# Terms of endearment. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 21, 2005, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terms-of-endearment/309219 "2005-06-21T16:31:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terms-of-endearment/309219/21 "2005-06-21T18:50:24Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > So is Boo Boo Kitty Fuck okay? How about ‘fine piece of ass’? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terms-of-endearment/309219/22 "2005-06-21T19:09:22Z")
> [@lno](#): > > How about ‘fine piece of ass’? As in: "Fine!!!.. Piece of ass… " ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terms-of-endearment/309219/23 "2005-06-21T19:17:28Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by **tdn** :_ > > > [@](#): > > > > But please, for the sake of all that’s descent > > Maybe she says these things because she wants to go down on you. Tee hee! ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terms-of-endearment/309219/24 "2005-06-21T19:28:08Z")
> [@belladonna](#): > > My standard name holders are “hon” or “buddy”. I can see how one might assume that this is an artificial and manipulative habit designed to engender good will. The truth, however, is that I simply can’t be bothered to learn your name, and you’re lucky I deigned to speak to you at all… > Okay, hon? Yup, me too. My dad taught me, so really it’s a family tradition and it keeps me from calling people by more acurate names like Waste of Skin. **Swampy** ’s right about the southern thing. You’ll be Sugered to death in the south and I kind of grew to like it because it was friendly. This cow-orker though, does she do it so it makes you feel as though she thinks you’re a particularly dim child? Because that needs slappin’. Honeybunch. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terms-of-endearment/309219/25 "2005-06-21T19:29:07Z")
> [@belladonna](#): > > My standard name holders are “hon” or “buddy”. I can see how one might assume that this is an artificial and manipulative habit designed to engender good will. The truth, however, is that I simply can’t be bothered to learn your name, and you’re lucky I deigned to speak to you at all… > Okay, hon? You forgot to change your location to Bal’more. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terms-of-endearment/309219/26 "2005-06-21T19:30:58Z")
I once had a male coworker call me sweetie! After I picked my jaw up off the floor, I (sort of politely) asked him not to call me sweetie. He said, and I most definitely quote, “Why? That’s what I call my dog!” He thought it was a compliment, not a sexual harassment sort of thing. Clueless. I still give him crap about it, and repeat the story often just to embarrass him. 😃 And he’s from Boston, therefore not a “good ole boy” Southerner. I feel your pain, **Quicksilver.** ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terms-of-endearment/309219/27 "2005-06-21T19:41:06Z")
Just to make things clear… she doesn’t ever speak to me using these terms of endearment. Just her work ‘buddies’. Of which I am not. I think we parted ways early in our working relationship when I asked her not to tap me on the arm or shoulder whenever she wanted my attention. What the hell happened in this woman’s life that she craves all this fucking attention?!? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Dublin11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Dublin11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dublin11)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terms-of-endearment/309219/28 "2005-06-21T20:37:26Z")
> [@Dolores Reborn](#): > > I once had a male coworker call me sweetie! After I picked my jaw up off the floor, I (sort of politely) asked him not to call me sweetie. > > He said, and I most definitely quote, “Why? That’s what I call my dog!” He thought it was a compliment, not a sexual harassment sort of thing. Clueless. I still give him crap about it, and repeat the story often just to embarrass him. 😃 > > And he’s from Boston, therefore not a “good ole boy” Southerner. > > I feel your pain, **Quicksilver.** He thought it was a compliment to call you what he calls his **dog]**\*\* ?!?!?! It wasn’t this [person](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=322058) in those other threads, was it? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terms-of-endearment/309219/29 "2005-06-21T20:52:25Z")
> [@Beadalin](#): > > Tee hee! I’m glad _somebody_ got it. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terms-of-endearment/309219/30 "2005-06-22T04:33:06Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I’m glad _somebody_ got it. In my defense, I’m so used to reading spelling mistakes now that my brain is starting to parse them as the correct word, instead of what I’m actually seeing. Yeah, that’s the ticket. ---
**Author:** ![Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boo_Boo_Foo)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terms-of-endearment/309219/31 "2005-06-22T04:33:07Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > So is Boo Boo Kitty Fuck okay? No thank you. My name is Boo Boo Foo and THAT is what you’ll call me! (smile) ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terms-of-endearment/309219/32 "2005-06-22T12:41:38Z")
> [@Dublin11](#): > > He thought it was a compliment to call you what he calls his **dog]**\*\* ?!?!?! > It wasn’t this [person](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=322058) in those other threads, was it? :: snerk :: ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terms-of-endearment/309219/33 "2005-06-22T16:16:07Z")
It could be a regional deal. People from the South do that and of course Baltimore has the “hon” thing. Of course if this is a recent affectation with this lady or she’s being fake about it, it would make me crazy too. Haj ---
**Author:** ![UnwrittenNocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/6de8d8/32.png) [@UnwrittenNocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UnwrittenNocturne)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terms-of-endearment/309219/34 "2005-06-22T16:25:44Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Honey, sweetie, sugah, dahlin’. Try working in an office full of southern women **QuickSilver**. You’d be eatin’ prozac by the handful. 😃 That’s why you play their game back to them. Mature Southern Woman: (sickeningly sweet) You doin’ okay over there, sweetie? Me: (even more syrupy) I sure am, cuddlewumpus. ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terms-of-endearment/309219/35 "2005-06-22T16:26:44Z")
> [@UnwrittenNocturne](#): > > That’s why you play their game back to them. > > Mature Southern Woman: (sickeningly sweet) You doin’ okay over there, sweetie? > > Me: (even more syrupy) I sure am, cuddlewumpus. Sigh. This was me, not **UnwrittenNocturne**. One of these days I’ll learn him to log out after he’s done. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terms-of-endearment/309219.md?page=1)