Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site grendel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!grendel!avolio From: avolio@grendel.UUCP (Frederick M. Avolio) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Who/What is a NIMROD? Message-ID: <412@grendel.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 10:20:48 EST Article-I.D.: grendel.412 Posted: Wed Jan 9 10:20:48 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 00:35:41 EST References: <191@topaz.ARPA> Organization: DEC ULTRIX Applications Center, MD Lines: 18 > Today the term "Nimrod" came up in conversation... > Well, we all agreed that it means ding-dong, but now we don't > know where it comes from. I seem to remember Nimrod as a > character in a book or short story; can anybody supply pointers? Susan, the only NIMROD I know is in Genesis. He was the ruler in power when the Tower of babel was being built. As the unfinished tower was a testimoney to mankind's foolishness this may indeed be the connection. Or did the person mean "nimnull" (sp?) from Mork and Mindy. (No! No! Honest! I never watched it ..... just heard people talking about it! :-) ) -- Fred Avolio 301/731-4100 x4227 UUCP: {seismo,decvax}!grendel!avolio ARPA: grendel!avolio@seismo.ARPA