# Palindrome help: Do good I? No! Evil anon I deliver! **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 27, 2000, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palindrome-help-do-good-i-no-evil-anon-i-deliver/47318 "2000-12-27T01:17:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [December 27, 2000, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palindrome-help-do-good-i-no-evil-anon-i-deliver/47318/1 "2000-12-27T01:17:49Z")
Years ago I read in an old paperback copy of Guinness book of world records what they claimed was the longest palindromic paragraph in english. It ran something like this! "Do good I? No! Evil anon I deliver! Sanitary sword atuck Carol, I, lo, rack, cut a drowsy rat in aswan. I gas nine more hero men in Saginaw. Reviled, I Nona live on! I do, o God! " obviously this isn’t exactly it, and there was more to it, anybody know the genunine article? I’ve never been able to find it on the net. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2000, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palindrome-help-do-good-i-no-evil-anon-i-deliver/47318/2 "2000-12-27T02:10:24Z")
I don’t know about it holding any records or anything, but on [this page](http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Ginohn/cetera/palindromes.html) the following is listed under the heading “Really Long Ones” (you’ll need to scroll down most of the way to the bottom): > [@](#): > > 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! ---
**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:** [December 27, 2000, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palindrome-help-do-good-i-no-evil-anon-i-deliver/47318/3 "2000-12-27T02:53:33Z")
That’s it exactly, MEB! Thanks a bundle! Qadgop ---
**Author:** ![StephenG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@StephenG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StephenG)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2000, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palindrome-help-do-good-i-no-evil-anon-i-deliver/47318/4 "2000-12-27T06:34:37Z")
If you’re truly interested in the longest plaindrome, you can find another thread [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=26725), and similar threads [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=48330) and [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=48156). An excerpt from my favorite post inthat last thread: > [@](#): > > \*\*_Originally posted by Uniball:_ > 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! > [Note: this impressive 543-word palindrome was created in 1984 by Dan Hoey with help of a > computer program he wrote.] ---
**Author:** ![peepthis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2000, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palindrome-help-do-good-i-no-evil-anon-i-deliver/47318/5 "2000-12-27T06:49:25Z")
_saippuakivikauppias_ (Finnish for “soapstone salesman”), which my father used to be when he sold fireplaces hewn from said stone many years ago. And he’s from Finland to boot! (I’m starting to feel like an old timer…apparently I’ve mentioned this anecdote in one of the threads **StephenG** quoted above)