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"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature." Tom Robbins

Sunday, October 3


It took me two years of trying and fifteen minutes of Googling to finally get an anagram for my name. The Internet Anagram Server is just about the best thing ever if you like anagrams. I do.*

A few of my favourites from the list of thousands:

BABE IN A CALM HELL
A CALM NIBBLE HEAL
A CAB AMBLE IN HELL

Notes:
* I do: Almost every character I've ever written has had his or her name deciphered and anagrammed. I think that's why they're all megalomaniacs who champion what I've written and make the final decisions about what's going to happen to them in a story. My favourite anagram was for someone named Emma whose career in hand modelling ended tragically in an anarchist pas de deux. She now spins the city under the moniker Queer Astride a Bike and never comes back to her old apartment for her mail. EVER SHE'LL SHRIEK A MAN'S NAME.

7 Comments:

At 12:20 a.m. , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hmm, the best that I could find with my name (excluding title) was either 'named tawny', which clearly I am not, or, should I somehow become a porn star (which I won't) the very appropriate 'Wet and Many'

Such is life.

(This is dan, incidentally)

 
At 11:09 p.m. , Blogger The Red Fork said...

Yes, Dan, but could you ever possibly hope to get a better anagram than WET AND MANY? I suppose if you added another name, one with lots and lots of useful vowels and consonants, such as Polychronopolous or Armistead. You might get a great combination like HABERDASHER'S PRIZE.

 
At 11:33 p.m. , Anonymous Anonymous said...

On the other hand, were I to become a record Slip and Slide salesman, that could work as well.

Yes, a trip to the Haberdashery is certainly in order. Are you well?

 
At 8:47 a.m. , Blogger The Red Fork said...

I'm pretty well. Halloween is near and I'm starting to collect obscure items. Have you seen a pirate hat and a parrot anywhere?

 
At 1:43 a.m. , Anonymous Anonymous said...

I've seen a parrot recently. One of the regulars at my shop has one.

No such luck on the pirate hat though. Hmm, what should I dress as?

 
At 11:35 a.m. , Blogger The Red Fork said...

If you can't think of anything I've got last year's hula girl costume gathering dust in the closet.

 
At 3:03 p.m. , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Tempting, very tempting. Of course, I'm thinking of reprising my costume from about 6 years ago: ie Jesus.

However, this time, I want to go a step further. You wouldn't happen to know twelve guys I could get to follow me around everywhere, do you?

 

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