What [reading material] is in your toilet [room]?

Mine:

This month’s T3 gadget magazine, ‘the week’ (a collection of articles etc from the week’s main newspapers), a newspaper from a few days ago (not sure which), sky magazine.

Usually the last few issues of Entertainment Weekly, a catalog or two & currently Mirth of a Nation: The Best of Contemporary Humor

The complete works of R.A. Salvatore (a pile of books, not a volume, don’t worry), a couple issues of The Sporting News and Car & Driver, and Who Moved My Cheese?

Usually whatever beading or quilting magazine I happen to have in my hand at the time. My SO is probably the only man I know who doesn’t read in the toilet, so the concept of having (and keeping) reading material in there is alien to him. He will keep moving my reading material around until I put it in another room. :slight_smile: He dislikes clutter.

Roughly six issues each of Popular Science, Discover, and Electronic House magazines.

Uncle John’s Ahhhh-Inspiring Bathroom Reader
Dave Barry Slept Here
The Hobbit
Desperation (S. King)
Lightening (D. Koontz)
2201 Fascinating Facts
The Complete Hitchikers Guide
The Order of the Phoenix
Various old Comic Books (about 8 in all)

This is actually a small list. After Mr. Congo’s brother moved out (YAY!!!) a week ago, I did a heavy cleaning. We had about 25 comic books and various newspapers in there. Not to mention many more of my books (I’d spend hours in there to get away from the obnoxious house guest).

Now I actually have room for my 56 rolls of toilet paper.

A few issues of what I consider the perfect bathroom magazine, Reader’s Digest. Most articles are approximately one good dump in length.

I’ve ever been one to read when on the toilet, so that may explain the rather odd assortment of incredibly old mail-order catalogues I have in the bathroom:

  • Museum Replicas Limited
    I have no idea why I get this, but it’s fun to look at the pictures of swords and armor that they sell. This one’s maybe six months old.

  • The Pyramid Collection
    Neither do I know why I get this. Some of their stuff is interesting, in a wacky sort of way. Their crystal magic wands are neat looking. This catalogue is at least three years old.

  • BBC America videos
    This one isn’t too bad as I do occasionally order things from it. I believe the last thing I got was a DVD set of Father Ted. It’s only a few months out of date.

  • Some gun catalogue
    I’m not too sure what its name is, it doesn’t appear to be written on the cover anywhere. I’ve never owned a gun in my life, nor ever expressed in interest in guns, but for some reason this arrives in the mail about twice a year. This one is from the year before last.

  • The Vermont Country Store
    Once upon a time, I ordered some ribbons from them that I couldn’t find anywhere else for my typewriter. I’ve gotten a catalogue ever since. It’s half a year old.

I have the appropriate thing to read in my toilet: The Birthday Calendar I am Dutch. :wink:

A couple of Uncle John’s Bathroom Readers.

I just checked both bathrooms.

Mine:

Guns & Ammo magazine
Loaded magazine
There Is No Toilet Paper On The Road Less Travelled - a collection of travel stories
Paisley Goes With Nothing: A Man’s Fashion Guide

The Wife’s:

The latest issues of Dreamwatch, SFX, Entertainment Weekly, Food & Beverage International, Angel, and Starburst.

I’m trying to determine what it says…

A) …about you and your wife, that you have seperate bathrooms, and

B) …about me, that I’d rather peruse her collection over yours any day.

:slight_smile:

I hear you, brother. Seperate bathrooms because the sinks are small in both, and there isn’t really room for all of her stuff and all of my stuff to peaceably coexist. Her collection is currently stuff I have already read. :slight_smile:

Sportsman Guide Catalog (Avid camper)
Entertainment Weekly

June edition of Restaurants and Institutions
Victoria’s Secret Semi-Annual Sale Catalog
June UK edition of Cosmo
“Where The Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak
“Go, Dog, Go” by Dr. Seuss
“Everything’s Eventual” by Stephen King
July edition of *Dell Crossword Puzzles
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The past 8 or so issues of “Entertainment Weekly.” Somehow I got a subscription to that magazine when I didn’t intend to; I think it was some kind of Best Buy promotion.

I have to turn them all face down, because I don’t like Heath Ledger and Christian Bale staring at me when I pee.

Contrary to what you may have heard.

Great American Folklore
Gallery of Horror
Raising a Son
Barnyard Bigtop
Stephen King Universe
and
The current issue of Playboy. Yet another actress on the cover. :Yawn: Does anyone else wish they’d just back the hell away from the celebrities for a while?

Well, as of this morning:

two old Jughead comic digests
A Foxtrot anthology
an old Lucky magazine
An old Glamour magazine
Poplollies and Bellybones–a fun book about words lost to the English language
a book of Celtic myths
an old Roaman’s catalogue–I love making fun of the hideously ugly clothes therein

One or two volumes from my 1960 edition of the World Book encyclopedia, in fairly regular rotation. The absurdly pristine world it protrays is fascinating to me. For instance, just about every Latin American country was described as a tranquil democracy.

I was 2 when my family bought that, and what with everything that went on in the 1960s, it was out of date almost before I could read.

Nothing, Nada, Zip.

Am I the only one that, although an avid reader, would never consider settling down on the crapper to read? Maybe I’m just weird but the idea of lingering on the bog doesn’t appeal to me.