It's S🌞🌞🌞 H🌞T… that my dream house is any house in Alaska.
It's S🌞🌞🌞 H🌞T… that my dream house is any house in Alaska.
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April 14 - Tick! Tick! Tick! Taxes due tomorrow!!
Established 2015. Celebrating Our Eleventh Year of Publication
Three Englishmen are sitting in a cozy, dimly lit pub, nursing their beers after a long day. Their attention fixates on a man sitting alone at the bar. A quiet, seemingly unbothered Irishman sipping a pint of stout. The first Englishman, eager to impress his mates, nudges them with a grin. "Watch this, lads. I'll wind him up."
He downs the rest of his beer, wipes his mouth with his sleeve, and strolls over to the Irishman. He taps the Irishman on the shoulder, and with a cocky smirk. "Oi, mate," he says. "I hear your St. Patrick was a drunken loser."
The Irishman, without even turning his head, takes a calm sip from his pint and says, "Oh, really? Didn't know that."
The Englishman blinks, clearly expecting more of a reaction. He lingers awkwardly for a moment, then slings back to his table, scratching his head. "Well, that didn't go how I thought. I told him St. Patrick was a loser, and he didn't even flinch."
The second Englishman, feeling superior, leans back in his chair, and chuckles. "You don't know how to rile up the Irish mate. Let me show you how it's done." With a confident swagger, he marches over to the Irishman, taps him on the shoulder, and sneers, "Hey, I hear your St. Patrick was a lying, cheating, idiotic, lowife scum."
The Irishman takes another slow, deliberate sip of his beer and shrugs. "Oh, really? Me didn't know that," he says as if he's just been told the weather forecast.
Now, the second Englishman is baffled. He walks back to his friends, utterly bewildered. "What's wrong with him? He just said he didn't know that."
The third Englishman, watching the whole scene unfold, shakes his head in disappointment. "You guys are useless. Let me have a go. I'll really set him off." With confidence, he strolls over to the Irishman, taps him on the shoulder, and with a smug grin says, "Hey Irish, I hear St. Patrick was an Englishman."
The Irishman finally turns around, looks the Englishman straight in the eye, and with a grin just as smug replies, "Yeah, that's what your two mates were trying to tell me."
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1841 - First detective story is published, Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."
1865 - President Abraham Lincoln is shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington; he dies a day later.
1912 - RMS Titanic, the world's largest ocean liner, hits an iceberg at 11:40pm off Newfoundland and sinks in the early hours of April 15.
1914 - Dr. Harry Plotz isolates the bacteria that causes typhus fever at Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC.
1935 - Black Sunday dust storm ravages the US Midwest, leading to the region being named the "Dust Bowl".
1981 - The first Space Shuttle, Columbia, returns to Earth after 2 days and 6 hours in space.
2003 - The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
1968: Hard to believe Russ Griswold is past middle age. Actor Anthony Michael Hall who played Russ in the original Vacation movie is having a birthday today.
National Pan American Day - Or as some people currently in power would say “Happy 51st and 52nd State Day!!"

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