Archive for the 'Anagram' Category

Shakespeare Anagram: Pericles

Saturday, May 11th, 2013

From Pericles:

See how belief may suffer by foul show!
This borrow’d passion stands for true old woe.

Shift around the letters, and it becomes:

Obsessed senators would drop a few of the bombs on Hillary, so her future is iffy.

Wow.

Shakespeare Anagram: Love’s Labour’s Lost

Saturday, April 27th, 2013

From Love’s Labour’s Lost:

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

Shift around the letters, and it becomes:

At George Bush’s last gala event, they ran a defense of a past he can’t.

Shakespeare Anagram: Henry VI, Part One

Saturday, April 20th, 2013

From Henry VI, Part One:

Alas, this is a child, a silly dwarf!
It cannot be this weak and writhled shrimp
Should strike such terror to his enemies.

Shift around the letters, and it becomes:

Warlike hurts, or deaths we cry at, in Boston lie.

Discuss hardships with kids and let them cherish familial relations.

Shakespeare Anagram: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Saturday, April 6th, 2013

From A Midsummer Night’s Dream:

A play there is, my lord, some ten words long,
Which is as brief as I have known a play;
But by ten words, my lord, it is too long,
Which makes it tedious.

Shift around the letters, and it becomes:

My mood? Vocal Roger Ebert had a symbiotic relationship with dry Gene Siskel, then shone solo.

If it was thumbs up or down, it was always kindly.

Shakespeare Anagram: Troilus and Cressida

Saturday, March 2nd, 2013

From Troilus and Cressida:

Here is such patchery, such juggling and such knavery! all the argument is a cuckold and a whore; a good quarrel to draw emulous factions and bleed to death upon.

Shift around the letters, and it becomes:

Shame on dodo Congress, dealing us such a dud: a preventable sequester. Huh!

Don’t laugh a guttural laugh and hijack the economy for awkward political currency.

Shakespeare Anagram: Richard III

Saturday, February 9th, 2013

From Richard III:

O, that thou wouldst as well afford a grave
As thou canst yield a melancholy seat!
Then would I hide my bones, not rest them here.

Shift around the letters, and it becomes:

To unearth late Richard the Third’s gamy bones would teach us, seem to alienate the vastly-followed myth.

No halo was found.

Shakespeare Anagram: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Saturday, February 2nd, 2013

From The Merry Wives of Windsor:

I warrant he hath a thousand of these letters, writ with blank space for different names–sure, more,–and these are of the second edition: he will print them, out of doubt.

Shift around the letters, and it becomes:

A hundredth stab, I can’t think of a fresh topic to put in here.

Therefore, we will wait until there is a neat one to reshuffle these words to be.

Demand no more sham drafts.

Shakespeare Anagram: Measure for Measure

Saturday, January 26th, 2013

From Measure for Measure:

Pray you, my lord, give me leave to question; you
shall see how I’ll handle her.

Shift around the letters, and it becomes:

Oh my! Senator Paul’s soliloquy whine? He moved level-eyed Hillary to argue.

Shakespeare Anagram: Richard II

Saturday, January 19th, 2013

From Richard II:

Or if it be, ’tis with false sorrow’s eye,
Which for things true weeps things imaginary.

Shift around the letters, and it becomes:

Manti Te’o’s prior Internet girl, if he wishes, was a screwy fib.

It’s foggy how hurt he is.

Shakespeare Anagram: King Lear

Saturday, January 12th, 2013

From King Lear:

No, they cannot touch me for coining; I am the king himself.

Shift around the letters, and it becomes:

Theory of minting that uncommon coin: if he likes change…