GTW Game XVII Answer
Here is the answer… when am I EVER going to have one where nobody guesses it?
Please rate and comment at YouTube to help the video be seen. Thanks! :-)
Here is the answer… when am I EVER going to have one where nobody guesses it?
Please rate and comment at YouTube to help the video be seen. Thanks! :-)
I wonder what’s the most attractive part of this lesson. The sound lady in the foreground or the sound knowledge in the background.
I guess some will go for the front, some will go for the back, some will try to run for both..
During Marine Corps. boot camp the recruits had to refer to themselves in the 3rd person. Now I know the word, thank you.
you’ll like
Jimmie Rodgers “Blue Yodel No. 10″ Victor 23696 February 6, 1932 Dallas, Texas 
And your learning from her so what does that make you. How many languages can you speak? Go ahead Marina, lay some Pushkin or Tolstoy on that ass
it’s A joke son, chill out…
Applying pressure to vein in head, calming, calming. Cheech & Chong by the road. ‘OoohHH-ma, OoooHH-ma’
I’m all better now
HMM, My cat hasn’t been in one of my videos for a while… will have to get him in soon…
Marina,
Are you going to be making an appearance on T.V. in the near future
And I want to throw the word (Walpurgis) at you. I dunno that one’s probably way too out there! You have lots of word & phrase requests,but hey that keeps you busy and let the teaching and learning go on.Keep up the good work.
I thought I saw this video within top 5 of page 2 of MostViewed; now it is at top of page 3 of MostViewed; am I misremembering where it was this morning or has it been overtaken?
(It is now on page 2 of Popular.)
the real questions are, has playboy approached you
, if so , are you ? if not , why ? if they havent would you?
[pudknocker] [concubine]
I would like to request the word [Blah]
Where did it come from? WHo first made it? Tell me Hotforwords my life is not complete without knowing!
this is great!! it’s fun & you learn something at the same time. keep up the good work. and i will tell you they did not make teachers like you when i was a kid.
oh how about the phrase [bringing the teacher an apple] or [an apple for teacher] that’s some sort of old saying.
well, anyhow thats really kind of a so-so one.
but, if i ever have to stay after school –no problem
Here is an answer…[space], like walk or talk and all that kind of junk.
Funny Vid by College Humor We Didn’t Start The Flame War
Ah yes, that takes me back to… uh, Tuesday?
luv ur show, it is very educational
my word request is [perspicacious]
also, i have a second word if that’s ok —this is a fun one [callipygian]
keep up the good work….it is very fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY
WHAT!!! It’s been up for under 2 weeks and already has 33 MILLION views… I think its fixed.
Muggins (in the third person) thinks Marina looks hot in black, but her recent video, where she wore a yellow dress was hot, fabulous, awesome….and should be a controlled substance. Make sure, Marina, that you don’t walk down the street with that dress on, it wiil cause auto accidents.
where did the word [library] come from?
I would love to know where the word [mezzanine] comes from please. Thanks!
There were two tweets that Marina was seen (among the spectators at yesterday’s Lakers game) on TV at around 12:42 PM. Anyone have a clip of that?
who one that game.???..g.Harrison on guitar…basketball jones orig 1974 animated Cheech and Chong
selling [health] to the rich***!***[careless]
Marina, what is the origin of that most American of words, [Jazz]?
Wondering if I should call my video susan boyle is fake, rather than life is fake?
It didn’t really do anything for me so I don’t think it will do you any good. But if you actually made a video saying that Susan Boyle is fake… that she’s really a supermodel in a costume.. that might get some views!
When was the word illeist/illeism coined?
Susan boyle or lady gaga did well for me… And, my latest video got as many comments in he first 30 mins as it woul in about 3 hours…
I think I will have to try that supermodel thing out… .lol
This one sounds like it is right up your alley. Your cynicism and humor would really fit this topic. Better hurry while it’s still a hot topic. I’m looking forward to this one; it shoulld be hilarious.
I really need me some of this, no joke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47EMiSC-2YA&feature=related
omega 3 dha
Well maybe you are fake Marina.
Evidence shows you are infact Delta Goodrem…
Marina IS DELTA!!!
Makes sense really
Marina… A place surrounded by water
Delta…. A place surrounded by water
http://www.myheritagefiles.com/videos/P/28/v8t628_690765b5fbce941abgpa28
As of 6 AM on the morning of Apr 20 that video did not have a chance to prove itself yet. Now, more than 12 hours later, the “Susan” answer video heavily outraced the “blood boyle’ing” question video approaching a factor of 2 to one where the “Susan” answer video came from behind.
I have noticed you request on HFW site that people to rate and comment on your YT videos … do you rate and comment on HFW videos at YT (I couldn’t find your comments on the last two videos)?
No, I don’t always comment at YT, I do sometimes though. But I almost ALWAYS rate the video.
Marina,
…No i’ve never really spoken about myself in the third person except maybe once or twice as a joke and I didn’t consider joke worthy enough to even remember when it was or to whom.
John
[egghead]
[wonder]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnWyxSFtaVQ&feature=related
This should make you wonder
…and it makes me wonder…
and it makes me wander…
O. Hes wondering if she’ll be able to get the shit she needs cause the “stores are all closed”. Shes the one wandering; up and down that stairway,
FYI-voted best solo in rock guitar history
and it makes me wonder.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRek9144MoU&feature=related
I wonder about this too.
omega 3 dha ?
Amanda Holden went to the college I go to now, she pops in every now and then, but I have not seen her since I have been there.
Hmm, you are right Marina, my video has had 100 views and it hasn’t been up for a day yet… It already had more views after 6 hours than most of my vids get in 3 days (my god my views aren’t that good are they?)
I think it was susan boyle… After checking the most popular list, I realized Lady GaGa was on there too, so really, I had killed 2 birds with one stone.
Will have to see how this works…
For those of you who use twitter.com here is a twitter trivia quiz.
What did Pamela Anderson say about me via twitter?
250 points to the first person that get the right answer.
