Elders KM<\/strong> and DZ <\/strong>pointed out an interesting aspect of The World’s Largest Ball of Twine. Not only is a Wikipedia article dedicated to The Ball<\/strong><\/em>, but the article has been translated into seven languages, including Ukrainian!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Perhaps it has been chauvinistic <\/em>of WLBOTT to assume countries outside of Canada and the US don’t take pride in their national balls of twine (American exceptionalism, etc<\/em>.). Let us correct this error on our part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a rarely visited cloud-covered alcove, llamas guard a ball of hand-spun alpaca twine, believed to be part of an Incan prophecy. It\u2019s called “The Yarn of the Sun,” and when unraveled, it\u2019s said to stretch all the way to Cusco and back…twice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A promotional stunt for a failed 1990s musical called \u201cTwine! The Musical\u201d<\/em> left a giant golden spool suspended above the main stage. Forgotten, it now houses a colony of extremely cultured wombats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WLBOTT<\/strong>\u2019s South Pole outpost hides a frozen orb of cold-resistant twine. It doubles as a volleyball during the dark months. Penguins circle it in curiosity, sometimes reverently, sometimes mockingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A twine ball made entirely of discarded rosary cords is kept in the secret Papal Repository of Things That Don\u2019t Fit Anywhere Else<\/em>. Rumored to have been wound by a particularly pious nun in 1783 during Lent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Russians are not trustworthy, and we have reason to believe that their claim of the world’s largest ball of twine is false. The ball of twine, currently located outside St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow, is believed to be a large ball of Styrofoam, with only a thin outer layer of twine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Great Twine Deception of Red Square<\/strong>\u2014one of the most tangled controversies in the global twine community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Location:<\/strong> Ostensibly displayed near St. Basil\u2019s Cathedral WLBOTT has dispatched Elder UC#7 and a chicken with security clearance to perform a core sample drill<\/strong> under cover of night. Early reports suggest the core is indeed Styrofoam mixed with borscht residue.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n How do you say “World’s Largest Ball of Twine” in Spanish? “La bola de cordel m\u00e1s grande del mundo” Elders KM and DZ pointed out an interesting aspect of The World’s Largest Ball of Twine. Not only is a Wikipedia article dedicated to The Ball, but the article has been translated into seven languages, including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,39,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curated-absurdity","category-random-acts-of-wlbottness","category-wlbott-corporate"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50968"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51001,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50968\/revisions\/51001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/irl_250605_0002.jpg\")
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Claim:<\/strong> Largest continuous ball of flaxen Siberian twine, started by a mysterious artisan known only as \u201cNikolai the Knot.\u201d
Dimensions:<\/strong> Reportedly 14.7 meters in diameter
Suspicion Raised:<\/strong> By the International Federation for the Verification of Oversized Objects<\/em> (IFVOO), after a diplomat leaned on it and the outer twine layer peeled slightly like a banana.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nPoints of Suspicion<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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