Blood of the young mouse

[Jonathan Lighter]

A mere tautology.

JL


On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On May 7, 2014, at 1:02 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > 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.
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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."
> >>>
> >>> Except for the apostrophe.
> >>>
> >>> 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.
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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%
> >> alcohol
> >>>> content made it real poplar, jist like Granny's roomatizz medicine
> done
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