# Anagrams

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 2, 1999, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685 "1999-12-02T07:33:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 1999, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/1 "1999-12-02T07:33:00Z")

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I wish I could claim I came up with these, but I got them in an email:

Dormitory…Dirty Room  
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  
The Public Art Galleries…Large Picture Halls, I Bet  
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  
Astronomer…Moon Starer  
Princess Diana…End Is A Car Spin

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 AND HERE IS THE MOST INTRIGUING PART

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Year Two Thousand…A Year To Shut Down

Ya’ll got anymore?

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**Author:** ![putrid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e5b9ba/32.png) [@putrid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/putrid)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 1999, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/2 "1999-12-02T16:43:00Z")

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cabbage = beg a cab

Hmm, it’s not quite the same, is it? I’ll have to keep pondering.

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**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 1999, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/3 "1999-12-02T17:01:00Z")

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Mullinator - Urinal Molt, Tall I Mourn.

Just go to [Wordsmith](http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/) and play for a while.

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Well, shut my mouth. It’s also illegal to put squirrels down your pants for the purposes of gambling.

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**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 1999, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/4 "1999-12-02T17:10:00Z")

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Thanks Mulli… here are the interesting ones for Coldfire:

## COD RIFLE DOC FLIER DOC RIFLE CORD FILE CORD LIFE (failed suicide ?) FORCE LID (that once’s good !) LICE FORD (errrrm…) FLOC RIDE COIL FRED

Coldfire

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“You know how complex women are”

- Neil Peart, Rush (1993)

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**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 1999, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/5 "1999-12-02T17:13:00Z")

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_unclebeer_  
been ulcer  
been cruel  
been lucre

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**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 1999, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/6 "1999-12-02T17:15:00Z")

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_AWB_  
ABW  
AWB  
BAW (crying?)  
BWA  
WAB  
WBA (women’s basketball?)

er… not to impressive

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**Author:** ![neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ab097/32.png) [@neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neuro-trash_grrrl)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 1999, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/7 "1999-12-02T17:19:00Z")

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neuro-trash girl- her slut rain org

Uh, next…

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“That’s entertainment!” —Vlad the Impaler

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**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 1999, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/8 "1999-12-02T17:22:00Z")

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Hey, thanks for the website! I have found something interesting:

Cecil Adams…ACID MESCAL

I always, thought old Cece was mind expanding–now I know for sure!

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**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 1999, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/9 "1999-12-02T17:28:00Z")

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A Noisy Latch  
A Ho Isn’t Lacy.  
Oh, A Sly Antic!  
Icy Anal Host (ewwwww)  
Latin Say, “Hoc”.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/10 "1999-12-03T06:25:00Z")

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Can someone do me?(anagram my name!)

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**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/11 "1999-12-03T06:33:00Z")

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Coldfire…I’m disappointed! I thought you’d start typing in the lyrics from “Anagram” by Rush!

Hey, why is everyone staring at me…OW! HEY! Quit throwing things! I’m going, I’m going!

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“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.” - George Carlin

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**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/12 "1999-12-03T06:43:00Z")

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I’d be happy to do you Orange (any way you mean it).

## SAG NEAR COKE CREEK SAGA ON A CANKER GOES CAN A KEG ROSE and the best one, A KEG RACE SON

**Dopeler effect:**  
The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

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**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/13 "1999-12-03T06:44:00Z")

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Here ya go [http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=orangecakes](http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=orangecakes)

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**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/14 "1999-12-03T06:45:00Z")

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And this time I will make sure to actually point out the above link is for orangecakes. It has been a pleasure to do you anagram style.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/15 "1999-12-03T06:50:00Z")

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soak a green A

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/16 "1999-12-03T06:56:00Z")

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Thanks Mullin! Loved it. Especially snare a gecko! maybe I should change my user name! ;)It Has been awhile since I’ve been done.

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**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 1999, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/17 "1999-12-02T19:04:00Z")

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The anagrams for my user name are pitifully few. The best is “auk hop”.

However, for my RL name, it’s not bad:

a horrid snob  
nor rob a dish  
absorb rhino  
I absorb horn  
brash indoor  
brash donor, I  
boron radish  
darn boorish  
sad rhino orb  
ho, arson bird  
bond his roar

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Will work for sig line.

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**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 1999, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/18 "1999-12-02T19:15:00Z")

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TORY CHEF (a cook and crown sympathizer)  
FETCH ROY (Trigger’s sick!)  
THY FORCE (is strong, young Skywalker.)  
HE FRY COT (nothing left to cook but this bed…get the ketchup)  
HE OFT CRY (I do NOT! _sobbing_ you’re MEAN!)  
FEY TORCH (character cut from “Beauty & the Beast” for being too gay)  
FORT YECH (where they assign the smelly soldiers)

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Live a Lush Life  
Da Chef

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**Author:** ![meek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce73a5/32.png) [@meek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meek)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 1999, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/19 "1999-12-02T19:15:00Z")

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gums  
mugs

I think I prefer acronyms.

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**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 1999, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/20 "1999-12-02T19:22:00Z")

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Lame…

SANTA  
AS ANT  
AS TAN  
A STAN

::yawn::

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Yer pal,  
Satan

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