Python statements not forcing whitespace is messy?

[James Stroud]

Peter Decker wrote:
> On 9/15/07, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>> John Machin wrote:
>>> On 16/09/2007 8:11 AM, James Stroud wrote:
>>>> Steve Holden wrote:
>>>>> I don't know why you have a bug up your ass about it, as the
>>>>> Americans say.
>>>> I think most Americans say "wild hare up your ass".
> 
>> I guess I got the metaphor wrong?
> 
> Maybe it's a Southern US thing. I've always heard "bug" used; somehow
> it doesn't seem that a wild hare would fit!
> 

We say "wild hare" down in Texas. I think I've heard "bug" before, but I 
wanted an excuse to vent about the hair v. hare issue in some of these 
American idioms. I guess I have a <insert idiom here> about it.

James