# Favorite palindrome **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 27, 2006, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-palindrome/346278 "2006-02-27T05:28:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-palindrome/346278/61 "2006-02-28T13:45:44Z")
> [@MissMossie](#): > > The on campus zipcode for my university is a palindrome. When I got my housing information for my freshman year, I immediately exclaimed, “My new zip code’s a palindrome!” My dad gave me a funny look; I can’t imagine why. My best friends have a palindrome for their telephone number. He of course registered that it was the same in either direction but didn’t know the term. So I got to introduce him to the classics: Madam, I’m Adam. Able was I, ere I saw Elba. A man, a plan, a canal, Panama. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-palindrome/346278/62 "2006-02-28T14:46:19Z")
> [@KayElCee](#): > > Do geese see god? If I may answer in French: _Non_ ---
**Author:** ![Nancarrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@Nancarrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nancarrow)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-palindrome/346278/63 "2006-02-28T17:11:22Z")
> [@BlueKangaroo](#): > > Okay, but remember, you asked. > 5’ G/AATTC 3’ Oh, very smart! 🆒 (but should the “/” be in there?) ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-palindrome/346278/64 "2006-02-28T17:53:55Z")
Johanna: > [@](#): > > cmkeller, Aviva is such a lovely name in every way, it makes me wish I could have one more daughter, kayn ayin ha-ra! You were cool parents to choose that name. Thank you so much. We always liked the name, and fortunately, she was born in the spring, so it fit perfectly. I like to think her personality matches it too, so sunny and full of life, but I’m probably projecting there (not that it’s not true, but that that’s necessarily characteristic of spring). ---
**Author:** ![BlueKangaroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@BlueKangaroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueKangaroo)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-palindrome/346278/65 "2006-02-28T18:09:04Z")
> [@Nancarrow](#): > > Oh, very smart! 🆒 > > (but should the “/” be in there?) I’m fairly certain, as it indicates the cut site. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-palindrome/346278/66 "2006-03-01T03:10:36Z")
Gene splicing? But what does Gene have to say about that? ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-palindrome/346278/67 "2006-03-01T03:32:39Z")
You can cage a swallow can’t you, but you can’t swallow a cage, can you? Yo de todo te doy. Ojo! Con ese no cojo. Engage le jeu que je le gagne. Doc, note. I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on Cod. ---
**Author:** ![BlueKangaroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@BlueKangaroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueKangaroo)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-palindrome/346278/68 "2006-03-01T03:47:14Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > Gene splicing? > > But what does Gene have to say about that? Gene called in. Apparently he’s been cut. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-palindrome/346278/69 "2006-03-01T07:25:07Z")
> [@Hello Again](#): > > BTW, words that can be read _upside down_ as well as right side up are not just palindromes, they are also known as **ambigrams**. Yes, and I remember in 1961, everyone saying that there won’t be another such year for another 4048 years. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-palindrome/346278/70 "2006-03-01T07:52:58Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > 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! That’s fabulous. ---
**Author:** ![antechinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@antechinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antechinus)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-palindrome/346278/71 "2006-03-01T11:13:37Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > Lice? Cecil. He’s mad, a lice cot (not sack), cast onto Cecil Adams, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Tevildo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Tevildo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tevildo)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-palindrome/346278/72 "2006-03-01T14:53:15Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > Does “Today I’m talking in palindromes:|:semordnilap ni gniklat mi yadot” count? If it does, then I’d like to suggest something said by an American congressman and civil rights activist of the 1960’s when addressing a Welsh female dignitary: “Llewopnotyalc, madam, I’m Adam Clayton Powell”. **ultrafilter** , is your link actually a _sentence_? I can’t find a verb in it anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-palindrome/346278/73 "2006-03-01T15:29:20Z")
> [@Tevildo](#): > > **ultrafilter** , is your link actually a _sentence_? I can’t find a verb in it anywhere. Probably not–it’s really just an extension of “A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!”. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-palindrome/346278/74 "2006-03-01T17:02:14Z")
“Dog”, sides reversed, is “God”. Makes you think, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-palindrome/346278/75 "2006-03-01T23:08:33Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > You can cage a swallow can’t you, but you can’t swallow a cage, can you? Another word-by-word palindrome: SO PATIENT A DOCTOR, TO DOCTOR A PATIENT SO! My cousin Jon’s daughter is named EMILY LIME. Besides **I Love Me, Vol. I** and **Otto** , the ranks of palindromic Dopers include **Eve** and **Mirror Image egami rorriM**. ---
**Author:** ![ninevah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/46a35a/32.png) [@ninevah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ninevah)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2006, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-palindrome/346278/76 "2006-03-02T04:43:52Z")
Was it a car or a cat I saw? ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-palindrome/346278/77 "2008-01-15T02:11:54Z")
BOOB ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-palindrome/346278/78 "2008-01-15T02:22:46Z")
Call Ida collect, cello, Cadillac. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-palindrome/346278/79 "2008-01-15T02:50:43Z")
I made up one once: “Tara saw I was a rat”, when dating a woman named Tara. That was the beginning of the end, I figure. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-palindrome/346278/80 "2008-01-15T03:24:36Z")
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