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Of course it is!

I am having lots of senior moments this week (I blame my meds), I told DBH this afternoon that the lavender seedlings in the gravel path were profligate, no - prophetic - no, Prolific! I got there in the end.

Of course! Nob not Knob! I knew that really! Obvious! Senior Moment!

(It's all in the pronunciation!)

Blue Peter: most memorable moments - Telegraph
www.telegraph.co.uk › News
28 Jun 2011 - The BBC is creating a new Blue Peter garden in Manchester and wants to move ... In January 1980, Simon Groom admired to restored door decorations at Durham Cathedral with the words: "What a beautiful pair of knockers.

"Nobs" as in " nobility". I had not come across the other reference other than in connection with "door knobs" in my innocent youth.
Does nobody remember that lovely door furniture firm
" Knobs and Knockers"? which reminds me of that wonderful Blue Peter clip at the door of some cathedral, admiring the medieval knocker. Much sniggering at that!

Gear Knobs?

Isn't that part of the name the Top Gear crew have registered for their new programme? [not the gay bit]

Thought the point would lose its punch if I wrote 'Nob' Jane

'Nob' is an accepted word for people in high places!

Not 'Knob'!

www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/nob

As in 'hobnobbing'.

I suppose it went out of fashion when 'knob' came into fashion, along with 'gay' and other words, as they acquired new meanings.

btw I never lost anything when I had my op apart from several feet of bowel. Ive never let it stop me and Im swimming, running, kicking the ball and going on the climbing frame with DGD, she is asking me to climb trees soon
That is a brilliant recovery from a colectomy, Etheltbags, (apologies if it was a bowel resection or colostomy, I don't think you ever told us.)
Main thing, pardon the pun, is that it is all behind you now.

My parents used to talk about the big knobs at the council or work meaning the bosses, another one of those confusing changes of meaning sent to trap us.

'Willie' is quite acceptable IMO and I could probably supply you with a dozen or more less acceptable euphemisms too.

Our English kanguage is rich and colourful and should never be censored or limited to basic scientific terms. I love the way words evolve and some are quite amusing, especially to the innocent and unwary.

I'll never forget nearly inhaling my tea when my late (and naive) MiL, talking about some VIP, declared him to be a 'big knob'

No reason for the correct anatomical term to be considered rude or an expletive. I think there's a thread about that somewhere.
NB, as we're being pedantic, there's an apostrophe in "it's".

I do mean Penis, but used the w word because there are so many prudes on here they might think I was being rude, this is in the same way as I always abbreviate swear words.
Tbh I have used 'willie ' for that long I think its correct, my error

Did you mean penis, etheltbags?
I do so hate these childish words like "willy/willie(?)" don't you?

I thought at one time a mojo was a mans willie at one time when the word was popular in the 70s. Ive never heard the word since then, btw I never lost anything when I had my op apart from several feet of bowel. Ive never let it stop me and Im swimming, running, kicking the ball and going on the climbing frame with DGD, she is asking me to climb trees soon. Thank you Elegran

I thought it meant a kind of get-up-and-go, what you lose when you are not up to getting on with anything, but according to
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mojo
it is a "noun mo·jo \ˈmō-(ˌ)jō\ : a power that may seem magical and that allows someone to be very effective, successful, etc. "

And according to other definitions it is sex appeal.

You live and learn.

Glad to hear that you are on the mend.

what is a mojo, maybe we should start a thread for weird words.

Im recovering nicely Elegran back at work in the 'cut and thrust' of the real world, must be making me a bit more pedantic than usual.

I just cant help hating silly words from adults, I always correct DGD when she says baby words, mind she often asks me how my 'ration' is getting on as she cant say operation. lol

What may seem silly to you, does not always seem so to others. There are times when honesty is not necessary, and too much of it can be a fault.

My mother was really spiteful at times - yet she always told us 'If you can't find something nice to say, say nothing, it's safer and kinder'. I think she meant we only had to be nice to her!

Have you never met the word before, etheltbags ? You do seem worked up about such a little thing - you must have had a bad day.

Or maybe you are getting back your mojo now that you are recovering from your op.

There's another weird word for you - mojo. Lord knows where that one started.

Tegan do you want to be my facebook friend LOL. might be fun

Tegan you haven't done anything wrong but you are accusing me of being childish.
Posie you asked me what I call my tv and I replied.

I am being 'got at' for being honest. I really don't like silly names for everyday things.

Why are you having such a go at Tegan-, Etheltbags? For heaven's sake would you be as rude to her or any of us, face to face?
Lots of perfectly mature, intelligent, educated etc etc people refer to their "pooter" or "telly", my Sixth form at one time use to refer to the "Dick and Mary" (dictionary), so what?
I think it is the height of bad manners not to say cruel to pick on another person's use of language.
How would you have felt if everybody had pounced on you, going Ha, ha, that's ironic! because you used the word pronounciation" in the thread you started on mispronunciation?
Live and let live, for heaven' sake.

It's really unusual for it to be down, there will be loads of complaints!

It's just more slang, ethel. It really is a very common name for it, DD and most of her friends call it that, as well as a fair few of my friends. It's no worse than calling it a comp. Or a CP, or some other abbreviation.

etheltbags1 Lots of people call their computer/laptop a 'pooter' or 'puter'.

Thanks janer I've just updated my tablet and I thought something had gone wrong

Tegan - you call it whatever you want!