# Butt-F\*\*\* Idaho
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-f-idaho/101371
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [April 2, 2002, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-f-idaho/101371 "2002-04-02T12:18:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2002, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-f-idaho/101371/1 "2002-04-02T12:18:03Z")
Does anyone know where this expression comes from?
I understand it’s not the nicest of terms but I’ve heard it and used it and never really thought about where it comes from.
Example of how I would use it.
“What’s cable TV”
ans = “Where you from Butt-Fuck Idaho?”
I’ve searched but have come up with a lot of porn sites for some reason 😉
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### Author:  [@FyreFiend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FyreFiend)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2002, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-f-idaho/101371/2 "2002-04-02T12:30:57Z")
Around here it’s East BubbleF\*\*k. Don’t have a clue where it comes from though.
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### Author:  [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2002, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-f-idaho/101371/3 "2002-04-02T13:24:23Z")
Where I came from in the States, it was always Bumf\*\*k, Egypt.
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### Author:  [@OneChance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneChance)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2002, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-f-idaho/101371/4 "2002-04-02T13:27:58Z")
Don’t know the origin, but I’ve always heard it as Bum F\*\*k Egypt, or BFE for short. It basically means far away. “I parked way out in BFE.”
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### Author:  [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2002, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-f-idaho/101371/5 "2002-04-02T13:32:29Z")
Ok so it’s not a universal term.
I’ll go have a look at the BFE variation and see can I find anything.
Cheers
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### Author:  [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2002, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-f-idaho/101371/6 "2002-04-02T13:58:12Z")
I always refer to West Shitwater, Oklahoma.
Just Sharing.
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### Author:  [@GSV\_Consolation\_of\_Dreams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GSV_Consolation_of_Dreams)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2002, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-f-idaho/101371/7 "2002-04-02T14:06:13Z")
I thought there were insulting terms for a few states like:
Moosefart, Minnesota (my personal favourite)
Dead-dog, Arkansas
Hi Opal
etc, etc.
Kind of funny, but you need someone good at ad-lib invective to make really funny ones. Jarbaby, we’re lookin’ at you.
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### Author:  [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2002, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-f-idaho/101371/8 "2002-04-02T15:14:40Z")
We always used BFI, although I’ve also heard BFO (Butt-Fuck, Ohio). I’ve also heard “West Bumblefuck.”
–Cliffy
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### Author:  [@Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Guy)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2002, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-f-idaho/101371/9 "2002-04-02T15:25:41Z")
In my family, it’s always been Butt Fuck, Arkansas, probably because of the chance euphony with [Toad Suck](http://www.toadsuck.org/). Most other variants sound really odd to me.
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### Author:  [@Khan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khan)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2002, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-f-idaho/101371/10 "2002-04-02T15:56:21Z")
I’ve heard “Bumblefuck” before, but everyone who I’ve used that term in conversation with hasn’t except the guy who I heard it from, and he wasn’t talking to me; part of an a capella group from my school making fun of Dartmouth University.
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### Author:  [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2002, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-f-idaho/101371/11 "2002-04-02T16:23:08Z")
Another one I’ve heard is East Elk’s Ass Arkansas. I think BFE is probably more common than BFI.
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### Author:  [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2002, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-f-idaho/101371/12 "2002-04-02T18:40:14Z")
Back when I lived with a couple of ex-Navy guys in a place affectionately known as “The Squid Tank,” located just a few miles short of nowhere, I asked them about their liberal use of the abbreviation BFE. They both said it is a pretty popular expression in the Navy. Can any of our resident fish elaborate?
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### Author:  [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2002, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-f-idaho/101371/13 "2002-04-02T20:27:12Z")
I’d always heard BFE as in Egypt, though in Davis, CA you could often hear BFD used for a location far from the center of town, probably popular since that TLA has a second meaning.
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### Author:  [@bare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bare)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2002, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-f-idaho/101371/14 "2002-04-02T20:41:24Z")
I can assure you that we don’t have a bum f\*\*k here in Idaho but we do have an Athol.Athol
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### Author:  [@bare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bare)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2002, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-f-idaho/101371/15 "2002-04-02T20:45:26Z")
Just one Athol though.
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### Author:  [@bare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bare)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2002, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-f-idaho/101371/16 "2002-04-02T21:03:06Z")
Then again there is Butte, Montana. The Anaconda Copper Company used to call it the “biggest hole on earth!”.
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2002, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-f-idaho/101371/17 "2002-04-02T22:31:27Z")
I heard someone on this board use “Assboink, Idaho” once. Liked that one.
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### Author:  [@micilin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/micilin)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2002, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-f-idaho/101371/18 "2002-04-02T23:33:05Z")
I was talking to yojimbo about this the other evening and I mentioned that I have a vague memory of first seeing this phrase in either a Philip K. Dick, William S. Burroughs, or Hunter S. Thompson book/story/extract. (Come to think of it, maybe I was just obsessed with middle initials that evening.)
Anywho, a word to the wise: googling ‘B_ttf_\*\*’ and ‘Philip K. Dick’ will always be a mistake. :eek:
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### Author:  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2002, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-f-idaho/101371/19 "2002-04-03T02:22:45Z")
I have always used East Jesusville synonymously with Bumfuck, Egypt. That might be a better one to google on.
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### Author:  [@galt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galt)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2002, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-f-idaho/101371/20 "2002-04-03T02:27:18Z")
I’ve heard of Butt-fuck Egypt, Bumfuck Egypt, Bumblefuck, and BFE. All synonymous. I kinda like “West Bumblefuck” though. Like just Bumblefuck isn’t quite specific enough.
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