Eeny, meeny, miny, moe MGM's "Ars Gratia Artis". The rhyme appears towards the end of 1949 British black comedy, "Kind Hearts and Coronets". The use of the word "nigger" was censored for the American market, being replaced by "sailor". Eeny, meeny, miny, moe "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe" — which can be spelled a number of ways — is a children's counting rhyme, used to select a person in games such as tag, or for selecting various other things. It is one of a large group of similar rhymes in which the child who is pointed to by the chanter on the last syllable is
Does exactly what it says on the tin Does exactly what it says on the tin "It does exactly what it says on the tin" was originally an advertising slogan in the United Kingdom, which then became a common idiomatic phrase. It colloquially means that the name of something is an accurate description of its qualities. It is akin to the previously existing phrases "by name and by nature" and "it lives up to its name". It originated in a series of television advertisements by the woodstain and wood-dye manufacturer Ronseal, initiated in 1994 and still being broadcast . The slogan was created by Liz Whiston and Dave