Buncombe and barrel bottoms
Private Bin: NBR's weekly round-up of the absurd, ironic and straight-up stupid.
Rob Hosking
Fri, 21 Jul 2017
Election Buncombe Bingo
“Buncombe” – sometimes written “bunkum” – is a term meaning a lot of longwinded rubbish. It originates from a US Congressman who, in the 1820s, would make endless, flatulent speeches, saying he was speaking not to Congress or to the press, but to, or for, Buncombe, in his
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Rob Hosking
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