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Attributions for anagrams (if known) are shown at the end of each anagram.
Internet Anagram Server = Isn't rearrangement rave?
Dormitory = Dirty Room
Dictionary = Indicatory
Schoolmaster = The classroom
Elvis = Lives
Listen = Silent
Clint Eastwood = Old West Action
Madam Curie = Radium came
A telephone girl = Repeating "Hello"
Western Union = No Wire Unsent
The country side = No City Dust Here
Evangelist = Evil's Agent
Astronomers = Moon starers / No more stars
A telescope = To see place
The eyes = They see
The cockroach = Cook, catch her
Waitress = A stew, Sir?
The centenarians = I can hear ten "tens"
Desperation = A Rope Ends It
The Morse Code = Here Come Dots
The Meaning of Life = The fine game of nil
Slot Machines = Cash Lost in'em
Conversation = Voices Rant On
Disraeli = I lead, Sir.
Clothespins = So Let's Pinch
Mr. Mojo risin' = Jim Morrison
(from the Doors song, "L.A. Woman")
The Great New York Rapid Transit Tunnel = Giant Work in Street, Partly Underneath
Florence Nightingale = Nigel, Fetch an Iron Leg / Flit on Cheering Angel
(Richard Stilgoe in "The Richard Stilgoe Letters")
MacDonalds = Clam and Sod
Darling I love you = leaving your idol / Avoiding our yell
Butterfly = Flutter-by
Heavy Rain? = Hire a Navy!
Tom Cruise = So I'm Cuter
Animosity = Is No Amity
Mother-in-law = Woman Hitler
Funeral = Real Fun
Protectionism = Nice to imports
A Domesticated Animal = Docile, as a Man Tamed it
The Railroad Train = Hi! I Rattle and Roar
The Hilton = Hint: Hotel
A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss = Stroller on Go, Amasses Nothing
Sunshine and Shadow = Show in Sun and Shade
The Check is in the Mail = Claim "Heck, I sent it (heh)"
The United States Bureau of Fisheries = I Raise the Bass to Feed Us in the Future
Snooze Alarms = Alas! No More Z's
Vacation Times = I'm Not as Active
Software = Swear Oft
Silicon Graphics = A Long Chip Crisis / Can logic ship, sir? / Gosh, sir, I can clip!
Alec Guinness = Genuine Class
(Dick Cavett)
The Detectives = Detect Thieves
The Hospital Ambulance = A Cab, I Hustle to Help Man
Semolina = Is No Meal
The United States of America = Attaineth its cause, freedom
Christmas tree = Search, Set, Trim
A Gentleman = Elegant Man
Presbyterian = Best In Prayer
The Public Art Galleries = Large Picture Halls, I Bet
A Decimal Point = I'm a Dot in Place
The Earthquakes = That Queer Shake
Salman Rushdie = Read, Shun Islam
Martin Scorsese = Screen is a storm
(the director of movies "Taxi Driver," "Mean Streets," "GoodFellas," "Cape Fear," and "Age of Innocence.")
Barbie doll = I'll bare bod / Babe I'd roll / Liberal bod
Student Information Processing Board = Computation Transgression Forbidden
(MIT)
Statue of Liberty = Built to Stay Free
Eleven plus two = Twelve plus one
Patrick Stewart = A Crap Trek Twist
Mel Gibson = Bong Smile
Admirer = Married
Indomitableness = Endless ambition
New York Times = Monkeys write / Monkey writes
(by Andrew Glines)
Television programming = Permeating living rooms
(by Dan)
David Letterman = Nerd amid late TV
Howard Stern = Retard shown
Contradiction = Accord not in it
(by E. Tyron)
Debit card = Bad credit
(by Mike Morton)
God save us all = Salvaged soul
(by Dawn Amos)
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz = Cwm fjord bank glyphs vext quiz
(a pangram)
"Be Like Water" = We break tile
[a well-known quote attributed to martial-arts expert Bruce Lee]
(by Ozan Sarikaya)
Quote by Vonnegut:
Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the universe. =
A masquerade can cover a sense of what is real to deceive us; to be unjaded and not lost, we must, then, determine truth.
(by Cory Calhoun)
Quote by Oscar Wilde:
There is only one thing worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about. =
Wilde died broken, beaten 'n' total nut. Hate being sunk in that rotten gaol. Shh, gay is taboo.
(by Larry Brash)
From Hamlet by Shakespeare:
To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. =
In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.
(by Cory Calhoun)

US Presidents
Why shouldn't America go re-elect President Clinton in Ninety-Six? = He has a prime or cunning tendency to wildly solicit Internet sex.
(by Cory Calhoun)
Spiro Agnew = Grow a spine (Excercise for the reader: spine can be anagrammed into another body part)
[Spiro Agnew was Richard Nixon's vice president]
William Clinton = I'm it, an ill clown
William Jefferson Clinton = Firm clean fellow. Joint? Sin!
(by William Schmidt)
William Jefferson Clinton = Jail Mrs Clinton: Felon wife
(by Ward Hardman)
George Herbert Walker Bush = Huge Berserk Rebel Warthog
(by Mike Morton)
George Bush = He bugs Gore
(by Mike Morton)
Ronald Wilson Reagan = No, darlings, no ERA law
(by Mike Morton)
Ronald Reagan = A darn long era

Long Works of Anagramming:
The Curse of the Ring (from The Lord of the Rings)
In the land of Mordor, where the shadows lie,
One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all,
And in the darkness, bind them.
=
Who fears Nine Morgul men,
A lot of bandit demons,
The gathering torrent,
And Him, one Dark Lord
Sheltered within His hell?
Men, blind to the One Ring.
(by Michael J. Mateyka)
More:

Information Superhighway by Mike Morton
Chronological story of OJ Simpson
A short story by Daniel Cohen
The Marriage of the Minds by Shakespeare; Anagrams by Cory Calhoun

Leroy Newton Gingrich =
Yon Right-winger Clone
Lingering, once worthy
I negligent, horny, crow
Grow incoherent, lying

Movie Reviews
Hook = Oh, OK
Raiders of the Lost Ark = Ford, the Real Star, is OK
The Towering Inferno = Not Worth Fire Engine
(GAMES Magazine)
Prince of Tides = PS. I Cried Often
The Silence of the Lambs = The Con Bites Male Flesh
(by Philip Silverman)
Gentleman's Agreement = Men Entangle, Stem Rage
(by Taysir Jabr)
Motion picture 'From Russia with love'= True mush of virile patriot in Moscow
(by Pinchas Aronas)

Tony Blair, MP = I'm Tory plan B
Virginia Bottomley = I'm an evil Tory bigot
Margaret Thatcher = A charm tart, get her!

Twenty thousand leagues under the sea = Huge water tale stuns. End had you tense.
(by E.L. Benfer)
The end of the world is nigh! = Down this hole, frightened!
(Donald L. Holmes)
The best things in life are free = Nail-biting refreshes the feet
(by Donald L. Holmes)
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Neil A. Armstrong = A thin man ran; makes a large stride; left planet, pins flag on moon! On to Mars!
(by Steve Krakowski)
Do an angry hit = Tonya Harding
(by Tim DeLaney)
Grace 'n any rink = Nancy Kerrigan
(by Tim DeLaney)
Pre-natal = Parental = Paternal
Name is Anu Garg = Anagram Genius
(by Eric Shackle)
www.wordsmith.org/anagram = Grammar was downright wow!
(by John Crowe)

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