no i dont think Phelps should lose his endorsements. when you smoke pot, it mellows you out and slows you down. he is way too fast to be a pot smoker(he probably does crack or speed). also pot gives you the munchies and he is too fit for that too.
I would like the request the word [Scaffolding]. we have been using it at work and people keep calling it “Scaffleting” rather than “Scaffolding” and it made me want to know the origins of the word.
I would like to request the word [ambidexterity], and a more quirky word; [cocksure] and how it relates to the word(s) cock (rooster), cock (faucet), and/or cocky (pompous).
hi marina i would like to know the origin of the thrase [kicked the bucket] as i have never understood why we use it when we refer to someone who has died.
So the bucket was (in Norfolk, England) the beam from which a pig about to be killed used to hang by its hind feet. The nervous reflex actions of the pig, after its throat was cut to let the blod drain into a receptacle below, caused it to kick the bucket as it was dying:D
Sounds disgusting but that is why this saying means to die
Alternative terms for “pot”: buds, greens, trees, k-town(better than average quality pot), smoke, weed, chronic, cannibus, Mary Jane… That’s one funny video, though;lol!!!
Marina if can i call you that. Please do [masterbation] or [orgasm] they both are very good words. I give props to iloveprettyrussians5. Using one of those words will make great video. Ok thanks for considering it! From your biggest fan vinnythewordman12321!!!
Marina if can i call you that. Please do [masterbation] or [orgasm] they both are very good words. I give props to iloveprettyrussians5. Using one of those words will make great video. From your biggest fan vinnythewordman12321!!!
Marine
Hey my name is alex and i would love it if you did the word [wedgie] and even if you gave yourself a wedgie! That would be cool but if you dont want 2 wedgie yourself please do the word! Be they way I love your show so thanks! I luv u so much:mrgreen:!!!!!
Michael Phelps has trained at an unbelievable great level for the past decade to achieve what no one else has done in Olympic swimming. We should give him credit for the honor he has brought to the USA through his competition and allow him a little understanding if he happens to act like a 20 year old occasionally.
Thanks MP, we still love you!
In an ideal and completely rational world, Michael Phelps should not suffer any consequences for smoking pot, as long as it doesn’t negatively impact his performance. However, we live in a crazy world of irrationality, where a stock price can fall simply because a drug was found to be 96 percent effective instead of 100 percent, where people sincerely believe that the earth is only 6,000 years old, and where experimenting with cells in a petri dish is considered immoral. Keeping in mind all of this irrationality, it is a rational choice for individual sponsors to withdraw support for Phelps or face a loss of public respect. That’s our sad lot as humans: we will always be held back by our crazy, emotional ways. Fortunately, though, we can decide as a society to change our thinking and laws in order to create a better world for the next generation. So, let’s make some changes!
With current themes of celebrity athletes, scandal and continuing willingness to believe the worst, this is a good time take a look back at a more innocent age without ubiquitous video when a fan could urge “Say it ain’t so, Joe.” I can reference your lesson here; ain’t kidding.
Marina, a note about the above “Pot” video. That video has been on the Popular page #5 since Feb 5, 4:21 AM, but it disappears off of the Popular pages, then comes back.
From observation, it seems that a video that lands on the Popular pages, has a shelf life of 7 days, assuming all other metrics are met. Right now, the Pot video has been there two days, so I expect it to be there 5 more days assuming the other metrics are met; ratings, rising views, etc.
At this moment, the ranking is #93 (p5 #13) and had been as high as #92
Thanks, Karl: You have these thought waves and its been wonderful for your communicative sharing within The Republic of Lexicon!!! This wisdom from hotrocky…Rocky Frisco – The Blues For You…anyway ‘preciat the good work!*!*!*!*!*!
Phelps should get a pass on this incident, sure he may have broke some moral clause in his contracts but in the grand scheme of things life is too short to deal with such a insignificant matter.
…my dear marina, you have outdone yourself…
…now that you have reset the bar….what next?
…i have watched this six times, and cannot stop laughing…
…hats off…true genius…
Hello Marina, I didn’t want to post this on the comments (but since you and your office don’t or wont reply, let’s try this in public…sorry).
I wrote your business link 11 days ago and then I wrote you privately three days ago. I asked if your paintings were for sale anywhere. I also gave (you) information on director Michael Mann and his work with Ferrari and how you could do work with them in LA and become a Russian spokes model for their luxury brand and others. I even offered to help you and your boyfriend (whoever drives the GT3 Porsche that was in your recent slide show) enjoy top-level luxury cars for a drive in Malibu.
NO RESPONSE LIKE I’M NOTHING FOR BEING NICE AND TRYING TO HELP YOU AND BUY SOMETHING FROM YOU AS WELL!
You know, I’ve bought your calendar, I’ve written privately and advised you to do political words during the election season and was happy to then see you go on shows like O’Reily and so forth. I’ve cared about helping you and I don’t deserve even an answer for wanting to buy a painting from you and help your career even more? OK. Thanks again for visiting Wyoming. Last year, I wrote your office about possibly bringing you and yours up here for a $6,000 speaking engagement. But you’ve been here, right? OK. Hope to hear from you…although I think I’m losing interest in your artwork…and your career, unfortunately. If I don’t matter, trying to be nice…duh
James I deleted your hacks. This comment limiter is simply javascript so it can be hacked in 2 seconds. I just don’t need the whole site hacking it… I just thought that shorter comments would speed things up.
Ok but let me know if I evr step out of line! I can’t wait for tomorrow! Hopefully I will get my HD camcorder tomorrow. I know I don’t get many views but as it is, having better quality might do me some good.
Popularity page update:
The HFW “Pot” video has now been pulled from the Popular pages. It was #92 for the last hour and a half and the views did not change, where earlier, that video’s views changed dramatically (in the 2,500s).
My early delusion is that the video was pulled due to lack of change of views? Question? will the video return once it is pulled? Don’t know, and I am glued to the tube.
On the Most Viewed pages, the “Pot” video is in the #36 position.
Pk what page or site do we look for now so we can be aware of when she uploads a new video? It used to be this page http://www.youtube.com/browse?s=mp&t=t&cr=US&p=2. So has YT changed the line up now?
Hi Mike, the link you have is correct.
However, Marina may or may not change her strategy in how she deals with uploads, so we’ll wait to see what she says.
YT has changed the default page. Click on the YT VIDEO link in the upper left of the YT page. The 20 default videos that are shown on page 1 is the POPULAR category. It used to be MOST VIEWED. That changes the way visitors will view videos, which means that Marina’s videos may not be as easily sought out as before.
I’m now seeing the top four ‘Most Viewed’ in a film-strip type display above the top twenty ‘Most Popular’.
Are rebellion and/or common sense prevailing?
I see also, we’ve been promoted to 1500 characters for our comments.
Marina, forgive my naivete, but I’m a no B.S. guy. Is there not someone you could call, email, or whatever who could clarify their procedures and methods pertaining to ratings, or anything else for that matter? For God’s sake, they ought to consider you an asset from a business aspect. And when you get down to it, any success you enjoy would benefit them.
Google acquired YouTube and put some technical people in charge who thought it would be a good idea to create a “secret formula” to determine what videos are considered popular, and they want to keep the formula secret so that people cannot manipulate the system.
So, even though I have been one of their top producing partners, they can’t tell me anything about the formula for fear that word will get out and people will start manipulating their videos to appear on those pages.
Of course, if they simply kept the system of showing the most viewed videos for the day, which is what people want to see, then everything would have been fine as you cannot manipulate your video views without getting caught… plus views would seem to indicate the popularity of a video, correct?
Some people are saying this opens it up for YouTube to promote certain videos without people realizing it, others say it allows them to censor. I know they think it’s an improvement in the site, but I don’t see it yet
Go Girl Go…[GO GO GIRL], I think that request would search You Tube well , Art is what makes human nature interesting and the art of communication is universal. Long live*** The Republic of Lexicon***
Marina, I’m thrilled to get your response. Thanks for enlightening me. You are totally correct about why the system should remain the way it’s been, it seems to me. Me smells a possible attempt at manipulation. What corporate crap!
Please keep dummies like me posted about this situation. And know that you are, and always will remain NUMBER ONE with me and the rest of the Family.
“…views would seem to indicate the popularity of a video, correct?
If I may clarify some things about the notion of popularity without getting pedantic. Our western culture typically associates popularity with, “mostest” or “biggest”. Typically, quantity over quality.
A bumper sticker says; he who dies with the most toys, wins. We grow up with the idea that one who takes home the most marbles, wins.
In high school, the one with the most friends is typically thought of as the most popular, right? What about the smartest? Not always the most popular.
So, in the context of quantity, YT “Most Viewed” videos was the simplest and most easily understood to indicate popularity. However, since views were manipulated, (amongst many other things), YT had to re-define popularity.
As a mental exercise, I can still utilize views as a measure of popularity, but instead of absolute views, what if I said that the change of rate of views is now my measure of popularity. Much harder to manipulate and more difficult to understand, but of course, YT has added a lot more variables besides simple rate of change of views.
In some schools, I might be the most popular because I am the best looking; in other schools I might be the most popular because I have the most money, albeit being homely looking.
A lot more can be said, but I’m out of characters.
Remind me to blog about that topic.
i’ve noticed in your bloopers you often use the expletive “fuck”. i would like to know the origins of the word [fuck] as well as why the FCC deemed Bono’s (lead vocalist of the Irish rock band U2) usage acceptable when he won an award on national television.
*i would like to note that the U.S. Supreme court deemed that the public display of the word “fuck” is protected under the First and Fourteenth Ammendment and is not considered a criminal offence. so i can’t get in trouble for this question.*
thanks much cufan71! but now this arises another question… how did it transform from “ficken”- to strike, to “fuck”- sexual intercourse? i agree, Marina will most likely not do a lesson on this, because of it’s obsene nature. ahh, rejecte by yet another beautiful Ruskie woman… hey Marina… does this mean i’m a [Xenophile]?
For those of you who have read the comments below about the YouTube changing their default page to Popular as opposed to Most Viewed, we ain’t letting HotForWords slip into oblivion, right? Maybe we could also patronize the HotForWords videos on YT?
At this moment, HotForWords video “The Cardinals” is on the YT Popular This Week page 3 in the first spot (#41).
Also, the HotForWords video “Do You Gargle?” is on YT Popular This Week page 4 in the seventh spot (#67).
I love these videos.
I didn’t know that gargle and gargoyle were related.
Awesome videos!!! Go check them out.
