – but the Easter Egg is all but undetectable because it has been inserted so skilfully.
I took a screenshot and blew it up to 600% in MS Paint, and the inserted square with Gorby in it is positioned to pixel-point accuracy and the colour matching is so close that, even at that magnification, I can only just make out the join.
Another brilliant trick from our busty Hotforwords. (Can’t call her trusty any more. )
I just got done downloading the video and verified that in fact it’s this lesson. My Internet is really sucky right now and with this old modem I’m using now my Internet connection is sporadic at best.
Its seems as if Gorby comes in and out of the screen in the exact same manner, almost like his area of motion was Isolated and then reversed right back out of the shot. …maybe at the 1:00min mark
Its the Gorby incident OR the background is somekind of steady shot clip of flim that Marinas image has been projected upon…would also explain the Gorby phenomenon.
All three clip segments in “out takes” have the same background.
If it isn’t that I’m having my eyes checked!
I’m going to give credit for both Pagedoll and runawayscott for the correct answers. Gorby was never in the shot. He was added in from a previous video. Very good illusion for no one picked up on it. Good Job Marina! You fooled us all!
My understanding: There is some other lesson in which Gorby does those antics for real as a part of the scene. (This other lesson is not the Out Takes lesson.) Marina did a “cut and paste” from that other lesson into the Contumelious lesson. If such a lesson exists, which is that lesson in which Gorby’s antics are for real as a part of the scene?
. DISCLAIMER: I wrote the following GUESS after reading other people’s responses, but before reading Captain Jack’s laudation for those who got it right:
There is some previous lesson in which Gorby peeks up the way he does here. It takes him one second to get up and turn slightly to his right. This one second is overlaid from 0:58 to 0:59 and from 1:33 to 1:34. The same shot is reversed and overlaid from 0:59 to 1:00. A very small part of the reversed shot is overlaid from 1:34 to 1:34+”small instance”, and frozen till 1:35. The largely black “cut-out” visible from 1:33 to 1:34 might have helped with doing the overlapped rendering. Of course, it might be that Gorby going back is the real shot, and Gorby peeking up is the reversal!
If the guess is correct, I do not like this easter egg. For one thing, it requires that the viewer have seen the previous lesson, and remembered it. Maybe Marina makes some remark in the previous lesson that would make that appearance of Gorby memorable; and maybe if someone remembers the original scene then the artificial reversal in this lesson is obvious. I do not remember any such previous lesson.
The one very nice thing I can say about this easter egg is that, although it involves just Gorby directly, it does involve Marina indirectly via a demonstration of her skill in video editing — that dog’s movement in both directions look real.
I like the observations I made earlier in the Out Takes lesson. The facts identified there are much more macroscopic, diverse, and involve Marina.
In “Out-Takes 1″, note how Gorby squirms while licking her fingers. The movements of his head while being held in her arms are similar to the movements of his head in Contumelious. So did Marina take a few still images of Gorby’s nape, head and face as he squirmed in her arms, insert the stills into the Contumelious lesson and have the software render those stills into motion video?
If the above speculation is correct, then this is indeed an excellent easter egg — one that has been hidden so skillfully (meaning, the animation has been so well done) that it could never have been found had it not been for the copious hints.
I am trying to think contumely, to use contumelious, but alas I am not int the mood. I am mmore used to the contumely form, of the word, probably from some old Dickens book or something. It is nice ot know the definition now as I was lazy and made it up in my head or invented the definition from the context and I was, well, wrong in my invention.
Did you get all the Christmas gifts you were hoping for Marina?
I wonder how Michael Buckley would have done if his name was submitted in the 2008 Sexiest Geek Contest? (That is if he constitutes as a geek) I mean he has 20K more subscribers than sxephil, not to mention a better show. There probably would be a realistic possibility that Michael Buckley would have been ahead in the polls in 1st place if he had been considered.
I think his KNEE alone is sexier than Philip DeFranco! (And I’m STRAIGHT!)
But seriously, I think there is another reason why Philip Defranco is in first place. He has almost TWICE as many YouTube subscribers than Marina does. So the counts go against her.
Hello animalntaz,
I hope you don’t think I’m picking on you, but I would like to set the record straight.
First, you are almost correct, when you said Phil is in the lead due to having twice as many subscribers. Indeed, Phil does have almost twice as many subscribers, but that is NOT why he is in the lead, but his fans could easily trounce Marina, but they have not.
Look at the numbers:
Marina has 31738 up votes. Phil has 30303 up votes.
We the dedicated Marina fans who are fewer in number have made that happen.
First:
For the record, Phil is in the lead because he got out of the gate first, AND because his fans heavily down voted Marina.
When Marina made us aware of the contest, I think there were only two Marina entries. The one with the pink bustier had around 4000 up votes and about 1200 down votes That’s 30% down votes.
Phil had about 10,000 – 14,000 up votes at that time with only about 2000 down votes. That’s 16% down votes.
This occurred before the multiple entries.
Second
We the Marina fans have been more aggressive in up voting as Marina beat Phil on Jan 1 in up votes. That is significant.
See my graph here: http://i44.tinypic.com/2njehoj.jpg
We were not as aggressive in down voting Phil as we could have been. Also, if you view my graphs, the voting acceleration has diminished. We could easily trounce Phil in one day if 3000 of us voted all in one day.
So, I applaud all of the HotForWords voters who have done a magnificent job in continuing to vote for Marina and having her continue to move forward and upward towards number one.
damn i can’t type. Coin my ‘own’ (not ‘out’) word.
Allegregarious: adj, 1. fond of story, simile or fable.
2. describing a writer of many stories or fables.
derivation: me coined on hot for words now. < ALLEGORY + GREGARIOUS. wonder if it will catch on.
I am new to this site, but browsing some older material gave me the impression that Marina posts lessons everyday. Am I mistaken? If not, any idea why our dear teacher AWOL?
Perhaps she should give us a tough HW problem(s) on Friday to keep us occupied over the weekend — then she can do research without lessons over the weekend.
She won a prize to go to CES — she got there yesterday and posted photos on twitter; but has been quite most of today. I thought she had a stack of pre-made lessons that she could roll out while away.
I hope she went to the show in something shockingly daring that turned everyone’s heads. I mean, what else is it for anyway? How about a strapless form-fitting white dress with
Hot
For
Words
printed front and back in 3″ letters. And the Os and the D have the centers cut out, with the front top O showing a bit of bottom-cleavage. That ought to do it.
She only post a lesson until her last lesson makes it to top of page 2 on the most viewed. Which its up right now so I would suspect a new lesson shortly.
Thanks. (It is all greek to me, but I get the idea that the lessons are on a schedule that is not fixed but is dependent on real-time factors. On some future date, I might investigate to see if I can understand the reasoning.)
Hello hs4mm,
Marina does not post videos every day as such based on a time reference, but a YouTube positional metric. That metric is based on YouTube’s Top 100 Most Viewed videos. When her latest video has reached the 21-25 position of the Most Viewed videos, she posts a new video.
In the recent many months, this has essentially caused her to post a video every day. Last year, Marina posted about 3-5 videos every week.
Thanks for the link — read Marina’s write-up. Two questions, and a comment:
1) In IE6, when I double click on a video on a HFW page, a new window comes up with a YouTube page and the video plays there. Does this method of viewing (launching a YouTube page in a external window starting with double clicking on a video in HFW page) add to the honor count?
2) What’s with the “subscribe” button on YouTube? (The Google subscribe button at the top of this page is useless since the email notification comes at the end of the day, which is usually much later than when the video was actually posted.) How does subscribing to an author on YouTube help the author?
I have a big monitor and it is no problem for me to go to YouTube to watch the video and participate in comments on the HFW site.
Hello hs4mm,
Here are my answers to your questions:
Q1) Does launching the YT video from here by clicking the HFW video count as an honors count?
A1) Good question and I do not know the answer, but let me speculate in this way.
There are two types of video players. The YT native player and the remote embedded player. These players have different attributes and different controls and different restrictions. One player is controlled by YT, while the embedded player allows the user to select certain features.
My guess is this, any time that the native YT player is activated, it counts as a hit towards honors. However, since I don’t want to second guess YT, what I do is to refresh the YT video page and / or select the HD link. In either case, that will increment the view count which will register the video count towards honors.
Q2) How does subscribing to an author on YouTube help the author?
A2) The number of subscribers is just another metric to measure popularity AND in terms of YT partnerships, Ad revenue I’m sure calculates potential eyeballs and calculates actual views with potential views. The more subscribers, the more potential revenue, the better the survival of that channel.
If you look at the YT home page, even though it is not obvious, there are two huge categories where metrics are very critical. Those two categories are VIDEOS and CHANNELS.
When you click on Videos, you can see all of the metric sub categories by clicking on the down arrow that says “more”.
When you click on the CHANNELS link at the top of the page, you’ll see two metrics; Most Viewed Channel and Most Subscribed Channel. This is where the number of subscriptions becomes a factor. Notice the sub categories of “This Week”, “This Month” and so on. Additionally, it is also broken down by type of video category such as Comedy, Education, Entertainment, etc.
Click on Channel, Entertainment, Most Subscribed, All Time. You’ll see HotForWords is listed on page 1 in the number 11 spot. She had dominated the #1 spot for a very long time.
The email notification is a convenience for those people who are not on here 24/7 ( really, I’m not addicted)
A lot of my friends use the HFW email notification to catch up on the latest videos.
I do a lesson every day. The timing of the release of the lessons is related to where the previous lesson exists on the most viewed pages here: http://www.youtube.com/browse I have a video in slot #14, but that is a video from 2 days ago. My most recent video is on page 3 in the #52 spot. I will not release a video until that video hits page 2 in the #24 spot.
The majority of my video views come from my videos hitting the #1 most viewed page. If I release a video too soon, then the video prior to that will not be able to make it to the most viewed page and will experience a horrible, gruesome and very painful death!
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Lesson request: Music and Dance: any relation? which came first?
Are the roots of music and dance related? Is one primary compared to the other? Does the root of music mean something that accompanies dancing? Or does the root of dance mean a form of response to music? There is music without dance, but has there ever been dance without music?
From the old western movies, there was a lot of dancing in the streets involving the use of pistols. I don’t suppose a percussion instrumental would qualify as music, would it?
Are acts of celebration, say at a football game, by jumping, cheering (and other vocalizations), clapping etc. a primitive form of dancing? How about Tarzan’s chest-beating and howl?
The origin of the words “common sense” “Street smart” and “book smart”
As in “Sure he is BOOK SMART but he has no COMMON SENSE or STREET SMARTS.
Given that common sense to my experience tends to be one of the rarest commodities of the world in every country I have been, it seems like the origin would have to be political or religious!
Hello Marina,
Following MissCupcake, I’d like to submit my application for being substitute teacher, especially because I can write my own script. Here’s a draft as an example:
LossForWords presents another Fractured Philology lesson:
EUPHEMISM
Hello my dear students. Today we have another word request. Dickhead793, dickhead1422, and dickhead437, and at my website, hotformarina1375, hotformarina649, and hotformarina520, all wanted to know the origin of the word euphemism.
In the days before YouTube, people used to try to find polite ways of saying rude things, instead of vice-versa. The polite phrases used in this odd custom were called euphemisms. Which is an odd name for a polite phrase, since “you fem!” is an insult men hurl at each other to start a fight. What is going on here, guys? LossForWord must instigate.
The term euphemism dates back to the time of the Norman Conquest of England in 1066Norman Conquest of England in 1066. The invading French soldiers, looking for wives and mistresses, were appalled at the crude speech of the Saxon women, and attempted to teach them polite speech; for example, to say merde in place of shitte. These polite words and phrases to be used in place of rude Saxonisms became known as eufemmisms, a word compounded from the Greek eu meaning “good,” the French femme, meaning “woman,” and ism, a suffix meaning “pertaining to” – that is, speech used by “good” women when referring to rude things. In time, as Norman French and Anglo-Saxon blended to become English, the word eufemmism worked its way into common usage, with the meaning changed to mean polite expressions, whether used by women OR men.
Later, while compiling his Dictionary of the English Language, Dr. Samuel Johnson changed the spelling to “euphemism,” just to be quirky.
Of course, with the dawn of the Internet and YouTube, young people are now rejecting euphemisms and reverting to traditional Anglo-Saxonisms.
There you go – another mystery compounded by your trusty LossForWords.
For your homework – do you think women who talk dirty are HOT – or DISGUSTING? Please write your answers in the comments below. I’ll see you all in the distant future. Until Marina gets back, be good – class? CLASS?? [unseen class starts throwing pencils, erasers, paper airplanes, and apples at substitute teacher.]
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Of course, as a special treat for your women students, I’ll deliver the entire lesson while dressed in my spandex gym shorts and pumping iron.
Hello Marina ! I suppose I would not be very contumelious if I would request you the origin of the word “King”. Curious word because the royal function when it is supported by a women is called “Queen”… Oh my dear Marina : God save the Queen !
