Filed under: Text, Time-Wasters, Web
Best Name Anagram - what's yours?
by Jason Clarke Sep 15th 2009 at 4:00PM
Do you remember learning what an anagram was in school, then spending countless hours trying to figure out what your name could be an anagram for? And if I do, does that make me an incredible nerd?
Okay, so now that confession time is over, I have one more thing to confess. I was never able to come up with anagrams that were any good for my name, and it turns out that there's a pretty fantastic one. How did I find it? Best Name Anagram is a simple web app that takes text input of any kind, and determines what the best anagram is that can be created using those letters. It seems to favor resulting anagrams comprised of longer words, but some names, like Download Squad, don't really have a great resulting anagram.
I probably had a little too much fun punching in my family's names, and then friends and co-worker's names. They say simple things amuse simple minds, and I can't really argue that fact.
Oh, and what does my name come out as? The not-at-all-embarrassing-I'm-totally-cool-with-it-no-really CARNAL JOKES. Nice eh?
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Grant Robertson said 1:27PM on 9-15-2009
My full name comes out to "STRONG OF TERROR'S BANTER"
Which is what I would insist that you all refer to me as until further notice.
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kojo87 said 4:26PM on 9-15-2009
i got "SLOW KILIJ"
might be my new gamer tag
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ParDema said 4:26PM on 9-15-2009
"BUCK 'N' TIT" pretty awesome
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batmanclock said 4:40PM on 9-15-2009
SPHINCTER HATING HORROR
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Christian said 5:13PM on 9-15-2009
what kind of name do you have sir?!
mine was Chilling Treason...
DarthNinja said 4:47PM on 9-15-2009
Cocaine Blower >.>
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markcleofe said 4:44PM on 9-15-2009
"female cork"
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pig armik said 4:53PM on 9-15-2009
Makin' Anal Hair Vodka
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Alex M said 5:10PM on 9-15-2009
EXAM ON ROLE
or
REJOINDER OR ZEALOUS ORNAMENT
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Christian said 5:15PM on 9-15-2009
wait a minute.... I felt like I got scammed into doing a facebook app....
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blaszta said 11:41PM on 9-15-2009
On second thought. yes, I think it's a FB app :-(
cms64 said 6:37PM on 9-15-2009
Mine's O MY! CHRIST
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cms64 said 6:39PM on 9-15-2009
Britney Spears is BEST PR IN YEARS hahaha.
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Delphinus said 9:16PM on 9-15-2009
Steve Jobs: JOVE'S BEST (Jove, being the King of all other Gods)
Bill Gates: LEGAL BITS
William Gates: I'M A GIT AS WELL
>.>
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Zaven said 9:40PM on 9-15-2009
I'M AN ANT KAZAN
That's just the last name. Including the first didn't actually come up with anything.
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andrewmck said 9:50PM on 9-15-2009
George Walker Bush: BLUSH, WAR GEEK OGRE
William Jefferson Clinton: JILTS NICE WOMEN. IN FOR FALL
uncanny....
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blaszta said 11:39PM on 9-15-2009
I AM A HAZARD
hahhaha cool! :-P
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Taylor Kemp said 2:31AM on 9-16-2009
Mine is PORKY METAL
HELLO KITTY = KILL THE TOY
ENGADGET AUTOBLOG DOWNLOAD SQUAD = GOOD GOD! NOW SQUATTED LAUDABLE NAG
INTERNET EXPLORER = INTENT: EXPEL ERROR
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bridawg said 5:00AM on 9-16-2009
Mine's "Strange Brain"
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Wil said 5:49AM on 9-16-2009
I'M ELITE AS WELL
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