Posted on 05/23/2006 8:42:08 AM PDT by Millee
Honey, baby, sugar, sweetie... urgh. The list goes on. When it comes to icky pet names, sometimes it pays to be single.
We've long cringed at the gooey goings-on of sappy couples. Do we really need to be privy to their public spats, their overtly touchy-feely behavior and worst of all, their heady mix of those cheesy, mushy, nausea-inducing pet names?
"Should you use your affectionate nicknames in public?" questions blogger Maria. "Even if they're embarrassing like 'hi honey-squishy-wishy-loopy-poopy-pie' just because that's what you have been using around the house, or the bedroom?"
Well according to most, the answer is a firm no. "I think 'cutesy' nicknames are revolting," writes blogger Smokey. "They pretty much embarrass everyone around you." Soppy nicknames really get up my goat. (And why do so many of them involve food?)
Yet according to experts, they might not be such a bad thing after all. Many believe nicknames can actually be a sign of a healthy relationship. "They are the soft terms of endearment that are whispered at the end of an evening, or chuckled during a phone call," claims relationships portal Romanceclass.com, who say cutesy nicknames are an essential part of the "language of love" between couples.
Blogger Smokey adds that she does tend to use a lot of "terms of endearment" - "I call everyone darling, precious, blossom etc. Usually more of a joke than anything. And I seem to call all the men I date 'baby'."
After a quick trawl through the blogosphere, it seems many people are doing it too, with terms ranging from midget gem (apparently an expression to describe a short woman with big breasts) to monkey, cutie-pants, poppet-socks, honey-spoon, cutie-face, fluff and peachy-bum.
"Yeah some of our nicknames are a bit weird," writes one blogger, "but that's the idea though isn't it?"
Then there are those pet names for couples. Thanks to the Hollywood union known as "Bennifer", double-jointed couple titles have suddenly become hip. In fact Romanceclass.com even offer examples for those couples wanting to adopt their very own.
"My friend's boyfriend calls us the AA Batteries, because both of our names star with an A! (Adrienne+Andrew)," writes Adrienne. "We use Kressie - we got this nickname because my name is Jessie and his is Kris," writes another. And finally my favourite, "We ALWAYS call each other pork, after the Japanese word for love." Ah, now that's quite cute... isn't it?
My widdle smoochy-woochy-face ping!
My ex-boyfriend and I hated pet names. So we called each other "Pookey" and "Honeybear" (they were interchangeable) in public sometimes just to annoy people.
No.
Hey there porkie.....are you the other white meat?
when i hear my bro/sis in law using 'em...I want to tell them to shut their noisehole its so annoying.
like fingernails on a chalkboard
If your co-worker calls her fiance "Big Daddy" he should run the hell away! ;o) (Sorry, that story still fascinates!) :oD
My man calls me monkey.....I can't type my name for him....not on this forum anyways.
Bad nicknames for your honey ping!
At first I thought this was actually what we said to our pets. I call my female Foxy Roxy...full of Moxy.
That's what freepmail was invented for dear. ;o)
While I disdain nauseating nicknames for couples, I do call my cats a bazillion nicknames that would probably irritate the heck out of people. ;-)
I sing silly little songs with their names in them for them, too.
I am embarrassed to admit I sing little ditties as well....along with bad poetry.
Pet names ought to sound stupid to outsiders. They're based on personal experiences between the people involved, and are intimate. It's another way we bind together and separate the outer world from the inner.
LMAO!!
I am so trying to find a way to get out of that stupid wedding. I actually have some new gossip. First, she waited until the absolute last minute to order her invites. Everyone told her not to do that, because it's not uncommon that there are mistakes. When the invites arrived they were navy blue with black ink. It looked like they were in braille, because the only way you could read them was to feel them. So, she just sent them out last week to over 300 people for a wedding about 2 1/2 weeks away.
Then this she just told me this morning, her husband's aunt is making her wedding dress. Every female in northeastern Illinois told her NOT to go that route, because it will end badly. She tells me this morning that she went over there to see how it's going and it's completely WRONG. She wanted no lace. Auntie found lace she loved and decided to use it. The cut is wrong. It was like auntie did everything my coworker told her not to do. So all coworkers girlfriends are telling her to go and get an off the rack dress ASAP, but her husband-to-be is freaking out and telling her that she absolutely cannot get another dress. He says that she MUST wear this monstrosity auntie created.
I do this, too. Our one cat is named Lucky. She's Luckybear, Lucky Ness Monster, Lucky Lady, etc. and they all have dumb little songs that go with their names, too.
She might as well just wear the stupid dress since she'll probably only be married for 6 months anyway.
Does fiance know about the planned living arrangements yet??
What is wrong with "Hey You?" It works no matter who you're dating (or married to).
I never used smushy face nicknames - but I will admit to horrible smushy --honey bunny boo boo - and sugar booger names for my daughter. :)
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