Posted on 06/24/2010 1:07:38 PM PDT by jackspyder
Are you familiar with anagrams? You probably had fun with anagrams as a child. An anagram by definition is: a word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters. A simple example is the word "no" whose only anagram is the word "on." A more complex example is the word "Angel" which, by rearranging it's letters, gives us the word "glean."
The website fun-with-words.com , with help from The Anagram Dictionary by Micheal Curl, reports on the history of anagrams: According to some historians, anagrams originated in the 4th century BC with the Greek poet Lycophron who used them to flatter the rich and mighty. Other sources suggest that Pythagoras, in the 6th century BC, used anagrams to discover deep philosophical meanings.
In Roman and early Christian times, anagrams were often believed to have mystical or prophetic meaning ...
Here are some excellent examples of anagrams that also make a lot of sense: ...
Listen = silent
Angered = enraged
...
The eyes = they see
Debit card = bad credit
Desperation = a rope ends it
The Morse Code = here come dots
...
Election results = Lies, lets recount
...
Clint Eastwood = Old West action
...
George Bush = He bugs Gore
The terrorist Osama Bin Laden = Arab monster is no idle threat
The president of Iraq, Suddam Hussein = Press had to inquire if this man's dead
...
Presbyterian = Best in prayer
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(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
Barack Hussein Obama = O Arabic snake ambush
Barack Hussein Obama = the worst president ever
Free Republic = rub rec elf pie or curb pee lifer
Episcopal = Pepsi Cola
Obama Anagrams
President Barack Obama = Arab base, pink Democrat
President Barack Hussein Obama = A Democrat speaks inane rubbish
http://sites.google.com/site/barackobamajokes/
That's really chilling.
A Shabbi Sack O Manure
President Obama
=
O man, praise debt
A bad Time person
O, I am bad ‘serpent’
Most pea-brained
Larry Lucido = Yard Curl Oil
the one about Saddam should say “enquire” but it still doesn’t seem to be a perfect anagram - looks like it’s one letter off
President Clinton of the USA = To copulate he finds interns.
That one seems to say a lot.
wonderful post. thank you for posting. I love word plays and word games.
Free pub relic
Free picle rub
Be purce flier
B Lucifer peer
Prefer Lucie B
Fer puerile CB
I like “free pub relic”
free = no cost
pub = establishment where alcohol is served
relic = aged
so free single malt scotch sounds good
and free because a company had a marketing event, not free because taxpayers actually paid for it.
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