Bugs Bunny: What a maroon/What an ultramaroon What is the
2023年1月8日 · Bugs accent is well-known today, but at the time it was intentionally ridiculous. There is video out there of Mel Blanc describing how he came up with it. If I recall correctly, it was a mixture of Brooklyn & Bronx (which were each more distinctive back then before mass media).
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The usage is first recorded in 1932, but apparently was popularized in the 1940s in several children's cartoons in which several children's cartoons in which the character Bugs Bunny taunts the silly hunter Elmer Fudd, who is pursuing him, by calling Fudd a nimrod.
TIL that Bugs Bunny changed "nimrod" into a synonym for idiot
Bugs Bunny also used to say "What a maroon" like it was an insult. Maroons were slaves from Suriname and Guyana who broke free and started their own colonies in the forest, mixing with the Amerindian people who lived there. The colour 'maroon' is named after the people, not the other way around. Bugs Bunny was racist as hell.
The color "maroon" and the verb "maroon" (to put ashore on a
2018年6月15日 · The color "maroon" and the verb "maroon" (to put ashore on a desert island or coast) ultimately come from two different sources, but they developed in an interesting, overlapping way that involves chestnuts, slavery, and Bugs Bunny.
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2020年9月18日 · Bugs (the fictional character) also got Mel Blanc (the actual human) out of a coma. Was totally unresponsive for weeks, then one day a doctor asked how Bugs was doing, and Mel replied in Bugs's voice.
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My obsessive love for Bugs Bunny comes from my first best friend. MeTV is starting to do a subtle turnover of cartoons and for the most part it's worth it by the 9 o'clock hour with Bugs and Friends. Currently they're playing my die hard favorites, and I still can hear my Papa, and the silly things he'd say, and how we'd just laugh like loons.
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maroon (v.) "put ashore on a desolate island or coast" by way of punishment, 1724 (implied in marooning), earlier "to be lost in the wild" (1690s); from maroon, maron (n.) "fugitive black slave living in the wilder parts of Dutch Guyana or Jamaica and other West Indies islands" (1660s), earlier symeron (1620s), from French marron, simarron, said to be a corruption of Spanish …