Not to be a ham; but you know I had posted a blog entry on this site for Father’s Day and said I had an angry mean domineering dad like Anthony Soprano yet I did not let it make me a homo like MIchael Jackson. Now Michael Jackson is dead of a heart attack. Is that a miracle or what? Michael Jackson was reported to have had a mean abusive dad in Indiana next door to my state. Along with his being a child mollestser and druggie!
Thank You Marina for sharing the picture of your Father on Father’s day.
I know it is exciting for you to live the life you have created for yourself – a long way from home, and things are very different for each generation…but I also suspect that you, as I do, remember and cherish the people who have made us what we are…
Even if sometimes they bug the HELL out of us!
When will Mom and Dad be visiting? I’d read somewhere before it would be this summer…
Happy Fathers Day all of you HFWers! I hope everybody has a wonderful day!
THREE minutes of reality, and then go back and have FUN! This is a political post:
The house just got done formulating a new, 852 page health care reform bill. Two things of immediate interest: 1) none of the costs were included and 2) there was absolutely NO republican input. They are going to try to ram this through before people get a chance to look ‘into it’ too much. Sound familiar? I mean, everytime BHO spends money, it is a crisis situation! Just ask him.
I am not going to go on a long diatribe about the amount of money they are spending. I am tired of talking. I have already taken action and I urge you to. Below is the website to write your congressman. All you will need is your NINE digit zip code(you can get this off of your phone bill, electric bill, etc.), and about FIVE minutes. I filled my name, address, e-mail and wrote this, “Dear Sir,
I am writing to inform you that if vote for the health care reform act, you will not receive my vote next election.” Short, sweet and definately to the point!
Actually, it took me about THREE minutes. I don’t believe in chain letters(Delete), but PLEASE do this and pass it on. They may be afraid of BHO, Pelosi, et al.; but they’re afraid of losing their position more!
WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!!
Quiz: What three things Mrs. Sonora Smart Dodd and I have in common?
Clue: My dad was born in Spokane, Washington. My grandpa was buried there. Ok I said too much.
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Marina, It’s pronounced ’spō-kăn’ like spo-can. Not like ‘candy cane’. Ignore the ‘e’. Short ‘a’ sound not long. As in cat, ran, or fat. I understand the confusion for the rules are all messed up.
When someone (wigs out) where did this come from? Also my parents say (its time to tighten up their belt) when money is tight. Where did this come from?
Please straighten these people out regarding the word [err]. A professor of mine used to say to “air” is human, to “ur” is Webster. Oh, how right he was. I don’t care if it IS acceptable to say “air.” It is incorrect. America needs to hear this from your lovely lips. By the way, will you marry me?
All i gotta say “mankind” has a new hope and iam not being Oleaginous! I gotta say thanks for brightening up my day keep up the stunning work Rod (Nutrinoemission@hotmail.com)
Hello my dear teacher,
Today is the [Summer Solstice] and I thought that you may find that an interesting topic. Ancient man did notice the event but did not fully understand what was happening until technology advanced and man and woman could build a telescope to track and measure celestial events. You may know that at one time the church was the center of all thinking and it was mandated that the earth was the center of the universe.
You failed me on my last request reconnaissance but did you see my homework on how to eat a burger. Which was: “I grab both buns firmly with both hands and then enjoy.”
Roger
Yeah, there is, but everyone naturally gravitates to the current lesson, because that’s where things happen. Perhaps a big Word Request button across the top of the the current lesson link might derail some of them, but would be fighting human nature.
Just out of curiosity, it would be interesting to have a Site Utilization Stats button on the banner menu. When you click it, you get a list of how many hits each feature of the site has taken in, say, the last month or year (sliding windows). For example, just how many people click on BIO or EVENTS CALENDAR vs. the current lesson.
While we are in suggestion mode, all the features should be made to blink when there is something new. For example, if there is a new item in PRESS, the word press would blink until you clicked it. Then the server would turn it off the signed-on user*. A new item would start it blinking again and delete the record for the previous item. I don’t think I have ever seen any site do this before (for good reason? ), but it would help spread users around the site so that (as mentioned above) we don’t just get stuck soley in the current lesson. Also M would not have to create freestanding blurbs for happenings (interviews, etc.) if she knew they would not go unobserved and unread ([languish]) in the other site features when users are urged by the blinking. And, if the Site Utilization Stats feature was implemented, she could see just how well that was working, i.e. how many users had looked at a new feature since it started blinking.
Boy, if that doesn’t get me a hug and a kiss, I don’t know what will.
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*Visitors (not signed on) would get the blink until an item has aged by some degree. M could set the blink time for a particular item and it would blink until that time has passed.
68 years ago, at 4AM on June 22, the German Nazi forces suddenly invaded the Soviet Union without a declaration of war.
@hotforwords Less than 2 years before, the Soviet Union had joined Nazi Germany in suddenly invading Poland.
Bah! Just don’t listen when the phrases smell like fish.
I heard these weird expressions too. They seem to pop out here and there, yah, out of the blue, like the swine flu, (or should I say out of the universities) and rigourously stick to their poisson distribution.
..They almost never play in Moscow clubs. The only exceptions are “Kitajskij Lyotchik Jao Da” [Chinese Pilot Jao Da] and “B-2″, and even that happened by accident – three years ago Moscow’s spectators were introduced to the talent of the 14-year old singer Pelageya at these clubs. Although by that time she had already participated in several high profile state concerts, she was a relative unknown. Since then, people in Murmansk, Edinburgh, Novosibirsk, Tallinn and Paris…G*e*M*i*N*i party today and I gotta [go]…Pelageya
Hey i would like to request the word [bullpen] it is the warm up area a pitcher in baseball goes to warm up before he pitches..but why is it called a bullpen??? THANKS!
If you mean the line at the end of a race, it is finish (note spelling), having nothing to do with Finland.
However, if you race someone to Finland, there is probably not much reason to continue any farther, so that is as good a reason to put the finish line there as anywhere else.
Steve Harris, fantastic bass player. I wrecked a car one time listening to Iron Maiden live. “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” started to really kick in, so I decided to jump a hill. Came down sideways and on the other side of the road. Ran off into a field. Good thing no one was coming the other way! It was my nineteenth birthday, too.
Uggh, You do know WHO Dimebag Darrel is…ahem, was, right?
As you can see, we have a lot of fun fooling around with words and humorous suggestions, but there are also quite a few interesting and thought-provoking conversations in these comments as well.
I learn something almost every time I visit. If you scroll through some old lessons you’ll see what I mean. There’s a lot here. The forums are fun, too. See you around the campus!
That’s a great idea, elahie.
I sent my Dad a 45-minute DVD of my friend and me canoeing. It was all shot within a 24-hour period. We saw a lot of wildlife and we had a couple unplanned adventures, which makes it fun to watch. I’m going to put the DVD in, call him on the phone and watch it with him (he lives 2000 miles away) so we can enjoy it together.
I made a request for a word under the name “impaler” and you granted my wish to let me change my username. I maybe going out of the guidline here, but I’m going to put in for the origin of [VENDETTA] again. I think that this is the coolest sounding word in the english language. To me it sounds so beautiful but yet so dark.
I really hope that you can do this one, I suppose I can google it but I would rather learn about it from a video lesson from you, you’re the Master Philologist!
“A desperate disease
requires a dangerous
remedy” GUY FAWKES
Your videos are great, I love ‘em! I thought that the word [complacent] might have an interesting origin, and people shouldn’t be [complacent] about Fathers’ Day, so if you could use that word some time in a video, I’d love to learn more about it ,., Thanks !!
The use of the words points out definitions such as these:
GUTS – is arriving home late after a night out with guys, being met by your wife with a broom, and having the guts to ask: “Are you still cleaning”, or “Are you flying somewhere?”
BALLS – is coming home late after a night out with the guys, smelling of perfume and beer, lipstick on your collar, slapping your wife on the ass and having the balls to say: “You’re next.”
Given the unfolding events in Iran, I’d really enjoy learning from you more about the origin and meaning of the word “Sousveillance”, which I understand was first coined by professor and original “cyborg” Steven Mann.
As a libertarian, I see Dr. Mann’s concept of [sousveillance] as potentially powerful means by which citizens can exert themselves, acting as a check of power against an illegitimate and overbearing government.
Sadly I was abandoned at a very young age so I have no father…. If I did have a father we would do something he liked to do or just hang out! Oh, by the way Spokane is pronounced with a short A, as in can not cane….
Visiting friends this week end, camping it in the garden of all things as many gathering! So unable to visit head stone of my late father this year; he won’t mind as shall have a small picnic and a chat with him during the week , he’s not one for too many words these days in any case!
Hope you all have a lovely Fathers Day HFW’s make the most of now xx
hello there, i was wondering if you would be so kind as to define the word [profligate] i know what it means but am curious as to the origins/applicable context
One of the bigger corporate buzzwords these days seems to be [Synergy]; and it’s usually applied in nebulous sentences; e.g., “We’re progressing smoothly in our efforts to leverage [synergy] & maximize efficiency”, or “We’re synergizing with Marketing to ensure maximum value-added”. Where did this word come from?
Success just seems to justify alot of people’s evil conduct. In eight grade I really believed Michael Jackson was a girl; and I put down one of his songs in my eight grade yearbook as having meaning-something about one bad apple. but I say as Christ said WHAT DOES IT PROFIT A MAN TO GAIN THE WHOLE WORLD BUT LOSE HIS OWN SOUL? Olive Stone also said that about Nixon in his movie NIXON.
I loved your explanation for the origin of the word blackmail but I wish to point out that it actually came from the lawless lands either side of the English and Scottish border. From the 14th to the 16th century they were riding and raiding families on both sides of the English/Scottish border known as the Border Reivers. By way of their dark deeds these warring families contributed to the English language the words ‘blackmail’ and ‘bereaved’. If you look up the origins of the word [bereaved] you will find that it comes the word reive, which means to steal.
