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Regional differences

[(Anonymous)]

I watched a show recently where a character did the eenie meenie miney mo rhyme, only it was very different from the one I learned. And the one I learned seems really dark and twisted in retrospect.

What I heard: Eenie meenie... catch a tiger by the toe; if he hollers let him go, eenie meenie miney mo. My mother told me to pick the very best one and you are it.

What I grew up with: Eenie... catch a tiger by the toe; if he hollers make him pay $50 every day. My mommy told me to pick the very best one and you are not it.

What did you guys grow up hearing? What other regional differences have you experienced?

Re: Regional differences

[(Anonymous)]

Yours doesn't even rhyme. Who taught you that?

Re: Regional differences

[(Anonymous)]

Uh, pay and day certainly do rhyme.

Re: Regional differences

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not ayrt and I grew up with the second one, too. Some of it rhymes, who cares. It's more rhythmic than anything.

Re: Regional differences

[caerbannog]

Eenie meenie miney moe, catch a tiger by the toe; if it hollers let it go, eenie meenie miney mo!

Then the final mo! would be the "it!" - didn't have the last line about the mother.

There's also Rit. Dit. Dog. Shit. You. Are. Now. It

Re: Regional differences

[(Anonymous)]

Eenie meenie miney moe, catch a tiger by the toe; if it hollers let it go, eenie meenie miney mo!

Then the final mo! would be the "it!" - didn't have the last line about the mother.

That's what I grew up with, too (although with "he/him" instead of "it"), and I live on a different continent than you!

Re: Regional differences

[blitzwing]

I grew up hearing the first one, and the racist version.

Re: Regional differences

[sparrow_lately]

I had "Eenie meenie miney mo, catch a tiger by the toe, if he hollers let him go, and out-goes-Y-O-U!" or sometimes "my-mother-told-me-to-pick-the-very-best-ONE!" and tap the person who's it on "one"; I never had a second "eenie meenie miney mo." But kids didn't say that one too often.

ALSO this thread was made for me as I was recently FLOORED to learn that "a map of Ireland on his face" (as in "You know Dennis? Works at the vet, maybe 45, map of Ireland on his face?") is a regionalism.

Other thing I didn't know was regional five years after leaving my hometown: "coming down the pike," as in "You're the meanest kid to ever come down the pike!" or "Do you have any idea what's coming down the pike?"

Re: Regional differences

[kamino_neko]

I had "Eenie meenie miney mo, catch a tiger by the toe, if he hollers let him go, and out-goes-Y-O-U!"

This is the one I learned...well...the second one I learned. (The person who taught me first was...not a good person, in particular.)

Re: Regional differences

[(Anonymous)]

I heard both, from different sources, but both versions ended with "and it is you!" not "and you are not it."

I think the "and you are not it" version developed after "and it is you" in order to throw off people who were counting ahead and predicting that the person would say "and it is you."

Re: Regional differences

[(Anonymous)]

Eenie meenie miney mo
Catch a tiger by the toe
If he squeals
Let him go
Eenie meenie miney mo
My mum said to count to ten
One-two-three-four-five-six-seven-eight-nine-ten-boy-scout-you're-out!

[God that's long]

Re: Regional differences

[(Anonymous)]

Is it true that it used to be 'catch a nigger'?

Re: Regional differences

[masu_trout]

Interesting. The version I learned seems to have an extra line of most of the others here lack. Ours went:

Eenie meenie miney moe
catch a tiger by his toe
if he hollers let him go
eenie meenie miney moe
My mother said to pick the very best one
and you are not it
you dirty dirty dishrag YOU!

with the final you being shouted and the cue for the 'it'.

Re: Regional differences

[belladonna_took]

Ours was the first one up until "mo" and then: boy scout, you're out, and then: Not because you're dirty, not because you're clean, not because you kissed a boy behind a magazine.

Re: Regional differences

[(Anonymous)]

Dip, dip, dip, my little ship, sailed on the ocean, you are it.

Re: Regional differences

[ariakas]

Eenie meenie miney mo, catch the tigger (yes even as a young child I knew what this was supposed to be we didn't even say "tiger") by the toe, if he hollers let him go, eenie meenie miney mo. My mother told me to pick the very best one and you are (not) it.

The not was optional, depending on which one you actually wanted to pick. I.e., if it was between two choices you always got the one you wanted.

Re: Regional differences

[shortysc22]

Definitely the first one.

Some regional differences I noticed:
Kings/Circle of Death - drinking game played in college where there's usually a shot glass in the middle and you spread the cards around the glass. It's the same game with various house rules.

Sneakers/tennis shoes - I've always called them sneakers, but my Southern friends call them tennis shoes.

Pop/Soda - It's soda! Pop is more of a midwestern thing.

Re: Regional differences

[nightscale]

Eenie meenie miney mo, catch a tiger by it's toe, if it hollers let it go, eenie meenie miney mo.

No addition after the last mo as that was the signal that you were 'it'.

Re: Regional differences

[(Anonymous)]

I heard your second one, word for word.

I'm Minnesotan and we also play Duck, Duck, Grey Duck instead of Duck, Duck, Goose though. lol

Re: Regional differences

[slashgirl]

Eenie meanie miney mo, catch a tiger by the toe. If he hollers let him go and out goes Y-O-U. Also knew the politically incorrect version.

Regionalism (I think): I know a lot of people (myself included) who use "store-boughten", to differentiate something bought in a store to something homemade.

And CFA, which means "come from away"--basically anyone who wasn't born in the maritimes/atlantic Canada. You can live here for decades and some people will still consider you a CFA. Not sure if this is used elsewhere or not.

Re: Regional differences

[(Anonymous)]

The version I remember ended after the second eenie meenie miney mo. I don't remember ever hearing the second part. Growing up, my friends and I used to say, "Cross my heart and hope to die, stick a needle in my eye, eat a dirty rotten pie". I said it jokingly to one of my friends recently and he said he'd never heard of the pie bit before.

There's a nursery rhyme my dad used to sing to me about a doll made out of cardboard who washes his face and untangles his hair with an ivory comb. I was singing it to my friend's baby today and she mentioned that I skipped two verses. The rhyme she grew up with mentions the doll eating soup, but the one I heard growing up (and the one my dad heard from his dad) doesn't mention soup at all.

Re: Regional differences

[(Anonymous)]

This is about The Walking Dead, isn't it? Ahahaha.

Re: Regional differences

[(Anonymous)]

In Tucson, I heard both of those. The first was far more common.

Re: Regional differences

[diet_poison]

The former (if he hollers let him go) is the one I learned as a kid. I'm not sure how the other one is much darker though?

Also the version I sang usually didn't end there - it had the same last line but was extended to "and you are not it by the dirty dirty dishrag on my father's big fat hairy toe".

Re: Regional differences

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

The version I grew up with (besides a barely altered phrase that was originally racist) had "squeals" instead of "hollers".