Anagrammy Placegetters for July 2003
All the highly-placed anagrams from the July 2003 Anagrammy Awards.
[ Previous month ] [ Back to index ] [ Next month ]THE GENERAL CATEGORY
1st - Jesse Frankovich with:
The articulate person =
He utters a clear point.
2nd - Meyran Kraus with:
"Every cloud has a silver lining"? =
No, such drivel is largely naive.
3rd - Joe Fathallah with:
Rats and mice ~
in cat's dream.
THE ENTERTAINMENT CATEGORY
1st - Scott Gardner with:
The Wimbledon Ladies' Singles final =
Belgians fold; Williamses in the end.
2nd - Hans-Peter Reich with:
Children's literature =
Little urchin readers.
3rd - Toby Gottfried with:
Eight Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter =
Must heed: else, if you get girl pregnant, a grim death.
THE TOPICAL CATEGORY
1st - Scott Gardner with:
West Africa =
It faces war.
2nd - Toby Gottfried with:
CIA takes the blame =
The team backs a lie.
3rd - Allan Morley with:
Weapons of mass destruction =
Stupid son saw no traces of 'em.
THE RUDE CATEGORY
1st - David Bourke with:
Used condoms =
So cum-sodden.
2nd - Allan Morley with:
A one-track mind =
Romantic, naked.
eq.3rd - Richard Grantham with:
The porno star =
Throat person.
eq.3rd - Toby Gottfried with:
The Oldest Profession =
Lots of penises to herd.
THE PEOPLE'S NAMES CATEGORY
1st - Jaybur with:
William Shakespeare, the Bard of Avon =
Methinks I love a word, a phrase, a fable!
2nd - Adrian Hickford with:
Athlete Carl Lewis =
Will steal the race.
3rd - Jesse Frankovich with:
O, Brightest Genius! =
George Bush isn't it.
THE OTHER NAMES CATEGORY
1st - Allan Morley with:
The Apple Macintosh =
I plan to shame the PC.
2nd - David A. Green with:
The British Dental Hygienists' Association =
As I see it, tooth's clean, bright... and it is shiny!
eq.3rd - Richard Grantham with:
The Leaning Tower of Pisa =
Foreign, with a neat slope.
eq.3rd - Jaybur with:
A Porsche Carrera GT =
Great racer: posh car.
THE MEDIUM LENGTH CATEGORY
1st - Jaybur with: [A British Telecom advertisement]
Why do birds suddenly appear, every time you are near?
I'm a falconer.
If only everything was as simple as BT's pricing options.
=
Why is a toucan similar to a phone-user?
Its bill is very large.
Modern company's prospering every day, and debt's fine, if *we* pay.
2nd - Jesse Frankovich with:
The Fourth of July: the United States of America's Independence Day =
The selected founders identify a treaty of hope and human justice.
3rd - Meyran Kraus with:
All I ever wanted
All I ever
needed
Is here in my arms
Words are very
Unnecessary
They can
only do harm. (Depeche Mode)
=
We heard heavenly rhymes as they
conveyed a dream world - one so real and unmarred, it's perceived merely in
silence.
THE LONG CATEGORY
1st - Larry Brash with:
"It was once believed that a million monkeys at a million keyboards would eventually
type the works of Shakespeare, but the Internet has since disproved this theory."
=
Instead, we only have to tolerate useless spam like: "Make Money Fast!"; "Buy
Online Holiday!"; "Total Help with Debt!" "Have Harder Erections!";
or "Visit Kinky Dutch Porn Websites!"
2nd - Joost R. Meerten with:
I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
=
When racial hate became the birth of a bloody conflict, the weary-eyed had faith in
non-violent revolution. Why? Martin Luther King jr. detected liberty's hour.
3rd - Meyran Kraus with:
The odd origin of the word 'Orange' (quoted from "Etymologically Speaking")
Orange (Eng.); Orange (Fr.); Naranja (Sp.); Arancia (It.)
Interestingly, none of these terms come from the Latin word for orange, citrus aurentium;
instead, they all come from the ancient Sanskrit naga ranga, which literally means
"fatal indigestion for elephants." In certain traditions the orange, not the
apple, is the fruit responsible for original sin. There was an ancient Malay fable -
which made its way into the Sanskrit tongue around the Seventh or Eighth Centuries
B.C. - that links the orange to the sin of gluttony and has an elephant as the
culprit. Apparently, one day an elephant was passing through the forest, when he
found a tree unknown to him in a clearing, bowed downward by its weight of
beautiful, tempting oranges; as a result, the elephant ate so many that he
burst. Many years later a man stumbled upon the scene and noticed the fossilized
remains of the elephant with many orange trees growing from what had been its
stomach. The man then exclaimed, "Amazing! What a naga ranga (fatal indigestion
for elephants)!"
=
Other amazing examples:
'I'm pregnant' - It appears that the source of the word 'pregnant' is linked to the
Albanian saying (mainly used by young adults), "Amah, preh ann ante", that
states: "Honey, I think we're screwed".
'Britney Fans' - Amazingly, the phrase doesn't refer to the singer, as such; in fact,
it's one of a few entertaining Latin anagrams from the nineteenth century, of 'Bres
Infanty', more or less translated to: 'The Infants who are drawn to an Ample Mammary Gland'.
'Sequel' - An alteration of 'Sechu Wal', an Argentinian gang-slang phrase which
means "Another kick to the groin" (often that of a mugging victim lying injured
in the street). It was popularised by H. Wood, the aging leader of the Calephornea gang,
constantly asserting that "it could gain one more profit - well, nine times out of
ten".
'God' - One of the hardest origins to find; Some tenable theories: The archaic Finnish
'Gutenn', which meant either 'A nobler one' or 'Mail fraud'; Pompeii's "Gatne
chenuale!" ("Thanks a bunch for that crater!"); And the Hebrew "Tiru
et ha-Godel!", or: "Wow, what a fat ass!", allegedly what Moses yelled at
the Lord's apparition on Mount Sinai.
THE SPECIAL CATEGORY
1st - Richard Brodie with:
Battle of the Books
eq.2nd - Richard Grantham with:
The Witch's Prayer
eq.2nd - Meyran Kraus with:
Eminem: Cleaning Out My
Closet
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