Egypt Map from 1960

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HiTekRedNek Guru Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: 44.56024"N 15.307971E Posts: 8277 Good Answers: 270	Egypt Map from 1960 08/21/2013 8:37 PM
	Back in the early 1960's I was in high school, and a classmate mentioned "Bumfuk Egypt". I thought he was just being funny, but he showed me the globe and sure enough, there it was. Perhaps someone from the same era remembers it also,or perhaps an old school house globe from that era? I know many jokes have been made about it, and a Google search shows nothing except the slang usage. A modern globe does not show it.I would like to find a globe from the time period of the late 1950's early '60's to find it. Anyone got any links to a detailed authentic map of Egypt from that time period? The ones I have found do not list small cities in detail as did the old globes. __________________ "A man never stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child." "Never argue with a stupid person.They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience" "To create an apple pie from scratch, first you must create a universe"
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JPool Guru Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Detroit MI, USA Posts: 2496 Good Answers: 271	#1 Re: Egypt map from 1960 08/21/2013 8:54 PM
	There is no such place nor has there ever been. It is an American military term referring to the middle of nowhere started in the 1960's. What is strange is that they used the British term for butt "bum". I suspect the globe you saw had been altered by someone trying to be funny. __________________ How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life. --CAPTAIN KIRK, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
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Usbport Guru Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Trantor Posts: 5363 Good Answers: 647	#6 In reply to #1 Re: Egypt map from 1960 08/21/2013 11:29 PM
	Lots of folks here in the US use bum and butt interchangeably. Otoh, 'Fanny' has a very different meaning in the UK from its common US usage. (They must smile when they hear a woman from the US talk about her 'fanny pack'.) __________________ Whiskey, women -- and astrophysics. Because sometimes a problem can't be solved with just whiskey and women.
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HiTekRedNek Guru Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: 44.56024"N 15.307971E Posts: 8277 Good Answers: 270	#7 In reply to #6 Re: Egypt map from 1960 08/21/2013 11:47 PM
	Yeah!You really gotta be careful when talking to women. In the US,tell a woman she looks like a million bucks, and that is a compliment. But tell her she looks like a million pounds...... __________________ "A man never stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child." "Never argue with a stupid person.They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience" "To create an apple pie from scratch, first you must create a universe"
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SolarEagle Guru Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: by the beach in Florida Posts: 33392 Good Answers: 1817	#2 Re: Egypt map from 1960 08/21/2013 9:18 PM
	I think you should go in search of the place....and mail us a postcard when you get there....so we can post it here to prove we have people from everywhere on here.... __________________ All living things seek to control their own destiny....this is the purpose of life
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Tornado Guru Join Date: May 2009 Location: Richland, WA, USA Posts: 21017 Good Answers: 795	#3 Re: Egypt map from 1960 08/21/2013 9:21 PM
	But then why did the name get attached specifically to Egypt? __________________ In vino veritas; in cervisia carmen; in aqua E. coli.
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Anonymous Poster #1	#4 In reply to #3 Re: Egypt map from 1960 08/21/2013 9:23 PM
	Because Podunk and Timbuktu were already taken...
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HiTekRedNek Guru Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: 44.56024"N 15.307971E Posts: 8277 Good Answers: 270	#5 Re: Egypt Map from 1960 08/21/2013 10:34 PM
	The thought crossed my mind at the time, so I looked at the globe in our library and it was there also.If it was edited, they did a very good job restoring the shiny finish and printing exact duplicates of the fonts in use on the rest of the globe.I wonder if my classmate was arrested for counterfeiting? Lots of names have come and gone since then, and countries have changed names,Constantinople comes to mind,for instance.And Persia.Anyway, it probably has vanished into the past,like the Weekly Reader and real service stations,and 25Cent Gasoline. But I do distinctly remember seeing it on more that one globe at the time. That is why I was inquiring about an old original globe or map from the '60's. Anyone around in that time period that remembers it? __________________ "A man never stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child." "Never argue with a stupid person.They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience" "To create an apple pie from scratch, first you must create a universe"
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Katec Participant Join Date: Dec 2020 Posts: 1	#8 Re: Egypt Map from 1960 12/20/2020 8:45 PM
	I saw it also
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HiTekRedNek Guru Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: 44.56024"N 15.307971E Posts: 8277 Good Answers: 270	#9 In reply to #8 Re: Egypt Map from 1960 12/21/2020 6:35 AM
	Here it is: __________________ "A man never stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child." "Never argue with a stupid person.They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience" "To create an apple pie from scratch, first you must create a universe"
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Anonymous Poster #2	#10 Re: Egypt Map from 1960 01/31/2026 6:04 PM
	I was always interested in my uncle's globe. I was born in the early 50's. I'm certain I saw this place on his globe in the 60's but have never seen it again. I even showed a few friends at the time. If it has never been a real location then possibly someone drawing the map for the globe did it as a sort of prank. I've never had anyone else say they have seen it on a map or globe. Unfortunately I have no idea what happened to the globe.
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