“She was not as easy to place as Astrid or Jackie she was a newborn, after all, and, well, the scuttlebutt around the family has it that as she was so dark no one on Abelard’s side of the family would take her.” (Junot Diaz) So hip hip hooray, welcome home the pitiful Prices!” (Barbara Kingsolver) “We arrived home to a very special heroes’ welcome: the town had been starving outright for good scuttlebutt. Wednesday: Industry Night: Happy Hour all night for restaurant and bar industry workers, with the occasional Kill the Keg night as well2.50 pints until. From more than one man’s oily lips issues that whistle one only hears in crowds.” (Colson Whitehead) Scuttlebutt is ramping up their events at the taproom for 2019, with something happening almost every day of the week: Tuesday: Trivia night and half-off growler fills is from 7 to 9 p.m. “Rick Raymond taps the microphone and the men stir from their scuttlebutt and applaud. The scuttlebutt on breakfast was sausage-analog and OJ with palpable pulp, he said.” (David Foster Wallace) water fountain Scuttlebutt: The Navy term for water fountain. “He asked whether I was going to breakfast. I say good morning and he sits down disconsolately on Mount Hood.” (George Saunders) Of late he’s been kicking the diorama apart, and the scuttlebutt is he’s one building away from dismissal. The Lobelia Cardinalis, also known as the Cardinal Plant, is another great choice for larger fountains, adding height and color. (Or, in an office it could be the water cooler.) In either case, it had the effect of.
“He feels bad for having designed the see-through cow. Over time, the scuttlebutt was replaced by a drinking fountain. “The scuttlebutt (which actually is scuttlebutt and not gossip, because we’re on a ship) is that the ship is being taken back to Bermuda…” (Tina Fey) Like furphy, the name of the object became slang for the idle talk that commonly took place around it. A cask on a ship used to hold the days supply of drinking water. Since sailors exchanged gossip when they gathered at the scuttlebutt for a drink of water, scuttlebutt became Navy slang for gossip or rumours. (3) A rumor (because rumors are spread when crew members gather. From scuttle (a hole/opening in a ship’s deck) + butt (barrel). TIL that 'Scuttlebutt' the slang word for rumor or gossip, derives from the nautical term for the cask used to serve water. (2) Generally reliable but incomplete information about a subject. In nautical terms, a water cask or a drinking fountain. Furphy, World War I Australian Army slang having the same meaning and similar provenance as above.Scuttlebutt (scuttle-butt) /sku-təl-but/.The modern event is based on this practice. A tripod would be put up on the deck over an open hatch, and the cargo lifted up out of the stores. Scuttlebutt Meaning to gossip, the word scuttlebutt is a sailors. Water or other goods such as cargo would be stored below deck. This event is based on activities that crews used to have to perform on ships frequently. A run under a minute is generally considered good, though times much lower than this have been seen in competition. Disqualification can occur when water is spilled or if crew other than the coxswain (and sometimes the barrel hitchers) talk. There are three runs per crew, and the crew with the fastest time wins. Time stops when all crew members are back in line and called to attention by the coxswain. The Navy History Museum describes the term as a combination of 'scuttle,' to make a hole in the ship's side causing her to sink, and 'butt,' a cask or hogshead used in the days of wooden ships to hold drinking water thus the term scuttlebutt means a cask with a hole in it. It must then be lowered and the equipment "broken down" back to its original condition. A barrel hitch is tied around the drum, which is then lifted off the ground. The tripod is constructed from three spars, which are tied together by "head-lashing." The block and tackle is suspended from the top of the tripod, which is then erected by the crew. In the event a 50-gallon drum of water is lifted 3 feet off the ground using a block and tackle and a tripod. Hoisting the scuttlebutt is an event that Sea Scouts participate in during regattas such as the Old Salts Regatta.
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