Ridiculous Christmas Themed Ding bat

Edward01 · 22 Dec 2010 at 23:22

Did a Christmas themed pub quiz tonight and one of the ding bats was the following. This is probably one of the most obscure ones I've ever heard, if anybody here gets it I'll be incredibly impressed.

TASANNATE

It is to do with Christmas.
Lets hear your answers, and I'll post the actual ones in a couple of hours.

(oh and it's not on Google, that's how obscure it is, so you can't cheat

)

SpeedFreak · 22 Dec 2010 at 23:33

answers plural?

Flare · 22 Dec 2010 at 23:34

Well done to you sir Edwyard01, upon google-ing TASANNATE your thread is the only result

Nitefly · 22 Dec 2010 at 23:37

All I can think is that the first 5 letters are santa jumbled and the last three are ate jumbled....

So 'santa and ate mixed up'.

Well it's a start

Amp34 · 22 Dec 2010 at 23:39

What is a Dingbat (in this sense)?

Are we looking for one word in that or as many words as possible? :confused:

Ghosteh · 22 Dec 2010 at 23:40

Nitefly said:
All I can think is that the first 5 letters are santa jumbled and the last three are ate jumbled....

So 'santa and ate mixed up'.

Well it's a start

There's 9 letters

.

nydryl · 22 Dec 2010 at 23:41

Ghosteh said:
There's 9 letters .

There are 9 letters

Ghosteh · 22 Dec 2010 at 23:42

nydryl said:
There are 9 letters

I'll blame the bad English on the Whiskey

. But yes, that is rather bad hah.

Nitefly · 23 Dec 2010 at 00:13

I meant the 'n' could be 'and', as in Guns n' Roses.

Bit of a stretch, obviously!

Edward01 · 23 Dec 2010 at 00:20

SpeedFreak said:
answers plural?

Single answer, my bad

orbspeed1 · 23 Dec 2010 at 00:26

Anagrams for: TASANNATE

Satan Neat
Satan Ante
A Satan Net
A Satan Ten
A Senna Tat
A Anent Sat
A Tenant As
A Antes Tan
A Antes Ant
A Neat Tans
A Neat Ants
A Ante Tans
A Ante Ants
Satan At En
Nae An Stat
Nae An Tats
Nae Tans At
Nae Ants At
Nae Tan Sat
Nae Ant Sat
Anent As At
Sane An Tat
Sane Tan At
Sane Ant At
Antes An At
Neat An Sat
Neat Tan As
Neat Ant As
Ante An Sat
Ante Tan As
Ante Ant As
Sea Tan Ant
Seat An Tan
Seat An Ant
Teas An Tan
Teas An Ant
Sate An Tan
Sate An Ant
Etas An Tan
Etas An Ant
East An Tan
East An Ant
Eats An Tan
Eats An Ant
Eat An Tans
Eat An Ants
Tea An Tans
Tea An Ants
Ate An Tans
Ate An Ants
Eta An Tans
Eta An Ants
A An Tan Set
A An Ant Set
A An As Nett
A An As Tent
A An Sat Net
A An Sat Ten
A An Stat En
A An Tats En
A An At Sent
A An At Tens
A An At Nest
A An At Nets
A An Tat Ens
A Tans At En
A Ants At En
A Tan As Net
A Tan As Ten
A Tan Sat En
A Tan At Ens
A Ant As Net
A Ant As Ten
A Ant Sat En
A Ant At Ens
An As At Net
An As At Ten
An As Tat En
An Sat At En
Tan As At En
Ant As At En

And im still none the wiser :confused:

Dinomania · 23 Dec 2010 at 00:26

I thought a dingbat was a series of pictures, like a rebus?

Nitefly · 23 Dec 2010 at 00:28

sara said:
I thought a dingbat was a series of pictures, like a rebus?

A dingbat is just a play on words, sometimes in picture form. For example:

S
H2O
I
P

Is watership down

Dazzy_G · 23 Dec 2010 at 00:31

Clearly you go to a higher standard of pub than I :|

Amp34 · 23 Dec 2010 at 00:33

Nitefly said:
A dingbat is just a play on words, sometimes in picture form. For example:

S
H2O
I
P

Is watership down

Ahhh! finally, ok I can now try and start working it out.

rypt · 23 Dec 2010 at 00:34

neat santa?

Nitefly · 23 Dec 2010 at 00:42

rypt said:
neat santa?

I think that's along the right lines... but it has to incorporate the fact it's jumbled up, and obviously be a 'famous phrase'.

Nitefly · 23 Dec 2010 at 00:46

Santa first tidy later?

rypt · 23 Dec 2010 at 00:50

Nitefly said:
I think that's along the right lines... but it has to incorporate the fact it's jumbled up, and obviously be a 'famous phrase'.

Neat Santa stole my cookies as he thought he was doing me a favour by searching through my whole house to find them, eat them and then claim that he was simply doing the cleaning

Edward01 · 23 Dec 2010 at 00:54

ok ok,

the answer is Frankincense

Can you work out why now?