| GENERAL | ENTERTAINMENT | TOPICAL | PEOPLES NAMES | OTHER NAMES |
| MEDIUM LENGTH | ANAGRAMMY CHALLENGE | LONG | SPECIAL | RUDE |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 46 | It's a life worth living ~ if I win that girl's love! |
2 | Christopher Sturdy | 38 | Press Control-Alt-Delete ~ and tell loser PC to reset! |
3 | Neil Ramsay | 33 | A hot actress = At the Oscars. |
4 | Dharam Khalsa | 23 | Parliamentary sovereignty = In reality, a party governs me. |
5 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 22 | An ostrich with its head in the sand ~ can't see what hit so hard in its hind. |
6 | Adrian Hickford | 12 | Architectural Studies = I teach structural side. |
7 | Adie Pena | 10 | The architectural designs = Greatest details in church. |
8 | Rosie Perera | 8 | A child's security blanket = Easily clutch; best in dark. |
9 | vetstadium | 7 | Underaged drinking = Kid enduring danger. |
10 | View | 6 | Defenestration = Die faster - no net! |
11 | John Fidler | 5 | We hoist, hang linen ~ on the washing line. |
11 | Tony Crafter | 5 | A sermonising priest ~ ignores mean spirits. |
13 | Ellie Dent | 3 | Heat for ~ hot fare. |
Total points: | 218 | from 37 votes (DFE factor: 0.351) |
1 | Richard Napier | 41 | Slumdog Millionaire = Regional Muslim idol. |
2 | Larry Brash | 32 | Jan Vermeer's: The Girl with a Pearl Earring = Prime virgin lets hang a rather rare jewel. |
3 | Dharam Khalsa | 26 | Vermeer's "The Lacemaker", Musèe du Louvre, Paris = Her demure reverie, a true calm, speaks volumes. |
3 | Scott Gardner | 26 | Dali, "The Persistence of Memory" = Lord, many soft timepieces here! |
5 | Tony Crafter | 21 | Mark Twain's 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. = Freedom raft-run taken by Huck with sinner slave. |
6 | Meyran Kraus | 20 | Johannes Vermeer's The Girl with a Pearl Earring = A rare art marvel posing her shining jewel there. |
7 | Christopher Sturdy | 14 | Actress Wendy Richard (a.k.a. Pauline Fowler) = East End daily worker has awful cancer. RIP. |
8 | View | 12 | Federico Fellini's "Satyricon" = Ironical, dirty scenes of life. |
9 | Adie Pena | 10 | "Impression, Soleil Levant (Sunrise)" = Monet inspires several illusions. |
10 | Ellie Dent | 9 | Claude Monet: 'Impression Sunrise (Soleil Levant)' = Luminous scene: artist loves models 'en plein air'! |
Total points: | 211 | from 37 votes (DFE factor: 0.270) |
1 | Larry Brash | 31 | Fatal bushfires in the state of Victoria, Australia = The rural fires. It is at a cost of lives, fauna, & habitat. |
2 | Richard Grantham | 24 | The global financial crisis = Brilliant, I face losing cash. (Awardsmaster's Choice Award) |
3 | Tony Crafter | 21 | Selma Hayek filmed breastfeeding in public = Ideal femme cheekily lifts up bra and begins! |
4 | Jesse Frankovich | 19 | The economic stimulus payments = System can help out communities. |
5 | Meyran Kraus | 17 | The wildfire in Australia = I saw rural life die in that. |
6 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 16 | Abraham Lincoln's two-hundredth birthday = Both him and that Charles Darwin duly born. |
7 | Neil Ramsay | 14 | Bosses burn ~ RBS bonuses. |
7 | Rosie Perera | 14 | United States taxpayers = Extra destitute sans pay. |
9 | Dharam Khalsa | 9 | Woman uses wedgie to capture suspected thief = We gasped "Ee!" as EMT cut undies out with forceps. |
10 | Chris Chatfield | 8 | Pigeon smuggler = More up leggings? |
10 | Adie Pena | 8 | The Obama Stimulus Plan = Bemoan a U.S. slump. Halt it! |
10 | David Bourke | 8 | Winslet has finally got her Oscar! = Tears flow...she'll cry again, no shit! |
13 | Paul Pan | 7 | Michael Phelps apologises = A cop ogles: "I smell hash pipe!" |
