Read Uncle John’s Curiously Compelling Bathroom Reader Online
Authors: Bathroom Readers’ Institute
2. MYSTERY JOB
Brian works at a library.
3. SIDE TO SIDE
The river was frozen.
4. SPECIAL NUMBER
8,549,176,320
It contains each number—zero through nine—in alphabetical order.
5. TIME PIECES
An hourglass. It is filled with thousands of grains of sand.
6. WORD PLAY
If you remove the first letter of each word and place it on the end of the word, it will spell the same word backwards.
* * *
“Everything flows and nothing stays.” —
Heraclitus
Only father & son to hit back-to-back home runs in major-league baseball: Ken Griffey Sr. & Jr.
BONUS PAGE: CAT-ENGLISH DICTIONARY
Somehow we wound up with an extra page. So we thought we’d use it to help you improve your interspecies communication skills.
“I’m hungry.”
Meow
.
“I’m not hungry.”
Meow
.
“Feed me.”
Meow
.
“Don’t feed me
that
.”
Meow
.
“Hey! That’s
my
seat.”
Meow
.
“You want me to go in
what
box?”
Meow
.
“This litter box has a plant in it.”
Meow
.
“Let me out.”
Meow
.
“Let me in.”
Meow
.
“Let me out.”
Meow
.
“Let me in.”
Meow
.
“I just want to look out the open door.”
Meow
.
“Here, I killed this sock for you.”
Meow
.
“The dog did it.”
Meow
.
“Please accept this disemboweled rodent as a token of my esteem.”
Meow
.
“Stop calling me Fluffy. The name is Butch.”
Meow
.
“Personally, I think
Citizen Kane
is overrated.”
Meow
.
“Hey, let’s run over there.”
Meow
.
“Now, let’s run back.”
Meow
.
“What was I supposed to do? The bird was
asking
for it.”
Meow
.
“Hey, watch me knock everything off this shelf.”
Meow
.
“Now,
that’s
a hairball!”
Meow
.
“Your face makes an excellent pillow.”
Meow
.
“I’m so lonely. Why don’t you have 50 cats like crazy Mrs. Jones?”
Meow
.
“Cram it, clowny. I don’t do tricks.”
Meow
.
UNCLE JOHN’S BATHROOM READER
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Go with the Flow…
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Keep on flushin’!
Table of Contents
GREETINGS FROM “CURIOSITY CENTRAL”
Medium
Oops!
Medium
Food Origins
Medium
Lost Attractions
Medium
Aaaah! Robots!
Medium
Too Risky for Guinness
Flubbed Headlines
Medium
Box Office Bloopers
Medium
Inventive Advertising
Famous Last Words
The Mustache Report
Research Shows
The Pilgrims, Pt. I: A Church Divided
Medium
The Avro Arrow
Q&A: Ask the Experts
It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
False Friends
Medium
Snakes On A…
Medium
Strange Lawsuits
Medium
G.E. College Bowl
Medium
Life’s a Gamble
Medium
Uncle John’s Stall of Fame
What Won’t They Tax?
Medium
If Elected, I Promise To…
Z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z
Medium
The Golden Age of Radio, Part I
Medium
Toy Fads
Just Plane Weird
April Fools!
Medium
Jargon.com
Making The Godfather, Pt. I
Medium
Beulah Land, Part I
The Who?
I Toast You!
I Curse You!
Bamboo: One Incredible Plant
Office Personalities
Mothers of Invention
Feelin’ Lazy
A Punch in the Arm
Medium
Ghostwriters
Upside-Down Pangborn
The Cure for What Ails Ye
Make Your Own Origami Rubber Duck
Lottery Row
Medium
Tha Fas Bouketo
Mile-High Comedians
Long
Join the (Citizens) Band
Medium
Random Origins
How to Build an Atom Bomb
Dumb Crooks
Medium
Uh, Excuse Me, Sir, But Your Microphone Is On
Video Treasures
Medium
When You Gotta Go…
Medium
Modern Mythology
Oh, Martha!
Colbert’s Retorts
The Music Man