| GENERAL | ENTERTAINMENT | TOPICAL | PEOPLES NAMES | OTHER NAMES |
| MEDIUM LENGTH | ANAGRAMMY CHALLENGE | LONG | SPECIAL | RUDE |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 46 | Laughter is the best medicine = In this bad time, glee's the cure. |
2 | nedesto | 28 | Children tug on ~ underclothing. |
3 | Rick Rothstein | 23 | The psychiatrist's couch = Chat... it cures this psycho. |
4 | Chris Chatfield | 21 | No team spirit = Rip into mates. (Awardsmaster's Choice Award) |
5 | Dharam Khalsa | 18 | Ranking politicians = Lacking inspiration. |
6 | Adie Pena | 16 | Pain starts; need ~ anti-depressant. |
7 | Andrew Brehaut | 14 | The after school detention = Children at these too often. |
8 | Ellie Dent | 13 | Thinking of hatred ~ in the dark of night. |
9 | Tony Crafter | 11 | A sexy part ~ pays extra! |
10 | Ed Pegg Jr | 10 | Scare the living daylights out of = Dogfight overenthusiastically. |
10 | View | 10 | Demonstrations = So, stand men, riot! |
12 | Rob Bretveld | 9 | Trick or treat bag ‡ Big terror attack. |
12 | Rosie Perera | 9 | Listen to the wind blow = Whistle down in bottle. |
14 | Christopher Sturdy | 6 | Don't even go there. = He never got to end. |
15 | Harshal M | 5 | Television news channel = With clean, live nonsense! |
16 | Ivan Andonov | 4 | Identity crisis = I cry in its tides. |
17 | Maurice Goddard | 3 | Consigning someone to the "Dustbin of History" = Chosen idiom fits on snotty nit George Bush, no? |
18 | Ember Nickel | 0 | "Innocent teases" ~ is not a sentence. |
Total points: | 246 | from 41 votes (DFE factor: 0.439) |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 49 | The Disney animated movie version of 'Snow White' = I'm inside a home with seven tiny one-foot dwarves! |
2 | Tony Crafter | 39 | Michelangelo Buonarroti's 'The Creation of Eve'. = A theme to honorable virtue on a ceiling fresco. |
3 | Harshal M | 32 | "And now for something completely different" = So, I reflected wit of Python men from England. |
4 | Rob Bretveld | 26 | "A picture's worth a thousand words" ~ spouts driest author who can draw. |
5 | Christopher Sturdy | 25 | Planet Dinosaur = I span old nature. |
6 | Rosie Perera | 23 | NBA cancels first two weeks of season = No baskets, as a few new conflicts rose. |
7 | Ellie Dent | 20 | The Claude Monet series of Water lilies = I see a theme: I once illustrated flowers. |
8 | Adie Pena | 18 | Cameron's Titanic = Romance is intact. |
9 | nedesto | 8 | "I fart in your general direction!" = In foreign utterance, I rid royal! |
10 | Dharam Khalsa | 5 | Marc Chagall's painting "Paris Through the Window" = His ochre glaring cat, a two-part man, plus high wind. |
Total points: | 245 | from 41 votes (DFE factor: 0.244) |
1 | Andrew Brehaut | 43 | The Apple founder Steve Jobs has died = Dad's leftover iphone just shed a beep. |
2 | Meyran Kraus | 31 | Libyan leader Gaddafi = Failed Arab lying dead. |
3 | Adie Pena | 28 | Lots of the best beer, I reckon, at ~ the Oktoberfest celebrations. |
4 | Tony Crafter | 25 | Instability = Isn't Libya it? |
5 | Ed Pegg Jr | 21 | Libya reformation = Army of Liberation. |
6 | Harshal M | 17 | The Apple founder Steve Jobs dies = Best iPhone developer just fades. |
7 | David Bourke | 15 | Staff Sergeant Gilad Shalit is to be released = Blessed gift...an Israeli hostage freed at last! |
8 | Dharam Khalsa | 14 | Centenarian Indian marathoner = Reincarnated Athenian iron man? |
9 | Larry Brash | 11 | National Fitness Day = A non-tiny idle fat ass. |
10 | Rob Bretveld | 9 | All set to trick or treat = O, little terrors attack! |
10 | Dean Mayer | 9 | Rider Marco Simoncelli dies at the Malaysian MotoGP = Italian's mammoth race collision destroyed a gem - RIP. |
10 | Christopher Sturdy | 9 | A bloody nightmare is ending = Doing in Libya's death-monger! |
13 | nedesto | 7 | Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's death in Sirte = "Lunatic Madman Gets His" or "Fried, a la Mode." |
14 | Rosie Perera | 5 | Colonel Gadhafi is dead = Oh, a failed clan god dies. |
15 | Ellie Dent | 4 | The Thirty-first October's All Hallow's Eve = That restless witch liable to hover or fly. |
16 | View | 2 | Gilad Shalit is free = He's glad, fit Israeli. |
