| GENERAL | ENTERTAINMENT | TOPICAL | PEOPLES NAMES | OTHER NAMES |
| MEDIUM LENGTH | ANAGRAMMY CHALLENGE | LONG | SPECIAL | RUDE |
1 | Larry Brash | 24 | Our golden wedding anniversary = We're old, gray and on nine IV drugs. |
2 | Neil Ramsay | 20 | Vatican doctrine = A divine contract? |
3 | Rosie Perera | 18 | Computer newbies . = IneptWebUser.com |
4 | Meyran Kraus | 15 | A domestic violence shelter = Sad clients come to live here. |
5 | Andrew Brehaut | 14 | Pirate's goal = A great spoil. (Awardsmaster's Choice Award) |
6 | Ellie Dent | 13 | Blessed sacrament = Massed celebrants. |
7 | Tony Crafter | 11 | The mysterious phenomena of crop circle sets = Oh my soul! Those perfect masterpieces in corn! |
8 | Adie Pena | 7 | Secretarial pool = Corporate allies? |
8 | Rick Rothstein | 7 | One's self-portrait = I flatter person so. |
8 | Dharam Khalsa | 7 | Counting the calories, fats and carbs = Such a diet can be a constant for girls. |
11 | Ivan Andonov | 4 | Epicanthus = China setup. |
11 | Rik Sengupta | 4 | Give lots, when ~ we love things. |
11 | Christopher Sturdy | 4 | Lipogrammatic sentences. = Am missing letter. Can cope. |
14 | Scott Gardner | 3 | Golden years = Snore agedly. |
14 | Ed Pegg Jr | 3 | "All of the above" is wise ~ is what a fool believes. |
16 | Nikola Zivanovic | 2 | Low-fat recipes = Fowl, paste, rice... |
16 | David Bourke | 2 | La dottrina della chiesa Cristiana = Declaration in Italia's cathedrals. |
16 | Zoran Radisavlevic | 2 | Machismo = I'm a schmo! |
19 | View | 1 | The marriage proposal = O, proper aim - gal's heart! |
Total points: | 161 | from 28 votes (DFE factor: 0.679) |
1 | Larry Brash | 30 | Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson = It's our landlubber in tense story overseas. |
2 | Tony Crafter | 19 | The Simon and Garfunkel hit-song, 'America' = Folk musicians' grand anthem on heritage. |
3 | Ed Pegg Jr | 18 | Shatner spouts ~ "Phasers to stun." |
4 | Dharam Khalsa | 17 | Tony Curtis, star in "Some Like it Hot" = Notes, "This is our ticket to Marilyn!" |
5 | Scott Gardner | 16 | Lewis Carroll's poem "The Hunting of the Snark" = He'll claim that work's of right pure nonsense. |
6 | Meyran Kraus | 12 | Teen girl is watching ~ a 'Twilight' screening. |
7 | View | 11 | The 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' = Snotty, funny, sprightly, comic, eh? |
8 | Rosie Perera | 9 | The Craig Gillespie movie "Lars and the Real Girl" = The raving male hires eager plastic girlie doll. |
9 | David Bourke | 8 | The singer Bono and guitarist 'The Edge' = God-bothering is guaranteed in the set! |
10 | Adie Pena | 7 | "Despicable Me" in Three-D = "Respectable him" indeed! |
11 | Rik Sengupta | 6 | The Beach Boys = They be *so* Bach. |
11 | Ellie Dent | 6 | The Master of Impressionism = So first, I emphasise, Mr. Monet. |
Total points: | 159 | from 28 votes (DFE factor: 0.429) |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 39 | We've something to tell the US president, Barack Obama = We must leave the Mideast alone. Bring back the troops! |
2 | Ellie Dent | 34 | Nigerian floods ruin crops = Poor cursing rain on fields. |
3 | Tony Crafter | 16 | George Michael is sent to gaol = Oh, megastar going to cell, I see. |
4 | Rik Sengupta | 14 | Child sex abuse in Portugal = Group hit lads? Inexcusable. |
5 | View | 13 | Tropical Storm Earl = Scat, or mortal peril! |
6 | Adie Pena | 12 | Afghanistan parliamentary election = A nation partially fears cheating men. |
7 | David Bourke | 10 | The singer George Michael = High, emerges erect in gaol. |
