Alley-Oop
Origin of the term Alley-Oop. I always thought it was a basketball term!
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Origin of the term Alley-Oop. I always thought it was a basketball term!
Please rate and comment over at YouTube to help me be seen. Thanks!
a tittle is the dot on a lower case i and/or j.
I sent an email to words@waywordradio.org as you suggested. Used your recommondation in subject line. All went pretty good, waiting to hear back from those folks.
When I left the internet cafe, net to the Hard Rock cafe, I was surprised to find gone, my tied up mule, Don Quixote, had loosened herself.
Luckly, I was able to tell by herfott steps, she was on the way to the Country Western bar, nearby.
Has anyone seen my mule, Don Quixote? I got to catch her before she burrows herself in to being a jack-ass at the bar.
If you see her, you can get her attention with a burrito. Tell her, Don Quixote, go home.
Well, any more lines to develop here?
Where do you live? And how old is Don Quixote?
Marina, I would like to know when and where you got [Kobe](sp.?) and how he got his name. C’mon! Pweeeeeease!!!!!
Oooh, you were on sabbatical while that all happened. Fans kept referring to her dog as “Gorby,” so she changed his name from Kobe to Gorby — thinking it better to honor Mikhael Gorbachev than Kobe Bryant. The dog accepted the name change, and has been Gorby ever since (late fall last year, I think it was.)
Hello wordlover,
Good to see you back again. As Evan mentioned, while you were away, Marina changed her cutest dog’s name from Kobe to Gorby. Marina created a page just for that occasion and you can find it here. As Evan mentioned the fall, it was Oct 28, 2008.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/10/28/gorby/
Crazy time….[E-Verify]…government trade mark….
Quote
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” – Antoine de Saint Exupery
Marina, could you cover the origin of the word [mogul]? It’ll be fun! Thanks!
I second [mogul]! And while we’re at it:
[nabob]
[pundit]
[diva]
[pajamas]
[candy]
[maharajah]
[guru]
[yoga]
[nirvana]
That’s getting ‘indu the spirit, right?
Thanks. Good to be here.
[mordida]
Croeso, Rhanc!
Croeso oddiwrthaf fi hefyd! (En otras palabras…¡bienvenido! “Rhanc” quiere decir “encuentro” en galés. ¡Qué bien encontrar a Ud.!)
Oh, uhh…just assumed you speak español since you asked for [mordida]. Welcome / croeso / bienvenido…you get the idea.
Marina’s twitpic=Apple-polisher.
That was awful, wasn’t it…
peace sign scarf?..(/ll\) [polish] mile l
Truly awful would’ve been “apple-russianer”
Aww, man! Nice.
Ouch!
[snake-oil]…butter, olive oil and onions is cooking the frying of the gift of “sheep liver”…
smelly food 
Saw a neat quote today:
The older I get the less I find evil interesting, and the more I find goodness interesting.
Hi there Marina. I would like to request [F.U.B.A.R] , because i think it was used in WW2 and i’m sure it has a story behind it. I know what it stands for (the first word being…..bad), but i would still like to find out where this word came from. Thankyou!
P.S I am new to the site, and i think it is great! Especially how can educate so many people in suck a creative way!
Hopefully, you meant “such a creative way!”
C’mon, now, you know it was funnier the first way!
To be sure. But remember that “suck” can be an insult as well as a compliment.
This TV really sucks!
This vacuum cleaner really sucks!
By the way, i did mean SUCH! Sorry about the confusion. How embarrassing!
Welcome to this fine site!…ENJOY—squidman
What music are you listening to right now?
I got some Bob Marley goin’. Right now it is uhh… “Craven Choke Puppy,” whatever the hell that means.
Bo Burnham – My Whole Family…
Lol…
oh, the YT guy. I had heard the song before, but I didn’t know the dude’s name.
Yeah, he’s actually on Comedy Central now too. Some funny stuff, but the YouTube versions are better than the Comedy Central ones because he has to take some stuff out for those performances, I guess it would be too offensive.
I’m getting in here late, but still a great question.
The late, great Chet Atkins with Mark Knopfler – yes, they actually recorded an album together. It’s called “Neck and Neck”. Sometimes restrained and subtle, but eye-moistening guitar conversation.
Oh, yeah, leonard, I can see we have something in common.
I love Mark Knopfler, but I listen mostly to his Dire Straits stuff, esp. the non top forty tracks. If I could play like anybody, it would be him. I don’t own that album, but I have listened to it a few times. Great stuff; it’s on my list.
The only kind of music I can listen to (be it on CD, radio, or any other format) while I work is jazz. I get distracted with all other styles. But when I surf, etc. I listen to nothing but the music already playing thru my head. It’s called audiation. It’s a huge struggle. But it keeps me from getting bored… sometimes.
Current audiation track: “Still Alive” (Jonathan Coulton)
bsomebody…how did your class presentation go? Ja get dem bo-oks read? Taste (Rory Gallagher ) – Sugar Mama (live 1969)…little bit of ECO-history of bars and scars
….
