![]() ![]() Actually, she's pretty much all in on bathroom jokes, which makes sense considering the subject. Roach isn't shy about making the occasional bathroom joke. ![]() Did The King suffer from a "mega-colon"? And did it contribute to his death? Roach investigates. Roach appears to go over most of them, from the poor soul left with a peekaboo hole in his stomach after a gunshot wound and people with stretchable colons - which brings up Elvis. It turns out a person's plumbing can malfunction in many strange ways. Readers learn about the song sung during meals at chewing enthusiast John Harvey Kellogg's sanatorium ("I choose to chew/ because I wish to do"), researchers who pump pythons full of air, and get tips on rectal smuggling from an inmate in California (it's called "hooping" behind the wall). The wonders of digestion are a launching point for Roach to explore all sorts of oddities in "Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal" (W.W. ![]() But Mary Roach - an author who has written smart but irreverent books about sex, corpses and space travel - manages to make it not only fun, but also funny. That journey between the tip of your tongue and the seat of your pants might seem like a humdrum subject for a science book. We savor it, digest it, absorb the best and pass the rest. ![]()
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