The only meme I remember is the “Nice Boat” meme from Japan. From the almost-cancelled episode 12 of School Days. They put a pic of a boat and some guy said “Nice boat”! There!
Do you honestly think if she was some 50 year old dude with hairs hanging out of her nose people would be interested in this bogus site? Get a life you hornbags. I suppose it is just a coincidence that in every picture her boobs are hanging out. Merely a statistical anomaly.
In answer to your question: Yes. One of my favorite gray haired priests used etymology to dissect scripture. He would enthusiastically build his sermons around one word. The new understandings of the words provided improved meaning of the scriptures. I have been tempted to send him this link and suggest he do online sermons, but I fear he may have conservative views shunning the female figure and casting me into Hell for being a “hornbag”. Don’t put your faith in statistics, they’re often incorrect, as the statisticians fail to ask the correct questions.
There is a reference to its origin (in the Hacker Quiz) from the word “to-haccian” meaning to Hack at the ground. Now this is an obvious reference to a “Hacker” in golf, who is not a great player.
Not so obvious is its reference to an “Office Hack” who was a man Friday, or jack of all trades, who did everything, but was not particularly good at anything.
It seems that somewhere in time, there has been a shift from a Hack, who was just a “wannabee” to a Hacker, who is an expert – it has become its own antonym.
Also note that the noun “a Hack” can be a quick and dirty, or an unusually simple solution, to a complex problem. I would expect this to be a derivation from the computer Hacker, but is it possible that it pre-dated that usage for mechanical problems, such as using panty hose to replace a fan belt on a broken down car.
Marina If you want to drive up the coast and hand deliver my prize then that would be fine by me.
You would be treated to a nice seafood dinner at the best Oyster Bar on the central coast.
Ppl line up outside in the cold wind waiting for the doors to open at 6:00 pm. Even Tom Cruise had to wait once but I could get you in early.
A nice seat by the window overlooking the Pacific, sipping a glass of local Chardonnay, watching the whales go by, maybe so lucky as to catch a green flash at sunset.
Then the plate of fresh oyster arrives at the table set in a bed of red kale, lemon wedge, horseradish chili sauce mmmgood.
I just made myself hungry see ya.
Out of all the people…. BSOMEBODY I NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE YOU!!!
How can I be pissed with 5andahalfgirls for pirating fiveandahalfguys when 5aahgirls was before 5aahguys?
ANYWAYZ! I never pirated anyone! Apart from my dorset accent which is where the pirate accent came from….
Right, you see my latest videos… they are pretty much what would be on the 5aahalfguyschannel….. so if you can tell me how those videos…. all of me being me and not anyone else… are like 5aahgirls… which are misscupcake not being her… but being someone else… I shall give you a medal. especially if you can deciper this…
I do feel your pain, yet somehow I still see the humor in the whole thing. Consider it as flattery that misscc would parody you parodying her. I do understand that your channel is not a parody of hers, but you have to see that you did, uh… how do we say it, erm… hitched a creative ride from cc.
Better that it happened now, while you are still in the early stages. Perhaps this would be a good opportunity to do your own thing. I like your idea; a little mpd, a little ocd, a little total random… Think of a totally unique name that says what you are about. Make this thing yours, man. This may be the kick in the pants that gets things movin’ for ya. You have tons of creativity; forget about what cc is doing and go get yours!
If I remember correctly, Lady M encouraged you to pursue your own course, instead of having your idea so closely related to cc’s. Listen to her, man. She definately knows what she is saying. She would never steer you wrong.
Marina, quite rightly said, it is a good idea to stick where I am now… She likes my name… Also jamesingtonthethird is where all my subscribers are…. And as my mother, I am in no position to argue with her!
I think too many people abuse the[] thing. I hardly see a comment with out [word....] in it somewhere…. People just think “oh, that word is different. I will put brackets around it.”
Take comment 104 for example. Its a good request but still the [ ] are overused.
Some comments are just like
[hi] Marina, What has [happened] [to] the [scrollbar] ….
I have what I believe is an interesting word origin request. While watching your video on Codswallop I was actually drinking an [Adirondack] brand Vanilla Cream Soda, and it occurred to me I would like to know where the origin of the word [Adirondack] came from. Now used of course to describe the mountain range, but I have a feeling this word has an interesting story.
Way to Rick Roll Marina!! I would like to request [ romance ] [ impeccable ] or [ syntax ] , or better yet the phrase [ romantically impeccable syntax ]. And to hear you say that with your accent would be absolutely divine.
story time: when with friends, serving “deviled eggs” tell’em one egg is loaded with [cayenne] pepper verses paprika. That was a way, I got to fill up on eggs.
Marina, have you tried out the new Pensar 3000 wearable web connector with the telepathic interface??? I’ve been testing a prototype — it fits under my hat. I can do a Google search just by thinking of the keywords — anywhere, even while jogging or driving (not recommended — distracting.) It’s like having my memory expanded a billionfold.
It gets a little buggy though if I have it turned on while watching your lessons.
From the HFW archives, one of my all-time favorites. M (this is before she gained her official Ladyship) complete with dry-erase boards and riding crop ( ) investigates the origins of sin.
I’d never seen that video before. It was great. I liked her hair, which she probably arranged at home, her light lip gloss, and that Marina didn’t wear a bra.
At the end, Marina says, “I will be really happy to respond you back.” Her English has really improved since June 3, 2007, and today, her Russian accent isn’t as noticeable. (I like today’s Marina, much better.)
Seesixcm6
Good one. I can see it goes back to, at least, Rousseau. JFK also had several other, more modern interpretations at his disposal. JFK was great at implementing the other side of the “We the People” coin. The people must be active in order for democracy to work. He was a genius at promoting self-sacrifice without promoting denial of individual rights. It is a fine line and a delicate balance. We have lost that idea of self-sacrifice lately.
I know I tend to over compensate when someone else decides that my individual rights are less important than the “common good” (Patriot Act.) I agree that I should willingly give to the common good, but I do not like someone else making that decision for me. Hypocritical? Maybe, but I do see a distinct and relevant difference in the sacrificing of individual rights and the confiscation of personal freedom.
“We have lost that idea of self-sacrifice lately.”
If by we, you mean the DNC – yes, that’s true.
I’ve (personally) been making sacrifices, that you do not know about, since the beginning of the Iraq ground war. Literally, hundreds of thousands of dollars over a period of more than five years.
Insofar as the Patriot Act, yes, you sound like a hypocrite, sorry. As long as someone else pays, you don’t mind, right? What did the Patriot Act do to hurt you? Nothing, unless you are involved in an active terroist cell working inside the USSA. I call it the USSA, because the country is now becing run by a nationalist-socialist regime, aka the DNC.
You may not yet realize it, but your future prosperity has already been confiscated by them.
Today, the market is making a minimal correction only because Obama et al has not made a policy speech.
It really bugs me to hear that all the “skin” I put in the game, as well as the blood cost of our military, is going to be squandered for Obama and the Democrat’s political agenda. They don’t “sacrifice” DICK, but you will…
Uh oh! Obama’s making another speech right now…
By “we” I meant Americans in general. Most of us have had a knee-jerk reaction. The problem is, these reactions have been in opposite directions. Some of us react by confiscating the personal freedom of our brothers; others react by building a wall around those individual rights at the expense of all others. Oftentimes, the same person will do both, simultaneously.
Chacha, if you are hungry, I will willingly give you food, even if that means I will have to go without. If, however, you decide to take that food from me, then my automatic tendency is to stop you. I believe that I should let you keep that food, and that I should give you more, besides. Do I consider that hypocrisy? No; I consider it weakness. That is a different problem that I need to address with a different strategy. When someone pushes me, then I automatically tend to push back. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
As for what the Patriot Act has done to me personally – it means that I am directly responsible for infringing upon the personal freedom of others. Initially I agreed with the Act, because I felt it was necessary for me to sacrifice that individual freedom for the benefit of my brothers and sisters. Looking back, I see that I went too far. I not only sacrificed my own freedom, but I sacrificed the freedom of others. If law enforcement has reason to believe that someone is a terrorist, then yes, that person should be held accountable to justice. To hold anybody, without charge, indefinately, without counsel, is never justice.
I agree absolutely that these are different circumstances that recquire different measures. Should extra lattitude be given when dealing with terrorists? Absolutely. Does that mean we can abandon the founding principles of this great nation – those promising a balance of individual liberty with public welfare? Absolutely not.
Lest you think that this has been just a meaningless exchange of lofty ideals, I will be happy to inform you that it has been more. Due to your earlier comments, I will pay more heed to my own sacrifice and give it willingly. I will, however, remain diligent in my pursuit to preserve those rights guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, for myself and all Americans.
I am greatful for all your input. I admire your conviction. Keep the Faith.
The government, in it’s spending bills, is taking $10,000 from every man woman and child in America to fund pork spending projects – right now!
Where is your automatic tendency about this?
I have not and will not ever send money to the Republican party until it comes to realize, they can’t win by being pussies. I don’t fund pussies to continue to be that way. John McCain has more to say now as a loser, than he ever had to say while running for office. He’s a pussy in action, and practise. Only now is his rhetoric attempting to change that – but he is shown to be impotent and of no value whatsoever. It’s only rhetoric!
The founding fathers of our nation pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor, so we could be here now, having this discussion. Many of them lost it all in the process. The current regime seeks to take all of that away from those who have earned it, and give to those who have not.
I appreciate your offer to feed me, thanks.
What’s for lunch?
I like this one:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. –Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
Do you make a distinction between county and government?
Absolutely, there is a distinction between government and country – just as there is a distinct difference between religion, and the church.
One is the people, and what they believe and do. The other is what a “select” few do in their names, supposedly, on their behalves.
Jefferson had a knack for words, eh?
On one hand, this is the Dec. of Ind., not the Const.; therefore it is not binding. On the other hand, this is the first written statement of our government, thus it could be considered the cornerstone of our government. Is the Declaration of Independence a binding document, or was it simply a statement of seperation from England and the justification which was required?
I feel it is binding. It lays out our most fundamental of principles. I would like to hear your input.
I thought this was pretty cool, from BoundlessProductions. This is what Somebody has to deal with when he is trying to study.
Lady M, please let us know if you object to posting links to “the competition.” I will understand if you disagree with this practice.
!*!*!NATIONAL GRAMMAR DAY!*!*! marching forth(fourth)…is why???…invest in calendars^*^
…howdy The Beatles – I Am The Eggman an apple for LEXICONIST * Marina* {force, fortify, forge,…a loud passage}..egg farts and “who laid an egg is cracked up”
When flying an aeroplane, one should leave one’s baggage behind and concentrate on the job in hand, however short the trip.
ATLATL sounds more like an aborted take-off, it’s even shorter than The Miracle on the Hudson.
Hey all, and Marina, I want to share with you a story of suffering and of hope. Flyleaf’s Sameer has announced that his “cousin, Esther, has received recent news that she has medullablastoma in stage 4, which is the most aggressive stage. She is a 22 year old girl with her whole life ahead of her. I love her. She is a sister to me.” Flyleaf is doing a concert in Temple, Tx (details are on the linked site) to raise money for Esther, as her insurance won’t cover the bill. Please stop by and leave an encouraging comment on her website. Esther and her family could really use the support.
It was funny. This morning, I typed a short discussion on the changing roles of working women of turn-of-the-century (19th-20th) New York City. It was an extremely interesting topic. While I was writing the paper, Chemikal made his post. Sometimes the Universe does make sense. Either that or the blind squirrel found another nut.
[police]
Come to think of it , there aren’t any police until 19th (?) century , so the word must be quite new ?
(I haven’t done any research on it , anyway the point of word requests is having HFW do the researching and teach it to the world)
Have you looked at your ancient Greek history, lately? While you are at it, check out some old Enlish (maybe even older, I’m not sure) for the origin of [sheriff.]
I can’t believe I’ve been Rick Rolled by hotforwords!
Nuoooooo!!!
“I’ll get you my pretty, and your little dog too!”
(do you know who said that, without looking it up?)
Nice job!
You could have just said Chemikal, on March 4th, 12:57 AM.
But you didn’t, you gave the correct answer.
You win a calendar! Marina, please give the good man one, that’s a good girl. If not, I’ll be forced to keep my word, or is it the Wicked Witch of the West’s word, or words?
