What in the name of Sam Hill are 69,000 people doing in the State Department? What possibly could they all be doing?
If you take it that there are about 200 countries in the world that works out to 345 per country. Now obviously some countries warrant more than others. China vs Fiji for example. Even so that’s a whole lot for each nation on this earth.
Sam Hill /s
A possible origin for the phrase “Sam Hill” is the surveyor Samuel W. Hill (1819–1889). Hill allegedly used such foul language that his name became a euphemism for swear words. In the words of Charles Eschbach, “Back in the 1850s the Keweenaw’s copper mining boom was underway.