| GENERAL | ENTERTAINMENT | TOPICAL | PEOPLES NAMES | OTHER NAMES |
| MEDIUM LENGTH | ANAGRAMMY CHALLENGE | LONG | SPECIAL | RUDE |
1 | Jesse Frankovich | 52 | The political system = Mostly pathetic lies. |
2 | Ellie Dent | 25 | True love never dies = Lives... ever to endure. |
3 | Dharam Khalsa | 19 | Keeping up with the Joneses = Skip the new jeep - it's enough! |
4 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 13 | Mindless bureaucracies ~ air dumb rules as science. |
5 | Rick Rothstein | 12 | See a right move? = The game is over! |
6 | Scott Gardner | 11 | Young-earth creationism = Theory 'cause I'm ignorant. |
7 | David Bourke | 10 | Ladies' hygiene products = Unsightly period ceased! |
7 | Adie Pena | 10 | Haste makes waste = Eek! That was a mess! |
9 | John Ramos | 9 | The pen is mightier than the sword = She hits men with pith, not red rage. |
10 | Rosie Perera | 8 | Transient ischemic attack = A sick time that isn't cancer. |
11 | Larry Brash | 5 | The local medical centre = Model care? Little chance! |
12 | View | 3 | The game's over... ~ great moves, eh? |
13 | Tony Crafter | 1 | Gay network = New York tag? |
Total points: | 178 | from 30 votes (DFE factor: 0.433) |
1 | Jesse Frankovich | 33 | The top women's professional tennis player = Serena Williams oft preys on the opponents. |
2 | Dharam Khalsa | 28 | "The Story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears" = Lordy, shock of a girl at rest on the bed sheet! |
2 | Tony Crafter | 28 | Ace composer, bandleader and tunesmith Glenn Miller = Late, American-born legend presumed lost mid-Channel. |
4 | Rob Bretveld | 25 | Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First" routine = Baseball roster soon to confound this twit. |
5 | Scott Gardner | 24 | The US Open final = A tennis hopeful. |
6 | Adie Pena | 20 | Whoa! 'The Intern' and a N.Y. broad are ~ Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway! |
7 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 10 | "Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown = Bedroom boon, with warm engaging story. |
8 | Ellie Dent | 9 | Monsieur Claude Oscar Monet = Autumnal Seine's Morocco Red. |
9 | Larry Brash | 1 | The British Journal of Psychiatry = Larry Brash jots: "I type fiction, huh?" |
Total points: | 178 | from 30 votes (DFE factor: 0.300) |
1 | Ellie Dent | 30 | Desperate migrants = A depressing matter. |
2 | Tony Crafter | 27 | The Syrian immigrants = A ministry's nightmare. |
3 | Julian Lofts | 21 | The Volkswagen emissions disgrace = Switch ignores vile gases and smoke. |
3 | Scott Gardner | 21 | The Aylan Kurdi photos = Kid lay upon that shore. |
5 | View | 14 | Curiosity onto Mars = To carry out mission. |
6 | Christopher Sturdy | 11 | Martin Winterkorn leaves group = Remarks linger on VW reputation. |
6 | Jesse Frankovich | 11 | Swarm of alien refugees = See us fleeing from a war. |
8 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 9 | European migrants ~ are streaming on up. |
9 | Adie Pena | 8 | The Top Three Republicans 1. Trump 2. Fiorina... = 1. Ruler in race 2. The best in pitch 3. On ... |
10 | Jason Lofts | 6 | Let's get new logo as ~ latest Google news. |
10 | Dharam Khalsa | 6 | National Coffee Day = Do any caffeine? A lot! |
12 | David Bourke | 4 | South African leopard tortoise 'Bertie' = Reported fit to race Usain Bolt, so I hear! |
12 | Rosie Perera | 4 | Aylan’s drowned body = Dry land and boy's woe. |
12 | John Ramos | 4 | Washington, the District of Columbia = Fat-mouth idiot cretins blowing cash. |
15 | Ivan Andonov | 3 | The closure of the Serbian-Hungarian border = (Horns): "Arab refugees, behold the Iron Curtain!” |
Total points: | 179 | from 30 votes (DFE factor: 0.500) |
1 | Dharam Khalsa | 54 | US Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton = Emails and political innuendo hardly distract her. |
2 | Tony Crafter | 34 | The Austrian-American Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger = Senior with a large-size character and a long surname! |
