1.  Charles and Lucy certainly knew how to pick their friends, she thought drily.

2.  You can pick your friends.

3.  But many picked old friends, as Sen. Hubert Humphrey took Sen. Ed Muskie.

4.  He accused Selig of picking his friends at the expense of larger bids.

5.  He also implored them to pick their friends carefully and to terminate the friendship if the friends are involved in illegal activities.