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Rick Potter
10-25-2011, 2:49 AM
Saw an old movie on TV the other nite. It was one of those 'B' movies, with the hero following a babe to a hidden city in the middle east. The title was 'She', starring Ursula Undress in the title role. In the movie she was an immortal queen, known as...... 'She Who Must Be Obeyed'.

Is this where SWMBO originated??

Rick Potter
David Dockstader
10-25-2011, 10:06 AM
Nope. It originated with "Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_television) series created and written by the British (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom) writer and barrister John Mortimer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mortimer), QC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Counsel) which starred Leo McKern (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_McKern) as Horace Rumpole, an ageing London (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London) barrister (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrister) who defends any and all clients. It has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes. ... He secretly calls his wife Hilda "She Who Must Be Obeyed", a reference to the novel She (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_%28novel%29) by H. Rider Haggard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Rider_Haggard)." (see Wikipedia).
Kent A Bathurst
10-25-2011, 10:11 AM
Rumpole: What a great show.

Also - McKern was one of only two actors more than once to play Number Two in The Prisoner - my favorite Tv show of all time.

edit...left out a key phrase. oooooooops.
mike holden
10-25-2011, 10:12 AM
David, Rick,
I am afraid that I must cast my vote for "SHE" the H. Rider Haggard novel which introduced the phrase "She who must be obeyed" long before TV existed.
Mike
Charles Wiggins
10-25-2011, 10:14 AM
He secretly calls his wife Hilda "She Who Must Be Obeyed", a reference to the novel She (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_(novel)) by H. Rider Haggard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Rider_Haggard)." (see Wikipedia).

Wouldn't that make the novel She the origin? Especially since it predates the TV series by 88 years?
Belinda Barfield
10-25-2011, 10:33 AM
Saw an old movie on TV the other nite. It was one of those 'B' movies, with the hero following a babe to a hidden city in the middle east. The title was 'She', starring Ursula Undress in the title role. In the movie she was an immortal queen, known as...... 'She Who Must Be Obeyed'.

Is this where SWMBO originated??

Rick Potter

Ummm . . . not to pick nits here . . . but you made one of those little slips. Ursula Andress. :D
Charles Wiggins
10-25-2011, 10:44 AM
Ummm . . . not to pick nits here . . . but you made one of those little slips. Ursula Andress. :D

Little slips ... Undress ... B movie. I know there's a joke in there somewhere.
Paul McGaha
10-25-2011, 2:38 PM
Not sure if my wife is aware of the term SWMBO, Pretty sure she would like it though if she did know of it.

Of course theres also SWMABO and CFO/SWMBO.

PHM
Jim Rimmer
10-25-2011, 2:41 PM
Ummm . . . not to pick nits here . . . but you made one of those little slips. Ursula Andress. :D

I've thought of her name that way since I was a teenager. :D
Rick Potter
10-25-2011, 5:15 PM
Ahhh,

Since the movie 'She' was based on the Haggard novel 'She', aren't we all basically saying the same thing......that was the origin?

Sorry, Belinda. No slip. Just checking to see if anyone caught it. Of course, it had to be a female who did.

Rick P

PS: My dismal record is still intact. I have NEVER been able to stump the panel, whether asking about ripening pears, or steering wheels on WWI submarines. Congrats folks, we have quite a brain trust here.