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DaleCooper said:
All the lyrics are palindromes.
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Correct. There are a number of songs where the title or a chorus is a palindrome, but in Bob and a song called Madam, I’m Adam, each line is a palindrome. The song is done as a parody of Bob Dylan’s style (and makes just as much sense as many of his songs) and the video imitates the one for Subterranean Homesick Blues.

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Gloster said:
Correct. There are a number of songs where the title or a chorus is a palindrome, but in Bob and a song called Madam, I’m Adam, each line is a palindrome. The song is done as a parody of Bob Dylan’s style (and makes just as much sense as many of his songs) and the video imitates the one for Subterranean Homesick Blues.

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That was my first idea but I thought "What are the chances there's another song like that?" so I went for a palindromic title only. I searched for "Madam I'm Adam" but can't find the song to which you refer, have you got a link? I did find "Oozy Rat in a Sanitary Zoo" but that's an instrumental.

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What kind of sport is Slosh.
 
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DaleCooper said:
That was my first idea but I thought "What are the chances there's another song like that?" so I went for a palindromic title only. I searched for "Madam I'm Adam" but can't find the song to which you refer, have you got a link? I did find "Oozy Rat in a Sanitary Zoo" but that's an instrumental.

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What kind of sport is Slosh.
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Curling when the rink has started to melt
 
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DaleCooper said:
That was my first idea but I thought "What are the chances there's another song like that?" so I went for a palindromic title only. I searched for "Madam I'm Adam" but can't find the song to which you refer, have you got a link? I did find "Oozy Rat in a Sanitary Zoo" but that's an instrumental.
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There were several references to this when I searched around to check the question and they didn’t seem to be feeding off each other: it is possible it is just an obscure album track (but then so is Bob if you remove the word ‘obscure’). There were around a dozen songs with palindromic titles or including palindromic sections.
 
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Gloster said:
There were several references to this when I searched around to check the question and they didn’t seem to be feeding off each other: it is possible it is just an obscure album track (but then so is Bob if you remove the word ‘obscure’). There were around a dozen songs with palindromic titles or including palindromic sections.
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Possibly the first track off this German LP
but I'm not convinced (to be truthful having problems making out what they're singing)

 
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D6130 said:
In the context of Central Scotland, what are the Five Sisters?
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Spamcan81 said:
A range of hills?
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D6130 said:
Not quite....you will have to be a wee bit more specific!
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"Munro" hills, up in the Kintail area of the Northwest Highlands, rather than Central Scotland, so essentially a series of (ridge-linked) hills each of which are higher than 3000 feet above sea level, and three of the five of which are classified as, and included in the list of, "Munros".
 
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There are the 5 sisters of kintail as mentioned above, but also the 5-sisters are spoil heaps from oil shale mining

EDIT: I see why you specified CENTRAL scotland!
 
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There are the 5 sisters of kintail as mentioned above, but also the 5-sisters are spoil heaps from oil shale mining

Correct! They are a series of five conjoined 'bings', or spoil heaps just outside West Calder - and almost alongside the Shotts line - which are relics of the once busy and prosperous West Lothian oil shale mining industry. They are also now listed 'buildings' , so must be preserved. Your turn to drill for oil!
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The largest on-shore oil farm in western Europe is located in which country, bonus octane rating for its name

Also if this question is not answered correctly by 12 noon on thursday i will give the answer and declare open floor.
 
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The largest on-shore oil farm in western Europe is located in which country, bonus octane rating for its name

Also if this question is not answered correctly by 12 noon on thursday i will give the answer and declare open floor.
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Wouldn't be Wytch farm in Dorset here in the UK would it...?

( Not sure of the spelling )
 
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