DesertGeezer, you had me fooled. I thought it was a clever satire to state that cow-orker was so overused that no one could find it funny or original anymore. As in, it had been so overdone that no one would fall for it as an actual typo. 
If you’d stuck with my interpretation, you could have saved face. 
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ETF, I always get such a kick out of your posts. Won’t you consider coming to the New England Fest-A-Que?
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Wait, let me get this straight - you’re not supposed to tip cows?
Not even just 10%?
Whoa there buddy, I can apreciate a good joke thread as much as the next guy, but how dare you malign goat-felchers! You’ll be hearing from my attorney. You’d better pray to Og that the People’s International Goat-Felchers Union doesn’t find out about this. You don’t want PIGFU on your ass!
Hey, thanks for alerting me! I haven’t been spending much time in MPSIMS lately, and I’d missed that. [scurrying off to check calendar] Can’t say for sure, but I’m pencilling it in on the calendar – the one with all those cute, fuzzy kitten pix. ETF tell me it makes them nostalgic for the days when they were adorable little fluffballs.
ISTR that the term originated (or at least was popularized) on USENET in the alt.folklore.urban newsgroup; I recall seeing it sometime around '89 or the early ‘90s, which jibes with the Wikipedia article. I never saw the term hyphenated on USENET, and it always irritates me to see the hyphenated spelling, since using the hyphen just screams "Haw! Lookit me! I’m makin’ a joke!".
So much for recognizing people from their posting style. I thought beeblebrox got orked by cows and had vanished from the knowledge of elves and men.
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Not in it’s incarnation here. I think we’ve had this argument several times before on the board, but those who first started using the term Og here were completely unaware of any other use of Og.