Anagrammy Placegetters for February 2004

All the highly-placed anagrams from the February 2004 Anagrammy Awards.

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THE ENTERTAINMENT CATEGORY

1st - Adrian Hickford with:
"On the Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin =
Chronicle brings new ideas of ape history.

2nd - Meyran Kraus with:
The Mona Lisa painting =
An enigma is on that lip.

3rd - Toby Gottfried with:
The Oscar goes to... ~
those actor egos.

THE TOPICAL CATEGORY

1st - Don P. Fortier with:
The Passion of the Christ =
His fine path to the cross.

2nd - Jesse Frankovich with:
The Saint Valentine's Day Flowers =
Ladies instantly fawn over these.

3rd - Meyran Kraus with:
The American President George 'Dubya' Bush =
Can he snub this deep gay urge to be married?

THE PEOPLE'S NAMES CATEGORY

1st - Richard Grantham with:
Prime Minister Tony Blair =
I misreport interminably.

2nd - Jesse Frankovich with:
American President George 'Dubya' Bush =
"Impure gays cannot be brides," he argued.

3rd - Paul Lusch with:
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan =
A real learned finance man. Reveres graphs.

THE OTHER NAMES CATEGORY

1st - View with:
The Titanic disaster =
Death, it starts in ice.

2nd - Meyran Kraus with:
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences =
Conducted that ceremony as its praise of cinema.

3rd - Richard Grantham with:
Albert Einstein's theory of relativity =
Able to fit entire on T-shirt very easily.

THE MEDIUM LENGTH CATEGORY

1st - Meyran Kraus with:
Director Peter Jackson's 'The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring' =
First of three long hits which respect the prose of long-dead J.R.R. Tolkien.

2nd - Richard Grantham with:
"On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" =
Confirm that Genesis One's a cretinous pile of baloney.

3rd - Jesse Frankovich with:
The baring of Janet Jackson's right breast during the Super Bowl Halftime Show =
Justin Timberlake (Star? Ha!) whips off her bra; the world objects, tongues hanging.

2nd - David Bourke with:
Fourscore and seven years ago,
our fathers brought forth
on this continent a new nation,
conceived in liberty and dedicated
to the proposition that all men
are created equal.
-- A. Lincoln
=
Today, I have created for the nation,
a New Labour cult of overloaded spin,
cheating and deception, sheer arrogant
conceit, moronic nonsense, half-truths
and quite rotten lies.
-- Tony Blair

3rd - Larry Brash with:
"Like anybody, I would like to live a long life; longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go up to the mountain, and I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land."

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Outgoing, wise, devoted to civil rights ideology, Martin Luther King's last known ominous speech, led up to his inevitable death out on a motel balcony in Memphis.

He, too, now walked out into the Valley of Death, only to die, to be gunned down and killed by a white puppet, tattooed twit, wanted outlaw, James Earl Ray.

All to gain vote, now!

THE SPECIAL CATEGORY

eq.1st - Richard Grantham with:
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet =
Rainbow to relieve direly long deluge gone.

[This anagram has a twist: each word has been carefully selected so that it can be made up entirely of letters from different colours, e.g. there is no word that has both (B & U) or (Y & W), which would require two letters from 'blue' and 'yellow' respectively. This, rather satisfyingly, applies to the word 'rainbow' itself:

Red
orAnge
Indigo
greeN
Blue
viOlet
yelloW

With the result that the entire anagram can be presented as a cascading, twisted rainbow:]

eq.1st - Adrian Hickford with:
Ten things you didn't know:

1. Frying pan fumes can kill canaries, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature.

2. Bill Clinton sent just two e-mails while he was president.

3. Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London, has got solar panels fitted on the roof of his Cricklewood home.

4. Whales can explode - a dead sperm whale this week exploded in Taiwan, showering blood and body parts on passers-by. Marine biologists blamed it on a build-up of gases inside the whale.

5. More than a quarter of UK households have no savings, according to statistics revealed this week.

6. Pets will be eligible for frequent flier points on Japanese airline JAL from March. The points will be exchangeable for cage rentals on board, as well as gifts.

7. The man who invented Ctrl+Alt+Delete retired on Friday. David Bradley, 55, spent five minutes writing the computer code that has helped bail out millions of PC users, while working for IBM in the 1980s. "I may have invented it, but Bill Gates made it famous," Bradley said.

8. 70% of mobile phone owners in the UK have pre-pay models.

9. Cunning bargain hunters are roaming Ebay looking for misspelled goods which attract hardly any bids because they don't turn up in text searches. One man bought three Compaq laptops at a pittance simply by asking for "Compacts" instead.

10. Brits drank 35% more champagne in bars and pubs in 2003 than in the year before.

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Ten things that are blindingly obvious:

1. Eight out of ten sophisticated cannibals think late German towns-people taste better.

2. Regardless of wunderkind heart-throb Johnny Depp's distinguished performance, and the wonderful fight scenes within, "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of the Black Pearl" is not quite as good as most people think.

3. Bird-spotters (or twitchers) are quite dull, especially when waxing lyrical about waxwings or whip-poor-wills (which are related to goat-suckers).

4. Decaffeinated coffee is an oxymoron. It is also a flavour-free, unjustifiable, damnable and wretched drink.

5. Udders (cow-boobs) are downright odd; milking cows using one's hands feels fantastic, and the cows like it, too, no doubt.

6. The shrewd, inventive Professor Colin Pillinger (who is still hoping to hear back from embattled Beagle II, abandoned on Martian earth) has incredible, offensive, unfathomably over-developed sideburns.

7. A 'quintillion' is an elephantine, mammoth number. (That's a momentous lot of pachyderm.)

8. Bloated plungers who demonstrate undisciplined belly-flopping will earn few diving medals at the Athens Olympics.

9. 85570039 is exactly divisible by 53.

10. "The Royal Shakespeare Company" is an anagram of "One may appear there as Shylock"; composed by Meyran Kraus in June 2001, this won best overall anagram in the Grand Anagrammies.

3rd - Meyran Kraus with:
Smart