8 | Andrew Brehaut | 8 | The actress Lindsay Lohan ~ shall stay constrained, eh? |
9 | Rosie Perera | 7 | United Airlines' new fame/honor on urban TV monitors = Number one in on-time arrivals for Two Thousand Nine. |
10 | Dharam Khalsa | 4 | Southwest Airlines and AirTran plan to merge = Delta warns national peers, "It's our nightmare!" |
Total points: | 157 | from 28 votes (DFE factor: 0.357) |
1 | Ellie Dent | 44 | Thomas Arne = A short name. |
2 | Christopher Sturdy | 31 | The World's Shortest Man, Colombian, Edward Hernandez = Born small - comes 'down-sized' rather than 'down-hearted'! |
3 | Tony Crafter | 22 | Simon/Garfunkel = Men sung folk air. |
4 | David Bourke | 14 | Michael Andrew Caines = He's acclaimed a winner. |
5 | Meyran Kraus | 10 | American author James Fenimore Cooper = Major epic features one Mohican roamer. |
6 | View | 9 | The famous singer Maria Callas = Ah, remains most La Scala figure! |
7 | Ivan Andonov | 6 | The serial killer Ivan Milat = Villains like him rate alert! |
7 | Adie Pena | 6 | Clyde Tolson and J. Edgar Hoover = Lover escorted old and gay John? |
9 | Rosie Perera | 4 | The singer Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta = Fans note: on a jet, her entertaining name is L. Gaga. |
10 | Ed Pegg Jr | 3 | Secretary of State Hillary Clinton = Fate: Clinch "Rally to Restore Sanity." |
11 | Dharam Khalsa | 1 | The Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf = But half fear a Muslim idea. |
Total points: | 150 | from 27 votes (DFE factor: 0.407) |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 32 | The messaging website Twitter = It's the biggest new time-waster! |
2 | Rosie Perera | 18 | Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist = Celebrate a mass, thus feed on Christ. |
3 | Rick Rothstein | 15 | Curses! It hit ice in its path... ~ it's the cruise ship Titanic |
3 | Dharam Khalsa | 15 | Liberal Democrats = Calm deliberators. |
5 | David Bourke | 14 | The Houses of Parliament, in Westminster = Famous simpletons are sent within there! |
6 | Adie Pena | 13 | Disney World, Orlando = An odd or silly wonder. |
7 | Rik Sengupta | 12 | The ship Titanic = Its path: thin ice. |
8 | Andrew Brehaut | 8 | The Disney Store chain = There's syndication, eh! |
9 | Ellie Dent | 7 | The National Association of Cider Makers = Fermentation is social: I choose a tankard! |
10 | Ivan Andonov | 6 | Kurdistan region = Gone in Turk raids. |
10 | Ed Pegg Jr | 6 | Any port in a storm, i.e., ~ Oyster Point Marina. |
12 | View | 2 | A lottery of Mega Millions = A lot of money, still mirage. |
13 | Tony Crafter | 1 | Thames Valley Gay Police Association = Cops stay at village YMCA 'in loo'? Ah, I see. |
Total points: | 149 | from 26 votes (DFE factor: 0.500) |
1 | Tony Crafter | 28 | A kindly Mother Superior called the nuns togeth... ~ convent." "Oh, I thank the Heavens!" said ... |
2 | Meyran Kraus | 26 | The two little misconceptions that some American... = 1. It's not the main Ground Zero site (it's a c... |
3 | Ellie Dent | 24 | God was talking to Archangel Gabriel. 'Do you k... = 'Profound thinking, ensuring great work! Whate... |
4 | Adie Pena | 20 | "Light travels faster than sound. This is why so... = That happy portrait serves well the stupidity o... |
5 | Christopher Sturdy | 13 | Ed Miliband is victorious in the Labour Party's... = His older brother David loses in it, partly be... |
6 | David Bourke | 12 | George Michael placed into solitary confinement... = Horrifically gloomy, no companion. (He'd get a... |
7 | Dharam Khalsa | 11 | Helen Keller said, "The most pathetic person in... = So, this blind woman's tutor was a skilled her... |
