Monday, August 17, 2015

Word plays

published January 19, 2012
in the Stockton Sentinel
Stockton, Kansas

     I love word plays, but there's no way I could have come up with the following list. This is an interesting list of words that, when you rearrange the letters, form other words that are related to the first. If that doesn't make sense, you'll understand when you read the list. You'll also agree with me that someone, somewhere, has way too much spare time on their hands or is deadly at Scrabble. Go ahead and check to make sure, but each one correctly rearranges the letters.

          dormitory = dirty room
          astronomer = moon starer
          the eyes = they see
          desperation = a rope ends it
          the morse code = here come dots
          slot machines = cash lost in me
          animosity = is no amity
          election results = lies - let's recount
          snooze alarms = alas! no more z's
          a decimal point = I'm a dot in place
          the earthquakes = that queer shake
          eleven plus two = twelve plus one

     If you happen to come up with any others, let me know! And if you have the time to sit and work on something like this, let me know that, too, because I've got some things you could do for me in your spare time -- like taking down my Christmas tree, for starters!


               

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