Crikey I've missed Vox!

Much has transpired since I logged into Vox, my neighborhood peeps. I plan on getting back into the habit of posting funny drivel on the regular and taking advantage of this aesthetically pleasing and non-effensive (generally) outlet for saying my piece. You know I always thought it was "saying my peace" until the other day? What a maroon I am.

Also, if anybody knows the etymological beginnings of  the expression "what a maroon" and wishes to share, I'd be very grateful, as I'm ignorant as to it's origins, and don't want to be slinging horribly outdated slurs from the 20's just in case I am.

Cheers!

Also I've pics of my new apartment to share, and longer hair. Say it with me, "that rhymes and you know it rhymes."

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karen
How funny! I was just thinking of "what a maroon" this morning. It comes from Bugs Bunny.
Nick
That's it? Warner Brothers just randomly made that a BB catch phrase and the rest is history? How benign!
Dave
lol...I've always associated it with Bugs...didn't know he invented it.
Nick
I associate the expression from Who Framed Roger Rabbit, as Roger uses the expression himself....I was so close, just got the cartoon rabbit wrong.
Aislinn
Hooray! I'm glad. Mostly because I can read it while at work.
Nick
Now to start re-training myself to post on the regular, and to leave work on time, and to balance my checkbook, and to eat right, and to to wake up early and exercise, and to read more real books not just comics, and to cook more meat at home despite the mess, and to occasionally buy a CD instead of downloading it, and to see more live music, and to save money to travel more, and to use more outdated slurs from the 20s.
karen

When I'm wrong, I'm wrong ;-)

And in this case, I'm wrong.

Nick
Excellent! Thank you! For those too lazy to link:

July 31, 1997
maroon
Don Willmott writes:
In Bugs Bunny cartoons, the "wascally wabbit" sometimes refers to stupid people as "maroons," as in "What a maroon!" I'm wondering if this put-down has a racist genesis and what, if anything, it has to do with being "marooned" on a desert island.

It is neither racist nor related to maroon 'to abandon' (though this word does originally refer to fugitive slaves), except through their identical pronunciation.

The word maroon 'an foolish or obnoxious person' is simply a jocular mispronunciation of moron. It is probably reinforced by the existence of maroon 'abandon' and maroon 'brownish red color' (which are themselves unrelated, by the way, giving us three different unrelated maroons).

Our maroon is first found in the 1940s, and was not coined by Bugs Bunny (though his use of it surely did a great deal to popularize the term). It is part of a number of words from that general period which represent jocular mispronunciations of common words. Some other exampes are anyhoo, fox paw (for faux pas), martooni, and nertz.


oyunfound
welcome back, i need a good dose of irreverence

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