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Oliver Garner
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I have just noticed that the word Evian backwards spells Naive. I was wondering if other companies were anagrams of words.
Any suggestions?
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Good old EKANS and ARBOK.
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I couldn't face drinking Vimto once I realised it was an anagram of vomit.
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Jimmy Gough wrote:Good old EKANS and ARBOK.
These are companies?
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TREBOR used to be a sweet manufacturing company.

I used to notice this because as a kid I used to spell my entire name backwards, not just my first and last names, and TREBOR is what my middle name turned into.
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Jon: Snake Pokemon- no points for guessing what species they are due to their name!
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PEPSI = PIPES

Stunning. Makes you wonder if all those conspiracy theories mught actually carry some truth.
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Although not an anagram REEBOK is actually allowed in Countdown. It's a variant spelling of RHEBOK, which is a small South African antelope.

NIKE = KINE
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Junaid Mubeen wrote:PEPSI = PIPES

Stunning. Makes you wonder if all those conspiracy theories mught actually carry some truth.
PEPSI COLA = EPISCOPAL
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Joseph Bolas wrote:NIKE = KINE
Incidentally, COW and its archaic plural KINE are the only singular-and-plural that have no letters in common (until someone else proves otherwise).
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Kai Laddiman wrote:
Joseph Bolas wrote:NIKE = KINE
Incidentally, COW and its archaic plural KINE are the only singular-and-plural that have no letters in common (until someone else proves otherwise).
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Oliver Garner wrote:I have just noticed that the word Evian backwards spells Naive
NO FUCKING WAY! At around the same time you made this post I noticed the exact same thing while looking at a bottle of water at work! That is plain random! And its happened to me before as well. One morning Emma and I, in separate houses, both thought about a joke in a film which we'd seen ages ago and not thought about at all since then. There'd been no specific mention of it in the media or by friends. We just happened to talk about our musings later and were shocked to discover we'd each thought the exact same obscure thing that morning. We almost felt compelled to go and buy "The Truth" Almost

For anyone who wants an insight into our twisted minds the joke was the Pillowpants gag from Clerks II. Bizarre.
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Ben Wilson wrote:
Kai Laddiman wrote:
Joseph Bolas wrote:NIKE = KINE
Incidentally, COW and its archaic plural KINE are the only singular-and-plural that have no letters in common (until someone else proves otherwise).
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Dinos Sfyris
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Ben Wilson wrote:ME/US?
Only counts if its clones though (or Smeagol talking) ;)
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Phil Reynolds wrote:I couldn't face drinking Vimto once I realised it was an anagram of vomit.
I'm sure there is a good reason for that.
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