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| 827.1 | ex | MEMORY::WALKER |  | Thu Apr 28 1988 15:07 | 2 | 
|  |     SO = significant other - A very frequently asked question!
    
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| 827.2 | Thanks for the help!!! | BOSHOG::PROVASOLI |  | Thu Apr 28 1988 15:39 | 3 | 
|  |     Thanks for the info!!!! But are they always significant???? What
    do we call them when they're not significant????
    
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| 827.3 | Actually, Some Of The Terms are Probably Worse | FDCV03::ROSS |  | Thu Apr 28 1988 15:47 | 7 | 
|  |     RE: .2
    
    > What do we call them when they're not significant????
    
    NSO's ????   :-) :-)
    
      Alan
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| 827.4 | also see | VOLGA::B_REINKE | where the sidewalk ends | Thu Apr 28 1988 16:21 | 6 | 
|  |     There are two other notes on SO entered earlier in this file...
    notes 464, and 617, and a note on acronyms, note 527.
    
    Bonnie 
    
 
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| 827.5 | WHAT IT MEANS | NEBVAX::PEDERSON |  | Thu Apr 28 1988 16:25 | 2 | 
|  |     "significant other" (boyfriend, hubby, ect)
    
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| 827.6 |  | ATO02::TYLDESLEY |  | Thu Apr 28 1988 18:28 | 9 | 
|  |     
    RE: .2
    
    > What do we call them when they're not signigicant????
    
    How about USO's!!!  Unsignificant others.
    
    	shirley
    
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| 827.7 |  | SALEM::REK | I want a world that needs no heros!!!!!!!!!! | Fri Apr 29 1988 12:20 | 3 | 
|  |     I still like SE- Spouse equivalent
    
             REK
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| 827.8 | insignificant other | EDUHCI::WARREN |  | Fri Apr 29 1988 16:40 | 2 | 
|  |     Re .2:  IOs!
    
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| 827.9 | I always wonder, "Other What???" | VIA::RANDALL | I feel a novel coming on | Mon May 02 1988 11:39 | 12 | 
|  |     Spouse Equivalent would at least make clear that the person
    using the term is interested only in one's sexual partner.
     
    The first time I got invited to an event that said we could bring
    our SO's, I took it to mean that I could bring someone important
    to me, and since it was something Neil wasn't interested in but my
    daughter, then 12, was interested in, I took her instead.  Boy,
    did I get some funny looks!
    
    Well, she IS significant to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    --bonnie 
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| 827.10 | ... dunno how to work in CCITT for our European friends ... | STAR::BECK | Paul Beck | DECnet-VAX | Mon May 02 1988 21:37 | 4 | 
|  |     re .8 
    
    Or, if you attend a lot of standards meetings, causing you to ignore
    your "SO", you could use the term ISO for insignificant other... 
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| 827.11 | similar to ex-husband/wife | BARTLE::REDICK | the _cooler_ cats @ Bartle & Jaimes | Sun May 08 1988 00:34 | 5 | 
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                      or XSO if they are no longer...
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