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Domestic Tranquility Lasting Love Those Crazy Kids! Work-Life Balance

The Ministry of Love™ (part 2)

“War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Love is… complicated.” Ah, George (he’s single, ladies!). After being rejected by the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the local Astrology meet-up, and even the community college HTML class, he’s resorted to on-line dating. Again, he has bad luck – he signs up to an on-line dating service called “The Ministry of […]

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Domestic Tranquility Lasting Love

George and the Ministry of Love (part 1)

By now you’ve met our unpaid marketing intern George (he’s single, ladies!). He’s tried a variety of approaches to meet a nice girl, but without much luck. But George is being proactive. Allow us to enumerate some of the steps he has taken. Portlandia He’s watched all eight seasons of Portlandia. George learned valuable relationship […]

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Adventures of the Elders Domestic Tranquility Those Crazy Kids! Work-Life Balance

Happy Thanksgiving!

Let’s explore the Thanksgiving celebration at WLBOTT HQ. Elder Karyna Elder Karyna sent us a lovely Thanksgiving greeting. Elder KM Our very busy Elder KM splits her time between her ENGin duties and WLBOTT responsibilities. She sent us a lovely Ukrainian Christmas decoration, shown her with Sally the Intern. The Unpaid Interns We are so […]

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Curated Absurdity Domestic Tranquility Food

Plethora of Pickles

The WLBOTT Test Kitchen and Tractor Lube Station (The Ladle & Lube) recently received a large quantity of sliced pickles and sliced onions. Through an interesting curvature of both time and space, our neighbor’s daughter had a tremendous amount of pickles/onions left from her wedding reception. Before continuing, I must say that the wedding was […]

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Curated Absurdity Domestic Tranquility Meaning of Life

Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries

From Elder G: Life Is Just a Bowl of CherriesMusic and lyrics by: Ray Henderson and Lew Brown1931Life is just a bowl of cherries.Don’t take it serious; life’s so mysterious.You work, you save, you worry so,But you can’t take your dough when you go, go, go.So keep repeating it’s the berries,For the strongest oak must […]

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Domestic Tranquility Fine Arts Health, Beauty and Medicine Music

The Concept of Fiveness

At 3:07am this morning, as the WLBOTT creative team was reading random Wikipedia articles, we came across the phrase “The Concept of Fiveness.” Thumbs as an Aid to Eating Termites Scenes from the Marital Discord Server WLBOTT Disclaimer of Unoriginality WLBOTT can not make a claim of originality in today’s blott, because we were inspired […]

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Adventures of the Elders Domestic Tranquility Lasting Love

Happy Anniversary!

Oh, my stars and garters! A most radiant felicitation to you both! Lady G doffs her feathered hat and curtsies deeply before such a distinguished and enduring union.– The Dowager Lady G We celebrate our 42nd with a delightful telegram from Elder Dowager Lady G. The WLBOTT Celebration

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Agriculture Domestic Tranquility Food Tess Twinehart Work-Life Balance

Detasseling A Tangled Situation

Dear Tess, I write to you from the edge of my sanity—and the edge of our cornfield. My name is Mabel H., and I am the wife of a third-generation corn farmer here in northwest Iowa. My husband, Virgil, is a man of few words but many routines. Every summer, like clockwork, he begins what […]

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Adventures of the Elders Domestic Tranquility Food Lasting Love

WLBOTT In Love (and Sausages) (1/2)

[Guest Blott from UC#3] Gentle People – using my WLBOTT Amex card[1], I ventured to East Bernard Texas to evaluate the quality of Vincek’s Smokehouse. It is a Czech style place where you can buy fresh meat, cooked bbq or get your deer processed after a hunt. I would give the sausage I sampled a […]

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Domestic Tranquility The land, the people, the culture

Egg Salad Muse

So today I found myself in the unusual position of having writer’s BLOTT. Spousal Unit and I were eating egg salad (no utensils allowed!) and watching the very first episode of Friends. I explained to SU the blott-stipation, and asked if she’d like to be my muse. At just that point, about 9:22 into the […]