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AK4711

The name is a wordplay on the AK-47 assault rifle, 4711, a brand of Eau de Cologne, and the initials of the lead singer Anja Krabbe.

Alexander Veltman

("Kalimeros" is a Greek equivalent of Buonaparte, the original family name of Napoleon I; Veltman probably got the idea for this kind of wordplay from Victor Hugo's 1828 poem "Bounaberdi".

American Crossword Puzzle Tournament

The 2006 documentary Wordplay, directed by Patrick Creadon, focuses on Will Shortz and the 2005 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament.

Deb Obarski

As the frontwoman of the Dolls, her stage name was "Blizzy Osbourne", a wordplay on Osbourne's solo debut Blizzard of Ozz.

Dogshitter Wants

Dogshitter Wants, although only achieving minor commercial success, takes a small place in the peculiar tradition of English psychedelia and wordplay influenced by Lewis Carroll.

Félix Faure

George Clemenceau's epitaph of Faure, in the same trend, was "Il voulait être César, il ne fut que Pompée" (another wordplay in French; could mean both "he wished to be Caesar, but ended up as Pompey", or "he wished to be Caesar and ended up being blown": the verb "pomper" in French is also slang for performing oral sex on a man); Clemenceau, who was also editor of the newspaper L'Aurore, wrote that "upon entering the void, he Faure must have felt at home".

Immobilarity

CMJ (11/29/99, p. 25) - "...top-game flow and edgy wordplay proves compatible with any groove tossed at him....proves he can hold his own..."

KUD Idijoti

The following year released a CD "Istra ti materina" (wordplay of a very common curse and Mother Istra) in collaboration with the Pula composition band Gori Ussi Winnetou.

Leigh Mercer

Leigh Mercer (1893–1977) was a noted British wordplay and recreational mathematics expert.

Lonnie Burr

After losing in his second appearance on WordPlay, the celebrity panelists put on mouse ears and sang the ending theme version of the Mickey Mouse March.

Burr also appeared as a contestant on two game shows, The Big Showdown (1975) and Wordplay (1987).

Marie Touchet

Her anagrammed name was even Je Charme Tout (the letters I and J were then considered interchangeable) meaning "I charm all." Henry, King of Navarre was responsible for this clever wordplay.

Political messages of Dr. Seuss

Geisel, a cartoonist and author for children, was also a progressive and a moralist who expressed his views in his books through the use of ridicule, satire, wordplay, nonsense words, and wild drawings to take aim at bullies, hypocrites, and demagogues.

The Apple War

A German businessman wants to buy land in southern Sweden for a gigantic amusement park, his new project called "Deutschneyland" (a wordplay of Deutschland and Disneyland).

The Honourable Wally Norman

Much of the film's humour comes from wordplay, such as naming the town Givens Head, and the foreman of the meatworks being named George.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

The wordplay is based on the distinct meanings of the two occurrences of the word flies (the verb "travel through the air" and the noun for certain insects), and of the word like (the preposition "similarly to" and the verb "enjoy").

Walking to Hollywood

The conversations with Scooby-Doo, the made-up characters, the sex, lies and videotape – this is a landscape contoured, almost in whole, by Self’s imagination… It is, as always, a place crammed with a Devil’s Dictionary’s worth of wordplay, and with an unerring tendency towards the absurd.

Yeeeah Baby

CMJ (4/24/00, p. 30) - "...Beams the spotlight on the Boricua bomber's unparalleled breath control and hilarious jaw-dropping wordplay."


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