Comments on: I Found Timbuktu!

By: DotMySpot

DotMySpot — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:25:12 +0000

lolz @@” timbuktu.. :O in my last company we actually used this software called timbuktu to troubleshoot PC without being infront of it.. means from a far ahhaha..

By: slicksumbich

slicksumbich — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:38:36 +0000

Ha…..I’ve been schooled today.

I too have been guilty of using the word without really knowing it’s origins.

By: Saboma

Saboma — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:45:22 +0000

I grew up reading a ‘Little Red Book” that spoke of both Timbuktu and Kalamazoo in it. I never thought much about either one other than it was a book for children to read. Yet, as I grew up and began traveling, I discovered that both Timbuktu and Kalamazoo are real towns here in the US although, presently, I’m not recalling which states they are in but they are both on the map somewhere in the mid-western states.

*Hugs*
~:o)

By: Memphis

Memphis — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:36:56 +0000

We’ve got the saying here in Australia too!

By: Craig

Craig — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:49:01 +0000

This reminded me of a dirty joke I read in some distant past….
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“At the finals of the National Poetry Competition the two finalist were an unlikely pair. Finalist number one was a Harvard educated professor of literature and the winner of several previous competitions. Finalist number two was a young Marine Lcpl. from the hills of West Virginia who needed help filling out the entry form.

The final round consisted of each competitor being given the same word and having thirty seconds to complete a verse, using the word.

The Professor went first. The Judge said, ” The final word this year is ’Timbuktu’” The Prof. started thinking. Ten seconds went by. Twenty seconds. The crowd became nervous. After twenty eight seconds the Prof. began,

“Across the hot Sahara sand,

Trekked the dusty caravan.

Men on camels, two by two,

Destination- Timbuktu.”

The crowd went wild, there was no way that the Hillbilly Marine would ever top that.

The Lcpl. was brought on stage. The judge gave the word, “Timbuktu.”

The young Lcpl. looked to the sky, he thought for 10-15 seconds, stepped up to the microphone, cleared his throat, and began,

“Tim ’en me, a-huntin went,

Met three girls in a pop-up-tent,

They was three and we was two,

So, I bucked one and Tim Buck Two!”

By: Kristyn

Kristyn — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:56:50 +0000

I don’t think it’s a just a South Africa thing, I say it, and so does my mom. I’m in Texas and she in Southern California. Honestly, I think I got it from her! Honestly, I’m with Kuntrygirl and Yoshi, I thought it was a made up place!

By: Yoshi

Yoshi — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:52:49 +0000

LOL I’m with kuntrygirl, I did not realize that timbuktu actually existed. Kinda like “where’s that? Podunk, wherever?”

Wow, maybe podunk exists too. I better look that up.

That is beautiful though. Man, I want to go to Africa someday. I just need money.

By: kuntrygurl

kuntrygurl — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:34:51 +0000

I thought it was a made up place.