Re: CHAT: con-childish taunts

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.
Me neither.  And one might think that two Southerners like us
would have heard that, given our region's unfortunate historically
rooted habit.  (Thank goodness it's not like it used to be here)

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