We present a convenient guide to WLBOTT New-Speak.
- Amicus WLBOTTis – a friend of the WLBOTT
- Backwards Demonspeak – a dead giveaway that someone is possessed
- BLOTT – WLBOTT Blog Entry
- BSB – Bite-sized Banter
- Certificate of Clairvoyance – minimum academic requirement for the Board of Elders
- C-FMUK – Classical FM (UK)
- CHL/s – Cool Hand Lukes per second – rate of egg consumption (https://www.wlbott.com/?p=2230)
- Disturbinator – One who disturbs
- Doubly fictional entity – twice removed from reality (https://www.wlbott.com/?p=8987)
- DPOMLATMIR – Don’t Pee On My Leg And Tell Me It’s Raining (https://www.wlbott.com/?cat=46)
- Dr. Pepper – Connie Reeves’ horse (https://www.wlbott.com/?p=5230)
- Eclipsology – the study of eclipses
- FNTWLBOTT – Fear Not The WLBOTT
- Fromagerie – Cheese store (https://www.wlbott.com/?p=8930)
- FTNF ratio – fried-to-not-fried ratio
- Hujambo – Cheerful Ugandan greeting: “Literally, ‘You do not have anything?’ “
- IRL – In Real Life (avoid as much as possible)
- Karass – (from Cat’s Cradle) team of individuals who do God’s will without ever discovering what they are doing; every person belongs to one (https://www.wlbott.com/?p=2879)
- LA – Large Art (by volume, not weight) (https://www.wlbott.com/?p=9254)
- LGS – Let’s Get Small
- LOTE – Lives of the Elders
- Meta-BLOTT – the BLOTT Behind the BLOTT (https://www.wlbott.com/?p=4891)
- Mira que esta sopa se me está enfriando – (Spanish) Look, this soup is getting cold (https://www.wlbott.com/?p=5276)
- MOB – Marching Owl Band
- MoMo – National food of Nepal
- Musophobia – (ambiguous; either fear of mice or fear of museums)
- NAH – Need a Hint
- Near-moribund – When being a totalitarian dictator is not as much fun as it used to be (https://www.wlbott.com/?p=8454)
- NFG – Never Fear the Gorgonzola
- NHAD – National Hairball Awareness Day (April 26). Also coincides with Malaria TITPB’s birthday.
- Onya Marx – sister of Karl Marx
- Opiniastrous – (via John Milton) Opinionated (https://www.wlbott.com/?p=5052)
- NNP – Not Nice People (see also TITPB)
- PNO – Post-Knee Operation
- Rodin / Rodan – sculptor / arch nemesis of Godzilla
- Semi-Diarrheacal – BLOTT entry “loosely” based on a diary entry
- Semi-Sequitur– Not quite a non-sequitur, but not quite a hemi-semi-sequitur
- S/UIRL – Sabbatical/Unpaid – In Real Life
- SEP – Somebody Else’s Problem
- Shield-maiden – (Old Norse: skjaldmær [ˈskjɑldˌmæːr]) was a female warrior from Scandinavian folklore and mythology. (https://www.wlbott.com/?p=9120)
- Shinbone Alley – Current residence of Blue Eyed Sally (https://www.wlbott.com/?p=6565)
- Smelt Petal – a variation of the Monkey Saddle (https://www.wlbott.com/?p=4700)
- ¡Tan Chulo! – How Cool!
- TITPB – T*** In The Punch Bowl. Occasional we must refer to those who are too vulgar even for WLBOTT.
- TMT – Too Much Turkey
- TTOBLW – Travel Titans Opening Beautiful Lands of the World
- Twiny – Prestigious WLBOTT award given for generic excellence
- UT – Unit Tree (https://www.wlbott.com/?p=9064)
- UC – Unindicted Co-Conspirator
- URZ – Unstable Reality Zone
- Ungawa – definition unknown (https://www.wlbott.com/?p=1507)
- VOI – Vortex of Immorality (https://www.wlbott.com/?p=4303)
- Wackadoodle – An eccentric or fanatical person
- WYNHA – Women You Need to Hear About
- WLBOTT – World’s Largest Ball of Twine Tour
- WLBOTT DiRP – WLBOTT Disaster Recovery Plan (Basically, our plan is “RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!”)
- WLBOTT-DORK – WLBOTT Division of Oceanic Research and Kinetics
- WLBOTT CTCH – WLBOTT Central Texas Corporate Headquarters
- WLBOTT DReSs – WLBOTT Disaster Recovery Symposium
- WLBOTT FOtG – WLBOTT Friend of the Geese
- WLBOTT SEDH – WLBOTT Senior Executive Dining Hall
- WLBOTT SEGTiCLT – Senior Executive Global Team Interim Committee Leadership Taskforce
- WLBOTT TOTOT – the Triumph Of Technology Over Talent (a core WLBOTT value)
- WLBOTT WOW – WLBOTT Word of Warning
- WTAWTAWLBOTT – Where There’s a Will, There’s a WLBOTT
- WTBAB – Will there be a Buffet?
- WTLEIDR – Way Too Long; Even I Didn’t Read
- WWRNTLTRN – Women We Really Need To Listen To Right Now
- Zettajoule – somewhat more than the amount of energy to heat the Baltic sea by 1 degree C.