Anagrams


An anagram, as we all know, is a word or phrase made by transposing or rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. The following examples are quite astounding!

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
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 Public Art Galleries Large Picture Halls, I Bet
Astronomer Moon Starer
Princess Diana End Is A Car Spin
Year Two Thousand A Year To Shut Down

 

This one's amazing! From Hamlet by Shakespeare:

ORIGINAL QUOTE
To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis 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.

 

Politicians:

George Herbert Walker Bush Huge Berserk Rebel Warthog
George Bush He bugs Gore
Ronald Wilson Reagan A long-insane Warlord
or
Insane Anglo warlord
Ronald Reagan A darn long era
Leroy Newton Gingrich Yon Right-winger Clone
Margaret Thatcher That great charmer
The Conservative Party Teacher in vast poverty

 

And the grand finale:

ORIGINAL QUOTE
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
- Neil A. Armstrong

ANAGRAM

A thin man ran; makes a large stride, left planet, pins flag on moon! On to Mars!


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