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"Out in BFE"......is this not a common phrase here?

Bay Arean said:
It took me a while to remember all of our old local slams on people from Oregon. Nice.:laughing:laughing I haven't heard them in years. Ya know, moldy, webbed feat, fat, etc etc. I remember when I finally met somebody from oregon, this was in high school days, and I had a catalog of built-up impressions that they had to be compared against.....'

Good times. (which is something I never heard until that skit on SNL with the two NPR radio girls).
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I just call 'em Oregoners. :D
 
Real Californians don't even talk about the Midwest or know where it is. That's why I still cannot believe we field a hockey team.

We know about the losers in Wash/Ore. and the Southwest. All the rest is a mystery. Pacific Rim, baby.

Yes, stretchin' here. Nyuk. Guess we could morph into a thread of "What Real Californians Know".
 
Reli said:
SF uses it in reference to Pleasanton :laughing
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So funny. When I went to SF State, way back in the late 70s, I was constantly surprised how many of the students, mostly from Peninsula or city, were completely fuzzy about even the immediate East Bay, much less 680 corridor. Saying I was from Richmond always made them think the district, not the city.
 
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Bay Arean said:
So funny. When I went to SF State, way back in the late 70s, I was constantly surprised how many of the students, mostly from Peninsula or city, were completely fuzzy about even the immediate East Bay, much less 680 corridor. Saying I was from Richmond always made them think the district, not the city.
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Reminds me of a conversation with one of the panhandlers when I was out for a stroll around Fisherman's Wharf one evening after work.

"What part of the country are you visiting from?"

"25th Avenue and Clement Street." :wtf

:laughing
 
Ha, Fred. that's pretty far out there! All those stop signs.

Because I hate being wrong, and find all this very amusing, I have taken an office poll. As to who is here right now, I have four Californians, roughly my age, including my boss who grew up in LA and in Santa Rosa. Only one ever heard the term, unabbreviated, and it was from a person whose parents were from Delaware. No hway it's common. I will ask Ms. BA, who grew up on Potrero Hill, tonight....
 
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Bay Arean said:
Because I hate being wrong, and find all this very amusing, I have taken an office poll. As to who is here right now, I have four Californians, roughly my age, including my boss who grew up in LA and in Santa Rosa. Only one ever heard the term, unabbreviated, and it was from a person whose parents were from Delaware. No hway it's common. I will ask Ms. BA, who grew up on Potrero Hill tonight....
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I just took an office poll and everybody in this office has heard it, but it is only me and and the guy from Iowa in here right now

:twofinger
 
Bay Arean said:
Real Californians don't even talk about the Midwest or know where it is. That's why I still cannot believe we field a hockey team.

We know about the losers in Wash/Ore. and the Southwest. All the rest is a mystery. Pacific Rim, baby.

Yes, stretchin' here. Nyuk. Guess we could morph into a thread of "What Real Californians Know".
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Everything east of Reno is New Yawk.
 
I grew up in the south and we use BFE all the time. A lot of my southernisms get :wtf out here.
 
Reli said:
I'm from the Midwest, and was recently made aware that "out in BFE" isn't a well-known phrase around here. True?

BFE means butt (or bum) fuck egypt. It basically means some out-of-the-way rural area.

So I looked it up and discovered it is indeed a Midwest term. Apparently the southern tip of Illinois is called "Little Egypt" for some reason, and the phrase was used in a derogatory fashion by the folks up in Chicago, probably in the same way we bash the Central Valley.
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I had a girlfriend from Portland in college. Irish catholic. We went home to visit her family over a 5 day weekend. By the Mom kept saying "we have tongi all the way out to Christ the King for the basketball game!" The mom worked for the trailblazers. I thought she meant the arena was far away.

Turns out we were going to the younger sisters basketball game and it was at a high school/middle school called Christ the King.
 
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