GTW Game XII Answer
Here is the answer to the Guess the Word Game 12 
And of course, the two winners: JohnTraviss from YouTube and liquidcross from here.
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Hey Marina,
I’m a bit confused about the use of the word [extant]. I have always used it to mean something extra or unnecessary, or something that sticks out. However, when I look it up, it appears to be used to describe something that simply exists. For example: The opposite of non-existant would be [extant].
Could you please help clarify?
Thanks!
Marina,
Would you take my word request in memory of my Golden Retriever?
Her name was “Nala” – As most noted from the 90’s Movie “The Lion King”
We had to put her down yesterday after finding she had cancer with no alternatives
. She was a good, loving, and gentle friend for almost 12 years.
I want to do a photo book of all of our memories and her name is most notable but I’m finding many different meanings for it and I’d like to know what the most common meaning for “Nala” is. It’s my understanding “Nala” comes or is used in the Swahili language.
I’d be ever so greatful if you wouldn’t mind someday doing this as a word.
Here is a picture of my best friend – > http://www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=649277
Thanks again….
Sorry I was not following the rules.
Word request [NALA]
I’m going to guess the next word you’re going to do is [inauguration].
Oooh, I just noticed the naked lady poster by Pablo Picasso on the right.
LOOK AT THIS FOR TIMING MARINA!!!
@vprincess is Toto an old dog? about 1 second ago
IDEA: (possibly niche) Has lots of voiceover (Voice in my head) A person with a split personality (I think), finds a bomb. Will be funny too. In the future I wont realese a video unless its flashy and took me ages to make, also I don’t give a crap if it doesn’t do well I just guess I will have to wait until I make something good enough (like a damn baby laughing
) . Any-way I am downloading a 4 GB plugin. Will write script tomorrow maybe and film on weekend. May be out late, need nice weather (my camera goes black otherwise). Perhaps I could do a few vids of my take on certain disorders. This could work because I am a one man band. Lady Marina? Your take on the situation.
Overheard today: “I’m going to dye my hair back to it’s natural color” Is this an example of an oxymoron statement.
I think I know what she meant but I got a good laugh out of it.
its
I need help from someone.. I can’t find any decent tutorials for anything I like and want to make a title like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8xrBnnrZ9o
(the one i want is 20 seconds in)
Does anyone know of a decent tutorial of something similar?
James here is the site he used to make the videos. You may already have it bok marked.
http://www.videocopilot.net/
THANKS!!! THATS SO HELPFUL!! I had found a title I liked but seeing these I will abandon it now probably.
Marina, how is putting [ ] around a word going to help in searching for words or phrases? I tried it in the search feature and only came up with comments I made to people about giving them a beer.
Marina,
Yes, you are a lefty (left handed) aren’t you Marina, and another opening screen change, Your really getting crafty these days.
Oh,
I can’t think of anything. My vids get hardly any views at all. I have a had a total lapse of ideas. I filmed a video a while ago but abandoned it because it was rubbish.. So difficult.
Well James,
Perhaps video making is not your forte? Your “piece of Scotland” story was great though. Honestly. Perhaps you’re better at writing then filming then?
I guess I have to stick to youtube. There isn’t a website where you get recognicion <cant spell that .. for writing stories.
So, James, you’re having trouble finding your forte. Keep plugging away.. watch what others do and try to get inspired. I find that the people who make the most videos find a gimmick or an idea and stick with it. If you rely on coming up with something totally original each time, then you will hit dry spells and not make videos for long periods of time… like nigahiga, lisanova, smpfilms.
Pick something simple and you can be making videos almost daily, like sxephil, whatthebuckshow, me.
Even though our videos may appear simple, I put about 4-5 hours into each of my 2-3 minute videos.. sxephil said that he puts 4 hours into his videos… and whatthebuck puts 5 hours into his videos… that’s why the simpler the concept, the more likely you’ll make a video and will then be able to put the 4-5 hours into editing that it may take.
Pick something you are genuinely interested in as well.
Thanks Marina. I can spend hours too sometimes. I have shut my channel down for now. At some point soon I will make a video, I need to do some searching and thinking for what needs to be done. Then I will make a video that should be half decent, it will be very flashy and have lots of effects. I think my channel has just gone stale lately, so I have killed it and will come back with something fresh soon maybe in about 2 weeks a week to find what to do and a week of editing
OMG PLEASE!!! don’t suggest that James imitate sxephil!!! James has WAY too much talent for him to waste it like that!
James, I’ll admit I haven’t watched very many of your videos, but what I saw suggested you’d be good at satire. You have some of the zany British humo(u)r shown by Monty Python, Red Dwarf, Two Ronnies. I’ll bet you could make a great spoof on the Harry Potter series.
Evan, you’re not serious in thinking I am suggesting that? I am merely pointing out that any recurring TV show has a structure and they follow it each and every episode, every magazine has a structure.. anything that comes out on regular basis follows a structure.
