The Anagram Hall of Fame

Internet Anagram Server = Isn’t rearrangement rave?

Dormitory = Dirty Room

Dictionary = Indicatory

Schoolmaster = The classroom

Elvis = Lives

Listen = Silent

Clint Eastwood = Old West Action

Madam Curie = Radium came

A telephone girl = Repeating “Hello”

Western Union = No Wire Unsent

The country side = No City Dust Here

Evangelist = Evil’s Agent

Astronomers = Moon starers / No more stars

Postmaster = Stamp Store

A telescope = To see place

The eyes = They see

The cockroach = Cook, catch her

Waitress = A stew, Sir?

The centenarians = I can hear ten “tens”

Desperation = A rope ends it

I run to escape = A persecution

The Morse Code = Here Come Dots

The Meaning of Life = The fine game of nil

Slot Machines = Cash Lost in’em

Conversation = Voices Rant On

Disraeli = I lead, Sir.

Clothespins = So let’s pinch

Mr. Mojo risin’ = Jim Morrison
(from the Doors song, “L.A. Woman”)

The Great New York Rapid Transit Tunnel = Giant work in street, partly underneath

Florence Nightingale = Nigel, Fetch an Iron Leg / Flit on Cheering Angel

MacDonalds = Clam and Sod

Darling I love you = leaving your idol / Avoiding our yell

Butterfly = Flutter-by

Heavy Rain? = Hire a Navy!

Tom Cruise = So I’m Cuter

Animosity = Is No Amity

Mother-in-law = Woman Hitler

Funeral = Real Fun

Protectionism = Nice to imports

A domesticated animal = Docile, as a man Tamed it

The Railroad Train = Hi! I Rattle and Roar

The Hilton = Hint: Hotel

A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss = Stroller on Go, Amasses Nothing

Sunshine and Shadow = Show in Sun and Shade

The Check is in the Mail = Claim “Heck, I sent it (heh)”

The United States Bureau of Fisheries = I Raise the Bass to Feed Us in the Future

Snooze Alarms = Alas! No More Z’s

Vacation Times = I’m Not as Active

Software = Swear Oft

Sycophant = Acts phony

Silicon Graphics = A Long Chip Crisis / Can logic ship, sir? / Gosh, sir, I can clip!

Alec Guinness = Genuine Class

The Detectives = Detect Thieves

The Hospital Ambulance = A Cab, I Hustle to Help Man

Semolina = Is No Meal

The United States of America = Attaineth its cause, freedom

Christmas tree = Search, Set, Trim

A Gentleman = Elegant Man

Presbyterians = Best In Prayers = Britney Spears

The Public Art Galleries = Large Picture Halls, I Bet

A Decimal Point = I’m a Dot in Place

The Earthquakes = That Queer Shake

Salman Rushdie = Read, Shun Islam

Martin Scorsese = Screen is a storm

Barbie doll = I’ll bare bod / Babe I’d roll / Liberal bod

Student Information Processing Board = Computation Transgression Forbidden

Statue of Liberty = Built to Stay Free

Eleven plus two = Twelve plus one

Patrick Stewart = A Crap Trek Twist

Mel Gibson = Bong Smile

Admirer = Married

Indomitableness = Endless ambition

New York Times = Monkeys write / Monkey writes

Television programming = Permeating living rooms

David Letterman = Nerd amid late TV

Howard Stern = Retard shown

Contradiction = Accord not in it

Debit card = Bad credit

God save us all = Salvaged soul

Thanks Mike F

18 thoughts on “The Anagram Hall of Fame”

  1. Oh hoh, now this is old, I’ve had this in my bookmarks for yeeaaarsss, didn’t expect to see it here. http://wordsmith.org/anagram/

    My favorite is from Hamlet by Shakespeare:
    To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. =
    In one of the Bard’s best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.

  2. Jon, email Deb and tell her she has to name her bar Bits And Pieces!

    And Richard, you’re thinking of a Palindrome

    Deb Panics Site

    Deb A Nicest Sip

    A Deb Ices Pints

    I Deb, aces pints.

    Deb is nitecaps

  3. Mike – They are primarily classified as palindromes, but they also qualify as anagrams since the letters are rearranged (swap the first and last letters). Besides, this isn’t an English class. LOL

  4. All of them? Kate (I mean Cate whoever she is) might not want hers reposted. Here’s Deb’s and mine for ‘Bits and Pieces, We scour the web so you don’t have to’:

    ‘I C DEB’S NEW PANTIES’

    ‘We covet Deborah’s tush… you too?’

    ***********

    Scotty needs sandwich, heave two pure boobies out.

  5. One more example of America going to hell. People have just too much time on their hands and this is what they use it for? Clever but useless.

    Try turning “spare time” into “do something useful”.

  6. I thought this was hilarious. I haven’t laughed so hard in awhile.
    People who quibble about spelling and definitions or if something has been posted before or grammer or any other picky concern should not try to socialize on-line or probably anywhere for that matter.
    I’m cool with any civil communication or expression that helps me understand other points of view.
    This point was funny and creative.

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