We jest, we jest, but c'mon, their latest track is called "BLK CLD"!
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Taki podział jest absurdalny, niczym mądrym niemotywowany, ale PiS-owi jest na rękę, więc rządzący starannie go pielęgnują i podsycają wzajemną niechęć obu stron konfliktu.
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"Dopóki wszystko jest w ramach celu inflacyjnego, to nie jest dla nas problem i nie ma co zmieniać stóp procentowych, musimy patrzeć na rynek pieniężny" - dodał.
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"It's called Pure Comedy 2," he added, possibly in jest.
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I jest, of course: Yahoo's algorithm doesn't do it all.
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Most of what I just tweeted was in jest 2.
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Such a comparison was made, in jest, to an adult.
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After Dr. Walter Palmer killed him for his own jest
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The following books/authors: Infinite Jest, Calvin & Hobbes, Foucault 99.
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All and all she's taking being a meme in jest.
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From Simmons perspective, wearing the dress was done in jest.
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The question is in jest and so is his answer.
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Or is it in jest, albeit in very poor taste?
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"American dream food," she added, also only half in jest.
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Theory 2: "Infinite Jest" is a genuinely groundbreaking novel of language.
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Theory 3: "Infinite Jest" is a peerlessly gripping novel of character.
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Theory 4: "Infinite Jest" is unquestionably the novel of its generation.
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"I tried to kill them after Australia," Depp replied in jest.
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And as shortages have deepened, so have people's need for jest.
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Schiff has since said he made the comments partly in jest.
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The author of "Snappsy the Alligator" loves animals and 'Infinite Jest'.
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Some, however, have at least jumped onto the idea in jest.
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But these terms are now used mostly in jest, not derision.
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This was probably met more in jest than 'Ye hoped, though.
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The whole thing is in jest and intended to be ridiculous.
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Weatherly told investigators that all such comments were made in jest.
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His team has since claimed Trump's remark was meant in jest.
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In the clip, Mr. Ribeiro used the word "stole" in jest.
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He drew on those experiences in "Infinite Jest," whose high-I.
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It was unclear whether he was making the comments in jest.
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"It was just sort of said in jest," Mr. Trump said.
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But what did you do about the footnotes in Infinite Jest??
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"What, the Knicks don't have media availability?" he asked in jest.
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Moore then clarified that the pair's banter was all in jest.
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The late author's second novel, "Infinite Jest," is an epic comedy about a film — itself called "Infinite Jest" — that is so enjoyable anyone who watches it will become addicted to it, even watching it until they die.
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Despite the jest, Cardi delivered an energetic performance that received rave reviews.
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When I mentioned the coincidence, Wong recounted the initial discovery in jest.
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"But we're live," Caramele responded and Schumer rolled her eyes in jest.
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" Plus, it's the 20th anniversary of David Foster Wallace's opus "Infinite Jest.
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Of course, Hyde-Smith's campaign said these comments were also in jest.
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It was, similar to Infinite Jest itself, a tough egg to crack.
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However, in some countries, such insults -- even in jest -- are no joke.
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Another staffer said Trump took Obama's remarks to be made in jest.
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But it offered a moment of jest for Blues Coach Ken Hitchcock.
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I read this quote from... what's his name, who wrote Infinite Jest?
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The last may even take place in space, she says in jest.
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I type that in jest, knowing that my keystrokes are in vain.
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And that, Axelrod said in jest, is why Trump is president today.
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He said in jest that the fly was acting on their orders.
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"Infinite Jest" was my jumping off point for playing David Foster Wallace.
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I jest, but I am sensitive to the importance of the issue.
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How is it, then, that "Infinite Jest" still feels so transcendentally, electrically alive?
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The loose threads are always dangling, as if sewn haphazardly and in jest.
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I thought it was all in jest, but hindsight is always 20-20.
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In a statement to Refinery29, Caldbeck said his status update wasn't in jest.
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My opinion is only on the danger of praising —even in jest — anorexia.
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The range of work was spectacular, and the tone unified in critical jest.
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CHINESE investors often refer in jest to the central bank as "central mama".
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The group Blue Lives Matter tweeted that Trump's remarks were made in jest.
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Riley Kuznia, before pulling the trigger "in jest" according to a charge sheet.
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I offer this part in jest to underscore the absurdity of the situation.
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It's gigantic; it looks like the size of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.
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The Satanic Verses is to Muslim intellectuals what Infinite Jest is to hipsters.
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When you scan your Tinder hookup's bookshelf for Infinite Jest, that's NEA funding.
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Although Graham may have meant his comments in jest, Partovi believes it's revealing.
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"Maybe," he told her only half in jest, "there is a little collection here."
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Moore's comments about women, surfaced by CNN's KFile, were made in jest, he insists.
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This very ennui also struck the people in the world of Infinite Jest, too.
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It's like any other show performed in jest, but with a much shorter cast.
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Many a truth is said in jest, something this OB knows all too well.
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" Someone responded with this jest: "Rosa Parks sits at the front of the bus.
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Since then, the "Somethingy McSomethingFace" convention has endured in jest, and now in earnest.
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The Prez said it in jest ... but it's no laughing matter for Hawaiian lovers.
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" Responding to a reporter's question in jest, "Apropos of nothing, what's the secretary's IQ?
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Some parliamentarians have suggested, perhaps in jest, nationalizing a nearby pub, The Red Lion.
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"If anything, he's doing [it] almost in jest," said Kumar, citing Trump's taco tweet.
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Finally, the State Department told the White House that it was all in jest.
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It finds a safe place in every gag, jest, and pun that audiences hear.
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BANGKOK — It began with a political jest and culminated in a shocking prison sentence.
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Long ago, I entered him into my phone, in jest (kind of), as Cipher.
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Credit...Samuel Trotter for The New York Times Some are wearing them in jest.
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Schiff has defended his comments, arguing the exaggerated comments were made partially in jest.
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These tweets have primarily been made in jest, some affectionate and some less so.
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What the country really needs now is a king, some Brazilians say in jest.
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So it's rare, even among Infinite Jest readers, that you'd actually discuss the book.
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And for what it's worth, Howard's teammates have yet to sour on his relentless jest.
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Infinite jest, painfully finite seriousness, all at the expense of a self-serious fascist bodybuilder.
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He also acknowledged to calling her "Idiot" but said it was "in jest," police said.
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CES isn't what it was, but it remains an infinite jest that's not very funny.
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In the long run, the number of people who will need his jest is infinite.
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" His spokesman later tried to downplay the comment, saying, "I think it was in jest.
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When did you start working for the National Security Agency, I've asked myself in jest.
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His 1,2013-page masterwork, "Infinite Jest," was released in a 20th-anniversary edition this year.
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The comment seemed likely to have been made in (ill-advised) jest, but uproar ensued.
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Why would the president of the United States do such a thing, even in jest?
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David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest"It's literally been on my bed stand since 1996, 1997.
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One says in jest that if democracy is over, he has a monarch to offer.
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The lines between jest and truth, assumed postures and bona fide feelings are hazy here.
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Schiff defended his comments during the hearing Thursday, arguing they were made partially in jest.
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" The president's spokesman, Harry Roque, downplayed Duterte's comments, saying "I think it was in jest.
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Within days, nearly a million people had signed on — either in jest or in earnest.
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Q: On the secret society text message, is it possible it was said in jest?
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A friend, Ben Somerford, wrote "so quirky," seemingly in jest, which appeared to trigger ASOS's autoresponder.
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Other lawmakers left these dollars at podium in jest during strip club age debate #lalege pic.twitter.
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Schiff defended his statement at the September hearing, arguing his comments were made partially in jest.
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Shkreli later posted on Twitter, perhaps in jest, that he had acquired some Black Lotus cards.
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"Get off the island is what you're going to be saying," Sonja tells Luann in jest.
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Gaiman has responded to the petition in jest multiple times on Twitter, calling it absolutely beautiful.
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Throughout my childhood and adolescence, I'd heard my peers flippantly use the term "epilepsy" in jest.
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Hyde-Smith has said she made the comments in jest and that the remark was misinterpreted.
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" A spokesman for the Philippine President said later that he thought the comment "was in jest.
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The Ukrainian official who made the offer told the Daily Beast it was made in jest.
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"I'll have just two or three that I like in this room," Trump said in jest.
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It would, of course, be something Big and Serious, more Infinite Jest than Da Vinci Code.
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He admitted that he and his friends sometimes made bigoted statements, always in jest, he said.
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It was always made in jest, he said, and he has heard no grumbles from teammates.
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"He's doing it real slow so I don't miss anything," she says, only partly in jest.