If you want to put videos out on a regular basis, it’s much easier (and possibly more entertaining) when you create some kind of structure to your videos. That allows you to focus on other aspects, like the writing.
If you want to put videos out sporadically (once a month or so) then you can do something completely different each time. But you run the risk of the videos not gaining traction as people have no idea what they are getting into each time.
Even a show like Month Python, that seemed to be a hodgepodge crazy ideas has a structure to it.
Just my 2 cents.
(Your pennies are on a [gold-standard].) I now see that while some elements of the structure might need to be repetitive in their content (conclusion includes “subscribe to my channel”), other elements allow for creativity in their content (e.g., the homework is not always “use in a sentence”). So when I wrote that your videos are not “are not repetitive or formulaic”, I was focused on the content. The structure does not intrude on the enjoyment of the content.
Evan is right off from the left!!!!
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You demonstrate a great deal of incredible ingenuity in your videos, Marina — they are not repetitive or formulaic.
–Hs4Mm
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I think that is the “magic” to which Lady M is referring. Monty Python seems totally random and spontaneous. As the viewer, I never know what will hit me next, but I know they will hit me. Lady M also follows a string of consistency; I know that I will learn some things and have some fun. On the production side, however, they cannot reinvent the wheel with each episode. They each
possess posess pasess pazeshhave a creative quality for which I yearn. As the artist, they successfully conceal the effort (a good dancer or gymnast makes his or her art look easy.) George Lucas said the same thing about special effects that Michael Haynes said about playing defensive back in the NFL, “If they notice me, I am not doing my job.”And I only charge a penny.
[piece]…keep the penny, I found a nickel!!!
Good day, my man….What word did Marina do; that is your most learned lesson?
Although I had heard Marina’s Maxim radio show about vanilla, I learnt something that was very important to me from the video lesson.
Why do you want to make youtube videos?
Or better yet, why are you pushing yourself to broadcast on youtube personally?
You could put together videos, without having to participate yourself in them, and you could still be very successful.
You’ve done it before, and those were great.
Unless I don’t learn something, or get amused by watching you, I won’t subscribe, and neither would anyone else.
I see your channel type says Comedian. Well… you should start thinking from there.
Good luck!
[anteater]
No, I’m not really requesting it, but I would like to show that the guy that was naming animals in Northern Tamandua, got really lazy.
-So what’s that thing?
-It’s eating ants.
-Bingo! Let’s go home.
[test] Wow that was fun
What an unusual inaugural address
The [hype] before the event suggested this speech
to be worthy of engravement in marble monuments!
Obama [fluffed] while giving the Oath of Office
What will the monument read, now? (Uh…duh…th…)
God bless America
[ engravement ]
Funny video Toe Jam
Almost like one big orgy fest.
It look like something from the 70’s
word request:Inaugural
Hello Marina, I admire women like you and alexandra Kosteniuk who switch your sexy body with your brain making a gorgeus piece of pure gold girl power. where come from the word [chess]?
From the Persian shah, “king.” “Checkmate” comes from shah met, “the king is dead.”
Of course, it would be more fun to see Marina do it in a video.
Here’s her Official YouTube Channel: ChessQueen
You can always count on Marina to be tricky
Phrase Request : [One Hit Wonder]
I was watching a One Hit Wonders DVD that I got for Christmas, and it had me thinking… I know what it is supposed to mean, but I have no idea of its origins.
Oh and Congratz to the winners…lucky fellows
Word Request
[Smut]
***Teacher’s Pet Nomination***
For his research on GTW XII, I nominate Chemikal for Teacher’s Pet.
second
2 famous quotes of the day? ^^
I really liked “I’ll moider da bum.”
I thought it was exceptionally funny, witty and sophisticated at the same time!
Fighters are smarter than most people think, for example, Hogan knows best!
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The landlady’s cat came in my room this morning and said, “Come pet me!”
We’re quite come-pat-able.
You remind me of a Mexican volcano.
Okay, I’ll ask. How does Evan remind you of a Mexican volcano?
Mt. Popacatapetl
Mexican for “Poppa Evan will pet the cat.”
Bob, you’ve outdone yourself this time!
LOL!
Do not misunderestimate Poppa Evan Bob. He is quite an erudite piece of cultural curiosity actually.
Best/worst pun in Nahuatl I’ve heard in ages, no Mixtec about it!
That’s funny all of my cats said, “Feed me!”
I hope there is some way for you to sell these puns. Because, they are good enough to be fee-lines.
Yes their quite athletic also.
Word Request
[Chrysanthemum]
[Squabbles] and [(Be) good]
[mirth] and [myrth] now and after, my native friends came over yesterday…headach today”…{[hangover]} luv
[Floccinaucinihilipilification]
it’s done before , click here
[Heaven] or [Hell] or [Mississippi]
There’s a straight line in there somewhere.
