Puns may refer to Partido de Uni n Nacional Saharaui , the Sahrawi political party Pun , figure of speech disambig Short pages monitor This long comment was added to the page to prevent it being listed on Special Shortpages. It and the accompanying monitoring template were generated via Template Longcomment. Please do not remove the monitor template without removing the comment as well. ... more details
A visual pun is a pun involving an image or images in addition to or instead of language . Visual puns in which the image is at odds with the inscription are common in Dutch gable stone s as well as in cartoon s such as Lost Consonants or The Far Side . European heraldry contains the technique of canting arms , which can be considered punning. Examples In The Muppet Movie , while Kermit and Fozzie are driving. Kermit looks at the map and says they need to turn at the fork in the road. At this point he lowers the map at which point we see a giant fork in the middle of the road. In Spaceballs , Dark Helmet tries to order his troops to comb the desert for the heroes of the film. In the next shot there are a bunch of troopers with giant combs, combing the desert. In Super Mario Brothers , when Mario picks up a fire flower , he becomes fiery. Fire flower in Japanese is literally hi bana fire flower , meaning spark, hence he is picking up a spark . At the end of a level, sometimes fireworks go off in Japanese, fireworks are hana bi flower fire same kanji , opposite order. In Alice 1988 film Alice by Jan vankmajer , there are a number of visual puns, including socks in holes socks crawling into and out of holes, punning on holes in socks Alice opens a sardine can to reveal a key, punning on the Church key key used to open a sardine can. In the 1976 version of The Omen , after speaking with Mr. Thorn Gregory Peck , a nun steps into a paternoster lift. The File CLEP.png logo of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program is a stylized Chinese character for moon , but is also a pair of human feet, surrounded by a crescent moon, symbolizing walking on the moon . External links http ... of visual puns See also Slapstick Christian Hempelmann and Andrea C. Samson. Visual Puns and Verbal Puns Descriptive Analogy or False Analogy? In Diana Popa and Salvatore Attardo Eds. , New Approaches to the Linguistics of Humor. Galati Dunarea de Jos. 2007. 180 196. Category Humor Category Puns comedy ... more details
series of words . ref Augarde, Tony. The Oxford Guide to Word Games , p.205 ref Puns may be regarded ... language and its culture. Puns are used to create humor and sometimes require a large vocabulary to understand. Puns have long been used by comedy writers, such as William Shakespeare , Oscar Wilde , and George Carlin . Typology Puns can be classified in various ways The homophonic pun , a common ... . ref Puns , Blackwell, London, 1984 ref For example, in George Carlin s phrase Atheism is a non ... ambiguity of the homophones check and Czech . Often, puns are not strictly homophonic, but play ... of their nature, they rely on sight more than hearing, contrary to homophonic puns. They are also known as heteronymic puns . Examples in which the punned words typically exist in two different parts ... fish kind of fish . Homonymic puns, another common type, arise from the exploitation of words which ... are trapped in one bad lie after another puns on the two meanings of the word lie as a deliberate ... that contains two or more puns. For example, a complex statement by Richard Whately includes four puns ... puns may also combine two phrases that share a word. For example, Where do mathematician s go on weekends? To a M bius strip club puns on M bius strip and strip club . There is no generally accepted definition of a double or other multiple puns , although George Carlin claimed to pen a double pun ... socialarts puns pun.html ref The phrase double pun could also be loosely understood to refer ... which puns may take graphological puns, such as concrete poetry and Morphology linguistics morphological puns, such as portmanteau s. ref name Alexander Alexander, Richard J. Aspects of Verbal Humour in English , pp.21 41 ref Visual puns Main Visual pun Visual puns are used in many logos, emblems, insignia .... In European heraldry , this technique is called canting arms . Visual and other puns and word games ... books?id hE ex4MZKIEC&pg PA109&lpg PA109&dq 22Chinese puns 22&source bl&ots m1U5cflqqQ&sig Rw0Fo4i6ecjW4VlFgSl4gym8pqk ... more details
