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Bumfuck, Egypt

Posted by Li Yar on July 05, 2007

In Reply to: Bumfuck, Egypt posted by Bruce Kahl on July 04, 2007

: : : Does anyone know the origin (or anything else, for that matter) of the phrase "Bumfuck, Egypt?"

: : : I'm not finding it in the archives. It seems modern.

: : A very remote place. Usually considered vulgar. (I love when they say that.) Jocular. The first citation is 1972. U.S. Army. There is a second entry for "Bumblefuck." Also means a remote place. The date for that is 1989. From Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Volume 1, A-G by J.E. Lighter, Random House, New York, 1994. Page 310.

: AKA Bumfuck,Idaho or Bumfuck,Iowa

: Someplace hard to get to and generally undesirable;Some unknown location or
: some small town in a remote place.

: Also, any of the many extremely remote and inhospitable military outposts where U.S service men or women are assigned to serve.

I used to live in Little Piddle.

There are lots of villages with names that make them sound almost fictional.

"Bumfuck" is probbaly a corruption of the village of B'gehr Fah Kin-el or the neighbouring oasis of Kemel Shi'ite.

Li Yar

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