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At last - an explanation for 'bunga bunga'
BBC ^ | February 5, 2011 | Kathryn Westcott

Posted on 02/05/2011 3:47:25 PM PST by decimon

The phrase "bunga bunga" has become inextricably linked with the private life of Italy's Silvio Berlusconi, and for those who have puzzled over its origins an intriguing new explanation of its meaning has been offered.

The comical-sounding phrase made its first appearance back in October, when 17-year-old Moroccan belly dancer Karima El Mahroug - who calls herself Ruby - said she had attended "bunga bunga" parties with other women at Mr Berlusconi's villa in Milan.

Italian newspapers immediately scrambled to find out its origins.

The finger of blame was initially laid upon Mr Berlusconi's friend Col Muammar Gaddafi, with allegations of parties hosted by the Libyan leader involving "harems" of young Western women.

Then stories circulated claiming the phrase owed its origins to a bawdy joke, which Mr Berlusconi's detractors claimed was one of his favourites.

Then this week Sabina Began, German actress and friend of the Italian prime minister, told Sky Italia that she herself was bunga bunga.

"'Bunga bunga' is simply my nickname," the 36-year-old said.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: berlusconi; bungabunga
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To: decimon

Same as “nooky nooky”.


21 posted on 02/05/2011 4:11:07 PM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: cripplecreek
> I got slapped across the face in a bar for asking a girl if she wanted to come see my bung wrench.

You have truly led an interesting life. (I've seen some of your other comments referring to past, ummmm, exploits.)

So in your honor:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunghole

Hamlet: To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole?
BTW, do you remember the comic strip Wizard of Id? The court jester / drunk was named "Bung".
22 posted on 02/05/2011 4:11:30 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: dayglored

If you know anything about the cattle industry.... most beef bung used to be exported to Korea... until McDonalds came along....

gosh, since I read that ~ I stopped eating Big Macs


23 posted on 02/05/2011 4:12:12 PM PST by himno hero
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To: himno hero
> If you know anything about the cattle industry... most beef bung used to be exported to Korea... until McDonalds came along.... gosh, since I read that ~ I stopped eating Big Macs

I don't know a thing about the cattle industry, and from the sound of your comment, it's probably just as well I'm ignorant of it. I eat very little red meat (I'm not a vegetarian; red meat doesn't agree with my system since I turned 50 or so) so I tend to not frequent McDonalds except for the occasional order of fries when I'm traveling.

"Beef bung" just has an unpleasant ring to it...

24 posted on 02/05/2011 4:24:59 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: Electric Graffiti
They must have missed the Gilligan’s Island re-runs.

Groucho Marx and the Three Stooges also.

Liberals love changing history.

25 posted on 02/05/2011 4:25:10 PM PST by mountainlion (The government is not my god no matter how much they preach.)
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To: decimon

Death or Bunga Bunga!


26 posted on 02/05/2011 4:29:54 PM PST by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: decimon


27 posted on 02/05/2011 4:30:29 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: Paladin2

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/cowabunga.wav


28 posted on 02/05/2011 4:31:40 PM PST by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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To: Gene Eric

I haven’t seen four balls that close together since brokeback mountain.


29 posted on 02/05/2011 4:32:44 PM PST by enraged
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To: decimon

Bunga Bunga is Cowa’s sister.


30 posted on 02/05/2011 4:40:58 PM PST by hattend (Obama got his 3am call about Egypt. The call went right to the answering machine.- Sarah Palin)
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To: Dr. Sivana
Is she the past tense of someone in Menachem Begin's family?

I think it came from an old classic tune Begin the Began or something.

31 posted on 02/05/2011 4:43:57 PM PST by llevrok (So drink up, be crude, sleep late, urinate in public, and get the job done)
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To: mountainlion

Didn’t Capt. Binghamton got the Bunga Bunga curse on McHale’s Navy?


32 posted on 02/05/2011 4:50:29 PM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: decimon

Bunga Bunga is the past participle of Cawa bunga


33 posted on 02/05/2011 4:51:43 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 .....( History is a process, not an event ))
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To: dayglored

> so be it, death by bunga bunga”
That’s the way I heard it also, except then the phrase was “buff buff” instead of “bunga bunga”. I think I prefer the sound of the latter for the joke.

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I heard it as “death by RU-RU”


34 posted on 02/05/2011 4:58:31 PM PST by Neidermeyer
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To: decimon

35 posted on 02/05/2011 5:00:41 PM PST by houeto (Government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed.)
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To: houeto

Reagan too? ;-)


36 posted on 02/05/2011 5:02:41 PM PST by decimon
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To: Neidermeyer
I heard it as “death by RU-RU”

Except that it was spelled "roo roo" in the version that Dave Barry popularized...

Now, if we can only figure out the meaning of "Macaca" we'll have it made...

37 posted on 02/05/2011 5:07:16 PM PST by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: decimon
Reagan too? ;-)

Looks like it!

38 posted on 02/05/2011 5:14:33 PM PST by houeto (Government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed.)
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To: decimon
Amazing the facts and data the press can discover and report, when they put their puny Socialist minds to it.

Too bad they can't do as well “investigating” real issues that truly matter.

But, we already knew this even before Sarah was nominated for Veep...and Obama was "vetted" by that selfsame Press.

39 posted on 02/05/2011 5:16:49 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
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To: Zeppo
Now, if we can only figure out the meaning of "Macaca" we'll have it made...

Why, it's clearly an epithet directed at diversity. It sounds like maccaw or Maccau. As we all know these indigenous terms should not be uttered by the undiverse.

And, to top it all off, it ends with "caca," which is foreign for poo. It's all some kind of xenophobic, racist and quite possibly speciesist code, of that there can be no doubt. /s

40 posted on 02/05/2011 5:22:06 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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