@soulexpress @ami_angelwings In my day if you were called a "nob" it meant you were a dumbass. In a rather non-fun and non-funny way. Like, "Fuck off, ya nob."
I wonder if it's because of Nob Hill. I always thought it because "nob" is also your head.
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Nah, a knob is a cock and a knob head is a pg13 dick head. A nob is a toff.
@crazyeddie @soulexpress @ami_angelwings Nob Hill is a corruption of Nabob Hill, Nabob itself being a corruption of the Indian royal title of Nawab. That's because the very rich like the Crockers or Huntingtons lived there.
The original gay district of SF was Polk Gulch just downhill West of Nob Hill, before Castro took over.
@ami_angelwings (Werenโt most of those ghostwritten?)
The nun and priest one is the funniest one to me, as it can be interpreted in such a crazy amount of ways :)
@ami_angelwings Other way around, the letters themselves were ghostwritten according to legend. Or at least a portion of them. She definitely wrote herself.
There is a lot of snazzy replies from Abby over the years :)
@yon @ami_angelwings a few more (including this one) listed here
@yon @ami_angelwings well, Nob Hill was very WASP-y at the time, so they would probably find Catholics (or Jews like Abby) highly objectionable. That's the only non-funny explanation I can think of.
Its liberal reputation notwithstanding, SF was very square well into the 1950s and 60s. There are still inklings in Armistead Maupin's 1970s "Tales of the City", and Macondray Lane (the real-world Barbary Lane) is next door in Russian Hill.
Oh, but how I miss San Francisco and my little flat in Nob Hill...
I guess I can see concern over nuns and priests frequenting your neighborhood since I probably wouldn't want my kids getting the wrong sort of ideas from _those people_. ๐คท
@McKenna @ami_angelwings Many many layers. Subtle ones too.
(Thereโs also a Catholics vs not Catholics one in there if you dig.)
Yep. Too much to unlock in a toot! Lol
@ami_angelwings for anyone curious here's an article that talks more about her
@ami_angelwings Nob Hill? More like knob end.
So obnoxious when people feel the need to meddle instead of letting others just live their lives.
Do we have any intel on when this was published?
1956-1987, but no luck narrowing that down with a quick search.
yeah, I found this thing quoted in a few articles, but none of them included a date. Thanks.
/me Considers if it's worth going to the library to use Lexis Nexis...
Nabob is a word, that means wealthy or elite. The hill in question was called California Hill because California street ran over the hill and through the hood. Locals called it Nabob Hill when the Big Four ( railroad tycoons) moved in and built mansions. Locals shortened Nabob to nob and it stuck.
@ami_angelwings She did get fooled once when someone wrote to her using the late great John Prine song (aptly named "Dear Abby") lyrics. Always funny to hear that version.
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