Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site intelca.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!intelca!cem From: cem@intelca.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Complement to "Who / What is a N I M R O D?" Message-ID: <490@intelca.UUCP> Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 16:51:22 EST Article-I.D.: intelca.490 Posted: Fri Jan 18 16:51:22 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 07:46:44 EST References: <186@decwrl.UUCP> <412@klipper.UUCP> Organization: Intel, Santa Clara, Ca. Lines: 26 >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 -- - - - D I S C L A I M E R - - - {ihnp4,fortune}!dual\ All opinions expressed herein are my {qantel,idi}-> !intelca!cem own and not those of my employer, my {ucbvax,hao}!hplabs/ friends, or my avocado plant. :-}