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BATHROOM NEWS

Short

Bathroom Beginnings

Medium

A Clean Fight: Bath vs Shower

Who Painted the Elevator?

Long

Japan’s Space-Age Toilets

THE REEL STUFF

Short

First Films

Movie Bloopers

Reel Quotes

Reel Quotes

Hard-Boiled

Damn You, Stink Man!

Wretched Reviews

Medium

Video Treasures

Long

Little Shop of Horrors

*King Kong

WORDPLAY

Short

Flubbed Headlines

Why Ask Why?

Why Ask Why?

The Personals

Har-Har! Rah-Rah!

Techno-slang

Alpo & Green Slime

Yiddish-American Slang

Parlez-Vous Pentagonese?

Modern-Day Latin

SUPERSTITION & TRADITIONS

Short

Celebrity Superstitions

Medium

Why a Rabbit’s Foot?

Love Potion #9

Old Wives’ Tales

Curses!

Curses!

Baseball Curses

Superstitions

Long

The Curse of the Hope Diamond

POP SCIENCE

Short

Q&A: Ask the Experts

Q&A: Ask the Experts

Here Comes the Sun

Mr. Moonlight

The Proverbial Truth

Medium

Life’s an Itch

Fart Facts

Oh, What a Tangled Web

How a Microwave Works

The Insane Experiment

The Big Dipper

The Discovery of the Planets

Great Moments in Telephone History

Long

Radio Waves

* Encyclopedia Bathroomica

MYTH-INFORMED

Short

Myth-Conceptions

Myth-Spoken

Medium

Classic Rumors

Based on a True Story

Queen of the Nile

Olympic Myths

Long

*Urban Legends

* Anatomy of a Rumor

POLITICS

Short

Your Government at Work

Medium

Democracy in Action

Presidential Influence

Other
Presidential Firsts

Long

Celebrity Also-Rans

THE NAME GAME

Short

Brand Names

Brand Names

Founding Fathers

For Your Reading Pleasure

Medium

Word Geography

Word Geography

Alias “Alan Smithee”

Long

Is Your Name Your Destiny?

MOUTHING OFF

Short

Alienisms

Barryisms

Uncle Albert Says

The First Lady

Roseanne Sez

What’s a Rudner?

Seinfeldology

Give ’em Hell, Harry

Mark Twain Says

Wilde About Oscar

Wright On

Canine Quotes

The Best Things Ever Said?

Let’s Rock!

You Should Never

Politalks

THAT’S DEATH!

Short

Near-Death Experiences

Medium

They Went That-a-Way

They Went That-a-Way

After the Funeral

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Short

McRevenge!

A Yen for Egg Rolls

The Fortune Cookie

What’s for Breakfast?

Medium

The Tomato

Freeze-dried Cats and Cottage Cheese

Long

Let There Be Lite

Let There Be Lite, Part II

TV’s TOP 10

Short

1949-1954

1955-1960

1961-1966

1967-1972

1973-1978

1979-1984

1985-1990

1991-1997

As Seen on TV!

Legendary TV Flops

AMERICANA

Short

Building a Better Squirt Gun

Weird Celebrations

Medium

The Birth of the Microwave

The Writing on the Wall

More Writing on the Wall

Launching Air Jordan

Lemons

Notable Books

Long

The History of the Yo-Yo

THE TONIGHT SHOW

Medium

The Birth of “The Tonight Show,” Part I

The Birth of “The Tonight Show,” Part II

“The Tonight Show,” Part III

“The Tonight Show,” Part IV

“The Tonight Show,” Part V

“The Tonight Show,” Part VI

“The Tonight Show,” Part VII

“The Tonight Show,” Part VIII

MODERN MYTHOLOGY

Short

Modern Mythology

Medium

Bond…James Bond, Part I

It’s a Miracle!

Long

Bond on Film

Bond(s)…James Bonds, Part II

The Resurrection of Elvis, Part I

The Resurrection of Elvis, Part II

ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY

Short

The Sword of Damocles

Medium

The Foolish Hunter

How the Spider Was Created

PRIMETIME PROVERBS

Short

Primetime Proverbs

Primetime Proverbs

Primetime Proverbs

FAMILIAR PHRASES

Short

Familiar Phrases

Familiar Phrases

Familiar Phrases

Medium

Familiar Phrases

LAW & ORDER

Short

Dumb Crooks

Court Transquips

Court Transquips

Looney Laws

Medium

Strange Lawsuits

More Strange Lawsuits

Celebrity Lawsuits

It’s the Law…Or Is It?

FRAUDS & HOAXES

Medium

Read All About It!

Read All About It!

You Call That Art?

You Call That Art? II

Television Hoaxes

Famous Publishing Hoaxes

Long

*The Newspaper Hoax That Shook the World

CONSPIRACY

Medium

The Acme Anti-Castro Spy Kit

Long

What Happened at Roswell?, Part I

What Happened at Roswell?, Part II

What a Trip! The CIA & LSD

*Silkwood

POP-POURRI

Short

Little Things Mean a Lot

Spaced-Out Sports

The Truth About Love

Medium

One Tough Lama

For Cynics Only

Broadway Obsession

The Great Regurgitator

Groucho Marx, Attorney at Law, Part 1

Groucho Marx, Attorney at Law, Part II

Groucho Marx, Attorney at Law, Part III

There’s Egg on Your Face!

Now Hear This!

What’s a Blue Moon?

Long

Anatomy of Laughter

The Eiffel Tower, Part I

The Eiffel Tower, Part II

The Leaningest Tower on Earth

The Disappearance of the
Mary Celeste

*Looking Forward, Looking Back

KIDS’ CLASSICS

Medium

Go Ask Alice

The World According to Alice

The Secret of Nancy Drew

THE YEAR 2000

Short

Countdown to 2000

Exploitation 2000

PUBLIC LIVES

Short

Celebrity Gossip

Medium

Famous for Being Naked

The Naked Truth

The First Centerfold

Public Proposals

Animals Famous for 15 Minutes

Anonymous Stars

Unlucky Stars

Long

Famous for 15 Minutes

Famous for 15 Minutes

LIFE IS STRANGE

Short

Oops!

Oops!

Informal Writing

Medium

The Spider Dance

The Secret of

Missed It By
That
Much

Oops—False Alarm!

In Dreams

Politically Correct Quiz

Lucky Finds

Lucky Finds

FORGOTTEN HISTORY

Short

Forgotten History

Forgotten Pop History

Forgotten Pop History

Medium

Dustbin of History

Mothers of Invention

The First Computer Programmers

Long

The Fight for Safe Milk, part I

The Fight for Safe Milk, part II

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