SWIMBO Discovered!!!!

[Stu Fyfe]

The anachronym SWIMBO, She Who Must Be Obeyed, so affectionately used on this forum, has surfaced in other media!
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"SHE" (1935)
[/URL]Leo ([URL="http://www.netflix.com/RoleDisplay/Randolph_Scott/170731"]Randolph Scott (javascript:void(0))) learns of the legendary Flame of Life, which holds the secrets of immortality and was discovered by his ancestor 500 years ago. With his friend (Nigel Bruce (http://www.netflix.com/RoleDisplay/Nigel_Bruce/12073)), Leo journeys to the Arctic to find the flame's final resting place. But the flame's guardian -- the immortally cold queen known as She Who Must Be Obeyed (Helen Gahagan (http://www.netflix.com/RoleDisplay/Helen_Gahagan/20004531)) -- believes Leo to be her long-lost lover, Leo's ancestor.

[pcford]

Ahem, well, certainly accords with my ex wife.

[Thorne]

I think ours is better with the additional letter "I" -- which stands for:

IMMEDIATELY!

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From Wikipedia -
(The phrase acquired additional significance in British popular culture as the name by which John Mortimer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mortimer)'s character Horace Rumpole (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Rumpole) refers to his wife.)

[paladin]

I like She Who Married Boat Owner works better....

[seedy]

The term possibly originates from John Mortimer's Rumpole books, that's what he calls his wife. I'd bet that it's older than that, although he was very inventive with his character's invective.

[Greg Nolan]

from Wikipedia:

She: A History of Adventure -- a novel by H. Rider Haggard, first serialized in The Graphic from October 1886 to January 1887. In reprints it was extraordinarily popular in its time, and has remained in print to the present day.

In this work, H. Rider Haggard developed the conventions of the Lost World sub-genre, which many other authors emulated.

The title is short for "She Who Must Be Obeyed", a translation of the Arabic honorific used for Ayesha by the Amahagger, a tribe whom she has enslaved. In childhood, Haggard's nursemaid used to menace him with an ugly doll which went by the name "she who must be obeyed". (The phrase acquired additional significance in British popular culture as the name by which John Mortimer's character Horace Rumpole refers to his wife.)

The name of Haggard's mother was Ella Doveton, and "ella" is Spanish for "she".
This character was supposedly inspired by the Balobedu Rain Queen Masalanabo Modjadji. Jung, who admired Haggard's myth-making powers, used She to illustrate his concept of the anima.

Her true name "Ayesha" is a variant transcription of the Arabic word pronounced Aisha, meaning "she-who-lives" . This was also the name of the favorite wife of Muhammad whose "controversial" character forms a template for some aspects of Ayesha's personality.

[shamus]

I saw Ursula Andress play that part in the movie of H Rider Haggard's book back in 1971. I don't think the film was exactly new then. That's one of the 4 movies I've watched in my entire life.