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...aware of everything that happens on the stage. That includes some vague lady in the chorus who does not know right from left. You must allow for everything-like where you put 60 swords. It is like being a garage mechanic: you have the problem and then work backward...
...into a hotel-brothel in Prague, registering under a Russian-sounding name. On the accompanying police questionnaire, he gave as his reason for being in Prague, "to investigate the activities of the Austrian general staff." The police at once surrounded the hotel. They discovered that the Russian name spelled backward came out in Czech as "Kiss my arse." Blandly Hašek explained that he just wanted to see if the Austrian police were on their toes-and got off with five days in jail...
...majority of Cambridge's Portuguese arrive from the Azores, particularly the two easternmost islands, Sao Miguel and Santa Maria. By American standards, the Azorean economy is industrially backward and economically depressed with most of the inhabitants engaged in maritime and agricultural work...
...much for members of the Seminole Health Club, a nudist colony in Davie, Fla. "We can't understand what the fuss is all about," said one. "Why don't they go nude all the time?" In protest, the members staged a "Gnikaerts" ("streaking" spelled backward) and raced round town fully clothed...
...which has been beset in recent years with controversial sensitives. One, Ninel Kulagina, was appraised as capable of causing objects to float in midair. As Martin Gardner notes, "She is a pretty, plump, dark-eyed little charlatan who took the stage name of Ninel because it is Lenin spelled backward. She is no more a sensitive than Kreskin, and like that amiable American television humbug, she is basically show biz." Indeed, Ninel has been caught cheating more than once by Soviet Establishment scientists...