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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 12:53)
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Remember this from the playgroundWhen needing to choose who was 'on' you would count people out with this little ditty
Eenie-meenie
Minie-mo,
Catch a nigger by the toe,
If he squeals
Let him go,
Eenie-meenie
Minie-mo
A long time ago..thankfully.
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Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 11:16,
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I remember the rhymeDon't remember it having 'nigger' in it though, i suspect we must have had a changed version by the time we were singing it!
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Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 11:44,
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My Mum..always said "Catch a policeman by his toe" ..
She always said that the Met Police are the government's private army as well.
She reads the Daily Mail now...
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It was changed to rabbit when I heard it(, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 18:03, closed)
It was 'nigger' when I first heard itbut by the time I was through primary school, fortunately it had been changed to 'piggy'.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 14:05,
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Hm, it was always "tiger" for us. However, I'm probably a bit younger. Weird how I guess everyone changed it to different animals in different areas, haha.
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Tiger is what sprang to mind for me too(
Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 17:50,
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My bird's friend Seeta is AsianI heard her kids singing it but they sang:
"Catch a *pause* by his toe"
Seeta grinned at me, I think she prefered the full version.
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stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 14:27,
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Salad days, but these are good.I have a recurring memory of a group of kids on Blue Peter singing Boney M's 'Brown girl in the ring' all white stood in a ring with a little black girl in the middle.
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No?That must be a false memory...
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Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 23:31,
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it's a pretty vague memorybut I do recall thinking, 'why yes, she does look like a sugar in a plum!'
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In school we always said catch a tiger by the toe, guess your friends were racists to teach it to you that way?
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I don't remembergetting taught it. It was just there, like 'rock a bye baby'..It was a rhyme we all knew. So we used it. I think 6 year olds just say things without thinking what the words mean.
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Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 23:31,
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Now I knew it as nigger - but then it was the '70sI heard the kids I teach singing it the other day and they didn't say nigger.
I asked them to sing it again, pretending that I didn't know the rhyme, but I couldn't understand what they were saying in the place of nigger.
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Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 2 Apr 2010, 22:46,
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but wait there is more.....Igger Nigger pull the trigger pop bang go...
my proud australian up - dragging
sorry
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I remember it as 'nigger'But we used to do the "Ip, dip, dogshit" rhyme mostly...
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snee held his breath since, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 10:27,
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the nigger version is realen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eeny,_meeny,_miny,_moe
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