Okay… this one has a lot of back story.
First off, we’re in the middle of office renovations on top of a previous reorganization, which means my group has been moved 4 times and awaiting the 5th (and final?). In the 3rd location my boss had a blank cork board and we joked it needed to be a conspiracy board. He went on vacation around Thanksgiving…
So for some back story…
My old boss has a story about owls and construction, long story short he was in charge of a project that caused an owl nest tree to be cut down. No owl babies were harmed, but it stuck.
He decided to leave us, and when we interviewed new boss, our joke question to him was “on a scale on 1-10, please rate your knowledge of owls.”
He passed the test of the weird curve ball question, and a few months later old boss came back and became my boss’s boss. So owl jokes are still a thing.
This feeds into the conspiracy board because there’s an old map that has a weird apostrophe and I was really hoping it was O’lathe, but it wasn’t, though I found an apparently St Patrick’s day themed Tshirt design that said that. I wanted it to be a contraction for “Owl-athe.”
Close enough for a joke conspiracy board, though.
Plus the moving apostrophe conspiracy.
Add in actually Olathe facts…
The wife of Governor who ran for president under the prohibition party started the lady’s reading circle that in turn created the public library, that had moved (many of the old pictures are from the library archives).
Hyer Boots and the birth of the cowboy boot.
Old maps.
Then on to the owls, and the history of the “parliament of owls” collective term, which was originally “stare of owls” (check out the original manuscript on those!).
And birds in general, that make up most of the local school mascots.
Also, when I was originally researching funny conspiracy theories I found one about dinosaurs that was hilarious… (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1s5sho/what_is_the_funniest_conspiracy_theory/?rdt=37700)
And what are birds but evolved dinosaurs?! And it all came full circle!
I took a ton of hand-written notes, did some sketches, and printed out a ton of pictures and maps. A coworker had the dinosaur poster.
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