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There is a four letter word that anagrams to six different common words in English:
And it's possible to make a sentence (actually more like a Variety headline, but still a sentence) using all six words, and only those six words, using the following scenario:
There was a huge competition to determine the best commercial ever made, and the ads of two companies, a cereal company and a ceramics manufacturer, were picked as the two finalists. Shortly after receiving word that its ad had won the contest, the cereal company decided to retire its ad.
Post Tops Pots Spot, Opts Stop
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to find other anagrams and similarly weave them into a sentence, posting with it whatever set-up is needed to make the sentence sensible.
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Rich people living in Beverly Hills like to fill their homes with expensive works of art. A formerly-unknown breed of rodent appeared in Beverly Hills with a taste for old paints and destroyed millions of dollars worth of paintings by gnawing on them. The head of the motion picture and television actors union discovered that these rodents could be stopped by spreading sticky tar (the same stuff that stopped the dinosaurs at LaBrea) on the floors of members' mansions. And the headline in the Los Angeles Times read: "Star Tsar Tars Arts Rats."
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Stunning news from the far reaches of Devon today. The King has been found, alive and well. In an exclusive interview he talked about how he had faked his own death back in 1977 and fled to England, where he had three times died and come back as another person, each time into a life of sin and depravity. He chose to say very little about the terrible things that he had done in the past 28 years:
Elvis Lives, Veils Lives' Evils
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A litigant sought to convert his cause of action against his Internet service provider into a class action by inducing other subscribers to join him in it. To accomplish this, he pretended to be a dozen different people sending e-mail messages to the others, so as to create the impression that there was already a group prepared to pursue the litigation. When the case was in pre-trial motions, the judge discovered that the plaintiff had used this sneaky trick and penalized the plaintiff for being underhanded. The next morning's paper reported the ruling: "Suer Sure Rues User Ruse."
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A rare and precious ancient Ogham stone was put on public display in Cardiff last year. It had become the focus of furious public debate about the patterns of conquest, settlement and language in Welsh history. The most fiercely contested claims were made by a group of Serbians who advanced the argument that Welsh actually derived from the tongue spoken by Prince Vlastimir’s early ancestors. When interviewed about the exhibition, the exhibition’s curator was asked “Aren’t you worried about the threats to kidnap this wonderful artefact published yesterday by the Sons of Nikola?” “No,” said the curator – “look, they’re just a bunch of over-excitable Serbs, and we have sophisticated electromagnetic anchors holding the stone in place, as well as a guard standing over it at all times.”
But Meibion Hnkojian were resourceful as only fanatics tend to be. They researched the guards’ backgrounds and found that one was fond of nipping out to the pub for a swift drink and a joke just before closing time. So they waylaid him one night, plied him with drinks and told him endless series of funny stories, as he shamefacedly admitted later, about why ducks crossed the road, why blond ducks were stupid, and why you should never go out with a duck on one shoulder. The stories apparently seemed so hilarious at the time that he lost sight of the fact that his post was deserted for almost three hours. It was during this interlude that the Serbs crept into the museum, disabled the electromagnets by discharging their current, and spirited the stone way into the starry night.
It has still not been recovered. The Western Mail went w-i-d-e with a headline the next day:
LEAST STALE TEALS TALES LETS A TESLA STEAL SLATE STELA!
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"Star Tsar Tars Arts Rats." Bravo
Elvis Lives, Veils Lives' Evils Brava
LEAST STALE TEALS TALES LETS A TESLA STEAL SLATE STELA!-- Bravissimo or however the hell you spell it.
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LEAST STALE TEALS TALES LETS A TESLA STEAL SLATE STELA!-- Bravissimo or however the hell you spell it.
Or ir would be if it didn't stretch the implicit rules. If I were Will Shortz I'd eliminate it on the grounds of:
A) LETS A
two words.
2) TALES LETS
grammatically incorrect.
OK Faldo, you so smart you come up with one of you own.
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As the young people are wont to say: "Maverick rules!"
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Hey. When you're frogwash master (for frogwash is the correct term because the letters all leap about like frogs) you can apply the rules!
Though the first three examples all had nothing other than anagrams in them, the rules state only to weave the anagrammed words into a sentence; there is no rule that all of the words have to be anagrams. So removing the s from "lets a" would still leave a sentence with EIGHT anagrams of the same set of letters. I predict that no one will be able to top that one.
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I'm extremely impressed. [/we are not worthy]
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LEAST STALE TEALS TALES LETS A TESLA STEAL SLATE STELA!
What a versatile set of letters! There's yet another anagram of AESLT that a sufficiently clever person could use:
TAEL: a unit of weight used in east Asia, approximately equal to 1.3 ounces; plural TAELS
(and if you cite a lot of references but there are too many authors to include the complete listing on any of them, you should include a bunch of et als.)
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> 2) TALES LETS
grammatically incorrect
lol! good to see you on such fong form! rulezzzzz?!?!
and anyway, it's surely only incorrect if you are attempting to read it as a past tense - journalese often uses such constructions as a kind of 'still ongoing' tense. But whadoicare really... ;)
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a kind of 'still ongoing' tense
Does the "'still ongoing' tense" permit use of third person singular verbs with plural subjects?
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nobut neither did my construction I reckon - the third person singular is referring to the (possibly) singular 'least' of the plural stories about ducks, not the whole plural collection :0~
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s - t - r - e - t - c - h
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Wull, I parsed LEAST STALE TEALS TALES as being those tales about teals that were least stale.
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Yup. But did you say it ten times fast?
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But did you say it ten times fast?
According to one arcane metaphysical source, if you do, you will turn into a duck.
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>you will turn into a duck
but beware, for if you float you will be recognized for the witch that you were.
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Recently, the machinery used to work animal pelts into fine fur garments was fitted with a new form of fastener. A form of heavy-duty stapler, the new fastener is distinctive in appearance, as it is enclosed in a lightly-hued plastic cover. The color-coded covers are not merely decorative, however, since the tint of a cover signifies the gauge of the enclosed fastener … the lighter the color, the larger the gauge. Furriers have been most pleased with the result, and have successfully used the machines to form high-quality skins into intricate designs. The industry news magazine highlighted this new tool just last week:
Palest Pastel Staple Pleats ‘A’ Pelts
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Sir Bedevere: There are ways of telling whether she is a witch.
Peasant 1: Are there? Oh well, tell us.
Sir Bedevere: Tell me. What do you do with witches?
Peasant 1: Burn them.
Sir Bedevere: And what do you burn, apart from witches?
Peasant 1: More witches.
Peasant 2: Wood.
Sir Bedevere: Good. Now, why do witches burn?
Peasant 3: ...because they're made of... wood?
Sir Bedevere: Good. So how do you tell whether she is made of wood?
Peasant 1: Build a bridge out of her.
Sir Bedevere: But can you not also build bridges out of stone?
Peasant 1: Oh yeah.
Sir Bedevere: Does wood sink in water?
Peasant 1: No, no, it floats!... It floats! Throw her into the pond!
Sir Bedevere: No, no. What else floats in water?
Peasant 1: Bread.
Peasant 2: Apples.
Peasant 3: Very small rocks.
Peasant 1: Cider.
Peasant 2: Gravy.
Peasant 3: Cherries.
Peasant 1: Mud.
Peasant 2: Churches.
Peasant 3: Lead! Lead!
King Arthur: A Duck.
Sir Bedevere: ...Exactly. So, logically...
Peasant 1: If she weighed the same as a duck... she's made of wood.
Sir Bedevere: And therefore...
Peasant 2: ...A witch!
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