Talk:Sam Hill (euphemism)

More information
More info here: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-sam1.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.2.217.253 (talk • contribs)

Connection
I'm not if there is connection between the words and the person but Sam L. Hill operated a hardware store in the territorial capitol of Arizona, Prescott. The building still stands today and is owned by Prescott College. here is a link http://hcap.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/library?a=d&d=p1356. It would be interesting to research this connection more since Sam L. Hill would have been a key figure for a lot of westerns lives. What in the sam hill is that? could be a reference to his hardware store which would have sold a wide variety of items. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.209.173.67 (talk) 20:24, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

MacGyver
In the German dubbing of the second season episode of MacGyver, "Phönix in Gefahr" ("Phoenix Under Siege"), MacGyvers Grandfather Harry Jackson, uses this phrase. Don't know about the original episode. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.20.176.14 (talk) 12:36, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

What in Satan's Hell?
I find that there are many uses of the phrase "What in Satan's Hell", it would seem Sam Hill is a censored version of this as Darn is to Damn. Has anyone encountered any sources that might side with this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.94.16.54 (talk) 22:15, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

It would appear that this site states the same: http://www.failedsuccess.com/index.php?/weblog/comments/the_origin_of_expressions/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.94.16.54 (talk) 22:16, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Humorous Variation
Midwesterner here - A friend of mine says "What in the Sam Cooke" and I understand her to be an African American woman with Southern roots, so her family moved to Indianapolis in the 1950s. I still know her so maybe I'll ask. Just today I googled the phrase using quotes, and I found at least two other completely independent uses, both made by African American Southerners. What I think this suggests is that the use of Sam Hill points to the South instead of the West. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MicheleFloyd (talk • contribs) 18:45, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

Mispronuciation of Samhain?
I came here wondering if it might be a mispronunciation of Samhain. It's essentially the same as Halloween, so it might have considered a dark pagan ritual by some people, giving it some credence as a swear word. But I have no reference. I was just guessing at a possibility.

Variant of Samael
I've always assumed "Sam Hill" is a variant on the name of the Talmudic angel of death, who some equate with Satan (in the capacity of an overseer of Hell). Kakashi64 (talk) 20:12, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

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Sam Hell?
I've always heard it pronounced Sam Hell, and if you search in Google, most people are searching for that, so they heard it that way too. The Samael explanation makes more sense to me, and by the way, if Hebrew speakers cuss, you will also here the demon Azazel's name frequently. Those demon names were popular in German back then, also, as reference to the German play suggests.