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The origin of the word matchmaker. Plus, win a date with me 
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Telephone
yes [port and starboard] sorry for the bad spelling
the daddyvahn
Love your ruler…Yes, I got set-up one time long ago– and you would not want to hear the end of it;
she said to bend over and smacked!!! Tila Tequila – Hot for Teacher……….Play another game with Marina Orlova
…
here is a word
water fluoridation
see information about water fluoridation at
http://www.youtube.com/user/hotwaterish
http://www.fluoridealert.org/
Kurt Warner just got [lambasted] in the football game. I would like to request the word [lambaste].
I haven’t been set up on a blind date, but I have had people recommend girls to me. I never got to the dating stage with them, though.
Dear Marina,
I must drive to Riverside on Monday, but I see that there will be massive rains in Southern California next week, with four rainstorms lined up and coming in off the Pacific. So I probably won’t be able to drive out to LA for lunch at the Blu Jam Cafe.
Maybe I’ll see the March Field Air Museum, unless their specialties are “airplanes, covered with tarpaulins.”
I hope you have a safe trip and return for your onference in Central California!
As the French say, “Ils pleuvant des chats et des chiens.” Идти дождь коты и собаки.
Seesixcm6
Marina !
At last ! I did it
(is it an euphemism ?)
in France, I hope you will visit me (euphemism) 
(it’s true).
if you really insist 
(not an euphemism)
Shucks ! (euphemism) I like you ! (euphemism)
I am a bit too old for you ! (euphemism)
When you will come (euphemism ?)
Don’t be afraid I am not a perverse
Although…
Marina !
I can not log in to date.com
J’ai un peu de probleme le premiere temp aussi.
1, I could not find velcro, 2, I cannot find aspirin,
3, how about….. [for unlawful carnal knowledge] ie, [ f**k ] or [firetruck]
like ;-}>= wht word contains the letters [c, u, k, f, .....?????]
thx….. lolv
‘lots of love’ [my own invention, I’v not seen it any where else,
when u use it Id like credit plz,thx
D
David
DAP
plz send an email rply dapt@att.net
D
Hi Dapt. I know it’s a little to late but putting your email address on an open site like this can get found by bots and spiders. These are programs that hunt for email addresses to spam. I hope it is disposable address. Peace Bro.
[HARP]….to dwell…triangular stringed instrument or like a harpy=half women, filthy monster ……..[pianoforte]
I would like to know why we use the terms [port and starburt] to describe directions and or sides of a vessel
You mean [port and starboard]. Starburt is where they sell expensive coffee.
[Avar]
[avarice]
[Magyar]
[Hungary]
[hungry]
***LossForWords presents More Phractured Philology***
The Avars of Central Europe were known for being avar-icious. They were later supplanted by the Magyars, who are merely Hungary.
“It’s true, I tell you!”
™CampKohlerI’m hung in agreement…
[affusion] and let me pitch like tar(har-har)
Making any hay, Evan?
…goodkNyght to all that is reading or being read to
…think like an award in China by the white sky 
………..
Did my comment Magyar day?
Ah, yes, the eager Uygurs…
Making hay…are you asking euphemistically? See last lesson, or Phractured Philology: Euphemism.
from Evan of ‘last year’—
…TV interview of Marina* Oswald Porter by American reporter Jack Anderson. “Who Murdered JFK?” Know pun intended— Lee Harvey Oswald daughter June Oswald interview
——–The judge refused to pronounce a long sentence, arguing that it was beyond his jury’s diction.
from Pundemoniam by Alan Lewis
REQUEST___–_[Martyrdom] or [Suicide]? [Cult] or [Movement]?
“The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.” – definition of “happiness” by John F. Kennedy 1917-1963…barking dogs 
“How da fark R yah” pious pork…have a great day fellow HotForWorders 
The local grocer, from India, said Punjab means “five rivers,” so I replied, “Sikh and ye shall find.”
He must have thought that was a pun-jab because he sikh’d his dog on me. 
ava(t)ar
smile
loveY
bizarre Tvicx
will not be in a while …,,,…
HOMEWORK
No, I’ve never been on a blind date.
WORD(S) REQUEST
Does the word [infantry] have anything to do with [infants]? I started to wonder when I heard that a large number of infantry are going to Haiti to help in the relief mission.
Marina, I tried to enter to win a date with you, but the list had a question: “body type.” When I clicked on it, it just said “please choose” but it had no choices. It would not let me go any further.
I’m letting you know about this since it might deprive you of a date with me, and that would be tragic.
hotrocky,
See my notes and screenshot
http://www.hotforwords.com/201.....ent-165228
Thanks, Karl!! It worked! Now it’s just a matter of time before Marina gets to go to McDonald’s with me.
Hey, that would be great you guys going to MaCdonalds.
Can I be chaperone?
Oh, I’m not worried about you.
I’m worried that Marina may be attacking you.
Oh? You want that?
Well, OK, then, I’ll bow out.
Young hot chix like older guys. especially if the guys are rock and blues music celebrities. Tell you what, you can come along if you pick up the check.
Why yes, yes I have.
I was on the East Coast when my friend in CA fixed me up with a girl of Japanese/Irish decent. She was a tennis star with very strong leg muscles. You may now use your imagination.
I took her to Quebec City. It was a fix up and a road trip rolled into one. It was delightful.
me and You ,,, thats a Match!
and a Catch
without ,,, hatch… so to spracht … guten nacht!
I do L You
nice booktip in the end of below, if You already haven´t read!
http://blogg.englunds.info/#po.....st104
Why is hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia mean a fear of long words and where did it come from??
Wow that kind of sounds like I’m an idiot
Hello girlangell,
Marina did a video lesson on the origin of the word Sesquipedalian which is part of the word that you are requesting.
You can find the video on the origin of Sesquipedalian here:
Notice at 0:05 seconds into the video you will see the word “hippopotomons…” that you requested flash on the screen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6PdE54NCGE
You can also find the word in a list of words by clicking
the ALL WORDS link at the top left.
http://www.hotforwords.com/200.....esqui-wha/
[You have mentioned before about how words aren't really words such as "sexting", How exactly does a word become a word? And who is in charged of deciding this?]
