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A man walks into a quiet bar and orders a cold beer. He takes the beer over to a table and sits down. After a few sips of his beer, he hears a small voice say, "Nice shoes." He looks around, but he is the only one in the bar except the bartender who is occupied cleaning the other end of the bar. The man shrugs it off and goes back to his drink.

A few minutes later, another small voice says, "Nice shirt." Again, the man looks around but can see nobody. Concerned that his mind is playing tricks on him, he is now on guard, listening for any reoccurrences.

After a few minutes, a third small voice says, "Nice pants." This time, he is sure it is not his imagination.

So, he goes up to the bartender and tells him what has happened. "Oh, yeah, that happens all the time," says the bartender, pointing to the small bowl on the guy's table. "It's the peanuts. They're complimentary."

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1789 - The first American novel, William Hill Brown's "The Power of Sympathy" is published by Isaiah Thomas.

1793 - Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine in Paris, following his conviction for "high treason" by the newly created French Parliament (Convention nationale), during the French Revolution.

1908 - Sullivan Ordinance is passed in NYC, making it illegal for a woman to smoke in public places; it is vetoed two weeks later by Mayor George B. McClellan Jr.

1968 - Battle of Khe Sanh begins at the Khe Sanh Air Base, one of the most publicized and controversial battles of the Vietnam War.

2008 - Fears of a possible US recession cause a Black Monday for global stock markets, European stocks suffer their worst result since 9/11, and Asian stocks drop as much as 15%.

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1956: Actress Geena Davis has a birthday today. The Thelma and Louise actress will be jumping off the cliff to get to 70.

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National Granola Bar Day - And who has the best granola bars in Why?? The Why Not of course!!

Memory Lane

WNTS Digest - 10th 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

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