But war’s the borderers’ game, their gain, their glory, their delight,to sleep the day, maraud the night’
Reiving was confined mostly to the winter months because during the summer all were busy in the fields getting the crops in. They lived by stealing mostly cattle and the enemy was anyone outside one’s own clan. It wasn’t just Scotland versus England. These were people who were ‘Scottish when they will and English at their pleasure’. Fighting was instilled from birth. When children were christened, the right hand was left out of the ceremony so they might grow up to ‘strike unhallowed blows on their enemies.
Finally I would like to add that I live close to Scotland and many of the reiving family names still populate both sides of the border. Americans reading this might be interested to know that Nixon was an infamous reiving family name – from the Scottish side!
In 1976, each white kid in America was given three albums: Peter Frampton ‘Comes Alive’, Boston ‘Boston’ and ‘Rumours’ by The Mac. That pretty much covered the summer!
Hello my Dear Teacher!! (Hottest on the Net!!)
Thank you for all of your wonderful lessons!!! And thank you for the Father’s Day origin lesson!
But….since I live in Spokane, I would like to let you know that it is pronounced Spo-Kan, even though it looks like it should be Spo- CANE!
Our fair city is named after the Native Americans who lived here…LONG before any of the “fair skinned folks” moved in.
Although I am not Native, I was born here and have studied many of the Native ways. Many of which I wish were still honored in our country!
But that is a whole other subject!
And as a resident here, I would like to extend a invitation to visit our city and the beauty that is the Pacific Northwest!
And if you do….please let me know!! It would be wonderful to meet you in person!!
All my best to you always Dearest Teacher!
Peace and Love from one of your students and greatest fans…. Bill
Hi Marina, I would like to request the word [dutch], why is it dutch?, if the country is called Holland or the Netherlands. An why does this country have two names?
No, I know the difference between those. I was curious for “dutch” because it doesnt sound like the country you know? like England=English, France=French, etc. I know its Nederland=Nederlands but in their tongue, why in English is Netherlands=Dutch, you know what I mean? :S
Great Britain is the island. It has England, Scotland, and Wales (I think that’s all). Of course, the UK is the entire “empire,” all the other stuff outside of GB, such as Ireland, India, (the Falklands?), and such.
“Dutch” comes from a proto-Germanic word “Teutes” meaning “people;” it’s related to terms such as “Deutsch”, “Teutonic”, and (oddly) the Gaelic “Tuatha.” The Dutch call themselves “Nederlanders.”
“Holland” is actually a large province of the Netherlands, not the entire country; it’s a “nickname,” perhaps because it’s easier to say.
You know thats a very good question. I’m not sure were the exact term came from but its gotta have something to do with the pain a guy feels when he remembers kissing her and knows it will probably never happen again…..Idk were that came from, or why I had the sudden urge to share it lol. Idk good question, somebody please answer it better the me.
I just saw a TV documentary on Chinese censorship and how the Web giants (Yahoo, Google and others) caved in to it. If we Google Tieninmen Square, you see the man facing down the tank (Tank Man), but not the Chinese.
Sweet! Thanks for posting that, fromvikingstock. Hope you were able to avoid the [thalwegs], branches and underwater snags.
Areas that rarely flood can be way hazardous sometimes. That looked cool, though. Thanks for posting the links, I enjoyed them both.
I love creekin’ in my canoe! We have some real nice high tides around the full and new moon in midwinter and midsummer that raise the levels in all the creeks here on the west coast by several feet.
I like to use an incoming tide to help push me upstream for quite a distance, then hang for awhile and use an outgoing tide to get back. Makes for fun camping and day-tripping. And, although there is always some degree of risk in any boating experience it follows a nice predictable pattern. That’s something every captain can appreciate. Creekin’ SO rules.
On Father’s Day I shared an old canoe voyage DVD with my pop (taped in 2001). We watched it simultaneously while talking together on the phone since he’s pretty far away.
Make sure you keep a spare paddle in the boat, FVS. If you don’t have one, get one. If you can’t get one, you may have one of mine. Others are depending on you.
My Sunday canoe ride was an adventure you would appreciate, p9. I learned not to take cameras on canoes, so here is a day-after video retrospective of the trip, shot Monday by the Huron River.
Canoe trip video retrospective. The day after…
Now you know why I like coastal living so much: I can do it all solo (if I so choose) and with just 1 car because the tidal flow at sea level provides assistance in either direction eventually. Plus, we have salt marshes full of interesting wildlife and and endless beautiful scenery. But don’t get lost in one and let the tide go out before you find your way back. It’s all in the timing.
But even where I’m miles and miles upriver, away from the tidal influence, I’ve often found that I can pick my way quite a distance upstream if I avoid the main current channels and stick to the quieter pools and eddies around the banks, sometimes crossing over to the opposite side to access a calm area when necessary.
If you find the right spot on a river (a section that’s not as steep) or wait until the flow is suitable for such an activity, you’ll see that it’s often possible to go several miles in the canoe without having to use 2 cars. But never assume you can paddle back upstream after you’ve allowed the river to take you down a ways. I always paddle upstream first, going as far as I’m able, then I clunk back down to the car. Heck, I already feel guilty using the car just to haul my boat to the put-in.
You’re so right that it’s hard to control the boat when the current is going faster than you are. In fact, it’s impossible to accomplish much else besides limping over toward the bank. Unless I’m facing upstream, I prefer to move faster than the current because otherwise I just can’t steer, and that means I’m at the stream’s mercy and can’t control which part to use when the stream makes a bend.
I never want to be too close to the outside of the turn and be run up against the bank, nor is it preferable to stray too close to the inside of the turn because it’s shallow there, so you run into snags, bars, and shoals. You’ll get the nose entangled in an underwater snag or sandbar, and the next thing you know the current’s pushing your tail out into the deep, fast part. Then you’re going sideways or backwards downstream before you can even blink. Hate when that happens!
“Sweeper” branches and inundated trees are another matter entirely. If you see them coming in time (from far enough upstream) to reposition yourself so they can be avoided, you’re golden.
But the faster the current, the less calculation time you get for this critical analysis because you need to be moving faster than the current in order to steer at all.
If the current is swift, you must paddle hard to get ahead of it AND reposition your boat laterally in the stream (change lanes, so to speak) so they’re no longer directly in your way. And you have to do it enough ahead of time to get ready for whatever’s coming up next. While it might get you past the dreaded sweeper, this may result in going a little too fast to successfully negotiate any hairpins or rocks, sills, or other boaters (Goddess forbid!) below the difficulty, however.
A sill is an obstruction (like a log) running roughly perpendicular to the current just below the surface. Because the keel of a canoe is linear like an arrow (as opposed to a wide, square, flat-bottom boat, raft, etc.) it will always roll to one side or the other when going over a sill because the tail hangs up on it, the boat teeters, and then into the soup you go.
Sometimes this can be avoided by trying to bring the keel parallel to the sill and “hopping” off to one side over the sill while bracing with the paddle on the upstream side (rarely works, trust me) but I found it faster, easier and safer to bite the bullet and go ashore so I can lower the boat over logs, low spillways, etc. using a strong line instead.
The Russian River is fairly close to me, and you’d be amazed at the number of people out on that water who rent canoes and haven’t the slightest idea which way is up. I’ve seen people trying to steer the boat from the front seat (as if it were a car), and putting their five-year-old in the back seat. Then they wonder why they keep crashing.
You live about an hour north of San Francisco, near the canoeing sites on the Russian River? Stay home in October, because I coming out to see you. I’ll have the LongBoat on my car and we’ll dip it a creek somewhere. I would love to get back into that tidal thing again. I had a flat bottomed lake kayak in Florida and I would ride the outgoing tide up the inland waterway from Lake Worth to Palm Beach Island at night and then ride the incoming tide back down the waterway the next morning. I miss the tidal flows. Everything in Michigan is one-way current. We should start a new forum on this stuff. Maybe other people are into it. Things are back to normal now with the water level around here so I’m back to playing tennis and lifting weights but the canoe is hanging in the garage, and I’m never more than twenty minutes from launching if something comes up, so there will be more occasions soon for canoeing videos and more stories to tell. Here is a photo I took on my birthday in 2007 (Thanksgiving Day) from my canoe on Mill Creek. http://twitpic.com/8diph
Father’s Day, another great video M. I don’t know what we will do for Fathers Day as I am the Father so I will have to be surprised as to what will happen on that day “if anything”. Family around here tend to have CRS and just carry on as usual.
My dear beloved teacher, the only one that I can say that, since my other teachers are not that hot and not into the words neither.
I have a doubt, you said father in latin is pater but then why when the catholics or christians “men of the cloth” says in latin: “in nome di patres, figli et spiritu sancti” patres is father too, like patricide, or pathriarcal isn’t?
besides that, thanks for another video, that’s the most important thing, see you everyday.
In Latin, a noun (like pater) changed its ending, depending on where it was used in the sentence, so it could be pater, patrum, patres, & three or four other forms I think. The grammar rules were confusing, so the Spanish did away with them and just say “padre” everywhere for “father.”
of that you are completely correct, I’m mexican so it is padre for everything, we even say: “that thing is padre” meaning that thing is good or cool, as well here in the northeastern city that I am from, monterrey, we also use mother for expressing things that are very good, cool or even great, news as well, “Esa noticia esta con madre” (that news are with mother), oh yes, we use the language and twisted a little bit. lol
¿Este se llama un modismo, sí? Como, “no me tomes el pelo!” algo que no se puede traducir palabra tras palabra? (En inglés decimos “don’t pull my leg,” en vez de “don’t take my hair!”)
