Solo GiGoloS

Here are some palindromes from my collection. The ones I can trace have references. The story connecting them is my own invention.

Four guys in a Acapulco bar
{} Solo gigolos

The flowers wilt
{} Nosegay ages on

The gigolos talk about the good old days: *1
{} Rio memoir

Ned puts on his best act:
{} I, man, am regal; a German am I

In walks Stella:
{} Wow!

Al thinks it can't work out. Ed disagrees: *1
{} No! It can. -- Action!

Ed gets to Della before Ned: *1
{} Decadent Ned aced

These androgynous, unisex, transsexual times:
{} Al lets Della call Ed Stella

But Ed=Stella will have to try another day:
{} Stella won no wallets

And Ned just acts sophisticated and bored: *1
{} Yawn a more roman way

Al tells the boys the best part of dinner with Stella: *1
{} "Deserts", I stressed

They could have danced, said Al: *1
{} If I had a Hi-fi

And Ed, depressed, throws a two-egg omelet at Al: *4
{} Last egg gets Al

This makes Ned think Ed will help him win his argument with Al, but *4
{} Ed is on no side

The only other person in the bar:
{} Neil, an alien

Not counting the bartender:
{} Bob, a nabob


*1 = Palindromes from "If I had a Hi-fi", by William Irvine, The Intrepid Linguist Library, copyright 1992, Dell Publishing, New York.

*4 = "Go Hang a Salami! I'm a lasagna hog!", by Jon Agee, copyright 1991. Published by Farrar, Straus, Giroux in New York.

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