Thursday, November 09, 2006

Fun with Anagrams

Anagram fun
Some of my favorites...
Amy Clemons
MY SON CAMEL
CALM ME NOSY
CLAMMY NOSE
CLAMMY ONES
CALMS MEN, YO
CLAN: YES, MOM
COMA MEN SLY
MY NOEL SCAM
SCAM ME ONLY
MY LAME CONS
MY MALE CONS
SLAM COY MEN
MY MA'S CLONE
MAY CON ELMS
How Apt!

Bluffton College

CUBE FELL FLOG NOT
CLUBFOOT ELF GLEN (the best!)
NO BLOC FLEET GULF
BLOC LEFT ONE GULF
CLUB ELF: LEFT, GO ON
OFT NO ELF CLUB LEG
CLUB ELF GONE LOFT (headline for dorm room?)
BE COGENT! LULL BE OFF !
BE CLEFT FULL GOON
BE COOL FLUNG LEFT (A comment on politics?)
BEFELL CLOT OF GUN (not sure what that means, but it works)
BELONG CLEFT FOUL
GLOBE CON FELT FLU
NOBLE CULT ELF FOG
BUT GOLF ONCE FELL

Lamar Nisly

ALARM IN SLY
MANLY LIARS
ALL ARMY SIN
SMALL RAY IN
MA RAN SILLY
ARMS ANY ILL (oh, really?)

Kari Sommers
MAKER OR MISS
ROAMERS SKIM
EAR IRKS MOMS
SAKI ERRS MOM
MARK ISOMERS
OKRA SIMMERS
AMMO RE RISKS

Laura Beth Amstutz

BAZAAR SLEUTH MUTT
AMBULATE TZAR TUSH
AMAZE TUBAL TRUTHS (Um?)
BATHE MUTUAL TZARS
ZEBRAS THAT UMLAUT

Diane Hull
A NUDE HILL
(no need for more)

Graduate Student
A UNDERSTATED TUG
ATTENUATED DRUGS
ADAGE TURNED TUTS
GRADUATES NUTTED
GRADUATE STUNTED
DATA TENURED TUGS
STAGNATE TRUE DUD
AURA GUTTED DENTS
ADD TAUNT GESTURE
DEAD ASTUTE GRUNT
ATTENDED AT GURUS
UNGUARDED AT TEST
DARNED ASTUTE GUT
UNDATED GATE RUST
DAUNTED, RAGES TUT
DANGER TAUT DUETS
GRATED DEANS TUTU
STATED NUT ARGUED
STAGED TAD UNTRUE

Cultural Studies
CURTAILED LUST US (feminist studies)
SAUCIEST DULL RUT (the problem with Foucault)
LACES LURID TUTUS (Cultural Materialism)
CURATES DULL SUIT (Pop culture?)
LILAC STUD UTERUS (Queer theory)
CURTAILS DUE SLUT (Ditto)
TACT DULL USURIES (Marx)
AID CULTURES, SLUT (the command I received)
LAUDS RUSTIC LUTE (post colonialism)
DUAL CULTURES SIT (borderland studies)
RITUALS CULT USED (Rene Girard)
USUAL CRUD TITLES (How we write)

Rhetorical Theory
HOT ROIL TREACHERY
HIERARCHY ROOTLET
ETHICAL YET HORROR
ACHIER HOLY RETORT
THEIR HOLY REACTOR
OTHER CLARITY HERO
REHEAR RICHLY TOOT


And, finally
Jacques Derrida
DEAD JAR SQUIRE
JADED QUARRIES
JADES RARE QUID
ARID QUADS JEER


Burke would call this a practice of "perspective by incongruity." (CYBERNETICS GIVE UNITY PROP). It's a way of realizing other aspects of a concept by rearranging its components. In doing so, we should avoid stagnation and create new grammars of motive ("CHIEF ROOSTER VOMIT").
Or something like that.

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