| GENERAL | ENTERTAINMENT | TOPICAL | PEOPLES NAMES | OTHER NAMES |
| MEDIUM LENGTH | ANAGRAMMY CHALLENGE | LONG | SPECIAL | RUDE |
1 | Neil Ramsay | 47 | First base Second base Third base A home run = Smooch Rate breasts Hand in briefs Use a bed. |
2 | Rosie Perera | 33 | The airbrushing of models and celebrities = Get rid of acne or this undesirable blemish. |
3 | Adie Pena | 22 | Environmentally damaged = Man violated my green land! |
4 | Tony Crafter | 18 | A sheer-silk nightie = High-risk tease-line! |
5 | Ed Pegg Jr | 16 | **rsh*p o* Si*enc* = Censorship. |
6 | Meyran Kraus | 14 | The professional attorneys = One fee stops any trial short. |
7 | Scott Gardner | 11 | The melodramatist = Is termed "total ham". |
8 | Ellie Dent | 8 | A legendary soldier = Lies dead: earn glory? |
9 | Dharam Khalsa | 7 | How to test: Is it actual news or is it entertainment? = The latter stirs acute emotions in nitwits, not awe. |
10 | View | 6 | An oasis in the desert = I.e., ease thirst on sand. |
Total points: | 182 | from 31 votes (DFE factor: 0.323) |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 48 | Fourth "Indiana Jones" movie by Steven Spielberg = I have a big problem, just one: Ford is seventy-nine! |
2 | Scott Gardner | 35 | The Lord of the Rings musical = Hear Frodo's little chum sing. (Awardsmaster's Choice Award) |
3 | Tony Crafter | 26 | Disney cartoon version of 'The Little Mermaid'. = Movie title for one animated children's story. |
4 | Dharam Khalsa | 16 | A Marvel Entertainment purchase by Walt Disney Co. = Result may be a very chic new talent: Spider-Montana! |
4 | Ed Pegg Jr | 16 | Scarecrow, Tin Man, Lion, Dorothy = Mind, rosy heart, crown, location. |
6 | Adie Pena | 15 | Susan Boyle's "I Dreamed A Dream" CD = A broad lady's music serenaded me. |
7 | Ellie Dent | 13 | HMS Pinafore or The Lass That Loved a Sailor = Oh, that lavish opera... some old refrains last! |
8 | Rosie Perera | 12 | "Going Rogue: An American Life" by Sarah Palin = I am a laugh; ran as a foreign policy beginner. |
Total points: | 181 | from 31 votes (DFE factor: 0.258) |
1 | Rosie Perera | 41 | Back-to-school sales = A class book, clothes,... |
2 | Dharam Khalsa | 27 | Anniversary of September Eleventh Two-thousand-one = To an eyewitness of them, the planes burn over and over. |
3 | Ellie Dent | 23 | Tiny dinosaur fossil is unearthed = Identifies oldish Tyrannosaurus. |
4 | Neil Ramsay | 20 | After hot iPhone parts? = There is no app for that. |
5 | Adie Pena | 13 | A toad is in my can of Pepsi! = If a soda company is inept. |
6 | Tony Crafter | 12 | On this one routine day We, the world, Changed... = Nine Eleven. Ah, The Twin Towers. Oh God! ... |
7 | Scott Gardner | 11 | The singer Mary Allin Travers = Star's terminally in her grave. |
8 | View | 9 | Israel's Cease-Fire with Hamas Close to Snapping = Palestinian message: "Halt crisis! Who's for peace?" |
9 | Ed Pegg Jr | 8 | Senate Finance Committee = Totemic maintenance fees. |
9 | Meyran Kraus | 8 | Televised interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad = I wish that evil madmen avoided the "Jew-run media"! |
Total points: | 172 | from 30 votes (DFE factor: 0.333) |
1 | Larry Brash | 38 | Rene Descartes, French philosopher/mathematician = Men chant the classic phrase: "I ponder, therefore I am". |
2 | Neil Ramsay | 26 | Serena Williams ~ is mean. I'll swear. |
3 | Meyran Kraus | 22 | The singer and musician Dolly Parton = Country idol has endearing implants. |
4 | Scott Gardner | 20 | Austin Danger Powers = In words, a super-agent! |
5 | Tony Crafter | 19 | Statesman Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill = War-chronicler-plus, and Hitler's constant Nemesis. |
6 | Adie Pena | 13 | Amelia Earhart = Ah, real air mate! |
7 | View | 10 | Ralph Waldo Emerson = Ah, all pen, more words! |
7 | Ed Pegg Jr | 10 | Adolf Hitler enriches ‡ The Children of Israel. |
9 | Rosie Perera | 9 | The trumpet player Louis Daniel Armstrong = My lips and tongue thus permit real art role. |
10 | Dharam Khalsa | 7 | The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibet = Elite title, but I fled the utopian area for Dharmsala. |
Total points: | 174 | from 30 votes (DFE factor: 0.333) |
1 | Larry Brash | 33 | Prostate Specific Antigen = Test if cancer is eating Pop. |
2 | Meyran Kraus | 31 | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra = A short Chopin or a lyric Mahler? |
3 | Rosie Perera | 27 | The Mount Wilson Observatory, Pasadena = Pay to view moon and solar bursts. Neat, eh? |
4 | Neil Ramsay | 20 | Gun Owners of America = We grace union of arms. |
5 | Rick Rothstein | 19 | The Senate Finance Committee = Eminent estimate of each cent. |
6 | Dharam Khalsa | 10 | The Rude Category = Gay to crude there. |
