My mother Barbara was ‘Bob’ to immediate family, and ‘Aunt Bob’ to most everyone else. I got to be ‘Bobby’ until I was old enough to resist - then in late 60’s middle school there were EIGHT Bobs in my algebra class and I insisted on becoming Vbob instead of ‘Bobby V’ - and have styled myself Vbob ever since. Incidentally, today’s my 70th birthday.
Happy birthday!
Surely Bjorn Stronginthearm is my uncle.
“Aunt Bob”; I love it!!
vbob-a-lu-la!
Five years later, “John” was the name every boy had to have. There must have been two dozen of us in my graduating class. The distaff side was, of course, “Mary.”
And Happy Birthday! Did you get your cake?
Many words in English have many definitions for them.
Microsoft Bob can’t be that forgotten.
I’m sure he was beloved in his day.
Heh. I meant prostrate.
I was gonna say flagellate but it sounded nasty.
Was going to suggest “set” but markn_1 beat me to it.
“Set” is also a name, specifically, the name of an Egyptian deity.
What is that thing on a string that carpenters use to make vertical pillars and walls?
A plumb line
With a plumb BOB hanging on the end.
I assume he married an Ironfounderson
Dangit, @MrAtoz , I was scrolling through just to see if someone else had already posted that!
I was surprised that I was first in with it, despite the thread being two days old by that time. We’re slipping, folks!
Oh, My Bob!!
(Actually an ad for a furniture company)
I was using elgoog translate, into Greek, on a sentence that included the name Bob in it, and it rendered the name as “Μπομπ”.
“Mpomp”? That doesn’t even vaguely resemble Greek.