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A chunk of those were probably sent in jest, but that's still a lot of petty.
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Similarly, some of the data on the advertising list seems to have been submitted in jest.
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Rząd Polski głośno krytykuje Unię Europejską, powtarzajac, że nie jest ona w stanie sprostać globalnym wyzwaniom.
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W najgorszym, jak utrzymują jego przeciwnicy, nie jest w stanie pełnić funkcji zwierzchnika sił zbrojnych Ameryki.
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The film takes place over the book tour for "Infinite Jest" and so I reasoned from my own experience on press tours that what was going through his mind during those few weeks were the themes of "Infinite Jest" (followed by the terrifying question — now what?).
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For you, and the joyful, despairing "Infinite Jest," we will roar forever amazed, forever sorrowful, forever grateful.
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The jest is the latest in a long line of hilarious antics involving Stamos and the group.
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She had mentioned "liberals" right before making that comment, which her spokeswoman claimed was done in jest.
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According to Mark Chandley, the creator of the #FreeRacquel2K17 GoFundMe, the campaign is purely is in jest.
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"Unfortunately, we'll have to work through summer!" said Rudolf Bohli in jest, chief executive of RBR Capital.
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The practice is irrevocable, even if the words were uttered in anger, when drunk, or in jest.
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To enumerate every local leader beset with investigation or indictment would be an Infinite Jest–length read.
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Farenthold told CNN he called aides that it "in jest," but that in hindsight, "it wasn't appropriate."
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According to a classic Washington yarn, he wasn't even afraid to jest with the queen of England.
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Rosenstein and the DOJ have fiercely disputed the story, stating that some comments were made in jest.
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In it, she asked if the report was true and if the comment was made in jest.
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Yet prominent Republicans are willing to treat that jest as though it referred to an actual organization.
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CNN actually asked someone who was listening in on the call whether it was meant in jest.
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My friend Tess and I started a two-person club, in jest — OHO — Orphans and Half Orphans.
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Let me begin by saying that the Infinite Jest pipe is a huge personal achievement for me.
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Of course he believed in reality, he told the psychologist, convinced that the conversation was in jest.
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"She's the only person I've ever known who read David Foster Wallace's 'Infinite Jest,'" Mr. Fritz said.
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"This is the last place in the world I wanted to be," he said, perhaps in jest.
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A ta jedność jest w oczywisty sposób zagrożona, jeśli nadal będzie przeciwko niej występował obecny polski rząd.
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It is not clear if Trump, 71, was making the comment about extending presidential service in jest.
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It was a dark jest designed to shift blame from baffled American policy makers to a troubled region.
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To be tired of 'Infinite Jest' — to paraphrase Samuel Johnson about London — is to be tired of life.
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Maybe connecting ungainly electric scooters to a dastardly plot—even in jest, and to laughs—seems like nonsense.
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Twitter is also filled with screeds — some clearly meant in jest, some not so much — against the collective.
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There's a difference between slinging an insult at a "friend" and slinging a racist jab, even in jest.
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That man is fiery, and I'm glad he came back this time around to give some good jest.
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"Justin has agreed to cut all tariffs, all trade barriers," he announced in jest as Trudeau grinned nearby.
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" Duterte's spokesman Harry Roque told CNN affiliate CNN Philippines in a text: "I think it was in jest.
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" But Greenblatt is skeptical that Americans will be racing to the bookstore to purchase the next "Infinite Jest.
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His confirmation hearing included a reminder of an indulgent jest he once made about the Ku Klux Klan.
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The board's chairman, Tommy Wells, responded with an inquiry about shutting off the government's water, apparently in jest.
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She laughed and said she was just joking, but there was a kernel of truth in her jest.
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Otóż smutną prawdą jest, że prezydent Trump odwiedzi Polskę bardzo odmienną od tej, w której przemawiali jego poprzednicy.
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The last book I read that legitimately qualifies as a classic is "Infinite Jest," by David Foster Wallace.
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" Finan's chapter on A.A. brings to mind David Foster Wallace's treatment of the group's tenets in "Infinite Jest.
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Rosenstein denies that he did that, and one source told the Times that Rosenstein made the suggestion in jest.
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" The emails statement, Trump's lawyers wrote, was made "in jest and sarcastically, as was apparent to any objective observer.
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But a message from WikiLeaks' official Twitter account Saturday morning dismissed Assange's statement, claiming it was meant in jest.
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The actor says his appearance was 'in jest' and reveals he was not kicked out of the awards show.
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At the time, Rosenstein denied the allegation, going so far as to say he made the comment in jest. .
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"It has come up in jest any number of times," said Mr. Himes, who always has his answer ready.
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Even if in jest, President-elect Trump often criticized fire marshals for limiting the size of his indoor rallies.
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The comment, which the White House said was made in jest, was not received well south of the border.
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Still, to hear reporters who witnessed it tell it, the plundering was more in jest than in ill will.
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When I read Infinite Jest six years later, I'd matured enough to appreciate talent without becoming jealous or discouraged.
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Stone told the Journal that he had never dined with Assange and that the remark was made in jest.
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The Never-Ending Story I very much enjoyed Claire Friedman's "How to Read 'Infinite Jest' " (Shouts & Murmurs, November 5th).
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Too busy, perhaps, to crack open that book gathering dust on your bedside table (looking at you, Infinite Jest).
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Whether or not the petition was in jest, it looks like there's no chance of it actually coming true.
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When you're the leader of the free world, there are lots of things you can't say, even in jest.
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"It could be twice as much, as far as we know," Overton said last Friday, not entirely in jest.
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Some acknowledged his tendency to make bawdy or inappropriate comments, but said Mr. Steinhardt was always speaking in jest.
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A journalist once wondered, half in jest, if my professional opinion was the result of being a closeted Chavista.
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Her spokesman called the video "selectively edited" and said it was clear Ms. Hyde-Smith's comments were in jest.
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Initially, it wasn't clear if the CEO's proclamation was in jest — "420" is a popular code endorsing cannabis consumption.
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Gates hasn't tackled the 1,079-page "Infinite Jest," but he does recommend a shorter read from David Foster Wallace.
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Amy Klobuchar used a debate stage to jest about raising money from ex-boyfriends during her first Senate race.
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Wallace the man soon comes up in any Jest-based conversation, probably because he was such an interesting character.
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Ya gotta wonder if DT's gonna be pissed over this -- even if Kelly was clearly saying it in jest.
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And even though I know his jabs are often said in jest, there's a bit of truth in there too.
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But Branham testified that she did not bully the teen, and that any insults were in jest, the Tribune reports.
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Some of Stern's fans have suggested that the comment was taken out of context and was actually made in jest.
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One woman bowed down in jest in front of the figure, which Zalait said took him three months to sculpt.
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Sanford C. Bernstein, a research firm, says only half in jest that it is "evolving into an actual oil company".
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Netizens have criticised the university's sexist attitudes towards women and rejected its excuses that the post was written in jest.
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" She continued: "I made a comment in jest to infuse levity and I feel terrible that I have hurt others.
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It was not clear if the postscript, where Kavanaugh references his group of friends as "drunks" was meant in jest.
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"Serious road incident on Brisbane Valley Highway this morning," one onlooker, Mike Phipps, posted with obvious jest on Facebook Saturday.
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The only booing was reserved for teams who chose boring or conservative heroes, and even that was mostly in jest.
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"It just was not something I think any of us wanted to think about, ethically," he said, partly in jest.
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During our brainstorming session we decided it would be fun to papier-mâché pages of Infinite Jest onto raw eggs.
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He took a bite and winced and I let out a laugh, wrongly thinking he would take it in jest.
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" White House legislative director Marc Short reiterated Pompeo's comments, telling CNN's Wolf Blitzer that Giuliani's comments were "intended for jest.
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Finally crack open the copy of Infinite Jest that's been gathering dust on your nightstand for the past two years.
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Rosenstein has called the Times article "factually incorrect" and some officials defending Rosenstein said his comments were made in jest.
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Rosenstein and the Justice Department disputed the story, while some news outlets reported that he made the suggestions in jest.
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"Infinite Jest" was now in the window, but the place does only modest Wallace business locally, the new owner said.
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"Lift the ban, there's no suspension if when she comes back she promises not to grunt," McEnroe added in jest.
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"Maybe we should get electrolysis and take hormones," Jacob added in jest, perking up at the bevy of new options.
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It is the hallmark of the internet troll, who blurs the line between sincerity and jest to wreak havoc online.
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Others suggested a boycott of Mr. Depp's films, although supporters countered that the remarks had clearly been made in jest.
