Polk sux too. We weren't on welfare, but we weren't rich either. I think we saved about months for the computer. Grandparents bought me a monitor a month later. What a rescue. There was a time when one would have simply said " Podunk " to mean "the middle of nowhere".
Buttfuck was moved from the territory of the hill folk to somewhere a little less offensive to people living south of the Mason-Dixon line. The cultural origin of the original fictional town the famous "squeal like a pig" scene was lost, but the idea of backward sodomites in a foreign world survived the translation.
As for the abbreviation, well, that's something that tends to happen quickly in the world of SMS and tweets. If something occurs frequently and requires more than a couple of characters, somebody is going to abbreviate it. I don't have an better explanation than Stan for the "butt-fuck" part I'd always heard it as "bum-fuck", which made me think it was originally British but it certainly ante-dates the First Gulf War.
Wikipedia suggests that "Egypt" was originally a Chicago-area expression referring to the southern third of Illinois , especially the towns of Cairo, Thebes, and Karnak. I know for certain we used "BFE" when I was back in high school too prior to and therefore, well before even the first Gulf War. It was immediately likened to what they called the "midwestern" expression "BFE".
Basically, if one was hopelessly lost, it was said they were "up in Poughkeepsie. Historically, as it was explained, New York City mobsters, criminals, etc.
This notion of this tradition is apparently still popular today, as it was duplicated, more or less, in a later episode of the Sopranos. As previously suggested, the vulgarity and the proximity to Chicago of Cairo, Thebes, and Karnak, Illinois would lend some creedence to the Wikipedia suggestion that the "BFE" expression might have similarly arose among mobsters, criminals, or anyone looking to "hide out" outside the Chicago area. It seems very logical to think that if a mobster, etc.
Louis and hiding out across the river in southern Illinois. Something else that lends some creedence to this suggestion is that if one proceeds to the very tip of southern Illinois and ultimately crosses the Ohio River, one would end up in Paducah Podunk , Kentucky.
Paducah is miles from Chicago, miles from St. When I was working in the oil patch in Wyoming in the early 's we used the term BFE to refer to any remote location we had to go to work. Example: "Where did you go today? Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Got another good explanation for BFE? Don't keep it to yourself! Add it HERE! Still can't find the acronym definition you were looking for?
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We returned home so late because she lives in the middle of BFE and we got lost several times. He lives out in BFE. Bum Fuck Egypt. Out in the middle of nowhere , far away from where you have to be. What we call the parking lot furthest away from the school.
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