Nimrod is being renamed to Nim

Re:Nimrod is being renamed to Nim by fsck--off on Monday September 22, 2014 @03:44PM (#8352195)

Nimrod was the great grandson of Noah, and he is mentioned in the book of Genesis as "a mighty hunter before the lord." So great hunters were sometimes called "Nimrod" as a compliment.

Bugs Bunny taunted Elmer Fudd, a stupid an incompetent hunter that failed to catch Bugs Bunny, by calling him a Nimrod. But the children who watched Loony Tunes didn't get the joke and so they assumed it was a synonym for "stupid and incompetent."

Imagine that in the future people think that that "Einstein" means "imbecile" because "you're a regular Einstein" was an ironic taunt. It's the same idea.

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Re:Nimrod is being renamed to Nim by deanmen on Monday September 22, 2014 @05:03PM (#8352627)

"Dunce" comes from the name of the philosopher Duns Scotus.

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Re:Nimrod is being renamed to Nim by wslh on Monday September 22, 2014 @06:25PM (#8353023)

Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quando_el_Rey_Nimrod

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Re:Nimrod is being renamed to Nim by cjoh on Monday September 22, 2014 @04:00PM (#8352294)

Well, except that Einstein was an actual person, and Nimrod was a mythological one.

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Re:Nimrod is being renamed to Nim by Crito on Monday September 22, 2014 @04:03PM (#8352310)

Hardly an important distinction for these intents and purposes; particularly since those stories were widely taught as fact until fairly recently.

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Re:Nimrod is being renamed to Nim by sigzero on Monday September 22, 2014 @04:22PM (#8352398)

And you know that how? Yeah, you don't. It isn't even relevant to this conversation.

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