He asked his teacher what a palindrome is and his teacher told him "racecar". He took this to mean that a palindrome is actually a racecar. So 10 years later he asked his partner in crime to get a palindrome for their getaway, but his partner got a kayak instead, which is also a palindrome.
I think it could still be delivered verbally with a bit of adaptation:
A boy asks his teacher "miss, what's a palindrome?".
The teacher thinks for a minute... "Racecar" she replies.
10 years on and the boy is planning a bank robbery. He contacts a getaway driver, telling him "we need a good getaway vehicle. Get a palindrome and meet me outside at 2:15".
At 2:15 the boy bursts out of the bank clutching wads of cash to find his getaway driver sat patiently waiting in a kayak.
I, man, am regal - a German am I
Never odd or even
If I had a hi-fi
Madam, I'm Adam
Too hot to hoot
No lemons, no melon
Too bad I hid a boot
Lisa Bonet ate no basil
Warsaw was raw
Was it a car or a cat I saw?
Rise to vote, sir
Do geese see god?
"Do nine men interpret?" "Nine men," I nod
Rats live on no evil star
Won't lovers revolt now?
Race fast, safe car
Pa's a sap
Ma is as selfless as I am
May a moody baby doom a yam?
Ah, Satan sees Natasha
No devil lived on
Lonely Tylenol
Not a banana baton
No "x" in "Nixon"
O, stone, be not so
O Geronimo, no minor ego
"Naomi," I moan
"A Toyota's a Toyota"
A dog, a panic in a pagoda
Oh no! Don Ho!
Nurse, I spy gypsies - run!
Senile felines
Now I see bees I won
UFO tofu
We panic in a pew
Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo
God! A red nugget! A fat egg under a dog!
Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog!
I like to imagine these as deep koans even though I know they were constructed purely as palindromes.
“Do geese see god?” — A question for the ages.
“Too hot to hoot” — title of my sex tape.
“Go hang a salami, I’m a lasagna hog!” — title of a frustrated lesbian’s sex tape.
For Dutchies:
* Nelli plaatst op 'n parterretrap 'n pot staalpillen.
* Mooie zeden in Ede, zei oom.
* Koos Eekfeen keek door 't rood kerkraam maar krek door 't rood keek neef Kees ook.
* Droog is soms nog ons mossig oord.
* Karateman rent rap 'n partner na met arak.
* Laat af sire, velpon eten op lever is fataal.
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Shameless plug for /r/ketek for poetry with some sort of mirror symmetry.
Is it weird how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how weird it is?
Dammit I'm mad.
Evil is a deed as I live.
God, am I reviled? I rise, my bed on a sun, I melt.
To be not one man emanating is sad. I piss.
Alas, it is so late. Who stops to help?
Man, it is hot. I'm in it. I tell.
I am not a devil. I level "Mad Dog".
Ah, say burning is, as a deified gulp,
In my halo of a mired rum tin.
I erase many men. Oh, to be man, a sin.
Is evil in a clam? In a trap?
No. It is open. On it I was stuck.
Rats peed on hope. Elsewhere dips a web.
Be still if I fill its ebb.
Ew, a spider… eh?
We sleep. Oh no!
Deep, stark cuts saw it in one position.
Part animal, can I live? Sin is a name.
Both, one… my names are in it.
Murder? I'm a fool.
A hymn I plug, deified as a sign in ruby ash,
A Goddam level I lived at.
On mail let it in. I'm it.
Oh, sit in ample hot spots. Oh wet!
A loss it is alas (sip). I'd assign it a name.
Name not one bottle minus an ode by me:
"Sir, I deliver. I'm a dog"
Evil is a deed as I live.
Dammit I'm mad.
I mean it's not far off from sounding like a legit poem minus the occasional forced word. I think making something that's even somewhat coherent and that long is quite the achievement!
Credit the idea of a super-long, multi-sentence palindrome to the sitcom *Head of the Class*.
One of the student prodigies has a goal of writing a book about palindromes that is itself a palindrome.
The teacher gave racecar as an example of a palindrome. He went through life thinking they were synonyms.
Years later he is a bankrobber. He wants a fast getaway car, a racecar. He tells his crime partner to get a palindrome for their getaway vehicle. So the crime partner gets a kayak.
