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    DORMITORY:
    When you rearrange the letters:
    DIRTY ROOM

    PRESBYTERIAN:
    When you rearrange the letters:
    BEST IN PRAYER
    ASTRONOMER:
    When you rearrange the letters:
    MOON STARER


    DESPERATION:
    When you rearrange the letters:
    A ROPE ENDS IT
    THE EYES:
    When you rearrange the letters:
    THEY SEE
    GEORGE BUSH:
    When you rearrange the letters:
    HE BUGS GORE


    THE MORSE CODE:
    When you rearrange the letters:
    HERE COME DOTS

    SLOT MACHINES:
    When you rearrange the letters:
    CASH LOST IN ME


    ANIMOSITY:
    When you rearrange the letters:
    IS NO AMITY
    ELECTION RESULTS:
    When you rearrange the letters:
    LIES - LET'S RECOUNT


    MOTHER-IN-LAW:
    When you rearrange the letters:
    WOMAN HITLER

    SNOOZE ALARMS:
    When you rearrange the letters:
    ALAS! NO MORE Z 'S


    A DECIMAL POINT:
    When you rearrange the letters:
    IM A DOT IN PLACE

    THE EARTHQUAKES:
    When you rearrange the letters:
    THAT QUEER SHAKE

    ELEVEN PLUS TWO:
    When you rearrange the letters:
    TWELVE PLUS ONE

    AND FOR THE GRAND FINALE:


    PRESIDENT CLINTON OF THE USA:
    When you rearrange the letters
    (With no letters left over and using each letter only once):
    TO COPULATE HE FINDS INTERNS

    Yep! Someone with waaaaaaaaaaay
    too much time on their hands!
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    Hardly any time at all Iain

    http://wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html

    it's all done with mirrors!

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    Very good indeed. Ok, those are anagrams. What do you call it when you make a sentence with words starting with each letter of a word. e.g. LUFTHANSA = Let us (ahem) fondle the hostesses and not say anything. or ARITHMETIC = A red indian thought he might eat tobacco in church. Apart from helping to learn spelling, we used a similar technique to remember things such as colours of the spectrum - Richard of York got boozed in Vienna = Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Coldamus
    Very good indeed. Ok, those are anagrams. What do you call it when you make a sentence with words starting with each letter of a word. e.g. LUFTHANSA = Let us (ahem) fondle the hostesses and not say anything.
    Acronyms.
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    There's a special name (can't think what it is) for something like that where the first letter of each line of a poem spell a sentence. Henry Lawson once snuck one through in the Bulletin that read "F*** all editors".
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    Whislt I was unemployed a few years back, I used to put acronyms on my form for places I looked for work.
    Consolidated Revenue and Production. etc
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    I'm doing a university course at present and those were pages of the study book.
    I have to read and understand it to pass my degree and keep my job and my family off the streets

    Was it as much effort to write as it is to read?
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    So am I Al.

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    Default acronyms

    Qantas
    Quite A Nice Takeoff, Any Survivors?
    I tried to be normal once.
    Worst 2 minutes of my life.

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    Quote Originally Posted by popawisky
    Qantas
    Quite A Nice Takeoff, Any Survivors?
    Queer And Nasty Try Another System
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    Quote Originally Posted by Iain
    Yep! Someone with waaaaaaaaaaay
    too much time on their hands!
    Seeing as you have so much time do you have any palindromes?
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    Adams first words to eve, well perhaps his second

    "madam im adam"




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    Swap God for a Janitor, Rot in a jar of dog paws.
    Party boobytrap
    Tulsa night life: filth, gin, a ****.
    Was it a car or a cat I saw?
    Yawn a more Roman way!
    Dammit, I'm mad!
    Harass Sarah!
    Never odd or even
    Oh, cameras are macho
    et al......................
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    A man, a plan, Panama
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    Able was I ere I saw Elba (I'm sure Napoleon never said this)

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