The secret button at pedestrian crossings

Re:The secret button at pedestrian crossings by tome on Thursday May 30, 2013 @09:24AM (#5792297)

I take it you're being sarcastic.

Perhaps my English is letting me down, but besides clothing buttons (and also the US word for what British English calls a "badge") I've never heard "button" used for anything that you can't communicate with by pushing it.

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Re:The secret button at pedestrian crossings by pessimizer on Thursday May 30, 2013 @10:40AM (#5792785)

I guess you could communicate with me by pushing my bellybutton, but I wouldn't be 100% sure what you were trying to say.

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Re:The secret button at pedestrian crossings by tome on Thursday May 30, 2013 @12:35PM (#5793492)

:) However, would you call your bellybutton a "button"? I think it's a compound noun where "button" can't stand on its own in a meaningful way.

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Re:The secret button at pedestrian crossings by sigkill on Thursday May 30, 2013 @12:58PM (#5793650)

That's the most mean comment I've seen in this thread. Bellybutton:Button::Button:{Butt/On}

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Re:The secret button at pedestrian crossings by saraid216 on Thursday May 30, 2013 @01:56PM (#5794056)

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/button

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Re:The secret button at pedestrian crossings by DanBC on Thursday May 30, 2013 @01:31PM (#5793880)

What's the nubbin on the end of a fencing foil called?

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Re:The secret button at pedestrian crossings by itsybitsycoder on Thursday May 30, 2013 @01:41PM (#5793937)

Spherical mushrooms are buttons. So is the round thing on the poker table that shows who the current dealer is.

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