Acronym
Here is the origin of Acronym plus I include some funny ones. Can you think of some other funny ones as well?
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Here is the origin of Acronym plus I include some funny ones. Can you think of some other funny ones as well?
Please rate and comment over at YouTube to help the video. Thanks! :-)
[RAT]!*!Board…..the secrect police of america is at all levels….Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say) – Lady Gaga
David Armand (as interpretive dancer Johann Lippowitz) and Natalie Imbruglia perform “Torn” at the Secret Policeman’s Ball 2006
Merry C.H.R.i.S.t.MASSes…
Hi Marina,
I believe these acronyms come from servicemans letters home during WW2.
SWALK :“Sealed With A Loving Kiss”.
NORWICH :“kNickers Off Ready When I Come Home”.
The Military Glossary lists KIM as “Keep In Memory”. This is actually a backronym for Kim’s Game — supposedly this game is in the curriculum of The United States Marine Corps’ Officer Candidate School in Quantico, Virginia. Kim’s Game was invented by Rudyard Kipling in his novel Kim. This is one of the games suggested for scouts by the founder of scouting, Baden-Powell. You can see Kim’s Game as enacted in the movie Kim (starring Errol Flynn) here.
Actually, acronyms did exist in ancient times. In the early centuries of Christianity, the fish became a symbol for Christians. Do you know why? The Greek word for fish is Ichthus. Using the Greek letters, this was an acronym for: Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior.
These words are helpful to know,that last one was tough to say,and remember.Just a few are, FBI,CIA,MLB,NHL,NFL,NBA.I hope your book is making the top 100 sellers list on amazon,my hopes for this is so high for you Marina.Your latest picture of you sitting on the couch WOW!HOT!I also like Gorby’s new haircut it’s good to see him around again.I hope the best for you,and as always hope to hear from you soon!Many thanks for all your kindness and loveliness.See you later Marina!
I found the S.A. T. to be most enigmatic. Hopefully I can still become a FBI person, join the CIA or even the local SWAT team. If not it’s back to UCLA to await word from RCA or MGM. Luckily I still have my part-time job with IHOP.
best wishes
`elliott
and sometimes when i’m supposed to be sketching, i instead [piddlefart].
i’m a designer/artist and would be interested to know what you’d have to say about the words: [sketch]
[etching]
[doodle]
I know of some US military acronyms becuase the military seems to dig them. DARCOM, NORAD, CINCPAC OR CINPAC, FORSCOM, EDRE(?), NASA (NOT THE ARMY) ICBM maybe I can come up with more. The TV series MASH about the Korean War; now the mobile surgical hospitals are called CASH I believe. DOD (Defense Deaprtment). But none of these are very funny.
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Never needed one…whitches …very good job*** its on you tube!!!
I’ve found lots of funny acronyms/backronyms on this site.
Some that I like are:-
ADIDAS=All Day I Dream About Sex
or in your case Marina, All Day I Dream About Shoes.
ALITALIA=Airplane Lands In Turin And Luggage In Ancona.
or Always Late In Take-off Always Late In Arrival.
BOBFOC=Body Off Baywatch, Face Off Crimewatch. used to describe a girl with great physical attributes but whose true character shows in her face.
DILLIGAFF=Do I Look Like I Give A Flying Fig?
DIMWIT=Don’t Interrupt Me While I’m Talking.
The young ladies fashionwear chain ETAM stands for Everything To Attract Men. Could apply to HfW.
DINKY=Double Income, No Kids Yet.
FILTH=Failed In London, Try Hong-Kong. Used by certain multi-national employers of under-performing or out-of-favour staff.
FISH & CHIPS=Fighting In Someone’s House & Causing Havoc In People’s Streets. Army infantry acronym for urban warfare.
LOMBARD=Loads Of Money But A Real Dickhead.
MACINTOSH=Most Applications Crash. If Not, The Operating System Hangs.
NINJA=No Income, No Job or Assets.
ORCHID=One Recent Child, Heavily In Debt.
PCMCIA=People Can’t Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms.
PICNIC=Problem In Chair Not In Computer.
SINBAD=Single Income No Boyfriend And Desperate.
SITCOM=Single Income Two Children Oppressive Mortgage.
ST FAGOS=Sod This For A Game Of Soldiers.
THICK=Those Having Insufficient Cerebral [Kinesis].
WINDOWS=Will Install Needless Data On Whole System.
WOMBAT=Waste Of Money, Brains And Time.
Dear Teacher,
I really enjoy listening to [piano] music. Most us know a [piano] to be a large musical instrument with a fingerboard where notes are sounded by pressing on keys. Could you explain the origins of the word [piano]?
Thank you,
May great big shiny golden delicious apples light up your life!
I love the videos and I lswear I learn something everyday…..but please tell me I am reading that Go Daddy ad wrong….are we missing a “c” somewhere? Maybe Mr. Dictionary should be consulted….
Thanks for a great break during the day…
Dear Teacher,
Could you please investigate the origin of the words [BAMBOO] and/or [VOID]?
Thank you! =)
Dear Teacher,
Could you explain the origin of the word [Disco]?I am Very curios how it started =)
Dear Teacher,
Can you explain the Acronym for [LASER]? that would be a most illuminating word.
Cheers,
Your humble student
At .55 sec. into this video…your light will amp
E.O.G
F.O.H
F.O.A.D
sometimes i want to hurt people. bad. people who do shit like that and probably even get paid to do it. wtf.
lol! if they’re gonna call themselves graphic designers the least they can do is learn how to mask out a background and tone a photograph..
this world would be so totally better off with me ruling it. (that was totally random. i don’t know why i just said that.)
lol! well.. you do rule.
Ok which one of you keeps sending me the condoms.
I just got a Trojan from some where. My my I don’t need them any more or less depends on the subject matter. Virus cleaner caught and cleaned it. 
