Friday, January 4, 2008

anagram

You know what an "anagram" is: the letters of one word or phrase character-for-character rescheduled into another word or phrase. Here are some certified gems for your trivia pleasure...

original                   anagram
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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 Zs
Alec Guinness..............genuine class
Semolina...................is no meal
the public art galleries...large picture halls, I bet
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

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This one is breathtaking, from Shakespeare's "Hamlet":

"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."

and its anagram:

In one of The Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet,
queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.

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and the grand finale:

"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."--Neil Armstrong

anagram:

A thin man ran; makes a large stride, left planet, pins flag on moon! On to Mars!

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