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unusual facts about The Tongue


The Tongue

In 2009 Tongue hosted the Elefant Traks 10th Anniversary Party Live DVD that was released nationally the same year.



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Antonio Rattín

It was in the quarter-final match against the host team that Rattín was sent off by the German referee Rudolf Kreitlein for "violence of the tongue", despite the referee speaking no Spanish.

Astronomy Class

The album features guest vocals by Vida-Sunshyne, The Tongue, Diafrix, Kween G (KillaQueenz), and Ash Grunwald.

Atlantic surf clam

The "tongue" or foot of the clam is commercially valuable because it is cut into long strips which are breaded and fried and served as "clam strips", first popularized by the Howard Johnson's franchise.

Battle of Bear Paw

On September 12, Howard sent a message to Colonel Nelson A. Miles stationed at Fort Keogh (then called the Tongue River Encampment) requesting his assistance.

Browncoat

This originated from a slip of the tongue by actor Nathan Fillion during an interview, when talking about Firefly fans.

Coronal

Coronal consonant, a consonant that is articulated with the front part of the tongue

Corse, Gloucestershire

The parish lies on the tongue of land between the River Severn and the River Leadon.

Dorsal

Dorsal consonant, a consonant articulated with the back of the tongue

Erna Sack

She had some difficulty, however, when asked to sing at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, being asked to sing the roles of Rosina and Donizetti's Lucia in the Italian language, because she argued that she had not had sufficient time to re-learn those roles in their original language (throughout Europe at that time operas were largely sung in the tongue of the nation in which they were being performed).

Harmonica techniques

Players to use the Tongue Blocking Technique are but not limited to Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson I, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Big Walter Horton, James Cotton, George Smith among many others.

HM Prison Won Wron

HM Prison Won Wron was noteworthy in that it held a fun-run with the tongue-in-cheek name of "Prisoners on the Run" annually on Easter Sunday, with the goal of raising funds to help support disabled and disadvantaged children in the Gippsland area.

Isopoda

Cymothoa exigua, for example, is a parasite of the spotted rose snapper fish Lutjanus guttatus in the Gulf of California; it eats the tongue of the fish, and takes its place, in the only known instance of a parasite functionally replacing a host structure.

Lateral lingual swelling

During the third week there appears, immediately behind the ventral ends of the two halves of the mandibular arch, a rounded swelling named the tuberculum impar, which was described by His as undergoing enlargement to form the buccal part of the tongue.

Mark Shuttleworth

In the Ubuntu project, Shuttleworth is often referred to with the tongue-in-cheek title "Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator for Life" (SABDFL).

Mile in These Shoes

Joey Guerra of The Houston Chronicle praised the song and stated that Lopez "keeps the eye-rolling at bay with her slinky delivery of the tongue-in-cheeky lyrics", noting the track to be a "requisite poor-me, diva declaration".

Notsensibles

Notsensibles are a punk rock band from Burnley, England, who had their greatest success with their second single, the tongue-in-cheek "I'm in Love with Margaret Thatcher".

Piperheugh

The Jew's harp was called a 'trump' in Scots, also referred to as the tongue of the trump.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Metuchen

The cross is taken from the arms of the See of Trenton from which the diocese was formed; the tongue of fire refers both to "metachen," Lenni Lenape for firewood, and the descent of the Holy Spirit; the crowned M refers to the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the diocesan patron, founding bishop Theodore McCarrick's arms, and Pope John Paul II's arms.

Sublingual administration

Sublingual (abbreviated SL), from the Latin for "under the tongue", refers to the pharmacological route of administration by which drugs diffuse into the blood through tissues under the tongue.

Swell Foop

The title is taken from a spoonerism for the Shakespearean phrase "one fell swoop," first spoken by the tongue-twisted Peter Sellers character in the 1964 movie The Pink Panther.

The 36 tattvas

Depending on the position where the tongue articulates speech, there are a number of classes of sounds: velar, palatal, cerebral, dental and labial.

The Rural Juror

The episode focuses on the release of Jenna Maroney's (Jane Krakowski) long-anticipated indie film, The Rural Juror, the tongue-twisting title of which Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) and the writers of TGS with Tracy Jordan cannot understand.

The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal

The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal (USA, 2001, 16 min) is an experimental documentary directed by filmmaker Matt McCormick and narrated by Miranda July that makes the tongue-in-cheek argument that municipal efforts by Portland, Oregon to mask and erase graffiti is an important new movement in modern art stemming from the repressed artistic desires of city workers.

The Yuppie Pricks

Recorded at Bubble Studios by Chris 'Frenchie' Smith (ex-Sixteen Deluxe, Young Heart Attack), and mixed by Mark Hutchins (Rockland Eagles), Brokers Banquet, which parodied the Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet cover art, featured a more hard-edged 'rock' influence, combined with the tongue-in-cheek lyrics and punk-fueled aggression of the first album.

Theophilus Thistle

Australian dance music group Sonic Animation used a version of the tongue twister in their break-out song "Theophilus Thistler".

Time-variant system

As with any fluid-filled tube, resonances (called formants) change as the vocal organs such as the tongue and velum move.

Tocharians

The native name of the historical Tocharians of the 6th to 8th centuries was, according to J. P. Mallory, possibly kuśiññe "Kuchean" (Tocharian B), "of the kingdom of Kucha and Agni", and ārśi (Tocharian A); one of the Tocharian A texts has ārśi-käntwā, "In the tongue of Arsi" (ārśi is probably cognate to argenteus, i.e. "shining, brilliant").

Whale meat

French surgeon Ambroise Paré (d. 1590) wrote that "the flesh has no value, but the tongue is soft and delicious and therefore salted; likewise, the blubber, which is distributed across many provinces, and eaten with peas during Lent".

Whitesnake's Greatest Hits

#"The Deeper the Love" (David Coverdale/Adrian Vandenberg) (from Slip of the Tongue, 1989) - 4:22

William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, 5th Earl of Mornington

Mornington died unmarried in Paris on 25 July 1863 from cancer of the tongue, and is buried at Draycot Cerne in Wiltshire.

Wolf Mountains Battlefield

The battlefield is located in the Tongue River Valley, near Birney, Montana.