Have you noticed that the last few people to kindly include anagrams for their names have tried to be rather raunchy with them?
Ed "Hard Legend" Dahlgren
Mark "Anal Wank Armor" Alan Rowan
Dave "Cavies Turd" Curtis
Is must just be human nature to rearrange their name to the lowest common denominator.
-- Karen "Harem Stink" Smith

Those last cheap items were just COPIES of the patent.  The big money auction is for the RIGHTS to the patent.

If you look at the seller's last three auctions, the Pulsed Plasma Mobile Hydrogen Generator went for $16.50, $20.00, and $14.99.  I guess he thinks demand has gone up.
-- Ryan "My Neon Rack" McKeon

I was going to try the urinal penny test at my work but I had no penny -- not even any worthless Canadian currency -- but fortunately someone had dropped one in the bathroom drain.  It took a while but I managed to fish it out, wipe it off on my tie and place it (heads up, for luck) on the urinal. I'll let you know if anyone is gross enough to take it.
-- Dave "Cavies Turd" Curtis

An even MORE practical approach would be to set up decoy trailer parks on Capitol Hill.
-- Mike DeCleene

A more practical approach would be to set up decoy trailer parks in uninhabited areas to lure the tornadoes away from populated areas.
-- Ernie Gudath

I don't know if you're still doing Urinal Penny updates or not, but when I was at my local mall over the week-end, a male friend of mine returned from the bathroom and said "The penny is now officially worth absolutely nothing!" When asked how he'd come to this conclusion, he said that there had been not one, but "a pile" of pennies in the urinal. Urinal pennies are everywhere!
-- Artemis "A Stormier Worm" Morrow

Hey Dave, just wanted to let you know that it's not just pennies that disappear from urinals.  The new $20 bills seem to be just as popular.
-- Alan Hestings

In a similar vein, what's with newspaper columnists including their (usually out of date) pictures with their columns?  I have to wonder just how much ink is used in a year to carry these.  If they got rid of these pictures, there could easily be another 10 or 15 words in each column about how much the Yankees suck and people should give hockey a chance during the week.
-- Mike Orlando

Maybe this has been said before, but i just realized the unifying factor of this World Series:  No one with half a brain wants to be anywhere near the traffic when the games let out.  This World Series has succeeded in combining the two worst sets of drivers in the world in it's fans:  New Yorkers and Floridians.  It's only a matter of time before some poor Marlins fan on his way home from a game and in the left lane of I-95 doing 40 with his turn signal on is run down by a Yankees fan doing "Warp 7" and is surprised that an accident occurred because, after all, "He should have heard me coming, I've been leaning on my horn for the past mile and a half."
Just an observation.
-- Daniel "Nude Klan, Hi!" Kuhn (or possibly "Unkind Heal")

Seems to me they have it all wrong.  Lacrosse =  Oral secs.
-- Kip Sundquist

I'm sure it will not surprise anyone to learn that "George M. Steinbrenner" can be rearranged to form "Teen men bris engorger."
-- J.J. "Jet R. Leg Jr." Gertler

I need to say that not 'everybody' hates the Yankees.  I live in Baton Rouge and I don't hate them at all.  They are my favorite team.  I really do not understand this irrational hatred of the most successful team in baseball.  I have to believe it just comes to jealousy of 26 Championships in the past 100 years.  Anybody out there got a better reason to hate the Yankees than 'Steinbrenner sucks'? 
And the Cubs are my favorite NL team.  At least I was spared the decision on who to pull for when 'your Marlins' beat 'my Cubs'. 
-- DIXIEGLO

The Marlins have a pitcher called Penny? Anyone nick-named him "Urinal" yet?
-- Adam "Anna had ham" Hannah

Because we are morons, a number of us were discussing the "urinal penny" phenomenon tonight at a party and someone pointed out the ugly reality that, once it's left the urinal, there's no way to distinguish a urinal penny from a non-urinal penny. Therefore, I believe we have to assume that any and all pennies in our possession could have been, at one time, urinal pennies. We are, all of us, unclean.
On the brigher side, however, now there's really no reason NOT to take a urinal penny, since you're pocket could well be full of them already.
-- Joe Rhodes

Would you be able to find out the derivation of the word YANKEE?  Where did it come from?
I seem to remember something from the Danish and something about cheese...
I would really appreciate knowing, as would everyone else in the world.
Thank you,
-- Madeline

