Anagrammy Placegetters for June 2020

All the highly-placed anagrams from the June 2020 Anagrammy Awards.

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THE GENERAL CATEGORY

1st - John Murray with:
Bent trachea =
Can't breathe.

THE ENTERTAINMENT CATEGORY

1st - Tom Myers with:
The Princess and the Pea =
The end part: spine aches!

2nd - Meyran Kraus with:
"The Plague", a novel written by Albert Camus =
Bluntly savage peril... that now became true.

3rd - Rosie Perera with:
Museum of Bad Art ~
of dumb amateurs.

THE TOPICAL CATEGORY

1st - View with:
Oh, God, feel the tragedy of ~
the death of George Floyd!

2nd - David Bourke with:
The statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol =
Racist bastard's felled, lowered into the Avon to rust.

3rd - Richard Grantham with:
Covid-nineteen pandemic =
In time, depend on vaccine.

THE PEOPLES NAMES CATEGORY

1st - Meyran Kraus with:
Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin =
Vicious man kneeled on chap. RIP.

2nd - Tony Crafter with:
Donald John Trump, the President of the United States =
No soul nor depth, and just this epithet - 'Demented Fart'.

3rd - View with:
President Bolsonaro =
Person is born to lead.

THE OTHER NAMES CATEGORY

1st - Tony Crafter with:
The Beverly Wilshire Hotel, California =
Who chills there? Every fat billionaire!

2nd - Meyran Kraus with:
American police stations =
Maintain loose practices.

3rd - Mike Mesterton-Gibbons with:
United States of America =
I must defeat a racist one.

THE MEDIUM LENGTH CATEGORY

1st - Tony Crafter with:
Britain's Most Popular Albums of all Time (per Radio Two)
1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2. 21
3. (What's The Story) Morning Glory=
1. Beatles symphonic pop trip wins it!
2. Sorrowful LP by pragmatist Adele
3. Snarly Gallagher brothers lost out to No. 1 and 2. Bummer :(

2nd - Meyran Kraus with:
Top 3 Child Geniuses

1. Rimbaud (Published stellar poetry as a teen)
2. Mozart (Composed as a toddler)
3. Picasso (First word: "Pencil")

=

Top 3 Old Wastes

1. Trump (America's sad pest)
2. Elizabeth II (Unemployed since birth)
3. Our grandad Pops (Still scared of "coloreds")

Eq3rd - Dharam Khalsa with:
Top ten countries with the most recorded COVID cases
(as of June):
* US
* Brazil
* Russia
* India
* UK
* Spain
* Italy
* Peru
* Germany
* Iran
=
No virus assessed in country:
* Tonga
* Kiribati
* Samoa
* Lesotho

A triumph, per current dip, caused security:
* New Zealand
* Fiji

Eq3rd - George Missailidis with:
Donald Trump's own words blow up in his face as the crowd size at his much-hyped Tulsa rally disappoints yesterday
=
He dumbly said a crazy slew of his record million supporters would show up that day. Newscasts say it didn't happen!

Eq3rd - Mike Mesterton-Gibbons with:
The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir by John Bolton
=
Journey with the Moronosphere: Home with the Abominable Dope.

Eq3rd - Christopher Sturdy with:
"Any solid geometrical figure with straight parallel sides and a circular or oval cross section."
=
Regard statistics I give to inform a school class.
I hear a regular person would call it a cylinder.

2nd - Maurice Goddard with:
"I have a dream that my four little 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." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
=
In the front: Truth.
Honor birth.
Acknowledge the truth.
Value all.
Education.
All bond. Belief in
Dignity. My hint:
Reject racism! Hit hate!
Enjoy kind worth,
A better richer life,
My way: REAL LOVE.

3rd - Meyran Kraus with:
"I have a dream that my four little 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." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
=
"Hey boy!"
"Jungle-bunny!"
"Get a job!"
"Addict!"
"Crack-ho!"
"Viral filth!"
"Rot in hell!"
"Uncivil!"
"White-dole thief!"
"Tar-skin!"
"Not my brother!"
"We matter here!"
"Idiot!"
"Entitled!"
"Whiner!"
-- More than half a century later.

2nd - Tony Crafter with:
Emily was a bit of a demon in her wheelchair, and loved to race around the care home, taking corners on one wheel and getting up to maximum speed on the long corridors.

Because the freewheeling Emily was 'one sandwich short of a picnic', the other residents tolerated her, and some of the males actually joined in.

One day, Emily was speeding down the corridor when a door opened and Senseless Cecil stepped out with his arm outstretched. "STOP!" he shouted in a firm voice. "Have you got a licence for that vehicle?"

Emily rummaged through her handbag, extracted a Mars Bar wrapper and held it up to him. "Yes, that's okay," said Cecil, and Emily sped away down the hall.

As she negotiated the bend by the residents' lounge on one wheel, Weird Wesley leapt out in front of her and shouted out: "STOP! Have you got insurance for that?"

Emily dug into her handbag, pulled out a drinks coaster and held it up to him. "Okay," said Wesley, "Carry on, ma'am."

