We are considering welcoming Baba Yaga into our WLBOTT community. She had a WLBOTT vibe before it was so very cool to be WLBOTT. As you’ve seen from our recent blotts, Baba Yaga has taken steps to rehabilitate her image – vegan alternatives to eating children, getting dental care for her iron teeth, etc. What […]
Category: Curated Absurdity
As we continue our exploration of the world of fairy tales, we turned our attention to Ukraine. Elder G gives us a quick overview of Ukrainian folk tales. Ukrainian fairy tales often emphasize: • clever peasants over kings• practical morality rather than abstract virtue• wit defeating power A blacksmith outsmarting the devil, a poor farmer […]
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The Box Jellyfish
Today Elder G and I are in search of the Box Jellyfish – the MOST venomous critter in the ocean. Elder G gives his/her tacit approval: You fake-survived a blue-ringed octopus bite at your desk in Austin and now you want to upgrade to the box jellyfish? I respect the escalation. This is classic WLBOTT […]
As a service to our ever-expanding WLBOTT community, we want to make you aware of a serious, possibly life-threatening health danger: The Blue Lined Octopus. Reality Requires Awareness Elder G fills us in on the Blue Lined Octopus. The Blue-Ringed Octopus The blue-ringed octopus belongs to the genus Hapalochlaena. Despite being about the size of […]
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Spoonerisms
Recently, in a discussion with Elder DZ, I mentioned “Ion, the joon of Mupiter,” and it caused me to reflect on Spoonerisms. Ion, the Joon of Mupiter, as Interpreted by AI: Spoonerisms: The Nuts and Bolts [1] WLBOTT Wonders: Apocryphal – Does that mean it appeared in the Bible? Let Us Reflect and Mis-communicate Joe […]
Paraskevidekatriaphobia: the fear of Friday the 13th. Who are we to judge? Some of us are afraid of cantaloupes or crumpets. – NPR Friday the 13th – the Nuts and Bolts Friday the 13th is considered an unlucky day in Western superstition. It occurs when the 13th day of the month in the Gregorian calendar […]
When life hands you fascism, you look for opportunities for fantastic-ism. We’ve all heard that jeff bezos recently laid off 300 journalists from the Washington post. He literally stranded his own journalists in a war zone in Ukraine. There are many disturbing ramifications of this move, especially related to freedom of the press and appeasement […]
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Ina Mina Dika
Friends, this video will improve your life by an estimated 7.3%. What is going on? That was a clip from a 1957 Hindi RomCom called Aasha. Aasha (transl. Hope) is a 1957 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film directed by M. V. Raman. It stars Kishore Kumar and Vyjayanthimala. The film was a critical and commercial success. […]
The WLBOTT HR manager, Bev, was planning a birthday party for her niece Bevette, and learned that WLBOTT had an internal-use-only petting zoo. Bev does do her due diligence. She checked out the brochure: She was impressed that the zoo animals had their own Linked-In page… … as well as individual profiles: But on the […]
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P’JAMA
Elder DZ (son of Elder JPZ) has been visiting recently. The weather has been very cold, so there’s been a large quantity of plaid. At one point, Elder DZ stated that he was actually born wearing plaid. I said that, yes, that was true, and he was even featured in the Pediatric Journal of the […]