Swine Flu
Here is a quick lesson on the Swine Flu, or as I call it, the Svine Flu.
Don’t blame it on the pigs! Plus my take on the “Where the swine flu came from” joke 
Please rate and comment over at YouTube to help the video. Thanks! :-)
Here is a quick lesson on the Swine Flu, or as I call it, the Svine Flu.
Don’t blame it on the pigs! Plus my take on the “Where the swine flu came from” joke
Please rate and comment over at YouTube to help the video. Thanks! :-)
Retweeting this here because I wish I’d thought of it myself.
RT@peterdrew If you get an email from the Dep. of Health telling you not 2 eat tinned pork because of #SwineFlu ignore it. It’s just spam.
I first just now read the joke—excellent
“milked the cow over the mooned”…don’t let your meat loaf 
I feel sick…they got me
PIGS can kiSS my aSS 
from the hotforwords site of unseen….Quote”There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein 1879-1955
leonard, leonard. You let the govt inject you? Where in the world did you get the vaccine? Gitmo?
Deep Purple Smoke In The Water( Pat Boone vs Nikki Fiasco Mix)
The fly flies, before it dies and the ties dyes worn…This Video for Alala by sao paulo brazil’s CSS was directed by Cat Solen and show’s a killer fight breakout in reverse. …rumor is flown and BIRD FLU – M.I.A.…this chick is a drummer…I can not run beevee14 
thought you might like some “after -the-classics” 
i like to request the slang word [yo] because it is such a popular word used
On Time Wrap (Discovery Channel) last night the show visually explained how germs are past around.
One segment showed four ppl at a card game, they contaminated one player with ultra-violet fake mucous. After a several hands of poker they put the ultra-violet light on the players. They were all infected.
They touched the cards, they touch the chip bowl, then touch their face. Made me a believer in Purell.
Sanitize every time you touch every card, every chip, the table? Just lick a baby’s face once per day to build up your immune system.
I agree, b. Purell and the like have probably caused more sickness than it helped. Gotta keep that immunity system working!
OMG! Yaw! Yore! Your! You’re ……a homophone.
I think a fun lesson would be to get to the root origins
of the word [ homonym ] and its related cousins;
[ homograph ]
[ homophone ]
[ heteronym ]
[ polyseme ]
[ capitonym ]
Using all of these words would make the lesson longer to maybe three minutes in length, or it could be six lessons.
Commonly, this is related to misheard words, or homophones, where the spelling of a word is the same or different and the pronunciation is the same.
Perhaps the http://www.kissthisguy.com/ site of misheard song lyrics is related to this, even though other things are going on in the misheard lyrics.
One time in the Navy a group of us had to watch a safety film about electricity. The film was entitled, “The Deadly Sailor”.
The next day, a friend of mine asked me what safety film I had watched the previous day. I couldn’t remember the title, so I said, it was “The Deadly Seaman”.
In my friend’s mind, he thought I said “The Deadly Semen”, which he thought was a film about some sperm which was going to electrocute some eggs. We laughed about that [homophone] for several years.
Leonard, I found the author of the “Good Timber” poem you put up in the ” ‘Pun my Word” forum; it was by Douglas Malloch.
…ps..know where to fish!!
No Leonard, Bobbit was the guy who got his dick cut off by his wife Lorena while he slept.
If you can’t be a pine on the top of the hill,
Be a scrub in the valley-but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill;
Be a bush if you can’t be a tree.
DOUGLAS MALLOCH (1877 – 1938) American poet and syndicate writer
Malloch’s name has become a familiar one to many thousands of men who range the forests, or fell the trees. Malloch’s philosophy is the philosophy of contentment.
…I got the info–ERBzine
i suggested a glossary a long time ago.
Hey alex, thanks for that reminder. That was a good suggestion. One of the things that I do whenever I get involved in a new project for an industry that I have very little knowledge of, is to create my own glossary.
You would be surprised, or maybe not, how many companies have no glossaries, and when they do, they are so convoluted that a newbie needs another glossary just to understand their glossary. YT is a case in point. Grrrr, another pet peeve of mine.
Thank you for the reminder aLx and as an honor to you, I have added a section in the Forum as a collection point of words that Marina could later use for an official HotForWords Glossary.
Here is the section in the Forum that I started.
yo karl,
good idea to start a thread in the forum. didn’t think of that. even though i fucking suggested a forum a long time ago as well.
damn, i was so fucking
goodgreatexcellentahead of it allfull of ideas.I started the forum on account of your suggestion! I was going to call it Alex.. but I couldn’t figure out how!
Hi….can you please explain the origin of the term [gipped], for example the phrase [I've been gipped]. I’ve heard this many times without any idea what it means! thanks
This comes from gypsies, who were notorious hustlers, swindlers and con-artists in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
[HORSE STEW]…picts
Answer to todays quote: Yes. And over-rated. Of course, you were correct about the whole Vietnam thing, but then; you had Dien Bien Phu to help prod your memory!
[hypo.crisy]===reefer economics=[medicinal bosses] or united nations…the gaunt of government dispensers…war workers?..with dope
[PROD][ 
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I’ve been lucky enough to have about two weeks were I comprehended 85-90% of your posts but I gotta admit, this one has me scratching my head like an organ grinders monkey!
