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Animal Kingdom Curated Absurdity

Our Least Favorite Insects

Getting started…. Started writing this post about favorite / least favorite insects, but ended up writing about the LEAST favorite. Fascination took over. The thought process reminds me of a song by Kris Kristofferson: I started writing a song about Chris Gentry and ended up writing about Dennis Hopper, Johnny Cash… Norman, Norbert, Funky Donnie […]

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WLBOTT Corporate Work-Life Balance

Corporate Motto Contest

No Blotts About It Obliviscatur eius May The Blott Be With You Vinctus per Twine We are not amused. 2024-02-02: “It’s such a fine line between clever and stupid.” – Spinal Tap 2024-01-24: “the abasement of reason” – Wikipedia 2023-12-20: With a little help from our friend ChatGPT: 1. “Where loopholes meet profits – because […]

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-40° Day

Late Breaking: Today WLBOTT Corporate announced a new holiday: -40° Day. Employees are encouraged to celebrate between 11:59am and 12:01 pm in the time zone of their choice. Celebrations outside the designated time must be documented on the time sheet. This is part of WLBOTT’s commitment to employee work-life balance. Key moments in the F°/C° […]

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Music

Proud Mary

1969 was an amazing year. Humans walked on the moon. The first ATM was installed in America, development of UNIX commenced, Nixon was inaugurated, the Concord made its first test flight, and…. Creedence Clearwater Revival released Proud Mary. Proud Mary / Beethoven Connection Interesting Covers Pretty cool jazz/accordion cover by Australian accordionist and singer Bernadette […]

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Africa Animal Kingdom Existential Angst Movies

Ungawa

As a child, I was fascinated with the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan movies. What an idyllic life! A loving family, living in a tree house, no boring school all day, ostrich eggs over easy for breakfast, and a pet chimpanzee. Every day was a field day with a picnic. And Tarzan had a magic word! Ungawa! […]

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Curated Absurdity Month in Review

Month in Review: June, 2023 (part 2)

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Curated Absurdity Month in Review

Month in Review: June, 2023 (part 1)

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Music

Spotlight on Flutes

Thanks to Unindicted Co-conspirator #3 for today’s topic. Metropolitan Flute Festival Orchestra My Spousal Unit played in the Metropolitan Flute Festival Orchestra concert this weekend in Groton MA. [Spousal Unit] played alto flute in the 65 piece flute orchestra. In addition to the wonderful music, it was amazing to hear the entire flute family being […]

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No Cash Value

Thanks to Unindicted Co-conspirator #1 for today’s topic. Esteemed members, One of the suggestions for cleaning old coins that I found via google is to put the coin in a mixture of lemon juice and salt for a while.  Of course, I didn’t want to try this out on a valuable coin, so I took […]

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America Destinations North America Will there be a buffet?

Destination: Clackamas

Clackamas (/ˈklækəməs/ CLAK-ə-məss) is an unincorporated community and former census-designated place (CDP) in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States,[3] and is a suburb of Portland. The population was approximately 7,000 as of 2010. – From Wikipedia Not to be confused with Clackamas County, Oregon. However, in WLBOTT fashion, we remain very confused. Oregon City Municipal Elevator, Clackamas County Into the […]