Re: CHAT: con-childish taunts

On Tue, 18 May 1999, Bryan Maloney wrote:

> On Tue, 18 May 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> > Andrew Smith wrote:
> > > Bryan's first two lines are the accepted version that I grew up with in
> > > New Zealand.  The 'tiger' sounds like a mild PCism to me.
> >
> > If so, it's pretty old.  I've never heard the n-word used for that until
> > this thread.
>
> Is 1976 "pretty old"?
>
I didn't keep up with the big PC discussion we had on list a while ago,
but it seems that PC got started somewhen in the 70s or early 80s.  That
being the case, this (tiger for nigger) substitution would indeed be
"pretty old", as far as PC is concerned.  As far as this particular
choosing game itself is concerned, who knows?

Padraic.