# What's Your Bathroom Reading Material? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 4, 2005, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693 "2005-10-04T04:04:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/41 "2005-10-05T06:33:13Z")
Why do you _read_ in the bathroom? Shouldn’t you be concentrating on prime mission objectives? ---
**Author:** ![meara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@meara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meara)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/42 "2005-10-05T07:46:09Z")
Lots and lots of puzzle magazines!! (Cryptograms, Sum Totals, Anagram Magic Squares, Logic Puzzles, etc.) Heck, the PDA thing doesn’t sound bad except that I’d never keep it charged. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/43 "2005-10-05T09:32:37Z")
Currently “An introduction to genetic algorithms” by Melanie Mitchell. Not one I’d recommend. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/44 "2005-10-05T12:51:12Z")
> [@csharpmajor](#): > > Why do you _read_ in the bathroom? Shouldn’t you be concentrating on prime mission objectives? Have you ever forgotten someones name, and the more you struggle to remember it the more futile it becomes? Then you realize that if you think about it too much you could hurt yourself and if you just stop thinking about it for a while it’ll pop into your head all by itself. Kind of the same thing. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/45 "2005-10-05T14:43:45Z")
> [@Penchan](#): > > I think I love you. 😉 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/46 "2005-10-05T15:11:29Z")
> [@csharpmajor](#): > > Why do you _read_ in the bathroom? Shouldn’t you be concentrating on prime mission objectives? I’m just too laid back to force the…erm…hand of nature. I’d rather sit and wait than get all in a lather trying to evacuate my bowels. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/47 "2005-10-05T15:54:21Z")
We have two bathrooms. In one is George Carlin’s “When will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?” Perfect for bathroom reading. In the other “main” bathroom there are only coin collecting magazines, because I finished my latest read, “Why Me?” by Leola Mae Harmon. If I have time, I’ll grab my current read. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/48 "2005-10-05T16:13:25Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Have you ever forgotten someones name, and the more you struggle to remember it the more futile it becomes? Then you realize that if you think about it too much you could hurt yourself and if you just stop thinking about it for a while it’ll pop into your head all by itself. > > Kind of the same thing. 😃 Yeah, but when that happens to me I pull my pants back up and go do something else. If the urge strikes me, I may indeed read. But I will do so sitting comfortably on a couch, not perched on a toilet seat. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Jibby\_Jabbish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Mr.Jibby\_Jabbish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Jibby_Jabbish)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/49 "2005-10-05T17:22:26Z")
I read aloud from the Oxford English Dictionary. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/50 "2005-10-05T17:39:07Z")
Right now, _Onion_ and _Dilbert_ books. ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/51 "2005-10-05T18:13:48Z")
Whatever magazines we’ve got around the house - People, Newsweek, Better Homes & Gardens - or a random catalog. If it feels like a long visit, I’ll take whatever book I’m reading. And I’ll sit there the extra couple of minutes it takes to get to a good stopping point (in the book) if I’m otherwise finished. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/52 "2005-10-06T15:48:17Z")
> [@csharpmajor](#): > > Why do you _read_ in the bathroom? Shouldn’t you be concentrating on prime mission objectives? Reading on the john is what separates us from the lower animals. You non-john readers should just accept the fact that you’re weird and unusual and move on. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693.md?page=2)