Marina, has my Contumelious behavior gotten your hackels so raised your red in the face and need a nice cool down swim in a nice cool pool or canal in the carnal city of Las Vega?
I would like to know too
And why call him Confucius when his name is Kung Fu Tze ( 孔夫子) ?
and wiki says “Confucius – Not to be confused with confusion.”
I was wondering, where does the word discipline originate??
does it have any relation to the verb to follow. Like a person who is a disciple
follows an others teachings. Is there any relation whatsoever??
Contumlious is a word installed from the Republic of LEXICON; mastered by the little brat of HotForWords. Trump is a word I heard at Greek restaurants, so what’s up with the trump
Capman911 post for clams and todays HOTFORWORDS Quote
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” – Albert Einstein 1879-1955
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
My good friend Yuliya has fun making contumelious remarks regarding my receding hairline!!! It would be quite and insult to me if I did not lover her so.
Marina,
What? “Contumelious”?? Never heard of it! Where do you find these? I may not be a native speaker but just like you I started learning when my parents decided to have English taught to us kids when I was 5. You may be right as you mentioned in the article that English is a complicated language but when it comes to grammar I don’t think so – your Russian or my German, much more difficult! Now, anunciation and pronunciation, that’s another story…George Bernhard Shaw stated something to that effect. Various regions of the world make a difference as well. For me, Flexner & Wentworth’s Dictionary of the American Slang has helped. You’re certainly right that the more languages any of us learn the better, especially now, in this shrinking world.
What part of the world do you “shrink” from? What’s going on there? What is the weather like now?
It is amazing that we can talk to people all over the world, yet (most of us) know so little about each other’s home towns. It would be nice if we could have a few sentences and maybe a link to an important place there, even their dog or cat. Perhaps Marina could provide a separate blog with unlimited edit (so we could keep things updated) where each of us could store a comment about where we are from. You know, a picture of Capt. Jack’s barnacle collection, SmokeyBear’s prized set of spatulas, etc.
Contumelious was wonderful. I have a request for a word that has a very honorable etymology, but it has a bad reputation today and that word is “cunt”. I hope you will be brave and include it in your next hot word of the week : )
I think we should limit ourselves to requests for words that may be used in polite company. After all, lessons are M’s face to the world and they may be heard and seen by audiences of all kinds anywhere in the world.
Shamelesshussy, after you’ve been here awhile, you will probably understand that CampKohler often says things facetiously. He would probably be delighted to see a lesson on your word request.
Plain vanilla
You could always start a forum if “cunt” is really a word you want to investigate. If you had only asked for “fuck”, there’s already a video for that.
When I was in Australia I was called a cunt. They told me is was an cool name to have. Later on I learned from a former girl friend that lived in Australia said that I was fooled that this was a good comment and that it meant what I thought it meant. I will second your request for the word ‘cunt’…. with honors to you for such a requested.
I did the “c” word on Maxim radio and you are correct, it has a funny origin!
I didn’t do it on YouTube as they are really cracking down on language and I got flagged when I did snafu, after explaining what it stood for.. even though others use those words all the time!
Funny??? Cuniform? Origins of the universe. Hunh really…
The word was replaced with “vagina” at the rise of male centric religions. at that time vagina was a well known term for a scabbard a “sheath for a man’s sword.”
I am unaware of your theory of it related to the origins of the universe. Please tell me more!!
My research only shows it coming from the Middle English cunte which in turn came from the Old Norse kuntal… but that there is actually an earlier reference to the word in the London Street name Gropecuntelane from around 1230 in London. Street names were often named after the wares offered for sale on them.. so you can guess what Gropecuntelane offered for sale on its street.
Not much else is know about the origin the word going further back. Here is an interesting piece on the word: http://wapedia.mobi/en/Cunt
I did a lot of work on this word 10 yrs ago for a play I created – this was before the internet, when it was possible for a person not to think they knew everything by checking Wikipedia lol
This site captures a lot of what I discovered, missing some things but then there is also much more: http://tinyurl.com/axxj6d
As I said (above) I get a bit hot “about” words, I admire your work Marina and I’m sickened to think of YouTube dumbing down your potential for scholarly feminist study – while being quite happy to feature your other fabulous… erm, assets.
YouTube [Headquarters]
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San Mateo, CA 94401 (Map)
Phone: 650-343-2960
Fax: 650-343-2983
YouTube, LLC
901 Cherry Ave.
San Bruno, CA 94066
USA
Phone: +1 650-253-0000
Fax: +1 650-253-0001
It’s interesting that at this more detailed “contact us” page the link on it for reporting inappropriate content is down: http://www.youtube.com/t/contact_us
when asked to explain ’snafu’ I reply ’situation normal – all fouled up’ there are ways to circumvent the ai filters. I am sure you’re clever enough to do so.
Fianchetto, I chose to do the ORIGINAL origin of the word, and it came from Situation Normal All Fucked Up. I wanted to offer a pure, uncensored origin of the word, since I hear other major partners using the word fuck all day long in their videos. The second my video was uploaded, it was flagged and the YouTube people told me I was not allowed to use the word. I removed the video and beeped out the word (I wasn’t able to re-shoot it since it was already done) and re-uploaded it.
Later, at a meeting at YouTube, they couldn’t understand why I was singled out.. but then someone thought that perhaps I had the word spelled out in the subtitles, which I don’t think I did.. but at that point, I felt it not worth the aggravation.
Marina, you have a choice (as we all do) when it comes to the use of language. Some language is acceptable to the masses and some is not. It does not matter a whit whether this is logical or even right; unless you are able to sway the minds of the masses (and of course you can’t), it is the way it is. The choice is whether you wish to limit your audience and cater only to those who you will not offend or broaden your appeal by observing decorum.
Occasionally famous people will “drop the F bomb” on TV or innocently let slip a vulgarity. There is a lot of talk about it, but then it dies away. But I have never seen anyone in the public eye consistently violate proprieties simply because that is their personal philosophy and the public be damned. It would be interesting if that happened, so that we could see the result of crossing the line. Maybe their publicist, manager or whatever calls them up and whispers into their shell-like ear, “Listen you moron, are you trying to ruin us? You do something like that again and I’ll drop you like a hot potato.” I guess most make the decision that it is in their best economic interest to behave, because, as I said earlier, such transgressions seem transitory.
Obviously, YT has finds it in their best econmomic interest to police their contributors so as to not find, say, parents forbidding their children from ever visiting the site. They certainly don’t want to be on the banned lists of any ‘Net-nanny software. So they have made their choice.
Everybody has the freedom (except in the broadcast media) to use the kind of language they want to use. However, those who hear it also get to vote with their wallets (or mice nowadays) and there lies the rub (to coin a phrase). “You pays your money and takes your choice” for the customer is “You takes your choice and see what you’re paid” for the seller.
Hello Marina,
I have the original uncensored SNAFU video. Wasn’t I the quick one Yes, you did have the word “fuck” spelled out in the subtitle. I’d be happy to post a screen shot.
On a related note, flagging of videos:
Your “Bad Cop” video has been flagged (age restricted) for about two weeks now. The reason I know this precisely is because I posted that video on the HFW YT Music & Videos forum and it was not flagged then.
The “Bad Cop” video is one of the great classic HFW videos with very closeup camera work and it is an excellent video.
YT has changed their contact pages where I have not been able to send them a message regarding flagged videos.
In the YT Help section, as I read it, it says, paraphrasing in my own words; if a video is flagged, and then subsequently reviewed by YT, it will stay flagged and not get un-flagged even if for age restriction.
I’m highly disappointed in YT’s inability to challenge flagged videos and I will be contacting them via snail mail as they have made it impossible to message them in a meaningful way.
Marina’s videos videos don’t even come close to needing to be flagged as I just noticed now videos of highly sexually oriented acts and language that have been there since Nov’08 and have not been flagged. WTF is up with that?
I’m writing to YT now and if anyone knows an e-contact page, let me know.
I agree completely with your choice to use appropriately the word in a purely educational fashion, was merely suggesting a ‘work-around’, also agree that it shouldn’t have been flagged, either. I bet those that offer medical- or relationship-related vlogs probably hit the same ‘brick walls of hypersensitivity’. I imagine you can truely empathise with the poor fly bashing his little head against the window-pane, just trying to get past that weird ‘force field’ in its path. God bless you, and please keep up the good work!
{…wondering if there’s a word for abundance of metaphors, and how many I can use in a work – sounds like a new forum game in the making …}
They don’t know why you where singled out? That’s just preposterous. How could they say it’s not allowed and yet say they couldn’t understand why you were singled out? Unless your referring to a different ‘they’. It appears they don’t have a very good grasp on censorship policies. Your probably right it’s not worth the aggravation. It’s probably best to conform. Yet this issue will come up again. On of the things that attracted me to your lesson is that you did the word that know other teacher would even touch.
I’m not sure I’m putting my comments in correctly so please excuse me while I reiterate that
I have to take exception with the statement (below)
“I have never seen anyone in the public eye consistently violate proprieties simply because that is their personal philosophy and the public be damned. It would be interesting if that happened, so that we could see the result of crossing the line.”
that, CampKohler my friend, is what great scholars, artists and people with integrity (street cred) do for a living. you will see it evidenced in the Theatre, Cinema, Dance, Painting, Poetry, in great Literature, all of the arts – and yes even on the internet.
and in response to Marina,
with all love and respect, for artists it’s always worth the “aggravation”. to disrupt is the whole point – that’s what creates growth and promotes learning and a deeper understanding/conversation. and quite often the controversy is also good box office lol, as I’ve found with my own company.
Ahhhh, jeeze… You are talking about pushing the envelope of the arts and I am talking about public vulgarity. Anyway, I have speakened my peace: I believe Marina is better off taking the high road and eschewing vulgarity, even if it is in scholarly pursuit.
Alright, alright, color me fuddy-duddy. I don’t care.
I guess this is a best a place as any to write this though I doubt you will have time to read it. My own preference is that you do not do a video on these sorts of words because I think half your viewers will have ungentlemanly thoughts about you during your lesson. If I were your father, I probably would wish you’d choose other words. You are a sexy woman no doubt and most of the guys and probably some of the girls watch you with an interest in the physical aspects of your video equal to the intellectual. Maybe I am too sensitive in that regard, but I would prefer that you not choose words that tip that balance in favor of the physical.
Thank you again for your insightful analysis of words and phrases.
Going back to what you said about Gropecunt lane. There wasn’t just one in London. There were many gropecunt lanes. (I have a book about rude place names in the UK)
I think that cunt would have had to have been around about 10-150 years before 123q0 because, although the trades that happened in those streets could sometimes effect what they were called, someone couldn’t just call a road Gropecunt Lane. That would have made things very confusing. Lets say the word cunt had never been made, I called a street Gropekakaka lane, people would think “WTF is a kakaka?” So I reckon that for people to understand it was for…. *ehhem* groping cunts they would have had to know what a cunt was in the first place. Also there was a Gropecunt Lane in Shrewsbury, but it was a Tudor village, a bit odd seeing as Tudors HATED swearing & sex
Often derided as killjoys because of their opposition to swearing, drunkenness and sexual licence, they are also iconoclasts, responsible for smashing much of England’s heritage of medieval art.
Looking at my book, I can see that there are no place names that come from abroad.
BUT In medi-evil Paris there was a road called
Rue Grattecon
(scratchcunt street)
(this was also near unshaved cunt street and whores slit street no joke.these were also prostitute streets)
Now if I am right the medi-evil period was before 1230 wasn’t it?
So if the word was french it would explain why it was gropecuntelane. The french miss off the end letter usually…
So I think it could be french
(I know it takes many twists and turns. I was writing down my findings as I found them.) Wow.. that shaved 3 hours off my day!
Your requested word has a French cognate, le coun, the subject of a bilingual pun in Shakespeare’s King Henry V, Act IV, Scene IV. In this exchange, the lady-in-waiting Alice is teaching English to Princess Katharine of France:
KATHARINE
Ainsi dis-je; de elbow, de nick, et de sin. Comment
appelez-vous le pied et la robe?
ALICE
De foot, madame; et de coun.
KATHARINE
De foot et de coun! O Seigneur Dieu! ce sont mots
de son mauvais, corruptible, gros, et impudique, et
non pour les dames d’honneur d’user: je ne voudrais
prononcer ces mots devant les seigneurs de France
pour tout le monde. Foh! le foot et le coun!
and I have to take exception with the statement above
“I have never seen anyone in the public eye consistently violate proprieties simply because that is their personal philosophy and the public be damned. It would be interesting if that happened, so that we could see the result of crossing the line.”
that, CampKohler my friend, is what great scholars, artists and people with integrity (street cred) do for a living. you will see it evidenced in the Theatre, Cinema, Dance, Painting, Poetry, in great Literature, all of the arts – and yes even on the internet.
and in response to Marina, with all love and respect, for artists it’s always worth the “aggravation”. to disrupt is the whole point – that’s what creates growth and promotes learning and a deeper understanding/conversation.
