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19 years ago #3172
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?

19 years ago #3174
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

19 years ago #3175
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!"

19 years ago #3176
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!

19 years ago #3177
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

19 years ago #3178
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.

19 years ago #3179
excuse me, not the article, rather the concept that the article was conveying.

19 years ago #3180
With this, and all the deaths over those "Allah" comics, it really makes you wonder what this world is coming to.

19 years ago #3181
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.

19 years ago #3182
The problem is, that brings up the issue that led Einstien, a strict pacifist, to help develop the A-Bomb. His rationale was "Organized power can only be opposed by organized power". Don't get me wrong, I'm a hippy at heart, but it's a conundrum. Idiots in large groups, especially the violent ones, can't just be ignored, or left alone, most often. But, as Dr. Martin Luthor King pointed out, violence only begets violence. So how to proceed?

19 years ago #3183
Choosing no to hate is not the same as chosing not to act. The trick is not to become the thing you are fighting.

19 years ago #3184
Anagram of
Choosing no to hate is not the same as chosing not to act. The trick is not to become the thing you are fighting. =
Transmogrification cabinetmaking conscientious necessitate hotshot ghetto go-go tooth then thy he ho


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