Can’t stop myself. Here’s my anagram map of Metrorail, Washington’s subway. Wherever possible, I tried to tailor the anagrams to the specific place or a general Washington, DC sort of commentary. For example, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport becomes “Ghost Nonagenarian Drawl, Irrational to Nap.”
By popular demand, you can pick up a shirt with the station list at Cafepress.
(See also the Santa Clara VTA Map.)
It was only a matter of time before somebody got around to ours!
Nice job, I was waiting for the DC map. Hopefully they don’t sue!
Excellent. I kept thinking I should do a DC one, but kept telling myself that someone else would get to it first and do it better. And here we are. Thumbs up.
I was working on my own- but yours is amazing.
suggestion: Farragut West = A War gets turf
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Brilliant, Jon! I completely missed that one, and it fits the whole DC-based thing perfectly! I’m amending the map with your winner.
I had one in progress, and I’m simply amazed at the places where the anagrams we came up with are *identical*. “Relax, Diana.” “Ball Mounts.” “Robot Wink.” “Lick Lover.”
I had the Beltway as “Wail, Batty Place,” which is accurate but not as good as your “Twice, Palatably.” And my Farragut West was “Frustrate Wag.”
In any case, I bow in humility before the brilliance of your airport name. 😀
I, too, was working on my own — fearing that someone would finish first. And sure enough — you did! Brilliant!
Others that I had on mine which I was fond of:
Shaved Orgy
A Licensed Term
Perished Fish Night
Erect Mentor
Rogue Folk Clamped
Ciao Satan
Landscaper Firing Info
Nation’s Shim
Crafted Newsreel
Holocaust Pit (!!)
Androgen Bin
Ann Colder (I know, it’s spelled wrong. But the pun is funny nonetheless)
Drum Girlfriend Online.
Great work!
— S
Damn, you finished first! Oh well, I shall continue work, since my anagrams are clearly superior
I’m slightly concerned about your thigh obsession.
Excellent — please start selling station t-shirts.
Nice work! (Rats! I was hoping to do one for DC but ya beat me to it.)
I second WFY about the t-shirts. I want one!
Brilliant! As a DC ex-pat who had to deal with the construction of the system and commuted on it for many years, I must say your map beats the real thing.
And, it was outed today in Gene Weingarten’s Tuesday chat on The Washington Post’s online edition. (search “anagram”)
Gene Weingarten of the Washington Post listed this link. The author is either seriously disturbed or brilliant or both! Congratulations!
Gene, your map got picked up in today’s Express (the Post’s free daily)!
I tried to extract just the relevant page into a separate PDF, but I think the file is protected or some such, so here’s a link to the whole 12.7 MB issue. From the “Lookout Weekend” insert, p. E2 (or p. 46 of the PDF):
Hmm… I don’t know if such notoriety is good or bad… any day now, I feel certain that Metro will be serving cease and desist letters…
Okay, I give in — there are now t-shirts available at http://www.cafepress.com/genecowan … the Metro map is copyrighted by WMATA, so I can’t sell that. But I made a design that I hope is acceptable.
obsessed much with the district? we really would welcome you back. -w
Heh! Well, I first did a map for the San Jose light rail system, but no one much seems to care. Not surprising, as I’ve never seen more than 5 or 6 people on a train at a time here.