Ok. Here's the meaning of the old saying .........."Bob's your uncle"

[Crazy Guggenheim]

The darnest things we learn here .......

http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxbobsyo.html

This British phrase means "all will be well" or "simple as that":
"You go and ask for the job -- and he remembers your name -- and
Bob's your uncle." It dates from circa 1890.
P. Brendon, in Eminent Edwardians, 1979, suggests an origin:
"When, in 1887, Balfour was unexpectedly promoted to the vital front
line post of Chief Secretary for Ireland by his uncle Robert, Lord
Salisbury (a stroke of nepotism that inspired the catch-phrase
'Bob's your uncle'), ..."
Or it may have been prompted by the cant phrase "All is bob" =
"all is safe."
(Info from Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Catch Phrases, 2nd
edition, revised by Paul Beale, Routledge, 1985, ISBN
0-415-05916-X.)

[khashka]

1. Thanks CG

Especially for the link. Love that sort of stuff :)

Khash.

[havocmom]

2. Actually, Bob IS my uncle

:shrug:

[khashka]

3. Actually I'm a monkey's uncle

Khash.

[ZombieNixon]

4. Really?

'Cuz I always thought that evolution worked the other way.

[khashka]

8. You'd be surprised

ever heard of devolution?

Khash.

[u4ic]

9. aka Dubya

[baldguy]

11. Me too.

[texas1928]

5. Do you know where rule of thumb came from.

It was a law that you could not beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

7. That one I've heard.

:scared:

[Aristus]

6. I can't wait until my baby nieces are old enough to understand

when I tell them: "Bob's your uncle."

B-)

[KG]

10. fascinating!

:crazy: