No one’s smiling over ‘Colegate’

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There have been so many “gate” scandals since Watergate that we’ve lost track of them. Answers.com helps us out by compiling this list, which includes Nipplegate, Nannygate, Filegate, even Bastardgate. Now we’ve got a new one, and one oral-healthcare marketer in particular won’t be happy about it. Colgate, the company, has no doubt been living in fear that someone or something named Cole would eventually misbehave in some scandalous fashion, thus creating “Colegate.” And sure enough, it’s happened.

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