Hey Beav, Translation please?

[First Name]

In a TV commercial an English guy is praising a hamburger (Jack in the Box,
if you have them over there). The guy says "Bob's your uncle". Can you
translate that to American?

Thanks

[Andy Carpenter]

"First Name" <ziggy57345@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> In a TV commercial an English guy is praising a hamburger (Jack in the
Box,
> if you have them over there). The guy says "Bob's your uncle". Can you
> translate that to American?
>
> Thanks
>

I'm not Beav, but...

"Bob's your Uncle" is like saying "There you go" - it's a kind of "matter of
fact thing" or a "given"

Looks like it may have come from the ease with which Arthur Balfour gained
various political posts. He was appointed by his Uncle - no prizes for
guessing that Uncles name ! (Prime Minister Lord Robert Marquis of
Salisbury. )

Check out some other discussions here:

http://www.urbanlegends.com/language/etymology/bobs_your_uncle.html
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/bobs.html


Hope this helps

[Mike]

>In a TV commercial an English guy is praising a hamburger (Jack in the Box,
>if you have them over there). The guy says "Bob's your uncle". Can you
>translate that to American?
>

I'm not Beav either, but basically it means that Robert is your fathers
brother. Obvious really.

[Mike]

>
>I guess it comes from the fact (?) that Bob is a thought of as a dead common
>name for someones uncle (over here), a bit like the surname Smith. So it's
>like saying "
>

yeah every Tom Dick and Harry is called Bob.....

[Mike]

>
>I've got what I was trying to say now. It's what Andy (Carps) said.. it's
>like saying a 'matter of fact'. Since Bob *is* the name of everyones uncle.
>
>that's what I was trying to say, be it right or wrong.
>
>We generally use it as a term for "and there you go!", or "et voila!" -
>"Do this, do that, put it all back together and Bobs yer uncle"
>
>
I must admit I laughed more at your first posting... :-)

[Patrick Free]

In article <7zEna.2723$zn5.1589@fed1read03>, ziggy57345@yahoo.com
says...
> In a TV commercial an English guy is praising a hamburger (Jack in the Box,
> if you have them over there). The guy says "Bob's your uncle". Can you
> translate that to American?
>

I think Q.E.D. is a fair translation.

Or even "there you go"

Patrick

[Anne-Marie Maddison]

i thought Dick was richard !
"Mike" <mikespruce99@aol.comnospam> wrote in message
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> >
> >I guess it comes from the fact (?) that Bob is a thought of as a dead
common
> >name for someones uncle (over here), a bit like the surname Smith. So
it's
> >like saying "
> >
>
> yeah every Tom Dick and Harry is called Bob.....

[Andy Carpenter]

"Mike" <mikespruce99@aol.comnospam> wrote in message
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> >
> >I guess it comes from the fact (?) that Bob is a thought of as a dead
common
> >name for someones uncle (over here), a bit like the surname Smith. So
it's
> >like saying "
> >
>
> yeah every Tom Dick and Harry is called Bob.....

LOL :) Nice one !

[Philip Martin]

"Mike" <mikespruce99@aol.comnospam> wrote in message
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> >In a TV commercial an English guy is praising a hamburger (Jack in the
Box,
> >if you have them over there). The guy says "Bob's your uncle". Can you
> >translate that to American?
> >
>
> I'm not Beav either, but basically it means that Robert is your fathers
> brother. Obvious really.
>
Errrr NO, Robert in my MOTHERS brother actually:o)


Phil Martin.



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[Beav]

"First Name" <ziggy57345@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:7zEna.2723$zn5.1589@fed1read03...
> In a TV commercial an English guy is praising a hamburger (Jack in the
Box,
> if you have them over there). The guy says "Bob's your uncle". Can you
> translate that to American?

As all t' other blokes have said Ziggy, it's a BIT like you'd say "There ya
go", but only ALMOST.

We'd say "Bob's yer uncle" to say a job is finished so we could tag in ONTO
your "There ya go" phrase to get "There ya go mate, Bob's yer uncle". In
that sense is means the job is finished, so why someone's associating it
with description of a hamburger is any buggers guess.

Now if the guy had dropped it down his neck and THEN said "Bob's yer uncle",
he'd have been closer (and probably fatter too :-)

Probably not a real Brit anyroad! It wasn't Brad Pitt was it??? :-))))


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[Beav]

"Anne-Marie Maddison" <Annemarie.Maddison@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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> i thought Dick was richard !

Nah, but Richard's a ........... :)


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[Sky Fox Pilot]

steady Beav... ;o)

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> "Anne-Marie Maddison" <Annemarie.Maddison@btopenworld.com> wrote in
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> > i thought Dick was richard !
>
> Nah, but Richard's a ........... :)
>
>
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[Beav]

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> steady Beav... ;o)

Bad night :-)


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