The title of this post really says it all, and I could just leave it at that. Pooping does make you smarter.

What? You want an explanation?

Alright, for those of you who think I am crazy, here is why I believe that.

Most men… scrap that… all men read while they, well, poop. At least I know I do. I live in British Columbia, and the Province sends out a free health guide with answers to common health questions. For some reason our health guide wound up in the bathroom, and, naturally, I decided to read a bit of it every time I – well, you know.

I joked with my wife that I was learning to be a doctor, and during the next several “sessions” I actually found my self learning things about various medical issues that I had not known before. Would I have ever read that medical guide otherwise? Probably not, unless I needed it to look up a specific rash or something.

I am also a big fan of Discover Magazine. The magazine is far more technical than my brain can digest, but I still manage to learn things every time I take the throne – and yes, that’s pretty much the only place I read it. I learn something every time. It’s no wonder many people call it the library.

So you can see, that by my own personal experience, I have proven that pooping does in fact make you smarter! You simply don’t need any more proof than that.

Earlier today a friend of mine sent me a news story, which sparked this entire article. In the story a specific company was mentioned. Normally I would have never heard about them, but I recalled the exact moment I read of their existence. I was reading a magazine, while, you guessed it, doing my business. In that instance I was away on a short holiday and was staying in a hotel, but for some reason, the name of that business, and how I heard of it stuck with me. Apparently there must be a connection between pooping and memory as well.

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Before I went to college I can‘t remember if I even knew the difference between it’s & its, one thing I do know though, is that I certainly didn’t care. I am far from being the grammar police – if you search this blog, or even this post, I am sure you will find some grammatical errors, but one thing for sure, you will not find an incorrect use of “it(‘)s”, and if you do, its an innocent typo.

Back in my college days, I believe it was in second year, I had an instructor who hated the incorrect usage of “its” so much, that if he found the error anywhere in anything you handed in, you would get an automatic zero – no redo’s, but 1 exception – the first time you made the error you were given 24 hours to correct it and hand it back in, after that, if you made the mistake again, you were screwed.

At the time I found this kind of harsh, and made a point to never make the error. I was a little pissed that he could give some people zero for such a tiny mistake, but since it never happened to me, it was easy to let it go.

I feel bad that for the life of me I can’t remember his name, but he turned me into someone that gets annoyed every time “its” is used incorrectly. Guess there is a little bit of the grammar police in me somewhere.

Proper Usage of Its
The proper usage is really quite easy. There is one very simple rule to know if you have it right. If you are using “it’s” break it apart into “it is”. If your sentence still makes sense, use the apostrophe, if it doesn’t, drop the apostrophe. It’s that simple.