BBQ Answer
Here is the answer to the BBQ game.
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Posted on April 20, 2008 · Filed Under Lessons
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Thanks Gorgeous and Thanks to Spain since I enjoy BBQ
YEAHHH I KNEW THE NUMBER ONE WAS THE CORRECT ANSWER…JEJEJE SPANISH OF COURSE
SOOO. HOTFORWORDS PLEASE, I REALLLY WANNA KNOW THE ORIGEN OF THE WORD HACKER :p:p:p PLEASE I THINK IT’S INTERESTING
Hi Marina,
I discovered your videos only recently and love your site. It’s great that you are once again proving that beauty and brains are not mutually exclusive. I heard the origin for ‘Threshold’ a few years ago and wondered if you could verify the explanation.
Thanks,
oHH Teach, NO NO. barbe-a-que, which means “from snout to tail.” [French] The French in Louisiana, slow cooking hogs?? Want most think is BBQ is Grilling. High And H O T. Where BBQ is low and slow, and mostly with smoke.
Ahhh the cannibals were not right after all????? You gave me false hope when you agreed that cannibals are infact always right. Theory number 1 did make the most sense though.
Forgot these
:shock: 
Hi Marina!
I wanted to know if you could tell us where the word HORROR comes from?
Hi Marina, What is the orgin of the word ” palaver ” Thank you for your kind assistance. Love your
vidios
Hi Marina!,
I would like to request the word tank top.
Hope you make a video on it!
Marina,
I really like your show. I think it beats any educational program other than the Discovery Channel.Can you tell me where the word Saracen?
Thanks!
Marina I would like to request the word hacker
Hi Marina,
Where did the term (Smart as a whip) come from, and how smart is a whip? Love your videos, congrats on all of your success.
What does forbeshyne mean (not sure of spelling)? Where did it come from? (See reference in T. H. White’s, The Once and Future King.)
hobbitditz
P.S. You are wonderful.
I love your videos. Could you do the word soliloquy please, I’m just curious where it came from. Thanks in advance.
Thanks for the 420 post, Marina! Can you determine the origin and meaning of the phrase “six up”. It is a warning used in certain circles to warn of police presence.
Thanks a bunch!
-Ian.
What is the origin of the word “NERD”?
Keep up the good work. I would like you to consider the origin for the word “leatherneck”….Thanks a bunch
wulfrob
What is the origin of the word “NERD”.
Dear Marina,
The 420 answer has been up on your YouTube channel for over 19 hours already and is still not showing up here. I’m wondering if YouTube compels you to give them an exclusive before you’re allowed to post it elsewhere or did you send it to your webmaster at 16:20 yesterday?
Hm, got this one wrong…
I did think that the Louisiana roots of sizzeling over fire and talking french made a good guess!
well… the answer why you ask who has been doing BBQ is that it is not the same as throw a steak on the grill, BBQ is slowly smoking meat and is more complicated than an ordinary backyard-party-grilling…
And no I have not done it but I would be fub to actually taste the difference!
Still think my explanation of the word (barbarian cooking) was the best anyway…
Hi Marina! I just want to know what the word “THE” means. It’s the most used word in the english language and not everybody knows what it means or where it originated from.
Hi
keep doing that
nice video
I am waiting the DVDs.
What about the origin of the word ‘news’?
Hello Beautiful Marina…..very cool site you have here. I am wondering about the word “Transvestite” your expert investigation would be appreciated.
Zartan43
Пожалуйста,
Don’t forget to DIGG these great lessons!
Hey new member here, I signed up just to ask you to explain Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
Cheers
Hi Marina,
i would like to know the origin of the word ” taffy “.
Would be nice, thx…
Marina,
This may seem to be a bit off color, but I have a history of this word and it does sound interesting. I was wondering if you would have the same origin. S.H.I.T. (Ship High In Transport)
radierrider,
S.H.I.T. (Ship High In Transit) unfortunately is a myth.
Urban Legend that was born on the internet about 1999. Its a very good story and sound very plausible. For fun, I tell this story in class just to let the student down at the end. 
Im just evil hu?
Your the second person this week that asked about this word. Maybe its time for Marina to properly investigate this word. Make a video and be done with it.
Hey Marina, Please do a vid on this word. And if anyone gives you any shit
about it we the student body will back you up on the use of the word. Who knows maybe it might make big time news, further promoting this site.
