What Does Timbuk2 Mean

Rob Honeycutt, a San Francisco bicycle messenger buys a sewing machine and makes his first messenger bag in his garage in the Mission District. He names the company “Scumbags”. Rob changes the name to Timbuk2, inspired by the African city, Timbuktu and his favorite band, Timbuk3.

What does the phrase Timbuktu mean?

Rebels in Mali have taken the historic city of Timbuktu, a place that has become shorthand in English for anywhere far away. … Once spelt as Timbuctoo, the city in northern Mali has come to represent a place far away, at the end of the world. As the Oxford English Dictionary puts it, “the most distant place imaginable”.

What does it mean I'll knock you clear to Timbuktu?

The fabled city of Timbuktu. The phrase “from here to Timbuktu,” is commonly used to describe some remote, hard-to-reach mythical place, but never a real destination that one could actually visit.