@ shamelesshussy, variations on this discussion periodically occur on hfw. this is a link to a discussion about the acceptable use of language and grammar rules. it seems that people on hfw cannot approach language objectively, independent of their cultural norms. i agree with your position that, “…that’s what creates growth and promotes learning and a deeper understanding/conversation” very well said.
Diatribe, pejorative, ad-hominem … far more plump/juicy/versatile ten-cent rip/slam category words than contumely/contumelious imho. I have tripped over “contumely” in previous travels through literature but never saw an actual real live contumelious in the wild heretofore, hence learned something today. Employed incorrectly fancy words can look like a Rolls Royce hood ornament crazy glued onto a rusted out 1969 VW beetle, or a 3 year old kid in a tuxedo : jarringly discordant. (enuf 10 centers for now im running out of pocket change)
I’ve never seen that movie all the way through for some reason. I start watching it and the next thing I know is that I am flopping around on the floor like a fish out of water and scattering the popcorn all over the place. Strange…
Oh yes…. in fact “andromedastrain” is as we speak on the verge of becoming a “multi-millionaire” running computational molecular dynamics sims over on folding@home
I first saw the movie in early 70s; was too young (and/or not precocious enough) to really understand it but the concept stayed rattling around in my imagination over the years. An intelligent/diabolical “disributed brain” virus would have been more intriguing; as I recall this one was quite dumb (yet deadly) which was a bit of a disappointment to me. I remember some others from back then such as 2001:A Space Odyssey (who could not remember Thus Spake Zarathustra http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWnmCu3U09w
how useful is this you-tube thing and Fantastic Voyage.
I think galaxies (I prefer spirals) and nebula (Orion in particular) are gorgeous… one of the most spectacular/mind boggling sights to behold in all of nature.
Is it my imagination, or have all the replies gone back to being small font compared to the original post? (I don’t know why anyone would want that unless they think for some reason that replies should be hard to read.)
I also noticed this evening that the # at the bottom of each forum post no longer reveals the link to the post, so that has stopped working.
Another not-seen-before weirdness tonight is an intermittant tendency for a message to be turned into gobbledegook by overwriting itself when you return to this site after having switched tabs in IE7 to another site; it’s not all the comments in a lesson, but just one or two. It straightens itself out and displays text properly after a few seconds, so it is not “permanent,” requiring a restart to fix it. It happens both in HFW and the forum (different S/W), so is it a browser problem and what is it due to?
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Perhaps the sizing of the fonts in the replies was what Marina was trying to recall in her post here.
I suspect changes have been made because now the main page for the HFW site looks beautiful — all components well proportioned and in their place — when rendered in IE6, most of the time.
If someone enters a comment that starts with a long html tag then the “Recent Comments” column trys to show the whole line and ends up getting too wide and getting pushed to the bottom (rather than remaining at the right).
The issue of the right columns getting moved to the bottom when the comment-entry-text-box was visible is not present any more.
I requested the word contumacious months ago, and I assume this has the same origin as Contumelious. I have actually used this word many times in letters to my opponents.
As an attorney, I am often exposed to opposing counsel who are rather contumacious when arguing in court.
During the election cycle, I also requested the origin of the word pander and wondered what this has to do with a “panda” bear. Never got a reply.
Should anybody need some help… there are going to be HOTFORWORDS ANONYMOUS meetings for those who find their addiction interfering with their jobs, family and such. First you will have to admit that you are a hotforwordaholic. The other 11 steps of the 12 step program…
11. Trying to watch the lessons with your eyes averted.
10. Admitting that you can’t avert your eyes.
9. Watching the lessons with one eye closed.
8. Finding yourself with both eyes wide open.
7. Accusing others of creating the tongue trails on your monitor screen.
6. Admitting that you can’t remember 90% of the stuff taught in the lessons.
5. Trying to remember a time when your favorite dog was something other than the little white fluffy ones.
4. Using a micrometer to track the growth of the plants on M’s nightstand, but NOT to meaure size of other things.
3. Practicing being unaffected by M’s smile.
2. Forcing out of your mind the hope that M will need to lean forward and adjust the controls on her camcorder.
1. Resisting the urge to log in to HFW.
0. Setting “remember me” log-in option and putting HFW in tab group automatically opened on startup.
-1. “Accidentally forgetting” to remove HFW from tab group, or closing the tab when it does open.
-3. “Oh, I’ll just play the Forum Games, instead. No harm in that. Just some nice (relatively) clean fun with me mates.”
-4. Bloody Hell! Marina just ‘tweeted’ new video.
-5. DAMN! Che Volay, James and Capman911 beat me to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd post on the new vid. FTL!
-6. Oh, well 4th not too shabby.
-7. Might as well watch the vid, since I’m already here.
-8. Obligated to do the Homework, too.
-9. That was hilarious, ChaCha! Here’s my clever, witty reply!
-10. Post a derogatory reply to the user who just requested the etymology of ‘fuck -is it an acronym?’
-11. Watch Capman, CJ and the other TA’s attempt to extinguish the ensuing flame war, resulting only in exacerbation of the whole thing.
-12. Slip quietly and unnoticed back over to the Forum games…
Recycle-Logical-1:
You are correct that some of us have a problem, but there’s argument about the nature of the problem. Maybe our jobs, family, and such are interfering with our HFW addiction! Here are some ideas:
– Dead end job? Maybe it’s time for a career change! Getting caught with HFW at work is a good way of getting the ball rolling!
– Dysfunctional relationship? If your wife is homely, dull, and contumelious, you may find a relationship with HFW and the excellent company of her retinue of wits to be far more rewarding companionship!
I’m sure you get the drift.
Excuse me, but I have to chase away my daughter, who’s trying to distract me…
But seriously, folks, Recycle-Logical-1 does have a point; there have been a few people on these pages who are obviously obsessed.
Pedantickarl, what would you say to starting a forum on HFW addiction? I could be a valuable resource person, having been through about every phase of the syndrome except for actual recovery.
“fri” is also obviously a gentleman, having addressed Marina with the polite form “вы” instead of the familiar form “ты”.
BTW, anyone know what happened to “razorstwincam”? He promised to flame me and kick my butt if I ever replied to any more Russian comments. Some people walk off in a huff just when things get interesting! (Reminds me of my ex-wife!)
Hello fri,
Yes, the word “slav” is a good request for the origin of a word.
It has been requested many times before. I requested that word back in July or Aug last year and others have requested it also.
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HFW Sexy Geek Contest Alert!
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Marina has now broken out of the 3000 votes difference area.
She is now in the 2000 votes difference area.
Marina is now 2999 votes away from first place.
I’ll be posting my graph on the Sexy Geek page in about 30 min.
I want to have your baby! Ok that not right! After a few beers I get into a loving mood. Im a loving drinker. sorry guy Im not a jacka**. I’m going to change my liink to match yours PK. Yo bro! I love ya.! *hick* btw I know I misss speeeled the word ‘link’. I’ve had tooooomuch to drrrink. LOL LOOL hhehehehe’. Nevery been drunk on a website. sorry if i offened any one. Oh and Im not going to use my spell checker.. heheheh…
And i knnow you alll wish youcan see me on a web cam hu? NOT! Lots of love to pagedoll, billyb, capman911, melikea, pt, jamesy, chev, thught on tomato, chemical, recyle, another mail man, Fianchodio, stick, ryry, stfan, origifan, nerowaths, mtvmario, campman,skoke bomb, bob, evan, jindayk, prospero81111111111, seesixcm6661218 tacko bell, ranhead , leonord, Marina, cufan221, animantalibopib, mello, popaaaazzzza, smokeim berry, and nany 1 that I missed.. Love ya all and any fans that I missed. Sorry I coun’t mail you a cheep beer. If I missed you on this list.. all who comment on this page you are included on my list.
Sorry I missed you on the list RanHead! I’m off duty so I have to drink for I could be another 6 months before I can drink again. USCG has a lower minimum than most states. It’s .04 for all officers.
An old friend is apart of the Canadian Navy based in Esquimalt, British Columbia. He invited us on board while they were docked in Vancouver. We went to the “booze-can” down below and got hammered. 25 cents for a shot of hard liquor and 50 cents for a beer.(booze has tax-free status on Cdn. ships) From that visit, I could really see where the old expression “drunken sailor” comes from.
Hello animalntaz,
This is not a contest in the traditional sense. It essentially is an open ended poll that will probably never end. In fact, the 2007 Sexy Geek contest page is still available for voting.
For this contest, there was a deadline which ended Dec 31 which was a deadline for the purpose of Wired Magazine to publish the standing of their poll at that time. For us, the voting continues until Marina gets into first position.
Hey, I just tried to do the up/down vote tango thing for Marina, and the site’s not letting me. Cleared everything, and still no go. Will someone who knows something about tech stuff check this out and respond? Referring to Sexy Geek Contest, of course.
Anybody help, please?
Thanks.
I quit being a waiter after a few years because I was getting tired of always being nice and polite… I was definitely on the verge of becoming contumelious.
Oh I would never ever use that word when I’m around the general public or any words that are not that commonly known in masses vocabulary. No way, no how! Why, you ask? Well it would be contumelious of me to use that or other words around people that didn’t know the meaning of the word. In fact people have let me know that it was a form of insult to their intelligence level. I even try to hide my intelligence for not to be looked down upon. I sometimes think of my intelligence as a disability.
I only use word like that around my close friends that use like words. My best friend in the Navy and I would use many of those words. Gone are those days. I’ve forgotten many of those words I used to use. If you don’t use them you forget them. I dream of the day I could use larger words to get my thoughts across. I hate having to use long sentences to get a point across that could be covered in one or two words. I think that dream is long gone for there is something taking over the world that will diminish the use of these words. I can’t say what they are, for people would think it would be very contumelious of me. Why do I feel completely naked right now?
Men are not sexy. Men will never be sexy. I just wonder when will humanity finally come to realize that men are not sexy. You don’t need to strip in front of us. I was in the navy too. And I can tell you that I never had to use the word comtumus, contumeous.. Well, whatever.. I never knew that word even existed before today, Jan 09, 2009. Honest.
Neuroway, I don’t care if you think men are sexy or not. When women love to pinch my butt, that’s all I need to know. I also didn’t really mean physical nudity. I failed to get my point across. Words have once again failed me. Maybe it’s my lack of vocabulary that has failed me. My lost for words will be the death of me.
Hello Marina, I would like to know the origin of the word “Spanish.” and why its is considered a lanuguage and where it came from and it would be great for looking to your response.
A quick review of American 4th grade World Geography
French = France
English = England
Spanish = Spain
Italian = Italy
Polish = Poland
German = Germany
Russian = Russia
Porteguese = Portugal
etc.
Mwuahahahaa! Contumalous.. Contamulious.. How the heck are we gonna be able to blow some steam on this one Teacher? You’ve got nothing better than that to tease your students today?
I’m outta here. Need a couple of drinks and I’m off on my way to blow steam on some less contamulous stuff tonight. Hey, thanks runawayscott for this expression! I like it!
Rally ho! Hello Marina! I have a question for you: what are the origins of the words doo wap? I asked a question on my myspace page about romantic songs, and a doo wap song was the first one to pop into my head. Odd, no? Oh! The song was In the Still of the Night, by the way. Thanks! More… later. Waffo!
It’s doo wop, which is a common nonsense sound sung in those songs. Such sounds never have a meaning, else everyone would be asking why they are using the word in the song.
Inspired by the gun video, I thought of another weapon: the bow. Where does that come from, and how did it acquire all those meanings? You have a bow that shoots arrows, like a longbow or a crossbow, you have a bow as a verb describing movement, to bow before you, and you have a bow tie. And there’s probably a link to the elbow, too.
LOVING!! the new ’spice’ you’re adding to the site – the new fora, the ‘I Like’ page, the resurrection of the GTW Game, and this HWOTW – all totally ROCK! Thanks!
Thanks also for introducing me to the twitter thing – I am having fun there, too – meeting new ppl, fellow HFW students, etc. Keep up the great work!
George Bush is contumelious toward America.
With great ruffels and flourishes we will contumeliously flush him and his conumelious administration down the porcelain princess.
I hope I wasn’t too contumrlious.
No in his case I don’t think you can be.
That administration kept your punk ass safe from another 911-type attack for the last seven and a half years while your apparent buddy Barney Frank(D-Ma), from his finance comittee chairman seat, tried to boost his “friend’s” cred, who was head of Fannie Mae, by claiming only weeks before the collapse of the housing lending industry that Fannie Mae and Freedie Mac were doing just great.
I think I know why Marina is in 2nd place in the contest:
Apart from my suspicions that some people are treating that contest like it is a joke, by voting for somebody who isn’t sexy… I think I know what happened.
