Blood of the young mouse

[Jonathan Lighter]

My theory is that it was a word made up entirely at random, and someone
really into anagrams suddenly discovered that, written backwards, it
miraculously spelled "Nature's" without the apostrophe, a line they could
use in their commercials.

Need proof?  "Geritol" spelled backwards is "lotireg."

Not even I know that that means.

JL




On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 5/7/2014 11:03 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> >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.
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> IIRC, the brand name was a deliberate choice (confirmed by
> Wikipedia).  In any case, You Can't Fight Mother Nature.
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> Joel
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> >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%
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> > > content made it real poplar, jist like Granny's roomatizz medicine done
> > > did.)
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