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15 May 2013, 4:00 pm

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15 May 2013, 4:38 pm

There is a word for it.

"Palidrone".

Whole phrases can be palindrones like 'A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!'

The very FIRST sentence ever uttered in history was a palidrone!

"Madam. I'm Adam."

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My personal favourite,

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Imagine that the smiley has a fat bottom lip.

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15 May 2013, 9:59 pm

naturalplastic wrote:

There is a word for it.

"Palidrone".

Whole phrases can be palindrones like 'A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!'

The very FIRST sentence ever uttered in history was a palidrone!

"Madam. I'm Adam."

Palindrome, actually.

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15 May 2013, 10:48 pm

"Rae hits Eb ... [etc.] ... beer is best I hear"

I can't remember how it goes but it's a whole palindromic novel.

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16 May 2013, 2:50 am

"Regninger"... A Danish word meaning "bills".

As we say in Danish - bills are the same no matter what way you spell them!

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16 May 2013, 4:00 am

It makes me sad that palindrome is not a palindrome.

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16 May 2013, 7:36 am

The longest real palindrome that can be used in everyday language is allegedly the Finnish saippuakauppias which means "soap seller."

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16 May 2013, 11:12 am

Tattarrattat is the longest English palindrome, I believe.

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16 May 2013, 11:37 am

224 word palindrome poem by Demitri Martin

"Dammit I’m mad.
Evil is a deed as I live.
God, am I reviled? I rise, my bed on a sun, I melt.
To be not one man emanating is sad. I piss.
Alas, it is so late. Who stops to help?
Man, it is hot. I’m in it. I tell.
I am not a devil. I level “Mad Dog”.
Ah, say burning is, as a deified gulp,
In my halo of a mired rum tin.
I erase many men. Oh, to be man, a sin.
Is evil in a clam? In a trap?
No. It is open. On it I was stuck.
Rats peed on hope. Elsewhere dips a web.
Be still if I fill its ebb.
Ew, a spider… eh?
We sleep. Oh no!
Deep, stark cuts saw it in one position.
Part animal, can I live? Sin is a name.
Both, one… my names are in it.
Murder? I’m a fool.
A hymn I plug, deified as a sign in ruby ash,
A Goddam level I lived at.
On mail let it in. I’m it.
Oh, sit in ample hot spots. Oh wet!
A loss it is alas (sip). I’d assign it a name.
Name not one bottle minus an ode by me:
“Sir, I deliver. I’m a dog”
Evil is a deed as I live.
Dammit I’m mad."

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