Nothing, becauase I don’t believe Pamela Anderson knows you? Show me the tweet!
Message received at about 2:00am PDT.
I had an another tweet in mind for the contest, but now this post kind of lets the cat out of the bag for it gives out to many clues. There is an earlier tweet I was looking for. Can anyone find it? 
You lose 250 points. James now at -250 points for I to post her latest tweet to convince my number one ALL TIME skeptic…James…
LOL, I will write her a message and see if she gets back…
You still don’t believe me. You didn’t even list any sources. Epic fail. hs4mm did an outstanding job searching for my claims of you doubt. A good skeptic does his/her research before just spouting out unfounded doubt. I know you can do better James. I’ve seen it many times before.
Sources? I don’t mind, but if it is Pamela Anderson… Good 4 u!
Oh so you believe any thing people say in the newspapers, old books, and school teachers? You never question them? What kind of rebel are you?
Maybe you’re a pessimist in general? I try to understand your logic to better understand what you’re trying to say.Very difficult for me to follow the progression of your statements. humm maybe I need to look at it as a recession. humm. 
A pessimist!!!
NO WAY!! I am probably the biggest optimist there is going, my glass isn’t half full… Its 100% more full than empty
Pamelanderson: The best to everyone great messages from the best fans in the world You all rock @basquegirl96 @captainjack63 @Krystalgail @LobsterandChick
about 1 hour ago
Pamelanderson: @captainjack63 Thanks Captain Jack your my #1 Twitter Fan thanks for all the great help
about 1 hour ago
Pamelanderson: #followfriday thanks for the tip @butterflyy2000 follow my twitter pal @captainjack63 is that your uniform or are you just happy to see me;)
2 days ago
Pamelanderson: Hello Follow Friday sounds like fun one of my first twitter pals @captainjack63 and friend fashion diva @VivaLaLauren
2 days ago
So what?
hs4mm you win 250 points. But I won’t tell you which of the tweets I was thinking about. I’m going to leave it up for someone else to guess which one I was thinking about and why. My reply to James had a good clue.
You are a TA for Marina AND you got Pamela eating out of your hand? I’m gonna start calling myself Admiral or General. NO , Commodore. Commodore BeeVee14! Ladies!?
The uniform helps to get notice but it’s not my secret ingredient. You can’t judge a book by it’s cover. So what is inside is what really matters. Right?
It was Pamela that followed me first. I tweeted her and she tweeted back. I do what I normally do and helper her out with some things. Though I think it’s the general friendly tweets we exchange that wins friendship. She has stated that she will follow interesting and kind people that are a positive thinkers. She also has a different approach to using twitter than other celebrities have. She will actually will want to respond to as many tweets as she has time for and wishes to learn a bit about her twitter fans. Who are you? Tell me something about you? are types of questions she wants to say. Oh and she plans to kick Ashton’s ass on twitter!
People I follow and they don’t follow back I have NO RESPECT for them. There is no good excuse that I can find for anyone not to follow people back. When I see celebrities that have 100s of thousands of followers and they only follow like 20 or so, I view them as stuck up snobs that are so full of themselves their head should explode at any time.
I have a few twitter friend that I chat with from time to time. Like the Deputy Secretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Ron Sims. Which that person directly speaks to the president. That’s one degree of separation in personally communicating with Obama.
McHammer twitters me. He told me he was in the Navy. I found out he was an aviation store keeper. I told him I was a ships store keeper.
Most of all I have 100’s of not so famous but very interesting twitter follower that have enlighten me very much. I have learned very much from some of them. If I ever need anything I think there is someone on twitter that could help. I found 3 people that can help with some graphics designs. One of them has done much work already and even posted on her website work she has done for me. One lady is helping me to relocate to a new city. This works both ways. Just today I helped a TV newsman look for a mechanic to fix his Jeep.
So you get out of twitter what you put into it. Being real to the people who tweet.
Btw, I still hate twitter and don’t understand why it even exists, yet I could never give it up. It’s a very powerful tool………
So Captain, using your twitter-fluence or otherwise, could you get us HFW visitors the clips of the showing mentioned in these two tweets?: http://twitter.com/ElvesGoneBad/statuses/1560048347 http://twitter.com/EmperorHyperion/statuses/1560052657
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What are you talking about Ieonard?
…my hacking cough…
Bada-boom! Got you there Capt.
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Oh shit! This isn’t the bathroom! 
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Captain Jack, about your comment that you have “no respect” for celebrities who don’t follow back everyone that follows them. I think you have a different perception of one of the main reasons why I think Twitter is so successful. The fact that you are not bombarded with the updates of everyone that follows you, and that you can focus on reading just the updates of certain people, and this allows for a much richer experience for all.
Let me explain. MySpace and Facebook were two environments where as you added more friends your emails and updates would grow exponentially as you would get updates from everyone who followed you. It got to the point where celebrities would pay people to keep up with their profiles as they would simply become a marketing vehicle and would lose any ability to become a communication device between the celebs and their friends. That’s why you rarely will EVER see major celebrities actually communicate with their friends on their MySpace page.
Twitter changed all that with one simple feature, and that was the ability to follow only the people you want while allowing the whole world to follow you. This is SO IMPORTANT as it allows celebs to actually use twitter.. to communicate with their ACTUAL friends, while letting the rest of the world look in and participate. I can GUARANTEE you that people like P Diddy, Ashton Kucher, etc.. with 600k followers and a million followers + WOULD NOT USE TWITTER ON A PERSONAL LEVEL AT ALL, if they were following an equal amount of people as who are following them. They would have no idea what their friends are up to as those tweets would be lost among all the tweets of the million other fans.
I follow certain people for different reasons. I follow other major YouTube partners so that I can learn about YouTube issues and help them with issues they may have. And then I follow certain celebrities to see how they use Twitter to promote themselves, and then I follow other celebs to watch them make fools of themselves.
But I noticed something. If an actual celebrity does not update his/her profile him/herself, I am not interested. That’s why I stopped following certain people as it was not them. Britney Spears and Mariah Carey are examples of this.
