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message 1: by [deleted user] (last edited Apr 15, 2008 02:25PM) (new)

I do try to be witty :)

Ok-- this started with Debbie in the E,D&J thread. Just a reminder: an anagram is a word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters: “Angel” is an anagram of “glean.”

So have at it!


message 2: by [deleted user] (new)

George W Bush = Bush Ego Grew


message 3: by Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness (new)

Debbie (sardonicprincessofcheerfulness) | 6389 comments Mod
George Bush....He Bugs Gore


message 4: by Ken, Moderator (new)

Ken | 18714 comments Mod
Oh. The game I was thinking of is that one you see with the circles for letters on the comics pages of newspapers. It's a jumbled word that you have to rearrange into its correct form. What's THAT game called?

e.g.

GAUGNEAL = ?


message 5: by [deleted user] (new)

We can certainly play it that way, NE! I just had to share my George W. Bush anagram . . . and I'm not sure there's a particular name for the game . . .

GAUGNEAL = LANGUAGE

TVAANOIC = ?


message 6: by Ken, Moderator (new)

Ken | 18714 comments Mod
Hmnnn. That one's not easy. I thought INACTIVE, but O, no, that's incorrect...

Little help here, people?


message 7: by [deleted user] (new)

O'Vatican-- is that like O'Canada?
Vain Taco-- does he look in the mirrow often?

Hint for my anagram- we all need one :)


message 8: by Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness (new)

Debbie (sardonicprincessofcheerfulness) | 6389 comments Mod
Vacation....damned Americanisms!


message 9: by Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness (new)

Debbie (sardonicprincessofcheerfulness) | 6389 comments Mod
No I'm not....TVAANOIC......VACATION....and we all need one! Especially you Donna!!!! :-)


message 10: by Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness (new)

Debbie (sardonicprincessofcheerfulness) | 6389 comments Mod
Comes of not filling our bellies with pine needles and hibernating!


message 11: by [deleted user] (new)

Yes, yes, yes! VACATION! And it looks like we do indeed need one if not two.


message 12: by Meridee (new)

Meridee | 6 comments It is usually called Word Jumble.


message 13: by Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness (last edited Apr 16, 2008 12:32PM) (new)

Debbie (sardonicprincessofcheerfulness) | 6389 comments Mod
Hi Meridee....welcome! It is often called Word Jumble...mostly by teachers who are trying to simplify for young minds!! Of course, the 'anatomically correct' term is anagram.


message 14: by Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness (new)

Debbie (sardonicprincessofcheerfulness) | 6389 comments Mod
ELECTION RESULTS - LIES, LET'S RECOUNT


message 15: by [deleted user] (new)

Very good, Debbie! Reminds me of the Bush/Gore debacle. Chads, hanging chads, pregnant chads . . .


message 16: by Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness (new)

Debbie (sardonicprincessofcheerfulness) | 6389 comments Mod
I was thinking more of Zimbabwe and the electoral shenanigans going on there!


message 17: by [deleted user] (new)

Oops! Just a tad Americentric of me, eh?


message 18: by Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness (new)

Debbie (sardonicprincessofcheerfulness) | 6389 comments Mod
hahahahahahahahaha!!!! New word...new word!!!!


message 19: by Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness (new)

Debbie (sardonicprincessofcheerfulness) | 6389 comments Mod
Hahahahahahaha!! New word.....new word!!!!


message 20: by [deleted user] (new)

Song title, 2 words

SBUELEISK = ?


message 21: by Ken, Moderator (new)

Ken | 18714 comments Mod
"Blue Skies, Nothing but Blue Skies..." That's all I know. You don't want to hear me sing.

Book Title:

USHONWIGIBORE




message 22: by Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness (new)

Debbie (sardonicprincessofcheerfulness) | 6389 comments Mod
Blue skies, shining on me...nothing but blue skies do I see......
How many words NE?


message 23: by [deleted user] (new)

"Bluebirds
Singing a song
Nothing but bluebirds
All day long

Never saw the sun shining so bright
Never saw things going so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When you're in love, my how they fly

Blue days
All of them gone
Nothing but blue skies
From now on"

Better than rain right now :)

O NE, NE! wherefore art thou NE?
We are stumped, we need a clue
But NE, NE where are you?
Perhaps running in a 5K or listening to the Saw-x
Or dreaming of the Maine camp?
Reading a good book out on the porch?
Make sure you wear sunscreen so you don't scorch.

