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Fine Arts

Limerick Laureate

[Thanks to WLBOTT Limerick Laureate and Unindicted Co-conspirator #3 for today’s post.] Rudy There once was a famous New York personWho was the hero of the regionBut he went in with TrumpAnd fell on his rumpAnd now he will end his days in prison  Texas, my Texas It’s difficult to be in the Texas  populationWe have a horrible […]

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Animal Kingdom Food

Beautiful Ugly: The Anglerfish

The first spine of the dorsal fin of the anglerfish acts as a fishing rod with a lure. – Wikipedia From A-Z Animals: The Sweet Mysteries of Life Oh, it gets weirder…. Anticipating your Next Question Mama’s Hungry! Cool NOAA video…. We learn that one species of anglerfish can swallow fish that are twice it’s […]

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Antarctica TechnoBLOTT The land, the people, the culture

Antarctica Rocks!

Randomly got to talkin’ with UC#2 about meteorites in Antarctica. This was the result of a semi-sequitur from a recent BLOTT about paper clips, and the earliest known archaeological connection between people and iron was from found meteorites. Not knowing much about Antarctic meteorites, it seemed like an interesting BLOTT. As it turns out, as […]

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Curated Absurdity

Month in Review: August, 2023 (part 2)

All memes are WLBOTT certified:

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Curated Absurdity

Month in Review: August, 2023 (part 1)

Our WLBOTT visitors are busy people. You don’t have time to endlessly scour the Internet for memes. To provide value to our shareholders, we perform this task for you. All memes are WLBOTT certified:

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Food Heros Texas

The Heart of Texas

The Geographic Center of Texas is conveniently located in the middle of Texas. The geographic center is located between Brady and Brownwood. Texas Highways Magazine has a nice article. Brady, Texas About 19 miles south of the geographic center is Brady, the heart of Texas. Traveling from Austin to Brady, you have three opportunities to […]

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Europe Music

Over the Top – But in a Good Way

Sally the Intern brought this to our attention. We offer, without additional context or comment, the Gipsy Kings singing Baila Me:

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America Music Will there be a buffet?

Anthem

The Elders of WLBOTT have been engaged in a lively (and as yet, bloodless) search for the WLBOTT Anthem, as we anticipate our looming Sovereign Statehood. It didn’t take too many handshakes to zero in on the accordion, and from there to Those Darn Accordions (TDA). TDA was formed in 1989 by Linda “Big Lou” […]

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Mildly Interesting Random Acts of WLBOTTness

Random Acts of Wikipedia

You can issue the following link to get a random Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random Admittedly, this qualifies as mildly interesting. Today’s BLOTT represents a curated sample of perhaps 200 random pages. It’s been that kind of Sunday…..

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Fine Arts Meaning of Life Music

Coincidence

Bob Dylan’s It’s All Over Now Baby Blue has always fascinated me. I liked the seeming disjointed word-play and odd imagery. The line “take what you have gathered from coincidence” seems to pop into my head at odd times. I’d always thought it meant something like… It’s All Over Now Baby Blue by Bob Dylan […]