It's April Fools' Day. Trust no one and nothing. Just like any other day!
It's April Fools' Day. Trust no one and nothing. Just like any other day!
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
April 1 - April Fool's Day
Established 2015. Celebrating Our Tenth Year of Publication
An 80-year-old man was asked for a sperm count by his doctor as part of his physical exam. The doctor gave the man a jar and said, "Take this jar home and bring back a sample tomorrow."
The next day, the 80-year-old man reappeared at the doctor’s office and gave him the jar, which was as clean and empty as on the previous day. The doctor asked him what happened.
The man explained, "Well doc, it’s like this. First I tried with my right hand, but nothing." "Then I tried with my left hand, but still nothing." "Then I asked my wife for help... " "She tried with her right hand, and then with her left, and still nothing." "She tried with her mouth, first with the teeth in, and then with her teeth out, still nothing." "We even called up Arleen, the lady next door, and she tried too, first with both hands... " "Then an armpit, and she even tried squeezing it between her knees, but still nothing."
The doctor was shocked! "You asked your neighbor?"
The old man replied, "Yep... " "None of us could get the jar open."
See you tomorrow!!
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦, 'F' them Russians. Take it all back
Elbows Up🇨🇦
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1748 - The ruins of Pompeii are rediscovered by Spaniard Roque Joaquín de Alcubierre.
1934 - Clyde Barrow kills two young highway patrolmen, H. D. Murphy and Edward Bryant Wheeler, at the intersection of Route 114 near Grapevine, Texas. Bonnie Parker's role in the murders helps turn public perception against the gang for good.
1948 - "Big Bang" theory proposed in scientific journal "Physical Review" by American cosmologists Ralph Alpher, Hans Bethe, and George Gamow.
1976 - Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs found Apple Computer in the garage of Jobs' parents house in Cupertino, California.
2001 - The Netherlands becomes the first country in the world to make same-sex marriage legal.
2004 - Google introduces Gmail: the launch is met with skepticism on account of the launch date.
1932: Popular actress and mother of Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds was born on this day..
April Fools' Day - Since the election, the joke's on us!!
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 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.
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!!