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Poll Results: Nimrod Poll

Poll expired: Sep 6, 2010 This is a multiple choice poll
  • 25% (6)
    a dimwitted person
  • 12% (3)
    an axle
  • 41% (10)
    a Biblical character
  • 12% (3)
    an anti-submarine plane
  • 8% (2)
    Other
24 Total Votes  
post #1 of 17
9/5/10 at 5:50am
Thread Starter 
Don't think too hard. Quick answer! I am curious to see how Basenotes members -- whom I believe to be a literate and cultured international community -- think about this word.

1. Nimrod -- a noun, a dimwitted person
2. Nimrod -- a noun, the axle of a wheeled vehicle
3. Nimrod -- a proper noun, a biblical character
4. Nimrod -- a proper noun, an anti-submarine plane
5. Nimrod -- Other
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post #2 of 17
9/5/10 at 5:58am
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post #3 of 17
9/5/10 at 6:01am
Thread Starter 
Ah, so that's what they look like! Thanks, Craig!
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post #4 of 17
9/5/10 at 6:20am
I went for Biblical character, according to what I could remember
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post #5 of 17
9/5/10 at 6:43am
Other - The piece from Sir Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations
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post #6 of 17
9/5/10 at 7:11am
I went for #1.
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post #7 of 17
9/5/10 at 7:29am
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First thought that came up was of the biblical Nimrod, grandson of Noah. Then the nimrod-as-fool definition roiled up. So votes for #1 and #3.

I hadn't heard of the military Nimrod but it does accord with the biblical Nimrod who is mentioned as a "Great Hunter"
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post #8 of 17
9/5/10 at 7:51am
isnt that green day's album?
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post #9 of 17
9/5/10 at 10:22am
I voted #2 because.... that's what I thought it to be. I thought I heard that somewhere in a conversation about why kids call other kids nimrods. It's like dillweed. Why do people call each other dillweed? It's such a tasty little herb. It makes no sense!

But I know Nimrod is also the name of a Bible character. I should have gone with what I know rather than what I thought I knew.
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post #10 of 17
9/5/10 at 12:40pm
Isn't Nimrod in the book of Jeremiah? But it has come to mean a character, a "tool", I think.
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post #11 of 17
9/5/10 at 5:14pm
I was thinking of the Biblical character due to the Pixies song "Nimrod's Son". Can never go wrong with the Pixes.
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post #12 of 17
9/5/10 at 5:32pm
"Nimrod" is one of my choice words for aggravating drivers. That and dildohead, dingbat, asshat, and the old standby: moron.
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post #13 of 17
9/5/10 at 5:47pm
Picked 4 and 5. It is the name of lots of military type vehicles, a few ships a tank a couple of planes. It is also the Piece of Music by Elgar. I knew that Nimrod was characterised as a great hunter.

Totally forgot about Biblical Nimrod, guess I'll have a warm afterlife

Good this
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post #14 of 17
9/5/10 at 6:34pm
I went all Biblical on ya, then I chose dimwit secondarily. (I've never understood the connection between Nimrod and dimwit. Though I have heard Nimrod used as a euphemism for dimwit.)
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post #15 of 17
9/5/10 at 6:46pm
I went biblical too .
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post #16 of 17
9/5/10 at 10:30pm
Soooo.... I just learned something. Perhaps Nimrod is used as a term meaning "moron" or "idiot" because the famed Biblical king is traditionally considered the king under whose direction the tower of Babel was built. And I guess we all know how that turned out....
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post #17 of 17
9/6/10 at 9:55pm
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Originally Posted by DocmanCC View Post

"Nimrod" is one of my choice words for aggravating drivers.

That's actually how I first heard the word, because it's also my husband's choice words for aggravating drivers. Luckily, I was not driving at the time.

Anyway, since we ride in the car together so often, it's become stuck in my head as a word used for aggravating people. So, I used it in a like situation, and realized I hadn't a clue where Nimrod had come to mean dimwit. So, I looked it up. I had no idea it was a Biblical character. Or that Bugs Bunny called Elmer Fudd a "nimrod" and that is how it possibly came to be associated with dimwits instead of mighty hunters.

What is ironic, is that when I asked my husband what a "nimrod" was, his immediate reply "a British anti-submarine plane, and a very good one, I might add. At least better than the passenger plane it started out as, which crashed several times before they figured out how to fix it."

I'll never look at nimrods quite the same way again.
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