I still have three more weeks before I present, but thanks for keeping me in mind. I’m getting to the grind, now. Only two more books for the weekly stuff, but both of the major projects yet
. This eugenics stuff can get pretty depressing 
.
Beside from wordlover’s definition, tittle also means a iota; an small, tinny bit of something. Possibly an archaic word now.
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
If you join it with tattle (to let out secret, chatter), as in tittle-tattle, changes it’s meaning to gossip or dumb chattering.
As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.
Christina of Sweden
As for Titty, I don’t think anyone watching the videos needs and example.
. . . needs an example.
Square Bob Sponge Pants wants to know the origin of the expression… [kiss my ass!]
“Flock of birds”, “pack of wolves” and sometimes something as weird as “school of fish”.
Could you research the “school of fish”, for instance?
Thanks!
It’s a good thing I don’t twitter, ’cause if I did, I would probably tweet something like “Writing a book review for Manliness & Civilization. Interesting book, why should I feel guilt about being a white man?” Since nobody would really care that I am writing this book review, I would just be wasting everyone’s time who bothered to read my tweet. Good thing I don’t waste people’s time like that, huh?
and then I tweet to Marina “Hey, you’re wearing my scarf again. Looks great!”
I desperately want Marina back home for a new lesson. It’s been too long.
Can you tell us about the word [sanction], and why the noun [sanction] seems to mean something very different from verb [sanction]. For example: The court [sanctioned] the lawyer’s action, i.e. approved the action. On the other hand: The government enforced [sanctions] on the country, i.e. put limitation on the country’s behavior.
Thanks!
Whoops . . . I think the question marks must be broken on my keyboard
(snollygoster)
“alley-OOp”…gotta go been fun
In Polynesian mythology Oro is the war god of the Pacific island of Tahiti. However, in peacetime he becomes a god of peace and is worshiped as Oro-i-te-tea-moe (”Oro of the spear laid down”). It might not be the Oros you were talking about, but oro did demand human sacrifice during war time…you can see a bit of simularity with your dream if you squint…
Wow. Good eye there!
In Greek, ορός means [serum]
While όρος means “condition”, “term”, or “proviso”.
If we knew more about obfuskation’s background we might be able to deduce what his subconscious was trying to tell him.
CHILL are the frills…Lucinda Williams Passionate Kisses
Lucinda Williams- Drunken Angel (Live)
…have faith…love is free…sex is not 
Marina, I had a strange dream which led to a strange word request.
Dream–
I was sitting in an outdoor area full of benches and picnic tables — the benches and tables were filled with people sitting elbow to elbow. After overhearing snippets of conversation, I could tell that most of the people there seemed to be unemployed, and most were despondent.
I could hear a guy named ‘Oros’, who was an unemployed waiter, complaining that he couldn’t find a job. At the same time, I could hear another guy who was a restaurant manager complaining that he couldn’t find any good waiters. This whole time, an obviously depressed man that looked to be in his 60s or 70s sat to my left. He kept mumbling, but I couldn’t make out the words.
After a bit, the man on my left dropped a penny that landed at my feet. I bent down to pick it up. As I did, the man to my left pulled out a pistol, put it to his head, and pulled the trigger. The bullet passed through his head, and through the space above me where my head would have been if I hadn’t bent down to pick up the penny. Blood and brain matter showered the left side of my face and body as I picked up the penny.
Everybody got quiet. I stood up and walked over to the garbage can, showed the penny to a couple of people who were watching me with that slack jawed expression and said, “Lucky penny”. I dropped the penny into the trash, then everybody started to whisper. They seemed more shocked that I would throw away a ‘lucky penny’ than by the fact that a man just blew his brains out in the middle of all of them, and I was standing there wearing all the spatter.
All I could think of was, why didn’t that dumb-assed manager just hire Oros?
Request– Does [Oros] mean anything? That name is stuck in my head.
GOOD day, you all:
Quote
“There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.” – Frank Zappa …from the HotForWords…Frank Zappa at 22 (1 of 4)….
@PK I went ot vote at Marina Sexiest Geek and the up & down arrows are gone.
Is it just me?
or is the constest over? 
Contest just began
Where does one go to vote?
Go Here & click the Up Arrow for “M” & the down arrow for “Phil” & your life will have new meaning
Still works for me… although I can’t tell if my votes really do count on a daily basis.
Waiting for results from the accountant.
OK it worked in FF, maybe because I deleted my cookies in IE just before I went to the page.
Look for the parody of this song,
dedicated to Obama’s new plan
Oops, there goes another US car plant
{The great white hunter Cha Cha is up early crusing the forums on the hunt for a healthy debate}Play this song from DETRIOT…RUSE, american…join…chanc-iler
mich…know holds BAred 
go Doug, go
[Take a walk on the wild side]
Here is a game called Spin.
