Anagrammy Award Winners - 2003

Here are all the winners of Anagrammy Awards in 2003. All anagrams have been checked for accuracy by Richard Grantham and automatically by the Anagrammy Checker.

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January 2003

General Category:
- 1st place:
  Richard Grantham with:
  Isn't "romantic and erotic" ~
  a contradiction in terms?
- 2nd place:
  Meyran Kraus with:
  Literature for blind persons =
  Friends turn prose to Braille.
- 3rd place:
  Zoran Radisavlevic with:
  The desert region =
  Hotter in degrees.
Entertainment Category:
Toby Gottfried with:
Cartoonist Hirschfeld passed away =
His specialty: drawn heads of actors.
Topical Category:
Adrian Hickford with:
New Year's Resolution =
Notions we rarely use.
Rude Category:
Ahmad Sadali Ramli with:
Kissing couples =
Spouses licking.
People's Names Category:
Richard Grantham with:
President George W. Bush =
This bugger needs power.
Other Names Category:
Richard Grantham with:
Sorbent toilet tissue =
To sterilise one's butt.
Medium Length Category:
Meyran Kraus with:
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for. (Albert Camus) =
Er, oil?... Is 'Great barrels of crude oil' a term unknown to that Frenchy? (G.W. Bush)
Long Category:
Allan Morley with:
You are Loved
Special Category:
- 1st place:
  David Bourke with:
  Here's some lesser-known World Records
- 2nd place:
  Meyran Kraus with:
  Christina Rossetti: Listening
- 3rd place:
  Richard Brodie with:
  The Ballad of Mary Letourneau
Awardsmaster's Choice Award for a non-winning anagram:
Jaybur with:
Anti-War Movement =
Never want to maim.

List of all nominated anagrams for January 2003

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February 2003

General Category:
- 1st place:
  Ahmad Sadali Ramli with:
  Solve a crime =
  I am so clever.
- 2nd place:
  Scott Gardner with:
  Darwin's theory of evolution =
  To win, you fed on other rivals.
- 3rd place:
  Adrian Hickford with:
  Remains hot ~
  in a Thermos.
Entertainment Category:
Scott Gardner with:
Leonardo da Vinci, "The Last Supper" =
Have Lord and apostles in picture.
Topical Category:
Jaybur with:
The Stop the War alliance =
Let this weapon-race halt.
Rude Category:
Meyran Kraus with:
A cheap motel =
Place to...*ahem*.
People's Names Category:
Zoran Radisavlevic with:
M. Caine =
Cinema.
Other Names Category:
David A. Green with:
The Sword Swallowers Association International =
Wince as I lower it... Alas, sore throat and tonsils now!
Medium Length Category:
Allan Morley with:
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask) =
Wise textbook does analyse every awkward thing about a fun way to rut.
Long Category:
Meyran Kraus with:
One Splendid Demonstration of ESP
Special Category:
- 1st place:
  Meyran Kraus with:
  Shakespeare's 117th sonnet anagrammed into three less-than-serious poetic renditions of famous texts by the bard.
- 2nd place:
  David Bourke with:
  The Friendly Letter E
- 3rd place:
  Larry Brash with:
  INTRODUCTION: l am Mrs. Eki Omorodion l know this proposal will come to you as a surprise because we have not met before either physically or through correspondence.
Awardsmaster's Choice Award for a non-winning anagram:
Jesse Frankovich with:
We believe in One Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of the Father. =
For He chose his Twelve able friends to listen on the journey.

