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🗞️The WNTS Digest 📰

Established 2015. Celebrating Our Eleventh Year of Publication

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 14

😂Joke of the Day😲

😂Joke of the Day😲

😂Joke of the Day😲

A businessman is driving through a small town on his way to an important presentation. He suddenly realizes he needs a haircut and doesn't have much extra time. He remembers there's a little barber shop on the next corner, so he stops and a short while later, he's back on his way. A few weeks later, the man returns to the little barber shop. "Hello again, sir," greets the barber. "What can I do for you today?" 

     "Oh, I'd like another haircut," replies the man. "But I'm awfully particular. Can I make a few requests this time?" 

     "Of course," replies the barber. "Anything you want. Please have a seat." 

     The businessman sits down. "So, what would you like this time?" asks the barber. 

     "Well, for starters, I want you to cut my right sideburn an inch shorter than my left," says the man. "Cut the hair on the nape of my neck at a 5° angle instead of straight across." He continues, "I'd also like my hair parted on the left, but unevenly. Oh, and please cut exactly two little divots out of the back of my head. When you use the clippers, I want the two sides slightly different lengths. Blend the sides in, but don't blend in the back. Oh, and when you put the hair gel in, comb the front straight forward and the hair on the top of my head to the rear." 

     The barber is taken aback by all these odd requests. "Sir, I can't do all that," the barber insists. 

     "Why not?" asks the businessman. "That's what you did last time."

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🗓️Today in History

😂Joke of the Day😲

😂Joke of the Day😲

1787 - Delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up the Constitution of the United States.


1796 - English country doctor Edward Jenner administers his revolutionary cowpox-based vaccine for smallpox in Berkeley, Gloucestershire.


1804 - Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's expedition sets out from St. Louis for the Pacific Coast, commissioned by Thomas Jefferson.


1853 - Land surveyor, newspaper publisher and inventor Gail Borden patents his process for condensed milk.


1945 - Physician Joseph G. Hamilton injects misdiagnosed cancer patient Albert Stevens (CAL-1) with 131 kBq (3.55 µCi) of plutonium without his knowledge. Stevens lives another 20 years, surviving the highest known accumulated radiation dose in any human.


1948 - David Ben-Gurion declares Israel independent from British administration, Golda Meir one of the signatories.


1955 - Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania.


2024 - Google unveils new generative AI features at its annual conference, forcing users to view AI Overviews at the top of search results despite them being factually incorrect 60% of the time.

🎂Birthdays:

🪅Today's Holiday is:

🪅Today's Holiday is:

1944: Star Wars director George Lucas is having a birthday today. Pew! Pew!.

🪅Today's Holiday is:

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National Dance Like A Chicken Day - Barrockkk!!

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🕙Our Eleventh Year of Publishing the WNTS Digest 🗓️

Memory Lane

WNTS Digest - 11th Anniversary

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 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 still has the basic constructs I started out with. The ‘Weather’ 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 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’ 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, 2025

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