Go to http://m-w.com Merrium-Webster on-line dictionary to ask for definitions.
Take any word, say, angel.
For vowels, left to right, start with the first vowel, and, change it, to “e”, asking the dictionary to find word engel.
You will, if not spelling a recognised word, get a misspelling helper and receive ten recommondation from the mispelling helper.
Often in this list of words is/are very telling corelations.
Try again asking for ingel, then ongel, ungel and yngel.
For consonants, try mirror image ideas, like p’s and d’s or …….
Well the game is named, any player, reporters?
Misspelling well here gets the prise!!!!
[inshallah]
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ingel
Suggestions for ingel:
1. Angel 2. ingle
3. intel 4. Angell
5. injure 6. Inge
7. engild 8. ingest
9. Angelo 10. Engels
11. Angeles 12. anginal
13. engine 14. injures
15. endgame 16. Angela
17. angels 18. ingenue
19. anger 20. inshallah
21. Angelou 22. injury
Spooky format change all of a sudden at m-w.com.
See the last? of the above return format.
ealga, you should go to http://www.waywordradio.org/ and suggest this game. Martha and Grant will love it! (And if you do, tell em wordsmith sent you!)
Marina,
Where were you in N.Y.C that had the Russian signage? (Your twitpics).
Soho, bar called Pravda.
Правда!
Is that the TRUTH?
Thanks, Sweetie. I’ve yet to make it to New York. Someday…
Damn, girl, just noticed the time – did you pull an all – nighter?
russian signage in wisconsin; along with others, chinese and spainage and england…(no french or germsofman)
the incomplete sentence or fragment
You should create cryptograms for a newspaper. Rest assured they’d have me puzzled for a good while!
Hi Marina,
How long have you been on Skype, and how do you like it?
Best wishes for your O’Reilly Factor appearance, and as always, ignore the jealous detractors!
Любов всегда,
EO
I have Skype but have only used it a couple times. It’s cool.. want to use it more plus they have a app coming out today on the iPhone.
[app]
apple add, stupid me
Geoff Smith (the great jingler) has one. He says there’s no SMS but that it’s good nonetheless.
See, MountainBoy? I told you if you asked her this, you’d get a response!
(Sorry, Marina, you’ve been pranked! But I still love and respect you!)
Pranked? Ahem, you’re a day early, Evan.
OOOOHHHH, THANK YOU!!! for the reminder!!! I can HARDLY wait!
HW: a small mark over or near a letter, as with Hebrew vowel points. What, then, is the origin of [ tilde ? (Marina, your outtakes at the end gave me a sugar rush!
)
edit function not working? somehow I left off the second bracket!
[tilde]: Depends; is that-a you tilde or ma tilde
Speaking of “tilde”…
Q: What’s this: ñuc ñuc ñuc
A: Spanish subtitle on a Three Stooges movie!
Q: What’s this: њук њук њук
A: Serbian subtitle on a Three Stooges movie!
Jamaica Farewel**^**lVanilla Band, an all girls …I think you will like; Marina & Evan
@stigma: I believe the Hebrew vowel marks are called “neqqu dots.”
I would like to know how the word [Mangina] started … make a video please
Thanks,
KHowell1991
nice Marina! i wanna play alley-oopswith you sometime!
Can you find out the meaning of the phrase [Ha Ha, Charade you are!]
Thanks!
Can’t — …
… wait —
… any —
… longer. —
… Must —
… have —
… new —
… HotForWords —
… v-v-vvvvideooooooooooh! — *pant!* *pant!* *pant!* Water!
Dude! Have you watched ALL the old lessons ALREADY? If not, click here!
“Abyss” gives the history of a Sumerian word in English; “jeans, denim, and dungarees” are great toponyms! That oughta tide you over to your next HFW fix!
I see you’re in the early stages of HFW addiction. I’m on the addiction support team; wherever you are, I’ve been there. Don’t be afraid to call for help!
Oh! You’re a RETURNING student! What happened — fall off the wagon?
Well, one night I was type-type-typing away (as is my wont, in case you haven’t already noticed) and I wasn’t getting any responses though the people from whom I was wishing to get responses were ALL online at the same time as I. I couldn’t figure it out. I asked CaptainJack SEVERAL TIMES how he changed his gravatar and he wouldn’t answer me! I guess I got kinda paranoid. I then provided a quote from SW:A New Hope to make my point clear. Some bloke then comes in and says (as best I can remember) “it’s great to see so many happy people here”. I couldn’t understand why nobody was giving me the time of day (so to speak). Having had more than enough I fled. Stayed away for ca. a year(?) and one day I was at twitter tweeting away and I noticed CaptainJack. I said howdy to him and he mentioned that—get this—people missed me at HFW and was wondering what happened to me! Then I got a tweet from Marina and—long story made short(?)—I came back here to see how thing have turned out. THE END* (*that is, the story ends where we begin here).
help=pleh
Must be something more curious going on then meets the eye. No puns driven from my side. But the way I express myself lent itsself to a pun.
