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W. C. Privy's Original Bathroom Companion

Jack Mingo is a wonderful pop culture historian. I really emjoyed his book on the origins of different products, How the Cadillac Got its Fins). He has co-written a new book out that sounds good, called W. C. Privy’s Original Bathroom Companion. From the release:

It’s a thick 480-page collection of diverse, short and amusing articles, quizzes, fact, fiction, and trivia, lavishly illustrated with drawings and photos.

CONTENTS

Here’s a partial list of the table of contents:

History of the Hawaiian Shirt

Weird Tourist Sites

How to Build an Igloo

Prizes: Who were Pulitzer, Heisman, Nobel, Ryder, and Stanley?

Strange Tales from the Bible

How to Escape From Alligators and Quicksand

Ben Franklin’s Naughty Writings: “About Flatulence” and “On Choosing a Mistress”

Penguin Love

True Facts About Pigs, Penguins, Kangaroos, and Lemmings

How to Charm a Snake

Eyewitness Accounts of the Boston Tea Party and the Lincoln Assassination

Bathroom History

Stories Behind Mona Lisa, American Gothic, Whistler’s Mother & Washington’s Unfinished Portrait

Latin and Yiddish Quizzes

The History of Toasters

Optical Illusions

How to Milk a Cow

What Happens After You Flush

Strange Vintage Ads

Obscure Aesop’s Fables

A History of Bathroom Graffiti

I wish it were available as an e-text, because I do most of my bathroom reading these days with a Palm. Link Discuss

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