"One-ton knot, Eno." "One big knot, Tonk." "Gibe?" "No." "One-ton knot, Eno."- Ray N. Franklin, 22:16 23 Jun 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.
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