From: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@wittsend.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 02:33:51 +0800
To: tcmay@got.net (Tim May)
Subject: Re: UrsinePunks  (Re: County Mounties Spit on the 4th Amendment)
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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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	Mike
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