A Forum Rookie Question

TEggSun

Could someone please tell me what SWMBO means?  I'm certain I have positioned myself for some well-deserved public ridicule, but for the life of me I can't figure it out.  It is obviously a reference to a wife/girlfriend, but I can't crack the code.

Tjcoley

She Who Must Be Obeyed. In other words, your spouse.

Little Steven

It's a term of endearment, She Who Must Be Obeyed

TEggSun

Thank you!!!!!!!  I clearly got the spouse piece.  I needed the specifics.  I can now sleep again.

caliking

When we attended the Salado eggfest in March, I registered SWMBO as "SWMBO". She got a big kick out of it. Every now and then she reminds me what it stands for, and i have no option but to do her bidding. 

BigGreenBamaGriller

Well I've been around over a year and just learned that thanks to your question.

TEggSun

That is hilarious, @caliking.  I'm going to try that.  If I don't post for a while, you'll know what happened.  Tell the DA.

Fred19Flintstone

You guys make me laugh!  I am the KING of my castle!  My word is law!  I TELL WILMA HOW IT'S GONNA BE........ unless she disagrees with me and then it's gonna be some other way.

TEggSun

At the risk of being a grammatical jackass, would it not be more accurate to say "She Whom Must Be Obeyed?"  Clearly, it would not change the SWMBO abbreviation, but it might make us all think differently.  

Grader07

Awe boy....TEggSun.... Sounds like we'll all be thinkin differently

Skiddymarker

She who must be obeyed, not whom, because that's not the way H Rider Haggard  wrote it.

SaturdayFatterday

@TEggSun:  The corresponding sentence, in which the verb "obey" is used identically, would be "my wife must be obeyed by me."  It's a passive voice usage of the verb "to obey," and therefore the wife is the subject, and you're the object.  Accordingly, it's "She Who Must Be Obeyed."

TexanOfTheNorth

SaturdayFatterday said:

@TEggSun:  The corresponding sentence, in which the verb "obey" is used identically, would be "my wife must be obeyed by me."  It's a passive voice usage of the verb "to obey," and therefore the wife is the subject, and you're the object.  Accordingly, it's "She Who Must Be Obeyed."

Glad we got a definitive answer on this  #:-S

SaturdayFatterday

@TexanOfTheNorth Right?  The board would have been paralyzed by pronoun indecision.   )

Griffin

TEggSun said:

  I can now sleep again.

Are you sure? No more problems with the ghost chiles? )