asx gets smashed again for nothings, page-17

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    "Gravscan i think the word is bumkin, or is bunkum a word?"


    dmaleny,

    There are two similar-sounding words, bunkum and bumpkin. Bunkum means nonsense. A bumpkin is a yokel or hick, or alternatively a spar on a sailing boat. I think the word "bunkum" was right for my purposes (and those of Nine Lives, who I was replying to).

    The "Answers.com" explanation follows:

    Bunkum also buncombe

    Empty or insincere talk; claptrap.

    [After Buncombe, a county of western North Carolina, from a remark made around 1820 by its congressman, who felt obligated to give a dull speech "for Buncombe".]

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