Friday, March 17, 2006

Excuse me, did you say astronomy? Part II
Next time you are in the bathroom, Japanese astronomers want you to think of giant balls of gas burning billions of miles away.

Astronomical sales eyed for new toilet paper
Astronomical Toilet Paper (ATP) repeats text and illustrations of the evolution, life and death of a star every 70 centimeters along the paper.

If you can learn about astronomy in the bathroom, then why not something a little closer to home. Why not put excerpts from classic literature on the toilet paper too? Here are my suggestions on what books might make good bathroom reading.

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Waiting for Godot
A Room of One's Own
Great Expectations
The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You?
Oh the Places You'll Go
Much Ado About Nothing
Lord of the Flies
Something Wicked this Way Comes
Fanny Hill
The Moor's Last Sigh
Cannery Row (cuz you're in the can...get it?)
...and finally, Moby Dick (all subtlety is lost with this one)

Photo By: Lawrence Cheuk, a student at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, imaged the Rosette Nebula from the school's Hawley Observatory.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh this is too fun! (
Oh the Places You'll Go! lol)

Floating Dragon
Goodbye Mr. Chips
Candide

Hausfrau said...

You guys crack me up ... no pun intended.

LOL

Des_Moines_Girl said...

Gotta love bathroom humor although I'm still not sure about the bathroom/universe analogy.

Here are two more: I think Hemingway wrote, "A Clean Well Lighted Place" and don't forget "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." I tend to swing towards the classics.

Anonymous said...

I have music to poo to. How about "Big Log" by Robert Plant?

Bluto

Jonathon S.B. Tiercel said...

Here are a few more for you...

Blood, Sweat, and Tears - Winston Churchill
Blow, Thou Winter Wind - Shakespeare
I Shall Not Pass Again This Way - Anonymous
The Mountains in Labor - Aesop

and after a night of curry -

Retribution - Longfellow