From: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>
>
> > > And I know what a great tool a BFH is - but what's BFE ??
> >
> > Bum-Fornication Everywhere, sometimes used as shorthand for
> > "The middle
> > of nowhere."
>
> As I've heard it, it's Egypt rather than Everywhere. John's second word is
> a euphemism for the actual word, too.
>
> Of course, there's also British Frame and Engine, but hopefully the meaning
> is clear from the context <G>
D J Leary, a frequent guest on Almanac, a Twin Cities TV show for
public-affairs junkies, gave us one that I had not heard before: "Yeah, that's
fine in The Cities, but what do the folks out in East Elf Zipper think?"
In the USA, a common word for such a place has been for many years is "Podunk",
which I gather is based on a real town in New Jersey or Pennsylvania with a
different spelling.
Of course it is difficult to improve on "Fargo".
Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1993 Suburban,
1994 Miata C package
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I decry the textmessagization of the American-English language.
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