origin of swmbo?

[terrapinj]

 

[Goofynewfie]

What are you doing? Your ruining the game

 

[DromJohn]

Hilda Rumpole.

 

[IanJ]

Ugh. I'll never look at the abbreviation the same way again. Thanks

 

[terrapinj]

What are you doing? Your ruining the game

while i don't think it's spoiling anything since it's easy enough to search for tons of threads on the subject, I edited the title to make it less obvious

 

[Revvy]

Nope, you're about 130 years too late.

The first use of swmbo was in the serialized novel "She" (who must be obeyed) by H. Rider Haggard published between October 1886 to January 1887....IIRC it is part of the Alan Quartermain novels...Remember the movie King Solomon's Mine

And the Sean Connery Character in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

You can read the novel online it looks like...Bibliomania: Free Online Literature and Study Guides


And Ursula Andres made a damn fine looking one in the 1966 film version.

The movie actually can be found on Youtube.

 

[bobbrews]

I petition a new word be added to the acronym so it may be more easily pronounced and remembered.

SWIMBO

"She Who Irrevocably Must Be Obeyed"

(In case you didn't know, Irrevocably means "Forever")

 

[terrapinj]

great history lesson Revy

 

[Revvy]

Thanks!

I'm surprised you've never seen that before. I've posted it whenever someone's asked about the origin of the term. It is fascinating how it's become adopted by the brewing community.

Another group who I've heard use it, believe it or not are biochemists. But my understanding is a lot of them at one time or another homebrew because a lot of them work with beer yeast somewhere during their studies since it's an easy microorganism to study, and they may have pulled it from the hbing community.