| GENERAL | ENTERTAINMENT | TOPICAL | PEOPLES NAMES | OTHER NAMES |
| MEDIUM LENGTH | ANAGRAMMY CHALLENGE | LONG | SPECIAL | RUDE |
1 | Dharam Khalsa | 22 | A trained circus elephant = Such a placid entertainer. |
2 | Zoran Radisavlevic | 20 | Sin City = It is NYC! |
3 | Meyran Kraus | 18 | The professional plastic surgeon = I sculpt this large nose of a person. |
4 | Ellie Dent | 17 | New software = Now we're fast! (Awardsmaster's Choice Award) |
5 | Jason Lofts | 14 | "Blackamoors are dirty" = A bloody racist remark! |
6 | Adie Pena | 9 | The mass–energy equivalence formula is read as ~ E=mc squared. (A very famous Einstein shall agree.) |
7 | Rosie Perera | 8 | International diplomacy = I am not inclined to parlay! |
8 | Julian Lofts | 7 | Equipollent canonisation = No poll on "quite a nice saint"? |
8 | Tyler Severance | 7 | Go inside a lion's den = God is in Daniel's one. |
10 | Tony Crafter | 5 | Hotel managers ~ loathe Germans! |
10 | Snyder | 5 | The sugar detox diet = Tried, got exhausted. |
12 | View | 4 | Wolf in sheep's clothing = The 'FELLOWSHIP' sign? Con! |
12 | nedesto | 4 | The forest biome = Trees' bit of home. |
14 | Christopher Sturdy | 3 | Naturalisation ~ into Australian. |
Total points: | 143 | from 24 votes (DFE factor: 0.583) |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 16 | 'The Creation of Adam', a Sistine Chapel ceiling mural = God shall touch Man in a fierce Italian masterpiece. |
2 | Adie Pena | 14 | 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' = We cried: "Isn't he a real patriotic man?" |
3 | Tyler Severance | 12 | The popular television hit Breaking Bad = Bald "Heisenberg" took punitive liar path. |
4 | Mark Huffman | 9 | The famous fantasy novelist George R. R. Martin = In "Game of Thrones," literary star gave most fun! |
4 | Tony Crafter | 9 | The English bass guitarist/composer Paul McCartney = Arrgh! Stop playing Beatles' music at concerts. Sue him! |
6 | Robert Jordan | 8 | Magic Disney moment = Genie: "'Tis my command." |
6 | Prashanth | 8 | SriLanka vs India = Kind Asian Rivals. |
6 | Ellie Dent | 8 | Edouard Manet, the Father of Modernism = The nude dominated art for me... for shame! |
9 | Richard Grantham | 7 | Heavy metal musician = I am nuts, may have lice. |
9 | nedesto | 7 | Rowling's Harry Potter series. = Literary prowess? Right. Snore! |
11 | Rosie Perera | 6 | A heavy metal band ~ behave adamantly. |
11 | Snyder | 6 | Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind" = When most will hate the tragic, grim end. |
13 | Jason Lofts | 5 | Lorde's hit "Royals" is ~ dross. Oh, it really is! |
13 | Scott Gardner | 5 | Broadway star Patti LuPone = Popular at Tony Awards, I bet. |
15 | View | 4 | The Meaning of Life = Ah, get one fine film! |
15 | Larry Brash | 4 | The National Gallery, London = An online golden art? Tallyho! |
15 | Julian Lofts | 4 | A sumptuous film - "Only Lovers Left Alive" = Um, isn't tale of soulful vampires lovely? |
18 | Christopher Sturdy | 3 | I'm Gonna Be (Five Hundred Miles) by The Proclaimers = Incredibly far, met, I love her, I bang on... she dumps me! |
18 | Dharam Khalsa | 3 | The favorite television game show "Family Feud" = "Ow" of humiliating defeat, smile of Steve Harvey. |
Total points: | 138 | from 23 votes (DFE factor: 0.826) |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 27 | Oscar maintains that he is not guilty of Reeva's death = Is this a fact, mister? I hear you haven't a leg to stand on! |
2 | nedesto | 24 | It's National Honesty Day = I don't say any lies on that! |
3 | Rosie Perera | 16 | Malaysia Minister of Transportation Hussein = Issues misinformation on that stray airplane. |
4 | Ellie Dent | 15 | Easter celebrations around the world = Wanted to celebrate our Lord has risen! |
5 | Tony Crafter | 10 | "Hey, I'm engaged to a cool lady and we're soul-mates!" = Yeah! George Clooney's set to wed Amal Alamuddin. |
5 | Adie Pena | 10 | The missing Malaysia Airlines plane = Alarmingly implies Asians in the sea? |
7 | Jason Lofts | 9 | Portraits by George W. Bush go on display = Gee, poor Dubya throws grisly paint gobs. |
8 | Julian Lofts | 7 | Pope Francis baptises faithful at Easter vigil = Gee, a bath for servile fanatics? Pitiful papists! |
