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What are some examples?
Anagrams which tend to be preferred by anagrammatists those
that are related to, or gives insight into, the text being anagrammed.
Here are some discoveries or rediscoveries by Anagrammy contributors:
[General] [Political] [Places] [People] [Entertainment] [Quotes] [Long Quotes] [Known phrase to known phrase]
Some general ones
- A Chevrolet = Love the car! (Meyran Kraus, 1998)
- Gin and Vermouth = Hung over, damn it! (Art Day, 1999)
- Stipend = Spend it. (Jon Gearhart, 1999)
- Stone age = Stage one. (John Morahan, 1999)
- An hermaphrodite = O, I'm part he and her! (David A. Green, 2001)
- A carton of cigarettes = I got a taste for cancer. (Meyran Kraus, 2002)
- Adult novels = Love and lust! (Tom Myers, 2002)
- The articulate person = He utters a clear point. (Jesse Frankovich, 2003)
- New Year's Resolution = Notions we rarely use. (Adrian Hickford, 2003)
- Isn't "romantic and erotic" ~ a contradiction in terms? (Richard Grantham, 2003)
- What is the square root of nine? = THREE, for an equation shows it! (Hans-Peter Reich, 2004)
- Archaeologists = Goal is to search. (Ellie Dent, 2005)
- Metamorphosis = Promises a moth. (Andre Brehaut, 2006)
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Political Satire
- Adolf Hitler. = Heil, old fart! (Jean Fontaine, 1998)
- Milosevic = Cos I'm evil. (Larry Brash, 1999)
- George Bush. = He bugs Gore. (Don P. Fortier, 1999)
- George "Dubya" Bush = Boy, he'd bugger USA. (Andrew MacCormack, 2000)
- The Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic = Damning evil policy, Serbs voted asshole out. (Rick Rothstein, 2000)
- Osama bin Laden = A bad man (no lies). (Larry Brash, 2001)
- Usama bin Laden = Damnable in U.S.A.! (Zoran Radisavlevic,
2001)
- Weapons of mass destruction = U.S. owns most - and it's for 'peace'????? (Richard Grantham, 2002)
- President George W. Bush = This bugger needs power. (Richard Grantham, 2003)
- The Second Bush Inauguration = In truth, USA, once is bad enough. (Toby Gottfried, 2005)
- A question to G.W. that he prefers to ignore: ~ When are these troops getting out of iraq? (Meyran Kraus, 2006)
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Famous places & things
- United States Of America. = Its cause: attain freedom. (Dan Fortier, 1999)
- Medicinal marijuana. = A cure? I'm in a damn jail. (Larry Brash, 1999)
- The great pyramid of Cheops = My God! Perfect Pharaoh site! (Richard Brodie, 2000)
- Harley Davidson Motorcycles = Very costly old road machines. (Larry Brash, 2000)
- Seven Eleven Incorporated = Open it and never ever close! (Meyran Kraus, 2001)
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei = The elite pure-racist Hitler-based Nazi association. (Richard Grantham, 2001)
- United States of America = Mac and Fries Eat-out Site. (Larry Brash, 2001)
- A Nintendo Gameboy = Made to be annoying. (James H. Young, 2001)
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome = Uproar over recent mystery disease. (Richard Grantham, 2003)
- The National Rifle Association = Fanatical loonies are into this. (Chris Doyle, 2004)
- Castle, knight, armour... = King Arthur's Camelot. (Adrian Hickford, 2005)
- The Leaning Tower of Pisa = I spot one giant flaw here... (Meyran Kraus, 2005)
- Microsoft Help and Support Website = Stupid patch! Problem is often worse! (Meyran Kraus, 2006)
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Famous People
- Chairman Mao. = I am on a march. (Mick Tully, 1998, Wayne Baisley, 1999)
- Diana, The Princess of Wales = Elton's idea is crap. He fawns. (Larry Brash, 1998)
- Elvis Aaron Presley. = Seen alive? Sorry, pal! (David Bourke, 1999)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. = A famous German waltz god. (Earle Jones, 1999)
- Robert Schumann. = Brahms' Nocturne. (Meyran Kraus, 1999)
- Thomas Alva Edison = Aha! Ions made volts! (Larry Brash, 1999)
- William Shakespeare = I'll make a wise phrase. (Richard Grantham, 2000)
- Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy = O, it's a lovely thick novel! (Richard Grantham, 2000)
- The Israeli general, Moshe Dayan = Hail, great hairless one-eyed man! (Richard Grantham, 2000)
- Sir Peter Paul Rubens = Superb painter rules. (Jaybur, 2000)
- Miss Venus Williams = I'll win massive sums. (Jaybur, 2000)
- Yasmin Le Bon = Mainly bones. (Adrian Hickford, 2001)
- William Butler Yeats = Sit, write me a lullaby. (Meyran Kraus, 2001)
- His Holiness Pope John Paul the Second = The one old chap Jesus phones in Polish. (Richard Grantham, 2002)
- Bill Clinton, the former president of the USA = On reflection, I'd still prefer the man to Bush! (Meyran Kraus, 2004)
- Will Shakespeare ~ speaks well, I hear. (Ellie Dent, 2005)
- The President of the United States of America = Incompetent, hated head of state terrifies us. (Andrew Brehaut, 2006)
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Entertainment
- The Artist formerly known as 'Prince' = No first-rate workmanship recently! (William Tunstall-Pedoe, 1998)
- I Can't Get No Satisfaction. = A fantastic song - notice it! (Paul Lusch, 1998)
- "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson = A lesson's been due, boy! Silver turns traitor. (Steve Krakowski, 1999)
- The Three Stooges: Larry, Curly and Moe. = Actors? Lord, they're an ugly threesome! (Larry Brash, 1999)
- Sydney Pollack's "Tootsie" = Testicles on lady? Spooky... (Meyran Kraus, 1999)
- Eurovision Song Contest. = I vote on cretinous songs. (Kevin Hale, 1999)
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. = Crap LP sung by the LSD-prone Beatles. (David Bourke, 1999)
- Miss America Pageant. = I'm a greasepaint scam! (Tom Myers, 1999)
- Charles Dickens's 'Oliver Twist' = The classic writer's kids' novel! (Meyran Kraus, 2001)
- 'The Lord of the Rings' by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien = Thrilling nether-land journey of three old books. (Richard Grantham, 2001)
- Ceiling murals of the Sistine Chapel = Hail Michelangelo's finest pictures! (Meyran Kraus, 2004)
- Rap music ~ is, um... crap. (zolrakk, 2005)
- C.S. Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" = We enter a world which is behind that closet. (Meyran Kraus, 2006)
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Famous Quotes
- Religion is the opium of the masses. = Sometimes, if theologian is pusher. (Larry Brash, 1998)
- If at first you don't succeed. = Try deft, if cautious, second! (Michael Jeans-Jakobsson, 1998)
- I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. = Tony's sham tribute - "Ciao, ciao, Emperor!" (Larry Brash, 1998)
- For the evil that men do ~ doth live on after them. (Rick Rothstein, 2005)
- "That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind." Neil Armstrong = Note an immortal phrase, spoken after gallant men's first moon-landing. (Tony Crafter, 2006)
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Longer Quotes
- Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe."