Quote
“What do you take me for, an idiot?” – General Charles de Gaulle 1890-1970
Most Tragic Event of My Life
By Chuck Norris
The single most tragic event of my life took place in 1970. It was the day I heard my younger brother Wieland was killed in Vietnam. It was a day like no other. No family should have to feel what my mother, my other brother (Aaron) and I did that day. And yet so many do, every day, in every year.
{drug lords; war on hypocrisy}
message received and agree 100%
We have STATUES of flying pigs where I live. We even have a marathon in honor of flying pigs. My town used to be nick-named Porkopolis, so that might have something to do with it! Its a big town, too. We even have our own baseball team currently tearing up the NL Central. who said St. Louis? [Pshaw]!! We got the four horses, now; so we are bringing it EVERY day! Also, to Afro-Americans down south; it is called “The Nasty” or “Nasty-Nati”. There are some places here that are exactly that.(or so I’ve heard
)
i would like to request a few words like; [albatross], [vicissitude], and [delineation].
wonderful Marina I forgot my other word! where does the word [heartache] come from? thank you! i think you are hilarious and very fun!
beautiful Marina…. where does the word [head] come from?
As a word request, could your next lesson be based around [EMPs] or [Electro Magnetic Pulses]. I was wondering of their discovery, origns, effects, etc.
Thank you!
It’s about time someone told the public that swine flu isn’t the next pandemic. I was starting to get sick of all the propaganda over the swine flu, or H1N1-Influenza. Thanks.
That’s the cutest of your videos;all the cute the squealing pigs! Swine flue is now over-it is just renamed H1N1. Sounds like some other govenrment tactic to sweep something under the rug. Like in Toledo, those old closed down factories are now called BROWNFIELD SITES as though that should make the situation more palatable or acceptable.
Seems like they want to change the name of everything, don’t they? My favorite is changing “terrorist attack” to “man-made accident/incident.” Now, when your son/daughter dies from an IED in some shithole, wouldn’t that sound alot better. Your kid is still dead; but it just rolls off the tongue so much better!
[fraud]…media pays taxes to the machine, too
give in now to help the poor government and train the new shovels 
NEVER, I say; NEVER!
’cause its one wokka two wokka three wokka, what are we fightin’ for…
Is it time for a new lesson?
http://twtpoll.com/4xvfz3
okay, here’s a couple of tips a friend of mine who directs the Emergency Room at a major teaching hospital in Philly suggested:
1) enhance your faith: the proper amount of time to wash your hands (with soap, ‘course, not just water) is about the same amount of time it take’s to say the Lord’s Prayer (sorry, ye of other faiths – you’ll need to find your own lil’ 30-sec homage);
2) watch what you touch: when you get done washing, try to not touch anything in the restroom with your hands. you’ve just cleansed yourself & now you’re gonna touch that door handle that the evil Swine Flu spreader just touched? use the paper towel to open the door, then throw it away as you leave.
no, i’m not all that concerned with H1N1 – as long as those pigs that have it don’t sneeze all over me…
In a public bathroom, I don’t touch ANYTHING with my hands. I’m one of those ‘kick the urinal lever with my foot guys’.
I usually just sing the first chorus of ‘Misty Mountain Hop’ by Led Zeppelin. By the time I get to ‘what do you think I saw?’, I’m drying my hands! 
As a normal American Catholic, I forgot the Lords Prayer years ago. However, I will never forget those lights out wrestling matches with Father Timothy!(I wonder if hes out yet. Of course,he was more or less made for prison, if you know what I mean!!) 
play the gay game and be happy; prey for the pray threat and honor their pay…[today]…before midKnight
knives and knaves 
Yes and prey for the pray?
Marina how many times do I have to ask you to study the word[philanthropy] ?
Obviously at least one more.
swined and dined lol
Hi lovely Marina, can you explore the word [bootleg] and where it came from? Thanks for making words so much fun, KarlZona.
i would like to submit the word [supercalafragelisticexpialadocious]
Check this lesson out, I think its just what you’re looking for.
oh
thank you 
im not worried at all about the swineflu (H1N1flu or hybridflu). its called swineflu.
there was 1 case i have heard of that killed some one and that person was practically half dead anyway with all the health problems she already had. so swineflu will kill u, if your already gonna die. 
also there is still not that many reported cases anyway. so no fear hear. 
When I studied food-borne pathogens at a little school in Texas(Gig’em, Aggies); we had an acronym to describe the first people who were hit in a pandemic or epidemic: YODIM
Young
Old
Disabled
Infirmed
Malnourished
Eat right, wash your hands, STOP using anti-bacterials(these only weaken your immune system). Unless you’re in the group above, you should be OK when the next one hits!
I would like to request the word [milliard]. I came across this word in the dictioniary meaning 1000 million as the English deffinition or 1 billion as American. I am curious why this word is not in common use today.
If it were, we would also have to use billiard in place of trillion, trilliard in place of quadrillion and so forth. Instead of milliard, if you want to use an alternate word for billion, use freeby. Example: “Today, Obama gave 70 freebies to the financial industry.”
