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Brian Whitworth wrote:The folly of mistaking [...] a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths
Physician, heal thyself.
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Phil Reynolds wrote:
Brian Whitworth wrote:The folly of mistaking [...] a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths
Physician, heal thyself.
From the Bible, Luke 4:23 (King James Version):

And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.
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I get a definition: Larceny - we nick
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Just saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button after work today (brilliant film) and as the credits rolled the Countdowner in me couldn't help but notice the director ERIC ROTH was an anagram of RHETORIC :D
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Dinos Sfyris wrote:Just saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button after work today (brilliant film) and as the credits rolled the Countdowner in me couldn't help but notice the director ERIC ROTH was an anagram of RHETORIC :D
ha ha, I was watching "Coronation Street" before, and it struck me...they should introduce a new female Spanish/Italian character, perhaps called "Senorita Cornetto"

Sorry, that was lame! I know! :mrgreen:
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Dinos Sfyris wrote:Just saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button after work today (brilliant film) and as the credits rolled the Countdowner in me couldn't help but notice the director ERIC ROTH was an anagram of RHETORIC :D
The film was directed by David Fincher - Eric Roth wrote the screenplay.
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A couple of good ones, TORCHWOOD is the anagram of DOCTOR WHO, and the DALEKS are the anagram of the species that created them, the KALEDS.
If you cut a gandiseeg in half, do you get two gandiseegs or two halves of a gandiseeg?
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Martin Gardner wrote:A couple of good ones, TORCHWOOD is the anagram of DOCTOR WHO, and the DALEKS are the anagram of the species that created them, the KALEDS.
Rather better (because less well-known) were the gangster aliens in the Tom Baker-era Who story The Leisure Hive. The name of their race, the Foomasi, was an anagram of MAFIOSO.
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Vimto = Vomit
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Brian Whitworth wrote:Vimto = Vomit
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I have one fairly good cross-language one, which is langue (French) and lengua (Spanish and I think Occitan). A common mistake in French is to write language instead of langage. My guess would be that in Old French it's language, and since then it's lost the U, but in English it's kept the U, which is what influences French people to spell it wrong. Another one that French people spell wrong loads is connection - the verb is connecter, but the noun is connexion (like complexion in English).

Cross-language ones can be good for Scrabble as well. The really weird looking French word orfèvre is the anagram of forever, which is how I always spot it (missed it in my last tournament in 2008).

Edit: I've got two slightly different etymologies for language from two different sources. Obviously it's from lingua (ae, f) in Latin, but one source says the Old French is language, the other says linguaige. The answer is probably both then, because the OF period stretches about 600 years, plus spelling isn't fixed yet at the time, so people in the north of France don't pronounce it in the same way as in the south, so they don't use the same spelling either!
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Among the ones on wordmith.org were: Lax Rogering Inn, Oral Ex Grinning, and Groin Annex Girl. For my boyfriend's name I found I'll Clinch Arse Ho and Chill Oral Niches.
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Roxanne wrote:Among the ones on wordmith.org were: Lax Rogering Inn, Oral Ex Grinning, and Groin Annex Girl. For my boyfriend's name I found I'll Clinch Arse Ho and Chill Oral Niches.
So you're Roxanne Girling and your BF's Charlie Lolchins.
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Roxanne wrote:Among the ones on wordmith.org were: Lax Rogering Inn, Oral Ex Grinning, and Groin Annex Girl. For my boyfriend's name I found I'll Clinch Arse Ho and Chill Oral Niches.
So your name is ROXANNE GIRLING and your boyfriend's is CHARLIE CHILLSON? Am I close? This could be a good game!

Edit: Man!!! Kai has posted the exact same idea as me. Grrrrr. It's nice that the most realistic name we found was CHARLIE though.
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Kirk Bevins wrote:
Roxanne wrote:Among the ones on wordmith.org were: Lax Rogering Inn, Oral Ex Grinning, and Groin Annex Girl. For my boyfriend's name I found I'll Clinch Arse Ho and Chill Oral Niches.
So your name is ROXANNE GIRLING and your boyfriend's is CHARLIE CHILLSON? Am I close? This could be a good game!
Two top Countdown players have just been proven to be shit at anagramming for not spotting the rather obvious Charlie Nicholls.

Btw GROIN ANNEX GIRL sounds like both the best anagram ever and a pornographic superhero.
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Ben Wilson wrote: Two top Countdown players have just been proven to be shit at anagramming for not spotting the rather obvious Charlie Nicholls.
Bastard. Did you use a solver? Nice one. I struggle when they're proper nouns sometimes.
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Kirk Bevins wrote:
Ben Wilson wrote: Two top Countdown players have just been proven to be shit at anagramming for not spotting the rather obvious Charlie Nicholls.
Bastard. Did you use a solver? Nice one. I struggle when they're proper nouns sometimes.
Except that I wasn't actually trying to get the real name, I made it up. Cos I don't know many Lolchins.
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ALLAH = HALAL
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how about a game of making anagrams with celebrity names?

