Jeep

Factual Questions
1

For a vehicle, presumably from “GP,” meaning general purpose.

Is that true, or folk etymology?

Which came first “Jeep” as in the vehicle or “Jeep” as in “Eugene” from the “Popeye” cartoons?

2

Popyes Jeep came first. The GI’s made the connection of GP to Jeep. Eugene was never his name till those atrocious tv cartoons that changed Bluto to Brutus. http://www.midwest.net/orgs/ace1/
there was an official govt. malady known as Jeep Butt to the GI’s too. It was only indirectly related to the rough ride.

“Pardon me while I have a strange interlude.”-Marx

3

Nobody really knows, but here’s some info:
http://phaedra.apana.org.au/etymolgy.html

4

If anybody would know it’s beatle. how’s sargent snorkle? I thot i was gonna find out it was never called GP. Next thing you know I’ll find out that the bazooka theory is all wrong.