Trojan: HTML/Fake XPA
Hi Marina!
I’m apologizing before I start… Don’t hate me please for all these…Because I’m spending your time in jest… And I know you don’t have it…
What means the ordinary word: “love”(I’ve just read the explanations below)…?
a) finding somebody sexy
b) finding somebody sexy and damn attractive
c) finding somebody sexy and damn attractive and seducative
d) finding somebody sexy and damn attractive and seducative and
irresistible
e) finding somebody sexy and damn attractive and seducative and
irresistible and much, much more
Thanks a lot
Sasha
Nice.. #1 Most Viewed right now on YouTube! That’s 2 in a row
And it has nothing to do with all the extra cleavage in the last two video thumbnails.
Not that I think it’s a bad thing, au contraire mon cher!
Look at all my videos.. scroll down.. so I’m not sure if that statement is accurate
http://www.youtube.com/hotforwords
Oops!
I’ve been reading through to many of your YouTube comments.
Hehe, for a moment there I thought… but naah.
You’re cleavage is alright with me. So tell it not to worry anymore, OK?
Ah, your hangover vid is doing well. What are we talking about. I ran out of imported coffee and I’m like just coping.
I would think that most of the coffee drank of USA citizens is imported….Brazil is the world leader in production of green coffee, followed by Vietnam and Colombia
the last of which produces a much softer coffee.
I love coffee, too!!!
I heard about how Rollie Fingers would sometimes get heckled at games but he would always just smile and twist the ends of his moustache and then wind up for the next pitch as if nothing fazed him.
@leonard
Funny you mention Brazil being big coffee producers because I’m having some Brazilian roasted coffee right now. “Ah!” a Juan Valdez moment
I’d be curious to know how [deponent] verbs have come to be called deponent. Many thanks!
Acronyms form the basis of what I call “DIGISPEK” (the language of tomorrow, today!) driven by “ROTFLMYAO” and “LOL” and so forth, in the future people will “speak” in this technology- driven (ie Twitter message length) format – without saying anything specific…UNO?
In my new book (which may be advertised on H4W if the price is right) I describe the American Research Security Act of 2018, which the faculty of universities call the “Horse’s Ars Act”.
I was going to put ICBM on my license plate for the Porsche Turbo- but thought, “why incite the haters?” Same for CIAO on the Ferrari. CIAO is an Italian acronym for something along the lines of “Very truly yours”- except it literally means “I am your slave or servant”.
Yeah, I had my National Association of Modern Babes from Los Angeles (NAMBLA) license plate on my MayBach… but I kept having all these creepy weird guys honking their horns at me!
Ciao Bella!
I hope everyone notices that our dear teacher, this honestly beautiful, truly hard working and extraordinary human being from east of Moscow is working after dinner while vacationing on a magnificent yacht off the French Riviera! THAT is a work ethic! What cracks me up in the NATIONAL association of L.A. Chicks! Because “those in the know” KNOW there’s “No life east of La Cienega” NAMBLA sounds [Namby Pamby] to me. Your family must be so proud of you Marina! Moledetz! (and if that’s not correct Russian, GO GIRL!) Yee Haw! as we say in Wyoming
Yikes!
Here’s why the creepy guys were honking.
They were in love with SUCH a pretty boy in a Maybach with NAMBLA plates!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAMBLA
If you’ll ever be my pretty boy I’ll let you play with my six speed some time! OK, you’re busy. How about your evil sister?
My dear teacher
you are so funny ( nambla ) LMAOROTF 
B.B. 
wonder how many knew nothing 
What would the creeps do. Shake a pair of wonder roos and say vulgar things to you when you were stopped at a stoplight(?)
lol@ukrainian version of hot&cold {ha!} watching it now
Hi Marina, I am starting to have insomia and i was wondering the origin of that word. You think you can make a video? That would be great. I love your videos they are very informative.
I have an excellent phrase. It’s especially good since newspaper and TV reporters always get it wrong!
[carrot and stick approach]
News people think it means if someone does something you want you give them a carrot, if not you hit them with a stick. Wrongo!
Muah!
what does entertainment
Mean
i cant drink Neuro Sonic anymore because it doesnt taste good
who would like it??
I would like to know the origins and or meaning of occult and occultation, please.
—My word request is [[[treat]]]]like treat me as an award to spoils…..
Finally some heated weather heading our way! Thank god! I wanted to be out in my backyard pool and lay out in the sun. I hope it’s the same flava when I leave town in about 2 weeks.
I would like to request the word [hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia]. It is commonly misspelled with two “p”s in the “quipe” part. I know what it means but I would like you to teach more people of this great word, I use it fairly often.
I would like to request the history of the phrase [Johnny on the spot] thank you
I would like to request the origin of the phrase [knock on wood]
Thank you
What is a acronym for {lawsuit} because the state of NY better seek your vocabulary help Marina maybe they can manipulate there way out like their Aids scandal! See YA hope your haven fun.
I would like to request the word [ballbusting].
Great lesson, Marina!
Technically, these are “backronyms”: FORD–Fix Or Repair Daily; FIAT–Fix It Again, Tony. 
Does anybody remember what U.N.C.L.E., C.O.N.T.R.O.L., and K.A.O.S. supposedly stood for?
Don’t forget S.M.E.R.S.H. from the James Bond books, and T.H.R.U.S.H. from The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
SMERSH is said to be an acronym for a certain British organization whose motto is “Death to Spies”
From what I’ve googled, SMERSH is thought to mean “death to spies“…[maybe Marina can weigh in on this topic], but in Russian. My instinct suggests we’re both incorrect to some degree, but you’re further afield than me.