That’s right, we call it modismos, we also have a lot here in Monterrey, and yesterday found an entry in wikipedia, “mexican spanish” everyone should take a look, one can only wish that our sexy-dear-beloved-beautiful teacher checks it too.
¡Qué artículo más interesante! Hay un dicho en España que “el español habla, pero el mexicano canta.” No sabía yo que era de la influencia indígena (Zapotec.) Tampoco que unas de las palabras que entiendo como español son solamente de México.
From Mexico:
[avocado]
[chocolate] & [cocoa]
[tomato]
From the US Southwest:
[hoosegow]
[buckaroo]
[vamoos]
Dear Teacher,
That was as always very pleasant, but please challenge yourself more. “Father” is almost the same in Latin, Greek and Sanskrit; in fact, the Germanic word that the English comes from is really cognate and not derived from Latin. I wonder why “Otec” is one of the very few Russian names of family relations that is not related to the Indoeuropean equivalent (Pitar/Pater). Maybe that is why we have no Father’s Day. But you could have more fun with [embarass], [exacerbate], [cavort], or [disseminate].
You are an inspiration to all who aspire to become cunning linguists.
I’m sure someone had to have requested this. Requesting the word [KINKY]. In all seriousness, the noun form of it “Kink” is used in like”to get the kinks out of one’s neck” or maybe when you started HFW you had “to work out the kinks” to get everything on your site working properly. So when did they add the Y and then it became a word associated with odd sexual behaviors?(depending on one’s preferences)
I’m serious, it could be a fun lesson to do, maybe?
Could this be coinciding with your fetish lesson?
Hey, I don’t think I’ve seen Captain Jack nor Melikadothechacha the last few days. I know CJ was leaving Seattle, but that doesn’t mean leaving cyberspace. And Chacha…did he get too political?
I think CJ gave ChaCha a lift to Pakistan where ChaCha will be participating in some humanitarian aid, building elementary schools and women’s centers in the rural, mountainous regions.
The last I heard, he was still in the “bunker” working on a reverse osmosis- type thing that will turn his urine into potable drinking water. He still has not figured out a way to get on the net and I heard he is thinking of reverting to dial-up. As I stated in ‘Iran Vote’, He has the time lock set for late November 2012, so physical contact is impossible.The only way to get in touch with him is by Morse code tapping on the ventilator shaft. Here are the codes to approach the compound unscathed: When you here the challenge, “Newt”; the password is “Palin”.
Ohhhh my lord, you were particularly radiantly happy in this video lesson Marina. And, that smile and that look you gave me at the end. Wow!!! Very contagious. I may not get anything done all day.
I loved that you used Papa’s Day for the title on YT as I called my father papa. I really loved this lesson a whole bunch. Ohhh, and did I mention that you looked very radiant, and the way you look at me in the end. You know how to capture the very best of you.
Hi, arquicol. Marina isn’t going to do a lesson on this word because it’s already been done. Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVthSNUBre4 . If you have a real word request or something intelligent to add, please feel free to join us. Otherwise, thanks for visiting and have a nice day.
I survived being raised and dominated by my strong willed German/Romanian dad. At least I did not turn out gay llike Michael Jackson or Stephen Baldwin who had domineeering and abusive dads. DAD IS DEAD!!!
At a time in my life an unsigned Father’s Day card would come in the mail, they were postmarked from Long Beach CA, this happen for about five or six consecutive years.
I did meet a Southern girl at an outdoor rock concert once, she was from West Virgina.
She stepped right in front of me, her shirt was tied in a knot exposing her navel on porcelain white skin, her long legs looked even longer extending out from her short cut-off frayed jeans, so short in fact I knew she was a true redhead.
She spoke first saying, “I want you, I want you now.” I of course was stunned, unable to speak. I quickly recovered and replied, “Let me tell my friends I’m leaving”
There is a lot more to this true story but I don’t want to get into it here in a public forum, You’ll have to wait until I publish my memoirs.
Here is a tease: Back at the tent she realized I was a Yankee and hesitated before she got completely naked saying, “You have Yankee blood,” I convinced her I was Canadian and my family sold guns to the rebels.
Man, I love redheads! They take the ‘almost’ out of ‘almost anything goes’!
When I first moved down south, I was informed rather quickly that “Yankees” come in three classes: A) a “Yankee” is someone from the north who is just visiting B) a “damn Yankee” is someone from the north who moves down to Gods country and C) a “fucking Yankee” is someone(man) who moves down and starts to copiously polenate the Southern Belles. I was a ‘C’ in good standing and the fellas hated me. What did they expect!? You got some fine honeys on one hand and a bunch of guys whose oral(and sometimes body) hygeine is straight out of the 1870’s!!
No offense intended. I just tell it the way I see(saw) it!
You know I was going to add to my comment that I wanted you to review my memoirs for historical accuracy & low and behold you went out and did it with me having to ask. lol
I figured that if I left those cards unsigned that one day you’d mention that someday and then I’d really know you actually opened up those cards to see what your son had sent you. I spent 5 long years in long beach surfing and going to punk shows…
It will be my last week of school, so things will probably be pretty pow key. Maybe the kids will come down, and I’ll bbq. We might even wait until the following weekend. They make the plans, and I follow merrily along.
Marina, the “search” function seems faulty. “Djibouti” and “G-booties” come up as “not found,” although I’m certain that Bob posted both of them in the past week.
Hey my uncle Sid lives in Spokane, I’ll have to ask him if he knows Dood… & wish him a happy “Uncle’s Day”… new celebration started by BillyB, in Victoria, British Columbia, where…
Fatherly advise for Marina. Check out some science of stilettos. You may be doing more damage to your floor than a 3 ton creature
Hey Marina! So I heard the word [tiddlywinks] three times today and I was wondering if you could tell me what it is and where it came from…it seems to be a sport!? thnx =]
It is a table game of snapping plastic coin-like objects into the air (by using a second one to apply pressure) in order to hit a target. The technique is demonstrated here, except instead a forklift and a coin are used.
Spokane is pronounced like there is no E on the end and with the accent on the last syllable.
BTW, Olympia is also pronounced like there is no E on the end. Come to think of it, most cities in Washington are pronounced like there is no E on the end. Isn’t that odd?
I gotta admit, I miss the slow, languorous pace of Marina’s earlier videos, not to mention the sensuous pose in the Brownie video…16,000 subscribers at the time. Wow, how things change.
For this Father’s Day, my dad and I going to the final round of the U.S. Open Championship at Bethpage Black Golf Course in Farmingdale, New York, not too far from where I live.
Thats great!
If you like that sort of thing
I played exactly TWICE and realized after the second time, I don’t have the temper for such a game. I do give much respect to those guys out there making it look easy. Have fun
My brother fot a Wii and we played boxing, baseball and tennis. The next day it FELT like I had boxed(without the bruises), played baseball and tennis! Sore as hell. They should put warnings on there for old farts!
If you click on this lesson’s video as it appears on HFW, it opens a new window for the video on YouTube, namely http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vs_0BAV9JM&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ehotforwords%2Ecom%2F2009%2F06%2F17%2Ffathers%2Dday%2F&feature=player_embedded. Twice this produced the lesson viewed on YT in a new window as expected, but many times afterwards (and hours later), the lesson just sat there with a black YT screen with a run time of 0:00. After some time goes by, the msg “An error occurred, please try again later.” is displayed. (That is a comma splice, BTW.) Anyone else see this?
What got me looking at this was that the video on both sites did not have the little tick mark on the time bar which shows when the YT ad overlays the bottom of the frame. Is there no YT ad for this lesson (or any future lessons)? BTW, I have seen some vids that have three tick marks and three ads.
Hi CampKohler,
That which you experienced is very common and has been common for some time; six months or more. It’s not just HFW videos, but any YT video.
Sometimes, some of the Ads to the right of the video take as long as 20-40 seconds to appear. In some cases I have also seen the tick mark not appear, and then appear when the page was refreshed. Did you notice that the tick mark is not at the usual 10 second mark. It looks like the tick mark is at the 1 second mark.
YouTube is constantly doing tweaks and I imagine that they are also switching out the hundreds of servers in their farm which may not be as transparent as one might like.
My grandparents and uncle on my (step) dad’s side use to live in Spokane, WA. We sometimes visited them during the holidays when I was young. They had a fairly big house with split level floors on a large yard, as well as a rec room in the lowest floor where we played Atari video games, board games, puzzles, pool, and us kids slept. They also had a couple dogs (daschund and huskie?), a cat, and a bunny. I even watched my uncle graduate from college (and maybe high school years earlier), and it was a long, boring ceremony for a young teen as myself to have sat through. I never really connected much with any family member. I’m naturally quiet and kept to myself.
No worries,Taz. I never really connected to my family either. I think it had more to do with the fact that they just did not like me very much. At least, that is what they told me. Except me mum. She told me she was legally bound or some such nonsense(I was very young at the time).
Hi Marina! I would like to request the word [HOME] or [HOGAR] in spanish, i find this word very interesting because it refers not only to the phisical place, but also to feeling that makes your house a home….
Thanks!
-N.
“Father” comes not from the Latin “pater,” but instead, both come from a common Indo-European ancestral language. “Patera” and “Matera” occur in Greek and Iranian, languages not descended from Latin but sharing common roots.
No, but the babysitter does sit (presumably) around watching the baby while the parents are gone. Dogsitter has been coined from that word for those who watch dogs, as well as housesitter, but I haven’t heard of any other variations in widespread use. Usually, babysitter is used to refer to all the other situations and everyone understands what is meant.
