anagrams for darwin day

The bicen­ten­nial of the birth of Charles Dar­win (on Feb­ru­ary 12, 1809) is approach­ing. How many other peo­ple have con­tributed more to our under­stand­ing of nat­ural his­tory? I say, it’s some­thing to celebrate!

Here are some botanical-themed ana­grams using the let­ters of his name. They were gen­er­ated using the Inter­net Ana­gram Server, a totally mag­nif­i­cent way to waste spend your wak­ing hours. (With 7974 ana­grams to choose from I’ve prob­a­bly missed a few other choice ones.)

The first one is so con­cise and poetic it makes haiku look verbose.

Larch rains dew

Larch aids wren

Earl wins chard

Lawn ires chard

Car: “I shred lawn”

…and last but not least:

Red lawn chairs

[ Image to the right from the Cedar Chair Store web­site ]


February 05 2009 05:55 am | Categories: gardening • rambles | Tags: • • •

5 Responses to “anagrams for darwin day”

  1. jodi on 05 Feb 2009 at 7:49 am #

    Oh, I enjoyed these! Of course, you real­ize to some, our good Dar­win is lit­tle bet­ter than the spawn-of-Satan for his the­o­ries. Yes, even to this day. Some, appar­ently, never evolve. ;-)

  2. Jim/ArtofGardening.org on 05 Feb 2009 at 10:36 am #

    I put in “Art of Gar­den­ing” and I found only one rel­e­vant ana­gram: Groaned Farting

  3. lostlandscape on 05 Feb 2009 at 7:14 pm #

    Jim, oh, groan…

    There are those occa­sional days when fin­ish­ing up a post can take some effort…

    Jodi, I’m glad you enjoyed them! I’m sur­prised that the reac­tion to Dar­win can be as vir­u­lent as it was 150 years ago. For me, though, he’s such a hero. I can’t imag­ine look­ing at the world with­out see­ing it through his eyes.

  4. Town Mouse on 05 Feb 2009 at 7:18 pm #

    Thanks! Now let’s hope it will really rain this week­end so I can play Ana­gram and won’t be tempted to go out in the gar­den… Never heard about that site! Very cool!

  5. lostlandscape on 05 Feb 2009 at 7:37 pm #

    Mouse, it’s rain­ing here, sortof. Hope­fully you get some up your way. Your plants could use it, and the gar­dener could stand some seri­ous ana­gram time. Try putting in the Latin names of your favorite plants or some­thing like that. Enjoy!

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