Fri 1 May 1998
“An Anagram, as we all know, is a word or phrase made by transposing or rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. The following examples are quite astounding!” (via email)
An Anagram, as we all know, is a word or phrase made by
transposing or rearranging the letters of another word or
phrase.
The following examples are quite astounding!
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Dormitory == Dirty Room
Evangelist == Evil’s Agent
Desperation == A Rope Ends It
The Morse Code == Here Come Dots
Slot Machines == Cash Lost in ‘em
Animosity == Is No Amity
Mother-in-law == Woman Hitler
Snooze Alarms == Alas! No More Z’s
Alec Guinness == Genuine Class
Semolina == Is No Meal
A Decimal Point == I’m a Dot in Place
The Earthquakes == That Queer Shake
Eleven plus two == Twelve plus one
Contradiction == Accord not in it
The Public Art Galleries == Large Picture Halls, I Bet
This one’s amazing: From Hamlet by Shakespeare.
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“To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the
mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.”
== In one of the Bard’s best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent
hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.
Politicians:
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George Herbert Walker Bush == Huge Berserk Rebel Warthog
George Bush == He bugs Gore
Ronald Wilson Reagan == A long-insane Warlord
or Insane Anglo warlord
Ronald Reagan == A darn long era
Leroy Newton Gingrich == Yon Right-winger Clone
Margaret Thatcher == That great charmer
The Conservative Party == Teacher in vast poverty
And the grand finale, from Neil Armstrong:
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“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
== A thin man ran; makes a large stride; left planet, pins flag on
moon! On to Mars!