• BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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      15 days ago

      One of my favorite little facts is that “nimrod” entered the lexicon as synonym of “moron” because Bugs Bunny kept applying it to Elmer Fudd Marvin the Martian and very Christian America was too Biblically illiterate to understand that he was making a sarcastic reference.

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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      Which is why it’s very funny that one of the X-Men’s greatest villains is an evil robot from the future named Nimrod