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The Anagram Hall of Fame
by Will - August 3, 2006 - 10:11 AM

hall_of_fame.gifHere at mental_floss, we’re just nerdy enough to celebrate whenever we discover an entertaining anagram. You may remember John’s post a while back where he pointed out that Presbyterians is an anagram of Britney Spears. Well, our friend Anu over at Wordsmith has a fantastic list in his Hall of Fame.

Some of my favorites:

Western Union = No Wire Unsent
Clint Eastwood = Old West Action
The centenarians = I can hear ten “tens”
The Meaning of Life = The fine game of nil
The Morse Code = Here Come Dots
Snooze Alarms = Alas! No More Z’s
Mother-in-law = Woman Hitler (and no, that doesn’t apply to mine)

Then you can enter your own name and see the gazillion anagrams your name will make. Among my gazillion, I found “aliens prowl” and “linear plows.” Now that’s entertainment!

 

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  1. This one will knock your socks off… Ready?

    Jesus Christ, Trinity Churches = JC, This Science Truth is Shurr

    Take that, The DaVinci Code…

    posted by David C. Casey on 8-3-2006 at 1:42 pm

  2. A short list of meaningless anagrams of “mental floss”:

    manless loft
    a font smells
    solemn flats
    men of stalls
    softens mall
    no slams left
    smell of ants
    Tom sells fan

    Well, maybe not meaningless. The “smell of ants” probably has meaning to someone. And with this heat wave, Tom has probably sold more than a few fans over the last couple days.

    posted by Sandy on 8-3-2006 at 1:45 pm

  3. I think the Monty Python character “The Man Who Speaks Only in Anagrams” should get an honorable mention.

    posted by Jordan on 8-3-2006 at 10:40 pm

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