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You might think it makes a man low to have his hard work matched without effort, but mostly it gives him awe.

This is why Cornelius Bear is the strongest man in Achewood.

halla -> allah

Halla: (1) Finish - typically a nigh frost in early summer that often destroys crops or berries (2) Hip young urban American English - variant spelling on the term Holla

not of the polyglot type, but "so many dynamos" has always been my favorite palindrome.

Another simple polyglot palindrome with bonus homonym
das -> sad

Sad: Russian - garden

It's also English for "sad."

but do you know any synonyms for sad?

Disconsolate

Lugubrious

good luck making palindromes with those

sour bugle!

...No, I'm right. You shut up.

Palindrome, not anagram! You fool!

"sour bugle!" is actually so obnoxious that it is neither!!!

you got me

damn it

if you're gonna split hairs, i'm gonna piss off.

This may be the classiest Monty Python reference I've ever seen, and I'll bet the vast majority of people have no idea what it refers to.

he got a chubby from me for sure.

But they deserve to know.

YES! I think I'm only going to see such a graceful reference once in my lifetime.

This comic gets a 5 for effort, because Chris probably struggled to come up with that Turkish one, and I think that effort should be recognized.

I'm not very good a Turkish, but I'm pretty sure that phrase is gibberish.

I am 98% percent certain that Chris did not think of that on his own, if indeed that is a real Turkish saying.

It isn't.

Mr. Bear's assessment of kids is perhaps the best thing I've ever heard.

Also KABALAH backwards is HALABAK. Sound it out.

Which lends a whole 'nother layer to this!

Slightly off topic, but there is a funeral home near my parents' house called "Holler-Bach Funeral Home". When I first saw it, I thought briefly of swerving my bike into traffic so I could have my service there.

the little polyglot otter wrings his hands, his mouth moves a little, and his ear droops. man i love achewood.

Phillipe is biting his lip in anticipation.

Tortilla para tacos.

What the hell is wrong with me. I know they hurt, but I deserve those lames.

Remember that time you called me dumb because I got a simple geometry term wrong?

This was your karmic payback.

Chubbied for being a man.

Wait a minute, when did phillippe get ears?

When he was born.

...wait

Why did this get lamed?
Check the alt text.

Sir: gruel-fed ports at side J. <---> Je dis "t'as trop de fleur gris".

Holy SHIT

I've chubbed you as much as I can and it is still not enough.

Philippe not only knows what a beatnik is, he can also talk the talk.

Philippe is five.

Tortilla para tacos!

does anyone get the alt text on this one?

Gulp a plug
Bonk a knob
passport

(I'm not 100% sure, but I think "passport" is a reference to the "Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him" piece by the Firesign Theatre. But that could just be my user name talking.)

(...In case vague help didn't actually help, they are three separate statements, the first two of which are english palindromes. My conjecture about the third is above.)

MORE SUGAR!!

"Son I am able," she said "though you scare me."
"Watch," said I
"Beloved," I said "watch me scare you though." said she,
"Able am I, Son."

You son of a bitch....

Which language was that? Si taht, sdrawkcab.
If it was any. I just don't recognise it.

It's still English. It's palindromatic if you look at it as whole words rather than letter. It's from a "I Palindrome I" by They Might Be Giants.

Father Charles goes down and ends battle; battle ends, and down goes Charles' father.

chubbied for bringing back horrible memories of music theory class.

i prefer the alternate: father charles goes down and eats babies; babies eat, and down goes charles' father.

who kill thier babbys. becuse these babby cant frigth back?

Heh, what?

I gave this a five just for the third and fourth panel.

They are amazing. The subtle change in Philippe's expression speaks volumes.

So, am I the only one that read Philippe's last speech bubble backwards just to check if it meant something in another language?

Not anymore...

God's emu loves evolume's dog.

i don't have a dog though

I didn't invent these; I'm merely reporting them:
(non-polyglot)

Madam, in Eden, I'm Adam.
Was it a car or a cat I saw?

Also of note: the longest single-word palindrome in English is "redivider"

So it turns out Philippe isn't retarded after all! Just autistic.

do I have to mention that he's 5

"live was I ere I saw evil."

from a book I had to read in 9th grade, still English though...Japanese to English ones are too hard and that's the only other language I kind of know...

What is this, Square One?

So...how many of you have raisins in your purse, or have tried to smooth a girl with raisins in her purse? Show of hands, please.

On, Imac, on. Oy! : yo no camino
(English punk tryin' to turn on his old mac : Spanish dude who doesn't walk)

Also there is the matter of this.

Cornelius blogs on a [b]typewriter[b]. What a [i]badass[i].

Alas, my first attempt at bbcode has ended in tragedy.

no one will immediately see it.
learn quickly.

What does the beatnik's lack of pride in himself have to do with that statement anyway? I have never figured this out.

I sometimes like to imagine that Connie is some sort of psychologist of Skinnerist pedigree, and that Achewood is somehow an elaborate experiment he has set up.

Dammit I'm mad.
Evil is a deed as I live.
God, am I reviled? I rise, my bed on a sun, I melt.
To be not one man emanating is sad. I piss.
Alas, it is so late. Who stops to help?
Man, it is hot. I'm in it. I tell.
I am not a devil. I level "Mad Dog".
Ah, say burning is, as a deified gulp,
In my halo of a mired rum tin.
I erase many men. Oh, to be man, a sin.
Is evil in a clam? In a trap?
No. It is open. On it I was stuck.
Rats peed on hope. Elsewhere dips a web.
Be still if I fill its ebb.
Ew, a spider%u2026 eh?
We sleep. Oh no!
Deep, stark cuts saw it in one position.
Part animal, can I live? Sin is a name.
Both, one%u2026 my names are in it.
Murder? I'm a fool.
A hymn I plug, deified as a sign in ruby ash,
A Goddam level I lived at.
On mail let it in. I'm it.
Oh, sit in ample hot spots. Oh wet!
A loss it is alas (sip). I'd assign it a name.
Name not one bottle minus an ode by me:
"Sir, I deliver. I'm a dog"
Evil is a deed as I live.
Dammit I'm mad.

Holy shit.

whoa

is that you demitri?

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