Remember when Marina recently mentioned in a video that her name was submitted OVER 1,000 TIMES in the Sexiest Geek Contest? I think other people who logged on to vote hated seeing the long list of Marina entries, that they clicked away on negative votes until they got tired of it. (Some would submit angry entries asking, “Who the hell is Marina?”)
Then that website probably thought it to be best to tally up all the “+” and “-” votes into one entry, since there were so many. And that is probably why the negative votes are so high.
So if that were true… then it would be the fault of many of Marina’s FANS for posting so many entries! You all thought it would give her more attention. But your plan backfired, didn’t it!?
FOR THE 1,000+ WHO SUBMITTED… YOU OWE IT TO HER TO VOTE EVERYDAY!
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You can vote once a day on both pages for a total of TWICE per day ….. Don’t forget however when you vote Marina ‘up’ to also vote Phil ‘down’ each time …..
Hello popzzz, your assessment of voting twice per day is not correct.
What you are seeing on the page is a cookie increment count. Whether or not the server registers that cookie count depends if you are eligible to vote; i.e. after 24 hrs.
How will you know if the new count was registered as a vote? After you vote, REFRESH your page. If the vote stays the same, it was registered. If the vote goes back one count, then you saw a cookie count which was not registered.
Prove it to yourself. Vote on each page as you suggested.
Then, refresh one of the pages. You will see the true votes.
Hi popzzz,
I never said voting on both pages twice per day.
It may have been Mike or someone else.
Mike had originally advocated multiple votes (several videos ago), but I demonstrated that it was not possible due to the IP being at least the key determiner for when a vote is registered very 24 hrs.
I have always advocated visiting the single, “broken out of frame page” which shows the contestants in sorted by votes order.
Hello animalntaz,
I respectfully disagree with your assessment that it is the fault of the multiple submissions.
First, when Marina first brought the contest to our attention, Marina was already heavily down voted and Phil was already about 10,000 UP votes ahead of Marina.
Second, there is no way Marina would ever catch up in UP votes had it not been for the multiple entries, unless 10,000 Marina fans voted. Where are they? The multiple entries did the trick.
Third, obviously Marina would get more down votes also, but it is all about percentages. Who was more vigorous in the down voting. We were not until I mentioned it back on Dec 31.
In fact, as of today, Phil’s percentage of down votes is 21% where Marina’s down votes percentage is 35%. At one time, Phil’s down percentage was only 17%. What that means is that we were not as aggressive in down voting Phil. I also happen to a know a few other things about the other side which I won’t say publicly. Someone has already alluded to it here on this page in one of the comments.
Now the good news:
Thank you to all of the dedicated Marina fans who:
1. caused Marina’s up votes to exceed Phil’s
2. Have increased the down voting to accelerate Marina’s win.
3. Continue to vote for Marina.
Please continue to vote for Marina, and also down vote the person ahead of her, which happens to be Phil.
I’m not picking on Phil. I like Phil and I like him so much that I would like to see him in second place.
“I learned Contumelious today!” Did I do good?
Can I getz an Ay? … pwiz
Second attempt:
She asked me “What does she have and I don’t?”, so I responded “Dear, it’s not like that, compared to you, she’s not merely as contumelious!”. (then we kissed and made up )
How about now, can I get an A?(or a B maybe?) Grade my homework, so I know how I’m doing.
Thanks for teaching me yet another new word, and looking your best in the process!
Hi Chemikal,
Back to the playlist I tried to send you, you can click “Evan Owen” above (which links to my YouTube account), then click “playlists,” and scroll down to “Numa Numa,” which has a dozen or so versions of Dragostea din Tei. My daughters showed me the original video several months ago and challenged me to guess the language. I got thrown off by the word “haiduk” (same in Bulgarian) but then couldn’t figure out why the rest of it sounded like Italian.
Hello Marina, I was wondering if you could tell me the origin of the word lingerie. I would also like to know if you could make this a special episode, where you do it in some nice modest lingerie becuase you are very beautiful and are not too sexual in your lessons. Thanks!!!
Dear Marina… I don’t know if your remember but I asked for the origin of the word Geronimo a few months ago but I can’t remember if you said you are gonna find it or not, cause you had replied :S
Anyway… I was thinking that you might be willing to find the origin of other long words… such as the “fantastic” Greek dish created by Aristophanes in his play Assemblywomen: Lopadotemakhoselakhogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakekhymenokikhlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptokephalliokigklopeleiolagōiosiraiobaphētraganopterýgōn, or the origin of the name of that hill in New Zealand: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, which I know is not English but it would be interesting to know .
And just so to make things clear… what’s the name of your cute little dog? Kobe, Gorby or Korbe?
I love random…thank you
It’s hard to resist being contumelious when the teacher gives busy work.
The Octopus Man
sometimes acts “Contumelious” when he hides easTer eggs.
HOTFORWORDS…at least an egg of goose or muscovy duck…oh well…i asked!!![EGGING me ON]**!**:-)([-:
☞Hey guys. Marina informed me of a cool little easter egg in her “Contumelious” video. No one has mentioned it yet. It’s hidden very well in plain sight. Can you find it?
[Update:] “I’ll give you a clue. Remember the first movie “The Matrix”? What was wrong with the cat?” Here is another clue. On thing in this video is just an illusion from a previous video.
Hey I had you on the wrong lesson. Sorry guys. This is the correct lesson.
Well, it certainly helps if one is looking at the correct video – you sure led us up the garden path with this one, Jack, albeit unintentionally – but the Easter Egg is all but undetectable because it has been inserted so skilfully.
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I took a screenshot and blew it up to 600% in MS Paint, and the inserted square with Gorby in it is positioned to pixel-point accuracy and the colour matching is so close that, even at that magnification, I can only just make out the join.
Another brilliant trick from our busty Hotforwords. (Can’t call her trusty any more.
I just got done downloading the video and verified that in fact it’s this lesson. My Internet is really sucky right now and with this old modem I’m using now my Internet connection is sporadic at best.
SO whats the easter egg? I never saw the Matrix.
Your giving up so easy?
Was it when Gorby first popped his head up? Or is the background not reall just added in? It does look kinda weird.
Which time point are you referring to? And you need to be more specific.
Its seems as if Gorby comes in and out of the screen in the exact same manner, almost like his area of motion was Isolated and then reversed right back out of the shot.
…maybe at the 1:00min mark 
Its the Gorby incident OR the background is somekind of steady shot clip of flim that Marinas image has been projected upon…would also explain the Gorby phenomenon.
All three clip segments in “out takes” have the same background.
If it isn’t that I’m having my eyes checked!
I’m going to give credit for both Pagedoll and runawayscott for the correct answers. Gorby was never in the shot. He was added in from a previous video. Very good illusion for no one picked up on it. Good Job Marina! You fooled us all!
So which is the previous lesson?
I made a mistake that the egg was in the Out takes lesson.
My understanding: There is some other lesson in which Gorby does those antics for real as a part of the scene. (This other lesson is not the Out Takes lesson.) Marina did a “cut and paste” from that other lesson into the Contumelious lesson. If such a lesson exists, which is that lesson in which Gorby’s antics are for real as a part of the scene?
Yes there is some other lesson he was in. I don’t know which lesson it was and my internet is rather slow so I’m not able to research this.
Gorby is a scene hog! He just has to be in the shots. Funny little guy. I think it’s cute. It add lots of flavor to Marina’s videos.
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DISCLAIMER: I wrote the following GUESS after reading other people’s responses, but before reading Captain Jack’s laudation for those who got it right:
There is some previous lesson in which Gorby peeks up the way he does here. It takes him one second to get up and turn slightly to his right. This one second is overlaid from 0:58 to 0:59 and from 1:33 to 1:34. The same shot is reversed and overlaid from 0:59 to 1:00. A very small part of the reversed shot is overlaid from 1:34 to 1:34+”small instance”, and frozen till 1:35. The largely black “cut-out” visible from 1:33 to 1:34 might have helped with doing the overlapped rendering. Of course, it might be that Gorby going back is the real shot, and Gorby peeking up is the reversal!
If the guess is correct, I do not like this easter egg. For one thing, it requires that the viewer have seen the previous lesson, and remembered it. Maybe Marina makes some remark in the previous lesson that would make that appearance of Gorby memorable; and maybe if someone remembers the original scene then the artificial reversal in this lesson is obvious. I do not remember any such previous lesson.
The one very nice thing I can say about this easter egg is that, although it involves just Gorby directly, it does involve Marina indirectly via a demonstration of her skill in video editing — that dog’s movement in both directions look real.
I like the observations I made earlier in the Out Takes lesson. The facts identified there are much more macroscopic, diverse, and involve Marina.
So, is my guess right?
–Hs4Mm
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I’m not aware of any added effects in the Out Take lesson. Marina is very tricky. She likes to keep our neurons firing though.
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PS: The “curved ball” aspect in all of this is the following quote from Marina in the forum:
–Hs4Mm
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I believe that it was just a general comment for Gorby is starving for attention. Gorby is just like a little child that aways wants to play.
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Speculation on Source and Method
In “Out-Takes 1″, note how Gorby squirms while licking her fingers. The movements of his head while being held in her arms are similar to the movements of his head in Contumelious. So did Marina take a few still images of Gorby’s nape, head and face as he squirmed in her arms, insert the stills into the Contumelious lesson and have the software render those stills into motion video?
If the above speculation is correct, then this is indeed an excellent easter egg — one that has been hidden so skillfully (meaning, the animation has been so well done) that it could never have been found had it not been for the copious hints.
–Hs4Mm
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contumelious. cannot enter my mind when getting a word lesson from you..
prego
e/e
No one could look into your beautiful blues and even think anything contumelious.
Another one! ‘Would it be contumelious of me to tell Marina why she ought to use less make-up?’
“People who have seen pure beauty are naturally ‘contumelious’ to people who have not, but–after you see the video and read this again–we won’t be so ‘contumelious’ to each other anymore!” Yay!
LOQUACIOUS might be a good word of the week sometimes since it seems to be how i am today.
or MELLIFLUOUS.
Oh my god Marina you replied to someone just a few hours ago. Are you still lurking on the other side all this network impediment?
I imagine not. It’s Brunch or Exercise time i imagine.
I am trying to think contumely, to use contumelious, but alas I am not int the mood. I am mmore used to the contumely form, of the word, probably from some old Dickens book or something. It is nice ot know the definition now as I was lazy and made it up in my head or invented the definition from the context and I was, well, wrong in my invention.
Did you get all the Christmas gifts you were hoping for Marina?
300!
Contumelious in a sentence: “Please do not be contumelious when writing to us.”
Thank you, Marina.
Marina I hope you can sleep tonight! The biggest full moon of the year is tonight!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090109/sc_space/saturdaynightspecialbiggestfullmoonof2009 
Oh oh! No sleep for me tonight!!
Ugh yea, just why is that again?
How can a moon be bigger? Ain’t it the same moon we had last month?
Marina I would love to know the origin of the word mistake or pathogen
I wonder how Michael Buckley would have done if his name was submitted in the 2008 Sexiest Geek Contest? (That is if he constitutes as a geek) I mean he has 20K more subscribers than sxephil, not to mention a better show. There probably would be a realistic possibility that Michael Buckley would have been ahead in the polls in 1st place if he had been considered.
I think his KNEE alone is sexier than Philip DeFranco! (And I’m STRAIGHT!)
But seriously, I think there is another reason why Philip Defranco is in first place. He has almost TWICE as many YouTube subscribers than Marina does. So the counts go against her.
If ‘filthy Phil’ wants to be a geek then he will have to bite the head off of a live chicken.
Hello animalntaz,
I hope you don’t think I’m picking on you, but I would like to set the record straight.
First, you are almost correct, when you said Phil is in the lead due to having twice as many subscribers. Indeed, Phil does have almost twice as many subscribers, but that is NOT why he is in the lead, but his fans could easily trounce Marina, but they have not.
Look at the numbers:
Marina has 31738 up votes. Phil has 30303 up votes.
We the dedicated Marina fans who are fewer in number have made that happen.
First:
For the record, Phil is in the lead because he got out of the gate first, AND because his fans heavily down voted Marina.
When Marina made us aware of the contest, I think there were only two Marina entries. The one with the pink bustier had around 4000 up votes and about 1200 down votes That’s 30% down votes.
Phil had about 10,000 – 14,000 up votes at that time with only about 2000 down votes. That’s 16% down votes.
This occurred before the multiple entries.
Second
We the Marina fans have been more aggressive in up voting as Marina beat Phil on Jan 1 in up votes. That is significant.
See my graph here: http://i44.tinypic.com/2njehoj.jpg
We were not as aggressive in down voting Phil as we could have been. Also, if you view my graphs, the voting acceleration has diminished. We could easily trounce Phil in one day if 3000 of us voted all in one day.
So, I applaud all of the HotForWords voters who have done a magnificent job in continuing to vote for Marina and having her continue to move forward and upward towards number one.
Thank you all!!!
the word “stupid” please help!
you talking to me
I would love to know the origin of allegory.
