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1. about 1 month ago on Barney & Clyde

   Found 2 possible origins and they’re miles apart. Both begin in the UK, one in England, one in Scotland. The first idea, and one that many believe, is that Bob and his nephew were the Marquess of Salisbury and Arthur Balfour. Salisbury is widely believed to be the Uncle Bob that the expression refers to. ‘Bob’s your uncle’ is said to derive from the supposed nepotism of Lord Salisbury, in appointing a favorite nephew, Arthur Balfour, to several political posts in the 1880s. The other potential source is the music hall. The earliest known example of the phrase in print is in the bill for a performance of a musical revue in Dundee called Bob’s Your Uncle, which appeared in the Scottish newspaper The Angus Evening Telegraph in June 1924.

2. 3 months ago on Baby Blues

   Showing my age a bit but I got a sudden flashback to Debbie Allen’s speech from “Fame”: You’ve got big dreams, you want fame. Well fame costs, and right here is where you start paying, in sweat.

3. 3 months ago on Drabble

   I was just getting ready to say the same thing… maybe confusing Barbara Stanwyck movies?

4. 3 months ago on Drabble

   It’s a lesser known (now) movie, but I never could figure out why considering it’s got Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Syndey Greenstreet, S.Z Sakall, and Una O’Connor in it. Big hit when it came out in ‘45 too. Check it out if you get a chance. It’s a cute movie and Barbara is tops as always!

5. 3 months ago on Crabgrass

   Same here. Spending a lot of my early years on military bases reinforced that too. That and the fact that my mom was born and raised all over southern Virginia.

6. 3 months ago on Crabgrass

   I remember visiting family in PA and my aunt being amazed when I’d answer, “yes, ma’am?” When she’d call my name. In southwestern VA, that’s common and expected.

7. 3 months ago on Family Tree

   Once upon a time, I was like those two when it came to working in my grandfather’s garden or snapping beans with granny, but now…. oh, what I wouldn’t give to have just one of those days back for a do-over.

8. 4 months ago on Thatababy

   Some of my least favorite candies I’d inevitably get on Halloween as a kid: Necco wafers, sweeties, candy necklaces or bracelets, circus peanuts, anything licorice, anything butterscotch, those weird candies in the orange or black papers (peanut butter kisses), caramel creams (the texture bugged me) … I’m sure there were more but those will forever be in my mind.

9. 4 months ago on Ben

   either that or “open the door now please!!”

10. 4 months ago on The Middletons

    Instead of Yelp, you’d think the doggie version would be Yowlp