Catch a tiger by it's toe
if it hollers let it go
eeny meeny miny moe
my mother told me to pick the very best one
and you are not it


What does that mean? I never did understand it. It goes from talking about tigers to mama's....:confused: This is KILLING me.

Give the girl some respect! Her question is beyond urgent and she needs to know NOW. :mad:

Originally posted by *MacGyver Gurl*
Give the girl some respect! Her question is beyond urgent and she needs to know NOW. :mad:

Thank you for your concern. As my good friend said, I need to know now. IT'S IMPORTANT. :)

i've never heard "eeny meeny miny mo" and "my mother told me to choose the very best one" combined. :lol: i've always heard them separately.

i remember when my mom taught me the tiger one. i was trying to decide which pajamas to wear. :D

Originally posted by safety pin
i've never heard "eeny meeny miny mo" and "my mother told me to choose the very best one" combined. :lol: i've always heard them separately.
Me either. But apparantly Jackie has. So we need to know the answer ever-so badly. :cool:

Originally posted by safety pin
i've never heard "eeny meeny miny mo" and "my mother told me to choose the very best one" combined. :lol: i've always heard them separately.

i remember when my mom taught me the tiger one. i was trying to decide which pajamas to wear. :D

I remember everyone saying them combined when I was little. :lol:

...ask your Ouija board

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eeny,_meeny,_miny,_moe

I learned a much more crude version of that ditty when was 5 years old. My parents, thank goodness, taught me not to use the word that our neighborhood friend used.

He said, "catch a ****** by it's toe. I was too young to know what that meant. My dad and mom understood that my brothers and I didn't know what we were saying. They spoke out of the window into the yard and gave us an alternative word to use. That is one of my more respectful and proud memories of my mon and dad being parents.

Originally posted by Kitt
I learned a much more crude version of that ditty when was 5 years old. My parents, thank goodness, taught me not to use the word that our neighborhood friend used.

He said, "catch a ****** by it's toe. I was too young to know what that meant. My dad and mom understood that my brothers and I didn't know what we were saying. They spoke out of the window into the yard and gave us an alternative word to use. That is one of my more respectful and proud memories of my mon and dad being parents.
haha i was obsessed with flipping the bird in 2nd grade. i didn't know it was any worse than saying "shut up" or something and i'd always flip off my mom and laugh even though she kept telling me to stop. i had to sit in the time out desk at school one time because i drew a hand flipping the bird on the back of my paper. and i had a friend the year before that who would always tell people she was gonna "kick their ass."

when i was 8 i learned the word goddamn because some guy in tremors says it and i said it to my mom and she gasped and said "where did you learn that?!" and i asked her if it was a bad word and she said yeah. :grr:

Originally posted by safety pin
haha i was obsessed with flipping the bird in 2nd grade. :grr: :lol:

Originally posted by Kitt
I learned a much more crude version of that ditty when was 5 years old. My parents, thank goodness, taught me not to use the word that our neighborhood friend used.

He said, "catch a ****** by it's toe. I was too young to know what that meant. My dad and mom understood that my brothers and I didn't know what we were saying. They spoke out of the window into the yard and gave us an alternative word to use. That is one of my more respectful and proud memories of my mon and dad being parents.

We must have learned the same one Kitt! My parents never allowed us to use that word! This was the 50's, remember, so it was an accepted/normal thing by most people!

Ok, I'll enlighten everyone...........It was the "N" word! :eek: I am proud to say that my parents never allowed us to use that word!:)

We substituted"Puppy":D

Originally posted by Penny Lane
We must have learned the same one Kitt! My parents never allowed us to use that word! This was the 50's, remember, so it was an accepted/normal thing by most people!

Ok, I'll enlighten everyone...........It was the "N" word! :eek: I am proud to say that my parents never allowed us to use that word!:)

We substituted"Puppy":D My parents had us substitute monkey. I still to this day have some comical looking monkey in my mind when I hear that silly ditty.

Here's another one,
My kids would pick a dandelion and pop the flower off and say;
"Mama had a baby and her head popped off ":lol:

Originally posted by safety pin
haha i was obsessed with flipping the bird in 2nd grade. i didn't know it was any worse than saying "shut up" or something and i'd always flip off my mom and laugh even though she kept telling me to stop. i had to sit in the time out desk at school one time because i drew a hand flipping the bird on the back of my paper. and i had a friend the year before that who would always tell people she was gonna "kick their ass."

when i was 8 i learned the word goddamn because some guy in tremors says it and i said it to my mom and she gasped and said "where did you learn that?!" and i asked her if it was a bad word and she said yeah. :grr:

My dad always tries to tell me I learned swear words at school...but when I was 2 in one of them barbie cars, I spit out my pasephier and shouted bull ****.

Originally posted by *Jackie*
Catch a tiger by it's toe
if it hollers let it go
eeny meeny miny moe
my mother told me to pick the very best one
and you are not it


What does that mean? I never did understand it. It goes from talking about tigers to mama's....:confused: This is KILLING me. I don't know, so here's some SNooP Dog:

Drop it like it's HOWT. Drop it like it's HOWT.

Originally posted by *Jackie*
Thank you for your concern. As my good friend said, I need to know now. IT'S IMPORTANT. :)


*Thinks for an hour* I don't know....:p

I prefer, engine engine number nine...