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Anagrams

An anagram is a word or phrase made by transposing or rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.

Dormitory = Dirty room
Evangelist = Evil's agent
Presbyterian - Best in prayer
The earth quakes = That queer shake
Alec Guinness = Genuine class
Desperation = A rope ends it
Semolina = Is no meal
Snooze alarms = Alas! No more zs.
The Morse Code = Here come dots
The eyes = They see
The Public Art Galleries = Large picture halls, I bet
Slot Machines = Cash lost in 'em
A Decimal Point = I'm a dot in place
Animosity = Is no amity
Eleven plus two = Twelve plus one
Contradiction = Accord not in it
George Bush = He bugs Gore
Election results = Lies let's recount
Astronomer = Moon starer

Thanks to Frances for this one:-

Mother-in-law = Woman Hitler

The longest one I know of:-

To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune."

And the Anagram:-

In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.

And finally:-

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind - Neil Armstrong

Becomes:-

A thin man ran; makes a large stride, left planet, pins flag on moon! On to mars!

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