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Kaczyński, kiedyś członek Solidarności, która przyczyniła się do ostatecznego rzucenia Związku Radzieckiego na kolana, jest teraz w Polsce szarą eminencją.
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It's a comparison that has oft been made — whether fairly or unfairly, in jest or seriously — by the viewing public.
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We're told the Secret Service does not jump to conclusions that incendiary photos or writings are serious or in jest.
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"I think it means we all have good in ourselves and can all become better people," he continued in jest.
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I was thinking about a Death Grip song and I'm obsessed with the book Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace.
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PRIVATEVENTURES FIZ * ZAMKNIĘCIE TRANSAKCJI PLANOWANE JEST NIE PÓŹNIEJ NIŻ DO DNIA 30 VI 2020 R. * NA DZIEŃ ZAWARCIA UMOWY SPÓŁKA POSIADA OK. 44% AKCJI FRISCO, PO ZAKOŃCZENIU TRANSAKCJI SPÓŁKA BĘDZIE POSIADAĆ 100% AKCJI FRISCO Pełny komunikat spółki w serwisie Eikon jest dostępny tutaj: Aby zobaczyć pozostałe depesze na temat spółki, kliknij tutaj (Gdansk Newsroom)
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" His colleagues remain in Silicon Valley to pursue their careers; Swartz returns to Boston to diagram the plot of "Infinite Jest.
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David Foster Wallace's great terror in Infinite Jest was entertainment so engrossing that those consuming it simply stopped doing anything else.
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Hyde-Smith has said she made the remark in jest and that she was sorry if people were offended by them.
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Asked if his old boss ever cheated at the game, Lombardo replied that, if it happened, it was only in jest.
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Kjellberg acknowledged that while he made the tracks "in fun, ironic jest," he has offended and hurt people by his actions.
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JL: But it does label itself as satire, so some people fell for it and some people shared it in jest.
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His reps later clarified that his Martian ambitions were in jest, probably because too many people suggested we leave him there.
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In jest, Storey County's community development director pushed a permit across the table and told the visitors to fill it out.
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You can smoke weed out of a copy of Infinite Jest, dab with your grandma, or beer bong weed-infused beer.
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Later Southgate said Alli had told him the gesture was made in jest toward his former Tottenham team mate Kyle Walker.
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Rosenstein has denied the Times's report, and there have been conflicting reports that his remarks were made sarcastically and in jest.
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"We make our films so that audiences can walk out of them," Mr. Straub once said, perhaps not altogether in jest.
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Rosenstein has called the Times article "factually incorrect" and some officials defending Rosenstein separately said his comments were made in jest.
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Other acquaintances of the young man said he would make comments about killing people they initially thought were made in jest.
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GREENBURGH, N.Y. — Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist briefly mulled a question in jest as he removed his equipment after practice on Wednesday.
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"You don't know what if feels like to question your digital identity over something so minute," he wrote, partly in jest.
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Parents and students alike aired their issues with the prospective new dress code on Twitter — some serious, some more in jest.
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It took her no more than five minutes, she said, to review the messages and conclude they were meant in jest.
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He said he recently in jest urged Mr. Lighthizer to get a deal with China done before his harvest is ready.
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Benjamin Franklin is often credited with first proposing a version of daylight time (in jest) as a way to save candles.
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If The Glendale Biennial is mere jest, it's a gag they are unwilling to relinquish, disregarding the City and community's objections.
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I realize that Carmelo beat the ferret, but I couldn't bring myself to reward a long, greasy rat, even in jest.
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"I think most prosecutors would be reluctant to charge that, because he could say it was said in jest," said McQuade.
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I hope the Infinite Jest pipe is written about in my obituary and becomes the main focus of my Wikipedia page.
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Mr. Sitwell's comments, said in jest or not, appear to be out of touch with shifting attitudes of the British public.
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David Foster Wallace's now-classic novel Infinite Jest published 20 years ago Monday, and is considered the classic grunge-era novel.
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Infinite Jest is undoubtedly intimidating; it is so dense that it has nearly 100 pages that are just close-typed endnotes.
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Zdrowa demokracja w Polsce jest kwestią zasadniczej wagi dla obu naszych krajów i prezydent Trump powinien to powiedzieć, głośno i wyraźnie.
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That one guy who's always pretending to read Infinite Jest will still be sitting across from you on the F train.
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Although the remarks seemed in jest, they marked a shift from some of the former president's earlier statements about his successor.
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Obama, 55, isn't the only Washington type to jest about hitting the road as an Uber driver following his political career.
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On Wednesday morning, Hart took to Twitter to clarify he was simply being sarcastic and that his comments were meant in jest.
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It seems like yesterday when Samsung announced the launch of its smart voice assistant, Bixby — OK, I jest, it was ages ago.
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People love to tease Joe Biden in jest, but he's also quite lovable, possibly the most lovable vice-president we've had yet.
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We shared it with White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who said the video was created in jest and challenged its newsworthiness.
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Whitehall initially spoke to the U.K. Mirror in an interview published Monday, with some U.K. outlets suggesting his comments were in jest.
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That the Republican presidential nominee would suggest such armed revolt, even in jest, caused an immediate outcry from Democrats and some Republicans.
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" The school released a statement, saying, "while the comment was made in jest, it was inappropriate and should never have been made.
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"If you saw that thing sitting out in a random public place, you'd probably be concerned," Zimmerman said, and not in jest.
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Five years ago, Michael Bublé learned a Hollywood lesson the hard way: Never speak ill of Kris Jenner's progeny — even in jest.
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In jest or not, the overarching question here is how ousted executives should behave after they've been reprimanded or fired for harassment.
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We jest, but the fact remains: even with his solid first 30 minutes, Trump's mistakes in strategy are too serious to overcome.
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Indra smartly says "hey maybe even in jest don't agree to give these crazy untrustworthy people guns, our one upperhand" (again, paraphrasing).
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I jest, of course, but is there a more appropriate reaction to a company that promises Zenvolution and the power of #Z3N?
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They were part of my shtick since before I had a penny to my name, and I unequivocally meant them in jest.
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The idea is that too many people might take a potential April Fools' joke seriously for the jest to be worth it.
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" Obama said in jest, jabbing Republicans for acting surprised at a candidate who is "loose with the facts" or "distorts someone's record.
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Rosenstein and the Justice Department fiercely disputed the story, some other news outlets have reported that the comments were made in jest.
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Changing channels ... One by one, they chide and jest, smirk and implore: This election is the most important one of our lifetime.
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Mr. Trump, seemingly in jest, also suggested that he might fault Mr. Pence should he not win the White House in November.
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Farenthold acknowledged to CNN that he referred to aides as "f***tards," but that it was "in jest" and inappropriate in hindsight.
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The headline may be in jest, but the advance is real and may help amputees more effectively and naturally use their prostheses.
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I had been ready to repeat Neil Armstrong's "one small step" phrase, half in jest, but it got stuck in my throat.
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"I was impressed by his honesty, even in jest, and I knew we would be good friends at that point," she said.
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Stone has said the email about the dinner was sent in jest and that he has never met or spoken with Assange.
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Unless you happen to work in academia, nobody is likely to engage you in a chapter-by-chapter discussion of Infinite Jest.
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It was kind of in jest, kind of not -- because he knows I'm a little more aggressive than I should be sometimes.
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As a toddler, I stamped my feet at my mother's friends who criticized her, not yet understanding the difference between insult and jest.
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" JLB in New York City said: "I stupidly didn't read 'Infinite Jest' until DFW died, but when I did, it was a revelation.
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Don't miss Startup Battlefield, the pitch competition with a $50,000 cash prize that's launched a thousand ships — OK, we jest about the ships.
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Paraphrasing there, but that was the Bagger's only partially-in-jest query to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this week.
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Your book club meets next month, but you're just too busy to run down to Barnes and Noble to pick up Infinite Jest.
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Although Stone has claimed his comments were in jest, prosecutors pointed to the messages to justify the bulk of his suggested prison time.
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Its welcome message is a little critical — "you're crazy for this," it spells out at one point — but mostly it's all in jest.
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While all of this started in jest, it seems the model may have actually just created some very real professional competition for herself.
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To McDaniel's point, Depp is not the first celebrity to allude to --- whether in jest or in earnest -- the killing of President Trump.
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These young adults are also more likely to perceive "shaming" comments from colleagues or bosses as being serious rather than said in jest.
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Rosenstein and the Justice Department fiercely disputed the story and some news outlets have reported that the comments were reportedly made in jest.
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Do you feel comfortable telling friends and family that you participated in a Trump impersonator contest, even if it was clearly in jest?
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" Leonato defends himself against Claudio in "Much Ado About Nothing," telling the young soldier: "Tush, tush, man, never fleer and jest at me.
