Anagrammy Placegetters for February 2006
All the highly-placed anagrams from the February 2006 Anagrammy Awards.
[ Previous month ] [ Back to index ] [ Next month ]THE GENERAL CATEGORY
1st - David Bourke with:
The first lesson on guitar =
It hurts one's fingers a lot!
2nd - Tony Crafter with:
Astronomical observations =
To scan a visible star or moon.
3rd - Meyran Kraus with:
A plate of spaghettini =
Get a pile of thin pasta.
THE ENTERTAINMENT CATEGORY
1st - Scott Gardner with:
Paris Hilton's autobiography ~
is about an oh-so-hip party girl.
2nd - Meyran Kraus with:
Steve Martin plays Inspector Clouseau =
Vacuous man's copy? Peter Sellers it ain't!
3rd - Rick Rothstein with:
Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik =
Nice notes, like in them mazurkas.
THE TOPICAL CATEGORY
1st - Meyran Kraus with:
Danish newspaper cartoon angers the Muslims =
Seems a plain pen is much stronger than a sword...
2nd - Scott Gardner with:
The Presidents of the USA =
He's far the stupidest one
3rd - Rick Rothstein with:
Nuclear disarmament =
Lecture Iran's madman.
THE PEOPLES NAMES CATEGORY
1st - Tony Crafter with:
German Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler =
Grim ruler of Fatherland, eh?
2nd - Meyran Kraus with:
Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie =
Trade a Jen to nail Big Lip.
3rd - David Bourke with:
French face-transplant patient Isabelle Dinoire =
Perfect nose, neater chin and lips...a brilliant feat!
THE OTHER NAMES CATEGORY
1st - Scott Gardner with:
American Indian =
I'm in a rain dance.
2nd - View with:
The McDonald's restaurants =
Most eaters' standard lunch.
3rd - Tony Crafter with:
Southern Italy =
It enthrals you.
THE MEDIUM LENGTH CATEGORY
1st - Meyran Kraus with:
vice (noun):
1. Moral depravity or corruption
2. A moral fault or failing
3. A habitual and usually trivial defect or shortcoming.
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vice president:
1. A common fill-in
2. Valued authority or motivator for a crucial hour
3. An arrogant old US bully firing at a pal.
2nd - Rick Rothstein with:
The Vice President of the United States of America, Dick Cheney =
"I shot up a friend's face, neck, chest, etc." (Yet the idiot never aimed!)
3rd - David Bourke with:
The late aviation businessman Sir Frederick Alfred Laker =
Silver-haired saint of landmark bucket-seat airliner fees.
THE AWARDSMASTER'S CHALLENGE CATEGORY
1st - Tony Crafter with:
The Twentieth Winter Olympic Games =
We meet top men in white Lycra tights!
2nd - Paul Pan with:
The Twentieth Winter Olympic Games =
We compete in thermal tights, yet win!
3rd - Toby Gottfried with:
The Twentieth Winter Olympic Games =
Mighty winter athletes compete, win.
THE LONG CATEGORY
1st - Meyran Kraus with:
MacArthur Park (Lyrics and music by Jimmy Webb)
2nd - Tony Crafter with:
Isobel, the daughter of the house, got paralytically drunk on her eighteenth birthday and manservant Jeeves undressed her and put her to bed.
"Thank you Jeeves," said the contrite young lady next morning. "Um ...was I terribly tight?"
"Only the first two times madam," he replied.
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When a grim Lady Legge fired Jenny, the housemaid, the irreverent girl couldn't resist a final parting shot.
"My Lady, your husband thinks I'm a better housekeeper than you, prettier and better to have decent sex with."
"Oh right, and my husband's told you that?"
"No, Jeeves told me!"
3rd - Rosie Perera with:
This year, both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union Address fall on the same day. As Air America Radio pointed out:
"It is an ironic juxtaposition. One involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to a creature of little intelligence for prognostication, and the other involves a groundhog."
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President Bush lists his leadership skills on his CV:
1. I'm fit as a fiddle, love to go jogging, and could outrun you any day.
2. I have a vacation ranch in Texas. I entertain there.
3. Half our nation elected me.
4. I am a Christian, too. Proof? I tolerate teetotalers.
5. A good negotiator? No, no, no! I win through war - no end!
THE SPECIAL CATEGORY
1st - Mike Keith with:
[Below is an anagram of the 98 Scrabble letters into four
5x5 squares. Of course, 98 is less then 100
so two spaces must remain unused - these unfilled spots have
been put in the lower right of the arrangement.
Every one of the 40 horizontal and vertical words can
be found in the current "Tournament Word List" used for
play in North American Scrabble tournaments, which
is in turn based on the current (4th) edition
of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary.
I also imposed an additional constraint, which was that
the two empty spots could be filled by the two blank
Scrabble tiles to (when assigned the proper letters)
complete the bottom right square so that it has
a full complement of 5-letter words. Making the blanks
E and S turns HON into HONES, CRUD into CRUDE and HYPE
into HYPES.
Below is the anagram in plain text followed by
a picture of an actual board with tiles.
This is the first 4x(5x5) arrangement of the Scrabble
tiles ever constructed.]
AAAAAAAAA BB CC DDDD EEEEEEEEEEEE FF GGG HH
IIIIIIIII J K LLLL MM NNNNNN OOOOOOOO PP Q
RRRRRR SSSS TTTTTT UUUU VV WW X YY Z
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TOQUE JOWAR
WRUNG AGONE
AGAPE BIFID
TIKIS OVULE
SCENT TELES
MALAR BATCH
OZONE IVORY
TINED MIXUP
IDEAL ASIDE
FERRY HON
2nd - Meyran Kraus with:
Below is an anagram of this very text, in which renowned men (thirteen overall) are arranged in a rather particular order, as each man's name is entirely comprised of the rear of the name preceding it and the start of the name succeeding it. Our circular chain is currently shown under some hints (the men's short descriptions, number of letters) and a small spoiler space, granting all big brains an opportunity to decipher this riddle - although any person may simply scroll down for the answer.
Enjoy!
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1. Christian saint (6)
2. French mathematician (8)
3. US thespian ('The Odd Couple') (7)
4. US thespian and film director ('Another Woman') (5)
5. German fantasy writer ('The Neverending Story') (4)
6. US film director ('Cleopatra') (7)
7. US playwright and essayist ('Death of a Salesman') (6)
8. Jewish-Austrian psychologist (5)
9. German conductor (8)
10. English writer and essayist ('Fever Pitch') (6)
11. English poet ('Prometheus') (5)
12. US\Norwegian Antarctic explorer (5)
13. Roman emperor (4)
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1. Robert 2. Bertrand 3. Randall 4. Allen 5. Ende 6. DeMille 7. Miller
8. Reich 9. Eichhorn 10. Hornby 11. Byron 12. Ronne 13. Nero.
3rd - Meyran Kraus with:
O Solitude!
THE RUDE CATEGORY
1st - Rick Rothstein with:
Ang Lee's film "Brokeback Mountain" =
I break all "men-fucking-men" taboos.
eq.2nd - Paul Pan with:
The check is in the mail =
The male is in the chick.
eq.2nd - David Bourke with:
A neatly-trimmed pussy... ~
and I'm supremely tasty!
eq.2nd - Tony Crafter with:
Eager lusting =
Genital urges.
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