Cats and knees

[MrsFogi]

When I was a kid one of my friends taught his baby brother that his knees were actually called "balls". We thought it was hysterical when the poor kid would run in from falling over to tell his mother that he had hurt his "balls". His mother did not find it funny.

When I was a kid we had a cat called "Cat".

For some reason I have been thinking about these small pieces of my childhood today. I've come to the incredibly incisive conclusion that whatever they were labelled the boy's knees were not really his balls they remained his knees and If we had named the cat "Dog" it still would have been a cat.

Have other mners had similar experiences?

Shiba Inus act a bit like cats sometimes, they're obsessive about being clean and picky about which humans they'll interact with. Are they cats in spite of being members of the canine family, being dog shaped, being able to bark, etc?

DD calls big toes "thumb toes", which is actually a much better name for them. But even though you know exactly what she means, she is still wrong to call them thumb toes.