The Dead Parrot Routine

Palindrome is a word, phrase, or number equal with other units that can be read in the same way either direction (the adjustment of punctuation and spaces between words is generally permitted.)-wikipediaPalindrome was at the top of Google Trends last night, for whatever reason and there seemed to be a lot of talk about the longest sentence that was a palindrome-which seems to have been around 17826 words long. Some people have way too much time on their hands. My own experience with palindromes is pretty limited, as I am not really that much of a word freak. But I…

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What Trees are Commonly Found in English Churchyards-Who Cares?

Right, I was wandering around Google Trends this morning and what should I find in the top ten most searched items? what trees are commonly found in english churchyards-Now I mean I know it might be a bit of a slow news day, but can there really be so many people wondering about Trees in England that it sits at number 4 on Google Trends? Apparently so.The Top Answers seem to be the Yew, The Hawthorn, and for Monty Python’s sake, The Larch-which is mentioned in The Lumberjack Song that all Lumberjacks love to sing. A common sense type answer…

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