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Wow everyone is doing it now, including Mike :)))
The way things are headed, our favorite web site will soon be renamed: "Behind the Name: the etymology, history and anargammatization of first names"

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Here are some goodies pinched from the OED:

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"Heaven descends into the Bowels of the Earth, and, to make up the Anagramm, the Graves open and the Dust ariseth." (Cleveland, 1659)

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"The Cabbalists among the Jews are professed anagrammists." (Chambers, 1727–51)

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"The practice of anagrammatism was by no means uncommon among the Greeks." (H. B. Wheatley, 1862)

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"Calvin anagrammatized his name, ‘Rabelaesius’ into Rabie Laesus [Afflicted with madness]." (1862 Macm. Mag. Nov. 23)

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"Louis XIII appointed the Provençal Thomas Billen to be his Royal Anagrammatist." (Southey Doctor clxxix.,1862)

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"Whatsoever he parrot (or if you will have it anagrammatically) prater-like twattles." (Charac., 1660)

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"The question put by Pilate to Jesus Christ: Quid est veritas? which anagrammatically makes, Est vir qui adest." (Chambers Cycl, 1751)

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