Teachers swap creative tips in private electronic chat rooms and on e-mail bulletin boards.

In it, 70s girls act like boys - swill pints, shag around, neglect their flats and appearances - while 70s boys swap grooming tips.

Lobbyists pad the halls of the Capitol, swapping tips about deals coming together or falling apart.

In the good old days," Ms. Warren said, "reporters used to swap tips about the best bars and restaurants.

On roombacommunity.com, owners swap tips for improving their Roombas and building robots atop them.

Both runners, they swap tips on marathon training.

They swap tips about jobs, and play soccer, but many Japanese see something sinister in such large gatherings of foreigners.

Whatever our differences, we can always swap tips on hair, clothes and makeup, the way fathers and sons talk sports.

They swapped tips on how to get the highest marks and mentioned courses run by boards to explain how to ace the tests.