I’m all eyes and ears for the origin of allegory also.
You seem… Allegregariously curious, to coin my out word.
damn i can’t type. Coin my ‘own’ (not ‘out’) word.
Allegregarious: adj, 1. fond of story, simile or fable.
2. describing a writer of many stories or fables.
derivation: me coined on hot for words now. < ALLEGORY + GREGARIOUS. wonder if it will catch on.
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Folks,
I am new to this site, but browsing some older material gave me the impression that Marina posts lessons everyday. Am I mistaken? If not, any idea why our dear teacher AWOL?
Perhaps she should give us a tough HW problem(s) on Friday to keep us occupied over the weekend — then she can do research without lessons over the weekend.
–Hs4Mm
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maybe she’s working on the substitute teacher lesson ?
She won a prize to go to CES — she got there yesterday and posted photos on twitter; but has been quite most of today. I thought she had a stack of pre-made lessons that she could roll out while away.
in that case , either she’ll make a lesson later this day or have a day off . our teacher needs a well-deserved rest too
You’d think.
I hope she went to the show in something shockingly daring that turned everyone’s heads. I mean, what else is it for anyway? How about a strapless form-fitting white dress with
Hot
For
Words
printed front and back in 3″ letters. And the Os and the D have the centers cut out, with the front top O showing a bit of bottom-cleavage. That ought to do it.
She only post a lesson until her last lesson makes it to top of page 2 on the most viewed. Which its up right now so I would suspect a new lesson shortly.
Thanks. (It is all greek to me, but I get the idea that the lessons are on a schedule that is not fixed but is dependent on real-time factors. On some future date, I might investigate to see if I can understand the reasoning.)
See my comment just below.
If you need more details than what I’ve posted, let me know.
Hello hs4mm,
Marina does not post videos every day as such based on a time reference, but a YouTube positional metric. That metric is based on YouTube’s Top 100 Most Viewed videos. When her latest video has reached the 21-25 position of the Most Viewed videos, she posts a new video.
In the recent many months, this has essentially caused her to post a video every day. Last year, Marina posted about 3-5 videos every week.
Marina has talked about this in comments before. If you haven’t had a chance to read Marina’s excellent technical article about YT stats, read it here. This article and others are found under the BLOG link at the top of the page.
Thanks for the link — read Marina’s write-up. Two questions, and a comment:
1) In IE6, when I double click on a video on a HFW page, a new window comes up with a YouTube page and the video plays there. Does this method of viewing (launching a YouTube page in a external window starting with double clicking on a video in HFW page) add to the honor count?
2) What’s with the “subscribe” button on YouTube? (The Google subscribe button at the top of this page is useless since the email notification comes at the end of the day, which is usually much later than when the video was actually posted.) How does subscribing to an author on YouTube help the author?
I have a big monitor and it is no problem for me to go to YouTube to watch the video and participate in comments on the HFW site.
Hello hs4mm,
Here are my answers to your questions:
Q1) Does launching the YT video from here by clicking the HFW video count as an honors count?
A1) Good question and I do not know the answer, but let me speculate in this way.
There are two types of video players. The YT native player and the remote embedded player. These players have different attributes and different controls and different restrictions. One player is controlled by YT, while the embedded player allows the user to select certain features.
My guess is this, any time that the native YT player is activated, it counts as a hit towards honors. However, since I don’t want to second guess YT, what I do is to refresh the YT video page and / or select the HD link. In either case, that will increment the view count which will register the video count towards honors.
Q2) How does subscribing to an author on YouTube help the author?
A2) The number of subscribers is just another metric to measure popularity AND in terms of YT partnerships, Ad revenue I’m sure calculates potential eyeballs and calculates actual views with potential views. The more subscribers, the more potential revenue, the better the survival of that channel.
If you look at the YT home page, even though it is not obvious, there are two huge categories where metrics are very critical. Those two categories are VIDEOS and CHANNELS.
When you click on Videos, you can see all of the metric sub categories by clicking on the down arrow that says “more”.
When you click on the CHANNELS link at the top of the page, you’ll see two metrics; Most Viewed Channel and Most Subscribed Channel. This is where the number of subscriptions becomes a factor. Notice the sub categories of “This Week”, “This Month” and so on. Additionally, it is also broken down by type of video category such as Comedy, Education, Entertainment, etc.
Click on Channel, Entertainment, Most Subscribed, All Time. You’ll see HotForWords is listed on page 1 in the number 11 spot. She had dominated the #1 spot for a very long time.
The email notification is a convenience for those people who are not on here 24/7 (
really, I’m not addicted)
A lot of my friends use the HFW email notification to catch up on the latest videos.
PK
Marina awhile back said they all count; some take longer to add up, like you said. Play On…you tube is boss and is chief calculator…use the hand book
I do a lesson every day. The timing of the release of the lessons is related to where the previous lesson exists on the most viewed pages here: http://www.youtube.com/browse I have a video in slot #14, but that is a video from 2 days ago. My most recent video is on page 3 in the #52 spot. I will not release a video until that video hits page 2 in the #24 spot.
The majority of my video views come from my videos hitting the #1 most viewed page. If I release a video too soon, then the video prior to that will not be able to make it to the most viewed page and will experience a horrible, gruesome and very painful death!
This is all English to me — it makes sense. It is not some marketing gobbledygook, but rational. Thanks.
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Lesson request: Music and Dance: any relation? which came first?
Are the roots of music and dance related? Is one primary compared to the other? Does the root of music mean something that accompanies dancing? Or does the root of dance mean a form of response to music? There is music without dance, but has there ever been dance without music?
–Hs4Mm
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From the old western movies, there was a lot of dancing in the streets involving the use of pistols. I don’t suppose a percussion instrumental would qualify as music, would it?
Are acts of celebration, say at a football game, by jumping, cheering (and other vocalizations), clapping etc. a primitive form of dancing? How about Tarzan’s chest-beating and howl?
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Lesson suggestion: Referee vs. Umpire
I am not too interested in this, but there has been discussions on the web, one here that even cites the OED and another here in some forum.
–Hs4Mm
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The origin of the words “common sense” “Street smart” and “book smart”
As in “Sure he is BOOK SMART but he has no COMMON SENSE or STREET SMARTS.
Given that common sense to my experience tends to be one of the rarest commodities of the world in every country I have been, it seems like the origin would have to be political or religious!
We all beg for leaders; to step down and to step up.
roads scholar(Africa) 
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***Substitute Teacher Application***
Hello Marina,
Following MissCupcake, I’d like to submit my application for being substitute teacher, especially because I can write my own script. Here’s a draft as an example:
LossForWords presents another Fractured Philology lesson:
EUPHEMISM
Hello my dear students. Today we have another word request. Dickhead793, dickhead1422, and dickhead437, and at my website, hotformarina1375, hotformarina649, and hotformarina520, all wanted to know the origin of the word euphemism.
In the days before YouTube, people used to try to find polite ways of saying rude things, instead of vice-versa. The polite phrases used in this odd custom were called euphemisms. Which is an odd name for a polite phrase, since “you fem!” is an insult men hurl at each other to start a fight. What is going on here, guys? LossForWord must instigate.
The term euphemism dates back to the time of the Norman Conquest of England in 1066Norman Conquest of England in 1066. The invading French soldiers, looking for wives and mistresses, were appalled at the crude speech of the Saxon women, and attempted to teach them polite speech; for example, to say merde in place of shitte. These polite words and phrases to be used in place of rude Saxonisms became known as eufemmisms, a word compounded from the Greek eu meaning “good,” the French femme, meaning “woman,” and ism, a suffix meaning “pertaining to” – that is, speech used by “good” women when referring to rude things. In time, as Norman French and Anglo-Saxon blended to become English, the word eufemmism worked its way into common usage, with the meaning changed to mean polite expressions, whether used by women OR men.
Later, while compiling his Dictionary of the English Language, Dr. Samuel Johnson changed the spelling to “euphemism,” just to be quirky.
Of course, with the dawn of the Internet and YouTube, young people are now rejecting euphemisms and reverting to traditional Anglo-Saxonisms.
There you go – another mystery compounded by your trusty LossForWords.
For your homework – do you think women who talk dirty are HOT – or DISGUSTING? Please write your answers in the comments below. I’ll see you all in the distant future. Until Marina gets back, be good – class? CLASS?? [unseen class starts throwing pencils, erasers, paper airplanes, and apples at substitute teacher.]
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Of course, as a special treat for your women students, I’ll deliver the entire lesson while dressed in my spandex gym shorts and pumping iron.
Umm if your substituting can I get the origin of “acid reflux”, “Migraine” or “Discombobulated”?
The first words that come to mind with that request of course!
LOL, EO! Bravo!
Evan: you get pay raise from me and the female side(capri.corn) takes back all phenomenalistic comments not met by femure of third eye. good job
Homework: It all depends on where, when, and how…sometimes yes, sometimes no.
Watch out, My spitwads have been known to leave welts
gogogo !!
Of course euphemism came from Europe; just the EU tells you that.
Hey, it’s 12:47pm and no new lesson! Is Marina on “subbota”-cal?
OK, it’s an obscure joke,
but Marina will get it! 
Here are two words. The first is “bodacious” which seems to cross my mind each time I watch a more prolific philogist on youtube.
The second is “self immoliation” which comes to mind whenever I watch Governor Blagojevich have another press conference in my home state.
Hello Marina ! I suppose I would not be very contumelious if I would request you the origin of the word “King”. Curious word because the royal function when it is supported by a women is called “Queen”… Oh my dear Marina : God save the Queen !
Hi Marina were did the word rubber necking comfrom
Marina, has my Contumelious behavior gotten your hackels so raised your red in the face and need a nice cool down swim in a nice cool pool or canal in the carnal city of Las Vega?
How are things in Los Wages Steely Dan – Show Biz Kids
Very good song.
Hello repoman, you did well. Welcome to the group.
I would like to know about the origin of the word exuberant
I would like to request the word “Confused” or “to Confuse”.
Does it perhaps have any ties to the Chinese social philosopher Confucius?
I would like to know too
And why call him Confucius when his name is Kung Fu Tze ( 孔夫子) ?
and wiki says “Confucius – Not to be confused with confusion.”
meretricious might be construed as contumelious
Hi Marina,
I was wondering, where does the word discipline originate??
does it have any relation to the verb to follow. Like a person who is a disciple
follows an others teachings. Is there any relation whatsoever??
Thank you very much.
Jess
Don’t be contumelious? You sound like Bill O’Reilly! Thank God you don’t look like him…
Contumlious is a word installed from the Republic of LEXICON; mastered by the little brat of HotForWords. Trump is a word I heard at Greek restaurants, so what’s up with the trump
Capman911 post for clams and todays HOTFORWORDS Quote
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” – Albert Einstein 1879-1955
I like Einstein’s explanation of radio.
Felix The Cat – Feline Follies – 1919 looks like my place(not really)
Donald Trump now owns a chain of Greek restaurants? What doesn’t he own?!
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“You’re FIRED!”
That 1 hit the spot
I’m tired of your contumelious attitude. You have insulted me for the last time!
Force Choke…..
Very nice lesson Marina, this is one word that’s interesting yet unknown to me until now. Thanks.
The new salesgirls was contumelious to the warehouse workers until she learned that this was no way to get her orders pulled.
In other words, you can catch more flies with bee spit than acetic acid?
Right as Rain
Hi, what does kuwait means
Trick question. It’s your brother, q8.
Good answer, sir. Evan: are you related to any Owens’ married to anybody from Milwaukee? (long ago my mother had cousin living in state of Washington)
Oh, probably all us Welsh are descended from Beli Mawr, but no, I’m not closely related to any Owenses from Wisconsin.
Thanks…it did not hurt to ask, I think he was a police off
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Teacher —
You asked for “Contumelious” in a sentence… Here goes:
“His behavior towards his supervisor was contumelious, constantly belittling his suggestions, and openly mocking his procedures”
How’d I do??
You’re fired!
I don’t use that word, is the first time I heard of it
HOT WORD REQUEST… crematorium
Word Request….”Tom Foolery”
My good friend Yuliya has fun making contumelious remarks regarding my receding hairline!!! It would be quite and insult to me if I did not lover her so.
Юлия
I fill my blog with contumelious content when i’m very angry
I like the way Marina says hot , its like “hahht”
I’m mostly calm and cool not contumelious.
Marina,
What? “Contumelious”?? Never heard of it! Where do you find these? I may not be a native speaker but just like you I started learning when my parents decided to have English taught to us kids when I was 5. You may be right as you mentioned in the article that English is a complicated language but when it comes to grammar I don’t think so – your Russian or my German, much more difficult! Now, anunciation and pronunciation, that’s another story…George Bernhard Shaw stated something to that effect. Various regions of the world make a difference as well. For me, Flexner & Wentworth’s Dictionary of the American Slang has helped. You’re certainly right that the more languages any of us learn the better, especially now, in this shrinking world.
