If I came over and used your bathroom for 20 minutes, what reading material would be available?

[mainegreen]

If you were to use our fine porcelain throne, you would have this week's Newsweek (terrible magazine we never ordered but they keep sending), some random magazine on home decor, and a book on the history of life.

:hurts:

[jakefrep]

1. I don't keep reading material in the throne room....

...but I could offer you your choice of the following:

The New Yorker
The Economist
Auto Motor und Sport

[madinmaryland]

2. BYOB!!1!!

Bring your own book.

remember the Seinfeld episode where George took the book into the bathroom and was forced to buy it and then couldn't sell it anywhere else!!

:rofl:

[TZ]

3. Hey MiM..

If you ever visited my mother's house..I'd let you use the Redskins bathroom.. Definite decor of burgandy and gold with a nice Skins history book in there for reading material.......:rofl:

[madinmaryland]

13. Sounds like the perfect place to

defacate!!1!!

:rofl:

[TZ]

20. ...

Did I mention the TP had the Dallas star on it?


(Well not really..but I think it SHOULD)

[taterguy]

4. Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

[Chan790]

5. Currently?

Chan790's Crapper Library:

Current and past 10 issues of GQ.
Current issue of CUA Today (Catholic University alumni magazine)
Current issue of LaSalle University alumni magazine
Current and past 2 issues of Country Living
7 past issues of Advancing Philanthropy
Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
My Life in Heavy Metal by Steve Almond
Tao Te Ching
Vom Kriege by Carl von Clausewitz
Nerve Guide to Sex Etiquette by Lorelei Sharkey and Emma Taylor (I'm quoted too.)

[mainegreen]

7. Wow. That'll keep even the hour bathroom marathoners entertained.

Nice selection!

[NJmaverick]

6. A large collection of magazines including

Newsweek
Entertainment Weekly
Popular Science and Popular Mechanics
Military History Magazine
Naval History Magazine
PC magazine
Giants Insider

[madinmaryland]

14. The "Giant's Insider"?? The Dallas Cowboys Star makes for a much

more interesting read!

[NJmaverick]

18. I guess if you want a good laugh

[southpaw]

8. David Sedaris

Any one of several by Sedaris... or maybe David Rakoff. "Fraud" was a toilet-tank fixture in the downstairs bathroom for some time.

One of Augusten Burroughs' essay collections.

[msanthrope]

31. Yes, Sedaris makes excellent bathroom reading, and in my

bathroom, you would have an generous selection of his works....

Last year, when I needed to replace the toilet-paper holder I went and bought a combo, wall-mounted magazine rack/two-roll holder.....everything in easy reach....

[unpossibles]

9. a Huxley book (Doors of Perception/Heaven & Hell), Rolling Stone magazine, an issue of Ready Made,

The Ethical Slut, a camera catalog, and a book on philosophy. The magazines were gift subscriptions - I don't really care for them that much, but they're ok.

[Burma Jones]

10. Pretty Fair Selection

We bought a house with a full bath on the main level. The bathtub is therefore used as a book depository. We have in there now:

"Stuff White People Like" by Christian Lander
"Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons, 1978-2006" by Roz Chast
"Commentaries on the Gallic Wars" - Julius Caesar
"The Twelve Caesars" - Suetonius
"Hamlet" - Shakespeare
"The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali"
"Uncle John's Bathroom Reader"
"Green Eggs and Ham" - Dr. Seuss
A couple of Sandra Boynton Board Books
A couple National Geographics
A couple New Yorkers
A couple Yoga Journals
Catalogs from Acoustic Sounds, LL Bean, Ikea, Crutchfield

[Robb]

11. A book on raising grapes and making wine at home

...and a Colorado atlas. :)

[Crazy Dave]

12. We have...

Mother Jones

Foreign Policy

Smoke

[RebelOne]

15. A Dean Koontz book, "The Darkest Evening of the Year,"

which I am just finishing. VegNews and Vegetarian Times magazines.

[moriah]

16. Right now?

A book on the Great Starvation Experiment

A crappy (no pun intended) true crime book called "Sleep in Heavenly Peace", about a woman who gave birth to 12 children but killed 4 of them (she was Catholic and wouldn't use birth control, the 4 she killed were when it was socially unacceptable for her to give birth so she hid the pregnancies, delivered at home, killed the babies, and then put them in boxes and carted them around with her across the country -- she got caught when the storage place she stored them in sold off the contents since she hadn't paid the rent on the storage building).

