To be "Baldered" or "Balderized" often referred to when being saddled with something useless and detrimental to the job at hand. It refers back to the traditional old English punishment wherein a person was forced to perfom their daily work whilst having the village idiot supported on their back. The idiot was called a "Baldery" and it would hinder and generally talk nonsense to the "Baldered" person for the entire punishment.