# An Ingenious Palindrome **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 24, 2001, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ingenious-palindrome/94975 "2001-11-24T01:30:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2001, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ingenious-palindrome/94975/1 "2001-11-24T01:30:19Z")
POOP POOP POOP DAD POOP POOP POOP I am a frigging genius! LC ---
**Author:** ![Slip\_Mahoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Slip\_Mahoney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slip_Mahoney)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2001, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ingenious-palindrome/94975/2 "2001-11-24T01:58:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lucki Chaarms \* > \*\*POOP POOP POOP DAD POOP POOP POOP > I am a frigging genius! > > LC \*\* Fer sure. This is Nobel Prize material. ---
**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2001, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ingenious-palindrome/94975/3 "2001-11-24T02:06:35Z")
this was supposed to go in “beat this… every other letter is an “a”!” right? ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2001, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ingenious-palindrome/94975/4 "2001-11-24T03:31:50Z")
A man, a plan, a canal: Panama. Todd erases a red dot. Able was I ere I saw Elba. ---
**Author:** ![katiekilldare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/838e76/32.png) [@katiekilldare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katiekilldare)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2001, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ingenious-palindrome/94975/5 "2001-11-24T03:44:11Z")
A toyota. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2001, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ingenious-palindrome/94975/6 "2001-11-24T04:03:01Z")
Oh no! Don ho! ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2001, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ingenious-palindrome/94975/7 "2001-11-24T04:45:12Z")
A slut nixes sex in Tulsa. Step on no pets. Madam, I’m Adam. ---
**Author:** ![Mogwei22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@Mogwei22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mogwei22)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2001, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ingenious-palindrome/94975/8 "2001-11-24T04:54:13Z")
I gotta say it… …Go hang a salami I’m a lasagna hog. ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2001, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ingenious-palindrome/94975/9 "2001-11-24T05:08:33Z")
Hey! Yo has tits ahoy yeh? ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2001, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ingenious-palindrome/94975/10 "2001-11-24T06:54:11Z")
gnu dung ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2001, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ingenious-palindrome/94975/11 "2001-11-24T08:47:47Z")
A man, a plan, a caret, a ban, a myriad, a sum, a lac, a liar, a hoop, a pint, a catalpa, a gas, an oil, a bird, a yell, a vat, a caw, a pax, a wag, a tax, a nay, a ram, a cap, a yam, a gay, a tsar, a wall, a car, a luger, a ward, a bin, a woman, a vassal, a wolf, a tuna, a nit, a pall, a fret, a watt, a bay, a daub, a tan, a cab, a datum, a gall, a hat, a fag, a zap, a say, a jaw, a lay, a wet, a gallop, a tug, a trot, a trap, a tram, a torr, a caper, a top, a tonk, a toll, a ball, a fair, a sax, a minim, a tenor, a bass, a passer, a capital, a rut, an amen, a ted, a cabal, a tang, a sun, an ass, a maw, a sag, a jam, a dam, a sub, a salt, an axon, a sail, an ad, a wadi, a radian, a room, a rood, a rip, a tad, a pariah, a revel, a reel, a reed, a pool, a plug, a pin, a peek, a parabola, a dog, a pat, a cud, a nu, a fan, a pal, a rum, a nod, an eta, a lag, an eel, a batik, a mug, a mot, a nap, a maxim, a mood, a leek, a grub, a gob, a gel, a drab, a citadel, a total, a cedar, a tap, a gag, a rat, a manor, a bar, a gal, a cola, a pap, a yaw, a tab, a raj, a gab, a nag, a pagan, a bag, a jar, a bat, a way, a papa, a local, a gar, a baron, a mat, a rag, a gap, a tar, a decal, a tot, a led, a tic, a bard, a leg, a bog, a burg, a keel, a doom, a mix, a map, an atom, a gum, a kit, a baleen, a gala, a ten, a don, a mural, a pan, a faun, a ducat, a pagoda, a lob, a rap, a keep, a nip, a gulp, a loop, a deer, a leer, a lever, a hair, a pad, a tapir, a door, a moor, an aid, a raid, a wad, an alias, an ox, an atlas, a bus, a madam, a