Eeny meeny miny mo...

[MoosMa]

What do we catch by the toe these days?

tiger?

a squirrel

squirrel

johnny depp

lemur

It's a tigger in Glasgow, too.

If it squeals, let it go
Eeny, meeny miny mo.

It was monkey's when we were kids

I only know:

Eeny, meeny, miney, mo
Put the baby on the po.
When it's done,
Wipe it's bum.
Eeny, meeny, miney, mo.

rabbit

I daren't even say the version that was popular when I was a child. It was racist.

Same as mummydriot.

Now i seems to be "baby" round here.

That's why I'm asking mummydoit, I didn't think we still caught black people by their toes and waited for them to wriggle!

monkey

catch a baby round here too

I don't know what they use these days - everytime I hear it though I always have to stop myself from saying the racist one as it was what I must have said a 1000 times when I was little

At the ds's school it was a FISH fgs!

teddy in the ds's creche!

goblin
but I still "hear" the other one in my head

tigger here in brum!

What other verses get used for this purpose in your kids' school?
We have:

Ip dip doo
Cat's got flu
Mummy's on the toilet
Out goes you

Is that one common?

One potato
Two potato
Three potato
Four
Five potato
Six potato
Seven potato
More...

Ip dip sky blue who's it not you

ip dip sky blue
whose in, not you

also ruder version when we got odler

and one about at a bus at a station but cant remember it at all!

eeny meeny miney Mo
catch a piggy by the toe
if it squeals, let it go
eeny meeny miney mo