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Elliott notes that he was the one who quoted \"A plan, a man, a canam: analpa!\" to me, but that he heard it from Geoff Hopcraft, who he thinks originated it.<\/p>\r\n

Ranjit writes, \"By far the best palindrome book I've found, for its clever original palindromes and quirky drawings, is Ana, Nab a Banana<\/cite> by Craig Hansen.\"<\/p>\r\n

O. V. Michaelsen (author of Words at Play: Quips, Quirks & Oddities<\/a><\/cite>) provides a history of a palindrome:<\/p>\r\n

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An earlier form of \"A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!\" (Leigh Mercer, Notes & Queries<\/cite>, London, Nov. 13, 1948) was \"A mar on a panorama\" (T.H., Moscow, Idaho, The Ardmore Puzzler<\/cite>, a privately issued puzzle magazine, July 1899). Thirty years later, a wordsmith named Lubin came up with \"A dog, a panic in a pagoda\" (Everyman, London, Nov. 28, 1929). Around 1970 (probably in Word Ways<\/cite>), Englishman James A. Lindon penned \"A dog, a pant, a panic in a patna pagoda\"; and more recently, Edward Wolpow put his twist on it with \"A man appals\u2014I slap Panama,\" in reference to Ortega (The Enigma<\/cite>, March 1990). George Bush's invasion of that country in 1989 inspired \"a man, a pain, a mania, Panama\"; and Jon Agee in his book Go Hang a Salami\u2014I'm a Lasagna Hog<\/cite>, rephrased it with \"A car, a man, a maraca\" (1991).<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

Stewart Evans asks for information on a palindrome book that he failed to buy some years back, which included an \"illustration of two men being menaced by drunkards whose heads are shaven into monk's tonsures. The caption: 'Stop! Murder us not, tonsured rumpots!'\" I like that one a lot. Stewart adds, \"The illustrations were black & white line drawings, and the book itself I remember as being a small hardback of of conventional bookly shape (that is, not the wider-than-tall shape common to cartoon collections).\" If this rings any bells, drop me a line and I'll pass the info along. (I wonder if this is the abovementioned Craig Hansen book? I'll have to keep an eye out for that.)<\/p>\r\n

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