Clever Anagrams

Date Received: Fri, 8 Jan 1999

An Anagram, as you know, is a word or phrase made by transposing or rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. The following are exceptionally clever. Someone out there either has way too much time to waste or is deadly at Scrabble...

DormitoryDirty Room
EvangelistEvil's Agent
DesperationA Rope Ends It
The Morse CodeHere Come Dots
Slot MachinesCash Lost in 'em
AnimosityIs No Amity
Mother-in-lawWoman Hitler :)
Snooze AlarmsAlas! No More Z's
Alec GuinnessGenuine Class
SemolinaIs No Meal
The Public Art GalleriesLarge Picture Halls, I Bet
A Decimal PointI'm a Dot in Place
The EarthquakesThat Queer Shake
Eleven plus twoTwelve plus one
ContradictionAccord not in it

This one's truly amazing:
"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."
And the Anagram:
"In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten."

And for the grand finale:
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." - Neil Armstrong
The Anagram:
"Thin man ran; makes a large stride, left planet, pins flag on moon! On to Mars!"

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