An anagram, as we all know, is a word or phrase made by transposing or rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. The following examples are quite astounding: 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 This one's amazing: [From Hamlet by Shakespeare] "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." And the grand finale: [From the moon, Neil A. Armstrong] "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Becomes: "A thin man ran; makes a large stride; pins flag on moon, left planet. On to Mars!" today'sTHOT============================ If you can stay calm, while all around you is chaos, then you probably haven't completely understood the seriousness of the situation.
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