Can You Guess What It Is . . .

[Buenchico]

. . . if it can be a blodger or bopper, a dinger or donker, a hamburger or hurdy gurdy, a jigger or jogger, a plinker or plonker, a thingy or a wotsit?

[Buenchico]

>>> if i got up to sing ab would close down

At least we've got something in common then, Mallyh!


>>> Soon be time for dinner Chris

As soon as this cat moves off my knee actually, Anne ;-)

[HansUrbancka]

I call the TV Remote an....Ogle Wogler.

Hans.

[Buenchico]

^^^ But who do you want to ogle on the telly, Hans?

[rockyroad]

ours is a 'doofer'

[HansUrbancka]

I think Chris that perhaps I had better change the name. It was my belief that to Ogle was merely to look without any particular desire. Shows how innocent I am.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/oglers

Hans.☺☺☺

[Buenchico]

Sorry for not responding to the posts above earlier; I've been out shopping.

It seems (from my link), Rockroad, that you're not alone. There are doofers (or doofahs) all over the country.

Hans:
It's amazing what you can learn on AB ;-)

[Mamyalynne]

For years ours was the 'Button box'.

[dannyk13]

Mine is just 'The remote'

[Buenchico]

My mother had a button box, Mamyalynne, but it looked like this
https://maryloudriedger2.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/img_6456.jpg
(You could guarantee though that, however hard you searched, there was never a button which matched the one you'd just lost from a garment!

Danny: A word expert like you really ought to have a more imaginative name for the thing. Can't you cobble something together from a bit of Latin and Ancient Greek, for example?
;-)

[dannyk13]

lol