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The chants from Wimbledon fans, although made in jest, were so hurtful that the man moved to another continent to jump off ladders.
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Streaming In David Foster Wallace's 1996 novel "Infinite Jest," a filmmaker creates a movie so entertaining that it reduces viewers to dribbling catatonia.
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If The Glendale Biennial is mere jest, it lampoons the art field's exclusionary mechanisms while unapologetically excluding 5 percent of the city's population.
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I'm not sure what makes a book "great" but I just reread "Infinite Jest," and as always David Foster Wallace blew me away.
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Stone has previously said the comments about the dinner were said in jest and that he has never met or spoken with Assange.
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The gesture continued in jest throughout various administrations until George H.W. Bush made the turkey pardon official when he took office in 1989.
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Rosenstein has insisted the remarks were made in jest, but the incident has still led to speculation that he may leave DOJ soon.
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Bartosz T. Wieliński jest redaktorem działu zagranicznego "Gazety Wyborczej", jednego z największych polskich dzienników, założonego przez opozycję demokratyczną w Polsce w 1989 roku.
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They quickly became best friends, he said, and she repeatedly asked him, in jest, to marry her so she could be Rue LaRue.
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I jest, but not about the air of absurdity surrounding this previously staid process of selecting someone to be the nation's top diplomat.
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"During the course of this conversation, I made a statement in jest referencing an active shooter," the Tampa Bay Times reported Bergren wrote.
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And I know Mitch—when he was saying that, he was saying that in jest, but obviously people didn't take it like that.
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In jest, Wyshynski blurted out Scott's name, mostly because of what he might look like trying to keep up with faster, more skilled stars.
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Her campaign has said both remarks were made in jest, and she has said she apologized to people if they were offended by them.
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Kjellberg addressed the accusations in his video about the meme, saying that while he meant it as "fun, ironic jest," he still offended people.
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Less happily, a car park is gobbling up the turf, though only in jest do players suggest that smashing a windscreen merits extra runs.
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When one fan wondered if the conversation was "all in jest," another commenter wrote, "I don't think so, my dude," earning dozens of likes.
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Not surprisingly, House members jest with the same banality when they spy senators roaming their turf on the other side of the Capitol dome.
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And while Trump's show "The Apprentice" may be noted in jest, it will not be tied officially to the week's programming, the official said.
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It was obviously filmed in jest, as a funny tribute to the pop star, but it's more than just entertaining — it's actually really good.
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If someone indicated a Secret Crush in earnest and someone else did it in jest, how could this not be a tool for bullying?
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"I made the statement … in jest and sarcastically, as was apparent to any objective observer," Trump said, according to the report, obtained by TIME.
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Masar has since clarified in a statement that this was said "in jest" and that she has not signed any new deal with Rosengård.
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The coffee remark appears to have been made in jest — former Obama aides have said in the past that he isn't a java fan.
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"The comments were obviously made in jest, but what's not a joke is the harm ObamaCare has caused for countless Utahns," the spokesman said.
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After thinking about this long and hard, the last truly great book I read would have to be "Infinite Jest," by David Foster Wallace.
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You don't do a forest photoshoot at dusk memorializing the end of your relationship, even partly in jest, without some level of emotional tension.
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She has repeatedly refused to answer questions about the comments, instead pointing to a statement where she clarified her comments were made in jest.
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Hyde-Smith has claimed that the comments were meant in jest, and has blamed Democrats for using them to stir up accusations of racism.
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Some of the Lenses—like the ones that engorge your eyes and lips to ridiculous sizes—are obviously meant to be used in jest.
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In jest, my boyfriend and I walked a block in pursuit of rustling leaves that indicated an animal not yet captured in our Pokédex.
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Mr. Stone, Mr. Skarlatos and Mr. Sadler suggested in jest that they should be played by Chris Hemsworth, Zac Efron and Michael B. Jordan.
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To make this pipe, you will need a power drill, a straw, some tape, and a copy of Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
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I have heard him make bawdy, personal comments, but while that is not appropriate, it was always clear he was doing so in jest.
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She built a quick tool with Javascript framework Jest, Python, and the web scraping module BeautifulSoup, got it running, and it worked, finalphoenix said.
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Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, told CNN's Manu Raju on Thursday that "it's a real possibility" that the "secret society" text was exchanged in jest.
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I jest, and I do so in line with the mocking tone of the media's continuing tally of tasks being piled on Kushner's plate.
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UNTIL LATE November the staff at Mada Masr, an online newspaper, would sometimes wonder, only half in jest, why they had not been arrested.
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"While David Foster Wallace may have been a talented writer, 'Infinite Jest' is, still after 20 years, in desperate need of an editor," she said.
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She jokes that she may be on a list of people who've alluded to harming Trump (in jest or not), but doesn't seem too worried.
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The prediction comes from David Foster Wallace's 1996 epic Infinite Jest, which imagines a future in which information glut and corporatization have ravaged human consciousness.
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It is unclear whether Trump's comments were throwaway remarks said in jest, or whether he was signaling a radical departure from current US foreign policy.
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This book is full of fun insults to throw at other Harry Potter fans in jest, and makes a good gift for die-hard fans.
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Without those spines showing, no one will ever know that you've read The Power Broker or Infinite Jest or the latest insufferable Maggie Nelson novella.
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We had to delicately peel apart the noodles to lay them out flat on top of layers of tomato sauce and pages of Infinite Jest.
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"It was just something I said in jest about when I first met her, it was more than 20 years ago," he said to Guthrie.
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" During a news conference on Sunday, Mr. Rouhani also spoke out against the news media ban of Mr. Khatami, calling it "illegal" and a "jest.
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James Murphy's first big single was a sarcastic truth-in-jest admission of being washed by better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
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While this could've just been in jest, I have to keep an eye out for red flags and men who don't share my core values.
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As the star of comedy The Big Bang Theory for twelve seasons, it's more likely than not that this whole Story was posted in jest.
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I think I love D.C. Also, you jest, but I was stopped by Capitol Police multiple times trying to get into the Senate Press gallery.
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For reference, "War and Peace" clocks in at five hundred and sixty thousand words, and "Infinite Jest" a slender four hundred and eighty-four thousand.
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Antonov's offer appeared to have been in jest, but new orders from the United States or elsewhere would provide a welcome boost to its fortunes.
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Though she claims she made this plea in jest, her fans got busy trying to stop Lizzo from remaining at the top of the charts.
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The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee told CNN Thursday that "it's a real possibility" that the reference could have been said in jest.
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One senior Liberal said, perhaps partly in jest, that all he wanted after the Obama endorsement was for Trump to come out and endorse Scheer.
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" Brendan Buck, a spokesperson for Ryan, also argued it was all in jest, saying, "This entire year-old exchange was clearly an attempt at humor.
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Theory 1: As a novel about an "entertainment" weaponized to enslave and destroy all who look upon it, "Infinite Jest" is the first great Internet novel.
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If you were not sufficiently bored by this near-Infinite Jest-length post, there are several other good reports digging into the prospects for solar+storage.
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It's a sly referential jest that succinctly encapsulates the connective tissue between her employment of Black meme culture and continued exploration of Black women's bodily autonomy.
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"Our drivers deliver your leftovers to hungry Americans," the ads read, directing the curious to the Scraped Plate website that admits the offer is in jest.
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Then, for some extra dystopian insight, pick up a 1,079 page doorstopper (complete with footnotes) for some light reading, David Foster Wallace (DFW)'s Infinite Jest.
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Open Book When his "Infinite Jest" came out 20 years ago, David Foster Wallace felt some anxiety about how his fully stuffed novel would be received.
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But Kim tells us it was all in jest, and if you regularly follow her and Chrissy, you would know that's just their sense of humor.
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Slimers are always finding new ingredients to create interesting slime textures, but I have yet to see anyone add pages of Infinite Jest into their slime.
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During one contentious round of name swapping, Ottolini became irritated and suggested, in jest, to her fiancé that they name him Sparky, after Arizona State's mascot.
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Others have been donors for lesbian couples, a route I've considered more and more and have bantered about — only half in jest — with close lesbian friends.
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But this jest perpetuates a caricature of Africa held by many in the United States, including the U.S. president, so I don't find it that funny.
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"IT'S NOT ABOUT THE PASTA!" is something you may have recently heard shouted in jest, and if you haven't, you need a whole new life, obviously.
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It's all in jest, since Rose recently told Galore that since she's 30 and he's just 21 years old, she actually really likes the Bieber comparisons.
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Throughout his presidency, Mr. Trump has habitually appealed to not-quite-plausible deniability, claiming that his various calls for abuse of power were made in jest.
