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Kali

(55,004 posts) Thu May 14, 2015, 10:47 PM May 2015

LOL

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LOL (Original Post) Kali May 2015 OP

Was it a car or a cat I saw? KMOD May 2015 #1

aha Kali May 2015 #2

!won thgir--tsirtemotpo ruoy eeS pinboy3niner May 2015 #3

Do geese see God BlueJazz May 2015 #4

A man A plan a canal Panama packman May 2015 #5

Slightly better version: VWolf May 2015 #6

Eros, Sidney my end is sore. Doc_Technical May 2015 #7

You can always remember the name of the island that Napoleon was exiled to.... Spitfire of ATJ May 2015 #8

I have long wondered if that attribution was correct, but have never had occasion to look it up. BobTheSubgenius May 2015 #10

I consider it to be a memory jog by Engish speaking schools studying European history. Spitfire of ATJ May 2015 #11

MOM is WOW upside down underpants May 2015 #9

Which brings to mind.... Spitfire of ATJ May 2015 #12

DNA Land kentauros May 2015 #13

KMOD

(7,906 posts)

1. Was it a car or a cat I saw?

Reply to Kali (Original post)

Thu May 14, 2015, 11:28 PM

May 2015

Kali

(55,004 posts)

2. aha

Reply to KMOD (Reply #1)

Thu May 14, 2015, 11:37 PM

May 2015

(sorry, I suck worse at this than puns!)

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

3. !won thgir--tsirtemotpo ruoy eeS

Reply to KMOD (Reply #1)

Fri May 15, 2015, 12:01 AM

May 2015

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)

4. Do geese see God

Reply to Kali (Original post)

Fri May 15, 2015, 12:49 AM

May 2015

packman

(16,296 posts)

5. A man A plan a canal Panama

Reply to Kali (Original post)

Fri May 15, 2015, 11:09 AM

May 2015

First one I learned that and "Madam, I'm Adam"

VWolf

(3,944 posts)

6. Slightly better version:

Reply to packman (Reply #5)

Fri May 15, 2015, 12:45 PM

May 2015

Madam in Eden, I'm Adam.

Doc_Technical

(3,521 posts)

7. Eros, Sidney my end is sore.

Reply to Kali (Original post)

Sat May 16, 2015, 03:14 PM

May 2015

Also

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)

8. You can always remember the name of the island that Napoleon was exiled to....

Reply to Kali (Original post)

Sat May 16, 2015, 03:28 PM

May 2015

Able was I ere I saw Elba.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,560 posts)

10. I have long wondered if that attribution was correct, but have never had occasion to look it up.

Reply to Spitfire of ATJ (Reply #8)

Sat May 16, 2015, 09:35 PM

May 2015

Did Napoleon have a good enough command of English to make a palindrome? Perhaps "ere" wasn't as esoteric a word back then, which was what made me first doubt it. Etymologists don't seem to think Napoleon said it.

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)

11. I consider it to be a memory jog by Engish speaking schools studying European history.

Reply to BobTheSubgenius (Reply #10)

Sat May 16, 2015, 10:54 PM

May 2015

underpants

(182,631 posts)

9. MOM is WOW upside down

Reply to Kali (Original post)

Sat May 16, 2015, 07:51 PM

May 2015

Especially if it's the right Mom

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)

12. Which brings to mind....

Reply to underpants (Reply #9)

Sat May 16, 2015, 10:56 PM

May 2015

kentauros

(29,414 posts)

13. DNA Land

Reply to Kali (Original post)

Sat May 16, 2015, 11:42 PM

May 2015

I love Riders in the Sky!

Perhaps I should go look up their recordings and buy some

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