the royal anagrammer

IF you are hopping mad that your tax dollars are funding some idiotic study on ugly little shrews in nevada that nobody cares about OR a permanent exhibit on adversity at the museum of woes and anguish THEN you will instantly sympathise with the good people of france who watched in frustration as their king established the position of royal anagrammer.

In the reign of Louis XIII, we find mention of Thomas Billon, an acute Provençal who enjoyed a pension of 1,200 livres as “Anagrammatist to the King.” 

yo, @president_obama, i am good with anagrams. pay me some tax dollars and give me a government pension and i will lampoon your enemies with anagrams of their own names. here is a free sample:

• jog in milk
• a sharp nail
• in a jaded ham