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In this world there are casual readers and there are book lovers, but readers who have completed Infinite Jest are in a category of their own.
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"All those old guys sitting around shooting the breeze at the feed store get real quiet when I pull up," Mr. DeSutter said, only half in jest.
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While Trump has said he's actually saying "big league," many people interpreted it as "bigly" and it has since taken off as a word used in jest.
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No matter how much we jest or joke, we should not lose sight of the fact that unjust suffering is at the root of this terrible incident.
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Then I looked at the actual tweet I found using it, making sure they're using it in a harassing way, and not as a jest between friends.
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The staged version of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest was titled in German Unendlicher Spaß, or "endless fun," which does not describe my experience of the show.
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If you had finished Infinite Jest, you'd stick it on your coffee table, or face forward on an eye-level bookshelf that visitors are likely to see.
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Notopoulos asked the question in jest, but the joke was telling because it's a reflection of how far BuzzFeed News has come as a global news organization.
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Utrudnione jest działanie organizacji broniących praw osób LGBT, cała społeczność homoseksualna w Polsce boi się, czy zmiany w Polsce nie przyniosą także ustawy antygejowskiej, takiej jak w Rosji.
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Though Pomeranz said it in jest, Klein immediately began thinking of ways he could get the milkshake to his friend, regardless if the restaurant was 375 miles away.
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While I mixed the slime and pretended to be a mad scientist, Loftus tore up pages of Infinite Jest and prepared to add them to the slime mixture.
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By the nature of their chosen disguises, which frequently reference farwaway locales, Mummers often invoke the "Other," sometimes in earnest, sometimes in jest, and too often in ignorance.
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The moment the Obamas stepped onto the national stage it was apparent that America just couldn't resist the ugly racial jabs, whether done in jest or with malice.
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I plan to re-read Infinite Jest soon, because I'm still not even close to having worn that one out, and I don't think I ever will be.
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He brought a few videos someone was giving away to work one day, and he set them up on a coworker's desk with a Blockbuster logo in jest.
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Putting "globalist" in quotes suggests a jest or in-joke of sorts, so it's at least possible this wasn't intended as some kind of anti-Semitic dog whistle.
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OBITUARIES An obituary on Monday about the longtime Tour de France commentator Paul Sherwen misidentified the French king he would sometimes refer to in jest in his commentary.
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In "Infinite Jest", the vanity and anxiety of videophone users leads to the adoption of "tableau", sumptuous scenes picturing very attractive actors with expressions of intense, focused interest.
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Ms. Weinberg had suggested partly in jest that it would soon be "cheaper to fly to California" after seeing ads for $79 flights from Newark to Los Angeles.
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I recall President Obama pointing at me in jest just 214 hours earlier as he left the Philadelphia rally on Monday night saying, 'Do not mess this up.
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The statement seemed like it was a joke and Gawker said so in a statement, but even in jest the comment cast the media company in a bad light.
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In a recent interview, Kimmel maintained that The Man Show sketches were created in jest but acknowledged that viewers were divided in their ability to recognize the show's satire.
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After Espy's team responded to her voter suppression joke on Thursday, Hyde-Smith hit back, again saying it was all made in jest and that her opponents are overreacting.
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Lindsay Lohan doubled down on what we'd already heard -- that her apparent dig at Cody Simpson and Miley Cyrus was much ado about nothing ... and nothing more than jest.
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Yeah, but I don't think that's me, but yeah, I think ... I mean, there's this great book by David Foster Wallace, "Infinite Jest," which is a lot about that.
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We'll also keep it a hundred about how many of us lie when we say we've read Infinite Jest (or even when we say we've read Alice in Wonderland).
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At first, he said that if he had said anything like that, it was just in jest and he did not believe Trump deserved to be removed from office.
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"Apologies to all for missing Friday (good excuse), arriving late Saturday (weak excuse), and growing aggressive after blowing still another game of dice (don't recall)," he wrote in jest.
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The president has occasionally mused over the course of his first term about the possibility of serving more than two terms, but the remarks are sometimes made in jest.
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Amidst Charles Barkley's mock proclamations, Shaquille O'Neal's jest, and Ernie Johnson's steady stewardship, Smith is an NBA professor, simplifying complex basketball concepts by turning them into thought-provoking ideas.
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Wallace himself went to a Boston rehab called Granada House in late 1989, seven years before "Infinite Jest" was published and nearly 20 years before his suicide in 2008.
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"I feel like you're carrying the mayor's water right now," she said, as Mr. Dietl walked across stage and offered his bottle of water to the mayor in jest.
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Terry Gilliam let it rip in a no-holds-barred interview in which he BLASTS #MeToo, defends white men "taking blame" ... and misidentified his gender and race in jest.
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The way he bonds with everybody is through jest, and the classic tap shoulder gag actually leads him to the reminder of the things that are lurking behind him.
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But hidden in all that jest is great reverence for the art form and its history, and audiences keep coming back — when else can you laugh at the ballet?
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And the archive becomes here an ambiguous entity: treated half seriously, half in jest playing with the notion of the power by creating alternative personal stories with political overtones.
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It's also terrifying that the president suggests, even if somehow in jest, that members of the military could retaliate against colleagues who provide candid, professional judgment instead of political allegiance.
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In the Infinite Jest timeline, the video calling boom lasted just over a year, collapsing with dire economic consequences and the majority of the population moved back to regular telephones.
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Nearly eight years after David Foster Wallace's suicide, his "Infinite Jest" — which "still feels so transcendentally, electrically alive," as an admirer writes — is being reissued in a 20th-anniversary edition.
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The internet memes doing the rounds—for instance, a pledge to "defend GDP" for Li's sake—are partly in jest but do reveal support for public servants in his mould.
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"Some literary critics are hailing the book as the greatest literary work since Infinite Jest, or the poems of Rod McKuen," reads a cDc press release, tongue firmly in cheek.
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The leader of one of the most powerful democracies in the world publicly admiring multiple brutal dictators, even if sometimes his comments seem to be made in jest, is disturbing.
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One of the representatives was seen carrying in a mattress, mobile phones were banned, and media reported, possibly in jest, that chemical toilets were brought in to ensure no leaks.
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In the mid-1990s, soon after David Foster Wallace's magnum opus, "Infinite Jest," was published, the journalist David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) pitched a profile of the author to Rolling Stone.
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If The Glendale Biennial is mere jest, its comedic value lies in the suggestion that there could be an internationally legible cultural community in the formerly barren badlands of Glendale.
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Mr. Steinhardt, a hedge fund pioneer and philanthropist, denied many of the specifics of the allegations, saying that his behavior was always meant in jest, and never involved physical contact.
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The bar's owner, Trigger Smith, could not be reached for immediate comment by MUNCHIES on Thursday, though he told Grub Street on Wednesday that this sign was meant in jest.
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"In my nearly 20183 years on earth, I have never tried to touch any woman or man inappropriately," Steinhardt's statement continued, claiming that provocative comments were only made in jest.
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"It's ironic in a way that someone who is over 70 years old has almost kind of injected a bit of youth and jest into the Republican Party," he said.
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Berk, still a member of the HFPA, admitted that he pinched Fraser's buttock at the event in question but said in his interview with GQ he did so in jest.
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Washington (CNN)A Justice Department spokeswoman said Thursday that it's unclear whether a text message between two FBI employees referring to a "secret society" was serious or done in jest.
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Mr. Trump said, mostly in jest, that he had raised the matter of impeachment with Ms. Pelosi, asking her why she did not use the border security issue as grounds.
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And thus the Wallace factions have formed — the Nonfictionites versus the Jestians versus the Short Storyists — even though every faction recognizes the centrality of "Infinite Jest" to his body of work.
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As Obama observed on Sway the other day, anything that he says or does in jest might be taken up by his opponents and held up as an act of treason.
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According to the source, the other leaders were later unclear whether this idea was a provocation said in jest, or an actual new proposal the president was putting on the table.
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And that the jest and the sickness of those like Jones will be discovered before it is too late, and we are forced to live in the world they leave behind.
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The scars that helped tell Camille's story, written on her body using sharp objects in times of emotional duress and overstimulation, are not something to be taken in jest, or mockery.
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Claiming Conway's earlier comments were "made in jest," Spicer didn't completely rule out the possibility of microwave spying: "The microwave is not a sound way of surveilling someone," he told reporters.
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Here was a brand engaging in some grade-A trolling, though the company, as of writing, still hasn't quite cleared up on Twitter that the initial post was just in jest.
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" A Treasury spokesman adds in a statement to NBC News that "The Secretary's responses were made in jest and not intended to be a product endorsement of the Lego Batman movie.
