…..and the gossip hounds were back boiling hot on a new scent, struggling to think of ever more innovative means for how they could procure additional information on unsuspecting individuals that honestly was of no intrinsic value to them and for which their motives could only be described as self-serving and prurient. This fact didn’t bother them one bit though; their only concern was digging ever deeper into other people’s lives so they would have that irrelevant information available to freely share with others in the future. After all, what good is gossip if you can’t exchange it with other similarly gossipy people? The answer: None whatsoever! Everyone knows, or should know at least, that gossip not shared indiscriminately is gossip wasted…..
Fred's Soapbox 