Suggestion for Father’s Day: maybe you could overdub this video in Russian and send it to your dad. You’re not doing anything risque in this one, & if one of my daughters were to make a video like this, I’d be pleased. (Well, I might grumble a wee bit about dressing a bit more modestly. )
Each night, Father fills me with dread
As he sits on the foot of me bed;
I’d not mind that he speaks
In gibbers and squeaks,
But for forty long years, he’s been dead!
i already got him an autographed picture of a star from one of his favorite movies starwars. the star was Anthony Forest. if u dont know who that is, he was the storm trooper who said the famous line “these arent the droids we’re looking for”
im not sure what i will do with him on the actual day yet
Your forehead/eyebrow area is a bit too shiny in this video. It’s distracting, so, I thought I’d point this out… maybe others concur with me on this one. Would you please do whatever it takes to get rid of the glossy look… splash some powder on it or change the lighting so it doesn’t reflect off this area. BTW… If you had gone topless I may have not noticed your forehead at all.
You are smart…you must get it from your {FATHER}….
A random in the RAIN… 
The Seeds – Mr Farmer
{Bless-Sky Saxon}…happy HotForWords DAY-too…[inspit-eration]
Not to be a ham; but you know I had posted a blog entry on this site for Father’s Day and said I had an angry mean domineering dad like Anthony Soprano yet I did not let it make me a homo like MIchael Jackson. Now Michael Jackson is dead of a heart attack. Is that a miracle or what? Michael Jackson was reported to have had a mean abusive dad in Indiana next door to my state. Along with his being a child mollestser and druggie!
“68 years ago, at 4AM on June 22, the German Nazi forces suddenly invaded the Soviet Union without a declaration of war.”
In honor of Marina’s “tweet” above:
Синий платочек
Thanks @pennsyltucky9,
Father’s Day for me was a canoe trip.
Here’s how it started:
http://twitvid.io/abTF
And here’s some Father’s Day morning music from Beck:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNgA38SZ3js
How did you spend Father’s Day?
Father’s Day…
Thank You Marina for sharing the picture of your Father on Father’s day.
I know it is exciting for you to live the life you have created for yourself – a long way from home, and things are very different for each generation…but I also suspect that you, as I do, remember and cherish the people who have made us what we are…
Even if sometimes they bug the HELL out of us!
When will Mom and Dad be visiting? I’d read somewhere before it would be this summer…
Annoyingly Yours,
J
THREE minutes of reality, and then go back and have FUN! This is a political post:
The house just got done formulating a new, 852 page health care reform bill. Two things of immediate interest: 1) none of the costs were included and 2) there was absolutely NO republican input. They are going to try to ram this through before people get a chance to look ‘into it’ too much. Sound familiar? I mean, everytime BHO spends money, it is a crisis situation! Just ask him.
I am not going to go on a long diatribe about the amount of money they are spending. I am tired of talking. I have already taken action and I urge you to. Below is the website to write your congressman. All you will need is your NINE digit zip code(you can get this off of your phone bill, electric bill, etc.), and about FIVE minutes. I filled my name, address, e-mail and wrote this, “Dear Sir,
I am writing to inform you that if vote for the health care reform act, you will not receive my vote next election.” Short, sweet and definately to the point!
Actually, it took me about THREE minutes. I don’t believe in chain letters(Delete), but PLEASE do this and pass it on. They may be afraid of BHO, Pelosi, et al.; but they’re afraid of losing their position more!
WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!!
here is the page: http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Thanks and have a good day!
If you are in favor of socialized medicine, then please use the link to make your views known, also!
Quiz: What three things Mrs. Sonora Smart Dodd and I have in common?
Clue: My dad was born in Spokane, Washington. My grandpa was buried there. Ok I said too much.
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Marina, It’s pronounced ’spō-kăn’ like spo-can. Not like ‘candy cane’. Ignore the ‘e’. Short ‘a’ sound not long. As in cat, ran,
or fat. I understand the confusion for the rules are all messed up.
Hi Captain Jack,
Welcome back! Sailing your yacht on the Spokane River?
(Yeah, M. got a lot of comments about her pronunciation of “the capital of the Inland Empire.”)
Marina, have you ever had rowan berry jam?
Marina, whenever I log in and I go to another part of the website it says I’m not logged in. WTF
When someone (wigs out) where did this come from? Also my parents say (its time to tighten up their belt) when money is tight. Where did this come from?
Why don’t you have “father’s day” in Russia? Does Russia have “mother’s day?
(Porta johny)this is also referd to as (a jod johny) anh why do they call the bathroom a (john)?
Marina, would you be interested in my fathering services?
I would like to request the phrase [Hot Rod].
Please straighten these people out regarding the word [err]. A professor of mine used to say to “air” is human, to “ur” is Webster. Oh, how right he was. I don’t care if it IS acceptable to say “air.” It is incorrect. America needs to hear this from your lovely lips. By the way, will you marry me?
Quit putting on airs, and stop your babble-on about “ur.”
All i gotta say “mankind” has a new hope and iam not being Oleaginous!
I gotta say thanks for brightening up my day keep up the stunning work 
Rod (Nutrinoemission@hotmail.com)
“If I’m the only one that you ever loved
How come your name’s on the bathroom wall?”
“If I’m the only one that you ever loved
How come it says ‘For A Good Time Call’?”
Rodney Carrington – good music and hilarious- check him out.
Hello my dear teacher,
Today is the [Summer Solstice] and I thought that you may find that an interesting topic. Ancient man did notice the event but did not fully understand what was happening until technology advanced and man and woman could build a telescope to track and measure celestial events. You may know that at one time the church was the center of all thinking and it was mandated that the earth was the center of the universe.
You failed me on my last request reconnaissance but did you see my homework on how to eat a burger. Which was: “I grab both buns firmly with both hands and then enjoy.”
Roger
I love good buns!
You guys are going to have to learn to
As in: Think Outside The “Box”.
Its seems every single post here now is a word request.. Is there maybe a different way to do them?
Yeah, there is, but everyone naturally gravitates to the current lesson, because that’s where things happen. Perhaps a big Word Request button across the top of the the current lesson link might derail some of them, but would be fighting human nature.
Just out of curiosity, it would be interesting to have a Site Utilization Stats button on the banner menu. When you click it, you get a list of how many hits each feature of the site has taken in, say, the last month or year (sliding windows). For example, just how many people click on BIO or EVENTS CALENDAR vs. the current lesson.
While we are in suggestion mode, all the features should be made to blink when there is something new. For example, if there is a new item in PRESS, the word press would blink until you clicked it. Then the server would turn it off the signed-on user*. A new item would start it blinking again and delete the record for the previous item. I don’t think I have ever seen any site do this before (for good reason?
), but it would help spread users around the site so that (as mentioned above) we don’t just get stuck soley in the current lesson. Also M would not have to create freestanding blurbs for happenings (interviews, etc.) if she knew they would not go unobserved and unread ([languish]) in the other site features when users are urged by the blinking. And, if the Site Utilization Stats feature was implemented, she could see just how well that was working, i.e. how many users had looked at a new feature since it started blinking.
Boy, if that doesn’t get me a hug and a kiss, I don’t know what will.
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*Visitors (not signed on) would get the blink until an item has aged by some degree. M could set the blink time for a particular item and it would blink until that time has passed.
James, is it the word requests that trouble you, or all the puns that certain of us make on them?
why do people say phrase [pardon my french]
Pourquoi dit-on “Perdonnez-moi mon anglais”?
your old picture?
Wow! You discovered my love of piano!
@hotforwords Less than 2 years before, the Soviet Union had joined Nazi Germany in suddenly invading Poland.
Dear Apocolypse20,
Bah! Just don’t listen when the phrases smell like fish.
I heard these weird expressions too. They seem to pop out here and there, yah, out of the blue, like the swine flu, (or should I say out of the universities) and rigourously stick to their poisson distribution.
As they say in Canada: one man’s fish is another man’s poisson.
ive just been[ fired] from a job,but what does that word mean in that context?
That is no reason to be fired!
I really would like if you could make a video of the origin [Pizza]! Thanks!
can you please make a video for the origin of the word [CEREAL] thank you in advance
Do you think Marina will take you Ceres-ly?
[SERIOUS-mindedness] or [{BOX-_-TOPS}]http://www.pelagea.ru
..They almost never play in Moscow clubs. The only exceptions are “Kitajskij Lyotchik Jao Da” [Chinese Pilot Jao Da] and “B-2″, and even that happened by accident – three years ago Moscow’s spectators were introduced to the talent of the 14-year old singer Pelageya at these clubs. Although by that time she had already participated in several high profile state concerts, she was a relative unknown. Since then, people in Murmansk, Edinburgh, Novosibirsk, Tallinn and Paris…G*e*M*i*N*i party today and I gotta [go]…Pelageya
I would like to request the word [heebie jeebies]
Example: That movie gave me the heebie jeebies!!
paterfamilias
that has to do with this right?
Has something to do with the “piter-pater of little feet.”
NO!!! XD
It has to do with the families in Ancient Rome
Hey i would like to request the word [bullpen] it is the warm up area a pitcher in baseball goes to warm up before he pitches..but why is it called a bullpen??? THANKS!
OH MY GOD!!! Did anybody just see the CWS game? Not to gloat, but DAMN!!!
On to the finals!
Don’t they make Big Red in Waco?
Good one, Che.
Dr. Pepper.
Big Red was created in Waco, Fact check on Wiki
Dr. Pepper was formulated in Waco Wiki facts on Dr. Pepper
What inspires ppl to invent soda in Waco, oh never mind I’ve been to Waco so I get it.
Yeah, it’s real lively.
Why the heck were you ever in Waco?
The hotels in Paris were all booked up
Paris, Texas, right?
(Another swingin’ town.)
Yes, Paris, TX, now you know how I think Rick. lol
Uh – Oh!
Hello Hello -
I would like to learn the origin of [Finnish Line] – was thinking why isn’t it Spanish Line, Itallian Line, etc???
