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It’s the weekend again, and I hope you’re as happy about that as I am.
Following are nonsensical anagrams of the titles of fifteen #1 U.S. pop hits from the last fifteen years or so. Win a mental_floss T-shirt by solving them all!
Submit your answers in a comment to this post (and be sure to mention which T-shirt you’d prefer). We’ll reveal the correct answers and the winner’s name on Monday. Here we go:
1. ALIMONY WASTE
2. ANY HUB MARKETER
3. BIG SLY LIMOUSINE
4. BYE AMBER EMOTION
5. DAYDREAM LLAMA
6. DOLPHIN TIES
7. HIS HIT TIGHTENS
8. LAW FALTERS
9. MOONLIT SOW
10. PHOTOMETER ETCHES SPHERE
11. POROUS MUSIC
12. THE NEW BOOTLEGGER
13. TOMATO STANDINGS WITHIN
14. WARM NEPHEW IDIOTS
15. WOW HELLO WARDEN
FOUR IMPORTANT NOTES:
- Each entry is a “full’ anagram; the number of letters in each word and number of words in each clue don’t necessarily match the actual song title.
- One entry per player, please. If no one correctly answers all 15, the first player with the most correct answers will be deemed the winner.
- At the end of your post, write which T-shirt you want from the store (click the link to browse the styles)
- Comments are moderated, so they won’t show up until we release them. The correct answers (and the winner’s name) will be revealed first thing Monday morning.
Good luck!
1. Ja Rule - Always On Time
12. Mariah Carey - We Belong Together
This one’s tough!
posted by Becca on 11-17-2007 at 9:13 am
1. ALIMONY WASTE - Always On Time
2. ANY HUB MARKETER - Unbreak My Heart
3. BIG SLY LIMOUSINE - I’ll Be Missing You
4. BYE AMBER EMOTION - Baby One More Time
5. DAYDREAM LLAMA - Lady Marmalade
6. DOLPHIN TIES - Hips Don’t Lie
7. HIS HIT TIGHTENS - This Is the Night
8. LAW FALTERS - Waterfalls
9. MOONLIT SOW - Slow Motion
10. PHOTOMETER ETCHES SPHERE - Here Comes the Hotstepper
11. POROUS MUSIC - Promiscuous
12. THE NEW BOOTLEGGER - We Belong Together
13. TOMATO STANDINGS WITHIN - I Don’t Want To Miss a Thing
14. WARM NEPHEW IDIOTS - With Arms Wide Open
15. WOW HELLO WARDEN - A Whole New World
posted by Mike Jackson on 11-17-2007 at 9:23 am
I forgot t-shirt. If I get lucky, Easter Island in XL, please. Thanks.
posted by Mike Jackson on 11-17-2007 at 9:47 am
1. Always On Time
2. Unbreak My Heart
3. I’ll Be Missing You
4. Baby One More Time
5. Lady Marmalade
6. Hips Don’t Lie
7. This is the Night
8. Waterfalls
9. Slow Motion
10. Here Comes the Hotstepper
11. Promiscuous
12. We Belong Together
13. I Don’t Want To Miss a Thing
14. With Arms Wide Open
15. A Whole New World
T-shirt? Pavlov (ss), xxl
posted by Steve Jones on 11-17-2007 at 10:05 am
It looks like this one is over. I tried a few anyway and theyare hard! I probably would have resorted to an anagram solver website. Good job!
posted by Olson on 11-18-2007 at 7:09 am
1. Always On Time
2. Unbreak My Heart
3. I’ll Be Missing You
4. Baby One More Time
5. Lady Marmalade
6. Hips Don’t Lie
7. This is the Night
8. Waterfalls
9. Slow Motion
10. Here Comes the Hotstepper
11. Promiscuous
12. We Belong Together
13. I Don’t Want To Miss a Thing
14. With Arms Wide Open
15. A Whole New World
Pluto XXL
posted by David Overstreet on 11-18-2007 at 11:17 am
I don’t think using an anagram site would help here. All you’d end up with would be a bunch of other anagrams to match up against a song’s title. Somewhere in the anagrams would be the title — but you’d still have to know the titles of hit songs to recognize it when you saw it. I think, in this case, that a DJ would have a big edge.
posted by Mike Jackson on 11-18-2007 at 12:43 pm
Well, I sat here and did all these without looking at the comments, only to realize now that the comments have already been published. I must have mis-read something.
1. Always on Time (Ja Rule/Ashanti)
2. Unbreak My Heart (Toni Braxton)
3. I’ll Be Missing You (Puff Daddy)
4. Baby One More Time (Britney
Spears)
5. Lady Marmalade (Pink, Christina
Aguilera, etc.)
6. Hips Don’t Lie (Shakira)
7. This is the Night (Clay Aiken)
8. Waterfalls (TLC)
9. Slow Motion (Juvenile)
10. Here Comes the Hotstepper (Ini
Kamoze)
11. Promiscuous (Nelly Furtado)
12. We Belong Together (Mariah
Carey)
13. I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing
(Aerosmith)
14. With Arms Wide Open (Creed)
15. A Whole New World (Peabo Bryson)
I want the Gregor Mendel tee in an XL if you haven’t awarded it yet.
posted by Leigh on 11-18-2007 at 4:02 pm