14 | Christopher Sturdy | 6 | Luiz Felipe Scolari has been sacked = Brazilian sues fickle Chelsea dope. |
15 | View | 1 | Israel set for final campaign day = A fair election. My fair land gasps. |
Total points: | 203 | from 35 votes (DFE factor: 0.429) |
1 | Adie Pena | 48 | President Obama = Man to be praised. |
2 | Tony Crafter | 27 | Professor Stephen William Hawking = Know-all, whispering phrases of time. |
3 | Scott Gardner | 26 | Charles Robert Darwin = Brit scholar/wanderer. |
4 | Jesse Frankovich | 23 | President Barack Obama = Came to repair bad banks? |
5 | Neil Ramsay | 18 | The former American president George Walker Bush = This false, warmongering murderer broke the peace. |
6 | Christopher Sturdy | 15 | The Olympian, Michael Phelps = O, my! He'll lament 'hash pipe' pic! |
7 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 13 | President Obama ~ promenades a bit. |
8 | Ellie Dent | 11 | US President Obama = Promises... unabated. |
8 | Dharam Khalsa | 11 | Actress Gwyneth Kate Paltrow = Pretty straw locks - what a gene! |
10 | David Bourke | 9 | The actress Freida Pinto = Respect the Star of India! |
11 | View | 8 | Michael Phelps = Help, I'm a schlep! |
12 | Meyran Kraus | 3 | Miss Nadya Suleman = Sadly, a mum's insane. |
13 | Rosie Perera | 0 | Zero drug? Lie! Ax ~ Alex Rodriguez. |
Total points: | 212 | from 36 votes (DFE factor: 0.361) |
1 | Dharam Khalsa | 68 | Amnesty International = Meant to nail tyrannies. |
2 | Meyran Kraus | 55 | Microsoft's Help and Support site = Had pointless tips for computers. |
3 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 19 | The Royal Bank of Scotland = Bad loans rock that felony. |
3 | Adie Pena | 19 | The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences = Decent (yet famous and cinematic) Oscar trophies! |
5 | Rosie Perera | 18 | The Immaculate Conception = Nice match. Copulate? No time! |
6 | Tony Crafter | 13 | Governor of California = Favor for Arnie cooling? |
7 | David Bourke | 7 | Tony Blair Associates = Sincerity's taboo, alas! |
8 | View | 6 | The Santa Monica Bay = Many canoes' habitat. |
9 | Christopher Sturdy | 5 | Sodium thiopental = I out plot man hides. |
Total points: | 210 | from 37 votes (DFE factor: 0.243) |
1 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 27 | On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Se... = Tome an English biologist has penned to argue ... |
1 | Tony Crafter | 27 | Deaths rise in the bushfire conflagrations in V... = That evil arsonist has caused horrific burn fa... |
3 | Dharam Khalsa | 26 | "Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Ac... = It doesn't matter if you're too isolated, not ... |
4 | Meyran Kraus | 21 | The hit film "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of t... = The 'fossil' in that junk? Heck, it's mainly th... |
5 | View | 17 | Schwarzenegger defends tax rise, says GOP should... = Gee whiz, Arnold guards Barack's methods, expo... |
6 | Ellie Dent | 15 | Spring beckons! All things to the call respond;... = Then London's grasping, reprobate bankers coll... |
7 | Neil Ramsay | 14 | Oscar Levant: A politician is a man who will ... = Will that Brown ever admit how his Labour poli... |
8 | Rosie Perera | 11 | "We do not inherit the Earth from our parents, ... = What we do now, emitting cruel, horrible radia... |
8 | Adie Pena | 11 | "I think the American people - I hope the Ameri... = Alright, we're keeping the imbecile, the ninco... |
Total points: | 169 | from 29 votes (DFE factor: 0.310) |
1 | Tony Crafter | 37 | Love is: Bette Midler: "A rose." Branson: "A Virgin." Hefner: "A bunny." Cad: "A duty I avoid, ami!" |
