The Avid Diva – – Reverses, Doubletakes & Doubletalk & I’m not an MSU Grad! LOL

Avid Diva reads the same forward and backwards.  Now wasn’t that simple? Be careful, cause it’s just starting. Guess who’s coming to dinner? It’s our PALs, the DROMES. In this part, DT lists a few expressions that have been historically called Palindromes. (Have Pun Will Travel?) Isn’t Palindrome a terrible name? We’re just going to call this type of DT a REVERSE.

A REVERSE is a word or expression that spells the same thing forward as it does backwards. Here’s the first REVERSE.

LEWD I DID LIVE, & EVIL DID I DWEL…backwords spells…LEWD I DID LIVE, & EVIL DID I DWEL.

John Taylor, also known as the Water Poet, (Gotta be a “yoke” there somewhere, but we wouldn’t want to “buffalo” you…. but then were just “winging” it.) came up with that first verse REVERSE around 1600. It took several hundred MOOR years (Spanish time) before another REVERSE appeared.

Here’s a few more REVERSES for you to bite your tongue on. (Is that anything like chewing the fat?) So let’s get on with it, or as Phil “Bilko” Silvers would say, ABOUT FACE!

SEMI-ALPHABETICAL ORDER ( with a few comments )

AH, SATAN SEES NATASHA.
(Boris should have known.)

A MAN, A PLAN, A CANAL – PANAMA.
(Teddy must have written this one.)

ANNE, I VOTE MORE CARS RACE ROME TO VIENNA. (Sausage for the road?)

ARE WE NOT DRAWN ONWARD, WE FEW, DRAWN ONWARD TO NEW ERA?

A TOYOTA…RACE FAST…SAFE CAR…A TOYOTA. (Sounds like an ad man wrote this one.)

AVID DIVA

CAMPUS MOTTO – BOTTOMS UP, MAC (BMOC strikes again)

DENNIS AND EDNA SINNED. (Dennis swears he never touched her, in fact, he swears too much.)

DENNIS SINNED

DOC, NOTE, I DISSENT. A FAST NEVER PREVENTS A FATNESS. I DIET ON COD. (Drs. playing around with words?)

DO GEESE SEE GOD? (a frocked flock?)

EGAD, A BASE TONE DENOTES A BAD AGE. (old musicians of note)

DOGMA: I AM GOD.

DON’T NOD.

DRAW PUPIL’S LIP UPWARD. (Surely thought of by a teacher)

DRAW, O COWARD.

EVIL AND VILE

GO DELIVER A DARE, VILE DOG

GO HANG A SALAMI, I’M A LASAGNA HOG.

GOD SAW I WAS DOG

HE’S DROWNIN’ IN WORDS, EH.

KAY, A RED NUDE, PEERED UNDER A YAK. (O “kay”)

LISA BONET ATE NO BASIL (She’s so skinny, does she eat?)

I, MAN, AM REGAL, A GERMAN AM I. (Pre-World War?)

MADAM I’M ADAM.

MADAM, IN EDEN I’M ADAM

MAY A MOODY BABY DOOM A YAM?

MURDER FOR A JAR OF RED RUM

Murder or Red Rum?

NIAGARA, O ROAR AGAIN. (Isn’t this a barrel of fun?)

NO, IT NEVER PROPAGATES IF I SET A GAP OR PREVENTION

NO TRACE, NOT ONE CARTON

NURSE, I SPY GYPSIES, RUN.

OOZY RAT IN A SANITARY ZOO RACECAR

RATS LIVE ON NO EVIL STAR

REGAL LAGER

SATAN, OSCILLATE MY METALLIC SONATAS.

SAD? I’ MIDAS. (A golden muffler?)

SEX AT NOON TAXES. (But sometimes worth the price.)

SOME MEN INTERPRET NINE MEMOS.

STEP ON NO PETS. (Must be a ASPCA burial plot.)

STRAW? NO, TOO STUPID A FAD. I PUT SOOT ON WARTS.

SUMS ARE NOT SET AS A TEST ON ERASMUS.

TOO BAD – I HID A BOOT.

WAS IT ELIOT’S TOILET I SAW?
(**T.S. Eliot was a St. Louis native, too)

YO, JESUS, USE JOY

NEVER ODD OR EVEN.

… And while we’re on ODD topics, why does the number seven (7), an odd number, have the word EVEN within it? Get it? seven.

Okay, now you’ve seen some of our REVERSES. Or by now you probably think we’re DROMING (Palindromes) it into your heads. You may consider some of these great and others as nothing special. Before you (Hear come de) judge them, try to come up with one of your own. It may change your perspective.

There is a story that a mother whose last name was CRAM, named her son MARC.

I hope you all enjoyed this weekend treat and will ponder more about all that you hear, think and speak about over the weekend, and perhaps even for the rest of your life! 🙂

Cheers to you, from your Avid Diva — Daija!