Mrs. Hippie
Please explain the word [girdles]
Why not make the requests bold and underlined and italic and in between [] ?
It will surely stand out , and well worth the effort . You can learn a bit HTML in the process too
Notice that it’s now Game XII (vs. installment), so M does listen.
We will now have to be careful to no longer use square brackets for parenthetical words inside parenthetical words. (That doesn’t happen very often, but I remember doing it at least once.) Also square brackets are sometimes used in smilies, although I haven’t seen one here yet.
Word requests: testing new format: you mean do like
[savoir faire] and [know-how]
Perfect Evan!
Marina, there is a spammer in the forums – login name is “cryp”.
Thanks! Got it
I hope you did other things besides make videos on your visit to Las Vegas.
Someday maybe I’ll win a guess the word game, Keep em comming.
Word Requsts: Las Vegas, lots of people only know this as a name for a city in Neveda, but what does it mean? It’s not gambling and sinning is it?
[Las Vegas]
Nice new avatar John!
No its an old one i haven’t used in a while
but it is still cool
Judo= ju-softness/gentleness
do-path/way [of personal development/enlightenment]
Goju ryu karate is the style of hardness [go]/softness [ju]
Judo is an art in which one tries to use the strength and momentum of one’s opponent against him.
“Put word/phrase requests between [ ] like: [dog] or [blah blah blah]”
What?
That means all previous word requests, that don’t meet this new standard, are out for forced retirement?
Look at the comment just above mine, I don’t think [] will work the way you’ve hopped, but you do it your own way.
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Here’s my take, with the explicit qualification that I have very little experience in social matters and am presenting this as just my thoughts based on my meager knowledge and experience to date: I am a visitor to this web-site. The owner of the web-site has configured it in a certain way. As a visitor, I can either live with the configuration for what I get from the site, or decide to go my own way. Being a visitor does NOT give me any right to offer unsolicited critiques or to make unsolicited suggestions to the owner. In the specific example here, when the owner collects items within square brackets and finds things that are something other than word requests (perhaps editorial comments), she will figure out how to deal with it — this is her site and that is her job. Polite reports of things that are broken in the configuration is a different matter; as perhaps are polite requests for features or enhancements — the owner has provided a special contact form for such support.
Just my 2 cents,
–Hs4Mm
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Thanks for your 2 cents, they are appreciated and noted.
It didn’t strike me as being impolite, maybe it was, in which case I have to mention that it was never intended to be.
To the owner, I’m merely providing feedback.
But it’s not about owner and visitor ethics here.
I’m pending on getting my Engineer’s certificate, in Computer Science, and this is my professional take on the situation.
Though I’m aware that nothing I can say can make her change anything, and so I only stated the obvious.
I could suggest a form for filing the word requests, I could suggest a plug-in that inserts a special button for marking such requests, I could suggest many other things, but frankly, when I saw “[dog] or [blah blah blah]” I just thought she chose an inefficient method.
I tend to administer certain doses of tough love to my friends, without even realizing it.
Again, thanks a lot for your 2 cents Hs4Mm
It would be impolite for me to reply
but you did
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I do not like the phrase (is “phrase” the right word here?): “…when the owner collects items within square brackets and finds…” — actually, I think she has previously tried something similar and knows what will be collected and is OK with that.
–Hs4Mm
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I am not saying the old requests are moot.. I am just finding it difficult to find the requests when there are common words in the requests… I end up with hundreds of pages where I have to search for comments that are requests.
If the request is for a word that is not common or a phrase that I can search for, then I can find it very easily. The brackets are just going to help speed things up for me in the future.
I could make a form where requests are put into a database, but then we wouldn’t have as much interaction as we have in the comments by doing it this way.
Right Marina, now I see where you’re coming from, here’s another idea.
A javascript plugin, that enables you to click on a “Requests Here” button that makes a window pop up, of the type: JOptionPane.ShowInputDialog(“Please input JUST your word/phrase request in this box, and click OK”);
Once the OK button is pressed, the window closes and the quoted input is pasted into the comment section, but also saved into a file, while being preceded by customizable info (author, date, lesson, or a URL with the comment number).
All the info should be written and automatically matched up into a .txt file.
Easy access, easy life, and it takes up virtually 0% hard disk space.
The program is pretty basic coding in Java… but I am not familiar with the WordPress API, otherwise I would have gladly wrote it for you. But if you pass my idea on to someone that is used to creating plugins for WP, and knows both Java and php, then it is very doable!
I wish I could have helped out more, but I don’t have the time to familiarize myself with something as large as the WP API right now. I still am in the exam session.
Good luck
Interaction is your key to success. I would think the random comments, in as they are…warrants thoughts for further lessons. All in all Marina, keep doing “a good job”…best to you.
Here is a word every father in the world would like to know the origin from: [Daughter]. In a sentence: “Daughter you’re carving my heart out again and serving it to me on my own platter! How can you do that so easily and often!”