PUNS, Sahrawi National Union Party was a short lived political party set up by Spain to rally support in its rebellious Spanish Sahara colonialism colony now Western Sahara . Creation of PUNS The PUNS ... of the Djema a , a tribalism tribalist political body set up for similar purposes in the 1950s. PUNS ... which had by then taken over most of the countryside. PUNS also advocated independence as a distant ..., the colonial authorities allowed the PUNS to increase its demands for independence and campaign ... of opinion rapidly shrank, the PUNS membership gravitated towards the Polisario, and as early as May 1975, the leaders of PUNS met with Polisario s Secretary General, El Ouali , who consistently ... the Djema a or tribal groupings. In mid 1975, PUNS seemed to simultaneously be slipping out of Spanish ... the demand of PUNS leaders to form a common political front while preserving the party s internal structure. El Ouali instead insisted that the PUNS dissolve itself and that its supporters could join the Polisario as regular members. Collapse in 1975 Image PUNS flag.jpg thumb Flag of the PUNS 1974 ... invaded in the winter of 1975, after the Madrid Accords , Spain abandoned PUNS, and what little remained ... the claims of King of Morocco King Hassan II to Western Sahara notably, PUNS leader Khellihenna ... of November 14, 1975, the remaining members of the PUNS, headed by secretary general Dueh Sidna Naucha, officially dissolved the PUNS, giving the affiliates the chance to join the POLISARIO ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 distinguish Punctuation A puncutation also known as paronomasia is a figure of speech, or word play which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words within a phrase or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious. A puncutation can rely on the assumed equivalency of multiple similar words homonymy , of different shades of meaning of one word polysemy , or of a literal meaning with a metaphor. Puncutation is commonly used in a shortened form as simply a pun . Walter Redfern succinctly said that puncutation is a method to treat homonym homonyms as synonym synonyms . ref cite book last Redfern first Walter title Puns publisher Blackwell location London date 1984 ref For example, a puncutation is used in the sentence There is nothing punny about bad puns. The puncutation takes place in the deliberate confusion of the implied word funny by the substitution of the word punny , a heterophone of funny . A puncutation using heterophones, words with similar but inexact sounds, is called an imperfect puncutation. When a character or person does this unintentionally, it is called a malapropism . An example of this is saying the world is perspiring against me, as opposed to the world is conspiring against me. Another example is someone referring to prostrate cancer instead of prostate cancer. Bad puns are sometimes called cheesy . In order to be able to use a puncutation effectively it is necessary that a language must include homonyms which may readily be misrepresented as synonyms. Languages with complex gender or case structures tend not to facilitate this, although puncutation can be constructed in all languages with varying degrees of difficulty that is, puncutation are said to be easy to construct in languages such as Chinese or English, but more difficult in Russian. References improverefs date September 2007 reflist Category Puns ... more details
Unreferenced date November 2007 A transpositional pun is a complicated pun format with two aspects. It involves transposing the words in a well known phrase or saying to get a daffynition like clever redefinition of a well known word unrelated to the original phrase. The redefinition is thus the first aspect, the transposition the second aspect. As a result, transpositional puns are considered among the most difficult to create, and commonly the most challenging to comprehend, particularly for non native speakers of the language in which they re given most commonly English language English . Examples unreferenced section date August 2010 class wikitable Pun Original reference Alimony The bounty of mutiny. The Mutiny on the Bounty . Dieting A waist is a terrible thing to mind. A mind is a terrible thing to waste , the motto of the United Negro College Fund . Hangover s The wrath of grapes. The Grapes of Wrath Olympic Games Olympic officials The souls that time men s tries. Thomas Paine s saying These are the times that try men s souls . The Oboe An ill wind nobody blows good. tis an ill wind that blows nobody any good . Feudalism It s your count that votes It s your vote that counts Screaming Words speak louder than actions Actions speak louder than words mercenary Soldiers of fortune Give Chance some peace Give peace a chance See also Antimetabole Chiasmus In Soviet Russia Category Puns ... more details
Nomanisan can refer to four islands one real, three fictional. All four islands are named as intentional puns on the famous quote by John Donne , No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe. The original Nomanisan is an island in Lake Kittamaqundi in downtown Columbia, Maryland , located along the Town Center lakefront. The island was named by Alan B. Levine in a 1980 community contest sponsored by Columbia Magazine. Nomanisan is a fictional island in the 2004 Pixar film The Incredibles . It is also a fictional island in Mathnet s Trial of George Frankly . A slight variation, Nomansan, is used for an island in Trenton Lee Stewart s novel The Mysterious Benedict Society . disambig ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Deleted image removed Image Biff Thundersaur Cover.jpg thumb Biff Thundersaur Cover The Bodacious Adventures of Biff Thundersaur was a single comic book episode written by David Campiti and published by Innovation Publishing in 1991 as a pilot for possible series. It consisted of 27 black and white pages focusing around the fictional character fictional anthropomorphic dinosaur , Biff Thundersaur, and his quest for the black eye of Kwyta Shyna. The book was notable for its detailed drawings and numerous puns. DEFAULTSORT Biff Thundersaur Category Innovation Publishing titles Category Fictional dinosaurs Comics stub ... more details
