Scuttlebutt: orig: a cask or butt with an opening for a dipper. 1. nautical – a drinking fountain on shipboard\u00a0 2. colloq. – rumor or gossip, such as might be passed at the water fountain or “scuttlebutt”<\/p>\n
Do folk even gather around a water fountain any more?<\/p>\n
Seems we are all busy with our filtered,<\/p>\n
flavored, measured, vitamins added, self-cooling, straw attached jugs<\/p>\n
to bother with a public fountain.<\/p>\n
I have discovered though,<\/p>\n
as I age (not as gracefully as some might hope)<\/p>\n
and work with a decidedly younger group of co-workers that:<\/p>\n
“scuttlebutt” definition #2 has reached an art-form in:<\/p>\n
drama, drama, drama.<\/p>\n
I could never have imagined how willingly folk<\/p>\n
would be<\/p>\n
to expose themselves<\/p>\n
so openly on public forums.<\/p>\n
Discretion and common sense no longer watchwords,<\/p>\n
and more’s the sorrow…<\/p>\n
’cause if you put it out there, someone, is going to find it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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