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I think the version I most heard when growing up was "catch a tinker by the toe".
Presumably that is out of fashion too as tinker is a politically incorrect name for a gypsy.
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I'm 48 and that's what I learned. I do live in Atlanta, GA so maybe it was adopted earlier here. My grandmother used the word once but not with vehemence, she was describing a doll my aunt had as a child. It was her "N***** doll" and from the picture I saw, it was a black cloth rag doll. They are from rural northern Alabama and I was her Georgia Cracker.
A Georgia Cracker was explained as the driver of a mule train who cracked his whip to get the mules moving.
My younger brother called me the N-word once and got one of the worst spankings of his life.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: I'm 48 and that's what I learned. I do live in Atlanta, GA so maybe it was adopted earlier here.
I'm significantly older than 48 and grew up in New York City so it was euphemized long before you would have heard it.
I had heard the other version on the streets but in my household tiger was the acceptable version and using the other version would have resulted in a sever punishment.
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Yeah it's witch hunt bullshit. It was mumbled over in a non broadcast clip that Clarkson explicitly asked not be the cut that got used because it sounded like he said nigger, when (he claims at least) he didn't. And the version of eeny meeny he learnt as a lad probably had it in.
There's being offensive for the sake of it, and then there's airbrushing out history and pretending that the past wasn't as it was, and in this case it's the Mirror doing the latter and not Clarkson the former.
It was 'tigger' when I was growing up which is pretty obviously a substitution when you grow up and learn about it.
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Reminds me of the song by Elvis Costello "Oliver's Army" in which he uses the same word which is starred out when you watch it on youtube with the lyrics.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Really? They starred out the word?
So...who complained? The Lace Curtain, or the Shanty Irish?
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I wrote Top Gear a letter suggesting they not discipline Jeremy. Hamstringing those guys would ruin the show.
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"I don't know what word he is suppose to have used. "
Well aren't you the stupid one.
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Calendars are complicated things, especially when one has to do comparisons with historical frames of reference.
So what happened on the 30th February 1712?
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Well, you're gonna be waiting a looooong time for birthday presents!
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Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Yeah.
I wonder how many people were born on that day.
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Or indeed what happened between Oct 4th and October 15th 1582? Some say it 'flew by' others say there was one hell of a party on Oct 4th.
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 I didn't know about that either, so I had to Google it.
Now am I going to use this information for good or evil? 
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Evil.
You know you want to!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Already working on it. Once I get my hands on a DeLorean, I should be able to tear a rift in the space-time continuum :evilgrin:
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You've use it on evil. I'm going to research about that on Google, when I realize it doesn't exist! You got me on that. 
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In Visual Studio 2013, if you File->New Project->Web Application, and run the result, you're presented with a page of useful links to help you build out your app.
One of the links reads as below:
Social Logins
You can (sic) the support so that users can login using their Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft Account and more.
◦ Add Social Logins
◦ Get more data about the user when they login suing Facebook
"login suing Facebook" eh? Grimly prophetic, or possibly Freudian 
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"Bury that which can be dug up again and again and again and again and...etc"(12)
I like this one, it is either very hard or very easy!
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She has had Doug up time and time again, and Fred, Bill, Steve, Eric...
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Interminable
Inter => Bury
Minable => That which can be dug up
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I said it was probably easy!
Well done.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: Inter => Bury
Must have missed that match, but that's a great result for Bury at the San Siro.
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Rightly described as an upset.
Incidentally, I just heard one of our developers describing source safe as "the source code suppository". Not sure if that was a Freudian gym slip or not.
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