“Diaper backward
spells ‘repaid.’
Think about it.”
Marshall McLuhan

I have no words of wisdom to share today, nor do I have any meaningful stories to tell. The purpose of today’s blog post is pure fun and entertainment. 

From my earliest days in school, I was always more comfortable with words than numbers. I am functionally literate in math. I can add, subtract, multiply, and divide. I can balance a checkbook and manage a budget fairly well. I can estimate the amount of paint needed to paint a room, I have excellent time management skills, and I can estimate distances, travel times, and fuel efficiency with accuracy.

My comfort zone, however, is not with numbers, it’s with words. I love words. I love writing. I love manipulating words to write poems. I also enjoy learning such trivial things as the meanings of acronyms (Scuba: Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus; Radar: Radio detection and ranging; UNICEF: United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund; SWAT: Special Weapons and Tactics; and BART: Bay Area Rapid Transit.) 

Today, I’d like to share a few entertaining anagrams. What is an anagram? It’s a word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. For example, earth and heart, listen and silent, night and thing, or ring and grin. The following acronyms are a bit more entertaining:

Dormitory  –  Dirty room 
Slot machines  –  Cash lost in ‘em 
Astronomer  –  Moon starer
The eyes  –  They see
The Morse code  –  Here come dots
Snooze alarms  –  Alas! No more Z’s 
A decimal point  –  I’m a dot in place  
A gentleman  –  Elegant man
Conversation – Voices rant on 
Eleven plus two – Twelve plus one.
A persecution – I run to escape  
Statue of Liberty – Built to stay free 
Vacation times – I’m not as active  

Now wasn’t that fun?