# EBF or BFE?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebf-or-bfe/601771
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [November 3, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebf-or-bfe/601771 "2011-11-03T19:07:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebf-or-bfe/601771/1 "2011-11-03T19:07:03Z")
Simple and short: do you call it East BumFuck or BumFuck Egypt? Or something else?
For fun, post where you live, or any funny variations.
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### Author:  [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebf-or-bfe/601771/2 "2011-11-03T19:16:47Z")
East Japip (live in NEPA)
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2011, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebf-or-bfe/601771/3 "2011-11-03T19:20:32Z")
Bumfuck, Egypt? For real? Never heard of it.
Though I just “East Jesus” is probably just as unknown to a lot of people.
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### Author:  [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2011, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebf-or-bfe/601771/4 "2011-11-03T19:32:23Z")
Oh, and I use EBF…born and raised in Massachusetts, never heard BFE until I moved south to Florida.
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### Author:  [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2011, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebf-or-bfe/601771/5 "2011-11-03T19:42:49Z")
I’ve always heard East Bumfuck. Although growing up in Virginia Beach we called it “Pungo.”
Bumfuck Egypt actually sounds like an interesting place, as long as you don’t bend over.
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2011, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebf-or-bfe/601771/6 "2011-11-03T19:47:21Z")
BFE. Didn’t learn the term until I was in college (in Wisconsin), and then, it was “Boofoo Egypt”.
I don’t think I ever heard the term in any sort of popular culture reference until the movie “Men in Black”, when Will Smith makes a reference to “BFE Jersey”.
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### Author:  [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebf-or-bfe/601771/7 "2011-11-03T19:49:49Z")
EBF makes more sense to me, because, why Egypt? That’s not the kind of place it’s referring to. But I usually hear BFE so that’s what I voted. I’m in Seattle.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2011, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebf-or-bfe/601771/8 "2011-11-03T19:56:09Z")
Outer Mongolia
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### Author:  [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2011, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebf-or-bfe/601771/9 "2011-11-03T20:16:27Z")
Neither, growing up it was BFI. Either Bum Fuck, India or Bum Fuck, Illinois depending on the scale of out-thereness.
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### Author:  [@Just\_Ed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Ed)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2011, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebf-or-bfe/601771/10 "2011-11-03T20:31:39Z")
[Bumblefuck](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=618990).
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### Author:  [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2011, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebf-or-bfe/601771/11 "2011-11-04T00:12:26Z")
BFE, American who lived all over the US and now overseas.
My dad always called it Little Rabbit, Australia.
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### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2011, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebf-or-bfe/601771/12 "2011-11-04T00:22:15Z")
Born in 1944. Never heard anything except BFE.
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### Author:  [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2011, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebf-or-bfe/601771/13 "2011-11-04T01:24:12Z")
Except, in the US (at least IME), it’s Butt-Fucking Egypt.
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### Author:  [@Time\_Like\_Tears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Time_Like_Tears)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2011, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebf-or-bfe/601771/14 "2011-11-04T02:53:51Z")
I grew up in Atlanta, and we’d say (all meaning the same thing, but the more syllables, the farther away):
-East (West) Bumble
-East (West) Bumblefuck
-Bumblefuck
-Bumblefuck Nowhere
-East Jesus Nowhere
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2011, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebf-or-bfe/601771/15 "2011-11-04T03:18:23Z")
Asscrack, Alabama.
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### Author:  [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2011, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebf-or-bfe/601771/16 "2011-11-04T04:10:37Z")
> [@phouka](#):
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> Except, in the US (at least IME), it’s Butt-Fucking Egypt.
This and bumfuck Egypt are the only two I ever heard. Born in 1970, lived in Nor Cal and Seattle.
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### Author:  [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2011, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebf-or-bfe/601771/17 "2011-11-04T07:52:10Z")
BFE. Learned it as “beyond fucking Egypt”, have since heard it as “bumfuck Egypt”, but same-same. I’ve uttered it as “BFE” many a time in southwest Virginia, northern New York, and rural Arkansas, all without anyone raising an eyebrow. For what it’s worth, I’d never heard of “EBF” until this thread, though I’ve heard (and used) East Bumfuck in its entirety.
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### Author:  [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebf-or-bfe/601771/18 "2011-11-04T14:30:36Z")
BFE here in the mid of west. I never heard the term before until I moved to Indiana.
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### Author:  [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2011, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebf-or-bfe/601771/19 "2011-11-04T15:44:38Z")
I always just call it “Out in da country.”
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### Author:  [@Cryptic\_C62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cryptic_C62)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebf-or-bfe/601771/20 "2011-11-04T15:49:08Z")
“Bumfuck, Arkansas” has always been my phrase of choice.
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