I think the reason that realtors feature their faces so prominently in ads is that they are of the opinion that they are beautiful people, and that customers trust beautiful people to pick beautiful houses. Think about it. When was the last time you saw a movie star in a rusty, rundown shack? And when was the last time you saw a horribly ugly person  living in a humongous mansion? Well, other than Michael Jackson.
-- Dan "No Dang Ink" Koning

I have three equally important points regarding lines of discussion in your blog:
First off, your blog looks incredibly screwed up in the Linux version of Mozilla, but everything looks screwed up when using Linux.  It's specifically to drive people away.  If everyone used it, it would lose its geeky mystique.
Second, go Mr. Snail.  Not because I like the team at all, I don't even like the sport, I just hate the Yankees above all else on principle.  If the Series was between the New York Yankees and the Iraqi Hitler-Loving Puppy-Kickers, I'd be at the pound in steel-toed boots showing my support.
And finally, as much as I'd love to join in the urinal penny experiment, my dorm has coed bathrooms.  This presents many possibilities, but it also doesn't have urinals, and as pointed out there's not much you can do with a toilet.  Unless you have any ideas...
-- Danny "[insert clever anagram here]" Willis

With the tech support discussion going on, I thought I'd chip in my unwelcome two-cents' worth.  Happily using Mozilla Firebird on this end, and I noticed that there is some font weirdness (nothing too annoying, mind you).  It looks like it'd be easily fixed if someone were to change the CSS rule for .post to apply to blockquote, as well (see below).  That being said, please keep the workplace distractions coming.
Regards,
Justin "Curt Anus Jig" Gruca
(weird technical things follow)

What is it about real estate agents that possess them to plaster their pictures all over everything?  There must be a regulation that their business cards always display a head shot.  Worse are the newspaper ads that contain a dozen pictures of the agents and just a few small shots of the real estate.  I was looking at a few of the links you included: all agent, no real estate.  Do these folk have an identity problem?
-- Phil Serfass

Now, could you please hurry up and win the next three so that the TV will stop pre-empting stuff that I, and approximately 295 million other Americans, might actually watch? Thank you.
Wait a minute, the World Series is on Fox, isn't it? Never mind.
-- Mike Billips

I wanted to let you know that I'm using Mozilla 1.2.1 and I'm experiencing no font weirdness, though I did on an earlier version. Also, returning to your page takes me right back to where I was -- no scrolling necessary. In fact, things are going quite nicely for me in general. I hope things work out for the rest of your readers at some point.
-- Michael "All Chew Limes" Wells

Why is it that "expansion" (A Pennis Ox) teams like the Marlins get to go to the Big Time, but real teams can't make it?
I live in Seattle, and as such have a great distaste for the Skankees. My dad does too. We have a shrine set up in our living room to the Anti-Yankee god. It's that bad. Under no circumstances will we be yankees fans. Ever.
To the point: My dad is so mad at the Marlins for "not being a real team" that (I swear I am not making this up) he's going to root for the Yanks.
Sincerely,
Matt Bowers

I think the idea of a Mr. Snail rally monkey is wonderful.  In fact, the folks who make Beanie Babies already have a snail, although it doesn't look very "Mr."  But slap =a tiny Marlins cap on it and color it turquoise, and you're good to go.
-- Mike Seidel
By the way, you should inform "Sue Ray" that her name can be rearranged to spell "Ya, sure."

I am looking forward to this World Series so much that have already pre-programmed my VCR to record every Carolina Panthers game until the Super Bowl.
Now, If we could get some WORLD into the World Series, it might be different.
For example, if we could get a series between the Osama Bombardiers and the 82nd Airborne, that best of seven would have me glued to the set like a 72 day old randomly flicked booger.
We could let the series be in New York.  Imagine the reception the visiting team would get.  It would make Rockers' look like a cocktail party at a bathhouse.
Sorry, but the 2003 series holds about as much interest for a North Carolina homeboy as a Yankee fish fry.  Who ever gets their filet fried, would be alright by this Rebel.  Could someone pass the tartar sauce and a long neck beer?
-- Carson "Carson Cockman" Cockman