I would like to request the word [scissors]
Thanks Leonard for your message regarding Nerd Words:
Here are a few more which you might not have come across yet:
TESTICULATING – Waving your arms around and talking Bollocks.
BLAMESTORMING – Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
SEAGULL MANAGER – A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.
ASSMOSIS – The process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement by sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.
SALMON DAY – The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die.
CUBE FARM – An office filled with cubicles.
PRAIRIE DOGGING – When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people’s heads pop up over the walls to see that’s going on. (This also applies to applause from a promotion because there may be cake.)
MOUSE POTATO – The on-line, wired generation’s answer to the couch potato.
SITCOMs – Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids or start a “home business”.
STRESS PUPPY – A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
XEROX SUBSIDY – Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one’s workplace.
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE – The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
ADMINISPHERE – The rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the “adminisphere” are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve. This is often affiliated with the dreaded “administrivia” needless paperwork and processes.
404 – Someone who’s clueless. From the World Wide Web error message “404 Not Found,” meaning that the requested document could not be located.
OHNOSECOND – That minuscule fraction of time in which you realise that you’ve just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you’ve hit ‘reply all’)
WOOFies – Well Off Older Folk.
CROP DUSTING – Surreptitiously farting while passing through a
CUBE FARM, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust; leads to PRAIRIE DOGGING.
Enjoy!
Alan
Nice collection
Grand job allan rogers…roe..role..row(whoa)fish with eggs and spermed
SALMON DAY – The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die. 
Hello Bob
Thanks for your message. The sniglets (thats a new word for me!) I posted were the winners from a Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational which asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.
The Washington Post also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers were asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. And the winners were:
1. coffee, n. the person upon whom one coughs.
2. flabbergasted, adj. appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained.
3. abdicate, v. to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. esplanade, v. to attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. willy-nilly, adj. impotent.
6. negligent, adj. absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.
7. lymph, v. to walk with a lisp.
8. gargoyle, n. olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. flatulence, n. emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.
10. balderdash, n. a rapidly receding hairline.
11. testicle, n. a humorous question on an exam.
12. rectitude, n. the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. pokemon, n. a Rastafarian proctologist.
14. oyster, n. a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism, n. the belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16. circumvent, n. an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.
Cheers
Alan
Seems like we have the makings of another fun thread in the Hotforwords forums.
Oh come now, Bob, let’s just stick them in the ‘Pun My Word’ forum; they’re wordplay!
Good idea.
From the look of her pictures in tweet, teacher has spent too
much time amongst the Hollywood and Las Vegas types. She is
starting to look mean. Methinks Paris has more experience with
that sort of thing. She, however, does look a bit boney. Ask
her if she is going to JCK Las Vegas.
Nerd Word of the Day: Douchebagette
Today’s word I got in my inbox from the Urban Dictionary:
Douchebagette: a woman who exhibits the characteristics of a douchebag*.
*Douchebag: An individual who has an over-inflated sense of self worth, compounded by a low level of
, behaving ridiculously in front of colleagues with no sense of how moronic he appears.
behalf(i)(e) 
There, their, they’re, you homophones will just have to move to Iowa to get married.
@HotForWords:
@PedanticKarl:
Warning!
The comment below this one contains a link to a very obscene video clip of a pit bull vomiting.
Click the blue “comment” link on Veromrock67’s comment at your own risk.
I wanna request the word [GHOUGHPHTHEIGHTTEAU] … Is it really a POTATO or just pronounce so? And who in the world got the idea of inventing this word?
Where in the world did you see this word? Are you a rockstar? If you are, have you already reached your addiction phase or are you still starting out?
[Rain] day…found the smell of a dead mouse,,,it ate soap of a ” CASINO”–NEW YORK,NEW YORK…I had to smell that dead
A gift leads to killing a mouse…in my house – in storage+ it was soap?? 
no edit, maybe because it said error…my bad luck
but the message in this pig stuff worked 
Hi Marina, how’s your day?
I’m requesting the origin of this old phrase [Bite the bullet], I might be doing that with this comment.
Oh well, take it easy Marina.
*!*
Marena from the album Lepta..
=”
Hey Leonard,me likes those vids,excellent sounds very
, something more for me to explore 
And hey, aren’t those pagan women beautiful?
Back in the cowboy days they didn’t have any pain killers besides whiskey. When they had to pull the bullet out of somebodys leg they would have them ‘bite the bullet’ to keep from shouting. I think its bull muckey but all of those cowboy movies can’t be wrong, can they?
Yeah, it must be a cowboy thing. I tried to find a video clip from Michael Nesmith’s(He was in the monkees) movie “Elephant Parts” He parodied this when he had his partner bite down on a bullet while he was trying to fix his leg,and his patrner bit down on the bullet so hard,well you have a good idea of what happened. I can’t find that specific clip,oh well.
I bet he didn’t have to worry about his leg know more. THAT is why I think its bull. Cowboys weren’t dummies. Piece of rawhide, maybe; but not a BULLET.
BTW: One of Nesmiths parents(I forget which one) invented the shopping cart
Isn’t it time for a new lesson?
