His departure was heavily publicised in the press, with Baker attracting much comment for his tongue-in-cheek suggestion that his successor could be a woman, which the publicity-aware Nathan-Turner was not quick to deny.

As he introduced them, he made what was probably a tongue-in-cheek comment that he was under the influence of alcohol: "... they are as drunk as I am!

Latifah's rap was decidedly anti-drug, while Coldcut's reggae dub-ish instrumental had tongue-in-cheek connotations of marijuana appreciation by virtue of its title.

Such statements had eventually been concluded as tongue-in-cheek and little more than sensationalism by band members questioned alternatively.

The idea of the Erdős number was created by friends as a humorous tribute to the enormous output of Erdős, one of the most prolific modern writers of mathematical papers, and has become well known in scientific circles as a tongue-in-cheek measurement of mathematical prominence.

Though not a commercial success, Gilded was measured by rock critic Robert Christgau as " an ominous, obsessive, tongue-in-cheek country-rock synthesis, absorbing rural and urban, traditional and contemporary, at point of impact.

* Valašské královstí ( Kingdom of Wallachia ) is a tongue-in-cheek micronation established by Tomáš Harabiš, with the Czech actor Bolek Polívka as its king in 1997 in the territory of Moravian Wallachia, for the purpose of promoting the region and tourist activities.

* The Pokey Principle by Cente Watkins, a tongue-in-cheek " academic " analysis of Pokey cartoons

An early card wargame would be Nuclear War, a ' tongue-in-cheek game of the end of the world ', first published in 1966 and still published today by Flying Buffalo.

A Taco Bell had long been a presence at the U. S. Army's Yongsan Garrison, which is off-limits to non-military people, and for a time there was a tongue-in-cheek grassroots campaign by non-Korean, non-military foreigners in Seoul to get another Taco Bell location.

At the same time, the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming were adapted into an increasingly fantastical series of tongue-in-cheek adventure films by producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli, with Sean Connery as the star.

Inspired by RFC 2549, on 9 September 2009, the marketing team of The Unlimited, a regional company in South Africa, decided to host a tongue-in-cheek " Pigeon Race " between their pet pigeon " Winston " and local telecom company Telkom SA.

The 1998 documentary Le Pétomane by Igor Vamos examines Joseph Pujol's place in history through archival films ( none of which actually include him ), historical documents, photographs, recreations and fake or tongue-in-cheek interviews.

Right before this happened, one of the cast would generally be giving a monologue ( or several would be having a group conversation ) that was interrupted by another cast member with something that would ( generally ) be opposite what the monologue ( or dialogue ) was about, all present cast would say, " It must be the introduction to the opposites ", and then the inversion fade would happen ; several sketches would follow that were a tongue-in-cheek reversal of the show's subject of the day, and also in which the normal principles of daily life were reversed, often with children having authority over adults or with adults encouraging children to behave badly ( for example, eating sweets instead of vegetables, or wasting money on something frivolous rather than putting the money in the bank ).

This was widely criticized as " absurd and unresearched " by the gaming community, prompting PETA to claim that it was a tongue-in-cheek effort to draw attention to the real-life issue of tanuki being skinned alive.

( This quip is obviously tongue-in-cheek as the film One Hundred and One Dalmatians was not made until seven years later in 1961 and thus the title would not have been seen by him on a Leicester Square cinema marquee in 1954.

Ology has been cited by The American Spectator, The Austin Chronicle, and MTV News. In April 2012, Geek Sugar highlighted Ology for its " hilarious, tongue-in-cheek news stories, viral videos, and trends ," and Business Insider featured the website in December for its commercial potential as a social media website.

A tongue-in-cheek analysis in the Canadian Medical Association Journal compares the services of Dr. Hibbert and Dr. Nick Riviera, a quack physician often used by The Simpsons as an alternative source of medical advice.

* John Dickson Carr's The Hollow Man ( 1935, U. S. title The Three Coffins ), usually considered the quintessential locked-room mystery, replete with a tongue-in-cheek philosophical disquisition on the subject by the detective, Dr. Gideon Fell

* Mr. Juniata Pageant, Established: 1997 — Sponsored by Circle K, the Mr. Juniata Pageant is a tongue-in-cheek spoof of beauty pageants with men from each class competing for the coveted Mr. Juniata crown.

Later, and for many years, at the British science fiction convention Eastercon, he would deliver a humorous speech ( often part of his famous series known by the tongue-in-cheek label of " Serious Scientific Talks "); these were eventually collected in The Eastercon Speeches ( 1979 ) and A Load of Old Bosh ( 1995 ), which included a similar talk from the 1979 Worldcon in Brighton, 37th World Science Fiction Convention.