Noob is a spelling corruption of the word newb, which is a truncation of the word newbie, which stood for “new body” or “new boy”, depending on if you are in the military or high school.
Could we have a lesson on how American English and British English are different, and maybe explain why… with a bunch of examples? That’s just another thing people would like to know more about in general.
[English] [American]
In America, a “lift” is something that goes in shoes to make one appear taller. In England, it’s an elevator.
In England, if a girl says “knock me up” in the morning, it means call me or visit me. In America, that would means she wants to get pregnant.
Who else has got one?
In America, after a big meal, we’ll say, “I’m stuffed.” This shocks hosts in Britain, where “stuffed” has a rude sexual connotation, as in the insult, “Get stuffed!”
British………….American
bonnet…………hood (of a car)
boot……………trunk (of a car)
nappy………….diaper
petrol…………..gasoline
“American English English American” from Abson Books, Bristol, England, is a 47-page booklet of American terms and English equivalents, and vice versa.
Apparently, flashing a peace sign with two fingers means something very different in England. It has the same meaning as the middle finger in America. It is also important whether the back of the hand or the palm is facing the intended recipient.
Are you sure that is right? I remember mijj saying something about Churchill doing it backwards. Yours seems right, though. The back of the hand seems to feel more rude, but maybe I am just thinking of the bird. {Somebody belatedly realizes that the smileys are gone and goes digging around his desktop for the longhand versions…}
Oh, Marina…Hi!
Um… I heard an amusing story about the origin of the word [quiz]. I hope it’s true. Do you think it would be interesting to investigate?
Love your work!
My accompanist on the piano at the St. David’s Day songfest on Sunday was Russian. At the end, I thanked her in front of the audience, then said, “Елена, вы играйте очень хорошо сегодня!”
To which she replied: “Только сегодня?”
See? I get into trouble every time I try to speak Russian! You really SHOULD offer us some Russian lessons!
high notes…like Church…the badger(mascot) of wisconsin is from the lead miners of your nation peoples…Is the party like a [Maenads]? of Bacchanalia?…party onwards
I was viewing some of your lessons that you did before I found you, and not being very YouTube savvy, I was wondering if my rating these past vids would be of any benefit to you. Or is it too late to help out in that way?
Hello originalistrick, I don’t know every little detail, but some of the following will give you an idea that viewing the older videos helps in several ways. I believe the video views count towards the total HFW Channel count. Then, I think ratings also contribute to some final metrics. Also, there are Ads near the video which also help support HotForWords expenses.
I’ll show you what I mean. Go to YouTube, then at the upper left you see the four buttons, Home, Videos, Channels and Community. Click on Channels.
Now, you are looking at the Most Viewed Channels “This Week”, most likely. Above the 20 icons to the right, click “ALL TIME”. Notice that HotForWords is in position #19 with 168,463,007 views. By viewing the older videos, you will push her views past the next person until she becomes #1. Having a Channel in the top spot is also very important. So, I watch a lot of the classic HotForWords videos; besides, I’m a sloooowww learner.
I did not know that. I have started watching some of the older vids to answer a specific question, but cut them off once I got my answer. I will let them play out, now. Thanks for the tip, Klaus.
KLAUS: I think with all the “Capital” of the (+)Republic* of *Lexicon(+)…HotForWords became such a power-house….”leonard says: better than ~`rockn’ roll’`…are Queen MARINA’s leSSons”
I would like to know the origin of the word [nuance]. I took Russian for a year back in college, and I was always impressed that my Russian teacher (she was from Uzbekistan) used [nuance] a LOT when talking about the slight differences between words… until I looked up “nuance in the Russian dictionary… IT’S THE SAME WORD IN RUSSIAN TOO!” I know that a lot of words cross languages, especially nouns (coffee, chocolate, beer, tobacco), but [nuance] seems like an odd one to be the same word in many languages
“restaurant” is going to be one of those words that just migrates for convenience, especially because travelers (who might not know many languages) are always going to be looking for restaurants… or coffee… or beer…
HI Marina you say. Be sure to rate and comment on my video at YouTube. I all ways rate your video is that enough for you to get recognized or must i make a comment all so
Yo-e-yo! If you got to the dashboard, under your profile, you can link your YouTube page URL to your screen name.
It turns blue (like mine) and I can go straight to your page by clicking your name. Neat, huh?
Marina, what is the origin of the word [addiction]. I watched all your video’s so I think it counts as an addiction now so I was wondering the origin of it.
I don’t know how a perfectly respectable metal-working term (enlarging a hole with a reamer for the purpose of making it an exact size) got perverted like this. Maybe one day a machinist in San Francisco dropped a chuck key, bent over to pick it up and, as they say, the rest is history.
For the RSS feed whatchamahoobie? Twitter, diggit, RSS feed… I;m overwhelmed.
That is another box that gets out of kilter, as I mentioned to Alex below.
The past few days, when I refresh my page, some of the ads are all out of whack. The “mate1.com” will be all the way over here, right through the comments box. I don’t know if that is what you saw, or if you had a different situation. Mine is normally not an issue; I just refresh again and life is good.
I am aware of two types of on-line “chatting” widgets:
1) A consumer at an on-line store can have “private” one-on-one text-chats or actual voice-internet-conversations with a live customer-support/sales-person.
2) All who are logged in to a web-site can have text-chats in a common “chatterbox” widget (see right column of http://www.perlmonks.org ).
Which one or both were you experimenting with? Since you wrote “I can message people on the site” it looks like you were referring to the text-based version of (1).
I just bought a cheap Chinese padlock this morning, and one of it’s features is listed on the packaging as a “laminatch guard bumper.” They slip a simple blue plastic band around the bottom of the lock so that, over time, it won’t scratch whatever is being secured. (I discard this so it won’t look like a… uh, cheap Chinese lock.)
Not having ever seen [laminatch] before, I Googled it and found matches on just a few foreign-language pages, none Chinese. One spoke of it as a material that would be engraved upon, say for making a sign. It was also used as a nickname on a Russian photo site by one Leeloo Mina Lekatariba Laminatch. That would be some coincidence, wouldn’t it?
Any ideas where this came from? Are the Chinese making up words now?
If they are anything like the tool sets sold in the 99-Cent store, the new words will crack, break or round off the second they roll off your tongue, which, considering some of the new words, may not be a bad thing. You will know to throw those words away and buy Snap-On or Craftsman.
I don’t believe “passing around” is a legal way to void a copyright; it’s not like a trademark going into public domain because of common use outside of the product or service identification. (Just try “passing around” Mickey Mouse or some other Disney property and see how far you get.) BTW, since ‘76, when the U.S. joined the Universal Copyright Convention, copyright attaches at the time of creation to all works with no action required by the creator, including a copyright notice like the one at the bottom of this page; it’s automatic, so everything is copyright unless negated by the creator (by, say, a stated license).
Yes, CK, I agree with you. As far as copyright goes, we really do not have any such de facto public domain. It does seem, though, that the internet makes copyright laws much more difficult to enforce. Is this a blessing or a curse? Free (libre, not gratis) information is a whole new Pandora’s Box.
It depends on whose ox is being Al Gored. If you are are the copyright holder and you want to get paid, you would might object to free distribution, even if those who receive it are unlikely to buy it anyway. It’s the same situation as was seen with software piracy.
I suppose some day there will be a law requiring each PC to have an ecryption-protected ID embedded in the CPU which will enable copyright holders to get a cut of everything of theirs that you download from a money account set up ahead of time, no matter whose site it comes from. (I don’t want to give anyone ideas. )
WLIU, I’ll bet it has the same root as plumbing, namely lead (plumbus), which might have been originally used for plumb bobs when they got tired of looking at rocks. Nowadays, plumb bobs are usually turned brass with a steel point, but I think that is just to appeal to the “shiny bauble” part of male’s brains. I is not the bob that is the business end of the instrument here, it is the string that supports it; the bob is just to pull the string down, so a lump of dried crap* would do as well.
May the square root black magic 333 retro back on the us governments scandal and employees involved. I am 32 it doesn’t work on me so funny Doug you look at square roots. I am always dealing with numbers they play such importance to me.
Marina, I wish your new videos were a little longer. That was a lot of information squeezed into this short one and I admit I had to watch it twice before fully understanding what was going on, even though I already knew what rickroll is.
Remember that some of your best videos to date are 3-4 minutes long
As for 4chan, it’s an awful site and I don’t recommend it to anybody.
I just felt myself get less cool thanks to learning the nonsurprising nerd-origin of FTW. My mind’s suddenly polluted with images of 130-pound ‘men’ with greasey hair, wearing medium-sized graphic pac-man or atari T-shirts, tight jeans, white shoes, vintage calculator watches circa 1983, with mountain dew in hand to help drown their Dorito-tainted breath. So I’m off to self-report my mancard violation, though I think there will be leniency due to the overal nature of HotForWords, godwilling.
However, since I do appreciate any species of prank, and since I was victimized by the Rickrolling of last year, this lesson has made me wonder about the origin of [TOMFOOLERY] and, Marina, if you will [HIJINKS].
Woops. I clipped the second half of the first sentence somehow. Should read:
I just felt myself get less cool thanks to learning the nonsurprising nerd-origin of FTW, and now I learn about geeks and the evolution of eggs, ducks, wheels, then Rickrolling. …
My 6th grade English teacher would slap me if she knew I wasn’t proofreading my comments before submitting them.
C’mon CK. It was fun. I agree that this was not the hard-core entomological lessons that I really get into. I truly appreciate when Lady M takes a word all the way back to its fundamental origins; this often sheds a new light on what the word really means. I think it also says alot about people in general, how we manipulate word meanings based on the context of the place and times. I also think that it is good for me get out of the comfort zone and look at some aspects of society that I normally do not attend. This word (okay, the last few ) have been more lite and fun. Playing ball with my grandkids may have some substantive benefits, but the bestest part is that we are having fun – together.
Sorry if FTW, meh, Miley, etc. is your idea of fun. Those leave me with the same feeling you get when you get home from shopping and realize that you left that extra-humongus-size bag of kitty litter in the bottom of the shopping cart.
Oh, well, I think we have spanked M enough on this subject. {CK stops and reflects on the wording of the preceding sentence two or three times while biting into a fat, juicy. sweet navel orange quarter and feeling the nectar swirl around in his mou… Nevermind! }
Marina, does bread hurt? I noticed that the word [Pain] means ‘bread’ in french and a hurting sensation in English. Is there a connection, a story behind that?
That’s interesting Nighteye. Old French baguettes can become as hard as a baseball bat if left in the sun for too long! My guess is they can hurt quite a bit. Not sure if there’s a connection between pain and bread though.
can you please investigate the word [Turkey]? is there anything to do with the [turkey] the bird and the country [TURKEY]. I will be insisting on the same word till you will make a video for it =)
I’ve noticed that a lot of countries in Eastern Europe tend to end in -IA and a lot of countries in the Middle East end with -ISTAN. For instance, there’s RussIA, SlovakIA, RomanIA. There’s also PakISTAN, UzbekISTAN, AfganISTAN. I was wondering if there is any meaning to [-IA and -ISTAN] at the end of the names of countries.
It seems to be independent of language, doesn’t it? Or is that just in the eyes of the English-speaking beholder? Do the inhabitants of all of those use the same name as we do?
Uh, no. Those are the English names for those countries. For example, Germany is actually called Deutschland in its native tongue, but the French call their next-door neighbor (Germany) “Allemagne.” Nobody calls it Germany except us English-speakers! Of course, this does little to address the initial subject: whether suffixes -ia or -istan have a translatable meaning. My guess is that they both mean the same thing as placing “land” at the end of a country name such as Ireland (land of Eire) or England (Angle land).
The philologic terms are [exonym] (what foreigners call a country) and [endonym] (what the natives call their country.) Thus “Finland” is an exonym for the endonymic “Suomi.” “Wales” is an exonym, “Cymru” its corresponding endonym.
As to Germany, the Russians call it “Германия,” pretty close to the English.
I read somewhere that -istan means “land of,” which makes sense. That would mean New Mexico could have been named Enchantmentistan. (Their state motto is Land of Enchantment.)
I liked the one the Onion used in one of their skits: Etchasketchistan.
