Cracker (Answer)
Here is the answer to the cracker word origin game.
I REALLY stumped so many people on this one!
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random lesson and comment ‘nice pictures’ SPAIN Hot word to expand on. Soda crackers are food. Bees are Good and so are you!
I thought the way you compared yourself wearing heals to the airport to Russian girls wearing heals to MacDonalds was really sweet–it would be terrible if were born sophisticated snobs! I loved the way you showed your old pictures; the moment had a certain wistfulness, which I liked.
By the way, there are too good words to investigate: sophisticated and snob.
lostforwords
Btw, most Americans are Europeans, and telling lies was invented by us I think, the old Romans already dd it
yankee doodle
thier all yanks to me
I believe that they called Northerner’s Yank’s or Yankee’s.
you asked, “if the northerners called the southerners ‘cracker’ as a slur, what slur did the southerners use to describe the northerners?”
the obvious answer is that southern gentlemen don’t use slurs. The more common folk used the offensive term ‘Yankee’, to refer to the foppish idiocy described in the song yankee doodle dandy. note that members of the confederacy considered Washington and Jefferson as southerners.
other slurs: up until the civil rights movement, the word ‘N*gger’ (nope i don’t mean nagger) was not considered a slur, it only referred to the color of one’s skin->latin nigre meaning ‘black’
I was born and raised in the north, but my family roots are in the south, and i take personal affront every time i hear the derogatory term Yankee. Did you know that new york has even named one of its baseball teams this offensive slur? personally, i think that they should change it to something far less offensive, like “the New York Nigres”
nequaquam Veritum
carpet baggers, like W
Marina, everyone’s always commenting on your looks/features I’d like to add to that and say I think your hair looks real nice. Of course, it always does etc etc. <—wow Andy, why was that so hard to say?
OK, dumb question. Where does the term Yankee come from then?
Post-Civil War, the southerners called northerners ‘CarpetBaggers’. Anyone know the origin?
Marina,
I was watching the Russia vs Netherlands soccer game today and got to wondering… why are people from the Netherlands called Dutch and speak Dutch. Why are they not Netherlanders and speak Netherian?
Where does the name Dutch come from?
Also, I visited the Getty museum and they had some Flemish art. I was told Flemish is also from the Holland region. So why is it Flemish art and not Dutch art?
Marina, I was doing some channel surfing on the TV this morning and happened to catch a show called “Attack Of The Shows” onG4. They had a bunch of Hi-tech stuff, new video games, etc., and the top 10 Women Of The Web. They listed Hot For Words as number 5! Kudos to you, kiddo! Keep up the good work!
Thanks sniperskaya! Thanks to you, I found it and made a post on the site! I wouldn’t have known about it otherwise!
Yankee is the term for northerns that i know of. From the pictures i take it you are not a natural blonde so was you a red head just curious.
Ok it’s working now. Thanks a million.
capman911,
What happened to all of the rest of the replies? I was reading them and then - zip - gone.
Oh and don’t sweat it. You already explained how you were able to reply like a sniper.
I had to reboot my computer to get them to appear back. I don’t think it is our computers as much as it is with Marina’s site. A lot of blogs for her server to keep up with.
what is the origin of “sucker” referring to so someone who is gullible or easily tricked.
why dony ya put some pics on yer site. ill bet not everyone is wathing you for yer lessons.
Whitesmoke is a free download.
I believe the Southern soldier called Northerners was ‘Yanks’, short for ‘Yankee’.
A term used by the Yanks for Southerner soldiers was ‘Johnny’ or ‘Johnnies’, which is short for ‘Johnny Rebs’, which is short for ‘Johnny Rebels’.’ The crackers were also called ‘Butternuts’ because it was a cheap natural dye they used in their woolen uniforms.
Wow…no funky xylophone ‘n’ flute transitional music in this lesson.
I was getting used to that. What CD is that on?
I want to recommend an easy reading and humorous book called….”Crackers” by Roy Blount Jr., which can be snatched up at
Amazon, used hardcover, for practically S&H. (5 bucks)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0017KX4XM/ ref=sr_1_olp_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214051541&sr=1 -5
Please, Can You tell what is the origin of the word Pandemonium ?