Ohhh, and unlike a library, when you check these videos out, you don’t have to return them and get fined.
pedanticKarl… any pages other than Most Popular pages for Today mean nothing. People on the Internet only go to what’s presented to them, they do not click on other menu items.
So, let’s see if we can figure out how one appears on the Most Popular Videos for Today pages.
Kewl, this is going to be a worthwhile challenge.
The “Pot” video above is now in 100th position on the Popular page#5, where it was #97 about an hour ago. Cranking up that Excel spreadsheet.
An hour ago, “smpfilms” wasn’t even on the Popular 100 when HotForWords was at #97. Now, “smpfilms” is in the #12 spot on page 1 of the Popular pages.
Ohhhh, this is going to be lots of fun figuring this one out. My gears will be working overtime today. If you see smoke, don’t call the fire dept. It’s my brain on overload.
Marina, a quick update. I’ve been monitoring the Popular pages since 4:21 AM and there have been 3 updates since then or one update per hour appx. (Doing it manually at the moment).
The HotForWords views on the POPULAR page#5 have increased by about 5,300 views, but that has not helped the position.
As a whole, all videos slipped in position as new videos are added to the board and older videos leave the board. Videos views appear to have very little affect if any at the moment that I can see.
Holy jumping statistics, I just refreshed Popular page #5 and you just jumped to #92.
I wonder if the number of views per video has any influence on the position in ‘Most Popular’. Look at Chris Brown TV, Leona Lewis, Fred and Beonce, all ahead of Marina but Michael Jackson still behind despite only 35 videos.
Or how about the rate of increase in the number of views?
PK must investigate.
Yes, Bob, other metrics do play a part in measuring popularity according to many blogs that I have read including YouTube’s. Of course, no one knows to what extend or what the formula is, but I’m looking to do just that, or get close to it.
Essentially, what I garner out of the various things that I have studied, it is a combination of ratios of the variables and rate of change of the variables.
Edit: Views probably do have an effect, but are not synchronized with every update. In other words, a change in video position may not show the newly updated views, plus as new videos enter the board, that has an affect on position.
Hey cufan71,
I wonder how Carrie Underwood feels about being in the presence of the magnificent HotForWords? What if Carrie is a secret HFW fan and has been on these pages as someone else all along?
And if not, then someone should let Carrie know to visit us over here to watch HotForWords video lessons.
Consider it done.
Carrie should be here any minute now.
See if Marina can get you an autograph picture of Carrie Underwood. You can send Marina your home address and get it from her. Worth a chance. Marina’s place to contact her. http://www.hotforwords.com/business/
I don’t know if you have heard of the issuance of a new top domain, .ME, which is a country domain for Montenegro (recently independent of .YU). They decided to peddle it worldwide instead of reserving it for those in the country. Some went for as much as $70K. The U.S. had the biggest interest (%70) because of the English word ME and there were more URLs issued in one day than ever before (20K+).
Look which names this bozo bought in hopes of making a killing reselling them. BTW, a friend of mine bought a .ME and I had never heard of it, so I had to research this out of curiosity.
Oh, and, yes, F.ME works. Can’t you just see it? “My Website? Uh, yeah, I have one. It’s… uh… It’s… Oh, nevermind, Mom!”
My favorite words are for the users, or the act of using, not the plant… such as “Cheeba monkeys” or “Rockin’ the ganj”.
Anyone remember the old song from the Dr. Demento show called “Wildwood Weed” (or something like it)?
Marina, you’re supposed to smoke basket, not pot… weave some dried hemp into a basket, decorate with buds and leaves, light in several places, and breathe deeply… much like Michael Douglas in “Romancing the Stone”. “Now that’s what I call a campfire.”
Your futile attempts to literally smoke the stainless steel pot is really hilarious, Marina.
Anyway, another good lesson.
My verdict:
Substance abuse is never a good thing and if society has any chance to function and benefit humanity, actions must have their corresponding consequences. Loosing endorsements alone is too light of a punishment for someone that a significant number idolize according to the same mechanics that drive celebrity worship.
And please, don’t destroy your beautiful mind with substances that distort your sense of reality and ultimately destroy your mental, physical and psychological heath. May you stay beautiful in both mind and body and enlighten us with your lessons for many years to come.
But there’s more where they came from. Can you guess where? Oh, and to prevent “character wastage,” each of you will be expected to fill out every single post to the limit.
Marina : I love your website it is one of the most fascinating sites that I have stumbled across. The word that I am, looking for is [skill] as in the [The names of towns like Catskill peekskill and 11 other towns in New York State] Thank you Very much ,And yes you are defineatly the sexist geek on the internet
That’s possible, but I wonder if it comes from the old Norse ’skille’ or ’skylle’.
I would also like Marina to extend her investigations to include toponymy, so I second x354mms request for [-skill]
I would love for you to find the origin of the word [blockbuster]
because I think it’s interesting and you haven’t done it yet. Please and thank-you Marina.
On the weekend… let’s look at Ecclesiastes… “eat, drink and be merry”… all is vanity… nothing new under the sun… in the end we’re all dust… and so forth.
What’s with the 1000-character limit? Are we running out of disk space? This really sucks. You might be right in the middle of a serious thought and run out of
Do you really have anything to say here that you cannot say in 1000 characters or less? If I have that mch to say about anything, I will write you a letter.
Who knows? Was something going wrong that had to be fixed? Or is this a solution in search of a problem? I think the longest post in this blog was annundermale’s list of pots and pans. That wasn’t too bad was it? Did it grate on someone’s nerves? Did the bearings on the scroll wheel of someone’s mouse disintegrate when they tried to bypass his post? Really!
And by the way, that is a good idea of yours when you said “mch.” We cud strt tlkg lk ths & sy lots by lvg out unessry ltrs. We cd spk vols & put the bibl on th hd of a pn. (Wrng: Nvr, nvr, nvr wrt ur pn nr dwn.)
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& nw 4 a tst!
Oh, I have exceeded the Mighty Limits imposed by the demons of Hell. Oh, yes I have. Muhahahahahahahaha! And so you can see now that this whole thing is all S of the B variety and the man behind the curtain will have to go back to work to plug this hole. But, again, I ask: why bother?
Calvin Coolidge was noted for his lack of loquaciousness. At a dinner party, a lady seated next to him said, ” I bet a friend that I could get you to say three words.” Coolidge replied, “You lose.”
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.
– William Strunk Jr., Elements of Style
It may well be healthier to eat pot than to smoke it. Who wants all that resin going into their lungs.
There must be a high roughage factor from eating this weed. Pot is high in fiber & maybe some minerals I don’t know about.
It is most likely grow organically.
Do any pharmaceutical company extract the THC from pot and put it in a pill form? This seems like a good way to go for medical use.
Take the “pot” and boil it with water and butter… say 30 minutes. The “inner pot oil” will mingle with the butter and repel from the hot water. Take off heat and let cool until your hands can handle the temp of the mixture. Squish the “pot” as hard as you can… the buttery green mixture should ooze out from your tight grip back into the container. All the leaves should be separated out from the green butter/water mixture.
Put container (the cooking pot with green butter/water) in fridge… butter will rise to the top and eventually harden.
When you can break away the hardened green butter… you are now ready for a myriad of goofy times… garlic bud butter cheese toast, chocolate chip bud butter banana loaf, and oatmeal-raisin bud butter cookies and so on.
TIPS…
don’t lick your fingers while doing this or you’ll get way too high!
never give it to someone who doesn’t know what’s in it… it creates a body stone that will frighten them.
The reflexes/muscles of your body feel like they are “weighted down”… relaxed or slowed down. You might sit in a chair and not realize you haven’t moved a single inch for 15 minutes.
Or, you might stare at a nice set of boobs for five minutes and forget you are staring… when you realize this, then you laugh at yourself etc.
So, the guy who won 8 Olympic gold medals and the latest Super Bowl MVP are both pot smokers. I guess marijuana must not be so bad, as long as it is used responsibly.
Can you elaborate a little about your concern pertaining to youtube’s default change? Your twitter comment kinda worried me. If you see this…I know you’re busy.
When people go to YouTube they click on the Video tab and then browse on what videos show as it use to show the most viewed videos for the day.
As of today, the default is not “Most Popular” a secret algorithm that appears to have nothing to do with views as I don’t appear anywhere on that list.
Hello my dear teacher. My name is FOXX1022 and I am one of your new students. I must say you are the perfect combination of BEAUTY, CHARM AND
INTELLIGENCE. I wish you much success! I would like to request the word
[ CRUSH ], as in, “I have a [CRUSH] on my teacher.” Why would you want to
crush somebody you like? Will HOT FOR WORDS investigate? THANKS!!!
I think I know some other words for pot:
bomb, bud, butters, chilsprout, chimichangas, chronic, crunkler, dagga, dak, dank, dee, dope, frodis, ganja, grass, green, hashish, herb, indo, instanga, kipp, Mary Jane, mellow fellow, moss, nugget, rope, scrazzlerb, shwag, skunk, tampiko, weed, whacko-tobacco
wow, more than I thought
I think [Zeitgeist] would be a good word to explain. It’s an interesting one and I saw many people spelling it wrong(if you come from Germany it hurts^^).
Hi Marina! mmm well I don’t think he should left his medals…and here, in Mexico, another name for marihuana is “mota” or “yerba” but the last is not very common.
There’s another side to the “pot” name: In the ancient old world languages, the term “pot” meant “living water” or “moving water,” as in the words “potion,” “hippopotamus” and “mesopotamia.”
Shamans teach that the consciousness altering substances that partake of the “water” spirits are hemp and the peyote cactus. Thus the “pot” nickname for cannabis. “Peyote” is just “P. O. T.” in Spanish.
The laws against cannabis are unconstitutional. Also, the Declaration of Independence says we have “unalienable” rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The reason people smoke cannabis is to pursue happiness, pure and simple.
Frankly, I would boycott any company that withdrew its support of Phelps because of this matter.
The drug laws are evidence of prejudice and bias, not good jurisprudence.
Since cannabis is indigenous to the Middle East… it makes me think that the anointing oil used there was, wholly or partially, derived from the oil of this plant. It would alter the consciousness of those who suffered from various afflictions.
I am gonna make some “anointing oil” one day and rub it on my forehead… see what happens.
Congress justified their actions by combining the jurisdiction over interstate commerce with the infamous “elastic clause.” That only applies to federal drug laws. The vast majority of drug laws are state laws, and nothing in the Constitution prevents states from passing (most) drug laws.
Not saying I agree or disagree. Just saying how they justified it.