2 | Adie Pena | 34 | Writer and illustrator Theodor Seuss Geisel = His treasured stories grew on our little lads. |
4 | Jesse Frankovich | 21 | Kimberly J. Davis = Visibly mad jerk. |
5 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 10 | The Holy Father, Pope Francis = Top-shelf, yon faith preacher! |
6 | Ellie Dent | 8 | Movie star Arnold 'Arnie' Schwarzenegger = Realizing screen dream as what... governor?! |
6 | Rosie Perera | 8 | Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra dies at ninety = Pro career been entirely in witty adages. |
8 | Scott Gardner | 7 | Senator Marco Rubio = Orator is more Cuban. |
Total points: | 176 | from 30 votes (DFE factor: 0.267) |
1 | John Ramos | 30 | Death Valley, California = I fry in a lava-coated hell. |
2 | David Bourke | 26 | Bipolar Affective Disorder (manic depression) = Mood variable: Perfect, fine and crisis periods. (Awardsmaster Choice Award) |
3 | Tony Crafter | 25 | The Patagonian Desert = Heated Argentina spot. |
3 | Jesse Frankovich | 25 | The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil = God grew food in Eden; Eve took the Fall. |
5 | Julian Lofts | 14 | The latest iPad Pro = Apple's rated it "hot". |
6 | View | 13 | London Sperm Bank = No blank drops, men. |
7 | Christopher Sturdy | 11 | The University of Manchester Alumni Association = Each clever name in a famous institution's history. |
8 | Ellie Dent | 10 | Delta State University = Alternative study site. |
9 | Adie Pena | 8 | St Patrick's Cathedral in New York = Kids can walk, enter, pray to Christ. |
9 | Dharam Khalsa | 8 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration = Its data can point out a saline ice (and rain?) on Mars. |
11 | Scott Gardner | 4 | "Shepherd One" airplane = A Pope lands here in her. |
12 | Rosie Perera | 3 | Let's pick the ~ Kettle Chips! |
12 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 3 | Palmyra's ancient Temple of Bel = Bam! An enemy topples relic flat |
Total points: | 180 | from 30 votes (DFE factor: 0.433) |
1 | Dharam Khalsa | 37 | Five Brilliant Mathematicians: 1. Sir Isaac Ne... = 1. Laws of Motion 2. Overnight natural in num... |
2 | Meyran Kraus | 33 | The Actors On The Show ... = Their Six Characters On TV: 1. Fun Rachel 2.... |
3 | Tony Crafter | 16 | PC Jeffery Ross rings in to the station: "Hel... ~ standing on a floor she'd just been washing." ... |
3 | Jason Lofts | 16 | Six Bond actors: 1. Sean Connery 2. George La... = 1. One sexy Scot, no? 2. Rare casting error, ... |
5 | Ellie Dent | 9 | A mother and baby get on a Liverpool bus. Dri... = An observer, Frank, asks, 'You OK?' 'Man, I ... |
5 | Jesse Frankovich | 9 | I really can't take to people who harshly bicke... ~ which I freely believe is about the proper wa... |
7 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 7 | "Success is stumbling from failure to failure w... = It's Churchill's famous formula of business, o... |
7 | Rosie Perera | 7 | Trump, on Carly Fiorina: "Look at that face! Wo... = What?! Note advice: Look in the mirror, you oa... |
9 | Mark Huffman | 5 | Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, ... = Cynics maintain addled sexagenarian is pretty ... |
9 | David Bourke | 5 | The Bay City Rollers: Leslie McKeown, Eric Faul... = Laughably mediocre gentlemen looked, well, fra... |
11 | Adie Pena | 3 | Five Famous Donalds 1. Duck 2. Fagen 3. Rums... = 1. Small; Loud 2. Tuff Rock! 3. Defense 4. ... |
11 | Scott Gardner | 3 | Former New York senator Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton = Already told man her horror of intern Monica Lewinsky. |
13 | Christopher Sturdy | 0 | "Humility is one of the values I most cherish. ... = Hush, Cristiano Ronaldo - a hellishly peevish... |
Total points: | 150 | from 25 votes (DFE factor: 0.520) |
1 | Tony Crafter | 34 | Fine comment, sir, but one error: Mum 'n' Dad teach us love; school teaches us to to read and write; the world teaches... |