I heard Washington is going to be crazy in this period.
The new elected president will make the Oath of Office.
That’s got to be interesting, right?
So help me God!
OK here is a word I always wanted to know more about. [Comeuppance]. In use: “Come here baby and get your just comeuppance!”
The other word is [Zarf]. Used in a sentance. “Hey be careful holding my Zarf as it is so hot!]
Next week two more
Please give the origin of the word [inauguration].
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zkWMcRlE1mQ&feature=PlayList&p=834412061C690956&index=61&playnext=2&playnext_from=PL
That was REALLY funny James!
Yeah, I thought so when I posted the link last month!
I remember. It was a response to:
MR Ducks
…
LMAOF
Hahaha, owned!
F.U.N.E.T.?
1 T.?
2 T.
U.Z. 2 T.?
O.S.
9.V.F.N.10.E.T.T.
[SPOILED]…admit it…
the future of English , S.I.L.L.Y C.O.W
I live near portland… It’s quite dull around there…….
It must be! You don’t even capitalize it.
I used to make the drive from Seatlle to Portland twice a week. That is funny; I do not remember seeing James.
Once while I was hitchhiking to Vancouver, a nice lady from Alberta stopped to tell me I was going the wrong way.
what is the origin of the word “hallucinogenic”?
Congrats to the winners!!
So I got my T-mobile G1 yesterday (I know, it came out in October and I super-lagged it..)! For anyone who’s interested in the G1 you should get it WITH the internet plan, unless if you plan to only use the Wi-Fi feature at home or wherever. It’s a pretty sweet phone and has YouTube. I wonder what I can use that for, Marina?
SO yeah there are so many things I can tell you about this phone so far. I’m still playing around with it. If anyone has a G1, tell me how your experience is with it 
What threw me off was the pic of people being hung in medevil
times.
Same here.
yeah , that got me thinking about executions with fire …
I know… she’s crafty.
Why does JUDO mean gentleness art in Japanese?
I practiced Judo for 2 years, and I can tell you, falling down and wiping the floor with your opponent is not very gentle in nature!
I can think of other things that are way more gentler than Judo, but I see they decided to name this sport “gentleness art” nonetheless.
Before I got hooked on hotdogs, I really enjoyed tai chi. I think that tai chi would be the right “gentleness art”. In future, I may start drinking chai tea, doin’ hoola hoop exercises… and
kicking hippies asses and raising hell. 
T’ai Chi Ch’uan (Taijiquan) shortened to Tai Chi (Taiji) should mean “extreme limit”, from the Chinese “tai”=extreme and “ji”=limit.
It promotes health and longevity, and compared to other martial arts, it is indeed a soft and gentle meditative sport. This is exactly what I was talking about when I requested the word Judo.
hmm , because it doesn’t have punches or kicks like any other martial arts ?
Could be, your hands are used to grab, while all the kicks are directed to the opponent’s legs, to knock him off balance
see above [sorry- I'm a newbie]
What should I be seeing above, stebakle?
oh, right!
Hey, why do you call porcelain “china”?
Is there more than meets the eye? (I know that it came exclusively from China, in the beginning)
Can you explain the origin of the word salad?
frevasing sabeve…pelodom
that place where there are no words to describe the orgasmic ecstasy of the experience of co-creating and co-designing utopia.
blessings from the White House Dream Team .us who are keeping an eye on your playful ways.
Sounds like a greeting from BigBrother .gov – LOL!
“White House Dream Team”?
… an oxymoron?
maybe time to just “get naked and dance” and get in touch with littlesisterlittlebrother.us (children at play)…and completely feel the intermoron, connect with the hilariousness of it ALL…LOL!!! Game begins tomorrow.
Word Request – A real challenge for you:
Mitim
***NEWS FLASH: DEZDKADO***
Dezdkado, whom most of us regulars remember as one of the more articulate and erudite of our illustrious company (note resemblance to myself
), sends his greetings:
Great to know he’s alive and well. Hope you gave him our best regards, if not please do.
Yes, did so.
Congratulations to the winners!
Like Warren said below, Marina, these GTW games are tougher and really make one think. I love these games. Very challenging and very clever clues. I love it.
Short of a software submittal for answers like Bob suggested, the random selection of the person with the correct answer is perfect.
Even though it is tempting to reveal how one arrived at the answer, spoiling it for the rest of us slowpokes, I guess that can also be used to mislead. Look how many picked the incorrect answer “pander” in GTW Game XI. I went off on my own tangent and still got it wrong.
I like the idea of random selection too. I get here late and many have already found the answer so I feel like there isn’t any reason to try and guess the word. But now that I see how the game is being played I’ll make more of an effort.
Marina,
I hope you did other things besides make videos on your visit to Las Vegas.
Someday maybe I’ll win a guess the word game, Keep em comming.
