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What's your favourite palindrome?


larry jr.

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I have the same complaint about the word, onomatopoeia (a word that imitates the sound it represents, like buzz).

I didn't have any favourite palindromes, so I did a google search and found this.

A 15,139 word palindrome:

http://www.norvig.com/palindrome.html

But that's kind of cheating, and it's not really a sentence, so I found this one that was near chuckle-inducing:

"Stressed? No tips? Spit on desserts!" by filmmaker Thomas Comerford (for May 21, National Waitstaff Day)

There is also apparently some kind of palindrome magazine out there for true palindrome geeks.

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My favourite single word palindrome is:

Racecar.

I find that some people have to see it in print to believe that it is a palindrome. I guess it is the hard C soft C thing.

Another fav:

a man, a plan, a canal; panama

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200220022002

8.02 pm on February 20th, 2002.

or to be more precise - 20:02, 20/02, 2002.

The last occasion that time read in such a symmetrical pattern was long before the days of the digital watch and the 24-hour clock - at 10.01am on January 10,1001. Never to happen again.

Yep, the math people were going crazy that day last year. I remember it well.

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quote:

Originally posted by backbacon:

200220022002

8.02 pm on February 20th, 2002.

or to be more precise - 20:02, 20/02, 2002.

The last occasion that time read in such a symmetrical pattern was long before the days of the digital watch and the 24-hour clock - at 10.01am on January 10,1001. Never to happen again.


What about

11:11, 11/11, 1111?

or

12:21, 12/21 (switch date around), 1221.

Still before digital watches though.

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Palindrome - word or sentance spelt the same backwards as forwards, like racecar.

My fave:

Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.

And why is the word for a palindrome not one? Should be called a droword or som'n.

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