Friday, October 11, 2013

Today's funny :0)



This should appeal to the intellectual in you...

An Anagram, as you know, 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 Zs

          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
   
"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."

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!"



4 comments :

  1. Such things require too much thought for my feeble mind! :-)

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    1. I sure am glad someone else can think these things up!

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  2. Makes my head hurt just reading them :))

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