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13 Jun 02 - 07:20 AM (#729058) Subject: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Mr Happy a thread drift away from trafalgar square, the president of zimbabwe is mugabe- spelled backwards, it makes e, ba, gum! similarly if you move about the letters of 'clint eastwood', you get 'ted slowaction' more? |
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13 Jun 02 - 07:27 AM (#729065) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Ringer "Eleven plus two" is an anagram of "twelve plus one". |
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13 Jun 02 - 07:42 AM (#729067) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: English Jon "Never odd or even" neatly palindromic, as well as numerically impossible. |
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13 Jun 02 - 07:48 AM (#729070) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Mr Happy i should have included paradoxes here, if your number is zero, then 'never odd or even' can be possible. similarly, 0/0= 1? or infinity, infinity/infinity=1? zero to the power of zero=1? |
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13 Jun 02 - 07:54 AM (#729073) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Murph10566 A favorite (classic) Palindrome: A Man, a Plan, a Canal, Panama M. |
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13 Jun 02 - 09:42 AM (#729116) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: mack/misophist The most perfect one is in Latin: Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas. Each word is a palindrome of one of the others. |
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13 Jun 02 - 09:44 AM (#729120) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: mack/misophist S A T O R A R E P O T E N E T O P E R A R O T A S |
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13 Jun 02 - 10:25 AM (#729150) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Mrrzy YOu meant anagram, which is rearranging letters. A palindrome goes backwards and forwards, like Able was I ere I saw Elba, or Rats live on no evil star. |
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13 Jun 02 - 10:41 AM (#729163) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Wolfgang Geist ziert Leben, Mut hegt Siege, Beileid trägt belegbare Reue, Neid dient nie, nun eint Neid die Neuerer, abgelebt gärt die Liebe, Geist geht, umnebelt reizt Sieg. Wolfgang |
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13 Jun 02 - 10:43 AM (#729166) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Mr Happy for us[uk]monoglots what are the meanings of the above latin phrases? |
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13 Jun 02 - 10:48 AM (#729170) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Mr Happy sorry wolf, run that by me again- translation, please |
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13 Jun 02 - 10:52 AM (#729172) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Wolfgang The man, plan, panama palindrome has been prolonged a bit: A man, a plan, a caret, a ban, a myriad, a sum, a lac, a liar, a hoop a pintac, a talpa, a gas, an oil, a bird, a yell, a vat, a caw, a pax, a wag, a tax, a nay, a ram, a cap, a yam, a gay, a tsar, a wall, a car, a luger, a ward, a bin, a woman, a vassal, a wolf, a tuna, a nit, a pall, a fret, a watt, a bay, a daub, a tan, a cab, a datum, a gall, a hat, a fag, a zap, a say, a jaw, a lay, a wet, a gallop, a tug, a trot, a trap, a tram, a torr, a caper, a top, a tonk, a toll, a ball, a fair, a sax, a minim, a tenor, a bass, a passer, a capital, a rut, an amen, a ted, a cabal, a tang, asun, an ass, a maw, a sag, a jam, a dam, a sub, a salt, an axon, a sail, an ad, a wadi, a radian, a room, a rood, a rip, a tad, a pariah, a revel, a reel, a reed, a pool, a plug, a pin, a peek, a parabola, a dog, a pat, a cud, a nu, a fan, a pal, a rum, anod, an eta, a lag, an eel, a batik, a mug, a mot, a nap, a maxim, a mood, a leek, a grub, a gob, a gel, a drab, a citadel, a total, a cedar, a tap, a gag, a rat, a manor, a bar, a gal, a cola, a pap, a yaw, a tab, a raj, a gab, a nag, a pagan, a bag, a jar, a bat, a way, a papa, a local, a gar, a baron, a mat, a rag, a gap, a tar, a decal, a tot, a led, a tic, a bard, a leg, a bog, a burg, a keel, a doom, a