Or I'm a gala sinker. Check out one of the anagram sites that are around.
I get a peculiar enjoyment of knowing that "eleven plus two" is "twelve plus one" or, sticking to the learning theme, that "schoolmaster" is "the classroom" An anagram of Grahame Davies is I shag Eva Dream which particularly pleased a Mr D. Rowe. How sweet is it that "rescue" can be "secure"?
How about this, 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
Impressive is it not? (Penned by Cory Calhoun)
Did you know that the "Statue of Liberty" was "Built to Stay Free"? or that "semolina" "is no meal"? or even that "a decimal point" is "a dot in place"? Wonderful stuff.
How about some of Mike Morton's anagrams for Information Superhighway:
Enormous, hairy pig with fan
Hey, ignoramus -- win profit? Ha!
A rough whimper of insanity
Oh, wormy infuriating phase
Inspire humanity, who go far
Waiting for any promise, huh?
New utopia? Horrifying sham
I'll tell you the story one day about how Dibb Lupton Alsopp turned into Slip up a Blond Bot and how someone from their Birmingham office told this to me - even though I had coined the phrase a few months earlier. Bet you can't wait!
Bored Goofy Now. (goodbye for now)
Posted by grahame at July 22, 2003 08:01 AM