As Bob pointed out SMERSH is from right out of the pages of those James Bond novels. Ian Fleming who wrote the Bond novels also worked for the British Royal Navy Intelligence at a period in his lifetime. It seems to me S.M.E.R.S.H. would stand for a variety of techniques that assassins use to take out spies with, such as Strangulation, Murder, Execution, Rope, Suffocation, & Handguns
In response to greatestpotential’s “As Bob pointed out…” response.
I’m going to throw your argument out of the courtroom, greatestpotential. The logic of “It seems to me S.M.E.R.S.H. would stand for…” is a hypothesis, loaded with conjecture or speculation. This does not mean I’m banging the gavel and closing the case. But really, “…Strangulation, Murder, Execution, Rope, Suffocation, & Handguns” gives the impression that you’re pulling these words out of a hat.
@muggins
Sure, guess you’re right. Assassins taking out spies would have a more endearing, lovable acroynm for their tree club like
Smile, Manners, Etiquette, Rightfulness, handShakes, & Hugs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwSEujPDOvo
That’s an improvement, but I’m certain I can do better, except if’n it requires thinking.
I really enjoyed this lesson.
I would like to request the word [ballbusting].
[TNT]
JOAN JETT – AC/DC, WILD ONE, EVERYDAY PEOPLE
show some LOVE [DOOR]…
so, where the fuck is everybody? alex, you still here? hey pagedoll.
Hello?
Hi?
chicks. they always gotta butt in.
buzzword says:
you guys should be on youtube 
phuck??!??
53August 2, 2009 at 7:13 pm
so, where the fuck is everybody? alex, you still here? hey pagedoll.
Hello?
Hey!
Straw and fodder…hey back::-:: clip from “Taming of the Screwy” in which the Warners attempt to work on their vowel sounds.
[Hay bales] and [oil rigs]…shoot me up;! the car said
This song, written by Miss E after the success of The Squoosh Song, introduces viewers to the vowel’s long sounds.
That’s what I call asking Hello.
And the answer is yes.
yeah, right here?
hey, i’m down here.
kinda like in the middle now.
dude, that damiana chick below uses a lot of foul language.
I taught the bitch right.
those that can’t do, teach.
oh yeah? well those who misbehave get spanked.
since your such an ass you must slap yourself silly.
shit, yeah, she does. you gotta fucking love her for that, man.
Thanks, äläx. You’re cool.
ha, that had suck up all over it!
You’re a cool daddy. Get me a harpsichord quick! Need some baroque with that.
okay chimp. tell me why you think i’m an ass. no, i want to know what you really meant by that so tell me now.
come teach me smarty pants how you appear the utmost gentleman or take your unkind words and stuff them back in your banana peel.
lol cool off gp.
Comment landed in the wrong spot.. moved..
@buzzword
I said “hummer” in answer to a question and talked about the etymology of fuck.. So what..
@greatestpotential
be respectful.. I don’t refer to you in degrading terms.
i was being respectful. b.i.t.c.h.: beauty in tow, carefully handle.
awright.. Just wanna keep it nice..
exactly, so what. check out this bit of hfw history. that was such a fun thread.
I’ll get back to it. That’s a lot to read. Are you schooling me to be cool or wha?
thanks, but no thanks. i don’t take orders from primates.
cool, coz i’m learning how to coddle babies. it’s like in school when the teacher makes you carry a bag of flour around for a month to see if you can be a responsible mother.
in honor of initials and acronyms… kmfdm
Cool band..
Also in honor of initials and acronyms: CKY
benny hill said don’t assume because when you assume you make an ass out of u and me.
digging that tune, had to play it twice.
@buzzword
äläx says you’re cool and i believe him..
Oooh cool. If you sucked up anymore you’d swallow your head down your throat.
cool we’re all cool. that thread, just an example of me and alex getting corrected for our language a long time ago. history keeps repeating itself.
true, history of the boring kind repeats itself constantly. def. sounds like something a history teacher would say.
true, history of the boring kind repeats itself constantly. def. sounds like something a history teacher would say.
k, buzzword.. i’ll check it out..
I’m cold. Want to play dead fish with me?
I don’t mind repetition as long as it’s run through the shredder afterwards. Since each generation is being taught that history is always repeating itself you would think we’d have this dilema licked by now. right(?)
@buzzword
love CKY. Jess Margera, Bam’s bro, formed the band with a bud of his..
digging into them further… camp kill yourself?
hmmm INXS
INXS is cool..
yeah, buzzword.. Camp Kill Yourself.. and there’s a spinoff band.. Gnarlkill that has Bam Margera, too..
oh, that was fun! i so enjoy a good love song.
a love song for damiana… tiny meat.
check this one out, just heard it on the radio. gonna play it for my wife later, naked.
lol! show her this one, too.
btw.. i know i just replied to myself.. but it’s the end of the thread..
got it.
nice. love the double entendre of that song..
lords of acid, oh those were the days. pussy, everbody loves you
i had a friend that was always naked. but he was a drummer.
retro new wave techno.. niiice. something a little newer with shades of romance.
lol! bummer.. the drum kit hid his man parts..
i like queen’s o the stone age. a little romance is good. variety is the spice of life right. i think that’s what they say.
lol just remembered this one
punk rock drummer. jumped around a lot, think he used his man parts on his drum kit.
got exams in the morning, cramed now crashing. night damiana.
love that last one. lol! eyes wide open
all the luck on your exams! nites, buzzword.
Actual Department of Defense Surveillance Footage of the Revolutionary MC5. Detroit Rock and Roll Legends play Festival of Life.
From National Archives.
Niiice.. loved that tune by Ruby, buzzword. Edge-y. Shades of Poe.. kinda..
