Laugh Loud and Often

Within the last 24 hours, I left a comment on a happy-go-lucky blogger's blog only to realize that it would make a terrific blog entry. The comment had to do with word play ... sorta ... specifically, it was about anagrams of said blogger's username.

Since Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" book-turned-moviescript has started to shoot, and the channelled Mr. Britney Spears said, "Ah wand-it learnt me sumethin' bout symbologigy and anagrammies!"; numerology will have to be discussed at a later date (if at all) -- talking, or thinking, about numerology on Friday 13th is asking for lightning to strike.

This is the proposed movie poster for the May 2006 release with Tom Hanks, Jean Reno and Audrey Tautou starring, and Ron Howard directing. It's bubblegum reading; even if you don't enjoy it after taking time away from blog reading, you'll at least learn a thing or two about papal conspiracy theories and pagan/goddess worship. [click image to enlarge]

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines (rather poorly):

symbology - the study or interpretation of symbols.
anagram - 1: a word or phrase made by transposing the letters of another word or phrase; 2 (plural but singular in construction): a game in which words are formed by rearranging the letters of other words or by arranging letters taken (as from a stock of cards or blocks) at random.

Anagrams can be eerily accurate: Elvis = Lives; Ronald Reagan = A darn long era; George W. Bush = He Grew Bogus; Impeach Clinton = Let Monica pinch; President Clinton of the USA = To copulate he finds interns; Tom Cruise = So I'm Cuter; The Hilton = Hint: Hotel; Princess Diana = Ascend in Paris = Pain as car's end = I End as car spin; Debit card = Bad Credit; and Apple Computer Inc. = Complete Up in Crap. Still doubt that the truth is within?

The anagrams for my first name ("Nam") are not all that interesting: "man" or "am N" (no, that was not me in Men in Black) or "an M" (that's M for mystery, not Susan Griffon's Malice) - as if I needed help to figure these three anagrams!

The anagrams for my last name ("LaMore") are a bit more interesting. Some choice anagrams to consider: a morel (yes, yes mushrooms are fun and tasty); morale (very telling!); real OM (I aspire to be a bodhisattva); mal roe (I knew it! I'm an alien vampire whose pod crashed on this primitive rock releasing one of many eggs that would hatch to be me, explains a lot); mal ore (a bad rock?); AM role / AM lore (get your reading here first thing!); and oar elm (I wrote a poem about an ore and an elm back in jr highschool).

The anagrams for my first + last name prove the most interesting. Some choice anagrams to consider: a norm male / a morn male (so inaccurate); a male on mr (we'll get into that later); a norm meal / a morn meal (I honestly try to follow the food pyramid); a merman, lo! (lo: an interjection used to call attention or to express wonder or surprise); a learn mom (previous or next life, perhaps); a normal me (this is debatable); a manor elm / a roman elm (I was or will be a tree in my previous or next life, would explain plenty); a mar lemon/a mar melon (a damaged produce, again explains plenty); alarm on me / omen alarm (a harbinger of what?); loner mama (again, possibilities); mana morel (the power of the elemental forces of nature embodied in an object or person); roman male / roman meal (possibilities!); realm moan (hmmm, unexpected); renal ammo (yes, I do have a critical eye); learn AM OM (time to go meditate); and man oar elm (again, I wrote a poem in jr highschool).

Go ahead, ANAGRAMIZE yourself now - if you use your real name, then you can post a few anagrams for me to try to figure out what your real name is! ... decode your name and do tell.