# Friends? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 9, 2009, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends/480467 "2009-01-09T02:24:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends/480467/41 "2009-01-09T13:41:14Z")
All of my friends are imaginary and I LIKE it like that. You’re\* all waaaay less maintenance than REAL friends. \*Yes. You’re all imaginary. Except the few of you I’ve met in person, and _I’m not sure about you._ ---
**Author:** ![cards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@cards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cards)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends/480467/42 "2009-01-09T14:14:45Z")
> [@gazpacho](#): > > Because of this thread I just now discovered the we have the ability to friend people on the dope. How new is this ability? Freakin’ newbies, always without a clue. 🙂 **Scylla** , as for the fate of your friends, maybe you should just befriend your enemies. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends/480467/43 "2009-01-09T15:32:40Z")
Ooo oo it’s **Cujo**! And that new movie with Robert Downey Jr and Jamie Foxx - that’s the violinist reference. And I heart \*\*Scylla \*\*too ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends/480467/44 "2009-01-09T15:49:10Z")
> [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](#): > > With rambling shitstorms of pointless words like this, I can see why. > > Did you mean to post this in your journal or some website for people who think they can be authors or something? MPSIMS? I can hardly believe this. I thought I was the only person on the SDMB who didn’t think **Scylla** was a literary god. We should be friends! ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends/480467/45 "2009-01-09T15:57:23Z")
This retarded shit has no place in The Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends/480467/46 "2009-01-09T15:57:31Z")
So I suppose asking to be your sidekick is right out? ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends/480467/47 "2009-01-09T16:05:37Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > This retarded shit has no place in The Pit. Don’t be so hard on yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends/480467/48 "2009-01-09T16:13:07Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > Don’t be so hard on yourself. First the cutesy OP and now you responding with all the cleverness of a short bus 3rd grader. Give me one good reason why this thread hasn’t been locked or moved. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends/480467/49 "2009-01-09T16:19:44Z")
Scylla, don’t you remember you told me you love me, baby? You said you’d be coming back this way again, baby. Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh baby. I love you. I really do. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends/480467/50 "2009-01-09T16:22:30Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > First the cutesy OP and now you responding with all the cleverness of a short bus 3rd grader. Give me one good reason why this thread hasn’t been locked or moved. Reason #1 - So I can tell the shit turd junior mod to go fuck himself. Can’t do that in MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends/480467/51 "2009-01-09T18:43:32Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > Reason #1 - So I can tell the shit turd junior mod to go fuck himself. > Can’t do that in MPSIMS. Correction: Make that “short bus 2nd grader.” ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends/480467/52 "2009-01-09T19:11:21Z")
> [@Telperien](#): > > I can hardly believe this. I thought I was the only person on the SDMB who didn’t think **Scylla** was a literary god. I never saw what all the fuss was about, finding \*\*Scylla’s \*\*contributions at best difficult to read. Turns out it was just the glare from his halo being reflected in the dewy, wet eyes of his genuflecting disciples. When I began reading while wearing a welder’s mask, the scales fell, and the majesty of his talent appeared before my eyes like the promise of uneaten (but still fresh) peanuts flung from the fetid creases of a barback’s dish towel. ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends/480467/53 "2009-01-09T21:11:04Z")
**Scylla** , I admire your OP and wish to subscribe to your friendslist. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends/480467/54 "2009-01-09T21:27:42Z")
I have often praised \*\*Scylla \*\*for his unique gift for domestic comedy, a puckish blend of Erma Brombeck and Steven King. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends/480467/55 "2009-01-10T00:24:00Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Correction: Make that “short bus 2nd grader.” OK, OK _I’ll_ be your friend if **Scylla** won’t. Just quit whining already. It’s not the most vitrol pit in the world but it _is_ a pit non the less. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends/480467/56 "2009-01-10T05:30:07Z")
Scylla said he’d be my friend. You don’t know what this means to me. The only reason I’m here, after all, is that classic Blimp thread. And the hours–oh, the hours–I have wasted, lost, squandered since that fateful day. I’m tearing up, cannot tear myself way, and count as treasures the hours, days and months, nay, years! since I clicked the hellishly simple register section of the SDMB, and now can barely focus to lift fork to the cherry cobbler my bastard husband arrived home with, the concoction which is most certainly not on my die– Look! Squirrels! [sub]Seriously, I’ll be proud to be Scylla’s friend. Sniff.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends/480467/57 "2009-01-10T11:28:53Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > First the cutesy OP and now you responding with all the cleverness of a short bus 3rd grader. Give me one good reason why this thread hasn’t been locked or moved. Poor guy. Sitting out there somewhere in America’s heartland, getting all steamed up because the Pit has one more thread than you think it should. Maybe you need a friend, or at least a contact. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends/480467/58 "2009-01-10T20:16:29Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > It does. It only works, however, if the background changes a lot. In a pinch, rapidly evolving lighting conditions can do the trick. Try accelerating the sun as it rises and wanes outside your window, then report. I think what does it is the rapidly growing pile of wadded up paper in and around the garbage can, one of which may or may not be pulled out and unwadded to reveal the answer being sought all along. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends/480467.md?page=2)