# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 28, 2022, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380 "2022-09-28T11:33:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 162
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3222 "2023-04-05T20:27:47Z")
Honestly either one sounds right to me, and for me it’s such a minor difference it hardly matters. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3223 "2023-04-05T20:31:01Z")
I remember “Great big _gobs_”. IME, eldest kids are the more outgoing and social, and younger sibling overshadowed by the Great Firstborn. But it’s not a huge difference in numbers. Damn, I love a good Gibson. What’s scary about a manicure/pedicure? I wish I could afford them on the regular. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3224 "2023-04-05T20:36:16Z")
My most recent supervisor was the people who owned the vineyards where I was working back in the mid 1980’s. If I needed time off, I just told them. I didn’t get paid for days I didn’t come, of course. (If I’d needed way too much time off, they might have fired me; but I took off once for about a week for a family emergency, and they didn’t even ask me what the emergency was. Which was just as well, as I doubt they’d have recognized my parents’ dying cat several states away as a family emergency.) > [@carrps](#): > > What’s scary about a manicure/pedicure? It doesn’t scare me; but I hate being handled in most circumstances; especially on my feet. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3225 "2023-04-05T20:40:40Z")
I grew up using and hearing “tiger,” and this was in the 50s. When I was a tween? or early teen? I heard a reference to the “other word.” I certainly never used it. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3226 "2023-04-05T20:42:20Z")
Technically, my boss at my last job needed to approve all time off requests. I never once got a denial, however, so it was pretty much the same as me telling him I was going to be gone. “Great big gobs” is what I remember, but I couldn’t tell you anything beyond the first line. @eschereal, is that referring to “eeney meeney miney moe”? If so, I caught a tiger by the _toe_, not the tail. Of course I did hear it with the other word, but that was not how I first learned it. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3227 "2023-04-05T20:48:12Z")
Yeah, maybe it was toe, because the does rhyme. Oops. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3228 "2023-04-05T21:06:06Z")
I remember the last bit as: French fried eyeball rolling down the toilet seat (rhyming with birdies’ feet) Oops, I forgot my spoon, But I’ve got my straaaaaaaw. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3229 "2023-04-05T21:11:15Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > I do think there’s a grain of truth in birth-order stereotypes, though. This is more what I feel that the trope reflects. In my experience (self, friends, co-worders) a first time parent is likely to be more severe (HUGE generalization I know) with their child, which can and does (although by NO means exclusively) lead to leading a somewhat more constricted childhood. By the second and later, there is far more benign neglect, which often leads to a less restrained childhood and personality. Again, not a absolute, but a general trend that probably informs the trope. As for the tiger reference, being a bit younger, I never heard the version that is gently hinted at. Of course, I also grew up in southern NM which was around 70% Latino, 29% Anglo, and 1% everything else, so it also probably depends on your childhood demographics. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3230 "2023-04-05T23:00:43Z")
I heard the non-tiger version, but it wasn’t in favor. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3231 "2023-04-05T23:15:47Z")
How about if you were physically unable to cut your own toenails? That’s what eventually happened to everyone old I know. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3232 "2023-04-05T23:18:48Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > What’s scary about a manicure/pedicure? I wish I could afford them on the regular. I don’t like my cuticles pushed or whatever the hell they do. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3233 "2023-04-06T00:19:47Z")
I’ve never heard the non-tiger version in the wild. I never knew it existed until I was in my mid-thirties, and Raleigh is the furthest north I’ve ever lived. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3234 "2023-04-06T01:05:15Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > I’ve never heard the non-tiger version in the wild. I never knew it existed until I was in my mid-thirties, and Raleigh is the furthest north I’ve ever lived. Same (minus the Raleigh part). I have no reason to doubt that the other version exists but the first time I heard about it was on the internet talking about past rascism. The time off question: There is no asking permission per se. Our time off policy is laid out in our contract. A certain number of people per shift are allowed off. If we are already down to minimums for a particular day you’re out of luck. If the day is open you don’t have to ask permission but you need a supervisor to put the time in the computer. I am a supervisor so I can put in my own time off. There are exceptions for the minimum levels for things like illness and deaths in family. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3235 "2023-04-06T01:08:47Z")
I’ve never had a pedicure. I probably should and maybe I will some day. No need for a manicure. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3236 "2023-04-06T11:55:01Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > How about if you were physically unable to cut your own toenails? I’m 65. Ideally I’ll be able to cut my own toenails until I die. I’ve considered workarounds, like using a sanding wheel on my Dremel. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3237 "2023-04-06T12:04:56Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > I’ve never heard the non-tiger version in the wild. I never knew it existed until I was in my mid-thirties, Ditto. I grew up in the northeast. We used to use that rhyme to pick people for teams and stuff, and it always seemed totally innocent to me until i was an adult and read about the variant. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3238 "2023-04-06T14:55:35Z")
Well, I’ll fess up, I grew up in Texas in the 60s/70s, and that variant was not only common, it was done largely without reflection. Really awful. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3239 "2023-04-06T15:14:41Z")
Women wanna be sticky? ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3240 "2023-04-06T15:14:44Z")
I, too, grew up with “great green gobs…” but i voted “globs” as close enough. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3241 "2023-04-06T15:22:42Z")
Actually, no commercial is going to make me want to go out and buy some sticky makeup; because I don’t buy makeup, sticky or otherwise. But I very much doubt that the commercial, as described, would make me want to buy the stuff if I did buy makeup. – oh, somebody’s posted the commercial. Maybe I’ll go look. – I have done so; so I suppose I should have voted yes I want to see it – except that having seen it, I wish I hadn’t seen it. Have voted “other” on that last one. And, even if I did buy makeup, that commercial would make me run away from that stuff. – I now don’t remember whether it was gobs or globs. But I’m pretty sure they were big ones. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380.md?page=161) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380.md?page=163)