Saved Tiny Meat to my YouTube faves..
where the fuck did you go?
hey buzzword.. was talking to äläx until he had to go ni nites.. checked back for replies for a while, but then missed you. bummer. nice mouth *smirk* lol!
cool that you liked the gnarlkill, too. so much fun..
yeah, went to bed. yesterday was fun, though. we need to do that shit more often. hehe. re-read the whole thing today, fucking hilarious.
yeah.. last night was fun.
good times, good times. should schedule a time to meet up.
hey buzzword.. another by CKY that you might like.
disclaimer: it’s kinda twisted..
reminds me of how i met my wife… no, not really.
@buzzword
lol! too funny.. did you like the track?
I would like to know the origin of [Shark], thanks Marina.
Yeah, I would like to be a shark with her too!
I would like to know the origin of [FELATIO]
Just google it: What is the etymology of fellatio? You’ll get the answer within seconds. And in answer to your other question: No.
you’re silly. that would be a blow job.
hmmm.. I like hummer.
oh. that’s just a blow job with a tire low on air.
or like when a car veers too far to the side of the freeway and the tires run along rough indentations in the cement.
More like a musical blowjob..
tootsie pop♪
lolly pop lolly pop oh lolly lolly lolly♪
that’s an old one.
A guy name Lolly wrote this…Bobbie Gentry – Niki Hoeky
…same writers of both songs
@buzzword
have you seen the Dell commercial? freakin’ song runs round and round my head after seeing that.. and why is the one guy standing up hooking the top of his overalls.. ? wtf? lol!
@leonard
cool. i like trivia. both great songs. sometimes your comments are so random they make me laugh.. in a good way.
just saw the commercial and thought of you. yeah, the dude that pops up fastening his bibs and the look on the other guys face… i did’t go out and buy a dell but i did have a brief homosexual encounter.
That was a great come back Damiana.
You must have read his mind.
capman911! lol! omg. it would have been a great comeback if that’s what i meant.. i didn’t wanna answer the guy twice, so it’s in answer to his query right below this. lmao! i wasn’t very clear about that..
I guess my mind was a little in the gutter on that one. Sorry.
@Capman911
j/k. no worries. that was hilarious..
bad capman! badbadbad!
and is it true that the origin of the word “FUCK” comes from the abbreviation for “Fornification Under Consent of King”
No, it’s not true.. it’s what I said in the video
I heard it came from early day colonists. When the farmers plowed the fields they’d say they were going to “fuck” which meant run a plow back and forth on the land to make the soil ready for the planting of seeds.
[drill] from wiki—-Jethro Tull invented the seed drill, a device for sowing seeds effectively. At the time his workers did not like the idea because they thought they were going to lose their jobs.
Tull also advocated the use of horses instead of oxen and invented a horse-drawn Hoe for clearing weeds, and made changes to the design of the plough which are still visible in modern versions. His interest in ploughing derived from his interest in weed control
Tull, till, tilling the soil, perhaps a connection
People just don’t listen…
Man, forget listening… Seeing is where it’s at!
Forget seeing. You’ll see it when you believe it.
I would like to know the origin of “FELATIO”
Wasn’t he a character in “The Merchant of Venice” who salivated and whose tongue quivered at the prospect of “a pound of flesh”?
I would like to know the origin of the word [zombie]. I’ve like to request another word if that is okay. What is the origin of the word [Etymology]?
Id like to figure out where the origin of zombie came from that would be a good one. I’ve always wondered that.
It can’t be pronounced, even though It is an Acronym not all acronyms can be said into a word. Some can but some can’t that’s like trying to pronounce NWBA or even NAACP. It’s a trick question.
Since people like to pay a lot of these whether or not it helps to gain social programs to help out people or stabilize the economy and to fix the infrastructure system, what’s the origin of [Tax] or [Taxes].
F.A.R.T Fayetteville Area Rapid Transit bus system.
C.A.T. Charlotte Area Transit.
R.A.T Raleigh Area Transit
M.I.L.F Mothers I Like to F**k
W.T.F What The F**k
MoFo Mozilla Foundation
TRAINSEX Training System Exerciser
A.W.O.L Absent With Out leave
the real MILF.
Good find, äläx.
is it fucker? no way because if it is that’s funny, that’s a good acro for most federally funded programs, fuckers. I’m gonna have to scroll down to see other peoples’ answers to find the right answer.
Hey have you heard of this acronym? PETA (People eating tasty animals)
I agree with you on the FCCCR meaning fucker. I have seen and like the PETA acronym also. Rabbit and deer are very tasty along with cows, chickens, beef etc etc.
Yeah. The People Eating Tasty Animals thing is real popular (and accurate) in my neck of the woods. In fact, I just finished another PETA masterpiece from my grill.
Speaking of “eating meat”, are ya’ll familiar with the term “vagetarian”?
Oh yea eating at the Y.
Too funny how many people believe that fuck (so not masking) is an acronym for Fornicate Under Consent of the King (or some other derivative).
The etymology of fuck that I believe is true:
Verb:
ficken (third-person singular simple present fickt, past tense fickte, auxiliary haben, past participle gefickt)
1. to fuck
http://bit.ly/WfeWd
lol.:D
On topic question…
Where does [Shag] come from?
I’m not talking about Shag and Scoob, I’m talking about:
“Yeah baby, shall we shag now, or shall we shag later?”
I think you get the picture.
If you Daphne me, I’ll Velma you until you Fred.
That will make me Scoob and then we could Shag again later.
hey chemikal,
uh.. austin powers? lol.
i know it’s a british term, but i haven’t found anything on the etymology of the word, yet.
loving the reference to shag and scoob..
You should see the elaborate origins that people come up with… right now on the video on YouTube people keep commenting various crazy origins! the latest one was related to disease and the king would decide who could procreate to prevent the spread of disease or something like that!
lol! aren’t people hilarious? and they really believe what they’re saying.
Hi Marina,
I like your new website feature (“plug-in,” is it called?) that links commenters’ names back to their recent comments. Clicking my name lets me see that everything I thought was so witty when I posted it is really pretty inane and fatuous. Just the motivation I need to get up from the computer and do something useful!
