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Truth or Fail HotForWords Edition!

March 20, 2010
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Here is the HotForWords Truth or Fail Edition! Don’t fail!!!

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PMS

March 18, 2010
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PMS… let’s look at this “syndrome” that is all just in women’s heads. Yeah, right!

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Accent

March 14, 2010
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Accent.. where does the word come from? Oh, and I take a dig at bad accents in movies!

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Hooligans

March 10, 2010
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Those darn Houlihans! I mean Hooligans! Why are rowdy people called that?

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Bitch Slap

March 5, 2010
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The origin of the term “Bitch Slap” plus, meet my friend Erin who stars in the movie Bitch Slap which is a lot of fun! Be sure to follow Erin on Twitter @ErinLCummings

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Curiosity Killed the Cat

March 1, 2010
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That poor little kitty! What did he ever do wrong to be killed by curiosity! Don’t you all know that curiosity is BAD!!

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Oh, and here is where to order my book

Retarded

February 25, 2010
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Let’s look at the word retarded.

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In a nutshell

February 22, 2010
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Where does the expression “in a nutshell” come from?

“Pliny tells us that Cicero asserts that the whole Iliad was written on a piece of parchment which might be put into a nutshell” - Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1898

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The Nexus One naming controversy

February 18, 2010
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Let’s look at the Google Nexus One Phone naming controversy. Did Google name the phone after the Nexus-6 replicants from Blade Runner? Or does the word ‘nexus’ have an other significant meaning?

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Here is the Google video I did a while back as well.