Anagrammy Placegetters for August 2013

All the highly-placed anagrams from the August 2013 Anagrammy Awards.

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THE ENTERTAINMENT CATEGORY

1st - Scott Gardner with:
Pablo Picasso, Three Musicians =
A painter's cubism phase is cool!

2nd - Adie Pena with:
"Traditional ~
art? Not I!" (Dali).

3rd - nedesto with:
The painting of The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci =
Forty silver coins leapt up behind a poignant death.

THE TOPICAL CATEGORY

1st - Meyran Kraus with:
The Assad regime =
Gas is made there.

2nd - Mark Huffman with:
Miley Cyrus' "twerkings" =
Yucky girl merits news?!

3rd - Rosie Perera with:
Martin Luther King Junior's "I Have a Dream" speech =
His rap: "let justice arrive here among humankind."

THE PEOPLES NAMES CATEGORY

1st - Scott Gardner with:
Private Bradley "Chelsea" Manning =
Serviceman helping betray a land.

2nd - nedesto with:
The singer and television actress Miley Cyrus =
Noisy music, great riches, and very little sense!

3rd - Julian Lofts with:
Irish poet Seamus Heaney =
I see his poetry as humane.

THE OTHER NAMES CATEGORY

1st - View with:
Toyota Supra =
A sporty auto.

2nd - Larry Brash with:
Mental cases surviving violence enter ~
Vietnam Veterans Counselling Service.

3rd - Dharam Khalsa with:
Warner Brothers cartoon character Yosemite Sam =
Stern miner or cowboy hates a carrot eater's charm!

THE ANAGRAMMY CHALLENGE CATEGORY

1st - Dharam Khalsa with:
"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
=
Get answerS;
Enlist benefiT.
Need a gurU?
I identify the steP --
Use his alibI:
Scientist minD!

2nd - Tony Crafter with:
"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein =
"Intelligence is a finite item but stupidness, er... isn't? Yes indeed!"
"Er...what's a 'finite'?" (G. BUSH)

3rd - Mike Mesterton-Gibbons with:
"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein =
True brains shine at finite light speeds, imbeciles' get used in infinite untested ways

THE LONG CATEGORY

1st - Meyran Kraus with:

Here is the last question for LAPD cadets:

"Eccentric computer mogul Jeff Briggs sat at the head of the table in his manor. To his right were his 5 sons, all with party hats in different colors (red, blue, green, yellow and pink), different drinks (vodka, soda, ale, tea and martini), and each seated opposite a stuffed pet (dog, fox, mole, hen and sheep).

Suddenly, the room went dark. A moment later, a shot rang out.

When Jeff's old butler turned the lights on, he was shocked. Jeff was dead, shot in his back. His sons were standing, their drinks spilled and their hats in a pile on the floor... next to a smoking gun.

When the cops arrived, the butler said he saw, in the faint moonlight, some man in a red hat tossing the gun to the floor. The sons, however, could only remember a few facts:

- Hans hated foxes. He loved ale, but tasted the hot drink next to him by mistake;
- Noah sat between Al and Ron, then tasted the vodka of a son whose hat wasn't green; His drink and the pet in front of him shared a first letter.
- Ron said the son to his left, who wore a blue hat, sat in front of a hen, and someone in a yellow hat sat in front of a sheep;
- Joe loved tea. The son next to him wore a pink hat and sat closest to their dad;
- Al, who hated martinis, sat in front of a dog.

Can you figure out who the murderer is?"

=

Now, many tend to untangle this nonsense by entering the random data into a table:

		Son					Drink					Pet					Seat
		J o e	N o a h	R o n	A l	H a n s	V o d k a	S o d a	A l e	T e a	M a r t i n i	D o g	F o x	M o l e	H e n	S h e e p	F i r s t	S e c o n d	T h i r d	F o u r t h	F i f t h
H a t	Yellow
	Blue
	Red
	Green
	Pink
S e a t	First
	Second
	Third
	Fourth
	Fifth
P e t	Dog
	Fox
	Mole
	Hen
	Sheep
D r i n k	Vodka
	Soda
	Ale
	Tea
	Martini

Then, some deductive reasoning can help. For example, if a "*" character means a hit and a "\" means a miss, and we know that Hans drank ale, we draw "*" in the related square and "\" in the other ones in that row or column. Here's a finished grid, with Al as the answer:

