# Spiro Agnew anagrams! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 5, 2017, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiro-agnew-anagrams/776390 "2017-01-05T15:15:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [January 5, 2017, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiro-agnew-anagrams/776390/1 "2017-01-05T15:15:50Z")
I read yesterday that Dick Cavett pointed out, back in the day, that the Vice President’s name could be anagrammed to “Grow a penis.” So this morning I fed it into the Internet Anagram Server, and received unexpected riches of humor. Ape is wrong. Groan, I spew. We sip organ. Sea wig porn. Owns pig ear. Ow! Ape grins. A groin spew. Pawn orgies. Sarong wipe. Grape winos. Wage prison. Owing rapes. I haven’t started a MPSIMS thread in ages, but I felt this was too good not to share. I doubt that there are any other major political figures who would yield such pungent anagrams…Barack Obama, for instance, doesn’t get much better than “Maraca Kabobs.” ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiro-agnew-anagrams/776390/2 "2017-01-05T17:37:14Z")
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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiro-agnew-anagrams/776390/3 "2017-01-05T17:42:30Z")
Oh, thanks so much for that. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiro-agnew-anagrams/776390/4 "2017-01-05T17:46:44Z")
Grow a penis. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiro-agnew-anagrams/776390/5 "2017-01-05T18:06:03Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Grow a penis. I’m surprised this one didn’t show up earlier. Dave Barry pointed this anagram out ages ago. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiro-agnew-anagrams/776390/6 "2017-01-05T18:24:35Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Barack Obama, for instance, doesn’t get much better than “Maraca Kabobs.” You get “Arab cab amok” - a clear warning about terrorist car bomb attacks. George Bush gives you “He bugs Gore.” That apparently refers to the 2000 election. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiro-agnew-anagrams/776390/7 "2017-01-05T18:36:05Z")
Trol damn DOJ: phun! ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiro-agnew-anagrams/776390/8 "2017-01-05T18:44:36Z")
The number of possible anagrams is roughly contingent on two factors. There has to be a couple of E’s, and not many letters of high Scrabble value. A ball player a few years ago was Javier Vazquez. Good luck. Or Jack Sprat. John Quincy Adams would be brutal – a J, a Q, and no E’s. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiro-agnew-anagrams/776390/9 "2017-01-05T18:45:13Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Grow a penis. > [@CalMeacham](#): > > I’m surprised this one didn’t show up earlier. > > Dave Barry pointed this anagram out ages ago. From the OP > [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I read yesterday that Dick Cavett pointed out, back in the day, that the Vice President’s name could be anagrammed to “Grow a penis.” ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiro-agnew-anagrams/776390/10 "2017-01-05T18:52:13Z")
_“Too many users are currently using the server. Please try again later.”_ See? Now look what you’ve done. A one-man Denial Of Service. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2017, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiro-agnew-anagrams/776390/11 "2017-01-05T23:49:14Z")
Feel My Power! Alternately, I Employ Fewer. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiro-agnew-anagrams/776390/12 "2017-01-05T23:52:25Z")
I knew that anagram was possible. I looked at both lists of anagrams but did not see it in the opening sentence. A thousand pardons. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiro-agnew-anagrams/776390/13 "2017-01-06T01:01:16Z")
Th’ muddl’n poon jar ---
**Author:** ![SigMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SigMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SigMan)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiro-agnew-anagrams/776390/14 "2017-01-06T01:32:59Z")
Sing Ma! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiro-agnew-anagrams/776390/15 "2017-01-06T06:54:04Z")
Back in LBJ’s run for office in '64, his supporters made Lyndon Baines Johnson into “no ninny; he’s on the job, lads”. Those opposed to him made “Ha! Nod on, jobless ninny!” ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiro-agnew-anagrams/776390/16 "2017-01-06T07:32:02Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > I knew that anagram was possible. I looked at both lists of anagrams but did not see it in the opening sentence. A thousand pardons. Oddly enough, when I hear the name “Spiro Agnew” pretty much the only thing I know about him other than he was Nixon’s vice president is that his name anagrams to “grow a penis.” I feel like I should know more, but I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiro-agnew-anagrams/776390/17 "2017-01-06T09:52:14Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Oddly enough, when I hear the name “Spiro Agnew” pretty much the only thing I know about him other than he was Nixon’s vice president is that his name anagrams to “grow a penis.” I feel like I should know more, but I don’t. He once had his image on a watch, like Mickey Mouse. [http://www.boomertime.com/solditems/C3501/c3501c.jpg](http://www.boomertime.com/solditems/C3501/c3501c.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiro-agnew-anagrams/776390/18 "2017-01-06T11:20:04Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > John Quincy Adams would be brutal – a J, a Q, and no E’s. And yet it offers us, “I, Johnny Cam Squad” and "May John can squid? ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiro-agnew-anagrams/776390/19 "2017-01-06T11:24:06Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Th’ muddl’n poon jar And old John Trump ---
**Author:** ![Dave.B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9f8e36/32.png) [@Dave.B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave.B)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiro-agnew-anagrams/776390/20 "2017-01-06T13:44:59Z")
In the UK, we used to have Virginia Bottomley who was a Tory MP and cabinet member in the Thatcher and Major governments. Her name is an anagram of “I’m an evil tory bigot”. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiro-agnew-anagrams/776390.md?page=2)