One day Gregory saw some fair-haired children for sale in the slave market in Rome . " What nation are they ? " he asked . " They're Angles ( English ), " he was told . " Non Angli sed angeli ( not Angles but angels ) ! " punned Gregory.
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His reputation was made by " Po�sies sacr�es et philosophiques " ( 1734 ), later mocked by Voltaire, who punned on the title : " " Sacr�s ils sont, car personne n'y touche " " ( " They are sacred all right, because no one will touch them " ).
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The situation leading up to the battle is described in 7.18.6 : The Turvasas and Yaksus ( Yadu ), together with the Matsya tribe ( punned upon by the rishi by comparing them to hungry fish ( " matsya " ) flocking together ) appear and ally themselves with the Bhrigus and the Druhyus.
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The song was punned by the Marx Brothers in the film " Chico asks, " Montreal ?, and Groucho replies, " I'm a dreamer, Montreal . " The pun has been much-recycled not least in Stewart Parker's award-winning play " I m a Dreamer, Montreal ".
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Another Protestant opponent, Bishop Bale, also punned on his name calling him ` insanus Porcarius'and'Milo Porcarius, vel Hoggardus, servorum Dei malignus proditor,'and ridiculed him for endeavouring to prove the necessity of fasting from Virgil's " �neid " and Cicero's " Tusculanae Disputationes ".
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In some cases the explanations became quite involved, such as the river Brandywine ( Sindarin Baranduin, " golden-brown river " ) was actually called " Branda-n�n ", a punning Westron name meaning " border-water ", which was later punned again as " Bralda-h�m ", meaning " heady ale ".
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McLuhan frequently punned on the word " message ", changing it to " mass age ", " mess age ", and " massage "; a later book, " The Medium Is the Massage " was originally to be titled " The Medium is the Message ", but McLuhan preferred the new title, which is said to have been a printing error.
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In a mocking reference to his escape route, Norreis was occasionally known as Roger Cloacarius or " Roger the Drain-Cleaner " . { { efn | The monks also punned on his escape, stating that " Roger Norreis, who, since he was not necessary to us, exited, filthy, by the sewer ", playing on the Latin word for sewer, " necessaria ".
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Examples in which the punned words typically exist in two different parts of speech often rely on unusual sentence construction, as in the anecdote : " When asked to explain his large number of children, the pig answered simply :'The wild oats of my sow gave us many piglets .'" An example that combines homophonic and homographic punning is Douglas Adams's line " You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish.
