The nicknames co-existed in the state until 1994, when the Hornets settled with the NBA and changed their name to the punning nickname Greensboro Bats.

In early 1964, Benny and Christina joined a group with the odd name " Elverkets Spelmanslag " (" The Electricity Board Folk Music Group "), who by no means was a folk music ensemble: the name was a punning reference to their electric instruments.

In ancient Iraq, about 2500 BC, punning was used by scribes to represent words in cuneiform.

The title of the fourth Roxy album, Country Life, was intended as a parody of the well-known British rural magazine of the same name, and the visually punning front cover photo featured two models ( two German fans, Constanze Karoli — sister of Can's Michael Karoli — and Eveline Grunwald ) clad only in semi-transparent lingerie standing in a forest.

In its later years, the show's wealth of silliness, smut and appalling punning was drawing audiences of up to a thousand people for its recordings.

His paintings, rarely signed with a ' FZ ' monogram or signature, often contain a bottle gourd that was held at the waist by rural Italian women, a punning allusion to his surname, which signifies " little pumpkin "'.

San Francisco columnist Herb Caen coined the word ( which by sarcastically punning on the recently launched Russian Sputnik was apparently intended to cast doubt on the beatnik's red-white-and-blue-blooded all-Americanness ).

It broke with the tradition of punning on ' Dad ' for the title, and was named ' Nemesis ', although Andrew Marshall later revealed that the original title " Feliz Navidad " was nixed by the BBC, feeling it too obscure.

After the theater was shut down, the management posted " Gone with the Wind " on the marquee, a punning reference to the storm.

The term Canaan was used by Jews in Europe for the Slavic peoples, as a punning reference to the so-called " curse of Canaan " ( Genesis 9: 25 ), that Canaan shall " be a slave ".

He has since declared, in the Author's Notes of Cube Route, that this 27th book ended the first " magical trilogy " and that he was beginning a new one with the 28th, punning on the fact that 27 is the third power of three, i. e. three cubed.

In some cases the explanations became quite involved, such as the river Brandywine ( Sindarin Baranduin, " golden-brown river ") was actually called Branda-nîn, a punning Westron name meaning " border-water ", which was later punned again as Bralda-hîm, meaning " heady ale ".

Originally Johann Dobneck, he was born of poor parents at Wendelstein ( near Nuremberg ), from which he obtained the punning surname Cochlaeus ( spiral ), for which he occasionally substituted Wendelstinus.

This may be a punning reference to Reading, ( pronounced " redding "), as a slip-song version c. 1790 among the Madden songs at Cambridge University Library has ' In Reading town, where I was bound.

His opening address is frequently quoted ; Taylor's style of oratory was deliberately concise and straightforward but he had a talent for a punning literary allusion.

W. B. R. Lickorish later rediscovered this result with a simpler proof and in addition showed that Dehn twists along explicit curves generate the mapping class group ( this is called by the punning name " Lickorish twist theorem "); this number was later improved by Stephen P. Humphries to, for, which he showed was the minimal number.

The name was coined as a punning contrast to the designation Munro, used of a Scottish mountain with a height of more than, which is homophonous with ( Marilyn ) Monroe.

A biography Lion of Barbados was published about him, punning on his middle name ' Leo '.

) The band's music was characterized by sophisticated studio production, Gartside's sly, punning wordplay — influenced by his reading of deconstruction ( the group's 1982 debut album, Songs to Remember, features a song called " Jacques Derrida ") — and the tension between the polished pop-funk stylings of their music and the subtle radicalism of the political and social messages embedded in their lyrics.

During the debates on Catholic emancipation the opening lines were quoted in the House of Commons by George Canning to ridicule John Copley: the punning imputation was that a speech by Copley was from a pamphlet of Henry Phillpotts.

' heard in H. C. Earwicker's pub ," a plausible suggestion given the complex punning in Joyce's novel.

The area of Quincy now called Merrymount is located on the site of the original English settlement of 1625 and takes its name from the punning name given by Morton.

The typical Shuowen format for a character entry consists of a seal graph ; a short definition ( usually a single synonym, occasionally in a punning way as in the Shiming ), pronunciation given by citing a homophone, and analysis of compound graphs into semantic and / or phonetic components.

In computer science, the term type punning refers to a programming technique that subverts or circumvents the type system of a programming language, by allowing a value of a certain type to be manipulated as a value of a different type.

Ideally, the meaning of lines shifts when they are repeated although the words remain exactly the same: this can be done by shifting punctuation, punning, or simply recontextualizing.

Thus, by a sort of punning process, the " gentleman " becomes a " gentle-man ".

He is accompanied by his cousin Henry, and a French teenager named Jean-Paul, nicknamed " Beanpole " for his height and slimness, and punning similarity to his real name.

He had a keen wit, whose sharp edge often inflicted wounds never deliberately intended by the speaker, a healthy appetite and a wholly uncontrollable love of punning.

" is seen by a picture of the folded paper displaying its masthead ; next to this is the tagline punning on the exclamation: " A thoroughly decent read ".

Cortázar's employment of interior monologue, punning, slang, and his use of different languages is reminiscent of Modernist writers like Joyce, although his main influences were Surrealism and the French New Novel-as Composition nº 1 ( 1962 ), by Marc Saporta ( 1923-2009 )-, as well as the " riffing " aesthetic of jazz and New Wave Cinema.

It is one of several related products punning upon the name Mars by using an astronomical name.

The word " Motorik " means " motor skill " in German, although the word's use in music journalism may be derived from a punning modification of " motoric ", a term long used by music critics to describe relentless ostinato rhythm.

The title is a punning reference to the line " ' Scuse me while I kiss the sky " from the song " Purple Haze " by Jimi Hendrix.

The band took their name from a song written by a friend of theirs, which contained the line " punch me with a judybat " in a punning allusion to Punch and Judy shows.

Poet, lapsed Catholic and conscientious objector Louis Sacchetti is sent to a secret military installation called Camp Archimedes, where military prisoners are injected with a form of syphilis intended to make them geniuses ( hence the punning reference to " concentration " in the novel's title ).

The novel's farcical elements make use of punning and similar verbal playfulness.

* For a punning take on " Joshua, son of Nun ," see the 1973 political thriller Joshua Son of None.

He wrote a consort piece with the punning title " Semper Dowland, semper dolens " ( always Dowland, always doleful ), which may be said to sum up much of his work.

In general, oxymora can be divided into expressions that were deliberately crafted to be contradictory and those phrases that inadvertently or incidentally contain a contradiction, often as a result of a punning use of one or both words.

' " An example which combines homophonic and homographic punning is Douglas Adams's line " You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish.

Mark Elvin describes how this " peculiarly Chinese form of visual punning involved comparing written characters to objects.

* Hempelmann, Christian F. " Script opposition and logical mechanism in punning ".

Similar comments were made even in Constantinople, where John Kyriotes Geometres penned a poem offering a punning comparison between the Bulgarian Emperor and a comet which appeared in 989.

The British rock band Supergrass named their fifth studio album Road to Rouen, punning on an Anglicised pronunciation of the city's name.

In Roman times it kept its own coinage with the punning device of the bent arm holding a palm branch, and the head of Aphrodite on the reverse, and continued the use of the Greek language.

Gamow's lifetime interest in playing pranks, punning, and doggerel verse come across in some of his popular writings, notably his Mr. Tompkins ... series of books ( 1939 – 1967 ).

A rhyming or punning word-play on the name of the call is common.