I’m biting my virtual tongue to keep from replying with a virtual scathing insult. The quote was from the Declaration of Independence, which has very little to do with the Constitution these days. The laws are unconstitutional because the instigators did an end run around the law rather than addressing it. As far as the Declaration is concerned, it answers your question quite handily. “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” Murderers take life, no? It doesn’t sanction taking life or liberty in the pursuit of happiness. Why didn’t you take your smart pills this morning?
Hey, I’m a pathological Anglophile, so “dumb Limey” doesn’t compute. One of the best singer/songwriters I’ve ever heard is coming from England to visit me for the third time. He has stuff on the web: Lata Gouveia; look him up. He’s from London, but is now an adopted son of the Tulsa Sound.
I guess I picked on the wrong guy to pick on, but I don’t mind making an idiot of myself because I achieved my objective, which was to get you to clarify your point, for which I thank you.
When it comes to the battle between human liberty and the psychopaths in government, I tend to be a little bit like a religious fanatic.
Lata is a quiet genius, has a pocketful of University degrees and speaks many languages. The songs he writes, sings and records sound better than 90% of the studio stuff the big labels are pushing. Tell your friends about him.
I think this is the link to the PARODY I wanted to show previously. But I’m not sure, since it’s taking FOREVER to download today!
I don’t even know if it is required to sign in or to have a certain Flash Player installed.
Thatcher just got fired for using the word [golliwogg]? I heard that WOG stood for worthy oriental gentleman. That doesn’t derogatory to me. What’s up?
“Wog” is a derogatory term used in the UK to denote that a person is Indian or Pakistani. It has the same connotation as the “n-word” does here in the USA, very insulting.
Thanks there alex; potash and corncorb pipes, and is that 90 gallons to a pipe? hashvater=DRINKofGRIEF…—In France, do the Carthusian monks use seeping of secret pot-herbs to produce CHARTREUSE?.. cigarettes came from joints? mexicans are mostly northamericans of slang talk
good grief…:-)The words are a mixture from Mixtec or Mixtecs(AmerSpmixteco) and sometimes slang for peskie fly……going to the birds…..going to pot…and gone to?
Cute little pigtails and some similar history, in regards to “pot’…some mother herbs(old school health care), the braids {(like russian saliors)TAR}—soaked with opium, as with—then sold to apothecaries. The MOTHER HERB was what saved many the civility!!! …the magic word from HotForWords today is “SEEP”…the mother of teas…love and later Where’s the heat?
Am I the only one who actually believes that Marina’s breasts are natural? Because from the neck down, she closely resembles my ex-wife, who is naturally well endowed.
Maybe we should just start a forum on the topic, and move the whole discussion off the video pages.
Hi Marishka,
I am your old fan. Loved your recent videos. On the Blitz one you had funny hair. Made me think of a request to plait your hair like Yulia Timoshenko one day and explain why foreigners say the Ukraine while the rest of countries go indefinite? Thanks a lot! Would be fun if you did.
Ukrainian Anna
Spanish words are accented on the second to last syllable when they end in a vowel or n; otherwise, the accent falls on the last syllable, unless there is an accent mark showing otherwise.
Hi Leonard — I think you’re pulling my leg, but no, the Russian lyrics are not a translation of the Spanish. As you probably surmised from the setting, they’ve made it into a New Year’s song.
Vika Daineko and Timur Rodriguez — first time I’ve seen a Spanish surname transliterated into Cyrillic.
Thanks—What is was. Did you ever notice, that some slavs(old school poles), dress like old catholic spain? In old english hemp is haenap…how does Cyrillic transliterate Marijuana or hashish? KANNABIS…Interesting is that hemp is of family of figs and mulberries[silk]…bees are good Tradition never cared who smoked the work…3 strans to a rope…braid…granpa got in trouble(30’s), he would not burn his straw…mixed in mud..peace…family was robbed
Marina I am by no way making fun of your Russian accent as I love it, I love the whole video as you make fun of the pot, it adds another side of you that is cool and neat, but at 32 seconds into the video I just love the way you say marijuana. I played it back at least four times just to listen to your pronunciation of the word. What is the Russian words for pot or marijuana?
there was a program on BBC2 on tuesday 3rd about Pot…….Weed….
and they did tests on mice and rats .
the test where that smokeing ……weed…. when you are a Adlult could possible be ok ….
they had a man saying he has 3 a day …
then a Reall drugged up man ( looked that part as well ) saying he has over 5 …..6…7….just takes loads when he wants .
I tried it …..but did not like it
Michael Phelps is just a kid, and kids do dumb stuff it’s all part of growing up. It’s nice to see he is normal. Kids will be kids.
This is a very funny video thanks for the morning laugh.
Please don’t burn that pretty face.
Let’s see…other names for pot: weed,shit,dope,grass,cheeba,wacky tobaccy,cannibus,and others I can’t think of now.
As far as Michael Phelps smoking it,I could care less. If they would legalize pot then there would be no more big a deal of Michael smoking it than if he were caught drinking at a bar.
The endorsement game is truly absurd! Fuck being popular! Be yourself without anchoring it to “money” or “public acceptance”.
That a person’s value ($$$$$) & public image is “cornered” by any and all private behavior… what a joke!
This kind of drama… I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Homework II
Went from hero to zero! As long as Michael Phelps learned from his mistake and doesn’t keep using it, he can still do endorsements, but at the same time his image has been tarnished.
Something is just now adding up right here.
You clearly have the looks.
You have the talent.
You have a great sense of humor.
Your intelligent and creative.
Your in the center of Tinsel Town.
Why aren’t you just the greatest gift to TV and movie entertainment?
I’m grateful that you share with us every day a portion of your talent.
But the rocket scientist out there are missing a tremendious opportunity by not tapping into your abilities.
Believe it or not, Marina’s still a little shy and unsure of herself.
Have you noticed the out-takes at the end of some of her videos, and the pauses for edits in others? When she can consistently do her videos in one take, she’ll probably be confident enough to take on more TV shows, movie spots, and public speaking engagements.
TV and film have professional production and editing staffs and it doesn’t have to be live.
She would be a great modern day Caroll Burnett, Lucille Ball or Susan Summers.
Humm, I must be yearning for the return to Giggle TV of the 70’s.
I hate the term marijuana cigarette. I cigarette is tobacco so a marijuana cigarette is a cigarette made from marijuana, so how can it be a cigarette then if a cigarette is just tobacco. Goddamn it. Cant they just call it a joint
It sure seems like the expertise(rats)…know their own brain. Is not it amazing, cufan71, of the compiled list they have for pot? [Intelligentsia]==intergovernmental TOP+POT pottop POT+TOP
Hey Marina, click the Home page link (upper left of any page) and you have an advertisement called “Kiss Me In 3D”. Very interesting and very creative interactive Flash advertising. Of course that piqued my creative thoughts. Too many ideas not enough hours in the day. Darn it.
As a Buddhist, I follow the advice of the Buddha and refrain from using “substances that cloud the mind”, but since Buddhism is a religion of tolerance, I also have to refrain from condemnation of those who choose different paths.
However, I think Phelps should loose his benefits for his stupidity. Some studies claim to have proved that Cannabis use causes brain damage, but one has to wonder if the brain damage was not present as a prerequisite for the substance abuse. Whatever! If one accepts money from people or companies, one assumes a responsibility for abiding by the requirements, or for what one “should reasonably expect to be” the requirements, of the donor.
Anyone should realise that openly flouting the law, or indulging in behaviour which is disapproved of by the more conservative elements of society, would be likely to be considered as “bringing the ‘good’ name of the sponsor into disrepute”.
Phelps committed the cardinal sin of thinking that he is immune from censure and should expect to suffer the consequences.
Don’t be so surprised, Evan; Europe’s oldest Tibetan Buddhist Monastery is at Eskdalemuir in Scotland, and the Abbot of the Samye Ling is also the founder of the Holy Isle Project on Holy Isle in the Firth of Clyde.
However, just to set the record straight, I am neither a Scotsman nor do I follow Tibetan traditions. I have been to the Samye Ling Monastery and it’s a beautiful place.
Bob, at the risk of being nosy, where do you come from originally? How long have you lived in Scotland? I had you pegged as a fellow Celt; hope I wasn’t being presumptuous.
Originally from Reading, 40 miles west of London, but bounced around all over UK, Europe and the world.
I haven’t gone deeply into the family history yet, but it’s a fair bet there’s some Celtic blood in here somewhere, even if it’s only a finger-full.
No, by “currently illegal” my point was those advertising to the public, unless desiring otherwise, are not looking for someone that has brought attention to themselves by breaking a law. Especially when it comes to influencing children or the parents they market. This thought was independent of whether you think the law needs to be changed or the health risks you find acceptable.
He made this decision, knowing the rules as they currently stand and the impact it could have if caught. He just got caught so he should deal with it.
This lesson is strange for me because last night I had a dream I ate a HUGE amount of magic mushrooms. But I was fine….
Marina, seeing you try to smoke pot is sooooooooo funny!
HOMEWORK: No I don’t think so, what he does in his own life is up to him.
Weed skunk draw ganja hash blow waccy baccy grass bush green block hash
I always wanted to know why it was called pot! In the uk (don’t know about the US) only the resin is called pot. The bud is usually called weed
I don’t like weed that much, it makes me feel sick, and I have a huge fear of sick. Pot is easier to handle
I don’t smoke it much now. I used to be really bad when I was about 13/14 I would go out drinking and everything, then we moved. Now I have no friends here (even though we are 2 miles away from where we were).. I’m all alone. And besides there isn’t very much of a gang in a town mainly populated by people over 75
Pot is an adult choice, like tobacco and alcohol, but much less harmful. In America, we have life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, unless the politicians decide otherwise.
Pot was made illegal in the ’30’s at the request of Dupont, who had a new fiber out called nylon. They wanted hemp outlawed and they cooked up some racists myths about the herb, made a movie, and the gullible and ignorant American public bought it hook, line, & sinker. It’s cost us billions over the years, and packed the prisons full to overflowing. This prohibition of pot has contributed to the thriving economy of the gangs in the inner city, so it has fueled gang violence including murder, making the U.S. the murder capitol of the world. It has also deprived harmless and otherwise hard working citizens of their liberty, their fortunes and their families. The prohibition against pot is the biggest threat to freedom we face, and neither the liberal nor conservative politicians, or media hacks are brave enough to tell the truth. I smoked pot from 1968 to 1991 and I never saw anyone get sick or die from it, unlike cigarettes or alcohol. Never saw a pot smoker beat his wife, unlike alcohol and straight folks. And after smoking pot virtually everyday in that period, quiting was like falling off a log, and there is no cravings after quiting, either.
