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The full version of the song from Melbourne Punch, the fourth verse of which is pasted onto the urn
This is the fourth verse of a song-lyric published in Melbourne Punch on 1 February 1883:
Tenniel is most noted for two major accomplishments: he was the principal political cartoonist for England ’ s Punch magazine for over 50 years, and he was the artist who illustrated Lewis Carroll ’ s Alice ’ s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.
When examined separately from the book illustrations he did over time, Tenniel ’ s work at Punch alone, expressing decades of editorial viewpoints, often controversial and socially sensitive, was created to ultimately echo the voices of the British public, and is in itself massive.
On 27 February 1914, two days after his death, the Daily Graphic recalled Tenniel: " He had an influence on the political feeling of this time which is hardly measurable … While Tenniel was drawing them ( his subjects ), we always looked to the Punch cartoon to crystallize the national and international situation, and the popular feeling about it — and never looked in vain.
Punch and Judy is a traditional, popular puppet show featuring Mr. Punch and his wife, Judy.
The figure who later became Mr. Punch made his first recorded appearance in England on 9 May 1662, which is traditionally reckoned as Punch's UK birthday.
So important is Punch's signature sound that it is a matter of some controversy within Punch and Judy circles as to whether a " non-swazzled " show can be considered a true Punch and Judy Show.
The term " pleased as Punch " is derived from Punch and Judy ; specifically, Mr. Punch's characteristic sense of gleeful self-satisfaction.
There is no one definitive " story " of Punch and Judy.
" This was elaborated by George Speaight in his Punch & Judy: A History ( 1970 ), who explained that the plotline " is like a story compiled in a parlour game of Consequences ... the show should, indeed, not be regarded as a story at all but a succession of encounters.
" The most recent academic work, Punch & Judy: History, Tradition and Meaning by Robert Leach ( 1985 ), makes it clear that " the story is a conceptual entity, not a set text: the means of telling it, therefore, are always variable.
Much emphasis is often placed on the first printed script of Punch and Judy ( 1828 ).
( His ) ' Punch and Judy ' is to be warmly welcomed as the first history of puppets in England, but it is also sadly to be examined as the first experiment of a literary criminal.
It is rare for Punch to hit his baby these days, but he may well sit on it in a failed attempt to " babysit ", or drop it, or even let it go through a sausage machine.
A ghost might then appear and give Mr. Punch a fright before it too is chased off with a slapstick.
It is these set piece encounters or " routines " which are used by performers to construct their own Punch and Judy shows.
While the Victorian version of the show drew on the morality of its day, the Punch & Judy College of Professors considers that the 20th-and 21st-century versions of the tale have evolved into something more akin to a primitive version of The Simpsons, in which a bizarre family is used as vehicle for grotesque visual comedy and a sideways look at contemporary society.
While censorious political correctness threatened Punch and Judy performances in the UK and other English speaking countries for a time, the show is having one of its cyclical recurrences and can now be seen not only in England, Wales, and Ireland, but also in Canada, the United States ( including Puerto Rico ), Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

