# 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:** 2

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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, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/21 "1999-12-02T19:31:00Z")

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Yeah but if you used “The Dark Lord” instead you’d get, “Hard Old Trek.”

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

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**Author:** ![Spiritus\_Mundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Spiritus\_Mundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiritus_Mundi)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 1999, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/22 "1999-12-02T19:43:00Z")

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IS MIND PURSUIT

or

IS IN RUM, STUPID

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The best lack all conviction  
The worst are full of passionate intensity.  
\*

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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, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/23 "1999-12-02T19:53:00Z")

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Hey satan…if you use “old Scratch,” you get:

SCALD TORCH  
STARCH CLOD  
COLD STARCH  
CHART SCOLD  
LARD SCOTCH

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Live a Lush Life  
Da Chef

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**Author:** ![Imthecowgodmoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Imthecowgodmoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imthecowgodmoo)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 1999, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/24 "1999-12-02T21:23:00Z")

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Imthecowgodmoo… hmmm

COED HOG? I’M TOM. OW!  
OH TIM, GO MOW CODE  
DOC, WEIGH MOM TOO!  
COMETH DOW, I’M GOO!  
WHO’D GO MOOT? MICE?  
CITE GOD WHOM MOO  
GOTHIC WOOD MEMO  
WITCH DO ME, GO MOO  
TOMMIE,CHOW GOOD

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“I may be crazy, but at least I’m not as crazy as you.”-- Calvin and Hobbes  
(\_\_)  
`\/-------\ `| |-----| |  
…c.c…c.c…

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**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 1999, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/25 "1999-12-02T21:31:00Z")

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A hep angel

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**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 1999, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/26 "1999-12-02T22:28:00Z")

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divemaster:

MADE VET SIR (yes, I did)  
SIDEARM VET (but I carried am M-16)  
MEAD STRIVE (but I don’t drink mead)  
DAME STRIVE (one dame in particular)  
ADVISE TERM (I suggest one semester)  
DAVE MET IRS (Dave lost house)  
STREAM DIVE (I’ve never tried a stream)  
SAM RIDE VET (not this Vet!)  
SAM TIED REV (since the Vet wouldn’t play)

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**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 1999, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/27 "1999-12-02T22:46:00Z")

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“Soft hectic”

I guess it beats “hard order”.

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**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 1999, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/28 "1999-12-02T22:47:00Z")

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Oh…  
and the best one of all time: Mr. Mojo Risin’.

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**Author:** ![Gundhilde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@Gundhilde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundhilde)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/29 "1999-12-03T01:13:00Z")

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GLUED HIND

I HELD DUNG

GIN HUDDLE  
Interesting. Cowgod, thanks for my hysterical laugh of the day.

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“Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.” --1984

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**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/30 "1999-12-03T04:09:00Z")

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Kat:

Tak?  
Akt??

_compares list to others and sighs_

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Your Official Cat Goddess since 10/20/99.

“I get along well with everybody.” --I.M.F.

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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 3, 1999, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/31 "1999-12-03T04:19:00Z")

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Adolf Hitler:

Ha! I fed troll.  
Heil, old fart!

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**Author:** ![ChrisCTP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/32 "1999-12-03T09:07:00Z")

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My real name (Christina Dawn) rearranges to say “Sandwich Train.”

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“…all the prettiest girls live in Des Moines…”  
–Jack Kerouac, _On the Road_

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**Author:** ![Erroneous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71c47a/32.png) [@Erroneous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erroneous)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/33 "1999-12-03T09:46:00Z")

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I think I’ve seen the same list as the one in the OP, but it included one more:

President Clinton of the USA = To copulate, he finds interns.

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**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/34 "1999-12-03T15:04:00Z")

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Pub Run 'Em  
Pun Rub Me  
Rum Up Ben  
Unburp Me

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How do you like that! And without so much as a “Kiss my foot” or “Have an apple”!

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**Author:** ![Neobican](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Neobican](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neobican)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/35 "1999-12-03T15:25:00Z")

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Was just reading the cartoon thread, got me thinking…

Fred, Daphne, Velma

DAMP VAN FLED HERE (teenagers…)  
DAMP VAN FRED HEEL (Fred not good enough?)  
FRED EVEN HAD PALM (probably because he was called a heel)  
FRED HE DAMP NAVEL (wah ha ha)  
AH DAMP NEVER FLED (jeez, ever hear of a towel?)  
DARN VAMP FED HEEL (make your own visual)  
DARN VAMP HE’D FEEL (woo hoo!)  
DARN VAMP HELD FEE (say what?? git outa my van!)  
FRED HAVE MEN LAPD (have you no shame Fred? a whole police force?}  
FEAR VAMP HELD END (better pay up Fred)  
VAMP HEAL FRED END (looks like Fred paid)  
I knew it all the time, anagrams never lie.

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**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/36 "1999-12-03T16:03:00Z")

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REPLETE PONTIFF URN

ROTTEN LEPER PUFFIN

… and about 5,000 others I won’t bother to list.

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I haven’t lost my virginity. I remember exactly where I left it.

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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 3, 1999, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/37 "1999-12-03T17:34:00Z")

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Andy Kaufman = a mad fun Yank

Ronald Reagan = darn near goal

refridgerator = fret or dare rig, raid for regret

Los Angeles = gall seen so

New York City = worn yet icky

----- Up Dirt

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**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/38 "1999-12-03T17:42:00Z")

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Ukulele Ike =

Goodness. I don’t know where to start.

Seriously, my user name looks the letters I usually draw in Scrabble.

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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 4, 1999, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/39 "1999-12-04T06:48:00Z")

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Theres a snark in my name!  
😉

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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 4, 1999, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anagrams/11685/40 "1999-12-04T11:19:00Z")

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computer = cute romp  
Nine Inch Nails = chain linen sin  
Garth Brooks = bark hogs rot  
Straight Dope = the dog rapist, goatherd spit, distort gap eh?, ah dig protest, egotist had p.r., go depart shit

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