From John Hodgman’s The Areas of My Expertise
The game for us is to come up with more failed palindromes.
My first entry is lame (but not as lame as it looks). From the “it kind of looks like dialectical English, and I wish it really were” department:
'E mord 'n 'i lap: “Palindrome!”
Wheelz
2
Isn’t that a successful palindrome?
I think a successful palindrome would have to actually mean something.
Mine’s unsuccessful in a different way than Hodgman’s, to be sure.
Biotop
8
An ok wino was I ere I saw Okinawa
Cecil devours savoured lice
New game thread - “Dear thema, Gwen”.
Barack is sick arab
Skammer
10
A palindrome of “Bolton” would be “Notlob.” The man at the other station lied to you.
Some ordinal professor rose for palindromes
Nice nuns shun sin
Pooh shoots too hoops
Fail at a life
Egg nog gone
pravnik
14
Able was I, ere I injured my elbow.
Agassi in meth/tennis saga
Biotop
17
Stressed Leeza, “Palin’s evil deed lives in La Paz eel desserts!”
Biotop
18
Sal, Al, ogle “Google Gals” …alas
CSI defiled unused “Sue’s Nude Life” disc
Pope’s ears pop
42fish
19
Pope’s rear poops
(Quite possibly in the woods)
Biotop
20
S. Dope’s server severs E-pods
Nari an imam, ma’am, in Iran