I was just reading about a Frenchman called Andre Pujom, who discovered that his name was an anagram for "pendu a Riom" (i.e. hanged at Riom).
He thought that this meant that his fate was to be hanged at Riom, a town in Auvergne, and he didn't help matters much by travelling to Riom and committing a murder.
Sure enough, he did get hanged at Riom.
Postscript: While writing this, I was a bit peturbed to realise that my own name is an anagram for " Horribly mangled by a combine harvester in a village near Ipswich".
Should I go to Ipswich? It's tempting. I do have some cheap railway ticket vouchers and it is harvest time.
I'll think about it.
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I've just realised - Andre Pujom isn't a true anagram of 'pendu a Riom'.
He had to change the j to an i to make it fit.
Was it really worth getting hung for? I don't think so.
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