After having watched this video, I was struck with the thought that it would be a good idea for hotforwords to investigate the word [meme] itself. At first, I thought it might be related to the French word “même,” which means “same.” Thinking that, I pronounced it as mehm until I later learned it was pronounced meem, and now I have no idea where it came from.
PS: After I started writing this, I scrolled down and saw Karl not only made the same suggestion, but did so in an earlier lesson. Kudos to you, Karl, I admit I shamelessly stole your idea.
Oh god, i think hutchiee just started a new movement of kisses from the teacher … What a scandal *click* haha i’ve got a proving photo ( mhm stupid word ._.)
I have never been to 4chan. That is not my forte. This video was more light hearted (from my perspective,) and I can appreciate that. Others are a little more tech-savvy, and these topics may be of more interest to them. I also like to gain some new knowledge that is not in my direct line of study. At any rate, it was still fun. What is the purpose of a swing set, a merry-go-round, or a slide? They are fun, and fun is good.
Keep up the good work, M’Lady.
It occurs to me that the phenomenon of thumbnail cheating on YouTube is a form of rick-rolling, in that it persuades people to click on something that they would not do if they knew the real content.
Below, Marina mentioned how a certain Internet event on the net brought her many more views. As Marina mentioned below, that there are influential people on the net and many of you may have heard that the next wars will be that of information wars, which are here already.
For those of you who have been following me and my graphs on the HotForWords’ Sexy Geek pages, I have mentioned 4chan in the context of the Sexy Geek 2008 Voting. Back in Dec. Marina was about 4,000 votes behind Phil in Up votes and about 10,000 votes behind in combined votes.
As many of you know, Marina was heavily down voted. That didn’t happen by accident. Let’s just say, some 4chan’ners moved a lot of votes. Even though Marina is leading in Up votes, a definitive (no excuses) win for the Sexy Geek of the year also means winning the Combined votes.
Would some of you kind HotForWords fans please vote for Marina until she is leading in the combined votes? In recent weeks, there have only been about 10-20 votes added per day. Marina needs 1,144 votes to take the definitive lead. A thousand of us can do that in one day.
Please vote here by clicking on Marnia’s green Up arrow.
It’s one vote per 24 hours. Please vote until Marina takes the lead. You can also click on my name which goes to the same link. http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top
Thank you in advance and to those who have continued to vote.
Done.
Don’t forget to down-vote de Franco and up-vote those immediately following him.
Maybe we can eventually get him down to third place or even lower.
A 3:43 min long video, 5 hours after upload has 246 views — but guess where it is on YouTube’s Worldwide Most Viewed page? http://i44.tinypic.com/2w53913.jpg
By what meaning of “most viewed” did this happen?
Is that possible under YouTube’s stated policies? If not, is there some employee in YouTube who is hacking the youtube/browse page?
Hello hs4mm,
Nope, no hacking, no conspiracy. In the context of your question; Views are NOT live; no real-time updates.
Video views are not updated instantly and are updated maybe once or several times a day. When YT has issues, then updates get extended even further. I think comments and ratings are updated in (near) real time. When it comes to YT, keep in mind, I am always hedging as the rules change and they don’t send me a memo.
Notice that the video in your screenshot was by sxephil, who gets a ton of views. If you looked at the comment count, you may have seen maybe 1000 or more comments per the 200 views shown. By proxy you would have known that the internally not-shown, later-to-be-updated-views were also high.
Did you catch Marina’s Twitter the other day to Buckey? In the context of this discussion, she jabbed Buckey in the ribs for exactly that which I just talked about. Check it out. It was a hoot. Marina is a riot. She just cracks me up every second.
Go to Marina’s Twitter and find the following.
She’s ribbing Buckey.
“@buckhollywood 203 views and 3,354 ratings!
Are you view-count cheating again Buck?
“6:08 PM Mar 2nd from TweetDeck in reply to buckhollywood”
By the way, Buck has a special place in Marina’s heart for a reason. Marina has mentioned it before and I’ll let her fill in the details.
How do you learn the rules of the YT road? Blogs, blogs and more blogs and wiki. Check out wiki and search YouTube and related terms such as “views”. If I remember, they give a good writeup on views count, but could be outdated. Check the update history.
Marina being very technically savvy is on top of this stuff and she is a great source of the latest and greatest. I think you’ve read her blog about “Honors…” above in the Blog section .
By the way hs4mm, SxePhil himself also gives the answer to your question. I guess everybody and their brother is asking.
Here is the video.
Take note that I added the code to point the play head at the proper location. I know that this does not work for many people. If it doesn’t work for you, just manually go to 3:14 where Phil briefly mentions the views count thing.
Marina, that was an awesome lesson. Being entrenched in Internet technology, I have been to a lot of sites, including 4chan, the ones before that, and others. My interest in these sites is not only for technical reasons, but also as you mentioned, the idea of memes and also artificial intelligence, self replication and social network technologies.
… a seemingly normal, educated people could allow themselves to be brainwashed into killing millions …
“Brainwash” is a term that concerns manipulating an adult mind. The key term in the above is seemingly normal, educated, with emphasis on seemingly: In Germany, adults were not brainwashed; the entire society was educated with the wrong ideas from kindergarten up — people were brought up with a warped mind from infancy.
For another perspective on the very same topic, check out Ordinary Men, by Christopher Browning. Any of you who have attended public school in the US, have been indoctrinated to respect authority, do not rock the boat, be a productive member of society, sacrifice for the common good. Each of these can be useful qualities, but they require balance. [Harmony] is not everybody singin the same part, but a combination of differents which produce something beautiful.
I don’t think that I know what you mean with “wrapped mind of infancy”.
The vast majority of Germans that were born before 1933 were definitely notbrought up with anti-Semitism. racism or Social Darwinism. The latter is an invention of the late 19th/early 20th century that could have been taught in kindergarten or primary school.
If you mean that the Germany of the 1930s had a wrapped mind because they were taught to be loyal and obedient subjects to the emperor, that, in times of crisis, they have to gather around their leaders and don’t question what the leaders say, then you’re right.
But the Germans of the early 20th century were not the only people that were educated that way.
logicschabbaubar, I agree 100% with your third paragraph. Germans were indoctrinated with the idea to be loyal to the nation. I also agree that this indocrination was by no means limited to early-twentieth-century Germany. If you are implying that this same type of “education” was prevalent in the US at that time, then I also agree. If you imply that this “education” is prevalent in the US, today, then I still agree.
Where I disagree is in your second paragraph. I have seen many documents which demonstrated racism and anti-Semitism in this time. I have also seen much evidence of anti-Romani (Gypsies) and anti-Slavik literature. This was not limited to the typical propaganda outlets, but was also prevalent in scientific journals, elementary textbooks, newspaper articles and cartoons, etc.
The disturbing part, is I have seen very similar trends in the US. These trends were most prevalent about twenty to thirty years earlier in the US. I am actually doing some research right now about eugenics in the US, specifically Larry Hamilton Laughlin’s book, Eugenical Sterilization in the US, published in 1922. The most disturbing part is that this trend did not decline after WWII, when Americans saw all the horrors of that war. The eugenics movement continued into the 1970s! Social and scientific trends in the 1920s and ’30s Germany were very similar to trends in the US in the 1900s and ’10s.
One difference is that while Germany concentrated on people with Hebrew, Slavik, and Romani descent, the US was concerned with people of African, Native American (at home,) and Asian (for imperialism abroad) descent.
bsomebody, my point was that I’m objecting to the thesis that the whole German society was brought up with racism in general and anti-Semitism in particular from infancy. The Germany of 1933 was still the Germany of Goethe, Schiller and Lessing. Every pupil at a German Grammar school was obliged to read Lessing’s Nathan the Wise until 1933. Germany was the country that made Einstein a leading physicist at the Prussian Academy of Sciences. The Nazis startedburning books before they started burning humans.
Anti-Semitism and social Darwinism wasn’t just a German phenomenon. Anti-Semitism has existed since the medieval and even before all over Europe including Germany of course.
Hitler and his Nazi movement are unique and can’t be compared to anything in the present. Therefore, it is almost always inappropriate to make a comparison with Hitler or the Nazis. There are even expressions for the overuse of Hitler comparisons: Godwin’s law and Reductio ad Hitlerum.
The overuse of Hitler comparisons plays down the bestiality of Hitler, of the Nazi ideology and of the Nazi regime. Hitler was not just a fascist and the Nazi regime was not just a fascist dictatorship, they went far, far beyond that. That’s why I don’t like inappropriate Nazi comparisons. White farmers may have enslaved people of African origin, but making their slaves work wasn’t aimed at killing them like the forced labour in Nazi concentration camps was.
I think that we kind of half way agree. I think I understand what you are saying. I am saying that Germany did have an abundance of racist literature (scientific, literary, scholarly…) well before Hitler came into power. I have seen copies of this, myself. Granted, I have not seen any original documents, but I have seen enough, that I trust their existence. Most of my Nazi research was focused on their anti-Roma ’solution.’ Anti-Roma literature has been all over Europe (as you say, since the Middle Ages.)
I am also saying that this racist ideology was NOT limited to Germany. I have a handful of US literature in my hands right now. I have also seen British, French, Polish, Japanese and Russian documents which say basically the same thing, just some of the names have been changed.
I agree that slavery is not synonomous with genocide. I am not saying it is any better or worse, but it is definately different. The atrocity of Nazi Germany was in how well they did their job. The Germans were so much further technologically advanced (that unique German helmet – only the Gremans had the technology to shape steel that way and keep its strength.) They literally made mass killings (and mass disposal) into a science.
Others who tried the “final solution” but with nowhere near the dramatic success: US v Native Americans, especially Cherokee and Choctaw on the Trail of Tears, which was a death march and NOT a ‘relocation;’ the Japanese v the Chinese during the Rape of Nanking; the British v Aboriginal Australians. Post WWII: Rwanda, Darfur, East Timor, Sierra Leone.
No one has been able to match Germany with their spectular success, except maybe Stalin (but he was an equal-opportunity discriminator; he killed anyone), but many, many others have matched Germany with their intent.
I feel it is dangerous to isolate the Holocaust as a unique event. Unique in its efficiency, yes; in its motives, absolutely not. If the Holocaust was just a freak in history, then we have nothing to learn from it. It was a horrible and despicable act of inhumanity, but the historical record has shown that the idea of racial superiority has been all too common, and the inhuman measures by which this superiority has been exercised is all too frequent.
Yes, the FTW video’s best position so far was #33 (p2 #13).
iJustine has had only three different videos on the board so far, and has a similar appearance on the Popular board as your videos as they all started on Pg 5 or Pg 4.
My database shows that 1,007 videos had their initial appearance on the Popular board on Pg 2, many with low views from 1000 to 5000 and most geared to younger demographics. I’ll put a partial list up on the forum on Thur and will also post some very interesting graphs.
I loved all of your comments below, specifically;
“…educated people could allow themselves to be brainwashed…”
i understand that this is a popular thing to say. it’s also one of the shallowest things to say.
i don’t see how that phrase could be discussed in school. does that mean or explain anything?
“the reason for all that is that people got brainwashed.”
ah! i see. clearly. uh huh.
I have 3 words to suggest.
* [bigot]
* [sexist] (please indicate how long it took for the word to obtain its strong connotations, and when it originated)
* [prohibitionist]
Just ricked-rolled out of bed on a cold E.Canada morning, and you are like a golden ray of sunshine in this frigid darkness. Never heard of 4chan, but will visit. Rick Astley is very good, you can actually understand what he’s singing about.( excuse my grammar)
Nerd Word of the Day: Again with installments. Installments of words would have to be syllables, right? We’re going to get a syllable a day until we have a whole word?
Since you asked to comment and rate here it is (the comment) I would rate you about a high 7 to a low 8 currently. I haven’t seen you without your makeup recently.
I’ve been to 4 chan when I was investigating being rickrolled once before. I don’t even try to know all the internet meme. Rated the video 4 stars and favored also. I have always favored your vids so I have too ask whom’s asking?
Ha ha, Marina, I don’t think it counts as rick rolling if you proceed to deliver the content we originally clicked for anyways.
