Sending a Private Message

Hi-

The site information says that registered users are able to send private messages but I don't see anything that gives me that option. Can someone please let me know how to do this?

Thanks in advance

 

It's an unlisted restriction. Check if you can now please. It's rare a member with zero posts wants to start a private conversation unless a spammer or a lurking collector wanting to ask members to sell stoves they have shown in the galleries. You now have one post so should be able to communicate.

 

I guess that makes me rare. Thank you for the help.

 

I'm not sure how to send a private message, can you help?

 

There's a few ways but I find the quickest/easiest wat to.....

Click on the name you want to have a private chat with (they're called 'Conversations' ) , a window will pop up offering some info/profile of that person, and the option to 'Start a Conversation'

Bobs your uncle

 

I don't have an uncle named Bob!!
I have a cousin Bob,

 

Fannies my aunt too

 

I actually did have an Aunt Fannie (great-aunt). I had an Uncle Bob too, though on the other side of the family.

....Arch

 

Ha @ArchMc
Bob's your uncle, and Fannie's your aunt.
Are they really sayings?

 

I'm surprised you haven't heard them. All my wife's North Carolina relatives say them all the time.

....Arch

 

My mom's eldest sister was aunt Fannie! No uncle Bob though, would uncle Bart do?

Best regards,

Wim

(Uncle Bart or, officially Albert was the seventh son so as tradition has it, king Albert the first was his godfather (my father had 9 brothers, zero sisters) )

 

I'm in the NC mountains if that makes a difference. I've never heard it but here.

 

I first heard Bob's your uncle right here on CCS. I had to look it up and then started using it around here and got blank looks back. It's an expression for something that's easily done.

How do you rebuild an NRV? Well, clean the valve and open it up, replace the pip, put it all back together and bob's your uncle.

 

But, it's one of those sayings that after it's explained to you you still don't understand what Bob has to do with it. No connection to the meaning. Most sayings at least make some sense. Wiki says it is English origin, so easy to see why you would have heard it here first.

 

Most old expressions don't make a lot of sense. My mom and grandmother used a term "a month of sundays" as in we haven't seen them in a month of sundays. I would think a month of sundays was either 4 sundays or maybe 30 sundays but they meant a really long time.
We also use the expression "easy as pie" but making pie isn't easy at all. You have to mix ingredients for the crust and roll it out, cut up fruit and make a mixture of sugar and spices and bake it all in an oven. A lot of time and work is involved.

 

That's because the 40' and later generations prefer the "all now" concept of life. We live in "I want it for yesterday" hurry our ancestors didn't.
Regards
Enrique

 

Month of Sundays and easy as pie make sense to me.

 

Hi @Ray123 I have always believed that the expression "Easy as pie" referred to the eating of pie, rather than the making....


As for "month of Sundays":

A long time, as in I haven't seen Barbara in a month of Sundays. This expression, which would literally mean thirty weeks, has been used hyperbolically since was first recorded in 1832. One writer suggests it originally connoted a long dreary time, since games and other kinds of amusement used to be forbidden on Sunday.

Best Regards,
George.

 

The US being so big, various sayings are not familiar throughout. I'm a damn yankee and "Bob's your Uncle" is familiar as far back as I can remember.

Red Green is Canada-speak comedy show that plays to a very wide audience and iirc he says "and Bob's your Uncle".

Fanny's your Aunt... initially in this post, wasn't familiar to me. When joined:
Bob's your Uncle
(yeah) and Fanny's your Aunt... then Fanny sounded vaguely familiar.

My impression from linked content, some below, Bob's your Uncle has English origin, Fanny likely English being it is an extension of, or response to Bob's your Uncle (the latter I find vaguely familiar and more interesting).

http://bytesdaily.blogspot.com/2012/10/uncle-bob-and-aunt-fanny.html

pasted from link: [Fanny's your Aunt] ...origin is even more confused.

As a starting point, note that the word “fanny” has a different meaning in the US compared to England and Australia.

In the US the word means a woman’s buttocks, in England and Oz it has always meant vagina, although the US meaning is starting to become used.

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The term “My Aunt Fanny!” has always been an exclamation equivalent to “Bullshit!”

That is my acquaintance with it and it is so recorded in the online Urban Dictionary:
A way of politely calling bullshit when someone tries to give you an unbelievable excuse, line, lie, or over exaggeration. The dog ate your homework? My Aunt Fanny!
There would appear to be an inconsistency in the expression “Bob’s your uncle and Fanny’s your aunt” if the above two meanings are applied, the first phrase meaning everything is fine, settled; the second that it is unbelievable, untrue.

One possibility is that it evolved from the spoken expression “Bob’s your uncle”, meaning everything is done, set, being met by the response “My Aunt fanny!”, meaning “Not so!”

At any rate, there are no explanations I have been able to find as to Aunt Fanny having been conjoined to Uncle Bob. -end-

Sayings and their origin are interesting. Also interesting, people grow up saying such things not knowing the original meaning. thx omc

 

@kerophile Thanks George!

I admit that's a part of the pie equation I didn't consider.

Cut the pie and put a piece on a plate, eat the pie and Bob's your Uncle