Wednesday, July 8, 2009

15 great anagrams

An anagram is the rearranging of the letters in one word or phrase to make p a different word or phrase. Here are 15 great ones...

  1. "That's one small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind." Neil A. Armstrong = A thin man ran; makes a large stride, left planet, pins flag on Moon. On to Mars!
  1. Stone Age = Stage One
  1. Statue of Liberty = Built to Stay Free
  1. Religion is the opium of the masses = Sometimes, if theologian is pusher
  1. Western Union = No Wire Unsent
  1. Heavy Rain? = Hire a Navy!
  1. The United States Bureau of Fisheries = I Raise the Bass to Feed Us in the Future
  1. Eleven plus two = Twelve plus one
  1. “Ivanhoe” by Sir Walter Scott = A novel by a Scottish writer
  1. Snooze alarms = Alas, no more Zs
  1. Debit card = Bad credit
  1. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End = 
The noble epic of bandits was rated "Arr!"
  1. Desperation = A rope ends it
  1. If love isn't here = then life is over.

Saving the best for last….

  1. 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.

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