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Article: BO, the dog star.(palindrome featuring President Barack Obama's name)(Brief article)
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- Word Ways
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- May 1, 2009
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On March 16th, Rich Lederer emailed me the following palindrome, which uses "BO" in it referring to actress BO Derek.
What did the star of the movie "10" say to the president of the United States? "OBAMA, I AM A BO."
And there it stood for almost a month. Then, on April 13th, the first family shocked the world by electing to get a presidential pooch, and they named their canine candidate
"BO." Could Mr Obama have named the dog after Ms Derek in a trans-gender, transspecies move to commemorate the Clintons' cat, who went to cat heaven on February 20th? First Cat Socks (1970-1990) and First Dog Bo both show the important role that animals play in ...