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Posted January 13, 2017
In case English isn't your native tongue, we call it a palindrome when something is spelled the same backward as forward. For example:
Not so, Boston
A man, a plan, a canal, Panama

My favorite is
No sir, away! A papaya war is on!

Do you know any good ones?
Posted January 13, 2017
Non.
Posted January 13, 2017
The German You Don't know Jack gave me this wonderful little thing:

Nie reib Tim mit Bier ein

Which means: "Never rub beer on Tim".
Post edited January 13, 2017 by Vainamoinen
Posted January 13, 2017
I found this palindromic poem (the whole of it is one big palindrome) "Dammit I'm Mad" by comedian Demetri Martin somewhere several years ago:
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.
Posted January 13, 2017
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HunchBluntley: I found this palindromic poem (the whole of it is one big palindrome) "Dammit I'm Mad" by comedian Demetri Martin somewhere several years ago:

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.
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HunchBluntley:
That's awesome
Posted January 13, 2017
Go Hang a Salami, I'm a Lasagna Hog.
Posted January 13, 2017
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Seemannsdaemlack: Go Hang a Salami, I'm a Lasagna Hog.
That shouldn't count on the grounds that it makes no sense. :P
Posted January 13, 2017
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Seemannsdaemlack: Go Hang a Salami, I'm a Lasagna Hog.
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tinyE: That shouldn't count on the grounds that it makes no sense. :P
:cry:
Posted January 13, 2017
"I, madam, I made radio! So I dared! Am I mad? Am I?"

(Courtesy of Spider Robinson.)
Posted January 13, 2017
There's a danish comic called 'Kristers Oplevelser', about a guy who can only speak in palindromes. It's pretty funny, but pretty much untranslateable.
Posted January 13, 2017
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Seemannsdaemlack: Go Hang a Salami, I'm a Lasagna Hog.
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tinyE: That shouldn't count on the grounds that it makes no sense. :P
It's an Italian thing.

Amore, Roma. ;)
Post edited January 13, 2017 by Tcharr
Posted January 13, 2017
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Seemannsdaemlack: Go Hang a Salami, I'm a Lasagna Hog.
Good one
Posted January 13, 2017
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Seemannsdaemlack: Go Hang a Salami, I'm a Lasagna Hog.
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Gerin: Good one
I'd heard it from Michael J. Anderson in a Twin Peaks documentary.
I also know some German palindromes like Lagerregal or Reliefpfeiler.
GOG is also a palindrome ;-P
Posted January 13, 2017
Only one I can think of is attributed to Napoleon Bonapart----Able Was I Ere I Saw Elba.
Posted January 13, 2017
ΝΙΨΟΝΑΝΟΜΗΜΑΤΑΜΗΜΟΝ&Alp ha;ΝΟΨΙΝ (Νίψον ἀνομήματα, μὴ μόναν ὄψιν / "wash/cleanse thy sins, not only thy face")

Inscribed on a fountain in the forecourt of the Church of the Divine Wisdom of God, better known as Hagia Sophia, during the Byzantine era. Not idea if it's still preserved.
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