And that reminded me of the movie "Tapeheads". It starts a very young
John Cusack and Tim Robbins as unemployed security guards who stumble
into a career producing music videos in the early 80s, when no one had
a clue what a music video was supposed to be.
In one scene, they're in a dive bar getting drunk, and the bartender
says they have to pass a sobriety test to get another round. He directs
them to recite the alphabet, backwards, skipping vowels, using sign
language.
They nail it.
I wondered how many takes they shot to get it right.
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I was a Radioman in the Navy.
Sometimes when off duty I would sit at an unused Teletype machine and practice typing old messages, OR typing Now is the time ...
OR The quick brown fox ...
over and over
then one day I typed the alphabet
and while looking from right to left what was on the paper I started hitting the z key til I got to a.
Then looking at what I had typed I retyped that lineover and over, maybe acouple of sheets of paper was used up from my doing that.
First time I tried saying the alphabet backwards I moved the fingers on my hands as if I were typing it out .
I didthat so many times that I didn't have to twitch anymore when saying itin reverse.
That was in the early 1960's.
I can now say the alphabet backwards in 3.5 seconds.
I've been beat three times by eighth grade girls.
One day while driving through another state I was talking with another Ham operator and someone came on the air saying they didn't think I was a licensed ham because my Callsign W9ODR indicated to him that I was fromthe North Midwest but my accent seemedto be fromthe Southern part of the USA.
I told him I was raised in Kentucky and gor my first Amateur Radio Operators license there.
Later I moved to Indiana and had the FCC eexchange my older Callsign for one in the Callsign Area where I lived then.
I next said if you don't believe I ama licensed ham I will say some of the alphabet backwards in morse code over the mike.
So I presses the mike button and said DAH DAH DI DIT, DAH DI DAH DAH, DAH DI DIT DAH, DI DAH DAH, DI DI DI DAH
and unkeyed the mike.
The first ham that I had been talking with came on the air and said not to worry about what the sacond ham said to me, that guy does things like that all of the time.
BTW, I canstill key the alphabet backwards as well as typing it.
Ed
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