A word becomes a word when enough people use it long enough. There are no hard and fast rules — language is not an absolute yes/no science (despite what dictionary worshippers might declare). A word may have meaning and usage among one relatively small subculture or social group for a short time, thus never become part of the general lexicon of the given language (you should see all the words rejected from any given edition of a major dictionary…it’s fascinating, and I would wager that anyone here has used one or two of these rejected words once or twice in their lifetimes). Some languages, like French, have a national policy of being officially conservative, and there’s both an official and unofficial policy of rejecting neologisims and foreign loan words (though they still creep into the language!). English has generally tended to be a rather ‘open’ language because of both its multi-language roots and its imperial history. For example…ever wonder how many times ‘jihad’ needs to be used in near-daily conversation and newscasts with the assumption that most if not all the audience understands some version of its definition before it becomes effectively, and eventually officially, an English word? If you used jihad even without any reference to Islam, would some if not most of your friends and acquaintances understand what you mean? Just like how ‘crusade’ no longer only refers to a Christian holy war but rather to any conflict or cause that requires great dedication, jihad is developing a similar English definition, with no religious requirements, albiet with a connotation of a greater degree of irrational fanaticism than what crusade implies. (just talking about the English language use of jihad, not its Koranic definition).
Hi traveller23,
Very nice write up. I enjoyed reading that.
“…generally tended to be a rather ‘open’ language…” is an understatement. English is a language created by immigrants and invaders — Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman French — and their subsequent pillaging of other languages for useful vocabulary. The one curious absence in the language is of words that are indigenously British — crag being a stray example — and the term “British” itself.
(Yeah, I enjoyed your post also. JEE-hawd! (That’s a terrorist trying to pass as a Texan.)
)
Ooh, yeah, that is a good point about no British words in English (or nearly so). Something I’ve thought about but never come across a really plausible answer. Something that also struck me — England and France were both territories that were once Roman but overrun by Germanic types…why did Gaul/France retain a Roman/Latin derived language and step away from its Frankish linguistic culture (Franks being a Germanic tribe) but Brittania/England almost completely adopted a Germanic culture, dumping most of its Latin (and as you mentioned, British) heritage. And in that same vein, England was Roman much longer than Dacia (modern Romania), and Dacia left the empire to be overrun by Germanic types and others long before the major western empire getting overrun…but Romania has a strongly Latin-based language and a rather Latin culture…much more so than surrounding countries that were part of the Latin west and Greek east for centuries more than Dacia. Now those regions are Germanic and/or Slavic for the most part.
No, don’t have any clever answers, your comment about the loss of the British native culture and language (except survivals in Wales and Cornwall) just made me wonder why things evolve the way they do even when said evolution is against apparent logic as well as trends observable in the history of nearby countries.
The answer to this puzzle may lie in three different types of invasions. One is a migration of people in which the newcomers may intermarry and merge their culture with the natives — sometimes simply adopting the native culture and language. Another is a genocidal invasion in which the newcomers either kill off or drive out the natives. A third is an invasion by a relatively small but militarily superior group, who then set themselves up as a ruling class over the natives. Each type of invasion has different linguistic results.
Without reading extensively, I’d venture a guess that the Germanic invasions of Roman Gaul were along the lines of the first type, where the Visigoths and Vandals pushed around the natives without annihilating them — and later adopted their superior Roman language and culture. The Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain was more genocidal, with the native Britons being either exterminated or driven into southern Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, and clear off the island to Brittany — leaving behind little of their Celtic tongue. The Norman Invasion was an example of the third type, in which the Norman French became the ruling class of what remained a predominantly Anglo-Saxon population — with the result that English has an Anglo-Saxon basic vocabulary and grammar with a French superstructure.
Hey dudes and dudetts. Here is a video I think you’ll find cool. American Idol, Pants on the Ground. This guy is 62 years old and is as spry as a teenager.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=popular
Ant and Dec prank Simon Cowell in American Idol audition.
I’d like to know the origin of the words [serendipity] or [epiphany] or the phrase “bought the farm” (websites don’t have anything conclusive)
So what’s the relationship between [match] meaning mate and [match] meaning the thing you use to start a fire?
Your match will start a fire in your heart.
[EPICenter]—–[plate] would be my request along with “Ring of FIRE”—the geographic region where the most earth quakes accounts!….[magnitude] and energy..
….Tori Amos Little Earthquakes …I have a [headache] and goodkNite
Penny Lane Strawberry Fields Forever …I’ve got to go and see-A-horse…[see-saw](child amusement)–[sea-horse]_________
Earlier today, Marina tweeted:
“Have u ever been set up by a matchmaker on a blind date?
Tell me the truth!”
Of course. When I first came to California, I lived by the beach near Redondo and I did the usual clubbing and parties in Marina Del Rey, West Hollywood, all the beach cities, Huntington, Sunset, Newport, Long Beach, etc.
My co-workers were all married and many of them set me up with blind dates all of which were great. Never had a bad blind date, ever!
After a year of that, I noticed a certain pattern and started to take matters into my own hands by becoming my own matchmaker. How? By asking every woman that I met, no matter if she was my type or not, out for a date (not coffee).
In fact, you won’t believe this, but since I had just gotten a new phone number, I was receiving a ton of calls that were wrong numbers. If it was a woman, I would ask her out on a date. Seriously, I really did. Guess what? Those were some of the best phone calls ever. None of them ever hung up on me, many wished me well, many told me they were married, some told me that they were old enough to be my grandma and guess what? I had five dates in one week during a one month period all from wrong phone numbers.
In other situations, I would ask every woman on a date (not coffee) in which I did business over the phone or in person. If I was on the phone with customer service, or calling the airlines or whomever I called, I asked every woman out on a date. And, guess what? I never used any cute pick up lines, ever. I told them I was new to Calif. and had no friends yet and if they would help me to get to know and learn about Calif. Some of the best dates I ever had than the ones that I met in the clubs.
After a year of that and having some great dates and having some great friends, I signed up with a singles service for $1200. Met a lot of great ladies and had great dates but nothing clicked. Then, I went for the personalized matchmaking service where I spent maybe close to $8,000 dollars to find that special someone. How did that go? Very well and the woman were all of very high caliber in terms of education, social skills, intelligence, hobbies and so on. Met a lot of great woman, but nothing clicked as the chemistry was just never right. Did any result ever come of a blind date? Yes. Can I tell you about it? Maybe.
