# Unscramble These Scientific Disciplines.

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**Created:** [July 20, 2017, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unscramble-these-scientific-disciplines/791727 "2017-07-20T16:02:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unscramble-these-scientific-disciplines/791727/1 "2017-07-20T16:02:09Z")

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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.

:):):)🆒

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**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unscramble-these-scientific-disciplines/791727/2 "2017-07-20T16:18:37Z")

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Anagram tool available online [http://anagramscramble.com](http://anagramscramble.com)

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

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**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unscramble-these-scientific-disciplines/791727/3 "2017-07-20T16:27:46Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unscramble-these-scientific-disciplines/791727/4 "2017-07-20T16:30:50Z")

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> [@Scribble](#):
>
> 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!