Total points: | 250 | from 42 votes (DFE factor: 0.381) |
1 | David Bourke | 35 | The former Libyan dictator, Colonel Gaddafi = Cold, methodical...a great friend of Tony Blair. |
2 | Meyran Kraus | 27 | The post impressionist painter Van Gogh = A gent might snip ears to prove his points. |
3 | Harshal M | 24 | Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi = Top man indicates a violin or viola. |
4 | Christopher Sturdy | 22 | Bruce Willis and Emma Heming = Smile. A new mum bearing child. |
5 | Ed Pegg Jr | 20 | Herman Cain = Charm? A "nine". |
6 | Zoran Radisavlevic | 19 | The American gangster Al Capone = Chicago rat generates mean plan! |
7 | Larry Brash | 18 | Elizabeth Mary Windsor = Handsomely bizarre wit. |
8 | Ivan Andonov | 15 | Anders Celsius = Scale's insured! |
9 | Dharam Khalsa | 13 | Evangelical broadcaster Harold Camping = Lag can change doom's predictable arrival. |
9 | View | 13 | Sarah Louise Heath Palin = Hail, hail eh? Not a USA Pres.! |
11 | Tony Crafter | 12 | The late Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi = Reliably dead and gone to Hell. Lie? A fact. |
11 | nedesto | 12 | The American film actress Angelina Jolie = I'm a majestical icon seen larger than life. |
13 | Adie Pena | 11 | The English TV/stage actor Daniel Patrick Macnee = That sole 'Avenger', Steed, kept catching a criminal. |
14 | Ellie Dent | 9 | M Gaddafi, the tyrant = That famed rat, dying. |
Total points: | 250 | from 42 votes (DFE factor: 0.333) |
1 | Ed Pegg Jr | 29 | iPhones ~ in E-shop. |
2 | Christopher Sturdy | 25 | National Fitness Day ~ is not an idle fantasy. |
3 | Ivan Andonov | 24 | The Potsdam Conference = Second pact of three men. |
4 | nedesto | 23 | The American Country Music Awards = True aim: we catch and marry cousins! |
5 | Rosie Perera | 22 | Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome ~ means you're tired and flag. |
6 | Meyran Kraus | 20 | The Western Wall in Old City, Jerusalem = All Jews would cry near the silent item. |
7 | Rick Rothstein | 18 | iPhones? ~ Ship one! |
8 | Dharam Khalsa | 17 | The Global Positioning System = Is it able to spy on me, log things? |
9 | Andrew Brehaut | 13 | Salt covered ~ Dover Castle. |
10 | View | 10 | The St. Louis Cardinals ~ or Lads in US athletics. |
11 | Ellie Dent | 8 | The Race Relations Board = A color bar is threatened. |
11 | David Bourke | 8 | St Pauls Cathedral, in the City of London = Holy, phallic, C of E...tents stand around it. |
11 | Tony Crafter | 8 | National Fitness Day = No denial fat is nasty! |
14 | Adie Pena | 7 | The New York Stock Exchange = Oh, no! Next sketchy wreckage? |
15 | Harshal M | 5 | The Playstation Three = They see Portal in that. |
16 | Larry Brash | 3 | Constitutional Monarchy = Oh, I'm constantly in a court. |
17 | James Dobson | 0 | Himalayan balsam = Mania - all may bash. |
Total points: | 240 | from 41 votes (DFE factor: 0.415) |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 61 | Women before going out: - Wear dress. - Find ... = Men getting ready: - Fish a good shirt or soc... |
2 | Harshal M | 27 | Ten whole years ago, we had Steve Jobs, Johnny ... = But the shady deaths swing - now we have no en... |
3 | Christopher Sturdy | 25 | There are two types of lawyer - those who know ... = What a joke! Whether wealthy or honest pay f... |
4 | Rosie Perera | 23 | Indian centenarian Fauja Singh sets marathon record = An ancient senior can jog this far at a hundred? Amen, sir! |
5 | nedesto | 21 | Didn't you hear the story of Angus the Scotsman... ~ upstreet to his flat to see his drawings and s... |
5 | Tony Crafter | 21 | Michelangelo Buonarroti's 'The Creation of The ... = Act One: The homage to Lunar, Solar birth, the... |
5 | Adie Pena | 21 | "By all means, marry. If you get a good mate, y... = "Oh, you don't agree I am acceptably legit be... |
8 | Maurice Goddard | 16 | Early each day when I look at myself in the mor... ~ I wink or grin to my merry reflection and say,... |
9 | Dharam Khalsa | 13 | "Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rat... = Learn a hint here: That fellow's probably a m... |
10 | Ellie Dent | 4 | Why ever did the chicken cross the road? It ha... = Old idiot Walt thought he was a chicken. His m... |