Word Requsts: Las Vegas, lots of people only know this as a name for a city in Neveda, but what does it mean? It’s not gambling and sinning is it?
It does seem like all she did in Las Vegas was to make videos. When did she have time to party or go to the Electronics Expo. I hope she did have some fun.
To help us remember and celebrate
MLK
cufan71, that is too precious for words.
Great story.
I read that in the Reader’s Digest in the 1960s. It’s a classic!
Now that’s what I’m talking about!
Keep the good ju-ju flowin’.
I don’t think the Pope would be so rude about her apperance He would have said something more along the line of “Interesting hairdo” what do you think?
“What’s with that hair ? This is heresy !!”
Or is it Hairesy?
Happy MLK Day to everyone!
@buzzword Your link in the language and culture forum did not link. I am really looking forward to seeing it.
yes it does. but, i’ll post it here as well.
got it. domo alligator
Thx. I finally got to watch it, very emotional. I do not even know what I feel anymore. I still get angry when I watch it, but I think I feel more sadness than anything. Those poor people (the White ones who gave interviews) seemed to be good people; they were just ignorant. It still makes me sad. I have heard recordings of Dr. King hundreds of tiimes; to this day, he gives me goose bumps. His message the night before he sacrificed his life, somehow he knew his death was imminent. The word “awesome” is so overused, but this man definately inspired (inspires) awe.
Thx again for the link.
i used the same word, “awesome” to describe his full speech. which i posted in a new thread on the forums, “the power of words”. the thread concerns speeches and the power of words. watching the proceedings in d.c. and studying for exams now.
I would like ot request the word fore. Why do golfers yell fore! when the ball might hit somebody….why not heads up??
and just why would golfers try to hit me?
‘Cause the ball might hit them in the fore-head?
I’m johntraviss. Just wondering, how will i be able to get a prize when i live in Indonesia?
Thank you Ms. Orlova. It was an honor.
wow , congratulations .
Indonesia , thats a lot of transport fees
It’s not transport fees that’s the problem; it’s Indonesian customs, if they’re anything like what they were 30 years ago.
oh yeah , the taxes and stuff
And the censorship and desirable items mysteriously disappearing.
I may not did well on the guess the word but the steelers going to the super bowl made my night.I’ll try to find anybody dumb enough to bet against the steel curtain and make some easy dough!
:very sad face: ahh , there isn’t a smiley for this one
Anyway , this motivates me to improve my english better so that words will come up in my mind immediately
I wanted to say hello, and share my great enjoyment of your work. I only recently discovered it, and wanted to suggest that you examine the word “bank.” I haven’t been able to trace it to it’s origin myself (at least not with any finality), and think it is a common enough word that many of your viewers might be as interested as I am.
Additionally, I was viewing an older video concerning the phrase “balls to the walls” and noted that my own solution to the origin of the phrase was not represented, and predates those proffered in the video and comments so far as I can determine. What I found was that it refers to cannon bearing ships in wartime, who would call “balls to the walls” when firing at ships on both sides of them. The cannon “balls” would be removed from storage along the keel of the ship (where the weight was best kept) and brought to the gunne wales [gunwale/gunnel in modern use] on both sides of the ship. Normally the call would be “balls starboard,” “balls fore,” etc. the munitions brought to the guns that would need reloading. In this case, if I am correct, the term means fighting a battle against two to one odds while surrounded, a situation which most likely involves charging between two ships of an opposing force. This is a risky move, but one which allowed the vessel to make an all out attack with every gun it had.
Please do double check my work though, I have been known to miss things on occasion.
And so airplane pilots just picked it up from the 18th-century sailors they drink beer with?
Sorry, I just can’t see it.
There is a lot of overlap between nautical terms and aviation terms. ‘Pilot’ is a nautical term.
When aviation was in its infancy ( its just a little over 100 years old ) the terms and safety were largely derived from nautical lore. Aircraft anti collision lights conform with rules of the nautical road, and a few rules of the road specifically cover aircraft operations.
Also one should consider that the Navy has more aircraft than the Air Force, and during World War II the Army had more ships than the Navy.
Oh, I can agree with all that. I don’t see the transfer from the naval use to the aviation use. I just don’t think anyone heard about naval cannon ammuntion distribution and thought it an apt phrase for engine fuel control. The applications are so unalike that the use of the same phrase is probably a total coinkidink.
I think that it was lalready a non specific phrase intended to express general lack of restraint by the time aviation adopted the term. Just my opinion though, I don’t have any real way to back that up yet (I am still looking).
Marina,
I was wondering why the number 13 is considered unlucky?
thank you for the lessons,
Fenn
It was on the thirteenth day of the thirteenth month of the thirteenth year that the Roman emperor Stubusus got up in the middle of the night to use the convenience and hit his toe on the nightstand. The toe became infected and he died two weeks later. This is where stubbing one’s toe originated and why 13 is unlucky.
