A minced form of a ruder place-name joke for any backwater town, rural shop or job site miles from the nearest supplier. Tool-teardown culture made versions of it into a self-mocking home address for the backyard tinkerer. When you are in bumblefudge, you make the part yourself because the store is two hours away.
Heard on the job
We're out in bumblefudge, nearest bearing supplier is ninety miles, so measure the old one and turn a bushing.
Also heard as
- the boonies
- the sticks
- back of beyond
Related terms
Unobtainium
Shop joke for a part or material that is impossible or absurdly expensive to get.
Fabricobble
To fabricate something by cobbling it together from scrap and whatever is lying around.
Bubblegum and baling wire
Describes a repair or machine held together by improvised, makeshift fixes that should not still be working.