Yes, I’ve been to 4chan a few times. It troubles me: you hear about Anon doing good things some of the time, like protesting the Church of Scientology, exposing people with child pornography, and more recently, bringing animal-abusers to justice. But at any given time when you go see what the /b/tards are up to, it’s pretty much just a cesspool of internet-obsessed people desensitized to everything wrong in the world. They’ve all got their heads unbelievably far up their own asses, but I don’t deny their ability to spread memes. Toysjoe gave a list of memes below which pretty much exhausts all the memes with which I’m familiar, except maybe for an hero, Chris Hansen, Rule 34, and hypnotoad. But oh well, my own generation has always bewildered me.
By the way, I saw on my calendar that today is the anniversary of your first video, so Happy Anniversary! I mean, it’s really after midnight, so technically it’s the 3rd now, but whatever.
You’re wrong. This is the difference between this site and youtube. Yes, on youtube, many people may not care. Some of them are just passing by, and one of the first things they notice is Marina’s chest. They stay ignorant of everything else. That’s why you get all this stupidity in the comments there.
That said, I don’t belive that someone takes his time to register here only to watch videos hoping that *maybe* *someday* *something* more will be revealed, while he could be happily watching what he wants somewhere else. It’s not like boobs are hard to find on the internet nowdays, is it?
If you really come here just to watch boobies, I’d suggest you to stop and watch porn instead. It would be more… erm… efficient for you I’m sure no one here will miss you.
I strongly suspect that the person who posted this comment is an unloved woman who needs attention, not some guy looking at a pair of breasts for his first time. Who in their right mind would say such a thing to Marina? The jealousy is palpable, the tone transparently envious.
We had a person named hdvideo posting some very similar crap here around May or June of 08. This individual is truly starved for contact of any kind, and obviously has nothing of value to contribute but loves to get peoples’ goat any way she can. It’s a power thing. People respond to it, and that perpetuates it. Some people apparently feel that the best way to get attention is by breaking things and pissing in the aquarium. Don’t pay her no nevermind. She’ll go away quietly when ignored.
AQUAMAN say what? Ducked by the quack-seed grown after the horse ate its oats; the groat was enbedded by that wild rye of rice oats….Roe on with ricked up camp fire; fried fish and roe rolled and buttered.
It was slowing down the website and I couldn’t find another suitable option out there. I was using http://www.freeonlineusers.com/ but it would hang all the time preventing the whole page from loading.
The number of users online at any moment is not important; it is not an indicator of the audience, because one can post now and be read by many at any time in the future.
I don’t know all the things you’ve changed but i now have to turn off my adblock plus to see the twitter box didn’t have to do that before you changed to the new style. I never seem to have had trouble with the pages loading. Just saying
Have you noticed, that YouTube video makers are developing a little bit of a dialect of their own, when it comes to talking about making & posting vids. When they talk to each other the tone or watever you call it changes & the technical stuff that bounces off of me, seems to be absorbed by the respondant.
Following some folks (especially mareketers) on twitter, I pick up on a kind of insider language with a bit of a “Rah Rah” attitude… assosiated I guess, with the Tony Robbins type followers.
I miss my friend MissVodkaknockers… she was a scamp eh!
Hey, I try to absorb as much of the jargon as possible, trying to understand it before it leaks out my brain. Not so easy.
I’ve posted some vids & did my first bit of movie editing… hours & hours for 3 minutes vid. Frustrating & satisfying all at the same time
You sound Canadian saying “Sorry” all the time, hope you don’t mean it.
It’s kinda fun to pick up on peoples personalities as they attempt to say something in 140 charachters. I’m always going back too edit mine, pairing em down to 140 exactly most times.
Whaaaat? I’ve watched it twice now and am still not sure what happened. This is how an internet coined slang word came about? And it means pranking? Still not sure what meme means. And no, haven’t gone to that site, don’t know if I want to.
Still, Marina, you look [luscious].
Why would you not go to the website even just out of curiosity? I’m not saying you should, but I recently found out that that website is responsible for so many of the Internet crazes that have happened over the past couple years, and out of curiosity I visited it and still had no idea what was going on! It’s VERY confusing.. but gives one a look into the minds of very young people on the Internet.. and very influential people, mind you!
lolcats, rickrolling, and “Chocolate Rain” sprouted from 4chan. If you spend a lot of time on the net like myself, you may find these things interesting. If you don’t have an interest in how things sprout up in society, then that is fine.
I do find these things interesting as they affect me directly YouTube placed my video on the homepage on April Fools day last year and Rickrolled everyone who clicked on the video, and it resulted in a few hundred thousand views for my video that day (from people eventually finding their way to my actual video), so I have a personal interest in the origin of that term and the what it was all about.
I didn’t find your site by “following the crowd”.
I found it by honing the cutting edge of your groundbreaking idea.
Others may not follow in my lead – so be it.
I would rather seek my own path, than follow the sheep for mere popularity.
For those who walk beside me , I am grateful to be in your company
Not a chance pal! I just decided in some sudden enlightened strike of wisdom that I’m gonna stop clicking on them! Don’t be addicted to girls is the first rule of a good politician!
Ohhhh, I probably will go there, Marina. I am a VERY curious person. I just said that because everything on your video went so FAST, and I will most likely waste lots of time on that site when I should be doing other things. And when I look into the minds of very young people, it often frightens me.
i like that song lol
The only meme I remember is the “Nice Boat” meme from Japan. From the almost-cancelled episode 12 of School Days. They put a pic of a boat and some guy said “Nice boat”! There!
Do you honestly think if she was some 50 year old dude with hairs hanging out of her nose people would be interested in this bogus site? Get a life you hornbags. I suppose it is just a coincidence that in every picture her boobs are hanging out. Merely a statistical anomaly.
In answer to your question: Yes. One of my favorite gray haired priests used etymology to dissect scripture. He would enthusiastically build his sermons around one word. The new understandings of the words provided improved meaning of the scriptures. I have been tempted to send him this link and suggest he do online sermons, but I fear he may have conservative views shunning the female figure and casting me into Hell for being a “hornbag”. Don’t put your faith in statistics, they’re often incorrect, as the statisticians fail to ask the correct questions.
I would like to know more about the word [hack].
There is a reference to its origin (in the Hacker Quiz) from the word “to-haccian” meaning to Hack at the ground. Now this is an obvious reference to a “Hacker” in golf, who is not a great player.
Not so obvious is its reference to an “Office Hack” who was a man Friday, or jack of all trades, who did everything, but was not particularly good at anything.
It seems that somewhere in time, there has been a shift from a Hack, who was just a “wannabee” to a Hacker, who is an expert – it has become its own antonym.
Also note that the noun “a Hack” can be a quick and dirty, or an unusually simple solution, to a complex problem. I would expect this to be a derivation from the computer Hacker, but is it possible that it pre-dated that usage for mechanical problems, such as using panty hose to replace a fan belt on a broken down car.
Marina If you want to drive up the coast and hand deliver my prize then that would be fine by me.
You would be treated to a nice seafood dinner at the best Oyster Bar on the central coast.
Ppl line up outside in the cold wind waiting for the doors to open at 6:00 pm. Even Tom Cruise had to wait once but I could get you in early.
A nice seat by the window overlooking the Pacific, sipping a glass of local Chardonnay, watching the whales go by, maybe so lucky as to catch a green flash at sunset.
Then the plate of fresh oyster arrives at the table set in a bed of red kale, lemon wedge, horseradish chili sauce mmmgood.
I just made myself hungry see ya.
I cant believe I just uploaded unedited footage of me in the bath on youtube… Oh, SHIT!! But luckily only foxbow saw it …. I HOPE!
I am going to quit smoking in 2 months…. And also…. wow my video an HD just processed in about 5 mins….. WTF!!!
WHAT THE FUCK!!!!! http://youtube.com/fiveandahalfgirls
FIVE AND A HALF GUYS!!! WTF WTF WTF WTF
IS THIS SOME KIND OF JOKE…. IT AIN’T FUNNY!
Oh, I can just tell I am going to get someone right now saying “oh well james…. haha”
WHAT THE HELL THE C**T HAS EVEN STOLEN THE FONT I USE IN MY VIDEOS SINCE….. WELL ABOUT A YEAR!
So let me get this straight. You are pissed at fiveandahalfgirls for pirating your fiveandahalfguys which you pirated from fiveandahalfgirls, right?
Wow! Talk about comin’ back at ya quick.
I know this is not funny to you, but you must admit that it purely reeks of poetic turnabout.
Out of all the people…. BSOMEBODY I NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE YOU!!!
How can I be pissed with 5andahalfgirls for pirating fiveandahalfguys when 5aahgirls was before 5aahguys?
ANYWAYZ! I never pirated anyone! Apart from my dorset accent which is where the pirate accent came from….
Right, you see my latest videos… they are pretty much what would be on the 5aahalfguyschannel….. so if you can tell me how those videos…. all of me being me and not anyone else… are like 5aahgirls… which are misscupcake not being her… but being someone else… I shall give you a medal.
especially if you can deciper this…
I do feel your pain, yet somehow I still see the humor in the whole thing. Consider it as flattery that misscc would parody you parodying her. I do understand that your channel is not a parody of hers, but you have to see that you did, uh… how do we say it, erm… hitched a creative ride from cc.
Better that it happened now, while you are still in the early stages. Perhaps this would be a good opportunity to do your own thing. I like your idea; a little mpd, a little ocd, a little total random… Think of a totally unique name that says what you are about. Make this thing yours, man. This may be the kick in the pants that gets things movin’ for ya. You have tons of creativity; forget about what cc is doing and go get yours!
If I remember correctly, Lady M encouraged you to pursue your own course, instead of having your idea so closely related to cc’s. Listen to her, man. She definately knows what she is saying. She would never steer you wrong.
Marina, quite rightly said, it is a good idea to stick where I am now… She likes my name… Also jamesingtonthethird is where all my subscribers are…. And as my mother, I am in no position to argue with her!
Hi Marina,
I am thinking about starting a [callipygian] society. It would be a club like the Red Hat Society.
I think you could be our first honoree:)
Dave
Word Request
[Shyster]
Dick and the private dick…ric of HFW
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Free nuts..« Hello world!Nuts NON Utube Porn hotforwords Marina video…I thought interesting to share
i love eating nuts and peach stones; in not shoe, the stone of path too
I think too many people abuse the[] thing. I hardly see a comment with out [word....] in it somewhere…. People just think “oh, that word is different. I will put brackets around it.”
Take comment 104 for example. Its a good request but still the [ ] are overused.
Some comments are just like
[hi] Marina, What has [happened] [to] the [scrollbar] ….
Hmm
[ Lasagna ]
[rave]
I have what I believe is an interesting word origin request. While watching your video on Codswallop I was actually drinking an [Adirondack] brand Vanilla Cream Soda, and it occurred to me I would like to know where the origin of the word [Adirondack] came from. Now used of course to describe the mountain range, but I have a feeling this word has an interesting story.
Love your videos by the way, keep them coming
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Thanks Marina.
-Nick
whoops already done romance i think. 2 out of 3 isn’t bad though.
Way to Rick Roll Marina!!
I would like to request [ romance ] [ impeccable ] or [ syntax ] , or better yet the phrase [ romantically impeccable syntax ]. And to hear you say that with your accent would be absolutely divine. 
[Deviled] eggs, from my face…not on…
…How to make deviled eggs.
…Eggs ricks 
Counterploy: “Yes, I tasted one and it was so hot I had to put it back.”
Marina you are nice
[ Yodel ]
knock knock
Quien es?
Little Old Lady
Who da lady who?
Looky there! Che can yodel, just like Jewel.
Ric….co….la..aaaa
little old lady who?
Blue Yodel #8 Muleskinner Blues-1930…
…Louis Armstrong and Johnny Cash – Blue Yodel No. 9…
i, mee too##(:-:)2nd..
It would be a hoot to hear her Yodel
Marina, you might want to take some lessons.
Requesting [yodel] again, also.
***Hot new techno-gadget***
Marina, have you tried out the new Pensar 3000 wearable web connector with the telepathic interface??? I’ve been testing a prototype — it fits under my hat. I can do a Google search just by thinking of the keywords — anywhere, even while jogging or driving (not recommended — distracting.) It’s like having my memory expanded a billionfold.
It gets a little buggy though if I have it turned on while watching your lessons.
You have another month to go to bring that up.
From the HFW archives, one of my all-time favorites. M (this is before she gained her official Ladyship) complete with dry-erase boards and riding crop (
) investigates the origins of sin.
