On 12/31/2023 11:28 AM, UC#1 wrote:
UC#4,
Did you ever post the results of the last survey?
- UC#1
UC#1 wrote:
Hey, UC#1. No.... still waiting on the responses from 4 of seven.
This will effect their year-end bonuses.
Quaalty – Our Passion
[UC#3]
I was playing golf today and in front of us were some 20 something dudes sporting Slick Response shirts and hats. I looked up their website later and their mission statement says they are ‘relatively transparent’ with their clients. Hope they didn’t spend big consulting dollars to craft that.
UC#4"Relatively Transparent" - new WLBOTT motto?
We get by with a little help from our friends (ChatGPT). Other possible corporate mottoes:
1. "Where loopholes meet profits – because ethics are for amateurs."
2. "Cutting corners since 2021 – because who needs integrity?"
3. "Innovation through unscrupulous means – the only way to stay ahead!"
4. "We embrace gray areas – it's where our ethics feel most comfortable."
5. "Morality is just a suggestion – and we rarely take suggestions."
6. "Putting the 'question' in questionable since 2021."
7. "Unethical excellence – we set the bar low and then slither under it."
8. "Where integrity takes a vacation, and profits take the lead."
9. "Because playing by the rules is so last century."
10. "Our values are flexible – just like our accounting practices."
We Take Recusal Seriously
(More seriously than the US Supreme Court, but that’s a low bar).
UC#4 WritesSubject: Re: FW: Puns for smart people
UC#1, I saw the subject of your email, and had to immediately recuse myself.
UC#4 Writes
UC#4,
I agree, I had to recuse myself as well.
Did I ever mention that I am terrible at raising vegetables? Seems I have no sense of humus.
[thanks to UC#1-SU for the following....]
• Those who jump off a bridge in Paris are in Seine.
• A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.
• Dijon vu - the same mustard as before.
• A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
• Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
• Reading while sunbathing makes you well red.
• When two egotists meet, it's an I for an I.
• A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two tired.
• What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead give away.)
• She was engaged to a boyfriend with a wooden leg but broke it off.
• A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
• If you don't pay your exorcist, you get repossessed
• The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.
• You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
• Local Area Network in Australia - the LAN down under.
• Every calendar's days are numbered.
• A lot of money is tainted - taint yours and taint mine.
• A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
• He had a photographic memory that was never developed.
• A midget fortune-teller who escapes from prison is a small medium at large.
• Once you've seen one shopping centre, you've seen a mall.
• Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead-to-know basis.
• Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.
• Acupuncture is a jab well done.
Footnote: Hoppin’ John
Etymology
The Oxford English Dictionary’s first reference to the dish is from Frederick Law Olmsted’s 19th century travelogue, A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States (1861). A recipe for “Hopping John” in The Carolina Housewife by Sarah Rutledge, which was published in 1847, is also cited as the earliest reference.
An even earlier source is Recollections of a Southern Matron, which mentions “Hopping John”, defined, in a note, as “bacon and rice”, as early as 1838. The origins of the name are uncertain. One possibility is that the name is a corruption of the Haitian Creole term for black-eyed peas: pois pigeons (pronounced [pwapiˈʒɔ̃]), or “pigeon peas” in English. – Wikipedia
History
Hoppin’ John originated from the Gullah people and was originally a Lowcountry one-pot dish before spreading to the entire population of the South. Hoppin’ John may have evolved from rice and bean mixtures that were the subsistence of enslaved West Africans en route to the Americas. Hoppin’ John has been further traced to similar foods in West Africa, in particular the Senegalese dish thiebou niebe.
The Gullah (/ˈɡʌlə/) are an African American ethnic group who predominantly live in the Lowcountry region of the U.S. states of South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida within the coastal plain and the Sea Islands. Their language and culture have preserved a significant influence of Africanisms as a result of their historical geographic isolation and the community’s relation to their shared history and identity. – Wikipedia
Historically, the Gullah region extended from the Cape Fear area on North Carolina’s coast south to the vicinity of Jacksonville on Florida’s coast…. The Georgia communities are distinguished by identifying as either “Freshwater Geechee” or “Saltwater Geechee”, depending on whether they live on the mainland or the Sea Islands. – Wikipedia
A Walk in Their Footsteps: 5 Paths to the Gullah Geechee Culture
by Robin Sutton Anders
In a garden, on an island, and in the historic villages and farms of the Hammock Coast, an incredible history comes to life.
From its home in downtown Georgetown, the one-room Gullah Museum packs a powerful historical punch. The museum was founded by Andrew Rodrigues and his wife, the late “Bunny” Smith Rodrigues — whose Michelle Obama Story quilt is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. – Our State
Gullah culture depends on the ocean’s abundance
by Tonya Maxwell
Early in their history, after being forced to the coast where no one else wanted to live, the Gullah carved out a seaside existence that’s still dependent on sustenance fishing. When the oceanfront became the center of Lowcountry culture, the Gullah, who once owned Hilton Head Island, were forced to adapt. Now the coastline that has sustained them for generations is under multiple threats, they say, including the prospect of offshore oil and gas wells.
Marquetta Goodwine, also known as Queen Quet, chieftess of the Gullah-Geechee Nation, is pictured at an outdoor market on St. Helena Island on Saturday, April 15, 2017. – Asheville Citizen Times Asheville Citizen Times
2 replies on “Lives of the Elders (part 2)”
Seems like the last few photos won’t download for some reason.
My favorite motto would be” “Putting the ‘question’ in questionable since 2021.”
The recipe brings to mind a little poem my dad used to recite whenever mom served beans:
Beans, beans, the musical fruit
The more you eat, the more you toot.
The more you toot, the better you feel.
So, eat beans at every meal!
[…] On January 5th, 2024, WLBOTT had an opportunity to introduce our viewers to the Gullah culture through its culinary creation of Hoppin’ John. […]
UC#4 Writes UC#4, I agree, I had to recuse myself as well. Did I ever mention that I am terrible at raising vegetables? Seems I have no sense of humus.
2 replies on “Lives of the Elders (part 2)”
Seems like the last few photos won’t download for some reason.
My favorite motto would be” “Putting the ‘question’ in questionable since 2021.”
The recipe brings to mind a little poem my dad used to recite whenever mom served beans:
Beans, beans, the musical fruit
The more you eat, the more you toot.
The more you toot, the better you feel.
So, eat beans at every meal!
[…] On January 5th, 2024, WLBOTT had an opportunity to introduce our viewers to the Gullah culture through its culinary creation of Hoppin’ John. […]