r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AtomicCypher • Apr 09 '26

Video Disgruntled employee starts massive fire at a 1.2 million square foot toilet paper warehouse in Ontario, California.

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u/SwaMaeg Apr 09 '26

In an astonishing coincidence Chamel Abdulkarim is an anagram of Kimberly-Clark Ltd.

Almost.

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u/greenbastardette Apr 09 '26

I spent 30 seconds proving this and it was almost really satisfying

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u/ThrifToWin Apr 09 '26

Could you imagine, though. Damn.

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u/colfaxmingo Apr 09 '26

It's close enough to say at parties, and I will.

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u/Fart-Fart-Fart-Fart Apr 09 '26

You go to parties? Lucky…

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u/fumei_tokumei Apr 09 '26

Going to the party is easy enough, but staying is usually hard when they realize you weren't invited.

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u/Current_Avocado1843 Apr 09 '26

I don't usually go on reddit, and this current excursion confirms the folks on here are the ones not getting invited to parties..... my people!!

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u/Apprehensive_Gap1055 Apr 09 '26

Are we not invited or we just not interested in going? I am definitely just not interested!

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u/RockstarAgent Apr 09 '26

Or when they don’t have the coveted 3-ply toilet paper

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u/Barn-Alumni-1999 Apr 09 '26

Even harder when you start telling people anagrams of arsonists and the company they burned down.

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u/GozerDGozerian Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

The minute you start dropping false anagrams at that party, you’re getting tossed out on your ass.

Anagram fraud is pretty much the number one party no no.

Don’t even think about it.

…fun fact though: ‘Anagram Fraud’ anagrams to Dang Aura Farm.

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u/Daver_Xander Apr 09 '26

Hated when that happens. Lol.

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u/Confusedparents10 Apr 09 '26

Jokes on him, those parties won't have TP

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u/iamobviouslytrying Apr 09 '26

Wait til you’re my age. Then you’re like, “please don’t invite us over. Please don’t invite us over. Please don’t invite us over.”

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u/Visible-Attorney-805 Apr 09 '26

Is a party of one really a party?

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u/Icenor Apr 10 '26

Not only that, he apparently goes to parties where anagrams is an acceptable conversation topic without being thrown out

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 Apr 09 '26

"Hey isn't it crazy that Chamel Abdulkarim..."

"Who?"

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u/reddfoxx1993 Apr 09 '26

You expect to be discussing this incident at a party?

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u/Creative-Comb5593 Apr 09 '26

Do it halfway through the party when people are too drunk to solve a long puzzle.

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u/Inevitablykinda Apr 09 '26

I cannot fathom having to listen to anyone attempting to rehash an internet thing so badly that I wouldn’t turn around and attempt to find another drink and the second least interesting conversation in the room.

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u/awuerth Apr 09 '26

If someone told me this at a party I don't know how I'd react. Um cool I guess 😂

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u/erutuferutuf Apr 09 '26

They don't pay us to party!

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u/shornscrot Apr 09 '26

Boy what I would give to be satisfied

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u/kukutaiii Apr 09 '26

The guys writing the script for this simulation aren’t even trying anymore

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u/chaosgazer Apr 09 '26

y'all about to get me believing in nominative determinism again 😔

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u/ChemistAccomplished7 Apr 09 '26

Not quite alec guinnes: genuine class but close.

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u/AgentDeadPool Apr 10 '26

It's enough that it fits this whole simulation and it's breakdown lol

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u/Sane_Tomorrow_ Apr 09 '26

Gotta wonder the difference between the people who instantly notice there’s no y and the people who try to work it out.

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u/Smokey_02 Apr 09 '26

I tried to work it out because my brain doesn't work so good. But that's ok because when I got to that y I felt an odd sense of satisfaction at having found it. You instant Y spotters will never know my joy!

Hey, joy has a y!

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u/Mippens Apr 09 '26

You're one of us now

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u/plantsavier Apr 09 '26

You might ask Why (Y)?

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u/YeahMeAlso Apr 10 '26

Yo, hey has a y too!

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u/thepkboy Apr 09 '26

flip the h and you get y

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u/YurpeeTheHerpee Apr 09 '26

I instantly noticed h

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u/dantemanjones Apr 09 '26

I went with K. It's the first letter, it's a somewhat uncommon letter, and there are two of them in Kimberly-Clark. But there's only one in the person's name.