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Moral of the story for everyone: (my opinions)
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1. People are people no matter the venue. You bring 100% of quality or not, to the table. Don’t blame the world out there. Keep in mind, there are three fingers pointing back at YOU.
2. You’ve heard the phrase; “When the student is ready, the teacher appears.” Well, guess what? When you are ready as a 100% giving life partner, your companion will appear.
3. For those of you who choked on my story thinking of the “bad”, such as how could anyone go out with a stranger thinking of the worst case scenarios. I can tell you massive horror stories of some of my best women friends who were verbally and physically abused by men they had known for years and married in their church. Character alignment is everything, venue is not.
4. Too many of you know what you don’t want. That is great, but, if your list of wants is shorter, unreasonable and is not aligned with your inner soul and character, then relationships of convenience are dime a dozen, which might work for you.
5. Too many of you are closed minded to experiences for which you have much wrong information and taking on an experience blindly is just as wrong. Making informed decisions about alternative ideas takes courage, lots of study, intelligence and sincere wonder and innocence as that of a child. For example, some pagan traditions during the two weeks of svyatki and many other traditions throughout the world can be an eye opener.
6. In the end, it is all about “Gnōthi Seauton” , the Greek aphorism that says “Know thyself” (Latin: nosce te ipsum). If you don’t know who you are in terms of your soul and character, neither will anyone else. Character and soul alignment is everything.
Your mileage and opinions may vary.
Gee, Karl, what with you living in the L.A. area, you’re begging the question: Have you ever asked Marina for a date? How did it go (do give us a gentlemanly reply)?
Are you ka-razeee Evan. I don’t ask anyone on a date. They all want to go have lunch with me. Didn’t you see M’s profile where she said; “I would like to “Do Lunch” with…?”
Do you know my real name? It’s AStone translated into English from my native language. Yeah, everyone thinks I’m into psychics, but they got it all wrong. I’m an emcee from from the Republic of Lexicon, as in E. is an EmCee two. You know Master of Ceremonies.
And as it might, M and I are probably cousins. Now you want me to be kissing cousins and marry her and repeat history?
What? You don’t believe me?
Well, check this out. http://i47.tinypic.com/2lvd3pt.jpg
Now, what happens when you click on this link? http://geni.us
Do you see what I mean? It’s all relative.
Now, you may be saying, what’s with the Meerschaum pipe?
E. only smoked a briar pipe. Well, that was on Tuesday’s and Wednesdays. The other days I, errrr, I mean he smoked a Meerschaum pipe. That was then. I, errrr, I mean he doesn’t smoke anymore.
You don’t believe me do you?
Well, go to the Google image search and enter the following three words:
einstein meerschaum pipe
and then look at the bottom.
You should get this link.
If you don’t see what I see, here is a screen shot.
http://i47.tinypic.com/dpefqu......jpg
Do you see what I’m saying? And how do I know all of this? If I told you, I’d have to send you to a black hole.
For once, I’m speechless.
I’m already in a black hole. If I let myself get sucked into this story I doubt I’ll be able to get out without being permanently altered. Besides I’m still a little pissed I’m not eligible to win, so don’t remind me about the contest.
I need to study for exams now. Do you remember that Marina said that she wants a man that earns $100.000/year or more? That’s not shallow at all, but whatever… she’s worth it, right?
I would like to request the word [utopia]. As an ideally perfect place, especially in its social, political, and moral aspects.
Marina talks about the word “make.” However, in the early twentieth century the word “make” was also a slang verb for having sex. This comes up in various double entendres as in Cole Porter’s “My Heart Belongs to Daddy” and in the vocals by Fats Waller such as his performances of Christopher Columbus.
I’d like to request the word [potluck], as in a meal where participants bring food to share.
Hello Everyone,
If you have already voted to nominate @HotForWords in one of several categories for the Shorty Awards, thank you. You only need to vote once.
If you haven’t voted for one or several or all of the @HotForWords nominations, please cast your vote at the following link.
http://shortyawards.com/hotfor.....words
Thank you.
I’ve been setup a few times. One time I ended getting fellatio, so I would consider that to be good.
Another time, my date weighed more than me, so that was not good. 
I’d like to request [drag]. As in “moving is such a drag” (which is what i’m doing today, ughhh).
Homework: [Nope].
[nope]…Surfer Blood was the first band of the evening as part of the AAM Showcase at CMJ, Thursday October 22nd
[cowabunga] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....vBE9ZXbtS4
[hothouse] request or [hotbath]
“Perfidia”— (Spanish for “perfidy”, as in faithless, treacherous or false) is a popular song written by Alberto Domínguez– has been recorded by many artists, including Charlie Parker, Mel Torme, Olavi Virta, Café Tacuba, Glenn Miller, Nana Mouskouri, King Tubby, Phyllis Dillon, The Shadows, The Ventures, Linda Ronstadt, Nat King Cole, Lawrence Welk, Luis Miguel, mandolinist Dave Apollon, The Four Aces, Olivia Molina, Perez Prado, Ibrahim Ferrer, Los Rabanes, and Ben E. King. Actually, more than 150 different versions are collected.The Harmonicats Perfidia Live in San Francisco
………..Julie London- Perfidia
…”Latin in a satin mood”
—check out theplaylist…+this for MARINA
Sometimes it’s good to take your blind date to a group activity. It helps to break the ice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....ZsunZ_Xdh8
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….Dutch guitarband The New Tellstars from Roosendaal. Their own arranged instrumental version of My Grandfather’s Clock was taped during an rehearsal in 1965.
great side show…
Ha! I suppose I have my twitty days.
This is some beautiful stuff! http://www.facebook.com/pages/KebayaGeulisCo/38439008854
I try to retweet you, does that mean I have to have be following you on twitter? I don’t see my RT? http://twitter.com/MickyFlanna.....gan
Hi keeekat,
I checked the Twitter timeline and I don’t see your re-tweet.
Question?
What twitter client did you use?
What method did you use to do the re-tweet?