2 | Neil Ramsay | 27 | Love is a Sunday Morning in bed; Radio Five. A bacon butty, tea and her smile arrive. |
3 | Rosie Perera | 21 | Love is a brave, devoted husband, maintaining our family and career in sobriety. |
4 | David Bourke | 20 | Love is mainly an idea; A vivid, heartburning dream of beauty...or bad tennis score! |
5 | Adie Pena | 15 | ... |
6 | Ellie Dent | 12 | Love is truly divine: a dream association, an enduring habit, baby and me... forever. |
7 | Meyran Kraus | 11 | I read love is blind, but a marriage can redefine that very bad vision! (Anonymous). |
8 | Christopher Sturdy | 8 | His name is an anagram of "I love art". Ruddy creditable observation; even I'd buy in. |
8 | Larry Brash | 8 | Behave very badly until it's named a basis for marriage union to end in a divorce. |
8 | Dharam Khalsa | 8 | Artist Goya claims love's a very uninhibited maiden, unrobed, bra-free on a divan. |
11 | View | 5 | Love is many dear, beamy, beautiful, erotic things; diversion, nirvana, a dear bond. |
12 | Adrian Hickford | 3 | Being as I'm married, no doubt I can avoid her Saint Valentine's February love-day. |
12 | Dan Fortier | 3 | A Valentine Day vision: hear animosity rubbed out, and foreign rivals embraced. |
12 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 3 | Hefner: A myriad girls did evolve, but a bare bunny is a divine creation -- a man's, too! |
Total points: | 181 | from 31 votes (DFE factor: 0.452) |
1 | Tony Crafter | 44 | Terry checked into a hotel on a business trip a... = As the No.9 bus stopped and it was her turn t... |
2 | Dharam Khalsa | 35 | Last week I took my eighty-four-year-old dad to... = Knowing my Leo father's temperament, I hurrie... |
2 | Meyran Kraus | 35 | My Favorite Things (from The Sound of Music) Ra... = Salzburg News City police arrested Maria von ... |
4 | View | 14 | I said it in Hebrew, I said it in Dutch, I said ... = I tried in Hindi, Mexicano, Language of Mikado... |
5 | Adie Pena | 12 | "You have the right to remain silent. Anything ... = Offended the obnoxious wife anew? Arrogantly ... |
Total points: | 140 | from 26 votes (DFE factor: 0.192) |
1 | Adie Pena | 46 | V is for Valentine. |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 46 | This sonnet by Shakespeare is anagrammed into a sonnet with a Valentine acrostic. |
3 | Tony Crafter | 14 | She married and had thirteen children. Her husband died... |
4 | Tony Crafter | 13 | SEND IN THE CLOWNS By Stephen Sondheim |
5 | Adie Pena | 9 | BANANAGRAMS |
6 | Dharam Khalsa | 6 | Sometimes we wonder why friends keep forwarding 42 viral jokes to us without writing a word. Maybe this will explain... |
7 | Dharam Khalsa | 0 | Heredity |
Total points: | 134 | from 23 votes (DFE factor: 0.304) |
1 | Tony Crafter | 41 | Pissing man = Missing pan! |
2 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 28 | Cloth diapers ~ hide crap ... lots! |
3 | Adie Pena | 24 | Those blue Viagra magic pills ~ give big miracles to a phallus. |
4 | Dharam Khalsa | 18 | Husband: Shall we try a different position tonight? ~ Wife: Then, by gosh, stand up to iron! I'll sit and fart, eh? |
5 | Rick Rothstein | 13 | Larger tits = Girl "treats". |
5 | View | 13 | Life sucks and then you die = Fuck, destiny so unideal, eh? |
7 | Christopher Sturdy | 10 | Saint Valentine's Day, the fourteenth of February = To stuff every hole in turn; a three-in-a-bed fantasy. |
8 | Meyran Kraus | 2 | The Paris Hilton women's fragrance "Fairy Dust" = (Warning: That fluid may consist of rare herpes.) |
Total points: | 149 | from 27 votes (DFE factor: 0.296) |
Daniel F. Etter Memorial Award Points*
*Adjusted Points = Sum of (Points * 'DFE factor') |
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