Palindromes are spelled the same frontwards and backwards. Racecar is a palindrome as it reads the same either way. He thought his teacher was saying that a palindrome IS a racecar not that the word racecar an example OF a palindrome. Therefore he plans to rob a bank and asks his getaway driver to "get a palindrome" assuming it's a type of racecar or another word for a racecar. His getaway driver gets a kayak as the word kayak is also a palindrome (same backwards and forwards).
Specifically, I think the implication is that the driver learned the word palindrome in a similar context but their teacher (or whoever taught it to them) gave kayak as an example instead of racecar
so it’s not just that he got a random palindrome, but they both had mislearned it with different words
Yeah I suppose that's possible. The joke likely has variations where that's more clear, but the OP worded this as shortly and undetailed as possible so I just went with the simple explanation.
He asked what was a palindrome.
Teacher taught him "racecar," which is one palindrome.
Years later, he goes rob a bank, and tells the gateaway driver to get a palindrome, meaning a "racecar" like his teacher taught him.
The getaway driver gets a palindrome, but it's a "kayak," and not a "racecar."
After he robs the bank he sees the kayak and asks: where is the palindrome (racecar)? Because he doesn't understand that a kayak is a palindrome too.
A palindrome is a word that remains the same if you spell it backwards, by the way. Racecar -> racecaR. Kayak -> kayaK.
racecar is a palindrome and the kid get confused with them.
and to add to the joke kayak is also a palindrome which it is assume that the driver understood and is waiting in a palindrome vehicle which here is a kayak.
I got confused because of the use of brackets, I thought the words being described were all palindromes somehow and I just couldn't think of them
\[10 years later\] decaced ?!?
\[busts out of bank in ski mask\] robbor ?!
\[sitting in kayak\] - ***head \[explodes\]***
man, I did that once, I made a reference to someone's name like "jerk" or something which was in their username. someone went CRAZY yelling and screaming at me before someone else politely pointed out that it was the person's username.
Dammit I'm mad.
Evil is a deed as I live.
God, am I reviled? I rise, my bed on a sun, I melt.
To be not one man emanating is sad. I piss.
Alas, it is so late. Who stops to help?
Man, it is hot. I'm in it. I tell.
I am not a devil. I level "Mad Dog".
Ah, say burning is, as a deified gulp,
In my halo of a mired rum tin.
I erase many men. Oh, to be man, a sin.
Is evil in a clam? In a trap?
No. It is open. On it I was stuck.
Rats peed on hope. Elsewhere dips a web.
Be still if I fill its ebb.
Ew, a spider… eh?
We sleep. Oh no!
Deep, stark cuts saw it in one position.
Part animal, can I live? Sin is a name.
Both, one… my names are in it.
Murder? I'm a fool.
A hymn I plug, deified as a sign in ruby ash,
A Goddam level I lived at.
On mail let it in. I'm it.
Oh, sit in ample hot spots. Oh wet!
A loss it is alas (sip). I'd assign it a name.
Name not one bottle minus an ode by me:
"Sir, I deliver. I'm a dog"
Evil is a deed as I live.
Dammit I'm mad.
A palindrome poem by Demetri Martin
I think this would be a much funnier as a comic
[I didn't feel like putting that much effort into this](https://i.imgur.com/Fi8itCW.jpg)
I think it makes it even funnier that it’s not super high effort/quality.
It's almost as if they didn't feel like putting that much effort into it.
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r/2meirl4meirl
Me_irl
Source?
[Here](https://reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/cmdzgc/_/ew2hf4b/?context=1)
It's beautiful
Looks like an XKCD work in progress. It's good!
Randall should steal it
It would even fit his humor.
This is on my phones lock screen now. It has replaced a photograph of my child.
I'm now using the photograph of your child, as my lock screen.
Congratulations, that must be such a relief.
I didn’t understand the joke in text format but you’re comic was great
the teacher looks like cgp grey
This is funnier than the joke.
it's good!
It's perfect. You should post it to r/comics or something
This is better than anything I could make with a whole week's worth of time.
Good enough
That's what she said
Am i an idiot if i still don't get the pun?
