But the mating of like-wired colleagues and college pals is raising some questions as well.
If this Effie had fallen for his old college pal, she had to appreciate whimsy.
Junior staff members go out for beers with one another at night, rather than with college pals in Washington.
They spoke little English, but they worked twice as fast as my college pals, with only half the spillage.
Two came from old college pals I have barely seen in a decade.
Woods was on a lengthy vacation in Mexico with his college pals.
Tim Claussen, a college pal of Abraham's, was a reporter for the Post.
One Saturday's game turns out to be full of folks who were college pals with my best friend from childhood.
His old college pal was contemplating a piece of plate over the stone hearth.