8 | View | 9 | Mercury, Venus, The Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Satur... = Just vacuum. Nine planets turn around Sun. He... |
Total points: | 143 | from 25 votes (DFE factor: 0.320) |
1 | Ellie Dent | 31 | Oh, Cary has a tiny sheep It has a frosty hue And here/there that Cary goes The tiny beast goes too. Teachers get to... |
2 | Meyran Kraus | 23 | Oh Barbara, she has a tot That she has often fed; He cannot even tie a shoe - A catatonic head. The guy's a dope, I ... |
3 | Tony Crafter | 17 | I hate this idea - three characters short? Too hard to arrange I'd have thought. To essay the ode? That I refuse, As... |
3 | Dharam Khalsa | 17 | Tot's Song O*d *cDona*d had a far* E-I-E-I-O And on that far* he had ten shy shaggy sheep E-I-E-I-O Here a shy "Ba... |
5 | Christopher Sturdy | 9 | A she-bairn, nay a shepherdess Hot footed A to B. An adherent hot hoofed at her rear; A gay sight to see. The a... |
6 | Adie Pena | 8 | They ca her a big bitch, The hot or the aesoe ga, A broad or that cheetah, too. She's reay a fee fatae. She'd do i... |
7 | Larry Brash | 6 | Anne had an insane cat, that behaved so horrific, she got her to a doctor, to test scientific. Aah Aah! That is a g... |
8 | Rosie Perera | 5 | ... |
9 | View | 1 | ithout three etters aybe better to rhye a song (not a very strong) Unfunny, idiotic Frantic or chaotic Sad, bad... |
Total points: | 117 | from 21 votes (DFE factor: 0.429) |
1 | Tony Crafter | 46 | I was very unhappy last night and got to thinki... = Naturist Scott was sunbathing starkers on the... |
2 | Adie Pena | 24 | ... = ... |
3 | David Bourke | 22 | A vicar checked himself into a hotel, and he sai... = The chap replied, shaking his head, "No crippl... |
4 | Meyran Kraus | 21 | Elvis Presley's "Yoga Is as Yoga Does" (writte... = No, you didn't have one joint too many (thoug... |
5 | Dharam Khalsa | 17 | "Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it... = Fall is my favourite time! I could be a nighti... |
Total points: | 130 | from 24 votes (DFE factor: 0.208) |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 43 | A Keats sonnet anagrammed into 4 poems about the 4 seasons, which contain relevant acrostics designed for a square displ... |
2 | Tony Crafter | 18 | MONKTON HALL RESTAURANT. |
2 | David Bourke | 18 | You were Spain (by Nicki Ward) |
2 | Dharam Khalsa | 18 | OLD ACCOUNTANTS never die; they just lose their balance... |
5 | Ellie Dent | 8 | Fall gently, snowflakes... |
5 | Tony Crafter | 8 | BALLAD OF DAVY CROCKETT By George Bruns and Tom W. Blackburn |
7 | Adie Pena | 3 | Autumn sunlight streams... |
Total points: | 116 | from 21 votes (DFE factor: 0.333) |
1 | David Bourke | 28 | Fingered up the arsehole = For heightened pleasure! |
2 | Tony Crafter | 14 | Gay hotels and bars = Lad shags a rent-boy. |
2 | Ed Pegg Jr | 14 | Prick, dong = Dick, prong. |
4 | View | 12 | The urine sample = Human pees liter. |
5 | Rik Sengupta | 11 | The act of masturbation = No coitus? Ram the fat bat! |
6 | Rick Rothstein | 8 | Contracting a venereal disease? = Need clear secretions at vagina. |
6 | Adie Pena | 8 | Arse lube, pal? ~ Pleasurable! |
8 | Meyran Kraus | 7 | Where is that damn G-Spot? = Men wished to grasp that! |
9 | Dharam Khalsa | 2 | Tesco to sell half-price Viagra over the counter = The local source to revive 'flat-graph' erections. |
Total points: | 104 | from 19 votes (DFE factor: 0.474) |
Daniel F. Etter Memorial Award Points*
*Adjusted Points = Sum of (Points * 'DFE factor') |
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