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Thread #48528 Message #4207473
Posted By: Lighter
24-Aug-24 - 07:13 PM
Thread Name: anagrams/palindromes etc
Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc
Researcher Robert Rines and Sir Peter Scott optimistically bestowed the name "Nessiteras rhombopteryx" on the Loch Ness Monster in 1975.
It means "Ness monster with diamond-shaped fins."
Almost immediately the Scottish MP Nicholas Fairbarn observed that the Latin name was an anagram of...
"Monster hoax by Sir Peter S."
More than brilliant.