# What does \*bamf\* mean?

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**Created:** [October 6, 2004, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-bamf-mean/267843 "2004-10-06T14:06:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-bamf-mean/267843/41 "2004-10-12T20:59:50Z")

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OK, I give you zee zee zee, but the other ones are just extrapolations from previously-existing onomotopaeia, which I don’t think are the same thing.

–Cliffy

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-bamf-mean/267843/42 "2004-10-12T22:15:00Z")

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> [@samclem](#):
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> [http://www.collectmad.com/madcoversite/dmd-bydate.html](http://www.collectmad.com/madcoversite/dmd-bydate.html)
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> January, 1960.

I’m partial to “Woman Using Typwriter” (MAD #119. Jun 68, Page 48).

Hmm…I just noticed that list is missing “PAF” for the sound of a balloon popped by a boy wielding a peashooter.

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-bamf-mean/267843/43 "2004-10-12T22:18:35Z")

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Actually, I don’t see a listing for _any_ of his Inside Front Cover strips.

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-bamf-mean/267843/44 "2004-10-13T00:56:19Z")

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My mistake, they do have the Inside Front Covers. I missed them with the Find box.

They are indeed missing the one I was thinking of: “One Day in the Park” (MAD #137, Sep 1970, Back Cover).

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**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-bamf-mean/267843/45 "2004-10-13T01:10:09Z")

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You people are sad. Comics aren’t worth all the time, trouble and dedication you put into them. Memorizing sound effects, making huge indexes of individual artists’ onomotopaeic decisions…geez.

Obviously, the better option would be to devote yourself to Cowboy Bebop. Then you only have to deal with “bang”. 😃

For the irony-impaired, the first paragraph was a joke. I like comics too. Don’t hurt me.

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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-bamf-mean/267843/46 "2004-10-13T14:30:48Z")

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> [@Roland Orzabal](#):
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> You people are sad. Comics aren’t worth all the time, trouble and dedication you put into them. Memorizing sound effects, making huge indexes of individual artists’ onomotopaeic decisions…geez.
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> Obviously, the better option would be to devote yourself to Cowboy Bebop. Then you only have to deal with “bang”. 😃
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> For the irony-impaired, the first paragraph was a joke. I like comics too. Don’t hurt me.

Get the torches!

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