|
 A
couple of issues ago (No. 22,
November 2000), I presented the solutions to some anagram puzzles that had
appeared in Issues 10 and
15 (November 1998 and
September 1999). I am taking the chance today to offer a small handful of
further anagrammatical treasures unearthed for your appreciative
wonderment.
(Thanks
to occasional contributor Katisha for drawing my attention
via the editor to some of the following.)
First let
me introduce you to a few Bikwilians who might need putting straight, if
one could only figure them out:
Olive
Conduit
Spud
Money
E. Roy
Strong.
Now, how
about a quartet of anagram-generating names from further afield:
glib
tales (= Bill Gates)
genuine
class (= Alec Guinness)
is
leaping milk (= Spike Milligan)
I paint
modern (= Piet Mondrian)
that
great charmer (= Margaret Thatcher).
Next,
some miscellaneous rearrangement magic:
dormitory
(= dirty room)
desperation
(= a rope ends it)
dyslexia
(= daily sex)
eleven
plus two (= twelve plus one)
Parliament
(= partial men)
semolina
(= is no meal)
the eyes
(= they see).
Here’s a
truly amazing one, if a bit confused in its tenses:
A thin
man ran; makes a large stride; left planet, pins flag on moon! On to Mars!
It comes
from this:
That's
one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. (Neil A. Armstrong).
Finally,
believe it or not, the following epic:
In one of
the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries
on two fronts about how life turns rotten.
derives
from no less famous a passage than:
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. |
