| GENERAL | ENTERTAINMENT | TOPICAL | PEOPLES NAMES | OTHER NAMES |
| MEDIUM LENGTH | ANAGRAMMY CHALLENGE | LONG | SPECIAL | RUDE |
1 | Mike Keith | 58 | NINETY/TEN + TWELVE - THREE = TWENTY + ELEVEN - THIRTEEN. (90/10 + 12 - 3 = 20 + 11 - 13 = 18) |
2 | Harshal M | 22 | The previous president of the United States = Head of the "Stupidest Person Ever Institute!" |
3 | Larry Brash | 17 | Conspiracy theorists ~ ran psychotic stories. |
3 | Tony Crafter | 17 | To the victor go the spoils = I've rights to scoop the lot! |
5 | Rosie Perera | 15 | No room for live data in ~ information overload. |
5 | Meyran Kraus | 15 | The secret location = It's there to conceal. |
7 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 12 | Secret locations = No title or access. |
8 | Christopher Sturdy | 8 | Presidential = I deter S. Palin. |
9 | David Bourke | 7 | Burial at sea = A base ritual. |
10 | nedesto | 6 | Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer = Mike Corleone's rules for security: Eyes open, bud. |
11 | Ivan Andonov | 5 | Slaughterhouses ~ hurt a useless hog! |
11 | Dharam Khalsa | 5 | A mind like a steel trap = Rapid, keen at all times. |
11 | Ellie Dent | 5 | The absence of all daylight ~ by each desolate nightfall. |
14 | Andrew Brehaut | 4 | Absence makes the heart grow fonder = Sad setback when the former are gone. |
14 | Adie Pena | 4 | A disco partner = It's a pro dancer. |
16 | Ed Pegg Jr | 3 | Special interest group = Politics super-grantee. |
16 | Rick Rothstein | 3 | Diplomatic relations ~ is darn political to me. |
Total points: | 206 | from 35 votes (DFE factor: 0.486) |
1 | Harshal M | 52 | Murals on the Sistine Chapel ceiling = This is Michelangelo's true pinnacle. |
2 | Ellie Dent | 49 | Claude Monet's series of 'Water Lilies'= I use oil and create timeless flowers. (Awardsmaster's Choice Award) |
3 | Tony Crafter | 33 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides = Arr, don't bother seeing it sea fans, it be crap! |
4 | Dharam Khalsa | 26 | Bookshelf hunt revealed this = "The Hound of the Baskervilles". |
5 | nedesto | 11 | The hills are alive with the sound of music ~ as her softish voice lulled him with a tune. |
5 | Adie Pena | 11 | Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" = I'd unravel a weird world's all-nonsensical secret. |
7 | Larry Brash | 10 | Getting a hole-in-one = Neat! Hooting in glee! |
8 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 9 | Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci = I carve or doodle and I inspire. |
9 | Ivan Andonov | 3 | Les Claypool = El Loco plays. |
10 | David Bourke | 2 | The Australian actor Chris Hemsworth = Cast as hero Thor, with result...a rich man. |
11 | View | 1 | Iron Maiden 'Flight of Icarus' = Doom if airlift reaching Sun. |
Total points: | 207 | from 35 votes (DFE factor: 0.314) |
1 | Scott Gardner | 36 | The terrorist Osama bin Laden = An order obliterates this man. |
2 | Adie Pena | 25 | Osama bin Laden's death = The Seals do a bad man in. |
3 | James H Young | 16 | The President Barack Hussein Obama = He scrubbed Osama there in Pakistan. |
4 | Ellie Dent | 15 | Bin Laden's dead ~ and disenabled. |
5 | View | 12 | Death of bin Laden = End of a blind hate. |
6 | David Bourke | 11 | The late Spanish golfer Severiano Ballesteros = A real stellar person gave life his one best shot. |
6 | Andrew Brehaut | 11 | Kate's father-in-law = 'Fatal ears!" we think. |
8 | Meyran Kraus | 9 | The US president Obama = Buried the spent Osama. |
9 | Don P Fortier | 8 | Bonnet Carré Spillway opened = Epic plan! New Orleans to be dry. |
9 | Rosie Perera | 8 | Osama bin Laden is dead = One bad man's laid aside. |
9 | Dean Mayer | 8 | Golfer Severiano Ballesteros = A love of greens. A terrible loss. |
9 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 8 | Memorial Day Celebration = Artillery made a nice boom. |
13 | Rick Rothstein | 7 | The rapture is coming = "I am Christ... enter, go up." |
14 | Harshal M | 6 | President Obama = I met a bad person... |
14 | Paul Pan | 6 | Rikers Island ‡ DSK's airliner. |
16 | Neil Ramsay | 5 | Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden = A bad, abominable man dies. Now damn him. |
16 | Christopher Sturdy | 5 | I mark the centenary of Titanic's disastrous voyage = Five score years ago, nut hit icy matter and so it sank. |
18 | Larry Brash | 4 | Osama bin Laden = Aim: end on a slab. |
18 | Dharam Khalsa | 4 | Rapture deadline passes, world still here = All is well, no rehearsed purists departed. |
20 | Tony Crafter | 3 | The American forces have killed Osama Bin Laden = Radical's death memoir: a backlash of Nine Eleven. |