Thanks
I went to your web site WooYownik. You should use that picture as your avatar. It would so cool.
I saw the Dog named Saba. It was funny because that is my nieces name.
I kindly request the word origin of the word “smart” as in Marina is very pretty and smart.
It seems that there are many uses for the word smart as in, “ouch, that smarts”, and “smart ass” and “smart aleck”. What does aLx have to do with that?
Just kidding aLx…..
what is the origin of hte word foot fetish, you are stunning xx
What is the origin of the word, playboy
I was wondering if you could find the origin of the word.. Defenestrate! A weird verb, and sounds weird. Please investigate ;;) thanks HFW
What is the origin of the word ..
SMITTEN
As in Marina I am smitten by youe brains and beauty.
It’s something you do in every video. All your students want this.
You never have a blooper on this word because you haven’t done it
incorrectly.
Have you thought of it?
Once you have, I bet it’ll be your best video ever.
(And if you haven’t thought of it, I’ll give in - but give it a try)
I would like to request the word “kundalini”.
You are amazing!
you should investigate the origin of the word “word” next, lol, it’s in your name too
i would like to know where the term Geisha came from
I know who the new teachers pet is!
Where, who?
stop it you are going to drive the Minions insane
Oh Marina too you up on the date you offered her PD? Is that how you found out?
Prospero can stop with when’s it me now LOL Someone needs to wake him up for the new “Hot” vid, Now pagedoll makes sence.
I just hope its not me! I would have to kick myself out of S.O.A.P.! Then who would run the club? Also what would I look forward to? Once your a pet, thats it. Game over! Like the Budweisers joke “Whaaaassss uuupppp” is not funny anymore. Its gone. Its passed tenths. Its history. You had to be there… etc.
I think the real challenge is to be TA…
If she chooses you, captainjack, you’ll go coastal !!!
No. It would be more like MAN OVERBOARD!! Port side, ready the rescue team!
I think its you she has picked! Im most sure of it.. but then again Im wrong many of times.
Damn PD and him telling us that he knows who the next Pet is. It just makes it more… damn whats the word im looking for. Im always miss placing my words. It has to be around here somewhere..
My life has gone down hill ever since becoming teacher’s pet, nothing left to strive for and every victory since…seems…just…sort of hollow.
@Ok4now. Really? Yea see what happens when you no longer have any goals? I like to have goals to strive for, even if I don’t accomplish them all. Becoming teachers pet is no longer a goal for me.Yea It would be nice to be mention but a TA would be much more. Why? Because you would have other projects to work on (Like I need another project)
. Then I would strive to be the best TA of all the TAs in the group not only improving my skills but helping other TAs to be better than I am.
Somebody is going to be highly elated…
I hope he has new batteries installed in his pacemaker.
Very hot…..
Keep
This ain’t fair.
With a time difference of 17+ hours, the price of airline tickets and U.S. border security that shoot to kill.
I’d be lucky if I got a date with kobe.
Yea that sucks. I’m still having a hard time with dating Marina’s twin sister.
Bleachers — everyone sits on them some point in time.. that word doesn’t even seem to be a word to me, and I do hope I spelled it correctly; just never use it.
That or the expression Bloody Hell heh…
See ya милашка
Dang! Missed another one!
And the homework answer is we call ‘em Yankees!
The southerners called the northerners yankees, during the Civil War the southerners called the union solders billy yank and blue belly.
Марина ты прекрасна
Could you please do a lesson on the word (not trying to offend anyone) faggot?
I’M TOTALLY OFFENDED BY THAT WORD. MY FATHER HAPPENS TO BE A BRITTISH CIGARETTE !!!
SAWEEEEEEET!!!
A bundle of sticks , Faggot…no offence.
Sure stumped me.
I’m sure they called them either Yankees, or Carpet Baggers..
Oh! and a Request!
Where did the phrase “Morning Wood” come from?
DAMNYANKEE!
I was 12 years old before I knew that ‘Damn’ and ‘Yankee’ were two seperate words.
they are?
yo you should do a show about hte word gun
the south refers to the north as the, champions don’t they?
A cracker for your wife.
hey, thanks. she’s gonna like that. you must have a jukebox for a brain.
yep, she thought that was awesome.
