Some Really Amazing AnagramsWe all know what an “anagram” is. It’s wordplay where the letters of a word or phrase are rearranged, using all of the original letters absolutely one time only, to form a new word or phrase. Plain and simple anagrams like, say,“orchestra = carthorse” are quaint but aren’t really that exciting. The most intriguing and most enigmatic anagrams are those that in some way playfully reflect on or take a dig at the original phrase, as in “Florence Nightingale =Flit on, cheering angel,” “George Bush = He bugs Gore” and “Madonna Louise Ciccone = Occasional nude income.”HERE ARE 15 ANAGRAMS THAT ASPIRE TO THAT EXALTED AND EXCITING STATUS:Dormitory == Dirty Room
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Desperation == A Rope Ends It
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The Morse Code == Here Come Dots
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Slot Machines == Cash Lost in 'em
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Animosity == Is No Amity
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Snooze Alarms == Alas! No More Z’s
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Alec Guinness == Genuine Class
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Semolina == Is No Meal
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The Public Art Galleries == Large Picture Halls, I Bet
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A Decimal Point == I’m a Dot in Place
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The Earthquakes == That Queer Shake
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Eleven plus two == Twelve plus one
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Contradiction == Accord not in it
***This one, from Hamlet by Shakespeare, is truly amazing: “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.” It anagrammatically becomes: “In one of the Bard’s best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.”
*** And here’s our grand anagrammatic finale: “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”—Neil A. Armstrong It becomes: “A thin man ran; makes a large stride; left planet, pins flag on moon! On to Mars!”
—From ahajokes.comSPECIAL ANAGRAM-MAKING TEST:Now that you’ve gotten yourself familiar with how anagrams are formed and how they work, test your wordplay and imagery skills by creating the best anagram you can form from the names of each of the following notables:
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ALBERT EINSTEIN2.
EMMA WATSON 3.
SAOIRSE RONAN (That lovely actress at the front of this posting)
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JUSTINE TIMBERLAKE Remember: The rule is to rearrange the letters of each of the above names, using all of the original letters absolutely one time only, to form a new word or phrase. Start as soon as you are able. When you are done with your anagrams for all the four names, compare them with the anagrams supplied to the four photos that you will find in the Answer Key.
(This posting was updated on January 17, 2018 to add the Special Anagram-Making Test above. Except for the visuals that are recent additions, the original material from AhaJokes.com remains unchanged.)
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