EmBee

For some reason over the past couple of days, most of the Message titles disappear off to the right on my screen.

It is very annoying.

janis

That only happens when some nimrod posts a long title w/o any spaces. Everyone will have the same problem until the offending thread drops off the page you are looking at. (I know because when I was a newbie I posted a thread like that. Got an e-mail from the fodors editors telling me what happened and they were deleting my thread. But they also sent me the full text of the thread so I could re-post it w/ a better title. I don't think they do that anymore since the threads seem to stick around now)

You can't do anything to "fix" it.

janis

just looked - seems the offending thread is the one about Germany, Austria, Budapest, Prague -- which unfortunately someone just topped so it will be around for a while.

Robespierre

nim·rod [ním ròd]
(plural nim·rods)
n
hunter: any skillful or enthusiastic hunter (literary)


[Mid-16th century. From the tradition of Nimrod as a “mightly hunter” (Genesis 10:9).]
Microsoft® Encarta® Reference Library 2004. © 1993-2003 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Gardyloo

Okay <s>Nimrod.</s>

Bozo.

suze

what janis said.

one long title posted with no spaces spoils the entire list. it *is* annoying, and you can't *fit it*

elaine

One of the bozo/nimrods here.
Until this posting I had no idea about using the space bar in the title box, and I've been posting here for years.
It's not like it was mentioned in the instruction book that came in the box, but it is a point well taken.

Same problem happens when long thread URLs are included in this text box--space those as well, I guess

RufusTFirefly

More of an American informal usage.

The American Heritage&reg; Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

nimrod

SYLLABICATION: nim·rod
PRONUNCIATION: nmrd
NOUN: 1. also Nimrod A hunter. 2. Informal: A person regarded as silly, foolish, or stupid.
ETYMOLOGY: After Nimrod. Sense 2, probably from the phrase “poor little Nimrod,” used by the cartoon character Bugs Bunny to mock the hapless hunter Elmer Fudd.

The American Heritage&reg; Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright &copy; 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

Robespierre

I sit corrected. I hadn't realized that <i>cartoonsprach</i> had made such inroads.

But I still think it sounds uneducated. Bugs Bunny, indeed.

FainaAgain

Rufus =D&gt;

Robes

Robespierre

alt-usage-english.org

In contemporary U.S. slang, &quot;nimrod&quot; means &quot;fool, numbskull&quot;. Rex Knepp ingeniously suggested that the origin of this was Bugs Bunny's taunt of Elmer Fudd: &quot;So long, Nimrod.&quot; Unfortunately for this theory, Jesse Sheidlower says that Random House has two citations of &quot;nimrod&quot; = &quot;numbskull&quot; from the 1930s, before the Bugs Bunny episode containing the taunt.

Fainagaina:

Robespierre

Merriam-Webster (m-w.com)

Main Entry: Nim·rod
Pronunciation: 'nim-&quot;r&auml;d
Function: noun
Etymology: Hebrew NimrOdh
1 : a descendant of Ham represented in Genesis as a mighty hunter and a king of Shinar

2 not capitalized : HUNTER

FainaAgain

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Nimrod

Dear readers,

Is it just me, or is anyone else experiencing a burning sensation of the ears?



Bozoingly yours,

Poor Little Nimrod

janis

Nimrod: I CERTAINLY wasn't refering to you

alya

Nimrod - how about this from a baby name website?

Gender: Boy
Origin: Hebrew
Meaning: &quot;We will rebel.&quot;

Worktowander

&quot;We will rebel?&quot;

ALL HAIL NIMROD!

alya

Worktowander - Scary, huh?

PatrickLondon

Also the title of a piece of music commonly used on VERY solemn occasions in the UK. No idea it had a disparaging meaning as well - that hasn't jumped the Atlantic. Yet. But if I see someone sniggering at a Remembrance Day service, I'll know they've been reading this thread...