Uncle John's Slightly Irregular Bathroom Reader

Uncle John's Slightly Irregular Bathroom Reader

Bathroom Readers' Institute

Language: English

Pages: 522

ISBN: 1592232701

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Want your bathroom reading with a twist? You’re only a click away from 500 pages of the most twisted trivia in the world. The crackpot staff at the Bathroom Readers’ Institute has scoured the worlds of pop culture, politics, sports, history, and more to bring you Slightly Irregular, the 17th all-new edition in the best-selling series. As always, the articles are divided by length for your sitting convenience. So turn thine eyes away from the shampoo bottle, O bathroom reader, and let Uncle John pepper your brain with these absorbing articles…

Women in space
The origin of Kung Fu
The CIA’s secret coup
The great windshield epidemic
Spider eggs in the brain, and other urban legends
What went down at Woodstock
Freedom of McSpeech
The curse of Macbeth
How to kill a zombie
That ’70s bathroom

And much, much more!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

favorite movies is the 1956 classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers. So imagine his horror (and delight) when he found this article by Alan J. Stein about an incident that occurred in Washington in 1954. Stein’s acccount, which appeared in Seattle’s History Ink, is remarkably similar to the movie plot. The only difference: this one really happened. IT BEGINS The strange phenomenon started in late March, 1954, when tiny pits in automobile windshields were first reported to police in the

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Fifteen people hoping to raise money for the American Cancer Society in Whitehouse, Ohio, have come up with a unique way to do it. Every night for more than a month, the fundraisers put a fluorescent pink toilet on a volunteer’s front lawn, along with a big sign that read “Help Flush Out Cancer!” At last report neighbors had deposited more than $800 in the pink pot for cancer research. KABOOM! Remember the automated, self-cleaning public restrooms we told you about in Uncle John’s Ahh-Inspiring

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