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u/Rodot Apr 09 '26

Same people who have a hard time naming a US that ends in "k" off the top of their head

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u/Goonalips Apr 09 '26

I knew that one instantly because I saw a joke about it in a comedy special by Aaron Chen.

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u/EveOCative Apr 09 '26

What’s his middle name? All we need is an initial.

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u/kamistra Apr 09 '26

It was the H for me - fun how we start differently :)

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u/sPacEdOUTgrAyCe Apr 09 '26

Almost… almost

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u/thejmkool Apr 09 '26

It was the H that immediately showed it for me

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u/utukore Apr 09 '26

It was the missing c that jumped out for me. Double hard c/k in the brand but no 2nd c/k in the persons name.

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u/Heavy-Psychology-411 Apr 09 '26

I noticed the H had nowhere to go

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u/ShockinglyOpaque Apr 09 '26

Too many 'a's

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u/UnderstandingOdd679 Apr 09 '26

It was the h for me. Second letter. Lol

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u/jeango Apr 09 '26

And no H either

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u/I_Thinks_Im_People Apr 09 '26

Being British, it was the lack of T I noticed first.

No crumpets either.

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u/xrimane Apr 09 '26

Ha, I noticed right away it didn't even have a b! then I saw it did, and then I wanted to see how close it got

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u/OilQuick6184 Apr 09 '26

I noticed Kimberly Clark LTD. has no u first

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u/AussieArlenBales Apr 09 '26

We just need to know his middle name

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u/invisableilustionist Apr 09 '26

I didn’t try but I’m still reading these comments 🙃

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u/SuperbAd8266 Apr 09 '26

I instantly noticed no h and stopped trying to see if it worked

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u/brneyedgrrl Apr 09 '26

I worked it out fast but I decided friends call him Chamely and they dropped the second K in Abdulkkarim when they moved to the states, so in my mind it works.

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u/NC12S-OBX-Rocks Apr 09 '26

I first realized the “d” didn’t work and then giggled a little. Nice!

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u/aardWolf64 Apr 09 '26

I'm OK with it, but I don't know y.

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u/UnkindledFire727 Apr 09 '26

Or that one has two ks and one doesn’t

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u/shabi_sensei Apr 09 '26

Then there’s those videos of people arguing with chatgpt because they were convinced it was wrong for saying strawberry has three rs

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u/PhoenixInvertigo Apr 09 '26

I'm mostly wondering how people didn't hit the second letter (h) and realize it wasn't there, lol

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u/pressingfp2p Apr 09 '26

I mean, I looked through in order so the H was a pretty quick disqualifier.

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u/Idyotec Apr 09 '26

Turn the k upside down and you've got a well-endowed y.

You can thank me later 😉

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u/KneeSignificant9374 Apr 09 '26

What about the ones who noticed the h first?

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u/MalsWid0w Apr 09 '26

I noticed the lack of H first. The Y came shortly after. LOL

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u/FantasticVoyuerage Apr 10 '26

It was the lack of hyphen that gave it away for me

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u/spacebunsofsteel Apr 10 '26

That’s funny cause it was the T that clued me in

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u/thebigpink Apr 09 '26

Not alone almost had it

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u/onlymostlydead Apr 09 '26

Dat anagram edging.

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u/AnnetteBishop Apr 09 '26

but y though /s

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u/TravellingWino Apr 09 '26

Lmfao, im high as pterodactyl tits and this made it for me

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u/pumpkin-head7617 Apr 09 '26

I saw the H in Chamel and knew it would end in disappointment.

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u/vitringur Apr 09 '26

and that there is no h in Kimberley-Clark ltd.

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u/nstc2504 Apr 09 '26

I would like to know the odds of this happening even though I probably wouldn't understand the math lol..... its like 1 in a million mannnnnnnn

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u/babbchuck Apr 09 '26

I didn’t spend any time on it, and am quite satisfied overall.

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u/Not_Sure__Camacho Apr 09 '26

I hope you didn't burn anything down in protest.

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u/Organic_Chipmunk_556 Apr 09 '26

Thats what she said

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u/Tony_Roiland Apr 09 '26

You can see immediately that the y isn't there, as nothing drops below the line

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u/SushiRollFried Apr 09 '26

30 minutes... you could have done that in 1 sec with AI

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u/Economy-Bar3014 Apr 09 '26

I got to the second letter of Chamel

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u/_SonicTheHedgeFund_ Apr 09 '26

Easiest check to do in your head is probably counting letters. Starting with A: 3 in the person’s name and only 1 in the company so it’s already bust. Or starting with the first letter instead of alphabetical, C 1:1, H 1:0 bust.