List of all nominated anagrams for February 2003

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March 2003

General Category:
- 1st place:
  Allan Morley with:
  Vegetarian meals =
  Never get a salami.
- 2nd place:
  Adrian Hickford with:
  A multiple personality disorder =
  Ordeal promises plural identity.
- 3rd place:
  Meyran Kraus with:
  The Congressional Medal of Honor =
  Hang on chest of one moral soldier.
Entertainment Category:
Toby Gottfried with:
Goldilocks and the three bears =
Girl had cereals, then took beds.
Topical Category:
Jesse Frankovich with:
US disarms Baghdad =
G. Bush raids Saddam.
Rude Category:
Meyran Kraus with:
Mysterious rectal foreign bodies =
I used to force gerbils into my arse.
People's Names Category:
Meyran Kraus with:
The president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein =
Press had to enquire if this man's dead.
Other Names Category (tie):
Jesse Frankovich with:
The Persian Gulf =
Pin US flag there?
Zoran Radisavlevic and Jaybur (simultaneously) with:
Basra =
Arabs.
Medium Length Category:
Adrian Hickford with:
"We must be the great arsenal of democracy" - Franklin D. Roosevelt =
"Can't anyone ever, sort of, kill Saddam? Or re-elect me, after?" - G. W. Bush
Long Category:
Richard Grantham with:
Part of a 2002 open letter from Saddam Hussein to the Iraqi parliament.
Special Category:
- 1st place:
  David Bourke with:
  The Night Before Christmas
- 2nd place:
  Meyran Kraus with:
  A small bit from Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', Chapter VIII
- 3rd place:
  Paul Pan with:
  It was heartbreaking to find out about the death of Rachel Corrie run over by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza.
Awardsmaster's Choice Award for a non-winning anagram:
Hans-Peter Reich with:
A penis enlargement =
Planning a meter, see?

List of all nominated anagrams for March 2003

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April 2003

General Category:
- 1st place:
  Meyran Kraus with:
  Countries of the Third World =
  Tourist threw children food.
- 2nd place:
  Richard Grantham with:
  The railway lines =
  Why, I'll see a train!
- 3rd place:
  Jaybur with:
  Woman-hater =
  Mean, or what?
Entertainment Category:
Meyran Kraus with:
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes =
So, can he solve the murder, folks?
Topical Category:
Ahmad Sadali Ramli with:
Where is Saddam? =
Was he disarmed?
Rude Category:
Allan Morley with:
A Penthouse centerfold =
Cunt of one stapled here.
People's Names Category:
Meyran Kraus with:
The cartoon dad Homer Simpson =
That moron mopes and cries "D'oh!"
Other Names Category:
Jaybur with:
The Two Thousand and Three Lingerie Awards =
Those who design and retail that underwear.
Medium Length Category:
Jesse Frankovich with:
"Today, President Bush announced he's been mispronouncing the name of Iraq all along. He said it's actually pronounced Syria." =
Our uneducated leader employs a questionable change in his plan to crush/destroy fiendish, annoying, non-compliant Arabs.
Long Category:
Adrian Hickford with:
Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Meriadoc Brandybuck, Peregrin Took, Gimli, son of Gloin, Legolas Greenleaf of the Wood-Elves, Boromir, son of Denethor, Aragorn, son of Arathorn, and Gandalf the Grey. =
"Lord of the Rings": Four small, shy Hobbits (one Ring-Bearer), a common, disagreeable dwarf, a good-looking elf, two savage men (one ranger King), and an aged fogey/sorceror plan going to the Fires of Doom.
Special Category:
- 1st place:
  Meyran Kraus with:
  Edwin Arlington Robinson: Richard Cory
- 2nd place:
  Larry Brash with:
  ESP is most commonly known as the "sixth sense."
- 3rd place:
  Adrian Hickford with:
  [A famous mnemonic for the digits of pi (HOW=3, I=1, NEED=4 etc.) anagrammed into another pi mnemonic.]
  How I need a drink, alcoholic in nature, after the heavy chapters involving quantum mechanics. =
  Can I coin a chant equalling pi? Harken: "Three and unity sevenths." "Void-match", however formulaic.
Awardsmaster's Challenge Award:
Richard Grantham with:
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) =
So current rare disease proves a mystery.
Awardsmaster's Choice Award for a non-winning anagram:
Toby Gottfried with:
United States Congress =
No guts - secrets instead.

List of all nominated anagrams for April 2003

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May 2003

General Category:
- 1st place:
  Jesse Frankovich with:
  Natural medicine =
  I cured an ailment.
- 2nd place:
  Zoran Radisavlevic with:
  The final countdown =
  Not if we don't launch!!
- 3rd place:
  Paul Pan with:
  Fad diet? ~
  Died fat!
Entertainment Category:
Scott Gardner with:
Frederic Chopin's F sharp minor Polonaise =
Polish-French piano composer is rare find.
Topical Category:
Scott Gardner with:
Algiers earthquake =
Quite a large shaker.
Rude Category:
Adrian Hickford with:
She's performing fellatio =
Offering her lips to males.
People's Names Category:
Adrian Hickford with:
Admiral Horatio Nelson =
A national hero, milords.
Other Names Category:
Richard Grantham with:
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome =
Uproar over recent mystery disease.
Medium Length Category:
Larry Brash with:
Alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi, psi, omega. =
I'll aim to applaud this amazing Greek alphabet. Text, in common use, might appear as: "euthanasia", "utopia", "phobia", "diploma", "coma".
Long Category:
Jaybur with:
The TRUE Story of The Three Little Pigs (As told by the Wolf)
Special Category:
- 1st place:
  Meyran Kraus with:
  Two Celestial Poems
- 2nd place:
  Richard Grantham with:
  A simultaneous anagram and approximate translation of a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire.
- 3rd place:
  David Bourke with:
  'My Way' - Frank Sinatra
Awardsmaster's Choice Award for a non-winning anagram:
David A. Green with:
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre =
A man with axe chases actress.

