The problem with political jokes is that they sometimes get elected!!
The problem with political jokes is that they sometimes get elected!!
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July 30
Established 2015. Celebrating Our Tenth Year of Publication
A wild rabbit is captured and taken to a medical laboratory to be used for experiments. There, he befriends a rabbit who was born and raised in the lab.
One day, the wild rabbit notices that the researchers hadn't latched his cage properly and decides to make a break for it. He tells the lab rabbit how great it is on the outside and convinces him to come along.
First, the wild rabbit takes the lab rabbit to a field of lettuce where they munch to their hearts content. The wild rabbit then says, "Let me take you to an even better field." As they head off to a field full of carrots, they munch contentedly for hours.
Finally, the wild rabbit says, "Now, let me take you to the best field of all." He takes the lab rabbit to a field full of female rabbits. The rabbits enter the field and do what rabbits do. At dawn, the rabbits are exhausted and content.
Suddenly, the lab rabbit announces, "Well, I'm headed back to the lab."
Stunned, the wild rabbit asks, "Why? I showed you a field of lettuce, a field of carrots, and a field full of female rabbits."
The lab rabbit says, "Yeah, that was really great, but now I'm dying for a cigarette."
See you tomorrow!!
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1419 - First Defenestration of Prague: Anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, storm Prague Town Hall and throw the judge, mayor, and several city council members out the windows. They die in the fall or are killed by the crowd outside.
1619 - House of Burgesses in Virginia forms, first elected American governing body.
1869 - Worldโs first oil tanker, "The Charles," departs the United States for Europe carrying 7,000 barrels of oil.
1935 - First Penguin Books published, starting the paperback revolution.
1937 - Soviet Politburo issues NKVD Order No. 00447 during the Great Purge to repress property-owning kulaks and anti-Soviets; 269,100 are arrested, with 76,000 executed.
1947: He's almost living long enough to the year where he comes back as the Terminator. Actor and former "Cal-ee-fawnia" Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger is having a birthday today.
National Cheesecake Day - Well let's go get one and eat it!!
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