Thursday, August 20, 2009

Don't let those nasal Moms push you around, Jerry

I was in bed not long ago, musing to some Swedish electronica (which is renowned for inducing revery) and true to form I eventually cast my mind quite vividly to something long forgotten: the first time I read Harry Potter. I'm no apotheosizing fan by any means, but the avid and perceptive reader of the series will remember well that the name Tom Marvolo Riddle = I Am Lord Voldemort. What a sweet anagram. <--- (a link for the uninformed.) Feeling inspired I leapt up, shirked my headphones, and endeavored for the ensuing eight minutes to produce a rippin' cool anagram for my name:

James Royal Rasmussen

I quickly discovered that I only had 7 unique consonants and 3 unique vowels in my name. Gay. Way to go, Mom and Dad. Obviously you didn't have obscure grammatical oddities in mind when you named me. I read the list of anagrams I had conjured from my name:

As nasal moms use Jerry.
O messy SARS; un-ajar meal.
A lass nears; Summer joy.

A sense of defeat slowly wrapped around me. My original plan was to create a name or a sentence that would strike fear into the hearts of men and women. Well I failed. The most foreboding and misanthropic of the three was about SARS and an un...ajar...meal? What the stupid. My anagram had the hoped intention of terror and a poignant sense of bĂȘte noir. Like the name Voldemort. What a cacophonous and scary name! The only name I was able to pull out was Jerry. Who is a fat kid that used to work with me at my phone support job. He had a perspiration problem.

I'll try at a later date to produce a better, more bloodcurdling anagram. In the meantime, I need to enhance my word-concocting prowess. Hello online scrabble. My name's James. I'm bad at anagrams. Let me shake your lexiconic, word-wielding hand. Pleasure to meet you, really.

2 comments:

  1. I didn't know your middle name was Royal. Hmmm. You're right, you don't have too many options, do you? Good luck with that; I'll be interested to see what you come up with.

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  2. Though, if it's any consolation, I'd bet you dimes to dollars that JK Rowling worked backwards from "I am Lord Voldemort" and made up the name she needed to make the anagram. But I have no proof of that.

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