Monday, April 14, 2008

Yeti Anagrams

I discovered that Abominable Snowman is an anagram for... (click here to find out)!

But what other anagrams exist? I found four online.

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Type II Diabetes
             =
I eat yeti bipeds.

by Judson T. Pewther

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Is it the abominable snowman?
                          =
White baboon? Last simian men?

by Tom Myers

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Leicester City
             =
Electric Yetis

by Unknown

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I Got You, Babe
             =
Yeti Bugaboo

by Roy R. Pryor

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And the word 'yetis' by itself has two anagrams:

seity: A quality peculiar to oneself.

yites: European yellow-hammers (birds)

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Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman inspired this post when I read on his blog about a famous anagram controversy involving another cryptid - The Loch Ness Monster.

In a cryptozoology news round-up in the last week of November 2006, Coleman discusses Sir Peter Scott, a well-known British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, and later in life, a supporter of the search for the Loch Ness Monster:

"After several successful 1970s photographic and sonar findings by the Academy of Applied Sciences, Sir Peter announced in 1975 that the scientific name of the monster would henceforth be Nessiteras rhombopteryx, which is Greek for 'The Ness monster with diamond-shaped fin.' This allegedly enabled Nessie to be added to a British register of officially protected wildlife, although that is disputed today. Ridicule followed quickly when London newspapers noted that Nessiteras rhombopteryx is an anagram of "monster hoax by Sir Peter S." Nessie searcher and cryptozoologist Robert H. Rines replied that the letters could also be rearranged to spell: 'Yes, both pix are monsters–R.'"

To recap:

Nessiteras rhombopteryx
                       =
Monster Hoax by Sir Peter S.
                       =
Yes, both pix are monsters. – R.



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