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Thread #89079   Message #1679306
Posted By: Jerry Rasmussen
26-Feb-06 - 10:22 AM
Thread Name: BS: JEEP origin of word?
Subject: RE: BS: JEEP origin of word?
You've ALL got it wrong. A friend of mine as a kid used to say "Jeepers," which his Mother insisted was a code word for "Jesus." Every time that he said Jeepers, his Mother accused him of swearing. (I have no idea where she came up with such a weird idea.) My friend being a kid, found his Mother no intellectual match, and started saying "Jeeps." He is in his early 70's now, and we met him and his wife at my Mother's 98th birthday party. When I recounted this story, his wife finally understood why he still uses that phrase.

Guess he didn't want his wife to wash his mouth out with soap for saying Jeepers.

so............ everytime someone says the word "Jeep," they are really using the Lord's name in vain.. :-)

Life gets weirder by the day..

Jerry