The WLBOTT Extension Service’s spring garden is doing well. Go Waggies! The radishes are the first crop to be harvested. Our top-notch agronomists have determined the commencement of the radish harvest season. Fred, our penitent intern, enthusiastically joined in the harvest, as our pep squad cheered him on. Go Waggies! We celebrate the harvest with […]
Category: Fred: the Penitent Intern
You remember Sister Magdalene of the Open Window. She’s the headmaster at St. Gangulf Middle School, and sent us Fred, the Intern Penitent after the unfortunate Whoopee Cushion incident. By the way, Fred is doing fine, and has become a key player in our 2 hectare hybrid radish garden (assistant to the Operations Director). Go […]
Imagine Our chagrin (I’m using the WLBOTT Royal “We” here) when I asked Elder G to do some simple orbital perturbation calculations on a lesser moon of Jupiter, when s/he said: You’re not the boss of me. Then s/he said I wish I could, but I don’t want to. Elder G was watching a Hallmark […]
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Shredder Drama
Fred, our Intern Penitent, was assigned office cleanup by the WLBOTT Elders. As you recall, Fred was banished to WLBOTT HQ by Sister Magdalena as penance for leading the Whoopee Cushion Riots. Before we get into our crisis du jour, a note about WLBOTT. We prefer cash. As part of our year-end financial review, we […]
Another day dawns for Fred, the Intern Penitent. It is day 3 of 317, as ordained by Sister Magdalena, as penance for Fred’s orchestration of the Whoopee Cushion Riots. The Elders have assigned Fred a long-overdue WLBOTT task: archive, copyright, and catalog the Elders’ Sudokus. Legal Issues Since there may be some legal issues involved, […]
As you recall, Fred, the Intern Penitent, is currently charged to WLBOTT, as penance for an incident at his Catholic Middle School. (https://www.wlbott.com/?p=62483) In order to understand Fred’s plight, we must understand his educational environment. Fred attends St. Gangulf Middle School. The “Whoopee Cushion Riots”, and Fred’s youthful rebellion has come to be known, occurred […]
[ed. note: Our new Intern Penitent, Fred, asked if he could do today’s blott. Since we all wanted to knock off early, we turned over the wordpress account to Fred. We’re sure he’ll do a fine job] Hey, peeps! Fred here. So I heard stories of the Elders’ tummy troubles. Actually, they never stop talking […]
Firstly, WLBOTT doesn’t have an owner. We are beholden to no man’s purse strings. But our major benefactor is John Beresford Tipton (known around the office as JBT). JBT is Fred’s uncle. Fred was threatened with suspension from his Catholic middle school for orchestrating what as become known at the “Whoopee Cushion Riots.” He secretly […]