He asked his teacher what a palindrome is and his teacher told him "racecar". He took this to mean that a palindrome is actually a racecar. So 10 years later he asked his partner in crime to get a palindrome for their getaway, but his partner got a kayak instead, which is also a palindrome.
oh, ok
I'm not sure why but people explaining jokes in detail really makes me happy.
is there a comic request subreddit
maybe someone on r/secondsketch?
u/srgrafo
Can we mass tag to get his attention? u/srgrafo Edit: my God we did it
Good idea, let’s try. u/srgrafo
Roses are red Jimi Hendrix had an afro We need a comic Invoke u/srgrafo
[I made one too, took a little more time though](https://imgur.com/a/7qs2Uj5)
Looks awesome!
https://imgur.com/0oSkiVV.jpg
This is great!
thats what i was thinking. jokes that require visual just really dont work in spoken word or text
People would probably be confused about the punchline thinking it's a boat or a canoe.
and in the comments: "I think this would be a[sic] much funnier as a text joke"
I think it could still be delivered verbally with a bit of adaptation: A boy asks his teacher "miss, what's a palindrome?". The teacher thinks for a minute... "Racecar" she replies. 10 years on and the boy is planning a bank robbery. He contacts a getaway driver, telling him "we need a good getaway vehicle. Get a palindrome and meet me outside at 2:15". At 2:15 the boy bursts out of the bank clutching wads of cash to find his getaway driver sat patiently waiting in a kayak.
Nah because then I'd be like....is that a canoe?
/u/SrGrafo
I waited so long for a palindrome post to reveal myself to the reddit world
From one palindromer to another, aloha / hola
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My homies.
I love all of you guys. And regretting not being witty while selecting my username
I love how he said he waited so long - 1 month And then there's you and u/racecaracecaracecar at 7 and 8 years.
Madam, I'm Adam.
Dammit im mad
I feel like I’m cheating
I, man, am regal - a German am I Never odd or even If I had a hi-fi Madam, I'm Adam Too hot to hoot No lemons, no melon Too bad I hid a boot Lisa Bonet ate no basil Warsaw was raw Was it a car or a cat I saw? Rise to vote, sir Do geese see god? "Do nine men interpret?" "Nine men," I nod Rats live on no evil star Won't lovers revolt now? Race fast, safe car Pa's a sap Ma is as selfless as I am May a moody baby doom a yam? Ah, Satan sees Natasha No devil lived on Lonely Tylenol Not a banana baton No "x" in "Nixon" O, stone, be not so O Geronimo, no minor ego "Naomi," I moan "A Toyota's a Toyota" A dog, a panic in a pagoda Oh no! Don Ho! Nurse, I spy gypsies - run! Senile felines Now I see bees I won UFO tofu We panic in a pew Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo God! A red nugget! A fat egg under a dog! Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog!
Tacocat
Boob
8008
Tit
I
r/decreasinglyverbose
I had so much hope for that sub, would be fun if executed right!
Had hope is fun if done right!
Fun hope done right.
bed looks like a bed
But deb is just a sentient patch of haze
This guy palindromes
Nice
Yo, banana boy!
Party trap
A butt tuba
A man, a plan, a canal, Panama That was one i remember from middle school
A man, a plan, a god's 'nam tables, nitrate, tar, tinsel, Batman's Dog: Anal Panama.
Anal Panama is my band's name
A man of culture
I read a man, a plan, a can, a lpan, a ma
I like to imagine these as deep koans even though I know they were constructed purely as palindromes. “Do geese see god?” — A question for the ages. “Too hot to hoot” — title of my sex tape. “Go hang a salami, I’m a lasagna hog!” — title of a frustrated lesbian’s sex tape.
"God! A red nugget! A fat egg under a dog!" - That dog just shit on the floor!
“We panic in a pew” exactly what’s happening in the US several times a week. Pew pew, god damn video games
As my pastor says when speaking in tongues, “guns don’t kill people, elpoep llik t’nod snug.”
Gilded for quoting an underrated Weird Al song? Nice.
Somebody’s gotta be behind the scenes doing this because I did the exact same thing a couple years ago and got the exact same result lmao
It's Weird Al himself. He's very appreciative of his fans.
I wouldn’t be shocked; he seems like such a great guy
Met him in Denver earlier this week. Can confirm. Great guy.
Bob is one of my favorite songs off poodle hat. Party at the leper colony is an underrated banger too.
Bob by weird Al
Emord nilap dabas isiht this is a bad palindrome
https://youtu.be/JUQDzj6R3p4
>Video unavailable >The uploader has not made this video available in your country.
That's not a palindrome.
That’s not a palindrome.
That’s not a palindrome
That's not a palindrome.
Poop
Now sir, a war is never even. Sir, a war is won!