I’m more like this……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHQ_aTjXObs
Here is looking back at superstock.
[canine]
[cannabis] “Latin-two dogs”
[cannibal]
Reguarding that smell……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nec_-a4fCX8
You’re gonna need some Right Guard to reguard {sic} that smell!
Who’s (((((((((shaking))))))))) out there
shaken, not stirred. Trying to finsih reading a book for class tonight.
finish
Che is making light of the recent 4.6 earthquake near Silicone Valley“Silicone valley” is that the name of a strip club?
No, You’re thinking of Silicone Alley
Darn!
I thought Silicone Allie was a hooker in Iraq.
She charged Marines double.
Rotten to the Corps!
bsomebody! I was just thinking about you. Someone else recently wanted to clobber me (actually, he just suggested I use my meds as a suppository), but that got me to thinking…why did YOU want to clobber me?
I mean, I figured you had good reason, 
but then I started wondering about the exact reason 
Pardon me if you previously answered and I missed it.
Sorry, mate. I didn’t mean any harm. It was a pun based on the wording that you used. I meant nothing personal; I would have posted that if anyone else had left that comment.
I guess it would be easier to tell that I was joking if it had actually been funny.
BTW, be careful when altering the prescribed application for your meds. This can cause adverse and unforseen consequences.
See, that was another feeble attempt at humor. But, you really do NOT want to do that with your meds.
{ummm! Excuse me, but you are talking to yourself}No offense taken, and your advice with the meds is apropos. Today I was dealing with a complex interaction of cough suppressants, caffeine, sleeping pills, and ADD meds; ended up thinking I was awake while sleeping and vice versa. As to…what?
Why is your thread border red?
it was a present from Marina for “service above and beyond the call of the wild.”
or was that the call of nature?
hmmm… 
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUU-
I wanna change my border! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Ahem.
Borderline” degli MC5 dall’album “Kick Out The Jams” (1968) p.s. visitate anche il blog ….Go to ADMIN….speCIAl my donkey c*nt>?
What is this?!
The special people get borders*
*{Che plays well with others
{It's not red it's more like Fuchsia}
Whilom it was reddish. Nathless, I wish I were special…
That is, enough to have a border
Don’t worry
I’ve got my love of language to comfort me
No comment here I’m just blocking Fredjr in.
Could it be this border is here for the protection of the other students? After all we can get in but you can’t get out!
Try to get out now
HOW now BrOwN Cow…I’ll trade you are a plow: for know fence out side you stand in field of_________croe of sow________________
“Good fences make good neighbors”
Robert Frost
Che: {plays well with himself}
Are you trying to deflect attention from the vibrations caused by you and your physio?
What’s scary is I can’t blame my imagination on medication
Allergies, unidentified allergic reaction. Works for me.
I’m Shaking..Detroit 10-67 let’s all SHAKE on IT
Oh, BTW, tittle is a dot or slash above a letter, esp. one above ‹i› or ‹j›. In Turkish, the capital of ‹i› is not ‹I› but ‹İ›. Likewise, the lowercase of ‹I› is not ‹i› but ‹ı›. However, the capital of ‹j› is ‹J› and not ‹J̇›.
A jot¹, incidentally is an iota ‹ι›, which itself takes no tittle.
¹So called figuratively from its being the smallest letter in the Greek alphabet.
Ever notice the Turks have an “i” with no tittle? Wonder what that does to the pronunciation.
Indeed, I have noticed it (hence my abovegiven comment). This letter calls for an unrounded close back vowel [ɯ], which is essentially saying [u] without any rounding of the lips.
The plain dotted ‹i› is pronounced approximately like the i in “bit”.
Hm, sounds like the “u” in North Welsh “punt.” Thanks — I think we’re hearing some of that here. (Acknowledgements to leonard for this video.)
Evan….The best Belly Dance.Ксения Корнейчук и “ХАТТОР” в “БУРЖУА”…thanks
Спасибо!
Yodh think they could come up with a more original name than “iota.”
Iota quit telling bad puns!
waiting for the next word!!
The suspense/wait is unbearable, isn’t it?
Speaking of suspense, RB, did you ever get your phone call from Marina?
not yet, cause it’s difficult to find a comfortable time=(
Comfortable time? Uh-oh! That sounds weird.
I felt uncom.fortable…my fingers feel time and feedback with amps is smashing the comforts of timing
jazzed with my Olive(r)s and a Jelly Roll, to go 
pricks of leasure
And the award for most original free-form poetry goes to…
How about doing a (scary) video on the word [chupacabra]?
or even [goatsucker]! (Jeez — in English, it sounds perverted!)
Tittle…It’s the dot over a lowercase i or j
Oh Lady Marina Most-Divine! Unending appreciation can never be enough! for the knowledge you “alley-oop” to us lowly ’students’ (knowledge-”receivers”) so that the educated among us may profitably use the knowledge to answer questions and ask even-better ones on MyLot!
