Fun With Anagrams
During a bought with procrastination-itis today I decided to use the time wisely by seeing how many anagrams I could come up with using the word "procrastinate." I stopped at 2 because I realized that by using the procrastination period to deconstruct the word "procrastinate" I was in fact creating some sort of cosmic etymological wormhole that could destroy the universe.
Here are the two I came up with:
Stir on a carpet.
I rate cars 'n pot.
Anyone care to add their two or three cents worth? Or nonsense worth, as it were?
Here are the two I came up with:
Stir on a carpet.
I rate cars 'n pot.
Anyone care to add their two or three cents worth? Or nonsense worth, as it were?
posted by Chris at
3:06 PM
30 Comments:
Tina! Rat corpse!
'Tis ornate crap.
And I think I once heard this on CSI: Miami:
"Rapist eat corn."
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Erotic Spartan
and
"Pancreas? Or tit?"
Chris, not sure if you know this, but you created one long tag called "anagrams procrastinate etymological wormhole" instead of four separate tags. Apologies if this was your intent; it'll be interesting to see how it gets reused!
Coincidentally, on that same episode of CSI Miami, a blind coroner uttered the line "Pancreas? Or tit?"
And I will make some origami for best anagram of
"anagrams procrastinate etymological wormhole"
prostate narc
prostrate can
Priest on a cart
Bernie & Frank,
"I" hate to be an "i"solationist, but "I" think there is a letter missing from both your entries. If you look with your "eyes" you might find what "me" is talking about. Wait, that last one didn't... oh, well.
Jack, if you feel their entries are strong enough in spite of this oversight then perhaps you can award them with a prize that reflects this missing letter. Who wouldn't appreciate some nice orgami. Or origam if you prefer.
patriot crane?
cranes
Mine was an anagram of Bernie's, not of procrastinate directly.
Anyway Prostrate Cain is better, it's like the title of a James Tissot painting. Although I know he was the murderer, not the murdered.
Frank, I love it. An anagram of a slightly off anagram is creating a whole other wormhole. The universe is trembling.
Some more...
It ate Rons crap.
Pet cat train...so?
I parent costar!
"I rent tacos!" rap
(this could be a potentially huge rap song if it were written... with lines like "I rent tacos, to my bitch ass ho's, so they knows where their money goes."
Correction: Pet cart train....so?
I can prostate?
no, sorry. I'm making mistakes here.
aero crap stint.
An anagram for our friend Kris Mowrey is Work Misery.
Which, if you know her, is perfect.
Here's a fun little puzzle: guess approximiately how many anagrams there are for procrastinate. The guess should include any anagrams made from smaller English words, but should not include anagrams made from the same words but in a different order. For example, rapist eat corn and eat corn rapist and corn rapist eat , etc only count as one anagram.
twelve?
Oh John, that is precious.
More than twelve?
The Internet Anagram Server lists 77,000.
Which is a lot.
In the Icelandic language, no anagrams are possible.
77,000! Can you imagine this thread continuing for another five years as we slowly build to that magic number?
Frank, there was a fascinating story on 60 Minutes a year or so ago about an autistic savant who was actually a high functioning autistic man. Anyway, one of his gifts was the ability to learn any language in an incredibly short time period. To test his abilities out, they assigned him what most linguists agree is the toughest language on earth to learn... Icelandic. Seven days later he was speaking fluently and carrying on conversations with native speakers.
tart space noir
a tri-snot caper
pet antics roar
Narcs tape riot
ornate CSI trap
a Rip Torn caste
no R.I.P. Sears cat
a tin car poster
Frank, your comment about Icelandic and anagrams is just a joke, right? "Cause if it's not, I'd sure like to know!
Oh - I'd also like to know if it's a joke, but a pun. Because I don't get the pun.
It's a joke, but not a pun. Just something to sneak in there after it looked like the thread had expired.
Though Icelandic has very few short words.
Daniel Tammet is the man who learned Icelandic. He also recited many, many digits of PI and is also a synesthete.
So is Isa, incidentally.
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