Anagrams in the Timesunion.com Blogosphere

Anagrams are fun. Anagrams are when you take some text and rearrange the letters to get an entirely different text.

Anagrams are also fun if you can mix the letters up from one person’s name, and discover that the rearranged letters can form a phrase or sentence that might mean something wry or contradictory to that person’s personality.

Example.

If you took the first name of hockey player JAROMIR Jagr and scrambled the letters, you would get MARIO JR.

If you took the name of hockey goon TIE DOMI and changed the letters around, it would spell ME IDIOT.

So I took a few names and headlines from the Times-Union’s family of bloggers, and entered them in an online generator called I, Rearranger Servant. here’s what I came up with.  There will be some letters left over, and the grammar’s kind of kludgy, but nothing’s perfect.  Still, I think we got a few good ones here.

AUSTIN BEN CONNOR: JENN SMITH = SONS IN BEECHNUT NATION, MR. J.N.

SIMPLER LIVING: NAOMI SELDIN = MINOR PILING, MAD LIVELINESS

AMANDA TALAR = DRAMA A LA TAN

PILOTGIRL SONY STARK = LIKING STORY PORTALS

BOXING IN THE CAPITAL REGION = BOX POINT; ALI TEACHING REIGN

ROGER SMITH: INFORMATION WITHOUT THE BUN = FOREIGN MIRTH HUNT MONITORS OUT A WEB HIT

TERI CONROY FARMLIFE: WUNSAPANA FARM = A FARAWAY MANOR, FUN PRISM REFLECTION

KEVIN MARSHALL: IN THE PRESENT TENSE = SHH… REPRESENTATIVES LIKEN’ LAMENT’N

THIS IS COLLEGE!? = LOGISTIC HEELS!?

ON THE EDGE: KRISTI GUSTAFSON = FEE OUTRANKS SIGHTING D’ OTE’S

TABLE HOPPING: STEVE BARNES = A BABE PREVENTING THE SLOPS

J. ERIC SMITH = I’M RICH JEST

MICHAEL HUBER, TIMES UNION BLOG EDITOR = RUN, HOTSHOT; IMAGINE CLOBBERED MILIEU

And, yes, of course, I had to try this program on myself.

CHUCK MILLER STREET ACADEMY = ELECTRICAL DUMMY; TEACHERS, K?

At which point I scratch my head and say… huh?

Tell me what anagrams you can come up with.  Try anagramming famous people’s names, or famous movies, or even local celebrities.  And let me know what your best anagrams are!