[lit-ideas] Re: Bolcom and Morris - a short digression
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:44:15 +0000 (GMT)
Consider:-
Oh no! Don Ho!
and
Senile felines
These aren't palindromes at all. This perhaps explains why Mike and perhaps
others did not see it as a palindromic song since they saw clearly two
falsifications. I loved the song initially. Now? What a bloody cheat.
Donal
--- On Wed, 23/4/08, Paul Stone <pastone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Paul Stone <pastone@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Bolcom and Morris - a short digression
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, 23 April, 2008, 3:23 PM
> Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Donal McEvoy
> <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I understand your business and importance, but one of
> the palindromes (with the rat) is fairly well known, and
> others have the obvious shape and structure of a simple
> palindrome. The truth may be you simply weren't
> palindromically alert when you watched. But as said, I
> think the use of the palindrome is a clever satiric device
> in this case. Have another look when you are less busy.
>
>
> Here are the lyrics for Al's "Bob"
> Quite a number of these phrases and, especially the words
> are famously
> palindromic. He made some good ones up, but I'm sure he
> probably did
> it with a computer. I agree the Lisa Bonet one is very
> funny.
>
> "Bob"
>
> I, man, am regal - a German am I
> Never odd or even
> If I had a hi-fi
> Madam, I'm Adam
> Too hot to hoot
> No lemons, no melon
> Too bad I hid a boot
> Lisa Bonet ate no basil
> Warsaw was raw
> Was it a car or a cat I saw?
>
> Rise to vote, sir
> Do geese see god?
> "Do nine men interpret?" "Nine men," I
> nod
> Rats live on no evil star
> Won't lovers revolt now?
> Race fast, safe car
> Pa's a sap
> Ma is as selfless as I am
> May a moody baby doom a yam?
>
> Ah, Satan sees Natasha
> No devil lived on
> Lonely Tylenol
> Not a banana baton
> No "x" in "Nixon"
> O, stone, be not so
> O Geronimo, no minor ego
> "Naomi," I moan
> "A Toyota's a Toyota"
> A dog, a panic in a pagoda
>
> Oh no! Don Ho!
> Nurse, I spy gypsies - run!
> Senile felines
> Now I see bees I won
> UFO tofu
> We panic in a pew
> Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo
> God! A red nugget! A fat egg under a dog!
> Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog
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