20 Declassified Facts About The Mission: Impossible Series

9. M:I3 Contains A Poem With Very Special Properties

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The pleasure of Buzby's company is what I most enjoy. 
He put a tack on Miss Yancy's chair when she called him a horrible boy. 
At the end of the month he was flinging two kittens across the width of the room. 
I count on his schemes to reveal the way to escape my gloom.

Ethan forces Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman) to recite this poem so that Ethan, with the aid of some slow-loading software, can then imitate his voice. The poem includes every sound in the English language. 

In theory, by reproducing how Owen says "I" and "gloom," IMF can reproduce how he'd say "I'm." "Flinging," "I" and "company" can reproduce "fine," and so on. Linguist Neal Whitman developed the poem and discusses it here.

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T Campbell has written quite a few online comics series and selected work for Marvel, Archie and Tokyopop. His longest-running works are Fans, Penny and Aggie-- and his current project with co-writer Phil Kahn, Guilded Age.