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  • minitnkr
    SMF Supporters
    • Apr 2018
    • 7573
    • Paul
    • Dayton, OH USA

    #1

    Origin of SWMBO

    Sir Henry Rider Haggard, a british author around the turn of the century wrote some classic adventure novels, one called 'She', where an African tribe occupying a lost city had a white queen referred to as She Who Must Be Obeyed.
  • Neil Merryweather
    • Dec 2018
    • 5206
    • London

    #2
    I married her :blow-kiss-2:

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    • Gern
      • May 2009
      • 9255

      #3
      I seem to remember that SWMBO was more of a title than a name and she was actually called Ayesha.

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      • Tim Marlow
        • Apr 2018
        • 18944
        • Tim
        • Somerset UK

        #4
        …and there was me thinking she was Hilda Rumpole…..

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        • boatman
          • Nov 2018
          • 14498
          • christopher
          • NORFOLK UK

          #5
          Originally posted by Neil Merryweather
          I married her :blow-kiss-2:
          SO DID I

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          • rtfoe
            • Apr 2018
            • 9115

            #6
            And Muslim men are brave...they can have four of those. :smiling6:

            Cheers,
            Richard

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            • langy71
              • Apr 2018
              • 1956
              • Chris
              • Nottingham

              #7
              and here was me thinking SWHMO referred to Matron and her goons...

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              • Valeron
                SMF Supporters
                • Jan 2022
                • 949
                • Mike
                • St Albans

                #8
                I have to say I've learnt a lot of new words and acronyms since I joined this forum and started this hobby in January and did have to google SWMBO. I wrongly assumed it would be a new modelling term for me to learn like Wash, Dry Brushing etc.

                Not sure I've mentioned this one to me wife yet though.

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                • Gern
                  • May 2009
                  • 9255

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Valeron
                  Not sure I've mentioned this one to me wife yet though.
                  Don't worry about that Mike. She was born knowing it! It's in her DNA :smiling3:

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                  • Guest

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Tim Marlow
                    …and there was me thinking she was Hilda Rumpole…..
                    With you in this Tim .

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                    • Mini Me
                      • Jun 2018
                      • 10711

                      #11
                      As Dave said, it's in their DNA.......right next to the "shopping " gene!! :tongue-out3:

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                      • rtfoe
                        • Apr 2018
                        • 9115

                        #12
                        And they can smell plastic miles away.

                        Cheers,
                        Richard

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                        • Ian M
                          Administrator
                          • Dec 2008
                          • 18272
                          • Ian
                          • Falster, Denmark

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Tim Marlow
                          …and there was me thinking she was Hilda Rumpole…..
                          Maybe he read the novel that Paul has. Used to like Rumpole.
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                          • Tim Marlow
                            • Apr 2018
                            • 18944
                            • Tim
                            • Somerset UK

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Ian M
                            Maybe he read the novel that Paul has. Used to like Rumpole.
                            I really recall the phrase from TV showings of the pulp film She with Ursula Andress when I was a kid. I didn’t read Rumpole or Haggard until later. I remember almost nothing from all three, by the way :tongue-out3:
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                            • boatman
                              • Nov 2018
                              • 14498
                              • christopher
                              • NORFOLK UK

                              #15
                              ive see that film

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