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Re: UrsinePunks (Re: County Mounties Spit on the 4th Amendment)
Tim May enscribed thusly:
> At 6:25 AM -0800 2/3/98, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> >"Supertroupers" refers to State Patrol. The term "Smokie" (coined from
> >the movie Smokie and the Bandit) refers to all police.
> Nope, not coined from the movie.
> Just the reverse.
> Highway cops were called "smokies" (or "smokeys") when I was growing up in
> Virginia in the 60s, long before the movie.
Point conceded. Quite correct.
> I haven't checked the derivation, but had always assumed it came from the
> Smokey the Bear figure, who wore a tall, broad-brimmed hat (also known as a
> campaign hat). The hat worn by many state highway patrols. Ergo, "smokeys."
Yeah, I think that's true as well, now that you remind me.
> (I used to see the _real_ Smokey the Bear at the Washington Zoo. I think he
> died of old age in the 1970s.)
> (A URL with a few details is
> http://www.4j.lane.edu/websites/roosevelt/Connections/smokey.html)
> --Tim May, posting from the Bear State
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