[Jeff Chandler]

Timbuktu. Isn’t that on the way to Bum**** Egypt?

[John Valentine]

Perhaps you are referring to that most undesirable location to find yourself in, West Butt-Cheek, Nairobi.

Back in the day when I did a bit of sailboat racing, and we made a bad tactical decision that worked to our great disadvantage, we alwyas wound up in West Butt-Cheek, Nairobi. It wasn’t where we wanted to be.

[compound w]

Geeze! What’s next? Kalamazoo?

[knarf]

" The old saying "the treasures of wisdom are only to be found in Timbuktu" ... "

Oh yeah, I remember that one .. every school child learned that right after George Washington and the cherry tree.

[Old Student]

“Timbuktu. Isn’t that on the way to Bum**** Egypt?”

Nope, it's far, far past... As in “When I get done with you, you're going to be in charge of smoke-signals in Timbuktu!!!”

A threat I used a couple of times on some of my SATCOM troops, long ago, and far, far away, in another universe.