From: John K. Pollard Jr. [jkpjkp@alum.mit.edu]
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 9:27 AM
To: DPGowing@cs.com
Cc: Gary S. Gevisser; Leenie-Beanie Brennan
Subject: Re: images

 

I love reading these things but am not patient enough to unscramble or to create them.  I have shared this note with a few others who will appreciate them as well.

 

----- Original Message -----

Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 6:28 PM

Subject: images

 

   Jno, my recollection I have of the young JKP is that he had the kind of perceptive mind that would be good at this sort of thing.  Best, D

......It's hard to believe that human beings spend time figuring these things out, but interesting to see the results:
    An Anagram, as you all know, is a word or phrase made by transposing or rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. The following are exceptionally clever.  Someone out there either has way too much time to waste or is deadly at Scrabble:
Dormitory ---------- Dirty Room    
Evangelist ---------- Evil's Agent
Desperation ---------- A Rope Ends It
The Morse Code ----------Here Come Dots
Slot Machines ---------- Cash Lost in 'em
Animosity ---------- Is No Amity
Mother-in-law ----------Woman Hitler
Snooze Alarms ----------Alas! No More Z's
Alec Guinness ----------Genuine Class
Semolina ---------- Is No Meal
The Public Art Galleries ----------Large Picture Halls, I Bet
A Decimal Point ----------I'm a Dot in Place
The Earthquakes ----------That Queer Shake
Eleven plus two ----------Twelve plus one
Contradiction ----------Accord not in it

   "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."
   And the Anagram:  "In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten."

   "That's one small step fora man, one giant leap for mankind." Neil Armstrong
   The Anagram:  "A thin man ran; makes a large stride, left planet, pins flag on moon! On to Mars!"