Critique Welcomed Some Call Them Drinking Fountains...

[Glenn Clabo]

As an old Bostonian I call them Bubblers ... actually pronounced "Bubblahs"

 

[Ralph Thornton]

They are called bubblers in Milwaukee also. But not in Chicago where they are called "drinking fountains."

In the US Navy they're called scuttlebutts.

 

[Ralph Thornton]

Btw, interesting look at the bubbler all covered with snow.

 

[Glenn Clabo]

They are called bubblers in Milwaukee also. In the US Navy they're called scuttlebutts.

But those in Milwaukee don't pronounce it right.
I spent 38 years with the Navy...and took great pleasure it trying to correct that Ralph. And for a little information...old sailing ships conventionally stored potable water in a scuttled butt: a butt (cask) which had been scuttled by making a hole in it. There is actually a real...real...old one on the USS Constitution down the street.

 

[Brian Moore]

Interesting way to present a shave ice there in Boston, Glenn.

By the way, thanks for the etimological background on "scuttlebutt." When Ralph mentioned it my fist thought was why would they call it that? Very interesting.

 

[Beth Carter]

never heard them called scuttlebutts or blubbers. would be fun to watch someone try to drink out of that one though.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Chilly stuff Glenn - I like the texture of the ice you've captured in the snow around the drinking fountain

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Love this image, Glenn, whatever it is called. Wonderful.

 

[Paul Lange]

That looks refreshing but I hope you didn't touch it with your lips and get them stuck. I can't imagine being stuck to a scuttlebutt is much fun!

 

[Glenn Clabo]

Love this image, Glenn, whatever it is called. Wonderful.

Thanks Rob...just one of those I found trying to get out of a funky day.

 

[Glenn Clabo]

That looks refreshing but I hope you didn't touch it with your lips and get them stuck. I can't imagine being stuck to a scuttlebutt is much fun!

Ha...everyone knows you never touch em your lips...you slurp it with your tongue like a dog.

 

[Glenn Clabo]

never heard them called scuttlebutts or blubbers. would be fun to watch someone try to drink out of that one though.

Hook it up to a bourbon cask...and even I'd give it a shot.