In fact, throwing in a barb about a Chicago team has become his signature move.
Even on renewing their contracts last week he couldn't resist a barb, saying Peruvians expected and deserved better results.
But mentioning the goody bags celebs take home as a balm to the recession was a barb bordering on taboo.
It's one of the simplest items on our list--just a piece of bent wire, sometimes sporting a barb on the end.
Of course, Harriet Harman will be answering the questions not probing the Tories (though she's likely to attach a barb or two to her replies).
Goldfarb attributed much of the momentum to continuity at the top of the company, perhaps a veiled barb at competitor Morgan Stanley, which is being pelted with criticism and trying to stem a wave of executive departures.
If there was a slight barb in that comment, the outgoing prime minister did not respond to it.
According to a report by Barb Darrow, an industry analyst and senior writer with GigaOm, IBM may be the only seriously interested party.
Many of those in today's audience - even Alan Cumming - will have felt the barb of a bad review.
The 44-year-old naturalist died after being struck in the chest by the stingray's barb while filming a documentary on Queensland's Great Barrier Reef.
He knew that when he called another coach a name, only readers of a local paper would spot the barb.
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The third button says Barb, B-A-R-B, delegate for Muskie.
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Romantics like to think of them as a direct historical link to the Spanish Barb, released in the south-west during the 1500s by the conquistadors.
His even-handed generosity towards the artists he discusses is relieved by droll humour, a feeling for their quirks and the occasional, unexpected barb.
Ms. BARB TIMOCK (Spokeswoman, Forest Service): We had a wet year.
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