Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cornell.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!chris From: chris@cornell.UUCP (Christopher F. Harrison) Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: Re: bizarre place names Message-ID: <3815@cornell.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 09:10:08 EDT Article-I.D.: cornell.3815 Posted: Tue Aug 13 09:10:08 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Aug-85 05:37:51 EDT References: <268@inuxm.UUCP> <8505@watarts.UUCP> <333@baylor.UUCP> <314@tove.UUCP> Reply-To: chris@cornell.UUCP (Christopher F. Harrison) Distribution: na Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept. Lines: 18 Xref: tektronix net.bizarre:00569 Summary: In article <314@tove.UUCP> dsn@tove.UUCP (Dana S. Nau) writes: > >Bum Fuck, Iowa (a friend of mine claims to have been born near there) I've heard of this place, too. I've also heard of the town it was named after, a small town near one of our USAF bases in Turkey. It seems most of my friends that did a remote tour there seemed to lose a grasp on their sanity before they could return stateside. "Where've ya been, John?" "Oh, I got stuck in Bum Fuck, Turkey, where the women are men and the toilet paper's non-existent! Man, even the cooks in the best eateries use their hand to wipe. Thank God for JD's, it was the only way to keep my guts clean!" "Man, that's sick!" "No, that's Bum Fuck, Turkey!" -- Chris