mix, a map, an atom, a gum, a kit, a baleen, a gala, a ten, a don, a mural, a pan, a faun, a ducat, a pagoda, a lob, a rap, a keep, a nip, a gulp, a loop, a deer, a leer, a lever, a hair, a pad, a tapir, a door, a moor, an aid, a raid, a wad, an alias, an ox, an atlas, a bus, a madam, a jag, a saw, a mass, an anus, a gnat, a lab, a cadet, an em, a natural, a tip, a caress, a pass, a baronet, a minimax, a sari, a fall, a ballot, a knot, a pot, a rep, a carrot, a mart, a part, a tort, a gut, a poll, a gateway, a law, a jay, a sap, a zag, a fat, a hall, a gamut, a dab, a can, a tabu, a day, a batt, a waterfall, a patina, a nut, a flow, a lass, a van, a mow, a nib, a draw, a regular, a call, a war, a stay, a gam, a yap, a cam, a ray, an ax, a tag, a wax, a paw, a cat, a valley, a drib, a lion, a saga, a plat, a catnip, a pooh, a rail, a calamus, a dairyman, a bater, a canal - Panama! Wolfgang |
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13 Jun 02 - 10:58 AM (#729175) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Mr Happy danke wolf, a lass, a lack[ of education on my part] |
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13 Jun 02 - 01:47 PM (#729316) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Wincing Devil My favorite Anagram: Wincing Devil! which is Vince Wilding spelled inside-out and sideways |
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13 Jun 02 - 01:52 PM (#729319) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Wincing Devil What about Pangrams? A phrase or sentence with all 26 letters, like the following (I purposely left out "The Quick Brown Fox...):
How quickly daft jumping zebras vex. Jackdaws love my big sphynx of quartz. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. Quick zephyrs blow, vexing daft Jim. Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow. Waltz, nymph, for quick jigs vex Bud. Crazy Fredericka bought many very exquisite opal jewels. Sixty zippers were quickly picked from the woven jute bag. How razorback-jumping frogs can level six piqued gymnasts! We promptly judged antique ivory buckles for the next prize. Whenever the black fox jumped the squirrel gazed suspiciously. Back in my quaint garden jaunty zinnias vie with flaunting phlox. Jaded zombies acted quaintly but kept driving their oxen forward. While making deep excavations we found some quaint bronze jewelry. The job requires extra pluck and zeal from every young wage earner. A quart jar of oil mixed with zinc oxide makes a very bright paint. We dislike to exchange job lots of sizes varying from a quarter up. My help squeezed in and joined the weavers again before six o'clock. Just work for improved basic techniques to maximize your typing skill. A mad boxer shot a quick, gloved jab to the jaw of his dizzy opponent. Six big juicy steaks sizzled in a pan as five workmen left the quarry. The juke box music puzzled a gentle visitor from a quaint valley town. Will Major Douglas be expected to take this true-false quiz very soon? We quickly seized the black axle and just saved it from going past him. The public was amazed to view the quickness and dexterity of the juggler. King Alexander was just partly overcome after quizzing Diogenes in his tub. Six javelins thrown by the quick savages whizzed forty paces beyond the mark. The July sun caused a fragment of black pine wax to ooze on the velvet quilt. Two hardy boxing kangaroos jet from Sydney to Zanzibar on quicksilver pinions. The explorer was frozen in his big kayak just after making queer discoveries. Ebenezer unexpectely bagged two tranquil aardvarks with his jiffy vacuum cleaner. The sex life of the woodchuck is a provocative question for most vertebrate zoology majors. Oh, wet Alex, a jar, a fag! Up, disk, curve by! Man Oz, Iraq, Arizona, my Bev? Ruck's id-pug, a far Ajax, elate? Who? Jelly-like above the high wire, six quaking pachyderms kept the climax of the extravaganza in a dazzling state of flux. No kidding, Lorenzo called off his trip to visit Mexico City just because they told him the conquistadores were extinct. Forsaking monastic tradition, twelve jovial friars gave up their vocation for a questionable existence on the flying trapeze. An inspired calligrapher can create pages of beauty using stick ink, quill, brush, pick-axe, buzz saw, or even strawberry jam.
