Anyone remember the Holland Tulip Bubble? You may have been very young then – it occurred in February of 1637. It was a cold, dreary day, as I recall. Sadly…. The original Semper Augustus tulip bulb is extinct and cannot be purchased. Famous as the most expensive tulip in history, its signature red-and-white flame pattern […]
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Chain of Wisdom
Our youngest Elder, the scholar Elder DZ, is WLBOTT’s conduit for all culture involving people under 65. He takes the pulse of the younger generation. He recently describe an interesting property of Wikipedia – the Chain of Wisdom. According to Elder G: There is even a Wikipedia article about this: The Wikipedia philosophy phenomenon, sometimes […]
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Deltoid Dawn
Deep in the Louisiana Swamps, we learn of the legend of Deltoid Dawn. Legend has it that during the flowering of their love, her beau was eaten by an alligator. She pines to this day. Sightings from the 1930s In Modern and Ancient Folklore “Delta Dawn” by Larry Collins and Alex HarveyDelta Dawn, what’s that […]
The WLBOTT staff has recently begun a new volunteer activity: blood donors for mosquitos. Mosquitoes are the unofficial state bird of Texas right now. Always looking for ways to increase shareholder value, we’ve introduced a line of high-end mosquito repellent. The mosquito perfume market is tragically underserved. Paris has ignored the great frontier for too […]
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Tide & Twine™: The Littoral Collection
WLBOTT, at the forefront of fashion, is introducing a kelp and crustacean line. The Crustacean Cloche Business Attire Footwear The Barnacle Birkenstock Hermit Crab Inspired Line The Claw Heel The Fashion Show Our Weavers Now let us turn our attention to the hardworking Peruvian kelp weavers that make all this possible. Wearing their native dress, […]
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Fulk Forth
We offer yet another reason why you shouldn’t let idiots govern you. Shoe related…. Fulk IV (1043 – 14 April 1109), better known as Fulk le Réchin, was the count of Anjou from around 1068 until his death. He was noted to be “a man with many reprehensible, even scandalous, habits” by Orderic Vitalis, who […]
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Gleaning
Gleaning is a fascinating topic. It intersects poverty and plenty, generosity and greed, the struggles of the most poor pitted against the wealthy and powerful. In its most basic sense, gleaning is the act of collecting leftover agricultural products after the farmer has completed the harvest. There is always some corn or beans or wheat […]
Things were looking pretty down here at WLBOTT HQ. Our beloved country is being turned into a drunken magaT casino hellscape while one of the vilest predators imaginable is on the verge of leading us into a forever war. So we decided to cheer ourselves up by looking at the ultimate Heat Death of the […]
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Estonia’s Kärdla Meteorite
Long before dinosaurs, before forests, even before WLBOTT instituted its Work/Life Balance program, there was The Meteorite. This is before Estonia was even in the northern hemisphere! By the way, during the neolithic era, Estonia was known simply as “Stonia”. It wasn’t until the tech boom of the late ’90s that the country became known […]
One of the first questions asked by the WLBOTT Elders is: Will There Be a Buffet? To satisfy this buffet desire, and in honor of our series on ancient Estonia, we created Ordovician Day at the WLBOTT Ladle & Lube. These are delicacies that would have been available at the time of the Kärdla Meteor […]