What’s Your Anagram?
I haven’t done any blogging for quite a while, due to working overtime on editing video, but this is too good not to share. A great little time waster called “Find Your Name’s best Anagram.” You go to the web site, enter a name or word and click on the button. The letters are re-arranged: instant anagram!
When you get tired of trying permutations of your own name, you can go on to the real fun: finding out the truth behind the names of famous people. Here’s some the gang on Mark Shea’s blog (me included) came up with:
Albert Einstein: TEN ELITE BRAINS
Sherlock Holmes: HEH! SMELLS CROOK
Arthur Conan Doyle: CARRY ON, HOUND TALE
Ralph Waldo Emerson: PERSON WHOM ALL READ
Dwight D. Eisenhower: NOW WRITE: HIGH DEEDS
George Washington: WAR ON: HE GETS GOING
Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll’s real name): SCHOLAR GODSEND
G. K. Chesterton: THE GENT ROCKS
William Jefferson Clinton: HE JILTS NICE WOMEN. IN FOR FALL
George W Bush: HE GREW BOGUS
Lyndon Baines Johnson: NO NINNY, SO HANDLES JOB
Lee Harvey Oswald: REVEALED: WHO SLAY (I came up with this one)
Osama bin Laden: A DAMN ALIEN S.O.B. (I came up with this one too)
Saddam Hussein: UN’S SAID HE’S MAD (also mine)
Saint Peter: NEAT PRIEST
Mark Twain: AM RANK WIT
Pope John Paul the Second: HAPPEN-SO: THE JOCUND POLE
Richard Dawkins: DISHRACK DARWIN
Harry Potter: TRY HERO PART (I came up with this one)
United States of America”: DINE OUT, TASTE A MAC, FRIES
“Great Britain”: BATTERING IRA
“Los Angeles, California”: SO IF ALL CLEAN AIR’S GONE
And of course:
Dan Brown: NOW BRAND!
I’m laughing so hard I can barely type this. You can join the fun here:
Update: around 11 p. m.
This one is priceless:
United States Supreme Court: SMUTTIER, UP-TO-DATE CENSURES
A couple more that I tried came up with great results:
George Walker Bush: BLUSH, WAR GEEK OGRE! That says it all, I guess.
President Obama: ENTOMB PARADISE
Pope John Paul the First: JESTFUL, HAPPIER PHOTON (a photon is the basic ‘unit’ of light).
Sigh. How true.
