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That was pretty good for a one-word anagram. Back in the 1990s I wrote a program that generated anagrams for longer phrases and I was surprised to find these pr
by kmoser 4y ago
That was pretty good for a one-word anagram. Back in the 1990s I wrote a program that generated anagrams for longer phrases and I was surprised to find these prescient ones:
Saddam Hussein = He damns Saudis
Charles Manson = Slasher con man
David Letterman = Dead mitral vent
Mary Jo Kopechne = My joke chaperon *
Benito Mussolini = So, I bout Leninism
Lee Harvey Oswald = Oe, why ever Dallas? *
* "Chaperon" is a valid alternate spelling of "chaperone"
** Yes, "oe" is a word
- pfdietz 4y agoRonald Wilson Reagan = Insane Anglo Warlord
- kmoser 4y agoAlso "Orwellian radon snag"
- eesmith 4y agoDick Cavett, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/04/style/dick-cavett-interview.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/04/style/dick-cavett-intervi... > I guess I’ll be known for nothing more than being the man who realized that “Spiro Agnew” was “grow a penis.” Gore Vidal said, “It could be ‘grow a spine,’ too, but yours is better.” Boy, they're really socking it to that Spiro Agnew guy again.
- kthejoker2 4y agoClint Eastwood = Old West Action is still my favorite serendiptious anagram. I also like the mathematically correct ELEVEN PLUS TWO = TWELVE PLUS ONE especially because it's also an numeric anagram 11 + 2 = 12 + 1
- hliyan 4y agoMother in law = Woman Hitler is another classic
- jdthedisciple 4y agookay that one caught me off guard
- version_five 4y agoDoes that count as Godwinning the anagrams discussion?
- bombcar 4y agoGodwin’s law = wild wagons
- jodrellblank 4y agoAnd it’s 13 letters long
- raverbashing 4y ago> ELEVEN PLUS TWO = TWELVE PLUS ONE Goedel's incompleteness theorem fans would be drooling all over this
- hgsgm 4y agoWhy?
- raverbashing 4y ago
- carlob 4y agoYeah but chaperon would be masculine and chaperone feminine.
- kmoser 3y agoTed Kennedy, her "chaperon," was male, so it works perfectly. Although I don't think the difference between the spellings is a gender thing, but rather a British/American thing.
- mjd 4y agoI did Wikipedia article titles and found: Atlantic casino resort spa / Carter assassination plot
- OJFord 4y agoThat would make an excellent 'not to be confused with'.
- jstimpfle 4y agoHow many generated anagrams do you have to skim through to find these gems? Was the program written in a way that limits the output to phrases that make at least some sense?
- kmoser 3y agoIt had features for things like limiting output to anagrams that contain a maximum number of words, or words with a minimum length, so you wouldn't have to slog through every permutation. Usually the most interesting ones had the fewest words. But "interesting" is subjective so if you really wanted to find juicy ones you would have to spend more time combing through the results by hand. You can find the documentation, a Win32 executable, and the source code here: https://www.kmoser.com/anagrams/ https://www.kmoser.com/anagrams/
- jameshart 4y agoThe most remarkable name anagram for me remains that of 1990s UK conservative Health Secretary and government minister Virginia Bottomley (now Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone), whose name rearranges to “I’m an evil Tory bigot”. In terms of this ‘chunk scoring’ method this scores very high (15 I think?), which definitely confirms its value as a way of rating anagram quality.