anagrams/palindromes etc

Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc
From: Nerd
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 02:54 PM

"a wet" was an expression for a drink in the 18th and 19th centuries: "let's have a wet." I agree I've never heard "a cud" before.

The other problem with the extension of "Panama" is that the original makes some sense. The extended version is just "how many words can you jam into this sentence and then reverse later on?" Not that it isn't impressive, but it's not really the same.

My own real name has a very funny anagram: Penis with Neck

Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc
From: Mr Red
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 03:23 PM

Mr Happy
if I run backwards in only even numbers I pass through zero at a value not dissimilar from 0. If I try with odd numbers I seem to skip over 0. In my book a series like "even" or "odd" has meaning otherwise I would fall over as I walk (you've seen me at festivals, eh?) and I think your argument would fall into a big hole at zero. Unless of course it didn't exist - which makes us both right at the same time. Now If I owewd you 10 poinds and we dispensed with the digits that don't exist I would save £9. How would you like the cash? in pennies - dispensing with the non exists I make it 1p. Afurther 99p saved. My lucky day.
Go figure.

Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc
From: Arnie
Date: 11 Sep 03 - 03:13 PM

I was going to mention spoonerisms, but they're not really that funny. However, thinking of Dr Spooner put me in mind of an anecdote about another man of letters, Dr Johnson. He was pretty fastidious about the correct use of lanugage, but not too hot on the personal hygiene front. When his landlady said to him one day "Dr Johnson, you smell", the great man replied "No madam, you smell, I stink!!"

Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc
From: Mr Happy
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 10:22 AM

Let쳌fs bash 쳌ehem = Loo gargle

Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc
From: GUEST,Zi
Date: 21 Apr 07 - 08:58 AM

Mother in Law is an anagram of Woman Hitler!

Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc
From: GUEST,TIA
Date: 21 Apr 07 - 10:02 AM

sit on a potato pan otis

Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc
From: Mrrzy
Date: 24 Aug 24 - 06:01 PM

Ok Panama has gone mad

A man, and the kitchen sink

Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc
From: Lighter
Date: 24 Aug 24 - 07:13 PM

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.

Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc
From: Helen
Date: 24 Aug 24 - 08:08 PM

Not a palindrome by definition, but funny!

Sammy J - Backwards Song

Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc
From: Mrrzy
Date: 26 Aug 24 - 09:19 AM

Anybody remember Göedel Escher Bach?

Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 26 Aug 24 - 12:37 PM

As Napoleon said 'Able was I ere I saw Elba'

No lemon no melon

Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc
From: Mr Red
Date: 29 Aug 24 - 01:58 PM

No lemon no melon - is a dry smoothie. That's masterhood for you

Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc
From: Mr Red
Date: 29 Aug 24 - 02:13 PM

Do geese see god?