So it’s the asynchronous nature of Twitter that makes it useful for celebrities and others alike. Follow too many people and you will find yourself not using it on a personal level as much. Pam Anderson will not use Twitter to talk to her actual friends because she is following more people than who are following her. She will not be able to see what her friends are up to at a glance so Twitter will become a one-way promotional vehicle for her.
That’s why Ashton Kucher follows 84 people yet has 1.2 million followers… it’s because he USES Twitter himself to talk to his friends, he has actual conversations with people on Twitter.. even to people he doesn’t follow, as those tweets come to him in the form or replies! P. Diddy follows 120 people yet has 600k followers, because he uses Twitter himself to talk to his friends and to respond to replies as well. Britney Spears follows 300k people with a million followers and that’s why you never see her have a conversation with anyone. Twitter is a one-way vehicle for her and that’s why you see her managers making tweets for her.. she’s is just not really interested in it.
So if every celebrity followed back everyone who followed them, then they would stop using Twitter faster than you can say Twitter.
I might make a post about this.. this was a pretty long comment!!
[But], very g00d
my white in her pink in grape in white of dumbest smart person I have ever read.
opps that comment should have been under the hs4mm header, duh my dumb.
Your correct, Marina’s box is pink.
You just did or what is all that writing in this Pink box?
***^***…your box; not pink…..***^***you FaRm joHn?
Hi Marina!
Just found you on Twitter, cool.
I wanted to pop in and say THANK YOU SO MUCH for subscribing to my YouTube channel!!! You made my whole day!!! 
Many Smiles,
M:)
Marina: is “water-down” a twitter drink? …I hearded it taste like donkey pee (ass-wine)…love your work, keep it up….a list for [hips], pelvis, but, etc….
This makes no sense…
So do we need a celebrity authority to verify that Twitterers, bloggers, etc. are who they say they are? And even if they start out who they say they are, what’s to say they can’t pass the job off to one of their peeps later? About the only way it could be done remotely is to have any work accompanied by a vid of the author while he/she creates it.
Speaking of authenticity, what’s with the fake library of books in the background? Are we getting so used to the green screen that we will accept the loss of the personal touch (your bedroom or living room with Gorby running around, etc.)? Will we be seeing you sitting in Obama’s lap at his desk in the Oval Office? Climbing the Washington Monument? Sliding down the face of Hoover Dam in a raft?
CampKohler – Sacramento CA says: come on dude lay off the lady, she has to keep the making of the video fun for her too or she will quit doing them our get burned out , she is a pretty nerdy, geeky chick you know.
You know how it is when you get a new toy!
How do you know that her bedroom wasnt bluescreen in the first place?
Maybe I was bluescreen and the bedroom was real!!
Wow, I learned quite a bit from this long comment Marina. Yes, a post about the various ways that people use Twitter as you did above would be great.
I moved this conversation to the forums.
You don’t have to do anything special to make a game where I can’t guess the word. I’ve failed on all of them, and this one was a [lulu] (or should that be capitalized?).
How about this for a sure-fire stumper: “I’m thinking of a word. What is it?”
Is it, IT?
LOL. Come on CK give us a clue. Mulva? Delores?
Clue: It starts with a letter.
Actually, it was just an example. There is no word. There is no contest. There is nothing to guess. There is no prize. You are so disappointed. You are all alone. If you went outside to get a bus to run over you, the bus would drive around you. Yes, it’s that bad.
FOTG,LMAO
Yep,that pretty much sums it up
I was just telling someone your comment about the bus and they suggested a train because it was less likely to veer off
Yeah, I’m the king of my castle
Which came first: The comic Little Lulu or the word Lulu?
I would like to the origin of the word [notorious]
Marina =)
Hi Marina!
I’d like to know the origin of the word/expression [square], as in its hip to be square.
fiddlefaddle225
Actually, when square was in vogue, it was just the opposite (un-hip).
Or a cigarette, “hey man, you gotta square”
goes back to CK’s comment. “Cool” people smoked other types of smokes, only squares smoked tobacco.
Exactly. Lets go smoke a “round”.
I was so square when I was younger (or now) that I didn’t smoke because I thought (and still do) that it stinks. It’s the same reason I don’t drink: it’s awful.
Why do people want to put stink-on-fire in their mouths? When I ask smokers if they liked their first cigarette, they invariably answer, “No.” So then I ask them, if they didn’t like it, why did they smoke the second one? That question never gets answered.
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Hello Marina,
Essentially, GTW-17 requires one to identify a common feature among a set of things.
Things I like about the structure of this game:
1) Activity of identifying a common feature among things (elaborated upon below).
2) The number of items: it was not just 3 or 4 but 6 (Caesar, Stalin, Hulk, Shaq, Nixon, and Elmo).
3) The nature of the items: the items were not contrived but from daily life.
4) The variety of the items: the items were so varied that features that were common to many were not common to all:
male(elmo is of indeterminate sex),politician,leader,dead,making a speech,speaking,real person,celebrity,true depictions(the only quotes I could find for Nixon saying he wasn’t a crook were non- illeisms).5) Examples were enacted (rather than clips from original sources).
6) The clue: This game does have a clue, viz., “HotForWords will be very happy if you get this right.” (elaborated upon below).
Elaboration on 1):
Thinking involves identifying characteristics of the things one is considering and observing similarities and differences among the things. And the hard and crucial part of thinking is the identification of similarities among seemingly dissimilar things. And GTW-17 concerns this task — and so it requires one to exercise an important skill.
To concertize this task in “real life”, suppose a person knows nothing about basketball and is watching a basketball game for the very first time. I assume the person knows about other games and so understands the concept of a game played by a group of people. At first, all he notices is a group of people at one end of the court and the ball being tossed around with some people attempting to get the ball to go into the bucket; soon there after, he seeing that the bunch of people have moved to the other end of the court and a similar struggle ensures but with the opposite team attempting to get the ball into the bucket. So his purpose of understanding what the game entails eventually leads him to grasps that getting the ball from one end to the other is important. He might then decide to observe how the ball gets from one end to the other. So he observes several possessions with this new purpose in mind. In time, he might grasp the concepts of getting the ball up the court by a combination of dribbing and passing.
