Another kind of buddy

[Charles Doyle]

And "asshole buddies," with a million-plus Google hits. The first time I heard that term, maybe 25 years ago, I was astonished becaused the speaker clearly had no sense of its possessing sexual implications at all, just "close friends."

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:02:44 -0400
>From: William Salmon <william.salmon at YALE.EDU>
>Subject: Re: Another kind of buddy
>
>There are also 'butt buddies', which I think has been around a while.

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