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The following are exceptionally clever. Someone out there either has way too much time to waste or is deadly at Scrabble.</p> </div> <dl class="anagrams"> <dt>Dormitory:</dt> <dd class="col-left">Dirty Room</dd> <dt>Evangelist:</dt> <dd class="col-left">Evil's Agent</dd> <dt>Desperation:</dt> <dd class="col-left">A Rope Ends It</dd> <dt>The Morse Code:</dt> <dd class="col-left">Here Come Dots</dd> <dt>Slot Machines:</dt> <dd class="col-left">Cash Lost in 'em</dd> <dt>Animosity:</dt> <dd class="col-left">Is No Amity</dd> <dt>Mother-in-law:</dt> <dd class="col-left">Woman Hitler :)</dd> <dt>Snooze Alarms:</dt> <dd class="col-left">Alas! No More Z's</dd> <dt>Alec Guinness:</dt> <dd class="col-left">Genuine Class</dd> <dt>Semolina:</dt> <dd>Is No Meal</dd> <dt>The Public Art Galleries:</dt> <dd>Large Picture Halls, I Bet</dd> <dt>A Decimal Point:</dt> <dd>I'm a Dot in Place</dd> <dt>The Earthquakes:</dt> <dd>That Queer Shake</dd> <dt>Eleven plus two:</dt> <dd>Twelve plus one</dd> <dt>Contradiction:</dt> <dd>Accord not in it</dd> <dt>Astronomer:</dt> <dd>Moon Starer</dd> <dt>Princess Diana:</dt> <dd>End is a car spin</dd> <dt>Year Two Thousand:</dt> <dd>A year to shut down</dd> </dl> <div class="reduced-width"> <div class="anagram"> <p class="c">This one's truly amazing:</p> <div class="emph-box"> <blockquote> <p><i>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…</i></p> </blockquote> <p>And the Anagram:</p> <blockquote> <p>In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.</p> </blockquote> </div> </div> <div class="anagram"> <p class="c">And for the grand finale:</p> <div class="emph-box"> <blockquote> <p><i>That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. --Neil Armstrong</i></p> </blockquote> <p>The Anagram:</p> <blockquote> <p>A thin man ran; makes a large stride, left planet, pins flag on moon! On to Mars!</p> </blockquote> </div> </div> <div class="anagram"> <p class="c">Nope, one more!<br /> The following phrase is a perfect anagram to start the impeachment trial:</p> <div class="emph-box"> <blockquote> <p><i>PRESIDENT CLINTON OF THE USA</i></p> </blockquote> <p>The Anagram:</p> <blockquote> <p>TO COPULATE HE FINDS INTERNS</p> </blockquote> </div> </div> <p class="button right-align"><a href="/fun/jokes/anagrams.txt">Plain text version</a></p> <div class="infobox" role="contentinfo"> <hr /> <h3 id="Disclaimer">Disclaimer</h3> <p>The joke on this page was obtained from the FSF's email archives of the GNU Project. 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