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how about the word “nepitism”
do UNSUBSCRIBE please
Micki
Once again a great answer the the word origin.
Slightly off topic but still relevant… It’s great to see the good quality of commenting on the HotForWords site. Am I the only one finding the YouTube comments have become more than a little useless? I know there’s still some great comments in there, but who can find them among the thousands that say “great boobs”.
consider “cutie” –> “q-t” / “qt”.
i this barbacot .
and really your video is so nice and you teacher is so beautiful
Can you talk about the word “sinister”? How did the definition of this word become to mean evil? Is it the result of superstition and/or prejudice? Isn’t the current definition of the word, well, umm, sinister toward a certain group of people?
What’s the deal?
Marina, I don’t know how you missed this one, the word is “joystick” thanks from an admirer!
By the way, I love your homepage quote of the day today: “I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.” - Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925.
Hi Marina,
One of my young Japanese colleagues in my office in Tokyo is enthusiastic about using and learning the English language. His English vocabularly and knowledge of idiomatic expressions is by far above that of the average English speaker in this country. He often surprises me with his questions about the English language. One of those questions follows.
Why do Americans use the word cowboy? Cowboys ride horses not cows. You don’t call then horse boys, do you? Why not?
I could not respond adequately to this conscientious young man, so both he and I would greatly appreciate your explaining how this word came into the English language as well as other related facts that you are so skilled at presenting in your explanations about origins and usages of our vivid language.
I think this one is pretty easy, since the term doesn’t come from what they were riding, but what they were herding. Just like a shepherd, but for cows. Of course they didn’t want to be called cow herds (cowards) for obvious reasons. OK I made that last part up to be funny but it’s a distinct possibility. I think a better question you colleague will eventually have is “why do you park in a driveway, and drive in the parkway?”
Word request: “cut the mustard.”
Hi Marina!
Hey - as far as the homework is concerned, I think that I have not ever truly barbecued. I’ve grilled, but not barbecued. I think that’s why you asked the question - because most people say barbecue nowadays when they mean “grill.”
I think you got the right answer! Good one. I couldn’t figure out what she was getting at.
These are tough. I don’t look them up before I answer and I haven’t had a correct guess yet.
Thanks Marina
yes, I DIGGed.
Marina’s question is impossible to answer as we don’t know what she means by the term.
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According to various sources on the internet the term barbecue can cover a multitude of different ways of cooking food in the open air, over, in, or even under a fire ranging from a roaring blaze to glowing embers.
One method no-one has mentioned up to now is wrapping the food in leaves and placing it over a large pot in a pit in the ground and covering the whole lot with the embers of a fire. Using this method, the food cooks slowly, which breaks down the collagen in the meat, tenderizing it, and the juices fall into the underlying pot making a nutritious stock.
Some people apparently believe that barbecuing necessarily involves MARINAding the food in some kind of sauce. (Maybe that’s why Marina is so saucy.
I have cooked pigeons by wrapping them in foil and burying in hot embers, so maybe I can claim to have barbecued. I have also slept on a raised wooden platform in a jungle hut and found, to my horror on awaking the next morning, that there were six inch tarantulas running around the rafters above my head.
I think Bob’s onto the real deal here…the pit, the food in the fire, a protective covering. I’ve done and over-done potatoes and bananas(yum) in the embers (in foil). I don’t recall doing meat in the ground, but I’ve been to pig roasts where that method was used (3 x 3 yum).
Marina,
I have BBQ’d (i think). To truly BBQ you must meet two criteria it seems: (1) which is slow cooking meat over wood fire (or embers?) and (2) doing so on a raised platform (such as a wooden deck). It was a rabbit, which would satisfy a possible third criteria for BBQ, which may be (3) it must be a whole animal. I used applewood chips and i used a rotisserie. I have also done the same with “fish”, but that was wrapped (in either banana leaves or now mostly in aluminun foil) and laid on top of embers instead (no flame and no rotisserie). Oh, I have also slept on the “raised platform” as well… i don’t recall doing both at the same time (cooking and sleeping on the raised platform at the same time).
So Marina, did i BBQ?
Thanks.
