Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: hoey@ETL.ARMY.MIL (Dan Hoey)
Date: 16 Jan 92 14:46:27 GMT
Subject: Re: Palindromes : a compilation

wo...@iear.arts.rpi.edu (Chris Widmann) writes:

>Well, a year ago I started to collect palindromes from people on the net.....
>Longer palindrome:

>A man, a plan, a cat, a ham, a yak, a yam, a hat, a canal--Panama!

That palindrome was written by Guy Jacobson, as I noted when I
originally posted it some years ago.  Please do not distribute it
without attribution.

>Longest palindrome:

>A man, a plan, a caret, a ban, ..., a bater, a canal--Panama.

It is not the longest palindrome on record.  Also, I discovered it.
Do not distribute it without my name.

Dan Hoey
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil