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24 Sep
AOTD -- Anagram O' The Day

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From: Peter Langston <psl>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 96 13:53:46 -0700
To: Fun_People
Subject: AOTD -- Anagram O' The Day

[All I can say is: Yow!  -psl]

Forwarded-by: Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com>
Forwarded-by: George Neville-Neil <gnn@wrs.com>
Forwarded-by: Jeff Osier <jeff>

An anagram is a rearrangement of the letters from one word or phrase to make
another word or phrase.  A simple anagram turns  "glue" into "luge".
Creating meaningful anagrams is tricky work.  Creating long anagrams is even
harder.  Here is a truly stupendous example of the art:

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

can be anagrammed to form:

"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."

© 1996 Peter Langston