It’s true, I tell you.
and was that day friday by any chance ?
No, that month, Friday the 13th fell on a Tuesday.
Huh, cool origin CK!
It’s good enough for a video, I hope she makes one.
Still, I can’t believe that someone would blame the number 13, for their own stupidity.
Oh come on, Chemi, people do it all the time … they’ll make any ridiculous excuse to avoid responsibility.
Excuses are not designed to satisfy anybody except the person making them.
Sounds like you’re requesting the word triskaidekaphobia, or paraskevidekatriaphobia.
It’s hard to find the origin, but here are some interesting facts. (A few of them may be inaccurate or coincidence)
Couvre-feu. Interesting lesson.
Reminds me of a legend about a very old curfew. But in that case the fire is not really covered. Instead, it lies prostrated, kneeling down like a wounded beast, chained to ice by a strong link of irrationality. It’s the legend of two twin great volcanoes, one sleeping and the other active, the Ixtaccihuatl and the Popocatépetl.
Iztaccihuatl,
Here she sleeps, all white, all inert,
challenging the centuries and the mountains,
exposing her silhouette to the open skies,
like an eternal symbol. The symbol of death.
Popocatepetl,
Yes, immortal warrior, here she lies,
as white and frozen as ice.
In vain you torture your brain,
asking the gods to wake her up.
Here you will end, prostrated like a wounded beast.
Here you will drink the nostalgy of your dead one.
No one listens to your pledge,
even the gods don’t listen.
They don’t see that you’re crying tears of fire,
painfully arguing with the infinite.
Legend of the volcanoes
Ever saw Joe Versus the Volcano?
neuroway,
He visto las pinturas antes, sin saber la leyenda. Gracias.
¿Es su traducción del poema?
There’s a similar legend in Washington State about two sons of the Sky Chief (Saghalie Tyee), Pahto and Wy’east, who fell in love with and fought over the maiden Loowit. The Sky Chief changed all three into volcanoes of the Cascade Range.
Translated on the fly, at 180MPH, without really looking or bothering about the real meaning of the prose. A little bit like running the whole thing through google translate. Well… Not as bad as google translate I think…
There are lots of similar legends like these around the world. For instance, la Peña de los enamorados in Antequera. But I’m too lazy to work today, or perhaps not willing to translate this one. Siesta rocks, Evan. Gotta get my rest.
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Милаяа дорогая Марина,
What has happened to us? I was your favorite.
We rendezvoused daily, covertly to discuss intimate matters. Now you no longer even return my messages! It’s over, isn’t it? 
Ah well, perhaps it’s for the best; my (now ex-) wife found out and was furious:
Farewell, my lovely. “Так, пожалыста, буд добра!” May the red roses of health dance for a hundred years upon your cheeks.
Gyda phob dymuniad da,
Evan
I still love you.
That’s very consoling.
By the way, what was the mystery song? I did try, but can’t bring it to mind.
I will give you another clue. I will say R-A. Add this to the previous clue.
C’mon, guys, someone should get this.
ah , she’s just busy (i think) , i’m sure everything is still OK
CONFESSION:
I wrote the above note to test if Marina has reviewed the link I sent her to Gavin de Becker’s recommendations to celebrities on how to handle deranged and obsessive fans. The jist of it was to ignore these fans as much as possible; negative feedback often backfires and makes them MORE obsessive.
I see that Marina has done her homework and is following these recommendations beautifully. I feel greatly validated!
It’s easy doing the right thing, when doing nothing is required!
I knew there was something fishy about this comment, when I read about the dancing flowers. You’re way smarter than to say something like that, even if you meant it!
But what makes a fan obsessive? I think we’re all a little obsessive, because we keep coming back here, commenting replying and generally getting more involved than we normally should.
“What makes a fan obsessive?” Good question. The simplest answer is that the subconscious mind does not distinguish between (a) a beautiful young woman, attractively dressed, sitting on a bed, giving us her undivided attention and flirting with us, and (b) a computer image of said woman looking directly into a camera. So our subconscious, which governs our emotions, makes us fall in love or get infatuated with the computer image, while we think we’ve fallen for the woman.
(In fairness to Marina, to the extent that the image truly represents her, we’re in love with her. But I suspect that in actually getting acquainted with her in person, many of us would be surprised at what we’d find.)
Then there are the individual reasons for obsessing (or being a frequent visitor). You obviously have professional reasons for wanting to master and polish your English. (Wait — Polish English? Never mind.
) Bob, CampKohler, and I (just to name a few) love coming here to tell bad puns and tall tales — it’s a good substitute for drinking. And I’ve had a love of linguistics and etymology since long before Marina was born, plus I have a breast fetish AND OCD. So of course I was totally gaga over her from the first moment I saw and heard her! 
All that AND a bag`o Chips, baby!
(I think this should mean: Cool!)
Also I loved the drinking video, I want to memorize the lyrics, and have fun trying to remember them when drunk! For starters I just favorited the video, for later mischief.