List of all nominated anagrams for May 2003

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June 2003

General Category:
- 1st place:
  Allan Morley with:
  Cigarette addiction =
  I did it to get a cancer.
- 2nd place:
  David Bourke with:
  Borderline case =
  Reconsiderable.
- 3rd place (tie):
  Jaybur with:
  The scenes-of-crime officer =
  Meet force's forensic chief.
  Hans-Peter Reich with:
  Ghettos =
  Get shot.
Entertainment Category:
Meyran Kraus with:
Disney's classic feature, 'Bambi' =
Baby deer in a film? It's a success!
Topical Category:
Jesse Frankovich with:
Afghanistan liberated =
A fight ends Taliban era.
Rude Category:
Meyran Kraus with:
They are platonic friends =
(Pity I can't fondle her arse...)
People's Names Category:
Adrian Hickford with:
Alan Mathison Turing =
An original maths nut.
Other Names Category:
Jaybur with:
The New Olympus Digital Cameras =
Capture the way a model's smiling.
Medium Length Category:
David A. Green with:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Ten Most Wanted List =
We aim to detain and get the bent US villains off our streets.
Long Category:
Toby Gottfried with:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union
Special Category:
- 1st place:
  Meyran Kraus with:
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Night
- 2nd place:
  Richard Grantham with:
  An anagram checker, the code of which is itself an anagram.
- 3rd place:
  Adrian Hickford with:
  My Garden, by Thomas Edward Brown
Awardsmaster's Choice Award for a non-winning anagram:
Scott Gardner with:
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix =
Portrayed orphaned hero for the next hit.

List of all nominated anagrams for June 2003

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July 2003

General Category:
- 1st place:
  Jesse Frankovich with:
  The articulate person =
  He utters a clear point.
- 2nd place:
  Meyran Kraus with:
  "Every cloud has a silver lining"? =
  No, such drivel is largely naive.
- 3rd place:
  Joe Fathallah with:
  Rats and mice ~
  in cat's dream.
Entertainment Category:
Scott Gardner with:
The Wimbledon Ladies' Singles final =
Belgians fold; Williamses in the end.
Topical Category:
Scott Gardner with:
West Africa =
It faces war.
Rude Category:
David Bourke with:
Used condoms =
So cum-sodden.
People's Names Category:
Jaybur with:
William Shakespeare, the Bard of Avon =
Methinks I love a word, a phrase, a fable!
Other Names Category:
Allan Morley with:
The Apple Macintosh =
I plan to shame the PC.
Medium Length Category:
Jaybur with: [A British Telecom advertisement]
Why do birds suddenly appear, every time you are near?
I'm a falconer.
If only everything was as simple as BT's pricing options.
=
Why is a toucan similar to a phone-user?
Its bill is very large.
Modern company's prospering every day, and debt's fine, if *we* pay.
Long Category:
Larry Brash with:
"It was once believed that a million monkeys at a million keyboards would eventually type the works of Shakespeare, but the Internet has since disproved this theory."=
Instead, we only have to tolerate useless spam like: "Make Money Fast!"; "Buy Online Holiday!"; "Total Help with Debt!" "Have Harder Erections!"; or "Visit Kinky Dutch Porn Websites!"
Special Category:
- 1st place:
  Richard Brodie with:
  Battle of the Books
- eq.2nd place:
  Richard Grantham with:
  The Witch's Prayer
- eq.2nd place:
  Meyran Kraus with:
  Eminem: Cleaning Out My Closet
Awardsmaster's Choice Award for a non-winning anagram:
Hans-Peter Reich with:
Fingertips =
Finest grip.