I’d never seen that video before. It was great. I liked her hair, which she probably arranged at home, her light lip gloss, and that Marina didn’t wear a bra.
At the end, Marina says, “I will be really happy to respond you back.” Her English has really improved since June 3, 2007, and today, her Russian accent isn’t as noticeable. (I like today’s Marina, much better.)
Seesixcm6
But we do hope Marina doesn’t lose that lovely accent, though… don’t we?
What is today’s nerdword?
…or was that just another [flash in the pan]
I finally found that MLK quote that I was trying to find yesterday.
Try this one:
Here’s a clue: JFK did not originate this anymore than MLK was the origin of “Power is rarely given, and usually taken”.
Good one. I can see it goes back to, at least, Rousseau. JFK also had several other, more modern interpretations at his disposal. JFK was great at implementing the other side of the “We the People” coin. The people must be active in order for democracy to work. He was a genius at promoting self-sacrifice without promoting denial of individual rights. It is a fine line and a delicate balance. We have lost that idea of self-sacrifice lately.
I know I tend to over compensate when someone else decides that my individual rights are less important than the “common good” (Patriot Act.) I agree that I should willingly give to the common good, but I do not like someone else making that decision for me. Hypocritical? Maybe, but I do see a distinct and relevant difference in the sacrificing of individual rights and the confiscation of personal freedom.
“We have lost that idea of self-sacrifice lately.”
If by we, you mean the DNC – yes, that’s true.
I’ve (personally) been making sacrifices, that you do not know about, since the beginning of the Iraq ground war. Literally, hundreds of thousands of dollars over a period of more than five years.
Insofar as the Patriot Act, yes, you sound like a hypocrite, sorry. As long as someone else pays, you don’t mind, right? What did the Patriot Act do to hurt you? Nothing, unless you are involved in an active terroist cell working inside the USSA. I call it the USSA, because the country is now becing run by a nationalist-socialist regime, aka the DNC.
You may not yet realize it, but your future prosperity has already been confiscated by them.
Today, the market is making a minimal correction only because Obama et al has not made a policy speech.
It really bugs me to hear that all the “skin” I put in the game, as well as the blood cost of our military, is going to be squandered for Obama and the Democrat’s political agenda. They don’t “sacrifice” DICK, but you will…
Uh oh! Obama’s making another speech right now…
By “we” I meant Americans in general. Most of us have had a knee-jerk reaction. The problem is, these reactions have been in opposite directions. Some of us react by confiscating the personal freedom of our brothers; others react by building a wall around those individual rights at the expense of all others. Oftentimes, the same person will do both, simultaneously.
Chacha, if you are hungry, I will willingly give you food, even if that means I will have to go without. If, however, you decide to take that food from me, then my automatic tendency is to stop you. I believe that I should let you keep that food, and that I should give you more, besides. Do I consider that hypocrisy? No; I consider it weakness. That is a different problem that I need to address with a different strategy. When someone pushes me, then I automatically tend to push back. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
As for what the Patriot Act has done to me personally – it means that I am directly responsible for infringing upon the personal freedom of others. Initially I agreed with the Act, because I felt it was necessary for me to sacrifice that individual freedom for the benefit of my brothers and sisters. Looking back, I see that I went too far. I not only sacrificed my own freedom, but I sacrificed the freedom of others. If law enforcement has reason to believe that someone is a terrorist, then yes, that person should be held accountable to justice. To hold anybody, without charge, indefinately, without counsel, is never justice.
I agree absolutely that these are different circumstances that recquire different measures. Should extra lattitude be given when dealing with terrorists? Absolutely. Does that mean we can abandon the founding principles of this great nation – those promising a balance of individual liberty with public welfare? Absolutely not.
Lest you think that this has been just a meaningless exchange of lofty ideals, I will be happy to inform you that it has been more. Due to your earlier comments, I will pay more heed to my own sacrifice and give it willingly. I will, however, remain diligent in my pursuit to preserve those rights guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, for myself and all Americans.
I am greatful for all your input. I admire your conviction. Keep the Faith.
The government, in it’s spending bills, is taking $10,000 from every man woman and child in America to fund pork spending projects – right now!
Where is your automatic tendency about this?
I have not and will not ever send money to the Republican party until it comes to realize, they can’t win by being pussies. I don’t fund pussies to continue to be that way. John McCain has more to say now as a loser, than he ever had to say while running for office. He’s a pussy in action, and practise. Only now is his rhetoric attempting to change that – but he is shown to be impotent and of no value whatsoever. It’s only rhetoric!
The founding fathers of our nation pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor, so we could be here now, having this discussion. Many of them lost it all in the process. The current regime seeks to take all of that away from those who have earned it, and give to those who have not.
I appreciate your offer to feed me, thanks.
What’s for lunch?
I like this one:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. –Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
Do you make a distinction between county and government?
Absolutely, there is a distinction between government and country – just as there is a distinct difference between religion, and the church.
One is the people, and what they believe and do. The other is what a “select” few do in their names, supposedly, on their behalves.
Jefferson had a knack for words, eh?
On one hand, this is the Dec. of Ind., not the Const.; therefore it is not binding. On the other hand, this is the first written statement of our government, thus it could be considered the cornerstone of our government. Is the Declaration of Independence a binding document, or was it simply a statement of seperation from England and the justification which was required?
I feel it is binding. It lays out our most fundamental of principles. I would like to hear your input.
Hello Marina
I’m studing linguistics in Russia
And I’m really want to know about origin of the word : chewing gum
P.S Thank you for your lessons
I thought this was pretty cool, from BoundlessProductions. This is what Somebody has to deal with when he is trying to study.
Lady M, please let us know if you object to posting links to “the competition.” I will understand if you disagree with this practice.
I like finding out about new stuff! So, of course I don’t mind!
March forth [soldiers] of HotForWords…Today is
…howdy
The Beatles – I Am The Eggman 
an apple for LEXICONIST * Marina* {force, fortify, forge,…a loud passage}..egg farts and “who laid an egg is cracked up”
[ATLATL]
Funny-sounding word for a cool device…
Love you, Marina! Have a greay day everybody!
It comes from the [Nahuatl] (Aztec) language.
I thought it was a baggage tag for a very short trip in Georgia.
When flying an aeroplane, one should leave one’s baggage behind and concentrate on the job in hand, however short the trip.
ATLATL sounds more like an aborted take-off, it’s even shorter than The Miracle on the Hudson.
You know what it is, don’t you Evan Owen?
Hey all, and Marina, I want to share with you a story of suffering and of hope. Flyleaf’s Sameer has announced that his “cousin, Esther, has received recent news that she has medullablastoma in stage 4, which is the most aggressive stage. She is a 22 year old girl with her whole life ahead of her. I love her. She is a sister to me.” Flyleaf is doing a concert in Temple, Tx (details are on the linked site) to raise money for Esther, as her insurance won’t cover the bill. Please stop by and leave an encouraging comment on her website. Esther and her family could really use the support.
http://helpsaveesther.com/
By the way, please do the words [flyleaf] and [passerby].
Flyleaf used to be known as Passerby before they were signed by Octone Records.
I’d like to remind you of something,
my favorite hotforwords quote (August 27, 2007):
“Women are different creatures”
We both live in the same world, but women experience the world in their own way. Sometimes a lot different than men do…
Why do you think that is?
Sounds like this might be a good topic for a new forum. “Nature or nurture, gender roles in the international internet community.”
I don’t think it would be worth your time to install a hit counter on that one.
It was funny. This morning, I typed a short discussion on the changing roles of working women of turn-of-the-century (19th-20th) New York City. It was an extremely interesting topic. While I was writing the paper, Chemikal made his post. Sometimes the Universe does make sense. Either that or the blind squirrel found another nut.
[police]
Come to think of it , there aren’t any police until 19th (?) century , so the word must be quite new ?
(I haven’t done any research on it , anyway the point of word requests is having HFW do the researching and teach it to the world)
Have you looked at your ancient Greek history, lately? While you are at it, check out some old Enlish (maybe even older, I’m not sure) for the origin of [sheriff.]
Maybe the [police] kept order in the Greek polis, just as the [sheriff] (shire reeve) kept order in the shire.
Can you tell me origin of the word [Augmentation]?
I can’t believe I’ve been Rick Rolled by hotforwords!
Nuoooooo!!!
“I’ll get you my pretty, and your little dog too!”
(do you know who said that, without looking it up?)
Why, soitanly! Nyuck, yuck, yuck! Whoop, woop, woop woop! Do you know who said that!
Cirly from the three stooges, why I outta
B.B.
Wicked Witch of the West, in Wizard of Oz.
(No, I didn’t look it up.) 
Nice job!
You could have just said Chemikal, on March 4th, 12:57 AM.
But you didn’t, you gave the correct answer.
You win a calendar! Marina, please give the good man one, that’s a good girl. If not, I’ll be forced to keep my word, or is it the Wicked Witch of the West’s word, or words?
hey Marina…i was wondering about the word Noob……
Noob is a spelling corruption of the word newb, which is a truncation of the word newbie, which stood for “new body” or “new boy”, depending on if you are in the military or high school.
Could we have a lesson on how American English and British English are different, and maybe explain why… with a bunch of examples? That’s just another thing people would like to know more about in general.
[English] [American]
In America, a “lift” is something that goes in shoes to make one appear taller. In England, it’s an elevator.
In England, if a girl says “knock me up” in the morning, it means call me or visit me. In America, that would means she wants to get pregnant.
Who else has got one?
[stuffed]
In America, after a big meal, we’ll say, “I’m stuffed.” This shocks hosts in Britain, where “stuffed” has a rude sexual connotation, as in the insult, “Get stuffed!”
British………….American
bonnet…………hood (of a car)
boot……………trunk (of a car)
nappy………….diaper
petrol…………..gasoline
Brolly——– Umbrella ella ella lol B.B.
Hi Chemikal,
“American English English American” from Abson Books, Bristol, England, is a 47-page booklet of American terms and English equivalents, and vice versa.
Apparently, flashing a peace sign with two fingers means something very different in England. It has the same meaning as the middle finger in America. It is also important whether the back of the hand or the palm is facing the intended recipient.
Backhanded is rude; palm forward is Churchill’s “V for Victory.”
Are you sure that is right? I remember mijj saying something about Churchill doing it backwards. Yours seems right, though. The back of the hand seems to feel more rude, but maybe I am just thinking of the bird. {Somebody belatedly realizes that the smileys are gone and goes digging around his desktop for the longhand versions…}
BTW, How do Brits say, “Peace, man?”
Thanks for all the input, now I’m convinced this totally needs a lesson!
Яйци Мариной. Hmm …
Oh, Marina…Hi!
Um… I heard an amusing story about the origin of the word [quiz]. I hope it’s true. Do you think it would be interesting to investigate?
Love your work!
Was that the one about the two Irishmen and the bet about adding a new word to English?
[quiz]
Cool, I hope she does [quiz]
That doesn’t mean we want to be quizzed.
Hi Marina,
My accompanist on the piano at the St. David’s Day songfest on Sunday was Russian. At the end, I thanked her in front of the audience, then said, “Елена, вы играйте очень хорошо сегодня!”
You really SHOULD offer us some Russian lessons! 
To which she replied: “Только сегодня?”
See? I get into trouble every time I try to speak Russian!
Hey buddy: Erotic dance performance.Svetlana Orlova’s dance group.…hope you had celebrating time
with Saint David!*!(+)mary hopkin – those were the days-68..another Russian song..on Apple…nice
Wow…if nothing else, that dancing looks like a good aerobic workout.
Mary Hopkin has been a longtime favorite of mine — thanks, Leonard!
If this is how they do aerobics in Russia I need a plane ticket.
Marina?
Demonstration?
***HOTFORWORDS SINGS!***
Marina likes to joke about singing badly, but actually she sings like an angel!
Click here to hear this beautiful, blonde, buxom, bilingual 28-year-old former schoolteacher in full voice!
(Geez, with that much in common, can you blame me for getting the two mixed up?)
high notes…like Church…the badger(mascot) of wisconsin is from the lead miners of your nation peoples…Is the party like a [Maenads]? of Bacchanalia?…party onwards
Hi Marina I love your videos, they are amazing
Could you do a video for the word (Martyr)? Thanks!