Patience, laddie, there’s life besides HFW!
Hey Evan,
Are you using Twitter yet?
Is there a twitter one could use with-out hands?
I’m still learning with my thumbs…my dad would not let us(children) twiddle our [thumbs] (on hand) 
…He said..”the future is twittering” 
I guess that would be a “no”. Why is Leonard answering my reply to Evan. I think everyone is bored. Time for a new lesson and some fresh topics.
Leonard is subject to pop up anywhere. Damn, now I’m doing it…
Hey Beevee,
Here’s my wisdom on the subject.
If you get the flu,
blow your nose.
It will go away.
Just don’t blow it on me.
My life is boring enough without inflicting it on other people.
sorry; leonard at fromvikingstock…SoRRy
I would like to request the phrase [alien agenda].
I would like to request the word [Flat] I want to know why we call the places flats and high-rise flats I never understood that?
In the US, they’re called [apartments.] But why are they called “apart”-ments when they’re jammed together?
Because you are in the same building but apart? Still, it makes more sense than flat. I never could figure that one out!
I’m just flat out in favour of [flat] too. Only trouble is, Marina doesn’t qualify to do the video…unless she focusses the camera on her Abs.
Word request: [smashing]
Why does [smashing] mean such different things in Britain and the US?
[smashing] (US): breaking to pieces
[smashing] (UK): splendid
{Hints: ScotsGaelic and folk etymology}
[NUTS]
Yeah, you’re right, leonard; just about anything with Olga A.’s name on it is worth a look; the movie that the pix came from looks interesting, too. Долина цветов (Valley of Flowers)
Marina, is [Камикадзе] Ukrainian, or just Japanese [kamikaze] in Cyrillic?
If you watch any of those hokey movies from the 50s, one kid will always say, “Gee willikers, Jane, its too bad you couldn’t make it to the Sock Hop. It was a SMASH.” , used in the English way. Americanized, but the meaning is the same. Now that I think of it, that is probably leftover slang from WWII.
I wonder what the origin of the word “Whore”, and the phrase “Larger than Life”.
I’d love to know about how the phrase [making out] came to be. Why does it involve the art of face sucking when the phrase doesn’t even involve intimacy…Oo
I requested the word [salsa] and why does it refer to both the music style and sauce, cream or dip used in food
that also got me thinking about [merengue] that is also used for a music style and cooking, why are we latins obsessed with food and music?
muchas gracias
romantic is why
lemon pie 
[sick] like I hate it when me feel sick…t*h*a*n*k*s…[cured], me not sick, but slick
spill your own [OIL] 
I have a new video up. I have never had a video go so badly.
Marina is up…photo shooting
[cup] 
James, why do you keep bad-mouthing your work? And then you don’t give us a link to it…are you saying, “I’ve done this video, but please don’t watch it?”
OK, EVERYONE, GO WATCH JAMESINGTONTHETHIRD IN Sexy Thumbnails
Self depracation. You make fun of yourself before anybody else does so it takes the sting out of it if they are critical. Usually in low self confidence types. In James case, I think it is because he is still young and unsure of his talent. To which I say,” Never mind the bollocks, James. Never mind the bollocks.” Sorry
just watched a special on the Sex Pistols. I self deprecate occasionally but I’m old. 
I would like to know the origin of the word [DogFight]. Thank you.
dogfight=thgifgod
A word for you to consider [straitjacket]
Hi Hotforwords, for a while now i have been thinking about the word [angel] can you find out where this word came from and what time did it start to be used, thanks worldsprotector
Marina, you have had quite a few 1 million view videos lately… I reckon that youtube has gone back now, perhaps you should try working to the #24 most viewed thing again like you used to.
[heteralsexual]
WOO!! I MADE IT!!! Front page of the discussed list!!
http://www.youtube.com/browse?c=29&l=&p=1&s=md&t=w&gl=GB
…..
haha Katana backwards is an atak
Desserts backward is Stressed
Poor desserts
[bunny boiler] who boils these poor bunnies?
Stu Wrabbit, my cussin of Wales
Why is youtubes most viewed list almost identical to the most popular? That means it cant be most viewed at all
Well, it’s that time of year again — go to bed in the light, get up in the light.
[solstice]
I thought your mommy kept the light on for you anyways?
Heyy Marina, can you help me with origen of [nunatak]. I hope you will…
best,
Alejandro
Before Evan Owen or Campkohler say it, a Nunatak is what you risk if you walk past a Nunnery on a dark night.
I WAS GOING TO SAY THAT!!
Spell it backwards and you get a nun doing her karate forms.
leonard, do all the inmates of your asylum have free access to computers, or have you done something special for the privilege?
Bob, do these pages need a new wit
What? Are you selling retirement plans now?
Re “Nunatak”: Inuit
Re: selling retirement plans, I’ll have Nunavut!
American or Asian or Indian or Indigenous
(+)N(+)S(+)E(+)W(+)
BTW, in the US, “IRA” stands for “Individual Retirement Account.” As an accountant and a volunteer for the Alliance for the Welsh Nation, I had to remember which hat I was wearing when I came across the term “IRA.”
