# Hey - It's Palindrome Week **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 15, 2014, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-palindrome-week/686178 "2014-04-15T14:46:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-palindrome-week/686178/21 "2014-04-16T00:17:27Z")
Lisa Bonet ate no basil. šŸ˜› ---
**Author:** ![marking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4da419/32.png) [@marking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marking)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-palindrome-week/686178/22 "2014-04-16T00:25:13Z")
o no !! Eva, can i stab bats in a cave ? Ten animals I slam in a net. this is fun!! ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-palindrome-week/686178/23 "2014-04-16T00:25:36Z")
O: ā€¦It was a pun. C: (pause) A PUN?!? O: No, noā€¦not a punā€¦Whatā€™s that thing that spells the same backwards as forwards? C: (Long pause) A palindromeā€¦? O: Yeah, thatā€™s it! C: Itā€™s not a palindrome! The palindrome of ā€œBoltonā€ would be ā€œNotlobā€!! It donā€™t work!! ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-palindrome-week/686178/24 "2014-04-16T01:48:21Z")
Oh, no! Don Ho! ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-palindrome-week/686178/25 "2014-04-16T06:20:59Z")
A friend of mine from about 40 years ago claims to have invented this one: Doc, note: I dissent! A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-palindrome-week/686178/26 "2014-04-16T10:28:13Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > A friend of mine from about 40 years ago claims to have invented this one: > > Doc, note: I dissent! A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod. That was in ā€œThe Book of Lists,ā€ published around 1979. No cites were included, so itā€™s possible your friend was telling the truth. ---
**Author:** ![vontsira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/51bf81/32.png) [@vontsira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vontsira)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-palindrome-week/686178/27 "2014-04-16T10:55:01Z")
Below: my favourite palindrome ā€“ and the longest of such that I know, to sorta-kinda make sense. ā€œT. Eliot, top bard, notes putrid tang emanating, is sad. Iā€™d assign it a name: gnat dirt upset on drab pot toilet.ā€ ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-palindrome-week/686178/28 "2014-04-16T10:58:37Z")
> [@vontsira](#): > > Below: my favourite palindrome ā€“ and the longest of such that I know, to sorta-kinda make sense. > > ā€œT. Eliot, top bard, notes putrid tang emanating, is sad. Iā€™d assign it a name: gnat dirt upset on drab pot toilet.ā€ Mine, too! It was included in that same ā€œBook of Listsā€ list I just mentioned. My wife or I quote a part of this palindrome about once a week, on occasions when it is appropriate to observe a ā€œputrid tang emanatingā€ (usually due to someoneā€™s flatulence). ---
**Author:** ![vontsira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/51bf81/32.png) [@vontsira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vontsira)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-palindrome-week/686178/29 "2014-04-16T12:16:54Z")
Yes, ā€œputrid tang emanatingā€ is a goodie. I gather that the palindrome concerning Mr. Eliot and what he notes, was thought up by a poetā€¦ ---
**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:** [April 16, 2014, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-palindrome-week/686178/30 "2014-04-16T12:26:52Z")
Do good? I? No! Evil anon I deliver. I maim nine more hero-men in Saginaw, sanitary sword a-tuck, Carol, I ā€” lo! ā€” rack, cut a drowsy rat in Aswan. I gas nine more hero-men in Miami. Reviled, I (Nona) live on. I do, O God! ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-palindrome-week/686178/31 "2014-04-16T12:55:38Z")
[Live Evil.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Evil_%28Black_Sabbath_album%29) ---
**Author:** ![vontsira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/51bf81/32.png) [@vontsira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vontsira)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-palindrome-week/686178/32 "2014-04-16T13:07:02Z")
> [@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 ā€” lo! ā€” rack, cut a drowsy rat in Aswan. I gas nine more hero-men in Miami. Reviled, I (Nona) live on. I do, O God! Full marks for ingenuity: but if some kind of vague sense doesnā€™t have to be made, all bets are off ! I submit this hoary specimen from the World War II era: ā€œMarge, let dam dogs in. Am on satire ! Vow I am Cain. Am on spot. Am a Jap sniper. Red, raw murder on GI. Ignore drum. (Warder repins pajama tops.) No maniac, Ma ! Iwo veritas: no man is God. Mad telegram.ā€ ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-palindrome-week/686178/33 "2014-04-16T13:22:33Z")
> [@vontsira](#): > > ā€œT. Eliot, top bard, notes putrid tang emanating, is sad. Iā€™d assign it a name: gnat dirt upset on drab pot toilet.ā€ Was it Eliotā€™s toilet I saw? ---
**Author:** ![vontsira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/51bf81/32.png) [@vontsira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vontsira)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-palindrome-week/686178/34 "2014-04-16T14:20:10Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > [Live Evil.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Evil_%28Black_Sabbath_album%29) ā€œLewd I did live, evil did I dwelā€ (cheating just a bit). ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-palindrome-week/686178/35 "2014-04-16T15:18:51Z")
Overheard at WImbledon: ā€œDamn! I, Agassi, miss again! Mad!ā€ ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-palindrome-week/686178/36 "2014-04-16T15:20:30Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > We had a double-whammy the previous day, on 4/10/2014 which was also 4/10/14 Iā€™m glad you brought this up. To me it always felt like using the year without the century was cheating. The year is 2014, not 14. 4/10/2014 is a palindrome (and an awesome one at that), but not the others. Yeah I know, Iā€™m in the minority; but I wanted to mention it because you see emails all the time that try to make something special out of the dates; but they can only do it by lopping off the century. I donā€™t think thereā€™s anything interesting about 1/4/14 for example. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-palindrome-week/686178/37 "2014-04-16T19:26:51Z")
Sit on a potato pan, Otis! Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-palindrome-week/686178/38 "2014-04-16T20:18:54Z")
HYMN TO THE MOON by Graham Reynolds Luna, nul one, Moon, nemo, Drown word. In mutual autumn I go; Feel fog rob all life, Fill labor, Go, flee fog. In mutual autumn I drown. Word; omen; no omen. O, Luna, nul. THE LABOURER by Martin Wilson Loop mid a sun ever up, say bees won, I draw; snowed on, flow, Live on rota. Red now is eve: Too far its stars. Worn, I turn, I spin ruts, Turnips in rut, in rows. Rats stir afoot. Eves I wonder at, or no evil: Wolf; no dew on sward. I now see by (as pure Venus) A dim pool. > **[Palindromic Poetry](http://martinwilsonwrites.blogspot.com/2011/01/palindromic-poetry.html)** > > Every time I read Montaigne's essay Of vaine Subtilties, or subtill Devices , I feel a little ashamed of my continued interest in this subje... (I first saw the Hymn To The Moon poem in one of Martin Gardnerā€™s books, circa \ years ago.) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-palindrome-week/686178/39 "2014-04-16T20:26:45Z")
You can find this one all over the internet, but it was somehow making the rounds even before that. I first heard this, circa 1971: In girum imus nocte, et consumimur igni. This was allegedly the Devilā€™s answer to the question put to him by Sir Thomas Aquinas: Just what do you _do_ in Hell, anyway? It supposedly says: ā€œWe gather in the night, and are consumed in fire.ā€ I showed this to a Business Ed teacher at community college once. He took it to a Latin instructor in the Language Department. The word I got back was, the Latin instructor declared it to be incomprehensible gibberish. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-palindrome-week/686178/40 "2014-04-16T20:34:07Z")
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