You need a bit more starch in your square brackets.
chris812125
What CK meant by the funny 
B.B. 
was [ Martyr ] in square brackets for easy viewing by
our Loverly Teacher Marina
just tryin to help
more hums, for the chums-Sparks – This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both Of Us….
Marina,
I was viewing some of your lessons that you did before I found you, and not being very YouTube savvy, I was wondering if my rating these past vids would be of any benefit to you. Or is it too late to help out in that way?
Always.
Hello originalistrick, I don’t know every little detail, but some of the following will give you an idea that viewing the older videos helps in several ways. I believe the video views count towards the total HFW Channel count. Then, I think ratings also contribute to some final metrics. Also, there are Ads near the video which also help support HotForWords expenses.
I’ll show you what I mean. Go to YouTube, then at the upper left you see the four buttons, Home, Videos, Channels and Community. Click on Channels.
Now, you are looking at the Most Viewed Channels “This Week”, most likely. Above the 20 icons to the right, click “ALL TIME”. Notice that HotForWords is in position #19 with 168,463,007 views. By viewing the older videos, you will push her views past the next person until she becomes #1. Having a Channel in the top spot is also very important. So, I watch a lot of the classic HotForWords videos; besides, I’m a sloooowww learner.
Thanks a lot, PK. Really appreciate that!
I did not know that. I have started watching some of the older vids to answer a specific question, but cut them off once I got my answer. I will let them play out, now. Thanks for the tip, Klaus.
Your welcome bsomebody.
…QUANITY==++==..
Holy crap! It just dawned on me!
Marina, DON’T HATCH THAT EGG!!!!
Pandora’s box, Jurassic Park, dinosaur egg.
Not to mention clawing up the furniture and having a little white snack for brunch.
On second thoughts, examining evil – when the need arises – and noticing that it is small-minded, impotent and miserable is good.
WORD REQUEST: CORN [NIBLETS]
this makes no sense to me, but it was interesting….. [hood (car and jacket)] where it came from and how we started usin it through those ways….
[swastika]
that is my word request
I would like to know the origin of the word [nuance]. I took Russian for a year back in college, and I was always impressed that my Russian teacher (she was from Uzbekistan) used [nuance] a LOT when talking about the slight differences between words… until I looked up “nuance in the Russian dictionary… IT’S THE SAME WORD IN RUSSIAN TOO!” I know that a lot of words cross languages, especially nouns (coffee, chocolate, beer, tobacco), but [nuance] seems like an odd one to be the same word in many languages
Yeah, funny about that…[Ресторан] is the same in Russian and French. The two languages must be related!
“restaurant” is going to be one of those words that just migrates for convenience, especially because travelers (who might not know many languages) are always going to be looking for restaurants… or coffee… or beer…
HI Marina you say. Be sure to rate and comment on my video at YouTube. I all ways rate your video is that enough for you to get recognized or must i make a comment all so
Yo-e-yo! If you got to the dashboard, under your profile, you can link your YouTube page URL to your screen name.
It turns blue (like mine) and I can go straight to your page by clicking your name. Neat, huh?
YO-E-YO-YO Hi Doug. Come on over let’s party i got the beer.EVERYTHING IS A OK
Marina, what is the origin of the word [addiction]. I watched all your video’s so I think it counts as an addiction now so I was wondering the origin of it.
Figured I’d also point out my name is after the type of music named after the type of drug, I don’t do drugs
How about your 1210 predecessors?
So what part of the country are you from?
[wedgie]
I would like to request the word [hiccup] or [hiccups]. Its such a weird yet funny word that I would love to know the origin of.
Thank you
Yesterday I had a sneezing fit at work, and one of my co-workers said I had just had a “sneezure”.
What a great expression!
Did you flop around on the floor like a fish with a handkerchief?
No handkerchief.
[RAUNCHY]
Could be interesting…
Please…Please…Please…this I really got to know, and I think it is a good one:
What is the origin of the phrase [I got reamed] ?
Thanks,
I don’t know how a perfectly respectable metal-working term (enlarging a hole with a reamer for the purpose of making it an exact size) got perverted like this. Maybe one day a machinist in San Francisco dropped a chuck key, bent over to pick it up and, as they say, the rest is history.
“Leave key in chuck, you’d better duck!”
(Machine shop humor)
I worked for awhile in a machine shop. Pretty boring job, just milling around all day…what a grind!
rongverb, be careful how you [broach] this request with Marina!
OK, marina, I will try do css 2 morow
Marina’s got a Rick-ed side
Rick’n'Roll is back! Especially in a Rickshaw
Ok, ok, ok, I’m being Rick-lessly Rick-diculous & Rick-tarded. Sorry
Hi Marina,
Here’s a video of that car you’d like to get!
http://uk.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=98891&videoChannel=82
Another nice widget to the far lower right; Top Posts.
Love it.
there’s nothing you don’t love, anyway.
P
You know me too well
For the RSS feed whatchamahoobie? Twitter, diggit, RSS feed… I;m overwhelmed.
That is another box that gets out of kilter, as I mentioned to Alex below.
no, i’m pretty sure that wasn’t it.
but, getting an answer out of a chick is
always a matter of lucksometimes pretty fucking hard. *rolleyes*Type in Che in the search box, the 28th B-day video comes up.
Type in pendanticKarl no post found shows up. It must be flawed.
I had to make sure it wasn’t April 1.
For a minute I thought I didn’t exist.
It does list seven video pages for me with
either spelling; lower or upper case “k”.
What’s neat about that search box is that you don’t need to hit enter. Just enter some letters and it starts searching. Very nice.
Just did it once more and this time I got seven hits, go figure.
umm. something popped up and i accidentally clicked it away or something.
marina? what was that?
The past few days, when I refresh my page, some of the ads are all out of whack. The “mate1.com” will be all the way over here, right through the comments box. I don’t know if that is what you saw, or if you had a different situation. Mine is normally not an issue; I just refresh again and life is good.
I was trying to talk to you.. I can message people on the site but it doesn’t work all the time.
huh? try that again.
WOW. MARINAS SECRET MSN MESSENGER!! I WANT TO TRY!!
Down Boy, she’s playing with you.
Oh I see, that’s what you wanted to try.
.
I am aware of two types of on-line “chatting” widgets:
1) A consumer at an on-line store can have “private” one-on-one text-chats or actual voice-internet-conversations with a live customer-support/sales-person.
2) All who are logged in to a web-site can have text-chats in a common “chatterbox” widget (see right column of http://www.perlmonks.org ).
Which one or both were you experimenting with? Since you wrote “I can message people on the site” it looks like you were referring to the text-based version of (1).
–Hs4Mm
I’m starting to think we need another Guess The Word Game to get me out of this [funk] I’m in. Maybe by this weekend.
I just bought a cheap Chinese padlock this morning, and one of it’s features is listed on the packaging as a “laminatch guard bumper.” They slip a simple blue plastic band around the bottom of the lock so that, over time, it won’t scratch whatever is being secured. (I discard this so it won’t look like a… uh, cheap Chinese lock.)
Not having ever seen [laminatch] before, I Googled it and found matches on just a few foreign-language pages, none Chinese. One spoke of it as a material that would be engraved upon, say for making a sign. It was also used as a nickname on a Russian photo site by one Leeloo Mina Lekatariba Laminatch. That would be some coincidence, wouldn’t it?
Any ideas where this came from? Are the Chinese making up words now?
yes , all new english words are now made in china…
If they are anything like the tool sets sold in the 99-Cent store, the new words will crack, break or round off the second they roll off your tongue, which, considering some of the new words, may not be a bad thing. You will know to throw those words away and buy Snap-On or Craftsman.
Engrish!
I think M may be able to overtake expertvillage again. Thank god…. for 1 month the have stopped adding to thier 130000 videos
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=expertvillage&view=videos
Word Request
[Caboodle] Don’t let Gorby see this!
Using copyrighted footage at the beginning there were you? Naughty naughty.
That has been passed around so many times by now. I would not be surprised if it ia already public domain.
I don’t believe “passing around” is a legal way to void a copyright; it’s not like a trademark going into public domain because of common use outside of the product or service identification. (Just try “passing around” Mickey Mouse or some other Disney property and see how far you get.) BTW, since ‘76, when the U.S. joined the Universal Copyright Convention, copyright attaches at the time of creation to all works with no action required by the creator, including a copyright notice like the one at the bottom of this page; it’s automatic, so everything is copyright unless negated by the creator (by, say, a stated license).
Yes, CK, I agree with you. As far as copyright goes, we really do not have any such de facto public domain. It does seem, though, that the internet makes copyright laws much more difficult to enforce. Is this a blessing or a curse? Free (libre, not gratis) information is a whole new Pandora’s Box.
It depends on whose ox is being Al Gored. If you are are the copyright holder and you want to get paid, you would might object to free distribution, even if those who receive it are unlikely to buy it anyway. It’s the same situation as was seen with software piracy.
I suppose some day there will be a law requiring each PC to have an ecryption-protected ID embedded in the CPU which will enable copyright holders to get a cut of everything of theirs that you download from a money account set up ahead of time, no matter whose site it comes from. (I don’t want to give anyone ideas.
)
Speak More…we are performers, from the
and “homeys” habitants
Hometown:_-)
…HD***HFW
HAHAH! How many idiots do you think tried to click the part of the video that siad… Hotforwords naked click here?
Not me… No, not me.
{CK tries to put away his magnifying glass without being noticed.}
Whats top posts? And Marina……….. *kisses*
Happy Square Root Day (3-3-9)
The next one won’t occur until (4-4-16)
Take a math teacher to dinner
Check this out MeLikaDoTheChaCha…Chinese Words for Fruits : How to Say ‘Plumb’ in Chinese…Word request [plumb] as in a [carp]enter…math teachers eat too much
WLIU, I’ll bet it has the same root as plumbing, namely lead (plumbus), which might have been originally used for plumb bobs when they got tired of looking at rocks. Nowadays, plumb bobs are usually turned brass with a steel point, but I think that is just to appeal to the “shiny bauble” part of male’s brains. I is not the bob that is the business end of the instrument here, it is the string that supports it; the bob is just to pull the string down, so a lump of dried crap* would do as well.
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*Yes, a pile of my posts would qualify.
May the square root black magic 333 retro back on the us governments scandal and employees involved. I am 32 it doesn’t work on me so funny Doug you look at square roots. I am always dealing with numbers they play such importance
to me.
Marina, I wish your new videos were a little longer. That was a lot of information squeezed into this short one and I admit I had to watch it twice before fully understanding what was going on, even though I already knew what rickroll is.
Remember that some of your best videos to date are 3-4 minutes long
As for 4chan, it’s an awful site and I don’t recommend it to anybody.
I just felt myself get less cool thanks to learning the nonsurprising nerd-origin of FTW. My mind’s suddenly polluted with images of 130-pound ‘men’ with greasey hair, wearing medium-sized graphic pac-man or atari T-shirts, tight jeans, white shoes, vintage calculator watches circa 1983, with mountain dew in hand to help drown their Dorito-tainted breath. So I’m off to self-report my mancard violation, though I think there will be leniency due to the overal nature of HotForWords, godwilling.
However, since I do appreciate any species of prank, and since I was victimized by the Rickrolling of last year, this lesson has made me wonder about the origin of [TOMFOOLERY] and, Marina, if you will [HIJINKS].
Woops. I clipped the second half of the first sentence somehow. Should read:
I just felt myself get less cool thanks to learning the nonsurprising nerd-origin of FTW, and now I learn about geeks and the evolution of eggs, ducks, wheels, then Rickrolling. …
My 6th grade English teacher would slap me if she knew I wasn’t proofreading my comments before submitting them.
Well said.
C’mon CK. It was fun. I agree that this was not the hard-core entomological lessons that I really get into. I truly appreciate when Lady M takes a word all the way back to its fundamental origins; this often sheds a new light on what the word really means. I think it also says alot about people in general, how we manipulate word meanings based on the context of the place and times. I also think that it is good for me get out of the comfort zone and look at some aspects of society that I normally do not attend. This word (okay, the last few
) have been more lite and fun. Playing ball with my grandkids may have some substantive benefits, but the bestest part is that we are having fun – together. 
Whoops! etymology, not entomolgy. I guess we could all look at bugs together while we play on the swing set, but that’s a different story.
