Lovecraft himself humorously referred to his mythos as " Yog Sothothery " ( Mosig coincidentally suggested the term Yog-Sothoth Cycle of Myth be substituted for Cthulhu Mythos ) and at times had to remind readers his mythos creations were entirely fictional.

* The American author O. Henry humorously referred to a book by " Homer KM " with the character " Ruby Ott " in his short story " The Handbook of Hymen.

In computing, an early tradition in the hacker community ( especially at MIT ) was to choose acronyms and abbreviations that referred humorously to themselves or to other abbreviations.

In personal terms, Simon was also inspired by the fact of being over 60 years old, an age that he turned in 2001 and that he humorously referred already on his single " Old " from the You're the One.

Anywhere further from Ambridge may be referred to humorously with comments such as ' that's on the other side of Felpersham!

The island's entertainment business spread throughout the county with major casino districts in Kemah and Dickinson enabled by a lax attitude among law enforcement in the county ( Houstonians often humorously referred to the Galveston County line as the Maceo-Dickinson line ).

* Since the late 20th century, because of Evanston's activism and often left-of-center politics, it is sometimes humorously ( or sarcastically ) referred to as " The People's Republic of Evanston.

He is widely considered to be a master of the tremolo arm ( whammy bar ), something which he humorously referred to in his song " Twang Bar King " ( which itself features a particularly demented whammy-bar solo ).

Many business theorists view service provision as a performance or act ( sometimes humorously referred to as dramalurgy, perhaps in reference to dramaturgy ).

A strict and demanding officer, he came to be referred to by his soldiers humorously as " Ming the Merciless ," and later simply as " Ming ," after the villain in Flash Gordon comics.

This service set is also sometimes humorously referred to as " The Fantastic Four " or " Grand Slam ".

Take It From Here ( often referred to as TIFH, pronounced — and sometimes humorously spelt — " TIFE ") was a British radio comedy programme broadcast by the BBC between 1948 and 1960.

The song's authorship is disputed ; one account first published in 1890 claims the lyrics were a collective effort by Union soldiers and that the lyrics also referred humorously to Sergeant John Brown of the Second Battalion, Boston Light Infantry Volunteer Militia.

The paper was often humorously referred to as " The Turbine ", especially in the satirical magazine The Phoenix.

U. S. President Abraham Lincoln was humorously referred to as the Tycoon by his aides John Nicolay and John Hay.

The neutral part of the cycle-the " normal " component-has been referred to humorously by some as " La Nada ", which means " the nothing " in Spanish.

In Germany, it may be humorously referred to as Leberkleister (“ liver glue ”).

During Kiam's ownership of the Patriots, ESPN anchor Chris Berman humorously referred to the facility as " Shaver Stadium ", lampooning Kiam's ownership of Remington Razors.

The facility was humorously referred to in the 2009 movie The Blind Side, when Michael Oher's tutor, Miss Sue, successfully deters him from choosing to attend college at the University of Tennessee by telling him that the school has an " excellent science department " which stores dead bodies in a lab " right under the football field.

The expansion focused on high-level content and introduced new folklore to the EverQuest universe, and was often humorously referred to as ' Omens of Warcraft ' by the player base at the time.

In fact, they are sometimes humorously referred to as the " barnacles of old age ".

Hancox's Staffordshire Bull Terrier, Pig Dog, was humorously referred to as the band's " fifth member.

Within the set of drums, the main drums are tuned to relative intervals ( more common intervals being the minor 3rd, perfect 4th, and perfect 5th ), while the accent drums are generally tuned as high as possible without breaking the head ( often humorously referred to as " higher " and " highest ", in the case of a 6-drum set ).

This bridge is humorously referred to by islanders as the only bridge over the Atlantic ( the natives of the Scottish island of Seil make the same claim, as do the people of Great Bernera located in Na h-Eileanan Siar http :// en. wikipedia. org / wiki / Great_Bernera ).

