So it's just a bit of tongue-in-cheek stuff.
"He's creative in his storytelling, and he'll fire off some tongue-in-cheek stuff that'll makes you stop and chuckle.
But forget all the tongue-in-cheek stuff, the marbles and the peanuts, there is another tradition that is taking shape here: that of landing safely on Mars.
It is howlingly funny, proper tears down the cheeks stuff.
He has also said he dressed as a stooped Guatemalan peddler "in ragged brown pants," his cheeks stuffed with chewing gum, selling wares to tourists and reporters.
G. J. H. Roberts: Drink, cheeks stuffed with a ready meal, tree, emptied pies and nuts, crackers, giving gifts (CHAMPERS/PRESENTS; CHAMREPSENTS; MRE (qv) in chaps; anag.
The author's jaunty voice aspires at times to Beat-poet cool ("Caucasian boys, their cheeks stuffed with carbohydrates and college degrees") and flirts with the precious (the dyspeptic proprietor veils his irritability and an unfortunate Hitler-mustache birthmark beneath a Santa costume while his bartender keeps a pet boa constrictor with an appetite for boxer shorts).
More important, Brando created an unforgettable character -- one that went far beyond the much-talked-about cheek-stuffing with tissues he used to make himself appear older and jowly.
Customs officers, "aroused by the unusual shape of her buttocks," had conducted a search revealing two 20-centimeter-long incisions in her ass cheeks stuffed with bags of cocaine.
His left cheek was stuffed full of qat, the stimulant wildly popular in Yemen, and he wore a jambiya, or Yemeni-style dagger, on his belt.
