The exploding toilet : modern urban legends. collected and retold by David Holt and Bill Mooney ; illustrated by Kevin Pope.

Introduction -- Idiots on parade -- Home front -- School daze -- Dumb luck and bad breaks -- Scary stories -- Hoaxes and affairs of state -- Crime doesn't pay -- Occupational hazards -- What are the chances? -- Good thinking -- Hot off the internet.

Hey, did you hear about the guy who dropped a lit cigarette into the toilet without seeing the gasoline rags soaking in the bowl? Of course you did, it happened to your cousin's gym teacher. Or was it your gym teacher's cousin? Story tellers David Holt and Bill Mooney follow up their previous hit, Spiders in the Hairdo, with a whole new collection of modern urban legends. Here you'll find stupid criminals, government SNAFUs, scary stories, and a section featuring the Internet. These stories are too good not to pass on. Once you start telling them, your friends will say you're on a roll!