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		UweSchmidt on Sept 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nimrod is being renamed to Nim Second post in the thread that cites "Bugs Bunny". If that is now canon and required reading for educated people I have some work to do!

apetresc on Sept 22, 2014 [–]

They got it from Wikipedia, which also cites Bugs Bunny as the source of "nimrod"'s modern meaning.

ansible on Sept 22, 2014 | [–]

I had only encountered the term while watching the carton, which all my friend did too. I didn't learn about the word's origin until much later.

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