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http://www.simplyplanes.co.uk/hawker_siddeley_nimrod.shtml

I cant cut and paste....go to the 5th section and they call the Nimrod the Mighty Hunter.

and yeah I remember that particular Bugs Bunny toon...and that probably tipped it over the edge to mean a ‘maroon’ as bugs would say...

[xone]

though some modern Lutheran theologians reject the use of this term because of its ambiguity.

You didn't expect them to call it the Nimrod...the moron, did you? I think you are right about Bugs though.