I found an earlier example for the initials BFE in Usenet, on 11th September 1988 in alt.cyberpunk: $600 is about what we paid for my first computer -- a C64, 1541 and printer; when I was a upper-lower class kid living in the backwoods of BFE, Leesville, Louisiana. (Ft. Polk sux too. :-). We weren't on welfare, but we weren't rich either. More @Wikipedia
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