Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!topaz!@RUTGERS.ARPA:JAROCHA-ERNST@RU-BLUE.ARPA From: @RUTGERS.ARPA:JAROCHA-ERNST@RU-BLUE.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Nimrod Message-ID: <221@topaz.ARPA> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 09:23:53 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.221 Posted: Fri Jan 11 09:23:53 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Jan-85 08:05:43 EST Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 19 From: Chris Jarocha-ErnstNimrod 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 -------