Billy, Those guys are freaking awesome.
I had to add them to my YT favorites. 
Nice to see good talent thats is unplug that really can pull off a performance like that. True skills!!
Cool. Actually my 17 year old son’s suggestion a few days ago, I liked
hey, check below on a link i wanted to get to you.
oops… He’s 18… I think
Got the link now & listening. Computer had a minimeltdown, so I went & had a shower. reloaded & ready to go & I like what I’m hearing, (Bruce Springstine acoustic)
Do you & the wife get to sleep through the night yet? LOL When you get to my age & the kids start moving out… it’s funny, I remember wanting to sleep longer, now I can’t.
yea, we ought to be asleep right now. we’re up listening to some of the love songs i’ve been collecting for her and running across a few more. damn, 1:30am we do need to get to bed, kids get up by 7:00am usually.
Hey BW, Gad your back.
Yankees.
Carpet Baggers
The unit of luggage that was easy to hand carry onto a train or stage coach made from carpet material.
BiLL
Marina, where exactily did you were in Spain ??? That hat is very cool !
Really cute
But the picture shows a black hair teenager
Hackers
yes my dear i was stumped !!!!but that black outfit you wore as you say crazy picture WOW your FANTASTIC awsomelious sweetheart
Why do we call “Doctor” when we reffer to a “Medic” ?
Toubib or not toubib, that is the question!
Marina, what is the origin of the expression “to pass with flying colors”? Or what about the word “consumptive”? How did it come to refer to someone with tuberculosis?
Being a damn Yankee, I’m pretty sure thats what they were yellin when I took outa there like I was on fire…yes ma’am, thats my final answer. Yankee. (How about the origin of that one teach?. other than that it came from the south?) Please Marina, moi drug, how do I write Bvwe Ochin kra see vwe on an English keyboard? was I even close? lol
Vas drug Leonard
Wow, there is some serious poo flingin’ going on down there a little ways
…sure am glad I was at work today, jeez 
296th!,,,sweet!
Well you’r here now. So join in
Whats up buddy?..buddy,buddy
Good ta hear from ya!…speeking of kids that came out alright from the mouse show, don’t forget my dearest Christina Aguilara …saw this show twice, once in a sports arena and once in small place, 2700 seats!, in the 7th row! Its was awesome! you can guess who with. 
To this day I can’t wacth this dvd without getting goose bumps! I know, call me crazy, but we love Christina. This clip is from about the middle of the show and the whole stage turns into a circus and the song that follows is pretty cool too…turn it up! 
it’s all old shit, shit that’s been thrown before and will be thrown again. shitty ain’t it?
no, it’s poopy. people w/ $40,000 toys don’t think about shitty things, let alone do them. that’s just … the others, you know. the dumb ones in the cubicles, if i recall correctly. something like that. that’s shitty, yeah …
ha, that just reminded me of an argument i had with a nascar fan. i was saying those drivers have to were adult diapers. and the guy was like, no they don’t! and i said, dude, they are driving for hours in like an oven on wheels, they piss and shit themselves i tell you! and the nascar dude was getting real offended. and of course i couldn’t stop, so i says, you know when their up there in the winner’s circle, holding the trophy, pretty girls, cameras, cheering crowd… shitty diapers. the winning dude is standing there in shitty diapers. and then they all go back and have to change out of their dirty diapers. he got all pissed but after anything he said i would just say, shitty diapers. i wonder if they have little sponsor stickers on their nascar driver man size diapers.
Sell it You just need the right venue.
I race short track & I think, only the ones that crash need the diapers. Takes me back to an old boyscout moto “be prepared” The guy in victory square is clean (probably) except the team bent the rules far enough to excell.
no diapers for Danica ,fiesty little thing, I’m sure she wears a jock.
billyb, how much youtube do you watch? i thought i had a high number! by the way i meant to send this to you before fathers day and graduation, look to your right and click on fathers or graduation. the dude has a really great radio show, i listen all the time.
http://woub.org/radio/index.php?section=4&page=16
OMG BW !!! your comments about my nascar brothers in shitty diapers got me Rolling on the floor laughting my silly ass off. (ROTFLMSAO). I need to call 911 I think I busted my gut.