To recap: wanting to know what the game entails, he notes the need to get the ball from one court to the other; wanting to know how the ball gets from one court to the other, he observes several instances of bringing the ball up the court and notes the concepts of dribbling and passing.
If he then wonders why sometimes the ball does not end up having been moved from one court to the other, he might more closely observe instances of such failures. He would notice that there is more than one way for a ball to be “turned over” — and so he would, after much study, sub-categorize the various ways a ball can be turned over: forced or unforced, 10-second violation, back court violation, stolen dribble, stolen pass, erratic ball handling resulting in ball going out of bounds, offensive foul etc.
The key point to note is that: in thinking, one has a reason for considering the things one is considering — a purpose guides our thoughts, and it is the purpose that helps identify the similarities among the seemingly dissimilar things.
So what is the purpose for which we need to observe the six examples in GTW-17? As per the statement of GTW-17, the purpose is to identify a common characteristics among the six people. But this is not the precise purpose; the precise purpose is to identify a common characteristics in the mode of expression of the six people. Note that if the purpose was stated precisely, then it would be very easy to say that the speakers are referring to themselves in the third person. So to make GTW-17 a challenge, the purpose must be stated loosely. (In the basketball example, knowing the purpose did not make it easy to know the similarities, but, in this game set-up, it does.)
So the puzzle requires the participant to think with a loosely stated purpose. I consider this a weakness in the structure of the puzzle. However, a virtue of the puzzle is that it provides a clue to overcome this weakness.
Elaboration on 6)
Before GTW-17, the only statements by Marina that one could consider illeist were along the lines of “HotForWords must investigate!” and “Another mystery solved by your trusty HotForWords.” But these are more like catch-phrases or business slogans; these are statements of HotForWords the business entity, they are not really personal statements by Marina. However, in GTW-17, the statement “HotForWords will be very happy if you get this right.” is a personal statement from Marina — it is a statement designed to motivate students by means of their desire to please their teacher. Note that this statement is not presented as an example. Since this is the first instance of Marina being truly illeistic, an astute student would note that there is something odd about how Marina formulated that statement. The job of identifying the oddness in that statement is much easier to solve than the task of identifying a common attribute among the six people for no apparent purpose. Once the student solves that job as “Marina referred to herself as HotForWords” he is more likely note that the other six people also referred to themselves in an odd manner. In time, he will be able to state that the six people (and Marina) referred to themselves in the third person. Note how the clue has helped overcome the short-coming of a vague purpose!
The second weakness in GTW-17 is the need for the student to then come up with a word that describes people referring to themselves in the third person!
GTW-17 overcomes the second weakness by two ways: The first way is that Marina actually mentioned the word illeism about 3 days before GTW-17! So if a student was paying attention in class and was diligent, the word illeism would be fresh in his mind. (By the way, this is how I figured out the answer!) The second way is that the internet has reverse dictionaries that one could use (click to see). (By the way, I discovered the reverse dictionary by exploring a remark I read in a comment at this HFW site!)
Postscript: The importance of definiteness:
If one asks people who like their work what motivated them to choose it in the first place, one of the attributes they are likely to mention is the definiteness in their professions (remember I am referring to the thoughts these people had when they were little kids deciding on what they wanted to do in life): a historian might say “facts are facts, one can fake what has happened!”, a basketball player might say “either you score more buckets than your opponent of you do not — the game is very clear-cut!”, a mathematician or accountant might say “numbers don’t like — 2 and 2 make 4!”, a doctor might say “either one is healthy or sick!”, a policeman might say “laws are well defined – one either abides by them or breaks them!”, a computer scientist might say “a processor does what it is programmed to do literally — it does not do what the programmer merely felt he wanted the processor to do!” etc. In creating a GTW games, it is important to ensure that the participant knows precisely what he should be looking for, and to ensure that he is able to tell with certainty whether or not he has found the solution. These attributes add to the motivation to solve the game and to the enjoyment one gets from attempting to solve the game.
In GTW-17, the purpose is vague, but the vagueness is overcome by the clue. The clue is only usable by, perhaps even only observable by, the astute student. The second shortcoming of coming up with the word that means the common feature is peculiar to GTW-17, and GTW-17 has the two ways mentioned above of overcoming this shortcoming.
–Hs4Mm
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Oops! Intended to mention the following, but forgot to do so: People have attempted to test thinking ability by creating questions that present four or five objects, such as small drawings or numbers, and requiring the participant to identify the object that does not belong or to pick the next object in the sequence from an additional set of four or so objects. I consider such tests rubbish for two reasons: the objects are too contrived, and there is no purpose for which one need study the objects provided.
Hey i love your videos and im new to this site and I would like to request the word [refrigerator.]
Thanks,
hapytaxi.
RE= to do something again
FRIG= probably from frigid,cold
ATOR= now thats tough. Us Americans like machines to do the work and sometimes we end it with an ATOR. i.e. alternator, generator, terminator
so a refrigerator is a machine that cools something again.
Harmless, though 
Just kidding! I’m dumber than a box a rocks and you’ll learn not to pay any attention to me
actually you brought up a very interesting suffix, that being -ator. see this link i never realized it is used to form masculine nouns out of verbs. cool huh?
I don’t think “re” in this word means to repeat. Things that are refrigerated have not necessarily been previously cooled. It must have some other significance.
re often means to focus upon, which is similar to doing again. Research is an example of this, but I still think proper research is extremely repetitive, even if the etymo;ogy does not back me up.
I would like to request a word please! [mingle]
Also, what is your opinion, if you have any, on the Online Etymology Dictionary? http://www.etymonline.com/index.php
I’ve always been interested in etymology, so these videos are absolutely magnificent!
