You do not need a parachute to skydive, you only need a parachute to skydive twice.
You do not need a parachute to skydive, you only need a parachute to skydive twice.
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February 21
Established 2015. Celebrating Our Eleventh Year of Publication
One of the church matrons is in her kitchen meticulously preparing her famous beans for the upcoming church potluck. Her son, little Johnny, bursts into the house. A BB gun clutched in one hand and a handful of BB's in the other. In his haste, he trips and the BB's scatter, many of them landing right into the simmering pot of beans. Little Johnny freezes, realizing the potential for trouble. After a moment of contemplation, he decides it's best to keep quiet and avoid any punishment. The potluck proceeds smoothly, and as always, Jane's beans are a crowd favorite, quickly devoured by the congregation.
The next day, the church secretary, Mary, calls Jane with an unusual question. "Jane, your beans were fantastic as always, but did you add something different this time?"
Jane, puzzled, replies, "No, nothing different. Why do you ask?"
"Well," says Mary, "this morning I bent over to feed my cat and ended up shooting my canary."
(Ba-dum-CHING!)
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Release the Epstein Files!!
1804 - Worldβs first steam locomotive, built by Richard Trevithick, runs for the first time along the tramway of the Penydarren Ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.
1848 - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish "The Communist Manifesto" in London.
1878 - Telegraph manager George Coy of New Haven, Connecticut, issues the world's first telephone directory, a single page containing information for 50 subscribers.
1916 - Battle of Verdun begins with a German offensive, leads to an estimated 1 million casualties, and becomes the longest battle of the entire war (9 months).
1947 - First instant-developing camera, the Land Camera Model 95, is demonstrated by Edwin Land at the Optical Society of America in NYC.
1972 - Richard Nixon becomes the first US President to visit China, normalizing relations between the countries in a meeting with Chinese leader Mao Zedong in Beijing.
1970: Comedian and director Jordan Peele has a birthday today.
National Sticky Bun Day - If it's gooey, I'm whoowie!!

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 didnβt 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 βWeatherβ 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 itsβ own page, which later became a contest for Pet of the Month. The static graphic that referenced something in The Digest became βWhy Nutts!!β and transitioned into a YouTube related video to something I referenced in The Digest. We added a βQuote of the Dayβ but transitioned that into βJoke of the Dayβ 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