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Schwarzenegger’s veto message appears to have gone above and beyond

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on October 28, 2009 at 11:04 pm

This one reminds me of the 70s stories about playing records backwards and hearing satanic lyrics…. but it’s being batted around the internet, and even though it’s not water-related, here goes…. From the Silicon Valley Mercury News:

“SACRAMENTO — Tell us, governor, how you really feel.

In what’s either a sly jab at a critic — or just an improbably “weird coincidence” — one of the scores of tart veto messages issued by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this month apparently contained an extra-special statement of rejection.

As in, a certain four-letter curse word, followed by its familiar friend “you.”

The phrase leaps out when reading the first letter of each line in the printed veto message — apparently the only one like it in the batch sent out Oct. 11. The hidden acrostic, first spotted by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, has since been splayed across the Internet and even on cable television. (You can check it out at gov.ca.gov/pdf/press/2009bills/AB1176_Ammiano_Veto_Message.pdf.)

“It’s just a weird coincidence,” Aaron McLear, the governor’s spokesman, said Wednesday, doing his best to play it straight. “We do hundreds of vetoes every year, so something like this was bound to happen.” …”

Read more from the Silicon Valley Mercury News by clicking here. Then go play some Led Zeppelin backwards….

October 28, 2009 · Filed Under Weird & Wacky Water News

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