----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Larry Cruse claims he knows a "department head" who observed that "Maps" is "Spam" spelled backwards. We could, of course, claim that Spam is Maps spelled backwards, but that would lend too much of an air of class to spam. I am unsure what to make of this mixture of a peculiar mixture of mystery meat and the large, fragile, and beautiful objects with which we deal. As a vegitarian I am philosophically opposed to the very idea of spam, although there are those who claim that there is, in fact, no meat therein and I would be perfectly safe eating the stuff. I think not. I have played a bit with other backward spellings, but neither cartographic nor atlas yield anything coherent. In honor of Larry I tried microform, but that wasn't so good, either. We all know that Mony Python once did a rather good sketch on the subject of spam. Too bad we can't turn them loose on this problem, but John Cleese is making too much money doing commercials, and the rest have wandered off somewhere. I tried a backwards "department head" too, but it looked the same-- kind of like real department heads. whimsically yours charley seavey aka DOCMAPS