Maybe the word Barbacoa comes from the Spanish, but Hispanic countries don’t call this way such action,Usually they call it “asado” in south America or “parrillada” in the rest of the Hispanic countries.The fact is that the Barbecue, commonly, needs less time “cooking” and use other kind of meat, in the other hand the “asado”or “parrillada” is more “dry” and uses better meat
I want to request the word Alibi
greetings
Spanish is spoken in a lot of countries and everyone can make a different use of the same word. In Spain, particularly, we use indifferently “barbacoa” to mean the grill (I’m not sure if this is the best word to describe the support) or the food you cook on it. Is exactly the same of “parrillada”, but I guess “barbacoa” is more commonly used.
“Asado” means something roasted in the oven or kitchen, or to cook this way (”asar” verb). “Barbacoa” is more to cook something over the embers, letting it develope slowly.
I hope you understood my poor english.
I can’t resist & against my better judgement i post this. DO NOT CLICK the link if you are faint of heart, nor look at the comments. And please delete me, let me go if it’s offensive to anyone. But having not seen the $7,000,000.00 man around, I was wondering how the budget & 7m is a bigg buget, for his surgery to look like Marina’s T/A.turned out. As I thought his recovery was taking longer & Marina has been working too hard lately I did notice the budget went a little overboard in some areas. I do hope you find this mildly amusing I’m just too tired too make that call.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycrix581h54&feature= related
That’s GROSS!
As Marina said in the Butterfly video, “sometimes too much of a thing is too much, right”.
If those things were real, give me fake ones any time. (dvdvideo, please note)
Poor girl.
Her back must be killing her. This gall is bigger than most cartoon characters. She defies the law of physics. Cool Billy, love the vid but we are getting off topic. Now get to bed and get some sleep. 
ok… This is the seven million dollar man Marina is referring to. He is damn cool.
Wow!
Both inspiring and humbling at the same time.
I don’t know if my $7 sense of humour would be up to the job and I sure as hell hope I never have to find out.
More than damn cool. He is freaking funny! Love this guy. We have to get this guy on TV! I think he has a good chance for the 2010 Olympics,… Not!
Everyone go to his site. Watch the vid. Copy & Paste the URL at the end of the vid to a new webpage. Comment and rate his video. I think he would love that.
.. uh that was stupid statement, sure he would. du?
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Thanks buzzword, I felt bad all day at work about my post last night. I’m glad the seven million dollar man has a 7m. sence of humour as I feel my post was out of bounds. My appologies to Marina & Jay even if they were not offended
I live not far from Vancouver and wanted to avoid the olympics altogether. Now I want to go to meet this great man & shake his hand, I was a boy scout & we always shook hands left handed as it was the closest to the heart.
I still feel like such a stupid blooter though.
hmm she’s being quite direct in her instructions so…
No, I’ve never barbecued before…I sleep on a raised wooden platform every night…Why I am asking this question in the first place?
Word request: Segacious
Love your vids
Well done as always dear tearcher…
Word request: Sexy
Hi Marina! I love your videos
I was wondering if you could find the origins of the word “scourge.” Thanks!
What is day, exactly? why is always after morning and at morning? why is morning the main focus? some people refer to dark outside as night, but what makes it night? if i turn out the light in my room is it not night? why does it have to be dark outside top be officialy night? Why is the morning time gets from 12 am to 12 pm, but vetween 12 pm and am, we refer to it as about 3 different settings: noon, afternoon, and night? what makes it so? and further more, why 24 hours in a day to fit a 360 so0meting year? Its understandable that, since the earth goes around the sun, causing about 4 different seasons, is within a year. but there is some climates in which there is no seasons such as winter or summer or etc. so, what makes it fully a year? i understand other planets get to have a little longer, cause they take longer, but whats the difference? why so little time? with that being said, why is there an age? yes, to most likely for the human body cause the human body at certain ages have different effects for all kinds of things. i which the docters can indicate the problem for whatevr your having, helping you out. So, i guess age should make all the sense, but the hours in a day doesent. What makes it a day?! Yes, to have clocks to alert you when its time for certain stuff, like going to work to make money. but why money? why do we all need money? cant we all just freely live as we want, and pluck cars or whatever from trees whenever we feel like it? people will work hard to make nice thigs, or whatever, and in return, they receive great stuff well-made from others. and there must be a limit to what you have, so you dont flood the earth with all that crap. but money is ok, i guess. so, that doesent much matter. money i guess will always be there, in order to keep people in line. but time. why? if i feel like its 1968, why cant it be 1968? what makes it 1968? What makes tomorrow? When im awake, is this all but a thought, and tomorrow, it never happened. caus ei am living in that time frame to which the events of yesterday dont matter cause there within another time frame in the essence of life itself?! main question- WHY IS CALLED DAY?!