I think you need to sort out the recent popular posts part… It’s a mess
Why? It’s set up to show the most views in the last 30 days. I also made it inline.. I like it.. kind of like one of those tag cloud things…
the links in the “forum last 10 discussions” give me an error message. however i can view them by going through the “forums” link on top.
same with me
don’t tell me, tell marina.
shes doesn’t listen to me
i’ll tell her then.
up top in the header is a help/faq link. click on that and read through it. if you need some help ask a t.a. cap’n jack, chacha or capman.
” I get the WT? page.
tell marina, don’t tell me.
She doesn’t listen to me.
Marina, its only inline when I stand on my head and then tilt to starboard 30 degrees.
At 30º you will fall over. You must be a boater of some sort.
beevee14 says it doesn’t work for him either.
er, her. she is a her.
him, he is a him. damn, people get some real avatars! i can’t tell the damned difference between the germs and the viruses.
I am a he… at least until the next,and hopefully last; operation.
I would like to have a new avatar, but I don’t know how. I’m not computer literate at all. Downloads, links, pictures none of it. I have just been trying to convey my thoughts and ideas through writing and see if I could keep up with the heavyweights intellectually.
Experiments over!
Perusing through, I realized I fought the good fight but my words aren’t, you know; poppin 
! Could somebody give me a brief tutorial or show me the way 
to a tutorial on,on…hell, I don’t even know the proper terminology.
bsomebody says it doesn’t… to hell with this! i ain’t the hfw messenger ape. just fix the damn problem. you people make my ass twitch.
Ruh roh!
I just made buzzword’s ass twitch. 
Be careful, if we push him any further, he may start throwing his poo again. 
Well, I know it used to have that rss feed logo,
Now the text speads out so its like this
|my new |
|job 700 comments|
errr… fix the “forum last 10 discussions” link
Will it ever be the case that an item in the list of Recent Popular Posts will have just one comment? A rhetorical question — I doubt that will happen. So why not remove the parenthesis around the ’s’ in comment(s)?
By the way, if it did happen that an item in the list of Recent Popular Posts had just one entry, then would not the use of comments rather than comment(s) be the least of the issues confronting HFW?
–Suresh
I noticed the Featured Content drop down menu on the home page — I find it beautiful! Very appleish!
At present, one clicks the title Featured Content to expose the list and clicks again to hide the list; and the menu disappears on a click to select a particular item. Please consider exposing the list on a mouse-over on title (rather than a click on title) and hiding the list on a mouse exit from list display (rather than a click on title). Whether the list continues to display or hides itself on a click to select a particular item doesn’t matter too much.
I like the fact that a click on a particular item in the list takes one to a detailed display of the item rather than to the item itself — the way that sub-window is set-up, it is better to treat the click on a particular item as a request for more info on the item rather than a request to see the item itself.
I would like to request the word [goal]
I’m requesting the word {Vendetta}.
i’d like to know the origin of the word [mambo].
i second that*****Mambo Italiano: Sophia LorenSophia came from her native Italy to America and became one of the world’s greatest sex symbols. With exotic curves that made Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield look shapeless( joke), Loren relit the Italian passion that Rudolph Valentino made famous back in the 1920’s. After starring in many hit films, Loren struck Oscar gold for her role in the Italian film ‘Two Women’. Directed by Carlo Ponti, whom she married after many relationships with other cinema greats Cary Grant and Gregory Peck. Even today, Loren looks stunning and is still named in ‘the most beautiful women in the world’ lists. Everybody fell in love with Loren’s European sex appeal and warmth that she so wonderfully oozed onscreen. A screen legend, Sophia Loren will forever be remembered for her fantastic performances, striking beauty and curves. All of which, was natural.
…[generic]…
I love the twitpic Marina!
But one more thing…. Why are you listing your videos under comedy now? 10,000 views and you are already #17 on the most viewed global list!
What made you take them out of entertainment?
James.. I am trying a multitude of things to see if they effect my existing on the popular pages. It seems like I make it to popular quicker if I am under commedy, but I may be wrong altogether.
My video seems to have done really well compared to normally… I think its because of the title…
Your correct Jame. Titles do make a large difference for they are search able. The key is using a title that someone would search for or some software would find relevant.
What do you think of this Marina?
I think YouTube should change the way the “Global” honour works. As I am in the UK it’s not too hard to get an honour on my channel, but if I was in the US it would be so much harder because I am competing with the rest of the world. Global means the world, not America, America is not the whole world. There should be a seperate category for America, just like all the other countries & global should mean global.
Marina, as far as I can tell, not having done the rigorous tests – yet, the Comedy category is an advantage.
James, I was the first one to break the news on the Forum to Marina a month ago that the Comedy category broke the mold.
How did I know she switched to Comedy? Cause her stats that I am monitoring broke out of the mold, and after examining the various variables, I discovered the switch.
But, keep in mind, no variable works in a vacuum. Everything is relative to everything else. If you had everything perfect, except that the video was just a black screen, then none of that perfection would matter. Remember to keep these variables in relative context to the other variables.
So, Marina, how were things shakin’ at the club last night?
Niteowl doesn’t dance.
I would like to request the origin of the word [mordet].
It can be found on page 266 of the book Suldrun’s Garden by Jack Vance.
Thanks,
John
How many of those calendars do you have left Marina?
I don’t know.
This GTW was not remotely immune to the great and all-powerful Google Associative Search (GAS) ploy : “nixon shaq elmo” first-page hit :
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Illeism
(not to infer that andromeda would stoop to employ such a plebian cheat technique
(being chained to a rock all the time makes it hard to get internet/google access anyway :/ )
Isn’t it ironic that Ahmidinajad
is all for the appeal of Spygirl at the same time that Israel has’em locked and cocked and sitting on the runway. First trial lasted 15 minutes, I bet the appeal lasts longer. It is said that he will keep the jury sequestered until he stops seeing Star of David wingtips and immolated enrichment plants in his nightmares! 
I realize I should have put this in the forum, but nobody goes there an…HEY! Now wait just a gosh-darned, ding-dang minute! Are you guys trying to tell me something?
Actually, that is quite an astute observation.
