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February 7
Established 2015. Celebrating Our Eleventh Year of Publication
A tour bus in Egypt stops in the middle of a town square. The tourists are all shopping at the little stand surrounding the square. One tourist looks at his watch, but it's broken. So, he leans over to a local who is squatting down next to his camel. "Do you have the time, sir?" he asks.
The local reaches out and softly cups the camel's genitals in his hand, then raises them up and down. "It's about 2:00," he says.
The tourist can't believe what he just saw. He runs back to the bus, and sure enough, it's 2:00. He rushes back and tells a few of the fellow tourists, "The man could tell the time by the weight of the camel's genitals."
One of the doubtful tourists walks back to the local and asks him the time. The same thing happens. Finally, the bus driver wants to know how it's done. He walks over and asks the local how he knows the time from the camel's genitals.
The local says, "Sit down here and grab the camel's genitals. Now lift them up in the air. Okay, now look underneath them. Do you see it?"
"What am I looking for?" asks the man.
The local replies, "There's a clock over there on the wall."
(Ba-dum-CHING!)
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1508 - Maximilian I is proclaimed Holy Roman Emperor, the first emperor in centuries not crowned by the Pope.
1778 - Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance are signed in Paris between the United States and France, the first treaties negotiated by the United States. The first treaty establishes formal diplomatic and commercial relations, and the second forms a defensive alliance.
1865 - General Robert E. Lee is appointed General-in-Chief of the Confederate Armies during the Civil War.
1952 - Queen Elizabeth II succeeds King George VI to the British throne and is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, including Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
1971 - American astronaut Alan Shepard is the first to hit a golf ball on the Moon.
1966: Rock power house Rick Astley is having a birthday today.
Bubble Gum Day - And who has the best and chewiest gum in Why?? The Why Not of course!!

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 didnโt 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 โWeatherโ 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 itsโ own page, which later became a contest for Pet of the Month. The static graphic that referenced something in The Digest became โWhy Nutts!!โ and transitioned into a YouTube related video to something I referenced in The Digest. We added a โQuote of the Dayโ but transitioned that into โJoke of the Dayโ 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