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The Best Video on YouTube

UC#2 has reviewed over 500,000 videos and found the best entry on YouTube:

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Not Haiku, and WLBOTT Predicts

In the year 2525, if academic scholars are still alive, WLBOTT predicts that the movie Office Space will be required viewing for all students studying the collapse of western civilization. Today we will limit our exploration of this movie to the sound track of the closing credits, “Shove This Jay-Oh-Bee”: Note that in this YouTube […]

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DPOMLATMIR Heros - NOT Late Stage Capitalism Work-Life Balance

Vortex of Immorality

[ed. note: “Vortex of Immorality” is a quote from Mark Dixon, referring to Unilever’s corporate behavior.] Today WLBOTT presents the first DPOMLATMIR[1] award. [1] DPOMLATMIR – Don’t Pee On My Leg And Tell Me Its Raining This is in response to an opinion piece by Catherine Bennett in yesterday’s Guardian. Ms. Bennett…. So…. Unilever, maker […]

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Food Late Stage Capitalism

Food (in quotes)

[Thanks to UC#3 for today’s topic] UC#3: I’m light on tour stop posts, so I’ll have to get to work on that. This is State Fair time in the US, so need to scout interesting exhibits to add to our list.  State Fair food is a target rich environment, but a bit like shooting fish […]

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WLBOTT Lite

Keepin’ things lite today…. Life is fulla pressure / life is fulla pain – Fr. Stan Let’s just take 5 and have some fun. Some more randomly cool stuff (mostly liberated from Bored Panda)

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Crab Apples!

[Thanks to UC#1 for today’s post] After the fascinating expose on bovine transportation, and my natural curiosity on whether bovines twine, I decided to ‘think outside the box’ and look for other twine related areas.  The most obvious immediately popped into my head: crab apples! Here are a few photos of my latest crab apple […]

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Curated Absurdity Mildly Interesting Random Acts of WLBOTTness

Special:Random

We have had many, many inquires[1] as to how we select topics for our BLOTTs. One technique is to use the Special:Random feature of Wikipedia. [1] Well, one person acted kinda curious, but they may have just wanted us to go away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random Methodology Selection Criteria Would this Wiki page, in and of itself, make […]

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Haiku: Great Art Inspires Great Art….

[thanks to UC#3 for his contribution] …. and the corollary is probably true, also. Former machinistModifies his vehicleTo haul his pet steer? Their once was a farmer from Nebraska Is he as looney as he seems, I ask ya?Driving a steer around in a Crown VicHope the steer doesn’t kick or get sick What’s next, driving around his […]

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Howdy Doody of the Bovine Variety

Thanks to UC#1.b for today’s topic. Mr. Lee Meyer was recently pulled over in Norfolk, Nebraska. No tickets were issued, but I would assume an interesting discussion ensued with the local police. Beef Biproducts Oh, dear. The beef biproducts. A Cautionary Tail / Tale? This is what happens when you don’t have your very own […]

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Fed Up and the Rains of Bolivia

So… Jose Avila was running a little short of cash after moving into a new apartment, and decided to make his own furniture. Out of old FedEx boxes. Very cool, right? Very WLBOTT-worthy, so he uploaded pix of his furniture to his web site. The good folks at FedEx were having none of that. They […]