The Bastard Fairies – Whatever…mythma(nme)
…
Gorblimey!
Why isn’t Marina responding to our comments?
D’oh!
Me and my big keyboard! 
I’m a Barbie Girl ! [ Sim Video ]WORK…words of [long shot of love]
celebutard http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/03/27/nerd-word-of-the-day-celebutard/comment-page-1/#comment-120440
because she has a life
Unlike you!
I’m trying! I’m preparing for my TV taping today. I have to be prepared, so I am actually studying! Cram session for the teacher!
Ok. I’m sorry for being impatient!
Thanks for the fun and knowledge! ♥MMMWAH!♥
New York State Of Mind / Billy Joel
[student]…stud.ents 
good luck, MARINA…with the Irishman 
ask about Kennedy, america has that holy money of hide(fam.ily) 
fam.ily rhyming with billy (joel)?
Hi wordlover!
As part of your continuing site orientation, and especially given your knowledge of Russian, do be cautious about commenting on any remark written by a Russian in Russian and addressed to Marina. I got my butt chewed a couple of times for that before my ex-wife explained it to me:
Which I thought was very perceptive, coming from someone who thought the Amazon River is in Africa!
It’s good to have Marina in our time zone for a bit. If it’s cold in New York as it is here, hope she has a Winter jacket this trip.
Football.. I though of soccer
Who saw 60 Minutes last night? and did you see the segment about computer viruses?
This worm thing is scary. Are we safe even commenting? Marina might have some influence with those Russian whiz kids. They are so smart, too bad they can’t put their talents to better use.
Damn! I wish these night-time cold medicines actually worked…
[Nostrum]
Ours is the same wish too.
(Did you see what I did there?)
Hmm…something like cosum nostrum? (sorry, the cold meds are fogging my wit.)
Ours = Nostrum in Latin
I maek funy pun! Hee hee hee!
Evan: Read the the label and maybe you took ‘em in the mo(u)rning?
?:-) 
Dope for dopes on dopes 
hey, I’ve always wondered why december is the 12th month of the year, even though dec in december relates to 10.
It wasn’t always the 12th month.
By the way, who has fun plans for the 4th of Quintilis holiday?
Birth of the Alley-Oop
Homework, Tittle is a distingushing mark, like the dot above the lower case i and j. To be honest I cheated. I googled the word.
That’s perfectly fine. You were honest about that!
Hey, I like this new guy “wordlover”. He’s what I’d be like if I had manners and more, um, intellectual honesty!
Let’s face it: who doesn’t google something from time to time? No one is born knowing everything, y’know.
Hey, I like this new guy “wordlover” not new just gone for a while
Yes. But let’s hope nothing happens like it did last time…
OK, you’re begging the question…what happened?
Evan Owen says:
76.1.1.2.2
March 30, 2009 at 6:01 pm
OK, you’re begging the question…what happened?
Your begging to know, and I don’t know, ask the at least two parties involved.
Check page 3 for more info. (That is, while page 3 is still “page 3″)
Hey Marina, I decided I want to take you for a magic carpet ride.
We could lift off into the sunset, while I would [bark the tires]!
Sounds cool?
onelook.com says “a tiny or scarcely detectable amount,” but the American Heritage dictionary says ” small diacritic mark, such as an accent, vowel mark, or dot over an i.” I like onelook.com because it is an index to many current and historical dictionaries. I like American Heritage because of its etimological information. But it is not half as entertaining as HotForWords!
etymological. Oops.
I would like to know how the letter “x” has come to replace “christ” in [x-mas]. Was thinking about it with a few of my friends… all of our answers were rediculous.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
I can tell you if Marina doesn’t cover it. Lemme know.
I actually covered the x-mas in an O’Reilly segment about 2 minutes 56 seconds in.
How does one change the color of his/her comment box? Yours has a pink background. Che Volay’s has a red border.
Oh, thanks! ^_^
I wonder what other abbreviations people use for holidays?
Is there a connection between the words beneath and underneath? Is neath the baseword here and if so where did it come from?
Are you familiar with the word [nether]?
Hello Marina I wanted to see if you can look up the work Ubuntu… Stay beautiful….
Jeff
HI Marina I wish you the best on the Bill O’Relly show. A lot of people don’t like Bill he is a good man. I Wish you would go on the SAVAGE NATION Michael is the best. Have a good time Marina
OH SHI- Now I’ve seen everything!
Yelberton Abraham Tittle he is a football hall of famer
Yes.
One of the most iconic photos in football history is of Y. A. Tittle on his knees, helmet off, and a trickle of blood coming down his forehead. This was late in his career when he was with the Giants. I think that maybe this is the greatest NFL photo ever.
YT is letting me rate the same video multiple times use to have to wait 24 hours.
Why on earth are you rating the same video multiple times?
Ask yourself why YT put limits on the time frame you can rate and you will find the answer.