OMG I think Im going to die laughing my ass off!!! 
I can’t stop laughing!. OH im in paint. damn I can’t spell! Shitty Diapers!!!!! I have to tell this joke to all my friends. This is just too funny!!! 
Watching your Danica vid. Funny the Michael said he got the back end lose and he nailed Danica in the left rear! LOL!!!!
Wow I have never seen Danica that pissed off. She was going to kick Ryan’s ass!
Danica is Smart, Fast, and Sexy. That girl has it all!!!!!
You’r right buzzword they do wear diapers. I go to alot of Nascar races. If they didn’t they would explode shit all over the car at about halfway through the race
Oh, look who decided to chime in, Mr. all smiles all the time for everyone (alx)
. You never have anything good to say about anything, ever. What a buzzkill you are. Everytime you raise your little fingers to type something its always just a bunch of rubbish. You must be one miserable human being, I feel for ya. And no, you don’t recall correctly, I never said “dumb” or even “something like that”, the misery that is your life must have skewed your recall, 
—Marina, How could you have EVER picked this guy to be teacher to be teachers pet? What a giant downer he is.
Don’t be intimidated by aLx, He was intimidating to me when I first started posting here, I was afraid to talk to him he is from what I can grasp really inteligent, but young & fiesty & from a different culture…speaks in short sentences & gets a lot more across in short than most of us can with an avalanche of words, but it is easy to take him to personally he is young & I’m sure full of a certain amount of angst, whatever the heck that is. I’ve forgotten (not really), what it was like to be his age. What the heck am I doing defending alx, flip him the bird he’ll flip it right back at you.
What would this blog be without aLx? We have to have some buzzkill. You can’t eat cake every day. Anyhow he says his point in a short sentences. He doesn’t do long speeches on how he is right. He says his thing and that’s it. He has lots of points that are spot on. I respect him a lot. I do wish once in a great while he say something really positive. Even if he fakes it.
Is there a word gospazha? I read it in a Heinlein novel and I don’t know if it is real or made up.
-Thanks tovarisch
could you clear up the history behind the word definistrate: to throw something or someone out of a window.
sorry defenestrate.
Hi Marina - I was wondering what the top 10 or 20 or so top slang terms for either male or female genitalia might be. We all know what they are, it’s just what are we calling them these days. It might be a fun game to play on youtube…thanks - your devoted student
did i miss anything? been doing hospital rounds, ugh.
Welcome back.
We’ve been learning about crackers .
Now I could drink a few beers to that kind of rap. I don’t care to much for American rap. It takes talent to play a musical insturment and sing instead of synthazied music from a machine with the same old rythem playing over and over. Good choice BillyB.
man
thanks billyb, entertaining bit o’ music.
hey capman911 try this on for size, rage against the machine.
Hospital rounds. Hollywood squares. Some actors are in really bad shape!!!
the connections you make are so far apart sometimes, your going to snap some neurons.
That was very cool music. That was more excellent talent at work. Reminds me of the U2 video that they did on top of a building and the cops were trying to get them down. I thought the old dude in the video was lighting a blunt but it was a cigar.
Welcome back.
Your opinions and points of view are great.
Word Request…
You could make this video quite interesting… I suspect….
…the word is “Nymph”
Hi Trgoblin! Nice to see you back! WB!!!!
Thanks… I’ve been a quiet observer these last few weeks, but I’ve been around!
Seriously, though, I had to request “Nymph, Nymphette or Nympphomaniac” because their is an interesting history to them, and one that Marina could probably put together some nice outfits and props for.
Well, maybe they called them slackers?
Anyway, Marina, your natural hair colour looks good on you - have you considered letting it grow back? It saves money on the peroxide, too.
Nighteye… from the spelling of “colour” I’m guessing you are Canadian?
I don’t think people actually use peroxide any more do they?
At this point, I think she’d have to transition gradually. To do this professionally would cost big bucks.
What’s I think is nice is how she shares little bits and pieces of her personal life every now and then. Just enough to create perspective, but not enough to kill the mystery.
No, I’m dutch - I just try to speak proper english, like english english, and not like american english.