Hello my dear Teacher, Marina. Since the press is [having a field day] with the Michael Phelps pot smoking incident, could you please help me out with the origin of the phrase: [field day]? Thanks Marina, I’ll be good.
There’s a waiting list for those KISS coffins that eternally play Beth I hear you calling♫♪ cept it’s some absurd wait, probably like over 2 years or more just to get on the purchaser list. If Ralph Nader waited 30 plus years to get airbags installed in vehicles then it only seems right that people die before marijuana gets legalized.
High Times magazine would endorse Phelps, that’s about it though. After 5 minutes of dilberation- “Has the Olympic commitee come to any conclusion yet?” Well, the cereal companies where concerned at first, you know, frosted flakes ads vs. Wheaties and Cheerios and now this stuff about bong hits!
Come to think of it those big factory smoke stacks look like giant bong pipes, when the air turns brown and dirts up the skies, nice, I sort of get sentimental about these things.
That’s the thing, though. These cats are not looking at hundreds; some of the big guys are looking at single deals in the tens of millions. Cumulatively, one’s endorsements can get into hundreds of millions. I would like to say that money is not that big of a draw for me, but who am I kidding. Someone offers me $22 mil to sell their shoes if I hit 50 homeruns this year, I honestly do not know what i would do.
Currently illegal, hmmm, that’s sorta like breaking wooden barrels full of booze in front of flashing cameras during the prohibition era soes black and white newspaper photos make a splash into next day’s papers to show em whose boss, huh?
Freedom allows mamas to chemitize themselves until they pump out eight babies at a time and give birth to newborns with six digits on both hands and feet and call it a day. Thank goodness sanity prevails in this place.
I don’t feel he necessarily “should” lose endorsements, but I definitely think he will. We are not talking about some kid here, we are talking about a young man that decided to do something currently illegal. He made a decision and now will have to deal with the consequences. “If you want to play, you got to pay.”
While recreation drug use is an adult decision, I do see that he had positioned himself as a role model for adolescents. The bottom line is that he is not a role model. Advertising tends to lift the wrong individuals up. Maybe a hard working, loving, mom and dad would make better sense.
Sure, latch key kids on pharms and it’s legal so no condemnation is going to stick because it’s a stick of butter in a court of law when it’s legal as an eagle so no cries from you worried parents, you’d be talking to walls. I know. There’s over 600 chemicals in a cigarette so there’s no reason for anyone to be alarmed about messing up generational DNA.
feel almost ashamed for knowing so many. but hey – i live in a country where it’s legal to sell and smoke this out in the open: the netherlands (AKA holland).
Personally i never tried this. I have a good friend that uses it medically for his multiple sclerosis.
Now marina, can you cook an egg?? that pot seems pretty unused!
and oh, no i think micheal phelps should not be punisched for smoking pot.
Funny, I have yet to read about how marijuana enhances swimming performance in young athletes. No experiments on scientists blowing pot smoke into Capuchin monkeys faces to observe how they’ll react. Ok. Guess we’re safe then.
Isn’t anyone noticing a trend here? Heard a story about how it’s forbidden to take a bite from an apple and now this herb ban stuff. Tisk, tisk, what a shame.
no i dont think Phelps should lose his endorsements. when you smoke pot, it mellows you out and slows you down. he is way too fast to be a pot smoker(he probably does crack or speed). also pot gives you the munchies and he is too fit for that too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkVyzTOjPFQ
i was always curious about that
ut in that case, where did [mary jane] come from?
More celebutards? http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/27321165/
A date…US Attorney: No More Marijuana Raids…omega
[omen] good job HotForWords of LEXICON 
Here is an interesting word that I came across, [Pilot]. If you would again do me the honor of finding the origin.
- Vichama
I would like the request the word [Scaffolding]. we have been using it at work and people keep calling it “Scaffleting” rather than “Scaffolding” and it made me want to know the origins of the word.
I would like to request the word [ambidexterity], and a more quirky word; [cocksure] and how it relates to the word(s) cock (rooster), cock (faucet), and/or cocky (pompous).
Best, Misha
hi marina i would like to know the origin of the thrase [kicked the bucket] as i have never understood why we use it when we refer to someone who has died.
I know that!!!
So the bucket was (in Norfolk, England) the beam from which a pig about to be killed used to hang by its hind feet. The nervous reflex actions of the pig, after its throat was cut to let the blod drain into a receptacle below, caused it to kick the bucket as it was dying:D
Sounds disgusting but that is why this saying means to die
Hey Marina, I’d REALLY like to know the story behind the word [akimbo].
I had a hard time believing it was actually an English word. @___@; Please, Please, Please make a video about it! I’m begging D;
Alternative terms for “pot”: buds, greens, trees, k-town(better than average quality pot), smoke, weed, chronic, cannibus, Mary Jane…
That’s one funny video, though;lol!!! 
[Orgasm] and [Masterbation] are good words i agree with u guys. I third those words and i hope Marina makes a video on them. It be awesome!!!!
Marina if can i call you that. Please do [masterbation] or [orgasm] they both are very good words. I give props to iloveprettyrussians5. Using one of those words will make great video. Ok thanks for considering it! From your biggest fan vinnythewordman12321!!!
Marina if can i call you that. Please do [masterbation] or [orgasm] they both are very good words. I give props to iloveprettyrussians5. Using one of those words will make great video. From your biggest fan vinnythewordman12321!!!
Hey can I request the word [the]
hahahaha
i hope this word is not too dirty but i would also like to request the word [masturbation]
i would like to request the word [orgasm], it seems like it would be interesting
hi Marina! i would like to request the word [concessions]! thanks so much!
Marine
Hey my name is alex and i would love it if you did the word [wedgie] and even if you gave yourself a wedgie! That would be cool but if you dont want 2 wedgie yourself please do the word! Be they way I love your show so thanks! I luv u so much:mrgreen:!!!!!
I would like to request the words [Laptop] and [Request]
Michael Phelps has trained at an unbelievable great level for the past decade to achieve what no one else has done in Olympic swimming. We should give him credit for the honor he has brought to the USA through his competition and allow him a little understanding if he happens to act like a 20 year old occasionally.
Thanks MP, we still love you!
I would like to request the word [curse] thanks
I would like to request the word [snepling] for climbing walls as a sport activity
thanks
Teacher,
Hello, what is the differance between [affect] & [effect]? Thank you.
Chad
In an ideal and completely rational world, Michael Phelps should not suffer any consequences for smoking pot, as long as it doesn’t negatively impact his performance. However, we live in a crazy world of irrationality, where a stock price can fall simply because a drug was found to be 96 percent effective instead of 100 percent, where people sincerely believe that the earth is only 6,000 years old, and where experimenting with cells in a petri dish is considered immoral. Keeping in mind all of this irrationality, it is a rational choice for individual sponsors to withdraw support for Phelps or face a loss of public respect. That’s our sad lot as humans: we will always be held back by our crazy, emotional ways. Fortunately, though, we can decide as a society to change our thinking and laws in order to create a better world for the next generation. So, let’s make some changes!
With current themes of celebrity athletes, scandal and continuing willingness to believe the worst, this is a good time take a look back at a more innocent age without ubiquitous video when a fan could urge “Say it ain’t so, Joe.” I can reference your lesson here; ain’t kidding.
Marina, a note about the above “Pot” video. That video has been on the Popular page #5 since Feb 5, 4:21 AM, but it disappears off of the Popular pages, then comes back.
From observation, it seems that a video that lands on the Popular pages, has a shelf life of 7 days, assuming all other metrics are met. Right now, the Pot video has been there two days, so I expect it to be there 5 more days assuming the other metrics are met; ratings, rising views, etc.
At this moment, the ranking is #93 (p5 #13) and had been as high as #92
Thanks, Karl: You have these thought waves and its been wonderful for your communicative sharing within The Republic of Lexicon!!! This wisdom from hotrocky…Rocky Frisco – The Blues For You…anyway ‘preciat the good work!*!*!*!*!*!
Hey thanks leonard, I appreciate your thoughts.
I love reading your comments.
Love those Rocky Frisco Blues…
Phelps should get a pass on this incident, sure he may have broke some moral clause in his contracts but in the grand scheme of things life is too short to deal with such a insignificant matter.
…my dear marina, you have outdone yourself…
…now that you have reset the bar….what next?
…i have watched this six times, and cannot stop laughing…
…hats off…true genius…
I remember i have heard where CV [curriculum vitae] comes from. But i couldnt find in the words. Was it in my dream
Hopefully we will see it.
Hello Marina, I didn’t want to post this on the comments (but since you and your office don’t or wont reply, let’s try this in public…sorry).
I wrote your business link 11 days ago and then I wrote you privately three days ago. I asked if your paintings were for sale anywhere. I also gave (you) information on director Michael Mann and his work with Ferrari and how you could do work with them in LA and become a Russian spokes model for their luxury brand and others. I even offered to help you and your boyfriend (whoever drives the GT3 Porsche that was in your recent slide show) enjoy top-level luxury cars for a drive in Malibu.
NO RESPONSE LIKE I’M NOTHING FOR BEING NICE AND TRYING TO HELP YOU AND BUY SOMETHING FROM YOU AS WELL!
You know, I’ve bought your calendar, I’ve written privately and advised you to do political words during the election season and was happy to then see you go on shows like O’Reily and so forth. I’ve cared about helping you and I don’t deserve even an answer for wanting to buy a painting from you and help your career even more? OK. Thanks again for visiting Wyoming. Last year, I wrote your office about possibly bringing you and yours up here for a $6,000 speaking engagement. But you’ve been here, right? OK. Hope to hear from you…although I think I’m losing interest in your artwork…and your career, unfortunately. If I don’t matter, trying to be nice…duh
420
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/04/18/420/
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/04/21/420-answer/
Hey cufan71: check out 4020 3000 rpm drive’em if you got’em
Very
When my family owned a dairy we had a 4020, but not with that much horsepower! 
419
Pot can be called grass, dope, weed, ganga, wacky tobacky, sense (sensamilla), herb, leaf, Mary Jane, marijuana, etc.
Marina, I have to show you this because I dont want you to think I have gone behind your back… X
http://www.hotforwords.com/html-in-comments/#comment-108752
James I deleted your hacks. This comment limiter is simply javascript so it can be hacked in 2 seconds. I just don’t need the whole site hacking it… I just thought that shorter comments would speed things up.
Ok
but let me know if I evr step out of line! I can’t wait for tomorrow! Hopefully I will get my HD camcorder tomorrow. I know I don’t get many views but as it is, having better quality might do me some good.
duh. that still makes it possible to post thousands of comments in a row, doesn’t it? that’s what sucks, not the length of the comments. just saying.
