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Evangelist Jim Brown maintained the “Mr. Ed” television theme song conveyed a satanic message to unwary listeners. “ ‘A horse is a horse’ when played backwards contains the message, ‘the source is Satan’ and ‘someone sung this song for Satan,’” Brown maintained. OOPS! • In Iowa, hundreds of highway signs warning of deer crossings were distributed. The signs pictured the deer with their antlers backwards. • At the San Onofre, CA, nuclear plant, the 420-ton reactor vessel was installed backwards. • So much mail was being sent to Mount Tabor, South Carolina, when it was intended to go to Mount Tabor, North Carolina, that residents in South Carolina dropped the Mount from their name and spelled Tabor backwards to become the town of Robat. • At the end of World War I, Marshal Ferdinand Foch dictated the armistice to Henri Deledicq, a military clerk from French headquarters. In the wee hours of early morning, the sleepy clerk put the carbon papers in backwards. As a result, the Armistice agreement signed on November 11, 1918 in the railway car near Rethondes had signatures on the bottom of an agreement that was printed backwards. No one even noticed. BACKWARDS WORDS • A man named Muldoon led a gang of street thugs that kept the entire waterfront area of San Francisco under their tight control in the 1870s. A newspaper wanted to end their tyranny but was so intimidated by the gang that they dared not use Muldoon’s real name. They spelled it backwards and changed the N to an H— and hoodlum entered the language. • Enola, a town in Arkansas, is ‘alone’ spelled backwards. • A failed cola company in Ohio named their new pop Norka, advertising, “Remember— Norka spelled backwards is Akron.” • Evian water is ‘naïve’ spelled backwards. • “Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?”- Al Boliska BACKWARDS MOVIES • The Tarzan yell is based on a yodel Johnny Weissmuller learned from his father as a child. The yodel is played backwards and speeded up to three times its normal rate. • Gary Cooper portrayed baseball player Lou Gehrig in the movie “The Pride of the Yankees.” The problem was that Gehrig was left-handed and Cooper was right-handed. To get around this, Cooper played his scenes wearing a baseball uniform that had the insignia sewn on backwards. He played right-handed, but then the film was flipped over as it ran through the cameras. Cooper appeared to be a natural left hander. • Jack Palance played the gunslinger in the movie “Shane.” But Palance knew nothing about horses and a lot of horse scenes were required. Palance was nervous when mounting and dismounting, so when the director filmed him doing a perfect dismount, he used that same scene over and over in the movie and even ran it backwards whenever the script called for Palance to mount his horse. One scene called for Palance to gallop into town on his horse, but he couldn’t manage it. So the director asked him to just canter into town, but still Palance had trouble. Finally the director told Palance to just get off the horse and walk into town leading the animal. This Palance did, and it became one of the most dramatic scenes in the movie.
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