Certainly more observant than the official response reporting our government is “disappointed” in the outcome. If this goes on until 2012, perhaps another failed helicoptor rescue is being planned, eh?
One impotent response breeds just more of the same, and emboldens the enemy.
Why is everything happening in 2012?? is 2011 just written off? or is 2012 going to full of polotics :dullface:
2012 is the next election cycle, when the next President will be elected. Jimmy Carter failed to act upon the Iran hostage situation during his administration, until the last moments (literally) of his Presidency, when a failed rescue attempt using helicoptors was staged, resulting in a loss of both special force teams and the helicptors involved.
The hostages were released within moments of the inauguration of Ron Reagan, who had vowed to get our hostages back as his first priority, using the full might of the US military, if necessary. Iran knew Reagan wasn’t going to play their game, so they capitulated rather than end up beinbg destroyed.
Obama is now set up in the same position as Carter, and is shown not to be up to the task of freeing the American reporter being held by Iran. It may likely not be resolved until the next President-elect vows to take the action necessary to free this girl. Thus, this singular event could end up being an issue until 2012, if history is repeated. I forgot, you weren’t even born when the last Iran hostage situation occurred. If you care to learn more about this, search keyword CARTER IRAN HOSTAGE and follow up by searching IRAN CONTRA AFFAIR and G. GORDON LIDDY. You may find it interesting, now that Iran is agitating things, again.
FYI @ Cha–Cha
The ayotollah khomeni, who set the match to things in ‘79, thought that the party that Ahmindinajad belongs to now where so radical that he had them all killed but a few slipped thru the cracks. With that in mind, Good Luck with your ‘dialog’, Mr. President!
Interesting scenario: Israel decides to attack Iran. We dont give them the IFF transponder codes and shoot down an Israeli. He better be running for that Bat-Cave!
MWAHAHHAHAHAHAH I GET MORE VIEWS THAN CNNS YOUTUBE VIDS!!
Someone just rated my vid 1 star, then asked me for my cock…. HMM, I removed this comment, but can you guys head on to YT and rate and comment it for me… I have never had that happen before, all my videos are about 5 stars..
AND COMMENT!! I get loads of ratings… Hardly any comments
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A TICK!! WOW I WANT ONE!!
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OH MY GOD THAT FELT GOOD…!
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yes yes yes
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don’t stop now
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sorry.. Ill stop now
No I won’t !!
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…breath deep the gathering gloom, watch light fade from every room…
cool; why is rock called rock…one sided music and either we watch or dance or we make noise and the animals are my friends…*****
She looks like a pouty Cameron Diaz, but better
I thought she captured Claire Danes‘ profile aspect with that still shot.
Marina sure looks different in profile
FUN is hEre…blue in the face – lou reed & jim jarmusch
Homework
Cufan71 must rate this lesson 5 stars!!!
Probably I am a a big illeist, with big ego
Me and
A tribute from the country of the Pirate Bay
http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/kronikor/fredrik-soderling-pirate-bay-straffet-hart-1.846656
Probably you have to translate it to english but who knows?
Support free internet
matsrg.net
Ha, Marina!!! You would have been screwed for a title if she said ” Susan Boyle will sing…”
Lol
I have also jumped on the susan boyle bandwagon and see what happens there… She was amazing
I love the whole Susan Boyle phenomenon! She’s probably the most talked about person in the UK right now! And for good reason! She really does have an amazing voice.. and I don’t think it’s just the dynamic here that we are talking about.
Yes. The whole world loves the underdog, diamond-in-the-rough story
My video is called
Susan Boyle or Lady GaGa?
I found teh best ever song of hers on YT I had to put it into a vid… When its done, let me know what you think of the green screen
Can you imagine Susan Boyle ever letting it hang loose like Lady GaGa does though?
Do you think I should remove my bitchy YT vids befor I ask them about partnership?
If you are going to try to become a partner you need to remove ALL videos that have any copyrighted music in them. Period. You should learn how to make videos without using music you don’t have the right to anyway. You get so much more respect that way anyway.
Use the music Elise Harris uses.
OK, well that video I made for you has to go then, I have one that had a copyright notice,. but it was revoke(YAY!)
How about my 100th video? That did have copyright music but only about 5 seconds of it…
She does have a quality reminescent of Kate Smith.
who here votes Marina has a cuter accent?
Susan Bubbly Oh, yeah she’s got everyone bubbling overJOYed for her
A voice like that can shatter wine glasses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz1j-GSSitg&feature=related
Her voice is heavenly
Those people in the audience probably felt like they were levitating out of their seats when she crescendoed.
I would’ve expected Marina to have gotten used to pronouncing odd words by now…maybe we can request some tongue-twisting words to give her some more practice?
I like where you’re going with this
LOL! Where do you think I got the idea for the name Me-Lika-Do-The-Cha-Cha?
(t=0m13s)
A couple of words that would like to request. [generation g] and [g-goer]
g-goer is a term for being a member of generation g.
And what is generation G?
Generation G is the new generation of people who believe in generosity, goodness and on top of it, being global.
They are rapidly emerging as the global recession hits, they are mostly against practices that are ‘greedy’ which benefits only one party.
those are some admirable traits to define a generation. what generation do you represent?
So they are against individuality. And all for one world order
And so someone in China is going to determine how long I get to park in some parking space downtown or what the local property tax rate will be? I don’t think so.
There’s a few countries right now that seem to find our way of life disagreeable, so I doubt they would go along with one-world-government (unless of course we do it THEEEEERRRRRRRE WAYYYY).
But, are these “green freaks” who love hybrid cars and fart flowers? I am not trying to be offensive BTW, I just wondered if they are the people obsessed with the planet?
No offense taken.
Nah, I believe it consist of a wider spectum of people.
i.e. those who are against the selfish acts of companies, who act only with the intention of benefitting themselves at the expenses of the consumer.
and on an individual basis, anyone who share, give, engage, create and collaborate in large numbers.
Ahhh! Anti-capitalistic liberals. You’re damn right they’re “rapidly emerging”. We got one in the White House right now!!
