Saturday 24 August 2013

Nimrodparadoxianism

Nimrodparadoxianism: noun. A word describing the paradoxical situation arising from a quality not being attributed to the person whom it is named after. This does not apply to people whose name is the name of a certain disease; for example, the fact that Parkinson never suffered from Parkinson´s is not a nimrodparadoxianism. However, the fact that the great ancient king Nimrod was not a nimrod (using the modern understanding of the word) is a Nimrodparadoxianism. According to the omnipresent and omniscient wikipedia, this paradox was caused by Bugs Bunny who sarcastically referred to Elmer Fudd as "nimrod," which was misinterpreted by a large part of the audience.

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