the Word for Tuesday

SEMORDNILAP



A word, phrase or sentence that makes sense when reversed, but is not the same as the original.

A string of letters that reads the same backwards as forwards is a palindrome (“Madam, I’m Adam”; “A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!”; “Was it a car or a cat I saw?”). A semordnilap is closely related, but the reversed text must be different. For example, if you reverse “diaper” you get “repaid”, and if you invert “desserts” the word “stressed” appears. A more complicated example is “deliver no evil”, but you can probably invent better ones for yourself. As semordnilap is palindromeswritten backwards, it’s a self-referential word, one that encapsulates within itself the thing it represents. You could hardly say that it’s common, but many earnest palindromists have accidentally discovered it, and it has some small circulation among word wizards

SEXY VIDEO FOR THE LADIES AND A FUNNY VIDEO

HOW THE HECK WAS THIS DONE???

Naked and Drunk Driving..Death Resulting

Jessica Langford (right)

Australia

A PROBATIONARY driver's estimated alcohol reading and speed - and the fact that she was driving naked at the time - were used as evidence yesterday to commit the teenager for trial on culpable driving.

Jessica Maree Langford, 19, pleaded not guilty to the charge and to dangerous driving causing the death of her boyfriend at Hastings on November 29 last year.

Melbourne Magistrates Court heard that Langford's speed was calculated at 104 km/h in a 90 km/h zone and her blood alcohol concentration at .09 about two hours after the crash.

She and Daniel Andrew Glover, 19, had been ''skinny dipping'' at Shoreham around midnight and remained naked after using their clothes to dry off. Langford later told police they had been drinking at the beach and that swimming in the nude had been fun, but denied any sexual activity happened while driving.

In a record of interview, she said that usually when she drank she would get dropped off and someone else would drive home. ''But this time I was very stupid.''

Police from the major collision unit found that Langford's car rotated clockwise after she oversteered in Coolart Road before it collided with a wooden power pole.

Langford, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was found injured on the ground while Mr Glover remained secured by his seatbelt.

Defence barrister Dermott Dann argued at the contested committal hearing that a properly instructed jury at trial could not return a guilty verdict on culpable driving solely on Langford's alcohol reading.

He said there was no evidence of bad driving before the crash or that Langford was drunk and the issue of her state of undress was irrelevant.

It was wrong to ''lump'' the factors of alcohol, speed and undress together as amounting to gross negligence, he said.

In reply, prosecutor Stephen Payne submitted that the question of gross negligence was a matter for a jury and that the alcohol reading alone - given that Langford was on a zero limit - was sufficient evidence. Mr Payne said the evidence of speed and her ''state of undress'' were indisputable.

Magistrate Susan Wakeling found there was sufficient evidence for a jury to convict Langford, of Balnarring, and she was released on bail. She is to appear later at the County Court.

the Joke for Tuesday

CONFESSION  A woman takes a lover home during the day, while her husband is at work. Unbeknownst to her, her 9 year old son was hiding in the closet. Her husband comes home unexpectedly, so she puts the lover in the closet with the little boy.   The little boy says, "Dark in here." The man says, "Yes it is." Boy- "I have a baseball." Man- "That's nice." Boy- "Want to buy it?" Man- "No, thanks." Boy- "My dad's outside." Man- "OK, how much?" Boy- "$250."  In the next few weeks, it happens again that the boy and the mom's lover are in the closet together.  Boy- "Dark in here." Man- "Yes, it is." Boy- "I have a baseball glove." The lover, remembering the last time, asks the boy, "How much?" Boy- "$750." Man- "Fine."  A few days later, the father says to the boy, "Grab your glove. Let's go outside and toss the baseball back and forth." The boy says, "I can't. I sold them." The father asks, "How much did you sell them for?" The son says "$1,000." The father says, "That's terrible to overcharge your friends like that. That is way more than those two things cost. I'm going to take you to church and make you confess."  They go to church and the father makes the little boy sit in the confession booth and he closes the door.  The boy says, "Dark in here." The priest says, "Don't start that sh*t again."

So much for packing a, um, rod

It's a lesson he should have learned from Plaxico Burress -- but this was worse.

A 15-year-old Brooklyn boy shot himself in the penis Sunday after fumbling with a gun that had slid from his waistband, authorities said yesterday.

Khamir Grant was then arrested for reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon -- the same charges levied against Burress, who shot himself at a Manhattan nightclub in 2008, law-enforcement sources said.

Grant told cops that he was walking home from Amersfort Park at East 39th Street and Avenue J in East Flatbush around 1:30 a.m., when the gun began to fall into his pants, sources said.

When Grant grabbed for it, he accidentally pulled the trigger, firing a bullet right through his penis.

Grant staggered home and told his mom what had happened, sources said.

They took a livery car to Kings County Hospital, where Grant was released after treatment and then arrested by police.