cmt

I absolutely HATE the word "faboo," which I've never heard in "real life." It sounds so affected to me. People certainly have a right to use it, but I do hate it. I think I actually started a thread somewhere asking about "faboo."

faredolce

I'm not married, so I have a difficult time relating to the DH thing, but just once I would love to see an alternative, FH, for Frigging Husband.

Like, "I wanted to stop for some lovely gelato, but my FH said the blisters on his feet were bothering him too much."

allisonm

Faboo? What is that? (I didn't know what "banding" was, either, until a helpful Fodorite explained it.)

Budman

I'm the FH who carries around the kitchen sink.

cmt

Some links about FABOO: http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34431511

Christina

LOL isn't just a Fodors thing, it is one of the oldest and most common of those shorthand things on the internet. I've seen it on various boards going back about ten years. I don't think there is any acronym used on here that was developed only by Fodors users.

jules4je7

DH is "Darling Husband" when I write it 99.9% of the time. On a whim, and when it is well earned, it quickly changes to "Dumb Husband" when DH forgets his green card, is detained for two days in Paris, and has to pay fines in the amount of $165 and $250 to the consulate and INS/Homeland Security respectively, to get himself back into the country. Not to mention the $100+ in airline change fees.

But now that I've paid his ransom, he's MINE.

Jules

BettyBoop

Another link HTH and it includes

AAAAA
American Association Against Acronym Abuse

http://www.netlingo.com/emailsh.cfm

cmt

What's a UH?

ira

Hi cmt,

It was used by a poster to refer to Uninterested Husband.

cmt

Does UH always mean the same thing when it's used on Fodors, or do we have to guess what it means in context?

Nikki

I think the poster who used it just made it up, sort of as a joke.

smalti

Going back to allisonm's post--Just what is "banding," anyway??

logos999

DH is easy, it means "Doppelhaushälfte", which means you share one wall of your house with your neighbors which saves space and reduces building costs for the two houses. Just what are you women so focused about houses, you should care more for your husbands ;-)

tuckerdc

Well, I'm among the uninformed (yet again) as I haven't a clue about faboo, and after the above post am still having trouble gleaning its meaning.

DH, as others have mentioned, has been around a loooong time. When the (mostly women) Country Living forums were going strong, a few there suggested that at certain times in a marriage it might also stand for
do*-do* head.

Beatchick

tuckerdc,

Faboo is just a shortening of fabulous.

Beatchick

Hmmm, reread the post, Scarlett. I never said I invented the word; merely that I started using it here.

Yes, you, too, have used it yourself.

I'm not the one with an oversized ego.

valtor

English is not maternal language and I don't live in USA. So, sometime, when I do not know a word, or an abbreviation, I am looking in
http://dictionary.reference.com/

However, I could not find the explanation of DH as it is used in this forum.

But there are many other abbreviation that you can find there.

elaine

As I reread the thread above, I see that cmt is the person who first mentioned hating the word faboo, before, and also today

It does appear in a pseudo-dictionary

www.pseudodictionary.com/search.php?letter=f

cigalechanta

Hereé my two euros worth: and this is IMHO.
Faboo belongs with Rachael Rae's vocabulary. I dislike sweetie even more than DH.
Everyone has things or words that is grating like the common usage of cute and awsome, that is not what the thing described is by definition of the wors.
This is particularly for Carol(cmt)
Read todays style section in the NYTimes, "Love Me, Love my Dog" there's a take on joined at the hip aspect of marriage.
P.S. grown men who refer to women as chicks! &*%$%&