Inheriting a more mature Mantle, who now has seen the sights on and off Broadway, Ralph Houk quietly bestowed, no pun intended, the mantle of authority on Mickey.

Abdul is a common Arabic name component ( but never a name by itself ; additionally the ending-ul and the beginning Al-are redundant ), but Alhazred may allude to Hazard, a pun on the book's destructive and dangerous nature, or a reference to Lovecraft's ancestors by that name.

It might also have been a pun on " all-has-read ", since Lovecraft was an avid reader in youth.

To this day, as a visual pun, a goat often appears on bock labels.

The goats on the label are a visual pun: ein bock means a billy goat.

" Omnes Omnibus " was a pun on the Latin sounding name of that hatter Omnès: omnes meaning " all " and omnibus means " for all " in Latin.

Rick Dees, at the time a radio DJ in Memphis, Tennessee, recorded " Disco Duck " ( 1976 ) and " Dis-Gorilla " ( 1977 ); Frank Zappa parodied the lifestyles of disco dancers in " Dancin ' Fool " on his 1979 Sheik Yerbouti album, and " Disco Boy " on his 1976 Zoot Allures album ; and " Weird Al " Yankovic's 1981 eponymous debut album includes a disco song called " Gotta Boogie ", an extended pun on the similarity of the disco subgenre name " boogie " to the American slang word " booger " and its British counterpart " bogey ".

Character-naming in Don Quixote makes ample figural use of contradiction, inversion, and irony, such as the names Rocinante ( a reversal ) and Dulcinea ( an allusion to illusion ), and the word itself, possibly a pun on ( jaw ) but certainly ( Catalan: thighs ), a reference to a horse's rump .< ref > quijote < sup > 1. 2 </ sup >: rump or haunch.

A daffynition ( derived from daffy and definition ) is a pun format involving the reinterpretation of an existing word, on the basis that it sounds like another word ( or group of words ).

The name " Dhrystone " is a pun on a different benchmark algorithm called Whetstone.

The Dhrystone benchmark contains no floating point operations, thus the name is a pun on the then-popular Whetstone benchmark for floating point operations.

The Big One " ( his appearance was meant to be a pun on Davy Jones ' Locker ).

Onesimus is described as having been " separated " from Philemon, once having been " useless " to him ( a pun on Onesimus's name, which means " useful "), and having done him wrong.

That Onesimus was a runaway slave could be suggested by the pun Paul makes on his name ( which means " useful "), stating that ( up until the time of Philemon receiving the letter ) Onesimus had been " useless " to Philemon.

The last one, Ninti ( Lady Rib ), is also a pun on Lady Life, a title of Ninhursag herself.

The group's name is an intended pun based not only on electric light ( as in a light bulb as seen on early album covers ) but also using " electric " rock instruments combined with a " light orchestra " ( orchestras with only a few cellos and violins that were popular in Britain during the 1960s ).

Fanzines are not exclusive to the top tiers of football however, with Northern Counties East League side Scarborough Athletic FC having a fanzine titled Abandon Chip !, a pun based on both the perilous situation of predecessor club Scarborough FC and that club's sponsors, McCain.

The name is a pun on the earlier Fortran IV.

The term thealogy is sometimes used in the context of the Neopagan Goddess movement, a pun on theology and thea θεά " goddess " intended to suggest a feminist approach to theism.

The German title of the book by Friedrich Nietzsche Twilight of the Idols, written in 1888 and published in 1889, is Götzen-Dämmerung, a pun on the title of Wagner's opera.

Unless canting arms incorporate an obvious pun on the bearer's name, it may be difficult to find meaning in them.

The Chasseurs are said to have green blood, after the pun: " Le sang vert, c ' est pour la France / Le sang versé pour la France " ( Green blood is for France / Blood shed for France ).

The name, a pun, sounds like the French phrase " Eros, c ' est la vie ", which translates to English as " eros, that's life ".