Did you hear about the
eskiinuit who was eaten by an ice bear?He had built his isloo with clear ice panels so he could see out, but the bear could also see him inuendo.
Hi janrro: a HotForWords lesson…it might help
I would like to know the origin of the word [Organs] it has always puzzled me why a musical instrument and body parts have the same name.
Ha! I was wondering that too… so I sat down and played my liver, but I was bored with that so I just played with my kidneys instead.
I mean like the instrument the church organ and an internal organ such as the liver I never understood that?
Hello Marina I would like to learn the origin of the word [cleavage].
Thank You
Well, see, there was once this young Russian lady philologist, see…
Hey brains of Owens: what is average size or measurement between the lady teats?
A mammoth and {mammae(I)} quest????
…nature B with U
exactly
I would like to know the origin of my last name [Turja] Tur-ree-ah
Turja is a village in Estonia by the way.
Is Estonia a female Iraq?
U better Baltic…(bulk-up)
[doppleganger]
oopsy! it’s spelled [doppelganger]
[straight from the hip]
Hello seankim,
My apologies for greeting you in Korean the other day — that would be the head instructor in your school, yes? I take it you’re American born & raised.
Did you skip something?..
[straight from the hip]
[sweating like a pig] I never understood this because pigs don’t sweat, right?
[swath] as in doing grass…hear some pussy of Nashville**!**nashville pussy live at cannes festival on tv! very good sound
[swash]
[sutler][suture] ..food..Arkona – Slavsia, Rus
Evan will like(methink) 
That bass guitarist looks just like Marina.
Is there no end to her talents?
{[Novraya Zemlya]}…new land between N Europe in ARTIC OCEAN…santa of jolly old st nick…[talaent]…fly high to go low
I have a phrase request
[to hook up]
Hi Marina! I just found your site yesterday and has already addicted to you
I would like to request the word [bra], thanks!
Howdy me, if you want to customize the avatar click on it & follow the instructions. If you need help just give me a holler.
Supposedly [bra] is short for Brassiere, the Frenchman who stole the invention from a German named Titsling. But maybe not.
Bra is Norwegian for Good, and refers to the contents of the Bra.
I would like to request the word [sneakers]
Famous twitterite doesn’t want to be food for wanna-be paparazzis! (See also comment block 80.)
u should do the word [word]
thank u – im hot for words 2!
Requested phrase: [It All Sounds Greek To Me] eyxarisyw
Ελλείμματα στη διοίκηση του δημοτικού σχολείου στην Κΰπρο…
Clear enough?
Doh! I’ll bet the last word you typed was meant to be “ευχαριστω.” Which means, if something sounds Greek to YOU, it may be perfectly intelligible!
[eucharist]
word request – [cocktail] thank you!
Thanks Karl.
Hya Marina, You’re sooooooooooooooo tweet. If you’ll kiss a piglet I might have half a chance of getting a peck on da cheek. To avoid da swine-flu I’d stay out of sty’s.
Marina, I saw the Derby video, “Hey Mr. Hot Stuff!” appear on the YT home page as a Featured video and it is still on the Spotlight page 5.
Those videos on the Featured section only stay for as long as you don’t move off of the page. If you go to another page, and return, the videos change. I wished YT would keep them up for at least a minute or longer.
The Swine Flu video was also on the YT Home page under Most Popular under Comedy. It looks like those videos stay on the home page for a minute or so.
YouTube is silly. They are rotating the Comedy category with the Science and Technology category. What are they thinking? For every page refresh, those two categories alternate. Couldn’t they just add on to the already ten existing categories and display 11 or maybe 12 categories.
Maybe they are just looking back to see if anyone is gaming the system.
Marina,
Are you waiting for a [Revolution] to begin?
I’m going to roll aqain with [Democracy].
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlIm-riMN6Q
The Man in Black rules
Here’s a request. Not actually a word, but an acronym: [MILF] I know what it means, but when, where, and how did it start? Thanks!
Now would that be looked up?
how about the term [wearing your heart on your sleeve]?
Request: [supper] what does this word mean? Thanx ahead of time! And also a question, are you Russian? You have a Russian accent
Miss HotForWords-
–current events and something writer Patrick J. Buchanan wrote—-”…
Cheney then counterattacked. He charged The New York Times with virtual treason in exposing the program to intercept calls from al-Qaida and mocked its Pulitzer Prize. He accused liberals and Speaker Pelosi of “feigned outrage” and “phony moralizing,” asserting they were fully briefed on “the program and the methods.” He charged Obama with endangering national security by “triangulating,” adopting a policy designed less to secure America than to unite and appease his political coalition. ..word guess? [ triangulating ]..corporations as drug dealers too
“
i heard it twice last weekend. i’ve heard it growing up so i know what i means. but where did it come from?
[lollygag]
This just in from Crackle.com 15 Words you Won’t Believe They Added to the Dictionary
I’ve only heard a couple of these new words.
Similar to Meatspace is Meat Bomber, an aircraft used for taking skydivers aloft for them to jump out of.
