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Started by Purple 77, August 01, 2012, 12:35:00 PM

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ossie85


Master Q


Windigo

Was it Eliot's toilet I saw?

Love that one.  :P

TheMailman

Can anybody do a Palindromic Haiku?

"Oh, evil satan,
oscillate my metallic
Sonatas live. Ho!"


Scrads

Glenelg

That's the best I got haha.

Cicjose

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Quote from: CrowsFan on August 01, 2012, 06:08:30 PM
One of the most famous palindromes is this:

A Man, A Plan, A Canal â€" Panama!

That was eventually extended to a 540 word version that goes as such...

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 â€" Panama!

That is actually only part of the Longest Palindrome CF

which contains 15,140 Words.

http://www.english-for-students.com/Longest-Palindrome.html

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In English, two palindromic novels have been published: Satire: Veritas by David Stephens (1980, 58,795 letters), and Dr Awkward & Olson in Oslo by Lawrence Levine (1986, 31,954 words).

In French, Oulipo writer George Perec's "Grand Palindrome" (1969) is 5,556 letters in length.

In Hebrew, Noam Dovev wrote a 333-word, 1221-letter palindromic story called, "Do god"

Zombie2.5

Never odd or even.

Do geese see God?


Quote from: Windigo on August 01, 2012, 05:18:28 PM
Stanley Yelnats.  8)

Holes ;)

Quote from: CrowsFan on August 02, 2012, 10:58:09 AM
Naomi is not a palindrome
It is i moan backwards  ::)

Nails

How about these for Palindromes?

1

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4

5

6

7

8

9

0

Shaggy

Ron! Oh! Sex in a Toyota nixes honor.

See, slave, I demonstrate yet arts no medieval sees.

Yawn…Madonna fan? No damn way!!


And for you South Australian,s you have your own Palindrome town, Glenelg.


Adamant

mr owl ate my metal worm

elephants

"Not New York" Roy went on.

^^ Classic right there!!

Adamant

Did Hannah see bees? Hannah did.

Shihan7


Shihan7