Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hound.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!houxm!hound!rfg From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Who/What is a NIMROD? Message-ID: <820@hound.UUCP> Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 13:15:32 EST Article-I.D.: hound.820 Posted: Thu Jan 10 13:15:32 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 01:04:15 EST References: <191@topaz.ARPA>, <412@grendel.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 13 [.] Nimrod was a descendant of Noah, back when people were wandering around the earth (hence, sometimes used for a wanderer). He was reputed to be a grandson of Ham. His kingdom included the cities of Babylon, Erech and Accad in southern Mesopotamia. He is supposed to have been the founder of Nineveh. He was famous as a hunter so that today a skillful hunter is frequently called a "nimrod." Also, I believe there is a brand of trailer called Nimrod (good for hunting and wandering, no doubt). -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts." Dick Grantges hound!rfg