National Bathroom Reading Month: June

National Bathroom Reading Month: Number One Yahoo – The Spark: June 4, 2010 by Liz Gill

The Bathroom Reader’s Institute started a movement more than two decades ago devoted to providing quality reading materials tailored to the unique needs of bathroom browsers. Although none of our colleagues currently relies on the official book, we have assembled what may be the beginning of a Canon of the Commode, in hopes that our suggestions might make your quality time even better.

National Scavenger Hunt @ the Bathroom Reader Institute.

Grand prize: A shiny new iPad and 10 Uncle John Bathroom Reader books of your choice.
3 lucky runner ups will get another ten books each—and each and every book will be signed by Uncle John’s himself !

Scavenger Hunt ends on June 30
Submissions due by July 5
Winners announce on July 12

The rules are simple –click here for complete rules:

Keep an eye out for the daily task, posted on BRI's blog, Facebook & Twitter.
Follow the rules and complete each required task.
Don’t send it to BRI right away!
Email your complete set of answers/submissions at the end of the contest by July 5

~ The person with the most items “collected” will be our final winner.
~ If there is a tie, we will do a random drawing for the winner.

P.S. Due to the different contest rules in different countries, our lawyers are only allowing us to open the scavenger hunt up to US residents. We apologize to our fans in other countries.

The first 4 tasks:
1. Take a picture of your bathroom.
2. Send BRI the headline and link of the 1st Neatorama blog post of 2010.
3. What is the age of the woman who bungee jumped with her dad in one of BRI's earlier blogs from this year?
4. Take a friend or loved one to a home supply store, go to the bathroom department, and photograph the two of you having a "lightsaber fight" with plungers. (If you get in trouble, then we don't know you.)

other sites of interest:
Top 10 Bathroom Books: a list of even more recommendations.
The Little Loo Library - Squidoo.com: articles about selecting periodicals for your washroom.
Top 10 Bathroom Reading Material: even more inspired ideas, these from AskMen.com readers.
The Best in Comic Books: About.com helps you start your comics shelf (in any room).

Regarding the bathrooms: a privy to the past
Kate Klise – Harcourt, 2006