Sorry if FTW, meh, Miley, etc. is your idea of fun. Those leave me with the same feeling you get when you get home from shopping and realize that you left that extra-humongus-size bag of kitty litter in the bottom of the shopping cart.
Oh, well, I think we have spanked M enough on this subject. {CK stops and reflects on the wording of the preceding sentence two or three times while biting into a fat, juicy. sweet navel orange quarter and feeling the nectar swirl around in his mou… Nevermind!
}
Oh; no, I didn’t mean to be critical. I was just ripping her for awesomely perpetrating nerdspeak on the unsuspecting masses.
Marina, does bread hurt? I noticed that the word [Pain] means ‘bread’ in french and a hurting sensation in English. Is there a connection, a story behind that?
No pain, no gaine. = Don’t eat too much bread and you won’t need to wear a girdle.
{Another example of fractured franglais}
That’s interesting Nighteye. Old French baguettes can become as hard as a baseball bat if left in the sun for too long! My guess is they can hurt quite a bit. Not sure if there’s a connection between pain and bread though.
As they say in Quebec, one man’s fish is another man’s poisson.
can you please investigate the word [Turkey]? is there anything to do with the [turkey] the bird and the country [TURKEY]. I will be insisting on the same word till you will make a video for it =)
“Top Posts” is a good thing. It helps and reminds of all the fine work our lovely teacher does.
Thanks from me and keep up the lessons. 
[AIRHEAD]
I’ve noticed that a lot of countries in Eastern Europe tend to end in -IA and a lot of countries in the Middle East end with -ISTAN. For instance, there’s RussIA, SlovakIA, RomanIA. There’s also PakISTAN, UzbekISTAN, AfganISTAN. I was wondering if there is any meaning to [-IA and -ISTAN] at the end of the names of countries.
Not just in Eastern Europe:-
Australia, Austria, Mongolia, Nigeria, Syria, Russia, Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Columbia, Croatia, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Latvia, Liberia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mauritania, Namibia, Romania, St Lucia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tanzania, Tunisia, Zambia.
…only going further to prove my point!
It seems to be independent of language, doesn’t it? Or is that just in the eyes of the English-speaking beholder? Do the inhabitants of all of those use the same name as we do?
Uh, no. Those are the English names for those countries. For example, Germany is actually called Deutschland in its native tongue, but the French call their next-door neighbor (Germany) “Allemagne.” Nobody calls it Germany except us English-speakers! Of course, this does little to address the initial subject: whether suffixes -ia or -istan have a translatable meaning. My guess is that they both mean the same thing as placing “land” at the end of a country name such as Ireland (land of Eire) or England (Angle land).
Where is my axes?????????????/
The philologic terms are [exonym] (what foreigners call a country) and [endonym] (what the natives call their country.) Thus “Finland” is an exonym for the endonymic “Suomi.” “Wales” is an exonym, “Cymru” its corresponding endonym.
As to Germany, the Russians call it “Германия,” pretty close to the English.
I read somewhere that -istan means “land of,” which makes sense. That would mean New Mexico could have been named Enchantmentistan. (Their state motto is Land of Enchantment.)
I liked the one the Onion used in one of their skits: Etchasketchistan.
My daughters use the term “Wheretheheckistan” to describe some unknown faroff land.
I don’t know about -ia, but CampKohler is right about -stan. -stan is Persian [I think, but am probably wrong about] for “land of”.
One man’s Mede is another man’s Persian.
Marina,
After having watched this video, I was struck with the thought that it would be a good idea for hotforwords to investigate the word [meme] itself. At first, I thought it might be related to the French word “même,” which means “same.” Thinking that, I pronounced it as mehm until I later learned it was pronounced meem, and now I have no idea where it came from.
PS: After I started writing this, I scrolled down and saw Karl not only made the same suggestion, but did so in an earlier lesson. Kudos to you, Karl, I admit I shamelessly stole your idea.
That’s the best way!
I can’t believe you just RickRolled your viewers. I feel so abused.
hutchiee, here’s a *kiss* – is it better now?
Can I Have One?
*kiss*
THANK YOU
Umm.. Can I have a kiss too*kiss*
I am not everyone I am someone and kiss me because you know you want to!!!
Egad, here comes the massive line.
And every one of them is puckered up!
And I mean that in a nice way.
Much… much better
Oh god, i think hutchiee just started a new movement of kisses from the teacher … What a scandal *click* haha i’ve got a proving photo ( mhm stupid word ._.)
Cool gravitar, heavy Metallica album
Haha, great movement
…
and yes its a great record, i bought it on Vinyl the other day and its truely amazing
Fortes fortuna adiuvat. = 4chan favours the brave.
Umm … “never going to give up you”? Where does the comma go in that sentence?
I have never been to 4chan. That is not my forte. This video was more light hearted (from my perspective,) and I can appreciate that. Others are a little more tech-savvy, and these topics may be of more interest to them. I also like to gain some new knowledge that is not in my direct line of study. At any rate, it was still fun. What is the purpose of a swing set, a merry-go-round, or a slide? They are fun, and fun is good.
Keep up the good work, M’Lady.
Here, here. Life is too serious to be taken seriously all the time.
Homework
I have never heard of 4 chan.
It occurs to me that the phenomenon of thumbnail cheating on YouTube is a form of rick-rolling, in that it persuades people to click on something that they would not do if they knew the real content.
Good observation Bob.
Up a little early Marina and I would like my kiss.
Below, Marina mentioned how a certain Internet event on the net brought her many more views. As Marina mentioned below, that there are influential people on the net and many of you may have heard that the next wars will be that of information wars, which are here already.
For those of you who have been following me and my graphs on the HotForWords’ Sexy Geek pages, I have mentioned 4chan in the context of the Sexy Geek 2008 Voting. Back in Dec. Marina was about 4,000 votes behind Phil in Up votes and about 10,000 votes behind in combined votes.
As many of you know, Marina was heavily down voted. That didn’t happen by accident. Let’s just say, some 4chan’ners moved a lot of votes. Even though Marina is leading in Up votes, a definitive (no excuses) win for the Sexy Geek of the year also means winning the Combined votes.
Would some of you kind HotForWords fans please vote for Marina until she is leading in the combined votes? In recent weeks, there have only been about 10-20 votes added per day. Marina needs 1,144 votes to take the definitive lead. A thousand of us can do that in one day.
Please vote here by clicking on Marnia’s green Up arrow.
It’s one vote per 24 hours. Please vote until Marina takes the lead. You can also click on my name which goes to the same link.
http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top
Thank you in advance and to those who have continued to vote.
Done.
Don’t forget to down-vote de Franco and up-vote those immediately following him.
Maybe we can eventually get him down to third place or even lower.
Also vote for Captain Jack!!!!
(first page, third from the bottom)
A vote for Jack won’t go against Marina
Good reminder ChaCha, I’ll do it now.
Excellent point.
Pedantic,
A 3:43 min long video, 5 hours after upload has 246 views — but guess where it is on YouTube’s Worldwide Most Viewed page? http://i44.tinypic.com/2w53913.jpg
By what meaning of “most viewed” did this happen?
Is that possible under YouTube’s stated policies? If not, is there some employee in YouTube who is hacking the youtube/browse page?
–Hs4Mm
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Hello hs4mm,
Nope, no hacking, no conspiracy. In the context of your question; Views are NOT live; no real-time updates.
Video views are not updated instantly and are updated maybe once or several times a day. When YT has issues, then updates get extended even further. I think comments and ratings are updated in (near) real time. When it comes to YT, keep in mind, I am always hedging as the rules change and they don’t send me a memo.
Notice that the video in your screenshot was by sxephil, who gets a ton of views. If you looked at the comment count, you may have seen maybe 1000 or more comments per the 200 views shown. By proxy you would have known that the internally not-shown, later-to-be-updated-views were also high.
Did you catch Marina’s Twitter the other day to Buckey? In the context of this discussion, she jabbed Buckey in the ribs for exactly that which I just talked about. Check it out. It was a hoot. Marina is a riot. She just cracks me up every second.
Go to Marina’s Twitter and find the following.
She’s ribbing Buckey.
“@buckhollywood 203 views and 3,354 ratings!
Are you view-count cheating again Buck?
“6:08 PM Mar 2nd from TweetDeck in reply to buckhollywood”
By the way, Buck has a special place in Marina’s heart for a reason. Marina has mentioned it before and I’ll let her fill in the details.
How do you learn the rules of the YT road? Blogs, blogs and more blogs and wiki. Check out wiki and search YouTube and related terms such as “views”. If I remember, they give a good writeup on views count, but could be outdated. Check the update history.
Marina being very technically savvy is on top of this stuff and she is a great source of the latest and greatest. I think you’ve read her blog about “Honors…” above in the Blog section .
Thanks.
By the way hs4mm, SxePhil himself also gives the answer to your question. I guess everybody and their brother is asking.
Here is the video.
Take note that I added the code to point the play head at the proper location. I know that this does not work for many people. If it doesn’t work for you, just manually go to 3:14 where Phil briefly mentions the views count thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEUfrCTfrRc#t=03m14s
Edit: the time code at the end does work for me.
Marina, that was an awesome lesson. Being entrenched in Internet technology, I have been to a lot of sites, including 4chan, the ones before that, and others. My interest in these sites is not only for technical reasons, but also as you mentioned, the idea of memes and also artificial intelligence, self replication and social network technologies.
In fact, I made a word request for the word “meme” here. You may notice that I also made the word request for [neologism]
I loved all of your comments below, specifically;
“…educated people could allow themselves to be brainwashed…”
You are a girl after my own heart. I love reading your comments.
A more complete quote is:
“Brainwash” is a term that concerns manipulating an adult mind. The key term in the above is seemingly normal, educated, with emphasis on seemingly: In Germany, adults were not brainwashed; the entire society was educated with the wrong ideas from kindergarten up — people were brought up with a warped mind from infancy.
For another perspective on the very same topic, check out Ordinary Men, by Christopher Browning. Any of you who have attended public school in the US, have been indoctrinated to respect authority, do not rock the boat, be a productive member of society, sacrifice for the common good. Each of these can be useful qualities, but they require balance. [Harmony] is not everybody singin the same part, but a combination of differents which produce something beautiful.
I don’t think that I know what you mean with “wrapped mind of infancy”.
The vast majority of Germans that were born before 1933 were definitely notbrought up with anti-Semitism. racism or Social Darwinism. The latter is an invention of the late 19th/early 20th century that could have been taught in kindergarten or primary school.
If you mean that the Germany of the 1930s had a wrapped mind because they were taught to be loyal and obedient subjects to the emperor, that, in times of crisis, they have to gather around their leaders and don’t question what the leaders say, then you’re right.
But the Germans of the early 20th century were not the only people that were educated that way.
logicschabbaubar, I agree 100% with your third paragraph. Germans were indoctrinated with the idea to be loyal to the nation. I also agree that this indocrination was by no means limited to early-twentieth-century Germany. If you are implying that this same type of “education” was prevalent in the US at that time, then I also agree. If you imply that this “education” is prevalent in the US, today, then I still agree.
Where I disagree is in your second paragraph. I have seen many documents which demonstrated racism and anti-Semitism in this time. I have also seen much evidence of anti-Romani (Gypsies) and anti-Slavik literature. This was not limited to the typical propaganda outlets, but was also prevalent in scientific journals, elementary textbooks, newspaper articles and cartoons, etc.
The disturbing part, is I have seen very similar trends in the US. These trends were most prevalent about twenty to thirty years earlier in the US. I am actually doing some research right now about eugenics in the US, specifically Larry Hamilton Laughlin’s book, Eugenical Sterilization in the US, published in 1922. The most disturbing part is that this trend did not decline after WWII, when Americans saw all the horrors of that war. The eugenics movement continued into the 1970s! Social and scientific trends in the 1920s and ’30s Germany were very similar to trends in the US in the 1900s and ’10s.
One difference is that while Germany concentrated on people with Hebrew, Slavik, and Romani descent, the US was concerned with people of African, Native American (at home,) and Asian (for imperialism abroad) descent.
bsomebody, my point was that I’m objecting to the thesis that the whole German society was brought up with racism in general and anti-Semitism in particular from infancy. The Germany of 1933 was still the Germany of Goethe, Schiller and Lessing. Every pupil at a German Grammar school was obliged to read Lessing’s Nathan the Wise until 1933. Germany was the country that made Einstein a leading physicist at the Prussian Academy of Sciences. The Nazis startedburning books before they started burning humans.
