Emily shares thoughts on the Middle East:

Loot net Torah silo, medevac an Israeli, oil ears in a cave, demolish a rotten tool.

... and has dark thoughts on ancient Persian rite of human sacrifice.

Yo! Baste gnat fat on a cloven ox, one volcano Taftan gets a boy.

(for the more squeamish amongst us, 'You' and 'buoy' also work but make even less sense)

... and remembers the active crater

Narkuh? Shukran!

Could possibly have worked that one into the first if I'd thought a bit longer.

Just as well, given the Palindrome Police tend to impose stiff fines for using extremely obscure geographical names. Giving gnats adipose tissue is okay, but you don't want to send people running for the nearest atlas or encyclopedia.

E.g. if my audience is mostly British I need to consider they may not be familiar with a small Idaho town named Pocatello, however seductive that assemblage of letters may be. And it is. Hmmm. Or maybe it's like Scrabble and anything formally recognized as a word is fair use. DK.

Barcarolle? Taco? Pocatello, Ra? Crab?

My 5¢

or rather

22 minutes ago, TheVat said:

Or maybe it's like Scrabble and anything formally recognized as a word is fair use. DK.

If we're limited to the typical geographical literacy of US citizenry, how do we stand with say, Belgium?

Ostend log forever of gold net so.

Some breakfasts, Emily can't make much sense of what's in her Google feed....

Non-extra fast peruse:

dine muesli,

attack cat tails,

Eumenides erupts a fart: xenon?

5 hours ago, TheVat said:

peruse

... pose, perhaps?

Maybe. You offering a fix may be a little too kind - sometimes I find a palindrome has an okay core but it just didn't build out well. I could salvage some of it, maybe.

Rot an ill opal? I attack cattail, a pollinator.

(Meh...)

AI demolish silo, media.

Emily writes her friend, worried about online Russian bot influencers.

AIs sure rip media pseudonym, Amy. No dues paid Empire Russia.

Edited March 26Mar 26 by TheVat

Sarg, I'd ram a ptarmigan snag. I'm rat, Pa Mardi Gras.

Re MAGA: Say too, Bondi hid no booty as AG (Amer.)

Edited April 3Apr 3 by TheVat
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Emily asked a philosopher about what constitutes evidence. He replied with a riddle...

God, Lee H. Oswald, etc., anecdotal, Plato? DC enacted law - so heel, dog!

On 3/11/2026 at 11:50 AM, sethoflagos said:

Yo! Baste gnat fat on a cloven ox, one volcano Taftan gets a boy.

On 3/11/2026 at 5:31 PM, TheVat said:

Palindrome Police tend to impose stiff fines for using extremely obscure geographical names

Earth.com

Remote volcano wakes up after 700,000 years of dormant si...

Taftan volcano in southeastern Iran rose 3.5 inches over 10 months, signaling that it is waking up after 700,000 years of dormancy.

A vale of foe! Lava!

Won senile dismissal, class - I'm sidelines now.

😜

Emily was shocked to read in the news of a gang of circus workers attacking a killer whale.

"Acrobats stab orca."

In other equally shocking news, marsupials near Melbourne attacked lawn equipment. As the groundskeeper noted,

"Here, wombats stab mower, eh?"

Emily has been learning about canals, as she follows the Star Mangled Spanner thread in Politics. Here are some of her notes...

Zeus devastates radar set at saved Suez.

A man, a prosopagnosia, is on Gap OS, or Panama.

A man, a pot o' pee deep. O, to Panama!

Eire? Erie!

11 hours ago, TheVat said:

prosopagnosia

I... Hades! I recognise face not! As mums at one cafe sing o' Cerise Dahi.

2 hours ago, sethoflagos said:

Cerise Dahi.

Bold move, dropping an Indian cherry yoghurt in there. Given the Hades invoking, one might hope to work Ceres in there, but I see the path would be awkward. I've already mixed Roman and Greek god names. In that vein, perhaps I can touch on the Ceres and Proserpine myth.

God stop crop? Hades erect Ceres, Ed? Ah, porc pots, dog!

Emily learns of jungle justice defence against cultural appropriation, and some barely appropriate prefixes:

Mad a meta-covert no-wit came to take Eka-totem. Act I won't revocate, Madam.

Not for the first time, Ms Laine fails to guess any of Ol' King Cole's playlist at the West End soirée.

Draw "O" Cleo! Note nut Nat raps Agnus Dei; Lulu Lied; sung a Spartan tune to Noël Coward.

Diaresis one way, but not the other? JK. That was great, though I struggle imagining Nat King Cole singing Agnus Dei in such a venue.

Leon, DNAs, Goddamn mad dogs and Noël?

1 hour ago, TheVat said:

I struggle imagining Nat King Cole singing Agnus Dei in such a venue.

I suspect his rich baritone voice would have had a little more difficulty with the hoher sopran of Lied der Lulu

However, Emily is more intrigued by the following Wikipedia note:

Structure

Centre-point of the palindrome in act 2

Berg was obsessed with symmetry in his works and Lulu is no exception, the whole being perceived as a palindrome or mirror. Lulu's popularity in the first act is mirrored by the squalor she lives in during act 3, and this is emphasised by Lulu's husbands in act 1 being played by the same singers as her clients in act 3. The motifs associated with each are repeated.^[29]

This mirrorlike structure is further emphasised by the film interlude at act 2 at the very centre of the work. The events shown in the film are a miniature version of the mirror structure of the opera as a whole (Lulu enters prison and then leaves again) and the music accompanying the film is an exact palindrome – it reads the same forwards as backwards. The centre of this palindrome is indicated by an arpeggio played on the piano, first rising, then falling (shown here on the top staff).^[29]