Question: What are the codes of gentlemanly behavior that guys should follow?

Notes for discussion: These should be rules about how guys should deal with other guys. Girls throw in a whole dimension I don't want to deal with, so focus simply on the codes of behavior among guys. However, you can discuss the merits of how to deal with girls among guys (dating no-nos and the such).

Note 2: For the sake of actually grasping this complex topic, assume you can classify your friends as the following: [this classification is stolen from Chuck Klosterman, who is the genius who wrote Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs]

• Close Friends (people you would phone immediately if you got lung cancer
• Good friends (people whose death from lung cancer would make you profoundly sad)
• Affable acquaintances (people who you generally wouldn't wish to get lung cancer

Discuss. I will post the result of a long convo between Terrence and I regarding this topic. Opinions of men are obviosly favored, but I would love to hear from the women as well!

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LOL moment @ 3:19AM EST: I'm working on the new Tabulas 2.0 templating engine (working on the profiles and entry page right now) so I'm making test posts to see if everything is coming out OK on the templating engine part... I have to create a fake account so I naturally create the first thing on my mind: 'jessicabiel' and almost as soon as I post the test posts I get this comment.

Wow, Tabulas really lets the nobody be heard, doesn't it? It really amazes me how quickly random journals are found by random people!

Edit: 530am ... but I just finished up a huge bulk of the commenting features. The commenting is a bit smoother now; the script is tons less bloaty (a recurring theme). The reason I'm posting this is a cool new little automatical feature.

It's no secret that Tabulas will take links in your comments and quickly convert them so they are clickable; try putting in any type of valid URL as a comment and you'll see. The problem is that someone sometimes inadvertently posts a super-long URL that screws up your page formatting (this really bothers me). I implemented a quick and dirty regexp (and a few hacks to fix the shortcomings of my regexp knowledge) that will take URLs that are longer thatn 64 characters and will shorten the URL while displaying the website the link goes to to the right. It's pretty cool! Check the link above to see me comment on the jessicabiel entry that shows the shortened URL (this feature is not yet enabled on this version of Tabulas, so please refrain from posting superlong URLs in the comments. If you do, I will delete your comment).

By the way, I love Jessica Biel.