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Okay, so the anagram from Monday's comic has still not been solved, so I thought I'd give a few clues before letting it stand for ALL ETERNITY:

• All words in the solution are dictionary words.
• What's more, all words in the solution are in the Jadrian's awesome Qwantz Corpus!
• The solution is natural-sounding, reasonably-grammatical dialogue that T-Rex would say, using phrasing that T-Rex would use.
• The punctuation :,!! is in the solution, in that order!
• The longest word in the solution is 11 characters long.
• The solution does not refer to anagrams or puzzles or winning t-shirts.
• However, what T-Rex is saying is directly related to the content of the comic the puzzle appears in.
• The letters given are case-sensitive!
• The first word of the solution is "I".
• I tested out Joel's puzzle-solving tool and it does let you know that the correct answer works!

Also linked on Joel's page are some brute-force scripts and even a branch-and-bound solver (awesome!), but the solution is long enough to make pure brute force not really feasable. You'll have to use your head.

I think that's pretty much it! Some of these clues I'd posted on Twitter or hinted at, but now they are explicit! And there's a few new pieces of information there too.

Since this puzzle has gone unsolved for three days, the prize is now two t-shirts AND an adorable T-Rex Squishable!

– Ryan