I guess my question is “Is once not enough?”
revenue
revenue…
tittle = a woman with little teats.
Obviously, Marina would never be called a tittle.
[canine]
Just went to YT-Subscriptions and this lesson isn’t shown.
Had to do a search to find it.
Games are being played.
What do you mean by this?
Goalposts are being moved during game. If you own the Casino you can change the “House Rules.” I believe YT/Google is doing this. Nothing illegal here. Just not sporting.
I think you are right on, gismith…..free cookies; tossing “cookies”..[puke]
Just noticed your Gravatar looks much like the one I am trying to set up.
So far, it is still a wip.
An innocent coincidence, not a copy.
My Dear Marina,
You have doubtless encountered many theories regarding the origin of the word [blimp] (referring to a dirigible). Some are more plausible than others, but what do you think? What is your opinion?
Here’s what I think…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Fc8kIyMCo&feature=related
Hmm. Hindenburg Colorized. I’m not getting it…
Crash and burn , I don’t think she will do it…
Why do you think she won’t do it?
Aloha word goddess.
Try this word on for size – [Kaneh Bosm]
To my minds-eye-view, this word exposes the “Lost Tribe”; explains movement from Lemuria (ancient, very ancient Hawaii), to Atlantis, to Chirusdia (China, Russia, India,) to Middle East, to Europe, to America and finally back to Hawaii as Boston Missionerys.
Kane in Hawaiian is God of Line and name for man and men’s bathroom.
Bosm is related to blossom, bosom (tit) and Beosm Broom (sweeping in tropics or witches flight).
Find this word in the Torah and see translators like to argue over Kaneh Bosm or Calamus both being sweet or fragrant cane. Reiteration is herein, Hebrew style.
Kane(male attribute of life)+Bosm(female attribute of life)=Cannabis. Vowel sounds assure the word came from Greece.
The Kaneh Bosm word points to Cannabis (two dogs) in Latin.
Cane and Able.
Sumerians used KaNaBa.
Where we go from here.
P.S. I’m a single man, you got a brother !?????!
A sister would be O.K. also. ?!!!!!!?
Where did you get this fascinating material, matey?
Try these as my experiences so far.
I live in Hawaii, I get whiffs of ideas from the language left in place not English. I was born in 1957 in American Army Hospital in Munich.
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http://thc-ministry.net
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Following Esoteric ideas, Mason, Nazi and Flight ideas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUvSqY3po24
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoPCFeCCFzQ
I’ve posted as Rainbowbeamer in the thc-ministry forums and up to 10 other names when booted for posting tooooo much.
No one place, just a blokes take on it all.
I’m at
http://myspace.com/rainbowbeamer
http://myspace.com/maharajahpa (newest baby)
See you in Hawaii.
Wow, you’re very intriguing. That’s a compliment, I guess.
Yeah, O.K.; but wait ’till you smell me !?!
Oh my Lord! That is terrible!
And I mean TERRIBLE!
Two Kool cigarette commericals from 1970s…AXIS-uopsBob Barker for Belair Cigarettes…free [coupons]**!**No-body smells
Best trance music 2000
rainbowbeamer, here’s my welcome gift to you :
Your own personalized gravatar.
It’s just my idea of a cool avatar, but you don’t have to like it, if you don’t.
Nice Avatar.
Most fitting for my rocket-headed self.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plxNfU-PA2c
One fine guy here, here is where N.A.S.C.A.R., Rudolf Hess and U.F.O. have met.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=david+adair&aq=f
More stuff from home,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUvSqY3po24
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoPCFeCCFzQ
(emphases mine)
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I just now got that! Sorry, I’m a little slow on the uptake sometimes…
Must be something more curious going on then meets the eye. No puns driven from my side. But the way I express myself lent itsself to a pun.
I’m more like this……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHQ_aTjXObs
Also, check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_(etymology) That is, if you’re not one of those toplofty highbrows who hates Wikipedia but never proves what’s wrong with it!!!
Highbrow, nah, I sing Hebrew Blues along with these spirited folks.
http://bluesforpeace.com/blues-mp3.htm
Blues for Peace Song – Blues Mp3
Hebrew Blues, Johnny Mayer
Blues 823 – Blues Mp3
by Eran Ashkenazi
Do not forget to follow oil in this mix of ideas needing homes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_anointing_oil
Also Yahoo groups have plenty wonderful places to go.
Run anything and get an answer.
Start with Lemuria.
highbrow
hebrew
hVbrVw (where V = vowel)
You were making another pun there, weren’t you? (Again, I’m a little slow at times…)
Understanding is a unique thing, comes from somewhere.
See if you get what bullets mean in this song.
[Bullets]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut5jVrfRYrM
hey ealga: :aglae yeh, a field sparrow flies too, a pugnacious person figuratively, slowly and stingy-like…[HEMP]….anglo-greek…haenmp
have fun in the SUN 
Leonard, are you a poet or is English not your native language?
