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11th May 2007 | 14:11

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opsguy10

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Burpee

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

11th May 2007 | 14:19

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c-bert

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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.

11th May 2007 | 14:25

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If you do them after lunch that's what they make you do!

11th May 2007 | 14:50

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PPRuNeUser0211

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Thought that was barf?

11th May 2007 | 14:58

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airborne_artist

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From: Between the woods and the water

The 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.

11th May 2007 | 18:36

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ACW599

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Wasn't Burpee a Dam Busters navigator?

11th May 2007 | 21:13

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DucatiST4

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Pilot i though, lost on the dams raid.

11th May 2007 | 22:08

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Correct.

RIP

14th May 2007 | 02:24

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I only know the word as a seed company

14th May 2007 | 02:55

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henry crun

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I only know it as the maker of my outsize pressure cooker.

14th May 2007 | 08:25

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TMJ

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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.