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  Nigel, pull up, pill lip! Pull up! Leg in!!!

  - Lloyd Wood, © 16:24 24 Feb 2021

  Clearly, Nigel is a pilot, albeit one with a conspicuously-shaped lip. It seems the air traffic controller sees that Nigel is in danger and is instructing him on how to avoid it with his airplane.

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  Tell Uber: "Artful red nun in under luft rare bullet."

  - Lloyd Wood, © 16:19 24 Feb 2021

  I thought of this palindrome a few years ago, when it seemed everyone was using Uber, and it seemed like I heard the word several times a day. As for the word “Luft,” you can hear Nena—the German band—sing about it in the 80s song “99 Luftballons” on the same-named album. Who has ever heard of a floating bullet, right? And who wouldn’t want to tell Uber about a sly red nun in under one?

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  Part A is sure not one Russia trap.

  - Lloyd Wood, © 10:49 24 Feb 2021

  It has been somewhat difficult not to think about Russia over the last four years, so why not use it in a palindrome?!

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  Rail set is a sites liar

  - Kris Rickards, © 10:51 29 Dec 2020

  This palindrome is inspired by those trainsets you get and ignore as child, but become obsessed with as a retired Grandfather. These old men in their attics and sheds create this idyllic landscapes in the most minutiae detail based upon the sceneries invented by their rose tinted nostalgia. But as Simone Signoret said in 1975, "nostalgia isn't what it used to be," and they are missing the truth of history.
  
  Old men hobbyists,
  And young novelists
  Create their own little worlds.
  
  Based on reality
  Letting their mind flee
  A power of God unfurled. 
  
  But it isn't true
  Skies aren't always blue
  Quaint, peaceful and full of bliss
  
  These make believe lands
  Crafted by many hands
  by men who just need a kiss.

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  Pu, can I snort celeb electrons in a cup?

  - Ray N. Franklin, © 13:24 14 Dec 2020

  Time:  15 minutes
  Seed:  electrons
  
  Browsing the Main list, I saw the entry for electrons. The reverse split stood out:  snort-cele. At the very least, I wanted to know how many words ended with snort so I entered electrons into the Word Explorer field in Palindrome Composer. Then I selected the snort-cele split. 
  
  So how many words end in snort? Just one, snort, but that was enough. I wrote "electrons snort cele" in the Current Composition field. Somehow that didn't sound useful, so I reversed the phrase to "snort cele electrons" and saw a possibility. The first word that begins with cele is celeb. I added the b to the end of cele and got "snort celeb electrons." That's a truly surreal phrase. It also solved the doubled-letter in the middle problem. Now the palindrome isn't quite so obviously symmetrical. But I didn't want to stop there.
  
  Playing around, I expanded the phrase to "I snort celeb electrons i." For no particular reason I expanded the right side to the word inactive. Then the left side became evitcani and I added some spaces to make "evit can I snort celeb electrons inactive?"
  
  That sounded unsatisfying, and, the only word ending in evit is the name Levit. Dropping evit, I looked at the remainder and came up with "can I snort celeb electrons in a c," which has a nice grammatical flow. Randomly trying cup for the last word, I decided it was finished. "Pu, can I snort celeb electrons in a cup?"
  
  Pu is a name and also the atomic symbol for Plutonium, a rich source of electrons, both ordinary and celebrity.

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  Smug spit tips gums

  - Steve Prosze, © 12:43 09 Oct 2020

  I was in the bathroom and spaced out on my mouthwash for healthy "gums", and reversed it into smug. Then I played on the reversal thing on the Palindrome Composer until, I came up with "spits", which is the last step in mouthwash. Having slight dyslexia helps, because I reverse words anyway.

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  Go home, Delia.
  Trucker trek curtailed.
  Emo, hog!

  - Trucker Poet, © 12:39 14 Aug 2020

  Time: half-hour. I started with trucker, naturally, and I used the palindrome composer. I was surprised by the words available for the split rek-curt. I chose trek for the left word, which made a short palindrome right off the bat! Then I played with the words starting with curt. I liked curtailed because it made sense; an organized convoy of truckers on a trek that got canceled.
  
  What I had: Delia trucker trek curtailed.
  
  Going beyond that was harder. Since the words were all complete, I had to find new ones to expand the sentence. I noticed that "trucker trek curtailed" felt poetic and it could be the middle of a haiku. A haiku palindrome would be cool, so I went with that flow.
  
  With Delia on the first line of the haiku, and the trek canceled, it just occurred to me that maybe a trek organizer would start telling the drivers the bad news. "Go home" felt like a good phrase, and to my surprise, it worked just as well in reverse. I'll let you figure out what the last line means. After all, art is in the eye of the beholder.
  
  And that was it. Finished. As people used to say where I grew up, "It ain't perfect, but it'll do.”

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  "One-ton knot, Eno."
  "One big knot, Tonk."
  "Gibe?"
  "No."
  "One-ton knot, Eno."

  - Ray N. Franklin, © 19:02 19 Jul 2020

  Seed:  wonton
  Time:  15 minutes
  
  I was testing some code and entered the classic palindrome, "Wonton, not now!" As so often happens, a couple of random perverse thoughts popped up.
  
  One was to add a k between wonton and not: Wonton knot, now! The other told me to replace the homophone won with one. That lead to another short palindrome.
  
  One-ton knot, Eno.
  
  Then I played around with the natural response a person might have to a one-ton knot: "That's one big knot." The last three words completed the excercise and I had a conversation between a couple of friends admiring an example of post-Gordian conspicuous consumptionism.

Have you ever tried to compose a palindrome? It can be hard unless you happen to be a stable genius. I’m no genius and I failed to ever write an original palindrome, until I created Franklin’s Palindromedary. I did it to help my underperforming brain. And it worked! The computer did the hard work, and I just supplied a little creativity. I’m sure you are more creative than me and that the Palindromedary will work for you. Give it a try today. Check out our educational videos and articles.

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