[Gigantor]

"You guys will love this. I only heard this as tiger as kid."

In the 60's in Brooklyn, where I grew up, if you said, "catch a Tiger by its toe" you would have caught a beatin'.

Fourth of July fireworks, if you said "whistling chaser" instead of 'n*gger chaser'--another beatin'.

Where did you grow up?

[doodad]

I was an Army brat. We lived all over. Words like that were NOT allowed. Everyone was in green and bled red, but....if my Dad outranked your Dad..%-p

[Teacher317]

In the seventies, Suffolk County (the other side of Long Island from Brooklyn, for non-New Yorkers), I rarely heard any version other than "tiger".