Me and my imaginary friend

[Josquius]

I was talking to some friends earlier today and as happens the conversation went in strange directions until suddenly we were talking about imaginary friends we had when we were kids. Some said they had them, some didn't (or claimed not to or don't remember), one girl then started going on in great detail about how awesome her imaginary friend was. Then I asked her- 'So what was she?'
'What was she what?'
'What animal was she?'
'...she was my imaginary friend...She was a girl....'


Now this strikes me as quite odd, you see myself and most kids back home tend to have imaingary animal friends.
I had a mouse, originally named Mousey. Though he was unquestionably a small mouse (maybe bigger than a normal one...more guinea pig sized) he had some anthropomorphic qualities; he went on holiday occasionally, had a nanna who occasionally came to visit him, etc...
A friend of mine I remember had a very weird one, he had a cow. Nothing weird and human like. Just a cow. In the garden. He'd occasionally just stand up and stop playing and say 'I've got to go milk my cow now' and off he'd go into the garden where he had  a bucket and a stool and he would mime milking a cow for a little while.
This friend despite being a fit sports guy has a very very fat girlfriend now. Which makes me wonder.

Did you have an imaginary friend? Or do your kids have one?

[Razgovory]

No, I didn't really go crazy until about high school.

[Caliga]

I didn't need an imaginary friend because I always had a little brother to yap at and pick on.

[MadImmortalMan]

This thread needs Frank

[sbr]

I have never had an imaginary friend but I have always had conversations with myself; does that count?

[CountDeMoney]

Katmai is hung like a Snufflupagus, but only he can see it.

[jimmy olsen]

I was talking to some friends earlier today and as happens the conversation went in strange directions until suddenly we were talking about imaginary friends we had when we were kids. Some said they had them, some didn't (or claimed not to or don't remember), one girl then started going on in great detail about how awesome her imaginary friend was. Then I asked her- 'So what was she?'
'What was she what?'
'What animal was she?'
'...she was my imaginary friend...She was a girl....'


Now this strikes me as quite odd, you see myself and most kids back home tend to have imaingary animal friends.
I had a mouse, originally named Mousey. Though he was unquestionably a small mouse (maybe bigger than a normal one...more guinea pig sized) he had some anthropomorphic qualities; he went on holiday occasionally, had a nanna who occasionally came to visit him, etc...
A friend of mine I remember had a very weird one, he had a cow. Nothing weird and human like. Just a cow. In the garden. He'd occasionally just stand up and stop playing and say 'I've got to go milk my cow now' and off he'd go into the garden where he had  a bucket and a stool and he would mime milking a cow for a little while.
This friend despite being a fit sports guy has a very very fat girlfriend now. Which makes me wonder.

Did you have an imaginary friend? Or do your kids have one?

The only kid who had an imaginary friend that I knew had a friend that was a boy. I never heard of imaginary animal friends, they've always been shown as other children in the fiction I've seen/read unless the main characters were animals themselves.

[CountDeMoney]

Did you have an imaginary friend?

When I was little, I remember a miniature green Vulcan that would hide in my room.  But he was only there when I ran a fever, so go fig.

[Ideologue]

I was talking to some friends earlier today and as happens the conversation went in strange directions until suddenly we were talking about imaginary friends we had when we were kids. Some said they had them, some didn't (or claimed not to or don't remember), one girl then started going on in great detail about how awesome her imaginary friend was. Then I asked her- 'So what was she?'
'What was she what?'
'What animal was she?'
'...she was my imaginary friend...She was a girl....'


Now this strikes me as quite odd, you see myself and most kids back home tend to have imaingary animal friends.
I had a mouse, originally named Mousey. Though he was unquestionably a small mouse (maybe bigger than a normal one...more guinea pig sized) he had some anthropomorphic qualities; he went on holiday occasionally, had a nanna who occasionally came to visit him, etc...
A friend of mine I remember had a very weird one, he had a cow. Nothing weird and human like. Just a cow. In the garden. He'd occasionally just stand up and stop playing and say 'I've got to go milk my cow now' and off he'd go into the garden where he had  a bucket and a stool and he would mime milking a cow for a little while.
This friend despite being a fit sports guy has a very very fat girlfriend now. Which makes me wonder.

Did you have an imaginary friend? Or do your kids have one?

The only kid who had an imaginary friend that I knew had a friend that was a boy. I never heard of imaginary animal friends, they've always been shown as other children in the fiction I've seen/read unless the main characters were animals themselves.

You've never read Calvin and Hobbes, then?

[DGuller]

None of the imaginary people wanted to be friends with me. 

[DisturbedPervert]

I used to talk to mine every night before I went to sleep

[Caliga]

Actually I did have an imaginary friend named Rosie.  She was alright.  She wore my ring.

[Razgovory]

None of the imaginary people wanted to be friends with me. 

That's okay, they were probably communists anyway.  Hey, what would the Russian be for "The Committee for Imaginary Friends"?

[Sahib]

I have never had an imaginary friend but I have always had conversations with myself; does that count?

Yesss, my preciouss, it does.

[DGuller]

None of the imaginary people wanted to be friends with me. 

That's okay, they were probably communists anyway.  Hey, what would the Russian be for "The Committee for Imaginary Friends"?

Komitet voobrozhaemyh druzei.