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Roxanne wrote:how about a game of making anagrams with celebrity names?

Jet Flings Elf
Jeff Stelling, having the je- in the right order helped.
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Kirk Bevins wrote:
Ben Wilson wrote: Two top Countdown players have just been proven to be shit at anagramming for not spotting the rather obvious Charlie Nicholls.
Bastard. Did you use a solver? Nice one. I struggle when they're proper nouns sometimes.
Yeah, like I said about coding words into your brain (NAILED + N = ANNELID). Good for Countdown and Scrabble, but not very useful for pub quiz anagrams. I know my friends were a bit shocked when I couldn't solve SIT MONKEY (name/surname) but someone else in my team could. That's because I don't practise multi-word anagrams, although I can do them a bit.
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Roxanne wrote:how about a game of making anagrams with celebrity names?

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MICHAEL JACKSON.
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Martin Gardner wrote: I couldn't solve SIT MONKEY (name/surname) but someone else in my team could. That's because I don't practise multi-word anagrams, although I can do them a bit.
And MIKE LEN TYSON (not his real middle name (at least I don't think it is (checks Wikipedia (even though it's not entirely reliable (although I'm pretty sure it would be corrected quikly (and ignoring his alternative name (Malik Abdul Aziz))))))) anagrams into MILTON KEYNES
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Gary Male wrote:anagrams into MILTON KEYNES
It was the answer to a cryptic crossword between 6 and 8 years ago with the clue mentioning a SILENT MONKEY. (I remember it was 6-8 years ago as I was at school in year 10 or 11 as my form tutor was doing the crossword and called upon us to help him with the anagram).
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Roxanne wrote:how about a game of making anagrams with celebrity names?

Agile Jail One
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Angelina Jolie
Paris Hilton
Michael Jackson
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Jon Corby wrote:
Roxanne wrote:how about a game of making anagrams with celebrity names?

Agile Jail One
Angelina Jolie
Hmm...I think Roxanne has missed an 'N' out. No wonder I couldn't get it :lol:
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CRAB PENSIONER is proving to be hard. I have found CREEP NO BRAINS but I don't think I'm close. There's a BRIAN in there and a SPENCER but I'm miles away I think.
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Or... I got it wrong. I didn't really bother to check any of them that carefully :D
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Here's one on the celeb theme:

HE DRINKS FUEL RATE
I LOVE A GROAN
GI SUCH A OLD MALE

all appeared in the film NINTH STEELE
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CRAB PENSIONER = PIERCE BROSNAN
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Dinos Sfyris wrote:Here's one on the celeb theme:

HE DRINKS FUEL RATE
I LOVE A GROAN
GI SUCH A OLD MALE

all appeared in the film NINTH STEELE
Kiefer Sutherland, Eva Longoria (to use her former professional name) and Michael Douglas were all in The Sentinel.
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Naomi Laddiman wrote:CRAB PENSIONER = PIERCE BROSNAN
Well done Naomi!
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JOSEPH KROL = OL' POSH JERK

Seems to be the only decent one.
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My alter-ego is ADMIRAL GLAD
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Wanderin slow.
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stray moon = astronomy
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James Bradley wrote:stray moon = astronomy
Moon starer = astronomer
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Joseph Krol wrote:
James Bradley wrote:stray moon = astronomy
Moon starer = astronomer
Moon starers = astronomers
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Ryan Taylor wrote:
Joseph Krol wrote:
James Bradley wrote:stray moon = astronomy
Moon starer = astronomer
Moon starers = astronomers
Bet it took you a while to come up with that one.
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Joseph Krol wrote:
Ryan Taylor wrote:
Joseph Krol wrote:Moon starer = astronomer
Moon starers = astronomers
Bet it took you a while to come up with that one.
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Ryan Taylor wrote:
Joseph Krol wrote:
Ryan Taylor wrote: Moon starers = astronomers
Bet it took you a while to come up with that one.
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Not sure if this is the right topic but I'm genuinely proud of this effort having just received a set of A-Z, 0-9 foam tiles for the bathroom.

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(The leftover tiles spell "99 WORK X", which is obviously shorthand for "I got 99 problems but work ain't one").

Would be interested to hear other suggestions on what one could write with the 36 tiles (using most or all of them, allowing for leeway with numbers used as letters, a bit of txt spk etc.).
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:lol: :lol: :lol: Scraping the barrel a bit with some of those! But nice work.
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Adam Gillard wrote: Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:34 pm Not sure if this is the right topic but I'm genuinely proud of this effort having just received a set of A-Z, 0-9 foam tiles for the bathroom.

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(The leftover tiles spell "99 WORK X", which is obviously shorthand for "I got 99 problems but work ain't one").

Would be interested to hear other suggestions on what one could write with the 36 tiles (using most or all of them, allowing for leeway with numbers used as letters, a bit of txt spk etc.).
Brilliant!
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