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This can form a pun on the family name as in Thomas Nevile's motto " Ne vile velis ".
Sometimes a homophone ( i. e. a different spelling that yields the same pronunciation ) can be used as a pun as well as a " double entendre " of the subject.
( This saying is a pun on Zhao's name, which can be loosely translated as: " if you want to eat, look for Ziyang.
* The Book of Wind chapter is something of a pun, since the Japanese character can mean both " wind " and " style " ( e. g., of martial arts ).
The sexual individual animal can conceive ( pun intended ) of seduction, dance, flirtation, and other means of cooperation that do not involve one entity consuming and destroying the identity of the other.
The name can also be interpreted as a pun on the Scandinavian word kompis, meaning friend or pal.
A recurring joke in the series and associated books is that " the peasants are revolting " ( a pun that works because the word " revolting " can mean " rebelling " or " foul ").
Quasimodo's name can be considered a pun.
" Magister Ludi " can also be seen as a pun: lud-is a Latin stem meaning both " game " and " school.
" Especially important are paranomasia and catachresis, tropes which disrupt ordinary signification and displace ordinary meanings -- by similarity of sound, for instance, one can have both " con " and " conte " (" cunt " and " tale ") in the same word, a common pun in fabliaux.
Their first single Brandweer ( Firemen, also a pun which can be interpreted as " Burning again ") sold 427 copies.
The term and the idea are attributed to Peter J. Landin, and the term can be seen as a pun on the offside law of football ( soccer ).
", but which can also be interpreted as " Hello, Domo ", and thus is a convenient pun ( dajare ).
Another reference can be found in Thomas Middleton's A Trick to Catch the Old One in the character of Widow Medler, impersonated by a courtesan, hence the following pun: " Who?
The name can also be viewed as an interesting ( and incidental ) pun, too, as the initial letters of the phrase growth hormone-releasing giving us " ghre " with " lin " as a usual suffix for some hormones.
FTB may also be a play, or pun, on the existing File Transfer Protocol, ( FTP ,) which can be used to transfer large chunks of binary data between computers.
Unlike other forms of parody, translation has a relatively recent history ; early usages of the device can be seen in the work of the Viennese literary critic and journalist Karl Kraus, who claimed to translate from other journalists ' — famously former friend Harden — and from Moskauderwelch — a derisive term for the highly elaborate Marxist jargon of the time, a pun on Moskau, Moscow, and Kauderwelch, gibberish.
" notes that it is a pun derived from a Japanese word that literally means " budding ," as with a plant that is about to flower, and thus it can also be used to mean " budding " as with a preadolescent girl.
Blocos can be formed by small or large groups of revelers with a distinct title with an often funny pun.
The package included a map of Europe in Arthurian times and an illustrated manual called Liber Ex Doctrina ( a Latin pun, for while it can be read " book ( derived ) from knowledge "— i. e. the game documentation — it can also be read " free from doctrine ").
A book store called " W. H. Smix " can be seen in the same scene, which is a pun on the chain W. H. Smith.
The title translates as " Moving Your Feet " but in Icelandic also forms a pun which can equally translate as " Guts at Your Feet ".
While the music certainly sets a romantic mood, the usage of this piece can be seen as a clever pun, since Clouds is also the name of the album on which the song " Both Sides, Now " made its original appearance.

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It might also have been a pun on " all-has-read ", since Lovecraft was an avid reader in youth.
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 ).
( the tailor is accused of stealing cloth while making breeches, this is a joke about a fashion trend in Shakespearian times, also a pun for roasting the tailor's iron with the heat of hell )
In multiplayer online games, a MUSH ( a backronymed pun on MUD most often expanded as Multi-User Shared Hallucination, though Multi-User Shared Hack, Habitat, and Holodeck are also observed ) is a text-based online social medium to which multiple users are connected at the same time.
Taruskin also developed a variation of the motto into the pun " ontogeny recapitulates ontology " to refute the concept of " absolute music " advancing the socio-artistic theories of Carl Dalhaus.
The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play which suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.
A homonymic pun may also be polysemic, in which the words must be homonymic and also possess related meanings, a condition which is often subjective.
This is also an example of a multilingual pun, full understanding of which requires knowledge of more than language on the part of the listener.
Shaggy dog story has come to also mean a joke where a pun is finally achieved after a long ( and ideally tedious ) exposition.
Suite XVI, the follow-up album to Norfolk Coast, was released in September 2006 ( the title is a pun on " Sweet 16 " and also a reference to the fact that it was the band's sixteenth studio album ) and continued the band's resurgence.
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 ").
Leone also produced three comedies by actor / director Carlo Verdone, which were Fun Is Beautiful ( Un Sacco Bello, 1980 ), Bianco, Rosso e Verdone ( White, Red and Verdone – Verdone means " strong green " – a pun referring to the three colours of the Italian flag, the star and to director Verdone, 1981 ) and Troppo Forte ( Great !, 1986 ).
Micro Planner extended this pun also to use < tt > NIL </ tt > as a signal to begin backtracking.
For example, Joyce's phrase " they were yung and easily freudened " clearly implies the more conventional " they were young and easily frightened ", however the former also makes an apt pun on the names of two famous psychoanalysts, Jung and Freud.
The title Maaseh Hoshev literally means a Work of Calculation, but it is also a pun on a biblical phrase meaning " clever work ".
There is also an implication ( given the pun on Rivers's name along with other factors ) that Rivers was more to Sassoon than just a friend, he called him " father confessor ", a point that Jean Moorcroft Wilson picks up on in her biography of Sassoon, however Rivers's tight morals would have probably prevented such a relationship from progressing:
Another regular part of the show was the Short Circus ( the name a pun on short circuit ), a singing group of kids whose songs also facilitated reading comprehension.
He also had a role in the movie Homeboys in Outer Space, in which he played a character named Pippen: a pun on Scotty and basketball star Scottie Pippen.
His books also feature the names Eduard Blutig (" Edward Gory "), a German language pun on his own name, and O. Müde ( German for O. Weary ).
He is also caricatured in The Simpsons episode " Monty Can't Buy Me Love " as the tycoon Arthur Fortune, and as the ballooning megalomaniac Richard Chutney ( a pun on Branson, as in Branston Pickle ) in Believe Nothing.
He also loves sport and was a Rowing Brown for the University in his youth ( a pun on the Blue at Oxford and Cambridge Universities ).
The name ' Band Aid ' was chosen as a pun on the name of a well-known brand of adhesive bandage, also referring to musicians working as a band to provide aid and alluding to the fact that any help stemming from their efforts is likened to a band-aid on a very serious wound.

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