Licensing Non free game cover Mega Drive Non free media rationale Description Box cover for the Sega Megadrive edition of James Pond. Source Box cover for the Sega Megadrive edition of James Pond. Portion Front of the box cover. Resolution reduced, 241x300 px. Article James Pond Purpose To illustrate the box cover of the game, and it also illustrates the many visual puns on the James Bond series in the James Pond game. Replaceability This game is copyrighted, so no free replacement can be created. other information Now owned by Gameware Development . ... more details
Quimbe is a topical song form from Sint Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles . It traditionally accompanies the ponum dance and drum ming, but is now often performed without accompaniment. Lyrics include gossip, news and social criticism, and use clever puns and rhymes. Performance is often competitive in nature. ref cite book title New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians editor Sadie, Stanley ed. chapter Dutch Antilles publisher MacMillan Publishers location London year 1995 isbn 1 56159 174 2 page 777 ref References and notes references Category Calypso music genre stub SintMaarten stub ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 The number sequence 881 is... a Paid Toll Free telephone number prefix in the USA the Port of Los Angeles Long Wharf, California State Historic Landmark 881 the year AD 881 or the year 881 BC In astronomy, NGC 881 is an Sc type galaxy in the constellation Cetus. A bilingual play on words when text chatting in Mandarin Chinese or bilingually Mandarin Chinese and English. 881 is pronounced ba ba yi in Mandarin, and thus puns on bye bye. Probably an elaboration of the similar pun on 88 ba ba . See 88 number . The international telephone dialling code for the Global Mobile Satellite System DEFAULTSORT 881 Number Category Integers 89e02 881 ko 800 ht 881 nonm ... more details
Wikify date October 2010 Orphan date September 2006 att March 2011 George Febres 1943 ? was an Ecuadorian born painter, internationally acclaimed for his wildly imaginative style and humorous visual puns. His is especially known for his banana motif which often appeared in his paintings. His work was an important part of the dynamic upswing in New Orleans visual arts in the late 20th century. He is now interred in Saint Louis Cemetery 1. References references Florence, Robert. New Orleans Cemeteries Life in the Cities of the Dead . Batture Press, New Orleans, Louisiana 1997. pp 59. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Febres, George ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1943 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Febres, George Category Ecuadorian artists Category 1943 births Category Year of death missing Ecuador painter stub ... more details
for the martial art title of the same name Japanese honorifics nihongo Ky shi is a form of Japanese poetry using only kanji Chinese characters which was popular around 1770 1800. Ky shi avoids typical poetic forms, and often includes humorous expressions and puns on alternate readings or meanings of the same characters. Mostly written by low ranking samurai and ch nin townspeople , the form is closely related to ky ka , and to ky bun , a form of prose writing which also uses only Chinese characters. ta Nampo is the most well known of ky shi poets the form was very popular for a short time, but declined quickly and disappeared after the turn of the 19th century. References Frederic, Louis 2002 . Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press. DEFAULTSORT Kyoshi Category Japanese poetry poetry stub Japan lit stub ... more details
Unreferenced date November 2006 A culture note derived from footnote is small pop up text that explains a cultural element on a TV program or film that the target audience is not expected to understand. Examples can be Cultural social artifact artifacts and symbols. Definitions for specific terms. Puns that are hard or impossible to explain with just Subtitle captioning subtitles . Usually a text box appears for a few seconds in the top part of the screen, with the note itself being kept as small as possible. Other examples include full screen cultural notes prior to the start of the program. The information may also be presented in the subtitles, usually between brackets. Culture notes first appeared on Internet translations, and soon took place in some physical media translations as well. See also Pop up Video Pop Up Video DEFAULTSORT Culture Note Category Film techniques Film term stub ... more details
