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Archive for October, 2008

Water Cooler Talk

October 2, 2008

Using a landmark as a meeting place to rendezvous and discuss current events is a time honored tradition. It wasn’t until modern times, however, that this landmark became a water cooler.
The water cooler became the center of office gossip because of the infamous Lil Wayne lyric: “Oooh she wanna lick the rapper, I tell her [...]