1. Did you use the Twitter Retweet link below the message that you are trying to retweet?
or
2. Did you use the manual method to do a re-tweet?
If you used the Twitter Retweet link, it is possible that Twitter had some issues. They have had issues with retweets not showing up in the timeline. In fact, they will drop tweets during peak traffic hours as they are not able to keep up.
I see that you tweeted the Matchmaker URL, but it is not shown as a re-tweet, but as a normal tweet.
Your tweet in your timeline is shown as:
Most of the time I will use the manual re-tweet method which always works, unless there is a general issue with tweets.
If you wanted to re-tweet a tweet from Marina, here is how to do it manually. If her tweet looks like this:
Nerd Werd of the Day: KTHXBAI http://bit.ly
Then your re-tweet would look like this:
RT @hotforwords: Nerd Werd of the Day: KTHXBAI http://bit.ly/8PZ4ft
Ms. Orlova, not a single word, but I would like to know if the annoying tendency of [making nouns into verbs], such as “friend me,” is a new one, or has it just sped up recently?
Yours,
Bill
Oh, you want to know about verbing?
Light my fire!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flOvM4Z355A&feature=related
“Si Malakas at si Maganda”
“As a sign of friendship, Bathala planted a seed underneath the ocean floor. It soon grew into a bamboo reed, sticking out of the edge of the Sea. Amihan gazed upon it one day and heard voices, coming from inside the bamboo. “Oh, North Wind! North Wind! Please let us out!” the voices said. She pecked the reed once, then twice. All of a sudden, the bamboo cracked and slit open. Inside were two human beings; one was a male and the other was a female. Amihan named the man “Malakas” (Strong) and the woman “Maganda” (Beautiful). She then flew them onto one of the islands where they settled, built a house, and had millions of offspring that populated the Earth. ”
http://en.wikipilipinas.org/in....._Mythology
jejeje! Sweet! I still love Glamuor though! Too cute! As in clever! I’m busy in Bandung and Bali right now but this is to sweet! – Tell me what does “Mata Hari” mean? =)
Malakas and Maganda huh?
Amihan obviously didn’t interact much with the greek pantheon, or there was some very serious communication issues there!
Yes, I think there iare some serious communication issue there. Thanks
Previet Marina:
Kak de’ la ? vy mnye nravityes !!
Spa’ciba
WOH
Not to be overly chatty but ratings are disabled on YouTube
Hello, I would like to request the word “HOOTER”
Thanks!!!
And Happy new year!!!
I would like to request the word [pwn]
the phrase [I pwned Marina last night]
Wish I had the guts to enter that contest…………………
OMG!!!!! Did you really, actually change your hair color???????????
SAY IT AIN’T SO!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Happy New year or least happy old new year . I had a blind date once with a girl whos name belive it or not was Marina she was Ukrainian. One of the coolest women I have ever met.
С Новым Годом, Люди!
Sure, I’ve been on a couple blind dates. Once, it was with a tall, skinny, shy girl whose friends thought she was frigid (uh, she’s not!) and the other turned out to be the female roommate of some guy’s girlfriend (he had offered me a lift while I was hitchhiking in the mountains of West Virginia). You see, he was on his way to visit her, and figured I might be able to provide some useful distraction to her lonely roommate so the two of them might get a little alone time. He figured right. We played my guitar and sang some songs, listened to some Spike Jones records, enjoyed an incredible dinner, and then she asked me which side of the bed I wanted. To this day, I can’t say I’ve ever had better luck hitching a “ride.”
[condolence]
… …Marianne Faithfull – Vagabond Ways
nostalgic?
I would like to know why they call it [beer pong vs beirut]
Hwk: Yeah, but it’s not as fun as meeting some one in other ways. My theory: they hear too much about ‘how great’ you are ect. & ’cause it’s always set-up from a “trusted” source it removes a lot of the mystery (or danger) that seems to be a critical element to first meeting someone…
My sister once set me up on a blind date. It was very boring for both me and the girl. I’ve not gone out with anyone she has suggested since.
Call it a hunch, but I think Lena is the same person as Marina. I really liked Corinna, a person I saw on Hot4words channel. In Russia, it probably is Karina.
I wonder if we’ll have another video by this weekend, because on Monday, I must drive to Riverside for a week. After I finish with classes, I’ll visit the March Field Air Museum in Riverside. I hope its good!
USAF Museum at Wright – Patterson is excellent, too; only problem is, you have to be in Ohio to be there. Tourist Hell.
Oh my yes. /it was a blind double date, my buddy and me went to pick up these girls. They looked great, mine was a tall redhead, his was a cute il blonde. When we arrived however we noticed something weird. A jeep was dismantled outside… the parts arranged not in order of assembly… but from biggest to smallest. When we got back in after the rather quiet supper, we met the dad. He was a scruffy fat guy with 3 days stubble. He wore a grease stained wife beater (on this guy i felt the name of those shirts was apt) We sat at the kitchen table, his alcoholic hazed over eyes floated between us. He later thought it would be a fun game for us all to take turns slugging each other. My friend much stronger then me managed to stun him long enough for us to make an escape… but i got the car stuck in the mud. Again, as I said my friend is a strong fellow and moreso in a panic, he picked up the back of the car and set it back on the road. I peeled out of there to the sound of the girls apologising and begging us to come back sometime. “Daddys not always that hammered! calll usss!” my friend yelling “Drive faster! faster you fool you fool!”(sound of squeeling tires) we never did go back, I wonder if those girls ever found other dates… not sure if I care really. We never let anyone set us up again.
Here’s a video I like to play as often as I can.
I hope you like it too.
We are all connected;
To each other, biologically
To the earth, chemically
To the rest of the universe atomically
Hey Chemikal, thanks for sharing that. That was way cool.
Have you seen/heard this music? You may play this all day long.
I became aware of it via Marina’s tweet on Jan 2nd.
Mashup of Top 25 Billboard Hits by DJ Earworm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....Nzrwh2Z2hQ
I listened to it with pleasure, because not only was it a very good mix, it also brought back some memories from the past year.
I did see Marina’s tweet on the 2nd of Jan, but I didn’t like it much then because it took me a while to get back into it after the new year’s party that lasted well into Jan 2nd.
