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I didn't see anyone volunteering pet names, so I thought I'd throw ours in. When my wife and I married, we decided we needed to give each other the usual cloying pet names, so I called her HoneyBun and she called me SweetiePie. That got old quick, so in my usual effort to destroy the English language, I flipped hers to BunnyHon and so she flipped mine to PeteySwie - spell it anyway you want. That didn't last long before we both decided to shorten things. So, I became Petey and she became Bunny. That was almost 20 years ago and we probably now use those names more than our real ones.

-Petey (and Bunny in absentia)