When people get to my age, Evan, they’ve generally already discovered the truth and all they want is a bit of fantasy; I suspect that is why many of us keep coming here, quite apart from the opportunity to activate our second childhood and play at being the bad boys at the back of the class.
The important thing to remember about fantasies is to keep them as fantasies and don’t try to make them come true, or disappointment will be sure to follow.
The way to keep a fantasy for a long time is the same as the way to keep an erection for a long time
“Just leave it alone – Don’t fuck with it.”
Hello my dear teacher, Marina. I have another word, or rather phrase origin request. I get salty when people misuse the phrase “a lot” as “alot”. Please clear up this common mistake. Thanks Marina. I promise I will never look back after you clear this up.
Marina allots us just so many word requests, and since we make a lot of them, we are often disappointed.
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1) It appears that this video was made immediately after the video for the question was created; and the names of the winners was added on just before release.
2) Why the smiley at the end of the first sentence below the video?
–Hs4Mm
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Hmm , why not the smiley
I nominate Chemikal for honorable mention. Though not the first to guess the right answer, nonetheless he was the first to state the answer with certainty, backed up by solid research.
I looked back through the comments and Chemikal was the first to make the correct answer. Two others added on to his comment which makes them look like they were first. If Marina had used the hat system then he may or may not would have been picked, it could have been anyone. But she was honest and forthright enough to tell us how she chose the winners and how she is going to correct the problem. Maybe next week I hope you will be the winner. So we have to stay on our toes and get your old set of Funk and Wagnals and study.
I guess that's the way you spell WagnalHi Mike,
I’m gonna pull a PK on you: Chemikal first posted at 8:18 (“Interesting…), but added his answer and research at 9:46. In between, liquidcross posted the answer “Curfew?” at 8:48. So in my eyes, they’re both winners.
Ok, I cede. They are both winners.
But a hardy congratz to ChemiKal for his fine research on the answer. 
Thank you, Mike! I really liked this week’s word game.
Thanks for having my back there Evan!
You rock, as always… you know that!
Flo Whites “Money Bomb”… cool Lincoln flag!
“Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value – zero.”
Voltaire (1694 – 1778)
Marina,
These GTW games are tougher than earlier versions.
Thank you for your hard work.
fun, fun, fun
Next week I will do the homework and come up with the correct answer.
WORD REQUEST———>bologna? Is it made up from a bunch of baloney? Is it from a place in Germany?
Hot-Dog-Lincoln needs an answer… pretty please (with mustard on top).
You’re thinking of Hamburg(er) and Frankfurt(er). Bologna is in Italy. Abalone is a shellfish. Below knee is shinbone. Aw, baloney!
Hey, we need an emoticon for “:deranged!:”
I was going to say something
, but I just had a cranial flatus.
Funny!
Quite a large number of “brain farts” have been found inside Congress. It is figuring out a way to get them out of there… and keeping them out of there… that’s the challenge… maybe a MRI for each of them.
Marina…
Keep on making these videos; very enjoyable
brilliant observation!
Marina, I think I may start having dreams of you in that dress if you keep wearing it.
Maybe we could see you in something dark green? Lovely. Imagine us picking out her wardrobe for the videos. Bikini!
Whoa! Thanks Marina!
message me in the contact area with your shipping address, incl. phone # and the prize you’d like
Sure thing. What prize options are there this week?
Same.. ipod shuffle, dvd of your choice, signed calendar or pic.
Message sent. Thanks again!
oooo she wants your phone number LC. A personal call from the Teach.
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Can I ask how exactly you choose the winner? Is it random or do you pick the first person to get it in the comments?
Read about three comments below this one and Marina explains how she is doing the choosing and how she will redo the choosing option.
liquidcross was the first to post the correct answer.
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(His answer was in the form of a question, actually.
Hmm! No homework question tonight! That’s just as well, since I’ve been watching the football games, anyway.
What a nice Sunday night it’s been! 
seesixcm6
I think CK got robbed. I know he did not post first, but he gave a detailed answer. Mebbe that is the teacher in me, you know “show your work.” P’raps he could get an honorable mention or something.
I actually said I would be picking random winners and I will be.. this time I just went with the first correct answer I saw.. but in the future I will be picking random winners that way people keep playing.
CK did give a nice explanation.
I know you have to draw the line somewhere, and we’re cool with that.
It is a nice touch to mention CK, you classy gal, you.
And, no. I was not being sarcastic that time.
It was classy.
Whoops! Chemikal had the explanation, sorry Teach.
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I second bsomebody’s remark that some consideration should be given to the explanation given in the answer. (Chemikal did indeed do well in his answer — need to read the whole thread.)
–Hs4Mm
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Marina, I don’t know if you saw my comment to runnawayscott about not letting people see other’s answers before they leave their own.
