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But if it's spelled more grammatically (CUTMYOWNTHROATDIBBLER) there's only an extra "L"... Rinelda Comb-Buttworthy? --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 19:09, 9 April 2011 (CEST) | But if it's spelled more grammatically (CUTMYOWNTHROATDIBBLER) there's only an extra "L"... Rinelda Comb-Buttworthy? --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 19:09, 9 April 2011 (CEST) | ||
I wonder why TP settled for Iradne Comb-Buttworthy when an anagram program provides so many | |||
complete alternatives. He got "millenium hand and shrimp" out of a computer before most of us | |||
had one, so it would be entirely in character. The internet provides thousands of anagrams with dozens suitable to authors' names, such as '''Rotunda Blert-Whitecomb''' for romance novels, '''Cordwainer Thumbbottle''' (quantum fiction), '''Trueborn Dalt Whitecombe''' (Rotunda's adventure-writing father) and more. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 21:30, 30 December 2012 (PST) | |||
==A (potential) Comedy of Errors== | ==A (potential) Comedy of Errors== | ||
Latest revision as of 05:30, 31 December 2012
The Anagram
IRADNE COMB BUTTWORTHY 20 letters
CUTME OWNTH ROATD IBBLE R 21 letters L, E, NO “Y”
The anagram almost works - Dibbler is left with an "E" and an "L" that can't go anywhere, and he needs a "Y". But by Ankh-Morpork speling stnadards, who'd notice? --AgProv 00:25, 14 January 2011 (CET)
I R A D N E C O M B B U T T W O R T H ... E L
But if it's spelled more grammatically (CUTMYOWNTHROATDIBBLER) there's only an extra "L"... Rinelda Comb-Buttworthy? --Old Dickens 19:09, 9 April 2011 (CEST)
I wonder why TP settled for Iradne Comb-Buttworthy when an anagram program provides so many complete alternatives. He got "millenium hand and shrimp" out of a computer before most of us had one, so it would be entirely in character. The internet provides thousands of anagrams with dozens suitable to authors' names, such as Rotunda Blert-Whitecomb for romance novels, Cordwainer Thumbbottle (quantum fiction), Trueborn Dalt Whitecombe (Rotunda's adventure-writing father) and more. --Old Dickens (talk) 21:30, 30 December 2012 (PST)
A (potential) Comedy of Errors
Quote: "step-grandmother of Princess Diana who wrote trashy romantic novels and always dressed in pink." This could be rather misconstrued, to the consternation of the worshippers at the cult of Diana ("the People's Princess" [VOMIT!]). If misread, the ideas are startling: whilst Lady Di was indeed seen in pink on occasion, the idea of her writing trashy novels boggles the mind somewhat.1 --Knmatt 22:15, 9 April 2011 (CEST)
1...although not so much as her writing a useful novel. --Old Dickens 01:04, 10 April 2011 (CEST)
Ambiguity fixed! --AgProv 22:48, 9 April 2011 (CEST)