Total points: | 232 | from 40 votes (DFE factor: 0.250) |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 43 | "we must invent renewable things, recycling until that energy is infinite." |
2 | nedesto | 40 | "we tweet inanely trifling cliches but, in sum, never anything interesting." |
3 | Ellie Dent | 34 | "we believe in ancient truth... yet see cunning men still fight in trying wars." |
4 | Tony Crafter | 19 | "we instinctively intermingle. Then we ruin this elegance by... farting. Nuts!" |
5 | Larry Brash | 16 | "we might cry, yet invent, then use cunning in brilliant new life strategies." |
6 | Dharam Khalsa | 15 | "we will retire in style, men. In turn, incubating nest eggs hatch, even if tiny!" |
7 | Maurice Goddard | 11 | "we win unity, sire, telling the tiny Vatican men: "Begin using French letters!!" |
7 | Rosie Perera | 11 | "we, when being evil, stay in nice sunny flats, getting rich until retirement." |
9 | Harshal M | 10 | "we can truly unify, ever igniting in the big Internet with small sentences." |
10 | Adie Pena | 9 | "we invent 'new music,' instantly influence the listener by triggering a hit." |
11 | Christopher Sturdy | 8 | "we mutter 'til finishing it (View's sentence) by turning in a challenge entry." |
Total points: | 216 | from 37 votes (DFE factor: 0.297) |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 51 | A bunch of cinematic citations taken from AFI's... = The movies they are from, along with notes: ... |
2 | Tony Crafter | 25 | My wife Keeley discovered that our dog Bobby (a... = A convict broke into a house to look for mone... |
3 | Adie Pena | 20 | AMERICA'S MOST GLUTTONOUS CITIES 20. San Berna... = OUR NATION'S TRADITIONAL DAILY DIET 20. Pan... |
4 | Dharam Khalsa | 18 | HOW TO PREPARE FOR A MAMMOGRAM Many women are s... = EXERCISE THREE: Place two metal bookends in ... |
5 | Maurice Goddard | 14 | Top Ten Hot Young Royals Worldwide 1. Prince ... = 1. Hi! Our Kate caught him! 2. Tearaway as a... |
6 | Christopher Sturdy | 13 | You do not have to say anything, but it may har... = They're testy, inconvenient words you don't w... |
7 | Rosie Perera | 10 | "The world rarely sees someone who has had the ... = "Former Apple CEO, beloved visionary, altoget... |
8 | Harshal M | 9 | The accurate truth why the lively musical jewel... = Taylor Swift taught me that not every guy and... |
9 | nedesto | 7 | American Football 1. Players weigh more than ... = Association Football 1. Players are lucky t... |
Total points: | 167 | from 28 votes (DFE factor: 0.321) |
1 | Harshal M | 53 | A translation of a poem by Paul Verlaine, anagrammed into another angle to the moon dealing with exploration, including ... |
2 | Tony Crafter | 31 | Email On Behalf Of The Queen |
3 | nedesto | 18 | All Along The Watchtower |
4 | Christopher Sturdy | 17 | Chris Meaning: Special |
5 | Tony Crafter | 13 | ROUTE 66 By The Rolling Stones |
6 | Maurice Goddard | 11 | The Owl And The Pussy-Cat. |
7 | Adie Pena | 8 | OCTOBER IN NEW ZEALAND Jessie Mackay |
8 | Maurice Goddard | 6 | A Flea and a Fly |
9 | Dharam Khalsa | 2 | THE GHOST OF A FLOWER by anonymous |
10 | Andrew Brehaut | 1 | If you can fill the unforgiving minute... |
Total points: | 160 | from 27 votes (DFE factor: 0.370) |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 39 | His huge dong = God, he is hung! |
2 | View | 32 | Emasculation = Cut one salami. |
3 | Tony Crafter | 20 | "Yes, solo wanking in musty elevators ~ is wrong on so many levels," I state. "Yuk!" |
3 | David Bourke | 20 | Cheap flat-packed furniture = A "carpenter" half fucked it up! |
5 | Rick Rothstein | 19 | We loathe ‡ a wet hole. |
6 | Christopher Sturdy | 18 | A passage = Ass agape. |
7 | Maurice Goddard | 13 | Whew! Sick rank reek of rotten fish, eh? = when whores take off their knickers!! |
8 | nedesto | 10 | He'd relish no smegma ~ on his "sledgehammer". |
9 | Adie Pena | 6 | The flat-chested woman = Thence most hated flaw. |
Total points: | 177 | from 30 votes (DFE factor: 0.300) |
Daniel F. Etter Memorial Award Points*
*Adjusted Points = Sum of (Points * 'DFE factor') |
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