We had an unusual guest, that we nicknamed The Reverse Talk Guy. He actually wasn’t that unusual, but he had an unusual idea. That idea was that everything we say has meaning if it’s heard in reverse. In other words, if I were to say a few sentences to you and you recorded them, then played them back in reverse, you would be able to determine what was really on my mind from words (mainly single-syllable words) that you would hear.
He said he learned about this phenomenon at Reverse Speech International. He said they have lots of samples of reverse speech on their website, everything from an 1877 photograph recording through the Apollo 11 moon landing audio.
Al gave him a pretty hard time, they thought he was crazy. Me, I was just happy that he didn’t sign his name backwards on the credit-card slip.
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