I seen this video of Puggy the Pekingese with a huge mother of a tongue and continued on the subject. These animals have (no pun intended..:P) got quite a mouthful.
I find its absolutely hilarious and cute when a cat will look at you, and have their tongue sticking out just a little bit. My little Tuna was cleaning herself earlier and I called her name and she looked at me with a wee lil' pink tongue peeking at me...I cracked up and I swear she had it out for like half an hour after. I guess its quite common in cats, even in the big ones.