anagrams

An anagram is the re-arrangement of the letters of a word or phrase that transforms it into another word or phrase. For example, the wildly successful mystery-detective novel "Da Vinci Code" starts its storyline with a museum curator lying beside a few inscriptions he wrote before his death:

"O, Draconian devil"

"Oh lame saint"

Which turns out to be anagrams for 

"Leonardo Da Vinci"
"The Mona Lisa"

Interesting?! Here are a few more I found on the web:

Dormitory — Dirty Room

Desperation — A Rope Ends It

The Morse Code — Here Come Dots

Slot Machines — Cash Lost in 'em

Animosity — Is No Amity

Mother-in-law — Woman Hitler

Snooze Alarms — Alas! No More Z's

Alec Guinness — Genuine Class

Semolina — Is No Meal

The Public Art Galleries — Large Picture Halls, I Bet

A Decimal Point — I'm a Dot in Place

The Earthquakes — That Queer Shake

Eleven plus two — Twelve plus one

Contradiction — Accord not in it

This one's truly amazing:

"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."

After re-arranging all the letters, it becomes:

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

Here's another great one:

"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Neil Armstrong

The anagram:

"Thin man ran; makes a large stride, left planet, pins flag on moon! On to Mars!"

Finally, my try at one: 

"Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!"

Its anagram: 

"Pray a wish, share a dream, CRT my penny!"

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Some had asked, and many must have wondered--I assumed--about what that "CRT my penny" means above. So here I go:

"CRT" is really just the short for "Credit". By "CRT my penny" I mean I so run out of money doing Christmas shopping I have to put my penny on credit!

It's a stretch and exaggeration, I know, but also my little poking fun at Christmas commercialism :)

Anyway, this allows me to say "Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year" to you all again at this Christmas Eve in Taiwan, with another newly minted anagram:

"May Warmth Spread, Cheers in Any Pray!"