Hi wordlover,
leonard is from Wisconsin, which is probably irrelevant. Randomness and free association is his artform, and he has his own unique take on reality, which confuses some people at first. But he does come up with some truly interesting posts.
Yes, truly interesting… But I’m random as well. I just happen to think before I type¹!
I think… 
¹Just teasing, leonard.
Additionally, his namelink is to vkontakte, a Russian site. I wonder if he is ethnically Russian and perhaps russoparlant as well or even predominately?
wordlover, a poet…the answer is for fun with words. English I speak and is that what is your native language?…many old words with the same meanings and other developments
engilsh is my natvie langauge
Does anybody here know the origin of the word [average] ? It’s quite surprising where the word actually comes from.
Hey wordlover: Average White Band – Cut The Cake (live)…free cake, medium size
Hey wordlover haven’t seen you lately since, I think you asked what operating system I preferred running.
Hi, John. So which OS do you prefer to run?
Windows Xp 64 мое systerm фаворита работая
As for me, I use Mac OS 10.3.9. I’d get a newer OS if I could afford one.
my luv 4 u shall never die!
why are our privates named after animals? For instance a man’s unit after a bird(cock)and a womans pubs after a cat(pussy)………..I have a million questions for you my dear; let’s get in tune with each other.
Pussy (for vagina/vulva) is not from pussycat. It’s from an Old Norse word meaning “bag”.
Марина, вы любит съесть Энитайзерзы?
If ever Marina chooses not to feature a particular word. I’d be more than glad to dig up the etymology myself.
Seriously, let me know, folks.
Me to my boy , Mormons like it more then one way , all natures goodness rolled up in one good cigar…
But , Like to know the etymology of the word “psychedelic” and why the altered state , changes me in to a different frame of mind?
Marina , now she doesn’t look like the type to hold a grudge but , Stalin now he knew how to hold a grudge…
Good thing Stalin is no longer here!
Don’t be offended.. this word has an interesting history. Requested by the heavens…was Stalin a good Alter-Boy?
Marina’s nickname (see lesson on this) is “Koba”!
Hard-liner=Lets take’m out back
1953….my distric is tale-gunner JOE the irish welshmen**1**arms of bear**1** chicken shit *****!*****know no spies 
fuck the draft and this UKE kills FASCIST 
[HARD for LARD] 
Oh, goodie! My relief has arrived! Now I can depart in good conscience!
How about the etymology of [cynefin] as in:
Marina gave this one a “bye”.
Cheers!
“Cynefin” looks Old English. “cyn” means “kind; kin” and “efin” looks like it is either a form of “efne” (even) or “fin” (fine?) in which case “cyn” would here be “cyne-”.
Hi wordlover,
Interesting take on the word! And my apologies for choosing something so deliberately obscure.
Hint 1: What other languages were spoken in Britain during the time of Old English?
Hint 2: “Peter Ho Davies” +cynefin
Pob lwc ichi!
Evan
“Before heaven”? Er… My Welsh is rusty (and squeaky). What does “cynefin” mean yn Gymraeg?
Wow…now I know how renepayback felt when I deciphered his pun in Slovak.
“Cynefin” has no English equivalent, but is used to describe the connection of animals (including humans) to their environment. In sheepherding, it is used to describe the attachment of the ewes to a particular territory, so that the herd will not scatter to the far hills.
Peter Ho Davies’ novel The Welsh Girl explores the concept of cynefin in humans, and what happens to one’s sense of identity and ethics when one becomes severed from one’s roots.
David Snowden of IBM applied the concept to a model of decision-making, predicting one’s decisions (especially in times of crisis) based upon one’s roots.
Do you happen to know the etymology of cynefin? Has it any cognates in any of the other Brythonic languages? Or Celtic? Or even PIE (Proto-Indo-European)? I’m eager to know.
Marina, please do a video on the origin of the word [Mormon]. I has an interesting etymology, I’m sure you’ll agree.
Who else wants to know this etymology and wants Marina to do a video on it? I’d like to see what she chooses for the sound effects and superimposables!
[Mormon]
Obviously from the Welsh Mor Mon, “Sea of Mon” (i.e. the Irish Sea), Ynys Mon (Anglesey Island) being a large island in the middle of it (not to be confused with the Isle of Man, nor the Isle of Woman.)
Twenty percent of the Mormons who made the trek to Utah were Welsh, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir still performs programs of Welsh hymns.
Ieuan ab Owain, aka Evan Owen
I must admit, I’ve never heard that theory before. I could tell you the theories I’ve heard but I haven’t received the green light from Marina yet…
You’re very tactful. When I don’t know an answer, I just take off on a flight of fancy, based on whatever facts I do know.
(See handkerchief). 
Discussing a word doesn’t dissuade Marina from doing a video on it; it probably has the opposite effect.
OK. In that case, I’ll tell you. The usual theory is that the word [Mormon] is a [macaronic] of English “more” and Egyptian “mon” (meaning ‘good’). So its translation could be rendered, in a kind of [pigeon], “more good”, i.e., ‘better’.