Anti-Semitism and social Darwinism wasn’t just a German phenomenon. Anti-Semitism has existed since the medieval and even before all over Europe including Germany of course.
Hitler and his Nazi movement are unique and can’t be compared to anything in the present. Therefore, it is almost always inappropriate to make a comparison with Hitler or the Nazis. There are even expressions for the overuse of Hitler comparisons: Godwin’s law and Reductio ad Hitlerum.
The overuse of Hitler comparisons plays down the bestiality of Hitler, of the Nazi ideology and of the Nazi regime. Hitler was not just a fascist and the Nazi regime was not just a fascist dictatorship, they went far, far beyond that. That’s why I don’t like inappropriate Nazi comparisons. White farmers may have enslaved people of African origin, but making their slaves work wasn’t aimed at killing them like the forced labour in Nazi concentration camps was.
I think that we kind of half way agree. I think I understand what you are saying. I am saying that Germany did have an abundance of racist literature (scientific, literary, scholarly…) well before Hitler came into power. I have seen copies of this, myself. Granted, I have not seen any original documents, but I have seen enough, that I trust their existence. Most of my Nazi research was focused on their anti-Roma ’solution.’ Anti-Roma literature has been all over Europe (as you say, since the Middle Ages.)
I am also saying that this racist ideology was NOT limited to Germany. I have a handful of US literature in my hands right now. I have also seen British, French, Polish, Japanese and Russian documents which say basically the same thing, just some of the names have been changed.
I agree that slavery is not synonomous with genocide. I am not saying it is any better or worse, but it is definately different. The atrocity of Nazi Germany was in how well they did their job. The Germans were so much further technologically advanced (that unique German helmet – only the Gremans had the technology to shape steel that way and keep its strength.) They literally made mass killings (and mass disposal) into a science.
Others who tried the “final solution” but with nowhere near the dramatic success: US v Native Americans, especially Cherokee and Choctaw on the Trail of Tears, which was a death march and NOT a ‘relocation;’ the Japanese v the Chinese during the Rape of Nanking; the British v Aboriginal Australians. Post WWII: Rwanda, Darfur, East Timor, Sierra Leone.
No one has been able to match Germany with their spectular success, except maybe Stalin (but he was an equal-opportunity discriminator; he killed anyone), but many, many others have matched Germany with their intent.
I feel it is dangerous to isolate the Holocaust as a unique event. Unique in its efficiency, yes; in its motives, absolutely not. If the Holocaust was just a freak in history, then we have nothing to learn from it. It was a horrible and despicable act of inhumanity, but the historical record has shown that the idea of racial superiority has been all too common, and the inhuman measures by which this superiority has been exercised is all too frequent.
Pg. 2 of most popular for FTW. I always had a theory that the new Most Popular section on YouTube favored a young demographic.
Yes, the FTW video’s best position so far was #33 (p2 #13).
iJustine has had only three different videos on the board so far, and has a similar appearance on the Popular board as your videos as they all started on Pg 5 or Pg 4.
My database shows that 1,007 videos had their initial appearance on the Popular board on Pg 2, many with low views from 1000 to 5000 and most geared to younger demographics. I’ll put a partial list up on the forum on Thur and will also post some very interesting graphs.
i understand that this is a popular thing to say. it’s also one of the shallowest things to say.
i don’t see how that phrase could be discussed in school. does that mean or explain anything?
“the reason for all that is that people got brainwashed.”
ah! i see. clearly. uh huh.
oh, well.
You’ve never done ‘[marijuana]‘? There’s some controversy behind this word, and I would love some solid clarification on the topic.
lol Don’t answer that question literally; it might incriminate you.
HFW did a lesson on the word POT Click here to watch
This may hold you over until she does your word.
Yeah, I’ve seen that and ‘420′, so that’s why it surprised me she hadn’t covered ‘marijuana’.
Two more words: [congress] and [progress]
I think the late Paul Harvey would appreciate this.
“If ‘pro’ is the opposite of ‘con’ what is the opposite of ‘progress’?” – Paul Harvey
I have 3 words to suggest.
* [bigot]
* [sexist] (please indicate how long it took for the word to obtain its strong connotations, and when it originated)
* [prohibitionist]
Also, please read this thread if you have a moment.
http://www.marijuana.com/420-lounge/115595-bigotry.html
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US !!!
THIS IS SPARTA !!!
quite old really
Dear HotForWords,
I haven’t been to 4 chan before, and did not know about rick rolling! One meme that I’ve noticed is the ‘fail’ meme.
Your Student,
ThoughtOnFire
BTW I received the prize from the GTW Game in the mail today! Thanks
I would like to request the word [PWN] in response to your video on (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yua5kklOHuU&feature=channel)
thanks.
i second [pwn]
Looks Welsh. Sort of like [cwm].
As in, the Western Cwm of Mount Everest.
“May you ever rest on this mountain.” — George Mallory’s epitaph
Just ricked-rolled out of bed on a cold E.Canada morning, and you are like a golden ray of sunshine in this frigid darkness. Never heard of 4chan, but will visit. Rick Astley is very good, you can actually understand what he’s singing about.( excuse my grammar)
Night Guys
G’nite John-John.
(He must really like that.
)
thanks dude, i finally figured John-boy reasons of the “good-night” salutation
Nerd Word of the Day: Again with installments. Installments of words would have to be syllables, right? We’re going to get a syllable a day until we have a whole word?
No… and I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Since you asked to comment and rate here it is (the comment) I would rate you about a high 7 to a low 8 currently. I haven’t seen you without your makeup recently.
I’ve been to 4 chan when I was investigating being rickrolled once before. I don’t even try to know all the internet meme. Rated the video 4 stars and favored also. I have always favored your vids so I have too ask whom’s asking?
Ha ha, Marina, I don’t think it counts as rick rolling if you proceed to deliver the content we originally clicked for anyways.
Yes, I’ve been to 4chan a few times. It troubles me: you hear about Anon doing good things some of the time, like protesting the Church of Scientology, exposing people with child pornography, and more recently, bringing animal-abusers to justice. But at any given time when you go see what the /b/tards are up to, it’s pretty much just a cesspool of internet-obsessed people desensitized to everything wrong in the world. They’ve all got their heads unbelievably far up their own asses, but I don’t deny their ability to spread memes. Toysjoe gave a list of memes below which pretty much exhausts all the memes with which I’m familiar, except maybe for an hero, Chris Hansen, Rule 34, and hypnotoad. But oh well, my own generation has always bewildered me.
By the way, I saw on my calendar that today is the anniversary of your first video, so Happy Anniversary! I mean, it’s really after midnight, so technically it’s the 3rd now, but whatever.
You know if you didn’t have big boobs no one would even care
Au contraire.
You’re wrong. This is the difference between this site and youtube. Yes, on youtube, many people may not care. Some of them are just passing by, and one of the first things they notice is Marina’s chest. They stay ignorant of everything else. That’s why you get all this stupidity in the comments there.
That said, I don’t belive that someone takes his time to register here only to watch videos hoping that *maybe* *someday* *something* more will be revealed, while he could be happily watching what he wants somewhere else. It’s not like boobs are hard to find on the internet nowdays, is it?
If you really come here just to watch boobies, I’d suggest you to stop and watch porn instead. It would be more… erm… efficient for you
I’m sure no one here will miss you.
Hi vault,
I strongly suspect that the person who posted this comment is an unloved woman who needs attention, not some guy looking at a pair of breasts for his first time. Who in their right mind would say such a thing to Marina? The jealousy is palpable, the tone transparently envious.
We had a person named hdvideo posting some very similar crap here around May or June of 08. This individual is truly starved for contact of any kind, and obviously has nothing of value to contribute but loves to get peoples’ goat any way she can. It’s a power thing. People respond to it, and that perpetuates it. Some people apparently feel that the best way to get attention is by breaking things and pissing in the aquarium. Don’t pay her no nevermind. She’ll go away quietly when ignored.
does a pool count as an aquarium? hehe.
Especially if you’re Aquaman!
a pool “cunt”?
you bet.
hummm. so next time someone notices me doing that, i’ll just say, “hey, i’m aquaman.” cool.
How come you’re not dead yet? Last summer you were convinced your doom was imminent.
some people ain’t dying as fast as other ones. or something like that.
What brains you have for the courage of such suckling…areyoukidding???To produce or send out suckers…
Get lost, you pathetic loser.
I’ve been rickrolled and to 4chan. I experienced Generation gap.
The bottom of the page no longer indicates the #of ppl on this website. por que?
It was slowing down the website and I couldn’t find another suitable option out there. I was using http://www.freeonlineusers.com/ but it would hang all the time preventing the whole page from loading.
The number of users online at any moment is not important; it is not an indicator of the audience, because one can post now and be read by many at any time in the future.
BBS, yayyy! Chat, booo!
I don’t know all the things you’ve changed but i now have to turn off my adblock plus to see the twitter box didn’t have to do that before you changed to the new style. I never seem to have had trouble with the pages loading. Just saying
Have you noticed, that YouTube video makers are developing a little bit of a dialect of their own, when it comes to talking about making & posting vids. When they talk to each other the tone or watever you call it changes & the technical stuff that bounces off of me, seems to be absorbed by the respondant.
Following some folks (especially mareketers) on twitter, I pick up on a kind of insider language with a bit of a “Rah Rah” attitude… assosiated I guess, with the Tony Robbins type followers.
I miss my friend MissVodkaknockers… she was a scamp eh!
Keeping everything running requires so much technical stuff! Sorry to find myself becoming even more of a geek!
Hey, I try to absorb as much of the jargon as possible, trying to understand it before it leaks out my brain. Not so easy.
I’ve posted some vids & did my first bit of movie editing… hours & hours for 3 minutes vid. Frustrating & satisfying all at the same time
You sound Canadian saying “Sorry” all the time, hope you don’t mean it.
It’s kinda fun to pick up on peoples personalities as they attempt to say something in 140 charachters. I’m always going back too edit mine, pairing em down to 140 exactly most times.
I saved the name before I deleted the account so Ms V could be resuscitated.
Still, Marina, you look [luscious].
Why would you not go to the website even just out of curiosity? I’m not saying you should, but I recently found out that that website is responsible for so many of the Internet crazes that have happened over the past couple years, and out of curiosity I visited it and still had no idea what was going on! It’s VERY confusing.. but gives one a look into the minds of very young people on the Internet.. and very influential people, mind you!
Some info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan
“very influential people” — what does that say about the people who are influenced by such people?
lolcats, rickrolling, and “Chocolate Rain” sprouted from 4chan. If you spend a lot of time on the net like myself, you may find these things interesting. If you don’t have an interest in how things sprout up in society, then that is fine.
I do find these things interesting as they affect me directly YouTube placed my video on the homepage on April Fools day last year and Rickrolled everyone who clicked on the video, and it resulted in a few hundred thousand views for my video that day (from people eventually finding their way to my actual video), so I have a personal interest in the origin of that term and the what it was all about.
I didn’t find your site by “following the crowd”.
I found it by honing the cutting edge of your groundbreaking idea.
Others may not follow in my lead – so be it.
I would rather seek my own path, than follow the sheep for mere popularity.
For those who walk beside me , I am grateful to be in your company
Cha cha cha! I discovered this site by clicking on the teacher’s b00bz! I don’t walk beside you and I am not grateful to be in your company!!
Wow Marina, You have been busy on the comments, I am going to see a film with my mum soon but when I get back I will have a look at some new css stuff
Lolcats infuriate me. I find them really stupidly annoying.
God Bless [redundant]…God Bless Marina-aniraM.sselB.doG…reduplication..
.. thanks for letting oldschool people practice..[praxis]..propman skills of writing
@ neuroway – you have made my point even clearer, thanks
Keep clicking on those bOObs!
…or should I just say “Baaaa”
@Chachacha
Not a chance pal! I just decided in some sudden enlightened strike of wisdom that I’m gonna stop clicking on them! Don’t be addicted to girls is the first rule of a good politician!
Ohhhh, I probably will go there, Marina.
I am a VERY curious person. I just said that because everything on your video went so FAST, and I will most likely waste lots of time on that site when I should be doing other things. And when I look into the minds of very young people, it often frightens me.