Would it be in bad taste to quote Russell Howard's anagram for Osama Bin Laden? "Lob da man in sea," with regards to his Muslim burial in the ocean.
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Really? I'll say he kind of earn that hatred...
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Whether it's deserved, bad taste, and/or something else is up for debate. However, it's not an example anyway (and some other things in the Real Life folder need removing), because it's not intentionally an anagram of that, he was not given his name for the sake of that anagram, etc..
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
"Not intentionally"... I'm not sure. The anagram itself is an intention anagram of the original word by those standards. Plus anagrams like that are sometimes used as nicknames.
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Anna Gigmark?
Consider some of the anagrams employed by Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, the author of the German classic with a very long title. It is often referred to in English as Diary of a Simpleton, or in many languages by the Latin name Simplex Simplicissimus.
Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen alias 1. Melchior Sternfels von Fugshaim alias 2. Erich Stainfels von Greifensholm alias 3. Simon Lenfrisch von Hartenfels alias 4. Samuel Greifensohn von Hirschfelt alias 5. Israel Fromschmit von Hugenfels alias 6. Michael Reghulin von Sehmstorr alias 7. Signeur Messmahl alias 8. German Schleifheim von Sulsfor
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I think that we could use a panel from a comic: I remember several years ago seeing a comic where the characters were using anagrams, and one of them created an anagram for 'dog' and 'god' and the last panel had a dog peeing on a fire hydrant nearby and the characters saying "I always knew they knew more than they let on." I think it was Red and Rover, or something like that, but I can't find it. But I think it would work for it.
Am I missing something about the page image / video example? This trope is about the use of anagrams to conceal specific information from inattentive viewers (including inside jokes). It's not about anagrams generally. "Dry Banana Hippy Hat" doesn't seem to fit the "significant" part of the trope.