One liners
"M" lab menial slain: embalm.
"Miry rim! So many daffodils," Delia wailed, "slid off a dynamo's miry rim!"
"Naomi, sex at noon taxes!", I moan.
"Nurse, I spy gypsies! Run!"
"Reviled did I live," said I, "as evil I did deliver."
"Yreka Bakery"
(... Yawn.) Madonna Fan? No damn way!
11 * 181 = 1991 = 181 * 11
A Fool, A Tool, A Pool; LOOPALOOTALOOFA!
A Toyota! Race fast, safe car. A Toyota
A dog! A panic in a pagoda!
A dog, a plan, a canal: pagoda.
A fine snore, rare Ronsen IFA.
A man, a plan, a canal, Panama.
A man, a plan, a cat, a canal; Panama?
A man, a plan, a cat, a ham, a yak, a yam, a hat, a canal - Panama!
A slut nixes sex in Tulsa.
A tin mug for a jar of gum, Nita.
Able was I, ere I saw Elba! -- Napoleon before he met his Waterloo
Ah, Satan sees Natasha.
Aha!
Aibohphobia [fear of palindromes]
Aim a Toyota tatami mat at a Toyota, Mia.
Al lets Della call Ed Stella.
Alan Alda stops racecar, spots ad: "Lana-L.A."
Amaryllis sillyrama
Animal loots foliated detail of stool lamina.
Anna: "Did Otto peep?" Otto: "Did Anna?"
Anne, I vote more cars race Rome to Vienna.
Bird rib.
Bombard a drab mob.
Bonk! One Mac. Newton sees not wen came (no knob).
Bush saw Sununu swash sub.
But sad Eva saved a stub.
Cain: A maniac!
Camus sees sumac.
Cigar? Toss it in a can, it is so tragic.
Dabale arroz a la zorra el abad (The abbot was giving rice to the fox)
Daedalus: nine, Peninsula: dead.
Dairy myriad.
Damn! I, Agassi, miss again! Mad!
Deirdre wets altar of St. Simons - no mists, for at last ewer dried.
Denim axes examined.
Dennis and Edna sinned.
Dennis sinned.
Depardieu, go razz a rogue I draped.
Devil Natasha, ah, Satan lived !
Did I draw Della too tall, Edward? I did?
Dior droid.
Do geese see God?
Do good? I? No! Evil anon I deliver: I maim nine more hero-men in Saginaw; sanitary sword a-tuck, Carol, I--lo!--rack, cut a drowsy rat in Aswan; I gas nine more hero-men in Miami; reviled I (Nona) live on. I do, O God!
Doc note, I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod.
Do not start at rats to nod.
Dr. Lime, 121 Emil Rd.
Drat Sadat, a dastard!
Drat Saddam mad dastard.
Drat Saddam, a mad dastard!
Draw, o coward!
E. Borgnine drags Dad's gardening robe.
Ed, I saw Harpo Marx ram Oprah W. aside.
Egad! A base tone denotes a bad age.
Egad! No bondage!
Egad, an adage!
Emil saw a slime.
Emordnilap palindrome.
Emu fat sap pasta fume
Eros' sis is sore.
Eros? Sidney, my end is sore!
Erotic, I gammon ever on, else partisan, I live evil in a sit. Rapes Lenore: venom magic I tore.
Esope reste ici et se repose (Aesop is resting here and relaxing)
Evil I did dwell, lewd did I live.
Evil olive.
Flee to me, remote elf.
Flesh! Saw I Mimi wash self!
Gateman's nametag.
Gert, I saw Ron avoid a radio-van - or was it Reg?
Gnu dung.
Go deliver a dare, vile dog.
Go hang a salami! I'm a lasagna hog!
God lived as a devil dog.
God saw I was dog.
God! A red nugget! A fat egg under a dog!
God, a slap! Paris, sir, appals a dog.
God lived as a devil dog.
Goldenrod-adorned log
Golf? No sir, prefer prison-flog.
Gustav Klimt milk vats - ug!
He goddam mad dog, eh?
He stops spots, eh?
He won snow, eh?
He won't, ah, wander, Edna. What now, eh?
I maim Miami.
I prevent u-boats, tar, evil live rats, Tao, but never pi.
I roamed under it as a tired, nude Maori.
I won, Karen, an era know I.
I'm runnin'! - Nurmi
I, Rasputin, knit up Sari.
I, man, am regal; a German am I.
I, zani Nazi.
If I had a hi-fi
Is Don Adams mad? (A nod.) Si!
Jar a tonga, nag not a raj.
Kay, a red nude, peeped under a yak.
Kayak salad - Alaska yak.
Lager, Sir, is regal.
Laminated E.T. animal.
Lay a wallaby baby ball away, Al.
