Palindromes

[winterHLepsilon]

Madam, I'm Adam.
Able was I ere I saw Elba.
Mary Belle Byram




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*Hypotenuse Leg*
HL--^H^e^L^en
A girl from Guangzhou, China, Asia

[Hitchhiker]

A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!

[Termital]

(Picking off the easy ones)
racecar
Rise to vote, sir! (Are the Simpsons educational or what?)
And, just to show off:
Niyon anomhmata mh monan oyin
Greek for "Wash [away] sins, not just your face"

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Yearn brightly

[i_h8_evil_stuff]

mom
dad
wow
dud
did
aha
ala
pop
pip
pup
heh
hah
gag
gig
sis
viv
bib
bob
bub
nun
mim
mum

[Dread Pirate Westley]

deed
noon
radar

more

[Dragon Phoenix]

Palindromic pop/rock bands:

ABBA
Aha
Kayak

[Courk]

Aloha hola! (A bi-lingual greeting.)

[Chuck]

Aloha Hola is an audial palindrome too. Try recording it and playing it backwards.

[i_h8_evil_stuff]

I don't think it is, as the 'h' is pronounced in 'Aloha,' but not in 'Hola.' It sounds similar, though.

[This message has been edited by i_h8_evil_stuff (edited 05-29-2004 09:53 PM).]

[Chuck]

I listened to the pronounciation of Aloha on Mirriam-Webster and the H is clearly pronounced. It's not like I remember it from watching Hawaii Five-O on TV years ago.

[This message has been edited by Chuck (edited 05-30-2004 12:12 AM).]

[Courk]

. You just agreed with him in an argumentative fashion.

[Chuck]

Well, who knows better, some dictionary site or Steve McGarrett?

[Qball]

my car is a toyota

[mikegoo]

I really like Cascade because it stops spots.

[Pigboy]

Sit on a potato pan, Otis

[jesternl]

parterretrap is the longest Dutch palindrome that is not constructed.

[Courk]

What does that word mean?

[Mikel]

PARTERRESERRETRAP

is longer

[Dragon Phoenix]

That's constructed, though. Like

NEPPARTERRESERRETRAPPEN

[Mikel]

Damn!! What about Kissmyassaymssik

[Vader]

Here's one, simple enough: Hannah.

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Duct tape is like the force they both have a light side and a dark side and they bind the universe together.

[Amb]

"I roamed under a red nude Maori"

"Go hang a salami, Im a lasagna hog"

And the best GL one ever....
"Nail a dead daedalian"

[Antrax]

Ma is a nun as I am.
Antrax

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"Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em" - Lu-Tze, Thief of Time

[jesternl]

Originally posted by Courk:

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What does that word (parterretrap) mean?

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Stairs to the groundfloor.

[Samadhi]

Interesting, partier (IIRC) is 'to leave' in French.

[Mercuria]

i thought it was "parter"... it's been a while, though...

[Courk]

I think you might be right, Merc. But that's just based off of my limited french. Parter sounds right to me.

[DP]

Actually, it's partir.

[Mercuria]

ooh... yeah, that would explain the past participle not being parté...

thank you, dp =] <snogs>

[Burning]

Doc, note! I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod.
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"Space is blue, and birds fly through it."
Werner Heisenberg

[Samadhi]

No idea why I added the 'e'. Of course, it has been 20 years since I took French.
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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.

[MatthewV]

The only ones I know in Russian are one word. Nothing interesting.

[Neo]

Everybody should have sex at noon taxes
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_{Ad Astra}

[groza528]

This is one of my favourites:
"Go hang a salami; I'm a lasagna hog."

[winterHLepsilon]

How many palindrome names can you find? Like Mary Belle Byram.
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*HL--^H^e^L^en *
=A girl from Guangzhou, China, Asia=

Ask, and it shall be given you;
Seek, and ye shall find;
Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

[Narninian]

Wo Nemo! Toss a lasso to me now!

[Lucky Wizard]

There's a book illustrator named Kam Mak.

A former leader of Burma/Myanmar was named U Nu.

Speaking of palindromes with names in them, I recall once seeing a very long palindrome in which every word except two of the last three words was a name. It ended with "and [name I can't recall] sinned."

[Dragon Phoenix]

Only palindromic song/performer combo: SOS - ABBA.


Kayak spoilt the opportunity when they called their ballad about Anna Boleyn Anne......

[knightshade]

I'm pretty sure this one's Russian; I've heard the source is Gagarin or a Russian cosmonaut in response ot the US landing on the moon:

A luna kanula


It means something to the effect: "The moon vanishes"

Maybe a Russian-speaker can say what it exactly means.


-k

[Courk]

I've tried канула in a few online dictionaries, but the results weren't promising, mostly because the dictionaries suck. Луна does, however, mean moon. I wish I knew more russian.