Anagram Hall of Fame
Attributions for anagrams (if known) are shown at the end of each anagram.
Internet Anagram Server = Isn't re-arrangement rave?
Dormitory = Dirty Room
Schoolmaster = The classroom
Elvis = Lives
Listen = Silent
Clint Eastwood = Old West Action
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
The eyes = They see
The Cockroach = Cook, Catch Her
Desperation = A Rope Ends It
The Morse Code = Here Come Dots
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
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.
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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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 (also, spine can be anagrammed into another body part)
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:
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
Growing incoherently
Go wring incoherently
In wringer technology
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
Silence of the Lambs = Con Bites Male Flesh
(Philip Silverman)
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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
Anu Garg's Home Page = A Huge Rampage Song (Shama & Saif Patel)
Name is Anu Garg = Anagram Genius (Eric Shackle)
More anagrams at Business Anagram of the Day.
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