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Subject: Nimrod
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Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 09:23:53 EST
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From: Chris Jarocha-Ernst 


Nimrod does indeed appear in the Bible (can't do the chapter & verse bit),
where, as I recall, he is called a hunter.  If you look in a thesaurus
under "hunter" or its equivalent, you should find "Nimrod" used as one of
those inflated Victorian-type synonyms (You know, as when a fox is called
"Reynard", a rooster "Chanticleer", etc.)

"Nimrod" as a term of disparagement probably (I have nothing but memory to
back this up with) came from its use in a Bugs Bunny cartoon, where Bugs,
referring to Elmer Fudd as a hunter, says something like "I can't do that
to the little Nimrod."  People watching who never heard of Nimrod before
probably assumed it was Brooklynese for "dodo" or suchlike.

There.  Amateur etymology, while-U-wait.

				Chris
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