Subject: Re: Garmonbozia backwards
From: rhaller@oregon.uoregon.edu (Rich Haller)
Date: 1992-09-19, 12:49
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <2ABA9E53.23329@ics.uci.edu>, bvickers@net3.ics.uci.edu (Brett
J. Vickers) wrote:
> > 
> > Someone else echoed what I had been thinking about when they
> > said they would be more convinced if "I is Windom Earle" had
> > something to do with eyes rather than "I".  Why not "Eye is
> > Windom Earle"?  Can anyone think of a significance for this?

After experimenting with MacRecorder, I have come to the following
conclusions.

1. Whatever the phrase is, it definitely starts with 'I' or 'eye' (or
another word with that intial sound.
2. It definitely ends with 'Windom Earle'.
3. It is not clear what comes inbetween.

Here are two phrases that to my ear (unfortunately I am hard of hearing and
wear hearing aids) sound close to 'garmonbozia' when played backward.

1. "I saw Windom Earle".
2. "Eyes of Windom Earle".

The original hypothesis, "I is Windom Earle", is also a candidate.

When I try recording 'garmonbozia' using the same intonation, as the MFAP,
the part that is in the middle and is in dispute, sounds like 'zaw' to me.

I have found no way to get a 'b' sound, except by using 'b'.  My current
theory is that there is no b in the phrase. It was introduced by MFAP when
he pronounces what he hears when the phrase is played backward to him.  It
could be the result, I suppose, of the sound equivalent of an 'optical
illusion' produced by the actual sounds when played in reverse.  However,
it may also be the case that the 'b' is in there because visually we have
creamed corn, and maybe there was a conscious or unconcious connection with
garbanzo beans.

This may be my last post until I find an nntp server that carries
alt.tv.twin-peaks and will let me connect.  If there is someone out there
who will do me that favor, please contact me by e-mail. The powers that be
here at the University of Oregon have decided that we must drop the alt
groups.

This has been a lot of fun. Hope to type at you again some time.

-Rich Haller <rhaller@oregon.uoregon.edu>

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