Sex At Noon Taxes

July 24, 2004 10:44 AM

Palindromes
::shamelessly stolen from plep::
posted by anastasiav (20 comments total)

"if I had a hifi" -- genius. thanks anastasia
posted by matteo at 10:55 AM on July 24, 2004

Sex elf flexes.
posted by cortex at 11:49 AM on July 24, 2004

"Unremarkable was I ere I saw Elba Kramer, nu?"

Awesome. Too bad it doesn't credit these; I believe "T. Eliot, top bard, notes putrid tang emanating, is sad. I'd assign it a name: gnat dirt upset on drab pot toilet." is Auden.
posted by kenko at 11:54 AM on July 24, 2004

It's a shame that Palindrome backwards is Emordnilap. They missed a trick there, those sneaky naming-things people.
posted by Grangousier at 11:58 AM on July 24, 2004

Maybe change the name for a reversable word or phrase to: "PALSLAP".
posted by wendell at 12:12 PM on July 24, 2004

My fave: So many dynamos!
posted by Scoo at 12:29 PM on July 24, 2004

The best ever, the title of a Soundgarden record. Not sure where they got it:

Satan Oscillate My Metallic Sonatas.
posted by afx114 at 1:12 PM on July 24, 2004

Look! Kool! ;-)
posted by jaronson at 1:29 PM on July 24, 2004

i love having a first name you can put in palindromes. as far as I know its also the only name you can flip vertically and get another word. bob rules
posted by bob sarabia at 1:55 PM on July 24, 2004

So many dynamoS
(mp3 link, cut a bit short sadly, but you get a flavour of the palindromosity - from this album by this person and this person.
posted by Grangousier at 2:28 PM on July 24, 2004

Good one. I wish i could think of a palindromic response but it would take me much too much tme. Bye, from me.
posted by mokey at 2:45 PM on July 24, 2004

wow.
posted by shoepal at 3:17 PM on July 24, 2004

Along the same lines: http://www.scottkim.com/inversions/
posted by Ayn Marx at 4:25 PM on July 24, 2004

I am a snakehead eating the head on the opposite side.
posted by ColdChef at 7:11 PM on July 24, 2004

I palindrome I

First thing I thought of, ColdChef
posted by jaronson at 11:39 PM on July 24, 2004

Of all the music factoids I learned while working at Billboard, the one I tend to quote the most is that ABBA's "SOS" is the highest-charting single in which both the band name and the song title are palindromes. I'm still waiting for the trivia contest where i can use that.
posted by lisa g at 7:27 AM on July 25, 2004

See also 10/02/2001.
posted by LeLiLo at 9:17 AM on July 25, 2004

Swen nixes sex in news.
Sir, I'm Iris!"
Pure 'Boston' did not sober up!
-- courtesy of an old Chinese English textbook.

There's something similar in Chinese called 'circular poems'...
posted by of strange foe at 6:49 PM on July 25, 2004

Some guy who was profiled on NPR was a big palindrome fanatic. I can't recall who. But I do remember his favorite palindrome:

Snub no man. Nice cinnamon buns!
posted by soyjoy at 12:43 PM on July 26, 2004

We bought a Weird Al music video compilation DVD for our son's birthday last month. On it is a parody of Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues done all in palindromes. It's absolutely amazing.
posted by ZenMasterThis at 6:24 PM on July 26, 2004