Ouch, Evan Owen. I just did this for the first time. Ouch again. Me so fatuous, too. Don’t mean to be…just comes naturally to me, apparently.
Marina,
In honor of your your Greek word lesson and your recent trip to Greece:
Mi Mou Thimonis Matia Mou
Hey, I just found out a bouzouki is not a Greek anti-tank weapon.
Here’s my most favorite acronym OBAMA One Big Ass Mistake America
Every Person Comes Out Tired
So true!
Epcot? Bring your walking shoe. Primarily, there was a Morrocan rock band (no, it wasn’t my cup of tea) that had a dancer, who was the most beautiful woman in the world, or so I thought at the time. I swung by there a few times just to drink in at her dancing. It wouldn’t do to just stand there gawking endlessly for hours…they’d have to call the gendarmes…but if I thought I could get away with it, I would have. She was pure eye candy. The Norwegian gift shop had some nice honeys there too, one of which I managed to pissed off when I casually asked her if she knew how to make lefse. Apparently, I picked at a deep psychological wound, as yet unhealed, as she informed me brusquely that her grandmother had promised to teach her, and she stormed off. Also, there was a ginormous drum at the Japanese site which was beaten athleticlally by a couple of sweeties. The damn place was life affirming, and this is a lot coming from a dour sceptic like myself.
Timely word request. [Race] has been in the news quite a bit lately. Somebody thinks this would be an excellent choice for a vid. (It has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I have been requesting this word for months, now.
Somebody has always got to race for something
[run] like a hun….my nuns said: that they were a made up race of stolen babies…the HUNs
[tribes] of the bribes…. 
[continental] and the jet set
Race is a cereal food which is a staple in Oriental countries, often eaten very quickly with a curry, hence the phrase “Curry in a hurry”.
It’s true I tell you.
OK, I get it, “rice” is just the Cockney pronunciation, right?
If you prey upon rice, are you a cereal killer?
No, just a post-cerealist.
Only if you reap it.
The ads in my e-mail were pretty freaky. The e-mail had your response and two replies from leonard. It actually made me smile out loud.
My winter conceived kitten is KING COOL…How are your cats?
…ethnic pride and ride your races with Hot Words of for
PS—{how is a running race started}? pace your self
Kittens are doing great. Time to find a home for two of them. My granddaughter is keeping Bones here. Maia and three big kittens are taxing the litter boxes capacity
. All are healthy and active. Maia went through another heat, so I need to hurry up and get her fixed. Good times!
What were these freaky ads for?
some curry recipes, race betting sites, curry farming, an ad about nuns (?), a book about Huns, racial demographics… ya know, the usual stuff.
Nothing like the privacy and intimacy of e-mail
GO-g0-Go-gone
Dear Teacher,
Please tell me the origin of the word [human].
I always love your work!
Thank you!
If Nice is Nice, then what about NYC?
New Yoik is Noisty.
You didn’t get it Bob. Pronounce NYC.
Oh yes I did. How’s my Bronx accent?
Monty Python might say, “We are the knights who say ‘NYC’ “
NYC is nothing else than a GARGANTUAN BANANA.
Ahem.. I wanted to mean a big apple of course. Let us not exaggerate and inflate things too much here.
You guys are rough today.
We’ll have to petition Marina for a case of Neuro Sleep for the house.
Everybody take a nap.
She wakes up the beast, she’ll have to sing us a lullaby now.
Couldn’t reply to you at 59.1.1.2.3, so am replying here:
The discussion in 59.1.1.x has to do with the quality of the ad (it has nothing to do with whether or not to do business with G’D).
Couldn’t reply at 59.1.1.2.3?
I see… But 35.2.X has nothing to do with ads quality or doing business with GoDaddy actually. As a matter of fact, it has to do with gargantuan bananas and big apples.
Nevertheless, I just decided to grant you and everybody else the right to continue 59.1.1.X here, for free.
[United Brethen]…my cabin , they built and for another word request-[nano] and [allegory]
Polka Family Christmas@Pulaski Polka days
ps–I’m selling free LUV [tickle me] tender loving care—tlc
Quote
“Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things.” – Epictetus 55-135 A.D. “What about things like bullets?” – Herb Kimmel, Behavioralist, Professor of Psychology, upon hearing the above quote 1981…PS—-what does “TRON” stands for?**!**[sits]
Diantre, that’s a very easy one, in reality. Things like bullets can be viewed as a bunch of orderly aligned mini-fokkers waiting to take off and wreak havoc on some unwary ennemy. Even if you can’t see them coming, at least you know you can view them coming (and kinda hear them too). This allegory should reassure Herb Kimmel in at least a couple of his existential wanderings and help him calm down and get some sleep too. If at least Herb can view what he can’t see, some progress has been made towards some direction if not some goal I say.
“I was never good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.” – Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (1892 – 1918)
Today’s trivia quiz:-
Who invented the number “zero”?
Who invented Algebra?
Zero: obviously the French, for keeping score in tennis, a sport which they “love.”
Algebra: invented by al-Jabr, an Arab noted for prattling on about math.
Definitely a “wog enwog.” 
(Sorry — that was pretty obscure.) 
(Dear me — also non-PC. Puns before propriety, eh?)
There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
One of your facetious [stabs in the dark] was quite close to the truth but in the wrong sense so I must make a reduction in your extra credits.
You could redeem them by telling which famous (wog enwog) poet found the way to solve cubic equations.
BTW – you missed a chance of a pun in your post -
Bob,
I could name the “wog enwog,” but that would lead us back to the old tired puns about “algo-rhythms.”
Re my missing a pun: “prattle” is a synonym for…
Well Zorro of course! Zorro was a great hero and they wanted to combine Hero with Zorro to make Zero. He like it very much because he could quickly strike a circle with one stroke whereas making the ‘Z’ took three strikes.
