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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
Postmaster = Stamp Store
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
I run to escape = A persecution
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
Sycophant = Acts phony
(Stephen Jones)
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
Presbyterians = Best In Prayers = Britney Spears
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
(by Andrew Glines)
Television programming = Permeating living rooms
(by Dan)
David Letterman = Nerd amid late TV
Howard Stern = Retard shown
Contradiction = Accord not in it
(by E. Tyron)
Debit card = Bad credit
(by Mike Morton)
God save us all = Salvaged soul
(by Dawn Amos)
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]
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.
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.
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.
Rate this from 1 to 10 (1=the worst 5=so-so 10=the best)
Ok, but some things are funny.And by the way, this is froma site http://wordsmith.org/anagram/hof.html go there and you will see.Thx!
As I said, I did not make these.These are from a site (shown up).Thanx to everyone who had time to read, at least 5 of these.
Very interesting! An easy 8.
May 13th, 2010 at 7:03 pm
No… Just interesting..
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May 13th, 2010 at 7:26 pm
5/6
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May 13th, 2010 at 7:58 pm
the first 20 were funny, you put to many on here, got boring after a while.
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May 13th, 2010 at 8:03 pm
Very interesting! An easy 8.
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May 13th, 2010 at 8:19 pm
I am sorry but you have too much time on your hands. I would have to find another hobby.
Some were clever, some just didn’t make sense. Not rating all of them so I will give a 6 overall.
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May 13th, 2010 at 8:37 pm
got a bit repetitive after awhile, but a 6
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