A whole animal whiskers to tail? Yes, open pit & closed pit–which is barried or covered.
I already know the ontological origin of the word, “Extraordinary” but I would like to request it so that it would make-a-difference for EVERYONE on the planet to learn from you! Extraordinary Teacher!
One may imagine creating a world together with unlimited love, authentic power and endless wealth in a whole new world nowwwwww..
” Carpe Diem De Tempus Fugit”
warmly,
Nelson
Damn, I missed. Each time anybody mention a BBQ makes me totally hungry. Memorial Day would be perfect for a BBQ.
Question & i’m only curious, Do you watch the stanley cup playoffs???
Also thought you might “digg” or would you “digg” a hot chick in you commercial.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=y0uQtv_35PI&feature= related
well it’s yours minus 28 eh.
I don’t know when I’m going to have it. but I’d love to see you at the barbi’ I’m Canadian so we celebrate July 1st as our national bbq. day.
Free food if you bring the beer eh
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=M7×9E3RbAGs&eurl=htt p://www.v8-grill.com/Stoker_Gallery.htm
As a matter of fact yes I do. I’m a big hockey fan! Yes I would digg a hot chick in commercial. That would be groovy!
Your team?
Mine’s out “Canucks” are golfing now.
I like the avalanche team, Burnaby’s “Joe Sakic” grew up in the Canucks’ back yard but management was to busy looking elsewhere to get him, they would still be playing now…sad.
Click the links for your hot chicks
http://www.ruralramblings.com/blog/uploaded_images /hen-chicks-768152.jpg oops
http://daddytypes.com/archive/pregnant_beer_chick. jpg oops again
http://www.coolmarketingthoughts.com/images/nova2. jpg
Wel I quess if the public demanded truth in ads. then it would go against the root of where the word advertise comes from, would it not?
http://homepage.mac.com/mr_bingley/.Pictures/beerc hick/beer14.jpg
mMy attemt to stay on topic. G’DAY
I have at least 2 favorites, the canucks and the blackhawks. Yeah it was disappointing they didn’t make it. I also like the avs. They just advanced. I’m glad for once the hawks made some changes including televising all games next year. I will check out the links asap, HAGD
BillyB,
The last of your links above has reminded me of a story I heard many years ago of a way of cooking a chicken rumoured to be used in Thailand and known as a “Thai microwave oven”.
I’ve never seen it done in all my years of visiting the country so I’d be interested to hear from anyone who has.
Recipe:-
1. Take one chicken, plucked and gutted.
2. one sturdy stick long enough to skewer the chicken and have an equal length over.
3. bury the protruding end of the stick in the ground leaving the chicken clear of the ground.
4. Cut the end off of a used 10 litre can of cooking oil and invert the can over the chicken.
5. Heap rice straw around the inverted can and set it alight.
6. When the straw burns the heat generated is supposed to bounce around inside the can and cook the chicken by the time the fire goes out.
7. Serve with sticky rice and chilli dipping sauce.
Thanks for the reply.labatt78. I feel fortunate today, a friend scored me a couple of playoff tickets to our hometown Victoria Salmon Kings, (Farm team of Vancouver Canucks) They were bottom of the league last year & this year have a chance to make it all the way. Finished second in the west & are playing the Bakersfield Condors, not names normally heard in the national media. But it’s still Pro Hockey at a really competitive level & brutal up close. The guys are usually ready to kill each other on the ice & go for a bbq. or beer after. Have you ever seen a live pro hockey game? Link to our hometown teams page, http://www.salmonkings.com/
np Billy B. yes I’ve been to the United Center about 5 years ago. Recently, I haven’t found anybody else to go to the UC with me. Well hopefully next season I’ll go. well I’m glad you had fun at the game. Hagn!
I would like to know the origin of the word (lambaste) the meaning of the word is (To give a thrashing to; to beat severely)
To BBQ, one will roast the meat over a slow fire, normally fuelled by wood, today a lot of natural gas; and charcoal, instead of wood.
