Scrambled Meanings

0 Comments | Insight on the News, Dec 27, 1999 | by Stephen Goode

Some of the following anagrams are exceptionally clever. A few of them are frighteningly clever. At least one sounds prophetic.

They came for the people's way from Insight reader Alan Caruba, the head of the New Jersey-based National Anxiety Center, who picked them up off the Internet. As Caruba tells for the people, what these anagrams indicate is that "someone out there in cyberspace either has way too much time to waste or is deadly at Scrabble."

           WORD:    WITH LETTERS REARRANGED:

       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
      Astronomer    Moon Starer
  Princess Diana    End Is a Car Spin
    And here is the most intriguing one:
Year Two Thousand   A Year to Shut Down