Lepers repel.
Let O'Hara gain an inn in a niagara hotel.
Lew, Otto has a hot towel!
Lisa Bonet ate no basil.
Live dirt up a side track carted is a putrid evil.
Live evil
Live not on evil.
Lonely Tylenol.
Ma has a ham.
Ma is a nun, as I am.
Ma is as selfless as I am.
Madam, I'm Adam.
Madam in Eden, I'm Adam.
Man, Eve let an irate tar in at eleven a.m.
Man, Oprah's sharp on A.M.
Marge lets Norah see Sharon's telegram.
May a moody baby doom a yam?
Mayhem, eh Yam?
Murder for a jar of red rum.
Must sell at tallest sum.
Name no one man.
Naomi, did I moan?
Ned, go gag Ogden.
Neil A. sees alien!
Never odd or even.
Niagara, O roar again.
No evil shah lives on.
No lemons, no melon.
No misses ordered roses, Simon.
No pinot noir on orion to nip on.
No, I met System Ion.
No, I tan, I'm at no contamination.
No, Mel Gibson is a casino's big lemon.
No, it is opposition.
No, she stops spots, eh, son?
Nog eroded Oregon.
Noriega can idle, held in a cage...Iron!
Nosegay ages on.
Not New York, Roy went on.
Now I see bees I won.
Now Ned, I am a maiden nun: Ned, I am a maiden won.
O, geronimo, no minor ego!
O, memsahib Bart, rabbi has memo.
O, stone, be not so.
O.E.D. or rodeo?
Oh, no! Don Ho!
Pa's a sap.
Paganini: Din in A Gap.
Paget saw an Irish tooth, Sir, in a waste gap.
Party boobytrap.
Plan no damn Madonna LP.
Poor Dan is in a droop.
Pull up if I pull up.
Rats drown in WordStar.
Rats live on no evil star
Red Nevada vendor.
Red lost case, Ma. Jesse James acts older.
Red rum, sir, is murder.
Reflog a golfer
Reno loner
Reviled did I live, said I, as evil I did deliver.
Rise to vote, sir.
Rise, sir lapdog! Revolt, lover! God, pal, rise, sir!
Rise, take lame female Kate, sir.
Rococo "R".
Rot-corpse Sumatran art amuses proctor.
Saippuakauppias. (Finnish word for "soap seller")
Satan oscillate my metallic sonatas. (Soundgarden album)
Senile Felines
Sex at noon taxes.
Sex-aware era waxes.
Sh, Tom sees moths.
Sir, I soon saw Bob was no Osiris.
Sir, I'm Iris.
Sis, Sargasso Moss a grass is.
Sis, ask Costner to not rent socks "As Is"!
Sit on a potato pan, Otis.
Sleep on no peels.
Sniff'um muffins.
So, G. Rivera's tots are virgos.
So, Ida, adios!
Solo gigolos.
Some men interpret nine memos.
Sore eye, Eros?
Sore was I ere I saw Eros.
Stab nail at ill Italian bats.
Star comedy by Democrats.
Stella won no wallets
Step on no pets.
Stop! Murder us not, tonsured rumpots!
Stop, Syrian! I start at rats in airy spots.
Strategem: megatarts.
Straw warts
Straw? No, too stupid a fad. I put soot on warts...
Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus. -- Leigh Mercer
Swen, on gnus, sung no news.
T. Eliot nixes sex in toilet!
T. Eliot, top bard, notes putrid tang emanating, is sad. "I'd assign it a name: gant dirt upset on drab pot toilet
Tarzan raised Desi Arnaz' rat.
Ten animals I slam in a net.
Tense, I snap Sharon roses, or Norah's pansies net.
The almanac can am laeth
The fat cop spoke in a strange tongue:"Eugnot egnarts a ni ekops poc taf eht."
To Idi Amin: I'm a idiot!
Toni Tennille fell in net. I, not!
Too bad, I hid a boot.
Top step's pup's pet spot.
A TOYOTA (it's also visually semetric)
Trafalgar rag: La Fart
Trap all afoot; I too fall apart.
Tuna nut
U.F.O. tofu.
Unremarkable was I ere I saw Elba Kramer, nu?
Vanna, wanna V?
Viva le te de Tel Aviv
Vote to not slip up, refer pupils to note TOV.
Was it a car or a cat I saw?
Was it a rat I saw?
Was raw tap ale not a reviver at one lap at Warsaw?
We few erase cares, Al; laser aces are we few.
We repaid a no name Pacific ape man on a diaper, ew!
We seven, Eve, sew.
Won't lovers revolt now?
Yawn a more Roman way.
Yell upset a cider: predicates pulley.
Yo! Bottoms up, U.S. Motto, boy!
