As the dreaded "yips" are to a golfer, so the "gnus" are to a palindromist.
A gnu is a large, stocky antelope whose seeming ambition is to be a cow.
The problem is that whenever a gnu chances to materialize in a palindrome (which they do with depressing frequency), the whole thing at once degenerates into opera bouffe.
Ungava, Levi, lost a wombat!" snaps Syd; "Don't, noddy's-span, stab Mowat's olive lava gnu too!
Lee was sodden: "Raw, inane GNU, lustily `LIT,' Su, lunge--" "Nan?" I warned.
Red now, I deride Caryl: "To Hungary, Myra, gnu `hotly' raced??
The regimen at Gramma's Gnu Quests Camp for "problem" gnu youth, by contrast, is a bit more arduous.
A.M.: MAR GNU, SUN GNU, GUN GNU, RUN GNU, DUN GNU P.M.: PUN "GNU," DUN GNU, RUN GNU, GUN GNU, SUN GRAMMA
Snide deliverymen enamelled saturnine "TUNGSTEN-NEB BENNET'S GNU, TEN, IN RUT" as Dell, Em, an "enemy" reviled Edin's "nit" lover?
The Grand Lama investigates a contretemps at the Gnu Lodge's mascot's paddock:
"Gnu snivels are varied," Amy May Magoo-Pung went on.
"`Ungeraten' nags, Rev," avers Gannet, "are gnu!" "Ungekunstelt" Nedra Sawyer Grey was ardent: "Let's nuke gnu!"