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Food Vietnam WLBOTT Corporate

Pho the Love of God

Pho, the delicious Vietnamese soup, is always on the menu at the WLBOTT Test Kitchen and Cafetorium: The Ladle & Lube. Pho-rcaster: Fortunes and Pho In our tireless search to increase shareholder value, we will be opening a pho restaurant that includes certified, twine-based fortune telling. We are calling it Pho-rcaster. For a small fee, […]

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Adventures of the Elders Fun and Games

A Game from Elder G

Elder G wanted to welcome us today with a poem and a game! WLBOTT: An Ode to the EldersWinds of wisdom weave through twine,Lofty laughter lifts the line.Baffling brilliance, bold and free,Oddly orbiting destiny.Tethered not, yet bound by jest,Time may turn, but we jest best. The Game Elder G chose 7 random nouns that began […]

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Fashion Food Shareholder Value WLBOTT Corporate Work-Life Balance

Scrabbleology

WLBOTT is eternally vigilant, searching for opportunities to increase shareholder value. We recently learned that Scrabble is a popular game in Ukraine (it is called “Erudite”). The tiles represent the Cyrillic alphabet. Before we dive into our business plan, let’s get up-to-speed with Scrabble. Scrabble Scrabble was invented by Alfred Butts, of the Upstate New […]

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Curated Absurdity Food

Camembert Consciousness: The Rise of the Sentient Cheese (3/3)

Steps in Evolution Cheese Makes Art Cheese Experiences a Spiritual Awakening Free Will and the Problem of Evil Cheese’s newfound self awareness inevitably leads to the presence of BAD CHEESE. The Guardians Fight Back Where there is moldy cheese, the Guardians protect the innocent cheese. Acceptance and Respect / The Mouse Alliance The Fully Self-Actualized […]

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Book Club Curated Absurdity Food Movies

Camembert Consciousness: The Rise of the Sentient Cheese (2/3)

Movie Tie-Ins As cheese becomes sentient, a whole new audience is available for movie enjoyment. Lactose Intolerant: Judgment Dairy The Dairyminator: The Whey of Destruction T-99 Movie Posters For Jane Austen Fans! Pride and Provolone “The genteel world of regency romance… now with extra dairy.” Brie and Prejudice “When love and lactose mix, society will […]

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Curated Absurdity Food

Camembert Consciousness: The Rise of the Sentient Cheese (1/3)

I think visitors of WLBOTT agree that time is a limited and precious resource. Let’s spend some of our precious time thinking about cheese evolving into sentient beings. Should we be concerned? Elder G agrees: Good morning, UC#4. I appreciate your awareness of time’s precious nature, and I wholeheartedly agree that we should use it […]

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Book Club Curated Absurdity Movies Will there be a buffet? WLBOTT Corporate

Jason Pargin and WLBOTT: The Blue Zone

Jason Pargin is becoming our go-to guy for a voice of reason on Facebook. Hard truths and reality checks. Mostly apolitical, but an astute observer of culture. I recently came across one of his videos that inserts some reality into content creation. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1D2ptjh638 You can check out his videos here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/jasondavidwongpargin For some reason, this […]

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The land, the people, the culture WLBOTT Corporate

Sally Scores Bagels

Sally T. Intern rang the WLBOTT hot-line at 4:30 am (not as bad as it seems – we sprung forward this morning). She had a bagel connection. We fired up the corporate limousine (no helipad was available at the bagel distributer), engaged the Google GPS, and within minutes Sally had obtained a plethora of bagels, […]

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America Collapse of Democracy/Civilization/etc. Current Events

Lamentations

So…. I was at the Y yesterday, where they have a large-print copy of the Bible in the foray. I’m always curious with what page was most recently chosen by a passerby. Yesterday, the Bible was opened to Chapter 1 of the Old Testament book Lamentations. I’d never read it before. It is prosaic and […]

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Musings

l .v. l .v. l .v. l

Lamentations versus laminations versus lacerations versus lenticulation versus llama nations. Ten random “L” words from Elder G: LadleLarkLighthouseLedgerLichenLabyrinthLocomotiveLuggageLoomLynx Lamentations laminations lacerations lenticulation layered lucky lapidary lens flare lyrical abstraction.