I've been reading about this urinal penny experiment in your blog, and I feel left out. Being a female, I cannot participate in this educational (and mildly disturbing) endeavor. I realize this may be a small step in the field of equal rights, but it's one that I am willing to take. Do you have any suggestions as to where women could put these pennies? Or, since I'm *sure* you've never been in a women's bathroom, perhaps my fellow female blog-readers can help me? The only place that comes to mind is on top of the sanitary napkins disposal bin. I am eager to try this out at my university, but I'll be sure not to use quarters. If I did, even I put the quarters directly in the toilet bowl, they would be gone before I left the bathroom. Quarters are like gold to us.
Your loyal reader,
-- Catherine "Nectarine Thuds" Sundt

Who the heck is Mr. Snail? Can you hear the Fox Sports executives groaning? That big swallow you hear is the loss of revenue. No one outside of NYC and Florida is going to watch this World Series. I am a Cubs fan, but I may have watched if the Red Sox had made it. Now that neither team is in, I will be watching the NHL.
Take care
-- Sue Ray

you might suggest to the blog-impaired dave tibbets he right-click on the links and choose "open in new window." yes, this is a frightening new task for him to master, but once he does (in six to eight weeks), he will no longer suffer from excessive scrolling needs.
p.s. while you're at it, would you please tell all the mozilla guys to stop bitching about how weird the blog looks in mozilla? and the rss-feed guys to stop complaining about having to manually check the blog to see if there are new entries? and all the opera guys to.... well, you get the idea. just tell all the guys to stop!! unless they're cute.
-- judi

Do you really think anybody outside of New York (not including Queens, where they root for the Mets to just lose and get over with it) will be rooting for the Yankees? No team in the major leagues is more hated than the Yankees. That includes the Expos, who are so loved by their city that they almost moved them to (gasp) Florida. I just want to let you Florida people know that as soon the Yankees won last night, the world became fans of Mr. Snail. Of course, had the Red Sox won, Mr. Snail would be about as liked as much as a urinal penny.
-- Bernie Langer

Does anybody else think Mr. Snail should be the Marlins’ version of a rally monkey?
-- Rick “Micro-yak” Moya

Dave, I confess, I have become addicted to the BLOG! Only problem, when I follow a link and return, I get dumped at the TOP of the BLOG, which means I have to search downwards to find where I left off reading! I also am a SLASHDOT.com fan, and a New Scientist.com fan, but they don't have that Problem!
-- Dave Tibbets

I was disturbed to learn from your blog that Buick is renaming its "LaCrosse" automobile because the word is slang for masturbation in Quebec.  I played lacrosse for many years, and now that I know this I am overwhelmed by the double entendres.  Hell, I played box lacrosse.  I spent hours breaking in my lacrosse stick.  I had to get stiches following a lacrosse injury.  Lacrosse is Canada's national sport, for God's sake!
Now, what do you suppose "lawn darts" means in Quebec?
-- Tim Watkins ("A Mink Twist")
British Columbia, Canada

After reading all the comments about the urinal pennies, it seemed to me that some people were worried about some sort of bacterial contamination from a penny found on a urinal. Being a grad student in microbiology, I felt that it is my public duty to inform people that nothing could be further from the truth. Urine is actually sterile and has some properties that are harmful to bacterial growth. Only in the rare case of a urinal tract infection would bacteria be found in the urine. Additionally, U.S. coins are all composed of a copper alloy, and copper has been shown to kill bacteria. So any penny found on a urinal should be as bacteria-free as one in your pocket. However, poo contains lots of bacteria, so no way would I be touching a toilet penny.
--Chris "he crows hi" Howe

The Urinal Penny test at my office produced some rather interesting results. I placed the penny around 2pm and then promptly forgot about it. I remembered on my way out of the office at 7pm and discovered, to my confusion, that there were now four pennies on the urinal! Either the thirty or so guys on my floor ALL read your blog or we've got something very strange happening in our restrooms.
-- Lee Foster

In response to Sandra (dung radar is zero) Rodriguez: What does she do for a living that she has time to peruse such sites as the honorable blog? I wager she's a telemarketer and is waiting until dinner time to actually do her job. In fact, I'll bet these 18 pennies I found on the urinal. Any takers?
-- David (lewd vodka sin) Knowles