PS. Wood is defentately better.
PSS. I disagree with runawayscott; grilling is when you grill in an oven; BBQ is when you slowly cook over an open fire, traditionally with wood.
Of course the souce has a lot to do with it as well. There is a lot difference between BBQ souce, and all these others.
Hi Marina,
Another fabulous lesson. I see you had to make pages, what with over 200 comments to your last lesson. Perhaps it would be a good idea to limit the number of characters in a comment. eBay limits questions to a seller to 1000 characters (I guess that includes spaces). Any extensive comments perhaps could be attached as a Microsoft Word document, if that is possible.
There are many deep discussions that grow and branch from ideas that your lessons sow.. But it is also great fun! Every day it gets better!
Спасиьо!!!
Hey !Bogdan. How’s it sound with a new click added
Still want to see pic’s of your gilfriend… just kidding. I was thinking about all the people who new about Hitlers birthday on 420, not a day to celebrate for sure…I don’t know about limits yet, as ppl will shout y down if y get too long winded. ok by me.
Hitler comments, reminded me of a day driving home from work, sun shining, radio playing & I was in the mood for something different. This music came on & my goodness it captured me. I turned it up a little & it wasn’t long before I couldn’t see where I was going, had to pull right off the road, my shirt was wet as the tears streamed down my face and neck. I had never heard anything like it before or since. Who says we need words to comunicate, sorry Marina, but words alone don’t always convey the truth. well not sorry Marina per sey. she knows that… (Shout me down)
I looked into the story behind the music I’d just heard, and as I researched it, I started to understand a period of History I wasn’t around for. This isn’t the same recording as my story but the same piece of music.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=miLV0o4AhE4
I’m listening to this as I type & my spelling is going to get bad so Thanks to a Polish composer, Grecki, for this. .
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=XZLoS0rHAiU&feature= related
Not meant as a copyright infringe but to illustrate effective use in setting the tone for communicating ideas. peace out.
BillyB, thanks again. B.. & I listened to both pieces by Gorecki. The second was particularly moving for me. We’re definately going to see the movie. If you are into classical at all, there is another Polish composer that you may take for a spin; Frederic Chopin (pronounced Hope-in). I recommend to Google “Pat Metheny - Imaginary Day” The liner notes say what you’re telling me, man. Music came first, and humans are still working on ways to put into words what music says effortlessly.
Пока
One last question (I’m writing alot in the last couple minutes, huh?) I can’t remember if I requested this before, but could you do the word, filibuster and why it means both a mercenary and a political term.
I have never BBQ’d personally. The reason you’re asking is because there’s a difference between BBQ (which is slow cooking meat over wood) and grilling (which is what most people do in their backyards on the fourth of July). This is an common mistake most people make. There’s nothing wrong with grilling, you’re having fun, hanging out with friends, its all good, but it’s not BBQ.
If I get it right, does that mean I can be the teacher’s pet
Hot damn
I’m having some folks over as soon as it warms up here. Everone’s invited & I’m going to try out the new Barbi’ Cooks a little slower but leaves you breathless. I guess it’s just a guy thing for me.
http://www.cars.justelite.net/wp-content/uploads/2 007/07/_barbeque001.jpg
http://www.cars.justelite.net/2007/07/16/barbecue- on-v8-engine/258
Note the temp. guage in the last picture, wouldn’t want to overcook anything. Loved the Mario Andretti Quote yesterday. I have raced & I saw the vid’ of Marina in the racecar & it is true that if everthing seems under control, go faster. I did get a chance to talk to Mr Andretti at a trade show in Vancouver. What a gracious guy, I was impressed.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=YQGCbaDy9O4
Like father, like son (Blooper) http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=KwEqjuvAZzE
I would like to know the meaning of the word bullseye as it relates to hitting the center of a target. Thank you! I was a bit of a philologist myself in college. I sold all my books on the subject for beer money. I wish I still had them!
Hi Marina,
I put your video ‘The fifth element’ in my blog. It’s the best.
I want to ask you about this: ‘Stilla Olei Ardentis’.
It’s something that I’m dealing with now.
A lot of people are dealing with.
A kiss for someone who adore you.
Wow I got an early comment in, cool