Anyone can come up with a funny anagram (Adolf Hitler = Hell, do I fart!), but try making it topical. Whenever something big happens in the news or a political party comes up with a new slogan, I like to have a bit of fun trying to turn the relevant words into something that's meaningful, relevant and even revealing. One of my best was the anagram of Osama Bin Laden that i discovered in 2011... "Lob da man in sea" - because that's effectively what the US Troops did with him. I tweeted it at the time, and very soon it was all over the place - even on TV. I should have asked for a credit!
Over the past couple of days, I've been having a bit of fun trying to come up with anagrams of the Conservative Party's official election campaign slogan "Unleash Britain's Potential". My first effort "A Russian plot - beneath it, nil" wasn't bad. It was topical, as in the government failing to release a report into Russian interference in the 2016 leave campaign, and it made sense. So did my next effort, "Boris plain lies - then a taunt". This one pretty much sums up Johnson's modus operandi when it comes to style of speaking. My best, however, without any doubt was....
It has been retweeted loads of times. I guess because people can see the irony in it. Here is the government announcing they want to unleash the UK's potential, but as it stands, we're still very much a part of Europe. Nothing has changed, to quote the much maligned Theresa May.
Why not have a go yourself? it's not as easy as it looks. Yes, an anagram server helps start you off, but it won't give you any kind of steer. You have to have an inkling of an idea and try and develop it from there. As an example, there are 104,167 possibilities for the phrase Unleash Britain's Potential, and they only show you the first 500 results, none of which bear any semblance to "Still European Inhabitants". In fact many of the results are just jibberish. Here are the results you get from just typing in "Unleash Britain's potential". They're not much use to anyone!
Why not have a go yourself? it's not as easy as it looks. Yes, an anagram server helps start you off, but it won't give you any kind of steer. You have to have an inkling of an idea and try and develop it from there. As an example, there are 104,167 possibilities for the phrase Unleash Britain's Potential, and they only show you the first 500 results, none of which bear any semblance to "Still European Inhabitants". In fact many of the results are just jibberish. Here are the results you get from just typing in "Unleash Britain's potential". They're not much use to anyone!
The way to try and find an anagram that works is to identify one word that you know can be made up out of the letters and then see if you can make something that makes sense from the remaining letters. It can be a laborious process, trust me! But, sometimes, it pays off, not in monetary terms you understand, but from the satisfaction of knowing that you have created a little something that people enjoy reading.
If you like anagrams and want to see more of mine, here they are. http://www.alasdairmurraycopy.com/anagrams.html
The conservative manifesto ones will be rolled out on Twitter soon.
If you like anagrams and want to see more of mine, here they are. http://www.alasdairmurraycopy.com/anagrams.html
The conservative manifesto ones will be rolled out on Twitter soon.
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