Puns on the " wet dirt " meaning of " mud " are endemic, as with, for example, the names of the ROM ( Rivers of MUD ), MUCK, MUSH, and CoffeeMUD codebases and the MUD Muddy Waters.

Puns may be regarded as in-jokes or idiomatic constructions, given that their usage and meaning are entirely local to a particular language and its culture.

Puns are used to create humor and sometimes require a large vocabulary to understand.

Puns are a common source of humour in jokes and comedy shows.

Puns often are used in the titles of comedic parodies.

Puns, phonetic mix-ups such as spoonerisms, obscure words and meanings, clever rhetorical excursions, oddly formed sentences, and telling character names are common examples of word play.

Puns, phonetic mix-ups such as spoonerisms, obscure words and meanings, clever rhetorical excursions, oddly formed sentences, and telling character names – such as The Importance of Being Earnest ( Earnest being both a name and an adjective ) – are common examples of word play.

Puns, a Shakespearean staple, are especially well represented in the scene where Richard tries to persuade Queen Elizabeth to woo her daughter on his behalf.

* Puns: " Sire, the peasants are revolting!

Puns have long been used by comedy writers, such as William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, and George Carlin.

Puns and other forms of word play have been used by many famous writers, such as Alexander Pope, James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, Robert Bloch, Lewis Carroll, John Donne, and William Shakespeare, who is estimated to have used over 3, 000 puns in his plays.

Puns were found in ancient Egypt, where they were heavily used in development of myths and interpretation of dreams.

Very frequently found today, and often giving rise to complex explanations ( see below, Puns, Jokes and Corruptions ) The use of pairs of words in the name of an inn or tavern was rare before the mid-17th century, but by 1708 had become frequent enough for a pamphlet to complain of ' the variety and contradictory language of the signs ', citing absurdities such as ' Bull and Mouth ', ' Whale and Cow ', and ' Shovel and Boot '.

Puns also bear similarities with paraprosdokian, syllepsis and eggcorns.

Puns were made with the names of Chinese leader Hu Yaobang ( who?

2000-2001 Puns of Steel ; 2004Play ; The Rude Olympics III

Puns may also be found in syntax, where morphological constructions have derived from what may have originally been humorous word play, slang, or otherwise idiosyncratic word usage.

One week in 18, it's a " Puns and Anagrams " puzzle, a relic of a 1940s attempt to introduce cryptic puzzles to the US.

Puns that do not work in High German indicate that the book was written in Low German first and translated into High German in order to find a larger audience, although more recent research throws this into question.

* Herzogenrath, Bernd Puns, Orphans, and Artists: Moon Palace.

" Puns have been regarded as a sign of superior education and Baum uses the Woggle-Bug's puns repeatedly to highlight his conceitedness regarding his own education.

Puns of Steel ( 2000 – 2001 ) became the first Club show to record its score on a CD.

“ Visual Puns and Verbal Puns: Descriptive Analogy or False Analogy ?” In: Diana Popa and Salvatore Attardo ( Eds.

Other regular segments included the Small Talk Challenge, Two Types of People, Marketing Makeover and Pisslame Puns of the Week.

The Call of the Phoneme: Puns and the Foundations of Letters.

Puns and plays on words have gone by the wayside.

* http :// www. shakespeare-navigators. com / hamlet / Pap. html Hamlet's Puns and Paradoxes

`` The news of their experiments reaches the farmers who, forgetting that birds are the most efficient natural enemies of insects and rodents, are encouraged to try to get rid of all birds that occasionally peck their grapes or their blueberries '', Buchheister told the delegates.

But they are aware of the world outside, they court public approval, they delight in full houses, and they occasionally dare to experiment in interpreting a dramatic classic.

ASCII was subsequently updated as USASI X3. 4-1967, then USASI X3. 4-1968, ANSI X3. 4-1977, and finally, ANSI X3. 4-1986 ( the first two are occasionally retronamed ANSI X3. 4-1967, and ANSI X3. 4-1968 ).

They are also known to feed on other insects, larvae, and eggs, and occasionally small mammals and birds.

Hailstorms occur occasionally in the spring and summer, but are seldom destructive.

Thunderstorms occur throughout the year-they are most common in the summer, but most severe in the spring and fall, when destructive winds and tornadoes occasionally occur.

Hurricanes are quite common in the state, especially in the southern part, and major hurricanes occasionally strike the coast which can be very destructive.

The shells of abalone are occasionally used in New Age smudging ceremonies to catch falling ash.

Anchored crosses are occasionally a feature of coats of arms in which context they are referred to by the heraldic terms anchry or ancre.

Niven also occasionally refers to arcologies in his Known Space series, particularly in the stories involving Gil Hamilton, or the Pierson's Puppeteers, whose arcologies are enormous ( The smallest were cubes a mile in height, length and width.

Other typical drinks include wine ( occasionally mixed with carbonated water known as soda ); tea and coffee are equally important.

Sharp and rough edges of the bone ( s ) are filed down, skin and muscle flaps are then transposed over the stump, occasionally with the insertion of elements to attach a prosthesis.

Some neurons emit action potentials constantly, at rates of 10 – 100 per second, usually in irregular patterns ; other neurons are quiet most of the time, but occasionally emit a burst of action potentials.

The fact that in equivalent baseband models of communication systems, the signal spectrum consists of both negative and positive frequencies, can lead to confusion about bandwidth, since they are sometimes referred to only by the positive half, and one will occasionally see expressions such as, where is the total bandwidth ( i. e. the maximum passband bandwidth of the carrier-modulated RF signal and the minimum passband bandwidth of the physical passband channel ), and is the positive bandwidth ( the baseband bandwidth of the equivalent channel model ).

The average adult has a blood volume of roughly 5 liters ( 1. 3 gal ), composed of plasma and several kinds of cells ( occasionally called corpuscles ); these formed elements of the blood are erythrocytes ( red blood cells, RBCs ), leukocytes ( white blood cells ), and thrombocytes ( platelets ).

The largest number of Benedictines are Roman Catholics, but there are also some within the Anglican Communion and occasionally within other Christian denominations as well, for example, within the Lutheran Church.

Rodents are the normal host of plague, and the disease is transmitted to humans by flea bites and occasionally by aerosol in the form of pneumonic plague.

Although mostly nocturnal, they are occasionally active during the day.

Individuals who alternate between top / dominant and bottom / submissive roles – whether from relationship to relationship or within a given relationship – are known as switches, though the term is occasionally seen as derogatory or unnuanced and is rejected by many who might simplistically fit the definition.

Many of the comic strips in The Dandy are drawn by the same artists, and crossovers between the two comics also occur occasionally.

The Bessel functions of the second kind, denoted by Y < sub > α </ sub >( x ), occasionally denoted instead by N < sub > α </ sub >( x ), are solutions of the Bessel differential equation.