# Awesome palindrome in a Doper's sig **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 16, 2012, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-palindrome-in-a-dopers-sig/637914 "2012-10-16T18:55:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-palindrome-in-a-dopers-sig/637914/1 "2012-10-16T18:55:44Z")
Someone has one, and now I can’t find it. It’s a whole string of unrelated words with “A man, a plan, a canal, Panama” embedded in the middle. Can someone help me??? ---
**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-palindrome-in-a-dopers-sig/637914/2 "2012-10-16T19:19:37Z")
**Malacandra’s** sig used to be, “A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal – Panama,” but it appears it’s been changed. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-palindrome-in-a-dopers-sig/637914/3 "2012-10-16T20:31:07Z")
> [@Shark\_Sandwich](#): > > **Malacandra’s** sig used to be, “A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal – Panama,” but it appears it’s been changed. Huh - I didn’t know that. I’m so vain, I thought this thread was about me. My sig used to be an extension of the Panama palindrome that I made up: A man, a plan, a case of reviled Spam. Onward, go deliver a dare, vile dog! Draw no maps, deliver foes! A canal, Panama! Not quite as impressive as **Malacandra** ’s, on reflection. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-palindrome-in-a-dopers-sig/637914/4 "2012-10-16T20:34:41Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > Huh - I didn’t know that. I’m so vain, I thought this thread was about me. My sig used to be an extension of the Panama palindrome that I made up: > > A man, a plan, a case of reviled Spam. Onward, go deliver a dare, vile dog! Draw no maps, deliver foes! A canal, Panama! > > Not quite as impressive as **Malacandra** ’s, on reflection. Pat yourself on the back, then - mine was shamelessly ripped off, not my own invention. (I used it as flavour text on my work email .sig for a while until my boss moaned at me for being unprofessional. And that puts it back eight years at least!) ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-palindrome-in-a-dopers-sig/637914/5 "2012-10-16T20:36:35Z")
There was also the rather shorter, but topical, one that came to me in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=617878) (post 7). ---
**Author:** ![phreesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@phreesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phreesh)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-palindrome-in-a-dopers-sig/637914/6 "2012-10-16T20:53:07Z")
I have no answer, but the thread made me think an awesome T-shirt I once saw - Palindromes are Rasemordnilap ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-palindrome-in-a-dopers-sig/637914/7 "2012-10-16T22:50:19Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > …on reflection. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-palindrome-in-a-dopers-sig/637914/8 "2012-10-16T22:56:11Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > My sig used to be an extension of the Panama palindrome that I made up: > > A man, a plan, a case of reviled Spam… That’s catchy. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-palindrome-in-a-dopers-sig/637914/9 "2012-10-17T03:00:29Z")
Are we sure the OP isn’t thinking of this poster: [A Man, A Plan, a Canal](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) ? ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-palindrome-in-a-dopers-sig/637914/10 "2012-10-17T12:06:52Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Are we sure the OP isn’t thinking of this poster: [A Man, A Plan, a Canal](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) ? Whose real name may or may not be Lana C. Analpanama.