THE BACKSIDE OF BEYOND, and other ways of describing nowhere
When you start wondering where a figure of speech came from, you sometimes find yourself on dark literary backroads, if not actually in BF Egypt.
It was during a search for the town of Waldo, New Mexico that my husband described our extremely rural surroundings as “BF Egypt.” And such is the nature of our car conversations on these occasions, I was shortly whipping out my iPhone in an effort to discover just why “B*** F*** Egypt” (to use the full (more or less) expression) should be a common...
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Melody
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Jun 26, 2012 07:05PM
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Ha! Love it, as I originate from BFE myself :-)
Fantastic! I grew up saying "the sticks" but learned "BFE" in the Navy. You definitely are a most thorough researcher- all on your iphone?- CRAZY good! ;)
That's extremely thorough and perfectly accurate for the Australian versions, not that I'd doubt it with you but I thought it worth mentioning.
We always put -tucky at the end of a town that seemed remote. For instance, I went to college in Rensselaer, IN-- it was Rensseltucky. Crestview becomes Crestucky, etc.
We have one we use in my home state: "Cowshit Flats, NV"
in the San Francisco Bay area it is Timbuctoo