The band is often also cited as being recognizable by Merritt's lyrics, often about love and often with irregular or neutral gender roles, that are by turns ironic, tongue-in-cheek, bitter, and humorous.

A tongue-in-cheek psychological study of Roo was published in the year 2000, by pediatricians at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

* " Beautiful downtown Burbank " ( various actors / characters, referring tongue-in-cheek to the Los Angeles suburb in which the NBC studios ( and thus the program ) were located ; the same term was frequently used by Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ).

The online auction website was founded as AuctionWeb in San Jose, California, on September 5, 1995, by French-born Iranian-American computer programmer Pierre Omidyar ( born June 21, 1967 ) as part of a larger personal site that included, among other things, Omidyar's own tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Ebola virus.

In Many Years From Now, McCartney said that " Day Tripper " was about drugs, and " a tongue-in-cheek song about someone who was ... committed only in part to the idea.

The World Championship Chili Cookoff at Terlingua began as a tongue-in-cheek challenge between Wick Fowler and humorist H. Allen Smith in 1967 and has become a November tradition, celebrated across the state and nation.

She recovered after receiving intensive-care treatment, and while her other behaviour remained normal, she began walking erect solely on her hind legs, which gained her immediate media attention ; the Maariv daily newspaper showed a picture of her striding through the grass, with the tongue-in-cheek caption " The Missing Link?

Since Mike Rowe began appearing in Ford pick-up truck commercials in 2006, the show has made tongue-in-cheek references to these ads.

In a tumultuous social environment – with UN trade embargo imposed on the country and civil war raging nearby – Nick Slaughter's character became a tongue-in-cheek role model, particularly among urban youth, and eventually even a symbol of opposition politics.

There is a Witch Meadow Lake and Witch Meadow Campground in Salem, perhaps a tongue-in-cheek homage to the infamous witch trials of Salem, Massachusetts.

There is also a tongue-in-cheek reference to zebra crossings in the science-fiction comedy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by English author Douglas Adams, in reference to Man using the improbable creature called the Babel fish as proof of the non-existence of God, the novel says, " Man then goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed at the next zebra crossing.

There were no fanciful 007-style gadgets, outlandish villains or campy, tongue-in-cheek humor.

There is a nod to Eastwood's spaghetti westerns in the standoff with the Tiger tank — a tongue-in-cheek remake of the ending of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, right down to a very similar musical score.

There was also some concern about the fact the song referred to well-known Canadian singer Anne Murray as a " bitch ", but Murray indicated that she was not offended by the tongue-in-cheek lyric ( Murray was even invited to sing the song herself on the Oscar telecast, but had to decline due to a prior commitment ).

There is evidence that some of Cervantes ’ condemnations are tongue-in-cheek references to errors or jokes in Part 1.

There is constantly tongue-in-cheek elements throughout every episode including fast-paced dialogue, surreal imagery and strange characters.

There is also a tongue-in-cheek suggestion that 100, 000 attended the historic defeat of the All Blacks in 1978, a nod to the mythical status the game has ascended to in local folklore.

Among his best known musical performances were " The Welly Boot Song ", a parody of the Scottish folk song " The Wark O ' The Weavers ," which became his theme song for several years ; " In the Brownies ", a parody of the hit Village People song " In the Navy " ( for which Connolly filmed a music video ); " Two Little Boys in Blue ", a tongue-in-cheek indictment of police brutality done to the tune of Rolf Harris ' " Two Little Boys "; and the ballad " I Wish I Was in Glasgow ," which Connolly would later perform in duet with Malcolm McDowell on a guest appearance on the 1990s American sitcom Pearl ( which starred Rhea Perlman ).

Allmusic senior editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine noticed that the song is " a tongue-in-cheek, neo-house cover " and picked it as one of the best tracks on the album, alongside the title track and " Have You Ever Been in Love ".

In 1994, Droge released Necktie Second, his debut album which featured the tongue-in-cheek " If You Don't Love Me ( I'll Kill Myself )" ( which also appeared on the soundtrack to the film, Dumb and Dumber ), as well as " Sunspot Stopwatch " and " So I am Over You ".

Starring Robert Downey, Jr., Val Kilmer, and Michelle Monaghan, the film is partially based on the Brett Halliday novel Bodies Are Where You Find Them, and engages the classic hardboiled literary genre in a tongue-in-cheek fashion.

Five Iron continued their tradition of tongue-in-cheek lyrics on songs such as " Pre-Ex-Girlfriend " and " You Can't Handle This.

T-Ben's daily segment, " The News You Need Now !," which debuted in June 2004 and airs 3 times during the Michael In The Morning show ( at 6: 35, 8: 05 and 9: 35 a. m .), is a tongue-in-cheek mock news report concerning local politicians, national celebrities and various topical news stories, concluding with his signature catchphrase, " Nobody cares!