W. C. Privy's Original Bathroom Companion, Number 2

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Erin Barrett, Jack Mingo
Macmillan, Dec 18, 2003 - Humor - 480 pages
Number 2 in the W.C. Privy series, this bathroom companion is chock full of jokes, stories, historical factoids, quizzes, trivia, and pop culture fun. An ecletic reading array, the book includes:

*Rules and Histories of Laughably Obscure Sports
*The Night They Invented Champagne--the Accidental History of Bubbly Wine
*I Was There! Eyewitness Accounts of Pompeii, the Chicago Fire, the Defeat of Custer, the San Francisco Earthquake
*How to Escape Killer Bees
*How to Build a Log Cabin
*Before They Were Stars: Actors, Writers, Politicians and Rockers

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Contents

Food
13
QuotesUnquote
16
Animals
17
Words
21
Words From Our Sponsors
22
Stately Knowledge
23
Life Lessons
25
Tom Swift
28
In the Bathroom
77
Know It All
84
Life of the Party
89
Pop Culture
91
Jesus as Ye Never Knew Him
97
Optical Illusions
104
Spooky Tales From Old Japan
105
Fun in the Kitchen
110

Pop Quizzes
35
Potty Pourri
36
Men We Love to Hate
37
Art Depreciation
41
Sports
42
Short Stories
47
All You Ever Wanted to Know
67
Famous Foods
74
To the Wayback Machine
139
Grand Surrealism
143
Rural Humor
153
Our Favorite Disasters
165
Step Up To the Bar
178
How They Work
189
Myths
197
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Erin Barrett, author of a kids trivia book, has written for "Icon" and the "San Jose Mercury News", among others, and has contributed to several anthologies including the "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader" series. She lives in Alameda, California. Jack has designed numerous electronic and online games, as well as the first Ask Jeeves Book "Just Curious, Jeeves". He lives in Alameda, California.

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