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Reading from Bottom to Top

RAY: After last week's lengthy puzzler with the lights, I thought this week it would be nice to have a brief, short-winded puzzler.

This puzzler was sent in by Dan Cassidy. I had to change it a little bit, but not too much. He did a good job.

TOM: A good job of obfuscating? You wrote twice as much as he did!

RAY: Well, here it is. When you read the English language, you read from left to right. Other languages, like Chinese, Hebrew, and Arabic for example, you read from right to left. But, everything reads from top to bottom. But can you think of an example of when you might read the English language from bottom to top, so that the next line of text is the one above the first line of text?

Think you know? Drop Ray a note!

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