		Son					Drink					Pet					Seat
		J o e	N o a h	R o n	A l	H a n s	V o d k a	S o d a	A l e	T e a	M a r t i n i	D o g	F o x	M o l e	H e n	S h e e p	F i r s t	S e c o n d	T h i r d	F o u r t h	F i f t h
H a t	Yellow	\	*	\	\	\	\	*	\	\	\	\	\	\	\	*	\	\	\	*	\
	Blue	*	\	\	\	\	\	\	\	*	\	\	\	\	*	\	\	*	\	\	\
	Red	\	\	\	*	\	*	\	\	\	\	*	\	\	\	\	\	\	\	\	*
	Green	\	\	*	\	\	\	\	\	\	*	\	*	\	\	\	\	\	*	\	\
	Pink	\	\	\	\	*	\	\	*	\	\	\	\	*	\	\	*	\	\	\	\
S e a t	First	\	\	\	\	*	\	\	*	\	\	\	\	*	\	\
	Second	*	\	\	\	\	\	\	\	*	\	\	\	\	*	\
	Third	\	\	*	\	\	\	\	\	\	*	\	*	\	\	\
	Fourth	\	*	\	\	\	\	*	\	\	\	\	\	\	\	*
	Fifth	\	\	\	*	\	*	\	\	\	\	*	\	\	\	\
P e t	Dog	\	\	\	*	\	*	\	\	\	\
	Fox	\	\	*	\	\	\	\	\	\	*
	Mole	\	\	\	\	*	\	\	*	\	\
	Hen	*	\	\	\	\	\	\	\	*	\
	Sheep	\	*	\	\	\	\	*	\	\	\
D r i n k	Vodka	\	\	\	*	\
	Soda	\	*	\	\	\
	Ale	\	\	\	\	*
	Tea	*	\	\	\	\
	Martini	\	\	*	\	\

A few, on the other hand, did none of that and instead noted that: A. It's impossible to spot colors in the moonlight; B. The 5 sons were sitting when the lights went out somehow, and C. Father Jeff was shot from behind right after that, though his sons sat to his right. So the answer would be the butler. Those few tend to do well as detectives later on.

Of course, a lot of these may just be lucky guesses. It's always the butler.

2nd - Mark Huffman with:
The most famous DC super heroes in the Justice League of America
1) Superman
2) Batman
3) Wonder Woman
4) Shazam!
5) Flash
6) Green Lantern
7) Aquaman
8) Martian Manhunter
=
1) "Me, human? Umm...no."
2) Most tech, fabulous manse
3) Amazon warrior, "queen mama"
4) Just a lad, enhanced
5) A fast runner
6) Power ring ace
7) Atlantis regent *ahem*
8) Shapeshifter

Eq 3rd - Adie Pena with:
The Top Ten Beatles Songs of All Time*
10. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
9. Come Together
8. Let It Be
7. Hey Jude
6. Something
5. In My Life
4. Yesterday
3. Strawberry Fields Forever
2. I Want to Hold Your Hand
1. A Day in the Life

=

10. Memorably George
9. Witty LSD ditty
8. I'd believe that title.
7. Feel it!
6. Another melody of George
5. John writes beautiful gem
4. Paul's sweet
3. Lennon's fine feat
2. Their early heyday
1. Ends with symphony orchestra.

Eq3rd - nedesto with:
A police officer arrives upon an evidently terrible rush-hour crash; driver and passenger were both dead. As he looks upon the massively brutal carnage a little monkey labors out unhurt; it hops near the car.

Somberly, he looks at the monkey and says, "If only you could talk, you adorable rascal." The monkey looks up at the officer and bobs his head up and down.

"You really understand me?" asks the officer. Again, the monkey bobs his head at the officer.

"Did you see it all?"

"Yes," motions the monkey.

"What's happened?"

The monkey pretends to have a can and turns it up beside his mouth. "They'd been drinking?" asks the officer.

"Yes."

"Right. What else?"

The monkey pinches his fingers together and holds them near his mouth. "Damn! Smoking marijuana?"

"Yes."

"Right. What else?"

The little monkey motions, "Screwing."

"Dear Lord! Screwing, too?" mutters the astounded officer.

"Yes."

"Let's see... they were drinking, smoking and screwing before they crashed?"

"Yes."

"What were you doing during all this?"

"Driving" motions the monkey.

=

Mickey O'Reilly walks into a bar when he is obviously very drunk and staggers up to the bar. Then he seats himself unsteadily on a stool and he orders a drink.

