Wednesday, 5 April 2023

BIDIRECTIONAL: classic wordplay, palindromes#4

 

This post is a continuation of 'CLASSIC BIDIRECTIONAL WORDPLAY', as posted on this blog on April 5, 2020 (palindromes#1), April 5, 2021 (palindromes#2), and April 5, 2022 (palindromes#3).  

previous poetic posts

(palindromes#1): a, b, b, c, c d. 

(palindromes#2): d, e, e, f, h, h.

(palindromes#3): h, h, h, h, h, h

CURRENT CONTENTS (#4):

Gnu dung.

Go hang a salami ... 

Lonely Tylenol. 
Madam, I'm Adam.



Authors' Note: Hanging a salami is an easily accomplished, but important step in the process of dry curing this meat product.

'Go hang a salami; I'm a lasagna hog' is a frequently cited palindrome of relatively recent origin. It has been variously attributed to Jon Agee, a cartoonist and children's writer, and Baby Gramps, a musician and wordplay guru. A lesser known variant of this phrase, possibly primally inspirational, is 'Yo, bang a salami. I'm a lasagna boy.'

The second palindrome cited in this verse is of limited longevity and suboptimal quality, as admitted by our protagonist, little Bobby; it is a brief variant of a classic phrase of unknown origin, usually cited as 'God, a red nugget: a fat egg under a dog.'












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