You can cage a swallow can't you but you can't swallow a cage can you?
Yreka Bakery
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Longer palindromes
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The greatest palindrome comes from "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There", by the great Lewis Carroll:
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe
All mimsy were the borogoves
And the mome raths outgrabe
Ebargtuo shtar emom eht dna
Sevogorob eht erew ysmim lla
Ebaw eht ni elbmig dna eryg did
Sevot yhtils eht dna ,gillirb sawt.
(Courtesy of the Professor Incorrect)
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Do good, I? No! Evil anon I deliver! I maim nine more Hero-Men in Saginaw;
sanitary sword a-tuck, Carol, I... lo! Rack! Cut a drowsy Rat in Aswan.
I gas nine more Hero-Men in Miami. Reviled, I (Nona), live on! I do, O God!!
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Or, Adam said: Madam, I'm Adam
To which she replied: Eve
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A man went to see his doctor for a checkup. The doctor asked him how
he kept his weight down (the doctor had always recommended fasting),
and the man replied that he ate fish, with the following remark:
"Doc, note I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness - I diet on cod".
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Dennis, Nell, Edna, Leon, Nedra, Anita, Rolf, Nora, Alice, Carol, Leo,
Jane, Reed, Dena, Dale, Basil, Rae, Penny, Lana, Dave, Denny, Lena, Ida,
Bernadette, Ben, Ray, Lila, Nina, Jo, Ira, Mara, Sara, Mario, Jan, Ina,
Lily, Arne, Bette, Dan, Reba, Diane, Lynn, Ed, Eva, Dana, Lynne, Pearl,
Isabel, Ada, Ned, Dee, Rena, Joel, Lora, Cecil, Aaron, Flora, Tina, Arden,
Noel, and Ellen sinned.
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PALINDROMIC POEM:
Mood's mode!
Pallas, I won!
(Diaper pane, sold entire.)
Melt till ever sere, hide it.
Drown a more vile note;
(Tar of rennet.)
Ah, trowel, baton, eras ago.
The reward? A "nisi." Two nag.
Otary tastes putrid, yam was green.
Odes up and on; stare we.
Rats nod. Nap used one-erg saw.
(May dirt upset satyr?)
A toga now; 'tis in a drawer, eh?
Togas are notable.
(Worth a tenner for Ate`.)
Tone liver. O Man, word-tied I.
Here's revel!
Little merit, Ned? Lose, Nap?
Repaid now is all apedom's doom.
Tarzan raised a Desi Arnaz rat.
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A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, hero's, rajahs, a coloratura,
maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan,
a tag, a banana bag again, or: a camel, a crepe, pins, spam,
a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal, Panama!
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Here is some information about a few palindromes related to the one
you mention. As far as I know, the first person to put a cat in the
canal was Jim Saxe, in his 9 October 1983 plan file.
A man, a plan, a cat, a canal; Panama?
Guy Jacobson added several items later that year.
A man, a plan, a cat, a ham, a yak, a yam, a hat, a canal--Panama!
Guy's palindrome appears on page 127 of COMMON LISP, THE LANGUAGE
(page 170 of the 2nd edition). The 2nd edition of COMMON LISP, THE
LANGUAGE also contains the remarkable:
A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps,
snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a
banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo,
cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal--Panama!
which is presumably the work of Guy Steele, the book's author.
I dredged up the problem in 1984, and discovered the following 540-word
version with the help of a computer program that I wrote.
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. --Dan Hoey, 'discovered' in 1984.
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This was done with the Unix spelling dictionary and a fairly
simple-minded program. With a better word list and a smarter program
I'm sure the palindrome could be ten times as long.
I am somewhat concerned that people have been redistributing these
palindromes without attribution. Please don't do so. And if you get
a copy of my palindrome without my name on it, I would appreciate it
if you mention my objection to whoever sends it to you.
Dan Hoey
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil
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Enid and Edna dine:
Eda Nomel's lemonade
Bel Paese a pleb
Parkay yak rap
Feeble el beef
Roti de pup editor
Eel, urbane hen a brulee
Self-furnace Pecan ruffles
Foreign Language Palindromes
(Latin)
Subi dura a rudibus (endure rough treatement from uncultured brutes)
Sator Arepo tenet opera rotas (The sower Arepo works with the help of a wheel.)
(Finnish)
Saippuakauppias (soap dealer)
(the longest one word palindrome in the world!)
Suolatalous - salt economy
Iso rikas sika sokosakissa kirosi - a fat rich pig cursed in a poker gang
Isa, ala myy myymalaasi - father, don't sell your shop (two dots over those a's)
(Welsh)
Llad dafad dall (kill a blind sheep)
(Swedish)
Ni talar bra latin (you speak good Latin)
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