If you are going to pick random winners, the possibility exists of getting a prize without earning the merit, by cribbing someone else’s answer.
I don’t know if my suggestion is possible with the software that you use – if not, maybe it will prompt another more practical solution.
CK, CampKohler? Sure, everyone did better than me!
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I’m just kidding… I’m not at all afflicted about not winning any prize.
Besides, there’s nothing you could give me, that would be more valuable than what you have already given me. That is a wider view on things, a firmer grasp of the English language, and believe it or not, you helped me become a little more wiser and more intelligent person.( but that doesn’t mean I don’t want to win next week!
Also, thanks to all my friends who thought my explanation was OK.
One thing is still foggy though. Why did you show a picture of hanging women? Was it coincidental, or was it meant to be another clue?
By the way, in case you are interested, I passed my exam with close to max score, how lucky is that huh? Next one is on Friday, wish me luck. (no pressure, I mean you don’t have to, I’m not that emotionally needy you know) – man am I being waggish today!
Uhm… is xoxo appropriate for men to use also? Hehe.. whatever, I’m using it anyway!
XOXO,
Chemikal
Hi Chemikal,
Re the hanging women, this may have been a “red herring” (false clue) or an allusion to the children’s guess-the-word game called “hangman.”
Congratulations on your exam — though I suspect your score had less to do with luck than with superior preparation. Still, best of “luck” on your next one. I trust your health is improving, also.
I don’t think “xoxo” would raise any eyebrows in my part of the country. Sometimes what’s considered “appropriate” in the USA depends on the person’s background. We tend to expect Latins and Slavs to be more emotional and demonstrative than English, Germans, and Scandinavians. In my neighborhood, what’s normal behavior for a Mexican might be considered odd for a Dutchman (our two most conspicuous ethnic groups, after mutts like me!)
The game is posed as a hangman game, as she has done for all the ones I have seen. So I think the gallows scene has nothing to do with the game other than that reference. However, I could be proven wrong if future games have a hanging scene that somehow indicates the era, etc.
Well, I blew that. You can’t use YT’s time variable on HFW’s file! Anyway, it’s at 01:00.
Thank you for the congratz! I usually blame luck when I do poorly, so why not praise luck when I do good?
I’m not feeling any better, and I’m taking all of my medication… I don’t know what to say, I guess it just needs more time.
Please tell me how the president’s Oath of Office is coming along. Are you going to attend? If you are, please make pictures! I heard there will be 12.000 soldiers stationed in D.C. along side local Police Forces and FBI agents. Sounds like a fun event
Once again, Chemikal, I apologize for saying CK instead of Chemikal.
You do have a C and a K, and I do have CRS, plus I am just kind of stupid sometimes, so… uhh… there ya go, 
sorry.
Also, canned rats! (“Congrats”) on your exam.
Oh bsomebody, don’t apologize, it was funny, and besides they got the message.
I’m also thankful for my canned rats, that’s so cool of you!
I would offer a simple suggestion
liquidcross won fair and square – he posted “curfew” before CampKoehler did the detailing.
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I don’t understand the point of choosing a winner at random, after the correct answer has been posted.
It is a contest, after all…
It seems a bit random that you didn’t pick randomly…
Where exactly is CK’s answer? I searched for the string “ck says:” on HFW site’s GTW XII question page and for “ck” on youtube site’s GTW XII question page, but did not find it.
Whoops, my bad. It was not CK ( CampKohler – Sacramento CA ) but Chemikal. His original comment was at 8:18 am.
Sorry Chemikal for thinking it was CK.
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Thanks — Chemikal did indeed do well and his answer is here — need to read the whole thread.
–Hs4Mm
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Wha? Huh? Oh… yeah, that was me. Yeah, sure.
ipod.
You get an autographed picture of me on a bear skin rug.
I guess that would be a lot better than an autographed picture of you bare on a rug.
Bob seems like you and I are all alone. Want to play some chess?
no bueno. I am more of a checkers kind of guy. I do have a nifty pewter Civil War set, and my Dad left me a set from India made with Ivory pieces. It’s a shame I never use them, but they do look good sittin’ in my study.
I dunno what they get, but I wanna win just once, so I can ask for a signed OED. Even better would be if
MLady M would sign her used copy for me, then she could get a spiffy new one.That has got to be a beautiful Chess set. I wouldn’t use it either as it is probably worth quit a bit to a collector and especially to you as it came from your Dad. I would always hang on to that to pass on to your children.
That is the plan. The Civil War set I gave to my Dad for Father’s Day way back when. When he got sick, he gave it back to me. That reminds me; I really should write a will. One day…
Hey, Mike.
Hey Bob. I wonder what the lucky winners will get this week?
Hi Dudes and dudets
Waddap, cappy!
I’m sorry, I think I ought to have said something like Hello Mr Mike Sir, but I was so thirsty, and all I could think of was Cappy!
Dude! Hey #1 – Congrats