jag, a saw, a mass, an anus, a gnat, a lab, a cadet, an em, a natural, a tip, a caress, a pass, a baronet, a minimax, a sari, a fall, a ballot, a knot, a pot, a rep, a carrot, a mart, a part, a tort, a gut, a poll, a gateway, a law, a jay, a sap, a zag, a fat, a hall, a gamut, a dab, a can, a tabu, a day, a batt, a waterfall, a patina, a nut, a flow, a lass, a van, a mow, a nib, a draw, a regular, a call, a war, a stay, a gam, a yap, a cam, a ray, an ax, a tag, a wax, a paw, a cat, a valley, a drib, a lion, a saga, a plat, a catnip, a pooh, a rail, a calamus, a dairyman, a bater, a canal–Panama. haHA! (OK, it was from here, among other places: [http://www.jy-muggeridge.freeserve.co.uk/pals/pals\_sl.htm](http://www.jy-muggeridge.freeserve.co.uk/pals/pals_sl.htm) They give a longer one as well.) ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2001, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ingenious-palindrome/94975/12 "2001-11-24T09:09:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by waterj2 \* > **…a wax, a paw, _a cat_, a valley… a plat, _a catnip_, a pooh, a rail…** (italics mine) heh-heh-heh-heh-heh… me, I don’t have any to post because it’s near dinnertime and I can’t think well on an empty stomach (and also since my brain’s fried from **waterj2** ’s). I’ll see if I can find some later… _walks towards dinner bowl, thinking hard_ _think, think, think_ ---
**Author:** ![MostlyWater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@MostlyWater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyWater)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2001, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ingenious-palindrome/94975/13 "2001-11-24T12:49:56Z")
Evil - to not live. ---
**Author:** ![Tycho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tycho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tycho)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2001, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ingenious-palindrome/94975/14 "2001-11-24T13:17:22Z")
Sex at noon taxes 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2001, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ingenious-palindrome/94975/15 "2001-11-24T16:17:30Z")
“Tulsa nightlife: Filth, gin, a slut.” No Opal references, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2001, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ingenious-palindrome/94975/16 "2001-11-24T16:38:05Z")
my favorite: Do good? I? No! Evil anon I deliver: I maim nine more hero-men in Saginaw; sanitary sword a-tuck, Carol, I–lo!–rack, cut a drowsy rat in Aswan; I gas nine more hero-men in Miami; reviled I (Nona) live on. I do, O God! Thanks again to \*\*MEBuckner[/]b for finding it for me ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2001, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ingenious-palindrome/94975/17 "2001-11-24T16:39:01Z")
Disclaimner: I did not make this one up, ad don’t know who did. But it’s the best palindrome I’ve ever seen. T. Eliot, top bard, notes putrid tang emanating, is sad. I’d assign it a name: “gnat-dirt upset on drab pot toilet.” ---
**Author:** ![Earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90db22/32.png) [@Earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthling)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2001, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ingenious-palindrome/94975/18 "2001-11-24T17:56:20Z")
A public swimming pool, upon deciding to close operations on Mondays, hung out this sign: NOW NO SWIMS ON MON This is not a palindrome in the traditional sense, but it reads the same if one were to turn the sign upside down. Is there a term for this? ---
**Author:** ![MostlyWater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@MostlyWater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyWater)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2001, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ingenious-palindrome/94975/19 "2001-11-24T18:51:13Z")
A Flipadrome? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![king\_of\_spain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7cd45c/32.png) [@king\_of\_spain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/king_of_spain)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2001, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ingenious-palindrome/94975/20 "2001-11-24T18:57:16Z")
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni. (“We turn in a circle by night and are consumed by fire.”) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ingenious-palindrome/94975.md?page=2)