On Anagrams

I’m often accused of being a tiny bit obsessed with anagrams. I was going to make a case that this isn’t true, but it probably is true. I take a less elegant approach than most anagram enthusiasts, in that I usually just look at a large list of anagrams and harvest the most entertaining.

Its oftentimes entertaining, and perhaps too entertaining to me, phrases that seem comically relevant to a person are anagrams for their names. While he didn’t address this directly, a talk I attended by famous magician and probabilist, Persi Diaconis leads me to believe that such coincidences are very likely to happen.

This being said, I’m taking it upon myself to construct the master list of anagrams related to the Ship of Fools. Some names just have far too many anagrams, and I’ll need your help to determine, what the definitive anagrams should be. I’ve gotten some help on this already, but if you oppose a choice of the ultimate anagrams let me know.

ESTABLISHED ULTIMATE ANAGRAMS

(DISAGREEment Welcome)

Andrew Blatt -- Wetland Brat

John Clawson -- John’s a Clown

Bob Holland -- Bold on Blah

Andy Ober -- Boneyard

Scott Parker -- Rocket Parts

Eric Talbert -- Terrible Cat

Game Time? -- GImmie Tea!

ULTIMATE ANAGRAM CANDIDATES

(I’m not sure we can do better than these, but maybe we can)

Paul Kuliniewicz -- I Kill a Wiz, Cue Pun.

Renee Leyburn -- Beer Leery Nun

Benji Milanowski -- Mole: Ninja Wiki B.S.

John Tubergen -- Jet Hung Boner

James Weigandt -- I Gets a Damn Jew (Discovered by Big Ben)

THERE ARE TOO MANY GOOD ONES!

Ryan Garwood -- Angora Dowry -- Rowdy Angora -- Granary Wood -- Awry Dragoon -- A Gonad Worry -- A Wordy Groan -- A Rowdy Organ -- Gory Award On -- No Gory Award -- Orgy Award On -- No Orgy Award -- Gyro Award On -- No Gryo Award -- Ow! Dong Array -- Ow! Dragon Ray -- Aw Radon Orgy -- Radon Go Awry -- Go Onward Ray -- Now a Rad Orgy -- A Draw, No Orgy -- A Word, An Orgy -- Nod. A Raw Orgy -- A Rowdy Groan -- A Rowdy Argon -- A Wordy Organ -- I give up there are 1412 anagrams an a lot of them are pretty entertaining...

MATHEMATICAL ANAGRAMS

(The thought occurred to me writing this post)

Persi Diaconis (Probabilist)-- Sir Pied Casino

Paul Erdös -- Lad So Pure -- Pure as Old

Edray Goins (My Research Advisor) -- A Nerd’s Yogi

Note to self: Acquire Pic-a-nic Baskets

Andrew Wiles -- Sir Lawn Weed

Fun Fact:

Number Theorist and all around awesome guy, Barry Mazur is immune to anagrams.

Here’s the Cheap Anagram Tool I use for most of these. Comments are Begged For