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About Bathroom Readers' Institute

Since 1988, the Bathroom Readers' Institute has led the movement to stand up for those who sit down and read in the bathroom (and anywhere else, for that matter). Our crack staff works year-round to bring you the publishing industry's most absorbing anthologies of history, humor, origins, flops, fads, quotes, puzzles, kids' stuff, and more. Today, with more than 15 million books in print and a membership base topping 40,000 loyal readers, the movement begat by Uncle John is stronger than ever. In fact, the "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader" series in the longest-running, most popular series of its kind in the world.

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Uncle John's Hindsight Is 20/20 Bathroom Reader: The Future Is Family, Friends, Facts, and Fun (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Annual Book 34) Sep 7, 2021

by Bathroom Readers' Institute

( 534 )

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This 34th annual edition of Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader offers an all-new collection of fascinating trivia, strange-but-true oddities, and the ever-popular stories of dumb crooks!

Uncle John’s Hindsight Is 2020 Bathroom Reader is packed with tons of new articles from the worlds of pop culture, history, and science to help you get everything out of your system the next time you visit the throne room! Articles range in length from a single page to extended page-turners, each as entertaining as the last. From iconic television roles that almost weren’t to the origins of comic books, this 34th edition of fascinating trivia, hilarious lists, and notable quotes compiled by Uncle John and his team at the Bathroom Readers’ Institute will set your mind free to roam the world—and you won’t even need to leave the house!

Other Formats: Flexibound

Uncle John's Awesome 35th Anniversary Annual Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Annual) Oct 11, 2022

by Bathroom Readers' Institute

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The 35th annual edition of Uncle John’s compendium features entertaining, informative, and amusing real-life stories from around the world.

This 35th anniversary edition of Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader is bursting with everything you could possibly want to read in the throne room, including short articles for a quick trip and lengthier page-turners for an extended visit. Uncle John and his team at the Bathroom Readers’ Institute have once again gathered the most entertaining and amusing stories from the realms of pop culture, history, science, and sports (not to mention accounts of even more dumb crooks!) for your reading pleasure. In addition, there are plenty of laugh-out-loud lists, amusing quotes, and odd factoids that will delight the most ardent of trivia fans.

Other Formats: Paperback

Uncle John's Slightly Irregular Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Annual) Jun 1, 2012

by Bathroom Readers' Institute

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Grab some quiet time for yourself and enjoy hundreds of pages of the world’s most twisted trivia!

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 seventeenth 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
* How to kill a zombie, and much more!

Other Formats: Hardcover , Paperback

Uncle John's Giant 10th Anniversary Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Annual) Nov 1, 2012

by Bathroom Readers' Institute

( 51 )

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Our first all-new edition to top 500 pages, this was the Bathroom Reader that made the publishing world stand up and take notice—these guys are here to stay. Also appearing for the first time in Giant 10th Anniversary is our famous “Extended Sitting Section,” a series of extra-long articles for those truly leg-numbing experiences. There are also plenty of short and medium articles covering a whole host of topics, including little-known history, pop science, myth-conceptions, celebrity rumors, comedian quotes, and, of course, really dumb crooks. Read about…

* The anatomy of laughter
* Is your name your destiny?
* The history of the electric guitar
* What really happened at Roswell
* The Politically Correct quiz
* The secret of Nancy Drew
* Legendary TV flops
* Why you itch
And much, much more!

Other Formats: Paperback

Uncle John's Bathroom Reader The World's Gone Crazy: 432 All-New Pages of the Strangest, Most Outrageous Stuff You'll Ever Read Jun 1, 2012

by Bathroom Readers' Institute

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Uncle John’s latest compendium of the most bizarre and entertaining information imaginable: a Worldwide Weird-opedia!

Good news: It’s not you, the world really is going crazy! And Uncle John is barely sane enough to guide you through it all in this whirlwind tour of all things strange and weird. Yes, loyal Throne Room readers, these 432 all-new pages of pure crazy will shock and confound you . . . and make your side split open from laughing. (Uncle John takes no legal responsibilities for split sides.) So fire up your egg-beater, strap on your tinfoil hat, and plunge on into . . .