The title is Beckett's literal translation of the French phrase, comment c ' est ( how it is ), a pun on the French verb commencer or ' to begin '.

In medieval France, the language of the birds ( la langue des oiseaux ) was a secret language of the Troubadours, connected with the Tarot, allegedly based on puns and symbolism drawn from homophony, e. g. an inn called au lion d ' or " the Golden Lion " is allegedly " code " for au lit on dort " in the bed one sleeps " ( note that this particular pun cannot be medieval, since final t was pronounced until Middle French, c. f.

In the comic book Asterix and Cleopatra, the author Goscinny inserted a pun about alexandrines: when the Druid Panoramix (" Getafix " in the English translation ) meets his Alexandrian ( Egyptian ) friend the latter exclaims Je suis, mon cher ami, || très heureux de te voir at which Panoramix observes C ' est un Alexandrin (" That's an alexandrine!

French offers a closer pun: " Constant " is both a first name and the quality of steadfastness, thus the play is commonly known as De l ' importance d ' être Constant, though Jean Anouilh translated the play under the title: Il est important d ' être Aimé (" Aimé " is a name which also means " beloved ").

Her second album, newly released at the start of the series, is called " Venus " and her most popular song is " C ' est La Vie ", which is a Japanese pun: in Japanese, the French phrase and the name of her alter-ego, Sailor V, are pronounced almost identically ( as sērāvī ).

Known as " Feghoots ", the stories involved Feghoot resolving a situation encountered while traveling through time and space ( à la Doctor Who ) with a bad pun.

One such pun was to nickname Mme Steinheil " la pompe funèbre " ( wordplay in French: could mean both " undertaker " and " funeral blow-job ").

He became secretary to the National Constituent Assembly, and the violence of his attacks on the ancien régime won him the pun nickname of Crieur de la Marne (" Shouter of the Marne ").

The title is a pun on the French version of the Biblical proverb " qui sème le vent récolte la tempête " ( he who sows the wind reaps the whirlwind, Hosea 8: 7 ).

* Per chi suona la banana (" For Whom the Banana Tolls "; the title is a pun on For Whom the Bell Tolls, with a reference on the banana republic )

A sound sometimes concludes puns .< ref name =" pun "> Dancin < nowiki >'</ nowiki >: By the way, the word scenes ... / Dancin < nowiki >'</ nowiki >: Has nothing to do with my name, cuz my name is not Dan-scene, la, la ...!

The joke relies not only upon the fact that Obelix ' name is a pun on the word " obelisk ", but also to the fact that Napoleon's soldiers took a Luxor Obelisk with them to France and that it can still can be viewed in the Place de la Concorde in Paris.

Astalavista is a pun on the search engine Altavista and the phrase said by The Terminator: " Hasta la vista, baby " ( meaning " see you later, baby " in Spanish ).

It's also a pun on the team being from Kashima, as LIXIL also sponsors 7-time Japanese champions Kashima Antlers ( from the city in Ibaraki ).

It's catchy and even kind of a pun.

" ( This last chapter is titled " A Bad Thing "; the final pun even requires the English term " full stop ", rather than the American " period ", to work.

A variation known as a feghoot builds to an intentionally bad pun in the penultimate panel, with the final panel showing the cartoon version of Pastis as the target of criticism, hostility, or even physical violence from the characters, usually Rat.

Following the release, three more efforts would follow: Leave Scars in 1989, a live album, Live Scars in 1990, an apparent pun of their previous album, and what would eventually become the band's final album, Time Does Not Heal, in 1991.

" He makes one final pun before he dies: " Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man ...." A grief-stricken and enraged Romeo kills Tybalt, thus leading to Romeo's banishment from Verona and beginning the tragic turn of events that make up the rest of the play.

In her version of La Fontaine's Fables, Marianne Moore underlines his ironical comment on the situation in a final pun, " Better, I think, than an embittered whine ".