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We jest, of course, but Aquaman's been the target of some online trolling this week, over 'dad bod' pics from his early July vacation in Venice with his wife, Lisa Bonet.
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From his expression, it's pretty clear that Payne meant the comment in pure jest, especially since all of the ex-1Ders seem to be doing just fine with their solo careers.
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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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Like the style of "Infinite Jest," those menus have to be the result of ideas that can't be contained any other way; they're not a blank space to be filled in.
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Defense attorney Robert Driscoll had protested against the assertion in previous court documents, saying the only evidence for the claim came from an old text message that was sent in jest.
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Pomimo ciepłego przyjęcia, z jakim przypuszczalnie spotka się prezydent, jest kwestią zasadniczej wagi, by skupił się na erozji demokracji w Polsce i zaznaczył, że proces ten nie leży w interesie Ameryki.
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She told Reuters she had written this in jest, in the context of news reports that U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had used the same word to describe his boss.
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Work/Play's The Truth Is Said In Jest mixes audio clips of comedians Dave Chappelle, Aries Spears, and Paul Mooney joking about race with 1950s cartoons and depictions of actors in blackface.
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She treated mealtimes with a detached disdain—chortling when asked about what vegetables would match the night's dal, punching my father's arm in jest when he asked when dinner would be served.
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"A lot of people won't want to take responsibility if it's said in jest, or they'll try to justify their comments because of the deep-seated beliefs they have," Dr. Zeising says.
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"The comment, while made in jest and in no way was meant as an attempt of legal action, cannot be justified within the spirit of educational athletics," Paddock says in a statement.
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After seeing the damage wrought by the weaponization of doubt and confusion in the online gaming space, having those tools employed even in the most obvious jest was bound to sit poorly.
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Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv'd, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect.
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Though Diane insists she "said it in jest," the moment led to their first kiss before they boarded their flight to the U.S. that Saturday, after the FAA reopened the American airspace.
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Schiff has defended his exaggerated recounting of Trump's conversation with the president of Ukraine, arguing his comments during his opening statement at a televised hearing last month were made partially in jest.
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" Ziobrowski's attorney, Derege Demissie, said the case "should never have gone this far," saying "The government turned a tweet that was made in jest – a hyperbolic political statement – into a federal case.
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It might have been in jest, but Volker's point was obvious: Flattering Trump might lead him to "do the right thing" and act in the U.S. interest, as one attendee put it.
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While most of these were still in jest, it's hard not to pick up on the sentiment that maybe we should be using our collective powers for good and not just for memes.
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Later, the drama gets serious as host Andy Cohen asks Redmond, Hollman and Deuber if they truly don't feel safe around Locken after Locken made numerous comments, meant in jest, about killing them.
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The only person in the film who could dare to imagine such a jest is Dusan (Christoph Waltz), a Serbian sybarite and wheeler-dealer who lives in an apartment above Paul's in Leisureland.
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" Purely in jest, the Grammy winner went on to name a few more musical titans he would aim to eliminate next: "We just needed to get Phil Collins and Rod Stewart up there!
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Dr. Dabiri would later discover in an email exchange with Dr. Munk that he had said this in jest: Animals can't kick up much more water than the amount directly around their bodies.
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Elsewhere in his remarks, Bloomberg quipped that any campaign he launched for president would be about his desire to "defend the banks," a comment a Bloomberg spokesman told CNN was made in jest.
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Perfect, however, "Infinite Jest" is not: this 1,19853-page novel is a "loose baggy monster," to use Henry James's words, a vast, encyclopedic compendium of whatever seems to have crossed Mr. Wallace's mind.
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This tendency explains why, after he got in trouble for begging Russia to intervene in the 2016 election, which he says was in "jest," he allegedly did it again in anticipation of 2020.
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" Seth in New York was one of several readers who addressed the book's detractors: "It's always made me sad that the features that drew me to 'Infinite Jest' seem to elude its critics completely.
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He encouraged graduates as they walked up to get their diplomas to tip the trustees a few bucks -- or a few thousand -- if they want to get their relatives admitted ... in jest of course.
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Haley says this partly in jest, but he explains that Gutenberg mimicked existing calligraphy used for bibles and other Church material to retain the authoritative nature of the previous text by adopting its form.
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The homophobic language, because it was apparently used in jest and as only fractions of longer videos attempting to rebut Maza's Strikethrough series, didn't violate YouTube's policies as far as the company was concerned.
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Bennet, who plays Daisy Johnson on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., posted a letter to Hadid on Instagram to remind her followers why photos and actions like these are so harmful, even if made in jest.
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Often, White House officials have asserted that the President was misunderstood or even speaking in jest, as happened after Trump appeared to support police brutality in a Long Island speech to law enforcement officers.
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" Farenthold denied to CNN that he made the remark about oral sex, but acknowledged that he did refer to staffers as "f---tards," though he said he used the term "in jest, not anger.
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Despite all the mirrors, his movies lack the self-reflecting air and the glancing wit of the New Wave, and they move with a classical intent, wary of anything but the most mournful jest.
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Now they understood that if their interest was partly in jest, it was not the sneering mockery of hipsters at Olive Garden, but the camp infatuation of gay men who root for Disney villains.
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For days, as depression took hold, he wore a black pullover, the top half of a sweatsuit given to him by his uncle, half in jest, as a nod to our New Jersey roots.
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If someone told me they wanted to adopt a dog and name it Ortho "The Darkness" Stice, I would believe that they had not only read Infinite Jest, but that they absolutely adored it.
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Early Tuesday morning, Alex Christofi (a writer of books, himself) shared a photo on Twitter of three infamously large tomes, cut in half lengthwise: Middlesex, Infinite Jest, and Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time.
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To see me now — a trans woman living in Brooklyn, with "Infinite Jest" on my nightstand and "This Is America" on repeat — it's hard to imagine me campaigning for Mr. Bush and Dick Cheney.
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The name of that project, which was designed to make people think about the impact of climate change on how we eat, is "Making the Best of It." It is only half in jest.
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" Lisa Loeb, who won best children's album, said, only half in jest: "I know some people are saying the music industry took a little while to catch up with some of the other industries.
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The professor actually happened to be talking Donald Trump in class yesterday, specifically how the candidate made that weird allusion to "Second Amendment people" many took to be a jest about killing Hillary Clinton.
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Nadler said Sunday that "offering a pardon even if in jest" for violating the law was wrong and anticipated reviewing this kind of conduct after he is able to review special counsel Robert Mueller's report.
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Pagano posted on her personal Instagram account about the striking similarities, noting, in jest, how it's a pretty ironic sign of success to have a big retailer pulling considerable "inspiration" from an indie label's designs.
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The rapper was headlining the Boston Calling festival Sunday night when he addressed the rumors -- in jest -- asking the crowd for their approval of the hip hop stars being a power couple ... and it's hilarious.
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So I raise a glass to all those enterprising souls who have built and bellied-up to their own little corners of paradise, and I say loudly, clearly, and without jest: Please invite me over.
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That word, however facetiously it was deployed—because to consider the beer leagues a career, even in jest, was grandiose—had a finality that got marbled up with whatever depression the concussions had brought on.
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As I mentioned before, my only prior experience in taking a top-down gear photo was in jest, but I soon craved the experience of taking and posting another one in earnest after those upgrades.
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At first glance, it would seem that this must be a hoax, some wise-guy trying to pull a fast one on 'ol Donny, or perhaps an homage from a die hard Infinite Jest fan.
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Consider a recent furor when an older demographer suggested in jest that young people would be better able to save for a house were they not wasting their money buying avocado toast at hipster cafes.
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"We spent over 85 million dollars of our own money on this movie, we are taking a bath on this deal," Samberg&aposs production company, Party Over Here, said in a statement, presumably in jest.
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While there was jest and hyperbole in that, there was also genuine alarm and the dark realization that Trump would not be transmogrified by the oath of office into anything approaching a dignified, responsible statesman.
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Echoing a stance made by his predecessor, Jose Manuel Barroso, Juncker said any newly independent state must follow the same EU membership procedures as all aspirants, citing Scotland and, in jest, his home country, Luxembourg.
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The Washington Post, ABC News and other outlets backed up the broad outlines of the Times report moments later, but several reported that Rosenstein's idea about bugging the president may have been mentioned in jest.
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On this week's podcast, Bissell discusses the novel; the editor Michael Pietsch talks about what it was like to work on "Infinite Jest" with Wallace; and Chris Jennings discusses "Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism."
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"I plan to ask him how he got to be so capable and so smart, and to ask him if he understands how much we appreciate his great leadership," said Mississippi's Roger Wicker, seemingly in jest.
