True Stories of Law & Order- Dwyer & Fio on crime, justice, and candy -

Mar
7thLive Not on Evil

I GO, “GO GI.” If someone approached you and proposed, “Murder for a jar of red rum?,” it would make sense to assume that the person was a hit-man who wants to get drunk on rum mixed with grenadine, right? It’s possible, but a more likely scenario is that you’ve just had a run-in with a palindromist, someone who makes up sentences with letters arranged in such a way that the sentences read the same backward as forward, or forward as backward, whatever the case may be. We already know what you’re thinking: Maybe the person is both palindromist and killer-for-hire. All we have to say to that is, c’mon, get real. We do, however, entertain the notion that the person isn’t actually a palindromist but perhaps visited palindromelist.com, which is where I lifted the above palindrome. Crime-related palindromes are very uncommon. In addition to the one above, Palindromelist.com lists two: “Did Joe kill like O.J. did?” and the less felonious but equally clever “O.J. nabs Bob’s banjo.” (Was a banjo among the items O.J. stole in his Las Vegas heist?) And I found one on www.big.net/fishy/pal.html: “ Yo, Bob, mug a gumbo boy!” And there are no Law & Order palindromes whatsoever. We, the staff of TrueStoriesLawOrder.com, want to do our part in building a much-needed catalog of Law & Order palindromes. So we are offering a free book to anyone who comes up with a Law & Order-related palindrome. Actually, just in case we’re overestimating the difficulty of [...]