Algebra is a combination of bra wearing algae. If you see to little green bubbles in the water that the female algae called Algebra.
I thought “algae bra” was a female undergarment worn by mermaids.
And algo-rhythms are the periodic occurrences of toxic algal blooms which happen in warm weather.
Algorhythms also occur when a certain former US Vice-President and Presidential candidate is on the dance floor.
I’ll have to fill in for leonard and provide
Saved by Zero
Not available in your country.
I think MI5 are censoring UK YouTube.
Try this link from Dailymotion.
The other link is on the Universalmusic YT page, so I’m sure Universal had a say in that.
I seem to recall that the Mayans came up with zero earlier than the rest of the world, and that Algebra was invented by a middle-eastern mathematician named Al-Jabbar.
You will find the answers in this BBC program.
Congratulations you have recieved enough views that we can’t update in real time!
Yes YouTube… Congratulate me for you freezing my views.
That’s funny. I did read somewhere that they do that.
Very good lesson Marina.
Hey, speaking of Greek words, here’s a handy Greek phrase:
“Euripides, Eumenides” which translates roughly to “you bust it, you fix it.”
That’s cool! I was going to start learning Greek but gave up. I know long have a reason to learn it.
I also long to know a reason to learn Greek.
Well I discovered it’s all Greek to me and I’ll never understand it.
I did take a look at Russian. I notices some things about it that really explains why Marian chooses certain English words the way she does. All this time I thought they were all rude people.
Your “rude people” impression derives from an etymological misunderstanding. “Slav” derives from the Russian word for “word.”
Hey Captain Jack,
I was touched by your comments in this dialog with Evan. I can relate to your comments, not with Marina, but with former girlfriends. Language was not an issue, but certain worldviews, long held beliefs and other factors were part of the communications challenges. Body language, whether available in real life or non-existent in the written word also plays a part in it.
This has been a topic of interest of mine for some time and I wished I knew more about it to the depth of knowledge that probably aLx has.
No, it’s from their sentence structure.
From russianlessons.net
“2. Russian does not use complicated sentence structures like English. You can normally say exactly what you want with just a few words. For example, in English to be polite we would say something like “can you please pass me the salt”, however in Russian they would say something simpler like “give salt please”. Speaking so directly may even feel unusual for an English speaker, however it is perfectly normal, just add the word ‘please’ to be polite.”
If someone said ‘give salt please’ I feel I should slap them for being so rude. I like the efficiently of the Russian language but I also like how English adds a bit more to encourage someone to pass the salt. Without this, I might be inclined to say “Get it your own damn self!”
Good observation, CJ. It sheds some light on why the Japanese consider us so rude. They have loads of words to convey politeness, so that we probably appear brusque or rude to them.
Good observation, CJ. It sheds some light on why the Japanese consider us so rude. They have loads of words to convey politeness, so that we probably appear brusque or rude to them.
Yes! You’re right. Japanese language shows much respect to the person they are speaking to. That is exactly my point with the Russian language. Marina and I have been experiencing some communication issues. It feels like whatever I say is taken as an insult or the likeness of one. I’m not sure if the the language differences is suspect but I think it’s definitely worth a look at.
I’m going to study a bit more about Russian language and compare that to what I been saying in hopes I can better communicate with her. I don’t want to feel like I’m walking on egg shells with every email draft.
Kalispera and efcharisto Evan, for adding to our Words and Phrases sack o`goodies.
And I’ll contribute this video link!
I remember entering Athens near dawn on the train, and greeting two of my fellow passengers with “Kalimira!” Their response:
“Qu’est-ce q’il dit?”
“Bon jour.”
I just seen this quote from somewhere on line this week. [For the life of me], I can’t remember where though.
So true, Captainjack. One might even see this as a right-brain vs. left-brain dichotomy.
Hum never thought of it that way.
I wonder why men have separation of their brain while women use their brain as one whole. Must be some kind of reason for this. I still don’t know why men still have nipples.
So one half of the brain can feel them and pretend that it’s making love to the other half.
How do I pronounce FCCCR? F-Seer maybe? There is one other way, but it might get me kicked out of the classroom.
Here’s one I found interesting, SWAT has two acronyms. It was originally “Special Weapons Assault Team”. But since it sounded too violent for a police force, it was changed to “Special Weapons and Tactics”.
Am I the only one to discover the secret acronyms
being sent by Marina? Don’t tell anyone, these
are highly secret acronyms.
YMCA
KARL
Oooh, too dreadfully clever, PK.
U-2
YMCA=Young Marina’s Class is Awesome.
KARL=Knowledge Administered by a Real Lady.
Karl’s a lady?
You, Me, and a Canopy ♪ I think that’s an old sailor song.
more is telling…
An aptronym is a name aptly suited to its owner. Fictional examples of aptronyms include Mr. Talkative and Mr. Worldly Wiseman in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678), Truman Burbank (true-man), the lead character in the 1998 film The Truman Show and the principal cast of the Mr Men (1971).
A related phrase is nominative determinism, popularised by New Scientist magazine, suggesting, with tongue firmly in cheek, that people’s life choices are influenced by their names. The distinction is subtle but fundamental: as post-hoc versus propter-hoc, so aptronym versus nominative determinism.
leonard, in your lucid moments, you really come up with some interesting material!
Ghastly acronyms infest the world. When I was a draftee, I discovered the military was peppered with acronyms. I seldom knew what they were talking about. I remember only one from the military and it’s MOS, for military occupational skill. I listened to an audiobook recently, called “Homage to Catalonia” by George Orwell, where every political party, and there were mucho, had a acronym. My advice is that if you decide to listen to the book, or read it, keep a pencil and paper handy to jot down the acronyms and keep them sorted out. Great adventure book.
