From Newsgroup: sci.lang
On 05/08/25 20:06, Richard Heathfield wrote:
On 05/08/2025 10:57, Pimpom wrote:
On 05-08-2025 05:44 am, HenHanna@NewsGrouper wrote:
This word has 10 letters. namely: 1234567890
Those are digits, not letters.
1234 - carries heredity 456 - is a period of time 567 - is a
pest and 890 - is a charged particle
What is the word?
Trivial.
Here are some clues:
[snip long list]
It's impressive how many anagrams one can find of a moderately long
word. I'm put in mind of an incident from my past. A colleague had been
hired as a lecturer before he had submitted his PhD thesis. This can be
done if the interview committee is convinced that the PhD is not far
away, but it puts pressure on the person to finish the job.
My colleague put in many long nights writing up the thesis. One day we
arrived to discover that he'd taken the day off, leaving a big note on
his office door saying "It's finished". I printed a number of copies of
that message in the same font and size, and then reassembled them,
ransom note style, with scissors and tape. I then plastered his office
door with lots of messages like "dis fine shit fIts in shed".
After realising how many anagrams I could find I wrote a poem, several
pages long, where every line was an anagram of "it's finished". It even
made some sort of sense.
That work of art is now lost.
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Peter Moylan
peter@pmoylan.org http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW
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