h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Got it -- you must be Bill Hargreaves!

And I'm Ron Rainbowsend!

Yes indeedy. Well spotted, that man. For I am he ... or he is me.

It was a Scottish colleague of mine who came up with the name. This was in the pre-PC days and he had a strange hobby which was to do anagrams of peoples' names by writing them out on paper and then cutting them up into individual letters and rearranging them until he was satisfied with the result. I think you'd have liked him.

Well now you have to decode Ron Rainbowsend into a much less . . . colourful name

I cannot tell a lie. I've already visited your homepage, Andrew, so I know what your real name is.

You could have let on! How unnecessarily honest of you!

I find Scrabble letters excellent for anagram making. My father, a successful businessman, was Howard Waterhouse Robinson, but was not exactly thrilled to be told that "We are born to honour his wads" was an anagram of that. He preferred the more anodyne "Horse at our window - nab horse"

I must try rescrambling my name. Maybe if I use all three names I'll come up with something totally new and interesting.

Have you tried http://wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html?

Thank you for that. I knew there must be an anagram generator somewhere on the web, I just hadn't looked for it.