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.

When told they were called " Anglii " ( Angles ), he replied with a Latin pun that translates well into English: “ Bene, nam et angelicam habent faciem, et tales angelorum in caelis decet esse coheredes ” (" It is well, for they have an angelic face, and such people ought to be co-heirs of the angels in heaven ").

The name itself is an acronym, a pun, and a description.

The term baccalaureus is a pun combining the prosaic baccalarius with bacca lauri ' " laurel berry "— according to the American Heritage Dictionary, " bacca " is the Old Irish word for " farmer " + laureus, " laurel berry ," the idea being that a " baccalaureate " had farmed ( cultivated ) his mind.

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.

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.

Thus Æþelræd Unræd is a pun meaning " Noble counsel, No counsel ".

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 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.

Gernsback wrote fiction, including the novel Ralph 124C 41 + in 1911 ; the title is a pun on the phrase " one to foresee for many "(" one plus ").

* Title: This is usually short, and often makes use of a pun or alliteration.

The knock-knock joke is a type of joke, probably the best-known format of the pun, and is a time-honored " call and answer " exercise.

In France, the punchline is sometimes a pun on the title of a popular song, allowing the last answer to be sung:

( 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.

Grandi called the curve versoria in Latin and suggested the term versiera for Italian, possibly as a pun: ' versoria ' is a nautical term, " sheet ", while versiera / aversiera is " she-devil ", " witch ", from Latin Adversarius, an alias for " devil " ( Adversary of God ).

Their engineers are used to explain Skaven warmachines: the Ratling Gun ( a warpstone-based Gatling gun with an obvious pun on rat ), the Warpfire thrower ( a warpstone-based flamethrower ), the Jezzail ( an extremely long-ranged warpstone rifle which is so large that it has to be carried by two Skaven ), the Poisoned Wind Mortar ( a device that fires delicate spheres filled with poison gas upon the enemy ) and the fearsome Warp-Lightning Cannon.

* Suitcase Gag — A visual pun that is carried inside of a suitcase and used during walkarounds.

Its central joke is the unspoken pun of " parakeets / pair o ' tits " used in the title and carried throughout the song.

The name Cryptochrome was proposed as a pun combining the cryptic nature of the photoreceptor, and the cryptogamic organisms on which many blue light studies were carried out.

One day, Ophelia Rock is kidnapped by jealous local bully Garry Gritter ( a pun on the name of contemporary pop star Gary Glitter ) and carried off to Gritter's hang-out in the creepy dinosaur graveyard.

Besides being a pun on bad dubbing, the show also explores the sheer differences between the way police work is carried on both in the US and in Brazil ;

After taking further data, the group discovered that this particle did not actually exist, and the " discovery " was named " Oops-Leon " as a pun on the original name ( mispronounced ) and Dr. Lederman's first name.

According to his memoirs, Haussmann's use of the title baron was based on his elevation to the Senate and to an 1857 decree of the emperor's that gave Senate members the title of baron ; his memoirs further stated that he joked that he might consider the title aqueduc, ( a pun on the French words for ' duke ' and ' aqueduct ') but that no such title existed.

It is further suggested that, since the manor properties included lead mines in the Mendip Hills, the plum is a pun on the Latin plumbum, for lead.

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She once pretended to have a little brother named Ray ( a further pun on " ray gun "), who, due to the fact that he does not exist, is on the 19th story.

Bomb's gimmick was that of a survivor of the infamous Three Mile Island accident and was further emphasized by his ring name being a pun on the " atom bomb ".

After taking further data, the group discovered that this particle did not actually exist, and the " discovery " was named " Oops-Leon " as a pun on the original name ( mispronounced ) and the first name of the E288 collaboration leader.

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.

At the time, the body was dubbed " Pete Marsh " ( a pun on " peat marsh ") by Middlesex Hospital radiologists, a name subsequently adopted by local journalists.

This was followed briefly by Smith and Goody ( with Bob Goody ) and then the comedy sketch series Alas Smith and Jones, co-starring Griff Rhys Jones, its title being a pun on the name of the American TV series Alias Smith and Jones.

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.

" Finally, we are given " Immanuel doesn't pun, he Kant " by Oscar Wilde.

Visual puns are used in many logos, emblems, insignia, and other graphic symbols, in which one or more of the pun aspects are replaced by a picture.

The player is not battling Nazis but a secret sect called the " Wolves " led by Heinrich Höller, whose name is a pun of the original character Himmler ( Himmler roughly translates as " Heavener ", Höller as " Heller ").

Four main strategies have been used by translators ; the first leaves all characters ' names unchanged and in their original spelling, thus the name is respected and readers reminded of the original cultural setting, but the liveliness of the pun is lost.

Eva Malagoli varied this source-oriented approach by using both the English Christian names and the adjective earnest, thus preserving the pun and the English character of the play, but possibly straining an Italian reader.

'" Gromit enjoys eating " KornFlakes " and reading many books, including The Republic, by Pluto ( a nod to the Disney character of the same name and a pun on Plato ); Crime and Punishment, by Fido Dogstoyevsky ( a pun on Fyodor Dostoyevsky ); and a " how-to " guide entitled, Electronics for Dogs.

The term cypherpunk, derived from cipher and punk, was coined by Jude Milhon as a pun to describe cyberpunks who used cryptography.

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 ).

This nepotism was lampooned both by Dante and in contemporary cartoons depicting the Pope in his fine robes and three " little bears " ( orsatti ) hanging on below, a pun on the family name.

" He writes that the " effect would be equally appreciated by someone with no knowledge of English whatsoever ", apparently missing the pun frequently employed by Stein.

Its name is the most meaningful pun in the story: outwardly it is an Eccentric ( drop-out from the Culture ) which dedicates its enormous resources to presenting tableaux of historical events ( mainly battles ) populated by passengers in suspended animation ; but in fact it is a sleeping member of Special Circumstances, the Culture's covert operations organization.

Shortly afterwards, he began writing Dutch pun poems, which are very playful by nature.

A large painted caricature by Whistler of Leyland portraying him as an anthropomorphic peacock playing a piano, and entitled The Gold Scab: Eruption in Frilthy Lucre-a pun on Leyland's fondness for frilly shirt fronts-is now in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.