BS: Who's Bob?

Subject: RE: BS: Who's Bob?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Oct 15 - 04:32 PM

50 Bob? As in the Fifty-Shilling Tailors: anyone old enough to remember them?

One of the verses of "When the Red Revolution Comes" went, back in my early folk-club days nearly 60 years ago, [inevitably to tune of John Brown's Body as nearly everything does unless it goes to Villikins & His Dinah] --

We'll make Monty Burton wear a fifty shilling suit [x3]
When the Red Revolution comes

≈M≈

Subject: RE: BS: Who's Bob?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 30 May 20 - 03:23 PM

re: Aunt Fanny, above, there is a comment: Sweet Fanny Adams, much beloved by the euphemizers, meaning "Fuck all."

I came across this advert today:
https://dirtyoldgoat.com/collections/topical-mugs/products/cnorfolk-where-bob-is-not-necessarily-just-your-uncle-norfolk-mugs

It was linked to an article about the return of dragons to the skies of Norfolk:


https://www.suffolkgazette.com/news/lack-of-planes-sees-dragons-return-to-norfolk-skyline/

Subject: RE: BS: Who's Bob?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 31 May 20 - 02:04 AM

Then there was Bob in that Not the Nine O'clock News sketch!

Subject: RE: BS: Who's Bob?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 31 May 20 - 02:11 AM

From my iphone - I hope this works Bob!!

Bob!!

Subject: RE: BS: Who's Bob?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 31 May 20 - 02:16 AM

Bob's my dad, but he's dead now - so I'm the patriarch.

Subject: RE: BS: Who's Bob?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 31 May 20 - 02:43 AM

Fanny's your aunt and Bob's your mothers brother OK

Subject: RE: BS: Who's Bob?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 02 Jun 20 - 04:03 AM

One suggestion for the origin of this is that 'Uncle' was a common term for a pawnbroker - see the song, 'Pop Goes the Weasle' - and Bob and Fanny were proprietors of such an establishment - always made sense to me   
Jim