“I don't even know how this word came into being: "aerobics". I guess gym instructors got together and said, "If we're going to charge ten dollars an hour, we can't call it 'jumping up and down'."”

— Rita Rudner

Essay 4: "Survival of the Fattest", p. 18
Naked Beneath My Clothes (1992)

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“I don't even know how this word came into being: "aerobics". I guess gym instructors got together and said, "If we're going to charge ten dollars an hour, we can't call it 'jumping up and down'."”

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