DAMMIT! I meant [pidgin]!
I HATE making mistakes! 
Sorry!
The Coolest 8 Year Old In The World Talks About O’Reilly…
This is a reply to what? BTW, 8-yr-old is just about the right age for that kind of mentality!
Marina tweeted “NY has the sexiest weather!” and different people started interpreting it differently. Astrologers use a technique called “general prediction” — where they say some mumbo-jumbo and people start reading into the mumbo-jumbo; here is an excellent illustration (starting from about 1:55). Another experiment to try is to read the horoscope predictions in the newspaper for any astrological-sign — every one of the predictions will appear to be applicable to you irrespective of what your sign is!
Ok. Thanks for that enlightening revelation, hs4mm.
hmms…I think I’ll stir up some mischief (see below.)
Hi hs4mm,
I’ve been pondering some of your recent posts on Objectivism. Riddle me this:
Why does a self-proclaimed intellectual champion of rational self-interest and consensual human relations (aka Ayn Rant) glorify smoking and rape in her novels?
And regarding your remarks on laughing at oneself: Wouldn’t a woman who goes into a jealous “hell hath no fury” rage at being sexually rejected by a married man 25 years her junior be better off if she could see the humor in the situation?
Having been an Objectivist in my 20s, I tend toward the belief that one recovers from it with age and perspective.
1) When she wrote, smoking was considered harmless and OK and was prevalent just as coffee drinking is today; and so characters in her novels smoked (and she smoked in real life). Her novels do not glorify rape.
2) No idea what you are writing about here.
3) In my opinion, that’s your loss; but you are entitled to live your life any way you see fit (and, of course, you don’t need my or anyone else’s sanction to do so).
2) Check out the story of Ayn Rand’s affair with Nathaniel Branden.
May I complement you on a calm and reasoned response!
I would now go somewhere else to start a flame war, but the mood has passed. 
Oh man! If I had known you were looking to start a flame war, I would not have apologized for my earlier comment.
I make a clever comment, unintentionally spread ill will, try to resarciate, but only screwed that up, too.
Hmm… Mebbe I’ll go pester ChaCha. At least I know what I am getting into.
‘resarciate’
Nice usage there.
Lucinda Williams 10-3-07
Town Hall NYC, her ma was a writer…VG….
Marina, please forgive me for calling O’Reilly the Antichrist. I’m sorry but I don’t appreciate his dishonesty. I know this is why you stopped following me at twitter. Please don’t be bitter.
Wow, that almost rhymed.
Yeah, I noticed that. But I was also being serious. Oh, dear, I hope Gka. Orlova is not the type that holds grudges.
What is Gka.? “Miss”? “My Dear Teacher”?
It’s an abbreviation of grazhdanka (гражданка) which is a title of address to a female fellow citizen. It’s a bit old-timey.
… “Товарища” (”Tovarishcha,” “Comrade”, feminine) having gone out of style. “Господина” (”Gospodina,” Mrs.) might also be used; but can the term also mean “Miss” (Marina being unmarried)?
I believe it can. I mean, I don’t see why it couldn’t.
Please provide some examples of O’Reilly’s dishonesty.
Well, I don’t want to start anything nasty. But if you wouldn’t mind, you could find out for yourself under certain videos (at YouTube) by Keith Olbermann: e.g., http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2KU02lsfH8 I don’t agree 100% with all of Olbermann’s views on everything (e.g., who “did” 9/11) but it’s obvious he gives more than a damn. Which is more than I can say for just about everybody at Faux News. Sorry. I’d better stop before something REALLY ugly happens.
Please. Out-of-context clips furnished by Olbermann. Now THAT’S objective.
Well, there’s more but, again, I’ll just leave it at that. Sorry.
C’mon wordlover. If you have something to say, say it. You can provide some factual information, without taking it out of context, in order to justify your position. Share your point-of-view. You may enlighten someone else, or (more importantly) you will clarify your own position by putting your thoughts into words.
If you feel that the main post is not the proper forum for this intellectual discourse (and some will agree,) then you can start a new topic in the forums. It might be fun.
Let’s just put it this way: 9/11 was an
There that’s all I’m allowed to say. The guy standing next to me is about to pull the trigger. Gotta go!…
Contrary to what some people make think the slide whistle is not the easiest musical instrument to learn. This vid clip however illustrates the slide effect sound of the slide whistle pretty well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7VNNKBDKCA&feature=related
Then what IS the easiest musical instrument to learn?
key-boreds…mouth organ…one hand clapping…lippy-libs farting…big-band time???
[learn]…bitter my twitters; litter is fodder, words fly like paper and hearded nil 
Interesting!
But, “lippy-libs farting”? Wat dat?
It is how the interpretation, natures itself: The silent ones smell the most!
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key-strokes for the folks..sick and thick the joke….happy april fools(d)EVE