Anagrams: different phrases composed of the same letters. 

This page presents some of my personal favorites.

Words and Short Phrases

Dormitory
Dirty Room

Desperation
A Rope Ends It

The Morse Code
Here Come Dots

Slot Machines
Cash Lost in 'em

Animosity
Is No Amity

Mother-in-law
Woman Hitler

Snooze Alarms
Alas! No More Z's

Alec Guinness
Genuine Class

Semolina
Is No Meal

The Public Art Galleries
Large Picture Halls, I Bet

A Decimal Point
I'm a Dot in Place

The Earthquakes
That Queer Shake

Eleven plus two
Twelve plus one

Contradiction
Accord not in it

Princess Diana
Ascend in Paris

George Herbert Walker Bush
Huge Berserk Rebel Warthog

George Bush
He bugs Gore

Ronald Reagan
A darn long era

Margaret Thatcher
That great charmer

Longer Passages

To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.

        becomes

In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
         — Neil Armstrong

        becomes

Thin man ran; makes a large stride, left planet, pins flag on moon! On to Mars!

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Wed, 16.Aug.2000

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