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Re: Complement to "Who / What is a N I M R O D?" [message #113110] Mon, 16 September 2013 13:57
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Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 16:51:22 EST
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>Ok, everybody has now read 20 times that Nimrod is the guy mentioned
>in Gen 10:8-12, but now this: what the **** is a "ding-dong"?
>(If it *is* a bell, after all, I'll sigh!)
>- 
>						  Biep.

I can appreciate the difficulty we americans impose on our foreign friends
by an almost fiendish desire to attach completely different meanings to 
both new and old words. (Who would have guessed in the 80's to be "bad"
was to have the same connotation as being "cool" in the 50's) As there
was no trademark symbol on the original message we can rule out that the 
author was refering to the small creme filled chocolate covered cakes that
are called Ding-Dongs and must assume theyt are using the 60's vernacular
for someone who either lacked intelligence or acted in a partiticularly
stupid way. One derivative of this was the adjective "dingy" which meant
lacking in common sense or acting in unpredictable ways. It has no 
similarity to the word dingy which refers to a small boat. Isn't slang
fun? :-)

--Chuck
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