"The Nazi Doctors - the Psychology of Genocide"

And a few Fantasy books.

Yes, I'm a sicko.

[Lyric]

17. Right now? *goes to check*

We have several options in the bathroom at the moment.

"What's The Matter With Kansas?" by Thomas Frank
"Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" by Fannie Flagg
"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

[1gobluedem]

19. Nothing

That is a habit I detest.

[seaglass]

36. I don't know that I detest it, I just don't get it. I love to read but I don't

spend any more time in the bathroom than I need to. I've never had anyone spend 20 minutes in the bathroom unless they were either taking a shower or sick. :shrug:

[sarge43]

21. Right now,

Amazing Birds: A Treasury of Facts and Trivia about the Avian World

A Linen Source catalog.

[VenusRising]

22. There are 2 variety puzzle books upstairs in my bathroom.

Crossword, Fill-ins, cryptograms, logic puzzles, and tons more.

I like to do them in the bathtub. :)

[av8rdave]

23. Recent editions of Mother Jones and The Progressive, as well as a motorcycle mag or two

I really need to add George Carlin's "Brain Droppings." You can open that book to any random page, start reading, and it's great. The perfect bathroom companion!

[Symarip]

24. BOSS SOUNDS:

A Guide To Skinhead Reggae

And

a Maxim

[LynneSin]

25. The Complete works of Jane Austin

I meant to read them after watching "The Jane Austin Book Club" but never got around to it. I also have a few magazines (it varies - Rolling Stone, Cooking LIght, Self, Nation, Mother Jones), a book on how to live a Greener lifestyle and a really trashy book called "Temptation"

[KG]

26. No Depression magazine.

[mike_c]

27. Programming Perl, Spectrum 14 (fantasy art), buncha Cooks Illustrated...

...Sunset Magazines, and various alumni news mags from Georgia and Virginia.

[Phillycat]

28. We've got the new Rolling Stone, the new Economist, also the new Newsweek

as well as "Customs of France" and "The US Constitution: What It Says, What It Means" mini-books. :)

[Iggo]

29. Whatever you brought in there with you.

Books don't live in my bathroom.

[ghostsofgiants]

30. No reading material in there, but you could borrow a copy of Adbusters or Juxtapoz from my bedroom.

[SteppingRazor]

32. About the last five issues of Esquire, Matt Taibbi's The Great Derangement...

the complete short stories of Ernest Hemingway, and 35 Years of Newspaper Work: A Memoir by H.L. Mencken. Also, a couple random issues of Rolling Stone, Maxim and Vanity Fair.



You could be in there a while.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

33. Depends on which bathroom you use...

Please use the guest bathroom, where you will find old magazines and a book of crossword puzzles along with a pencil :D

[petronius]

34. Anything that's gonna take you 20 minutes, you can go do in your own bathroom!

[populistdriven]

35. the nation

[crim son]

37. Excellent post.

You'd have the "Free People" clothing catalogue and whatever year of "Best American Short Stories" that was edited by Stephen King. woohoo!

[mainegreen]

43. Short stories are best.

Novels don't work out so well.

[yellowdogintexas]

38. old Southern Living and Cooking Light magazines. Every so often I indulge in

a subscription and hang on to them for a while.

LOL you would have to fight your way through the following to get to the magazines:

1. My black cat Clark, who won't let you be alone in the bathroom, and sits on top of the magazine basket so his head is right at hand level, handy for petting and head butting; bear in mind he is whiningly chatting you up all this time.

2. The Amazing Furball left on top of the magazine basket by said cat.

3. The other cats would be lounging on the tile, assisting in hall monitor duties, and usually one of them is licking the bottom of the shower stall.

[DS1]

39. Nada

You can read the warning labels on various cleaners if you're that bored.

[DarkTirade]

40. None. That's the only room in the house that doesn't have books in it.

And I mean the only one. There's even a bookshelf in the hall. The only rooms in this house that don't have books in them are the two bathrooms.

[pokerfan]

41. I don't read on the crapper

I play backgammon on my Palm Pilot.

[KansDem]

42. "Maltin's Movie Guide--2008"

Great time to create mental lists of all those movies you going to see some day...

[Greyskye]

44. Uncle John's Bathroom Reader

If you want something more, you'll have to grab one of the other 10 brazillian books in the house.

[Blue Diadem]

45. We have a combination magazine rack/2-roll tp holder.

I just checked. You'd find Mother Jones, AARP, Jim Hightowers Lowdown, a step two catalogue for the grandkids, my daughter's US weekly and normally the current JCPenny's sale catalogue, but that's missing right now. Once in a while, you'll also find a repair manual for one of the cars in there too.

