Running through all of the songs are a tongue-in-cheek retro-coolness and a full-speed-ahead funkiness.
"I could put a cell phone in an earring or a tongue stud, " says the 39-year-old professor-turned-entrepreneur.
He amassed around 150 viewers until he made a tongue-in-cheek film called "how to get featured on Youtube".
His comrade-in-charms, Stephen Colbert, is also jumping in with a tongue-in-cheek counter-rally -- a March to Keep Fear Alive.
Titled "Losing My Edge, " the track offers a tongue-in-cheek look at the DJ culture that catapulted Murphy to underground fame.
Once again, Verhoeven uses his wry view of the media of the future to frame a tongue-in-cheek epic science-fiction action saga.
She was in the spotlight as a teenager when spotted sporting a tongue stud, and is fast becoming a fashion icon.
For a prime minister trying to rehabilitate his credibility with alienated voters, redemption is sought from a tongue lashing on TV.
Should you invest in equities or do you invest, as a tongue-in-cheek Jim Cramer said on CNBC on Monday, in bank CDs?
After stewing for a bit on this, I remembered a tongue-in-cheek comment my colleague, Peter Kelly-Detwiler, made about DR a couple of years ago.
She was also presented by her staff with a tongue-in-cheek gift of protective headgear in the shape of a football helmet emblazoned with her department's seal.
Bogost developed Jetset, a tongue-and-cheek game about airport security aimed at business travelers, back in 2007, but found there wasn't much market for it at the time.
Admittedly squeamish, I packed a tongue scraper so I could quickly flick them off, and I occasionally sought refuge on observation decks perched high in the rainforest canopy.
It turned out that my friend Mark Pritchard, an introverted writer with a tongue piercing, attended a Lutheran church with wooden pews where he sang old-fashioned hymns every Sunday.
Oasis' set ended with The Who's My Generation, and then suddenly they were gone, leaving with a tongue-in-cheek remark that they'd be in Cardiff's Whispers nightclub later "if you want to join us".
How should partly knowing a tongue be tallied?
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Naturally, it helped set off the ringtone craze, becoming so ubiquitous that just two years later, it was a tongue-in-cheek, kind of retro move to still have it vibrating the table when your mom called.
In the past we've seen a tongue-based computer interface or two, the BrainPort sight-via-papillae solution, and this week, at the American Chemical Society's annual meeting, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign introduced a sensor about the size of a business card that detects and identifies fourteen common sweeteners -- including Splenda, Sugar in the Raw, and Sweet'n'Low.
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After she is captured, Joan, although having no theological training, holds her own--often with a tart tongue--against a daunting array of Church officials during her ecclesiastical trial.
Using Braille for speeches, and briefed by his officials on tape, he also has a sharp tongue at times, and a pragmatic approach to politics.
The brainy self-made son of Cuban immigrants has a silver tongue and is often called a Republican Barack Obama (in a good way, you understand).
At the end of his presentation he mentioned (possibly a bit tongue-in-cheek) that they were having a very hard time recruiting people to work in China and if anyone was interested to let him know.
More than anything, Nationalism counts on a common tongue in order to justify itself.
And English has become, thanks to the combination of British colonialism and American commercialism, a global tongue.
David Jones is a man with a sharp mind and a sharp tongue to go with it.
Ms. DONNA BRAZILE (Political Commentator, CNN): Well, you know, Senator McCain has a reputation of having a hot tongue.
Some of the respondents, felt Michael, were perhaps reacting in a "tongue-in-cheek" manner when they placed the blame for failures.
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