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13 Jun 02 - 03:51 PM (#729423) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Lonesome EJ Quick! Somebody nail Wincing Devil with a tranquilizer dart, for God's sakes! |
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13 Jun 02 - 03:59 PM (#729430) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Chicken Charlie Holy scheiss, Wolfgang old buddy, where do you find this stuff? CC |
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13 Jun 02 - 05:12 PM (#729472) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Wincing Devil You don't think I typed that all in, do you? ;-) After all, I have a reputation as the laziest man in the world to uphold! A google search on PANGRAM turned up that list. |
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13 Jun 02 - 05:52 PM (#729510) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Mr Red English Jon is 3.14159628 odd, even or non-recursive?zero is divisible by 2 so it must be even, Sorry Happy. Wincing Devil - you miss-out the French one - "regardez le wharf", can't remeber it all but it's traduction is something "look at the brick and see the wall" now my Pal in Drome T Elliot, top bard, not on drab pot Toilet I know, I know it don't rhyme, scan or make much sense, but Hey! its poetry in motion I'll get my coat....... |
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13 Jun 02 - 10:17 PM (#729650) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: GUEST,Dave Williams 3.14159628... (pi) is irrational as far as we know. In mathematics that means it can't be expressed as a ratio of two whole numbers, in other words, a fraction; although 22/7 is close. 0/0 is an undefined operation. It has no answer. 0 to the 0 power = 1 by definiton. Since any number to the zero power is the result of dividing it by itself, 0 to the zero power would be 0/0 which is undefined. So instead, in this one instance only, 0 to the 0 power is DEFINED to be 1. |
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14 Jun 02 - 02:47 AM (#729742) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Bert Mr Happy, zero is not a number, it is a symbol which indicates the absence of a number. You may have all kinds of fun pretending that it is a number and wondering how it would behave if it were. But never lose sight of the fact that it means NOTHING and therefore it symbolizes something that doesn't even exist. He had bought a large map representing the sea, Without the least vestige of land: And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be A map they could all understand. "What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators, Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?" So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply "They are merely conventional signs! "Other maps are such shapes, with their islands and capes! But we've got our brave Captain to thank: (So the crew would protest) "that he's bought us the best-- A perfect and absolute blank!" |
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14 Jun 02 - 04:08 AM (#729754) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Dave the Gnome Regal lager (One for Holts drinkers!) Madam I'm Adam Evil Rats on no star live Able was I ere I saw Elba Anagrams? Cecil Parkinson - Lock penis in car George W Bush - Ow! He buggers Cheers Dove then game |
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14 Jun 02 - 08:36 AM (#729854) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Mr Happy tom paxton: m!! tax on pot martin carthy: attn. i'm rich, ay! more |
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14 Jun 02 - 08:44 AM (#729860) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Mr Happy wincing devil, thanks a lot for the palidromes. i've a friend who's partially sighted. she's recently started learning to touch type, so i'll pass these on to her for her keyboard practice. cheers, phrampy |
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14 Jun 02 - 08:57 AM (#729865) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Murph10566 Wolfgang - Re: the 'new, improved "A Man, A Plan..." - WOW ! Regards, Murph |
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14 Jun 02 - 01:42 PM (#730034) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Pete Jennings My previous employer's European HQ was in Uxbridge (near London), where all the top bosses were based. An anagram of Uxbridge is Big Durex. And we all know what you find in big durexes... Pete
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14 Jun 02 - 02:22 PM (#730056) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: GUEST,alinact at another computer Bert I agree, but zero is "something" in a telephone number or else it wouldn't work? Allan
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14 Jun 02 - 07:41 PM (#730269) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Wincing Devil Practicing "The Quick Brown Fox..." was the only way I got thru the Navy's Keypunch Practical in DP 'A' School, way back in '79. Better than Mavis Beacon, fer me... |
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16 Jun 02 - 09:12 PM (#731170) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Mr Happy trys pee in bras [britney spears] |
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17 Jun 02 - 04:34 AM (#731298) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Nigel Parsons To extend the length of a palindrome (and this is not an invitation to double the length of the new improved 'Panama') the expression to describe a palindrome 'Sides reversed is' should be inserted at the end, and then the original palindrome repeared. Rotator, sides reversed is Rotator! |
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17 Jun 02 - 09:51 AM (#731409) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Guessed Wincing Devil Were they still using Mavis beacons for signalling when you were in the slient service? |
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17 Jun 02 - 01:13 PM (#731512) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Wincing Devil EXCUSE ME! I had more sense than to go on a boat that intentionally sank! I served on a REAL ship, where we learned that TERRIFIC MASCARAS RUIN RITZ (Aircraft Carrier USS Nimitz)
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17 Jun 02 - 01:19 PM (#731516) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Wincing Devil Send her of to be Governess to the bratty brood of a Retired Austrian Naval Captain! |
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17 Jun 02 - 01:21 PM (#731517) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Wincing Devil OOPS Talk about thread drift! That was supposed to a posting to another thread. The hazards of havinhg to many windows open! |
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11 Jul 02 - 05:34 AM (#746347) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Mr Happy TOSHIBA= AH! BISTO! |
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11 Jul 02 - 08:54 AM (#746424) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Bee-dubya-ell What kind of car does a palindrome fan drive?