Shakespeare I am not! :)


message 24: by [deleted user] (new)

Oh yes, I changed the name of the thread so as to include both things that are going on here. I never want to be accused of being non-all-inclusive :)


message 25: by [deleted user] (new)

hahahahahahaha! Thank you for the much needed laugh, Donna!


message 26: by Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness (new)

Debbie (sardonicprincessofcheerfulness) | 6389 comments Mod
NE!!!!!! This is driving me nuts and now I am WASTING TIME!!!! I brown shoe u? Shrub? Wishbone? Bush/Gore? I brush wine gooi? Have mercy!


message 27: by Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness (last edited Apr 20, 2008 01:32PM) (new)

Debbie (sardonicprincessofcheerfulness) | 6389 comments Mod
BOO! R U WISHING????? Oops....no 'e'. (sigh)


message 28: by Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness (new)

Debbie (sardonicprincessofcheerfulness) | 6389 comments Mod
Try this.

NOCISATEU


message 29: by [deleted user] (last edited May 12, 2008 10:35AM) (new)

TENACIOUS?!?!

NE, you left quite a conundrum. Will you put us out of our misery and tell us the title of the book?


message 30: by Ken, Moderator (new)

Ken | 18714 comments Mod
Oops. I forgot I even left a Word Jumble here. What's worse -- I forgot what the book was. (Um, can I have a minute... or hour... or a few days to solve my own problem?)


message 31: by Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness (new)

Debbie (sardonicprincessofcheerfulness) | 6389 comments Mod
Is it anything to do with senility NE? And Sarah, tenacious wins!


message 32: by Ken, Moderator (new)

Ken | 18714 comments Mod
Senility? Uh. Um. Duh...


message 33: by Ruth (new)

Ruth | 16546 comments Mod
Anagrammer
--------Peter Pereira

If you believe in the magic of language,
then Elvis really Lives
and Princess Diana fortold I end as car spin.

If you believe the letters themselves
contain a power within them,
then you understand
what makes outside tedious,
how desperation becomes a rope ends it.

The circular log that allows senator to become treason
and treason to become atoners.

That eleven plus two is twelve plus one,
and an admirer is also married

That if you could just rearrange things the right way
you'd find your true life,
the right path, the answer to your questions:
you'd understand how the Titanic
turns into that ice tin
and debit card becomes bad credit.

How listen is the same as silent,
and not one letter separates stained from sainted.




message 34: by [deleted user] (new)

I like that.


message 35: by Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness (new)

Debbie (sardonicprincessofcheerfulness) | 6389 comments Mod
It's very clever....I like clever.


message 36: by Ken, Moderator (new)

Ken | 18714 comments Mod
Here's a seasonal word scramble for you (uh, I mean a Northern hemisphere seasonal one!):

Hint: two words

EMITPENMECIA


message 37: by [deleted user] (last edited Sep 14, 2008 03:16PM) (new)

Mincemeat Pie?


Something you might look for in a novel:

IVUMEDRILETISI




message 38: by Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness (new)

Debbie (sardonicprincessofcheerfulness) | 6389 comments Mod
Southern hemisphere too NE...my mother bakes beauties!!!

Working on it Eyre.......


message 39: by Ken, Moderator (new)

Ken | 18714 comments Mod
Eyre (comma Jane?) is correct! And Debbie, I hope it's the meat-free variety your mom bakes. I'm a big fan of raisins, apples, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, etc.!

Hmn. Something in a novel. One word. Why aren't we literary types cracking this sooner? With a V in it, yet....

Uh...

Um....

Hmn....




message 40: by Ken, Moderator (new)

Ken | 18714 comments Mod
verisimilitude?


message 41: by Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness (new)

Debbie (sardonicprincessofcheerfulness) | 6389 comments Mod
I thought it might end in an 'ism'...hope you are right NE sio I can stop worrying about it!!
And of course they are meat free! Add a dash of brandy to all the dried fruits and spices though :-)


message 42: by [deleted user] (last edited Sep 14, 2008 05:45PM) (new)

Correct! It is verisimilitude.


message 43: by Ken, Moderator (new)

Ken | 18714 comments Mod
One word (rating: EASY):

galenptng


message 44: by Ken, Moderator (new)

Ken | 18714 comments Mod
Like I said. EASY. (Or shall I change the rating to INTERMEDIATE?) Hint: vegetarian fare (to middling).


message 45: by [deleted user] (new)

eggplant????? no, not enough n's ... hmmmm


message 46: by Ken, Moderator (new)

Ken | 18714 comments Mod
Oops. EGGPLANT is correct. I gave you an extra "n" free of charge. Consider it a seed.




message 47: by [deleted user] (last edited Sep 15, 2008 06:37PM) (new)

An eggs-tra "n" always comes in handy :) I'll save it for a rainy day--


message 48: by Boreal Elizabeth (new)

Boreal Elizabeth | 401 comments regva


message 49: by [deleted user] (new)

Grave?


message 50: by Boreal Elizabeth (new)

Boreal Elizabeth | 401 comments nope


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