Anagram Hall of Fame.

ROLCAM · Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 1:52 pm Post subject: Anagram Hall of Fame.

Anagram Hall of Fame

Attributions for anagrams (if known) are shown at the end of each anagram.

Internet Anagram Server = Isn't rearrangement rave?

Dormitory = Dirty Room

Dictionary = Indicatory

Schoolmaster = The classroom

Elvis = Lives

Listen = Silent

Clint Eastwood = Old West Action

Madam Curie = Radium came

A telephone girl = Repeating "Hello"

Western Union = No Wire Unsent

The country side = No City Dust Here

Evangelist = Evil's Agent

Astronomers = Moon starers / No more stars

A telescope = To see place

The eyes = They see

The cockroach = Cook, catch her

Waitress = A stew, Sir?

The centenarians = I can hear ten "tens"

Desperation = A Rope Ends It

The Morse Code = Here Come Dots

The Meaning of Life = The fine game of nil

Slot Machines = Cash Lost in'em

Conversation = Voices Rant On

Disraeli = I lead, Sir.

Clothespins = So Let's Pinch

Mr. Mojo risin' = Jim Morrison
(from the Doors song, "L.A. Woman")

The Great New York Rapid Transit Tunnel = Giant Work in Street, Partly Underneath

Florence Nightingale = Nigel, Fetch an Iron Leg / Flit on Cheering Angel
(Richard Stilgoe in "The Richard Stilgoe Letters")

MacDonalds = Clam and Sod

Darling I love you = leaving your idol / Avoiding our yell

Butterfly = Flutter-by

Heavy Rain? = Hire a Navy!

Tom Cruise = So I'm Cuter

Animosity = Is No Amity

Mother-in-law = Woman Hitler

Funeral = Real Fun

Protectionism = Nice to imports

A Domesticated Animal = Docile, as a Man Tamed it

The Railroad Train = Hi! I Rattle and Roar

The Hilton = Hint: Hotel

A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss = Stroller on Go, Amasses Nothing

Sunshine and Shadow = Show in Sun and Shade

The Check is in the Mail = Claim "Heck, I sent it (heh)"

The United States Bureau of Fisheries = I Raise the Bass to Feed Us in the Future

Snooze Alarms = Alas! No More Z's

Vacation Times = I'm Not as Active

Software = Swear Oft

Silicon Graphics = A Long Chip Crisis / Can logic ship, sir? / Gosh, sir, I can clip!

Alec Guinness = Genuine Class
(Dick Cavett)

The Detectives = Detect Thieves

The Hospital Ambulance = A Cab, I Hustle to Help Man

Semolina = Is No Meal

The United States of America = Attaineth its cause, freedom

Christmas tree = Search, Set, Trim

A Gentleman = Elegant Man

Presbyterian = Best In Prayer

The Public Art Galleries = Large Picture Halls, I Bet

A Decimal Point = I'm a Dot in Place

The Earthquakes = That Queer Shake

Salman Rushdie = Read, Shun Islam

Martin Scorsese = Screen is a storm
(the director of movies "Taxi Driver," "Mean Streets," "GoodFellas," "Cape Fear," and "Age of Innocence.")

Barbie doll = I'll bare bod / Babe I'd roll / Liberal bod

Student Information Processing Board = Computation Transgression Forbidden
(MIT)

Statue of Liberty = Built to Stay Free

Eleven plus two = Twelve plus one

Patrick Stewart = A Crap Trek Twist

Mel Gibson = Bong Smile

Admirer = Married

Indomitableness = Endless ambition

New York Times = Monkeys write / Monkey writes
(Andrew Glines)

David Letterman = Nerd amid late TV

Howard Stern = Retard shown

Contradiction = Accord not in it
(E. Tyron)

Debit card = Bad Credit
(Mike Morton)

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz = Cwm fjord bank glyphs vext quiz
(a pangram)

"Be Like Water" = We break tile
[a well-known quote attributed to martial-arts expert Bruce Lee]
(Ozan Sarikaya)

Quote by Vonnegut:
Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the universe. =
A masquerade can cover a sense of what is real to deceive us; to be unjaded and not lost, we must, then, determine truth.
(Cory Calhoun)

Quote by Oscar Wilde:
There is only one thing worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about. =
Wilde died broken, beaten 'n' total nut. Hate being sunk in that rotten gaol. Shh, gay is taboo.
(Larry Brash)

From Hamlet by Shakespeare:
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.
(Cory Calhoun)

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Titles, names, etc. that are anagrams
Vladimir Nabokov = Vivian Darkbloom
(Vivian Darkbloom is a character in Nabokov's Lolita)

October Sky = Rocket Boys
(The 1999 movie October Sky is based on Rocket Boys, a memoir by Homer "Sonny" Hickam)

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US Presidents
Why shouldn't America go re-elect President Clinton in Ninety-Six? = He has a prime or cunning tendency to wildly solicit Internet sex.
(Cory Calhoun)

Spiro Agnew = Grow a spine (Excercise for the reader: spine can be anagrammed into another body part)
[Spiro Agnew was Richard Nixon's vice president]

William Clinton = I'm it, an ill clown
William Jefferson Clinton = Firm clean fellow. Joint? Sin!
(William Schmidt)

William Jefferson Clinton = Jail Mrs Clinton: Felon wife
(Ward Hardman)

George Herbert Walker Bush = Huge Berserk Rebel Warthog
(Mike Morton)

George Bush = He bugs Gore
(Mike Morton)

Ronald Wilson Reagan = No, darlings, no ERA law
(Mike Morton)

Ronald Reagan = A darn long era

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Long Works of Anagramming:
The Curse of the Ring (from The Lord of the Rings)

In the land of Mordor, where the shadows lie,
One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all,
And in the darkness, bind them.

=

Who fears Nine Morgul men,
A lot of bandit demons,
The gathering torrent,
And Him, one Dark Lord
Sheltered within His hell?
Men, blind to the One Ring.
(Michael J. Mateyka)

More:

Information Superhighway by Mike Morton
Chronological story of OJ Simpson
A short story by Daniel Cohen
The Marriage of the Minds by Shakespeare; Anagrams by Cory Calhoun

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Leroy Newton Gingrich =
Yon Right-winger Clone
Lingering, once worthy
I negligent, horny, crow
Grow incoherent, lying

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Movie Reviews
Hook = Oh, OK
Raiders of the Lost Ark = Ford, the Real Star, is OK
The Towering Inferno = Not Worth Fire Engine
(GAMES Magazine)

Prince of Tides = PS. I Cried Often
The Silence of the Lambs = The Con Bites Male Flesh
(Philip Silverman)

Gentleman's Agreement = Men Entangle, Stem Rage
(Taysir Jabr)

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(From British anagrammists):
Tony Blair, MP = I'm Tory plan B

Virginia Bottomley = I'm an evil Tory bigot

Margaret Thatcher = A charm tart, get her!

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Twenty thousand leagues under the sea = Huge water tale stuns. End had you tense.
(E.L. Benfer)
The end of the world is nigh! = Down this hole, frightened!
(Donald L. Holmes)

The best things in life are free = Nail-biting refreshes the feet
(Donald L. Holmes)

"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Neil A. Armstrong = A thin man ran; makes a large stride; left planet, pins flag on moon! On to Mars!
(Steve Krakowski)

Do an angry hit = Tonya Harding
(Tim DeLaney)

Grace 'n any rink = Nancy Kerrigan
(Tim DeLaney)

Pre-natal = Parental = Paternal

Name is Anu Garg = Anagram Genius
(Eric Shackle)

www.wordsmith.org/anagram = Grammar was downright wow!
(John Crowe)
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