Rate ye gibbon.

I happened upon a list of palindromes today and remembered my initial random Internet claim to fame: in high school, my friend Dave Oranchak and I would sit around making up palindromes and anagrams. Somehow, a list of these made onto the Web years later. I have no idea how. Chances are good, though, that to this day if you Google (or whatever engine you prefer)"palindrome" some of our stuff will be listed and our names credited.

Which is surprising, because they suck.

I was looking at this list that I'd come across and found a gem:

A relic, Odin! I'm a mini, docile Ra!

I thought seriously that I must have written this one. After all, it has Odin and Ra, and makes little sense. And it has a goofy, broken cadence to it, as mine did.

Little did I know. I All-the-Webbed "Dave Oranchak" and palindrome (his were better), and shortly found some we had done here. In retrospect, I did not quite reach the heights of the previous example. Among my contributions to English literature:

- I am Al Leg Dew! Wedge llama, I!

- Nob big eye tarot, to rate ye gibbon!

- I draw Otto, not Alps! Plato not toward I!

- Sage Moral: Let's ban scrotum smut; Orcs nab stellar omegas!

- No, I tan or fan it, Al: LATIN AFRO NATION (Al turns up a lot, as do elves, orcs, ogres, Ghandi, nipples, colons -- the punctuation mark and the organ -- and livers)

- I'd nah go, am, ta ham: Mahatma O'Ghandi! (?)

And my personal favorite:

- Set, set trap! Gel trap! Part leg, part testes?

I can't help but grimace. I seemed to prefer colons and exlamation points to making a bit of damn sense. "I'd nah go, am, ta ham." What the hell does that mean? And I was proud of this stuff.