discv said:* Being an old geezer, expressions like the 'woodpile' one, have to be avoided. All to easy to trot out the original
Ah... no, you can modify any saying until it is politically incorrect. Take it for what it says, not what you can make it into. FWIW, I heard the 'snake' saying first. We have a lot of snake quips where I am from. Must be some sort of paranoia. 'Last time I saw eyes like that, they were looking at me from under a rock.' and so on.