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   Message 18,472 of 19,138   
   Jud Pewther to Phil   
   Re: A highly anagrammable creep   
   19 Oct 17 17:01:30   
   
   From: jpewther@aol.com   
      
   Phil said:   
   > Harvey Weinstein   
   > Shave tiny wiener   
      
   Terrific answer to my implied question, Phil! After noticing that the first   
   five letters of "Weinstein" can spell "swine," I found this next one by hand:   
   Harvey Weinstein = Inter heavy swine.   
      
   "Inter" usually means "bury in a grave or tomb", but I saw one source that   
   said it can mean "put away." However, after doing more checking, I think   
   that's just the same old meaning: "put away in a grave or tomb."   
      
   So my new anagram seems awfully harsh to poor Harvey, if people decide to   
   inter him while he still lives.  However, the anagram would make a very   
   fitting epitaph to be engraved on his tombstone, once he dies.   
      
   It also occurred to me that we could sarcastically alter Harvey's name, making   
   it "Heavy Swinestein," for the benefit of those have no appreciation for   
   anagrams.  I wanted to see whether anyone on the Web had already done this, so   
   I Googled searched for    
   this exact string of letters, by including the quotation marks.  And while   
   Google informed me that there were no results, it was smart enough to ask,   
   "Did you mean Harvey Weinstein?"   
      
   In case people are wondering what the two deleted posts above this one were, I   
   was just editing this post and adding a little each time.    
      
   Jud   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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