Back in the late '80s, a reporter friend of mine found an AP story with this line: "A White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, declined to comment."
-- Greg Richter

all right...I am just curious. Are people seriously surfing the web for names with crude double meanings? I mean, don't these people have jobs they should be doing? I hope none of them are cops, or medics or firefighters...then we'd all be in a whole heap of trouble...
-- Sandra Rodriguez

Following my own recent experience, I thought I'd better point out one small flaw in the whole 'urinal penny' experiment. I've seen a lot of submissions from people testing this out in their offices and various places of work. I too have been trying this out with what I thought was a high degree of success. 5 pennies, all gone, each within half an hour of having left them. The last time I was coming out of the bathroom, I said hi to the cleaner who was going in, and wandered off to do more mundane tasks ie the stuff I get paid for. Then I get an email. My boss has received a message from the cleaning staff that I am continually leaving 'items' (they used that word too, just to make it look like I'm leaving sex toys or even Tim Spooneybarger in there) in the bathroom that they are then having to remove. Cue mucho embarassment and 5 (count 'em) lost pennies. I just wanted to relate this to offer an explanation for at least some of those lost office pennies. Feel for my shame.
-- Nick (Lick Freon) Rolfe

If you want your urinal pennies to move, make sure you put them heads up.  In a controlled experiment involving two floors in my building, the heads up penny was taken quicker than a tails up (unlucky) penny.  But then again, how lucky can you be with a bacteria-filled heads up penny in your pants. 
-- Chris "Our Porch, Sir?" Puorro

Only you have the power to make this happen: We need a Red Sox vs. Cubs game this fall to determine 3rd and 4th place.
-- Andrew Baca

I, along with the rest of the nation, have taken it upon myself to place change in the restroom, but I took it one step further. I put some Super-Glue on a quarter and dropped the quarter onto the restroom floor right by the urinal. As I finished my urinal duties, I stood on the quarter to assure that it would indeed stick to the floor. When I returned about an hour later, someone had actually picked it up.
I wish I would've walked in while the guy was kneeling down on the bathroom floor with his head just inches away from the urinal, trying to pry a glued quarter from the floor.
-- Eric Taylor

The negative, of course, would be the injuries sustained by Roy. The positive would have to be that I finally figured out which one is Roy.
-- Jen Adaire

It was obviously going to be a Yankees Marlins Series, because that clearly can be rearranged to spell "IRS eyes Sri Lanka semen," which frankly is just something that we've all come to expect from them.
-- Tony Sams

If you rearrange the letters in "Derek Jeter," you can spell "Yankees suck"
You should be able to anyway.
-- Colin McCluney

I had just started my own penny project at home when I read Bryce Wilson's note about unintended consequences. I don't have a urinal at home so I put a penny on the top of the toilet. Since I was not planning on taking the pennies myself and I only live with my wife, Bryce made me think about how I might feel if my wife actually started taking the pennies. I aborted the test and put the penny back in the jar. How am I supposed to feel now that I am the one who actually took the penny in my own test?
-- Michael van Huystee

Sometimes you just don't think about the harm your shenanigans may cause others. I've begun the penny experiment here at the radio station where I work. There are only 6 male employees. Of those, 3 of us are regular readers of your blog and are thus in the know. Less than an hour after putting the penny down on the urinal, it is gone. Furthermore, I've been able to pinpoint the perp. Because I've monitored the situation closely and because he was the only other male in the area at the time, I know it was him. But see, I like this guy and respect him too. I'm feeling a little guilty about the whole thing. Should I approach him about his problem? Should I put more money there in case he needs it? Should I see if he'll grab it off the pink soap in the urinal? I'm at a loss. This is all your fault, Dave. What if this poor man gets germs in his pocket? Thanks for nothing, jerk.
-- Bryce Wilson

Was the Kit Kat bar wrapped?
-- Margaret Davis (Air rad TV games)

Top  Reasons Cubs Fans Can Go On:
10.  We won't have to look at that pitcher who looks like he's got a hamster
clinging to his chin.
9.  We can continue calling the Cubs "The Lovable Losers."
8.  Everyone at the water cooler can act smart saying, "Yeah, I knew it was
all over in the 8th inning of the 6th."
7.  We can stop trying to figure out when the last meaningful Cub win was.
6.  Baseball fever in Chicago is just plain unnatural in October.
5.  We can now devote our full attention to the Bulls.
4.  We can still dream about a subway series between the Cubs and the White
Sox.
3.  We can expand our horizons and become Pirates fans.
2.  Heartbroken fans don't loot much.
1. No problem getting Cubs tickets next year!
Cubbies in '04!
-- Sarah (Show an Arse) Owens

Well, SURE they will take a Kit Kat, but will they take a Baby Ruth?
-- Patrick Vickers

I have been reading about the urinal penny and thought I would give it a try at work.  I work for a large financial services company and after a couple days of experimentation it became apparent that coins were not enough of an incentive to get people to take money away from a urinal.  We thought we would try food.  We placed a Kit Kat bar on the back of the urinal.  Less than an hour later it was gone.  Now we just need to figure out who would eat the urinal candy.
-- Kevin Nay

In an effort to take truly inane trends to the international level, I recently bribed a gentleman in Paris into placing the Euro equivalent of a penny on top of a urinal in the Paris Nord train station. He returned 10 minutes later to find the coin gone.
I believe this proves the economy in France is in far worse shape than in the United States. I hold out hope that in some contorted fashion, this will help improve American/French relations. Urinals for brotherhood!
-- Kate Forgach, Souillac, France

Is it me, or are people hypercorrecting more and more by pronouncing the 'l' in 'calm'?
-- Michael "Not 'Mike'" Brown

Who are these "Merlins", or "Marlins" or "Mylars" or whatever(s) you keep talking about????
-- Bob Coller

My girlfriend's name, when rearranged, can spell "Canine Rat Head." This will be my new pet name for her.
-- Alan "No, Leper Santa!" Peterson

I have also been experimenting with the urinal penny here in my office. The penny has remained atop the urinal for one entire day, so far. I have noticed that it has moved twice, as if someone had reflexively touched it, then changed their mind about picking it up. What is this phobia about the sanitary condition of the top of the urinal? Ours is easily four feet off the floor. Iwould need a step ladder to get urine up there. (At least by conventional means.)
-- Gerald (Caged Reeler) Reece

I’ve started a urinal penny experiment here at my work in Rolling Meadows, IL. But I think there’s a point of confusion. The pennies are to go on TOP of the urinal? What’s the fun in that? Who wouldn’t take a perfectly sanitary “top of the urinal” penny? No, I suggest something far more interesting. I want to see who will take a penny out of the urinal itself.
Marlins fans, probably.
-- Don “Cubs in 7” Pleccor

I have 2 questions:
Question # 1. What denomination of coin would be necessary before someone would pick it off of the urinal cake itself?
Question # 2. In any of these tests, do the spitters and leaners do more picking than the rest of us?
I think the answers are a quarter, and yes.
-- Steve Indorf

You can let Russ Rizzo know that I was, indeed, at the rugby party at the Armory in Boone, NC, and that I have not yet spent his penny. I currently have it in a safe place.
-- Peter Van Schoick

Our school is collecting pennies for a charity project.
Now that I know that where whole hordes of pennies seem to be making themselves at home, I think I'll be suggesting that parents write a check instead.
-- JoAnn Brereton

Are you aware that in England, a euphemism for going to use a public toilet is "going to spend a penny"?
-- Lewy Olfson (Follow Yens)

Well, Dave, it looks like it sure is a small world after all. If Peter Van Schoick who piped in earlier today about the penny test indeed took a penny from a urinal at a rugby party in Boone, NC, on Saturday night, he did take my penny. We'll have to ask him. While we're at it, I'd like to know if he spent it.
-- Russ Rizzo

You seem like a pretty happening guy, so maybe you can explain why the U.S. Mint finds it necessary to advertise money. I've seen several TV commercials for it lately. Why do they need to promote money? It isn't like there's an alternative, such as trading pelts or goats or something. And it isn't as if there's competing currency in the U.S. or anything. I don't get it. It's like the postal service promoting themselves. Um, how else would we mail something? Smoke signals?
Sincerely,
-- Erin Armknecht, whose name can be arranged to spell "archer men knit" and "crank their men," both of which are pretty lame.

On bare grimy poets
I sop my great boner
Beg any poor mister
Obey pigs, ram toner

Rip men to rages, boy
Yes, rage, brim no top
I grab money or pets
Or gain my beer. Stop.

Next week, Nomar Garciaparra.
Cheers,
-- JJ Gertler

We can put to rest the whole issue of why it's done in one simple, straightforward reason: "Hey!  Free penny!"
No one ever said we guys weren't idiots.
-- Eric Jensen

I recently found out, through a free magnet I got as part of, I presume, a marketing ploy, that the Just My Size clothing company (i.e. clothing for the larger human) is owned by Sara Lee (i.e. the company that makes all that food that is responsible for the largeness of many said humans).  Talk about a self-perpetuating company; I wish I'd thought of that.
-- Meghan "Hang My Cake" Kacy

I tested the penny theory at Jim Bob's (IBM Jobs) in London, Ontario. Not once, not twice, but thrice I returned to the bathroom to find a penny gone. I further advanced the theory by twice leaving a phone number written on a napkin on top of the urinal, with the name "Alex" and four stars beside it. It disappeared both times and although I have yet to check with my friend whose number it was, but I'd imagine he got some strange phone calls. Also, I doubt he is my friend anymore.
-- Brad "ABSURD BET" Buset

I attempted to test Russ Rizzo's hypothesis regarding Midwesterners and urinal pennies, but after placing my penny I was unable to return to the restroom to check the status. I kept getting escorted out by guys who apparently have a problem with a woman inspecting their urinals. So, to avoid any further incidents, I decided to see how my own gender would deal with a penny on the toilet. Just as I suspected, the penny has been there for over four hours now. No one wants anything to do with it, which is kind of surprising because I'm at a university and most of us here REALLY need the money. So, I have concluded that we women will do everything in our power to avoid touching any and all parts of a public toilet even when there is money involved. I know that I personally put down a layer of toilet paper on the seat so thick that when I sit down I can see over the top of the stall, and my foot gets flushing duty because NO WAY am I touching that thing with my hand. By the way, no one took any of the pennies on the ground either. Why were there pennies on the ground? Well, I wasn't going to risk touching the toilet, so I had to toss pennies until one actually landed on it.
-- Kristy Helton

It has come to the attention of many of your readers (and when I say "many," I mean "me") that you have had an unusually high number of retractions connected with your recent coverage of anagrams. 
I would wholeheartedly urge you (and when I say "wholeheartedly urge," I mean "I really would love to see my message appear on your blog") you to tighten your journalistic standards, lest we forget the lessons taught us by the unfortunate case of Jayson Blair, whose name can be rearranged to spell "Ajar by Loins," "Jail Yon Bras," "Join a Sly Bra," "Snail Jar Boy," (not to be confused with Ghost-in-a-Jar-Boy), or perhaps even "Ipswich Clams."
I think I've made my point.  Whatever it is.
-- Chris Rund

Twice this weekend I found pennies perched atop urinals here in New Mexico.  The first was Friday evening at a Santa Fe grocery store, the second Saturday afternoon at an Albuquerque Chinese restaurant.  I assume we have you to blame. 
In case you're wondering, I resisted the urge to take them.
-- Sean Engelin

I conducted my own Penny Test last Thursday at Mad Anthony's in Fort Wayne, Indiana.  In five trips to the bathroom, I invested five cents. The penny was gone each time I returned.  The fact that this is a semi-artsy place frequented by art students and starving musicians may have skewed the results a bit, so I'll be repeating the test next week, the week after, and every week that I have enough change to do so without cutting into my beer money.
-- Dan Frioli

Curiosity got the best of me at a party this weekend and I did the urinal-penny test I read about on your site. Since I have somewhat of a life, I only tested it twice. Both times the penny was gone the next time I returned. I'm in North Carolina and wonder if there's a regional component to this. For some reason I think Midwesterners would be less likely to take a penny from a urinal than us southerners. Can we test this hypothesis?
-- Russ Rizzo

As a native of Kitchener, Ontario (motto: "Gaye Males Welcomed Here") I would like to draw your attention to the fact that "Eric Stoner" has two occurrences of the letter "R", and "erections" only has one "R."  I would also like to point out that the letters of Mr. Stoner's name also spell "tire censor" and "ice snorter."
By the way, did you know that Kitchener, Ontario is home to the second-largest Oktoberfest celebration in the world?  During the week-long festival held during the month of -- are you sitting down? -- OCTOBER, way more than 203,800 tourists come to Kitchener and imbibe vast quantities of a certain malted beverage that when spelled backwards says "reeb."  (But it's not minty.)
-- Jeff Sutton