title: Uncle John's Bathroom Reader:   Plunges into History
author: The Bathroom Readers' Hysterical Society
description: Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into History will open your eyes to ages past, dispelling myths and exposing truths that you were never taught in school. From B.C. to beyond, you'll be turning pages until your family's knocking on the door to see if you're okay. The Bathroom Readers' Hysterical Society has plumbed the depths of more than two millennia to unearth history at its weirdest and wildest. Kind of like the History Channel, but without the cheesy actors. Read about: *The Short History of Underwear *Odd Deaths of Famous Figures *Abe Lincoln, Fashion Icon *The Real Lady Godiva *Plus much more!
zlib_text: The Fun They Had
  
  Isaac Asimov
  
  Margie even wrote about it that night in her diary. On the page headed May 17,
  2155, she wrote, “Today Tommy found a real book!”
  
  It was a very old book. Margie’s grandfather once said that when he was a
  little boy his grandfather told him that there was a time when all stories
  were printed on paper.
  
  They turned the pages, which were yellow and crinkly, and it was awfully funny
  to read words that stood still instead of moving the way they were supposed
  to-on a screen, you know. And then, when they turned back to the page before,
  it had the same words on it that it had had when they read it the first time.
  
  “Gee,” said Tommy, “what a waste. When you’re through with the book, you just
  throw it away, I guess. Our television screen must have had a million books on
  it and it’s good for plenty more. I wouldn’t throw it away.”
  
  “Same with mine,” said Margie. She was eleven and hadn’t seen as many
  telebooks as Tommy had. He was thirteen.
  
  She said, “Where did y