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Anagram은 영어에서 스펠링을 바꿔서 새로운 말을 만드는 것을 말합니다.
예를 들면,
Anagram
Someone has way to much free time on their hands!
An anagram is a word or phrase made by transposing or
rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. No letters can be used
twice or left out.
The following ones are exceptionally clever (someone out there either has
way too much time on their hands or is deadly at Scrabble):
Word/Phrase Anagram
Dormitory Dirty Room
Evangelist Evil’s Agent
Desperation A Rope Ends It
The Morse Code Here Come Dots
Slot Machines Cash Lost in ’em
Animosity Is No Amity
Mother-in-law Woman Hitler 🙂
Snooze Alarms Alas! No More Z’s
Alec Guinness Genuine Class
Semolina Is No Meal
The Public Art Galleries Large Picture Halls, I Bet
A Decimal Point I’m a Dot in Place
The Earthquakes That Queer Shake
Eleven plus two Twelve plus one
Contradiction Accord not in it
*The meaning of life=The fine game of nil. (discovered by William Tunstall-Pedoe)
* Giovanni Pergolesi = I love opera singing. (discovered by Meyran Kraus)
* Linda Tripp and Monica Lewinsky = A C.I.A. mink and wild, sloppy intern
* Desperation = A rope ends it.
* Alec Guinness = Genuine class.
* The public art galleries = Large picture halls, I bet.
* Contradiction = Accord not in it.
* Tony Blair MP = I’m Tory plan B
* George Bush = He bugs Gore.
* United States of America = Dine out, taste a Mac, fries.
* McDonalds Restaurants = Uncle Sam’s standard rot.
* George Herbert Walker Bush = Huge berserk rebel warthog.
* New American Century = Menace: Unwary cretin.
* John Kerry = Jerky horn
* The Charge of the Light Brigade = Great fight, each hero blighted.
* American Empire = Me, CIA: Repairmen
* The Morse code = Here come dots.
* Union of Soviet Socialist Republics = Split is cause of countries’ oblivion.
* Snooze alarms = Alas! No more Z’s
* Election promises = Come-ons, lies, tripe!
* I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat” = “Defeat boaster Adolf Hitler!” bought Winston ovation.
* The earthquakes = That queer shake
* Eleven plus two = Twelve plus one
* “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind!” —Neil Armstrong = “A thin man ran; makes large stride, left planet, pins flag on moon! On to Mars!” (discovered by Steve Krakowski)
* Virginia Bottomley = I’m an evil Tory bigot
* Spiro Agnew = grow a spine (note that “spine” is an anagram of another body part)
* T. S. Eliot = litotes = toilets
* Hillary Rodham Clinton = Lynch harlot in mid-oral.
* Soylent Green = Stolen energy
* William Ewart Gladstone = Wild agitator, means well = Wilt tear down all images? (These two were found by Lewis Carroll.)
* Astronomers = Moon starers
* It’s ridiculous = It is ludicrous
* Tasmania = I am Satan
* Softheartedness = Often sheds tears
* Homestar Runner = Humor earns rent
* Statue of Liberty= Built to Stay Free
This one is *truly* amazing:
“To be or not to be: that is the question, whether its nobler in the mind
to
suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.”
ANAGRAM:
“In one of the Bard’s best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero,
Hamlet,
queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.” (discoverd by Cory Calhoun)
And for a contemporary one:
“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
(Neil Armstrong, on the moon)
ANAGRAM:
“A thin man ran; makes a large stride, left planet, pins flag on moon! On
to Mars!”
And a final one, a perfect accompaniment to the impeachment trial; you’re
not going to believe this:
“President Clinton, of the USA”
ANAGRAM:
“To copulate, he finds interns” (discovered by Martin Eiger)