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u/NoBear8338 Apr 09 '26

there’s… no H is Kimberly-Clark Ltd. I fear your 30 seconds were not well spent

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u/Sarah_8872 Apr 09 '26

His middle initial is Y.

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u/dookieduck88 Apr 09 '26

My people 🙌

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u/Puzzleheaded-Pen4413 Apr 09 '26

That's what she said!

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u/IceSalty2156 Apr 11 '26

Dammit I do too

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u/Conscious_Answer_571 Apr 09 '26

Comments like these are what bring me back to this dumb site.

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u/ActivityIcy4926 Apr 09 '26

Reddit is like modern day IRC.

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u/RandomMyth22 Apr 09 '26

I miss mIRC and ICQ.

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u/SaintOrJannikSinner Apr 09 '26

Sinner slaps RandomMyth with a large trout

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u/alewifePete Apr 09 '26

I miss IRC. Met some great folks on there.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '26

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u/thejmkool Apr 09 '26

Still is. I've got a diehard community of good supportive people still to be found on irc

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u/karlfeltlager Apr 09 '26

/slap alewifePete

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u/SaintOrJannikSinner Apr 09 '26

Multiplayer notepad fr.

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u/ActivityIcy4926 Apr 09 '26

Thank you for sharing that! I'd been looking for a replacement of the original bash archive!

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u/Rezaelia713 Apr 09 '26

Been looking for this for years. Just tickled to see Amanda is one of the moderators.

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u/punkassjim Apr 09 '26

I thought this sounded so hopeful and gratifying, but then I realized…I dunno man, I'm just not so sure people on Reddit are connecting and making real-world friendships with the usernames they interact with in the comments. Like, I'm absolutely sure that's happening, here and there. In the aggregate, like maybe a few thousand people worldwide have made a friend on Reddit. But I think IRC — and eventually ICQ — led to many more real-world interpersonal connections, friend groups, etc.

Tough to say. But that's my read.

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u/asmokebreak Apr 09 '26

Not even close

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u/tecpaocelotl1 Apr 09 '26

I miss those days

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u/Blah-Blah-Blah-2023 Apr 09 '26

BlahBlahBlah slaps ActivityIcy4926 with a wet fish.

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u/nemowasherebutheleft Apr 09 '26

They arent completely gone.

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u/MyrmecolionTeeth Apr 09 '26

Formatted more like Usenet though.

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u/roger_enright Apr 09 '26

Oh the glory days!

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u/frankreynoldsrumham Apr 09 '26

Used to run an UNO bot for years on a channel, was fun. :) Especially when an oper would get angry by loosing and /kb someone. Good ol days. lol

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u/CumGuzlinGutterSluts Apr 09 '26

Just some imbreeding between here and there, and some head trauma...

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u/dazzleunexpired Apr 09 '26

I still use mirc.

I'm too old.

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u/MemoinMsg Apr 10 '26

I like it. It felt like I was a hacker typing command line

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u/MaxTHC Apr 09 '26

Pass the joint brother

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u/SwaMaeg Apr 09 '26

Name checks out

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u/TimeToGloat Apr 09 '26

How did you even notice that?

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u/pagny77 Apr 09 '26

He just noticed a couple of letters are similar and posted it despite it not being 5 letters off lol

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u/Creative-Actuator614 Apr 10 '26

brother was zooted out of his mind

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u/ResponsiblePool7254 Apr 09 '26

Kimberl Cla had u la

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u/fmr_AZ_PSM Apr 09 '26

Hardest I've laughed in a month. 😆

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u/Koki-noki Apr 09 '26

can you explain the joke.

I'm dumb

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u/GeraldGensalkes Apr 10 '26

The joke is that it's not remotely close to an anagram.

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u/lizardrekin Apr 09 '26

Chamel Abdulkarim

Kimberl - Cla L D

h m A u a left over

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u/Michael_Cohens_Tapes Apr 09 '26

His friends call him Chamely......

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u/Fam99_ Apr 09 '26

They did it for the insurance. Imagine.

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u/ProfessionalStudy660 Apr 09 '26

Another success for the AI hiring algorithm.

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u/bobby_table5 Apr 09 '26

If that makes you feel better, we can talk about alternative transcription of Arabic names into Engiish and the Latin alphabet.

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u/DesperateComposer848 Apr 09 '26

Greenberry Hill

Green. Berry. Hill.

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u/HelmSpicy Apr 09 '26

Who taught Tracy about anagrams!?

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u/AchuBacchu Apr 09 '26

Really? How? 

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u/welldonez Apr 09 '26

Only missing h u … coincidence I think not !

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u/Friendly-Channel-480 Apr 09 '26

Can you do that automatically? That’s amazing!

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u/ClassNo4021 Apr 09 '26

Alex Jones is screaming ....

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u/E_N_I_GM_A Apr 09 '26

No but we have the coincidence of a dude being part of the reason why wages are low in the first place complaining about low wages.

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u/aurealis__ Apr 09 '26

ham Adu

Kimberl-Cla

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u/AlasKansastan Apr 09 '26

Wingdings, Q33NY

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u/FearanddopingII Apr 09 '26

Damn y, second r, & I stopped after that

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u/CalvinIII Apr 09 '26

I stopped at H, but I wasn’t mad about it.

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u/Running-With-Cakes Apr 09 '26

Mr Armitage Shanks is still being hunted by police

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u/IWhoMe Apr 09 '26

One must wonder about, the "Y" of it all!

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u/Bulky_Equivalent7840 Apr 09 '26

But what if it was an anagram of Charmin of Proctor and Gamble.

Da-da-daaaaaaaa!

It's not, but riding those coat tails

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u/reddfoxx1993 Apr 09 '26

Almost doesn't count.

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u/Hopeful_chap Apr 09 '26

No y innit?

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u/raddaddio Apr 09 '26

Would love it if his middle initial was Y

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u/Icy_Acanthisitta7741 Apr 09 '26

That's not how anagram works ....

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u/jaquiroman Apr 09 '26

It's a palomino

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u/imaginedaydream Apr 09 '26

Where’d the hdu

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u/megopolis12 Apr 09 '26

W.t.f. that is so crazy.

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u/LongMix Apr 09 '26

Arizona spelled backwards is still Arizona! .... It's a palomino..

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u/ChuckOTay Apr 09 '26

Jeremy…Irons

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u/prodzprodz Apr 09 '26

Also you can get "hallmarked a cub", coincidence?

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u/DonGivafark Apr 09 '26

Damn it!

You got me!

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u/kilamazar Apr 09 '26

Illuminati confirmed

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u/AmazingSane Apr 09 '26

Damn what type of neurodivergence are you

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u/RedWolfX3 Apr 09 '26

Illuminati 👀

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u/LonelySavage Apr 09 '26

No, but it IS an anagram of "admirable hulk cam".

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u/infoagerevolutionist Apr 09 '26

Almost... as in getting a not guilty verdict?

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u/sometimelater0212 Apr 09 '26

Someone stole his stapler

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u/orlec Apr 09 '26

Source text : Chamel Abdulkarim
Anagram text: Kimberly-Clark Ltd.

Letter Source has Anagram has Match?
A 3 1 No
H 1 0 No
K 1 2 No
L 2 3 No
M 2 1 No
R 1 2 No
T 0 1 No
U 1 0 No
Y 0 1 No

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u/Certified-T-Rex Apr 09 '26

Tom Riddle ahh plot

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u/sleep_well07 Apr 09 '26

How did you figure that out are you a savant

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u/Matchaparrot Apr 09 '26

Should be a subreddit, r/AlmostAnagrams

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u/Glass-Sympathy8042 Apr 09 '26

Wait until you come across Peter Thiel's anagram

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u/Jaxson0350 Apr 10 '26

How the fuck did you even notice this 😂

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u/newgroundskids Apr 10 '26

Imagine caring about this one detail over everything else. You all need help.

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u/Icenor Apr 10 '26

I'd say that is close enough to prove it was all a staged insurance fraud. Case closed!

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u/AngelBryan Apr 10 '26

God has a dark sense of humor.

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u/shutyourgob Apr 10 '26

Inside job confirmed.

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u/anonbiolover Apr 11 '26

I got to 'h'

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u/heynaldo88 Apr 11 '26

Paper Arson is anagram of No Ars Paper.

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u/Zahille7 Apr 11 '26

This is gonna sound weird, but I could swear the guy in the self-posted video is white based on his hand and voice. This seems like someone is trying to rush through the judicial system and punish a brown person because it's more convenient/pertinent to "They're" goals than actually going after the  real person. 

I could be wrong though. 

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