"It's fun to smoke Mahatma Gandhi" (Another One Bites The Dust)
"The devil keeps his porn mags in a little tool shed" (Stairway To Heaven)
"I am the least talented Beatle" (Anything you like by Paul McCartney)
A lot of things sound like coherent sentences when played backwards...
Why, only this morning I rewound my personal dictaphone (I often keep one about my person in case of moments of inspiration. It rarely gets used), and when my valet Hudson asked if I was ready to break my fast, I played it backwards and it sounded like "Flashy is a bastard."
Suffice to say, I flogged him to within an inch of his life.
It was only later on I realised that Sir Archie Leach, the old warthog, had discovered the machine on a recent visit to the Towers and had filled a 30 minute tape repeating the above phrase after I creamed him on the poker table.*
Naturally, I didn't let on to Hudson.
But it just goes to show, well - I ain't the foggiest what it just goes to show, but it does show it. And in the plainest terms possible.
*- this is not a reference to homosexual activity.
Flashman wrote:
.ytivitca lauxesomoh ot ecnerefer a ton si siht -*
.elbissop smret tsenialp eht ni dnA .ti wohs seod ti tub ,wohs ot seog tsuj ti tahw tseiggof eht t'nia I - llew ,wohs ot seog tsuj ti tuB
.nosduH ot no tel t'ndid I ,yllarutaN
*.elbat rekop eht no mih demaerc I retfa esarhp evoba eht gnitaeper epat etunim 03 a dellif dah dna srewoT eht ot tisiv tnecer a no enihcam eht derevocsid dah ,gohtraw dlo eht ,hcaeL eihcrA riS taht desilaer I no retal ylno saw tI
.efil sih fo hcni na nihtiw ot mih deggolf I ,yas ot eciffuS
".dratsab a si yhsalF" ekil dednuos ti dna sdrawkcab ti deyalp I ,tsaf ym kaerb ot ydaer saw I fi deksa nosduH telav ym nehw dna ,)desu steg ylerar tI .noitaripsni fo stnemom fo esac ni nosrep ym tuoba eno peek netfo I( enohpatcid lanosrep ym dnuower I gninrom siht ylno ,yhW
...sdrawkcab deyalp nehw secnetnes tnerehoc ekil dnuos sgniht fo tol A
)yentraCcM luaP yb ekil uoy gnihtynA( "eltaeB detnelat tsael eht ma I" )nevaeH oT yawriatS( "dehs loot elttil a ni sgam nrop sih speek lived ehT" )tsuD ehT setiB enO rehtonA( "ihdnaG amtahaM ekoms ot nuf s'tI"
P-: gnittamrofer setunim wef a dneps did I tuB
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