I love palindromes, and I love anagrams. I guess it's my love of words and language, combined with my enjoyment of puzzles and games. I can't make palindromes at all, and maybe that's partly why I like them.
For reasons unknown, Allan recently started making anagrams of Red Sox players' names. (Scroll down.) I joined in - and then continued because it was annoying a neocon. (Did I ever claim to be mature?) So there I was, wracking my brain to use up all the letters, only to learn that Allan's astounding anagrams were more easily acquired: he used one of the many online anagram generators.
So folks, anagrams for "we move to canada"?
The only rule is you've got to do it on your own, no using anagram sites. You're on the honour system. Be (or be like) good Canadians: pay your fare, don't cross against the lights, and think up anagrams on your own.
I'll warn you, we do have a Scrabble champion in our midst.
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I'm so bad with word puzzles. I listen to the Puzzle Master, Will Shortz on Weekend Edittion and feel my IQ drop.
But I've always felt that the word for "Palindrome" should have been a palindrome itself.
I'm great at crossword puzzles, but I totally suck at Scrabble. Not sure how that works.
Palindrome would be better as a palindrome, yes. What should we call it? Maybe "enoone".
Do you know Weird Al's song, "Bob"? It's a Bob Dylan spoof done entirely in palindromes.
Video
We were just talking about this! Allan saw the video - it's a send-up of a famous Dylan film - but he didn't know what it was. Later he found out it was Weird Al. It's amazing. I'm also a huge fan of the song and film it parodies, so it's extra cool to me. :)
In the original, that's Allen Ginsberg in the background.
Allan saw the video - it's a send-up of a famous Dylan film - but he didn't know what it was.
It came off Al's 2003 album, "Poodle Hat". It's one of my favourite Al songs.
All this talk, and no one wants to take a shot at an anagram for "we move to canada"? I'll give it lots more time before I post Allan's results from the anagram generator.
Bob video
Better to see the video before the lyrics.
(Love the way he sings "Nixon" with extra nasality.)
From the "Bob" lyrics, two amazing palindromes:
God! A red nugget! A fat egg under a dog!
and
Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog.
I have to look for those Osama Bin Laden palindromes. Remember those?
Good thing I'm not in the US, Googling OBL's name...
Okay, I love this stuff. So, while eating a Coffee Crisp...
and without punctuation...
come vote a wanda
wanda come to eva [and variations on the theme]
aa man we voted co [as in conscientious objector]
a dove man ate cow
ace do want a move
ava no cat meowed
Had to quit before it was 2 in the morning and I was still trying to find the perfect one!
Oh, excellent! This is my favourite of yours:
aa man we voted co
I can't play because I saw the ones from the anagram generator, but I will give a big hint. The word "vacate" is in there. :)
I may not be a Scrabble champ, but I've yet to find someone I couldn't beat. James, good call on Poodle Hat. An underrated Al album. Got it the day it came out. I guess with the modern YouTube era, that old video for Bob has become a current hit. Weird. The eBay song is great, too.
Anyway, I'll go work on an anagram for WMTC and be back later...
I think this fits this blog in a way. Kinda:
Veto camo and awe
Papelbon thinks he's a good Scrabble player, as we learned during a Fox broadcast last year.
I say you issue a public challenge to play him and also email it to the Sox press office.
Maybe he'll bite.
Meet avacado now.
Evade Tacoma now.
Ok, here's the best one:
A. Wood: A VT menace!
A. Wood: A VT menace!
Brilliant!
I take it you know A Wood hails from the Green Mountain State.
I say you issue a public challenge to play him and also email it to the Sox press office.
Me? I suck at Scrabble. But I'd be very interested in playing with Jonathan Papelbon.
Scrabble, of course.
Or just about any other game he liked.
Or maybe you were talking to Jere?
All's I got:
Came to a den, a vow
We damn a cave, too
I hope making sense isn't a requirement. The first one kinda sorta might a bit, I guess.
Eat on Mad Cow Ave.
Yes, I know he's from VT. I will take on Pap at Scrabble.
M@, they don't have to make sense, it's just more fun if they do. And yours do, in that anagrammatic way. I like the first one!
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Mad Cow Ave, eh? Hmm.
Hey, why don't we all bring this song to "a team-woven coda."
Teva: A cow moaned.
('cause Teva makes leather sandals... okay, I'll stop.)
Wow, that's heavy. A cow moaned.
You don't have to stop unless you want to. I know how it can be. You might have seen me do the same somewhere recently.
I offer this challenge to everybody: Do one that uses "WMD."
A. Wood: A VT menace!
Get the fuck out of here!
...
[writes down words and crosses out letters in order]
...
Wow.
Do one that uses "WMD."
O, can a WMD veto ea?
How's that?
Aa WMD veto, ace? No.
No WMD? Vacate, o A.
But damned if I don't have an E leftover.
Yeah, that VT menace one is wild.
Here's one that I'm trusting is correct:
"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."
=
"In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten."
THAT IS AN ANAGRAM????
Apparently. Same for this Oscar Wilde quote:
"There is only one thing worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about."
=
"Wilde died broken, beaten 'n' total nut. Hate being sunk in that rotten gaol. Shh, gay is taboo."
" 'n' total nut " is a bit of a cheat, but it's still very impressive.
But the Shakespeare - insane!
What site are you getting these from?
THAT IS AN ANAGRAM????
Confirmed. I just threw together a program to sort the phrases' letters into alphabetical order. Here are they are (original in italics, anagram in roman):
aaaabbbddeeeeeeeeeeeeffffgghhhhhh
aaaabbbddeeeeeeeeeeeeffffgghhhhhh
iiiiiillmnnnnnnnnooooooooooooqrrr
iiiiiillmnnnnnnnnooooooooooooqrrr
rrrrrssssssssttttttttttttttuuuuuww
rrrrrssssssssttttttttttttttuuuuuww
Neat. Sure beats using Scrabble tiles. :)
(Which I didn't even think of, but got from Jere.)
And I got that from Rosemary's Baby.
Alec Guiness=Genuine Class.
(Got that from a Simpsons episode.)
The palindrome my friend Mike and I came up with in 7th grade:
Not on a pot at New York, Roy went atop a N.O.T.O.N.
(which stands for Nerd's Option To Open Nothing--which, besides being a cheat, doesn't help the sentence make sense. But pretty good for 7th graders.)
The most famous one in our house comes from Roger Angell's account for the 1986 post-season in The New Yorker.
I forget how it happened exactly, but at some point before Game 6 ended, a friend (and palindrome nut whose name was Allan, if I recall) of Angell's slipped him a piece of paper (or called him):
Not so, Boston.
I was going to mention Not So, Boston, but without the back story. :)
You know, after game 3 of the 2004 ALCS, I slipped some dude a paper that said "So, Bos."
OK, since the game seems to have ended - with very few contestants - I will post some of the results Allan got using the anagram generator:
woo! advance team!
wet avocado, amen
eat wood, caveman
adam can't woo eve
mad eva tow canoe
damon weave coat
"woo! advance team!" sounds like we're pioneers as we move to canada. and "eat wood, caveman" must be a response to wingnut trolls. "adam can't woo eve" is just plain great.
and one more:
vacate and moo
Shouldn't that be "we vacate and moo"?
Now that you're into the anagram program products, how about:
vow made at canoe
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