What part of the world do you “shrink” from?
What’s going on there? What is the weather like now?
It is amazing that we can talk to people all over the world, yet (most of us) know so little about each other’s home towns. It would be nice if we could have a few sentences and maybe a link to an important place there, even their dog or cat. Perhaps Marina could provide a separate blog with unlimited edit (so we could keep things updated) where each of us could store a comment about where we are from. You know, a picture of Capt. Jack’s barnacle collection, SmokeyBear’s prized set of spatulas, etc.
Could you please do a lingerie special in modest lingerie on the word lingerie? I think alot of your students would like that, THANKS!
Hello duhastmich,
Let me guess, you like Rammstein?
she did some videos in a swimsuit once
search for hawaiian words and you’ll see them
Many people may consider me to be contumelious. Since I am a very negative person.
Are you positive about that?
maybe these word requests will fit your new lesson plan?
PHANTASMAGORIA
MISANTHROPIC
EXTEMPORANEOUS
CIRUMLOCUTION
BACCHANALIAN
ANTHROPOMORPHIC
HYPOTHETICAL
VERISIMILITUDE
So. Do you think you can find out about one or two for me.
Thanks.
I vote for the one that’s mispelled.
Contumelious was wonderful. I have a request for a word that has a very honorable etymology, but it has a bad reputation today and that word is “cunt”. I hope you will be brave and include it in your next hot word of the week : )
I think we should limit ourselves to requests for words that may be used in polite company. After all, lessons are M’s face to the world and they may be heard and seen by audiences of all kinds anywhere in the world.
you’re being very presumptuous and obviously are ignorant about the history of the word.
Thank you.
Shamelesshussy, after you’ve been here awhile, you will probably understand that CampKohler often says things facetiously. He would probably be delighted to see a lesson on your word request.
It’s true, I tell you.
You got that right (the last sentence).
lol, I’m sorry to have gotten so… erm “testy” about it Camp : ) but so I hate the idea of YouTube turning the web into an intellectual ghetto.
I’m hot “about” words lol.
thx Evan : )
Plain vanilla
You could always start a forum if “cunt” is really a word you want to investigate. If you had only asked for “fuck”, there’s already a video for that.
I’ve already investigated the word cunt and it has a marvelous etymology. I’ll leave the F word forum to you.
I’m already too busy, but thanks
Gay Word Forum
I could set the “cunt” word forum up for you!
I did it for the “gay” word people
Check it out
Hey welcome to HTW shamelesshussy!
When I was in Australia I was called a cunt. They told me is was an cool name to have. Later on I learned from a former girl friend that lived in Australia said that I was fooled that this was a good comment and that it meant what I thought it meant. I will second your request for the word ‘cunt’…. with honors to you for such a requested.
ty Captain Jack you’re a gentleman and a scholar : )
I did the “c” word on Maxim radio and you are correct, it has a funny origin!
I didn’t do it on YouTube as they are really cracking down on language and I got flagged when I did snafu, after explaining what it stood for.. even though others use those words all the time!
Funny??? Cuniform? Origins of the universe. Hunh really…
The word was replaced with “vagina” at the rise of male centric religions. at that time vagina was a well known term for a scabbard a “sheath for a man’s sword.”
I am unaware of your theory of it related to the origins of the universe. Please tell me more!!
My research only shows it coming from the Middle English cunte which in turn came from the Old Norse kuntal… but that there is actually an earlier reference to the word in the London Street name Gropecuntelane from around 1230 in London. Street names were often named after the wares offered for sale on them.. so you can guess what Gropecuntelane offered for sale on its street.
Not much else is know about the origin the word going further back. Here is an interesting piece on the word: http://wapedia.mobi/en/Cunt
I’d love to hear your theory.
Ty so much for your interest Marina.
I did a lot of work on this word 10 yrs ago for a play I created – this was before the internet, when it was possible for a person not to think they knew everything by checking Wikipedia lol
This site captures a lot of what I discovered, missing some things but then there is also much more:
http://tinyurl.com/axxj6d
As I said (above) I get a bit hot “about” words, I admire your work Marina and I’m sickened to think of YouTube dumbing down your potential for scholarly feminist study – while being quite happy to feature your other fabulous… erm, assets.
xo
Deb
Pedantic Karl,
I’m a publicist so have used my skills to find quite a few contact points for YouTube
CEO Chad Hurley
Twitter account : http://twitter.com/youtube
Blog: http://www.youtube.com/blog
(you can click at the bottom and comment as others have on this very issue)
Sarah P editor@youtube.com
Ramya R agentchange@youtube.com
YouTube [Headquarters]
71 E. 3rd Ave.
San Mateo, CA 94401 (Map)
Phone: 650-343-2960
Fax: 650-343-2983
YouTube, LLC
901 Cherry Ave.
San Bruno, CA 94066
USA
Phone: +1 650-253-0000
Fax: +1 650-253-0001
It’s interesting that at this more detailed “contact us” page the link on it for reporting inappropriate content is down:
http://www.youtube.com/t/contact_us
Really? I think it’s time for I to have a word with them. Are they worth a $400 dollar air ticket?
when asked to explain ’snafu’ I reply ’situation normal – all fouled up’ there are ways to circumvent the ai filters. I am sure you’re clever enough to do so.
Fianchetto, I chose to do the ORIGINAL origin of the word, and it came from Situation Normal All Fucked Up. I wanted to offer a pure, uncensored origin of the word, since I hear other major partners using the word fuck all day long in their videos. The second my video was uploaded, it was flagged and the YouTube people told me I was not allowed to use the word. I removed the video and beeped out the word (I wasn’t able to re-shoot it since it was already done) and re-uploaded it.
Later, at a meeting at YouTube, they couldn’t understand why I was singled out.. but then someone thought that perhaps I had the word spelled out in the subtitles, which I don’t think I did.. but at that point, I felt it not worth the aggravation.
Marina, you have a choice (as we all do) when it comes to the use of language. Some language is acceptable to the masses and some is not. It does not matter a whit whether this is logical or even right; unless you are able to sway the minds of the masses (and of course you can’t), it is the way it is. The choice is whether you wish to limit your audience and cater only to those who you will not offend or broaden your appeal by observing decorum.
Occasionally famous people will “drop the F bomb” on TV or innocently let slip a vulgarity. There is a lot of talk about it, but then it dies away. But I have never seen anyone in the public eye consistently violate proprieties simply because that is their personal philosophy and the public be damned. It would be interesting if that happened, so that we could see the result of crossing the line. Maybe their publicist, manager or whatever calls them up and whispers into their shell-like ear, “Listen you moron, are you trying to ruin us? You do something like that again and I’ll drop you like a hot potato.” I guess most make the decision that it is in their best economic interest to behave, because, as I said earlier, such transgressions seem transitory.
Obviously, YT has finds it in their best econmomic interest to police their contributors so as to not find, say, parents forbidding their children from ever visiting the site. They certainly don’t want to be on the banned lists of any ‘Net-nanny software. So they have made their choice.
Everybody has the freedom (except in the broadcast media) to use the kind of language they want to use. However, those who hear it also get to vote with their wallets (or mice nowadays) and there lies the rub (to coin a phrase). “You pays your money and takes your choice” for the customer is “You takes your choice and see what you’re paid” for the seller.
According to this there are 18,635 more popular words that could be discussed.
Hello Marina,
Yes, you did have the word “fuck” spelled out in the subtitle. I’d be happy to post a screen shot.
I have the original uncensored SNAFU video. Wasn’t I the quick one
On a related note, flagging of videos:
Your “Bad Cop” video has been flagged (age restricted) for about two weeks now. The reason I know this precisely is because I posted that video on the HFW YT Music & Videos forum and it was not flagged then.
The “Bad Cop” video is one of the great classic HFW videos with very closeup camera work and it is an excellent video.
YT has changed their contact pages where I have not been able to send them a message regarding flagged videos.
In the YT Help section, as I read it, it says, paraphrasing in my own words; if a video is flagged, and then subsequently reviewed by YT, it will stay flagged and not get un-flagged even if for age restriction.
I’m highly disappointed in YT’s inability to challenge flagged videos and I will be contacting them via snail mail as they have made it impossible to message them in a meaningful way.
Marina’s videos videos don’t even come close to needing to be flagged as I just noticed now videos of highly sexually oriented acts and language that have been there since Nov’08 and have not been flagged. WTF is up with that?
I’m writing to YT now and if anyone knows an e-contact page, let me know.
I agree completely with your choice to use appropriately the word in a purely educational fashion, was merely suggesting a ‘work-around’, also agree that it shouldn’t have been flagged, either. I bet those that offer medical- or relationship-related vlogs probably hit the same ‘brick walls of hypersensitivity’. I imagine you can truely empathise with the poor fly bashing his little head against the window-pane, just trying to get past that weird ‘force field’ in its path. God bless you, and please keep up the good work!
{…wondering if there’s a word for abundance of metaphors, and how many I can use in a work – sounds like a new forum game in the making
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They don’t know why you where singled out? That’s just preposterous. How could they say it’s not allowed and yet say they couldn’t understand why you were singled out? Unless your referring to a different ‘they’. It appears they don’t have a very good grasp on censorship policies. Your probably right it’s not worth the aggravation. It’s probably best to conform. Yet this issue will come up again. On of the things that attracted me to your lesson is that you did the word that know other teacher would even touch.
I’m not sure I’m putting my comments in correctly so please excuse me while I reiterate that
I have to take exception with the statement (below)
“I have never seen anyone in the public eye consistently violate proprieties simply because that is their personal philosophy and the public be damned. It would be interesting if that happened, so that we could see the result of crossing the line.”
that, CampKohler my friend, is what great scholars, artists and people with integrity (street cred) do for a living. you will see it evidenced in the Theatre, Cinema, Dance, Painting, Poetry, in great Literature, all of the arts – and yes even on the internet.
and in response to Marina,
with all love and respect, for artists it’s always worth the “aggravation”. to disrupt is the whole point – that’s what creates growth and promotes learning and a deeper understanding/conversation. and quite often the controversy is also good box office lol, as I’ve found with my own company.
Ahhhh, jeeze… You are talking about pushing the envelope of the arts and I am talking about public vulgarity. Anyway, I have speakened my peace: I believe Marina is better off taking the high road and eschewing vulgarity, even if it is in scholarly pursuit.
Alright, alright, color me fuddy-duddy. I don’t care.
Dear Marina,
I guess this is a best a place as any to write this though I doubt you will have time to read it. My own preference is that you do not do a video on these sorts of words because I think half your viewers will have ungentlemanly thoughts about you during your lesson. If I were your father, I probably would wish you’d choose other words. You are a sexy woman no doubt and most of the guys and probably some of the girls watch you with an interest in the physical aspects of your video equal to the intellectual. Maybe I am too sensitive in that regard, but I would prefer that you not choose words that tip that balance in favor of the physical.
Thank you again for your insightful analysis of words and phrases.
Louie
Going back to what you said about Gropecunt lane. There wasn’t just one in London. There were many gropecunt lanes. (I have a book about rude place names in the UK)
I think that cunt would have had to have been around about 10-150 years before 123q0 because, although the trades that happened in those streets could sometimes effect what they were called, someone couldn’t just call a road Gropecunt Lane. That would have made things very confusing. Lets say the word cunt had never been made, I called a street Gropekakaka lane, people would think “WTF is a kakaka?” So I reckon that for people to understand it was for…. *ehhem* groping cunts
they would have had to know what a cunt was in the first place. Also there was a Gropecunt Lane in Shrewsbury, but it was a Tudor village, a bit odd seeing as Tudors HATED swearing & sex 
Looking at my book, I can see that there are no place names that come from abroad.
BUT In medi-evil Paris there was a road called
Rue Grattecon
(scratchcunt street)
no joke.these were also prostitute streets)
(this was also near unshaved cunt street and whores slit street
Now if I am right the medi-evil period was before 1230 wasn’t it?
So if the word was french it would explain why it was gropecuntelane. The french miss off the end letter usually…
So I think it could be french
(I know it takes many twists and turns. I was writing down my findings as I found them.) Wow.. that shaved 3 hours off my day!
Alors, Shamelesshussy,
Your requested word has a French cognate, le coun, the subject of a bilingual pun in Shakespeare’s King Henry V, Act IV, Scene IV. In this exchange, the lady-in-waiting Alice is teaching English to Princess Katharine of France:
KATHARINE
Ainsi dis-je; de elbow, de nick, et de sin. Comment
appelez-vous le pied et la robe?
ALICE
De foot, madame; et de coun.
