Presbyterians!
by John - June 20, 2006 - 2:40 PM

The Presbyterian Church, USA, has just decided that churches will be allowed to refer to the Holy Trinity as “Rock, Redeemer, and Friend” or “Mother, Child, and Womb” or any other gender-neutral threesome a particular congregation finds compelling.

I bring this up exclusively because for the last several weeks I have been dying to share something: The word Presbyterians is a perfect anagram of Britney Spears! (I came to find this out because my new book contains a lot of anagrams, which resulted in my becoming anagram-obsessed.)

I spent a lot of time wondering what it says about Britney Spears and/or the English language. Are Britney’s parents just anagrammatically passionate Presbyterians? No; it turns out they’re Baptists. It turns out that Spears isn’t the exception; she’s the rule. Just look at all the celebrities whose names anagram to a single word!

My favorites from the list:

Eric Clapton / Narcoleptic

Tim Russert / mistruster

Anita Morris / rotarianism

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Comments (5)

  1. Anagrams? I thought I was the only anagram freak bloggin for m_f!

    One of my favorites has always been Stephen Hedonism, er, Sondheim (who is another cryptic puzzle/anagram nut).

    posted by David on 6-20-2006 at 3:48 pm

  2. How about one for all the little kids out there–Santa is Satan! So much for coal in everyone’s stocking…how about a little pitchfork, a red cape and some horns to go along with that…

    posted by Jan Bodine on 7-19-2006 at 12:31 pm

  3. OMG The Quote From jan Bodine Lol, Thats From the Church Lady off of SNL, Where She has on Danny Devito!!! yay!

    posted by Zack D. on 7-19-2006 at 5:49 pm

  4. I was surprised to see the list did not include my favorite celebrity anagram (or maybe I just missed it), which is:

    Jim Morrison = Mr Mojo Risin

    Good stuff.

    posted by Jo Cardillo on 7-20-2006 at 6:23 pm

  5. wow.

    posted by lily chambers on 7-26-2006 at 6:23 pm

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