PSA

Greetings,

The Committee met on their secret compound, Juniper Valley River Society, (guess if they wanted that to be a secret, I prolly shouldn’t have told you all the name of it....ugh, ignore that last part, ok?) to discuss both today’s decision, and the “You Should Know” section.

Unfortunately, due to Juniper Valley being located 128 miles south of Lee’s Summit, and 17 miles due east, it took most of the evening to get there and back, and they had very little time to actually discuss.  (Oh, and I probably shouldn’t have told you where it was either...darn it!)

So, here is the slap-dash message as I received it:

YOU SHOULD KNOW:

Did you know baker’s of old were not the most ethical creatures.  In fact it was pretty well known that bakers used to dupe customer’s regularly by making loaves of bread that contained more air pockets then solid material.  By 1266, Parliament was fed up with their airy substances.  So the enacted a law where bread had to be solid by weight.  Most bakers didn’t have the proper weighing equipment, but the penalties were pretty extreme.  In fact, a Turkish version of the law stated that bakers were to be nailed to their shop doors by the ears if they shortchanged a customer.  Anyhow, bakers quickly decided that forking over an extra loaf for every dozen was an easy way to avoid the sentence.  Hence the number thirteen in a baker’s dozen.

And, today’s decision:  Today will be: Quixotic.

That is all.

Tommy ‘the making most of you look up the word “Quixotic” right now Decider’ Estlund