Re: Why Do Nudists Always Have to Name Everything After Their Butts?

On Aug 15, 10:11=A0am, Anna <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Aug 15, 9:47=A0am, Dan Myers <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Scuttlebutt means water fountain or, in Navy slang, a rumour or
> > gossip.
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> > The term is identical to the iconic colloquial concept of a water
> > cooler in an office setting, that at regular times becomes the locus
> > of congregation and casual discussion. Water for immediate consumption
> > on a sailing ship was conventionally stored in a scuttled butt: a butt
> > (cask or small barrel) which had been scuttled by making a hole in it
> > so the water could be withdrawn. Since sailors exchanged gossip when
> > they gathered at the scuttlebutt for a drink of water, scuttlebutt
> > became Navy slang for gossip or rumours.
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> > That's all that needs to be said, the name has very little to do with
> > the persons butt other than a cute play on words.
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> > It's called having a "sense of humor", try it someday.
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> They also have a place there called "Cheeks". But I am sure you are
> going to say that's not a reference to the buttocks either.
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> Nudists naming stuff after their butts is so clich=E9. =A0And so trashy.


No, it's called having a sense of humor, but you are so overwhelmed by
your unreasoning fear of your own (and humanities) innate and deep-
seated sexuality that you are blinded to the everything else.