KATHARINE
De foot et de coun! O Seigneur Dieu! ce sont mots
de son mauvais, corruptible, gros, et impudique, et
non pour les dames d’honneur d’user: je ne voudrais
prononcer ces mots devant les seigneurs de France
pour tout le monde. Foh! le foot et le coun!
merci Evan
and I have to take exception with the statement above
“I have never seen anyone in the public eye consistently violate proprieties simply because that is their personal philosophy and the public be damned. It would be interesting if that happened, so that we could see the result of crossing the line.”
that, CampKohler my friend, is what great scholars, artists and people with integrity (street cred) do for a living. you will see it evidenced in the Theatre, Cinema, Dance, Painting, Poetry, in great Literature, all of the arts – and yes even on the internet.
and in response to Marina, with all love and respect, for artists it’s always worth the “aggravation”. to disrupt is the whole point – that’s what creates growth and promotes learning and a deeper understanding/conversation.
Hey, s.h., just noticed where you’re from! I’m right across the border from you in Ferndale, just north of Bellingham on I-5!
it’s a wee small world
@ shamelesshussy, variations on this discussion periodically occur on hfw. this is a link to a discussion about the acceptable use of language and grammar rules. it seems that people on hfw cannot approach language objectively, independent of their cultural norms. i agree with your position that, “…that’s what creates growth and promotes learning and a deeper understanding/conversation” very well said.
Diatribe, pejorative, ad-hominem … far more plump/juicy/versatile ten-cent rip/slam category words than contumely/contumelious imho. I have tripped over “contumely” in previous travels through literature but never saw an actual real live contumelious in the wild heretofore, hence learned something today. Employed incorrectly fancy words can look like a Rolls Royce hood ornament crazy glued onto a rusted out 1969 VW beetle, or a 3 year old kid in a tuxedo : jarringly discordant. (enuf 10 centers for now im running out of pocket change)
Have you seen the movie Andromeda strain? It’s one of my favorite old sci fi movies.
I’ve never seen that movie all the way through for some reason. I start watching it and the next thing I know is that I am flopping around on the floor like a fish out of water and scattering the popcorn all over the place. Strange…
Oh yes…. in fact “andromedastrain” is as we speak on the verge of becoming a “multi-millionaire” running computational molecular dynamics sims over on folding@home
I first saw the movie in early 70s; was too young (and/or not precocious enough) to really understand it but the concept stayed rattling around in my imagination over the years. An intelligent/diabolical “disributed brain” virus would have been more intriguing; as I recall this one was quite dumb (yet deadly) which was a bit of a disappointment to me. I remember some others from back then such as 2001:A Space Odyssey (who could not remember Thus Spake Zarathustra http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWnmCu3U09w
and Fantastic Voyage.
how useful is this you-tube thing
I think galaxies (I prefer spirals) and nebula (Orion in particular) are gorgeous… one of the most spectacular/mind boggling sights to behold in all of nature.
Is it my imagination, or have all the replies gone back to being small font compared to the original post? (I don’t know why anyone would want that unless they think for some reason that replies should be hard to read.)
I also noticed this evening that the # at the bottom of each forum post no longer reveals the link to the post, so that has stopped working.
Another not-seen-before weirdness tonight is an intermittant tendency for a message to be turned into gobbledegook by overwriting itself when you return to this site after having switched tabs in IE7 to another site; it’s not all the comments in a lesson, but just one or two. It straightens itself out and displays text properly after a few seconds, so it is not “permanent,” requiring a restart to fix it. It happens both in HFW and the forum (different S/W), so is it a browser problem and what is it due to?
It may not just be one or two msgs, but an entire blog; I think it only affects multi-line msgs, so it just looks like a few msgs when it happens.
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Perhaps the sizing of the fonts in the replies was what Marina was trying to recall in her post here.
I suspect changes have been made because now the main page for the HFW site looks beautiful — all components well proportioned and in their place — when rendered in IE6, most of the time.
If someone enters a comment that starts with a long html tag then the “Recent Comments” column trys to show the whole line and ends up getting too wide and getting pushed to the bottom (rather than remaining at the right).
The issue of the right columns getting moved to the bottom when the comment-entry-text-box was visible is not present any more.
The main column in the lesson for the 45 character word is wider than usual and so the right columns on that page end up at the bottom.
I think the site is getting better.
–Hs4Mm
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The forum # (link to a comment) works OK this morning, so either it has been fixed or whatever stopped it for me went away. I can’t tell which.
Ditto for the funny display problem.
Thank you Marina and Happy New Year. I will try not to be Contumelious.
Hi,
Since I live in Ohio, I’d love to learn where the word SNOW comes from. Cause we sure do have plenty of it.
Love your videos.
Thanks.
HughJardon
It comes from Canada.
Yessir!
But your wheelies seem like lame stuff to me!
Speaking of wheelies… I just made a new bike shirt
I requested the word contumacious months ago, and I assume this has the same origin as Contumelious. I have actually used this word many times in letters to my opponents.
As an attorney, I am often exposed to opposing counsel who are rather contumacious when arguing in court.
During the election cycle, I also requested the origin of the word pander and wondered what this has to do with a “panda” bear. Never got a reply.
Happy New Year Marina!
Should anybody need some help… there are going to be HOTFORWORDS ANONYMOUS meetings for those who find their addiction interfering with their jobs, family and such. First you will have to admit that you are a hotforwordaholic. The other 11 steps of the 12 step program…
The other eleven steps are:
11. Trying to watch the lessons with your eyes averted.
10. Admitting that you can’t avert your eyes.
9. Watching the lessons with one eye closed.
8. Finding yourself with both eyes wide open.
7. Accusing others of creating the tongue trails on your monitor screen.
6. Admitting that you can’t remember 90% of the stuff taught in the lessons.
5. Trying to remember a time when your favorite dog was something other than the little white fluffy ones.
4. Using a micrometer to track the growth of the plants on M’s nightstand, but NOT to meaure size of other things.
3. Practicing being unaffected by M’s smile.
2. Forcing out of your mind the hope that M will need to lean forward and adjust the controls on her camcorder.
1. Resisting the urge to log in to HFW.
0. Setting “remember me” log-in option and putting HFW in tab group automatically opened on startup.
-1. “Accidentally forgetting” to remove HFW from tab group, or closing the tab when it does open.
-3. “Oh, I’ll just play the Forum Games, instead. No harm in that. Just some nice (relatively) clean fun with me mates.”
-4. Bloody Hell! Marina just ‘tweeted’ new video.
-5. DAMN! Che Volay, James and Capman911 beat me to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd post on the new vid. FTL!
-6. Oh, well 4th not too shabby.
-7. Might as well watch the vid, since I’m already here.
-8. Obligated to do the Homework, too.
-9. That was hilarious, ChaCha! Here’s my clever, witty reply!
-10. Post a derogatory reply to the user who just requested the etymology of ‘fuck -is it an acronym?’
-11. Watch Capman, CJ and the other TA’s attempt to extinguish the ensuing flame war, resulting only in exacerbation of the whole thing.
-12. Slip quietly and unnoticed back over to the Forum games…
We love you, Marina.
very good! keep on “hotforwording”
Recycle-Logical-1:
You are correct that some of us have a problem, but there’s argument about the nature of the problem. Maybe our jobs, family, and such are interfering with our HFW addiction! Here are some ideas:
– Dead end job? Maybe it’s time for a career change! Getting caught with HFW at work is a good way of getting the ball rolling!
– Dysfunctional relationship? If your wife is homely, dull, and contumelious, you may find a relationship with HFW and the excellent company of her retinue of wits to be far more rewarding companionship!
I’m sure you get the drift.
Excuse me, but I have to chase away my daughter, who’s trying to distract me…
Yes we must have priorities… one of them (for me) is an aversion to TV… and an attraction to communication.
But seriously, folks, Recycle-Logical-1 does have a point; there have been a few people on these pages who are obviously obsessed.
Pedantickarl, what would you say to starting a forum on HFW addiction? I could be a valuable resource person, having been through about every phase of the syndrome except for actual recovery.
Привет марина, у меня идея для слово: Слав
Вы русская! И мне кажется что происхождение слова никто не знает. Как вы думаете?
П.С. Я вас люблю!!!
Dear Fry,
I have come to the conclusion that you’re either a Klingon or a Russky.
Prove me wrong!
Yours truly,
Neuroway!
You can tell the Russians vs. those who just have a Cyrillic keyboard. The Russians are the ones who get the genders and case endings right!
“fri” is also obviously a gentleman, having addressed Marina with the polite form “вы” instead of the familiar form “ты”.
BTW, anyone know what happened to “razorstwincam”? He promised to flame me and kick my butt if I ever replied to any more Russian comments. Some people walk off in a huff just when things get interesting! (Reminds me of my ex-wife!)
Hello fri,
Yes, the word “slav” is a good request for the origin of a word.
It has been requested many times before. I requested that word back in July or Aug last year and others have requested it also.
Slovo: Slav
How fitting — since we’re “slavishly” addicted to HFW!
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HFW Sexy Geek Contest Alert!
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Marina has now broken out of the 3000 votes difference area.
She is now in the 2000 votes difference area.
Marina is now 2999 votes away from first place.
I’ll be posting my graph on the Sexy Geek page in about 30 min.
Great voting guys and gals!!!
You can view my latest voting graph here.
I want to have your baby! Ok that not right!
After a few beers I get into a loving mood. Im a loving drinker. sorry guy Im not a jacka**. I’m going to change my liink to match yours PK. Yo bro! I love ya.! *hick* btw I know I misss speeeled the word ‘link’. I’ve had tooooomuch to drrrink. LOL LOOL hhehehehe’. Nevery been drunk on a website. sorry if i offened any one. Oh and Im not going to use my spell checker.. heheheh…
And i knnow you alll wish youcan see me on a web cam hu? NOT! Lots of love to pagedoll, billyb, capman911, melikea, pt, jamesy, chev, thught on tomato, chemical, recyle, another mail man, Fianchodio, stick, ryry, stfan, origifan, nerowaths, mtvmario, campman,skoke bomb, bob, evan, jindayk, prospero81111111111, seesixcm6661218 tacko bell, ranhead , leonord, Marina, cufan221, animantalibopib, mello, popaaaazzzza, smokeim berry, and nany 1 that I missed.. Love ya all and any fans that I missed. Sorry I coun’t mail you a cheep beer. If I missed you on this list.. all who comment on this page you are included on my list.
Can anyone tell me what the lesson was about?
Luv you too man!!!!
Sorry I missed you on the list RanHead! I’m off duty so I have to drink for I could be another 6 months before I can drink again.
USCG has a lower minimum than most states. It’s .04 for all officers.
An old friend is apart of the Canadian Navy based in Esquimalt, British Columbia. He invited us on board while they were docked in Vancouver. We went to the “booze-can” down below and got hammered. 25 cents for a shot of hard liquor and 50 cents for a beer.(booze has tax-free status on Cdn. ships) From that visit, I could really see where the old expression “drunken sailor” comes from.
I am on the list …. that’s why I replied
After a second look of what I wrote I realized that I’m such a dork.
You are on the list! I guess that’s what I get when I drink and type. 
Nay not a dork, we all need to unwind from time to time. I responded because I felt a bit special for making the list. Thanks Cap!
Sounds like ‘cabin fever’ to me
Yeah, I guess it’s a bit of that. Winter time up here keeps me in doors. I sworn to myself that I was going south before the winter.
Right back at ya big guy!
WASSUP!
WWWWAAAAASSSSSSUUUUUPPPPP!
See, tryant? We all have our moments!
Hey, when is the date when the votes get finalized to determine the winner?
I don’t think there is an end date.
Hello animalntaz,
This is not a contest in the traditional sense. It essentially is an open ended poll that will probably never end. In fact, the 2007 Sexy Geek contest page is still available for voting.
For this contest, there was a deadline which ended Dec 31 which was a deadline for the purpose of Wired Magazine to publish the standing of their poll at that time. For us, the voting continues until Marina gets into first position.
Read my commentary here.
Thank you for your votes and thank you for reminding us to down vote Phil or whoever is in front of Marina.
Hot Word Request: Intumescent
Homework: Contumelious people piss me off
Hey! Cool English… sweet! Congratulations
Hey Marina,
I just was wondering the origin of the word Honorificabilitudinitatibus
Dear HotForWords,
I’m glad people are not Contumelious around here.
Your Student,
ThoughtOnFire
Yah… me too!
want peace in my life, glad if you do too. cool fingernail polish, what’s the color? bing cherry?
Hi Marina -
Can you tell me the meaning/origin of the word ’stentorious?’
Thanks. Love your site.
I love her site too!
Can you please tell me the orgin of the word Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/01/05/pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis/
Hey ryry14, Marina just did that video. So here is the link to it. Enjoy.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/01/05/pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis/
So… how did you like the lesson?
Hey, I just tried to do the up/down vote tango thing for Marina, and the site’s not letting me. Cleared everything, and still no go. Will someone who knows something about tech stuff check this out and respond? Referring to Sexy Geek Contest, of course.
Anybody help, please?
Thanks.
“The contumelious waiter disparaged his customers before quitting his job.”…
do i win?
actually, i find the whole concept of requiring the use of this term contumelious…
I quit being a waiter after a few years because I was getting tired of always being nice and polite… I was definitely on the verge of becoming contumelious.
