Sunday, May 08, 2005

Apology to Craig

----for making him work way too hard. What I meant to say was 'acronym'. I'm not 100% sure I can even blame the cold meds for that one. oops! sorry!

1 comment:

  1. Hah!

    That is too funny. I love it! The implied acronym is cute, too, by the way.

    I discovered that lots of people had anagram generators on their web sites, but most of them are limited to 25 character phrases, because CPU usage goes up ferociously with number of characters. So I installed "wordplay", an anagram generator that comes with my Linux distribution.

    There are 2758 recognised words that can be made with the letters in the phrase "First Incident Concerning the Influence of Neil", starting with:

    0. I
    1. HI
    2. IS
    3. SO
    4. OF
    5. HO
    6. IT
    7. I'D
    8. TO
    9. US

    through

    1704. OFFEND
    1705. NEURON
    1706. CUTLET
    1707. FLEECE
    1708. DEFINE

    finally to

    2752. HELIOCENTRIC
    2753. INDISCRETION
    2754. LIECHTENSTEIN
    2755. HETEROGENEOUS
    2756. EIGENFUNCTION
    2757. DECONTROLLING
    2758. TELECONFERENCE

    And many tens of thousands of anagrams:

    14973. ECLECTIC INFLECT INDIFFERENT NEON GINN NOURISH
    14974. ECLECTIC INFLECT INDIFFERENT EON ONRUSHING INN
    14975. ECLECTIC INFLECT INDIFFERENT ONE ONRUSHING INN

    I have to admit, it was an interesting challenge. Similar to some of the professional ones that I've had; and some of those haven't been tractable either.

    But I learned several things that I didn't know, and that's what counts. After all, the journey is often as at least as important as the destination. :-)

    Thanks Lisa.

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