The song is a tongue-in-cheek tribute.

After hearing the tongue-in-cheek tribute, Middlesbrough manager Gareth Southgate was so taken with it, he asked Griffin to make a special recording to play at the following day's match.

(In tongue-in-cheek tribute to the avalanche of books that has come out of the group, Malcolm Bradbury called one of his essay collections "No, Not Bloomsbury.")

In early 1952, Maclean's magazine had dubbed the cobalt-source radiotherapy machine the cobalt bomb - a tongue-in-cheek tribute to this peaceful use of nuclear technology.

The album is a tongue-in-cheek tribute to Madonna and 80s pop in general.

Her song "Lazy Bones" was written with Mick as a tongue-in-cheek tribute to their short marriage.

The art critic John Canaday called her "a living encyclopedia" of the newspaper's recent history, and Russell Baker, the columnist, offered a tongue-in-cheek tribute to one of his favorite editors.

In one tongue-in-cheek tribute, the Swingers saunter toward a nightclub like characters from "Reservoir Dogs."

For older consumers, the campaign still celebrates baseball in a "reverent" fashion, Mr. Hirshberg said, as it "makes a tongue-in-cheek tribute to new school meets old school."

For example, "Grimsby" on Caribou was a tongue-in-cheek tribute to a nearby port town often visited by Taupin and his friends.