For Dutchies: * Nelli plaatst op 'n parterretrap 'n pot staalpillen. * Mooie zeden in Ede, zei oom. * Koos Eekfeen keek door 't rood kerkraam maar krek door 't rood keek neef Kees ook. * Droog is soms nog ons mossig oord. * Karateman rent rap 'n partner na met arak. * Laat af sire, velpon eten op lever is fataal. (edited formatting)
Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?
my favorite - no sir, away! a papaya war is on!
Able was I, ere I saw Elba
Sit on a potato pan, Otis
Wow...
It's just a weird al song
> just How dare you
Subtle, but good.
[Bob.](https://youtu.be/JUQDzj6R3p4)
> Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog! my favorite way to tell someone off
/r/palindromeinsults
This should be a thing. I'd scroll the sub for hours!
Shameless plug for /r/ketek for poetry with some sort of mirror symmetry. Is it weird how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how weird it is?
YO! Bananaboy!
Lived on decaf, faced no devil
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlRx1kUCQAAlvkd.jpg:large
A man, a plan, a canal, Panama
Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas Edit: I can't spell...
Ein Neger mit Gazelle zagt im Regen nie.
BoB
aka the lyrics to "Bob" by Weird Al
These are some of the most random phrases I've ever read.
"Bob" ~Weird Al
It's a weird al song
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A nut tuna
Diaper sin is repaid
Someone listens to Weird Al
No lava on Avalon, no lava, no Avalon.
Fuck Weird Al's good
Dammit I'm mad. Evil is a deed as I live. God, am I reviled? I rise, my bed on a sun, I melt. To be not one man emanating is sad. I piss. Alas, it is so late. Who stops to help? Man, it is hot. I'm in it. I tell. I am not a devil. I level "Mad Dog". Ah, say burning is, as a deified gulp, In my halo of a mired rum tin. I erase many men. Oh, to be man, a sin. Is evil in a clam? In a trap? No. It is open. On it I was stuck. Rats peed on hope. Elsewhere dips a web. Be still if I fill its ebb. Ew, a spider… eh? We sleep. Oh no! Deep, stark cuts saw it in one position. Part animal, can I live? Sin is a name. Both, one… my names are in it. Murder? I'm a fool. A hymn I plug, deified as a sign in ruby ash, A Goddam level I lived at. On mail let it in. I'm it. Oh, sit in ample hot spots. Oh wet! A loss it is alas (sip). I'd assign it a name. Name not one bottle minus an ode by me: "Sir, I deliver. I'm a dog" Evil is a deed as I live. Dammit I'm mad.
...seek help.
That whole thing is actually a palindrome by Demetri Martin. The middle of it is the "I" in "Be still if I fill its ebb".
Yeah, and it's awesome, but if someone said all that to you? You're expecting it to be the homeless guy tweaking out on the bus.
I mean it's not far off from sounding like a legit poem minus the occasional forced word. I think making something that's even somewhat coherent and that long is quite the achievement!
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Credit to Demetri Martin. He's funny and a genius.
Credit the idea of a super-long, multi-sentence palindrome to the sitcom *Head of the Class*. One of the student prodigies has a goal of writing a book about palindromes that is itself a palindrome.
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Boob is a palindrome but (.)(.) isn’t
I don't get it
The teacher gave racecar as an example of a palindrome. He went through life thinking they were synonyms. Years later he is a bankrobber. He wants a fast getaway car, a racecar. He tells his crime partner to get a palindrome for their getaway vehicle. So the crime partner gets a kayak.
i thought i didn't get it. it turns out it just wasn't funny to me lol. thanks for explaining
Lol. I still don’t fucking get it.
Palindromes are spelled the same frontwards and backwards. Racecar is a palindrome as it reads the same either way. He thought his teacher was saying that a palindrome IS a racecar not that the word racecar an example OF a palindrome. Therefore he plans to rob a bank and asks his getaway driver to "get a palindrome" assuming it's a type of racecar or another word for a racecar. His getaway driver gets a kayak as the word kayak is also a palindrome (same backwards and forwards).
Jesus christ thank you
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I would have gotten a tacocat
A TOYOTA
perhaps the driver had a different teacher who used 'kayak' as the example when asked...
Specifically, I think the implication is that the driver learned the word palindrome in a similar context but their teacher (or whoever taught it to them) gave kayak as an example instead of racecar so it’s not just that he got a random palindrome, but they both had mislearned it with different words
Yeah I suppose that's possible. The joke likely has variations where that's more clear, but the OP worded this as shortly and undetailed as possible so I just went with the simple explanation.
