Word Play 13

soroban

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\(\displaystyle \begin{array}{c}Palindromes\\ \text{Sentences that read the same forward and backward.}\\ \text{Spaces and punctutation are ignored.} \\ \\ \text{Here are two classics:} \\ \\ \text{The first palindrome allegedly occured in the Garden of Eden.} \\ \text{The First Man introduced himself, "MADAM, I'M ADAM."} \\ \text{And the First Woman demurely replied, "EVE."} \\ \\ \text{Napoleon said upon his exile:} \\ \text{"ABLE WAS I ERE I SAW ELBA."} \end{array}\)



. . . . . . . . . . \(\displaystyle \begin{array}{c}\text{Here are some you may not have seen:} \\ \\ \text{Bird rib} \\ \\ \text{Evil olive} \\ \\ \text{Drowsy sword} \\ \\ \text{Senile felines} \\ \\ \text{Yo! Banana boy!} \\ \\ \text{Dogma: I am God.} \end{array}\)

. . . . . . . . . . \(\displaystyle \begin{array}{c}\text{So many dynamos!} \\ \\ \text{Too bad, I hid a boot.} \\ \\ \text{Won't lovers revolt now?} \\ \\ \text{Go deliver a dare, vile dog!} \\ \\ \text{Evil did I dwell; lewd I did live.} \\ \\ \text{Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.} \\ \\ \text{Go hang a salami; I'm a lasagna hog!} \\ \\ \text{No, Mel Gibson is a casino's big lemon.} \end{array}\)

. . . . . . \(\displaystyle \begin{array}{c}\text{Marge lets Norah see Sharon's telegram.} \\ \\ \text{Straw? No, too stupid a fad. I put soot on warts.} \\ \\ \text{No, it never propagates if I set a gap or prevention.} \end{array}\)

. . . . . . . .\(\displaystyle \begin{array}{c}\text{Gateman sees {n}ame, garageman sees {n}ame tag.} \\ \\ \text{Anne, I vote more cars race Rome to Vienna.} \\ \\ \text{Sum are not set as a test on Erasmus.} \\ \\ \text{Kay, a red nude, peeped under a yak.} \\ \\ \text{Campus motto: Bottom's up, Mac!} \\ \\ \text{Some men interpret nine memos.} \end{array}\)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . \(\displaystyle \begin{array}{c}\text{Tarzan raised Desi Arnaz' rat.} \\ \\ \text{Star comedy by Democrats.} \\ \\ \text{Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo.} \\ \\ \text{Ma is as selfless as I am.} \\ \\ \text{No trace, not one carton.} \\ \\ \text{Ah, Satan sees Natasha.} \\ \\ \text{Lisa Bonet ate no basil.} \\ \\ \text{Do geese see God?} \end{array}\)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \(\displaystyle \begin{array}{c}\text{Never odd or even.} \\ \\ \text{Dammit, I'm mad!} \\ \\ \text{Can I attain a C?} \\ \\ \text{Lonely Tylenol} \\ \\ \text{Evian? Naive!} \\ \\ \text{I prefer pi.} \end{array}\)



. . . . . . . . . . . . \(\displaystyle \begin{array}{c}\text{Are we not drawn onward?}\\ \text{We few, drawn onward to new era.} \\ \\ \\ \text{Doc note: I dissent.} \\ \text{A fast never prevents a fatness.} \\ \text{I diet on cod.} \end{array}\)



. . . . . . . . . . \(\displaystyle \begin{array}{c}\text{Plan no damn Madonna LP.} \\ \\ \text{Yawn... Madonna fan? No damn way!} \end{array}\)

 
Palindrome - Wikipedia (and my edit), the free encyclopedia

Palindromes are \(\displaystyle also \\)words, \(\displaystyle as \ well \ as\) phrases\(\displaystyle , sentence(s), \ and \ paragraphs,\)
\(\displaystyle and \ also \\)numbers or other sequences of units that can be read the same way in either
direction (the adjustment of punctuation and spaces between words is generally permitted).

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Examples:

boob
level
rotator
redivider


Numbers (incuding years):

1881
1991
2002
2112
etc.

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Dates (Wikipedia):

Palindromic dates are of interest to recreational mathematicians and numerologists,
and sometimes generate comment in the general media.[6] Whether or not a date is
palindromic depends on the style in which it is written. In the mm/dd/yyyy style, the
most recently occurring palindromic date was January 2, 2010 (01/02/2010), and the
next one will be on November 2, 2011 (11/02/2011).

While in the dd/mm/yyyy style, the 1st of February, 2010 (01/02/2010) would be one
example and the most recent was 11/02/2011 - the 11th day of February, 2011.
Some dates have more than one palindromic form. For example, the date
September 29, 1929, can be written as a palindrome 3 ways. Without the year,
it's 9/29. With the year, it is 9/29/29 or 9/29/1929. January 10, 2011 is a four-way
palindrome, as 1/10/2011, 1/10/11, I/X/MMXI, or I/X/XI.

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Other phrases/sentences (other than the OP's) from Wikipedia, except the first:

This one is my own ---> "He stressed desserts, eh?"

"A man, a plan, a canal, Panama."

"Was it a rat I saw?"

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Continuing with Wikipedia:

Words

Some palindromes use words as units rather than letters.

Examples are:

"Fall leaves after leaves fall."

"You can cage a swallow, can't you, but you can't swallow a cage, can you?"

"First Ladies rule the State and state the rule: ladies first."

"Girl, bathing on Bikini, eyeing boy, sees boy eyeing bikini on bathing girl".


The command \(\displaystyle "Level, \ madam, \ level!",\) composed only of words
that are themselves palindromes, is both a character-by-character and a
word-by-word palindrome.
 
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