What is Your Favorite Palindrome?
My favorite palindrome is officially: “step on no pets.” What is a palindrome, you might ask? A palindrome is a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units that can be read the same way in either direction. A palindrome is not necessarily a single word, such as the one I quoted at the beginning of this post. My hero, Weird Al, has a great list of palindrome’s that crack me up, and make me scratch my head.
I asked several people in the community what their favorite palindrome is, and the answers were surprising!
Oh no, Don Ho! – Joey Gibson
Joey, I never heard that one before. LOL – Anika Malone
Oh no, Don Ho LOL!! – Mona N.
I heard that one from Wierd Al. – Joey Gibson
"May a moody baby doom a yam?" – Joey Gibson
Madam I’m adam – Christian (Simply X)
"No ‘X’ in Nixon" – Joey Gibson
A Man, A Plan, A Canal – Panama! – Lorin Olsen
Able was I ere I saw Elba – Greg (GuitarBuster)
Yo Banana Boy – Rod Bauer
Race fast, safe car – MikeAmundsen
Red rum, sir, is murder. – Bwana
"Able was I ere I saw Elba" – Napolean on his gf – vijay
DoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooD – Matthew DeVries
racecar runner-up for me is SONOS – Mike Doeff
Lorin, I’m a big fan of "A Man, A Plan, A Canal – Suez!" – Andrew C
Joey that’s an awesome find – Shey
Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo – Shey
Shey, that’s one I’ve never heard before! Nicely done. – Anika Malone
Madam in Eden I’m Adam. – Logical Extremes
@Anika Actually, that’s from Joey’s Wierd Al Video http://bit.ly/Q45Jd – Shey
Oh cameras are macho – Mark Wilson
Go hang a salami, I’m a lasagna hog – tinypants (Amanda H)
satan oscillate my metallic sonatas (and a favorite Soundgarden release, too) – Neil Bernhart
That’s a great one, Neil. Lie Nenota erga staht. – Josh Haley
Rats live on no evil star – Haggis (Sean)
A Toyota’s a Toyota – Kevin LeCRUSH
Rise to vote sir. – Daniel Rowley
21 Comments
Jerry Smith
February 24th, 2009
at 7:09pm
tattarrattat- my favorite by far
Ian
February 24th, 2009
at 7:33pm
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.
Bryan Godwin
February 24th, 2009
at 7:34pm
Sit on a potato pan otis.
Noddack
February 24th, 2009
at 7:37pm
Tacocat
Simon Dyda
February 24th, 2009
at 7:40pm
Go hang a salami; I’m a lasagna hog!
Martin
February 24th, 2009
at 8:13pm
My favorite is “A Man, A Plan, A Canal, Panama !”, because while many palindromes are kind of nonsensical, that one conveys an actual historical event.
Adam B.
February 24th, 2009
at 8:54pm
Madam, I’m Adam. Since it’s the truth when _I_ say it.
NewsForKids
February 24th, 2009
at 8:54pm
Racecar. I remember I read a book a long time ago called “Hannah is a Palindrome” So is Otto. :)
thomasmmm
February 24th, 2009
at 10:13pm
yes to Neil Bernhart’s palindrome.
Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era
and http://norvig.com/pal2txt.html
Tinkr.net » Palindromes
February 25th, 2009
at 7:08am
[...] two that I always remember are “race car” and “race fast, safe car”. Chris Pirillo recently blogged about his favorite palindrome and asked for everybody’s favorites. Some of them are pretty amazing, but I think Weird Al has [...]
ilga
February 25th, 2009
at 8:42am
Do geese see God?
David Stark
February 25th, 2009
at 10:04am
TATARATAT > Longest single Palindrome
Frank Schnyder
February 25th, 2009
at 11:44am
Chris is cool, loocs isirhc.
— Originally written by Mark Twain, I belive.
Kris Ferderer
February 25th, 2009
at 12:00pm
Neil, a trap! Sid is part alien.
Tristan
February 25th, 2009
at 2:28pm
I really liked Demerti Martin’s Palendrome:
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.
Steve
February 26th, 2009
at 5:34am
aibohphobia – the fear of palindromes
RabbitsInBlack
February 27th, 2009
at 7:10am
Ok, This is the one to see. A palindrome with 17,826 Words now thats a palindrome :) Check it out
Kevin
February 27th, 2009
at 8:41pm
a man, a plan, a canal: panama
Hannah
February 28th, 2009
at 3:04am
I am a palindrome!!!! lol
Cliffystones
February 28th, 2009
at 2:51pm
Loved the Weird Al video “Bob”
And “Lisa Bonet ate no basil” :)
Hannah
March 7th, 2009
at 9:22pm
Hannah =)