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Subject: Re: Palindromes (was: Re: Most difficult kind of phrase...........)
From: netzach@mindspring.com (Guy R. Briggs)
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 97 01:05:19 GMT

just@aminute.duck (Rocky and Mugsy) wrote:
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| Consider the animal-lover's warning.....
| "Step on no pets."
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The first words spoken were a palindrome:
    Madam, I'm Adam.
or perhaps:
    Madam in Eden, I'm Adam.
The response, of course, must have been:
    Eve

Napolean's lament:
    Able was I ere I saw Elba.
Has been improved with:
    Unremarkable was I ere I saw Elba, Kramer, nu?

A fish is a:
    laminar animal

The timeless classic:
    A man, a plan, a canal; Panama?
Has been improved by:
    A dog, a plan, a canal: pagoda!
        -- Roger Angell

    A man, a plan, a cat, a canal; Panama?
        -- Jim Saxe, plan file @ CMU, 9 October 1983

    A man, a plan, a cat, a ham, a yak, a yam, a hat, a canal--Panama!
        -- Guy Jacobson, plan file @ CMU late 1983

    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.

Dan goes on to say "...a little work on the search algorithm could make
it several times as long."

Those wonderful proper names:
    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.

Some palindromic names:

    Lon Nol     
    (former premier of Cambodia)

    U Nu
    (former premier of Burma)

    Revilo P. Oliver
    (professor at U. of Illinois; his father and grandfather have/had
     the same name, which was deliberately contrived)

    Wassamassaw
    (a swamp north of Charleston SC)

    Yreka Bakery
    (a former business in Yreka CA)

    Yrella Gallery
    (a business which later occupied the same premises)

All of the above were shamelessly copied from: 
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/puzzles/archive/language/

Best Regards,

Guy R. "BrickWall" Briggs ----------- netzach@mindspring.com

   "All God's critters got a place in the choir,
    Some sing low, some sing higher.
    Some sing out loud on the telephone wire!
    And some just clap their hands, or paws,
    Or anything they got."