{"id":61787,"date":"2025-11-29T18:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T00:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=61787"},"modified":"2025-12-07T11:59:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T17:59:03","slug":"george-and-the-ministry-of-love-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=61787","title":{"rendered":"George and the Ministry of Love (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By now you’ve met our unpaid marketing intern George<\/strong> (he’s single, ladies!<\/em>). He’s tried a variety of approaches to meet a nice girl, but without much luck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But George is being proactive. Allow us to enumerate some of the steps he has taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Portlandia<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

He’s watched all eight seasons of Portlandia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Portlandia<\/strong> is an American sketch comedy television series starring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, set in and around Portland, Oregon, and spoofing the city’s reputation as a haven for eccentric hipsters. The show was produced by Broadway Video Television and IFC Original Productions. It was created by Armisen and Brownstein, along with Jonathan Krisel, who directed it. It debuted on IFC in 2011. and concluded in 2018 after eight seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The show shared its title with the sculpture of the same name that sits above the entrance of the Portland Building on Fifth Avenue in downtown Portland, which appears in the show’s title sequence.<\/strong> The show won a Peabody Award.<\/p>\nWikipedia<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

George learned valuable relationship skills from Portlandia<\/em>, but sadly he ended up smitten with the Portlandia statue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Academic Approach to Meeting Women: HTML<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

George took a community college course in HTML, thinking it stood for H<\/strong>ow T<\/strong>o M<\/strong>eet L<\/strong>adies. Turns out, he was very mistaken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jehovah’s Witness Potluck<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

So our poor George<\/strong> tried his luck at meeting women by attending a pot luck with the Jehovah’s Witnesses. What could go wrong?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s just say things didn’t go well. He ultimately had to join the Jehovah’s Witness Protection Program[1]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

George <\/strong>(he\u2019s single, ladies!<\/em>) walking innocently into a Jehovah\u2019s Witness potluck thinking it\u2019s a casual meet-and-greet, when in fact he is entering a realm governed by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n