Does James inspire to be a [hi-jacker]…insusperable…keep up all the fun and thanks
Thanks Marina for leaving my dotted line around my comments.
were did these words come from?? I’m a new subscriber by the way
[alphabet]
[news]
Popularity page update:
The HFW “Pot” video has now been pulled from the Popular pages. It was #92 for the last hour and a half and the views did not change, where earlier, that video’s views changed dramatically (in the 2,500s).
My early delusion is that the video was pulled due to lack of change of views? Question? will the video return once it is pulled? Don’t know, and I am glued to the tube.
On the Most Viewed pages, the “Pot” video is in the #36 position.
Pk what page or site do we look for now so we can be aware of when she uploads a new video? It used to be this page http://www.youtube.com/browse?s=mp&t=t&cr=US&p=2. So has YT changed the line up now?
Hi Mike, the link you have is correct.
However, Marina may or may not change her strategy in how she deals with uploads, so we’ll wait to see what she says.
YT has changed the default page. Click on the YT VIDEO link in the upper left of the YT page. The 20 default videos that are shown on page 1 is the POPULAR category. It used to be MOST VIEWED. That changes the way visitors will view videos, which means that Marina’s videos may not be as easily sought out as before.
Thanks pal.
If you don’t mind could you keep me informed on what she decides to go with?
I’m now seeing the top four ‘Most Viewed’ in a film-strip type display above the top twenty ‘Most Popular’.
Are rebellion and/or common sense prevailing?
I see also, we’ve been promoted to 1500 characters for our comments.
Hey look
Character AssassinationMarina, forgive my naivete, but I’m a no B.S. guy. Is there not someone you could call, email, or whatever who could clarify their procedures and methods pertaining to ratings, or anything else for that matter? For God’s sake, they ought to consider you an asset from a business aspect. And when you get down to it, any success you enjoy would benefit them.
Google acquired YouTube and put some technical people in charge who thought it would be a good idea to create a “secret formula” to determine what videos are considered popular, and they want to keep the formula secret so that people cannot manipulate the system.
So, even though I have been one of their top producing partners, they can’t tell me anything about the formula for fear that word will get out and people will start manipulating their videos to appear on those pages.
Of course, if they simply kept the system of showing the most viewed videos for the day, which is what people want to see, then everything would have been fine as you cannot manipulate your video views without getting caught… plus views would seem to indicate the popularity of a video, correct?
Some people are saying this opens it up for YouTube to promote certain videos without people realizing it, others say it allows them to censor. I know they think it’s an improvement in the site, but I don’t see it yet
Go Girl Go…[GO GO GIRL], I think that request would search You Tube well
, Art is what makes human nature interesting and the art of communication is universal. Long live*** The Republic of Lexicon***
Da…[GoGo Dancer] I ment[mental me]…The Sonics – Psycho a Go-Go peace out with cake
Wild Go Go dancers contest uk 1970
go-go
You don’t get rid of us that easily!
Never Give Up!
Bob remarked:
You’re damn right Bob, over my dead Excel spreadsheet.
Marina, I’m thrilled to get your response. Thanks for enlightening me. You are totally correct about why the system should remain the way it’s been, it seems to me. Me smells a possible attempt at manipulation. What corporate crap!
Please keep dummies like me posted about this situation. And know that you are, and always will remain NUMBER ONE with me and the rest of the Family.
Love you.
Always.
Marina said:
If I may clarify some things about the notion of popularity without getting pedantic. Our western culture typically associates popularity with, “mostest” or “biggest”. Typically, quantity over quality.
A bumper sticker says; he who dies with the most toys, wins. We grow up with the idea that one who takes home the most marbles, wins.
In high school, the one with the most friends is typically thought of as the most popular, right? What about the smartest? Not always the most popular.
So, in the context of quantity, YT “Most Viewed” videos was the simplest and most easily understood to indicate popularity. However, since views were manipulated, (amongst many other things), YT had to re-define popularity.
As a mental exercise, I can still utilize views as a measure of popularity, but instead of absolute views, what if I said that the change of rate of views is now my measure of popularity. Much harder to manipulate and more difficult to understand, but of course, YT has added a lot more variables besides simple rate of change of views.
In some schools, I might be the most popular because I am the best looking; in other schools I might be the most popular because I have the most money, albeit being homely looking.
A lot more can be said, but I’m out of characters.
Remind me to blog about that topic.
Secret Formula? WTF?
Well, it is Google – where Al Gore Rythym is nurtured!
Nothing to do with mathematical rules, I expect
Shell Gasoline – with Platformate
A quick read of the true facts about “platformate” shows the difference between advertising and reality.
Doug-you the man-That info was great
naphtha is of Iranian origin…I order you a cocktail…are you finished? Al just walked in and its your turn to buy! 
Speaking of role models, maybe Obama shouldn’t smoke cigarettes.
JFK was the first president not to wear a hat and that put the kibosh on the hat industry.
i’ve noticed in your bloopers you often use the expletive “fuck”. i would like to know the origins of the word [fuck] as well as why the FCC deemed Bono’s (lead vocalist of the Irish rock band U2) usage acceptable when he won an award on national television.
*i would like to note that the U.S. Supreme court deemed that the public display of the word “fuck” is protected under the First and Fourteenth Ammendment and is not considered a criminal offence. so i can’t get in trouble for this question.*
thanks much cufan71! but now this arises another question… how did it transform from “ficken”- to strike, to “fuck”- sexual intercourse? i agree, Marina will most likely not do a lesson on this, because of it’s obsene nature. ahh, rejecte by yet another beautiful Ruskie woman… hey Marina… does this mean i’m a [Xenophile]?
There is one thing I learned while living in Mexico, if nature put a plant on this planet it is for a reason.
Case in point, for every poison sting from an insect there was some other plant or mineral around which contained the antidote.
For those of you who have read the comments below about the YouTube changing their default page to Popular as opposed to Most Viewed, we ain’t letting HotForWords slip into oblivion, right? Maybe we could also patronize the HotForWords videos on YT?
At this moment, HotForWords video “The Cardinals” is on the YT Popular This Week page 3 in the first spot (#41).
Also, the HotForWords video “Do You Gargle?” is on YT Popular This Week page 4 in the seventh spot (#67).
I love these videos.
I didn’t know that gargle and gargoyle were related.
Awesome videos!!! Go check them out.
Ohhh, and unlike a library, when you check these videos out, you don’t have to return them and get fined.
pedanticKarl… any pages other than Most Popular pages for Today mean nothing. People on the Internet only go to what’s presented to them, they do not click on other menu items.
So, let’s see if we can figure out how one appears on the Most Popular Videos for Today pages.
Kewl, this is going to be a worthwhile challenge.
The “Pot” video above is now in 100th position on the Popular page#5, where it was #97 about an hour ago. Cranking up that Excel spreadsheet.
An hour ago, “smpfilms” wasn’t even on the Popular 100 when HotForWords was at #97. Now, “smpfilms” is in the #12 spot on page 1 of the Popular pages.
Ohhhh, this is going to be lots of fun figuring this one out. My gears will be working overtime today. If you see smoke, don’t call the fire dept. It’s my brain on overload.
Marina, a quick update. I’ve been monitoring the Popular pages since 4:21 AM and there have been 3 updates since then or one update per hour appx. (Doing it manually at the moment).
The HotForWords views on the POPULAR page#5 have increased by about 5,300 views, but that has not helped the position.
As a whole, all videos slipped in position as new videos are added to the board and older videos leave the board. Videos views appear to have very little affect if any at the moment that I can see.
Holy jumping statistics, I just refreshed Popular page #5 and you just jumped to #92.
I wonder if the number of views per video has any influence on the position in ‘Most Popular’. Look at Chris Brown TV, Leona Lewis, Fred and Beonce, all ahead of Marina but Michael Jackson still behind despite only 35 videos.
Or how about the rate of increase in the number of views?
PK must investigate.
What about number of Shares, Favourites, Playlists and Ratings?
I know I would be facing down
Yes, Bob, other metrics do play a part in measuring popularity according to many blogs that I have read including YouTube’s. Of course, no one knows to what extend or what the formula is, but I’m looking to do just that, or get close to it.
Essentially, what I garner out of the various things that I have studied, it is a combination of ratios of the variables and rate of change of the variables.
Edit: Views probably do have an effect, but are not synchronized with every update. In other words, a change in video position may not show the newly updated views, plus as new videos enter the board, that has an affect on position.
SO C
L Marina 
I’m so 
with envy 
Hey cufan71,
I wonder how Carrie Underwood feels about being in the presence of the magnificent HotForWords? What if Carrie is a secret HFW fan and has been on these pages as someone else all along?
And if not, then someone should let Carrie know to visit us over here to watch HotForWords video lessons.
Consider it done.
Carrie should be here any minute now.
Hi Karl! Like I said down below: “Two of my favorite girls in one room”
AWESOME 
How would you like to be the meat in that sandwich
Yeah, but which way would you be facing?
See if Marina can get you an autograph picture of Carrie Underwood. You can send Marina your home address and get it from her. Worth a chance.
Marina’s place to contact her.
http://www.hotforwords.com/business/
What would REALLY be
is if I could get an autographed picture with both of them together 
Medical Word Reqeust: [aspirin] and [acetylsalicylic acid}.
Eric M
The above video is now on the YouTube
POPULAR page 5 in position #97.
To review how to smoke a Pot without getting burned, click here.
I just posted an update to HotForWords Honors of most watched channels of all time. HotForWords has now moved up three positions.
Awesome!!!
Thanks grovygrady1957
Kewl, the embedded videos now have the YT title and ratings over laid on top of the video above.
Where’s the potted plant on the bedside table ?
crack ? weed ? Marys ?
You can learn a lot from videos games , in this case GTA
I don’t know if you have heard of the issuance of a new top domain, .ME, which is a country domain for Montenegro (recently independent of .YU). They decided to peddle it worldwide instead of reserving it for those in the country. Some went for as much as $70K. The U.S. had the biggest interest (%70) because of the English word ME and there were more URLs issued in one day than ever before (20K+).
Look which names this bozo bought in hopes of making a killing reselling them. BTW, a friend of mine bought a .ME and I had never heard of it, so I had to research this out of curiosity.
Oh, and, yes, F.ME works. Can’t you just see it? “My Website? Uh, yeah, I have one. It’s… uh… It’s… Oh, nevermind, Mom!”
