Nerd Word(s) of the Day: It’s like déjà vu all over again.
Being that I am in Cannes, France right now, I thought the following phrase appropriate.
Today’s phrase “It’s like déjà vu all over again” is funny because it is a joke.
It’s a joke because the “déjà vu” part makes the “all over again” part redundant.
It’s nerdy because kids today don’t even realize it’s a joke, they think it’s the proper expression!
The phrase came to us from the famous Yankee baseball player Yogi Berra who was also famous for his “creative use” of the English language bringing us such doozies as:
- “You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.”
- “I didn’t really say everything I said.”
- “I made a wrong mistake.”
- “Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.”
Oh, and here is a Monty Python sketch on the phenomenon of Déjà Vu 
And finally a lesson I did on the term a while back.
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Actually, the “mental” quote is not exactly right. Some of Yogi’s sayings are twisted to make them sound stupid when they actually make more sense than you think. The real line is: “90% of this game is half mental.” I guess if you think about it, the game is actually 45% mental!
Hello Headmaster!
I know this: 1) I’m a smartass and cocky 2) Some say he acts like a “conceited know it all” and 3) leonard is a show off to a pretty LADY
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I wish I had an answer to that because I’m tired of answering that question. Yogi Berra
From your department of redundancies department.
I… know this place
Didn’t we go to different schools together?
Déjà vu
Wow! Do that, again!
I can’t, I have have reoccuring amnesia… Again.
The Beatles -India ( super rare John Lennon’s demo)N.O.W.
oJohn Lennon – Woman is the “N” of the Wor[l]d
hIll er rHee…love on)(ok it was Nixon NOW…no gag, asia of rUSsiA…is canada like siberia???girls, please answer
It’s a nerdy joke that probably confuses French kids too.
It’s like déjà vu all over again would be confusing because you are saying “It’s like already saw (the literal translation) all over again.
Let me get these off my mind:
[SVELTE]
[ERUDITE]
[HOT TO TROT]
[GLOAMING]
[FATHOM]
Thanks, Marina.
…[economics]
…
My request…[BS]…or
watch this(MARINA of Japan)Brown Sugar Macchiato – Ep. 7 (1/7)
…Please everyone, give this one a lookie…
though i can speak it,i hate speakin it.
can u? (from you-tube comments) asia to mediterranean sea and rhodes island of AEGEAN…{TURKEY FOWL and my little red chicken} chic*hen of the sea
“I didn’t really say everything I said.”
I know that feeling.
Love your twitpics Marina, but sometimes u make it hard 4 me 2 comment @ twitter
I’m old, married, with kids… kinda outside your demographic http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/hotforwords.com but I do appreciate u sharing what u r up 2. Not many women are brave enuff 2 wear (almost) the bathing suit they wore as a teenager, but u pulled it off (well close enuff). Nice 2 see your lovely Siberian tan in the bikini photos, I’d post them on my fridge @ home, but they probably wouldn’t stay there 
Twitter looks good on u. That site, http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/hotforwords.com yesterday had your twitter upstream traffic thingy at 11.4% & u seem 2 be enjoying it (twitter) 2
Vu jàdé! I have the feeling we’ve never had this discussion before, again.
It’s ALL new to the kids – LOL!
Who is going to win a lunchdate with Marina?
Some twit, I’ll bet….
Definitely, not me
I have deja vu moments each time I feel like I’ve been already here… like, one day I was sitting on the toilet…
Not funny then….Not funny now. Monty Python sucks.
Wondered of this…Deja Vu – Crosby, Stills & Nash
or why I went back to sleep…Quote
“I would have made a good Pope.” – Richard M. Nixon 1913-1994
Why would’ve Nixon want to make a pope? Holy Roam is moscow and son of Steve ate oatmeal with his cooBa….Quack on little quacker…look out 4 the Watch is witching…{MF…u lost my work…eyes back at U}…muTHerFER
I like redundant and pleonastic words and phrases.
Succinct that.
Please excuse that this posting became so long. I didn’t have time for a shorter one.
True.
Dear Marina,
I hope you are enjoying a wonderful time in France, with so many other beautiful women as I’ve seen in your photos on Twitter.
Yes, I had the feeling I’d seen this before. Your deja vu video was on October 16, 2008. Your slender legs are so beautiful, I haven’t forgotten them.
Since deja vu translates into “already seen”, Yogi Berra could just be saying, “it was like seeing the same thing for a third time.” So, it actually makes sense.
After I saw you once, I want to see you again and again. This might be why your videos are so popular.
Seesixcm6
The sentence above;
“You better cut the pizza in four pieces
because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.”
Kind of reminds me of;
Which is heavier?
One hundred pounds of feathers or a hundred pounds of lead?
It’s got to be the lead, right?
Of course it’s the lead, you can’t fish with feathers. Geez!
One can use chicken feathers to make cocktails, on the fly, can they not. Something fishy there (do cocktails tickle?). But, I won’t carp about it or trout out any other bad puns.
Reminds me of the guy who thought about accepting a bet if he could eat a ten pound watermelon. He ran inside the house, came back five minutes later and said, “I’ll take that bet.” Upon which, he promptly devoured the ten pounder. The loosing bettor promptly paid up but asked why the young man went inside.
“Mama had a twelve pound watermelon set out for the picnic. I ate that one right quick, so I figured this ten pounder wouldn’t be nothin’ after that.”
Good Morning Marina,
May your Bigggggg Boat do lotsa bat turns an you have to déjà vu the summer away on it.
You are now entering France, “Drive slow your car”
Then, “Park your car side by each.”
