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From another thread: Bingley, you come back here and look what you started with your have no rs post!Bingley, you come back here and look what you started with your have no Mars post! 
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 ??!! (exeunt, stage left)
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every notice how the men tire, just as you're beginning to hit your stride? the fun just gets going and then the men are gone..
good thing there are plenty more where he came from.. who's up next?
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Helen, please note that my word was "exeunt", and not "exit"; more than one departing, together. And you would surely be diappointed had I returned before a (ahem) suitable interval had passed.  I shall now excuse myself once again.
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In reply to:
Bingley, you come back here and look what you started with your have no Mars post!
I am utterly bewildered. I never mentioned Mars. All I said was that in my younger years I ate a lot of chocolate, and particularly a bar called a Marathon, which has since been renamed. This seems to have launched a discussion of such depravity that my computer is steaming and my colleagues are commenting on my glowing cheeks. [wide-eyed innocence emoticon]
Incidentally, trying to get the discussion back to words, what is the difference if any between a co-worker and a colleague?
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my glowing cheeks. Hope the combustion temperature of your chair material's pretty high, then... 
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Now if you had just said coworker I could have said "a coworker orks cows", but no.
I would have to say that a colleague is in a more professionally intimate relationship with one than is a co-worker. I also taste (Hi, xara) more of a professional (as in learnéd professional) overtone to colleague. Also, co-worker has more of a feeling of spatial proximity. Someone who works in the next cubicle would be a co-worker regardless of any direct connection in a business sense beyond working for the same employer; a colleague might work in a completely separate building but would be working on the same things, the same project and at an organizational level matching one's own.
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While in the wordplay you did frisk You chose not your * Now if with candy you're uncouth, Toss in your pool a Baby Ruth You'll see the swimmers flee with screams, While you laugh and lick your chocolate cremes. 
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While in the wordplay you did frisk
You chose not your *
Now if with candy you're uncouth,
Toss in your pool a Baby Ruth
You'll see the swimmers flee with screams,
While you laugh and lick your chocolate cremes.
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Yes Mister Faldage I fear it's true,
All you said and pretension too.
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