Correction: Try F.ME. But somebody missed a bet with F.YU, cause it doesn’t work. Maybe the Yugoslavs reserve the domain for only in-country use.
My favorite words are for the users, or the act of using, not the plant… such as “Cheeba monkeys” or “Rockin’ the ganj”.
Anyone remember the old song from the Dr. Demento show called “Wildwood Weed” (or something like it)?
Marina, you’re supposed to smoke basket, not pot… weave some dried hemp into a basket, decorate with buds and leaves, light in several places, and breathe deeply… much like Michael Douglas in “Romancing the Stone”. “Now that’s what I call a campfire.”
Wild Wood Weed
Your futile attempts to literally smoke the stainless steel pot is really hilarious, Marina.
Anyway, another good lesson.
My verdict:
Substance abuse is never a good thing and if society has any chance to function and benefit humanity, actions must have their corresponding consequences. Loosing endorsements alone is too light of a punishment for someone that a significant number idolize according to the same mechanics that drive celebrity worship.
And please, don’t destroy your beautiful mind with substances that distort your sense of reality and ultimately destroy your mental, physical and psychological heath. May you stay beautiful in both mind and body and enlighten us with your lessons for many years to come.
Moderation is a key component in the responsible use of anything from Mother Nature.
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But there’s more where they came from. Can you guess where? Oh, and to prevent “character wastage,” each of you will be expected to fill out every single post to the limit.
Marina : I love your website it is one of the most fascinating sites that I have stumbled across. The word that I am, looking for is [skill] as in the [The names of towns like Catskill peekskill and 11 other towns in New York State] Thank you Very much ,And yes you are defineatly the sexist geek on the internet
I’ll bet you “skill” means something in Dutch like burg or city or bump in the road. Whose our Dutchman here?
That’s possible, but I wonder if it comes from the old Norse ’skille’ or ’skylle’.
I would also like Marina to extend her investigations to include toponymy, so I second x354mms request for [-skill]
New 1000 character limit…hmm…I guess that puts the [kabosh] on the Fractured Philology series.
Marina, how many members are there on your website? Seems to me we may already have more than a thousand “characters.”
[Kibosh] would be a good test of M’s skills if you read the fine print here.
So the other day I was [accosted] by a [panhandler]. While searching for some change I got to wondering, “where do those words come from?”
WLIU, panhandler came from beggers who would handle pans in which to receive alms.
I would love for you to find the origin of the word [blockbuster]
because I think it’s interesting and you haven’t done it yet. Please and thank-you Marina.
Proverbs 3
13Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
14For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
15She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
16Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
17Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
18She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
Halleluja, Hotforwords is mentioned in the Bible.
Tomorrows reading will be from the Song of Solomon.
On the weekend… let’s look at Ecclesiastes… “eat, drink and be merry”… all is vanity… nothing new under the sun… in the end we’re all dust… and so forth.
How about [pregnat]
That means “before the bugs arrive.”
After they arrive, it would be post gnat.
Isn’t there a law against sending live animals or perishable goods through the post?
One of my favorite German sayings (talking about eventually finding a love match) is: “Every pot has a lid.”
Actually, “For every pot there is a lid.”
Ooh boy! 300!
What’s with the 1000-character limit? Are we running out of disk space? This really sucks. You might be right in the middle of a serious thought and run out of
characters and have to use a reply. If you can do that, what is the point of the limit?
Dumb,
Dumber,
Dumberer,
Dumberist.
Quote
“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” – Thomas Henry Huxley 1825-1895 from the HotForWords-Republic of Lexicon–its one of his drawings
Do you really have anything to say here that you cannot say in 1000 characters or less? If I have that mch to say about anything, I will write you a letter.
Who knows? Was something going wrong that had to be fixed? Or is this a solution in search of a problem? I think the longest post in this blog was annundermale’s list of pots and pans. That wasn’t too bad was it? Did it grate on someone’s nerves? Did the bearings on the scroll wheel of someone’s mouse disintegrate when they tried to bypass his post? Really!
And by the way, that is a good idea of yours when you said “mch.” We cud strt tlkg lk ths & sy lots by lvg out unessry ltrs. We cd spk vols & put the bibl on th hd of a pn. (Wrng: Nvr, nvr, nvr wrt ur pn nr dwn.)
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& nw 4 a tst!
Oh, I have exceeded the Mighty Limits imposed by the demons of Hell. Oh, yes I have. Muhahahahahahahaha! And so you can see now that this whole thing is all S of the B variety and the man behind the curtain will have to go back to work to plug this hole. But, again, I ask: why bother?
Interviewer: Can you describe yourself in a sentence using fewer than 1000 words?
Interviewee: Concise.
Interviewer: You’ve got the job.
Calvin Coolidge was noted for his lack of loquaciousness. At a dinner party, a lady seated next to him said, ” I bet a friend that I could get you to say three words.” Coolidge replied, “You lose.”
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.
– William Strunk Jr., Elements of Style
It may well be healthier to eat pot than to smoke it. Who wants all that resin going into their lungs.
There must be a high roughage factor from eating this weed. Pot is high in fiber & maybe some minerals I don’t know about.
It is most likely grow organically.
Do any pharmaceutical company extract the THC from pot and put it in a pill form? This seems like a good way to go for medical use.
The only trouble with eating pot is that the DEA will follow you around with a pooper-scooper.
CHE
Take the “pot” and boil it with water and butter… say 30 minutes. The “inner pot oil” will mingle with the butter and repel from the hot water. Take off heat and let cool until your hands can handle the temp of the mixture. Squish the “pot” as hard as you can… the buttery green mixture should ooze out from your tight grip back into the container. All the leaves should be separated out from the green butter/water mixture.
Put container (the cooking pot with green butter/water) in fridge… butter will rise to the top and eventually harden.
When you can break away the hardened green butter… you are now ready for a myriad of goofy times… garlic bud butter cheese toast, chocolate chip bud butter banana loaf, and oatmeal-raisin bud butter cookies and so on.
TIPS…
don’t lick your fingers while doing this or you’ll get way too high!
never give it to someone who doesn’t know what’s in it… it creates a body stone that will frighten them.
Thank you Hot Rod Lincoln aka (Alice B. Toklas) when is the cookbook coming out.
Having never indulged, I have to ask: what is a body stone?
I don’t know, but is it the origin of the phrase “getting stoned”?
The reflexes/muscles of your body feel like they are “weighted down”… relaxed or slowed down. You might sit in a chair and not realize you haven’t moved a single inch for 15 minutes.
Or, you might stare at a nice set of boobs for five minutes and forget you are staring… when you realize this, then you laugh at yourself etc.
Also, your balance is sometimes tested… like trying to walk on the ship’s deck… on the “high seas!”.
They list both her last videos in the hd section
YT put you in Entertainment, I found only one of your videos, ‘Womanizer’.
So, the guy who won 8 Olympic gold medals and the latest Super Bowl MVP are both pot smokers. I guess marijuana must not be so bad, as long as it is used responsibly.
Marina,
Can you elaborate a little about your concern pertaining to youtube’s default change? Your twitter comment kinda worried me. If you see this…I know you’re busy.
Always.
When people go to YouTube they click on the Video tab and then browse on what videos show as it use to show the most viewed videos for the day.
As of today, the default is not “Most Popular” a secret algorithm that appears to have nothing to do with views as I don’t appear anywhere on that list.
your iron rib cage is intimidating the red dragon of london:mrgreen:
“Red Dragon of London”
— ydych chi’n siarad am y Gymdeithas Cymmrodorion Llundain? 
They list your last 2 videos under hd.
And those that don’t subscribe have a lesser opportunity for a chance discovery?
I just tried it.
Got a grouping for most viewed followed by a grouping for popular.
Hey, Ya’ll!
What do you get when you drop a piano down a mineshaft?
A Flat Miner.
A mineway Steinway.
Teacher,
Where did the phrase [He's a poet and don't know it. But his feet show it. They are long fellows.] come from?
cvmercer
Marina,
You say ”Marijuana” funny… and i think its wonderful.
Hello my dear teacher. My name is FOXX1022 and I am one of your new students. I must say you are the perfect combination of BEAUTY, CHARM AND
INTELLIGENCE. I wish you much success! I would like to request the word
[ CRUSH ], as in, “I have a [CRUSH] on my teacher.” Why would you want to
crush somebody you like? Will HOT FOR WORDS investigate? THANKS!!!
ps. Love your calendar. Can’t wait for your book.
Yeah, a lot of us go through the “twitterpated” phase. Don’t worry, you’ll get over it.
I think I know some other words for pot:
bomb, bud, butters, chilsprout, chimichangas, chronic, crunkler, dagga, dak, dank, dee, dope, frodis, ganja, grass, green, hashish, herb, indo, instanga, kipp, Mary Jane, mellow fellow, moss, nugget, rope, scrazzlerb, shwag, skunk, tampiko, weed, whacko-tobacco
wow, more than I thought
How did you miss torpedoe?
Torpedoe? Who do you think you are, Al Gore?
Whoe doe youe think youe are talking toe?
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No, I think I am Dan Quayle, Quale, Qayle, you know…
I don’t get it: 1/2 of 2 torpedoes should be 1 torpedoe. Right?
Impeccable logic, but oh, so wrong.
I noticed Marina, that you are most definitely not on pot.
How do I know this for such certainty?
The simple fact that The Pot Is On You!
Disclaimer: That does not make HotForWords a Drug Dealer.
I hope I get in trouble for this one
How Does A Blond Smoke Pot?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppptolZvjSQ
Have A Thought: Say Not to Pot.
Who wants Mary Jane when there is Mari-na
Don’t get Gorby high, or he’ll huff, and he’ll puff, and he’ll… eat a lot of his chew toys.
Brazilian Girls: Marijuana Not Just For Good Times
Spider venom and cancer are natural, too. But from personal experience, I advise you to avoid them.
I think [Zeitgeist] would be a good word to explain. It’s an interesting one and I saw many people spelling it wrong(if you come from Germany it hurts^^).
Ooh yeah! I heartily second [Zeitgeist.]
Zeitgeist [Religion] The Greatest Story Ever Sold (1of 3) good one on stars
Ya, [timesspirit] just doesn’t have the same Teutonic ring to it!
Hi Marina! mmm well I don’t think he should left his medals…and here, in Mexico, another name for marihuana is “mota” or “yerba” but the last is not very common.
I wonder if that’s how Yerba Buena got it’s name.
I’d like to know the origin of the word [spatula] please. Because I just bought a new one to cook eggs and and I thought what an interesting word.
Thanks,
pwa93
Howdy, everybody!
