W. C. Privy's Original Bathroom Companion, Number 2
- ISBN-10
- 1250109469
- ISBN-13
- 9781250109460
- Category
- Humor
- Pages
- 480
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-12-29
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Griffin
- Authors
- Jack Mingo, Erin Barrett
Description
Number 2 in the W.C. Privy series, this bathroom companion is chock full of jokes, stories, historical factoids, quizzes, trivia, and pop culture fun. An ecletic reading array, the book includes: *Rules and Histories of Laughably Obscure Sports *The Night They Invented Champagne--the Accidental History of Bubbly Wine *I Was There! Eyewitness Accounts of Pompeii, the Chicago Fire, the Defeat of Custer, the San Francisco Earthquake *How to Escape Killer Bees *How to Build a Log Cabin *Before They Were Stars: Actors, Writers, Politicians and Rockers
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