As Emily neared the final corridor, Crazy Stewart stepped out in front of her, stark naked, holding Captain Willy in his hand.

Oh, my goodness, said Emily, "Not the breathalyser again!"=
Two old people, a widow and a widower, had known each other as friends for a number of years.

One evening there was a community supper in the village hall, and the pair were on the same table space, though sitting opposite each other.

During the meal, the man chanced a few admiring glances in the woman's direction and finally gathered the courage to ask: "Will you marry me?"

After six seconds of 'careful consideration,' she nodded: "I will!"

The night ended and, after a couple of final pleasantries, they said goodbye and returned to their respective homes.

Next morning, he awoke generally troubled. "Did she say 'yes' or 'no' to his proposal?" Try as he might he just couldn't recollect all the conversation.

So, with much trepidation, he went to the phone and called her.

First, he candidly admitted that his memory was rather hazy. They continued to converse and, as he gained a bit more courage, he said, "I know I asked you to marry me last night, but did you say 'Yes' or 'No' to my proposal?"

He was thrilled to hear her reply: "I said 'Yes'!" Then she continued, "And I am so glad you phoned, because I couldn't remember who'd asked me!"

3rd - Christopher Sturdy with:
"No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."
Nelson Mandela
=
All through history there has been real unfairness. No more!

One can't help but hope to change all those attitudes, none too soon, in honour of one inspiring man.

He took on tyranny, overcame Apartheid to become President of South Africa, to laugh.

Black Lives Shall Matter

THE SPECIAL CATEGORY

1st - Meyran Kraus with:
In the old age black was not counted fair,
Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name;
But now is black beauty's successive heir,
And beauty slandered with a bastard shame:
For since each hand hath put on nature's power,
Fairing the foul with art's false borrow'd face,
Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower,
But is profaned, if not lives in disgrace.
Therefore my mistress' brows are raven black,
Her eyes so suited, and they mourners seem
At such who, not born fair, no beauty lack,
Slandering creation with a false esteem:
Yet so they mourn, becoming of their woe,
That every tongue says beauty should look so.=
The Sin of the Forbidden Voice Within

You'd hear the fierce cop was "the only one",
But they don't know you got no other choice.
The mob could echo "I can't breathe", but none
Will think about one inner, awful voice:
It burns as bad as brine; as sly as fleas
In beds at dawn, an urge as crude as rum;
It nips at serfs as well as snobs at ease
Who look at men as bright as you as "dumb".
Yeah, even after screams of angry mothers
Reverberate and beg: "Please act, try more",
We don't look at your faces as our brothers -
But rather fume at crimes as if they're yours.
If we want bliss, alerting is the key
To how we'd redefine humanity.

2nd - Tony Crafter with:
THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN'
A Song by Bob Dylan

Come gather 'round, people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin'
And you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
The battle outside ragin'
Will soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'
=
TIME MARCHES ON
A hymn to a lost tradition

They yell: "Come you brothers,
We'll all hit the town,
And in the name of black lives
Tear the old statues down.
Those statues of racist,
White-privileged clowns
Will soon crash loud to the pavin',
And you'd better wake up to
What's soon comin' round,
Wake up, for the times are changin!"

I do not hold with
Their frenzied outrage,
You can't alter the past,
You can't turn back the page,
We are tolerant now,
That was another age,
There are different
Laws now pertainin',
Most for the better
And some for the worse,
But, the bad old days are changin'.

They march against racism,
And for gay rights,
They warn of the climate
Some turn up to fight,
Despite all of that,
Whether you're black or white,
There's a bothersome pandemic ragin',
With deaths in the thousands,
And they may die too,
Don't they see it's they who need changin'?

The world has turned crazy,
The genders are blurred,
We don't call women 'she'
Or men 'he', how absurd,
If this all continues,
Soon books'll be burned,
The lunatics will end up reignin',
We'll lose all free speech
And they'll censor our words,
Sayin' only: "Times are changin'."

Oppression in China
And Iran is dire,
Yet no one here protests,
At all, oddly, why?
In tolerant England
It's easy as pie,
You do what you want, no restrainin',
No loyalty is owed
To your home country, oh I
Fear today times are a-changin'

3rd - Dharam Khalsa with:
From a distance, the world looks blue and green,
And the snow-capped mountains white.
From a distance the ocean meets the stream,
And the eagle takes to flight.

From a distance, there is harmony,
And it echoes through the land.
It's the voice of hope, it's the voice of peace,
It's the voice of every man.
=
From here, I watched my mother pass of cancer;
If I phoned, she was too sick to answer.
From here, I needed to be attentive,
Thoughtful, pleasant and meditative.

From here, I sought to send love
To change the agony thereof.
COVID kept me held at a social distance;
Hence, it meant no health assistance.

THE RUDE CATEGORY

1st - Tony Crafter with:
He came in his pants =
Mishap - hence stain!

2nd - Meyran Kraus with:
Presidential Master Bedroom in the White House =
Trump wished to be in Melania here (she's "too tired").

3rd - Mike Mesterton-Gibbons with:
Toilets For Paying Customers Only =
Call on your money first to get piss