Oooh i just thought of another word [Phenomenon] or as some people say Phenamenon….Fenomenan erm O_o .. observable occurrence
i would like to know where the word [PURSE] came from , as in what we girls use to lug around our stuff
Hi Marina,
I would like to know the origin for the word [wardrobe]
where does the word come from and why was it named this
Thanks
Can people please stop saying @username in the comments!! AND DON’T REPLY BELOW WITH @JAMES !!
This isn’t twitter you know!
(Shift 2) James, OK
Che, you are way tooooo funny. That cracked me up. That could be another T-shirt slogan.
He won’t get it, because on a UK keyboard it’s apostrophe.
In Mexico the keyboard is different as well, there is no @ key, you hold ‘Alt N’ or something I don’t quite remember.
But to play a tune, it’s alt+13, alt+14, eh Che?
I bet on a Dvorak keyboard it’s ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫
No need for us to worry about Dvorak keyboards – you only use those “In the New World”.
No its not ! its actually “
That’s what I meant – what I actually wrote was “He won’t get it, because on a UK keyboard it’s shift+apostrophe.”
Don’t know what happened to my “shift“; I feel so naked.
I know how it works for you yanks… Its weird…
Bob, you just made my day with your Dvorak pun!
Seriously, though, August “the typist” [Dvorak] (whom I remember from my years in the Seattle area) was a relative of Antonin Dvorak the composer. You can Czech my facts on Wikipedia (oops, another recycled joke!)
Many of us have been using @name long before twitter was penned out on paper. Where do you think they got the idea from??
I never heard of that once.
I find that hard to believe. My guess is you have not used a chat room much or visited HFW forums.
I’ve always used ‘@’ for multiple replies in one message. I use them in blog posts before nesting was invented. In fact you can see it commonly used on HTW Forums because of lack of nested comments.
Here are some old examples of being used for Acronyms in chats:
http://www.netlingo.com/word/teotd.php
http://www.netlingo.com/word/rbya.php
http://www.netlingo.com/word/tyl.php
http://www.netlingo.com/word/1023.php
http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/whereat.htm
JAMES FOR MASTER OF TA’s…Right on James
Don’t condfuse me with unclickable links! LOL
Here is something for GORBY..Honda Element for Dogs? 2009 New York Auto Show
was there ever a DOG flu?..ps-will work for svines 
Hi Marina
For all your brains and beauty (and by the way you are definitely one cracker I’d like to pull!) I bet you have not come across these words:
1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.
2. Ignoranus: A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.
3. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
5. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
6. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.
9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
10. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
11. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
12. Karmageddon: It’s when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, and then the Earth explodes, and it’s a serious bummer.
13. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you
14. Glibido: All talk and no action.
15. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
16. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web.
17. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
and last but not least …
18. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you’re eating.
Who loves Ya Baby!
Brilliant, Alan. I’d seen one or two of those before but most were new to me. Thanks.
Did you know that Marina did a video about sniglets?
Click the link and enjoy.
You can see all of Marina’s previous lessons by clicking on “Words/Lessons” on the menu bar at the top of each HFW page.
Bob,
Thanks for the pic of Katherine Jenkins!
What is it about Wales that produces so many fine singers?
To be born Welsh
is to be born privileged.
Not with a silver spoon in your mouth,
But music in your blood
And poetry in your soul
- Wilfred Wilson
Dw i’n cofio fy nhad yn canu imi wrth fynd i’r gwely, felly mi dyfais i yn caru canu / I remember my dad singing to me at bedtime, which is where I got my love of song.
But a simpler and less romantic explanation is Welsh acoustics — something about hearing one’s voice bounce off the mountainsides inspires one to sing.
But, even if your not, the drugs are still cheap!
HI alan rogers: Marina does many “NeRd wOrdS” look above…really like the ones you mention*****Here is <a href=”http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/03/09/nerd-word-of-the-day-cashtration/#commentsmy Knew of new is PISTORY=forgetting the past NERDnATIONalitis of
gEEk 
CRAZY from me..
***PISSTERY***
Piggies
hey your realy pretty and i was wondering if i could be rewarded for this my question is for the word [turducken]
Hello, Marina ! I’d like to request the word [COMPUTER], since it hasn’t been explained yet! Would you please teach me where this word came from ?
Btw, I love you !
KiSsEs
Word request [captcha] either in the form of a lesson or a Nerd Word.
Thank you mam, thank you very much
{Che does Elvis impression}just saying you are the best and to request the meaning of the word [robish] I know its an england slang but Im a quebecers (from canada but the french speaking ones) so I don’t quite know the meaning of it
Heyy! i would like to request the word/phrase[your mom]
bye xxx
Hey Marina, please enlighten me with the etymology of the word [pumpkin]
Ty! Kisses from Brazil!
i got the swine flu at a pigface concert. well, at least alex might appreciate this.
I would like to request a word [Jumping Jacks] Just seems like a weird word
I would like to request the word [weird] it just seems like it should be….well, weird.
according to this documentary swine flu may have extraterrestrial origins.
[coconut] [bikini] Bikini: Origin 1: named after an island atoll, with name of the atoll in the native language meaning “surface covered with coconuts”! Origin 2: affects/assassinates men with as strong an effect as that of an atom-bomb! [slang assassin]
Bikini = covered with coconuts. How unintentionally correct is that?
