Let's keep the brave people of the Texas Hill Country in our thoughts today.
Let's keep the brave people of the Texas Hill Country in our thoughts today.
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
July 9
Established 2015. Celebrating Our Tenth Year of Publication
A blonde has just gotten a new sports car and is out for a drive, when she accidentally cuts off a trucker, who's been on the road far too long. He motions for her to pull over. When she does, he gets out of his truck and pulls a piece of chalk from his pocket. He draws a circle on the side of the road and commands the blonde, "Stand in that circle and don't move!"
He opens her car and cuts up her leather seats with his hunting knife. When he turns around, she has a little grin on her face. Infuriated, he says, "Oh, you think that's funny?" "Watch this!"
He gets a baseball bat out of his truck and breaks every window in her car. When he turns and looks at her, she begins to giggle. He is really mad now and proceeds to slash all her tires. Now she's laughing out loud. The truck driver is really starting to lose it. He goes to his truck and gets a can of gas, pours it on her car and sets it on fire.
He turns around and she is doubled over with tears running down her cheeks. Enraged now, the truck driver screams, "You're crazy! What the hell is so funny?"
Through fits of laughter, the blonde replies... "Every time you weren't looking, I stepped outside the circle."
See you tomorrow!!
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1868 - Louisiana and South Carolina are the last states to ratify the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution, guaranteeing civil rights.
1877 - First Wimbledon tennis championship - first official lawn tennis tournament - begins featuring men's singles only.
1893 - Surgeon Daniel Hale Williams performs the first successful open-heart surgery when he repairs the torn pericardium of knife wound patient James Cornish, without the use of penicillin or blood transfusion.
1917 - British battleship HMS Vanguard explodes at Scapa Flow due to an internal explosion caused by faulty cordite, killing 804 crew members.
1955 - Bill Haley & His Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" tops the Billboard chart as one of the best-selling singles ever.
1971 - National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger secretly visits the People's Republic of China to negotiate a detente between the US and China.
1956: Tom Hanks, the guy who seems to be in every movie out there, is having a birthday today..
National Sugar Cookie Day - Yawn!!
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 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 still has the basic constructs I started out with. The โWeatherโ 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 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 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