[Ads-l] Nimrod?

[James Landau]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/12/11/2211098/-Newsmax-Tells-Slack-Jawed-GOP-Chair-that-He-and-His-Biden-Probe-Looked-Like-a-Joke-on-CNN?detail=emaildkre&pm_source=DKRE&pm_medium=email

 <quote> Comer scampered off to Newsmax where he expected to get a much more friendly reception. And in point of fact, he did. However, Comer is such a nimrod that he botched the softballs lobbed at him. <end quote>
 Nimrod, in the book of Genesis, was "a mighty hunter" and lower-case "nimrod" means a hunter.  I can't think of what word the Daily Kos writer was trying to think of when he came up with "nimrod".

James Landau
jjjrlandau at netscape.com

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