Also, “Throw me down the stairs my hat.”
Throw the baby down the stairs, a cookie.
You are from Canadia, not you are?
Dearest Marina, are you sure it was not GW Bush who said all those funny and not so clever things?
I think it was
http://iphonerna.blogspot.com/ 
Mats
An interesting phenomenon
Such original thinking MUST be yours, and not someone else doing your thinking for you.
I find that it is odd, your thinking this is clever at all.
Since you are not an American, can you tell us what clever or not-so-clever things are being said by your past leaders? You seem to enjoy dwelling in the past..
What do you think about America’s new President?
I would love to hear your thinking on that.
No fair cheating, it has to come from your heart and mind, not some cheesy liberal blog – ok?
Ok, I got it, no jokes about an american ex president are allowed from a non american.
But about your present president, Mr Obama, me and I think most of Europe and Sweden think he is doing pretty well.
We have a lot of hope for some real commitment in the envrinoment area and the Kyoto Protocol.
Best regards,
Mats
Typical liberal response – dodge the issue LIKE A BULLET!
I was right, you have no opinions that are truly your own.
I would love to see any factual data you can present to support this statement:
“But about your present president, Mr Obama, me and I think most of Europe and Sweden think he is doing pretty well.
We have a lot of hope for some real commitment in the envrinoment area and the Kyoto Protocol.”
Betcha can’t do it!
Where are you cute and clever quips about your own leaders? Hmmmm? I can’t hear you….
Hey or
hay- 
–cha-cha: 
they are taking Santa-Clause’s oil of the NORTH_POLE..
62% of Americans like him, also. I think the people who are frustrated are more worried about the future. He seems to be spending money at an alarming rate. Large amounts! I believe the argument is, this large influx of money will create jobs, therefore creating a tax-base to pay it back. Is that it in a nut shell?
When you put the tax burden on the people who supposed to be creating those jobs is where “the cog in the gears” comes in. Look at european countries. They have followed this model and have had almost no economic growth since the 70’s. The fact that there population has not risen (and the good ol’ USA) is the only reason they are not third world. They are all heavily in debt and were long before this latest calamity.
Right Now, we need jobs. If they are Green jobs, great. If they are PERMANANT green jobs, even better.
@ GP – thanks for adding your wisdom to this discussion
Please note that the initial comment posted was not by us, we are merely participating in the “organic flow” such comments stimulate.
Forgive us for exercising our God given freedom to assemble and openly discuss such matters without being judged and persecuted for our opinions
May you live in uninteresting times(?)
I was just defending my man Dubya! I’d do the same for BHO. That is, if somebody would gather up the stones to actually critique him. Do NOT look him directly in the eyes. Chris Matthews did that and has had a tingling sensation ever since.
@ GP – I said “thank you for your wisdom”!
And you’re saying I’M deaf??!
AND you insult those of us engaged in this
discussion as having caused you damage??!
Oh please…. don’t expect me to thank you for that.
Keep your ammo dry…
better yet, since you didn’t add anything positive,
and only wish to trample on my genuine (NOT
so-called as you have alleged) right to affirm my
opinions and views, why don’t you just disengage?
I wouldn’t want to hear how you were damaged
for jumping into the middle of a discussion, again.
Look BOTH ways BEFORE you step into the street(!)
@Cha Cha
How is it I’m insulting anyone? This is “me”, “myself”, and “I” expressing a viewpoint so don’t be so quick to be hypocritical while you claim to be a defender of rights and act like your views are the only valid views around here Cha Cha. I merely suggested alternatives. I’m not insulting anyone and you know it. Anyway, I really don’t want your thanks, praise, acknowledgement, etc. because by now I’m very much used to “disconnection” and “disengagement” from cheap shots I wouldn’t want to be associated with anyway, so I have no problem with that so why don’t you take some viagra or something and mellow out before you become like “that” which you disagree with.
you’re driving wreckless Cha Cha and it just so happens there are pedestrians on these sidewalks.
So what’s that suppose to mean Cha Cha? “organic flow”??? sounds like you bought into “greenism”
organic flow? makes you out like some granola chewing liberal tree hugger with a bleed’n heart for unlicensed abortionists.
@GP
There is still 1 more game 7 left today. Why don’t you kick back, watch Celtics/Magic and try not to dwell on…!
My head’s not in the sand, it’s in my hands as I read about our British politicians’ antics . You think yours are bad?!
I’m
graduallyrapidly coming round to Pol Pot’s way of thinking.Snore.
Wake up, PT9, we’re going to need that mattress when they all start falling off their high horses.
Speaking of equines, it looks as though they’re finally wearing out their whips on that rotting horse carcass. What a stench…
How can you hit the right keys when your head is in the sand?
Braille?
That is sooo funny.
I make wrong mistakes all of the time
even when I didn’t make them.
Oh, and thanks for the link to the previous video lesson.
I had already seen that one.
Good morning Che and Marina!
Morning PK, I’m going back to bed now.
Afternoon France, Marina, What’s on your schedule today, oysters for lunch maybe.
You changed something, when you now edit while video is playing then ’save’ the edit, the video longer restarts from the beginning but from the place you left off. :-/
Hey! Marina how about a ‘bubble tweet?”
{It’s what all the cool kids are doing these days}
Yeah, that is kewl.
Hey Che, did you ever see the bubble tweet Marina did some time ago. I saved it, I think.
I didn’t see it, I just now discovered bubble tweets.
You got a link to said bubble tweet?
Yup, I saved Marina’s Bubble-Tweet from Mar 13′09.
She was so cute in that, with her hair twisted up.