On his website, djearworm.com he refers to his book that he wrote explaining how he does the mashups. He posted the book index pages which are very detailed. Looks like the book is some 338 pages long. Very impressive.
These mixes are something else!
I wonder why he didn’t get in trouble with copyright though.
Chemikal, in his book on page 277 he does address the issues of copyright. I don’t have the book, so I don’t know what it says.
However, Weird Al Yankovic does address questions in his FAQ on his site regarding copyright.
One question is:
Does Al get permission to do his parodies?
In part it says;
“Al does get permission from the original writers of the songs that he parodies. While the law supports his ability to parody without permission…”
http://www.weirdal.com/faq.htm
i think for parodies you don’t need permission as it is covered by fair use.
Oh! I’ve just signed in and noticed my twitter comment I posted about half an hour ago.
Anyway I have not been set up by a matchmaker. Hell, I haven’t even been on a date in like over a decade.
I think you sniffed too much coke…..
Matchmaker reminded me of the movie scene at this link.
Reminder to Marina, today is Dress up your pet day.
Hi Teach, sorry I am late for class. I have CRS and forgot who’s house I was at last night. Back at mine now.
Home work: I think I had one or two blind dates in my time, for sure I had a few one nighters which are the best kind. It’s like the three monkeys when the one nighter is over. *\o/*
Hi Mike,
How’s it going, buddy? You might have noticed that I’ve been away from the site for awhile. Guess I had a lot on my mind while bidding final farewells to my close friend of 25 years. He was diagnosed with liver cancer back in March, but he’s in a better place now. Me? Still here on the planet surface trying to make the best of it. Peace, friend.
-Kent
Hi Kent,
I am sorry for your loss. My prayers go out to you and his Family. Loosing a close friend is like loosing a member of your family. I am glad you are still here as I missed your company. I am doing fine, just came back from my cardiologist and he gave me a clean bill of health. Take care pal and if you need to talk you can find my email address if you don’t already have it on my Facebook page.
Mike
Thanks bro. Gotta admit, 2009 has been one of the worst years on record, at least for me. Feeling helpless, like your hands are tied, makes it kinda hard to function in the real world. Oh well. Maybe now I can better concentrate on the stuff I need to take care of just for my own well-being.
my condolences kent. i’m coping with the helplessness of disease and mortality of friends and family as well. stay strong. email me if you have the need.
Okay. Thanks buzz.
Glad to see you back again Kent. My heartfelt condolences and may the memories of a dear friend comfort you. With peace and blessings.
Thanks Karl.
Date.com is absolutely gay. It deleted my profile while I was creating it. I complained in the support section, but only got an automated response.
I had to lie about my residence because they didn’t acknowledge the existence of Romania, or Russia for that matter.
I won’t be creating a new profile on their site, for two reasons. First is that they pissed me off by deleting my super cool awesome profile while I was creating it, without the possibility of getting it back. And the second reason is that, rather than winning a date with Marina Orlova over an internet contest, I prefer the next best thing… which is earning a date with her!
*insert dramatic music here*
why would you want to create a profile in the first place?
You can blame me for lying about my residence, but can’t blame me for trying to win, regardless of restrictions.
I figured I’d straighten things out after I bought my plane ticket.
They even have more countries in their database than available from the menu. If one substitutes some piece of HTML code in his browser (e.g. using the built-in source code editor in the Opera browser and clicking “Apply changes“), it’s possible to obtain a full list of provinces and towns in these countries and select one of them.
It’s enough to add for example:
<option value=”PL”>Poland</option>
<option value=”RS”>Russia</option>
<option value=”RO”>Romania</option>
inside the “select” tag with the id parameter “country”.
I even managed to register a fake account using this method, setting location as Poland, Warsaw, Warsaw.
LOL!
I thought any changes made within the browser are client side only.
That shouldn’t sync with their server. If it does it’s a serious error on their part. It means they are vulnerable, and can easily fall victim to abuse.
Yes, it’s a client-side only change that allowed to send an unmentioned option value to the server. I was surprised with the response of the server (full lists of regions and towns from Poland, Russia, Romania and maybe much more countries that weren’t officially mentioned). It looks like the site was still under construction and had a lot of bugs.
Must investigate…
The word matchmaker comes from the old English word pimp, which consists of pi and imp.
Pi is an irrational number approximately equal to 3.1415926535, while imp refers to a supernatural creature, similar to a demon but smaller and less powerful.
Another mystery solved by your busty HotForWords, but you can call me Hot, for short. I don’t mind! *winks ostentatiously*
Good-bye my dear students, be good!
What do you think? Should I do a full parody?
Gopher it!
Back in HS, my sisters used to hook me up with some of their friends. Usually worked pretty well unless I had pissed off one of my sisters…
uuuu… lucky! So sisters aren’t only headaches, like someone with a lot of them once told me.
It was kinda funny. When we were younger, we fought like, well like brothers and sisters. Since our late teens, we usually get along very well. God has definitely blessed me.
Incompatible characters somehow matched together, eh? AHA! He was probably momentarily blinded by the good-lookingness of his date! After a few hours of it, I bet the vision of running away from her already struck his mind like a million simultaneously lighthing synapses, and she gave him the choice between moving the fridge or cleaning up the place, in exchange for his freedom. The end of the story is obvious!
Homework:
1) Yes, via a friend.
2) Wretched.
Comments:
It’s cool to see you with the different colored wigs, but I still think that you look best as a blonde. Close examination of photographs (I do that) gives me the impression that your “real” hair is of fine texture, like a child’s. Anyone with a pulse would feel compelled to touch it. Lots of ‘boarders seem to have preferences, but I truly believe that with a face like yours, that you could put on a skullcap and cover your head with Silly String and we would all find you attractive. An experiment, maybe???
BTW those geek specs work for you SO well. I sometimes wear glasses, so four-eyed babes rock, to me.
Your vids just keep getting better with each one. Characters, location work etc. really add to the content. Still like the “cute little Russian girl next door” thing of your earlier work. Thanks for making learning and vid watching fun.
LoveToTeacher,
xoxodc
So what’s it like to make the first comment on a new lesson?
Well, I was sending a note to Rijk, when my screen said, “Error — website cannot be displayed.”
So I hit “refresh” and there was the brand new lesson.
