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BS: Too much time on thier hands

16 Jul 07 - 12:50 AM (#2103871)
Subject: BS: Too much time on thier hands
From: Stephen L. Rich

This has got to be one of the most clever
E-mails I've received in a while.
Someone out there either has too much
Spare time or is deadly at Scrabble.
(Wait till you see the last one)!

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

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:

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

Yep! Someone with waaaaaaaaaaay
Too much time on their hands! (Probably a
son-in-law).

Be well.
Stephen Lee


16 Jul 07 - 12:55 AM (#2103873)
Subject: RE: BS: Too much time on thier hands
From: Janie

Wow!


16 Jul 07 - 01:13 AM (#2103884)
Subject: RE: BS: Too much time on thier hands
From: Ebbie

Makes you wonder, huh!


16 Jul 07 - 02:05 AM (#2103910)
Subject: RE: BS: Too much time on thier hands
From: Barry Finn

Thier si pelt their, balk about two much chime on one's pans.

Barry


16 Jul 07 - 02:29 AM (#2103920)
Subject: RE: BS: Too much time on their hands
From: Stilly River Sage

There are programs that generate anagrams. It isn't as difficult as it looks (sad to say--this says more about diligence than cleverness).

SRS


16 Jul 07 - 05:30 AM (#2104001)
Subject: RE: BS: Too much time on thier hands
From: Jack Campin

Stephen L Rich:

thresh pencil
lip her stench
rich hen slept
helps in retch

(Using a program I wrote myself about 20 years ago).


16 Jul 07 - 06:02 AM (#2104021)
Subject: RE: BS: Too much time on thier hands
From: TheSnail

ENDEARMENT = TENDER NAME


16 Jul 07 - 08:33 AM (#2104103)
Subject: RE: BS: Too much time on thier hands
From: Wolfgang

Nessiteras rhombopteryx (scientific name proposed for Nessie in a Nature article just in case she was found)

Monster hoax by Sir Peter S. (anagram in a subsequent letter to the editor mentioning one of the better known Nessie hunters)

Wolfgang


16 Jul 07 - 01:37 PM (#2104346)
Subject: RE: BS: Too much time on thier hands
From: Stephen L. Rich

My frequent musical partner, Sandy Andina sent me this one:

MONICA LEWINSKY: I LICK MAN. NEWS. OY!


Jack Campin, what would ha[[en if you added my middle name "Lee" into that mix?

Stephen Lee


17 Jul 07 - 07:35 AM (#2105012)
Subject: RE: BS: Too much time on thier hands
From: Dave the Gnome

Cecil Parkinson - Lock penis in car OR Rockin' sec in lap

Ayatolah Khomeni - I am in a hot hell, OK?

:D


17 Jul 07 - 08:07 AM (#2105029)
Subject: RE: BS: Too much time on thier hands
From: Dave the Gnome

Whoops - last one should be I am YN a hot hell OK.


17 Jul 07 - 02:33 PM (#2105201)
Subject: RE: BS: Too much time on thier hands
From: Jack Campin

Stephen Lee Rich:
shelter epic hen
hi, serpent leech
inspect her heel
lecher instep, eh?
the sincere help
perish, net leech
the senile perch
pet leech shrine
her pestle niche
spleen itch here
incest help here
herpes client he
ripe heel stench
her ethnic sleep
the lichen spree
lichen pest here
her help entices
thence his leper
snip thee, lecher
hit lecher penes
lecher's thin pee
he spent her lice
lithe hens creep
preen this leech
he retch in sleep
the leper's niche
hence leper shit
pinch three eels
he lent her spice


17 Jul 07 - 03:08 PM (#2105243)
Subject: RE: BS: Too much time on thier hands
From: Jack Campin

Dave Polshaw:
whoa, VD lapse
wop had slave
shave pow, lad
wash a VD pole
swap a VD hole
wave, posh lad
wasp had love
wash love pad
pa's VD hoe law


17 Jul 07 - 09:30 PM (#2105528)
Subject: RE: BS: Too much time on thier hands
From: SharonA

"Weapons of mass destruction" = "US team swoops. Finds no trace."


17 Jul 07 - 09:46 PM (#2105536)
Subject: RE: BS: Too much time on thier hands
From: cookster

RACECAR
       spelled backwards is...
RACECAR


17 Jul 07 - 09:49 PM (#2105538)
Subject: RE: BS: Too much time on thier hands
From: cookster

Oh yeah and you spelled,"their" wrong.


17 Jul 07 - 11:56 PM (#2105613)
Subject: RE: BS: Too much time on thier hands
From: Stephen L. Rich

I'm reasonably sure that shifting from anagrams to spoonerisms doesn't count as thread drift.


Stephen Lee


18 Jul 07 - 11:57 AM (#2105962)
Subject: RE: BS: Too much time on thier hands
From: Little Hawk

Hey, cookster, and you should have put a comma after "Oh yeah", but not before "their". ;-)


21 Jul 07 - 04:06 PM (#2108312)
Subject: RE: BS: Too much time on thier hands
From: Stephen L. Rich

Jack, I had no idea that you could make that many phrases from that. Next time somebody asks "What's in anam?", well...

Stephen Lee