Deleted image removed Image Joseph Stirling Coyne.jpg thumb left 200px Joseph Stirling Coyne Joseph Stirling Coyne was a humorist and satirist in the tradition of Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope . One of the most prolific British playwrights of the mid nineteenth century, he wrote more than sixty plays his twenty seven farces are surpassed in number only by John Maddison Morton s ninety one and T. J. Williams s thirty. Coyne brought to the stage accomplished comedic interchanges, puns, irony, exaggerated character traits, ludicrous plot situations, and surprising outcomes. His plays reveal a deft ear for dialogue and an ability to create characters suited to the talents of specific actors. As a journalist Coyne contributed humorous pieces to many widely circulated Magazine journals and newspapers . Childhood Coyne was born in 1803 to Denis Coyne, a port worker, and Bridget Coyne, n e Cosgrave, in Birr , County Offaly, Ireland . After attending the Dungannon School, he began studying law but decided to pursue a literary career after some of his articles appeared in local publications. His first farce, The Phrenologist , appeared at the Irish Royal Theatre in Dublin in June 1835 and was revived two years later at the abbey theatre. Remembrance Joseph Stirling Coyne s everyday characters and realistic situations and language appealed to working class theatergoers, and his plays enjoyed long runs during the middle decades of the nineteenth century, when stage. Coyne is remembered for his humor and puns and for his satire of Victorianism Victorian social and artistic conventions. His work is a significant link between the stylized French and English comedies of the eighteenth century and the witty, intellectual plays of Wilde and George Bernard Shaw . References refbegin cite book last Watson first Ernest title Sheridan to Robertson A Study of the Nineteenth Century London Stage refend Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Coyne, Joseph ALTERNATIVE NAMES ... more details
rap rhymes and puns . ref Kawahara, Shigeto 2007 Half rhymes in Japanese rap song lyrics and knowledge ... Shinohara 2009 The role of psychoacoustic similarity in Japanese puns A corpus study. Journal of Linguistics ... vocalic similarity through puns. Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan 13. Kawahara, Shigeto ... in Japanese puns A corpus study. Journal of Linguistics. 45 111 138. Kawahara, Shigeto 2009 ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Beano strip image No image available strip name Colin the Vet artist Duncan Scott start issue 3207 start date 3rd January 2004 finish Finished characters Colin the vet, Two female vets one known as Nursey Colin the Vet was a fictional character who had his own comic strip in the United Kingdom UK comic The Beano between 2004 and 2006. As the name implies, the strip was about a veterinarian called Colin, who encounters all sorts of crazy animals. The strip was drawn solely by Duncan Scott . The name of the strip was based on the phrase call in the vet . It was one of the nominees to be voted into The Beano by readers in early 2004. Although Joe Jitsu won, it was only a 1 victory over Colin, so both were added to The Beano . Colin also appeared in the Beano Annuals for 2006 and 2007. A running gag in his comic strips included hidden Celebrity Pets , which are fictional pets owned by famous people. Many of the pets descriptions are puns on the name of the celebrity. Such as Ant and Dec s Ant on decks D. C. Thomson Comics Beano DEFAULTSORT Colin The Vet Category Beano strips UK comics stub ... more details
, the most recent being The Collected Feghoot from Pulphouse Publishing . Many of the ideas and puns ... Fan fiction fan produced stories as well. Other Story Puns Myles na gCopaleen s column Cruiskeen ... s Bar series by Spider Robinson uses some of the worst puns known to man.... building up to the anticipated ... Category Science fiction short stories Category Short story types Category Puns ... more details
Les lang fr 2 minutes du peuple are radio sketches of approximately 2 minutes each more or less recorded by Quebec humorist Fran ois P russe . These sketches talk about everyday life, on various subjects like The X Files , ER TV series ER , Columbo TV series Columbo and lang fr a se discute programmes, as well as some popular and some original songs. The style of humour is a mix of puns and absurd. They are broadcast each day on these radio stations In Quebec on lang fr Radio nergie . In Switzerland on lang fr Couleur 3 . In France, used to be on Europe 2 , currently on the lang fr Rire et Chansons radio station. These sketches were used as a reference by other authors of Podcast like lang fr Le donjon de Naheulbeuk . External links http www.zeromusic.com perusse Fran ois P russe s official website fr http www.couleur3.ch fr index.html?siteSect 1006 Twenty sketches , suggested by Couleur 3 . fr Quebec stub Category French language radio programs in Canada Deux minutes Category Culture of Quebec Deux minutes Category Canadian radio comedy Deux minutes fr Les 2 minutes du peuple ... more details
