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Thread: SWMBO, abbreviations?
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1st May 2008, 10:24 AM #61"Ask Oxford" backs up my claim.
The story goes that the more well-to-do passengers travelling to and from India used to have POSH written against their bookings, standing for 'Port Out, Starboard Home' (indicating the more desirable cabins, on the shady side of the ship). Unfortunately, this story did not make its appearance until the 1930s, when the term had been in use for some twenty years, and the word does not appear to have been recorded in the form 'P.O.S.H.', which would be expected if it had originated as an abbreviation. Despite exhaustive enquiries by the late Mr George Chowdharay-Best, researcher for the OED, including interviews with former travellers and inspection of shipping company documents, no supporting evidence has been found."I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
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1st May 2008, 10:34 AM #62
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1st May 2008, 12:20 PM #63
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Floorsanding in Canberra and Albury.....
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1st May 2008, 09:42 PM #64
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Yair - OK Silent! Was only given first bit. Will be careful to check it out myself in future.
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2nd May 2008, 10:48 AM #65
doesn't like all these 'F' words. Not a Gordon Ramsay fan!
Jack the Lad.
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2nd May 2008, 02:56 PM #66
R I P
Return if Possible
Jerry
War does not decide who is right. War only decides wo is left.
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2nd May 2008, 04:14 PM #67
Just an idle thought. How many of you, without recourse to net guidance, could tell me where SWMBO originated? A clue is that the author also wrote of the warrior Umslopogaas of the Axe called 'Groan Maker.'
Jerry
War does not decide who is right. War only decides who is left.
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2nd May 2008, 04:45 PM #68
That's easy: Rumpole of the Bailey, and before that from She, a book presumably read at some point by John Mortimer.
I've read all of the Rumpole series and seen most of the TV series as well"I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
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2nd May 2008, 04:48 PM #69
Asked and answered a year or two ago.
Henry Rider Haggard wrote "She" in 1885.
The subject is a beautiful (white) woman who has lived for over two thousand years, who possesses some secrets and powers that keep her in charge of the primitive (black) people over whom she rules. The leader of the tribe was the mysterious and ageless Ayesha. Her subjects were forbidden to call her by her real name. They could only call her "She". "She" had the power of life and death over her subjects, therefore "She" was most often refered to as "'She', who must be obeyed".
For the academics, "She who must be obeyed" was referred to in the "Epic of Gilgamesh". This is supposedly the oldest story known to exist and approximately 5000 years old. It appears that men feared their women-folk even back then!
Later, Rumpole (the British TV show character), popularised the term, often referring to his wife as SWMBO.
From this thread.
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2nd May 2008, 06:27 PM #70
Silent,
But have you actually read any of the books of old Henry?
Watched the TV series of Rumpole but didn't warm to the books. I have read all the African stories of Henry.
Groggy,
Must explain to me how to do the box quote bit sometime with the originally from inset. Real flash that.
Of course I should have realised that someone would have researched the origin of SWMBO.
Just as an aside, the old H R H predates even Edgar Rice Burroughs and his ilk. Even Tolkien's Lord of the Rings owes the old guy a debt. But here I go drifting off thread again.
Jerry
War does not decide who is right. War only decides who is left.
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2nd May 2008, 06:51 PM #71
Use the
button then type after where the [ /quote ] finishes. You can also remove the rest of the text that you are not replying to (keeps it relevant and shorter).
Or, you can type this directly into a message:
[ quote ] (with no spaces) followed by the text... then a [ /quote ] (again, no spaces).
which looks like:
(with no spaces) followed by the text... then a
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3rd May 2008, 01:06 AM #72
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them words again
From the mining lingo there comes.
FIGJAM (???? I'm Good, Just Ask Me) or
JAMFIG (Just Another Mother ????ing Idiot Geologist)
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6th May 2008, 12:01 PM #73
A bit off topic
But.. does anyone know where the term 'sh*t on the liver' comes from?
Mick
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