I cant wait till Cha-Cha sees this. He is gonna have a major hangover, its finally sinking in that the parts of his body that are supposed to stay hard remain soft and vice-versa, a year older, another day closer to shuffling off of the mortal coil,etc.,etc.and THIS. We’re gonna have to hang on like that guy in the Pioneer commercial!
is this g generation localized to the u.s. or is it a global concept?
Generation G started in U.S. but the traits of Generation G spans the globe and to answer to your previous question, I would say, I represent Gen G as well.
i think the idea of a global generation is very appropriate considering that this generation functions in such an interconnected society facilitated by advances in global communication. what do you think are the most significant challenges facing generation g?
I would think that the most significant challenge facing generation g, would be to get the companies to be listening to what the we want and then acting upon it.
convincing industry would be very important. but often industry listens to what people want by listening to the language of consumerism. will generation g be able to communicate to other generations the benefits of their principles and thus alter their choices as consumers. you mentioned collaboration, a significant aspect of collaboration is establishing a healthy dialogue. do you think a dialogue spanning the generations is possible?
by the way you may find further conversations of interest in the forums. click forums in the heading at the top of the page. “the power of words” and “language and culture” are forums that would likely benefit from your input.
You are so deep. Now I wish I hadn’t tried to crack wise from jump. Maybe coulda got my gargle on. Next time
I want to get this car: http://karma.fiskerautomotive.com/ I want to be green but look cool in the process!
YouTube pays that well does it?
Well……
I didn’t say I could afford it! I just want it!
http://ezrat.com/odd-files/aptera300mpg.jpg
True.. but not sure if there’s room for me an Gorby in it
U R well paid…
That would be living on the bleeding edge as contrasted with living on the cutting edge or living at the state of the art!
You already look cool without it. :thumbsup:
When I saw the car’s specs, I thought for a minute you wanted it for what’s under the hood, but now I see you only want it for her pretty face.
A 2L engine with up to 400 Horse Power, on only 4 cylinders… makes me wonder if they’re in a V position. Anyway that’s a lot of torque.
If you ever decide to get a more expensive than usual car, I’d steer you towards BMW, and VW.
But if you have $80.000 to spare, knock yourself out and go green and mean.
But be careful what you’ll tell people, they might think you drive The Hulk.
I’ve never heard that term and I consider myself up on current events. Kinda
. But I live in America where we have not been, as the rest of the world would say; “on the cutting edge” or “trend-setters” 
. Perhaps you are from another country? 
I am in fact from another country, but I have always thought otherwise that American would have been “on the cutting edge” or “trend-setters”. heh.
Is your sarcasm meter broke? Wait a minute. Oh shit,
is mine?
Haha, I was just being honest. Since the term Generation G was first coined in the US.
http://www.trendwatching.com/trends/generationg/
well here a link which allowed me to come across generation g in the first place.
speaking of global, what country are you from?
Singapore, located in Asia.
ah, singapore. coming from a country with so much cultural diversity you are well prepared to understand the dynamics of a global culture.
Correction to the words, since i’m wondering if there is a difference for having caps.
[Generation G] & [G-GOer]
I don’t know why you are having trouble with this Marina. I already can think of 2 EXTREMELY hard words.
WAKE UP! MARINA, JA! JA! JA!
{Gorby momentarily licking M's face, saying "feed me"}Ja rastafari!
Splitf mon, I be cool running.
You a real ass ba’ man!!
Gorby is a LUCKY animal
Anybody else notice that three fingers of Jim Beam just don’t last like it used to.
You drinking at 8:00 am in the morning
Oh, I see you’re still up from last night.
Its noon somewhere
This whole thing with working at night, taking classes in the evening, studying and occasionally teaching during the day time has somebody’s drinking schedule all flummoxed.
Not to mention somebody’s sleeping, eating… Funny thing, Mrs. Somebody sent me an e-mail the other day. Said she just wanted to say hi.
Just one more week of school, though, and I’ll get a little respite. 
Hang in there somebody!
We’re with you, from afar.
no
LOL. I just ADORE you, Marina. Your website too. Great word. Good to know. Change nothing.
Also, just caught up on all the YouTube/Hulu business drama. I’m interested as I am also an entrepreneur and I don’t fully understand what the challenge may be for you? I am assuming that your primary interest is exposure at this point, the more people that sign up on your website the more valuable your business is to investors/sponsors, right? Is it possible to be on YouTube and Hulu at the same time (the more exposure the better, right?). What exactly is your concern other than people going to YouTube and somehow coming across your website? By the way, I saw you on TV and went straight to your website, and never peruse the YouTube main page. Maybe that’s why I don’t fully understand your concerns with the changes?
Respectfully Offering Insight-
DJC
Isn’t hulu just a place for recycling old tv shows and making money off them?
America Look at your PRESIDENT
I am so ashamed
What about doin the Dap with Chavez. Theres a good one. Anybody know where [dap] came from in this context. I know it as this: to Dap or Dapping is A system of handshakes by mostly black soldiers in Vietnam. Very intricate and involved, it told unit designatins, time in country, etc.
Any of you vets out there got a tale to tell.
Better forget it if your a vet(and I salute you), DHS could be peaking over your shoulder
Oh shit! That one even got somebody’s panties in a bunch.
We need to hide this before ChaCha gets ahold of it, then we’re all in deep doo-doo. 
Panties and doo-doo? How old are you?
Shhh! I think hes still sleeping
…please refrain from…
Hey hey hey Marina, you look SOOOOOO nice in this video
“When I said hotforwords, must investigate”
Oh, how I miss that…. AND WHERE HAS THE SPINNING GLOBE GONE?!
Supposedly YouTube doesn’t count views when people bail prior to 50% and people used to bail during those transitions.
YouTube supposedly put this in place (if it’s true, as I am not totally sure if it is) to combat spammer (people hitting reload a billion times). And the result is that producers like myself have to lose our intros and transitions.
