MetaFilter posts tagged with anagrams

Marquee anagrams / aqua ear man germs

tepidmonkey — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:19:05 -0800

After the Flatbush Pavilion theater in Brooklyn closed down, people started rearranging the letters on the marquee to spell their own messages. It looks like they come in two sets: anagrams made out of the letters in “Van Helsing” and “Man on Fire,” the last movies to be screened at the theater, and the letters in “Now open! American Apparel,” the store that moved into the building. Of course if you’re dissatisfied with the anagrams in the photos you can always roll your own.

Insert Title Here - Sterile thirteen

bjork24 — Sun, 28 May 2006 18:57:05 -0800

Sternest Meanings: A fancy schmancy bot that takes what you say and returns a darn good anagram. "Shaky catacombs enchant fatty. Anyway thunderous star. Roman and ga-ga road." My conversations with bots always end up with me cussing and/or crying.

Holy Tango of Literature

mendel — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 17:07:45 -0800

~~Anthology~~ Holy Tango of Literature: "The question of what would happen if poets and playwrights wrote works whose titles were anagrams of their names is one that has been insufficiently studied in the past." Francis Heaney has published his book online under a Creative Commons license, along with the Holy Tango Basement Tapes.

This is because the letter U is phonetically pronounced with a Y, Yooo.

odinsdream — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 08:32:25 -0800

Sarah Elizabeth Witt struggles to convey a word game [direct to quicktime] that caused her doctor to diagnose her as obsessive-compulsive.

"When I hear a word that starts with the letter U, I immediately gain access to the letter Y!"

Anagrammatical

coudal — Fri, 22 Aug 2003 08:35:25 -0800

Ars Magna hosts The Anagrammy Awards, a monthly anagram competition. This got me thinking that we could "rearrange" the big acronym thread from a few weeks ago so that the first word or phrase of a comment would be an anagram of the last word or phrase of the previous comment. Sort of like this.

Poets Tilt

the fire you left me — Tue, 25 Mar 2003 18:58:40 -0800

I flatter me. A run against fame. Fun with the Internet Anagram Server.

sadie01221975 — Tue, 01 Jan 2002 02:31:26 -0800

extremely cool site if you like things like this... palindromes, anagrams, spoonerisms, pangrams, oxymora, mnemonics, etymology,

palegirl — Sun, 15 Oct 2000 09:49:38 -0800

among other stuff, the adam clymer fan club brings us: anagrams: george walker bush & gore blew a keg rush, The Dubya Virtual Magnetic Poetry Page, the compassionate conservative problem-solving flow chart, and punch sam donaldson and win $20!

mathowie — Thu, 16 Sep 1999 00:08:13 -0800

Stop what you're doing and go here now! It's an online anagram maker, put in your whole name, and set the word length as high as you can. At 3 letters per word the letters 'MatthewHaughey' spell out hundreds of phrases, the best shown below (punctuation by me):

Why hate? hug mate!
Heat may wet Hugh?
Eat Wham, they hug.
They wag meat, huh?