Something funny
A summary
From time to time, someone sends me an e-mailmessagecontaining funny stuff — a collection of funny bumper stickers, one of real epitaphs, a joke. 

Sometimes it's a poignant piece. 

Sometimes it's something uplifting, inspirational. 

But funny or poignant or uplifting or inspirational, they have one thing in common — they all look like hell. 

So I started reformatting them. Picking typefaces. Adding graphics. Laying them out in a visually interesting way. When I was done, I would send them to friends in their new form. And then people started asking me for copies. 

Weeeell, it got to be expensive after a while. Getting stuff printed usually is. So I hit upon the idea of putting the stuff on the Internet. Now, if someone wants a copy, I give him/her the related URL instead. He/she can then take a look at it, and print it out if he/she wishes. 

Now, what you will see on-screen is more or less the same as the original in some cases. Not in others. I won't get into why. It's not important. Only the content is. 

Sooooo, here's one of them. Enjoy! Enjoy!

A collection of anagrams
is a word or phrase made by transposing or rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.  Someone out there either has way too much time to waste or is deadly at Scrabble. 

Here goes. 

Dormitory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dirty Room 

Evangelist . . . . . . . . . . . . . Evil's Agent 

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 

Princess Diana . . . . . . . . . Ascend in Paris 

This one is truly amazing. 

    That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. 
becomes 
    Thin man ran; makes a large stride, left planet, pins 
    flag on moon! On to Mars! 

And for the grand finale. 

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

And for a bonus. 

    President Clinton of the USA 
becomes 
    To copulate he finds interns
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