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Original: COO Tim Cook could be leaving Apple for the vacated CEO slot at HP, according to scuttlebutt that's going around.
原版谣言：据传言，苹果公司首席运营官（COO）Tim Cook 说他会离开苹果去HP担任CEO以填补该职位的空缺。
With luck the reporters would follow up on the scuttlebutt without mentioning its source, assuring themselves that they had got the story through their “contacts”.
如果幸运的话，记者会跟进这一线索但不会提到消息来源，让自己相信是通过他们自己的“线人”获得线索的。
Before scuttlebutt that Apple was working on a tablet started to heat up, no major PC manufacturer seemed to think that consumers wanted a general-purpose, touchscreen-only computing device.
在苹果着手研制平板设备而卖得火热之前，似乎没有一家主要的个人电脑生产商觉得用户会需要功能有限、只有触摸屏的电脑设备。

They don't know too much about actually what's going on other than scuttlebutt and what they've heard.
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Magee also recommends the proverbial water cooler as a productive place to gather gossip and scuttlebutt.
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