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This article is from the Science Fiction Fandom FAQ, by Vicki Rosenzweig vr@panix.com with numerous contributions by others.

41. Who's Bob? (rec.arts.sf.fandom)

(Your uncle.) "Bob" is the character in old fashioned stories to whom
everything he already knows is explained in excruciating detail. "As
you know, Bob, we are at this moment on the planet Earth, which has a
nirtogen-oxygen atmosphere, is third out from the sun and encircled by
its very own moon." People sometimes use it on rasseff when they're
saying something they're fairly sure the person they're addressing knows
already, but which they feel wants to be explained to everyone else, or
sometimes when they suspect there's a certain element of instructing
grandmothers on egg-sucking techniques creeping into their post.

 

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