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    Abbreviations

    Okay, I have figured them all out except "YMMV". What does this stand for?
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    Quote Originally Posted by dromia View Post
    Your mileage may vary.
    Thanks Dromia. If I'd of had any hair, I woulda pulled it out.
    My mother always said I was the Flower of the Family, The Blooming Idiot

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    giz189,
    I ignore them.

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    Some abbriviations can be very confusing. If I cannot figure them out I google them.
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    This web page is helpful.

    www.acronymfinder.com/

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    Took me the longest time to figure out:

    SWMBO

    Doesn't work that way at my house . . .
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    SWMBO ,,, She who must be obeyed ? I think.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 123.DieselBenz View Post
    Took me the longest time to figure out:

    SWMBO

    Doesn't work that way at my house . . .
    Never read any H Ryder Haggard? "She and Allan" "She" and "The Return of She".
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    I always wondered what swmbo meant.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rhead View Post
    Never read any H Ryder Haggard? "She and Allan" "She" and "The Return of She".
    Nope, never hear of that writer . . . until now!

    At my house we follow the Bible way where the man is the head of the house . . . not that she is not as good as me, just that she has a different role.
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    Try under John Mortimer in his series on Rumpole of the Bailey. Hilda was the SWMBO... and referred as such (out of earshot, of course).
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