Fun with Anagrams

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<p>How about we get away from politics and the problems of the world and just do something for fun: Anagrams. I just found out that a 1999 movie I really liked had a title that was a coincidental anagram. It was filmed with the working title of the book it was based on: “Rocket Boys” by Homer Hickam, which detailed how a schoolboy in a coal-mining town in West Virginia was inspired by the 1957 Sputnik launch to take up rocketry and eventually become a NASA engineer. The studio thought that the title “Rocket Boys” would label it as a kid’s movie, so they wanted something different. The story is that the director was playing around with a computer program that generated anagrams and plugged in “Rocket Boys” as the input. One of the anagrams that came back out was “October Sky.” And since Sputnik was launched in October, that became the title of the movie.</p>

<p>I once wrote a computer program that generated anagrams, and had a lot of fun plugging people’s names into it and seeing what came out. Sometimes the results were quite funny. My (quite busty) mother-in-law’s anagram was “Thunder Lung.” My father-in-law became “Glad Nun Holder” and my sister-in-law was “Uncanny Delight.” I don’t remember some of the good ones for my work colleagues, but I do remember one. I worked with a very “proper” woman and we put her name into my program. What came out as an anagram for her name? “Oh, to be under a man!” We screamed with laughter, but I don’t think she appreciated it.</p>

<p>So this is a solicitation for good anagrams. A few of my favorites:</p>

<p>Evangelist = Evil’s Agent</p>

<p>Clint Eastwood = Old West Action</p>

<p>Alec Guinness = Genuine Class</p>

<p>David Letterman = Nerd Amid Late TV</p>

<p>Debit card = Bad Credit</p>

<p>and, just to keep this on the “college” theme:</p>

<p>Dormitory = Dirty Room</p>

<p>And, this I found on a website: An anagram of a Shakespeare quote:</p>

<p>“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.”</p>

<p>That rearranges into:</p>

<p>“In one of the Bard’s best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.”</p>

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<p>wow that’s so lovely! thanks
but i doubt your computer program came up with those quotes? i didn’t think computer programs could do grammar</p>

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<p>Dig A Dime</p>

<p>Did image</p>

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<p>College Confidential = I’ll get a lo confidence.</p>

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<p>I love spoonerisms and malapropisms.
<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malapropism[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malapropism&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoonerism[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoonerism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>One spoonerims not listed in wikipedia:
You noble tons of soil (You, noble sons of toil)
One college prof had “You have hissed all my mystery lectures, you will leave by the next town drain” on his office door.</p>

<p>Am Rite (marite)</p>

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<p>"Am Rite (marite)</p>

<p>Ah, quel ma</p>

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<p>xiggi - great one: CC = lo confidence… LOL</p>

<p>jimbob - my program only came up with the ones in the second paragraph of the original post (and I added the punctutation and word order).</p>

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<p>oh i see. cool, digmedia!</p>

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<p>President Clinton of the USA -> To copulate, he finds interns.</p>

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<p>LOL nice job aries!!!</p>

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<p>I’m going to hear about this one…</p>

<p>Fountain Siren = I, of insane turn</p>

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<p>I suck I can’t think of one.</p>

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<p>I have no patience whatsoever when it comes to solving anagrams, but I loved October Sky! It was a great movie for my (at the time) pre-teen boys. I highly recommend it.</p>

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<p>MSB, Love your “Peanuts” screen name…!</p>

<p>Just got these in an email so can’t take credit for them:</p>

<p>Astronomer = Moon starer</p>

<p>The Eyes = They See</p>

<p>George Bush = He Bugs Gore</p>

<p>Presbyterian = Best In Prayer</p>

<p>The Morse Code = Here Come Dots</p>

<p>Slot Machines = Cash Lost In Me</p>

<p>Animosity = Is No Amity</p>

<p>Election Results = Lies - Let’s Recount</p>

<p>Snooze Alarms = Alas! No More Z’s</p>

<p>A Decimal Point = I’m A Dot In Place</p>

<p>The Earthquakes = That Queer Shake</p>

<p>Eleven Plus Two = Twelve Plus One </p>

<p>last but not least!</p>

<p>Mother-In-Law = Woman Hitler</p>

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<p>One more: </p>

<p>Harvard University = A Hard Strive Ivy Run</p>

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<p>Debit Card - Bad Credit</p>

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<p>A while ago I found a public site where you can play around and do some anagram experimentation:</p>

<p><a href=“http://wordsmith.org/anagram/[/url]”>http://wordsmith.org/anagram/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>(use the advanced tab for best results)</p>

<p>What I think is hilarious is that it’s called
Internet Anagram Server<br>
which is then shown as its anagram,
I, Rearrangement Servant. :D</p>

<p>(Ah! I was going to sign this with my anagram-name, but then I realized it would be meaningless since we don’t use real names here! Ha.)</p>

<p>Anagrams are so much fun, thanks for the thread, dig!</p>

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<p>“Fountain Siren = I, of insane turn”</p>

<p>Thorny, thorny, Dadguy! </p>

<p>Fountain Siren could be … unfit reasonin’ or in unfit reason.</p>

<p>Of course, this site is “Not Illogical defence!”</p>

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<p>Hillary Clinton = Only I can thrill.</p>

<p>William Clinton = An ill clown: I’m it!</p>

<p>Wiliam Jefferson Clinton = New major self-infliction</p>

<p>Al Gore = <a href=“http://www.iamyourdaddy.com%5B/url%5D”>www.iamyourdaddy.com</a></p>

<p>And for the peanut gallery:</p>

<p>George Walker Bush = Blush, war geek ogre.</p>

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<p>Marite, you would just love a friend of mine who constantly admonished others not to “cast asparagus”.</p>

<p>Dig and Mootmom - great fun, thanks. </p>

<p>signing off,</p>

<p>satire sake</p>

<p>aka, risk a tease</p>