Mister and Mississippi is a popular music popular song , written by Irving Gordon . It was published in 1951 in music 1951 . The song was popularized by Patti Page . It was also recorded by Rex Allen , Dennis Day and Johnny Desmond . The Page recording was issued by Mercury Records as Catalog numbering systems for single records catalog number 5645, and first reached the Billboard magazine Billboard chart on May 19, 1951, lasting 15 weeks and peaking at 8. ref name Whitburn cite book last Whitburn first Joel authorlink Joel Whitburn title Top Pop Records 1940 1955 publisher Record Research year 1973 ref The recording by Dennis Day was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 47 4140. It first reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart on June 1, 1951 and lasted 11 weeks on the chart, peaking at 15. ref name Whitburn On Cash Box magazine s charts, where all versions were combined, the song peaked at 6 on the chart. The popularity of this song apparently led Gordon, a number of years later, to create another song with even more puns on U.S. state state names Delaware song Delaware . References references Category Songs written by Irving Gordon Category 1951 songs Category Patti Page songs no Mister and Mississippi 1950s pop song stub ... more details
Sir Bagby was a daily strip created by brothers Rick Hackney and Bill Hackney, who signed the strip R&B Hackney. It ran in a small number of United States newspapers from March of 1959 until 1966. The setting was a medieval world filled with anachronisms and puns. In that, it resembled Jack Kent illustrator Jack Kent s King Aroo . The main characters are Sir Bagby, a knight, King Filbert I, II King Filbert I was my father. He built the business up so I decided to keep the name. , a wizard named Snerk, a jester named Solly, a playwright named Faro, and his assistant Billingsgate. The only reprints of the strip have been in Comics Revue . References Strickler, Dave. Syndicated Comic Strips and Artists, 1924 1995 The Complete Index. Cambria, CA Comics Access, 1995. ISBN 0 9700077 0 1. External links http comicstripfan.com newspaper s sirbagby.htm Sir Bagby at ComicStripFan Category Comic strips started in the 1950s comic strip stub ... more details
Paul Harris , born in 1950 in Melbourne , Australia and educated at Assumption College, Kilmore is a film critic , who appears on radio stations 3RRR and 3AW . Known for his vast knowledge of film, music and theatre , and for his elaborate puns and impressions, he has fronted the radio show Filmbuff s Forecast since 1982. For the first ten years he co anchored with John Flaus to produce what became a memorable double act. He has directed the St. Kilda Film Festival since 1999. He has occasionally acted Nirvana Street Murder , Love and Other Catastrophes and is a lecturer in the Professional Screenwriting course at RMIT University RMIT . He is the author of The Film Buff s DVD Companion Text Publishing . External links imdb name id 1303478 name Paul Harris http www.filmbuffs.net index.asp Filmbuff s Forecast website Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Harris, Paul ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Harris, Paul Category Australian film critics Category Living people Australia journalist stub Australia film bio stub ... more details
Karius and Bactus ISBN 0961539410 is a Norwegian language Norwegian children s novel written and illustrated by Thorbj rn Egner . The book was first published in 1949 and produced as a 15 minute animatronics puppet animation film by Ivo Caprino in 1954 . An English translation by Mike Sevig and Turi Olderheim was published in the United States in 1986. The main characters are Karius black haired and Bactus red haired . Their names are puns on Caries and Bacteria , and they are two small tooth troll s that live inside cavities in the teeth of a boy named Jens . They have a very good life, especially when Jens eats white bread with syrup and fails to Toothbrush brush his teeth afterwards. Eventually their homes are destroyed by the work of a dentist and they are rinsed out of Jens mouth through proper dental care . The story of Karius and Bactus, with its humorous illustrations and important message, has become a classic of Norwegian children s literature. Since its publication, the idea of tooth trolls has been used as a pedagogical device for generations of Scandinavian children. Category 1949 novels Category Norwegian novels Category Children s novels child novel stub de Karius und Baktus fo Karius og Baktus he nl Karius en Baktus no Karius og Baktus nn Karius og Baktus sv Karius och Baktus ... more details
Wordplay can mean Word play , a literary technique in which the nature of the words used themselves become part of the subject of the work e.g. puns, spoonerisms, etc. List of forms of word play , a compiled list of wordplay techniques Wordplay game show Wordplay game show , a game show that ran on NBC from 1986 to 1987 Wordplay UK game show Wordplay UK game show , a game show that began to air in 2009 on UK channel Five Wordplay film Wordplay film , a 2006 documentary film about crossword puzzles Wordplay website , a website run by screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio Wordplay album Wordplay album , a music album by the Christian parody band Apologetix Wordplay The Twilight Zone Wordplay The Twilight Zone , an episode of the television series The New Twilight Zone Wordplay song Wordplay song , a song from the album Mr. A Z , written by Jason Mraz Wordplay musician , a British musician Disambig ... more details
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