I want to take back ‘Retard’. Because I want it to apply to things that are infuriatingly stupid, instead of it being used as a derogatory term towards special needs people.
I want to take back ‘Retard’. Because I want it to apply to things that are infuriatingly stupid, instead of it being used as a derogatory term towards special needs people.
Nimrod.
Meant a great hunter until Bugs Bunny used it sarcastically.
According to an unreliable source - some 70s comic by the same guy who made the evangelical Chick tracts - Nimrod was an Oedipus-type figure that married his mother. So I always took Bugs use of “Nimrod” as a sly way to say “motherfucker”.
The programming language Nim was originally called Nimrod. The creator had to rename it after he found out that the word has this connotation.
I dunno, the Biblical story around Nimrod doesn’t paint him in a good light either.
I mean yeah it’s not a great light but Nimrod was considered a mighty hunter and a tyrannical ruler, not exactly the fool we think of it today.
Bugs Bunny is too powerful. Not only could his wordplay fool those on his world but he has redefined the meaning of the word Nimrod as well as making people believe carrots are associated with rabbits.