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opsguy10
11th May 2007, 14:11
Ok guys heres a pop quiz! Very very bored at work and we are trying to suss out where the word comes from.
By Burpee we mean the exercise move. Any ideas??
Opsguy:)
Sorry very very bored
c-bert
11th May 2007, 14:19
Sounds Injin to me. Most of our odd words seem to come from the sub-continent. Pukka etc, More than that I couldn't say though.
OCCWMF
11th May 2007, 14:25
If you do them after lunch that's what they make you do!:yuk:
PPRuNeUser0211
11th May 2007, 14:50
Thought that was barf?
airborne_artist
11th May 2007, 14:58
The Fartlek (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fartlek) and the Burpee were both invented by a PE teacher in the 1890s called Thomas Crotch, who could not use his own name for fear of upsetting the ladies.
ACW599
11th May 2007, 18:36
Wasn't Burpee a Dam Busters navigator?
DucatiST4
11th May 2007, 21:13
Pilot i though, lost on the dams raid.
BEagle
11th May 2007, 22:08
Correct.
RIP
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!
14th May 2007, 02:24
I only know the word as a seed company (http://www.burpee.com) :8
henry crun
14th May 2007, 02:55
I only know it as the maker of my outsize pressure cooker.
According to the copy of COD (11th ed) on my phone, it is after the name of the Ameican psychologist Royal H Burpee. What the etymology of his, and his Dambusting namesake's, name is I couldn't tell you.
OCCWMF
14th May 2007, 08:31
pba - you're right. They'd be called vurpees then.