I had thought that it was a B&B originated acronym, but according to this article it's been around for a while.
Color me amazed.
http://www.shoeboxshaveshop.com/swmbo.html
Color me amazed.
http://www.shoeboxshaveshop.com/swmbo.html
I had no idea that SWMBO did not originate here.
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Yes, I'm a fan of that particular character from way back, and I recall his use of the term (caught myself before using the name 
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It does seem rather fitting with this interest!
)It does seem rather fitting with this interest!
As usual, the Rumpole books by John Mortimer are better. The TV series was very good, mind.
I'm not sure if the phrase was coined by Mortimer or pre-dates it?
I'm not sure if the phrase was coined by Mortimer or pre-dates it?
Not that Wikipedia is always right, but here's a link to the origin of the phrase (used in a different context):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She:_A_History_of_Adventure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She:_A_History_of_Adventure
Shouldn't your title be "I had no idea that SWMBO didn't originate here"?
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Hahaha, good catch Ouch.
Please change the topic appropriately, and I humbly beg the boards forgiveness.
Wikipedia isn't always wrong, either.
I recall reading the H. Rider Haggard book when I was a kid, and it's specifically mentioned in the Rumpole books as the origin of the phrase. Mortimer's books, and the TV series, may have made it more famous in our time, though.
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The title first came up at SMF a few years ago. I think Chris Moss started using it from the said book.
See the thread "Where did you first hear 'SWMBO'?
http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php?t=159438
http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php?t=159438
Anyone who grew up in the UK during the seventies will have seen the film 'She' on countless occasions - back when we only had three TV channels it was one of the films shown frequently on weekend afternoons, along with 'King Solomon's Mines', 'Scaramouche' and 'The Prisoner of Zenda'.
These were guaranteed to drive adults out of the room muttering about repeats and the licence fee...
These were guaranteed to drive adults out of the room muttering about repeats and the licence fee...
Yup, Ayesha from H. Rider Haggard from waaaaaay back.
Does anyone else not mentally equate SWMBO with She Who Must Be Obeyed anymore? Every time I see it now, I think "swim-bo" and just equate it with "wife".
Maybe we need to coin WWMO (wim-o?).... We Who Must Obey?
I think that this time Wiki is right. The Haggard story pre-dates the Rumpole stories.
Never heard of the term until joining here... To me, it still originates from here!
Yup, me too!
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And somehow, we need to work a P in there so that it winds up sounding like
wimp-o.
Maybe,,,,We Who Must P-Word Obey<---I can't think of one.
I've been saying it for years but never even thought of using the acronym.
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