Big thanks!
If you mean the line at the end of a race, it is finish (note spelling), having nothing to do with Finland.
However, if you race someone to Finland, there is probably not much reason to continue any farther, so that is as good a reason to put the finish line there as anywhere else.
The Finnish line for many was the border with Russia which extended through the centre of Berlin.
Speaking of puns on nations:
With the end of Taliban rule, Afghan women have adopted the mini-burkha.
Isn’t the burkhina faso-nating?
He’s pranking us, Camp — trying to give you, Bob, and me some competition!
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The Finnish Line was named in honor of Lasse Virén and Paavo Nurmi
Hello new to the site. I’m a metal musician and i would like to know where the term [Blast beat] comes from.
A metal musician? Oh, yes, you are one of those people that are able to say, “Kiss my shiny metal ass.”
Well yes, but that would be breaking code and not exactly breaking the stereotype of a metalhead.
Heres the true test if you are a metal head: Where and how big is your picture/tattoo of Dimebag!
I’m herbrew so i cannot get tattoos and i don’t have a poster yet. I do have a massive zepplin and iron maiden one though
Steve Harris, fantastic bass player. I wrecked a car one time listening to Iron Maiden live. “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” started to really kick in, so I decided to jump a hill. Came down sideways and on the other side of the road. Ran off into a field. Good thing no one was coming the other way!
It was my nineteenth birthday, too. 
Uggh, You do know WHO Dimebag Darrel is…ahem, was, right?
Hi redtribe, and welcome to HFW!
As you can see, we have a lot of fun fooling around with words and humorous suggestions, but there are also quite a few interesting and thought-provoking conversations in these comments as well.
I learn something almost every time I visit. If you scroll through some old lessons you’ll see what I mean. There’s a lot here. The forums are fun, too. See you around the campus!
Peace
-pennsyltucky9
Hey Marina I would like to request to learn the origin of the word [Skulduggery], please?
im gonna photoshop the best fakesmile pic of me and send it to my dad sayin… an official fake smile moment reminds you to have a happy fathers say
That’s a great idea, elahie.
I sent my Dad a 45-minute DVD of my friend and me canoeing. It was all shot within a 24-hour period. We saw a lot of wildlife and we had a couple unplanned adventures, which makes it fun to watch. I’m going to put the DVD in, call him on the phone and watch it with him (he lives 2000 miles away) so we can enjoy it together.
lol haha thats cool must be fun
Marina,
I made a request for a word under the name “impaler” and you granted my wish to let me change my username. I maybe going out of the guidline here, but I’m going to put in for the origin of [VENDETTA] again. I think that this is the coolest sounding word in the english language. To me it sounds so beautiful but yet so dark.
I really hope that you can do this one, I suppose I can google it but I would rather learn about it from a video lesson from you, you’re the Master Philologist!
V FOR VENDETTA
If you do this one I want to say Thanks in advance.
I would like to request the word [Garage].
While you’re at it, why do the Brits pronounce it “gerrij?”
I’m afraid my dad passed away some 10 years ago and won’t be able to do anything for him!!
Your videos are great, I love ‘em! I thought that the word [complacent] might have an interesting origin, and people shouldn’t be [complacent] about Fathers’ Day, so if you could use that word some time in a video, I’d love to learn more about it ,., Thanks !!
i would realy like to know the origin of the word teddy
(teddy bear)
Google Theodor Roosevelt.
What’s the difference between
GUTS and BALLS?
The use of the words points out definitions such as these:
GUTS – is arriving home late after a night out with guys, being met by your wife with a broom, and having the guts to ask: “Are you still cleaning”, or “Are you flying somewhere?”
BALLS – is coming home late after a night out with the guys, smelling of perfume and beer, lipstick on your collar, slapping your wife on the ass and having the balls to say: “You’re next.”
[chutzpah]
The term balls implies that only males have “guts.”
Dear Marina,
Given the unfolding events in Iran, I’d really enjoy learning from you more about the origin and meaning of the word “Sousveillance”, which I understand was first coined by professor and original “cyborg” Steven Mann.
As a libertarian, I see Dr. Mann’s concept of [sousveillance] as potentially powerful means by which citizens can exert themselves, acting as a check of power against an illegitimate and overbearing government.
Hunter in Atlanta
i second that hunter
B.B. 
Thanks for seconding, BB!
If the people lead, the leaders will follow.
Sadly I was abandoned at a very young age so I have no father…. If I did have a father we would do something he liked to do or just hang out! Oh, by the way Spokane is pronounced with a short A, as in can not cane….
Byes ~
that is sad, sorry Sparky
you can send me a card if you want 
B.B. my daughters wont mind 
celabrate anyway somehow 
Could you give me the origin of the saying [Red Herring]? Thanks.
Could you find the origin of the phrase [Fixed Mercury] and the word [Encephelon]?
hey
i was just wondering how the word [word] came about
cheers
Visiting friends this week end, camping it in the garden of all things as many gathering! So unable to visit head stone of my late father this year; he won’t mind as shall have a small picnic and a chat with him during the week
, he’s not one for too many words these days in any case!
Hope you all have a lovely Fathers Day HFW’s
make the most of now xx
Love ya, be well M:)
Marina, you’re looking hot as ever:)
hello there, i was wondering if you would be so kind as to define the word [profligate] i know what it means but am curious as to the origins/applicable context
did anyone get iPhone3GS?
I did… I love it
I put the ‘che’ in cheesy.
Hey Marina, my word request is “Wheelbarrow”
Where this word came from?
Could you investigate?
.com/mrnobodyzzz
One of the bigger corporate buzzwords these days seems to be [Synergy]; and it’s usually applied in nebulous sentences; e.g., “We’re progressing smoothly in our efforts to leverage [synergy] & maximize efficiency”, or “We’re synergizing with Marketing to ensure maximum value-added”. Where did this word come from?
Success just seems to justify alot of people’s evil conduct. In eight grade I really believed Michael Jackson was a girl; and I put down one of his songs in my eight grade yearbook as having meaning-something about one bad apple. but I say as Christ said WHAT DOES IT PROFIT A MAN TO GAIN THE WHOLE WORLD BUT LOSE HIS OWN SOUL? Olive Stone also said that about Nixon in his movie NIXON.
…Hot Apple Pie – [{Hillbillies}]Do hillbillies have soul
tonyb?…PS—you should not put girls down!!! 
a word for you.. [cunnilingus]
Let me swish that around my mouth for a minute because it feels right on the tip of my tongue!
LOLROF
[Michigan]…father and ma-donna…[share]
[[[E*G*O]]]
CAN YOU PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO ON YOUTUBE.COM ORIGIN & MEANING OF THE WORD [ Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism ]
♥♥♥ ♥♥♥ ♥♥♥ THANKS ♥♥♥ ♥♥♥ ♥♥♥
Good one Anne….I like this too..
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have a great day
BLACKMAIL
Dear Marina
I loved your explanation for the origin of the word blackmail but I wish to point out that it actually came from the lawless lands either side of the English and Scottish border. From the 14th to the 16th century they were riding and raiding families on both sides of the English/Scottish border known as the Border Reivers. By way of their dark deeds these warring families contributed to the English language the words ‘blackmail’ and ‘bereaved’. If you look up the origins of the word [bereaved] you will find that it comes the word reive, which means to steal.
But war’s the borderers’ game, their gain, their glory, their delight,to sleep the day, maraud the night’
Reiving was confined mostly to the winter months because during the summer all were busy in the fields getting the crops in. They lived by stealing mostly cattle and the enemy was anyone outside one’s own clan. It wasn’t just Scotland versus England. These were people who were ‘Scottish when they will and English at their pleasure’. Fighting was instilled from birth. When children were christened, the right hand was left out of the ceremony so they might grow up to ‘strike unhallowed blows on their enemies.
Finally I would like to add that I live close to Scotland and many of the reiving family names still populate both sides of the border. Americans reading this might be interested to know that Nixon was an infamous reiving family name – from the Scottish side!
http://www.nwlink.com/~scotlass/border.htm – BLACKMAIL%20AND%20KIDNAPPING
Didn’t the shire-reeve stop the reiving?
Here’s to the Scots!
Thank You.
When Nemesis takes out – & Pandorra leaves lock tight — then foramen whistless and stain the violin
be pure in Your act ,
Rhiannon, beth wyt ti’n gneud yma??? Roeddet ti yn dweud wrthaf nat wyt ti’n hoffi “HotForWords…” Oops, mistaken identity; Rhiannon (speaking of Father’s Day) is my daughter’s name!
Which one does she resemble the most, Christie McVey or Stevie Nicks?
That took me a second…”Those who remember the ’60s weren’t part of them.” (I forgot who said that.)
Memories are fleeting, wouldn’t you say, Mac?
In 1976, each white kid in America was given three albums: Peter Frampton ‘Comes Alive’, Boston ‘Boston’ and ‘Rumours’ by The Mac. That pretty much covered the summer!
Dreams of Stevie before she discovered food!
Paul Kanter of Jefferson Airplane famously said: “If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren’t really there.”
If you didn’t know Paul Kanter said it’s hard to find on Yahoo & Google.
I failed Latin miserably so I’m checking your meanings :-
Love assumes/proposes/requires intelligence?
The Intelligent are the Guardians of the truth?
Något är bättre än ingenting.
I would love to request the word [JIVE].
How or Who came out with it?
Bubbye.
I had to watch 2 times…
I would like to request the word [Damn].
A fish was swimming and ran into a concrete wall. “Dam!” he yelled.
probably treat my dad to Buffalo wild wings and watch the baseball game there.
Hello my Dear Teacher!! (Hottest on the Net!!)
Thank you for all of your wonderful lessons!!! And thank you for the Father’s Day origin lesson!
