Jff-do You Say 'Boondox'? or BFE?

I've heard of the boondocks or the sticks, but not BFE. We like to get in the car and drive to the middle of nowhere, out in the country.

These remind me of a couple phrases that aren't quite related- "over yonder" and "back 40".

ETA: one southernism my husband makes fun of me for saying is "fixin to".

I say boonies or, more commonly, The Sticks.

Which is, for the record, exactly one mile south of where I live :-)

Boondocks, boonies, the sticks, off the map, off the grid.
Here there be dragons (or monsters).
It's not the end of the world but you can see it from here.
Also
trailer park = tornado magnet

we're somewhere out in the middle of timbuktoo.

I have heard of boondox but I always saw it spelled "boondocks". I have never heard of your BFE! Oh my!

Podunk, yes!

I'm pretty fond of "til the cows come home" and "I didn't fall off the turnip truck yesterday". I remember telling someone that my husband was just sick that he missed our son's school ceremony, and the person I was talking to thought he was really sick.

Love those Southernisms!

Dawn

Youve never heard the song? It was in the 60's, Down in the Boondocks.

Okay... I travel a lot, so I've had to describe "middle of nowhere" a lot. Some of these are regional

Back of Beyond
Backcountry
God Knows Where
(as in the ones I use the most... also use the following)

Boondocks
Boonies
Bush
Podunk
6 miles east of nowhere
Sticks
Bumfuck
Nowheresville
Hold for GPS cords
LatLong
Intersection of ______ & ______ (when I'm feeling cranky)
Off the Map
Crickets
300mi to the nearest gas station
(knew I should have turned) Left at Albuquerque
Saskatchewan
Past the loggers

Out in the boonies. BTW the 'correct' spelling is boondocks :)

They are the same. Only I always imagine the first spelling as "Boondocks", and the meaning of the acronym BFE was Bum F$@* Egypt.

My parents also used "boonies" as a shortened term for boondocks.

Loving:

it all depends upon who I am with!!!

I may say out in the boondocks. This is a word that originated in Philippines.

"If you're out in the boondocks, linguistically speaking, you're much more distant than the sticks, the backwoods, the hinterland, or the bush. In fact, you're in the Philippines. That's where the boondocks came from, during the American occupation that began with the defeat of Spain in 1898. In Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines, bondoc means "mountain," and the term was used first by the occupying U.S. military to mean the Philippine mountains ... or jungle ... or remote area of any sort. By 1909 it was already in Webster's New International Dictionary with those meanings. But in English it remained largely military slang until the 1960s. The Marine Corps especially made use of boondocks. During World War II the Marines began calling their heavy combat boots boondockers, and they have worn that name ever since."

Or I may say I'm in the middle of BFE!!! It stands for Bum F&&K Egypt.

BFE or Podunk personally.

Yep. I use both. I also know BFE as Bum and Egypt.

I also use "back 40" and "until the cows come home." The best part is when I'm trying to teach a concept to a group of kids, and use an appropriate phrase that they haven't heard. I find myself teaching two lessons that day!

too funny!

for mid-MO (well, & St Louis, too), it's boondocks or boonies...from the 60's song.

& we say "BFE"....which means "bum-f&ck East", not "Egypt". Love how everybody has their own interpretations of the world. :)

Oh, & my Dad used to say "lower 40".

Fun question...thanks!

Yes!
I think it's "boondocks"....
noun ( used with a plural verb )
1.
an uninhabited area with thick natural vegetation, as a backwoods or marsh (usually preceded by the ).
2.
a remote rural area (usually preceded by the ): The company moved to a small town out in the boondocks.

I've also heard and used "BuFu" (BooFoo) as an abbrev of BFE.

I usually say "the boonies" to refer to remote boring places where people don't usually wanna live, and BFE to refer to being too far away in general "we had to park way out in bfe" hehe if that distinction makes any sense!

Long Version - way out in the middle of nowhere...short boonies....I've heard the BFE saying but instead of Egypt we would say Nowhere so Bum "Fudge" Nowhere.

I've heard people say "Boondocks" and "Boonies". I don't have much occasion to speak on such a thing. When I do, I suppose I say "far out" "far away" or "way out in the middle of nowhere". :D

Heard of both of yours... we usually would use "middle of nowhere" "out in the toolies" or "out in the sticks".

I'm from SE Texas via raising in NE Texas. I grew up hearing/saying Boondocks. BFE came in when I was a young adult.
I also say Boonies (which would be a shortened version of Boondocks) and Sticks.
I refer to my little hometown sometimes as "HeeHaw Hell".

lol!! bfe or my gran used to say boogers woods lol

Both, along with boonies. Depends on whom I am talking to.

Usually I will say the boonies, the sticks, or East BumF***.

There actually was a Podunk Rd. near where we lived in MA!

Yes I have heard of yours and that is what we say too: The boondocks or the Boonies...BFE (Bum F**ck Egypt)is also one we say...so is 'Out in the Stix'!

I have heard the expression boon docks. Also "they're so far from everything they have to have the sunshine shipped in".