Bathroom Readers' Institute's Blog, page 16
August 17, 2019
Big Star, No Movie
Sometimes Hollywood can’t get a promising movie made even if a huge superstar is on board to star in it. Skate Jam, starring Tony Hawk In 2018, NBA superstar LeBron James announced he’d be starring in a sequel to the 1996 movie Space Jam. That film combined live action and animation, as Michael Jordan teamed […]
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Who Knew…That Eating Healthy Was So Complicated?
We did! Here are some deep dives into some of the questions we all face when we’re standing in the supermarket, trying to decide what foods are delicious, best beneficial to our bodies…and which are also not too expensive. Is “eating local” healthier than not? Yes, but it might not be your health. Eating locally-produced […]
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August 16, 2019
Death in the Face of Death
Just some kooky stories about people who died…while flirting with death in other ways. Death by the shock of death In 2010, a man in India named Than Singh received a letter from a local crematorium. That was something of a surprise, as no one in his family or circle of friends had recently died. […]
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August 15, 2019
Giveaway: Uncle John’s Truth, Trivia, and the Pursuit of Factiness Bathroom Reader
Giveaway Rules: Open to US and Canada, 18 years +. Ends August 25, 2019, midnight PST. a Rafflecopter giveaway
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Banned from Television
Episodes of a successful TV show get made, air, and then get rerun and rerun endlessly for years on end. That’s usually the case…except for certain installments like these. After their initial airings, they were pulled from circulation for being way too controversial. Seinfeld TV critics almost universally hail Seinfeld as one of the best […]
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August 14, 2019
‘Strange Hollywood’ Tales: Celebrity-Founded Eateries That Flopped
What’s strange? Playing “make believe” and “dress up” for a living…and getting multi-million-dollar paychecks to do it. What’s even stranger? Using some of that acting money to open up a restaurant. Here are some stars who got into and then out of the kitchen. Pat Boone’s Dine-O-Mat Pat Boone made a name for himself singing […]
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August 13, 2019
Big News Stories About Bigfoot
Bigfoot, Sasquatch, the Yeti — whatever you want to call the (probably) mythical hairy forest beast, the big guy is an undeniable newsmaker. Oh deer, a Bigfoot! A woman from Tensed, Idaho (unnamed in news reports) was driving on U.S. Highway 95 in Latah County in March 2017 when she saw something strange along the […]
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August 12, 2019
Major Promotions That Majorly Backfired
Silly fast food companies: Promotions are supposed to earn money, not lose tons of it! No quiero Taco Bell In the late ‘90s, Taco Bell was responsible for one of the most famous fast food advertising campaigns of all time. In a series of TV commercials, an adorable Chihuahua (a dog breed from Mexico) walked […]
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August 9, 2019
Baseball Slang from the Late 1800s
Hitting a dinger against the closer to get your team out of the cellar? Those baseball terms would sound like nonsense to an early baseball player in the 1860s and 1870s. And the terms they’d use to describe their fledgling sport may sound equally bizarre to you. • People who sit in the grandstands to […]
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August 7, 2019
By the Time They Got to Woodstock
Fifty years ago, more than half a million people descended on upstate New York for the Woodstock Music and Art Festival. A lot of famous people were there, and we’re not just talking about the bands and singers on stage. Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith Legendary American rock band Aerosmith played Woodstock…the 25th-anniversary […]
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