[mainegreen]

50. combination magazine rack/2-roll tp holder!??!

Is it an actual 2 roll dispenser, or does it just hold the 'spares'?

[Blue Diadem]

53. It is a rack that mounts on the wall, has a wooden spindle/dowl

that easily slips in and out of the mounts under the magazine holder. It's large enough to hold two rolls so I don't have to worry about refilling. We go through lots of TP in this house, drives DH insane. :)

Bought it from some catalogue probably 20 or more years ago.

ohhh..I see they still make them except in chrome finish now. Ours is wooden, painted white. I may have to check on the cheaper version of this one.

$59



$17.50..that's more my price.



http://www.amazon.com/Tissue-Holder-magazine-Two-roll-Chrome/dp/B0000DYEOR

[Liberal Dose]

46. Newsweek, Rolling Stone, People and Entertainment Weekly

It's not the throne room. It's the library :)

[edbermac]

47. Flatulence For Dummies.

:hurts:

[DustyJoe]

48. Oh Well

Calvin and Hobbes, Wizard if ID, BC dates me too well.

[Rabrrrrrr]

49. Art in America, a newspaper, BBC Music Magazine, Theology Today, and ARTNews.

[Beer Snob-50]

51. let's see..

some of one sons animae magazines, the others wwe magazine, and a picture book on yosemite park. maybe sports illustrated.

[Fran Kubelik]

52. Smithsonian, New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly, Metropolitan Home

I try to keep my food magazines out of the WC.

[XemaSab]

54. Sunset, Cottage Living, and various plant catalogues

:shrug:

[tigereye]

55. weeks worth of New Yorkers, plus some wild art books!

[graywarrior]

56. Harry Potty.

:P

[mainegreen]

62. A wise guy, eh?

[graywarrior]

64. A wiz guy, hahahahahahahaha!

[mainegreen]

65. ......

:o

[graywarrior]

71. .

:9

[Mojambo]

57. Graphic novels and comic books. n/t

[underpants]

58. Runner's World, the Almanac, a David Sedaris book

[Zavulon]

59. This week's Sports Illustrated, which just arrived by mail today, as well as

today's issues of the D.C. Examiner and the Washington Post. My girlfriend is reading some book called "The Life of Pi," and it's currently in the bathroom as well. I have a novel in there too, can't remember the author, but the title is "The House of Special Purpose."

Oh, this week's copy of The Onion is in there, too.

[lutefisk]

60. Probably something by Rosemary Wells. Maybe a Max & Ruby ...n/t

[mitchum]

61. "Encyclopedia of True Crime", "Rough Guide To World Music"...

and "Autobiography Of A Yogi"

I like to keep encyclopedic books in the bathroom (brief entries) and the Yogi book is in my bathroom as a Graceland joke

[Runcible Spoon]

63. my Argentinian fiance doesn't get why Americans do this.

I honestly can't give a logical explanation. :rofl:

[PeaceNikki]

66. A menu for the local Italian joint... and a Tampax box.

:shrug:

[Forkboy]

67. Skyscraper, The Wire, Terrorizor, and Decibel magazines.

We're considering just putting in a jukebox. Ten minutes in the bathroom is ten minutes without music (my singing definitely doesn't count).

[Gormy Cuss]

68. Twenty minutes on the throne? That's the last time I'm inviting you over.

However, you will find an eclectic collection of reading materials in the magazine rack, including Nature Conservancy mags and a "before picture" of Wavy Gravy.

[mainegreen]

73. Well, the 20 minutes is mostly spent reading.

Unless you have those puffy toilet seats.

I won't go near those.

[semillama]

69. Several things:

Ulysses, Dirk Gently's Holisitic Detective Agency, National Geographic Complete Guide to the Birds of North America, an old OSU Alumni magazine, an old Audubon magazine, and whatever else has found its way in there.

[grannylib]

70. A book on kitchen/bath remodeling, several Boundary Waters

Journal issues, a couple of Country Home and Country Living issues, and maybe some porn *lol* Depends on what my husband has taken in there.

[Patiod]

72. Bone up on geography with our World Map Shower Curtain

My SO kicked ass in Quizzo thanks to his newly-acquired world knowledge....

[NMDemDist2]

74. a few Astronomy mags, a couple Harriet Carter catalogs and a spy novel n/t