2 | Jesse Frankovich | 20 | After the welcome comforts in home or in scholarship, downtrodden, we learn quite a lot about misfortune, adverse circu... |
3 | Dharam Khalsa | 16 | Mother warned tot: "Now, remember P's and Q's!" Teacher chided uncouth student: "Remain courteous, or off to reform sc... |
4 | Larry Brash | 15 | How we often encounter those wonderful modern teachers that are unique, impressive, almost heroic, dedicated, and norma... |
5 | Ellie Dent | 14 | Oh, I concur. Or another quote: 'Life's a cruel teacher which demands the test comes first, but the lesson later.' A ... |
6 | Adie Pena | 12 | True to our sad or rotten tomorrow, uttered statement from the French political connoisseur who once was described as t... |
7 | Jason Lofts | 10 | The irreverent quotes that the nutter Donald Trump snorted about C. Carleton Fiorina's face were crude. Lots of women w... |
8 | Maurice Goddard | 6 | Oh! Life's Academic Truth! For on this current down-to-earth outdoor account's quest, I've learnt hitherto more from... |
9 | John Ramos | 5 | "Oh, hi," I muttered. "To learn, we need alcohol, eh? It's controversial, but to concentrate, we need quarts of port,... |
10 | Christopher Sturdy | 3 | Wretched orphans who truant from education; no irate teacher, mum or father to scold them - Quite consistent instructi... |
11 | Julian Lofts | 2 | Father Fred tutored him. Qualifications - B(ull)S(hit) at Wharton. Moreover, he concedes, he's a conceited, self-made n... |
11 | View | 2 | Street wisdom teaches us real business - truth: freedom, other's not equal, how to maintain our life, how to hold on, ... |
11 | Rosie Perera | 2 | In consequence, we devoted debtors (the common frown) did return to our alma maters for the thirtieth reunion to catch u... |
Total points: | 141 | from 24 votes (DFE factor: 0.542) |
1 | Jesse Frankovich | 34 | THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ... = 1. Mount Vernon 2. Sam's cousin 3. Monticel... |
2 | Tony Crafter | 33 | A woman goes into the butcher's shop just befor... = Two blondes are on a shopping mission in a ma... |
3 | Ellie Dent | 25 | A guy is driving around, when to his astonishme... = I was one of their most valuable spies for ei... |
4 | Julian Lofts | 15 | Some Famous Figures From the Old West In The US... = 1. James Butler - killed suddenly 2. Patrio... |
5 | Dharam Khalsa | 11 | "The world of anagramming is inhabited by some ... = The paragraph exemplified by momentous attemp... |
6 | Adie Pena | 4 | The four "great Americans" Pope Francis mention... = 1. Hear his 'Gettysburg Address' 2. The ma... |
7 | Jason Lofts | 1 | "I will build a great wall — and nobody builds ... = Exuberant, wily madman Donald Trump risibly b... |
Total points: | 123 | from 21 votes (DFE factor: 0.333) |
1 | Jesse Frankovich | 48 | An acrostic sonnet anagram of Shakespeare's Sonnet 73. |
2 | Tony Crafter | 29 | GOLDFINGER Sung by Shirley Bassey |
3 | Christopher Sturdy | 18 | VI. Autumn Song |
3 | Adie Pena | 18 | IMMIGRANT SONG by Led Zeppelin |
5 | Maurice Goddard | 3 | "I will build a great wall |
Total points: | 116 | from 20 votes (DFE factor: 0.250) |
1 | Scott Gardner | 38 | Antiflatulence drug = Nulled acute farting. |
2 | Jesse Frankovich | 25 | Men who use Levitra ~ have lustier women. |
3 | Tony Crafter | 18 | David Cameron inserted his penis in a dead pig'... = The shamed PM announces: "Did I, voters? In a ... |
4 | David Bourke | 17 | The anti-flatulence drug Simethicone = I held methane... farting cut out... silence! |
5 | John Ramos | 14 | What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander = Sure, great - if she screws a fat house dog, he can too. |
6 | Adie Pena | 12 | Exposed genitals = I got sex and sleep. |
Total points: | 124 | from 22 votes (DFE factor: 0.273) |
Daniel F. Etter Memorial Award Points*
*Adjusted Points = Sum of (Points * 'DFE factor') |
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