Captive Audience Newsletter
When I was in college, the bathrooms in the student union had a weekly newsletter on the inside of the stall doors, full of upcoming events. It was called the Captive Audience Newsletter, or CAN1. I thought it was the funniest, most location appropriate title for a newsletter, that I have now replicated it in the office bathroom at my school.
My version is much simpler, and I have a weekly rotation of something for bathroom visitors to read while on the can. Two weeks of poetry, one week of prose, and one week of fact. I haven't received many comments about the CAN, but I have fun picking good poetry or a good novel first paragraph to share with my coworkers and the occasional parent.
The fact portion, though, I fear I have written myself it a corner. I came up with the idea to have a fact portion last month, and I wrote a fun little article about goosebumps (which was appropriate for the end of the spooky month), the physical response and how it worked, the word and it's etymology, and the word used in pop culture. This month, though, I have no idea what I'm going to write, and I have all of tomorrow to pick something, research it, and write a three paragraph article on it.
Whatever I come up with, I don't think anyone will have particularly strong thoughts.
For anyone who doesn't know American slang, "the can" is one of the many euphemisms for the toilet.↩