A toyota racecar, of course. Anagrams? Click Here . Bruce |
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11 Jul 02 - 09:06 AM (#746434) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Mr Happy What kind of car does a palindrome fan drive? A toyota racecar, of course. that makes 'racecar a toyota'- not a palindrome |
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11 Jul 02 - 09:08 AM (#746437) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Bee-dubya-ell Damn! Blue clickie no workie! Try Again |
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11 Jul 02 - 09:16 AM (#746441) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: MudGuard The longest single word palindrome I know is the German word "Reliefpfeiler" |
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11 Jul 02 - 09:46 AM (#746449) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: John P Mad dog gnaws wang, goddam! |
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11 Jul 02 - 10:03 AM (#746465) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: GUEST,DaisyA My personal favourite anagram of a famous person's name: Leonardo da Vinci = vindaloo and rice! Daisy |
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11 Jul 02 - 10:17 AM (#746469) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Bee-dubya-ell Mr. Happy You have obviously never read a Japanese instruction manual. "Racecar a Toyota" is at perfectly acceptable usage. ;-) B. |
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11 Jul 02 - 11:17 AM (#746525) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Hecate Virginia Bottemly - I'm an evil Tory Bigot. Tony Blaire PM - I'm Tory B plan. Kate Winslet - tit wank eels. |
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12 Jul 02 - 06:24 AM (#747052) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Trevor Had you noticed that 'war and peace' is an anagram of 'wee and a crap'. And is it coincidence that Vimto is an anagram of vomit. |
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12 Jul 02 - 08:43 AM (#747099) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: dick greenhaus Oh well, Evian spelt backwards is naive. |
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12 Jul 02 - 08:14 PM (#747469) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: John Nolan Dick Gephardt, running for the US presidency in 1988, visited Farmington, in the boondocks of New Hampshire, and I was bedeviled by the local Democratic party to cover the event for a local newspaper. They were puzzingly unsatisfied with the following piece, despite no fewer than five anagrams being woven into it. Maybe it will be more appreciated in 2004. Anagrammatically so! Ronnie and Holly worked far into the night, making Dumontskee's Restaurant a place fit for a king, never mind a presidential contender. Every Hunter's Special crumb was vacuumed from the carpets, every smear of grease and ketchup was banished. Even the walls were freshened up with a sparkling coat of pale blue paint, and the famous Kennedy Painting was taken down from its hook and scrubbed with a Brillo. When Ronnie broke the glass in the frame, he replaced it at a cost of $6, greatly increasing the value of the work, and then carefully hung it in pride of place, on the wall adjacent to the photograph of a smouldering Elvis, and opposite where would stand the guest speaker of the evening, Democratic hopeful Dick Gephardt. By 6:30 on that Sunday evening, a bigger crowd had gathered round the tables to hear the candidate than show up for breakfast on the first Saturday of deer shooting season. Dumontskee's was packed to the point where many people were obliged to move into the barroom next door to make more space. F.B.I. agents, assigned to protective duties, hustled around, subjecting the audience to professionally critical gazes, and chewing gum. The buzz of expectancy grew. My eyes became enchanted by a menu board in which plastic pieces of alphabet had been inserted to read: WELCOME TO FARMINGTON, DICK GEPHARDT. Thirty-one letters. Hmm. Was it the heat? Was it the fervor of his supporters as the V.I.P. sprang into the restaurant with his wife and a small political entourage? The 31 letters began to swirl and reform before my eyes: PTA CITED KNOWLEDGE OF MR. HART COMING Could this be a mystic message that I alone had seen? Should I tell Larry Kelly next to me? Maybe Hart was coming. Maybe blows would be struck, like in the Men's Ballbouncing earlier that day. Yet even as Mr. Gephardt was welcomed to Farmington the letters on the board began to shuffle themselves again. Rubbing my eyes I read: WET MORNING! PRACTICED THE GOLF! MAD, OK? But hadn't he been in a debate at Durham university earlier? Perhaps he