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Little Johnny was seated next to a stranger on a plane. The stranger turned to him and said, "Let’s talk. I’ve heard that flights will go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger."

Little Johnny, who had just opened his book, closed it slowly, and asked the stranger, "What would you like to discuss?"

"Oh, I don’t know," answered the stranger, "How about nuclear power?"

"That could be an interesting topic," replied Johnny, "but let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat grass, yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, and a horse produces clumps of dried grass. Why do you suppose that is?"

"Jeez," said the stranger, "I have no idea."

"Well, then," said Little Johnny... "How is it that you feel qualified to discuss nuclear power, when you don’t know shit?"

See you tomorrow!!

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

Today in History

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1848 - James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.

1899 - Rubber heel for boots or shoes is patented by American Humphrey O'Sullivan.

1908 - Lieutenant General Robert Baden-Powell publishes "Scouting for Boys" as a manual for self-instruction in outdoor skills and self-improvement. The book becomes the inspiration for the Scout Movement.

1935 - First canned beer, "Krueger's Cream Ale," is sold by American company Krueger Brewing Co.

1940 - "The Grapes of Wrath", directed by John Ford and based on John Steinbeck's novel of the same name, starring Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell, is released.

1972 - Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.

1984 - Apple Computer Inc. unveils its revolutionary Macintosh personal computer in a Super Bowl TV ad directed by Ridley Scott.

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1941: Definitely a Diamond in the music industry. Singer Neil Diamond has a birthday today.

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National Beer Can Appreciation Day - I can appreciate a good, cold brewski in the can... I mean a can of cold brewski!! BTW, this day celebrates the first beer that was canned. The first canned soda was in 1964 and was R.C. Cola.

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. In the lobby, they had a chalk board of 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 co-located 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.

WNTS Digest - 10th Anniversary Continued

So, over the years, I made a few changes to the format, but it is still has the basic constructs I started out with. The ‘Weather’ report was discontinued due to not having a viable good option for displaying current conditions and forecast. Perhaps that will change and the weather will be put back in. If it is, it would be better on the home page and not The Digest. But, 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’.

And that is how we got here and looking for the next ten years!!

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