* The secret government plot to poison Earth’s skies
* Animal-human hybrids and what role they’ll have in society
* “Sexy Finding Nemo” and other inappropriate Halloween costumes
* A cow that eats chicken, therapeutic snake massages, and killer kangaroos
* The lady who married the Eiffel Tower, and the man who hugs and kisses his car
* Enjoying the world’s craziest festivals, where you can eat fried lamb testicles, ride on a ship through the desert, or pierce your skin with a bicycle
* Jackasses who copied Jackass and barely lived to tell about it
* How to tell if you have Exploding Head Syndrome
* Decoding the Mayan Prophecy
* Clergy gone wild, and much much more!

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Uncle John's Actual and Factual Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Annual Book 31) Sep 4, 2018

by Bathroom Readers' Institute

( 945 )

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It’s an actual fact—Uncle John is the most entertaining thing in the bathroom!

Uncle John and his team of devoted researchers are back again with an all-new collection of weird news stories, odd historical events, dubious “scientific” theories, jaw-dropping lists, and more. This entertaining 31st anniversary edition contains 512 pages of all-new articles that will appeal to readers everywhere. Pop culture, history, dumb crooks, and other actual and factual tidbits are packed onto every page of this book. Inside, you’ll find . . .

Dogs and cats who ran for political office
The bizarre method people in Victorian England used to resuscitate drowning victims
The man who met his future pet—a stray dog—while running across the Gobi Desert
Searching for Planet X—the last unknown planet in our solar system
Twantrums—strange Twitter rants that had disastrous effects
The true story of Boaty McBoatface

And much more!

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Uncle John's Weird Weird World: Who, What, Where, When, and Wow! Nov 1, 2014

by Bathroom Readers' Institute

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Beauty pageants, bad musicals, bizarre diseases, and more: it’s all covered in this collection of fascinating trivia and full-color pictures!

It’s finally here: the book that Uncle John’s fans have been asking for: a full-color, illustrated edition featuring the most entertaining articles from the world’s bestselling bathroom trivia series! Hundreds of eye-popping photographs add a new dimension to Uncle John’s unique blend of trivia, humor, origins, history, science, and oddities. All the reader favorites are included—including dumb crooks, weird news, flubbed headlines, strange lawsuits, quirky quotations—and more. Now they pop off the pages like never before! So stimulate your visual cortexes as you read about . . .

•Weird Beauty Pageants
•40 Odd Uses for WD-40
•“Bagpiper’s Fungus” and other bizarre diseases
•The Wild World of Weird Sports
•The “putrified forest” at Tennessee’s Body Farm
•The origins of Monopoly, the lava lamp, computer viruses, and B movies
•World records that are so risky, Guinness won’t even report them
•The all-time dumbest business decisions
•Harrowing stories from history, including the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the Pilgrims’ uncomfortable ride on the Mayflower
•The Toxic Travel Guide
•How to cook with roadkill, get your TV show on the air, and more
•Whatever happened to Nikola Tesla’s death ray?
•Real-life superheroes . . . and much, much more!

Other Formats: Hardcover

The Funniest Joke Book Ever!: Over 500 Jokes to Crack Up Your Friends! May 1, 2016

by Editors of Portable Press

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Over 500 giggles, groans, and belly laughs!

Kids can’t resist sharing jokes (even you try to stop them), so they always need a fresh supply. We’ve stuffed the pages of this little joke book with the funniest jokes we could find. Old favorites, new favorites, and a few festering stinkers, all guaranteed to make kids laugh out loud. You’ll find Q&A jokes, knock-knock jokes, riddles, and one-liners. And, of course, we’ve included entire chapters of those all-time kid-pleasers: elephant jokes, pirate jokes, and space jokes. Here’s a sampling:

What's black and white, black and white, black and white? A penguin rolling down a hill.

Why don’t zombies eat clowns? They taste funny.

Why did the hen scold her chicks? They were using fowl language.

