It does have some sexual context in my mind, though I agree it was also used in other senses. – maybe I’m thinking of bachelor parties right before marriage, which often seemed to have sexual entertainment even if the groom settled for looking, and in which context I might have heard the phrase? But my memory is blurry; outside this thread I haven’t run into the phrase for a long time, and of course I was never at such parties.
I know a guy who knows a guy who refers to his wife (and perhaps all women) as a “female carbon-based unit”.
I had a female friend in college who referred to her longtime boyfriend as “HWWNO” (“He Who Will Not Obey”).
Do people know that… acronyms… are supposed to be… useful… and easy to pronounce? Because these sound awful.
Plenty of such initialisms are pronounceable, and plenty others are not. One of the hardest to pronounce (even to pronounce the full words) is RWQCB (Regional Water Quality Control Board). There are also things like CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau).
Right, but this isn’t a business name, this is a cutesy deragatory nickname people are using for their SO, trying to be humorous. Do people actually say “H W M B O” or “hwimbo”? And then presumably have to explain what that means. It sounds super clunky.
IMHO, they seldom are easy to pronounce. SMH.
Before someone accuses me of conflating initialisms with acronyms, SenorBeef used acronym for HWWNO.