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#12424 12/07/00 08:11 PM
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When I tore myself away from story about Anu ( insert Namaste emoticon here) in Smithsonian mag I browsed the "LETTERS" and found this :
In Richard and Joyce Wolkomir's article "You Are What You Buy," advertising analyst James Twitchell asks why his "daughters are willing to buy a bottle of water worth two cents and pay $1.50." Hasn't he ever noticed that the name of one of the best-selling bottled waters, Evian, is the word "naive" when spelled backwards?
Letter signed : Alec W. Gray of Bellair Bluffs, Florida.

This person Alec W. Gray should be among us!
Where are you Alec Gray?
I can hope that -- since he obviously reads the magazine -- he will see the article about Anu of blessed name and come aboard.
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He's probably lurking, holding all the words we write up to the mirror in anticipation of another letter to the editor ...



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Or playing all his Beatles records backwords to listen for satanic verses.


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La belle Bel dit: Or playing all his Beatles records backwords to listen for satanic verses.

Funny ... I thought it was Black Sabbath that had retro religion built in (I did get the backwords).

I tried it once and they sounded exactly the same whichever direction you played the records.



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