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A blog by a man unable to define in advance what exactly is going to be on his blog - but it might occasionally be entertaining.

bumf:

It was originally British English, possibly public school slang, at least according to Barrère and Leland’s Dictionary of Slang of 1889. From there it dispersed to other parts of the former British Empire, but it is less well known in the US, I believe.

Its source is usually taken to be the much older bum-fodder. The sense was the one of useless or tedious printed information or documents — material whose only conceivable use was to be torn up, hung up on a nail in the privy and used as toilet paper. The full term was first recorded in the period of the Commonwealth in Britain, about 1650 — I remember seeing a political pamphlet of about that date which uses the word in its title. Its first recorded appearance is in 1651, in the first volume of Sir Thomas Urquhart’s translation of the works of Rabelais. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it was probably derived from the classical Latin 'anitergium', arse-wiper.

The slang abbreviation bumf originally had a literal sense of toilet paper, but quickly shifted its meaning back to the original. The usual spelling is bumf but bumph is not unknown.
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brumph:
Pretty much the same, but with an extra r.

Also, used as my social media name, because my initials are B and R, and my surname is Humphreys.
Well, I think it's funny.