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Wednesday, 13th August 2008

What's in a name?

Sean Martin 11:03am

I just stumbled across a site called Anagram Genius, which turns famous names into amusing anagrams. Here are a few of the political ones I found:

The New Prime Minister Gordon Brown = Men now noted - wrong British Premier!

David Cameron = Dave? Minor cad

David Miliband = I'm livid and bad

The Deputy Prime Minister John Leslie Prescott = Hits, injures. (Hot-tempered, completely inept, sir)

Barack Hussein Obama = Bush, I can break Osama.

Tony Blair = Tory in Lab

Yes, ok, I have cheated a little with the names, but do CoffeeHousers have any alternatives?
 

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Simon

August 13th, 2008 11:43am Report this comment

My favourite was always :
Virginia Bottomley =
Im an evil tory bigot

chunklover53@aol.com

August 13th, 2008 11:44am Report this comment

William Hague is an anagram of Hilliam Wague.

Ian W

August 13th, 2008 11:52am Report this comment

Sean Martin = Nastier Man
(sorry)

Familiar Clown

August 13th, 2008 12:55pm Report this comment

Gordon Brown = Rob 'n' wrong do

GS London

August 13th, 2008 1:50pm Report this comment

Rhyming, on the other hand, is more fun:

Gordon Brown - Broing Clown

and so on.

Wight Tory

August 13th, 2008 1:54pm Report this comment

outshot interferer = Return of the Tories

How apt don't you think...

Count Boso

August 13th, 2008 2:06pm Report this comment

A story doing the rounds among North East journalists a few years ago was that whenever one regional lobby correspondent typed the name of Hilary Armstrong, his computer amended it to Hairy Ringmaster

Liam in Preston

August 13th, 2008 4:58pm Report this comment

"Tony Blair MP" - "I'm Tory, plan B"

=)

Sir

August 13th, 2008 6:07pm Report this comment

Haven't you got anything better to do?

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