9 | Maurice Goddard | 6 | England's schools succeed in problem-solving test = Nothing stops classes' college-bound clever minds! |
10 | Christopher Sturdy | 5 | At the end of the day, it's all about money ~ at United (and they hate Moyes' football). |
10 | View | 5 | Thousands of Arabs that are dying in Syria = Assad fights or ruins anybody in that area. |
10 | Tyler Severance | 5 | A demonic Easter = "Eat More Candies"! |
13 | Prashanth | 4 | Malaysia Airlines flight = Aerially amiss thing - FAIL. |
Total points: | 143 | from 24 votes (DFE factor: 0.542) |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 24 | Comedian Stephen Colbert = He copied Letterman on CBS. |
2 | Matt Jones | 22 | Stephen Colbert = Enter to help CBS. |
3 | David Bourke | 15 | The country singer Linda Maria Ronstadt = Man, I'd rather listen to our angry cat's din! |
4 | Ellie Dent | 13 | The infamous German leader, Hitler = He led men as Führer, a militant ogre. |
5 | Dharam Khalsa | 12 | "Noah" actress Emma Watson = Cast as woman near to Shem. |
6 | Adie Pena | 11 | The athlete Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius = A cold corpse results in the hero at a trial. |
6 | Scott Gardner | 11 | The Oscar nominee Christian Bale = See actor in his niche Batman role. |
6 | nedesto | 11 | Arthur, the legendary king of all the Britons = Risked throne thereof by gallant grail hunt. |
9 | Julian Lofts | 9 | Gerrie Nel's the South African State Prosecutor = He reenacts truth. Fleet Oscar Pistorius 'a goner'. |
10 | View | 6 | Serena and Venus Williams = Winners; ladies man values. |
11 | Rosie Perera | 3 | The award-winning filmmaker Michael Francis Moore = A lead cinema worker from Flint, Michigan. Answer him! |
Total points: | 137 | from 23 votes (DFE factor: 0.478) |
1 | John Gearhart | 28 | Google Translate = Not ALL goes great... |
2 | nedesto | 25 | The USA Internal Revenue Service = Their inane vultures never cease! |
3 | Meyran Kraus | 17 | I'd trade shoes at ~ the Adidas store. |
4 | Julian Lofts | 12 | The Linked In website = Newbies liked it then. |
5 | Scott Gardner | 11 | The Instagram website ~ wants their best image. |
6 | Ellie Dent | 10 | The Wild, or Dog Rose, Canina Rosa = A color on hedgerows is radiant. |
7 | Rosie Perera | 9 | The renowned Sherpas of Mount Everest in Nepal = Shown at upper elevations, need no refreshment. |
8 | Larry Brash | 8 | The running of the bulls ‡ Thus fleeing blunt horn. |
9 | Adie Pena | 6 | The United Nations Security Council = Entity to include countries U.S., China. |
10 | David Bourke | 5 | Trimethylaminuria (or fish-malodor syndrome) = Horrid, horrid mystery...I smell of ammonia/tuna! |
11 | Snyder | 3 | Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" = Men get his tale, learn of raw messy war. |
12 | Prashanth | 2 | The United States of America = Hot at untamed eerie Fascist. |
Total points: | 136 | from 23 votes (DFE factor: 0.522) |
1 | Tony Crafter | 32 | Top Notoriously Bad Tourists 10. Brazil 9. Ital... = 10. Ah - samba crazy! 9. Pious 8. Unlikable 7. ... |
2 | Jason Lofts | 16 | Ranks in the Catholic clergy 1. Deacon 2. Priest... = 1. Sick pervert 2. Closet gay 3. Fondling child... |
3 | Scott Gardner | 15 | Top five largest cities in the world: 1. Shan... = 1. Jewel of China 2. Global capital 3. Ni... |
4 | Julian Lofts | 10 | Lessons the British legal system could learn fr... = It's illegal to humorlessly shoot trespasser f... |
4 | Adie Pena | 10 | The Top Three James Bond Villains 3. Oddjob 2... = 3. Hat disjoins 2. Jaded Gert Frobe ends gold... |
6 | nedesto | 9 | Tiny Tim naively asked, "Where'd we actually co... ~ "We've come from monkeys." Thrown, Tim said,... |
7 | Christopher Sturdy | 8 | Homeopathy product recalled over fears it may c... = Come, you must accept that had revealed a trac... |
8 | David Bourke | 7 | The lawyer Gerrie Nel, South African State Prosecutor = Role here is to get runner Oscar put away...a life stretch. |
9 | Meyran Kraus | 6 | MED Lists do well since they: 1. Stand out 2.... = Lists won't take the gold if they contain: 1.... |
10 | Snyder | 4 | "If we did all the things we are capable of, we... = "Edison, you who valued raw persistence, battl... |
11 | Rosie Perera | 3 | I think detecting the dying cabin of Malaysia A... ~ a little bit reminiscent of searching to find ... |
