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.
But Boom explains that their songs, which poke fun at gay lifestyles, are all meant 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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Asked in jest if he had talked with Bernie Williams, who retired in 2006, Cashman made it clear that even he has limits.
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".
The jury was told Mr Ali registered two accounts on eBay's charity website "half in jest" in September 2006 with the user names "terrorshop" and "shopterror".
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" 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.
Assuming we survive the Mayan calendar and the end of the world brought upon us by the China hard landing and Obamacare (yes, I jest), taking on a little extra risk in our investment portfolios is prudent, according to Larry Kantor, head of research at Barclays Capital.
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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.
Some have suggested a more carnal relationship to the product (see this NSFW take from college humor site Jest), but it is clear that like cars and clothing, we see ourselves reflected in our smartphones.
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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.
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