Master Triton, Haitian Whale (Route 55)

On Boing Boing last week, I found something that really resonated with me. An anagram map. I love playing with photoshop, and I love doing anagrams. I will sometimes just see a word and know that there's a good anagram in there somewhere, and then I'll find it. I will often make anagrams of words I see while I'm driving somewhere. I turned Oldsmobile into "blood slime", Range Rover into "vegan error", and Pontiac Grand Am into "grandma caption". This kind of multi-tasking is maybe not the safest thing to do while driving, but it's much better than talking on a cell phone. The thing that I found on Boing Boing was a link to a subway map that someone had hacked by replacing all of the place names on it with anagram versions of them. I thought that the Twin Cities could use a good anagram map too. We don't have a subway system, but the new Metro Transit Hiawatha Line(route 55) map was ripe for the picking. I had a lot of fun making my own anagram map, and I present it here.

Just before posting this, I found out that someone had already created an anagrammized version of this same map. They took a different approach, which I think is still amusing, but much less useful overall. I chose to not include the word "station" in most of my anagrams, because if I'm driving and I see a sign for Franklin Avenue, I'll think "Vienna Faulkner", and if I'm walking around in Nicollet Mall, I'll think "Lancelot Mill". You don't see the word "station" with these places all the time. The other anagrammist chose to erase the things on the map which he didn't want to deal with, but I stuck it out and found a few more interesting ones. The University of Minnesota becomes the "vain, somniferous entity". Granted, I didn't feel that way about it very often, but there were some times when I certainly did. I hope you enjoy this map, get a good laugh, and also try some anagrams of your own. There are a lot of anagram resources on the web, such as the Internet Anagram Server, which I used for many of the anagrams on my map. If your input is long enough, it will usually produce an immense list of words which you will then have to sort through. Of course, there's a limit to the number of characters you can input; for longer anagrams, you'll need to do it the old-fashioned way. Happy anagramming!