Palindromes


AIBOHPHOBIA: n. Fear of palindromes.


(One Liners)

"Naomi, sex at noon taxes," I moan.

A Fool, A Tool, A Pool; LOOPALOOTALOOFA!

A man, a plan, a canal, Panama.

A man, a plan, a cat, a ham, a yak, a yam, a hat, a canal--Panama!

A Toyota.

Able was I ere I saw Elba.

Anne, I vote more cars race Rome to Vienna.

Delia saw I was ailed.

Dennis and Edna sinned

Did I draw Della too tall, Edward? I did?

Doc, note I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod.

Drat Saddam mad dastard.

Ed is on no side.

Egad! A base tone denotes a bad age.

Emil saw a slime.

evil i did dwell, lewd did i live

Go deliver a dare, vile dog.

God saw I was a dog!

Golf? No sir, prefer prison flog.

He goddam mad dog, eh?

I, man, am regal; a German am I.

Kay, a red nude, peeped under a yak.

Laid on no dial

Lee had a heel.

Lepers repel.

Live dirt up a side track carted is a putrid evil.

Llewopnotyalc, Madam, I'm Adam Clayton Powell.

Lonely Tylenol.

Ma is a nun, as I am.

Ma is as selfless as I am.

Madam, I'm Adam.

Madam, in Eden, I'm Adam.

Marge lets Norah see Sharon's telegram.

May a moody baby doom a yam?

Murder for a jar of red rum.

Never odd or even.

Niagara, O roar again.

No gnu have never after fret far, even Eva hung on.

No, it is opposition.

O, memsahib Bart, rabbi has memo.

O, no!

O, stone, be not so.

Paget saw an Irish tooth, Sir, in a waste gap.

Rats drown in WordStar.

Rats live on no evil star

Red rum, sir, is murder.

Redraw a warder.

Regal lager.

Rise to vote, sir.

Sex at noon taxes

Sit on a potato pan Otis!

Some men interpret nine memos.

step on no pets

Straw? No, too stupid a fad; I put soot on warts.

Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus.

Vote to not slip up, refer pupils to note TOV.

Was it a rat I saw?

We few erase cares, Al; laser aces are we few.

We few.


A much longer version of the Panama palindrome:

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.


(every word is reversed as a whole, with the longest single-word English palindrome right in the middle.)

"Sirrah! Deliver deified desserts detartrated," stressed deified, reviled Harris.


T. Eliot, top bard, notes putrid tang emanating, is sad.

I'd assign it a name: "gnat dirt upset on drab pot toilet".


Dian, I am reviled, I turn, I dump Martin Gardner,

I rend rag 'n' I tramp mud in rut, I deliver main aid.


No, nay! Nat is too bossy, as I say.

Go, be off for a fat salami!

Aloof, at lovers I had named I stare.

Here smegma is food, a kimono is secret sin.

I misled a ticklish sultan; at lush silk citadels I minister.

Cession, O Mikado, of Siam Gems ere he rats, I demand.

Ah - is revolt a fool aim?

(A last, a far-off foe - bogy as I - says so.)

Boots it any anon?


(Has some amazingly long words in it, and actually borders on the meaningful)

Deliver no evil, avid diva I saw die.

Render an unsung aria for erotogenic id.

O never egg Alec Naif, fairer Edna Waterfall.

A nonassimilative, volatile reef-dweller - apparelless brag!

Natasha I saw die, render an unsung aria.

For Edna Waterfall - a liar - familiar feuds live:

Dastard Ogre and Edna!

Pupils, one tacit song or poem - or didos deft celestial lives;

(Ida rapt as Naomi.)

Laud smegma, alas - keep never a frondlet on.

So did no solo snoop malign irised sad eyen.

Oh dewed yen, oh tressed May noon, hello! Tacit songs rev!

Love's barge of assent carts base tarts,

A cerise Deb abed, unreined flesh.

Sin - a viand - Edna sees and Edna has,

Or bust fossettes, or redder rosettes.

Soft sub-rosa hand Edna sees,

And, Edna, I vanish - self-denier!

Nude babe, desire castrates abstractness.

A foe grabs evolver's gnostic atoll, eh? No!

On, yam (dessert-honeydewed), honeyed as desiring!

I lampoon solos on didos. Not eld nor far, even peek.

"Salaam, gems dual," I moan.

Sat Paradise Villa, its elect fed.

So did Romeo prognosticate no slip up,

And Edna, ergo, drats a devils due:

"Frail! I'm a frail all a-fret, a-wander!

O fair Agnus nun, a red Nereid was I.

Ah Satan, garb's seller,

Apparel (lewd fee) relit a love vital I miss anon.

All a-fret, a wanderer I affiance -

Lagger even odic - in ego 'torero'.

Fair Agnus nun, a red Nereid was I."

Avid diva, live on reviled.


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