W.C. Privy's Original Bathroom Companion: No. 2 - Softcover

9780312315801: W.C. Privy's Original Bathroom Companion: No. 2

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312315805 ISBN 13: 9780312315801

Publisher: St Martin's Press, 2003

The second in the W.C. Privy series, this bathroom companion is chock full of jokes, stories, historical factoids, quizzes, trivia and pop culture fun. An eclectic reading array, the book includes: Rules & Histories of Laughably Obscure Sports; The Night they Invented Champagne - the accidental history and process 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; A quick fix mix of factoid fun, this book is sure to cause a bowl full of laughs in the smallest room in the house.

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About the Author:

In 1903, W.C. Privy published "The Original Bathroom Companion," making him the foreflusher of bathroom reading as we know it. Composed of jokes, stories, sayings, facts, and other quick-read articles, the "Companion" made a big splash in the smallest room of the house. In his honor, Americans began calling the bathroom a "privy," while British fans adopted the term "W.C." Thanks to a dissolute Privy descendant, Jack Mingo and Erin Barrett have obtained the rights to Privy's legacy and have created a modern new edition of the bathroom companion. Particularly well-suited for this task, Barrett and Mingo have written two dozen entertaining books including "Just Curious, Jeeves," "Doctors Killed George Washington," "Dracula Was a Lawyer," "Al Capone Was a Golfer," "The Whole Pop Catalogue," and "How the Cadillac Got Its Fins." Barrett and Mingo's column of fun facts can be read daily in the "Minneapolis Star-Tribune."

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