Anagrams for anagrammers

[JEK595]

Here are some anagrams I came across. I supply the first parts, and you supply the second. The first person to come up with the correct answers supplies the next problem.

1. Dormitory
2. Mother-in-law
3. Silence of the Lambs
4. The United States Bureau of Fisheries

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-If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. (Not suitable for skydivers.)

[Tahnan]

Might I suggest that these are done backwards? For one thing, there are a lot of anagrams for, say, "Silence of the Lambs" (for a taste: "almost file benches"; "flee him, constables"; "the melons be fiscal"...). For another, if you're looking for something apposite, you're asking for a great deal of creativity, which is interesting but not a "puzzle." A puzzle would be something like, "Given cruise by, ne'er pinning the particle, can you find the phrase that this is an appropriate anagram of?" (Shamelessly borrowed from Francis Heaney, 1998. I'm not giving the answer, at least not yet. I mean, sheesh, it's a puzzle!)

And, a note: the anagram of "mother-in-law" you're probably thinking of is, in my opinion, not in the best of taste. On the other hand, when you know that it was written in 1936 (see http://www.puzzlers.org/sampleflats/anagrams.html for this and others), the taste is more understandable.

That said: man, I hate anagrams. Have fun, guys.

[This message has been edited by Tahnan (edited 01-28-2002 04:30 AM).]

[impossibleroot]

1. Dirty room

[mathgrant]

2. Wo. . .

[T McAy]

For "Silence of the Lambs" you probably wanted CON BITES MALE FLESH.

"DAISY"..... CAN JEST! (*7 *5)

[UnheardVoice]

2) ...man Hitler

See sig for mine.

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Anagram:
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

[This message has been edited by UnheardVoice (edited 01-28-2002 12:08 PM).]

[UnheardVoice]

Here's another if you can't get the sig:

Twelve plus one

*starts stopwatch*

[Zealot]

Eleven Plus Two

[Milt]

eleven plus two?

[mathgrant]

Of course it is Milt!

[UnheardVoice]

*stops stopwatch*

Okay, 35 minutes! Oh wait...
I mean 2 minutes! I knew people have heard of it before.

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

[This message has been edited by UnheardVoice (edited 01-28-2002 08:50 PM).]

[mathgrant]

What is Teaches TX an anagram of?

[Stern Tart in Green]

The sex cat.

As in:

"W00t! Check out that sex kitten, Nicole Kidman!"

"But she's old, man. She'd be a sex cat by now."

[Stern Tart in Green]

Does anyone know that Mr. Nag?

[mathgrant]

No, that's not it, it has nothing to do with the contents of Playboy Magazine!

[Suspence]

Texas Tech

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I hate people who try to write interesting things in their signature

[T McAy]

My earlier one was Jessica Tandy. Here's an oldie:

TRUE GENERALS (*1 *1 *5, *1 *1 *3)

[Tahnan]

T McAy's is U.S. Grant, R.E. Lee. I'll again offer, a little more prominently,

Cruise by, ne'er pinning the particle (*10 11 9)

[Mentat]

Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

[mathgrant]