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By: Tropylium

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 22:28:56 +0000

Tomaattimakkarahumuharakkamittaamot.
(“Tomato sausage measurement offices run by partying magpies”)

By: Toni Park

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 03:48:43 +0000

Wow! You can now add “saippuakalasalakauppias” as one of the tounge twisters on your list! But I have read from somewhere that saippuakuppinippukauppias (soap dish wholesale vendor) is the longest palindrome – Dammit, I’m mad!

By: Ben

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:47:39 +0000

Drab as a fool aloof as a bard

From some one else.

By: Ben

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:11:30 +0000

I had reason to use a palidrome in general conversation today.

By: Erika

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:15:36 +0000

Dang it. I’ve already done the Halloween strip for my comic “Abby and Norma,” and it has Ron (the character who only talks in palindromes) dressing up as an “evil olive.” And now when it posts on Halloween, it won’t be original. I really shouldn’t make all my strips six months in advance.

“Lonely Tylenol” is still my favorite, though.

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:25:13 +0000

I thought of one the other day while watching television:

RE: Red Rum Murderer

I guess it’s the subject line of a reply to an email about the vicious Red Rum Murderer.

By: Seraphine

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:19:33 +0000

i wish i had thought of it first.
i’m not that clever.
c lever c

By: Adam

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:36:52 +0000

There are only two types as it stands… Might make some extra… Anyone use a particular smiley that you’d like to see, let me know.

By: Adam

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:33:34 +0000

I could do a mix of the two, draw the smiley as text the right way up… that’d sort of work if I can use transparency. I’ll look into it.

The yellow faces aren’t that great, especially on a site that generally avoids unnecessary colour.

By: Roo

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:22:50 +0000

That is a brilliant idea! Little Flowfield faces, taking over the world!

I usually use the mirror variety of smiley-face, because I tend to dislike the little yellow colourful ones. (-: has a much simpler, elegant look than

Google, in their in-email chat module, has it so that a smiley-face rotates to by right-side up, but doesn’t change into a yellow face. I always liked that little touch.

By: Adam

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:15:33 +0000

They’ll ruin everything.

As it happens I was thinking of changing the emoticons, drawing them a bit Flowfield… does that sound like a good idea?

By: Roo

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:06:29 +0000

Booo! Silly emoticons ruined my symmetry!

By: Roo

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:05:49 +0000

(- : : -)

By: Adam

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:01:40 +0000

‘Hawb’?

from now on, should I chuckle to myself, I’ll be writing ‘hawb’.

By: Roo

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:54:15 +0000

Bwa ha ha ha hawb!

By: Adam

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:32:28 +0000

Aww, two hits for the price of one…. top work, sir.

By: Ben

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:11:25 +0000

Aibohphobia?
I could never be that evil to think of something like that.

By: Roo

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:54:29 +0000

Incidentally, I just read that a fear of palindromes is called “Aibohphobia.” Hehe. But:

Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?

By: Roo

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:38:38 +0000

It’s about a white protestant minister from the American South, going to Africa as a missionary, during the 50′s (before the Civil Rights amendment), as told from the point of view of his wife and daughters.

Come to think of it, it might be a touch grim. It was quite good, and not all grief, though it was a defiantly tragedy.

By: Adam

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:29:29 +0000

That’s the trickiest part, keeping coherence… Alas another book I have yet to read. A thought that once filled me with joy now makes me feel uneasy. The list grows rapidly longer.

Also I realise I told a lie the last time I mentioned my current list – I left out ‘John Galt’s speach’… It’s a section from Atla Shrugged that virtually everyone skips because it tends to go on a bit. I’m going to skip the rest of the book and just read that bit… mostly to be contrary.

The Poisonwood Bible… is it as grim as it sounds?

By: Adam

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:21:41 +0000

Palindromes and webcomics, eh? They’re far more popular than I had thought.

I’m going to hunt out the Dylan thing, a friend of mine is a massive Bob fan, and I’m sure he’ll get a kick out of it.

Your favourite line now happens to be mine too, that’s just genius.

By: Roo

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:20:48 +0000

Anyone here ever read The Poisonwood Bible? There was a character in it that was obsessed with palindromic constructions… I believe there was one section where every sentence (in a coherent narrative mind you) was a palindrome.

By: Adam

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:18:51 +0000

Ahh, so there are pop songs with palindromic leanings… TMBG, they’re a big bunch of geeks aren’t they? All the better for it too.

*Puts on Instanbul (was Constantinople)*

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:40:42 +0000

I’ve been planning to write a song fragment, then record the instrumental pieces and reverse them, then write a new song fragment to that reversed music, record the vocals for that over the reversed segment, then stick them together, creating a musical palindrome. The trick will be writing music that sounds good backwards.

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:37:40 +0000

Oh, yes, that’s right. Silly me.