the shrewdness of apes

lying in bed this morning staring at the map on the wall, i realized that Bahamas spelled backwards is Sam Ahab. after trying in vain to make a connection to Moby-Dick (is Samuel somehow the equivalent of Ishamel?), i decided to just type "Sam Ahab" into Google. as it turns out, the most prominent use of the name was in a deleted scene from the Beatles' movie Help!. filmed in the Bahamas, the scene has the boys hiding out at the "Sam Ahab School of Acting". i don't know what the significance of this is other than that someone working on that film had the same realization that I did and actually had a reason to use it. but as i've never seen the movie, maybe this is just a roundabout way of telling me i should put it in my Netflix queue.