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Cool stuff.
I don't want to be the "that guy mrmmmm", especially since I have no source, but I feel pretty strongly I was reading about the origins of Nimrod as an insult in one of Uncle John's Bathroom Readers, and WC Fields was not mentioned. I only bring it up because I'm fairly certain the standard "it's from the Bible" wasn't necessarily the entire answer either. I just can't remember! Ugh. 😁
Anyway, this gives me the opportunity to laud Uncle John's, as revisiting these now old texts has me viewing them as invaluable research resources in the day of complete revisionist history. They're solidly researched books.
For instance, fun fact: we're often told the story of how Blockbuster rejected an early offer to buy Netflix. It's always presented as David vs Goliath hubris and a "Blockbuster was so dumb, ha ha!" affair.
Turns out Blockbuster was actually 500 million dollars deep in their own downloadable stream technology at the time. Uncle John's doesn't go into specifics, but the kicker is that investment was tied up in Enron, and subsequently destroyed by Enron's collapse.
Knowing what we suspect of financial system shenanigans these days, it colors the whole affair in a different light, IMO.
GameStop, Blockbuster, streaming propaganda 24/7, etc.
Also, Nimrod is in the Bible, and considered a very nefarious person. Using that term is definitely derogatory.
Nimrod is the dude who literally built the tower of babel, because he wanted to be like God, and was going to build a Tower up into heaven. Well, we know how that turned out. 😂🤣😂🤣
Before that everybody could communicate in one language, but then God curse them with different languages, to confuse them, so they couldn’t continue to build their tower.
What a Nimrod! 🤣😂🤣😂
Love it!
My best friend, and I about 20 years ago made up these little slips of paper… They said on it.
Dear Nimrod: Some thing regarding the way you parked or different terms like rectal cranial inversion. Anyway, we had about a half a dozen different infractions, with a square for a check mark, and a blank spot where you could write a note to the person. Anyway, I would keep them in my car or in my purse so we can hand them out when necessary. 😂🤣
I remember we put one on a car next to ours because they parked so close my friend couldn’t even get in the vehicle! Fun times!
Whenever I hear the word, Nimrod, I always think back to those days. Thanks for the fun memory.
I had a black and tan hound, I think I called him that so often, he assumed it was his name.
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