Blood of the young mouse

[Laurence Horn]

On May 7, 2014, at 1:02 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> 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.
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> Need proof?  "Geritol" spelled backwards is "lotireg."
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> Not even I know that that means.
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But Xanax spelled backward is Xanax.  Or xanaX, anyway.


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> 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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>>>> 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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