Panama!
Tot.
You can cage a swallow, can’t you, but you can’t swallow a cage, can you?
Straw?!? No, too stupid a fad! I put soot on warts.
Q: What does a palindromiphile drive?
A: Race car!
Alternative answer? “A Toyota”
“Damn! I, Agassi, miss again! Mad!”
“Joe Montana ran at Nome, O.J.”
“So, G. Rivera’s tots are Virgos.”
“Lisa Bonet ate no basil.”
I made up the first three years ago, for a palindrome contest at Games magazine… the Lisa Bonet one (which I did NOT make up) was the winner of that contest. And it even worked its way into a Weird Al Yankovic song.
The best palindrome I’ve ever seen, howver, was this one:
T. Eliot, top bard, notes putrid tang emanating, is sad. I’d assign it a name: "Gnat-dirt upset on drab pot toilet."
I have no idea who came up with that one, but I’d like to shake his hand.
Able was I, ere I saw Elba.
e: Inspired by Napolean’s imprisonment on Elba apparently.
never mind
I was quite pleased with post #7 in this thread.
I came up with another Panama variant a while ago. Let’s see if I can recall it…
A man, a plan, a case of reviled Spam. Onward, go deliver a dare, vile dog! Draw no maps, deliver foes! A canal, Panama!
(The good thing about palindromes is you only have to remember half of them…)
Palindrome is a funny word, though. Makes me think of a stadium where you race Republicans.
Anna: Did Otto peep? Otto: Did Anna? (each* word* is a palidrome)
I Love Me, Vol. I
Check out this palindrome! !emordnilap siht tou kcehC
[sub]OK, so I’m not very good at this siht ta doog yrev ton m’I os ,KO[/sub]
There were some great ones on the Weekend Edition puzzle segment last week. Listeners had to incorporate the name of a famous person. The examples given were “No, Mel Gibson is a casino’s big lemon,” and “Ed, I saw Harpo Marx ram Oprah W. aside.” And the winning entry (by Dan Duke from St. Paul, Minn) was “Did I cite operas I’d revere? Verdi’s are poetic. I did!”
Ten animals slam in a net. Do geese see God?
You just blew my mind. Dnim ym welb tsuj uoy.
I remember that contest!
Here are two I made up after the shooting death of Tupac Shakur(tho I cheat on both of them.)
Tupak Kaput.
Cap 2Pac.
And here is one I saw the other day, that I like, on a list of palindromes(which included the Lisa Bonet one!)
A nut for a jar of tuna.
Attributed to the English poet, Alastair Reid.
A parody on “A man, a plan, a canal, Panama”:
A dog, a pant, a panic in a Patna pagoda."
by J. A. Lindon
All this, and much more, in Palindromes and Anagrams by Howard W. Bergerson.
Here is a reading of the poem The Lost Generation, a line palindrome in which reversal also reversing the meaning.
The first time I heard that one was twenty-odd years ago in Stephen Fry’s old Daily Telegraph column.
I believe he also included it in his book of collected columns and ephemera "Paperweight"But I don’t know if it was original then.
I do recall another nifty one from that same article though
“Satan, oscilate my metallic sonatas”