# Bob's your Uncle **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 4, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-your-uncle/1016645 "2025-04-04T21:08:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-your-uncle/1016645/21 "2025-04-05T05:10:04Z")
Also check out “set”, which has 430 meanings listed in the Oxford English Dictionary. The whole entry is 60,000 words long, about the length of a full sized novel. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-your-uncle/1016645/22 "2025-04-05T10:27:50Z")
And here’s your topic-related earworm for the day [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/XGlo0HAP98g/maxresdefault.jpg "Bob's Your Uncle, Fanny's Your Aunt") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGlo0HAP98g) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-your-uncle/1016645/23 "2025-04-05T17:59:29Z")
Yes _“run”_ and _“set”_ are word-words. Bob’s someones name plus other things. It’s like if the name Shirley meant other things, as well. “Shirleys you uncle” don’t quite work. Intrigued me. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-your-uncle/1016645/24 "2025-04-05T18:19:15Z")
But then again, Shirley has an unlimited number of possible setups for “Don’t call me Shirley.” ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-your-uncle/1016645/25 "2025-04-05T18:25:45Z")
Just saw “Oh my Bob!” Jingle on a furniture commercial. How odd and _“woo-ish”_ !! ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-your-uncle/1016645/26 "2025-04-05T21:36:23Z")
Not to mention Shirley the Cross-Eyed Bear. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-your-uncle/1016645/27 "2025-04-05T21:44:37Z")
I thought that was Clarence. I know he was a lion. Just like to type that name. Reasons. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-your-uncle/1016645/28 "2025-04-05T23:49:57Z")
I thought the Cross-Eyed Bear was named Gladly. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-your-uncle/1016645/29 "2025-04-06T03:33:51Z")
I once ranked first names by their friendliness. Worst names were Karl or Adolf. The happiest name was Bob. You will never see someone called “Bob the Impaler”. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-your-uncle/1016645/30 "2025-04-06T04:01:56Z")
Hey, Bob was my pet Narwhals name, I’ll have you know. 😊 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-your-uncle/1016645/31 "2025-04-06T04:02:02Z")
How about Genghis Bob? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-your-uncle/1016645/32 "2025-04-06T04:05:33Z")
There was a Robt. E “Bobbie” Lee, though. I’ll prostate myself later so my southern ancestors won’t turn over in their graves ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-your-uncle/1016645/33 "2025-04-06T04:47:34Z")
> **[Bob (Twin Peaks)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_(Twin_Peaks))** > > Bob (sometimes known as BOB or Killer BOB) is a fictional character and main antagonist of the ABC television series Twin Peaks, played by Frank Silva. He is an interdimensional entity who feeds on pain and sorrow. An inhabiting spirit, he possesses human beings and then commits acts of rape and murder in order to feast on the suffering of his victims. In the film Fire Walk With Me, this suffering is called "garmonbozia" and can manifest in the form of creamed corn. > Bob made his first appeara... ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-your-uncle/1016645/34 "2025-04-06T05:42:40Z")
Arnold Schwarzenegger (as the Terminator): “Uncle Bob?” ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-your-uncle/1016645/35 "2025-04-06T06:37:36Z")
See post 17. I should have called it out clearer. My bad. Then we also have Sideshow Bob from the Simpsons. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-your-uncle/1016645/36 "2025-04-06T07:02:56Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > You will never see someone called “Bob the Impaler”. Dave Barry once wrote about Attila the Hun’s lesser-known brother, Bob the Hun: > Bob would show up with this horde outside a medieval village and say, “Listen, would you folks mind if we raped the women and stole everything and killed everybody? You would? Oh my gosh! Sorry!” And off he’d slink, very embarrassed. His was by far the lowest-ranked horde in the league. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-your-uncle/1016645/37 "2025-04-06T09:23:46Z")
_Bob_ should be THE generic male name, Instead of _John_ ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-your-uncle/1016645/38 "2025-04-06T09:38:51Z")
There’s a good Bob Newhart episode (the first one). Emily becomes a member of mensa. She and Bob go to a meeting. One guy there could say anyone’s name backwards. He does it with Emily (ylime) He then asks to do it for her husband. “OK, and what’s your name?” “Bob” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-your-uncle/1016645/39 "2025-04-06T09:45:28Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I’ll prostate myself later so my southern ancestors won’t turn over in their graves I believe Robert E. Lee would note that much can hinge on the arrival of a letter. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-your-uncle/1016645/40 "2025-04-06T10:42:28Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I’ll prostate myself later I think that might be called “heroic” surgery. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-your-uncle/1016645.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-your-uncle/1016645.md?page=3)