Other forms of wordplay (occasionally employing equally obscure references) are also common.

So is "Small Problems," Ming Fay's equally obscure sculpture.

She glories in catching her students not paying attention or talking in class, then giving them snap quizzes on the obscure capitals of equally obscure countries.

Later there will be an equally obscure amendment to the export law allowing people who are moving off planet to take their property with them.

At the other end of the Mall was a much larger dwelling-a gracefully rambling Queen Anne called (for equally obscure reasons) Damli House.

Unrelated but equally obscure light bulb humor (lighting industry humor)

Their eyes met; the holy man's nod was almost imperceptible, barely a motion, and was acknowledged by an equally obscure movement as the match went out.

At the end of the corridor was a small staircase which led down to an equally obscure corridor on the ground floor.

I finally spotted it, a street about the size of an ingrown hair, off an equally obscure lane in the foothills that stretch across the back of town.

The book is supposed to contain clues to China's future conveyed through a series of 60 surreal drawings, each accompanied by an equally obscure poem.