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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!
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?
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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?
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
(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!"
"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 FAQhttp://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!
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:
The alt.anagrams FAQ
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
"Tom and Jerry" as a nefarious Jewish plot:
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.
With this, and all the deaths over those "Allah" comics, it really makes you wonder what this world is coming to.
The world needs its idiots, I'm firmly convinced of that. Though I do sometimes have trouble understanding why it needs quite so many of them - especially the hateful, warmongering kind.
But the world isn't "coming to" anything more than it ever has (I mean, it is always coming to something - it's just usually more of the same.) People have always irrationally hated each other, and set out to persecute their neighbours as often as they extend the hand of friendship to a stranger.
Maybe it will all become clear at the day of judgement. Or not.
In the meantime there is only one question to ask ourselves: do we want to be hateful, warmongering idiots ourselves?
And if not, the solution is surely pretty clear - refuse to hate anyone, even the idiots.
But the world isn't "coming to" anything more than it ever has (I mean, it is always coming to something - it's just usually more of the same.) People have always irrationally hated each other, and set out to persecute their neighbours as often as they extend the hand of friendship to a stranger.
Maybe it will all become clear at the day of judgement. Or not.
In the meantime there is only one question to ask ourselves: do we want to be hateful, warmongering idiots ourselves?
And if not, the solution is surely pretty clear - refuse to hate anyone, even the idiots.
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