They put their hands on their hearts and gave the coffin a playful tap before it was taken away.

But Sunday, with time winding down in the first half, he added the playful tap to his repertory.

Felix gave the machine a playful tap.

Felix Henderson McMurdo struck the machine a slightly less playful tap.

"Hey, maybe the next time," Tyi said with a false smile and a playful tap on the shoulder of the man who wasn't a stranger any more.

"There, there; don't be sarcastic," she chided, giving him a playful tap.

Degarmo said: "Hell, the shamus just got a couple of playful taps.

Jeff reached out and gave the doctor a playful tap on the shoulder.

By the standards of this state's famously hard-nosed politics, Senator John Edwards's latest campaign commercial seems like a playful tap.

She gave him a playful tap on the lips-and he parted them immediately, but too late.