Ice cream melts faster than dreams in June heat.
Ice cream melts faster than dreams in June heat.
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June 3
A wealthy man decides to go on an African safari and takes his faithful pet dog along for company. One day, the dog starts chasing butterflies and before long discovers that he's lost. Wandering about, he notices a tiger heading rapidly in his direction with the obvious intention of having him for lunch. The dog thinks, "Boy, I'm in deep trouble now."
Then he notices some bones on the ground close by and immediately settles down to chew on the bones with his back to the approaching tiger. Just as the tiger is about to leap, the dog exclaims loudly, "Man, that was one delicious tiger. I wonder if there are any more around here."
Hearing this, the tiger halts his attack in midstride as a look of terror overcomes him and slinks away into the trees. "Woo!" thinks the tiger. That was close. That dog nearly had me.
Meanwhile, a monkey has been watching the whole scene from a nearby tree. He figures he can put his knowledge to good use and trade it for protection from the tiger. So, off he goes. When the dog sees the monkey heading after the tiger with great speed, he figures something must be up.
The monkey soon catches up with the tiger, spills the beans, and strikes a deal for himself with the tiger. The tiger is furious at being made a fool of and says, "Here, monkey. Hop on my back and see what's going to happen to that conniving dog."
Now the dog sees the tiger coming with the monkey on his back and thinks, "What am I going to do now?" Instead of running, the dog sits down with his back to his attackers, pretending he hasn't seen them yet. Just when they get close enough to hear, the dog says, "Where's that monkey? I sent him off a half an hour ago to bring me another tiger."
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1621 - Dutch West India Company receives charter for the West Indies (the Americas, Caribbean and West Africa).
1851 - First baseball uniforms are worn as the NY Knickerbockers don straw hats, white shirts and blue long trousers.
1929 - Chile and Peru sign the Treaty of Lima, finally resolving their border dispute from the War of the Pacific (1879–83). Chile keeps Arica and Peru regains Tacna.
1943 - A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beats up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots.
1979 - Ixtoc I rig in the Gulf of Mexico blows out, spilling 3 million barrels of oil in one of the worst oil spills in history.
1989 - Beginning of the Tiananmen Square Massacre as Chinese troops open fire on pro-democracy supporters in Beijing.
1967: Here’s a story he may not like covering. Journalist Anderson Cooper is having birthday today.
National Repeat Day National Repeat Day -- Ok!!!! Ok!!!!

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