Total points: | 207 | from 35 votes (DFE factor: 0.571) |
1 | Neil Ramsay | 45 | Severiano Ballesteros = Valor es sobresaliente. |
2 | View | 23 | Sarah Burton, the royal wedding dress designer = Gown's author dressed a bride in her grand style. |
2 | Ed Pegg Jr | 23 | Saint Leo IV ~ is not alive. |
4 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 16 | Monica Samille Lewinsky = I know slimy males can lie. |
5 | Dharam Khalsa | 14 | The televangelist Harold Egbert Camping = Legal problem: can't even get his date right! |
6 | Tony Crafter | 12 | The former Ugandan President Idi Amin = Murdering fiend team-raped his nation. |
7 | Adie Pena | 11 | Evangelist Harold Egbert Camping = Rat gives me the "global ending" crap! |
8 | nedesto | 10 | Mister Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger = Careless womanizing lost her regard. |
9 | Ellie Dent | 9 | Michael Sylvester Stallone = Love the name: recall it's Sly's. |
10 | Meyran Kraus | 8 | The USA president Barack Hussein Obama = His bad numbers are up as he takes action. |
11 | Harshal M | 7 | Is she "Earhart?" = She's "Air Heart!" |
12 | David Bourke | 6 | Tobias Vincent Maguire = Ambitious acting? Never! |
13 | Larry Brash | 4 | The late Severiano Ballesteros = Sir ran as a level best, tee to hole. |
13 | Dean Mayer | 4 | Christopher Gayle = Aptly higher score. |
15 | Rosie Perera | 3 | Olympic marathon gold medalist Samuel Wanjiru = A star caught (woman in room), yells: "I'll jump, I'm dead." |
Total points: | 195 | from 33 votes (DFE factor: 0.455) |
1 | Larry Brash | 39 | The Leaning Tower of Pisa = Operating while not safe? |
1 | Dharam Khalsa | 39 | Space Shuttle Endeavour = Launch devotees stare up. |
3 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 27 | The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge = Dudes off boat racing mix on the riverside. |
4 | Meyran Kraus | 21 | Canon's PowerShot = Owner scans photo. |
5 | Tony Crafter | 20 | The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan = Taliban armies cut off in high places. |
6 | Harshal M | 16 | Computers of Macintosh = Much past one Microsoft! |
7 | David Bourke | 14 | The cities of Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana = Soon underwater again...hence solution is a lifeboat. |
8 | Rosie Perera | 9 | The Leaning Tower of Pisa = Note a swag in the profile. |
9 | Adie Pena | 7 | The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World = Forever enchanted, now witness the old! |
10 | Ellie Dent | 5 | British Monarchy, also known as 'The Firm' = Now this family harbors short nickname. |
10 | View | 5 | The Mississippi River = Ships mire, visit piers. |
Total points: | 202 | from 35 votes (DFE factor: 0.314) |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 27 | President Obama receives a huge ratings bounce ... = Problem is, he'd need to gun down the faithles... |
2 | David Bourke | 26 | Sarah and Todd's daughter Bristol Sheeran Marie Palin's ~ another stupid lass, as brain-dead as her darling mother! |
3 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 21 | "You are our representatives spearheading human... = is Pope Benedict's telephone message for six U... |
3 | Adie Pena | 21 | The Children* of Sarah Palin are: 1. Track 2.... = Sarah Palin is in herself: 1. Hollow 2. Bana... |
5 | Ellie Dent | 19 | A crow wearing a chic pearl necklace, walked int... = "I've never seen a crow wearing a pearl necklac... |
6 | nedesto | 16 | Among us beginner letter-based-theory aficionad... ~ is to be considered as being the only true ana... |
6 | Tony Crafter | 16 | Princess Beatrice puts her zany Royal-wedding h... = Hey! Trading in pretzel-shaped accessory to bu... |
8 | Harshal M | 10 | Last Year's Razzies... 1. Sex and the City Two... = 1. Star must be naughty. 2. Rather bizarre ta... |
9 | Christopher Sturdy | 7 | The United States government witnessed the real... = Intent White House sent direct video feed. SE... |
10 | Rosie Perera | 6 | ... = Thus coins "paradigm shift" for the novel yet ... |
11 | Dharam Khalsa | 1 | "Suppose the chariot of the sun were given you,... = Curious, eh? I'd swoosh up out of the sea ever... |
Total points: | 170 | from 29 votes (DFE factor: 0.379) |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 36 | How would I whack a chieftain called Osama? How would I mow a crappy idiot down? I'll join a brave team inspired by Ob... |
2 | Larry Brash | 23 | What do you do with a problem like Diana? Just how'd the Windsor Mafia blow her out? Conceivably, how to coldly wipe Di... |