Punch and Autobot
Switching repeatedly from Punch to Counterpunch and venturing into the dark heart of the Decepticon camp has had an adverse effect on Punch, leaving him a twisted bundle of neuro-circuits – so complete a disguise has he made of the change from Autobot to Decepticon that Punch ’ s entire personality changes when he becomes Counterpunch.
Although Counterpunch retains his Autobot sensibilities – at least enough to carry out his duties as a double agent, acquiring information for the Autobots while feeding the Decepticons just enough to maintain cover – the other aspects of his personality switch completely, and the urges Punch holds in restraint all find savage, violent release as Counterpunch.
Constantly walking the knife ’ s edge, Punch is suspicious of all those around him, seeing potential Decepticon spies instead of Autobot allies, fearing that there could be a double agent among them, operating as easily as he does among the Decepticons.
From a purely psychological viewpoint, Punch's character could be seen as an individual who has quite literally split his personality in half with all of the positive qualities which make Punch who he is as an Autobot warrior making up the light side of his personality, his conscious mind and his very spark and his minor alternate personality of Counterpunch being made up of all the negative qualities which make Punch who he is as a living person.
When the Decepticons attacked Autobot City in 2007, Punch spotted the Decepticon Clones breaking into the city under cover of the firefight ; donning his Counterpunch guise, he followed them in under the pretense that Galvatron had requested he check up on their progress.
When the clones rebuffed his aid, he told them to watch out for his Autobot counterpart, and left ... promptly switching back to Punch and attacking them.
The key was subsequently used to open the chamber briefly, and the energy released blasted it and a group of Autobots across the galaxy, but, unaware of this, Optimus Prime ordered Punch and the Autobot Clones to scour Cybertron for the key, only to have them report back unsuccessfully a short time thereafter.
Even though Punch / Counterpunch wouldn't make any appearances the series Transformers Animated, the Decepticon Shockwave has a similar ability to disguise himself as an Autobot called Longarm.

Punch and unique
Figures of the original Masters of the Universe line included many unique " action features ": Battle Armor He-Man and Skeletor had rotating chest plates to represent varying degrees of damage ; Leech featured suction cup limbs ; Mantenna's eyes would pop out using a lever on his back ; and Thunder Punch He-Man would thrust a punch and emit a loud bang from the ring cap in his backpack.
This practice, unique among horse breeds, resulted in such an improvement that the Suffolk Punch is now considered to have excellent foot conformation.
Curly's unique version of " woo-woo-woo " was firmly established by the time of the Stooges ' second film Punch Drunks in 1934.
* Aquarion: All three Aquarion forms are capable of using the powers and / or abilities that the elements piloting it have separately or in any combination, as well as combining them with the main powers of the form Aquarion is in at the time ( Infinity Punch, bow and arrows or sword ) and using the main powers in special ways, such as designating them with unique names or using them in unique ways.

Punch and ability
In the Super Smash Bros. series, when Kirby copies a foe's ability, Kirby says the name of some attacks, such as Captain Falcon's " Falcon Punch ", Ness ' PK Flash, and Lucas ' PK Freeze.
In the series, the Solar Aquarion's Infinity Punch manages to reach the moon, although the real prapti should not involve greatly elongated arms, but rather the ability to cancel distances between objects ( resulting in the idea of omnipresence ).
As a poet, he was noted for his ability to provide topical satirical poems for Punch in the style of well-known contemporary poets such as John Drinkwater, John Masefield, Walter de la Mare, Edmund Blunden, Robert Bridges and J. C. Squire-usually managing to evoke the poet's general style and manner without resorting to parodying any particular poem.

Punch and second
" Punch also thought the second act weak: " The idea of the burlesque is funny to begin with, but not to go on with ".
The second was Punch Ball Mario Bros., which featured a new gameplay mechanic involving punching small balls to stun enemies.
In the same year he appeared in a third Sellers film, The Pink Panther, as a defence lawyer, and in the second Tony Hancock vehicle, The Punch and Judy Man.
Punch Drunks is the second short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges.
To Punch, the publication which of all others is associated with his name, he contributed from its second number in 1841 until within a few days of his death.
The Type 31 Alphabetical Duplicating Punch was introduced by IBM in 1933, and it automatically ejected one card and fed another in 0. 65 second.
He was the winningest coach in Maple Leafs history until Punch Imlach passed him ; Day still ranks second on the franchise wins list behind Imlach.
In 1979 – 80, after beginning the season in the AHL coaching the New Brunswick Hawks, Crozier received his second break in the NHL with the Toronto Maple Leafs, replacing, once again, " Punch " Imlach mid-season.
The Pile Tornado Punch is used with both of the arms in drill mode, with the second one boosting the first.
His second attack is the " Cosmo Punch ", in which Sazer-Tarius jumps up, then spins towards his adversary with a flaming outstretched fist.

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