I'm not going to an explicit in the actual title, but I'll start using it later. This expression was a special request investigation from @Ausbitbank from a chat the other day on discord.
I was surprised to here this one is popular in Australia but I guess its so awesome it's everywhere.
The Expression and meaning
If you not familiar with it, it is used when referring to some middle of nowhere place.
You would say, I Have to go visit my family in Butt-Fuck Nowhere.
There are many minor variations in this expression including bum-fuck Egypt, or Bum-fuck Iowa. You can really just change to nowhere part to any other place, and bum with butt. It's very sophistical stuff.
It's also often abbreviated to just BFE, or BFN.
The Origin
Of course it's not very clear as usual but I've dug up a few theories.
It seams to be clear that is started as "bumblefuck" which seams to have a long standing history being used to refer to any remote location.
Then at some point it morphed to butt-fuck, it seams to began to be heavily adopted by the vulgar crowd of military members and students in the 70s and some feel the influence of the move Deliverance in 1972 had something to do with this change from bumble fuck to butt fuck.
In fact the Egypt part has a much more interesting background.
On potential Origin just suggests it was started as Egypt do a military outpost that was there and very undesirable place to be station due to it's remoteness.
The other origin of the Egypt part refers to a part of Southern Illinois knows at Little Egypt, it has towns named Ciaro, Thebes, and Karnak. They say this may have been used by mobsters and criminals in the glory days of Chicago to refer to some secret hideout, south of Chicago.
Hope this clears up the mystery, If anyone has any burning requests for the next investigation let me know
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Haha I like this. You should do a series on some other lesser known expressions. I haven't used this expression in ages, but clearly remember using it a lot when I live in bumfuck nowhere, ontario.
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Sorry I missed this comment 9 days ago, but this is exactly what I'm doing man, every week finding the definition and origin of one everyday expression.
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Good stuff, always good to learn new things. And no worries, the holidays are busy times, people have lots to do, replying to steemit comments takes a backseat sometimes.
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@phelimint I have always enjoyed using Bum-Phuck Egypt.......See what I did there to clean it UP slightly ??
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West bumble fck or butt fck idaho were two popular ones when I was in high school.
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Hahaha, this is funny! I love finding out the origin of phrases and words, it’s akways so interesting,
Great post!
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My wife is big on mobsters in our area (the Chicago area) I should ask her if any of the books she's ever read on there lives to mention them using this term and see what she says.
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Interesting. I say BFE all the time but never thought about the origin lol
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Quite interesting, but actually a share that gives information to every clan. Thank you ...
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I love this! We have always referred to it as BFE where I grew up!
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And now we have some idea :D LoL bumblefuck, that's almost cute.
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I love the term 'bumblefuck', one of my favourite YouTubers, AvE, refers to himself as "Uncle Bumblefuck", or fooling around in his shed with tools, electronics or whatever he's gotten himself into as 'bumblefuckery'.
Must be a proper Canadian thing? :D
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LMAO we always used Egypt. Love these posts.
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I use this one alot 😊
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Comic relief for the day. Hilarious. Thanks. New to Steemit, following you! @schoonercreek
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I always wondered how the hell butt fuck nowhere could be abbreviated BFE. I think that your theory of little Egypt is more likely than the remote military outpost, but its spread is probably more due to vulgar teens and druggos than serious mobsters imo
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