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Amazing Anagrams

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Amazing Anagrams


Dormitory == Dirty Room
Desperation == A Rope Ends It
The Morse Code == Here Come Dots
Slot Machines == Cash Lost in 'em
Animosity == Is No Amity
Snooze Alarms == Alas! No More Z's
Alec Guinness == Genuine Class
Semolina == Is No Meal
The Public Art Galleries == Large Picture Halls, I Bet
A Decimal Point == I'm a Dot in Place
The Earthquakes == That Queer Shake
Eleven plus two == Twelve plus one
Contradiction == Accord not in it

This one's amazing: [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.

becomes:

In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.

And the grand finale:

"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." -- Neil A. Armstrong

becomes:

A thin man ran makes a large stride, left planet, pins flag on moon! On to Mars!

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A pre-cursor to making up some of our own maybe?

Re Neil Armstrong, I prefer the "Good Luck Mr Gorsky!" story
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Love it, Bill, and on the Shakespeare front, you can also rearrange the quote

"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, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing, end them? "

to reveal the truth that

"I wrote all of Shakespeare's plays, and the wife and I got together, did most of his sonnets for our entertainment. But tormentors oft attribute that our brash quotes as being bogus. O! no! no! no!"

And of course " William Shakespeare" can himself claim that "I'll make a wise phrase", or admit that "I am a weakish speller"

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Astonishing Bill. I hope you didn't sit and work them all out!

Not the most elaborate but my favourite is "Twelve plus one" = "Eleven plus two" :fsbgrin:
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On a very basic level

Neil Warnock (infamous football manager) becomes Colin ......

I'll leave you to work it out but it kind of suits

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=D> =D> :lol: :lol:
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What have I done to deserve that :(
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Very apt Thomas .............. Wham Post!!!!!!!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Goes into thinking mode.

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billwright wrote:Wham post
:D :mrgreen: =D>
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I could get addicted to this. Bill, what have you started :!:

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Addicted? Did Action!

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