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

Uncle John's Facts and Trivia

by Bathroom Readers' Institute

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

Genres: Nonfiction, Trivia, Humor, Reference, American

434 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

The Bathroom Reader's Institute UJBR boasts more than 12 million books in print and a membership base topping 40,000 loyal readers . . .

Reviews

[Aries · Rating 5 out of 5]

By far my Favorite! Buckle up for the guy who got boat-jacked by a bear, help wanted in hell and all the little tid bits we've come to expect. If you only read one Uncle John's (and I mean, you are crazy if you stop) let this be the One!

[Rich Meyer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another good Uncle John's book. Loads of interesting trivia and stuff. Good read just to waste some time here and there!

[Dee brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love these sorts of reads! Interesting tid bits of trivia on almost every subject out there! Go ahead and pick it up, and give it a go !

[Elizabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

My husband and I buy trivia books like this for the bathroom. Uncle John's is one of our favorites. Great wide subject matter of interesting topics.

[Patricia Atkinson · Rating 4 out of 5]

i always love the information that you find in these books always a good book to read

[Joshua Friesen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Full of strange bizarre and odd things to read while you grunt one out.

[Scream Queen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun read. Definitely interested in reading more

[melhara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Uncle John's Bathroom Reader The World's Gone Crazy is full of wonderfully weird and entertaining facts.

For example, did you know that there's an Elf School in Iceland with the goal of educating the public about elves, gnomes, trolls, fairies, and the huldüfold/'Hidden People.' Icelandic people are so superstitious that developers and planners need to hire 'elf-spotters' to help them "ensure that the land is clear of the creatures before any work begins." Otherwise, they risk angering these magical creatures, who will sabotage the project.

Or, did you know that in 2007, Ernie Chambers tried to sue God? You'd think that the case would be dismissed but the courts had to take all lawsuits seriously - what ensued was a very entertaining and unbelievable legal battle between Chambers and God.

Other random stuff that made me laugh out loud includes this San Fran. Chronicle's TV listing for the Wizard of Oz:

"Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again."

I also learned that fake boobs can save lives, ghosts really do exist, which fake memoirs to avoid reading, that male giraffes drink female giraffes pee to check their hormonal levels, that a blind painter can 'see,' that Florida is extremely dangerous, and that the U.S. has some pretty weirdly named cities.

My head is now filled with a bunch of random and fun facts, which would (hopefully) make for great conversation starters.

[Nurshafiqa · Rating 4 out of 5]

i love uncle john's bathroom reader series. and i love all things weird. combined these two together = awesomeness.

packed full with bits of info that's bizarre and strange and some plain crazy. most of the stuff in this book is new to me, which means the writers/contributors really made an effort.. thanks guys. it was the perfect read ANYWHERE (not just the bathroom).. i would read like a few pages everytime i'm bored. it would be better with some pictures/illustrations, though.

4 stars. HIGHLY entertaining and stimulating? looking forward to reading more books in the bathroom reader series.

[Steve Price · Rating 4 out of 5]

When I showed this book to a friend, he said "That's just a bunch of crap." I first just laughed it off but then thought about it and decided to do the math. At 432 pages......and reading 3-4 pages "per sitting".....that comes out to be anywhere between....108 and 144 "visits." Yeah, I guess you could say this book is a bunch of crap, only in a good way.

[Maple Tea (moved to StoryGraph) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very entertaining reading. Who knew there were necrophiliac ducks? Thankfully that was just a side-note, not an in-depth story.

[Jamie · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the most entertaining I've read of the Bathroom Reader series. Seats up for the BRI! :P

[Molly]

The entire Uncle John series is addicting and has single-handedly lead to many incidents of me "holding up the line" to the bathroom.

[Michael Tarpinian · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't like the theme volumes as much as the general knowledge ones. It was ok, though.

[Abraham Ray]

nice book of the uncle john's bathroom readers series!