I never bleached my own hair, so I don’t know about any modern alternatives to peroxide. I also think most people look the best with their natural hair colour - natural selection made it that way. Other hair colours can also look good, but often not as good as the natural colour.
I hope you’re not suggesting that American English is not “proper” english - after all, we’re merely talking about one vowel in the spelling, not a major error in grammer.
The evolution of language occurs partly from the development of “dialects”, or variations of usage within the same language. Without regional dialects, we would all still be speaking latin or something even more ancient, perhaps.
nice video marina!!!!!!!!keep on the good work!also your first picture -the one in school-was great.
Northerners were yankees, ‘course…and if they ventured south, carpetbaggers ’cause their luggage was made of carpet…
as some have already mentioned, you look smashing in the photographs - especially…oh, nevermind…
Here’s something to make y’all smile:
FOR NORTHERNERS COMING SOUTH
In the South: If you run your car into a ditch, don’t panic. Four men in a four-wheel drive pickup truck with a tow chain will be along shortly. Don’t try to help them, just stay out of their way. This is what they live for.
Don’t be surprised to find movie rentals and bait in the same store. Do not buy food at this store.
Remember, “y’all” is singular, “all y’all” is plural, and “all y’all’s” is plural possessive.
Get used to hearing “Y’all ain’t from round here, are ya?”
Save all manner of bacon grease. You will be instructed later on how to use it.
Don’t be worried at not understanding what people are saying. They can’t understand you either.
The first Southern statement to creep into a transplanted Northerner’s vocabulary is the adjective “big’ol,” truck or big’ol” boy. Most Northerners begin their Southern-influenced dialect this way. All of them are in denial about it.
The proper pronunciation you learned in school is no longer proper.
Be advised that “He needed killin” is a valid defense here.
If you hear a Southerner exclaim, “Hey, y’all, watch this,! ” you should stay out of the way. These are likely to be the last words he’ll ever say.
If there is the prediction of the slightest chance of even the smallest accumulation of snow, your presence is required at the local grocery store. It doesn’t matter whether you need anything or not. You just have to go there.
Do not be surprised to find that 10-year-olds own their own shotguns, they are proficient marksmen, and their mammas taught them how to aim.
In the South, we have found that the best way to grow a lush green lawn is to pour gravel on it and call it a driveway.
AND REMEMBER:
If you do settle in the South and bear children, don’t think we will accept them as Southerners. After all, if the cat had kittens in the oven, we wouldn’t call ‘em biscuits.
That was so cool annudermale. You need to play them the Chris Cagle song Chics Dig It. It goes along with your Hey, y’all, watch this
Get used to hearing “Y’all ain’t from round here, are ya?” and er ya?
Do you like grits with yo eggs? Or if someone asks you ho de doe. Then hold the door open for thm.
Southern slag;
KEEP-r
slaNg
changing avatar
again
wtf
Moanback. A southerner telling a truck driver to come on back.
I think that ‘carpetbagger’ is a post civil war (war between the states?) term for Northerners who went South to take advantage of the cruel reconstruction. They used luggage made out of carpet. During the war, the soldiers didn’t carry luggage.
I’m not sure about how cruel the reconstruction was, but i do agree, the carpetbaggers came in after the Civil War. I’ll have to watch the vid again and see if Marina specied “during the Civil War” in the homework…
and I forgot about bluebelliies…
There were winners and losers in the reconstruction as far as my thin knowledge of the topic goes. And the carpetbaggers themselves were a mixed bag (ha-ha). Some Carpetbaggers were Northern businessmen starting cotton plantations, some were political organizers there to establish Republican strongholds and some were confidence men, who were there to take advantage in a desperate economy. But it’s probably acknowledged by both sides that the federal effort to reconstruct the ruined South was not well conceived
to put it lightly nor adequate, considering the ineffectual Presidents in office during the time and the Republican congress who were of the mind to punish the South, not rebuild it.
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“You can’t be serious - you must be joking.” -
John McEnroe 1959-
(Same Birthday as me, BTW)
Surely, you can’t be serious,
and don’t call me Shirley.
– Airplane
Hospital, what is it doctor?
Lets get back to what is important
Nice background.
There’s a background?
All I