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by Bathroom Readers' Institute


  Copyright

  THANK YOU!

  Contents

  GREETINGS FROM “CURIOSITY CENTRAL”

  POP-POURRI

  Short

  You’re My Inspiration

  TV OR NOT TV

  Short

  Game Show Goofs

  ORIGINS

  Short

  Random Origins

  INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

  Short

  What World City…?

  Medium

  Oops!

  THE PRINTED WORD

  Short

  Warning Labels

  LIFE IS STRANGE

  Short

  Animal Houses

  Medium

  Food Origins

  Medium

  Lost Attractions

  MOUTHING OFF

  Short

  Dumb Jocks

  Medium

  Aaaah! Robots!

  SCAMS & HOAXES

  Medium

  “Bunga Bunga!”

  Medium

  Too Risky for Guinness

  Flubbed Headlines

  Medium

  Box Office Bloopers

  Medium

  Inventive Advertising

  Famous Last Words

  The Mustache Report

  FOOD FOR THOUGHT

  Short

  Know Your Produce

  Research Shows

  FORGOTTEN HISTORY

  Medium

  The Pilgrims, Pt. I: A Church Divided

  MYTHS AND LEGENDS

  Short

  Weird Ghosts

  Medium

  The Avro Arrow

  THAT’S DEATH

  Short

  Died on the John

  Q&A: Ask the Experts

  WORDPLAY

  Short

  Bierce-isms

  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

  MUSIC

  Medium

  It’s a Hootenanny!

  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

  CANADIANA

  Short

  Canadian Namin’

  Just Plane Weird

  April Fools!

  Medium

  Jargon.com

  PUBLIC LIVES

  Short

  Does Fiona Eat Apples?

  POLITICS

  Short

  Poli-Talks

  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

  A BLUNDERFUL LIFE

  Short

  A Few Dogs Short of a Kennel

  AMERICANA

  Short

  $pirit of ’76

  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

  Hello, 911?

  ON THE RADIO

  Short

  10-4, Good Buddy!

  Long

  The 1¢ Magenta

  Forever Mankind

  Is It Art?

  We All Scream

  Weird Star Trek News

  Founding Fathers

  Ol’ Jay’s Brainteasers

  High Anxiety

  Collect It? Protect It!

  Amazing Luck

  Sing Along With JFK

  Can You Pass the U.S. Citizenship Test? (Easy)

  Long

  The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872, Part I

  CREATURE FEATURES

  Short

  Divine Bovine

  Dumb Kops

  Billy Mitchell’s Battle, Part I

  Cute…and Evil

  He’s a Curly Wolf

  Spicy Stories

  BUSINE$$

  Short

  Bennies from Heaven

  Diva of the Desert

  It’s Radioactive!

  Long

  Betty Freeman’s Day in Court

  Washington’s Posts

  War Plan Red

  Class Acts

  I’ll Trade You a…

  Lebowski 9:29

  Familiar Phrases

  Like, Totally ’80s Fads

  The Pilgrims, Pt. II: Exodus from England

  Bad Press

  State Nicknames

  Peruvian Punch

  Movie Review Haiku

  Turkmenbashi

  Amazing Anagrams

  Natural Gas Report

  FADS & FLOPS

  Short

  Odd-O-Mobiles

  Bureaucracy in Action

  Believe!

  Riddle Me This

  Death Defiers?

  Myth-Conceptions

  Long

  The Nutmeg Wars

  The Black Panties Bandit Strikes Again

  Power of the Pen

  What’s in Your…

  Weird Animal News

  TV of the 1940s

  Boxers or Briefs?

  Long

  Card Sharks, Part I

  When in Rome…

  He Slud Into Third

  Acts of Sedition!

  Bathroom News

  Death Customs

  Honk if Anything Falls Off

  Taking the Low Road

  Why Your Mom Says, “Wash Your Hands!”

  The Golden Age of Radio, Part II

  LAW & ORDER

  Short

  State v. Big Hair

  Ironic, Isn’t It?

  Weird Canada

  Mmm…Candy

  Dude, Your Pants Are Falling Down

  Behind the Hits

  Geezers and Rodneys

  Life Imitates Art

  Long

  Dustbin of History: Al Gross

  Got Your Ears On?

  Creative Crooking

  REEL LIFE

  Short

  Ben Kingsley’s Hair

  Flag Trivia

  Uncle John’s Page of Lists

  Word Origins

  Audio Treasures

  Q&A: Ask the Experts

  G.E. College Bowl

  That’s Amore?

  Zero-Sum Expansion

  Beauty Secrets From the Good Old Days

  The Naked Truth

  Scam-o-Rama

  Long

  Building the Wall

  POP SCIENCE

  Short

  Forgotten Firsts in Robot History

  Pema Chödrön

  Everybody’s a Critic

  Vote For Me!

  Revenge!

  The Culture Club

  Superman, Starring James Caan

  Nudes & Prudes

  BATHROOM
LORE

  Short

  More Bathroom News

  Long

  America’s Most Wanted

  Can You Pass the U.S. Citizenship Test? (Medium)

  Deliciously Familiar Phrases

  Odd Dogs

  The Reivers

  Strange Lawsuits

  Beulah Land, Part II

  Modern Mysteries

  Reading Tombstones

  Matt’s Musings

  Legally Speaking

  Destination: Canada

  Making The Godfather, Pt. II

  Long

  Bathroomio Readerus

  Random Origins

  Make Your Own (Origami) Toilet

  More Dumb Jocks

  Hey, Ho, Let’s Go!

  The Rankin File

  It’s a Weird, Weird World

  Uncle John’s Stall of Fame

  Weird Pitches

  I’ve Got a Cunning Plan

  Medium

  Boodle and Bingo

  Let’s Do a Study!

  The Two Graves of Mad Anthony Wayne

  Toilet Tech

  The Ice Age

  WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS

  Short

  Word Origins

  Dumb Crooks

  LOL (Love On-Line)

  Tom Swifties

  The Pilgrims, Pt. III: Sailing to America

  Long

  Billy Mitchell’s Battle, Part II

  The Doctor Is Out (of His Mind)

  Roller Derby

  The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872, Part II

  Gentleman George

  Shockers!

  SPORTS & AMUSEMENT

  Short

  Pig Out

  Oscar’s Bloopers

  Exit, Stage Right

  Sneaky Corporations

  The Great Boston Fire

  Why You Get Motion Sickness

  Card Sharks, Part II

  Rally ’Round the Flag

  Lincoln’s Duel

  Long

  The Bristol Sessions

  Long

  The Glomar Explorer

  Audio Treasures

  It’s a Weird, Weird World

  Ethically Disabled

  Long

  Talk to the Sword

  “The Greatest Canadian”

  The Niagara Falls Mummy

  Long

  More Acts of Sedition!

  Can You Pass the U.S. Citizenship Test? (Hard)

  Rare Conditions

  Bingham’s List

  *The Über Tuber

  Shake the Trees and Rake the Leaves

  Billy Mitchell’s Battle, Part III

  *The Pilgrims, Pt. IV: The New World

  *Vaudeville

  *How to Find Your Way Home

  Long

  *Making The Godfather, Pt. III

  Answer Pages

  BONUS PAGE: CAT-ENGLISH DICTIONARY

  NOW AVAILABLE!

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