Palindromes (to keep your mind off You Know What for a few hours)

[barondave]

Gleaned from Boing Boing: A giant list of palindromes. Really, lots and lots. And a play with dialog entirely of palindromes. I'll pick a few different examples than Boing Boing:

And DNA and DNA and DNA ...
Did I strap red nude, red rump, also slap murdered underparts? I did!
Now, Ned, I am a maiden nun; Ned, I am a maiden won.
O, memsahib Bart, rabbi has memo.
Swap God for a janitor? Rot in a jar of dog paws!
Was it a car or a cat I saw?
Young Ada had a gnu. Oy!
Zeus was deified, saw Suez.

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Emordrome, palinilap

[markiv1111.livejournal.com]

I can easily imagine that these originally formed a column in a zine by Blake DeKalb called Dairy Myriad.

Nate

[calimac.livejournal.com]

A guy named Jon Agee has taken many palindromes of this kind and illustrated them, publishing books of his concoctions. Some of the best come out as word-balloon dialogues.

Natty promoter, gesturing towards a band of men wearing antlers: "Elk rap song?"
Dour cigar-smoking record executive: "No sparkle."

Woman drags dead-looking dog along by its leash.
Bystander man: "Wanda, Ed's dead."
Wanda: "Naw."

I also like the dismayed-looking anthropomorphized fruits looking at a fruit of the year poster, saying, "No way a papaya won"; the man asking his soda-drinking dog, "Spot, is Pepsi tops?"; the vegetable vendor crying "No lemons, no melon!"; the men walking through a car show saying, "Sad, no Hondas" ...