List of all nominated anagrams for July 2003

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August 2003

General Category:
- 1st place:
  Jesse Frankovich with:
  American Education =
  An academic routine.
- 2nd place:
  Joe Fathallah with:
  Nuclear weapons =
  One war cleans up.
- 3rd place:
  Toby Gottfried with:
  You can't teach an old dog new tricks =
  Can't change our end - stick to old way.
Entertainment Category:
Toby Gottfried with:
Gone with the Wind? =
Then weigh it down!
Topical Category:
Jesse Frankovich with:
The hidden weapons of mass destruction =
No one's found them, as this was predicted.
Rude Category:
Larry Brash with:
The Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud =
Halt fancying Mother's pussy, Dude.
People's Names Category:
Richard Grantham with:
President of the United States of America ~
is a stupid ranter set to demean the office.
Other Names Category:
Jesse Frankovich with:
Sport Utility Vehicle =
I've this city polluter.
Medium Length Category:
David Bourke with:
"What To Do When Someone Dies:
A Legal, Financial and Practical Guide"by Milton Berry Scott
=
A: Bury corpse.
B: Scan will.
C: Find a solicitor.
D: Negotiate all money.
E: Get that new diamond! Ha!
Awardsmaster's Challenge:
Richard Grantham with:
Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary =
Net creation is immense word library.
Long Category:
Meyran Kraus with:
76th Academy Awards Rules For Distinguished Achievements During 2003
Special Category:
- 1st place:
  Meyran Kraus with:
  3 Angles to Frost's 'The Road Not Taken'
- 2nd place:
  Scott Gardner with:
  "Triply true" anagrams.
- 3rd place:
  Richard Grantham with:
  A number of mathematical anagrams.
Awardsmaster's Choice Award for a non-winning anagram:
David A. Green with:
The American Blind Golfers' Association =
And on occasion a regret if I miss the ball.

List of all nominated anagrams for August 2003

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September 2003

General Category:
- 1st place:
  Meyran Kraus with:
  The ballet position =
  It shall be on tiptoe.
- 2nd place:
  Matjaz Pihler with:
  The law of modern physics =
  Can form wild hypotheses.
- 3rd place:
  rainwalker with:
  Military tribunal =
  Built-in Army trial.
Entertainment Category:
Jesse Frankovich with:
The Yellow Brick Road =
Dorothy & likeable crew.
Topical Category:
Meyran Kraus with:
Middle East violence =
Evidence lead to Islam.
Rude Category:
Meyran Kraus with:
A skirt chaser =
I track her ass.
People's Names Category:
Meyran Kraus with:
American President J.F.K. =
A frantic jerk sniped me.
Other Names Category:
Meyran Kraus with:
Stonehenge, in the downland of Salisbury Plain =
Long boulders in an open field? Why, that's insane!
Medium Length Category:
David A. Green with:
"Anagram Genius - The Book" by William Tunstall-Pedoe and Donald L. Holmes =
OK, not a bestseller. Still, I made many balding men whoop and laugh aloud.
Long Category:
Richard Grantham with with:
Extremely black 9/11 humour - read at your peril
Special Category:
- 1st place:
  Meyran Kraus with:
  When I consider every thing that grows
- 2nd place:
  Richard Brodie with:
  Enobarbus describing Cleopatra sailing on the river Cydnus
- 3rd place:
  Zoran Radisavlevic with:
  Emoticon anagrams (Smileygrams)
Awardsmaster's Choice Award for a non-winning anagram:
View with:
Russian Revolution =
No evil ruinous Tsar.

List of all nominated anagrams for September 2003

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October 2003

General Category:
- 1st place:
  View with:
  ABC is ~
  Basic.
- 2nd place:
  Richard Grantham with:
  Religious fundamentalism =
  Defiant rage in Muslim soul.
- 3rd place:
  Meyran Kraus with:
  Mental Disturbance =
  Unclear mind, at best.
Entertainment Category:
Jaybur with:
Italian Antonio Stradivari =
A violin is an art, a tradition.
Topical Category:
Toby Gottfried with:
Where is Saddam Hussein? =
Assume he was hidden, Sir.
Rude Category:
View with:
Tee-shirt =
Tits here!
People's Names Category:
Jesse Frankovich with:
Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald's =
Cooked my order for lunch, and fast!
Other Names Category:
Hans-Peter Reich with:
Alpine glaciers =
Large ice plains.
Medium Length Category:
Richard Grantham with:
Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun. =
See obese people eat a cocktail of canine tissue, beetle muscles, weasel nuts and chips.
Long Category:
Meyran Kraus with:
Office of the Press Secretary, October 24, 2003: The President's Ramadan Message
Special Category:
- 1st place:
  Mike Keith with:
  A triply true anagram.
- 2nd place:
  David Bourke with:
  'Underneath The Arches' - Flanagan and Allen
- 3rd place:
  Richard Brodie with:
  An anagram of an excerpt from Othello, in which the names of some of the play's principal characters have been hidden.
Awardsmaster's Choice Award for a non-winning anagram:
Larry Brash with:
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. =
Something of a cheeky mistranslation there, eh? If not a fine animal of the desert, it ought have read "coarse rope".