Luckily this lesson was not SNAFU,
and neither was the SNAFU lesson.
I love the thumbnail over there at the right; a.c.r.o.n.y.m.
So, is acronym an acronym. Maybe not, but I like this one:
A Contrived Reduction Of Nomenclature Yielding Mnemonics
Oh oh, there is another word that looks
suspiciously acronyminic – [mnemonic]
Might be an infinite recursion.
[mnemonic] derives from the Greek Mνημοσύνη or Mnemosyne, the muse of memory.
I use this as the name of my journal. 
Hey PK, there’s some term for re-interpreting a real word as an acronym. Do you (or anyone else) know what this term is?
Hey Evan, yes, I just came across that
word about an hour ago, and dang it if I didn’t
try to remember it. As soon as I find that word,
I’ll let you know.
http://searchcio-midmarket.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid183_gci211518,00.html:
“An acronym in which the short form was original and words made up to stand for it afterwards is called a backronym. (For example, SOS was originally chosen as a distress signal because it lent itself well to Morse code. Long versions, including Save Our Ship and Save our Souls, came later.)”
Hey Evan,
Yup, that’s the one. I was a little hesitant to cite that word as I was thinking of something else in terms of backwards definitions.
By definition, a backronym is a reverse acronym a phrase constructed after the fact to make an existing word or words into an acronym.
In fact, I was working on some words and I will post them up above in a few.
There are many humorous backronyms in aviation travel based on the names of airlines, e.g.
SABENA=Such A Bad Experience, Never Again.
LIAT=Luggage In Another Timezone.
LUFTHANSA=Let Us F^(< The Hostesses And Not Say Anything.
QUANTAS=Queers And Nymphomaniacs Travelling As Stewards.
Of course QUANTAS is a real acronym standing for Queensland And Northern Territory Air Service.
@Bob
That’s quite a quanta-ty of airline acronyms!
Quantas is spelled Qantas. q always has a u: queing is a custom of long standing.
SPQR (“Senatus Populusque Romanus”) was an acronym or abbreviation on Roman banners.
OK, per jindai below, it was an “initialization,” not an acronym.
I’d like to know whether [BLAT] derives from an acronym or not.
Hey music man! Did you see this..PLAYING FOR CHANGE: PEACE THROUGH MUSIC | One Love | PBS
thought you might like and everyone else…have a good SUNDAY
Well I can honestly say I’ve been to church now that I watched this vid, Leonard. Thank you. Very powerful words are both sung and spoken here. Peace, brother.
That was a wonderful and funny lesson Marina. I couldn’t help but crack up at the flying F. FCN A, I can pronounce FCCCER. It is the YouTube title. Very funny.
Hey, I loved your little annotation regarding
the acronym that did exist prior to the 20th century.
ΙΧΘΥΣ (Ichthys or Ikhthus) meaning fish.
Iota (i) is the first letter of Iēsous (Ἰησοῦς), Greek for Jesus.
Chi (kh) is the first letter of Khristos (Χριστóς), Greek for “Christ” or “anointed”.
Theta (th) is the first letter of Theou (Θεοῦ), that means “God’s”, genitive case of Θεóς, Theos, “God”.
Upsilon (u) is the first letter of huios (Υἱός), Greek for Son.
Sigma (s) is the first letter of sōtēr (Σωτήρ), Greek for Savior.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthys
Kudos, PK. (In case you were fishing for compliments.)
Also, the above acronym is related to another type of writing device called an acrostic.
The individual words of the acronym above are also an acclamation;
“Jesus Christ, God’s Son, Saviour”
In Greek, it would be Iesous KHristos which would become IKHTHUS or Ichthys meaning fish, hence the use of the fish by early Christians.
Another interesting piece of etymology: “Yeshua” in Hebrew & Aramaic became the Greek “Iesous,” Latin “Iesus,” and ultimately the English “Jesus.” I wonder if He would even recognize the name.
Schools…learn to net and swimming 4-ever…eating schools of fish for family fun…
I removed it because I am not so sure how true that theory is.
Didn’t you remove it soon after you put it in, way back yesterday? Anyway, any news on the bug in SCO Super Comments that creates incomplete links?
Hi Marina,
If you mean by removed, the ΙΧΘΥΣ annotation, it is still there at 1:14
Referring to “… how true that theory is.” it is true that it opens up a huge bag of rhetoric, ad hominems and folk lore. I’m a student of ancient religious traditions, but I’m not an expert, yet, in determining the veracity of what is usually taken for truth, other than through lots of cross referencing many different author’s works.
Besides verifying the historical written works and historical evidence, there is the argument whether that which was written about, was historical fact, or an act of faith and then there are arguments of when these events and writings occurred, in other words the problem of back fitting. And then of course there is the issue of determining if it was a true acronym or an initialism or just an acrostic.
Evidence of the interpretation of ΙΧΘΥΣ appears to be preserved in the catacombs of Rome dating around the 2rd century.
The Hebrew language has a long history of acronyms that were pronounced such as the Hebrew Bible called the Tanakh (TNK, TaNaK) which is an acronym composed from the Hebrew initial letters of its three major sections from the
Torah, the five books of Moses,
Nevi’im or prophets, and
K‘tuvim known as the “writings”.
Among the Hebrews, there was the “atbash cypher,” a way of writing in code. “Atbash” is an acronym for אתבש “aleph tau bet shin,” a sequence of Hebrew letters describing how the code worked. Very simple code, yet scholars puzzled for centuries over Jeremiah’s reference to “Sheshak” — until finally one recognized it as atbash cypher for “Babel.”
PK,
Re your above k’tuvim (plural of k’tuv)
“Katoob is a light-weight, multi-lingual, BIDI-aware text editor. It supports opening and saving files in multiple encodings. The main support is for Arabic language, but language specific features can be added. It should run on most BSD and POSIX compliant operating systems.”
