Of course you were - we call it the "Parking nudge":eek: I know my father hates cars with plastic/painted bumpers because of this - he says they always get scratched Give him CHROME, with a rubber "rub strip" or black painted bumpers

Saw a cop with a crown vic yesterday. There was a stalled car in front of him, seems to me they used to push clunkers out of the way with their bumpers, but this car had a plastic bumper and no grill guard...

Maybe the cop feared an explosion, given that the Crown Vics are being targeted right now due to an issue with the gas tank.

I saw this earlier and didnt comment about it.

Was this a local or a state cruiser?

From my many years on the road traveling from city to city there were many indicators that I would look for. One of them was a great big Mad Max style front bumper on the cop cars. That would indicate that I had just set up in or near the DMZ. The sturdier the front push bar, the more BS I could expect from the locals.

On the flipside, seeing a cruiser without some auger styled front attachment was very comforting.

Has anyone else noticed the similar trend?

Local Yokel in Endicott, NY. pretty mellow area mad max no es necessito.

Has anyone here (who's not from the south) ever heard the expression, "If it'd been a snake it'da bitcha!"?

Yep...used primarily in the south and midwest.

It's a ruralism used around here if you're looking for something which you're standing on.

Ditto.

Griff's got bitin' snakes up where he's at. I've been to the Rattlesnake Roundup a couple counties west of the end of the PA Turnpike northeast extension.

We also use it down here in the "Flatlands" ... (near phila.)

I put down my machete while we were surveying one time and couldn't find it. My partner shortens the phrase to "rattlesnake" so I freeze in place and start looking for a snake. I considered chopping him to bits.

Word on the street (or in the woods) is that the enormous increase in turkeys has resulted in a plummeting of rattlesnake numbers. Baby snakes mmmmm.... good eatin'.

Anyone know the origin of this..."what in the Sam Hill are you doin'?"
I've heard it plenty in the south, ...there's a great scene in the film 'To Kill a Mockingbird' when Scout asks this, amazed by the actions of her friend Walter, as he pours syrup all over his lunch.
Why in the sam hill is this in my head?:rolleyes:

Tee hee. I just watched TKAM last night and was thinking the same thing myself. Where did this come from?

What in the Sam Hill??

I always just thought that it was a polite way to avoid saying H-E-double hockeysticks. You larn sumthin' (which is probably wildly inaccurate) new ever' day.

The page is a bit misleading. It talks about Sam Hill the railroad and highway builder, but then at the bottom of the page it says that the phrase predates him and refers to another person entirely!

I warned you about the "wildly inaccurate" part ... I was hoping that Cecil Adams had declaimed upon this topic in The Straight Dope, but no such luck.