Introducing: “Uncle John’s Briefs” and giveaway!
August 19, 2010
The winner of the random drawing is: Weston Schnetz.
Thanks everyone for submitting your favorite facts. We had fun reading them.
Inside Uncle John’s Briefs are the most entertaining, myth-busting, and thought-provoking brief articles from Uncle John’s enormous Bathroom Reader library. So plunge in and see for yourself why the Bathroom Reader series has sold more than 10 million books.
Here is a bit of what awaits you…
- Corn Crackos and other cereal flops
- Baseball’s most bizarre injuries
- The timeless wisdom of Mr. T
- The origins of the warerbed, tarter sauce, and the polka
- How to talk like a mobster
- The anatomy of a hiccup
…and much, much more!
Now to the fun part—Giveaway!!!
Simply post your favorite Uncle John’s fact below (or on our post on the Facebook page) and be entered in a random drawing to win a copy of Uncle John’s Briefs. You have till Sunday at midnight (PST). We will pick a random winner on Monday.
Good luck!
My favorite fact is from a recent twitter post from today: “Doctors say: People who have pet fish fall asleep easier than people who don’t.” Its just so odd and random.
You are fast, Seth! Glad to see you are following us on Twitter.
The peanut is not a nut. It’s a legume.
My favorite fact: Kurt Vonnegut opened the first Saab dealership in the United States. (I’m a HUGE Saab fan, and while no one has ever been able to prove this fact is true, no one has ever been able to disprove it either, so it has become Accepted Fact among Saab crazies and indeed Saab Cars USA!)
There are 200,000 more people on Earth today than there were yesterday.
Given the opportunity, deer will chew gum. And marijuana. No word on which they like most.
hmmmm… how can i pick one ??? you have given me knowlage beyond anything i can imagine, i must have 20-30 BR within my house, with a few on loan… ok… here’s one… if the first day of the month falls on a sunday, then there will be a friday the 13th…
One of my favorite facts:
Most Americans aquire thier cats by adopting a stray.
On an average night, it takes and average person 7 minutes to fall asleep.
Five cows were killed in drive-by shootings in Clay County, Missouri, in 1992.
^^Thats my fav!
Aristotle stuttered.
If we’re just quoting runners, my favorite is “Hi, Mom!”
If we’re quoting information from the articles in the books, How marijuana became illegal (UJBR #4) and the story of nutmeg (UJBR #19) are my faves.
And the story of American football.
And photography.
And…
” the bumps in the road are not called DOTS, there called BOTS”
Who can begin to choose from the Uncle John’s bounty?? I like this one:
Now that’s a Star Trek. Scientifically speaking, a “Roddenberry” is equal to 4.157 trillion miles.
From Uncle John’s Triumphant 20th Anniversary Bathroom Reader, p202.
One study has concluded that if a woodchuck could chuck wood, it would chuck about 700 lbs. – From Uncle John’s Absolutely Absorbing Bathroom Reader
Helen Keller knew the following she learned how to READ braille with french, latin, greek, and german
Sniffing crayola crayons has been found to lower blood pressure.
My favorite fact: A roadrunner purrs when it’s content (paraphrasing here)
Taken from: Gigantic Bathroom Reader
I just got done reading in Uncle John…Sports about the many different ways that golfers can qualify for the PGA. Who knew!?
I can’t possibly pick just one… but because I have to, my “favourite would have to be “Mickey Mouse was banned in Romania in 1935 on the grounds that he was frightening to children”.
I mean, who wouldn’t be afraid of a squeaky-voiced mouse, wearing shorts…?
Light hinders sleep. Gotta love that. But I don’t remember the actual diction…
I may be wrong on the actual quote but….
“the weight of ants on earth is equivalent to that of all the humans on earth…. …”
Otters can get herpes.
Jack Nicholson has a rattlesnake embedded in his toilet seat.
“Hi Mom!”
Favorite fact: Fish can get seasick.
When playing monopoly John Lennon stood up to roll the dice.
I ” Imagine” it would ” give him a chance” to win.
My favourite fact:
Lasagna comes from the latin word for chamber pot
I hate lasagna, so this allows me to laugh at people who call me picky. hehe.
“the number one cause of daytime fatigue is a lack of water”
i’ve increased the amount of water i drink, but i’m still tired.
The American rocket research program began nearly eight months before the first V-2 crashed into London. in January 1944 the United States instituted its first high-altitude rocket powered projectile usig a series of powder fueled missiles known as the “Private” series.
The winner of the random drawing is: Weston Schnetz.
Thanks everyone for submitting your favorite facts. We had fun reading them.