Friday, July 8, 2005

... the missing link ...

Utter silliness apropos of absolutely nothing ...

A while ago, back when we were both working, we conceived a curious notion - both of us, in our families, had an "Uncle Bob", and it seemed to us that perhaps in every family, maybe not immediate, but somewhere on the genealogical tree, there lurked an "Uncle Bob."

So we began, just for the fun of it, to ask around, and, sure enough, most people either had an "Uncle Bob", or knew of a Bob in the family who was an uncle to someone.

We ran into only one person who claimed not to know of anyone in his family who would fall within the parameters. The kicker was, his name was Bob and he was an uncle. Talk about the exception that proves the rule!

Peace.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bob's your uncle. judi

Anonymous said...

Ha ha! I too have an Uncle Bob. LOL Guess there really IS one in every family!

Brandie

Anonymous said...

To my knowledge, I do not have an Uncle Bob.  Doesn't mean I don't have one.....just means I don't know of one.

Anonymous said...

Mine was a Robert, and not just a Robert. We used his middle name too, said in one breath like it was one name.

Anonymous said...

I come from a huge family with nary a Bob in sight!
Marti