Uncle John's Endlessly Engrossing Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader)

Uncle John's Endlessly Engrossing Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader)

Bathroom Readers' Institute

Language: English

Pages: 540

ISBN: 1607100363

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


The BRI’s 22nd all-new edition—Uncle John’s Endlessly Engrossing Bathroom Reader—is like reading several books all rolled into one: a history book, a weird news anthology, a science text, a dictionary, a how-to manual, a sports magazine, a joke book…and the list goes on and on. Since 1987, the Bathroom Readers’ Institute has led the movement to stand up for those who sit down and read in the bathroom (and everywhere else for that matter). With more than 11 million books in print, the Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader series is the longest-running, most popular series of its kind in the world.

Where else could you learn about the lost cloud people of Peru, the world’s first detective, and the history of surfing? Uncle John rules the world of information and humor, so get ready to be thoroughly entertained. Read all about…

Soda pop flops
Spider farms
England’s Secret UFO Files
Real hillbilly recipes
Webster’s least-wanted words
Super-trains
And much more!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

them. He advised them to offer Pearson $3,000 to settle the whole matter. Pearson declined, as he did subsequent offers of $4,600 and $12,000. Pearson had been poring through law books and building a case, and ended up suing the Chungs for “mental suffering, inconvenience, and discomfort”—both for the loss of his pants and for the two signs in the shop, which he claimed were false advertising. The amount he wanted: $67 million. Why so high? Pearson was taking advantage of a vaguely worded

believed to be true…but can we really know for sure? EVACUATE NOW! No, it isn’t an article on Ex-Lax. These are the stories of some of the most famous and infamous mass evacuations of people in history. DUNKIRK, FRANCE Trapped! In May 1940, nine months into World War II, several German Panzer divisions tore into France, then swooped north, and in just days reached the English Channel. In the mayhem, hundreds of thousands of British, French, and Belgian troops were trapped in a

months of experimenting, Sasson emerged with a contraption that resembled a big toaster with a lens on one side. It weighed eight pounds and took 23 seconds to produce its first picture: a 0.01 megapixel image of Sasson’s lab assistant. The dark, blurry image could be displayed only on a specially made television screen, but it was the first truly digital photograph. Sasson’s superiors were impressed with the accomplishment (though less so with the poor image quality). They asked him how long he

leaving their original or “true” definitions behind. Here are some examples of words that, technically, most of us misuse every day. PERUSE How We Use It: To skim or browse written material quickly to get the gist What It Really Means: The opposite—to read it thoroughly and carefully BLATANT How We Use It: Extremely obvious or unabashedly conspicuous What It Really Means: Offensively loud or noisy DISINTERESTED How We Use It: Indifferent What It Really Means: Impartial (as

combat. Even the Gyrojet’s strongest selling points, its high speed and power at great distances, worked against it. The Gyrojet rockets were designed to exceed the speed of sound, but as an accelerating object approaches the speed of sound, there is a great deal of turbulence that can deflect it from its course. This often caused Gyrojet rockets to miss distant targets entirely. In other words, the gun was too weak to be effective at close range and too inaccurate to be effective at long range.

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