Today I Have Nothing To Say, So Here Is a List of Anagrams for “I Have Nothing To Say”
Posted on August 22, 2009 Posted by John Scalzi 32 Comments
You’re welcome:
A Heaving Shiny Toot
Gainsay The Hot Vino
Aghast Vein Oho Tiny
A Yeshivah Toting On
Vagina Shine Toothy
Hyaena Voting Hoist
A Heavy Shooting Tin
Avian Eying Hotshot
Vintage Yahoo Thins
Shanghai One Ivy Tot
One of those must, *must*, be the title of the next compendium of Whatever posts.
I favor “Vintage Yahoo Thins”, myself.
I would suspect “A Heaving Shiny Toot” would be more appropriate.
Oh, surely it’d be “Vagina’s Toothy Shine”…
— Steve
Thanks for sharing
Afghan Shrinks Rot
His Fragrant Honks
Hangar Froth Skins
Saran Frights Honk
Franking Hash Sort
Rafting Shanks Rho
You know some of these could be Mistborn street slang. Are you completely sure you and Sanderson are not the same person?
Fish:
Yes.
A molten gnomish antimacassar.
Ever thought it might be time to get on and tidy the office, John?
“Gainsay The Hot Vino” echoes Kesey’s “Sometimes a Great Notion,” at least in number of syllables.
Entry bookmarked as “Candidates for next ‘Rock Band’ name.”
You really are delightfully odd, you know.
That’s a fine entry, Jail Schnoz!
Lam Volley,
Jail Uvulas Nil
You have been saving this entry for some time, haven’t you? Just waiting for the time when you needed a filler entry.
In order to rrrrAISE the intellectual level of this program* , let’s see what nonno Latino (Grandfather Latin) has for us.
“Habeo nihil dicere” gives:
Diabolic Herein He (shades of YHMMBG?)
Bleach Iodine Heir
A Herbicide Hen Oil
A Bionic Hired Heel
Cab Hide Heroin Lei
Hi Beach Elder Lion
*Props to 1st season Muppet show for that phraseology.
Surely Allium’s anagrams should all have been in Latin. Now that would be worth seeing.
Any anagram for “Way too much time on my hands?”
If you haven’t seen it, you might want to check out how Mary Robinette Kowal got ripped off by Fundable.com. The story has hit Boing Boing, is being re-Tweeted, and definitely has legs.
I remember being at the joint reading you and she did at Denvention, unknowingly watching a historical event (the incumbent Campbell Award winner and the next winner of that same award). She seemed nice; I was sorry to hear she got ripped off by these people. And I hope they get sued right into the ground, if not thrown in jail.
Erbo, if you’ll look to the right you’ll see I’ve posted about it on the Whateverettes.
Since you are just sitting there bored, this might be a good time to figure out a way to give some of that enormous stack of extra books to some of your faithful (although virtual) entourage.
Cassias Lazily Limn
Lazy Mini Sis Callas
Salami Ass Zinc Lily
Alias Miss Ally Zinc
Lama Lazily Sics Sin
Lilac Ails Zany Miss
Scam Lazily Sails In
@15
Vickyuk.
You. WRETCH.
You know I’ve got loads of overtime this weekend and the crops are about to come in and there’s Burning Man to get ready for and the cat threw a piston rod and Betelgeuse is fixing to blow and Yogg-Saron is squatting in Ulduar just LAUGHING at me for my failure to pwn him…
…and then you task me thus. Very well.
Habeo Nihil Dicere
Herbae id Heliconi
Stalks – “it” (first person neuter pronoun) – to/for Apollo’s sacred hill
Bene hodie rali hic
good – today – with thinness – here
Eho nec heri dilabi
Hi! (interjection*) – not – yesterday – to glide apart
And now, despite my exertions I will soldier on this night, confident in the knowledge that Divine Justice ensures your land will one day be consumed by the Kraken.
Yr. obedient servant.
A_______
* Both Plautus and Terrence used it so don’t start with me.
“A heaving shiny toot” sounds like an excellent new phrase in the style of “a flying rat’s arse.”. And more socially acceptable than my example.
You missed one:
Shag At Ohio Tin Envy
Allium-
ad supervacua sudatur! (Seneca Epistles 4.11)
I was right. It was worth seeing. Bravo and bless you. I will not quibble over Eho since it would mean approaching either Terrence or Plautus after I swore I never would again and because it would be churlish.
Kudos (as I believe the saying is.)
V.
“A Heaving Shiny Toot
Gainsay The Hot Vino
Aghast Vein Oho Tiny
A Yeshivah Toting On
Vagina Shine Toothy
Hyaena Voting Hoist
A Heavy Shooting Tin
Avian Eying Hotshot
Vintage Yahoo Thins
Shanghai One Ivy Tot”
Hmmm.
Sounds like the transcript of a Hugo(tm) acceptance speech one might give after too many servings of Gin and Coke Zero.
…there goes 12 more months of whatever-blockage on the Dayton Airport’s wireless.
Dayton’s airport actually has appeared to have dropped it’s “net nanny” software, which is nice. Otherwise, yeah.
Back when I was at the U. of C., I was screwing around on the computer and generated a bunch of anagrams for “University of Chicago”, and posted same on usenet somewhere. The school’s alumni magazine picked it up and ran selections of the list.
Some of my favorites were:
“Voice of Christian guy”, and
“O feat! Ivy is crouching!”
Nobody is going to try to figure out what my list at 20 are anagrams of?
I know the next time I’m in a fannish context and want to say I don’t care about something, I’m going to say that I don’t give a heaving, shiny toot.
And then, of course, say nothing more about it. Forgot to mention that part.
@Xopher:
Scalzi is a silly man
Henk: THANK you.