=
He, Lewis, grabbed the vibrant role,
Assembled dreams and rhymes with glee,
But vowed that one most mighty goal:
Originality.
(Mike Keith, 2001)
- "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,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?"
=
Is a befitting quote from one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies.
But why won't Hamlet's inspiring motto toss our stubborn hero's
tortuous battle for life, on one hand, and death, on another?
(Larry Brash, 1998)
- "That's one small step for a man; one giant leap for
Mankind.", Neil A. Armstrong. =
A thin man ran; makes a large stride, left planet, pins flag
on Moon. On to Mars! (Steve Krakowski, 1998)
- "That's one small step for a man; one giant leap for
mankind." Neil Armstrong =
An "Eagle" lands on Earth's moon, making a first small
permanent footprint. (Larry Brash, 2002)
- "Preamble to the United States Constitution"
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect
Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide
for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure
the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain
and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
=
Columbus to Perry, Edison to Einstein, Ruth to Ryan, Reuter to
Hoffa, Disney to Spielberg: O honored pioneers! Adventurous to
timid, carefree to burdened, refined optimists to crude pessimists,
enfeebled to health nuts; Republicans to Democrats, Christians
to Jews; Harlem to Watts, Queens to Glendale, Fifth Avenue to
Main Street, Atlantic to Pacific: no lie, 'tis home to the free!
(Richard Brodie, 1999)
If you want to learn how to create long anagrams, much longer
than these examples, read this article on The
Art of Long Anagramming.
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Interesting, but non-apt anagrams
Known phrase (or well known name) to known phrase anagrams with unrelated, but surprising results.
- Actual income = E-mail account.
- A dream within a dream = What am I, a mind reader?
- A horned owl = An old whore.
- Apostle Bird = Spoiled brat.
- Baited trap = Pitta bread.
- Basmati rice = Semitic Arab.
- Bitch on heat = Nice hot bath.
- Boulder Dam = Bread mould.
- Brand names = Bad manners.
- Buck teeth = Butt cheek.
- Cab license = Science lab.
- Charge density = Yacht designer.
- Consenting adults = Design consultant.
- Contaminated = No Admittance!
- Cote d'Ivoire = Erotic video.
- Convenience store = Viennese concerto.
- Crusades = Used cars.
- Cuban heels = Chelsea Bun.
- Drawing desk = King Edwards.
- Double agents = Obtuse-angled.
- Drip treatment = Printed matter.
- Eastern bloc = Carbon steel.
- Eric Clapton = Narcoleptic.
- Ever so many = Money saver.
- Flat broke = Table fork.
- Female persons = No free samples.
- Fidel Castro = Tidal forces.
- Fine Arts = Fire ants.
- Free trading = Great friend.
- Garden seat = Great Danes.
- Hand reared = Hard earned.
- Inderal = Ireland.
- In extremis = Ex-minister.
- Law firm = War film.
- Leonardo da Vinci = Vindaloo and rice.
- Line astern = Real Tennis.
- Meg Ryan = Germany.
- Nail clippers = Calliper pins.
- Naked babes = Baked beans!
- Numerology = You mongrel!
- On the march = The Monarch.
- Platonic year = Action replay.
- Plane crash = search plan.
- Planet Mars = Master plan.
- Play the lead = Deathly pale.
- Potential = Lipton Tea.
- Power cable = Pace bowler.
- Printer cable = Prince Albert.
- Rape allegations = Legal separation.
- Real meaning = Line manager.
- Red Rum = Murder.
- Reliance on = Ocean liner.
- Search into = Chain store.
- Seed Corn Maggot = Second mortgage.
- Self evident = Field events.
- Sinister motive = Soviet minister.
- Soda bottle = A blood test.
- Spotter plane = Rotten apples.
- Stage player = Pearly Gates.
- Strategic plan = Starting place.
- Tabloid press = Spoiled brats.
- The Rat Race = Art teacher.
- The Reader's Digest = Registered Deaths
- The Ukraine = Nature hike.
- Thunderstorm = Modern truths.
- Time traveler = Relative term.
- Train spotting = Starting point.
- Veganism = Ming Vase.
- Word formation = Forward motion.
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