# Uncle Fred Rides Again

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncle-fred-rides-again/646581>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 9, 2013, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncle-fred-rides-again/646581 "2013-01-09T03:26:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![UncleFred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f0a364/32.png) [@UncleFred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleFred)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncle-fred-rides-again/646581/1 "2013-01-09T03:26:02Z")

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Some will recognize from my handle that I am a fan of P G Wodehouse.

For Christmas I received a massive volume “Utterly Uncle Fred”

What a treat!

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**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncle-fred-rides-again/646581/2 "2013-01-09T08:28:12Z")

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Wasn’t Uncle Fred the respectable chap who sat in his window shooting rocks at the gentlemen passing by as he tried to knock their hats off? And was described as having the emotional maturity of a slightly inebriated underclassman?

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**Author:** ![UncleFred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f0a364/32.png) [@UncleFred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleFred)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncle-fred-rides-again/646581/3 "2013-01-09T13:13:21Z")

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> [@movingfinger](#):
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> Wasn’t Uncle Fred the respectable chap who sat in his window shooting rocks at the gentlemen passing by as he tried to knock their hats off? And was described as having the emotional maturity of a slightly inebriated underclassman?

Among other things, yes. He was noted for dragging his nephew Pongo off on adventures to spread ‘sweetness and light’, sometimes with arrests.

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**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncle-fred-rides-again/646581/4 "2013-01-10T08:13:42Z")

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I remember them passing themselves off as veterinarians to get into someone’s home for some reason.