Seasons

*applause* at Psimagus

Shunning, or ostracism, is actually one of the oldest social methods of dealing with someone who isn't following the rules. Acting as if the person does not exist and completely excluding them from all interactions really does eventually stop their disruptiveness.
I've been thinking of suggesting a shunning for a while now, but I've been enjoying psimagus's anagram retorts too much.

*reads above entry* My god I sound like an encyclopedia, somebody shoot me.

I've been thinking of suggesting a shunning for a while now, but I've been enjoying psimagus's anagram retorts too much.

OK. we're now avenging cyber-Amish gang? Just ignore tiniest, tough buffoon until she abates sniping her venom. Amusing!

Even without the anagram, I would applaud "cyber-Amish gang". That would look good a a t-shirt. Is anyone selling something like that at www.cafepress.com?

Is anyone selling something like that at www.cafepress.com?

Well, there's a business opportunity for someone - with a logo of a smiley face wearing a black hat perhaps?

An anagram is a word made up of the letters from a different word, so "recap" is an anagram of 'pacer', for instance.

(my example is also a word that is a different word spelled backwards, but I forget what you call those...)

Anyway, you weren't talking to me, so I'll hush up now

Palindrome.

"I understand this is Bolton."
"Yeah."
"But you told me it was Ipswitch!"
"It was a pun."
"A pun?!?"
"No, not a pun... what's that other thing, where the words the same forwards as backwards?"
"A palindrome?"
"Yeah, that."
"But a palindrome for Bolton would be Notlob!"

It's funny though - palindromes take a very different set of pattern recognition skills from regular anagrams. I like to think I have a little skill at anagrammatizing, but I couldn't construct a palindrome to save my life.
Palindromes get exponentially harder the longer they are - the longest ones with any sensible meaning that I'm aware of are Bonaparte's apocryphal observation in exile "Able was I ere I saw Elba", and "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!", both reasonably well-known.
There are certain computer generated monstrosities (eg: http://www.norvig.com/pal2txt.html) which are superficially impressive, but I do find ultimately pretty pointless.

The alt.anagrams FAQ http://asdf.org/~anna/grams/faq.html#1.5 is well worth a read, with plenty of very cool examples of anagrams, antigrams, anugrams, trigrams, pangrams, you name it!

And now for something completely different—

"Tom and Jerry" as a nefarious Jewish plot:

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2006/02/tom_and_jerry_a_nefarious_jewi.php

wow. it is amazing how idiotic some people can get in attempting to secure their ideas of superiority over other people. that article was truly the work of a bona fide fool.

excuse me, not the article, rather the concept that the article was conveying.