Unscramble These Scientific Disciplines.

It’s a funny thing about my memory. Sometimes I forget important stuff. And sometimes I remember things that are of little importance.

Anyways, about 30 years ago–it was in 1986, if you must know (when I had just turned an adult)–I read this cleaver puzzle in a scientific magazine. (If any of you can provide a cite to this magazine, I would be eternally grateful. I did a Google search, to no avail.) Names of scientific pursuits had been scrambled into nonsense names. I don’t know why. But for some reason, I can remember most of the silly names. As I said, if you unscramble them, they are legitimate names.

But to what? Maybe some of you can figure it out. Here are some of the names:

“Holy Hippos”
“Ahoy Long Port”
“Angry Moo”
“Its Cats Sits”

That’s all I can remember. I think the last one is really funny. I mean, is that the best they could come up with? Pretty ingenious, though, I suppose.

Anyways, it was just a puzzle. So I assume I am not violating any copyright laws by sharing them. Plus, I can’t even remember what magazine it was from. Any help would be appreciated, as I said.

:):):):cool:

Anagram tool available online http://anagramscramble.com

Gives “Philosophy” for the first one
“Anthropology” for the second
“Agronomy” for the third, and
“Statistics” for the last

I assume that putting the letter strings through an anagram generator is cheating.

I can get two off the top of my head:

Ahoy Long Port = Anthropology
Holy Hippos = Philosophy (which, IMHO, doesn’t count as a scientific discipline.)

Edited to say: I was beaten to it by Andy L.

But I cheated!