It was as if my computer’s heart had skipped a beat in the presence of HotForWords.
Oh my, that’s so romantic.
Marianne Faithfull – Broken English 1980
….when I replied, I was under your comment and was surprised
As Tears Go By …;what miss matchmaker said to Steve
lol and that on a matchmaker
Matchmaker, anime-ted!
is it ok if i get to love a matchmaker like Marina?
Well, if she bears the title of matchmaker, you could ask her if she would match up with you. But if you want to be more subtle about it, you can ask her to match you with her sister.
Matchmaker me
http://www.hotforwords.com/201.....01/13/ma...
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RT @hotforwords: Matchmaker me
http://www.hotforwords.com/201.....01/13/ma...
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@hotforwords Haha I freaked out when I thought that you dyed your hair blond again. I was like “noooooooooooooooooooo!” x).
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@hotforwords gosh i love the hair and nerdyglasses!!!
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@hotforwords You should do a video segment on “Olly Olly Oxen Free”. I am curious to learn about the origins of that phrase.
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@hotforwords Marina, please fix me up with a pretty girl!
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Marina, you remind me of my mother.
No, not like that… Just that you were shouting her name all over the place. So you reminded me of her!
What?
Sorry I was too busy reading Matchmaker over and over again.
Marina,
At 1:18 you you certaintly resemble your Mom.
[Catharsis]. [Blood].
Please?
P.s.- You look gorgeous as a brunette.
[procacious] / [procacity]
Marina, by the way, great job on the split screen effect. I was trying to figure out whether you used green screen layering or split screen and came to the contusion it had to be split screen. Great stuff.
… Enlighten me please?
I will in a few hours when I’m at home.
Yay
Hi Chemikal, the concept of split screen goes way back to the early days of movie making and today is easily done in either photo editing or video editing software.
I’ll explain using photo editing software and the same principles applies to video editing. The key to perfecting the split screen technique is to make sure that you use a tripod. If you don’t have a tripod, just put the camera on a table, but the result may have some imperfections if you move the camera.
Set up the camera on a tripod to take a picture of you sitting on a couch as an example. Sit at the far right side of the photo. Take a picture and call it image #1. Now, get up and stand in front of the couch at the far left. Take a second picture and call it image #2.
Now, in your photo editing software, edit image #1 by making all of image black to the left of center or the 50% vertical line. You now have an image #1 where the left half is all black and the right half is you sitting on the couch.
Now do the same thing to image #2, but blacken all of the image to the right of the imaginary 50% vertical line. You now have an image where you are standing in front of the couch and the right half is all black.
If you have layers in your photo editor, put image#1 on layer1 and image #2 on the next layer and adjust layer1 so that the black disappears and both images appear as one image. You now have yourself in one image. If you don’t have layers in your photo editor, you can paste image#1 on top of image#2 and then use your Merge feature called something like “if Lighter” which will essentially make the dark or black areas transparent since the lighter parts of an image will show through. If the camera moved, you may have to adjust one of the images to make sure the merging of the two images is seamless. You don’t need to use a 50%/50% split. You can use any split combination such as 80%/20% or whatever makes sense for your situation.
The technique works identically in video editing where two videos takes are placed on two different video tracks. The color merge feature can be used or instead of using black, one can also use green or blue and then use the chroma key to “key out” the green/blue color. In fact, any color can be used, but with surprising results in some situaitons. The chroma key is just a special feature of merging colors feature.
Luckily for Marina, she had the help of her semi-identical sister to help her out in the video above.
By semi-identical sister, do you mean Capt. Jack?
I was aware of this method of shooting, but the editing wasn’t clear.
For example, why do you need to fill the image with color? Doesn’t it work if I just cut to size and merge, skipping the color filling all together?
I also wanted to know how you told that Marina used this method, rather than the green screen recording.
Thanks for the explanation.
Correct Chemikal, in a still image photo editor, you can cut the images instead of filling the other half and then stitching the images together. However, cutting an image means you might lose your original frame size. Let’s say the original images are 4×6. Cutting both images to 4×3 and then stitching will result in a 4×6, but, in practice can also result in 4×5.9 losing the integrity of the original 4×6 or the container if you will. So, it is a matter of tradeoffs in terms of actual use.
In a video editing program, one would not normally cut the video in half. You might say, but couldn’t you crop the video images in both tracks, which is similar to cutting an image? The answer is yes, you could, but messing with cropping also messes with the overall integrity of the cropped frame size, whether it be 4:3 or 16:9. So, yes, you can do it, and knowing these alternatives is just another tool to be used at some point or not.
How did I know that split screen was used vs green screen? By picking up on some visual clues such as distance of both people in the image which are far apart and one never sees the people overlap as can be done with green screen. With split screen, the scene is perfectly rigid since a tripod mus be used. With green screen, the second person can be filmed with a hand held and some small giggly movements gives a different feel to the video and the second character can overlap the first character.
Also, using green screen displays some artifacts around the perimeter of green screened image which can be identified in even the best of keyed frames since lighting of the green screen is critical. Therefore, split screens offer better visual quality with much less work and the character interaction is also more natural than with a green screen where one has to visualize the scene and angle of acting.
This must have been pretty exciting for Marina to shoot and edit. I know it would be for me.
You can get very creative using this method, I can see more videos like this coming up. Observing two beautiful women talk to one another is something that appeals to me. Even if it’s the same person doubled out. Double the Marina, double the fun.
Hey Chemikal, here is a homework assignment that will give you the answer as to why I know that the one scene uses a split screen.
The homework question is; where is the split? Use an object in the video frame to reference the split. For example, is the split to the left or to the right of the refrigerator handle. You can pick any other object as a reference.
Hint:
Do not cheat, but if you look at time two ohh four and the hand, your answer will be revealed, hehe.
As looking at the video, the cut is to the right of the handle, because the Red dressed brunette has spontaneous hand surgery. Cool!
I seriously don’t blame myself for not catching that earlier, because if you look a little to the left side of the refrigerator’s handle, you’ll know what I’m talking about. Sorry for beating around the bush.
Why do you think it took me till now to find it. Love those distractions.
