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From: tmoody@sjuvax.UUCP (T. Moody)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Call for Proper Noun Idioms
Message-ID: <2677@sjuvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Dec-85 15:27:38 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 23 15:27:38 1985
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Reply-To: tmoody@sjuvax.UUCP (T. Moody)
Organization: St. Joseph's University, Phila. PA.
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Keywords: Proper Nouns, Idioms
Summary: 

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I think it's *lower* Slobovia.  I recall this locale from the defunct
"Li'l Abner" comic strip, by Al Capp.  I think that "Timbuktu" also 
designates a very remote place.  Also, I know two people, both from the
Baltimore area, who say something along the lines of "...we had to drive
all the way out to East Bumfuck and back..."  I've never heard anyone
*else* mention this picturesque place, but these two people do not know
each other, either.  Perhaps it's a Baltimore-ism.

Todd