>>>>>>Ok, there is a new definition for loser:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Man_takes_26_years_to_solve_Rubik%92s_Cube&in_article_id=471180&in_page_id=2
>>>>>
>>>>>I've just realised. Did you mean "moron", as I've always read it? A maroon is a kind of distress flare sent up at sea, or a mortar.
>>>>
>>>>I guess you've never been a Bugs Bunny fan. ;)
>>>
>>>40 years before the mast!
>>>
>>>Why?
>>
>>That's what Bugs used to say when he put on over on anybody - "What a maroon!"
>
>I figured summat like that. Funny I never noticed it.

Well, he didn't always say it, so maybe you just didn't catch the right cartoons.