biep@klipper.UUCP (J. A. "Biep" Durieux) (01/15/85)
In article <186@decwrl.UUCP> chabot@amber.DEC (l s chabot) writes: >Gee, I never heard of it meaning "ding-dong". All I ever knew was that it >meant "hunter". I think there's a Nimrod in the bible, and isn't the old book >_Nimrod_and_Sam_ by, er, Booth Tarkington? > >L S Chabot [] Ok, everybody has now read 20 times that Nimrod is the guy mentioned in Gen 10:8-12, but now this: what the **** is a "ding-dong"? (If it *is* a bell, after all, I'll sigh!) -- Biep. {seismo|decvax|philabs}!mcvax!vu44!botter!klipper!biep I utterly disagree with everything you are saying, but I am prepared to fight to the death for your right to say it. --Voltaire
hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (Jerry Hollombe) (01/15/85)
>From: biep@klipper.UUCP (J. A. "Biep" Durieux) >Subject: Re: Complement to "Who / What is a N I M R O D?" >Message-ID: <412@klipper.UUCP> > > Ok, everybody has now read 20 times that Nimrod is the guy mentioned > in Gen 10:8-12, but now this: what the **** is a "ding-dong"? > (If it *is* a bell, after all, I'll sigh!) Obviously you aren't a fan of Cheech and Chong. As I recall, their original "Blind Lemon Chitlin'" sketch had an exchange like this (quoted without permission): "...Ding-dong? Ding-dong?? What's a ding-dong?" {sound of zipper opening} "I think he's going to show you, boss." "Oh, my God! You could play jump-rope with that thing! ..." -- ============================================================================== ... sitting in a pile of junk on the runway, wondering what happened ... The Polymath (Jerry Hollombe) Citicorp TTI If thy CRT offend thee, pluck 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. it out and cast it from thee. Santa Monica, California 90405 (213) 450-9111, ext. 2483 {vortex,philabs}!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe
cem@intelca.UUCP (Chuck McManis) (01/19/85)
>Ok, everybody has now read 20 times that Nimrod is the guy mentioned >in Gen 10:8-12, but now this: what the **** is a "ding-dong"? >(If it *is* a bell, after all, I'll sigh!) >- > Biep. I can appreciate the difficulty we americans impose on our foreign friends by an almost fiendish desire to attach completely different meanings to both new and old words. (Who would have guessed in the 80's to be "bad" was to have the same connotation as being "cool" in the 50's) As there was no trademark symbol on the original message we can rule out that the author was refering to the small creme filled chocolate covered cakes that are called Ding-Dongs and must assume theyt are using the 60's vernacular for someone who either lacked intelligence or acted in a partiticularly stupid way. One derivative of this was the adjective "dingy" which meant lacking in common sense or acting in unpredictable ways. It has no similarity to the word dingy which refers to a small boat. Isn't slang fun? :-) --Chuck -- - - - D I S C L A I M E R - - - {ihnp4,fortune}!dual\ All opinions expressed herein are my {qantel,idi}-> !intelca!cem own and not those of my employer, my {ucbvax,hao}!hplabs/ friends, or my avocado plant. :-}