Is it possible to have both a best friend and a penis?

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

(Originally posted on CG, but it's doing its usual weekend coma thing)

I had to sign up for some sort of computer thing at work today, and there was the usual tedious guffery involving passwords and security questions. You know the sort of thing- first pet, mother's maiden name, most ticklish erogenous zone, etc.

However it positively demanded that I supply an answer to this question-

"What was the name of your best childhood friend?"

I was totally stumped. I had lots of friends, but a best friend? Nope. I just didn't rank them in that way, and I still don't.

I'm told by wise women in my life that this is a stereotypically male thing. Women have best friends, but men frequently don't. So what do you assorted men, women and thingies feel?

[BeBMan]

I absolutely agree. This "best friend" nonsense is ridiculous. Real men have only a "best friend" in form of a car, a gun or alcohol

[VetLegion]

I did have a best buddy as a kid, two actually. But men's friendships aren't like women's definitely. For example the secrecy and all the plotting isn't there. A best buddy is someone you can count on to hold your back in case of trouble, not one single person in the world you can and have to confide in.

[Starchild]

I have best friends. But given that its two women and a gay man, this is less representative of the male population as a whole and more accurately portrays an episode of Will & Grace.

[Alinestra Covelia]

I have a best friend AND he has a penis.

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Oh wait. That wasn't what you asked

[Sirotnikov]

No, I think it is perfectly normal to have a ranking when you're little.

Pheraps Laz is too much of a lone wolf

most ticklish erogenous zone,

interesting security question

[Agathon]

Put the name of your imaginary friend. Something like "Mr Sunnyjim" should put them off asking you again.

[Pekka]

I once had a best friend but I rather had like few of them. You're not supposed to say YOU are my best friedn to a guy unless there's just the two of you and there's no other friends on the same level. So I considered a bunch of people best friends, equal.

I once had a girl who I actually called my best friend and she called me her best friend. So I guess that has really worked out with a girl for me, but not with guys. I don't know why. I like girls I guess. Even as friends. In fact I like them more as friends than guys usually.

[LordShiva]

WTF is CG?

[VetLegion]

Centrum Geriatricum. A forum for senior posters.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Close. It's "Centrum Gaytwattum".

[Theben]

I actually maintain contact with my one of my old childhood friends, and he was my best friend then, so yeah, he's my best friend now.

All the others since then are just friends.

[Wiglaf]

I ranked my enemies until I was 13. John Carriere will forever be #1 for the Microwave incident, when he managed to distract me while I had a burrito cooking, long enough for his friends to stuff the thing with tin foil and all the metal and other incendiary crap he could throw into the thing.

OH LOOK! Oh my, Who was using the microwave! Was it me?! Oh my god IT WAS! I MUST HAVE...OH NO WAIT. JOHN WANTED TO TALK TO ME ABOUT HIS MOM'S AIDS PROBLEM AND MUST HAVE PUT EXPLOSIVES IN THE MICROWAVE.

oh I GUESS IM LOOKING AT A WEEK LONG SUSPENSION!

IN THE ****ING 6TH GRADE!!!!!1

WHAT THE ****!? My only crime was talking ABOUT AIDS WITH THE KID and BURRITO EATING?! I'm not delusional, it's the truth, get this shrink out of here!

Every moment I spent selling lemonade to pay for there $300 microwave made me want to kill something and drink lemonade while doing it.

6th GRADE WAS ROUGH

[Heraclitus]

:will look at this thread later:

[Koyaanisqatsi]

According to most women I've known, for anybody who has a penis the penis is their best friend.