Both k’tuv and katoob come from a proto-Semitic word meaning “write.” Katoob is also the Nepalese word for “book,” adopted from Arabic, though Nepalese is Indo-European.
BTW “t’ank” you for your comment.
Tnk ntng of it.
Playing [hookie], weather is too nice.
Heard where ["shot glass"] came from the other day, something about trading bullets for liqueur.
Bottoms up!
Nazdorovye, Che.
Here’s a weird story, to battle the skunks spraying around the house I started to pee around the property. So last night I peed off the deck and when I got up the next morning a dead skunk was laying there next to where I had peed.
It’s either a coincident or something in my diet poison that little stinker.
{Che must now go read the warnings on all prescription medication}Don’t tell the local Department of Sanitation or Waste Water Treatment, but marking your turf doesn’t hurt when it comes to critters that live close to the ground like skunks. I had a situation once where animals were keeping me awake and ruining my gear by gnawing on it and generally making a mess of things. I collected my urine in a big fruit-juice bottle and poured it out carefully into a complete circle around my whole camp. Took a couple days to complete the process, but it was worth it.
Apparently, the animals sniffing along the ground tend to register the concentration of nitrogen in the urine and that (plus the freshness) tells them whether they’ve blundered into the territory of a dangerous carnivore. In my case, make that a BIG carnivore. Ooo, scary! I had no problems as long as I continued reinforcing the boundary at the access points (where my own foot traffic disturbed the soil). My problem there was mostly raccoons and porcupines. Of course, a skunk is crazy fearless anyway.
Hey, I just realized: a skunk’s only natural enemy is the great horned owl or maybe a barn owl if it’s big enough. They can gobble down a skunk whole, with no ill effects from the scent glands. Not sure how that helps you, but it’s something, anyway. If you can figure a way to lure the skunk out into the open when there’s an owl hunting nearby, you may have it licked.
Better days, Che…
Good to have my belief in marking out my territory has some merit.
I just figured if this is what other animals do I just do the same.
Two days ago a Bobcat cross right in front of me it was lean & muscular as it ran across the road.
Hi Marina, would you explain the origin of the word [neighbour]? I keep thinking it has got something to do with the horses’ neigh. Thanks!
Yeah, neighbours are those living within the sound of a horse’s neigh. Right.
From Anglo-Saxon “neah” (near) and “gebur” (dweller).
BTW Marina, the emoticons keep disappearing. I have to type in the codes for them.
lots of hand movement there, they are well timed. lol…
Dear Marina,
Thank you for your video on acronyms. In business, government, academia, the military, and elsewhere, acronyms are unavoidable. I hope that you will someday present us with affectionate acronyms, such as S.W.A.K. (sealed with a kiss).
Seesixcm6
or keep It simple stupid
..t.A.T.u kisses
…kinda acronymist…
You know Marina. This was a very clever lesson you did. You found a way to cover all those profane words that people keep asking about. You did it all in one simple lesson. Now that’s intelligence!
Like I have said in the past; I could give you the keys to a ship and I would feel confident that you would manage it well somehow.
Ok I have one for you all. ‘T.W.I.C.’ I’m required to have one or risk being arrested and loss of my ticket. They are not cheap at $132.50 bucks. The readers for this are pricey at $2k to $5,000 bucks. They are even required with crews as small at 14. Interestingly enough, there is word out that it might be discontinued. All this money wasted at the expense of the vessel owners.
Does all this protect our docks? Nope! They are very easily by passed in a dozen different ways.
I would like to request the word [joystick] for all apparent reasons ;P
Literal pronunciation: “Eff See See See Eee Are”
I haven’t the slightest clue as to how one would pronounce that as an actual word (instead of saying the individual letters). Then again, I don’t have 2 degrees in Philology.
It’s a joke — see comment #9 below.
What a great lesson! Loved the laser gun effect. You’ve been mighty [PROLIFIC] this week, Dear Teach. Really appreciate you.
Always.
2. I would like to request the word [Fitzgerald]
“Fitz” is a prefix meaning “bastard son of.” Perhaps related to the French fils, “son”. If my memory serves right, the name [FitzGerald] was brought to Ireland by the Norman French, overlords who eventually became Gaelicized.
There was a movie a couple of decades ago called “Fitzcarraldo” about an Irish entrepreneur in Peru, “Fitzcarraldo” being a Hispanicization of “FitzGerald.”
Cool film, but unfortunately it’s also a classic example of how the Europeans just ran roughshod over anything they considered to be “wasteland” like virgin rainforest timber in Paraguay and Brazil. Have you seen “Bye Bye Brazil?” Some vaguely similar thematic motifs there, but with a more local influence. Three nipples. Check it out.
Hi PT,
Yeah, I saw Bye Bye Brazil when it first came out. Thematic motifs — do you mean, punching roads into the rainforest?
I remember walking out of the show with my (now ex-) wife, and hearing her say, “They sure speak a weird dialect of Spanish in Brazil — I could hardly understand a word of it.”
*shakes head, looks at shoes* Humans are amazing creatures.
I would like to request the word [Chewy]
FUCKER!
PHuQuer
FHaCHure 
an ounce of PROnounceMENT 
phuker
Many young single men who go to Thailand, go to Phuket.
Another island…Beast with two backs
Meaning
Partners engaged in sexual intercourse.
Origin
This modern-sounding phrase is in fact at least as early as Shakespeare. He used it in Othello, 1604:
Iago:
“I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.”
Sounds like the [Missionary position].
Doing it whilst Tweeting on your iPhone would be an iMposition.
The beast with two fronts would be Mission iMpossible.
You are good…Bob: here is the city down the way of the road***EAA Warbirds of America…A likeness of cartoon character Bullwinkle the Moose is a conversation piece on the nose of a Yakovlev-11 airplane in Oshkosh this week.