I just now was able to view your lesson, Dear Teach. Utterly hilarious-you crack me up!
Always.
There’s another side to the “pot” name: In the ancient old world languages, the term “pot” meant “living water” or “moving water,” as in the words “potion,” “hippopotamus” and “mesopotamia.”
Shamans teach that the consciousness altering substances that partake of the “water” spirits are hemp and the peyote cactus. Thus the “pot” nickname for cannabis. “Peyote” is just “P. O. T.” in Spanish.
The laws against cannabis are unconstitutional. Also, the Declaration of Independence says we have “unalienable” rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The reason people smoke cannabis is to pursue happiness, pure and simple.
Frankly, I would boycott any company that withdrew its support of Phelps because of this matter.
The drug laws are evidence of prejudice and bias, not good jurisprudence.
Excellent comment.
Since cannabis is indigenous to the Middle East… it makes me think that the anointing oil used there was, wholly or partially, derived from the oil of this plant. It would alter the consciousness of those who suffered from various afflictions.
I am gonna make some “anointing oil” one day and rub it on my forehead… see what happens.
The pot laws are wrong… period.
Congress justified their actions by combining the jurisdiction over interstate commerce with the infamous “elastic clause.” That only applies to federal drug laws. The vast majority of drug laws are state laws, and nothing in the Constitution prevents states from passing (most) drug laws.
Not saying I agree or disagree. Just saying how they justified it.
Psychopaths derive happiness from inflicting suffering and murdering people; would you then say that the law against murder is ‘unconstitutional’?
I’m biting my virtual tongue to keep from replying with a virtual scathing insult. The quote was from the Declaration of Independence, which has very little to do with the Constitution these days. The laws are unconstitutional because the instigators did an end run around the law rather than addressing it. As far as the Declaration is concerned, it answers your question quite handily. “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” Murderers take life, no? It doesn’t sanction taking life or liberty in the pursuit of happiness. Why didn’t you take your smart pills this morning?
‘Coz I’m only a dumb Limey.
Hey, I’m a pathological Anglophile, so “dumb Limey” doesn’t compute. One of the best singer/songwriters I’ve ever heard is coming from England to visit me for the third time. He has stuff on the web: Lata Gouveia; look him up. He’s from London, but is now an adopted son of the Tulsa Sound.
BTW, thanks also for introducing Lata.
When it comes to the battle between human liberty and the psychopaths in government, I tend to be a little bit like a religious fanatic.
Lata is a quiet genius, has a pocketful of University degrees and speaks many languages. The songs he writes, sings and records sound better than 90% of the studio stuff the big labels are pushing. Tell your friends about him.
I respect you hotrocky big time. I have a pick-up of old 45’s…red dirt boogie brother
Thanks, Boogiebro!
Do a youtube search on Rocky Frisco for some musical fun.
I’m [discombobulated]
I got a [monkey on my back] and he’s trying to grab my banana.
Enough talk about pot, how about a pan!
I think this is the link to the PARODY I wanted to show previously. But I’m not sure, since it’s taking FOREVER to download today!
I don’t even know if it is required to sign in or to have a certain Flash Player installed.
This lesson should be on Weekend Update on SNL.
Screw the pot who has heroin
No, don’t have any, how about a snail.
{ now the Google ads are selling munchies }
Here’s your Heroin Che. Don’t shoot it all at once.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/04/25/heroin-cough-syrup/
[alibi]
The winners don’t take drugs?
Only the losers do.
the winners do. that’s why they win.
Got any narcotics
Pharmaceuticals 
No I don’t feel he should lose any of his endorsements. But this is a hypocritical word. That likes to see one get knocked down
Thatcher just got fired for using the word [golliwogg]? I heard that WOG stood for worthy oriental gentleman. That doesn’t derogatory to me. What’s up?
I know it’s short for [gymnasium] but where did the word come from?
Go read Marina’s Twitter, Carrie Underwood is in her gym class.
“Wog” is a derogatory term used in the UK to denote that a person is Indian or Pakistani. It has the same connotation as the “n-word” does here in the USA, very insulting.
kind of an interesting discussion on the linguist list about the origin of “pot”.
Thanks there alex; potash and corncorb pipes, and is that 90 gallons to a pipe? hashvater=DRINKofGRIEF…—In France, do the Carthusian monks use seeping of secret pot-herbs to produce CHARTREUSE?..
cigarettes came from joints? mexicans are mostly northamericans of slang talk
good grief…:-)The words are a mixture from Mixtec or Mixtecs(AmerSpmixteco) and sometimes slang for peskie fly……going to the birds…..going to pot…and gone to?
I would like to request [Pardon my french]. Why do some people use that expression when they use fowl language?
Poulet vous francais?
POT-ty mouth!
Fowl language? Foul language!
Cute little pigtails and some similar history, in regards to “pot’…some mother herbs(old school health care), the braids {(like russian saliors)TAR}—soaked with opium, as with—then sold to apothecaries. The MOTHER HERB was what saved many the civility!!! …the magic word from HotForWords today is “SEEP”…the mother of teas…love and later
Where’s the heat?
What a year it has been. Thank you for the funny times and memories.
Ching
Boo
Ganga
Kine
medicine
spliff
weed
refer
sack
herb
ur breasts look soooo smooth!
It’s the sandpaper.
No, it’s the Photoshop.
Hey Bob, I figured I would try out that screen shot technique you showed me.
Uh… it works fine.
Am I the only one who actually believes that Marina’s breasts are natural?
Because from the neck down, she closely resembles my ex-wife, who is naturally well endowed.
Maybe we should just start a forum on the topic, and move the whole discussion off the video pages.
Everyone loves Marinawood
Got the munchies? Why not have some [chocolate]
Hi Marishka,
I am your old fan. Loved your recent videos. On the Blitz one you had funny hair. Made me think of a request to plait your hair like Yulia Timoshenko one day and explain why foreigners say the Ukraine while the rest of countries go indefinite? Thanks a lot! Would be fun if you did.
Ukrainian Anna
Привет, “Интерприти”
Почему Вы не пишите по-Русский тут?
Bob, take note of “Interpretty,” we have another multi-lingual punster!
Word requests:
[quintolingual]
[polyglot]
[triglot]
[diglot]
[American]
50% OFF THE CALENDAR!!! WHOA!! You should mention that in your next vid marina.
Potforwords
Jah Rastafari mi dea studen’s
mi bin chillin pon de bed; ahh, I too stoned to mak’ a lesan … Goa sleep!
Marina, do you make words with your alphabet soup
Now the ads are selling tea pots
It’ll be Potties next.
Or ads selling pot!
potluck=soup not burned
Legal Highs!
The Neti teapot even showed up in my email notification.
That’s because they know you guys in BC like to make tea with the local Vancouver Skunk Weed
I would like to request the word [Derby] As in [Local Derby] sports events between local teams and such.
Good request; I’ve often wondered about that, too.
Милая Марина,
Pronunciation note: po-ti-GUA-ya, not po-TI-gua.
Spanish words are accented on the second to last syllable when they end in a vowel or n; otherwise, the accent falls on the last syllable, unless there is an accent mark showing otherwise.
It’s funny…. I actually have a version of me saying it that way but for some reason when I edited it I put the current version in.
PS you’re welcome to correct my Russian posts at any time.
Hey there Evan-Вика Дайнеко и Тимур Родригес – La cacaracha, in that song do they sing original lyrics?
Hi Leonard — I think you’re pulling my leg, but no, the Russian lyrics are not a translation of the Spanish. As you probably surmised from the setting, they’ve made it into a New Year’s song.
Vika Daineko and Timur Rodriguez — first time I’ve seen a Spanish surname transliterated into Cyrillic.
Thanks—What is was. Did you ever notice, that some slavs(old school poles), dress like old catholic spain? In old english hemp is haenap…how does Cyrillic transliterate Marijuana or hashish? KANNABIS…Interesting is that hemp is of family of figs and mulberries[silk]…bees are good
Tradition never cared who smoked the work…3 strans to a rope…braid…granpa got in trouble(30’s), he would not burn his straw…mixed in mud..peace…family was robbed 
Marina I am by no way making fun of your Russian accent as I love it, I love the whole video as you make fun of the pot, it adds another side of you that is cool and neat, but at 32 seconds into the video I just love the way you say marijuana. I played it back at least four times just to listen to your pronunciation of the word.
What is the Russian words for pot or marijuana? 
Religion. (Oops. That was pre-90’s.)
there was a program on BBC2 on tuesday 3rd about Pot…….Weed….
and they did tests on mice and rats .
the test where that smokeing ……weed…. when you are a Adlult could possible be ok ….
they had a man saying he has 3 a day …
then a Reall drugged up man ( looked that part as well ) saying he has over 5 …..6…7….just takes loads when he wants .
I tried it …..but did not like it
***WORD REQUESTS:***
[supervisor]
[surveyor]
[overseer]
[bishop]
[επισκοπειν]
…now it’s time for some Peter Tosh – Legalize It to go with that second bong hit.
excellent and intellegent===[integration]+++[intemperance]
Michael Phelps is just a kid, and kids do dumb stuff it’s all part of growing up. It’s nice to see he is normal. Kids will be kids.
This is a very funny video thanks for the morning laugh.
Please don’t burn that pretty face.
Let’s see…other names for pot: weed,shit,dope,grass,cheeba,wacky tobaccy,cannibus,and others I can’t think of now.
As far as Michael Phelps smoking it,I could care less. If they would legalize pot then there would be no more big a deal of Michael smoking it than if he were caught drinking at a bar.
Now the ads are selling ‘potted plants’
Or is it planted pot
The endorsement game is truly absurd! Fuck being popular! Be yourself without anchoring it to “money” or “public acceptance”.
That a person’s value ($$$$$) & public image is “cornered” by any and all private behavior… what a joke!
This kind of drama… I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Going back to the 13th letter thing:
Where do people on the 14th floor think they really are anyway?
Homework II
Went from hero to zero! As long as Michael Phelps learned from his mistake and doesn’t keep using it, he can still do endorsements, but at the same time his image has been tarnished.
Marina,
Something is just now adding up right here.
You clearly have the looks.
You have the talent.
You have a great sense of humor.
Your intelligent and creative.
Your in the center of Tinsel Town.
Why aren’t you just the greatest gift to TV and movie entertainment?
I’m grateful that you share with us every day a portion of your talent.
But the rocket scientist out there are missing a tremendious opportunity by not tapping into your abilities.
What’s the deal?
Believe it or not, Marina’s still a little shy and unsure of herself.
