This is America, and you have the right to voice your displeasure with someone or something. Just make sure you address the correct people. Boo, Miley Cyrus! The most controversial moment at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards: a performance by Robin Th...
Hockey Stars and Their Other Jobs
So Tim Horton founded Canada’s most successful franchise. Big deal—did he ever record a disco album? Here are some hockey palyers and their other jobs from the brand-new Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Weird Canada. WAYNE GRETZKY. In 1991, NBC TV b...
Weird Holiday: Stay Away From Seattle Day
How to celebrate: visit Seattle. Wait, no…do not visit Seattle. If you were thinking of visiting the ancestral homeland of Starbucks, grunge music, and Fremont Troll on September 16, you’re going to have to change your plans. That’s because tha...
Three Canadian Inventions You Can’t Live Without!
How have you lived this long without poop paper? Here are three Canadian inventions you can't live without. Are we right? Or are we right? Snow Cone Snowstorm Mask. Invented in Montreal in 1939. Picture a transparent plastic cone—sort of like a sm...
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Poet James McIntyre: The Chaucer of Cheese
Raise your hand if you like cheese! Wow...if we are counting correctly, that's millions and millions of people. Poet James McIntyre loved cheese. Here is his story, as published in Uncle John's Funniest Ever Bathroom Reader. The Chaucer of Cheese Ha...
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