It started when it struck me that two recurring topics that I find equally trivial, Andrea Corr and the ocarina, seemed to have a lot of letters in common.
Now I can’t stop. These scrambled whistlers are very easy of course and I don’t expect them to much of a challenge to anyone, I’m just offering them up for fun - but it’s curious how many of them seem apt in some twisted way.
GRAB MY REIN - this player really grabs me, and everyone else of course.
JOIN DAME DEAN - there is something stately about this “doyenne” (geddit?) of the whistle players admired by C&Fers.
NEAT STOPS - a whistle player whose articulation I have always greatly admired.
VAIN WHEN GAL - I don’t know whether this young player is effeminate or narcisstic. Can anybody confirm or refute such suggestions?
PAYD OLD MONEY - his band don’t want to be paid in euros.
UNCLE “TUNE” REGAN - I’m not sure that “avuncular” describes this recording artist. But UTR probably has a nephew or niece or two.
Anybody else want to add some more? I stress that I did not use anagram-generating software for any of these, which although it might generate interesting results, is not the point.
Oh, come on Stevie… It was a KEYED ocarina. That’s pretty cool
I’m glad that you mentioned that no software was use - the first thing I thought was, “OK. Stephen got a new crossword program that also does anagrams.” I feel much better knowing that you spent time working on them manually.
However, my brain is not sufficiently powered to solve any of them. I think there’s a short.
OK, since nobody posted any anagrams to brother Steve’s puzzles, and there seem to be no odd B&B prizes involved, i thought I’d post what i found…
Mind you - I do have a life. Really!!
(if you’re still puzzling, don’t scroll down)
Mary Bergin, Joanie Madden, Sean Potts, Gavin Whelan, paddy Moloney, Laurence Nugent.
Doggone you Stevie J. I got into this once before on a mailing list. I wasted a lot of time trying, usually in vain, to make anagrams when I could have been sitting around doing nothing. Anyway, here are a couple of easy ones.
DA SILLY EWE. An old Shetland tune.
ONE HEN PEST, SJ. How did a hen pest get into the Society?
I think you’ve got it figured out. Mr. Look-Nerdier could lead the 12-Step group for those recovering from WhOA!
As far as the Canadians being ahead, well, the U.S. isn’t exactly famous for the linguistic training of our children. Or for making strong beer and raising good hockey players. But then again, when we do lose, we don’t cry until everyone agrees to call it a tie!
The best I have managed to come up with for you is (assuming a PH):
NEEDS THE PLANK. (As on a pirate ship.)
I think the Canadians are ahead on this one…
Although my email address only has one L my real name has two. PH is correct. Someone sent in the address of an anagram generatror another list. It comes up with lots of them but mostly they don’t make sense. I hope I’m not supposed to walk the plank.
NAT VAINLY FELL. Come, off it, Nat. We’re wise to that old trick.
MEN CAN JOKE. Sometimes it’s funny, sometimes not.
Steve
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Whoa! You are very good at this Steve. Either that or your time spent doing nothing is being drastically curtailed.
And Jim - I hadn’t got it. I thought we were talking about famous people (beyond the confines of this board that is). But I had to laugh - bonking Erin is right up his street. (As in bashing those living in Ireland, rather than deflowering girls from good Irish families.)
For the next two I had to go outside the realm of whistle players.
One for Dale: THEN SAY MIRA
And conclusive proof that fiddlers get more girls than wrestlers: MUSCLE LAYS NONE
I am stunned at how much truth there is in these anagrams. Are there anagramologists who will predict your future, as there are numerologists?