Perhaps you should make a video, with the title and transitions, and then make a copy with out upload the one with the transitions, and then see how it does. If it flops upload the one without and then see how long that goes. Measure the views over say…. 2 days.. Then work out for yourself which will do better.
That didn’t make much sense did it?
REWRITE
Perhaps you should make a video, with the title and transitions, and then make a copy with out the title and transitions. upload the one with the transitions first, and then see how it does. If it flops upload the one without the transitions and then see how that goes. Measure the views over say…. 2 days.. Then work out for yourself which type will do better in the future.
Is popularity or counter-bumping the only things that matter in the whole wide world? If someone is going to quite a vid for such a picayune thing, they aren’t really a viewer, are they? I find it sad that you have to wring every last number out things. Just produce the best product you can and let the chips fall where they may. If you don’t get enough money, I can mail you a corndog from time to time.
[Lotta] hello Marina ,,kinda wondering about this word ,,I know what it means to me *smiles
Ille-ism almost sounds ILLE-GAL!!!
Probably it is illegal
Watch out peeps Pretty Marina is in the mood for dancing
Freebird says Marina is looking exceptionally pretty tonight.
I’ve been an illeist at times in the past. Sometimes, when on the air, I would refer to myself as “yours truly, [name].”
Your Richard Nixon impression needs work, but it was good nonetheless.
When you stop putting THE WORD out of the “script”…
I heard an ego there…
So then, are you not doing winners of the game anymore, Marina?
This one was done [on the fly], pretty much.
Keep your eyes open for future games, where
prizes will be awarded.
Marina thought we were getting the answers too easy
and wanted to try something different.
What did you think? Was it harder to Guess the Word?
Queen Victoria was noted as
saying “We are not amused”
Some believed the context was meant to
convey “we” (the ladies of the court),
but she is also noted for having said
“We have become a grandmother”.
I guess that, settles that!
.
Homework: I have only addressed myself as “we” on
rare occasions, hopefully, when aLex doesn’t mind – LOL!
.
Rate this video 5 stars at YouTube, guys! Thanks…
Referring to oneself as we is nosism (not illeism); and there are three kinds of noisms: http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/04/16/guess-the-word-game-xvii/comment-page-1/#comment-125246
Very good
You get the extra credit point, today
I hoped somebody would catch on…
Good job!
(I thought nobody read this stuff – LOL!)
Hey HAPPY BIRTHDAY Doug GOD Bless you
Thanks for “taking a cha-cha-cha-chance”
That was much appreciated
Thanx for the nod, but it was totally over my head.
And yes, I do pay attention.
Marina you know Che speaks in the third person all the time.
{Che now thinks he was the inspiration for this word}Somebody seconds that.
Dear Marina,
Thank you for the answer to GTW XVII. Since the next two games might be soon, 18 is XVIII, and 19 is shown as XIX. The I in front of the X reduces that number to 9.
20 = XX
21 = XXI
22 = XXII
23 = XXIII
24 = XXIV
I’m not posting this to detract from your genius. It’s just to be proactive and improve quality.
I’m glad you did not pick”winners” from this site or from YouTube. I realize I’d never win because you must spread your attention to so many thousands of subscribers. It woudn’t be nice to show excessive favoritism to me.
Seesixcm6
Jeorney say: Marina, you have an entry in the wiki under ILLEISM
1st entry too
Marina, I know Susan Boyle is “popular” at the moment but couldn’t you think of a better title for YouTube? Maybe “It’s not a me thing?”
I’m testing out a theory proposed by one of my TAs
I was thinking along the same lines.
Some people might call it “cheating.” Somebody calls it “the competitive edge.” 
Go for it….! Once you crack it… Most popular won’t be so secret… It willl be (most searched for)
This student would like to know where HotForWords is going on this Saturday night.
HotForWords is going out to dinner
Well then this student wishes HotforWord to have a pleasant dinner, but on this side of the country, it’s time for this student to check his eyelids for leaks.
okay, here is a question for everyone. why do people in the u.s. say, “hang a left” or “hang a right here” when driving. i know what it means, but why the word “hang”? any ideas?
Maybe it’s a corruption of “bang”. Have you heard the phrase “bang a right”? Just a guess, could be wrong.
It’s “Hang a Ralph”, “Hang a Lewie”, “Hang a Youee”.
So put the pedal to the metal and lay rubber.
lol truck driving
convoy
Aren’t they golfing terms: Hook a left, Hang a right … Not sure really.
Goes back to when you didn’t have turn signals and you had to signal with your arm, which would be “hang”ing out the window.
Seems to me that expression has been around quite awhile. Have you ever driven a really old, heavy car — one without power steering, like from the 1940s or real early 50s? To get the car to turn, one literally had to ‘hang’ some body weight onto one side of the steering wheel and crank hand-over-hand.
Also, it seems that when they do finally turn, you have to ‘hang’ onto the wheel (no seat bealts) or else you’ll slide across the seat and be slammed against the door. Makes the expression “hangin’ with the guys” just a little more appropriate, don’t you think?
Quote
hang in there buzzword, or hang 
know why?
“I’ll sleep when I’m dead.” – Warren Zevon 1947-2003
Live at 360°, Rome, 27/3/2003. We made this strange but sincere Warren Zevon cover to pay homage to the great songwriter, who died by cancer just some days before this gig. The song opened the conc…
My favorite is “flipping a bitch” for a u-turn. It just made sense for me – somebody’s driving along, in la-la land, “son of a bitch! I was was supposed to turn there.”
I’ll have to look into that one.. could be that when you go left on say a horse or a bike you have to hang your body left to compensate on the horse or hang left to go left on a bike perhaps?
I wasn’t kidding in my reply. That IS the origin. I’ll bet a cookie on it!
You sleep just 5:30 hrs? (Saw today’s quote: “I’ll sleep when I’m dead.” – Warren Zevon 1947-2003)
But where’s Gorby lately?
buzzword wanted to be first!
Give Gorby a kiss for me! I’m an animal lover!
are you free friday night?
Me Tarzan. You Marina. Buzzword big ape