But….since I live in Spokane, I would like to let you know that it is pronounced Spo-Kan, even though it looks like it should be Spo- CANE!
Our fair city is named after the Native Americans who lived here…LONG before any of the “fair skinned folks” moved in.
Although I am not Native, I was born here and have studied many of the Native ways. Many of which I wish were still honored in our country!
But that is a whole other subject!
And as a resident here, I would like to extend a invitation to visit our city and the beauty that is the Pacific Northwest!
And if you do….please let me know!! It would be wonderful to meet you in person!!
All my best to you always Dearest Teacher!
Peace and Love from one of your students and greatest fans…. Bill
Klahowya! Maika kumtux Chinook wa-wa?
Mesika siks,
Evan
Hi Marina, I would like to request the word [dutch], why is it dutch?, if the country is called Holland or the Netherlands. An why does this country have two names?
You mean like America and the United States? Or England and Great Britain?
No, I know the difference between those. I was curious for “dutch” because it doesnt sound like the country you know? like England=English, France=French, etc. I know its Nederland=Nederlands but in their tongue, why in English is Netherlands=Dutch, you know what I mean? :S
England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom are different.
I know thw UK include Scotland, Ireland and Wales but what is different between GB and England?
Great Britain is the island. It has England, Scotland, and Wales (I think that’s all). Of course, the UK is the entire “empire,” all the other stuff outside of GB, such as Ireland,
India,(the Falklands?), and such.What exactly is in the UK, nowadays?
“Dutch” comes from a proto-Germanic word “Teutes” meaning “people;” it’s related to terms such as “Deutsch”, “Teutonic”, and (oddly) the Gaelic “Tuatha.” The Dutch call themselves “Nederlanders.”
“Holland” is actually a large province of the Netherlands, not the entire country; it’s a “nickname,” perhaps because it’s easier to say.
Thnx Evan this gives me a better idea of it.
Hello,
I’d like to know the meaning/origin of the phrase [broken heart]
I mean, when you get a ‘broken heart’ your heart doesn’t literally break so I was just wondering who and where this phrase came from.
Thank you
Ashley.
You know thats a very good question. I’m not sure were the exact term came from but its gotta have something to do with the pain a guy feels when he remembers kissing her and knows it will probably never happen again…..Idk were that came from, or why I had the sudden urge to share it lol. Idk good question, somebody please answer it better the me.
John
I can’t login Youtube in China.So I can’t see the video.
By the way, I am a Chinese student.
I just saw a TV documentary on Chinese censorship and how the Web giants (Yahoo, Google and others) caved in to it. If we Google Tieninmen Square, you see the man facing down the tank (Tank Man), but not the Chinese.
Hi mi Bella Marina.
I just saw a video in which you said you were in Venezuela.
What places did you visit? and how did you like it here?
I am from Valencia Venezuela, very close to all the beaches, and I would like to know the origin of the word [MEMENTO] … excelent movie bye the way…
Besos Bella Profesora Marina!
I’ve been searching for a father all my life. This year I’m becoming that person — it’s the only way to find him.
Deep.
Congratulations to you, FVS.
Thanks @pennsyltucky9,
Father’s Day for me was a canoe trip.
Here’s how it started:
http://twitvid.io/abTF
And here’s some Father’s Day morning music from Beck:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNgA38SZ3js
How did you spend Father’s Day?
Sweet! Thanks for posting that, fromvikingstock. Hope you were able to avoid the [thalwegs], branches and underwater snags.
Areas that rarely flood can be way hazardous sometimes. That looked cool, though. Thanks for posting the links, I enjoyed them both.
I love creekin’ in my canoe! We have some real nice high tides around the full and new moon in midwinter and midsummer that raise the levels in all the creeks here on the west coast by several feet.
I like to use an incoming tide to help push me upstream for quite a distance, then hang for awhile and use an outgoing tide to get back. Makes for fun camping and day-tripping. And, although there is always some degree of risk in any boating experience it follows a nice predictable pattern. That’s something every captain can appreciate. Creekin’ SO rules.
On Father’s Day I shared an old canoe voyage DVD with my pop (taped in 2001). We watched it simultaneously while talking together on the phone since he’s pretty far away.
Make sure you keep a spare paddle in the boat, FVS. If you don’t have one, get one. If you can’t get one, you may have one of mine. Others are depending on you.
Peace.
-p9
My Sunday canoe ride was an adventure you would appreciate, p9. I learned not to take cameras on canoes, so here is a day-after video retrospective of the trip, shot Monday by the Huron River.
Canoe trip video retrospective. The day after…
http://twitvid.io/abV2
All good things to those who canoe.
— FVS –
Wow, what an epic!
Now you know why I like coastal living so much: I can do it all solo (if I so choose) and with just 1 car because the tidal flow at sea level provides assistance in either direction eventually. Plus, we have salt marshes full of interesting wildlife and and endless beautiful scenery. But don’t get lost in one and let the tide go out before you find your way back.
It’s all in the timing.
But even where I’m miles and miles upriver, away from the tidal influence, I’ve often found that I can pick my way quite a distance upstream if I avoid the main current channels and stick to the quieter pools and eddies around the banks, sometimes crossing over to the opposite side to access a calm area when necessary.
If you find the right spot on a river (a section that’s not as steep) or wait until the flow is suitable for such an activity, you’ll see that it’s often possible to go several miles in the canoe without having to use 2 cars. But never assume you can paddle back upstream after you’ve allowed the river to take you down a ways. I always paddle upstream first, going as far as I’m able, then I clunk back down to the car. Heck, I already feel guilty using the car just to haul my boat to the put-in.
You’re so right that it’s hard to control the boat when the current is going faster than you are. In fact, it’s impossible to accomplish much else besides limping over toward the bank. Unless I’m facing upstream, I prefer to move faster than the current because otherwise I just can’t steer, and that means I’m at the stream’s mercy and can’t control which part to use when the stream makes a bend.
I never want to be too close to the outside of the turn and be run up against the bank, nor is it preferable to stray too close to the inside of the turn because it’s shallow there, so you run into snags, bars, and shoals. You’ll get the nose entangled in an underwater snag or sandbar, and the next thing you know the current’s pushing your tail out into the deep, fast part. Then you’re going sideways or backwards downstream before you can even blink. Hate when that happens!
“Sweeper” branches and inundated trees are another matter entirely. If you see them coming in time (from far enough upstream) to reposition yourself so they can be avoided, you’re golden.
But the faster the current, the less calculation time you get for this critical analysis because you need to be moving faster than the current in order to steer at all.
If the current is swift, you must paddle hard to get ahead of it AND reposition your boat laterally in the stream (change lanes, so to speak) so they’re no longer directly in your way. And you have to do it enough ahead of time to get ready for whatever’s coming up next. While it might get you past the dreaded sweeper, this may result in going a little too fast to successfully negotiate any hairpins or rocks, sills, or other boaters (Goddess forbid!) below the difficulty, however.
A sill is an obstruction (like a log) running roughly perpendicular to the current just below the surface. Because the keel of a canoe is linear like an arrow (as opposed to a wide, square, flat-bottom boat, raft, etc.) it will always roll to one side or the other when going over a sill because the tail hangs up on it, the boat teeters, and then into the soup you go.
Sometimes this can be avoided by trying to bring the keel parallel to the sill and “hopping” off to one side over the sill while bracing with the paddle on the upstream side (rarely works, trust me) but I found it faster, easier and safer to bite the bullet and go ashore so I can lower the boat over logs, low spillways, etc. using a strong line instead.
The Russian River is fairly close to me, and you’d be amazed at the number of people out on that water who rent canoes and haven’t the slightest idea which way is up. I’ve seen people trying to steer the boat from the front seat (as if it were a car), and putting their five-year-old in the back seat. Then they wonder why they keep crashing.
@Pennsyltucky9:
You live about an hour north of San Francisco, near the canoeing sites on the Russian River? Stay home in October, because I coming out to see you. I’ll have the LongBoat on my car and we’ll dip it a creek somewhere. I would love to get back into that tidal thing again. I had a flat bottomed lake kayak in Florida and I would ride the outgoing tide up the inland waterway from Lake Worth to Palm Beach Island at night and then ride the incoming tide back down the waterway the next morning. I miss the tidal flows. Everything in Michigan is one-way current. We should start a new forum on this stuff. Maybe other people are into it. Things are back to normal now with the water level around here so I’m back to playing tennis and lifting weights but the canoe is hanging in the garage, and I’m never more than twenty minutes from launching if something comes up, so there will be more occasions soon for canoeing videos and more stories to tell. Here is a photo I took on my birthday in 2007 (Thanksgiving Day) from my canoe on Mill Creek.
http://twitpic.com/8diph
I’ll start a River Sports Forum now.
–FVS–
Sorry, that last twitpic link should be:
http://twitpic.com/8dm3p
–FVS–
I’ll put him in as an entrant for a free date with you.
[toilet] why is it called a toilet???
Father’s Day, another great video M. I don’t know what we will do for Fathers Day as I am the Father so I will have to be surprised as to what will happen on that day “if anything”. Family around here tend to have CRS and just carry on as usual.
My dear beloved teacher, the only one that I can say that, since my other teachers are not that hot and not into the words neither.
I have a doubt, you said father in latin is pater but then why when the catholics or christians “men of the cloth” says in latin: “in nome di patres, figli et spiritu sancti” patres is father too, like patricide, or pathriarcal isn’t?
besides that, thanks for another video, that’s the most important thing, see you everyday.
