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bumf - 1889 useage
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Cuyler Page <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 1 Apr 2011 23:43:23 -0700
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Somehow this seemed as though it should be familiar to the BP group, being from 1889 and all, but I have never run into it before.  
Cross Posted with apology and stripped of the mp3 pronounciation guide:
bumf 


MEANING:
noun: Unwanted or uninteresting printed matter such as governmental forms, legal documents, junk mail, promotional pamphlets, etc. 


ETYMOLOGY:
Short for bum fodder, slang for toilet paper. Earliest documented use: 1889. 


USAGE:
"A mortgage loan can generate 200 pages of bumf, most of it so boring and repetitious that no one has the energy or the time to read it all."
John Gilmour; Lenders Use The Hoover Principle; The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia); Jan 20, 2001. 


cp in bc
(Bunf Columbia)

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