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Wilhelm Noeker
Apr 11, 2013, 10:07:23 AM4/11/13
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When in London, make sure to visit these tourist attractions:
- Smarter hive
- Only donee
- Debit grower
- Flood Row no. ten (= Don't fool owner!)
- Plug me in, hack a cab
- Famous piano shelter
- Captain, we feel storms!
- My tribes want bees
- Castrated phallus
- All bleary harlot
- Buses hit me, I'm hurt
- Angry lion ate all
- Two boys rave, hear one girl cry
- Sad? Amused? A must!
- Real quiet recess
- Grand sonnet in kegs
- Oh joy! Robins on Mars!
Well, the last one isn't really a tourist attraction, but kind of
belongs to the city anyway. ;-)
- Smarter hive
- Only donee
- Debit grower
- Flood Row no. ten (= Don't fool owner!)
- Plug me in, hack a cab
- Famous piano shelter
- Captain, we feel storms!
- My tribes want bees
- Castrated phallus
- All bleary harlot
- Buses hit me, I'm hurt
- Angry lion ate all
- Two boys rave, hear one girl cry
- Sad? Amused? A must!
- Real quiet recess
- Grand sonnet in kegs
- Oh joy! Robins on Mars!
Well, the last one isn't really a tourist attraction, but kind of
belongs to the city anyway. ;-)
Wilhelm Noeker
Apr 15, 2013, 8:40:58 AM4/15/13
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Wilhelm Noeker wrote:
> When in London, make sure to visit these tourist attractions:
>
[snip]
> When in London, make sure to visit these tourist attractions:
>
Too tough as a quiz, obviously. ;-)
Anyway, here's the solution:
River Thames = Smarter hive
London Eye = Only donee
Tower Bridge = Debit grower
Tower of London = Flood Row no. ten = Don't fool owner!
Buckingham Palace = Plug me in, hack a cab
Houses of Parliament = Famous piano shelter
Palace of Westminster = Captain, we feel storms!
Westminster Abbey = My tribes want bees
St Paul's Cathedral = Castrated phallus
Royal Albert Hall = All bleary harlot
The British Museum = Buses hit me, I'm hurt
National Gallery = Angry lion ate all
Royal Greenwich Observatory = Two boys rave, hear one girl cry
Madame Tussauds = Sad? Amused? A must!
Leicester Square = Real quiet recess
Kensington Gardens = Grand sonnet in kegs
Mayor Boris Johnson = Oh joy! Robins on Mars!
Lardy Girl
Apr 16, 2013, 11:47:50 AM4/16/13
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Wilhelm Noeker <wno...@t-online.de> wrote:
have worked them all out in time.
> Tower Bridge = Debit grower
I quite like this one.
> Houses of Parliament = Famous piano shelter
I'm not sure what image this conjures up, but it's a fairly surreal one.
They also do that scary 'professional EU math' here.
> Palace of Westminster = Captain, we feel storms!
those angry lions:
> National Gallery = Angry lion ate all
Another 'gram here is "Dada's at museum", which gives me images of
what waxworks in various artistic styles might look like - Thatcher as
done by Picasso, for example.
LG
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> Wilhelm Noeker wrote:
> Too tough as a quiz, obviously. ;-)
I only now had time to sit down and look at these. I'm not sure I'd
> Too tough as a quiz, obviously. ;-)
have worked them all out in time.
> Tower Bridge = Debit grower
> Houses of Parliament = Famous piano shelter
They also do that scary 'professional EU math' here.
> Palace of Westminster = Captain, we feel storms!
> St Paul's Cathedral = Castrated phallus
> The British Museum = Buses hit me, I'm hurt
These are also fun, but I think I am, for some reason, most partial to
those angry lions:
> National Gallery = Angry lion ate all
> Madame Tussauds = Sad? Amused? A must!
And this one works as a sensible anagram.
Another 'gram here is "Dada's at museum", which gives me images of
what waxworks in various artistic styles might look like - Thatcher as
done by Picasso, for example.
LG
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Wilhelm Noeker
Apr 22, 2013, 9:42:29 AM4/22/13
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Lardy Girl wrote:
> Wilhelm Noeker<wno...@t-online.de> wrote:
>
>> Tower Bridge = Debit grower
>
> I quite like this one.
Thanks!
>> Houses of Parliament = Famous piano shelter
>
> I'm not sure what image this conjures up, but it's a fairly surreal one.
Just a home for homeless pianos, you see? Erm... Well, yes, it IS surreal.
> They also do that scary 'professional EU math' here.
Nice. Must be part of their "shameful operations". (I hadn't heard that
one before, but of course it's old, apparently first posted by Donald L.
Holmes on anagramgenius.com, 1995).
>> Palace of Westminster = Captain, we feel storms!
>> St Paul's Cathedral = Castrated phallus
>> The British Museum = Buses hit me, I'm hurt
>
> These are also fun, but I think I am, for some reason, most partial to
> those angry lions:
>
>> National Gallery = Angry lion ate all
>
>> Madame Tussauds = Sad? Amused? A must!
>
> And this one works as a sensible anagram.
And I'll admit that most others in the set miss that mark.
I thought what I'd found for Leicester Square was at least a good
antigram, but it probably fails already at being a proper English
phrase. Sometimes it's kind of hard for me tell such subtleties from
across the language barrier.
> Another 'gram here is "Dada's at museum", which gives me images of
> what waxworks in various artistic styles might look like - Thatcher as
> done by Picasso, for example.
Ah, dadaism. I remember this painting by George Grosz in our history
textbook:
http://mydailyartdisplay.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/the-pillars-of-society-by-george-grosz-3/
After seeing that I decided that dada just might be not for me. :-)
> Wilhelm Noeker<wno...@t-online.de> wrote:
>
>> Tower Bridge = Debit grower
>
> I quite like this one.
>> Houses of Parliament = Famous piano shelter
>
> I'm not sure what image this conjures up, but it's a fairly surreal one.
> They also do that scary 'professional EU math' here.
one before, but of course it's old, apparently first posted by Donald L.
Holmes on anagramgenius.com, 1995).
>> Palace of Westminster = Captain, we feel storms!
>> St Paul's Cathedral = Castrated phallus
>> The British Museum = Buses hit me, I'm hurt
>
> These are also fun, but I think I am, for some reason, most partial to
> those angry lions:
>
>> National Gallery = Angry lion ate all
>
>> Madame Tussauds = Sad? Amused? A must!
>
> And this one works as a sensible anagram.
I thought what I'd found for Leicester Square was at least a good
antigram, but it probably fails already at being a proper English
phrase. Sometimes it's kind of hard for me tell such subtleties from
across the language barrier.
> Another 'gram here is "Dada's at museum", which gives me images of
> what waxworks in various artistic styles might look like - Thatcher as
> done by Picasso, for example.
textbook:
http://mydailyartdisplay.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/the-pillars-of-society-by-george-grosz-3/
After seeing that I decided that dada just might be not for me. :-)
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