Oh I would never ever use that word when I’m around the general public or any words that are not that commonly known in masses vocabulary. No way, no how! Why, you ask? Well it would be contumelious of me to use that or other words around people that didn’t know the meaning of the word. In fact people have let me know that it was a form of insult to their intelligence level. I even try to hide my intelligence for not to be looked down upon. I sometimes think of my intelligence as a disability.
I only use word like that around my close friends that use like words. My best friend in the Navy and I would use many of those words. Gone are those days. I’ve forgotten many of those words I used to use. If you don’t use them you forget them. I dream of the day I could use larger words to get my thoughts across. I hate having to use long sentences to get a point across that could be covered in one or two words. I think that dream is long gone for there is something taking over the world that will diminish the use of these words. I can’t say what they are, for people would think it would be very contumelious of me. Why do I feel completely naked right now?
Closes eyes so to see a nude male not. Hmmmmmm.Dear Capt’n,
Men are not sexy. Men will never be sexy. I just wonder when will humanity finally come to realize that men are not sexy. You don’t need to strip in front of us. I was in the navy too. And I can tell you that I never had to use the word comtumus, contumeous.. Well, whatever.. I never knew that word even existed before today, Jan 09, 2009. Honest.
Here are some arab wheelies on a Jean Michel Jarre background. Enjoy.
Neuroway, I don’t care if you think men are sexy or not. When women love to pinch my butt, that’s all I need to know.
I also didn’t really mean physical nudity. I failed to get my point across. Words have once again failed me. Maybe it’s my lack of vocabulary that has failed me. My lost for words will be the death of me. 
so so we must continue down voting phil
I get what your saying. Thanks for the honest though!
“Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning.”
Answer: NO! We Americans don’t give a rats ass about our children’s educations.
Is our children learning? That’s rich!
That’s Bush!
Thanks Chemikal. It means a lot.
Hello Marina, I would like to know the origin of the word “Spanish.” and why its is considered a lanuguage and where it came from and it would be great for looking to your response.
A quick review of American 4th grade World Geography
French = France
English = England
Spanish = Spain
Italian = Italy
Polish = Poland
German = Germany
Russian = Russia
Porteguese = Portugal
etc.
Kazakhstanlish or Kazakhstanuese… hmmm?
Wales = Cymru
Ireland = Eire
Spain = Espana
Germany = Deutschland
Finland = Suomi
Hungary = Magyarország
Greece = Hellas
Switzerland = Helvetia
etc.
Kid, pay attention! We answered this one for you a couple of weeks ago!
Mwuahahahaa! Contumalous.. Contamulious.. How the heck are we gonna be able to blow some steam on this one Teacher? You’ve got nothing better than that to tease your students today?
I’m outta here. Need a couple of drinks and I’m off on my way to blow steam on some less contamulous stuff tonight. Hey, thanks runawayscott for this expression! I like it!
Rally ho! Hello Marina! I have a question for you: what are the origins of the words doo wap? I asked a question on my myspace page about romantic songs, and a doo wap song was the first one to pop into my head. Odd, no? Oh! The song was In the Still of the Night, by the way. Thanks! More… later. Waffo!
It’s doo wop, which is a common nonsense sound sung in those songs. Such sounds never have a meaning, else everyone would be asking why they are using the word in the song.
Hello Marina – HotForWords
I Was Wondering about the origin of “Tennis”
Help me Please I Love the Tennis
I think she covered this one. But it comes from “tenez!” meaning “have it!” the original French phrase for “Serving!”
By the way, the term “love” in tennis scores comes from French slang “l’oeuf”, “the egg,” meaning “zero.”
Oh yeah, by the way, I’m starign at Marina’s calendar and she looks absolutely stunning.
Gawd, yeah, Scott, just got mine in the mail, I hear ya!
HELLO MY DEAR TEACHER!
I was wondering, what is the origin of the word CHANCE, since I`ve seen it both in English and spanish.
thank you!
Happy new year from Colombia
Since you did the word BUXOM, I would like to request the word SVELTE.
My Trusty HotForWords-
Word Request:
Aardvark
What is the origin of this word?
<3
nickg001
HotforWords i was wondering where the origin of the phrase “scantily clad” came from?
Thanks, Sinycol
Hi!
I was wondering, what is the origin of the word “water”?
Thank you!
Bluematthew97
I have a word request.
callipygous
Where did this word come from?
Where did the term ‘Boy toy’ come from?
Thank you Teacher…
What is the origen of the word pistol.
I did know it, but forgot it over the years.
Word request: bow
Inspired by the gun video, I thought of another weapon: the bow. Where does that come from, and how did it acquire all those meanings? You have a bow that shoots arrows, like a longbow or a crossbow, you have a bow as a verb describing movement, to bow before you, and you have a bow tie. And there’s probably a link to the elbow, too.
Word request: Gumption
Dear I wish you a very Happy Russian Christmas!
Louie
Homework: Once I met a government service worker who wasn’t contumelious at the DMV! ONCE.
LOVING!! the new ’spice’ you’re adding to the site – the new fora, the ‘I Like’ page, the resurrection of the GTW Game, and this HWOTW – all totally ROCK! Thanks!
Thanks also for introducing me to the twitter thing – I am having fun there, too – meeting new ppl, fellow HFW students, etc. Keep up the great work!
Homework: I knew a guy who was contumelious towards the customers at a gas station. He ended up getting fired.
“You contumelious son of a cur!”
Sorry that just came to mind.
Dr. House is contemelious toward Drs. Forman, Chase and Cameron.
I love that show
Very
show 
George Bush is contumelious toward America.
With great ruffels and flourishes we will contumeliously flush him and his conumelious administration down the porcelain princess.
I hope I wasn’t too contumrlious.
No in his case I don’t think you can be.
At least he stood up for the innocent unborn. Our princely president-elect rises with the dawn of a new era of moral relativism.
That administration kept your punk ass safe from another 911-type attack for the last seven and a half years while your apparent buddy Barney Frank(D-Ma), from his finance comittee chairman seat, tried to boost his “friend’s” cred, who was head of Fannie Mae, by claiming only weeks before the collapse of the housing lending industry that Fannie Mae and Freedie Mac were doing just great.
Sorry, obviously meant “Freddie”. I get steamed and that stuff happens.
Amen brother crab.
Apart from my suspicions that some people are treating that contest like it is a joke, by voting for somebody who isn’t sexy… I think I know what happened.
Remember when Marina recently mentioned in a video that her name was submitted OVER 1,000 TIMES in the Sexiest Geek Contest? I think other people who logged on to vote hated seeing the long list of Marina entries, that they clicked away on negative votes until they got tired of it. (Some would submit angry entries asking, “Who the hell is Marina?”)
Then that website probably thought it to be best to tally up all the “+” and “-” votes into one entry, since there were so many. And that is probably why the negative votes are so high.
So if that were true… then it would be the fault of many of Marina’s FANS for posting so many entries! You all thought it would give her more attention. But your plan backfired, didn’t it!?
FOR THE 1,000+ WHO SUBMITTED… YOU OWE IT TO HER TO VOTE EVERYDAY!
Yes, but if they left the 1000 submissions up there and consolidated them at the end of the contest, we could vote for her 1000 times a day.
How can i vote everyday??
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You can vote once a day on both pages for a total of TWICE per day ….. Don’t forget however when you vote Marina ‘up’ to also vote Phil ‘down’ each time …..
Clear your cache and cookies each time …..
Regular page
“Top” page
Hello popzzz, your assessment of voting twice per day is not correct.
What you are seeing on the page is a cookie increment count. Whether or not the server registers that cookie count depends if you are eligible to vote; i.e. after 24 hrs.
How will you know if the new count was registered as a vote? After you vote, REFRESH your page. If the vote stays the same, it was registered. If the vote goes back one count, then you saw a cookie count which was not registered.
Prove it to yourself. Vote on each page as you suggested.
Then, refresh one of the pages. You will see the true votes.
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Then who said it? I thought it was you yourself that said we could indeed vote on both pages??? (twice per day)
If you “Clear your cache and cookies each time” there can’t be any “cookie count” …..
Hi popzzz,
I never said voting on both pages twice per day.
It may have been Mike or someone else.
Mike had originally advocated multiple votes (several videos ago), but I demonstrated that it was not possible due to the IP being at least the key determiner for when a vote is registered very 24 hrs.
I have always advocated visiting the single, “broken out of frame page” which shows the contestants in sorted by votes order.
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O well …..
Everyone vote then!!!
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It’s not the Marina camp’s fault but Phil’s little idiot minions voting EVERYONE ‘down’.
Look at the lesser voted people with like 5 ‘up’ votes and 2849 ‘down’ votes …..
Hello animalntaz,
I respectfully disagree with your assessment that it is the fault of the multiple submissions.
First, when Marina first brought the contest to our attention, Marina was already heavily down voted and Phil was already about 10,000 UP votes ahead of Marina.
Second, there is no way Marina would ever catch up in UP votes had it not been for the multiple entries, unless 10,000 Marina fans voted. Where are they? The multiple entries did the trick.
Third, obviously Marina would get more down votes also, but it is all about percentages. Who was more vigorous in the down voting. We were not until I mentioned it back on Dec 31.
In fact, as of today, Phil’s percentage of down votes is 21% where Marina’s down votes percentage is 35%. At one time, Phil’s down percentage was only 17%. What that means is that we were not as aggressive in down voting Phil. I also happen to a know a few other things about the other side which I won’t say publicly. Someone has already alluded to it here on this page in one of the comments.
Study my graphs and commentary on the Sexy Geek contest page.
Now the good news:
Thank you to all of the dedicated Marina fans who:
1. caused Marina’s up votes to exceed Phil’s
2. Have increased the down voting to accelerate Marina’s win.
3. Continue to vote for Marina.
Please continue to vote for Marina, and also down vote the person ahead of her, which happens to be Phil.
I’m not picking on Phil. I like Phil and I like him so much that I would like to see him in second place.
Aw Marina, you’re so good with words, but I really want to hear you sing, “Moon River” à la Audrey Hepburn!
I was wondering were the word extreme came from?
Concerning the “Ponzi scheme” clip, is there some confusion over the word “scheme” versus “scam”? Do they have the same origin?
Homework:
“I learned Contumelious today!” Did I do good?
Can I getz an Ay? … pwiz
Second attempt:
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She asked me “What does she have and I don’t?”, so I responded “Dear, it’s not like that, compared to you, she’s not merely as contumelious!”. (then we kissed and made up
How about now, can I get an A?(or a B maybe?) Grade my homework, so I know how I’m doing.
Thanks for teaching me yet another new word, and looking your best in the process!
Chemikal, there’s an American saying: “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit!”
“…compared to you, she’s not merely as contumelious!” deserves an A+ in the latter category!
Evan, I like that saying!
So she’s attracted to my bullshit now? Ha, great!
But wait, if I’m not brilliant, then what am I… obscure?
Don’t answer that
Hi Chemikal,
Back to the playlist I tried to send you, you can click “Evan Owen” above (which links to my YouTube account), then click “playlists,” and scroll down to “Numa Numa,” which has a dozen or so versions of Dragostea din Tei. My daughters showed me the original video several months ago and challenged me to guess the language. I got thrown off by the word “haiduk” (same in Bulgarian) but then couldn’t figure out why the rest of it sounded like Italian.
Glad you didn’t say Spanish when you heard “Picasso”!
New link worked fine, ty.
Hey Evan! Dragostea din Tei, eh?
You’ve got a sissy version of it man!
I think this one is wayyyy better!
Dragostea din Tei
Yeah thanks, I’ll add it to the list.
Hello Marina, I was wondering if you could tell me the origin of the word lingerie. I would also like to know if you could make this a special episode, where you do it in some nice modest lingerie becuase you are very beautiful and are not too sexual in your lessons. Thanks!!!
Homework:(Jump! Gorby! Jump!)
The contumelious senator did not obey the US constitution when he refused to seat the senator from Illinois.
Not only cool! english, but a very hot cover, Marina.
I don’t think that was at all contumelious. At least it was well intended.
I would like to request the word “lascivious” today.
Or would that now also be thought of as contumelious
Thank you as always for your consideration.
With my Flat neigbour upstairs …( i am a ground floor flat ) ….I will TRY NOT to be so contumelious ….
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Dear Marina… I don’t know if your remember but I asked for the origin of the word Geronimo a few months ago but I can’t remember if you said you are gonna find it or not, cause you had replied :S
Anyway… I was thinking that you might be willing to find the origin of other long words… such as the “fantastic” Greek dish created by Aristophanes in his play Assemblywomen: Lopadotemakhoselakhogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakekhymenokikhlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptokephalliokigklopeleiolagōiosiraiobaphētraganopterýgōn, or the origin of the name of that hill in New Zealand: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, which I know is not English but it would be interesting to know
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And just so to make things clear… what’s the name of your cute little dog? Kobe, Gorby or Korbe?