3 | Andrew Brehaut | 16 | How do you solve a problem like Osama? How do you find a critical twit so bad How can you whip a wild one named Bin L... |
3 | Christopher Sturdy | 16 | How do you broach a subject with Sharia? What would be the Islamic point of view? Laid by an imam, do follow your Ko... |
5 | Tony Crafter | 15 | How do you solve a problem like a hard word? a) Find ... |
6 | Rosie Perera | 13 | How do you solve a problem like Ms. Palin? How do I thwart her White House candidacy? I'd object to a dolt in DC: "Ara... |
7 | Adie Pena | 11 | How do you thwart a problem like diarrhea? Aid you in the peptic ache and soft stool? With an obvious blow of medical... |
7 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 11 | How do you solve a problem like Joe Biden? What do infinity words wrap a comic for? What do you call a mouth that is a... |
9 | David Bourke | 7 | How did Obama trump a problem of "The Donald"? "Islamic? Arabic? How low! What a lie!" Yet justice it was done, proof: ... |
9 | Dharam Khalsa | 7 | How do you avoid a boob like Newt? Jab him with new comic political candor? How will we pardon old affairs and repute?... |
11 | Harshal M | 6 | How do you rub a problem like a bin Laden? How to jail a main worldwide convict? Oh, you said whole words for a bad ap... |
11 | nedesto | 6 | How do you solve a problem like Maria? How's Ahnold to indicate: Woman, I'm now apart? How to find a word to bid: Ch... |
13 | Ellie Dent | 3 | How do you solve a problem like our Julie? How can we bar a ballad? Holy cow! How to stop a birdbrained maid with mel... |
13 | View | 3 | How do you solve a problem like Meyran? He just to nab all idiomatic awards and fun! Aid, hopeful aid! Wow, I call -... |
Total points: | 173 | from 30 votes (DFE factor: 0.467) |
1 | Tony Crafter | 39 | Two Irish brothers, Patrick and Connor McGough,... = Miss Beatrice, the church organist, was eight... |
2 | Adie Pena | 34 | BLONDE 2011 MONTH-BY-MONTH CALENDAR January "... = July Defeated month. Lost a breast stroke sw... |
3 | Ellie Dent | 27 | SIMPLE PRACTICAL TESTS TO TAKE BEFORE YOU HAVE ... = Men: Go to the chemist, tip your wallet ont... |
4 | nedesto | 12 | To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whe... = A Suicide Soliloquy: He asks: What's better ... |
5 | Dharam Khalsa | 8 | This flirty blonde bought a thrifty coach ticke... = The stewardess and the co-pilot got the pilot ... |
6 | Harshal M | 5 | For more than 30 years, Chris Roycroft-Davis has... = THE TRUTH (no, not spoken from Chris, that's m... |
7 | James H Young | 2 | "I mourn the loss of thousands of precious live... = Fake citation that eleven-hundred-and-seven c... |
8 | David Bourke | 1 | There have already been some concerns about the ... = Speaking of betrayal and totally lawless note... |
Total points: | 140 | from 24 votes (DFE factor: 0.333) |
1 | David Bourke | 33 | AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
2 | Tony Crafter | 21 | Jim and Patricia were eighty years old and had been married for sixty years. |
3 | Ember Nickel | 20 | Just as these lines that merge to form a key |
4 | Tony Crafter | 18 | I WISH I COULD SHIMMY LIKE MY SISTER KATE By Frances Faye |
5 | Harshal M | 17 | Sonnet 106 is anagrammed being relevant to the original in three ways |
6 | Dharam Khalsa | 7 | Tips for Camping |
7 | Dharam Khalsa | 5 | Brother John entered the "Monastery of Silence" |
8 | Adie Pena | 4 | chansons innocentes, i by e(dward) e(stlin) cummings [1923] |
9 | nedesto | 3 | When I was one-and-twenty |
10 | nedesto | 1 | The answer is blowin' in the wind. |
Total points: | 129 | from 22 votes (DFE factor: 0.455) |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 43 | The lubricated penis = Bet it can slide up her! |
2 | Neil Ramsay | 22 | Mr Ryan Giggs OBE = My organ's bigger. |
3 | Larry Brash | 18 | May is National Masturbation Month = Oust a myth! Onanism? It ain't abnormal! |
4 | Christopher Sturdy | 17 | He is straight = His tight arse. |
5 | David Bourke | 12 | Tobias Vincent Maguire's ~ one vice is masturbating! |
6 | Adie Pena | 10 | Pubic Hair Styles = I try special bush. |
7 | anon | 8 | May is Masturbation Month = Mum: "Moron! It's a nasty habit!" |
8 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 4 | A retractable foreskin = Far back to enter Israel? |
8 | Tony Crafter | 4 | Gassy area = A gay's arse! |
10 | nedesto | 2 | May is Masturbation Month = My unit's bathroom stamina. |
Total points: | 140 | from 25 votes (DFE factor: 0.400) |
Daniel F. Etter Memorial Award Points*
*Adjusted Points = Sum of (Points * 'DFE factor') |
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