Have you noticed the out-takes at the end of some of her videos, and the pauses for edits in others? When she can consistently do her videos in one take, she’ll probably be confident enough to take on more TV shows, movie spots, and public speaking engagements.
I did radio presenting in 2006 to 2007 . i was LIVE ! every friday nights for 3 hours , it s hard work when you have to Present .
especially when there is a camrea in your face .
Its just as nervous when You LIVE on radio every week ! .
love to get back into it Marina Done a few , possible more to come
TV and film have professional production and editing staffs and it doesn’t have to be live.
She would be a great modern day Caroll Burnett, Lucille Ball or Susan Summers.
Humm, I must be yearning for the return to Giggle TV of the 70’s.
Funny lesson Marina!
You give new meaning to the words smoking hot, er pot! 
Homework
I got this at About.com. from their Drug Slang Dictionary:
I made it a link instead – Marina
I hate the term marijuana cigarette. I cigarette is tobacco so a marijuana cigarette is a cigarette made from marijuana, so how can it be a cigarette then if a cigarette is just tobacco. Goddamn it. Cant they just call it a joint
It sure seems like the expertise(rats)…know their own brain. Is not it amazing, cufan71, of the compiled list they have for pot? [Intelligentsia]==intergovernmental TOP+POT pottop
POT+TOP
Similar to what Bob said below, I loved this video tongue in cheek humor poking fun at smoking (the) pot. Made my day.
What is the story behind this [boondoggle] word I hear on the news so often.
Hey Marina, click the Home page link (upper left of any page) and you have an advertisement called “Kiss Me In 3D”. Very interesting and very creative interactive Flash advertising. Of course that piqued my creative thoughts. Too many ideas not enough hours in the day. Darn it.
So glad I kept my 3D glasses from the Superbowl
As a Buddhist, I follow the advice of the Buddha and refrain from using “substances that cloud the mind”, but since Buddhism is a religion of tolerance, I also have to refrain from condemnation of those who choose different paths.
However, I think Phelps should loose his benefits for his stupidity. Some studies claim to have proved that Cannabis use causes brain damage, but one has to wonder if the brain damage was not present as a prerequisite for the substance abuse. Whatever! If one accepts money from people or companies, one assumes a responsibility for abiding by the requirements, or for what one “should reasonably expect to be” the requirements, of the donor.
Anyone should realise that openly flouting the law, or indulging in behaviour which is disapproved of by the more conservative elements of society, would be likely to be considered as “bringing the ‘good’ name of the sponsor into disrepute”.
Phelps committed the cardinal sin of thinking that he is immune from censure and should expect to suffer the consequences.
Can someone give me an AMEN!!
Aum…..
”tasya vacakah pranavah”
A Scottish Buddhist! Well, I shouldn’t be surprised…I’ve long known about the Jewish Highland clan (the MacAbees).
Don’t be so surprised, Evan; Europe’s oldest Tibetan Buddhist Monastery is at Eskdalemuir in Scotland, and the Abbot of the Samye Ling is also the founder of the Holy Isle Project on Holy Isle in the Firth of Clyde.
However, just to set the record straight, I am neither a Scotsman nor do I follow Tibetan traditions. I have been to the Samye Ling Monastery and it’s a beautiful place.
Bob, at the risk of being nosy, where do you come from originally? How long have you lived in Scotland?
I had you pegged as a fellow Celt; hope I wasn’t being presumptuous. 
Originally from Reading, 40 miles west of London, but bounced around all over UK, Europe and the world.
I haven’t gone deeply into the family history yet, but it’s a fair bet there’s some Celtic blood in here somewhere, even if it’s only a finger-full.
Enlightenment is a course followed and thank you Bob. Check hotrocky out…About Rocky Frisco 1 bees are good
No, by “currently illegal” my point was those advertising to the public, unless desiring otherwise, are not looking for someone that has brought attention to themselves by breaking a law. Especially when it comes to influencing children or the parents they market. This thought was independent of whether you think the law needs to be changed or the health risks you find acceptable.
He made this decision, knowing the rules as they currently stand and the impact it could have if caught. He just got caught so he should deal with it.
This lesson is strange for me because last night I had a dream I ate a HUGE amount of magic mushrooms. But I was fine….
Marina, seeing you try to smoke pot is sooooooooo funny!
HOMEWORK: No I don’t think so, what he does in his own life is up to him.
Weed skunk draw ganja hash blow waccy baccy grass bush green block hash
I always wanted to know why it was called pot! In the uk (don’t know about the US) only the resin is called pot. The bud is usually called weed
I don’t like weed that much, it makes me feel sick, and I have a huge fear of sick. Pot is easier to handle
I don’t smoke it much now. I used to be really bad when I was about 13/14 I would go out drinking and everything, then we moved. Now I have no friends here (even though we are 2 miles away from where we were).. I’m all alone. And besides there isn’t very much of a gang in a town mainly populated by people over 75
Marina, SPELLIG MISTAKE
Smking pot
How do I notice these!
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SPELLIG mistake?
Damn! I knew it was there and I was going to correct it but I made some other mistakes and forgot to correct the one that said spelling
I thought “SPELLIG” was deliberate!
Ah, the irony…wait, is that correct usage or not? 
If it was deliberate then, yes, it was correct to call it irony. (I think …)
Sounds as though he has a cold, Marina. Make him a hot(forwords) [toddy].
Pot is an adult choice, like tobacco and alcohol, but much less harmful. In America, we have life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, unless the politicians decide otherwise.
Pot was made illegal in the ’30’s at the request of Dupont, who had a new fiber out called nylon. They wanted hemp outlawed and they cooked up some racists myths about the herb, made a movie, and the gullible and ignorant American public bought it hook, line, & sinker. It’s cost us billions over the years, and packed the prisons full to overflowing. This prohibition of pot has contributed to the thriving economy of the gangs in the inner city, so it has fueled gang violence including murder, making the U.S. the murder capitol of the world. It has also deprived harmless and otherwise hard working citizens of their liberty, their fortunes and their families. The prohibition against pot is the biggest threat to freedom we face, and neither the liberal nor conservative politicians, or media hacks are brave enough to tell the truth. I smoked pot from 1968 to 1991 and I never saw anyone get sick or die from it, unlike cigarettes or alcohol. Never saw a pot smoker beat his wife, unlike alcohol and straight folks. And after smoking pot virtually everyday in that period, quiting was like falling off a log, and there is no cravings after quiting, either.
Pot in Slovenian languange is Ganđa!
Marina, you’re such a [ham]! ROFL at your antics.
Why do we call actors who overact [hams]? After all, they’re only bringing home the bacon.
cough…cough
Hey look- it’s MR. GREEN !
Hello my dear Teacher, Marina. Since the press is [having a field day] with the Michael Phelps pot smoking incident, could you please help me out with the origin of the phrase: [field day]? Thanks Marina, I’ll be good.
There’s a waiting list for those KISS coffins that eternally play Beth I hear you calling♫♪ cept it’s some absurd wait, probably like over 2 years or more just to get on the purchaser list. If Ralph Nader waited 30 plus years to get airbags installed in vehicles then it only seems right that people die before marijuana gets legalized.
people are dying your honour, and they’re being stuffed into expensive coffins and then buried deep in the ground without a say, it’s so unfair
Paris Hilton could come out and defend Phelps since she knows what’s it’s like to be falsely victimized
High Times magazine would endorse Phelps, that’s about it though. After 5 minutes of dilberation- “Has the Olympic commitee come to any conclusion yet?” Well, the cereal companies where concerned at first, you know, frosted flakes ads vs. Wheaties and Cheerios and now this stuff about bong hits!
Come to think of it those big factory smoke stacks look like giant bong pipes, when the air turns brown and dirts up the skies, nice, I sort of get sentimental about these things.
the origin of the word catastrophe
[catastrophe]
Phelps on drugs is bad enough. The worst thing is steroids. Fortunately, he’s not. I would never do any bad drug in my entire life.Even for $500.
That’s the thing, though. These cats are not looking at hundreds; some of the big guys are looking at single deals in the tens of millions. Cumulatively, one’s endorsements can get into hundreds of millions. I would like to say that money is not that big of a draw for me, but who am I kidding. Someone offers me $22 mil to sell their shoes if I hit 50 homeruns this year, I honestly do not know what i would do.
Currently illegal, hmmm, that’s sorta like breaking wooden barrels full of booze in front of flashing cameras during the prohibition era soes black and white newspaper photos make a splash into next day’s papers to show em whose boss, huh?
Freedom allows mamas to chemitize themselves until they pump out eight babies at a time and give birth to newborns with six digits on both hands and feet and call it a day. Thank goodness sanity prevails in this place.
I don’t feel he necessarily “should” lose endorsements, but I definitely think he will. We are not talking about some kid here, we are talking about a young man that decided to do something currently illegal. He made a decision and now will have to deal with the consequences. “If you want to play, you got to pay.”
While recreation drug use is an adult decision, I do see that he had positioned himself as a role model for adolescents. The bottom line is that he is not a role model. Advertising tends to lift the wrong individuals up. Maybe a hard working, loving, mom and dad would make better sense.
Night everyone
frogs can have three legs why can’t the two legged land creatures have 3,
2.
Mutation is fun! anyway…
anyway…
Sure, latch key kids on pharms and it’s legal so no condemnation is going to stick because it’s a stick of butter in a court of law when it’s legal as an eagle so no cries from you worried parents, you’d be talking to walls. I know. There’s over 600 chemicals in a cigarette so there’s no reason for anyone to be alarmed about messing up generational DNA.
miss mary, skunk, shit, weed, stickie, cannabis, THC (tetra hydro cannabiol), hennep, ganja, …
feel almost ashamed
for knowing so many. but hey – i live in a country where it’s legal to sell and smoke this out in the open: the netherlands (AKA holland). 
Personally i never tried this. I have a good friend that uses it medically for his multiple sclerosis.
Now marina, can you cook an egg?? that pot seems pretty unused!
and oh, no i think micheal phelps should not be punisched for smoking pot.
there are still funny laws in the netherlands about it isn’t it?
Funny, I have yet to read about how marijuana enhances swimming performance in young athletes. No experiments on scientists blowing pot smoke into Capuchin monkeys faces to observe how they’ll react. Ok. Guess we’re safe then.
Isn’t anyone noticing a trend here? Heard a story about how it’s forbidden to take a bite from an apple and now this herb ban stuff. Tisk, tisk, what a shame.
It is all about control…the nefarious negligent with their negativisms promoted [NEGATION]…sounds like necromancy
I would like to request the phrase [Lex Aeterna]
It’s some kind of Latin , but i couldn’t find anything about it.