Blood of the young mouse

[Joel S. Berson]

At 5/7/2014 11:03 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

>But Serutan spelled backwards is still "Nature's."
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>Except for the apostrophe.
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>I wonder how they did that? Most things spelled backwards are gibberish.

IIRC, the brand name was a deliberate choice (confirmed by
Wikipedia).  In any case, You Can't Fight Mother Nature.

Joel


>JL
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>On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:10 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Wail, back in the '50s, we had a name fer it and a tonic. (The 12% alcohol
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