See brute force and ignorance. Also
encountered in the variants BFMI,
brute force and massive ignorance
and
BFBI brute force and bloody
ignorance
. In some parts of the U.S. this abbreviation was probably
reinforced by a company called Browning-Ferris Industries in the
waste-management business; a large BFI logo in white-on-blue could be seen
on the sides of garbage trucks.