Originally Posted by Gilda

There was a time last year when I was fully prepared to throttle the next teenage boy who made mention of a tigon/liger and then laughed uproariously. It was some kind of obsession among the boys at the middle school where I was teaching, and they all thought there was something extraordinarily funny about it. At one point I had to tell them that the next time someone comes up and asks me "Did you know there is such a thing as a tigon/liger" would be writing a 1000 word essay on the subject.

I'm very fortunate not to have actually smacked one or two of them. I was sorely tempted on several occasions.

Gilda