Racecar is a topical word on Formula One race day in Monza. Grammar nazis out there will know that a word that is the same written backwards, forwards and sideways is called a pallindrome. Pallindromes are cool, a lot cooler than most top racecar drivers!

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Yes, after writing a short piece on the word Satire, spelt backwards, it is time to play again.

Courtesy of Wierd Al, this profound sentence reads the same backwards and forwards ie it is a pallindrome by any other name.

Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog

I concur,

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This was emailed to me just before Christmas 2005. I nearly got it right too, which is surprising for someone who can't speed read to save his life. There is hardly anything to the question:

How many instances of the letter "F" can you count?

However, it does take a bit of scrolling down the page to reach the answer.

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There is nothing worse than reading something like this:

And today in Little Rock fans of local idle Billy Bob Thornton spended the thanksgiving day eating and drinking round the camp fire. It was defiantly the best day of the year for all us little rockers.

No offense to Little Rock inhabitants, but

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Here is a funny thing about language: If you look up the definition of the word satire, you will see it is roughly equivalent to the definition of pisstaking. That isn't the funny bit, by the way.

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If you write satire backwards, you get eritas which in the dictionary means fuck all where I come from. The online word search I checked it out in said I probably meant Veritas. Well, let's just say the computer is cleverer than me, and also knows a lot more about my past than I care for.

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