This lady wants to be sure that no one misunderstands the reference to coconuts! Photographer’s page: http://www.pbase.com/rhiggs1/image/29329418/original
She looks like she doesn’t want to be a part of someone’s Kodak… uh, Nikon moment.
The media, especially here in NYC and on Long Island, are hyping the H1N1 virus and they’re still calling it “Swine Flu.” An assistant principal at a school in Queens died from H1N1, adding to the media hype.
But I try not to watch or listen to the news (except for traffic, weather, sports, and business). Every story is negative or sensational or sensationally negative. And then, there’s politics.
I opened the window and in flew Inza!
There’s plenty going on here… This has erie parallels:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GTEZFhjx4E&feature=related
And Swine Flu is mutating, right down to it’s new name (H1N1, or further).
I’m not overly concerned provided we remain on top of things.
.
***HFW Fans: For Your Listening Pleasure (or maybe not)
***
From Central Asia, Kongar-ol Ondar on David Letterman performs traditional Tuvan throat singing in Back Tuva Future
i would like to request the phrase [not the smartest bulb in the tanning bed]. i know it’s kind of long.
i would like to request the the word[burrito] it just sounds weird
R U hungry narutoisawene1?…you are in luck******marina does BURRITO
How about the origin of the phrase [drop me a line]??
You’re the BEST!
—————————————__________________________
{[BARRED]}
do you like History?…SPIRIT “I Got a Line on You”
***)(***LOVE a good LINE of [FIBS]
Born in The Fifties
Life in The Sixties
Liviing in The Seventies
Always wondered how [philosophy] came about
and why that word was chosen in the first place to describe a wise person………Well at least they like to think they are wise 
Word request : “Download/Upload” Please
Where did the phrase: [Loony Bin] come from?
Review this lesson on Asylum it has some similarities.
Che Volay for TA!
I second that
EO 
B.B. 
good call
& i would love to be teachers pet!
Not so long ago it was me
Per YouTube’s numbers right now, Marina is less than 600,000 views from topping Michael Jackson in ALL TIME views for her Channel!
The numbers refresh periodically, so she may have closed the gap further, but she should surpass him VERY soon! Maybe a day or so at this rate…
Marina’s career = 26 Months – Michael’s career = 45 Years
This one is a REAL ‘Thriller’ for a new fan like me!
I would like to request the word [PURSE]
Review this lesson on Budget it some similarities to purse.
Hi Marina, I have a word request that is a milestone in my life. Yesterday was my
28th Wedding Anniversary 
. My wife still looks as Stunning as the day I met her and fell in love.. My word reqest is where did the word 
Anniversary 
come from.
Chiselstone
Sorry that’s Request
Why do you pronunce HOTS for word once it’s Hot for word?
I want you search the origin of T E S T I C L E S
once they’re not small texts, why are they labeled that way?
***SEA food and want to EAT
[pensive]
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2
{Somebody always has to be a rebel.}
Nah, not always. As 01000001 01101100 01100010 01100101 01110010 01110100 00100000 01000011 01100001 01101101 01110101 01110011 00100000 6f 6e 63 65 20 73 61 69 64 2c 20 YSByZWJlbCBpcyBqdXN0IGEgbWFuIA== 119 104 111 32 115 97 121 115 32 110 111
I can honestly say, I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about
… but that’s okay 
.
What he said was:-
”
“A check bounces when it hits the emptiness of its account. Pain in the neck, eh, hckr4evr? Just like the H1N1
and in response to your “rebel” remark:-
“Albert Camus once said, “a rebel is just a man who says no”.
Oh, I see it now.
How silly I must look. 
I prefer, “When offered a choice between A and B, always choose C.”
@bsomebody
01010000 01110010 01101111 01110010 01110011 01110101 01101101
This is how I know.
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
- Albert Einstein
This is true for binary logic, but not really for fuzzy logic Bob. A given system capable of perceiving various stimuli through a certain number of sensing devices, and also capable of reacting to these stimuli by dynamically modifying itself as each stimulus is presented to it (like a brain coupled to a nervous system for instance) will sometimes converge towards a conclusion or a solution (from A to B), after being affected by enough stimuli. Sometimes however, there will be divergence somewhere in the learning process, the result will be confusion (involuntary) or negation (voluntary), the system will become unstable and A will lead nowhere.
Regarding imagination, it is absolutely true. It goes everywhere it wants and is not limited by any border or constraint of any kind. Basically, it is totally free and does whatever it feels like doing.
Hello neuroway, Very nice binary.
Your message reads:
“A check bounces when it hits the emptiness of its account. Pain in the neck, eh, hckr4evr? Just like the H1N1
“
Oh, I just saw Bob beat me to it. earlier.
I didn’t know I would be so easy to decipher Karl. But luckily for me I didn’t encode any vulgar expressions like “pain in the a$$”.
87 104 121 32 100
111 101 115 32 97 [check bounce]
63
Took the kids to a parade in a very small town. The town was so small the parade marched in place while the townsfolk circled around it.
{My tweet via Twitter}More funny tweets here @Che Volay
hey, love your videos, very informative
id like to request the word [anxiety]
thanks
Well, I’m not at my best on the first day back from vacation either, but I’m sure things will improve.
