1.   He had taken out the tongue stud and removed the eyebrow ring because Kormann thought they conveyed the wrong image in a clean-cut, clean-shaven sport.

2.   His eyebrow is pierced with two silver loops, and he has a silver tongue stud.

3.   Imagine the first tongue stud on that designer child.

4.   Now, turn right around and march that tongue stud of yours back home.

5.   Or, given modern mores, a laser hidden in his tongue stud.

6.   People love to yuk it up over California, ignoring the fact that people in Cedar Rapids and Pittsburgh have also discovered tongue studs and self esteem.

7.   The El Dorado is better than any Mexican restaurant in Austin because the waiters all wear natty white jackets and none of them have tongue studs.

8.   So are tongue studs, nose pins and belly button rings.

9.   Defense ministry spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Hans Hardenbol said the case was closed after the union victory, admitting that tongue studs would not fall under the jewelry ban.