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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.