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Physician, heal thyself.Brian Whitworth wrote:The folly of mistaking [...] a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths
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From the Bible, Luke 4:23 (King James Version):Phil Reynolds wrote:Physician, heal thyself.Brian Whitworth wrote:The folly of mistaking [...] a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths
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
or, if you prefer (and I'm sure some of you will): Newly nice rack.
or, if you prefer (and I'm sure some of you will): Newly nice rack.
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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
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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"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
Sorry, that was lame! I know!
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The film was directed by David Fincher - Eric Roth wrote the screenplay.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
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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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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.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.
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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!
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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So you're Roxanne Girling and your BF's Charlie Lolchins.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.
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So your name is ROXANNE GIRLING and your boyfriend's is CHARLIE CHILLSON? Am I close? This could be a good game!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.
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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Two top Countdown players have just been proven to be shit at anagramming for not spotting the rather obvious Charlie Nicholls.Kirk Bevins wrote:So your name is ROXANNE GIRLING and your boyfriend's is CHARLIE CHILLSON? Am I close? This could be a good game!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.
Btw GROIN ANNEX GIRL sounds like both the best anagram ever and a pornographic superhero.
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Bastard. Did you use a solver? Nice one. I struggle when they're proper nouns sometimes.Ben Wilson wrote: Two top Countdown players have just been proven to be shit at anagramming for not spotting the rather obvious Charlie Nicholls.
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Except that I wasn't actually trying to get the real name, I made it up. Cos I don't know many Lolchins.Kirk Bevins wrote:Bastard. Did you use a solver? Nice one. I struggle when they're proper nouns sometimes.Ben Wilson wrote: Two top Countdown players have just been proven to be shit at anagramming for not spotting the rather obvious Charlie Nicholls.
16/10/2007 - Episode 4460
Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
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ALLAH = HALAL
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how about a game of making anagrams with celebrity names?
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Jeff Stelling, having the je- in the right order helped.Roxanne wrote:how about a game of making anagrams with celebrity names?
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If you cut a gandiseeg in half, do you get two gandiseegs or two halves of a gandiseeg?
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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.Kirk Bevins wrote:Bastard. Did you use a solver? Nice one. I struggle when they're proper nouns sometimes.Ben Wilson wrote: Two top Countdown players have just been proven to be shit at anagramming for not spotting the rather obvious Charlie Nicholls.
If you cut a gandiseeg in half, do you get two gandiseegs or two halves of a gandiseeg?
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MICHAEL JACKSON.Roxanne wrote:how about a game of making anagrams with celebrity names?
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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 KEYNESMartin 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.
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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).Gary Male wrote:anagrams into MILTON KEYNES
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Angelina JolieRoxanne wrote:how about a game of making anagrams with celebrity names?
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Paris Hilton
Michael Jackson
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Hmm...I think Roxanne has missed an 'N' out. No wonder I couldn't get itJon Corby wrote:Angelina JolieRoxanne wrote:how about a game of making anagrams with celebrity names?
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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
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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
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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Kiefer Sutherland, Eva Longoria (to use her former professional name) and Michael Douglas were all in The Sentinel.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
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Well done Naomi!Naomi Laddiman wrote:CRAB PENSIONER = PIERCE BROSNAN
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stray moon = astronomy
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Moon starers = astronomersJoseph Krol wrote:Moon starer = astronomerJames Bradley wrote:stray moon = astronomy
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Bet it took you a while to come up with that one.Ryan Taylor wrote:Moon starers = astronomersJoseph Krol wrote:Moon starer = astronomerJames Bradley wrote:stray moon = astronomy
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noJoseph Krol wrote:Bet it took you a while to come up with that one.Ryan Taylor wrote:Moon starers = astronomersJoseph Krol wrote:Moon starer = astronomer
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onRyan Taylor wrote:noJoseph Krol wrote:Bet it took you a while to come up with that one.Ryan Taylor wrote: Moon starers = astronomers
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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.
(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.).
(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.).
Mike Brown: "Round 12: T N R S A E I G U
C1: SIGNATURE (18) ["9; not written down"]
C2: SEATING (7)
Score: 108–16 (max 113)
Another niner for Adam and yet another century. Well done, that man."
C1: SIGNATURE (18) ["9; not written down"]
C2: SEATING (7)
Score: 108–16 (max 113)
Another niner for Adam and yet another century. Well done, that man."
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Scraping the barrel a bit with some of those! But nice work.
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Brilliant!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.
(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.).