7 | Tony Crafter | 8 | Death Valley National Park = Hi! Plan a trek to Nevada y'all! |
7 | Ed Pegg Jr | 8 | Constitution of Texas = Out of context, it's a sin. |
9 | Adie Pena | 6 | Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota = Oh, mammoth rural site to laud our nation's A-OK men. |
10 | View | 4 | Le Tour de France ~ fed tourer Lance. |
Total points: | 166 | from 29 votes (DFE factor: 0.345) |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 48 | Actors who won trophies at this year's Emmys: ... = Top contenders from the "Least Tact" contest: ... |
2 | Tony Crafter | 29 | "I don't look like Halle Berry, but one day she... = Well, I like her! I like Goldberg's outlook - ... |
3 | Dharam Khalsa | 23 | "The best does not come alone. It comes with th... = There is both a good and bad in the worst acts... |
4 | Scott Gardner | 18 | Peter Yarrow, Noel "Paul" Stookey, and Mary Allin Travers ~ play loud New York arenas or Vietnam-era protest rally. |
5 | Rosie Perera | 17 | Michael Moore's new film "Capitalism: A Love Sto... = Impolite menace's movie spoofs rich Americans ... |
6 | Adie Pena | 15 | The American singer-songwriter Mary Allin Travers dies = Its rare "Magic Dragon" really never rests; remains within. |
7 | View | 10 | America's dilemma: Would troop surge work in Afg... = OK, more fighters. Will it answer a mad, ardu... |
Total points: | 160 | from 28 votes (DFE factor: 0.250) |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 53 | ... |
2 | Ellie Dent | 24 | In a word, why human souls must avoid melancholy; value the 'here and now.' Though leaves might wither, fall and die, n... |
3 | Adie Pena | 22 | Humid, humdrum months have gone away; How we survived the sun heat midday. Now ahead an orange-hued Fall. Soon it'll... |
4 | Tony Crafter | 16 | Withered leaves fill the woodland ground. In death, made warmly vibrant. Hush! A sound! Hey, a low, low hum. Ah, ... |
5 | Neil Ramsay | 11 | A Human. Who should I be - a human? Who would harvest my day? Who would find God's dream in the garden -- "L'autom... |
5 | Dharam Khalsa | 11 | A high wind now; Why huddle? Wheat must blow; Hush and cuddle! A Vaudeville tune To raise a morale: "Shine on har... |
7 | Adrian Hickford | 7 | Hal Borland - oh, was he mad? High? Having saturated lunar activity would mean human life suddenly ended. Oh! Momentous!... |
7 | Larry Brash | 7 | Some inevitable events: 1. Dull news shows (Huh?) 2. All unholy amoral war. 3. Huge dud government deadwood. 4. Inf... |
9 | Rosie Perera | 6 | Uh-huh. He would also be a doggedly naive and uninvolved mammal (whom else?!) who didn't assume that winter is halfway a... |
10 | View | 2 | Hot days are gone and Fall arrives - The Sun, in leaden cloud he dives. Hum, meadow-wave! Hum, hum! Although Wan Ra... |
Total points: | 159 | from 27 votes (DFE factor: 0.370) |
1 | Tony Crafter | 50 | Two men are sitting next to each other at a bar.... = A chicken farmer called into his local bar, sa... |
2 | Dharam Khalsa | 34 | An out-of-towner in a rush drives his car into ... = A husband and wife, driving down a dry bumpy ... |
3 | Meyran Kraus | 28 | "Childhood", a song by Michael Jackson Have y... = Honoring A Legend About fifty years ago, a ... |
4 | Ellie Dent | 26 | THE AUSTRALIAN GRASSHOPPER When travelling... = UNDERSTANDING A MARSUPIAL RITUAL This Austr... |
5 | Adie Pena | 9 | So bye-bye, Miss American Pie. Drove my Chevy ... = Embodied with sensitivity, Don McLean keeps t... |
6 | View | 3 | Five Jews change the way we see the world: Mos... = Hey, WE CAN DO IT just with five fingers - ... |
Total points: | 150 | from 26 votes (DFE factor: 0.231) |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 41 | On Shakespeare |
2 | Meyran Kraus | 35 | Keats' "When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be" |
3 | Dharam Khalsa | 25 | COSTELLO'S ON LINE TWO |
4 | Adie Pena | 21 | A piece written by Tammy Kane three days after the attack on the World Trade Center. |
5 | Tony Crafter | 18 | THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME. By Abba |
Total points: | 140 | from 24 votes (DFE factor: 0.208) |
1 | Adie Pena | 42 | A lonely widow = A wooden willy. |
2 | Ed Pegg Jr | 26 | Cybernetic phallus = Technically superb. |
2 | Meyran Kraus | 26 | A thick, erect penis = I penetrate chicks! |
4 | Tony Crafter | 16 | The castrated man = Rats! A detachment! |
5 | SpursKevin | 8 | Commando style = Commonest lady. |
6 | View | 7 | The penis enhancement pills = Amplest help! Nine-ten inches! |
Total points: | 125 | from 22 votes (DFE factor: 0.273) |
Daniel F. Etter Memorial Award Points*
*Adjusted Points = Sum of (Points * 'DFE factor') |
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