Anagram

An anagram (Greek ana- = "back" or "again", and graphein = "to write") is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce other words, using all the original letters exactly once. Anagrams are often expressed in the form of an equation, with the equals symbol (=) separating the original subject and the resulting anagram. ?Earth = heart? is an example of a simple anagram expressed so. In a more advanced, sophisticated form of anagramming, the aim is to ?discover? a result that possesses linguistic meaning which comments on the original subject in a humorous or ironic way; e.g., Roll in the hay = Thrill a honey (discovered by Sir Anthony Fortesque-Crafter). When the subject and the resulting anagram form a complete sentence, a tilde (~) is used instead of an equal sign; e.g., Semolina ~ is no meal.

Sample anagrams

Each of the anagrams below is, depending on one's point of view, appropriate or contrary in meaning to that of the word or phrase of which it is an anagram.

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Political

• Linda Tripp and Monica Lewinsky = A C.I.A. mink and wild, sloppy intern (discovered by Paul Klenk)
• Tony Blair MP = I'm Tory "Plan B"
• Prime Minister Tony Blair = I'm Britain's Tory peril, men!
• George Bush = He bugs Gore.
• George W Bush = He grew bogus.
• George Herbert Walker Bush = Huge berserk rebel warthog.
• John Kerry = Horny jerk
• American Empire = Me, CIA: Repairmen
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics = Split is cause of countries' oblivion.
• Election promises = Come-ons, lies, tripe!
• I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat". = "Defeat boaster Adolf Hitler!" bought Winston ovation.
• Winston Churchill = I'll crunch this now.
• Virginia Bottomley = I'm an evil Tory bigot
• President Clinton of the USA = To copulate he finds interns. (discovered by Martin Eiger)
• Spiro Agnew = grow a spine
• Adlai Stevenson = Saved alien snot
• Ronald Wilson Reagan = Insane Anglo warlord
• Hillary Rodham Clinton = Lynch harlot in mid-oral.
• Senator Hillary = Another sly liar (discovered by Paul Klenk)
• William Ewart Gladstone = Wild agitator, means well = Wilt tear down all images? (discovered by Lewis Carroll)
• Margaret Thatcher = Meg, the arch-tartar.
• Statue of Liberty = Built to stay free
• Révolution française = Un véto corse la finira. (famous French anagram; in English: French revolution = A Corsican veto will end it)
• American Dream = Aim? Damn career!

Celebrities and other persons

• Madonna Louise Ciccone = One cool dance musician

Definitional

• The meaning of life = The fine game of nil. (discovered by William Tunstall-Pedoe)
• The United States Postal Service = It dispatches letters to avenues.
• Giovanni Pergolesi = I love opera singing. (discovered by Meyran Kraus)
• Desperation = A rope ends it.
• Alec Guinness = Genuine class.
• Semolina ~ is no meal.
• The public art galleries = Large picture halls, I bet.
• Contradiction = Accord not in it.
• The Charge of the Light Brigade = Great fight, each hero blighted.
• Dormitory = Dirty room.
• The Morse code = Here come dots.
• Animosity ~ is no amity.
• Snooze alarms = Alas! No more Z's
• A decimal point = I'm a dot in place
• The earthquakes = That queer shake
• Eleven plus two = Twelve plus one
• Astronomers = Moon starers
• It's ridiculous = It is ludicrous
• Softheartedness = Often sheds tears
• The eyes = they see
• Homestar Runner = Humor earns rent
• Tom Marvolo Riddle = I am Lord Voldemort
• Anagrams = Ars Magna (latin for "Great Art")
• Axl Rose = Oral Sex
• Chagos Archipelago = Geographical chaos.
• Total abstainers = Sit not at ale bars.

Situational

• Princess Diana = End is a car spin.
• "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." —Neil Armstrong = "A thin man ran; makes large stride, left planet, pins flag on moon. On to Mars!" (discovered by Steve Krakowski)
• Year Two Thousand = A year to shut down.
• Clint Eastwood = Old west action.
• Western Union = No wire unsent.
• Conversation = Voices rant on.
• The Great New York Rapid Transit Tunnel = Giant work in street, partly underneath.
• 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.

Controversial

• Evangelist = Evil's agent.
• United States of America = Dine out, taste a Mac, fries.
• Australia = A trial USA
• McDonalds Restaurants = Uncle Sam's standard rot.
• Slot machines = Cash lost in 'em.
• Mother-in-law = Woman Hitler
• Father-in-law = Fatal whiner
• Adolf Hitler = Heil old fart
• T. S. Eliot = litotes = toilets
• Soylent Green = Stolen energy
• Christian shepherd = His thrashed prince.
• Britney Spears = Presbyterians.
• Mission Accomplished = C'mon, I lied. So scampish!
• Saddam Hussein = UN's said he's mad.
• Osama bin Laden = A damn alien S.O.B.
• Everybody Loves Raymond = Loved by everyday morons.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer = Pithy female braves fury. (discovered by Rick Rothstein)
• I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all = I, George W. Bush, an evil Republican fascist, used God to inflict pain on the world, end life, facilitate death, create militant jihad rebels, and to let youths die for nothing.
• Pledge of Allegiance: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. = Epicede to pall Indigence: I salute the fair Dollar, of the free capitalist economy, and the biotic need, which it funds, a big gold ingot, glittering, with a job, fuel, assets, land and revenue for all. (discovered by Paul Pan)

Literary

• "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." (discovered by Cory Calhoun)