A spittoon is a metal bowl-shaped vessel, often with a funnel-shaped cover, into which tobacco chewers periodically spit. The chewing of tobacco is an especially discursive habit of mind and body which tends to produce copious quantities of both expectorated saliva and the exchange of ideas. The spittoon as the receptacle for “gob” and as a symbol of fomenting conversation is, we think, an appropriate euphemism for this blog.
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