[Ads-l] Nimrod?

[Laurence Horn]

Oops. Beat me to the punch.

LH

> On Dec 13, 2023, at 11:14 AM, Bill Mullins <amcombill at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>>  I can't think of what word the Daily Kos writer was trying to think of when he came up with "nimrod".
> 
> It's a long-existing insult, comparable to "dork", "nerd", etc.  I used to hear it from a few folks in college, in the 1980s.
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> HDAS has cites and suggests a 1940s Warner Bros. cartoon in which Bugs Bunny refers to Elmer Fudd as a "nimrod" as a vector.
> 
> 
> Example:
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> 2015 Zits [comic strip] 3 Nov
> 
> But sometimes I think you act like a total Nimrod.
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