@HotForWords
Get in touch with @Adonis and see if she will help with your next lesson script. Adonis is the next big thing in Popular Philology. In fact, I would like to have Adonis’s autograph.
Word request: [simulacrum]
Middle English, from the Latin simulare meaning an image or representation of something. We also get simulation from the Latin simulare.
Example:
She’s a reasonable simulacrum of a Cougar, but she’s too young to be a real one. So I‘m going to put her on my watch list and see what happens. I like where she’s going, but she’s not there yet.
And now for some light entertainment..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqGrgaQsIIE&feature=PlayList&p=A1528FA280845BB5&index=0&playnext=1
@fromvikingstock AKA the big ’sweed’
In the forum is a new thread about discussions, my Twitter is now locked up so either my computer is running too hot or the problem is Twitter.
My last DM: You sound like a lawyer, I think u r saying that HFW or Word Press owns everything I write at HFW?
Hi Paul,
I got your Tweet regarding the question of what is required for the “Verify” box in the form.
To the right of the “Verify” text box is an image with an alpha numeric number, i.e. a captcha. You enter that alpha numeric code into the text box.
I proudly present to you the #1 Guru HotForWords,
for Most Viewed videos in May.
You can see the honors over at the Forum.
I would like to request [ what a ham]. Thank you. Also what does the pig say after “we did not do this” in “swine flu” video?
did you buy a “twitter whore” shirt at Lisa Nova’s YT page? anyone?
…no
Hi from your #1 fan in Japan.
I’d love for you to feature some Japanese words that have come into English usage: [bonsai] [bonzai] [kamikaze] [harikiri]
I use your videos in my English classes, the male students really like them!
Thanks again!
日本人？
日本人じゃないけど日本に住んでいます。アメリカに生まれまして三年前英語を教えるのために日本に来ました。
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to save me! See if you can find the REAL poltergeist in this video. I swear.. I was scared TO DEATH when I was playing back **+**HotForWords 
アメリカ人ですか。私は愛媛に住む生粋の日本人です。どうぞよろしく。英語を教えるのにマリーナのビデオを使うとは、素晴らしいアイデアですね。彼女の発音は比較的日本人には聞き取りやすいと思います。まぁ、男子生徒は英語聞いてるふりして彼女の裸を想像しちゃうでしょうけど。 your Japanese is very good, by the way!
Sumimasen, moritamike-san, but some of the kanji appears as “�”. Is the problem with my computer, or is that the way this comment looks to everyone?
PedanticKarl, how does it appear to you, and what is your view of the problem?
Marina, another word request: [tsunami]
I get a whole bunch of “�”s as well, and I also get them sometimes when people, with (I presume) an american keyboard, type an apostrophe or other non-alphabetical character.
Looks like a Tsunami is about to break in this picture, which I know you will like, Evan.
Katherine Jenkins! Fy nghantwres Gymreig hoff i! (My favourite Welsh singer!)
Diolch yn fawr, Bob!
Did Shaq start this?: Twitter plans a TV competition series … The show would harness Twitter to put players on the trail of celebrities in a competitive format.
Update: Not Twitter, but Hollywood: http://blog.twitter.com/2009/05/were-not-making-tv-show.html
What is SOUL?…The Pipkins – Gimme Dat Ding*+*+*+*Piano bar swing dance song from 1970 as sung by Tony Burrows. Symptoms of H1N1 (Swine Flu)—just like drinking too much holy water—Bai Ling & HotForWords Share a Sundae**-**Day 2–Bai Ling and HotForWords cruise the Newport coastline, as they talk about what they did the night before during the film festival afterparty. They also talk about what animal they were in their past life bugs?
So M was a pirate in her previous life? No wonder she was so at home on that yacht.
I think so
rob me salior 
In The Jacuzzi with Bai Ling & HotForWords
spirit
So you found that video too. What an experience!
all masks are 86 in Japan now.
Marina, I enjoy your lessons. They are a smile as well as a lesson. I’ve been a storyteller for a long time, although I now live a relatively solitary lifestyle. So, I enjoy your beauty and beautiful smile with a daily dose of lighthearted intelligent insight into Lexiconigraphic curiousities. My request [arctic] Thanks, Doug
You can go to the forum and post your stories. I’d read them!
@beevee14 Did you get the information you needed?
[Fuck, Fuck off, Fuck up]
I want to know where the phrase “It’s raining cats and dogs”
Thanks
Hello thodulis, this is your lucky day.
Marina had that video ready and waiting just for you.
Here it is. You will love it. It is an awesome video.
It’s one of my favorites.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/12/30/cats-and-dogs/
It is Monday, May 25 and it is a busy day with the US celebrating Memorial Day and yellow ribbons everywhere.
And, for the geeks, it is also Towel Day. Don’t forget to sport your towel, maybe a yellow one.
The LA marathon starts in about two hours and it looks like the Coca Cola 600 race may still be rained out, but then, we can follow tennis at the French Open.
So, maybe we’ll see Marina with a yellow ribbon in her hair sporting a towel and tennis racket being chased by a bunch of cunning runners
Today in history. It’s true I tell ya.