On: Nimrod is being renamed to Nim

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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.

[deanmen → fsck--off]

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

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

[cjoh → fsck--off]

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

[Crito → cjoh]

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

[sigzero → cjoh]

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