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DOLT OR APE? POT ORDEAL PLOD TO EAR TA, OLD ROPE

With thanks to John M for providing this.

Any others?

― Tom, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

anagrams are really shti.

sorry...

― gareth, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pez

― mark s, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my bloody valentine - TENABLE MOODY VINYL belle and sebastian - SATAN LESBIAN BLEED, SANTA LESBIAN BLEED,BAD LEBANESE STALIN, BALD LEBANESE SAINT, BALD LESBIAN SENATE, BLAND LESBIAN TEASE, ENABLE INSTABLE SAD manic street preachers - MASTERPIECE TRASH CERN. PREACH SEAMEN RESTRICT, REACH SPEARMINT SECRET

― an@gram.com, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I knew belle and sebastian were a covert satanic movement.

― , Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The most famous pop anagram is Axl Rose. I'll try and think of some...

― james e l, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Happy Mondays: A Mad Phony Spy

Radio Head: Dead Ha Rio...(explains the Duran tie in!)

― james e l, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

axl rose - ORAL SEX

― an@gram.com, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Jesus and Mary Chain:
Has Jaunty Merchandise
Anaesthesia Cud Hymn, Jr., or Anaesthesia Handy Cum, Jr.
Sedimentary Cajun Hash
Enthusiasm Candy Jar, Eh
Headhunter Jism Can Say
Euthanasia Men Shy CD, Jr.
Shiny Cajun Headmaster
Manchester Anus Hid Jay
Strychnine Ahead Jam Us
A Strychnine Judea Mash
Strychnine Jam Us Ahead
Aha! Used Strychnine Jam
Yah, Mr. Sustenance Jihad!
I'd Jar My Sustenance, Hah!
Transience Jam Days, Huh?
Underneatch Cash, I'm Jay S
Hi, My Jr. Ad-Nausea Stench
Jr. Hymens Itch Ad-Nausea
...this really could go on all day.

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

a couple more of note: Centenary Jihad Ass Hum.
Yeah, Jan, Nude Christmas

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Chemical Brothers - Harsh Electric Mob

Okay. I'm done now. Go do your own at http://freespace.virgin.net/martin.mamo/anagram.html

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Morrissey - 'Misery or s', 'Morris yes', 'Miser rosy'

― DG, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The really classic one being BRIAN ENO = BRAIN ONE

― Simon, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bob Dylan = Bland Boy

― 11235, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Here's some good ones: Godspeed You Black Emperor!:

1.Glory be! O dear me! pop sucked. 2.Mega or soppy double-decker. 3.O my god! proper bleak seduce. 4.Creep's melody break-up. good! 5.Good-bye! 'e's proper lame duck.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Sunday, 29 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ten months pass...

Just had to revive this...

Stephin Merritt: The misprintter

― OleM, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No Party Doll=Dolly Parton
Cockish lane jam=Michael Jackson

― nathalie, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Melissa Auf Der Maur: Masseur e-mail fraud

My real name's an anagram of "One Sadistic Companion"

― Judd Nelson, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ShelleyDevoto: Oldest Love, Hey!
Cabaret Voltaire: Locative Bare Art
Boards of Canada: A Carbon Sofa Dad
Legendary Pink Dots: Leningrad Desk Typo
My Bloody Valentine: Malevolent Body Yin (comment on their live shows?)
Moby: My B.O.

― Sean Carruthers, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Bono and The Edge" = "Need Hot Bondage"
Superchunk = "Shrunk puce"
Ani Difranco= "In rancid oaf"
Bright Eyes = "Shit beg rye"
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead = "Why you Aristotelean downfall bud kid"

― xwerxes, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Timbaland - Bland Am It
Kylie Minogue - Gene I Milk You, Geek Nil Im You
Destiny's Child - Sync Idled Shit
Britney Spears - Bra Spite Syren

― bnw, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Joshua Kosman, a classical-music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, is a typical attendee. "The past fifteen years, for me, has been a process of sinking into, codifying, and coming to terms with the fact that this is what I do. That I'm a puzzle guy," he told me. Then he cut to the chase: "Did you know that Britney Spears has signed a big endorsement deal with Pepsi? That's right, it's true, and we are all very happy about it. You see, 'Pepsi-Cola' is an anagram of 'Episcopal' and 'Britney Spears' is an anagram of 'Presbyterians'." He paused to let this sink in, but my reaction wasn't quite what he had hoped for. "Yeah, I know," he said. "'Episcopal' is singular, and 'Presbyterians' is plural. But we take what we can get."

-- New Yorker March 4

― Ian, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

Via Popbitch: Britney Spears --> Binary Presets.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I Love Music: Civil Mouse / I've Cum Soil

― dan, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

twenty years pass...

'Britney Spears' is an anagram of 'Presbyterians'

Going to guess this is extremely famous. My team missed it--me, especially, I'm supposed to get all music-related questions--in a trivia thing last night.

― clemenza, Monday, 13 February 2023 03:04 (two years ago)

Elvis Lives

― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, 13 February 2023 05:40 (two years ago)

one month passes...

belated RIP to GRUNGY AROMA, one of the most sophisticated singer-songwriters of the sixties

― astor pizzarolla (unregistered), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 00:28 (two years ago)

’Britney Spears' is an anagram of 'Presbyterians'

Going to guess this is extremely famous.

Why would this be famous (or even notable), I don’t get it.

― morrisp.fandom.com (morrisp), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 00:48 (two years ago)

Because it's a good anagram?

― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 08:31 (two years ago)

I'm partial to Nearby Priests myself

― Vinnie, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 08:36 (two years ago)

That's good too... whereas Bra Spite Syren isn't.

― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 08:45 (two years ago)

I mean, it’s in the quote above:

”Did you know that Britney Spears has signed a big endorsement deal with Pepsi? That's right, it's true, and we are all very happy about it. You see, 'Pepsi-Cola' is an anagram of 'Episcopal' and 'Britney Spears' is an anagram of 'Presbyterians'."

― at bottom, wrapping my arms around some tripe called "Quest" (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 08:47 (two years ago)

Billy Corgan = balcony girl

― Sam Weller, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 09:27 (two years ago)

I'm partial to Nearby Priests myself

I remember her ginned-up rivalry with Irish Nautical Gear.

― Moniker? I barely know 'er! (SlimAndSlam), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 10:37 (two years ago)

Not to mention Jam Session Pics and her sister, Aimless Phones.

― Moniker? I barely know 'er! (SlimAndSlam), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 11:10 (two years ago)

I see it in that quote. I thought clever anagrams were supposed to reflect upon the word they’re anagramming somehow, I don’t get the connection.

― morrisp.fandom.com (morrisp), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 14:23 (two years ago)

Looking at Britney's religious history it appears that "Presbyterians" and "Episcopal" are two words that don't apply to her, whereas "Evangelical," "Southern Baptist," "Catholic," or "atheist" could, and it would be intriguing if she anagrammized to one of those terms. Although "Presbyterian" is still kind of funny.

― Josefa, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 14:38 (two years ago)

+ s

― Josefa, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 14:39 (two years ago)

I thought clever anagrams were supposed to reflect upon the word they’re anagramming somehow

Few anagrams can have such genuine class

― Vinnie, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 22:22 (two years ago)

Like "I'm an evil Tory bigot" being an anagram of Virginia Bottomley. It's rare.

― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 April 2023 00:24 (two years ago)

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