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Where were you when you realized "elapse," "please" and "asleep" are anagrams? (Original Post)
Orrex
Jan 2018
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(52,286 posts)1. playing scrabble
Orrex
(63,219 posts)2. And I just learned that "Playing Scrabble" is an anagram of "A Crabby Spelling."
Orrex
(63,219 posts)7. Full disclosure: I cheated on that one
I fed it into an Anagram Generator and grabbed a funny result.
But I stumbled upon elapse/please/asleep years ago by accident.
SwissTony
(2,560 posts)3. Sitting in my chair at home...one minute ago. n/t
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)4. Having sex! 😢
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(52,286 posts)8. poorly, evidently
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)13. Apparently!
underpants
(182,861 posts)5. How does this Anna Graham person own words?
Orrex
(63,219 posts)9. She bought them with the profits from her cracker empire.
Iggo
(47,563 posts)10. Right here, right now. That's where.
mia
(8,361 posts)11. Here, and then went on to find a sapele.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)14. And where were you when . . .
You realized that beginning with the word "naive," you could remove each vowel, and rearrange the remaining four letters into homophones?
Leith
(7,813 posts)15. Sitting in My Desk Chair in the Loft
reading a post on DU in the Lounge forum.
withoutapaddle
(263 posts)16. after you did lol
withoutapaddle
(263 posts)17. wait, that was when.
you asked where. i need nap
Kristofer Bry
(175 posts)18. You just Told Me
And now, I will never sleep peacefully again. DAMN YOU!