Today I laughed so hard my abs started hurting, so I guess I can skip the gym.
Today I laughed so hard my abs started hurting, so I guess I can skip the gym.
All opinions in the Digest are expressed solely by the Digester and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Why Not Travel Store, its owners, or its wonderful staff
May 9
Established 2015. Celebrating Our Tenth Year of Publication
One sunny day in Ireland, Paddy is sitting in a pub, drinking some Guinness. While looking around the pub, he thinks, "Wow! That man over there looks just like me! I think Iโm gonna go over there and talk to him. So, he walks over to the man and taps him on the shoulder. Excuse me sir," he begins, "but I noticed you look just like me!"
The man turns around and says, "Yeah, I noticed the same thing. Where are you from?"
"Iโm from Dublin," Paddy replies.
"Me too!" says the man, "What street do you live on?" "McCarthy street," replies Paddy.
"Me too! What number is it?" the man asks.
"162" Paddy replies.
"Me too! What are your parents' names?" asks the man.
"Connor and Shannon," answers Paddy.
The man, almost dumbfounded says, "Mine too! This is unbelievable!"
So, they buy some more Guinness and continue talking some more. When the bartenders change shifts, the new bartender asks the other bartender, "So, whatโs new today?"
"Oh, nothing much," the other bartender replies... "The Murphy twins are drunk again as usual."
See you tomorrow!!
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1865 - President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation declaring armed resistance in the South is virtually at an end; this is the commonly accepted end date of the American Civil War.
1914 - President Woodrow Wilson proclaims Mother's Day.
1941 - British intelligence at Bletchley Park breaks German spy codes after capturing Enigma machines aboard the weather ship Muenchen.
1945 - The Soviet Union celebrates Victory Day in World War II.
1958 - "Vertigo", American film noir psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak, is released.
1960 - The United States becomes the first country to legalize the birth control pill.
2023 - George Harrison's "Here Comes The Sun" becomes 1st Beatles song to register a billion streams on Spotify, it is also the oldest song to do so.
1949: I suspect that even though it is Billy Joel's birthday, he won't be making any 'Scenes From an Italian Restaurant' today.
National Butterscotch Brownie Day - OOOHH!! I would like to have some of these!!
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 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 is still has the basic constructs I started out with. The โWeatherโ 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 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.
And that is how we got here and looking for the next ten years!!