Talk:Nimrod (disambiguation)

Two other occurences of 'Nimrod'
After my having read several of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien's books handling with Middle-Earth, in which 'Nimrod' is, as far as I can recollect, the first name of Finrod Felagund who in the Silmarillion let build the city of Nargothrond, the word struck me in Monty Python's Flying Circus. It occurs there in 'The All-England-Summarize-Proust-Competition' at the end of the scene with the dying hamster with Terry Jones as mother, John Cleese as first son, Graham Chapman as second son returning from Dublin and several persons playing the fire-brigade. After this scene there is a list of names as before a movie, among them Nimrod. The later of these two may be irrelevant, the first definitely not more than a comic-crocodile. --88.195.183.202 (talk) 12:21, 16 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I am sorry; while I was typing, I unconciously put the right name Finrod instead of the wrong one, Nimrod, due to which I referred to this person. Of course then already I could have discovered that when I watched the Flying Circus I so eagerly tried to remember where I could have found the word 'Nimrod' before, that subconciously I cut off the last two letters of the girl's name 'Nimrodel' of the poem in The Fellowship of the Ring and tried to find a connection for it. So, only Monty Python here. --88.195.203.178 (talk) 15:41, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Another meaning
I think to most people, a "nimrod" is a stupid person. I wonder if this might have originated in the form of Bugs Bunny mocking Elmer Fudd with the name, which would suit him as being a name meaning "hunter" but lost on the masses who don't really recognize obscure biblical references like that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.73.70.113 (talk) 00:47, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

I'd second this; this is the only meaning I ever associated with the word before seeing it on the front page and wondering why on earth a boat would be named Nimrod. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.74.144.103 (talk) 15:44, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

I third it; I think I remember it being used as an insult in a Calvin and Hobbes strip. But I am aware of its Biblical roots. Brutannica (talk) 18:39, 9 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Nimrod was "A mighty hunter". That's why the other things are named after him. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.150.11.196 (talk) 12:17, 15 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a dictionary. The encyclopedic entry on Nimrod contains information about the background of the name as well as the uneducated slang American usage based on a sarcastic usage in a cartoon in the 1930s.  This "meaning" is contained in the correct encyclopedic entry.  This disambiguation page is not a definition page, but a table of pages to which one searching for the name "Nimrod" may wish to review.  For meanings, refer to a dictionary. 130.76.24.13 (talk) 16:34, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

Fictional Characters -v- Entertainment
I'm not really seeing the distinction between the "People/Fictional Characters" section and the "Entertainment" section, unless the attempt is to distinguish literature and media that are not entertaining. Should the "Fictional Characters" be moved into the "Entertainment" section? Anonymouse914 (talk) 19:40, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Assyrian city in Iraq
gle news:Gool "Islamic State Bulldozes Ancient City of Nimrod, Iraq in Latest Desecration

"The Islamic State jihadist group began bulldozing the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrod in northern Iraq on Thursday, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities reported.

"'The Islamic State has assaulted the historic city of Nimrod, bulldozing it with heavy vehicles,' the ministry announced on an official Facebook page. This represents the ISIS's latest attack on the country's historical heritage." (http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/319770#.VPjJhyvF9M0) 76.126.195.34 (talk) 21:31, 5 March 2015 (UTC)