In Latin, a noun (like pater) changed its ending, depending on where it was used in the sentence, so it could be pater, patrum, patres, & three or four other forms I think. The grammar rules were confusing, so the Spanish did away with them and just say “padre” everywhere for “father.”
of that you are completely correct, I’m mexican so it is padre for everything, we even say: “that thing is padre” meaning that thing is good or cool, as well here in the northeastern city that I am from, monterrey, we also use mother for expressing things that are very good, cool or even great, news as well, “Esa noticia esta con madre” (that news are with mother), oh yes, we use the language and twisted a little bit. lol
Cool vid — ‘attil-a magyar day, even if you wake up hungary!
Q: What do you call a Nichiren Shoshu who keeps trying to convert you?
A: A Buddha-pest!
¿Este se llama un modismo, sí? Como, “no me tomes el pelo!” algo que no se puede traducir palabra tras palabra? (En inglés decimos “don’t pull my leg,” en vez de “don’t take my hair!”)
That’s right, we call it modismos, we also have a lot here in Monterrey, and yesterday found an entry in wikipedia, “mexican spanish” everyone should take a look, one can only wish that our sexy-dear-beloved-beautiful teacher checks it too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Spanish
¡Qué artículo más interesante! Hay un dicho en España que “el español habla, pero el mexicano canta.”
No sabía yo que era de la influencia indígena (Zapotec.) Tampoco que unas de las palabras que entiendo como español son solamente de México.
From Mexico:
[avocado]
[chocolate] & [cocoa]
[tomato]
From the US Southwest:
[hoosegow]
[buckaroo]
[vamoos]
Probably just remember him as he is no longer with us… turns out I was like him in more ways than I realized…
hi
could you please explain the word [hypertext literature] ?
I was wondering about the origins of the phrase [common sense], as it seems to not be common at all.
Счастья и здоровья!
С уважением,
starvedscientist
Especially around here.
Some of us make no sense at all.
Which would make no sense the most common
Dear Teacher,
That was as always very pleasant, but please challenge yourself more. “Father” is almost the same in Latin, Greek and Sanskrit; in fact, the Germanic word that the English comes from is really cognate and not derived from Latin. I wonder why “Otec” is one of the very few Russian names of family relations that is not related to the Indoeuropean equivalent (Pitar/Pater). Maybe that is why we have no Father’s Day. But you could have more fun with [embarass], [exacerbate], [cavort], or [disseminate].
You are an inspiration to all who aspire to become cunning linguists.
That’s innuendo if I ever heard it!
Even innuendo seems like innuendo.
Shame on you, citadel, you sneaky person!
Wait, wait! Listen. Do I hear the Pitar/Pater of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns9jGWiF8d0
God, what great sounds. They were the F***** best!!
Damn Lowell George for checking out too soon! Bill Payne is my hero.
Copy that. I only got to see them once, and at the time had no idea what they sounded like. Was I ever enlightened!
If you’re referring to cunning linguists, he’s not the first to use the term. Marina beat him to it.
Cool. I first heard the term around 30 years ago. I still think its’ funny.
****WORD REQUEST****
Hi Marina
I’m sure someone had to have requested this. Requesting the word [KINKY]. In all seriousness, the noun form of it “Kink” is used in like”to get the kinks out of one’s neck” or maybe when you started HFW you had “to work out the kinks” to get everything on your site working properly. So when did they add the Y and then it became a word associated with odd sexual behaviors?(depending on one’s preferences)
I’m serious, it could be a fun lesson to do, maybe?
Could this be coinciding with your fetish lesson?
Hmmm…COULD IT BE OBSCENE!
THANKS
Yep, I know I’m leaving myself OPEN or maybe not or WHATEVER!
that was really nice
Hi there! I would like to know the origin of the phrase: [clean your clock]
Thanx
I would like to Request the Phrase [ Dumber Than a Box of Rocks]
- Thanks, Baby
As in “one blade shy of a sharp edge.”
As in “bag of hammers.”
My family is planning on eating breakfast at SHONEY”S for Father’s Day!
I would like to request the phrase [quitting cold turkey]
Refers back to the goose bumps entry.
i would like to request the word[jovanna]
For Father’s Day, I want Love and Peace or Else.
Please, investigate the word [consequences]
That’s a major word, lerikaamerika. I am sure it can be decorticated to find out what kind of roots it has.
I would like to request the would [One] or more so why it is pronounced as “won”. Thanks
Because Oh-nee would just be stupid.
I would have expected a better answer from a teacher.
Aww, give him a break. School’s out for summer! Time to put your mind in a lower gear and chillax
Why stupid? It would rhyme with “only.” We don’t say, “wunly,” do we?
Здравствуй, Марина
I would like to request the word [quarterstaff]
I would like to request the word [carnival]
Hey, I don’t think I’ve seen Captain Jack nor Melikadothechacha the last few days. I know CJ was leaving Seattle, but that doesn’t mean leaving cyberspace. And Chacha…did he get too political?
Pennsyltucky, what’s going on?
I think CJ gave ChaCha a lift to Pakistan where ChaCha will be participating in some humanitarian aid, building elementary schools and women’s centers in the rural, mountainous regions.
@bsomebody
give peace a chance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvSZWk0MOpI
So that is where he is! If you look really closely, at around 1:30 or so, you can see ChaCha dancing with the little kids.
All I know is what they tell me, Evan. The last time I heard from Chacha was his welcoming me to the TA position.
The last I heard, he was still in the “bunker” working on a reverse osmosis- type thing that will turn his urine into potable drinking water. He still has not figured out a way to get on the net and I heard he is thinking of reverting to dial-up. As I stated in ‘Iran Vote’, He has the time lock set for late November 2012, so physical contact is impossible.The only way to get in touch with him is by Morse code tapping on the ventilator shaft. Here are the codes to approach the compound unscathed: When you here the challenge, “Newt”; the password is “Palin”.
Ohhhh my lord, you were particularly radiantly happy in this video lesson Marina. And, that smile and that look you gave me at the end. Wow!!! Very contagious. I may not get anything done all day.
I loved that you used Papa’s Day for the title on YT as I called my father papa. I really loved this lesson a whole bunch. Ohhh, and did I mention that you looked very radiant, and the way you look at me in the end. You know how to capture the very best of you.
Also love those baby pictures.
I don’t think the girl next door knows who her daddy is, I overheard her boyfriend asking her over and over again one night.
I didn’t know we were neighbors!
Ride’em cowboy!!!
Well that tears it… I knew she could sing, but this is ridiculous. I’ll have to close the windows next time.
Hi dear Marina
My sugessted word maybe is the most used word in the world, but not many people knows what it really means: [FUCK] AKA [F.U.C.K.]
Hope you do this word soon, so we can enjoy it.
Thanks
Jairo
Hi, arquicol. Marina isn’t going to do a lesson on this word because it’s already been done. Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVthSNUBre4 . If you have a real word request or something intelligent to add, please feel free to join us. Otherwise, thanks for visiting and have a nice day.
Oooo, great lesson in tact!
CK, we could learn some things from this guy! 
Hi there. Sorry but that is not the real origin of the word fuck (AKA F.U.C.K) Keep investigating.
No need to apologize. Obviously you know the answer to your own question. Problem solved. See you around the campus, arquicol.
Más o menos quiere decir “chingar” o “joder,” ¿sí?
Thanks for your comment, but we are looking for the origin of the word, not for the meaning.
Gracias por el comentario, pero estamos buscando el origen de la palabra, no su significado.
From Dutch fokken, meaning to breed, to strike, or to fuck. E.g. Niet fokken met mij means “Don’t fuck with me.”
Thanks!
This could be the origin of the word from Dutch. But someone told me about an English origin.
And again thanks, but I like more the responses from sweet Marina, in video.
i want to raise you, baby Marina.
Wakarimasen, hitoshi-san!
I survived being raised and dominated by my strong willed German/Romanian dad. At least I did not turn out gay llike Michael Jackson or Stephen Baldwin who had domineeering and abusive dads. DAD IS DEAD!!!
Are you from Germany or Rumania?
And you compare yourself to Micheal Jackson, can you sing? 
[work]
Or Stephen Baldwin. Do you have one brother who is a half way decent actor and you and your other brothers are riding his coattails?
Marina is your dad a farmer? I figured him to be a college professor.
C*U*L*TURE[cultURE]…
Papa was a rollin’ stone – The Temptations
son, take a good look around.
and, of course, daddy’s little girl — julia bond. 0:)
C*O*U*C*H+=+=+t*e*r*r*o*r
…the
notes”Crystal Blue Persuasion
ma’am?
i would like to request the word [presque vu]
I think we’ve almost seen that once before. Didn’t Marina do a lesson on…what was it?…
At a time in my life an unsigned Father’s Day card would come in the mail, they were postmarked from Long Beach CA, this happen for about five or six consecutive years.
{Che must keep better track of his man seed}Better that than a request for DNA! Back-child support can be a real mother
[steed]
Hmm… I lived in Long Beach for quite a while in the early 90’s…
I did meet a Southern girl at an outdoor rock concert once, she was from West Virgina.
She stepped right in front of me, her shirt was tied in a knot exposing her navel on porcelain white skin, her long legs looked even longer extending out from her short cut-off frayed jeans, so short in fact I knew she was a true redhead.
She spoke first saying, “I want you, I want you now.” I of course was stunned, unable to speak. I quickly recovered and replied, “Let me tell my friends I’m leaving”
There is a lot more to this true story but I don’t want to get into it here in a public forum, You’ll have to wait until I publish my memoirs.
Here is a tease: Back at the tent she realized I was a Yankee and hesitated before she got completely naked saying, “You have Yankee blood,” I convinced her I was Canadian and my family sold guns to the rebels.
I’ll send you a rough draft.
PS Her name was Belinda Blake
Peace
Che
Man, I love redheads! They take the ‘almost’ out of ‘almost anything goes’!