Mr. PK:
Would you know if there are any more copies available of Ms. Orlova’s 2009 calendar? I know it’s of no use as a calendar (at least for a while), but I would love to get my hands on one to add to my Hot For Words memorabilia collection. Would that be Marinabilia? Ah! New word! Just curious.
dc
Hi doncross2bear, I will gladly sell you my calendar for a million bucks and I’ll even sign it any way you want.
Just kidding. I’ll check with Marina and I’ll let
you know or she will.
Contact me here and I’ll show you how to get one: http://www.hotforwords.com/con.....actmarina/
“…came to the contusion”? What, did you slap your forehead when you figured it out?
No, he walked into a bar.
Nice shades !!!
Dear Marina,
Your friend Lena looked great in red hair. I liked the way she adjusted her boobs, too. (At 28 seconds of the video.)
I’m glad you both wear low-cut, very short dresses. They must be easy to wash because there’s hardly any material. You probably could put a dozen of those dresses in the washer in one load!
Thanks for blowing a kiss at the end of your video!
No, I’ve never used the services of a matchmaker. Maybe later, when I get really desperate for a babe! Right now, I have other things to do.
Here is a word request: [scream]
You occasionally scream in your videos. It’s that loud, shrill, piercing noise you make in many of your videos. You might scream when you are frightened, as when you see a mouse. Or you might scream when you have an accident, like falling off a ladder. Or you might scream with delight, when someone makes you happy!
The word scream is derived from the Middle English word, “screamen.” It’s related to the Flemish word, “schreemen.” A comparable word in German is “schrei”, (to call out).
I think it would be nice to hear you scream with delight. Can you imagine a video scene in which you scream with delight? Perhaps a massage, or receiving a wonderful gift, or getting a nice greeting card from someone who likes you?
Seesixcm6
Hey seesixcm6, looks like the subliminal and suggestive wording worked on you since you said you never used the services of a matchmaker even though Marina’s question did not specify the word service, but only used the word matchmaker, which would include any kind of matchmaker situation, whether through a professional service, your mother, friends and so on.
A matchmaker provides a service, not a product. The service is the date with the woman, not the woman herself. Otherwise, we would call that person a slave trader.
Watching this video got me feeling a little amorous.
As I am sifting through my tea leaves, I see future
visions of amor. Wow, that would make a great video
lesson. Yeah, that’s the ticket, a lesson on [amor]
Ahhh, the Amor fati of it all.
Amour is the French word for love , an intense feeling of affection
The word “armour” came into use in the Middle Ages as a borrowing from the French. It is dated from 1297, as a “mail, defensive covering worn in combat” from Old French armeure, itself derived from the Latin armatura “arms and/or equipment” with the root arma “arms or gear”. 
…….
….just priming my friend
…prayers for HAITI…
Hey, I recognize that book in the video.
I have the exact same books
I wonder where you got that book? You must have gotten it here.
http://www.hotforwords.com/my-.....book/
That was a very entertaining lesson. Really enjoyed that.
HW: Have I been set up by a matchmaker? Oh yeah,
and it really went swell, errr… I mean well. Oh, this isn’t
the euphemism channel anymore? Have I ever been
on other blind dates? Ohhhh yeah. How did that go?
Very well, and that is another loooong story.
HW elaboration:
Since seesixcm6 made the distinction of never having been to a matchmaker service, I can say that I have been exposed to pretty much every kind of matchmaking situation all over the world. Not only through professional services, but also friends, mom and associates.
In fact all of my blind dates or matches were very memorable and had some great experiences. Specifically in Singapore and Australia, those situations were truly unique and one of a kind of experience. Those Aussies are amazing. When I say that, I am not referring to what one might refer to as a euphemistic innuendo or expression. I am talking about the people and the relationships that were formed. Remind me to write a book about it at some time in the future.
Met my wife on eHarmony; not quite blind, because we filled out an extensive quiz first and communicated before meeting.
A PhD psychologist recommended internet dating to me. But no girl yet wants me for a relationship leading to marriage. Be nice if she respcted my photography,, my folk guitar playing, my christian beliefs and my writing.
The Avengers – Be A Caveman
You don’t need a PhD quack to tell you that! Mine didn’t need to!
Have signed up with a few date sights over recent days due to latest lesson. Had some interestingly fun chats with a few gals already. It’s really really good to talk directly with them. It’s been interesting and lots of fun. Some fine ladies, easy to chat with, really smart too. I have never been asked about my closet geeky interests in micro-biology before which was a real turn on!! Thankfully, her fitness instructor qualifications allowed us to get deep in to amino acids, cells, proteins and epigenetics’ – Start small and work your way up to much bigger things, I guess!
There are some right hussy desperadoes gagging for some nooky as well, who will obviously one day die in a Y shaped coffin!! ssslllllaaaaaagggggggsssssss!!
keep your diseases in your sneezes if you so pleases, sweet lil darlings! 
…or in the porn industry which I hear worryingly, has a very high increase of STD’s going on in CA for instance. Each to their own I guess. “I’m bored, I’m going to come now!”
Scared off a couple but they couldn’t handle the truth equally as one scared the crap out of me, I think she was on some kind of man hate vendetta or something, wanting to kill her next because of her last! Already pre-planned or pre-assumed as to how and wtf!! So hung up, for health reasons!
Godchildren have arranged a blind date for me either this week end or next, should find out really, but previous blind dates have been horrid experiences to be honest. Have done speed dating with a friend a few times;. All were great evenings out and because I tend to get deep, three minutes talking was naff, still hung out, went clubbing later on and do keep in touch with each other still, even if it’s just for occasional coffee. Made a couple of new friends because of it so most worth the time and effort. You know where you stand at least!
Some healthy women are not so much objects of desire any more. I see these health warning stickers stuck all over them, which is good as helps to keep things balanced, on track. The thought of reading philosophy and sat in my garden shed drinking tea, is warming but I want kids and a wife to make and share this life with, so that will have to wait.
