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Just thought I'd share a game we play at work. We have a set of inch and a half high magnetic letters on the metal office wall outside our manager's office. Nobody can remember what the letters were originally for or what they spelt. Every day or so we try to anagram the letters into a topical headline, failing that just something rude. Using any of the anagram engines is thought of as cheating.
The letters are:
ABDEEEILMMOPRRSSTTTU
but we have been known to use an M as a W, the I and O as numerics, and some other more imaginative "cheating" to get a really good anagram to work. We also have some small magnets we can use as punctuation.
For example, following Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott's punch up on the campaign trail a day or so ago, (You need to know he is also head of the Department of Transport and he is a large bloke) we have:
D.O.T. LUMP SMITES BERATER
a typical rude headline would be:
I STOP BUTLER'S WET DREAM
Any one out there want to try a few topical or Board relevant entries?
Rod
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B MORE EASI, STOP
A PEEL IS STOP UP
R U REAL OR WOT
I DEAL, U ROMP, WE STRUT
AT UR PERIL BE
TOAST IS MOSTLI MORE
....okay, I'll leave it to others. I expect nothing less than 7 letter words from Pooh-Bears, or of your titles you will be stripped.
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Jackie, BY, I like them. I forgot to mention, BY, that one of our standard rules is to use all the letters. We occasionally allow one letter to be "lost" for a day or a letter conveniently overlapped by another ("F" from "E" for example) but only for a very apposite phrase. It was not so very long ago that I decided to keep a record of these anagrams, so I now have about 60. While we sorely feel the absence of some letters, ROD, PETER, PAUL, and IBM are in there, so we do get personal sometimes. Rod (is plumber's matette) (stimulate serb temp)  P.S. we have an ISO90001 audit (an external check on all our processes and documentation)on Monday and we have just changed the anagram to read: Psst! Mr. Auditor, let me be!
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