When I first moved down south, I was informed rather quickly that “Yankees” come in three classes: A) a “Yankee” is someone from the north who is just visiting B) a “damn Yankee” is someone from the north who moves down to Gods country and C) a “fucking Yankee” is someone(man) who moves down and starts to copiously polenate the Southern Belles. I was a ‘C’ in good standing and the fellas hated me. What did they expect!? You got some fine honeys on one hand and a bunch of guys whose oral(and sometimes body) hygeine is straight out of the 1870’s!!
No offense intended. I just tell it the way I see(saw) it!
Where I grew up I thought God lived in Waco (Baylor U.) and anyone north of there was a yankee. (Can you say Bible Belt?)
C’mon Che, you know this. West Virginia secede from the South.
Oh! I get it! You knew this, but the Che, in his infinite womanly wisdom, knew that Red did not know this.
Good play!
You know I was going to add to my comment that I wanted you to review my memoirs for historical accuracy & low and behold you went out and did it with me having to ask. lol
Thanks Bro
Hey, you know me, man – always a giver
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I’ll be sending you a DM on Twitter to fill in the missing details of this story.
You’re not on my list of DMs in regular Twitter this has happen with others.
I will go to Tweetdeck to do it.
http://www.canadaka.net/modules.php?name=Jokes&op=ViewItems&vid=319
“I LOVE YOU DAD!”
Well I guest that’s what happens when I’m not around to guide you.
{A 'punk surfer'??? Boy, that is messed up}It will be my last week of school, so things will probably be pretty pow key. Maybe the kids will come down, and I’ll bbq. We might even wait until the following weekend. They make the plans, and I follow merrily along.
I would like to request the word [chuckle]
***Website technical:***
Marina, the “search” function seems faulty. “Djibouti” and “G-booties” come up as “not found,” although I’m certain that Bob posted both of them in the past week.
Hey my uncle Sid lives in Spokane, I’ll have to ask him if he knows Dood… & wish him a happy “Uncle’s Day”… new celebration started by BillyB, in Victoria, British Columbia, where…
Fatherly advise for Marina. Check out some science of stilettos. You may be doing more damage to your floor than a 3 ton creature
hmm smart dood?? are u sure it isn’t meant to be dodd? because otherweise it sounds like “smart dude”
This is EXACTLY what I was talking about Marina, lots of info about the word origin. I can remember this. These are the lessons I love the most.
I knew you’d say this, James.
(I appreciated it too.)
omg hes right its a place. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/New_Zealand_0577.jpg
its in new zealand.
oh and also
I would like to request the word [Donofrio].
It is my last name.it’d be great if u you did =D.
[Donofrio] is an Italian-Spanish hybrid phrase meaning “I give a cold,” uttered upon sneezing.
It’s true, I tell you!
Check out this place!
[TAUMATAWHAKATANGIHANGAKOAUAUOTAMATEATURIPUKAKAPIKIMAUNGAHORONUKUPOKAIWHENUAKITANATAHU]
How the heck did that happen???
Well, without a meticulous examination of the underlying code, I would have to make a guess — your cat is standing on the keyboard.
Its actually the name of a place.
Ohhhhh. That’s different. Mmmmm… That would have been some time ago, I imagine. Yes, it is different — cat standing on a Selectric keyboard.
Very true.
Where?
Somebody already got it. New Zealand. Good one, eazy E.
It’s some sort of Polynesian phrase meaning, roughly, “the Maori the merrier!”
(Oh no, Bob, what have I started now? Our next pun was supposed to be Swaziland, not…)
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllandysiliogogogoch!
Hey Marina! So I heard the word [tiddlywinks] three times today and I was wondering if you could tell me what it is and where it came from…it seems to be a sport!? thnx =]
It is a table game of snapping plastic coin-like objects into the air (by using a second one to apply pressure) in order to hit a target. The technique is demonstrated here, except instead a forklift and a coin are used.
Spokane is pronounced like there is no E on the end and with the accent on the last syllable.
BTW, Olympia is also pronounced like there is no E on the end. Come to think of it, most cities in Washington are pronounced like there is no E on the end. Isn’t that odd?
Like Tulalip? (Supposedly founded by a Dutch flower farmer with a stutter.)
How is Evan?…you need a brownie? [PS]-share it with Bob
Hmm, the Scottish connection?
I gotta admit, I miss the slow, languorous pace of Marina’s earlier videos, not to mention the sensuous pose in the Brownie video…16,000 subscribers at the time. Wow, how things change.
Marina, maybe you can do [Seattle] “by-and-by.”
(OK, you REALLY have to be a mossback to get that joke!)
I know you have a big backlog of word requests, but you’re sure Tacoma-round to it eventually, right?
For this Father’s Day, my dad and I going to the final round of the U.S. Open Championship at Bethpage Black Golf Course in Farmingdale, New York, not too far from where I live.
Thats great!
If you like that sort of thing
I played exactly TWICE and realized after the second time, I don’t have the temper for such a game. I do give much respect to those guys out there making it look easy. Have fun
It took me only half that to figure it out. Once was enough for me.
I’m not that great, either, but I haven’t practiced in a long time. I’m good at putting, though. And I’m great at Wii Golf. I do like watching it.
My brother fot a Wii and we played boxing, baseball and tennis. The next day it FELT like I had boxed(without the bruises), played baseball and tennis! Sore as hell. They should put warnings on there for old farts!
[Douche Bag]
If you click on this lesson’s video as it appears on HFW, it opens a new window for the video on YouTube, namely
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vs_0BAV9JM&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ehotforwords%2Ecom%2F2009%2F06%2F17%2Ffathers%2Dday%2F&feature=player_embedded. Twice this produced the lesson viewed on YT in a new window as expected, but many times afterwards (and hours later), the lesson just sat there with a black YT screen with a run time of 0:00. After some time goes by, the msg “An error occurred, please try again later.” is displayed. (That is a comma splice, BTW.) Anyone else see this?What got me looking at this was that the video on both sites did not have the little tick mark on the time bar which shows when the YT ad overlays the bottom of the frame. Is there no YT ad for this lesson (or any future lessons)? BTW, I have seen some vids that have three tick marks and three ads.
Hi CampKohler,
That which you experienced is very common and has been common for some time; six months or more. It’s not just HFW videos, but any YT video.
Sometimes, some of the Ads to the right of the video take as long as 20-40 seconds to appear. In some cases I have also seen the tick mark not appear, and then appear when the page was refreshed. Did you notice that the tick mark is not at the usual 10 second mark. It looks like the tick mark is at the 1 second mark.
YouTube is constantly doing tweaks and I imagine that they are also switching out the hundreds of servers in their farm which may not be as transparent as one might like.
[Marijuana] Where, what, when, why and how?
Don’t forget who. (Dooby more thorough.)
Oh yes and who?
No, not who! You don’t who is reading this and here you are, tryin to dime out a brother, Damn!
I’m not talking about myself, you see. I’m just looking out for the fellas!
easymeezy take a hit of the Pot Lesson it may be the buzz your looking for.
My grandparents and uncle on my (step) dad’s side use to live in Spokane, WA. We sometimes visited them during the holidays when I was young. They had a fairly big house with split level floors on a large yard, as well as a rec room in the lowest floor where we played Atari video games, board games, puzzles, pool, and us kids slept. They also had a couple dogs (daschund and huskie?), a cat, and a bunny. I even watched my uncle graduate from college (and maybe high school years earlier), and it was a long, boring ceremony for a young teen as myself to have sat through. I never really connected much with any family member. I’m naturally quiet and kept to myself.
I’m sorry, I’m lousy at dog breeds: it was a keeshond (not husky) and the correct spelling is dachshund.
No worries,Taz. I never really connected to my family either. I think it had more to do with the fact that they just did not like me very much. At least, that is what they told me. Except me mum. She told me she was legally bound or some such nonsense(I was very young at the time).
Hi Marina! I would like to request the word [HOME] or [HOGAR] in spanish, i find this word very interesting because it refers not only to the phisical place, but also to feeling that makes your house a home….
Thanks!
-N.
Every time I pass the Mikasa store, I think, “Mi casa es tu casa.”
Technical note:
“Father” comes not from the Latin “pater,” but instead, both come from a common Indo-European ancestral language. “Patera” and “Matera” occur in Greek and Iranian, languages not descended from Latin but sharing common roots.
What is the origin of babysitting or babysitter. You don’t sit on the baby and its not always a baby why is that you tell me
No, but the babysitter does sit (presumably) around watching the baby while the parents are gone. Dogsitter has been coined from that word for those who watch dogs, as well as housesitter, but I haven’t heard of any other variations in widespread use. Usually, babysitter is used to refer to all the other situations and everyone understands what is meant.
Hi Marina,
Suggestion for Father’s Day: maybe you could overdub this video in Russian and send it to your dad. You’re not doing anything risque in this one, & if one of my daughters were to make a video like this, I’d be pleased. (Well, I might grumble a wee bit about dressing a bit more modestly.
) 
Homework:
For Fathers’ Day, my daughters are going to come watch me as I’m awarded my black belt in [taekwondo].
Hi Marina. I want to know the origine of the word [Force Majeure].
Thanks a lot.
.
Each night, Father fills me with dread
As he sits on the foot of me bed;
I’d not mind that he speaks
In gibbers and squeaks,
But for forty long years, he’s been dead!
i already got him an autographed picture of a star from one of his favorite movies starwars. the star was Anthony Forest. if u dont know who that is, he was the storm trooper who said the famous line “these arent the droids we’re looking for”
im not sure what i will do with him on the actual day yet
Hi Marina,
Your forehead/eyebrow area is a bit too shiny in this video. It’s distracting, so, I thought I’d point this out… maybe others concur with me on this one. Would you please do whatever it takes to get rid of the glossy look… splash some powder on it or change the lighting so it doesn’t reflect off this area. BTW… If you had gone topless I may have not noticed your forehead at all.
