home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   alt.anagrams      Creative manipulation of English words?      19,138 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 18,977 of 19,138   
   David Dalton to All   
   Re: FanaTEgrams revisited   
   05 Nov 20 03:58:19   
   
   d519f6e5   
   597165a5   
   XPost: alt.music.s-mclachlan, misc.creativity, talk.bizarre   
   XPost: rec.org.mensa   
   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Nov 3, 2020, David Dalton wrote   
   (in article<0001HW.25514FB80027449E700009BB038F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
      
   > Here is my list of FanaTEgrams (anagrams for "fumbling towards ecstasy") from   
   > a post to the FTE list (for Sarah Mclachlan fans, and FTE is her third album)   
   > early on July 3, 1994, for those who haven't seen them. Other than the last   
   > three, they were not generated by computer.   
   >   
   > drafty magnetics, sublows   
   > Sandbag, costumer, swiftly!   
   > crafty woundless gambits {woundless is in Oxford Concise d}   
   > swiftly sandbag customer [swiftly sandbag crust 'ome]   
   >   
   > croft slid subway magnets   
   > iambs glow defunct satyrs [defunct satyrs glow iambs]   
   > magnetic locus, bawdy firsts   
   > crafty nudes stow gimbals   
   >   
   > sturdy magnetic bass flow   
   > crafty gimbals sound west   
   > subcomet tails fang wyrds   
   > swift rats scumbled agony   
   >   
   > mesocrust lifts [flits] bandy wag   
   > stigmas cleft by unwords [crafty gambits wound less]   
   > crafty nuts dowse gimbals   
   > fungoids mat crystal's web [crystal's fungoid bats mew]...   
   >   
   > bus: crystal woman fidgets   
   > submagnets drift cosy laws   
   > stomal cardings buy wefts   
   >   
   > sun ward cleft by moist gas   
   > soma wasted by curt flings   
   > comet is drawn by fat slugs   
   > soft magic tunes slab wyrd   
   > cuts gym, frond wets labias [cuts gym, wrests fond labia]   
   >   
   > focus wild magnets by arts [focus wild arts by magnets]   
   > a flat subcomet sings wyrd   
   > cleft bay, moist sung wards   
   > sun facet draws misty globs   
   >   
   > and a few more from later that night (early July 4, 1994):   
   >   
   > magic flowers stand busty   
   > sling bawdy crust of mates   
   > baud stream, flowing cysts   
   > many bard tics, fetus glows   
   >   
   > sundog bays flaw metric t (or t metric, or CRT time)   
   > fast club masters windy G_o   
   > focal wings stream B_y stud   
   >   
   > bundt flaws gyrose mastic or mastic flaws gyrose bundt   
   > magestic flow, sundry bast   
   >   
   > and someone named Paul Phillips on a newsgroup generated these three by   
   > computer:   
   >   
   > satisfy downcast grumble   
   > forcible gymnast sawdust   
   > declassify strung wombat   
   >   
   > Can you get any other good ones, preferably not by computer?   
      
   Or even by computer?   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   â€śAnd the cart is on a wheel/And the wheel is on a hill/And the hill is   
   shifting sand/And inside these laws we stand" (Ferron)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca