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RedSN
12-06-2018, 02:41 PM
How many times have you heard that insult tossed around?


"Nimrod" is the name of Noah's great-grandson, a mighty hunter.
Bugs Bunny called Elmer Fudd a "Nimrod", a satirical insult to Fudd being a terrible hunter.


Bugs Bunny’s reshaping of the meaning “nimrod” is a prime example of how life imitates art. Even if a word’s usage has no basis in fact, if enough people use it incorrectly long enough, it will become correct. In doing similarly, even nimrods like us can continue to honor Bugs Bunny’s legacy.
https://dotandline.net/when-bugs-bunny-beat-the-bible-59a761550245

Maybe everybody else already knew this, but I just learned it today, LOL.
Blackmare
12-06-2018, 03:02 PM
Had no idea.
Stephen06GT
12-06-2018, 04:37 PM
What’s up doc?
Laffs
12-06-2018, 05:24 PM
Ok but what's the origin of nincompoop?
RedSN
12-06-2018, 05:35 PM
apparently it's latin, LOL

non compos mentis [not of sound mind]
Scrape
12-06-2018, 05:46 PM
I had no clue.
RioCobra
12-06-2018, 07:01 PM
Wow, I haven’t heard this word in years.
When my Dad was alive, he used it all the time lol.
5.4MarkVIII
12-06-2018, 07:39 PM
Noah like the guy with the big boat full of animals? how "great" of a hunter can you really be if there are locked up in a giant barge?
Uncle Buck
12-06-2018, 08:42 PM
Perhaps it was a negative reference originally. Any "great hunter" that kills the last two of anything strikes me as a chump. Let them breed you nimrod
Laffs
12-06-2018, 11:56 PM
apparently it's latin, LOL

non compos mentis [not of sound mind]

How dare you take my joke and turn it in to a learning experience that makes me come away a little more educated and armed with even more trivial knowledge...