From: Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: continuing problem with gnus-change-server
Date: 01 Dec 1997 10:52:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u7zpmlrrh1.fsf@peoria.mt.cs.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..."'s message of "29 Nov 1997 02:40:14 -0800"
"Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <torin@daft.com> writes:
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> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
> >One more of life's big mysteries solved. I'll slap some `(delq nil ...)'
> >around some lists that I feed to sort, and Bob's your uncle.
> >(Whatever that means.)
>
> Well, from a friend of mine that collects such things:
> >It comes out of the history of England. Some time ago (a century or
> >two?) there was a guy who got a political appointment because his uncle
> >was the rt. hon. Robert somethingorother (someone famous, but not to us
> >here, and I forget his name). Hence the idea that if you want some
> >particular political plum, you can get it if Bob's your uncle... and it
> >spreads from there. Sorta similar to "Q. E. D." and "that's all she
> >wrote."
Yup. Definitely correct.
<URL:http://www.word-detective.com/back-f.html#bob>
--
Michael Duggan
(md5i@cs.cmu.edu)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-12-01 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-11-24 19:59 Dan Christensen
1997-11-25 18:55 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-11-28 13:11 ` Felix Lee
1997-11-28 14:55 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-11-28 23:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-11-29 10:40 ` Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
1997-12-01 15:52 ` Michael Welsh Duggan [this message]
1998-04-29 19:03 ` That `sort' bug Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-04-29 20:27 ` SL Baur
1998-04-29 20:50 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-04-29 21:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-04-29 20:53 ` Dan Christensen
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