The bartender says to Mickey, "Seems you have had plenty enough to drink, but I can happily phone you a ride if you want me to."

Mickey softly scoffs. He climbs off the stool, and then uneasily staggers out. Just a few minutes later, he stumbles in the side door. He staggers up and he orders a drink.

The bartender comes over, again refusing service to Mickey, again offering to call a ride. Mickey eyes the bartender angrily for a moment and he shows himself out the side door.

Then a few minutes later, Mickey drunkenly staggers in through the back door. He then plops himself up on a stool, and he orders a drink.

The bartender reminds Mickey that he is entirely drunk so he won't get served. He then warns that he could phone the police instead.

Mickey looks at him and cries in hopeless anguish, "How many bloody bars do you work at anyhow?!"

THE SPECIAL CATEGORY

1st - Meyran Kraus with:
[For the 1 year anniversary of Neil Armstrong's death, the poem Sonnet to the Moon is anagrammed into a sonnet that celebrates Neil in 3 different ways, detailed below:]

Sonnet to the Moon, Sir Philip Sidney

With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies,
How silently, and with how wan a face!
What may it be, that even in heavenly place
That busy Archer his sharp arrows tries?
Sure, if that long with love acquainted eyes
Can judge of love, thou feel'st a lover's case;
I read it in thy looks, thy languished grace
To me that feel the like thy state descries.
Then, even of fellowship, O Moon! tell me,
Is constant love deemed there but want of wit?
Are beauties there as proud as here they be?
Do they above love to be loved, and yet
Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess?
Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?

=
[Much like my tribute to Steve Jobs a couple of years back, this sonnet contains an acrostic (Neil A. Armstrong) and his famous quote ("That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind") - which itself draws the outline of a full moon, as displayed in this animated image:]

The Sweetest Pilot Who Touched The Heavens

No, Heaven's truest board of awesome worth
Evaluating deeds should not have fretted;
It never will receive a soul from Earth
Less worthy than the easy catch they've netted:
A wholesome knight that's still beloved today
And vowed to pay mankind one welcome service,
Respected truly for his small-town ways
More than this 'leap and step' on stony surface,
Shall join these giants, for he chose to be
The first of this one-in-a-billion crew.
Relieve this healthy Man of Piety,
Obey these ceaseless calls to let him through:
No birth upon this sphere - above it, too -
Gave us a buddy that was quite like you.

2nd - Adie Pena with:
SYRIA: A POEM FOR HER
by Amin Astewani

Standing by my window
I gaze out beyond
And see gleaming tarmac
And pavements and cars

Standing by her window
She gazes out beyond
And sees blood stained rubble
And bodies and shards

I open the door
And inhale the breeze
I step onto the tarmac
In solitude and peace

She opens the door
And inhales the smoke
She steps over the bodies
In terror, no hope

I lower my head
In sadness and shame
How can I smile
When she feels such pain?

So I drop to my knees
And look to the sky
And pray for that girl
And cry, just cry..

=

POISONED: A CHAINED AND DOWNTRODDEN NATION

Late in the evening hour...
Embraced by sleep.
Atropine in your head,
Dreams had been deep.

Echoes in my room,
Razors in a cell,
Blasts in the dark,
A sojourn to Hell.

Satan's ascendancy
He haunted by banned gas.
Attaches to their skin.
Reasons must pass --

Hades wondered why.
A harsh wind as we awoke...
Filtered in his wormwood,
Envisioned to choke.

Zapping my energy,
A shortness of breath.
Lost by the dozens;
Anonymity in death.

Shuttered inside me,
Slipping from my grasp --
A doomed baby beside
Does one last gasp.

3rd - Josiah Winslow with:

+You, Search, Images, Maps, Play, YouTube, News, Gmail, Drive, Calendar, More

Sign in:

Advertising Programs, Business Solutions, Privacy & Terms, +Google, About Google

+Me, Scan, Visuals, BaySights, MusicRadio, MeTube, Press, Ymail, Gallery, Times, More

Login in:

Propagation Gig, Cheap Work Boost, Evasion & Grounds, +Google, Regarding Us

THE RUDE CATEGORY

1st - Scott Gardner with:
The arse =
Her seat.

2nd - Tony Crafter with:
"Alison? She's been round the track a few times." =
"I sense this woman's been fucked rather a lot!"

3rd - Adie Pena with:
The pornographic motion picture industry =
My prior producer got a hot 'penis-in-cunt' hit!