The Palindrome Dome: post your faves.
My favorite, if I were forced to select one, would be:
"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!"
("I" = midpoint)
OK it's a little cheap because of the proper names. But funny.
The nice thing about palindromes is you only have to remember half of it.
PALINDROMES
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PALINDROMES
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Re: PALINDROMES
Which half of this one needs remembering?The nice thing about palindromes is you only have to remember half of it.
SATOR
AREPO
TENET
OPERA
ROTAS
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Yes, it is a valid Latin sentence.The first, as always.
But is it a sentence?
Another, related to my former career:
"I madam, I made radio! I dared!
Am I mad?? AM I??"
It should be on my tombstone.
As to making radio, I didn't realize your real name was Popov.
And, in regards your tombstone; whatever may be upon it, may that be some goodly time from now.
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My square palindrome reads, "Sator arepo tenet opera rotas." This is a legitimate full sentence in Latin. Loosely translated it means, "Sator's in charge."I agree, may it be a goodly time from now.
I am sort of lost concerning the "valid Latin sentence" and
the Popov. Maybe by brain has become snowbound.
Enlighten me.
Popov is considered by the Russians to be the inventor of the radio. So, when Sluggo wrote about making radio, I made the wild leap and connected them.
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Alexander Popov used a coherer attached to a vertical wire designed to record atmospheric disturbances. One of the early experimenters with electricity, magnetism and eventually radio waves. He's not me, even if I've been known to Popov now and again... But thank ye for the goodly time.
Oops- gotta get back on topic...
Here's one I bandy about when it looks like my adversary is acting obsequiously:
"Rise, sir lapdog! God, pal! Rise, sir!"
Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?
Oops- gotta get back on topic...
Here's one I bandy about when it looks like my adversary is acting obsequiously:
"Rise, sir lapdog! God, pal! Rise, sir!"
Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?
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I know on this thread I will just sit back and enjoy.
You are both too good for me. I guess I knew about
Popov but did not make the connection and as for the
valid Latin sentence, I did not see the sentence in
the column form: Sator arepo tenet opera rotas.
But I do now. I am borrowing sluggo's term: I am
somewhat sluggish. But I know I had better come up
with a new one for this: perhaps something connected
with sheep???
You are both too good for me. I guess I knew about
Popov but did not make the connection and as for the
valid Latin sentence, I did not see the sentence in
the column form: Sator arepo tenet opera rotas.
But I do now. I am borrowing sluggo's term: I am
somewhat sluggish. But I know I had better come up
with a new one for this: perhaps something connected
with sheep???
-----please, draw me a sheep-----
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Of course, simple insertion of proper names must be considered a cheap stretch device-- here's prolly the worst example:
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.
Although sometimes invocation of a single name can work well:
Depardieu, go razz a rogue I draped.
I used to have a nice website source -- in search of "Dennis" I found this one. It looks promising
"Able was I ere I saw Elba" is also known as "Napoleon's Lament".
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.
Although sometimes invocation of a single name can work well:
Depardieu, go razz a rogue I draped.
I used to have a nice website source -- in search of "Dennis" I found this one. It looks promising
"Able was I ere I saw Elba" is also known as "Napoleon's Lament".
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A longer classic to chew on:
Edna Waterfall
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 dewes 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-honeysewed), 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 devil's 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!
(Unknown- published by Howard Bergerson)
(Midpoint is the last R of redder)
Many many more (though not this one) here.
Edna Waterfall
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 dewes 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-honeysewed), 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 devil's 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!
(Unknown- published by Howard Bergerson)
(Midpoint is the last R of redder)
Many many more (though not this one) here.
Stop! Murder us not, tonsured rumpots! Knife no one, fink!
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