11 | View | 3 | Experts Claim They've Found the Holy Grail in S... = Golden chalice in Holy man's very Last Supper?... |
13 | Dharam Khalsa | 2 | Since when is a bunch of drunken young Aussies s... = I guess it does seem wrong to criticize, insu... |
Total points: | 125 | from 21 votes (DFE factor: 0.619) |
1 | Rosie Perera | 19 | What a piece of work is man, how foolish, indeed rude, that her man Henry, with errant dexterity, put underwear on... |
2 | Christopher Sturdy | 16 | No pride in how we think with such human dexterity, and remained sure easy to fool, rewarded with fear rather than hope. |
3 | Adie Pena | 15 | ... |
3 | Tony Crafter | 15 | "Why is Man so fixated with Mars? I wonder." (... |
5 | John Gearhart | 10 | How do I express here what mankind is in written form? Uhh, retarded? A pithy hauteur? We are only a fart echoed on th... |
6 | nedesto | 9 | ... |
6 | Julian Lofts | 9 | "The father of American literature." Renown, huh? Why, intrepid Tom Sawyer's water expedition hoodwinked hundreds, haha!... |
8 | Dharam Khalsa | 7 | I irritate Dad: Salt in white sweetener (oh-oh!) Fix donut with hardener (funny!) Darken soap (hee-haw!) Wrap the co... |
8 | Meyran Kraus | 7 | ... |
10 | Ellie Dent | 5 | Oh, I think author inferred, warned, how fools rush in whate'er the date. Anyhow, expect hardwired men are stupid a... |
10 | View | 5 | It doesn't matter which day of April - One, Two, Three or any; we're the hard, hunted mix - unwise, weak, and in hardshi... |
12 | Larry Brash | 4 | What one had drained your money? The fake "Inherit wealth" spam? The rich widow sex fraud? Or has their rotten wi... |
13 | Snyder | 2 | Fortunate? Exalted? We win? Myths. I wonder why I often hide a hardened heart. I hurt when mistakes produce pain. Ah,... |
Total points: | 123 | from 21 votes (DFE factor: 0.619) |
1 | Maurice Goddard | 26 | 1: Dogs 2: Cats 3: Swans 4: Budgerigars 5: ... = 1: Bark 2: Meow 3: Hiss 4: Can speak words... |
2 | Tony Crafter | 20 | On her first night in an unusual hotel, the wom... = One Saturday night a wife came home late afte... |
3 | Ellie Dent | 12 | John was sitting outside his local pub one aft... = 'Of course not! I really never have taken unh... |
3 | Meyran Kraus | 12 | Here's a genius way to handle telemarketers, po... = Need another nifty trick to handle annoying t... |
5 | Adie Pena | 10 | Ten Uses for Your Microwave that May Surprise Y... = Ten Smart Uses for that Busted Microwave 1.... |
6 | Julian Lofts | 9 | Transcript: Pistorius told the judge: "My lady... = "Oh yes, my lady (long nods). No accident - u... |
6 | nedesto | 9 | Alyssa had remained in a coma for months. The... = "Of course I won't laugh,” chided the nurse. ... |
8 | David Bourke | 6 | Michael John Kells Fleetwood John Graham McVie... = Five joined in 'The Chain': Lanky drummer on... |
9 | Rosie Perera | 1 | "Be not afraid of greatness: some are born grea... = Moral premise: Some seventeenth cent. authors... |
Total points: | 105 | from 18 votes (DFE factor: 0.500) |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 38 | Spring Song Robert Louis Stevenson |
2 | Tony Crafter | 26 | BACK IN THE USSR By The Beatles |
3 | nedesto | 14 | Absent Place-an April Day, Emily Dickinson |
4 | Tony Crafter | 12 | A farmer stopped at the local garage to have his truck repaired. |
5 | Dharam Khalsa | 11 | May Day (by Sarah Teasdale) |
6 | Adie Pena | 6 | ALWAYS MARRY AN APRIL GIRL by Ogden Nash |
Total points: | 107 | from 18 votes (DFE factor: 0.333) |
1 | Maurice Goddard | 25 | Anal copulation = Tool up in a canal. |
2 | Meyran Kraus | 22 | Floor around men's toilets = Lots of urine... and lots more. |
3 | Adie Pena | 17 | Dick & nuts = Cunt & kids. |
4 | Julian Lofts | 11 | This century the plastic surgeons operate and ~ try to reconstruct a huge and shapeliest penis. |
4 | David Bourke | 11 | Restless Genital Syndrome = Orgasm endlessly in street! |
6 | nedesto | 9 | Having reached her orgasm, the young lady is ~ heard to cheer, "Lord, my vagina's gushing! Yeah!!" |
7 | Christopher Sturdy | 3 | Man shucking oyster: ~ "My, her cunt's soaking!" |
Total points: | 98 | from 17 votes (DFE factor: 0.412) |
Daniel F. Etter Memorial Award Points*
*Adjusted Points = Sum of (Points * 'DFE factor') |
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