What kind of books do skunks read? Best-smellers!

How does Darth Vader like his toast? On the dark side.

. . . and many more!

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Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into Great Lives Aug 15, 2012

by Bathroom Readers' Hysterical Society

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Look beneath the surface of the world’s most interesting people--past and present--to uncover what makes them tick. Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Plunges into Great Lives looks beneath the surface and uncovers fascinating but little-known stories behind the famous, the near-famous, the infamous, and the should-have-been famous. You’ll meet child prodigies, spies, traitors, celebrities (and sidekicks), gossips, hermits, humanitarians, and zealots. There are incredible stories here, and every one is true. Sit back and prepare to be amazed when you read about:

* America’s first prima ballerina
* The man who invented tap dancing
* Stephen Hawking and his ongoing quest for love
* Vidal Sassoon: hairdresser by day, freedom-fighter by night
* Sex therapist Dr. Ruth’s early years as an Israeli soldier
* The other Boleyn girl in Henry VIII’s bed
* The nerd who changed the world
* Six degrees of Kevin Bacon
And much, much more!

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Uncle John's New & Improved Briefs: Fast Facts, Terse Trivia & Astute Articles Jul 17, 2018

by Bathroom Readers' Institute

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Get your trivia on the go with this Uncle John’s anthology of fun fast facts, includes over twenty-five pages of new content!

Uncle John’s New & Improved Briefs is chock-full of thousands of great facts and hundreds of quick hits covering history, origins, blunders, sports, pop science, and entertainment plus a sprinkling of riddles, puns, anagrams, and other classic wordplay. Read about . . .

The secrets of top-secret spy lingo
The monkey that got a head transplant . . . and lived
Bizarre recipes: jellied moose nose, steamed muskrat legs, and haggis
The worst movie bloopers from Best Picture Oscar winners
The little-known story of the best deal in sports history
The man behind Death Valley’s “Castle in the Desert”
How to decipher the hidden codes on a dollar bill
Sinister left-handed facts
Earth’s greatest hits

And much, much more!

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Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into History Oct 1, 2011

by Bathroom Readers' Institute

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The trivia gurus behind the Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader series plumb the depths of history in this compendium of easily digestible diversions.

Whether you’re a history buff, or you just like reading great stories, you’ll see the past in a whole new light after reading Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Plunges into History. Uncle John uncovers the truth behind some of history’s most persistent myths and flushes out information you were never taught in school.

Where else could you learn about the 10 most-forgotten people in history, mistakes that led to great discoveries, and how a certain fish had a hand (er, fin) in beating Napoleon? Read all about . . .

The short history of underwear
Odd deaths of famous figures
Abe Lincoln, fashion icon
The real Lady Godiva
Royal inbreeds and promiscuous popes
The true story of Braveheart

And much more!

Other Formats: Paperback , Mass Market Paperback

Uncle John's 24-Karat Gold Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Annual) Jul 15, 2012

by Bathroom Readers' Institute

( 189 )

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Uncle John’s 24th flagship edition is glittering with more than 500 all-new pages of absorbing material that prove once again why Uncle John makes the best-selling bathroom-reading series in the world.

Uncle John’s 24th flagship edition glitters with more than 500 all-new pages of absorbing material that prove once again why Uncle John makes the best-selling bathroom-reading series in the world. The information miners at the Bathroom Readers’ Institute have unearthed a priceless collection of surprising, amazing, wow-inducing, and hilarious articles. Divided by length for your sitting convenience, 24-Karat Gold is chock-full of little-known history, random origins, weird news, celebrity secrets, urban legends, dumb criminals, clever wordplay, quirky quotations, and more. Just go to any page--who knows what treasures await you? Some samples:

* Judges Gone Wild
* The Barbie Scandals
* Canada’s Underpants King
* The History of the Umbrella
* America’s Forbidden Island
* Helen Keller: Vaudeville Star
* The Double A-bomb Survivors
* Mind Your Zarfs and Wambles
* What the Hokey Pokey is Really All About
And much, much more!

Other Formats: Paperback

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