Of course, like all neighbors, we do have our friendly disagreements from time to time about local problems.

In the flooring aisle of the Home Depot in Secaucus, Holly Krupp is having a friendly disagreement with Clyde the tile guy.

From an initially friendly disagreement, there evolved a series of polemics between Erasmus and Lee, with Lee emerging as the advocate of a traditionalist position.

"Basically, we agreed to friendly disagreement," said Marvin Demoff, the attorney for Thomas, the Penn State running back, who was the second pick over all in the draft.

As of the end of 2007, MC Router left the nerdcore scene due to a friendly disagreement between her and her producer.

Phil Caruso, the president of the P.B.A., has termed the standoff "a friendly disagreement."

Ayla stayed to watch when a friendly disagreement led several people to an informal spear-throwing contest, which then led them to an activity beyond her realm of experience.

But no matter how friendly the disagreement, he saw now that they had factions, too.

But he was recalling a friendly disagreement with the committee's chairman - and enough time had now passed to prove him right.

The argument, if that was the proper word for such an essentially friendly disagreement, raged for days.