Almost in jest you invoke the devil, and to your horror the devil appears.
Terms like "bipolar", "autistic" and "schizophrenic" are often used in jest to describe character traits.
Roger Ailes suggested, perhaps less than half in jest, that Petraeus run for President.
"Maybe 30 is the new 20, " the German told CNN's Open Court, not entirely in jest.
Just a few parking spots over was a space reserved, half in jest, for Nobel Prize winners.
Immediately afterward, Kerry aide David Wade said the candidate's comment about diapers had been made in jest.
However, both reveal his mindset even then, even if the usernames he chose were registered half in jest.
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Only partly in jest, this remark illustrates a fundamental conflict in American views of marketplace competition and antitrust.
Perhaps in jest, but stinging nonetheless, German and European officials have spoken of Greece selling off its islands.
The gunner wondered aloud in jest if he'd been hit in the head.
As for his marriage proposal Zahorudin claimed he had been talking in jest.
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Ohio State president Gordon Gee apologized Thursday for comments he made in jest about Catholics at Notre Dame and about Southern universities.
But asking Taco Bell to pull a nanosecond of an advertising spot that is clearly meant to be in jest is insulting.
The ballroom dancer denied being racist after an exchange "in jest".
" It was a triumph for secularism that, as Paul Leicester Ford wrote only half in jest, "should have made the true Puritan turn in his grave.
"I say it half in jest, but this is one of the ways I will have a great deal of influence in shaping that future, " he said.
"That's a bad word, senator, " Roberts replied, apparently in jest.
Of course, although "Bac Attack" was proposed in jest, game developers will have to think creatively to keep a step ahead of what next year's hardware will be able to do, Kurzweil warned.
Lucidity and opacity, ordinary delights and exotic peculiarities blend breezily in an intimate jest of vast wonder.
Alan Sokal, the physicist who in 1996 hoaxed a journal of cultural studies with an article he wrote as a jest that the journal published, called Prof.
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Ah well, the jest goes on, Mr Gates would at least have ended up as a senior manager in a big corporation.
It's fairly safe to say that Continental Automotive Systems isn't the only company out there conjuring up an in-car safety system to alert motorists of impending hazards, and while a certain sect (we jest, we jest) would likely ignore whatever great advice it's sure to give, we can still admire the effort here.
ENGADGET: Continental telematics safety system alerts drivers of impending hazards
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