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Wordsmith contest results

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Home | Contests | Stories | Numbers | Contact Messages Received 25 Years of Wordsmith.org CONTESTS RESULTS Thanks to everyone for participating: contestants for taking part in the contests, judges for judging the entries, prize sponsors for sponsoring the prizes, and most of all, you, readers for being here! Here are the winners and honorable mentions. Congrats to everyone for participating! LIMERICKS First Prize: Martin Eiger, Montville, New Jersey (martineiger gmail.com) We were facing the dread Y2K. I went into hiding that day. I look back, nineteen years, At my worries and fears. If it’s safe to come out now, I may. Second Prizes: Madeleine Begun Kane, Queens, New York (madkane madkane.com) A Limerick Ode To GOP Hypocrisy: Just imagine the sturm and the drama, If a Dem such as Ex-Prez Obama Retained someone to fix All his problems with chicks. How the GOP’d feast on such trauma! But with Donald, who cares? No big deal! From supporters...
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https://wordsmith.org/25years/release.html FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE          Contact : Shana DeClercq Email: shana@wordsmith.org         Phone: 510-764-3595 (U.S. Pacific Time) Seattle-based Wordsmith.org , a Community of Wordlovers  in 171 Countries, Turns 25 Years Old In Polarizing Times, Readers Around the World Find Common Ground in a Love of Language [ Seattle, Washington  - March 7, 2019] What comes to mind when you think of Seattle? Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks? Seattle is also the home of an organization that reaches people in 171 countries and touches hundreds of thousands of people every day: Wordsmith.org. Thursday, March 14 marks 25 years since Anu Garg founded the now globally-beloved Wordsmith.org . From that first word through today, Wordsmith.org   has grown into an international community of subscribers, puzzlers, and contributors. Wordsm...
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The Anagram Times: The Anagram Times Q&A with Russ Atkinson WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2015 The Anagram Times Q&A with Russ Atkinson In his former life as an FBI agent, Russ Atkinson chased white collar criminals and rapists and everything in between. Now retired, he chases letters and tortures them until they cough up the anagrams he wants. Read on for a special Q&A with The Anagram Times's crime reporter Russ Atkinson. Q  How did you get into anagrams? A  I've always enjoyed wordplay, witty dialogue, puns, palindromes, etc. My interest in anagrams probably increased after I became active in the  American Cryptogram Association (ACA) in the 1970s. Many of the cipher types they use are transposition types, in essence anagrams of the entire plaintext, so anagramming is a useful skill for the ACA. In 2007 I served as ACA president in 2007-2008. But even before that, as early as high school, I enjoyed crosswords and acrostics. My mother subscribed t...
TIL That if you take all the letters from the word "wizard" and swap them with opposite letters (a->z, b->y), it spells wizard backwards. : todayilearned
Wow, Jim, you have a prolific brain, still going strong ! I fully enjoyed that endless creativity. My favorites:    Honorable mention for Poignancy: Spaghetti Western: ---- > Theatre Signs Wept Hercules the Great ------> Cheetahs Get Ruler Smart Genius --------> Mastering Us   Honorable mention for Humor: Tippling Nuns -----> Gulp Inn Pints Bum Wine -------> I numb we  (I wouldn't mind that party) Ultimate Happiness ------> A Miss Athlete Pinup  (smile) Mariel Hemingway --------> Why Manlier Image (?)  (To me, that's exceptionally funny.. your     "personal best" in humor) Honorable mention for the "so true" category: Heroin addict ---------> Diehard Tonic Greenwashing ----------> Naggers Whine and the all-time winner in my book: Extrasensory perception --------> A stoners epicenter proxy and the one that triggered an old memory : Wilt Chamberlain ---------> Balance Him Tw...
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Lauren Holtkamp - anagrams