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When your correspondent offered himself as a test subject, only partially in jest, Dr Brown flashed an arch grin, before sombrely explaining that such an experiment would be beyond the tolerance of modern review boards, too.
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The second is the kind who keeps a copy of Infinite Jest on their bedside table "for reference" and can't recognise how funny it is that they have earnestly modelled their entire adult self on Morrissey.
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I've never gotten through "Infinite Jest" — I've literally read every one of Wallace's essays, and enjoy his writing immensely, but I'm embarrassed to confess I've never have the time or patience to finish the big one.
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" Addressing the fact that he edited users' comments, he said: "That was done in jest … it wasn't totally received that way but I think within our community it wasn't the craziest thing that's happened on Reddit.
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As the publisher points out, the request was made in jest on Friday by player DarkMaster06 who asked the Skyrim mods subreddit for a cheeky addition to the great palace in the game's city of Whiterun.
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When asked about the Hard Rock's impending arrival, one priest from a nearby church noted (perhaps in jest) that rock music was "satanic" and told Deutsche Welle he would say a prayer whenever he walked by.
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So when someone, for instance, depicts Trump walking on water to rescue a sinking Statue of Liberty or photoshops Trump's head onto Napoleon's body, it's done half in jest, half in an attempt to confuse critics.
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In that first class, the narrator's one defender is Billy, a young scholarship student from Illinois who shows great literary promise despite never having heard of David Foster Wallace, whose "Infinite Jest" has just been published.
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He made a joke, one I can't remember except for the way he smiled out of the right side of his mouth, tilted his head from side to side, and held up his hands in jest.
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Kennedy said it during a trip to Paris in June 1961 when his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, so dazzled the French that the president suggested, half in jest, that he was little more than a plus-one.
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Despite the clear political undercurrent of these lines, Perry seemed to make these comments in jest, sandwiching them between jokes about what outfit she should choose for the night, Game of Thrones, and walking on the moon.
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Ma's characters — most of them deeply unpleasant — snipe at each other in jest (but not really), express themselves via frequently homophobic insults, and patronize Sue Ann, even as she goes out of her way to accommodate them.
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The divorce, once uttered, even if in jest, thoughtlessness, a slip of the tongue, or a fit of anger, is irrevocable, and the woman doesn't even need to be present, or aware, for it to be valid.
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"Alas, poor YORICK, I knew him well, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest …" (Hamlet, Act V, Scene 1) YORICK was the king's jester, whom Hamlet fondly remembers when the grave diggers present him with the jester's skull.
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If you've read "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek," you know the frog I'm talking about, the one that makes a memorable appearance in the essay formerly known as "Heaven and Earth in Jest" — an appearance and disappearance both.
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And if you want to win, like, an Olympic medal for long reads, check out Lucy Ellmann's Ducks, Newburyport, which clocks in at a whopping 1,000 pages and has been dubbed the Infinite Jest of our age.
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GRY O NAZWIE ROBOCZEJ "VITRIOL" Z GATUNKU RPG, "FOXHOLE" ORAZ TRZECIEJ GRY, KTÓREJ PRODUCENTEMJEST ZAGRANICZNE STUDIO DEWELOPERSKIE Pełny komunikat spółki w serwisie Eikon jest dostępny tutaj: Aby zobaczyć pozostałe depesze na temat spółki, kliknij tutaj (Gdansk Newsroom)
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The first half of the concert was given over to a sparkling performance of Mr. Adams's "Absolute Jest" (2012), an exuberant concerto grosso for lightly amplified string quartet and large symphony orchestra, which quotes extensively from Beethoven.
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And other recent Facebook events seemingly planned in jest have had a surprisingly high turnout: Just last month, a crowd of around 200 ran Naruto-style across Minneapolis' Stone Arch Bridge after pledging to do so on Facebook.
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He demanded more efficient business processes and threatened in jest to kill the heads of underperforming agencies, besides floated the idea of closing bars nationwide at midnight, and banning karaoke singing in public after 8 or 9 p.m.
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Now, he did post the message on The Most Obnoxious Day of the Year (April 1 also known as April Fools Day), so we're taking this threat in jest, but let's pretend it's real for a quick laugh.
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The Democrats' constant, tortured analysis of what went wrong, howling at the moon in anger or jest, is not only backward-looking but an insult to the voters who made the rational decision to switch to Donald Trump.
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As much in jest as this product may be, it actually seems like something many pet owners would love — pet wearable companies are already being purchased for nine figures, and devices like the Petcube are likewise gaining popularity.
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Former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg, who voluntarily testified before Mueller's grand jury in March, was told by Stone in an August 2016 email that he dined with Assange, a remark Stone later said was made in jest.
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Neil Armstrong, the program said, did not exercise because he thought everyone has a set number of heartbeats and he did not want to waste any — something he had said, likely in jest, in 1969 to Life magazine.
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Twitter will also require users to delete tweets telling followers to do ineffective or dangerous things like drinking bleach, even if the tweet is "made in jest" because that content can prove harmful when taken out of context.
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This time the world's largest video site has temporarily turned off all of the ads in Paul's videos, for offenses that include tasering a rat in a YouTube video and promising, presumably in jest, to eat laundry detergent.
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This time, the world's largest video site has temporarily turned off all of the ads in Paul's videos, for offenses that include tasering a rat in a YouTube video and promising, presumably in jest, to eat laundry detergent.
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Whataburger is a Texas-based chain of burger restaurants, though coastal elites only know about Whataburger from the references to it in the book Infinite Jest, which I have read because I am a soulful and intelligent man.
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The fake Ivanka quote is actually from a Conan O'Brien late night monologue from March of 2006, said completely in jest in response to the truly gross things Donald Trump was actually saying at the time on The View.
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I find men in bandanas to be very disturbing.) It was rather the rabid, pseudo-intellectual (or in her words, "chode") fan base the book has developed that sparked her desire to physically consume Infinite Jest out of spite.
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According to a source inside the room, Sessions noted that Trump was not a member of the profession and said he made the comments in jest, as White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has also contended this week.
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The Puppy Bowl was designed as counterprogramming to the biggest event in American sports, but the actual concept — tiny puppies cavorting on a mini football field — was, like many great ideas, initially suggested in jest, by Animal Planet executives.
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There was not and is not any evidence that the alleged off-site meetings cited by Johnson have anything to do with the "secret society" mention -- even if it was not, as now appears extremely likely, meant in jest.
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"I made a comment about the moon landing, it was a very unfortunate situation for me because it's a comment that was made in jest and not to be taken seriously," Curry said in the video (copy on YouTube here).
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Gigs where they can chant along to protest lyrics such as Mr Zoob's defiant "Mój Jest Ten Kawałek Podłogi" ("This is My Bit of the Floor"), as covered by seasoned Polish hip-hop outfit Pokakontaz to raucous moshing from their fans.
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JULIA KARDON BROOKLYN * To the Editor: In his excellent remembrance of David Foster Wallace and "Infinite Jest," Tom Bissell doesn't mention an aspect of the novel I think is crucial to understanding its brilliance, its mixed reception and its staying power.
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JAY DONAHUEMelrose, Massachusetts Infinitive jest The Economist seems increasingly to prefer actively to write in a way destined consistently to irritate and jar; presumably, so as clearly to demonstrate its commitment consistently to avoid splitting the infinitive (The Economist 2017, passim).
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While the remark was clearly intended in jest, it also provided insight into the mindset of the towering former prosecutor, who is taking fire from all sides over the bureau's reported investigation into contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia.
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Dropped at the end of a sentence, the face typically suggests the previous statement should be taken in jest, like so: Picked the best time in the world to have the flu how to make tonight's 13.5 hour shift better?
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"Boys and girls don't like to share their train sets," was how Kavonic put it, a jest that rings true when looking at the three adjacent coal-seam gas to LNG plants recently built at Gladstone, on Australia's east coast.
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And maybe get different role models; David Foster Wallace and Stephen King, while wildly different authors, shared common ground in producing some of their cleverest work after sobering up (Infinite Jest and The Shining both partly served as meditations on alcoholism).
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"Those of us who have known Don Willett appreciate that he is an avid Twitter user who often tweets in a light-hearted spirit of jest and sarcasm, sometimes poking fun just as much at himself as others," Leo said.
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Who don't care about party, who don't care about politics, who just do what's right and honor the law and honor the Constitution," Bharara told Bill Maher on his HBO show, and added in jest: "Then God bless the deep state.
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In one, Thorsten Lensing's quick-witted and energetic version of the novel "Infinite Jest," the four hours miraculously whiz by as six nimble actors appear in multiple roles in a reduced version of David Foster Wallace's 1,000-page postmodern epic.
