Re: Earliest published ambigram?

GQrivy wrote:
> don...@hotmail.com wrote:
> 
>>I've never been there, but somehow I feel absolutely certain that the
>>first ambigram was published in 842 BC by a Phoenician falcon-meister
>>near Mellieha Bay.
>>
>>**********
>>
>> Is any record of it extant, Gala???  Can you give us a url??????
> 
> 
> The original media was destroyed during the first Punic War.  A backup
> copy survived until 1864 when it was accidentally mistaken for lutefisk
> and eaten by a sailor named Sven from Gottsburg.  Sven reported that it
> tasted much better than the lutefisk he had eaten for Christmas eve
> dinner the previous year in 1863.  Unfortunately he didn't notice the
> ambigram since he had never learned to read Phoenician.  More's the
> pity.
> 
> Why do you want an url?   We don't get many titled aristocrats here in
> Las Vegas except for Elvis impersonators, and they all like to think of
> themselves as the King.  John Wayne stayed at Caesars Palace once, but
> he was just a dook.  I suppose I could dig up an url or a barryn if you
> really want one.  Snoopy was always trying to shoot down a red one, if
> I remember correctly.  Are you trying to find one to match your drapes,
> or doesn't the color matter?
> 
> I'll forgive you for spelling my name as if I were a party, but only
> because it's New Years Day and you don't like football.   I've been
> home sneezing all day and I don't like football either.
> 

I wish I was as funny a writer as you are...

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Tian
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my desk and replaced it with a half hour Berkeley Bread note. The
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