“Bott’s dots” are little round pavement markers, named for California highway engineer Elbert D. Botts. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Bott’s Dots”
Grant, do you know what bots, dots are?
They’re also called turtles in Washington and Oregon,
or in Texas they’re called buttons.
No idea.
Kind of flower, kind of fungus?
No.
Remember earlier we were talking about cat’s eyes being those reflective markers?
Bots dots are just the raised pavement markers.
They’re like little ceramic dunes.
Oh, okay, gotcha.
Those are bots dots named for a guy.
Dr. Elbert Botts, a California engineer.
Botts.
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