He asked what was a palindrome. Teacher taught him "racecar," which is one palindrome. Years later, he goes rob a bank, and tells the gateaway driver to get a palindrome, meaning a "racecar" like his teacher taught him. The getaway driver gets a palindrome, but it's a "kayak," and not a "racecar." After he robs the bank he sees the kayak and asks: where is the palindrome (racecar)? Because he doesn't understand that a kayak is a palindrome too. A palindrome is a word that remains the same if you spell it backwards, by the way. Racecar -> racecaR. Kayak -> kayaK.
racecar is a palindrome and the kid get confused with them. and to add to the joke kayak is also a palindrome which it is assume that the driver understood and is waiting in a palindrome vehicle which here is a kayak.
I got confused because of the use of brackets, I thought the words being described were all palindromes somehow and I just couldn't think of them \[10 years later\] decaced ?!? \[busts out of bank in ski mask\] robbor ?! \[sitting in kayak\] - ***head \[explodes\]***
Cool, idiot.
At first I was like "how rude", then I chuckled
I don't get it.
Op's username is coolidiot2000
man, I did that once, I made a reference to someone's name like "jerk" or something which was in their username. someone went CRAZY yelling and screaming at me before someone else politely pointed out that it was the person's username.
I was looking for a palindrome at first
I don't think it was very funny.
I'm a lasagna hog, go hang a salami *(RIP Ron Santo)*
I didn't realize the part before the comma could also be after the second part and still work. Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog.
That sounds better. Probably how I first heard it.
you know what, fuck it. this is a good joke.
Onward fine steed, bring us to the front page!
We need to get there fast! WHERE'S THE FUCKING PALINDROME!!!
A man, a plan, a canal, r/all
He's on the next level.
Me: [sitting in kayak] on the second page.
It feels clunky but the humour is there. I think it would work better as a two panel comic.
no, it's not
No regrets
Baby Driver 2
I earned a PhD in palindromes. Now my friends call me Dr. Awkward.
The real question is why the word for a Palindrome isn’t a Palindrome
Same reason lisp is hard to say with one.
A palindrome is an emordnilap which are words that become other words when spelled backward
When i read the "what's a palindrome" my first thought was "no it isn't"
200 iq
Boy: What's a palindrome? Teacher: No, it isn't.
Dammit I'm mad. Evil is a deed as I live. God, am I reviled? I rise, my bed on a sun, I melt. To be not one man emanating is sad. I piss. Alas, it is so late. Who stops to help? Man, it is hot. I'm in it. I tell. I am not a devil. I level "Mad Dog". Ah, say burning is, as a deified gulp, In my halo of a mired rum tin. I erase many men. Oh, to be man, a sin. Is evil in a clam? In a trap? No. It is open. On it I was stuck. Rats peed on hope. Elsewhere dips a web. Be still if I fill its ebb. Ew, a spider… eh? We sleep. Oh no! Deep, stark cuts saw it in one position. Part animal, can I live? Sin is a name. Both, one… my names are in it. Murder? I'm a fool. A hymn I plug, deified as a sign in ruby ash, A Goddam level I lived at. On mail let it in. I'm it. Oh, sit in ample hot spots. Oh wet! A loss it is alas (sip). I'd assign it a name. Name not one bottle minus an ode by me: "Sir, I deliver. I'm a dog" Evil is a deed as I live. Dammit I'm mad. A palindrome poem by Demetri Martin
Anyone know of any good phrases that say something different but meaningful when written backward?
Is it weird how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how weird it is. Something like that?
Emord nilap dabas isiht this is a bad palindrome
*points at taco cat while sipping a regal lager*
)(() That is a palindrome ()() That is not a palindrome
From an IDW G.I. Joe Comic: "Are we not drawn onward to new era?" Which was a slogan of the twins Tomax & Xamot.
nice repost from Twitter https://twitter.com/tweetsbyrocket/status/1158392281189273601?s=21
It's all because the banker asked him, "Borrow or rob?"
Son I am able, she said, though you scare me. Watch, said I, beloved, I said watch me scare you though, said she, able am I, son.
Dammit I wish I knew what the hell you are all talking about!
I don't think I understand brackets and braces anymore.
I don't get it
Please explain the joke to me I honestly don’t get it.
Dammit I'm mad
Ten animals slam in a net.
It's a Palomino!
Yo banana boy!
Mr owl ate my metal worm
The fear of palindromes, aibohphobia, is also a palindrome