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Pastimes : Laughter is the Best Medicine - Tell us a joke

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To: Phil(bullrider) who wrote (15173)6/28/2000 10:07:00 AM
From: Barney  Read Replies (2) of 62567
 
anúaúgram - a word or phrase made by transposing the
letters of another word or phrase

Pronunciation: 'a-n&-"gram
Function: noun
Etymology: probably from Middle French 'anagramme',
from New Latin anagrammat-, anagramma, modification
of Greek anagrammatismos, from anagrammatizein to
transpose letters, from ana- + grammat-, gramma
letter
Date: 1589

Here are some real zingers...

A Decimal Point
I'm a Dot in Place

Alec Guinness
Genuine Class

Animosity
Is No Amity

Contradiction
Accord not in it

Desperation
A Rope Ends It

Dormitory
Dirty Room

Eleven plus two
Twelve plus one

Mother-in-law
Woman Hitler
(not mine of course!)

Slot Machines
Cash Lost in 'em

Snooze Alarms
Alas! No More Z's

The Earthquakes
That Queer Shake

The Morse Code
Here Come Dots

The Public Art Galleries
Large Picture Halls, I Bet

Of course you can do them with sentences as well . . .

"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."

This one is out of this world:

"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

Which means...

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