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To: Steelfish

Who the hell names their kid Tiger anyways?


40 posted on 11/28/2009 9:48:01 PM PST by kik5150
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To: kik5150

Said the same thing about “Sitting Bull”.


48 posted on 11/28/2009 9:51:17 PM PST by org.whodat
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Who the hell names their kid Tiger anyways?

His real name was Eldrick - Tiger was a nickname.

A few years ago he changed it to Tiger permanently.

Some people have nicknames like that where it becomes their real name, like Earvin "Magic" Johnson for example.

49 posted on 11/28/2009 9:52:36 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (10 YEARS OF FREEPING! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY EEE!!!)
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To: kik5150

“Who the hell names their kid Tiger anyways?”

This comes from Wikipedia, but I have heard the same story many times before.

“At birth, Woods was given “Eldrick” and “Tont” as first and middle names. His middle name, Tont, is a traditional Thai name.[17] He got his nickname from a Vietnamese soldier friend of his father, Vuong Dang Phong, to whom his father had also given the “Tiger” nickname.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Woods


106 posted on 11/29/2009 1:13:54 AM PST by Mila
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To: kik5150

His name is Eldrich, I think.


133 posted on 11/29/2009 9:54:36 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion,,,,,,the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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