i only a heard an indecipherable mumble. perhaps someone who can be arsed could run the audio through hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/ or some such and confuse the issue further. clarksons' shtick is his bread and butter. this is just more publicity selling the product known as clarkson and nothing else.
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:46,
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copied and pasted from wikipedia:
Some older versions of this rhyme had the word nigger instead of tiger:
Eeny, meena, mina, mo,
Catch a nigger by the toe;
If he hollers let him go,
Eena, meena, mina, mo.[2]
This version was similar to that reported as the most common version among American schoolchildren in 1888.[9] It was used in the chorus of Bert Fitzgibbon's 1906 song "Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Mo":
Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Mo,
Catch a nigger by his toe,
If he won't work then let him go;
Skidum, skidee, skidoo.
But when you get money, your little bride
Will surely find out where you hide,
So there's the door and when I count four,
Then out goes you.[10]
It was also used by Rudyard Kipling in his "A Counting-Out Song", from Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides, published in 1935.[11] This may have helped popularise this version in the United Kingdom where it seems to have replaced all earlier versions until the late twentieth century
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We always said, "catch a tiger by the toe"
I missed out?!?!?!?!
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gunmetal drove slowly in the passing lane on, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:50,
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Do I have time to start being racist this late in life? Or should I focus on anti-religious bigotry?
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gunmetal drove slowly in the passing lane on, Thu 1 May 2014, 20:16,
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i am aware of the historical context
my point was that i could perceive no clearly pronounced actual words in the clip linked to.
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:51,
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oh. my point is that given the rhyme's well known historical use of the word, he was deliberately sailing very close to the wind in order to provoke and be obnoxious. i normally spend my time on here defending this kind of non PC crap. i think i need a lie down.
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yeah.
and you ignored the commercial aspect of my argument too. so ner.
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:54,
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er, casual racism is not a commercially viable product in the UK coming from a white man on the BBC, so ignored it so not to embarrass you. ner ner nah ner ner.
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