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A young girl who was writing a paper for school came to her father and asked, "Dad, what is the difference between anger and exasperation?"

The father replied, "It is mostly a matter of degree. Let me show you what I mean.” With that, the father went to the telephone and dialed a number at random. As a man answered the phone, he said, "Hello, is Melvin there?"

The man answered, "There is no one living here named Melvin. Why don't you learn to look up numbers before you dial them?"

"See," said the father to his daughter, "that man was not a bit happy with our call. He was probably very busy with something and we annoyed him. Now watch this." The father dialed the same number again. "Hello, is Melvin there?" asked the father.

"Now look here," came the heated reply. "You just called this number and I told you that there is no Melvin here. You've got a lot of nerve calling again." The receiver was then slammed down hard.

The father turned to his daughter and said, "You see, that was anger. Now I'll show you what exasperation means."

He dialed the same number again, and a violent voice roared, "Hello."

The father then calmly said, "Hello, this is Melvin. Have there been any calls for me?"

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🗓️Today in History

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1861 - Battle of Puebla pitched 6,000 French troops against a small, under-supplied Mexican force of 2,000 men. Not expecting to win the campaign, the Mexican army overcame the French in under a day.

1893 - Panic of 1893 causes a large crash on the NY Stock Exchange.

1941 - Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie returns triumphantly to Addis Ababa.

1955 - West Germany is granted full sovereignty by its three occupying powers.

1965 - First large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam.

1980 - Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends when the SAS and police storm the building.

1981 - After 66 days on hunger strike, 26-year-old Provisional IRA member and British MP Bobby Sands dies in Prison Maze. Nine more hunger strikers die in the next 3 months.

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1988: Pop singer Adele is having a birthday today.

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🇲🇽Cinco De Mayo🇲🇽 - When most Americans celebrating think its Mexican Independence Day but in fact it is celebrated as the day in 1861, when a smaller Mexican Army defeats a much larger French force in the battle of Puebla.

Memory Lane

WNTS Digest - 11th Anniversary

I started writing The Digest in the third quarter of 2015. I was filling in as temporary General Manager until we could find a permanent one to take over the leadership of the store. I had some time on my hands and was kicking around how to fill it when I remembered an idea I saw in a hotel in Winslow, Az. called La Posada. (Wonderful hotel BTW) In the lobby, they had a chalk board and on it was some simple trivia that happened on that day as well as the weather forecast of sunny, hot, cold rainy or whatever the day was going to bring. I stole some of those ideas and came up with the WNTS Digest. As I was temporarily living at the time in Why, I would spend some time each morning putting together those trivia facts, weather, a cute Pet Picture of the Day from Freekibble.com and an ad hoc picture of something I talked about in the Digest. I would then print the two pages out and tack it to our Bulletin Board in front of the store. The two pictures to the left are from a copy of the Digest that was published in or around February 2016. Eventually we found a permanent GM and I went back to my home in Northern California. A few months later, I was asked to stand up a website for the store and because I didn’t need to be at the site, I was able to do my work in California. When designing the site, I wanted to incorporate the concepts of The Digest. It had paused publication when I moved and here was an opportunity to bring it back in electronic form.

So, over the years, I made a few changes to the format, but it still has the basic constructs I started out with. The ‘Weather’ report is now the 'Current Weather' and is displayed as a widget on both the Home Page and The Digest. We kept Today in History, Born on this Day, Today is (national quirky holidays), moved Pet Picture of the Day to its’ own page, which later became a contest for Pet of the Month. The static graphic that referenced something in The Digest became “Why Nutts!!” and transitioned into a YouTube related video to something I referenced in The Digest. We added a ‘Quote of the Day’ but transitioned that into ‘Joke of the Day’ after I felt that the quotes were getting to bizarre, even for me.

And that is how we got here and looking for the next ten years!!

- Digester, 2025

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