List of all nominated anagrams for October 2003

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November 2003

General Category:
- 1st place:
  Meyran Kraus with:
  Correspondent ~
  does CNN report.
- 2nd place:
  Jesse Frankovich with:
  The desert oasis ~
  does ease thirst.
- 3rd place:
  Dean Mayer with:
  Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned =
  Flamethrower on hand, she can kill you!
Entertainment Category:
Toby Gottfried with:
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa =
A smile adorns a vain old icon.
Topical Category:
David Bourke with:
Baghdad, the capital of Iraq =
Big patch of Al-Qaida hatred.
Rude Category:
Jesse Frankovich with:
The rock star groupie =
Care to go up her skirt?
People's Names Category:
Meyran Kraus with:
American President George W. Bush =
He needs grim war to bring us peace?!
Other Names Category:
Meyran Kraus with:
The recent Microsoft Windows update =
Few noticed it's the same worn product.
Medium Length Category:
Larry Brash with:
Members of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists =
By all the results and models, we are claiming that Prozac is safe for anyone.
Awardsmaster's Challenge:
Jesse Frankovich with:
The fortieth anniversary of the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy =
A jarring shot on that sad, stern Friday invokes fifteen dozen inferential hypotheses.
Long Category:
Meyran Kraus with:
Anthology: The Best Of Michael Jackson
Special Category:
- 1st place:
  Mike Keith with:
  The raw material for 641,959,232,274,432 pairs of anagrammed sonnets.
- 2nd place:
  Meyran Kraus with:
  Magic by Shel Silverstein
- 3rd place:
  David A. Green with:
Awardsmaster's Choice Award for a non-winning anagram:
Richard Grantham with:
Honestly ‡
On the sly.

List of all nominated anagrams for November 2003

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December 2003

General Category:
- 1st place:
  Hans-Peter Reich with:
  One thousand kilos =
  Oh, sounds like a ton!
- 2nd place:
  Meyran Kraus with:
  Casino hotels =
  To lose cash in.
- 3rd place:
  Richard Grantham with:
  Acute narcolepsy =
  Sleep occur at any...
Entertainment Category:
Meyran Kraus with:
The Best-Selling Book in the World =
Still the Bible - God knew no others!
Topical Category:
Meyran Kraus with:
Saddam Hussein, the Iraqis' former president =
A squad pried his ass from his retirement den.
Rude Category:
David Bourke with:
Scarlet women ~
screw men a lot.
People's Names Category:
Jaybur with:
Charles A. Lindbergh =
Bird has challenger?
Other Names Category:
sundogg99 with:
Harley Davidson motorcycles =
Hot damn! Very cool, classy ride.
Medium Length Category:
Jaybur with:
"I believe marriage is between a man and a woman, and I think we ought to codify that one way or another" (George W. Bush) =
I think we need a new law to be encouraging to true mahogany, er, matrimony... and have a good wife to share babies with.
Christmas Category (Awardsmaster's Challenge):
Adrian Hickford with:
A school nativity play =
So plan a holy activity.
Long Category:
Adrian Hickford with:
People are occasionally having problems with nominations. Teething problems are common with new changes.
Special Category:
- 1st place:
  Richard Grantham with:
  A retelling of Mr Daydream by Roger Hargreaves, in which both letters and pictures have been rearranged.
- 2nd place:
  David Bourke with:
  President George W. Bush
  George W. Bush is the 43rd President of the United States.
- 3rd place:
  Joe Fathallah with:
  Mambo No. 5
Awardsmaster's Choice Award for a non-winning anagram:
Richard Brodie with:
The love sonnet number One Hundred Forty Five by Shakespeare

List of all nominated anagrams for December 2003

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