| Author | Message | ||
     Greenlantern |
What do these words have in common? Banana Dresser Grammar Potato Revive Uneven Assess | ||
| Danger_dave |
palindromic (Message edited by danger_dave on June 06, 2008) | ||
| Seanp |
If you take away the first letter they're all palindromes. | ||
| Danger_dave |
I was changing my answer when seanp got it first. | ||
| Greenlantern |
Way to kill a thread in 3 posts! THANKS GUYS!  | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
WTF is a palindrome??? the thread lives on... | ||
| Jramsey |
Doing a crossword puzzle? creative way to get the answer. | ||
| Etennuly |
OK, I'm gonna be the first to cave.....without having to look it up how many of us are knowing what a palindrome is??  I recall having heard of it, but I'm just not ambitious enough to look it up.  Would one of you smart asses please explain?  | ||
| Seanp |
A palindrome is a word, number, phrase or sentence that can be read or written the same way forwards or backwards. For instance: noon 1331 race car Madam, I'm Adam. A man, a plan, a canal: Panama. I love palindromes, but I'm strange like that... You can actually use palindromes to ensure that waiters and waitresses aren't overtipping themselves with your credit or debit card. Just ensure that the tip you leave always makes the total charge a palindrome, ($23.32, $54.45, etc.) and anything out of place will be easy to spot. | ||
| Jramsey |
Radar and racecar ring any bells? | ||
| Danger_dave |
'Able was I ere I saw Elba' is probably the most famous - but certainly not the longest - one. Reads same both ways. Bloke on a white horse said it. | ||
| Seanp |
Oh, and by the way, when I first saw the title of this thread, I was looking for a way to train myself to wiggle my ears - I never could do it on purpose. | ||
| Danger_dave |
If they point the radar at the race car it's more likely to get sirens. | ||
| Krassh |
A palindrome is a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units that has the property of reading the same in either direction (the adjustment of punctuation and spaces between words is generally permitted). Composing literature in palindromes is an example of constrained writing. The word "palindrome" was coined from Greek roots palin (πάλιν; "back") and dromos (δρóμος; "way, direction") by English writer Ben Jonson in the 1600s. The actual Greek phrase to describe the phenomenon is karkinikê epigrafê (καρκινική επιγραφή; crab inscription), or simply karkiniêoi (καρκινιήοι; crabs), alluding to the backward movement of crabs, like an inscription which can be read backwards. The most familiar palindromes, in English at least, are character-by-character: the written characters read the same backwards as forwards. Palindromes may consist of a single word (civic, level, racecar, Malayalam), or a phrase or sentence ("Neil, a trap! Sid is part alien!", "Was it a rat I saw?", "Mr. Owl ate my metal worm", "Sit on a potato pan, Otis", "Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas", "Rats live on no evil star."). Spaces, punctuation and case are usually ignored. Much longer palindromic compositions have been constructed; see "Long palindromes", below. Three famous English palindromes are "Able was I ere I saw Elba"(which is also palindromic with respect to spacing), "A man, a plan, a canal—Panama!”,[2] and “Madam, in Eden I'm Adam,”.[3] The last example is still palindromic if "in Eden" is omitted; the response is either the one-word palindrome, "Eve," or the more obscure "Name no one man." Some individuals have names that are palindromes. Some changed their name in order to be a palindrome (one example is actor Robert Trebor), while others were given a palindromic name at birth (such as Neo-Nazi philologist Revilo Oliver). Fictional names include Stanley Yelnats, the main protagonist in the book Holes by Louis Sachar. | ||
| Etennuly |
Hmmmmm....odd enough, another inter-cranial tool that I sometimes use and do not know what it is called.  | ||
| Danger_dave |
Porno. | ||
| Greenlantern |
You can actually use palindromes to ensure that waiters and waitresses aren't overtipping themselves with your credit or debit card. Just ensure that the tip you leave always makes the total charge a palindrome, ($23.32, $54.45, etc.) and anything out of place will be easy to spot. Uh.... wow. That is some creative thinking there. I am going to try that out tonight at the Steak House. (I'm sure this is the one that is going to convince my wife that it's official.  ) | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
i like my uly... | ||
| Greenlantern |
I like Turtles | ||
| Etennuly |
My Uly is better than yours! | ||
| Greenlantern |
I like Turtles, http://youtube.com/watch?v=CMNry4PE93Y | ||
| Seanp |
There's one more victim of the Internet age. Man, that kid is going to have that clip follow him for the rest of his life... When I was a kid, you say something stupid and it might follow you for a few days. But not this kid. Hah hah! | ||
| Thumper74 |
Kyoto, the anagram lover's Tokyo | ||
| Hootowl |
Here's the longest one I've ever seen.  from http://www.demetrimartin.com | ||
| Rainman |
I thought Palindrome was the name of a television gunfighter played by Richard Boone. |