I think your interests are wonderful if you are in spirit with what you love to do. Love what you do, she won’t like 100% everything about your art but so what, perfection is a myth. Improving on what you do should be enough to prove to her, what you are about and to like you for who you are. She will be inspirit with your work in seeing how inspired you are with your self and talents. Don’t give a flying toss about what other negative idiots say or think about you or what you do, they are just nasty types, you know, shallow minded retarded dispensed sperm donations delivered in a hand cup….types! So love what you do, those in keeping shall do the same and love you for it. I read Robin Williams was voted at school, the least likely to ever succeed!!!! He was very smart as didn’t listen to all the, micro pool sperm deposits in hand cups types. Recently some pianist link highlighted this perfectly. Maybe Leonard or think Muggins could link it again. Apparently an amazing musician but took to heart what the jealous ones had to say and stopped, leaving endless more people with out his wonderful gift to enjoy! Told to be salient….shocking! People can be so mean, so crewel, a few litter bullshitters post here as with most web sights. I guess If people think you are on to a good thing or even if you are not, they will put you down more to gain their perverted kicks in seeing you fall. Backward ‘gang’ mentality that some seem to, well get off on and deposit more sperm donations in their hands!! Woot! Frak ‘em but love them more all just the same
anyhoo, another waffle page to be scorned, criticised (with an S please, ladies and gentlemen, I concede that Soccer came from the UK but the bastardisation of the English language is unforgivable!), parrot repeated or none of these things, unoriginal at best!
Be well
never…the big dog……oh I’m speechless…
ida
Maybe the harassment from fags is some screwed up CIA wierdo trying to force queers on me. I keep on wishing I had a gun to shoot at the fags on my street!! They all sound so overly confident and sure of themselves. But they will get nowhere with me. but I will not set myself on fire out of protest towards the CIA and harasment from homosexuals!! I do not go withing five feet of any of them. Or maybe Marcy Kaptur or lawyer Veronica Scharfy is having me harassed by gays like that. Wish I had a gun to shoot the fags!!
Hey, Mr. 10 commandments,
You ought to look for a fag-hating Christian bleeder here in Laramie, Wyoming. In our town, we string fags up on fences, pistol whip em unconscious and then let em bleed to death. You would love it!
My family’s foundation supports a local organization that educates and provides support to single Moms, so they can get better jobs than you must have. Tonight was a “graduation” for 10 of them. Before they went through the program, their average wage was $7/hour. Now, it’s $11.50 and if you married one, they could leave $10 in the collection plate at your church…or $10 worth of ammunition so your minister could go kill gay people with your donation to the kind of loving world Christ died for the sins of.
I have a book coming about online dating:
http://www.LoveDotCon.com
It’s based on a chick I met online, dated two years and who dropped me, two weeks after we got engaged because I wouldn’t buy an $800,000 house worth spit. Turned out I was going to be husband #6- not #4. She hooked a Guggenheim cousin after me, but she dropped him also and is now in FL fishing for millionaires. I get the Russian and Ukranian chicks at http://www.millionairematch.com
In the “Dot Con” book, I’ll be the ex-fiancee, who’s tracking down the killer…who turns out to be a transvestite ex husband of a lesbian dominant who wants “Mommy daughter” kink with the dead woman’s college aged, bisexual daughter.
http://www.laserradio.com/rmnp......html
How’s that grab you, lover?
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
Oo
guns are not the answer.. :/
“If war is the answer, then the question must be really f#@king stupid…”
-anonymous graffito, Fairfax, CA
Tony I can tell you the CIA has no interest in you. If you have been marked as a link to terrorism or a plot against the Government then NSA or the FBI would be the ones watching you. FEMA is the agency you should be more concerned with. It is not an elected body, it does not involve itself in public disclosures, and it even has a quasi-secret budget in the billions of dollars. This government organization has more power than the President of the United States or the Congress, it has the power to suspend laws, move entire populations, arrest and detain citizens without a warrant and hold them without trial, it can seize property, food supplies, transportation systems, and can suspend the Constitution. So don’t worry about the other people who you think are harassing you. Just live life and enjoy it.
FEMA huh? Thanks for the heads up. Even as I described FEMA in my book, I never got into the agency’s relationship with DHS, etc. As for CIA, they don’t have anything to do with US citizens in-country.
Back in 1988 I was wiretapped for seven months by FBI counter-intel (CI6) which got a warrant from the FISA court after NSA intercepted a KGB tasking order with me on it as a target. The FBI told me that CIA managed the protective surveillance, since they wanted me for bait- against the DC station chief. Since I was in CT at the time, FBI Bridgeport ran the wiretap. Since then I’ve always wanted to call the Russian embassy and ask for the current Science Attache and simply ask, “What ever happened to Alexi Moryakov, the Science Attache who was here in 1988 and who was actually KGB station chief for everything from Mexico City north? How’s his career doing? I hear he was a KGB brigadier general…and only 35 at the time. ”
I liked Moryakov. And when the FBI asked me to help bust him I said “no thanks”- not because I liked him, but because Hungary had just quit the Warsaw Pact and Berlin was about to go. I didn’t like the idea of decapitating Soviet intelligence in DC- just as the USSR was about to face the biggest crisis in its history. I didn’t know until later that Moryakov was then running Aldrich Ames in the CIA and ___?__Howard in the FBI and that those bastards were causing the deaths of dozens of American agents (including “Top Hat” , the most valuable double agent in the history of the Cold War.) But I knew then that the Russian mafia and KGB in the NYC area were nobody to mess with and I didn’t want to be on the KGB’s hit list. A month after I said “No thanks” to helping bust Moryakov, my book on hypersonics got cancelled by the British publisher. I started painting then.
As you said, “Just live life and enjoy it.”
Yep, Big Brother!!!!!!
Little brother is worst or just as bad…
…the lost wench wings her pay 
♪ Fiddler on the roof – Matchmaker♫
Wuerde ich ein Reicher…
Now I know how people feel when I post comments in Welsh.
I’ll translate: “If I were a rich man…” I wrote it in German; the Yiddish I don’t recall exactly, but it’s close. Wish I could put the musical notes in like you did!
alt+13 and alt+14 will give you the notes.
♪ ♫
wow;
Soul crazy…Got any matches?
EVAN you might like this match–Shetland Folk Festival 2008 – Hanggai…Hugely entertaining Hanggai filmed at the Shetland Hotel Foy
….more throat singing
Och aye, those Scots and their throaty singing!
As Zoltan said of his sister: “Hun? Her too.”