Can someone tell me the words represented in the acronym
POSLEQU and the reason for the origination of this term.
I think it was developed by the U.S. Census Bureau to represent a person living in a household but not a spouse.
Thank you.
POSSLEQ:
person of the opposite sex sharing living quarters
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=POSSLQ6,600 google hits
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands and crystal brooks
With silken lines, and silver hooks.
There's nothing that I wouldn't do
If you would be my POSSLQ.
You live with me, and I with you,
And you will be my POSSLQ.
I'll be your friend and so much more;
That's what a POSSLQ is for.
And everything we will confess;
Yes, even to the IRS.
Some day on what we both may earn,
Perhaps we'll file a joint return.
You'll share my pad, my taxes, joint;
You'll share my life - up to a point!
And that you'll be so glad to do,
Because you'll be my POSSLQ.
O! TEd! Thou need’st no such deceit,
For thou thyself art thine own bait :
That fish, that is not catch’d thereby,
Alas ! is wiser than THis guy!
...if you would be my POSSLQ...Charles Osgood, I think, late 1980s. I do believe I heard the original broadcast -
who'd'a thunk I was witnessing history in the making!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSSLQ
O! TEd! Thou need’st no such deceit,
For thou thyself art thine own bait :
That fish, that is not catch’d thereby,
Alas ! is wiser than THis guy!
*snorTlE* (that's a lower-case L)
>>Charles Osgood<<
From a poem by Christopher Marlowe:
http://snipurl.com/hcovOr, perhaps, by John Donne, from whose poem I lifted the last stanza:
John Donne: ‘THE BAIT‘
COME live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines and silver hooks.
There will the river whisp’ring run
Warm’d by thy eyes, more than the sun ;
And there th’ enamour’d fish will stay,
Begging themselves they may betray.
When thou wilt swim in that live bath,
Each fish, which every channel hath,
Will amorously to thee swim,
Gladder to catch thee, than thou him.
If thou, to be so seen, be’st loth,
By sun or moon, thou dark’nest both,
And if myself have leave to see,
I need not their light, having thee.
Let others freeze with angling reeds,
And cut their legs with shells and weeds,
Or treacherously poor fish beset,
With strangling snare, or windowy net.
Let coarse bold hands from slimy nest
The bedded fish in banks out-wrest ;
Or curious traitors, sleeve-silk flies,
Bewitch poor fishes’ wand’ring eyes.
For thee, thou need’st no such deceit,
For thou thyself art thine own bait :
That fish, that is not catch’d thereby,
Alas ! is wiser far than I.
http://snipurl.com/hcu6