This is reflected in the origin of the name ( derived from the television series Monty Python's Flying Circus ), in the common practice of using Monty Python references in example code, and in an occasionally playful approach to tutorials and reference materials.

" From at least the 16th century, " Daffadown Dilly ", " daffadown dilly ", and " daffydowndilly " have appeared as playful synonyms of the name.

The name Xanth is in itself an unintentional pun, which matches the playful tone of the books.

During this time, Beccaria, with the brothers Pietro and Alessandro Verri and a number of other young men from the Milan aristocracy formed a literary society, which was named " L ' Accademia dei pugni " ( the Academy of Fists ), a playful name that made fun of the stuffy academies that proliferated in Italy and also because relaxed conversations that were taking place in there sometimed ending in affrays.

In 2007 Esquire launched the Napkin Fiction Project, in which 250 cocktail napkins were mailed to writers all over the country by the incoming fiction editor, in a playful attempt to revive short fiction — " some with a half dozen books to their name, others just finishing their first.

The six or so remarkable books he published from 1914 to 1918 — El Rastro Flea-Market, El Doctor Inverosímil Improbable Doctor, Greguerías, Senos, Pombo, El circo Circus — illustrate most of his main characteristics: his search for a new fragmentary genre of short prose poems ( giving them the arbitrary name of greguerías ), his exaltation of trivial everyday objects, his emphasis on eroticism, his exuberant self-projection and exclusive dedication to art, his playful humour, his contemplative secular mysticism, and above all his cult of the image, especially witty surprising images.

Now with Producer Dave the show has a number of features such as good news ( where presenters and listeners share things since the last broadcast that either make them feel good or not so bad in life ) ending with the phrase: " that's not just good news, that's great news ", snap my pitch up ( in which famous entertainers are presented with pitches for their participation films or shows that have titles typically based around the stars name ), five minute listener bans ( received by listeners who share content that receives playful disapproval ) and Sparky Wednesday ( on every third Wednesday as a celebration of " the best of Britain's tradesmen ").

While it may have caused some confusion in record stores and radio stations, the single-letter name gave the press a playful handle.

Bomaka ( ぼまか ) is the name of a playful spirit that caused trouble to residents of Hobara for approximately one year.

In the frequently playful letters of his youth Mozart sometimes would spell his name backwards, viz., " Mozart Wolfgang " or " Trazom ".

The name of the detector is a playful pun, which was bestowed upon it by Fred Reines, one of the scientists working on the project.

" Even so, they nicknamed the signal LGM-1, for " little green men " ( a playful name for intelligent beings of extraterrestrial origin ).

The playful name implied that it was about the size of two motorscooters, or a scooter with four wheels.

Raphael Schrire Smith ( born in Cape Town, South Africa November 29, 1973, first name pronounced to rhyme with " playful ") is a screenwriter based in London, United Kingdom.

* Prince Jollikin: He is the most playful of the princes, as evidenced by his name, which is based on the word " Jolly ".

The story takes place in 1913 in Vienna, capital of Austria-Hungary which Musil refers to by the playful name Kakanien (' Kaka ' is a child's word for feces in German, just as in American English ; ' kako -' is also a prefix denoting bad in words of Greek origin ).

The most likely explanation for the Hella brand is attributed to Sally Windmüller: He wanted to honour his wife Helen, in short Hella, and also wanted to use the playful association between this name and the German word hell ( bright ).

The name BarCamp is a playful allusion to the event's origins, with reference to the programmer slang term, foobar: BarCamp arose as an open-to-the-public alternative to Foo Camp, which is an annual invitation-only participant-driven conference hosted by Tim O ' Reilly.

The name was intended to be a playful variation of " Knock a Homer.

Both Hampton and Jordan combined the popular boogie-woogie rhythm, a grittier version of swing-era saxophone styles as exemplified by Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster, and playful, humorous lyrics or verbal asides laced with jive talk.

He always plays pranks on people ; some even call him " Trickster " because his combined teleporting abilities and playful disposition enable him to play quite the joke.

