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johnnyFive · 3145 days ago · link · · parent · post: Teaching is Fulfilling: what TFG's been up to #3
My favorite example is "nimrod." Nimrod in the Old Testament was a great hunter archetype. Fast forward to the 1960s, and Bugs Bunny uses it to insult Elmer Fudd--basically calling him a great hunter sarcastically. Too few people understood the reference, but gleaned the idea Bugs was going for, i.e. to make fun of Elmer. From this, nimrod came to mean "dummy."