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Hello and welcome to the short stuff.

I'm Josh and there's Chuck and I said hello with a silent H at the end, which means I just

said something in palindrome.

I love palindromes as it turns out.

I do too.

I think it's pretty neat.

The one that gets me is when somebody's like, this number is a palindrome.

I just wrote it out.

Yeah, I don't get that.

That doesn't count.

Maybe if it's a date or something that you don't have any control over, then yeah, be a

palindrome.

But just anybody who's into numbers that are palindromes, be quiet.

Be quiet once and for all.

Yeah, I'm glad you said that because this article, even from howstuffworks.com, says some

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