had shot a round, first. A couple of easily answered questions were asked out of the crowd, and then Dick motioned towards a man I had seen outside the Post Office campaigning on behalf of someone entirely different. This gent sought Gephardt's response to an enormously complicated enquiry involving Afghanistan, and wrote down the reply. I was relieved to notice that the 31 letters were on the move once more. LARGE FIT MOM GREW HAND-PICKED COTTON came the menu board message, as the man who would be President began his speech. It was hard to understand, this one. Maybe something to do with the southern vote, what with the mention of cotton, but would the feminists like it? I gave my brain a rest from such challenging thoughts and listened to Gephardt for a while explaining that a $10,000 American car was subjected to so many taxes in South Korea that its final cost to those Asiatic citizens was $48,000. This nugget of information swung the room firmly behind Dick's trade policy, but they looked a little puzzled when he waved his arms around the room and said, "This is the Golden Goose, folks," because even the people in the bar knew it was Dumontskees. There was action back at the sign board as the characters rescrambled themselves to form: A DOGGED MAN WHOM RIFLE KIT CAN PROTECT. Well that much was true. He was persistent, and the gum-chewing brethren were staring down the guy who had asked the question about Afghanistan. Gephardt, recalling that the Golden Goose was in Pocahontas, Iowa, recovered well and attacked Reagan for putting money in the Pentagon, and taking it out of the hides of senior citizens. "We're gonna keep the faith with senior citizens," cried the candidate, causing a spontaneous "Yes! Yes!" from an elderly lady, and simultaneous agitation of the letters. This time I read: LAWMEN DEMOTE DRAG COP IN TIGHT FROCK Now this was real news - the stuff that columns are made of, and I checked the F.B.I. contingent to see if perhaps I had overlooked one of their number. They would probable hush a thing like that up, though. Stuff the guy in the back of the cruiser, right off, away from the gaze of a sensation-seeking press. Oh well. When I had finished dreaming of landing the big scoop, I returned my gaze to Dick Gephardt, but he had vanished into the night, heading no doubt, for Iowa, where he might inform a baffled crowd in a small cafe "This is Dumontskee's, folks."
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23 Jul 02 - 06:21 AM (#752920) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Mr Happy mr red, 0/2= 0, this is neither odd nor even |
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10 Sep 03 - 07:53 AM (#1016180) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Mr Happy dragons:snog ard! |
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10 Sep 03 - 12:08 PM (#1016335) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Watson George Best - Go get beers. |
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10 Sep 03 - 01:38 PM (#1016377) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Murray MacLeod Wolfgang's palindrome above unfortunately loses its validity because it depends on all the words preceded by the indefinite article being actual singular nouns which can take the indefinite article. It falls down on this score twice. Firstly, by what stretch of the imagination can one have "a wet" ? Secondly, although cows do "chew the cud", no cow has ever chewed "a cud", nor has any veterinary surgeon nor farmer ever seen "a cud" . I look forward to being contradicted by all other pedants .... Murray |
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10 Sep 03 - 02:54 PM (#1016420) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Nerd "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 |
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10 Sep 03 - 03:23 PM (#1016440) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Mr Red 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. |
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11 Sep 03 - 03:13 PM (#1017107) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Arnie 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!!" |
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20 Apr 07 - 10:22 AM (#2031076) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: Mr Happy Let쳌fs bash 쳌ehem = Loo gargle |
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21 Apr 07 - 08:58 AM (#2031898) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: GUEST,Zi Mother in Law is an anagram of Woman Hitler! |
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21 Apr 07 - 10:02 AM (#2031927) Subject: RE: anagrams/palindromes etc From: GUEST,TIA sit on a potato pan otis |