Most of their work is based on playful, improvised exploration and physical openness combined with skill.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

Hustler ( Knight Dream-Torkin ) is a playful bay rascal of a colt, not the best gaited, but he surely can pace and is right there with them, and sometimes leading them, in the best miles.

His signature style emerged as one that was colourful, playful, loaded with geometry, art-history and music-history references, jokes, cryptograms and symbols.

Dachshunds are playful, but can be stubborn, and are known for their propensity for chasing small animals, birds, and tennis balls with great determination and ferocity.

French cinema also was the birthplace for many sub-genres of the crime film, most notably the modern caper film, starting with 1955's Rififi by American-born director Jules Dassin and followed by a large number of serious, noirish heist dramas as well as playful caper comedies throughout the sixties, and the " polar ," a typical French blend of film noir and detective fiction.

The controversy is usually based on the assumption that the term originally meant someone messing about with something in a positive sense, that is, using playful cleverness to achieve a goal.

In the programmer subculture of hackers, a computer hacker is a person who enjoys designing software and building programs with a sense for aesthetics and playful cleverness.

William Roberts's review, for the August 1816 British Review, was more positive than previous analysis but with no detail about the work: " passing over the two other poems which are bound together with ' Christabel ', called ' The Fragment of Kubla Khan ', and ' The Pains of Sleep '; in which, however, there are some playful thoughts and fanciful imagery, which we would gladly have extracted if our room would have allowed it.

Derek Elley of Variety described the film as " playful and sporty ," saying that this was Dunst's best performance to date: " Believable as both a spoiled ingenue and a lover to two very different men, Dunst endows a potentially lightweight character with considerable depth and sympathy.

Initially viewed with prejudice and discrimination because it had black roots, the samba, because of its hypnotic rhythms and melodic intonations in addition to its playful lyrics, eventually conquered the white middle class as well.

The song starts off with a heavy crescendo of woodwinds and low strings playing the famous Tomb Raider melody, and then breaks off into an almost playful arc, featuring parts of the harp composition from the Tomb Raider theme.

Most who knew McVeigh remember him as being withdrawn, with a few describing him as an outgoing and playful child who withdrew as an adolescent.

Among the best known of the company's product range are Richard Sapper's kettle with a two-tone whistle, Michael Graves ' kettle with the bird shaped whistle, Massimo Giacon's Mr Suicide, and Philippe Starck's playful three-legged Juicy Salif citrus squeezer.

is a children's museum founded in 2006 whose sole mission is to surround children and the adults in their lives with a hands-on, interactive, playful and educational environment that invites curiosity, allows exploration, encourages participation and celebrates the childlike wonder in us all.

Although he wrote dozens of songs that are playful, funny and filled with clever wordplay, it is the rueful vulnerability beneath their surface that lends them a singular poignancy.

The language also becomes more playful, with participants including rhymes:

His Blue Nudes series feature prime examples of this technique he called " painting with scissors "; they demonstrate the ability to bring his eye for colour and geometry to a new medium of utter simplicity, but with playful and delightful power.

He has an ambiguous and sometimes playful relationship with Servalan.

After trying to talk to his unresponsive father, Robert leaves with Rayette, who makes a playful sexual advance to him which he angrily pushes off.

According to Wilberforce, Pitt had an exceptional wit along with an endearingly gentle sense of humour: " no man ... ever induldged more freely or happilly in that playful facetiousness which gratifies all without wounding any.

" This story, set billions of years before the story-arc of The Sandman, tends to portray the characters in a very different light, showing that even the Endless are not unchanging, with Desire's attitude towards Dream being playful rather than malicious during this early encounter.

With a playful cynicism he remarked of his popularity as a portraitist with high society women, " The essential thing is to elongate the women and especially to make them slim.

McCay was interested in pushing formal boundaries, and playful self-referentiality played a role in many of the strips, with characters sometimes referring to McCay's alterego " Silas ", and ( more rarely ) to the reader.