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LANGUAGE HUMOR AT ITS FINEST
Making yourself more proficient in English need not be a drag. You can actually speed up the learning process and make it fun by generously lacing it with humor—but preferably the best that the English language can offer.
In this new section, apart from giving a fixed slot to our weekly “In a Lighter Vein” pop-out humor piece in the Forum homepage, we have put together the finest of those weekly humor pop-ups since the Forum started. The best of them—collected from various sources on the web and sent in by friends—are all here, posted in the Forum under the following headings: Wordplay, On the Job, Student and School Life, and Miscellany.
So if you missed any of the best of the Forum’s weekly humor pop-ups, you can enjoy and savor them again and again here—and better still, share them with your friends!
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30 More Great Palindromes for the Road
Last August we presented here a cavalcade of 81 palindromes, those intriguing phrases or sentences that read exactly the same forward and backward, like “Do geese see God?” and “Some men interpret nine memos.” This time we present a collection of 30 more eye-catching palindromes for your delectation. Here they go:
- Don’t nod
- Dogma: I am God
- Never odd or even
- Too bad – I hid a boot
- Rats live on no evil star
- No trace; not one carton
- Was it Eliot’s toilet I saw?
- Murder for a jar of red rum
- May a moody baby doom a yam?
- Go hang a salami; I’m a lasagna hog!
- Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas!
- A Toyota! Race fast... safe car: a Toyota
- Straw? No, too stupid a fad; I put soot on warts
- Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?
- Doc Note: I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod
- No, it never propagates if I set a gap or prevention
- Anne, I vote more cars race Rome to Vienna
- Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus
- Kay, a red nude, peeped under a yak
- Some men interpret nine memos
- Campus Motto: Bottoms up, Mac
- Go deliver a dare, vile dog!
- Madam, in Eden I’m Adam
- Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo
- Ah, Satan sees Natasha
- Lisa Bonet ate no basil
- Do geese see God?
- God saw I was dog
- Dennis sinned
- Never odd or even.
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