Conference back40::soapbox

    Doc note, I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod.

 go hang a salami i'm a lasagna hog

    
    
    Able was I ere I saw Elba.

	could open THEBAY::JOYOFLEX and read note 193 too.
	quite a few of 'em in there.

     Fran, SNARF!

    notlob

	Milady... you could just pull out your game....

    
    
    those were anagrams...or something like that...not palindromes...
    
    
                                bob
    
    
    
    				

opps..... sorry..... must have had topaz on my mind...

   
   
                   21978 x 4 = 87912
                   10989 x 9 = 98901
   
                     9 + 9 =  18   81 = 9 x   9
                    24 + 3 =  27   72 = 3 x  24
                    47 + 2 =  49   94 = 2 x  47
                   497 + 2 = 499  994 = 2 x 497
   

    
    			e

    Speaking of "e", NY Times Book Review not long ago reviewed a novel
    remarkable for not using the letter "e" anywhere in the text.
    
    Supposedly the book also contained the longest palindrome ever --
    about 5000 letters long, I think (but my recall is fuzzy on the point).
    

Yeah, I heard part of an NPR story on that book.

>Yeah, I heard part of an NPR story on that book.

Which part? The one with, or without the "e"s?

A man, a plan, a caret, a ban, a myriad, a sum, a lac, a liar, a hoop, a pint, 
a catalpa, a gas, an oil, a bird, a yell, a vat, a caw, a pax, a wag, a tax, a 
nay, a ram, a cap, a yam, a gay, a tsar, a wall, a car, a luger, a ward, a bin, 
a woman, a vassal, a wolf, a tuna, a nit, a pall, a fret, a watt, a bay, a 
daub, a tan, a cab, a datum, a gall, a hat, a fag, a zap, a say, a jaw, a lay, 
a wet, a gallop, a tug, a trot, a trap, a tram, a torr, a caper, a top, a tonk, 
a toll, a ball, a fair, a sax, a minim a tenor, a bass, a passer, a capital, a 
rut, an amen, a ted, a cabal, a tang, a sun, an ass, a maw, a sag, a jam, a 
dam, a sub, a salt, an axon, a sail, an ad, a wadi, a radian, a room, a rood, a 
rip, a tad, a pariah, a revel, a reel, a reed, a pool, a plug, a pin, a peek, a 
parabola, a dog, a pat, a cud, a nu, a fan, a pal, a rum, a nod, an eta, a lag, 
an eel, a batik, amug, a mot, a nap, a maxim, a mood, a leek, a grub, a gob, a 
gel, a drab, a citadel, a total, a cedar, a tap, a gag, a rat, a manor, a bar, 
a gal, a cola, a pap, a yaw, a tab, a raj, a gab, a nag, a pagan, a bag, a jar, 
a bat, a way, a papa, a local, a gar, a baron, a mat, a rag, a gap, a tar, a 
decal, a tot, a led, a tic, a bard, a leg, a bog, a burg, a keel, a doom, a 
mix, a map, an atom, a gum, a kit, a baleen, a gala, a ten, a don, a mural, a 
pan a faun, a ducat, a pagoda, a lob, a rap, a keep, a nip, a gulp, a loop, a 
deer, a leer, a lever, a hair, a pad, a tapir, a door, a moor, an aid, a raid, 
a wad, an alias, an ox, an atlas, a bus, a madam, a jag, a saw, a mass, an 
anus, a gnat, a lab, a cadet, an em, a natural, a tip, a caress, a pass, a 
baronet, a minimax, a sari, a fall, a ballot, a knot, a pot, a rep, a carrot, a 
mart, a part, a tort, agut, a poll, a gateway, a law, a jay, a sap, a zag, a 
fat, a hall, a gamut, a dab, a can, a tabu, a day, a batt, a waterfall, a 
patina, a nut, a flow, a lass, a van, a mow, a nib, a draw, a regular, a call, 
a war, a stay, a gam, a yap, a cam, a ray, an ax, a tag, a wax, a paw, a cat, a 
valley, a drib, a lion, a saga, a plat, a catnip, a pooh, a rail, a calamus, a 
dairyman, a bater a canal - Panama.

I'm sure a few of those won't be found in the OED!

Chris$spoilsport.

    It's even worse - the book is a translation of a book written
    in French that didn't use the letter "e" anywhere either.

    - Jim

    re my .15 --
    
    I don't recall where I got this one (almost certainly from another
    notes files a year or two ago), but I didn't intend it to be an
    answer to the reference to the palindrome in the e-less book (which
    should be obvious given the number of e's in .15). 
    
    As to the validity of the words in the list ... I haven't checked
    'em all. I did look up a couple that looked suspect, and those did
    exist, so my guess is the writer has some claim to validity for each
    one (however tenuous). (For example, "tapir" might look odd, but
    it's an inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate of tropical America,
    Malaya, and Sumatra... Actually, if you've ever seen one, they *do*
    look kind of odd, unless you're another tapir.)

Well congratulations to him anyway, he must have had a major headache
after trying to think that thing up!

Chris.

    Straw   no too stupid a fad    I put soot on warts
    
    						RJD

	Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.

    
    Actually it's not, Mr Topaz, ther's no apostrophe on the left side of
    the o in o.......
    
    
    hope this helps,

.23 isn't a palindrome emordnilap a t`nsi 32.

    	re .23
    
    	Is an apostrophe counted as a letter?  Or is it punctuation?
    
    	All those commas back in that "a man, a plan, a banal, panama"
    	one, and all the others like it, should eliminate them for 	
    	the same reason your apostrophe complaint would eliminate
    	this one.

    Just do it like this:
    
    tons-o-snot
    
    
    ...Tom

Sometimes things that *aren't* palindromes are very funny
when pronounced backwards.  For example, the grocery down
the street called

	Torton's

    s'notroT??