Friday 11 April 2008

Palindromes


I was told of a great song by "Weird Al" Pankovic the other day called Bob. It's entirely made up of palindromes (phrases that read the same backwards) that are organized into rhyming verses, such as:

Oh, no! Don Ho!
Nurse, I spy gypsies -- run!
Senile felines
Now I see bees I won
UFO tofu
We panic in a pew
Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo
God! A red nugget! A fat egg under a dog!
Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog


If you read each line backwards, it is still the same! But don't try to start at the bottom and work up - it won't work as a song anymore! "Bob" is a song on Weird Al's album "Poodle Hat", if you want to purchase it.
 Like one of his other songs says, however, "Don't Download This Song"!

Sunday 6 April 2008

Snow Fun!


It is actually! Today, we awoke to find a wet floor and a miserable-looking sky, but at around 9:30 we looked out of the window in amazement - there, in front of us, was a mass of white fluffy stuff that melts when you hold it! Little Blubs has made a snowman - click here for more - however, at the time of writing this, the snow has started to melt, causing him to disappear. Even the falling flakes themselves have given up, floating ever so slowly to the ground and disintegrating as soon as they reach it. But, these days don't come often and so we are glad that we were able to enjoy this one today.