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Thu 04 Apr 2007Rearrange these letters instead of your golf gameIt was a good while back that a golf-obsessed acquaintance sent an email that simply included the following line: "We thrifty Scot nobs couldnae land near flag!" We replied along the lines of: "Pardon?"It was an anagram, they told us, and our task was to work it out. There was, they assured us, a major clue in the anagram itself. Several hours later we thought we'd cracked it: "Softy twitcher snub canoodle fall and anger."