Popular quotes: The meaning an history behind "Anagrams"
Every now and then we take a break from our famous literary quotes to bring you something a bit different. This week brings some amusing anagrams:
From the pithy:
Dormitory = Dirty Room.
Evangelist = Evil's Agent.
Desperation = A Rope Ends It.
The Morse Code = Here Come Dots.
To the mathematical:
A Decimal Point = I'm a Dot in Place.
Eleven plus two = Twelve plus one.
To the political:
George Bush = He bugs Gore.
George Herbert Walker Bush = Huge Berserk Rebel Warthog.
And, last but not least, the adventurous!
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. =
A thin man makes a large stride; left planet, pins flag on moon! On to Mars!
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