Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : Ed Vance
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Mar 14 2024 10:04:00

-=> Ed Vance wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 EV> The Tagline "Albatetize the Alphabet" brought to mind this:

 EV> ZYXW VUTS RQ PONML KJIH GFED CBA

 EV> Those spaces between the backward Alphabet mean pause(s).

 EV> On a good day I can say the above in 3 point 5 seconds.

 There's a culty little film called "Tapeheads" from the 1990s starring
 Tim Robbins and John Cusack as out of work security guards who become
 music video directors.

 In one scene, they're at their local watering hole, looking for another
 round of drinks, when the bartender tells them he's required to give a
 sobriety test. He asks them to sign the alphabet in ASL, backwards,
 skipping the vowels. They walk through it like that's something people
 do all the time. Odd, absurd, and funny.

https://youtu.be/Ku_wLVbIUA4?si=B_bSulJDadhtqBeY&t=120


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