Swmbo??? & po????

[bigray03]

Maybe i'm just slow or just stupid but I have not been able to put these letters together to figure these out and i'm sick of not knowing.

So, could someone please shine some light on this for an o'l dumb cajun boy down here.

[Incubus]

SWMBO= She who must be obeyed, generally a reference to one's spouse.

PO = Previous Owner, an unscrupulous and inept mechanic who generally tortured your machine before you could rescue it.

I hope this helps.

Patrick

[bigray03]

Obeyed??. Yeah, ok/...?

Helps much. Thank you much Pat.

I figured SWMBO was the ol' lady, just couldn't figure it out SWMBO.. Ha, LOL.

[boyat68]

bigray03:

SWMBO comes from an English writer, Sir John Mortimer, himself a barrister that wrote about "Rumple of the Bailey", an old barrister found of cheap wine and ethical treatment of all that are called before the bar. There were a series of serials played on the Public TV channels a few years back and a set of books that are highly entertaining that can be found in most libraries.

From Wikipedia
"he often quotes Wordsworth and secretly calls his wife Hilda "She Who Must Be Obeyed" (SWMBO), a reference to the novel She by H. Rider Haggard.[1]"

[bigray03]

Thank you Norm.

Thank you for the full explination and origin. I did not know that.

[Rasputin]

acronyms

Check this page out on this site. You will see most if not all of them.

http://www.xs11.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1011

[yadada]

And here I thought I was gonna get some drama about your SWMBO leaving you for your bike's PO.

[FJ111200]

And BPO is Ba$t4rd Previous Owner.

[Incubus]

That's redundant....

[79XS11F]

DARN .. I was sure I read on here somewhere that SWMBO was she who must bend over ... and polish the lower parts of the bike :-)
Rob