They humorously chronicle the lives of a couple of drunken middle-aged layabouts, Jim Pooley and John Omally, who confront the forces of darkness in the environs of West London, usually with the assistance of large quantities of beer from their favourite public house, The Flying Swan.

The series is set in a humorously surreal world in which Ted is the only fully rounded " normal " character among " caricatures ", according to Graham Linehan: " exaggerated-over-friendly, over-quiet, over-stupid, over-dull [...] they really only got one thing, they've got one job.

The name, " Pretty Good Privacy ", is humorously ironic and was inspired by the name of a grocery store, " Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery ", featured in radio host Garrison Keillor's fictional town, Lake Wobegon.

The outer sheath was often yellow-to-orange / brown foam fluorinated ethylene propylene ( for fire resistance ) so it often is called " yellow cable ", " orange hose ", or sometimes humorously " frozen yellow garden hose ".

The mind of a newborn child is regarded as completely " id-ridden ", in the sense that it is a mass of instinctive drives and impulses, and needs immediate satisfaction, a view which equates a newborn child with an id-ridden individual — often humorously — with this analogy: an alimentary tract with no sense of responsibility at either end, paraphrasing a quip made by former U. S. President Ronald Reagan during his 1965 campaign for Governor of California in which he compared government to a baby.

The symbol of Hynkel's fascist regime is the " double cross ", and Hynkel himself speaks in a macaronic parody of the German language, " translated " at humorously obvious parts in the speech by an overly concise English-speaking news voice-over.

", variants of which have become a cultural cliché, often used humorously.

"" GamesRadar editor Henry Gilbert stated that he is " home to the most drastic change to the formula " in this game, stating that while he is still a " humorously incapable villain ", the game allows players to switch between Bowser and the Mario Bros. at their discretion.

", where Bellman humorously contrasts the rococo classical allusions with bawdy remarks

The lyrics changed between episodes, the penultimate line always a word rhyming with " horrid ", sometimes humorously forced.

The April Fools ' Day 1998 issue of Nintendo Power claimed that the cryptic phrase would be discussed on the non-existent page 128, and also featured a facetious article titled " Luigi 64 ", commenting humorously on the rumor.

His second-most popular hit, which came immediately after " The Banana Boat Song ", was the comedic tune " Mama Look at Bubu ", also known as " Mama Look a Boo-Boo " ( originally recorded by Lord Melody in 1956 ), in which he sings humorously about misbehaving and disrespectful children.

The name was originally an acronym for " Poor Obfuscation Implementation ", referring humorously to the fact that the file formats seemed to be deliberately obfuscated, but poorly, since they were successfully reverse-engineered.

The problem of managing this burgeoning inventory is neatly handled by a humorously ill-defined object called " That thing your aunt gave you which you don't know what it is ", which has two important attributes: a nearly limitless capacity for holding other objects, and a penchant for showing up in the player's inventory after seemingly being lost.

The campaign centred on the Whack flavour and used double entendres involving the word, such as " I think I could have a Whack every day if I could ", and humorously censored " Whack " in the commercials.

Subsequent reports of the war, delivered from " Eastmanstown in the Upper Cataracts on the Australio-Hong-Kong border ", are humorously blown out of proportion.

", as a parody of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire ?, and " Blockblister ," a parody of the video rental shop Blockbuster that is known for its constant use of parodies of well-known movies ) or shorts featuring humorously eccentric or dimwitted characters.

* Pabst Blue Ribbon was featured in South Park episode " The Poor Kid ", and is humorously portrayed as being a catalyst for domestic violence amongst its ' white trash ' consumer base.

Since the post-season NIT consists of teams who failed to receive a berth in the NCAA Tournament, the NIT has been humorously nicknamed the " Not Invited Tournament ", " Never Important Tournament ", " Nobody's Interested Tournament ", " Needs Improvement Tournament ", " No Important Team ", " National Insignificant Tournament ," or simply " Not In Tournament ".