Original Palindromes Alphabetical

After I wrote the Semi Times palindrome, it rattled around inside my head for a while. Driving a truck tends to rattle everything around.

I thought about how we refer to magazines when we talk. Mostly we say stuff like, “I saw a cool headset in Semi Times.” So I wrote that down.

in Semi Times ni

Then I looked up words that start with ni in the Palindromedary. It’s a long list. I found lots of potential palindromes, but they mostly didn’t make any sense. When I saw the word nipped, inspiration hit. It occurred to me that Semi Times could also be the name of a film.

Depp, in Semi Times, nipped

So Johnny Depp in a film, or maybe a magazine photoshoot. I wondered what he might be nipping. Eventually, a weird little story came to me.

On the set of Semi Times, Johnny Depp wandered by the catering table before his next scene. With the cameras rolling, he spoke his lines. Then he pulled a lemon from his pocket and nipped it. Later, when the director asked why he did that, Depp only said, “No melon. O’ lemon!”

The existing palindrome that inspired this was “No melon, no lemon.” I credited Johnny Depp with my altered words as the explanation for a longer palindrome I submitted earlier. All I did was remove an extra N in the middle. Think of it as a rejection of melon and an ode to lemon. Pucker up!