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 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 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 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 Information Superhighway = Yow! Hi ho, I'm surfing Arpanet! (Mike Morton) 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 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 Mel Gibson = Big melons (Anagram Genius) Admirer = Married Indomitableness = Endless ambition Contradiction = Accord not in it E. Tyron Debit card = Bad Credit Mike Morton Today is the first day of the rest of your life = Oft I'd satisfy the desire of your heart to fly (Cory Calhoun) [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) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. William Clinton = I'm it, an ill clown William Jefferson Clinton = Firm clean fellow. Joint? Sin! William Jefferson Clinton = Jail Mrs Clinton: Felon wife George Herbert Walker Bush = Huge Berserk Rebel Warthog George Bush = He bugs Gore Ronald Wilson Reagan = Insane Anglo Warlord Ronald Wilson Reagan = A long-insane Warlord Ronald Wilson Reagan = No, darlings, no ERA law Ronald Reagan = A darn long era --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Long Works of Anagramming: * Chronological story of OJ Simpson * A short story by Daniel Cohen * The Marriage of the Minds by Shakespeare; Anagrams by Cory Calhoun --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last year, GAMES Magazine ran an anagram contest. The object was to take a movie title and scramble the letters to come up with a review of the movie. Some entries: Hook = Oh, OK Raiders of the Lost Ark = Ford, the Real Star, is OK The Towering Inferno = Not Worth Fire Engine (the contest winner) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony Blair, MP = I'm Tory plan B Virginia Bottomley = I'm an evil Tory bigot Margaret Thatcher = A charm tart, get her! Margaret Thatcher = That great charmer Margaret Hilda Thatcher = High-tech Armada rattler Margaret Hilda Thatcher = A girl; the arch mad hatter The Conservative Party = Teacher in vast poverty --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Twenty thousand leagues under the sea = Huge water tale stuns. End had you tense The end of the world is nigh! = Down this hole, frightened! The best things in life are free = Nail-biting refreshes the feet