[Ads-l] Nimrod?

[Nancy Friedman]

Blame Bugs Bunny.

https://unrememberedhistory.com/2017/01/09/the-nimrod-effect-how-a-cartoon-bunny-changed-the-meaning-of-a-word-forever/

Nancy Friedman
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On Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 7:41 AM James Landau <
00000c13e57d49b8-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

>
> 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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