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Tan at the time of the reports brushed off the remarks claiming they were in jest, but it's notable that he doesn't seem to be making himself particularly visible or available this year at the show — a contrast from years before.
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The thought of the warring factions trying to make light of their foibles borders on incredulous — like one of those Comedy Central celebrity roasts, only (a) no one likes the celebrity and (b) the insults are real, not in jest.
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Were that to occur, President Trump might find that he will want to take up an offer that German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble made last year in jest that the U.S. might want to consider trading Puerto Rico for Greece.
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While the original meme event "Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All Of Us" was meant in jest, it garnered 2 million RSVPs worldwide and a pretty sick music video for one of Lil Nas X's many "Old Town Road" remixes.
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Washington (CNN)The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee acknowledged Thursday that a reference made between two FBI employees of a "secret society" could have been said in jest as opposed to evidence of an anti-Donald Trump plot.
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Since its debut, 20 years ago on Monday, David Foster Wallace's 1,000 page novel Infinite Jest has been heralded as an American masterpiece — and is very likely to be the most famous book most of us have never actually finished.
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But that the idea was even raised in jest shows how just how frustrated Mexicans are that their economy and the value of their savings are at the mercy of the seemingly random musings coming in 140-character bursts from Trump's Twitter account.
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I jest, of course, but one startup that almost certainly won't be celebrating is London's Bevy, a sort of 'Uber for booze' that promises to let you order various alcoholic drinks, along with cigarettes and late night snacks, for local same-hour delivery.
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Here is what we came up with: Although Loftus is no stranger to consuming strange things (In addition to Infinite Jest, she also regularly eats dog food and butt-chugs milk as part of her comedy routine), we did not eat the lasagna.
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It was more than twice as long as War and Peace or Infinite Jest; longer than the entire Harry Potter series, and two and a half times as long as The Lord of the Rings, the series on which it was based.
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" A little bit in jest of course, but also I think to be that outspoken voice in the country right now, we're not just thankful to be there, I've worked very hard to get there and feel like, "Yeah, I deserve it.
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She reflects on the sinister promise of late capitalism ("transformation through consumption"); the genetic factors of alcoholism; the fate of Charles Jackson after he wrote The Lost Weekend; Amy Winehouse; David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest; and what actually happens in Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
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I get that a small, vocal number of creatives who think they really are the next coming of Hemingway (or at the very least, David Foster Wallace — gotta get in that Infinite Jest reference on its birthday) could be attracted to this product.
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But I have also spent a lifetime trying to laugh when a friend has driven me past a psychiatric hospital and commented on the loons inside, to crack a smile when people have expressed their emotional extravagance with a jest about suicide.
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At the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, a bronze plaque in the Umpire Exhibit says in his jest, "This must be the only job in America that everybody knows how to do better than the guy who's doing it."
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As I read "Infinite Jest" in the dark early mornings before my Uzbek language class, I could hear my host mother talking to the chickens in the barn on the other side of my bedroom wall as she flung scatters of feed before them.
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"It belies the real DNA of the Whooshh systems," Bryan said, noting that HBO comedian John Oliver made the copyrighted term "Salmon Cannon" famous in 2014 on an episode of Last Week Tonight in which, in jest, they pretended to shoot salmon at famous people.
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While some seem to have been created in jest (like the Labour Party led by "jezza corbachev"), The Eco-fascism Party appears to be a serious attempt at persuading others of its ideas, and comes with an in-depth manifesto dating from November 2018.
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She said that big books like David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest," and Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina," tended to sell well in the winter, a combination of New Year's resolutions to finally conquer certain tomes and the simple fact that people stay in more in the winters.
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What's currently weighing down my nightstand are "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable," by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, for research; "The Stone Sky," by N. K. Jemisin, for pleasure; and "Infinite Jest," by David Foster Wallace, because I really should finish it.
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She then took a step back and, only half in jest, shook her finger at me, demanding to know why the United States had not invaded Venezuela to get rid of President Hugo Chávez as it had done with Manuel Noriega in Panama in 1989.
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Belle tweeted in jest about wearing pants at home now that her roommate is working from home too, and, like Thompson Payton, she told BuzzFeed News that it's going to take some adjustment to get used to having someone else around during the day.
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Mr. Juncker's English jest might be viewed by some in Brussels as ill advised after the cross-Channel war of words that raged this past week over leaked details of a tense dinner attended by Mr. Juncker and the British prime minister, Theresa May. Mrs.
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Fifteen years later, Ms. Kanner — "a trans woman living in Brooklyn, with 'Infinite Jest' on my nightstand and 'This Is America' on repeat" — says her views have changed drastically: I voted for Barack Obama in 20043 and 2012, and for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
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My immense lack of motivation to read Infinite Jest, and my subsequent desire to creatively destroy it, is perhaps only matched by comedian and performance artist, Jamie Loftus, who is currently in the midst of an ongoing project in which she eats the tome, page by page.
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Inspired by her equal dedication to debasing what has been regarded as "the novel of its generation," Loftus and I met up on a sunny day in early July to brainstorm ways in which we could team up to ruin even more copies of Infinite Jest.
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" Jim Bueermann, the president of the nonprofit Police Foundation, which works to improve policing, said Trump's support for law enforcement was appreciated but "we cannot support any commentary -- in sincerity or jest -- that undermines the trust that our communities place in us to protect and serve.
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"Today I have learnt that responding succinctly and in perfect jest to somebody heckling you about *your age* as you speak about the impact of climate change on *your generation* with the literal title of their generation makes some people very mad," she wrote on Facebook.
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It should be noted that T.I. tried clarifying his comments with Jada Pinkett Smith, saying he was mostly speaking in jest ... and adding the so-called virginity check-ups happened only twice, when his now 18-year-old daughter, Deyjah, was 15 and 16 years old.
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Infinite Jest is probably owned by more people who haven't read it than any other book to have come out in the past two decades, so you're likely to induce guilt and envy in others and they won't even ask you what you thought about it.
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" That image, taken at a Mississippi museum, resurfaced Tuesday as AT&T, Leidos and Walmart joined two other companies, Union Pacific and Boston Scientific, in asking Hyde-Smith, a Republican, to return campaign contributions because of controversy over her recent jest about being willing to attend a public "hanging.
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While Oats had indicated that they would shoot a short cat film set in the world if they hit $40, it seems that that was in jest, and that despite the "thousands of people" who did back the project, there will be no Firebase sequel of any size.
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A more revealing moment came in an exchange half in jest between Mr Prokhanov and Sheng Shiliang, a Chinese expert on Russia, who said in fluent Russian that the country was a good destination for Chinese tourists and an exporter of ice-cream enjoyed by Xi Jinping, China's leader.
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"Given the fact that two years ago, he stated that he was unlikely to play competitive golf again, or was seriously doubting it ... he wouldn't just say that in jest," Williams told ESPN of Woods, who made his return to the tour last year after a fourth back surgery.
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Debussy, a near-recluse who had only a small circle of friends, hated to travel, preferring the solitude of his piano and, as he said only half in jest to a friend, his small "75-centimeter table for writing things that have without fail to revolutionize the world."
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This hands-on investigation of books as art objects mixes the work of hometown heroes like Susan Goethel-Campbell, Megan Heeres, and Corrie Baldauf (whose Infinite Jest Project continues to proliferate, digitally and physically) with some well-known artists' books, including examples by Ed Ruscha and Kara Walker.
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It has a great journey: a van ride with fellow founders from Britain to Santorini, during which Mr. Walzer read John Steinbeck's "East of Eden," the tattered copy of which is kept in the back like a talisman near a signed, plastic-wrapped galley of "Infinite Jest," by David Foster Wallace.
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Either as a joke -- as White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders has now suggested -- or as one of many true things that have been said in jest, President Donald Trump addressed a roomful of officers on Long Island on Friday and invited them to be "rough" with their suspects.
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In response to another hypothetical from Srinivasan on Monday, Burnham took a sweeping position that the White House could suspend a reporter over just about any threat to fight a White House guest, even if the threat seemed to be in jest and followed a similar comment from the guest.
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He tries to ignore the criticism, but when Catholic Vote, a conservative group, sent out a message – which it said was in jest — that Father Martin had been "beaten like a rented mule" by a Dominican priest, he filed a complaint with Twitter that resulted in the account being temporarily suspended.
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For the record, I've read the classic long-term TBRs — Proust (educational at the time; never got another serious crush on a gay guy), Melville (very great) and "Infinite Jest" (astonishingly puerile) — and see no reason to try "The Man Without Qualities" because I've never liked Musil all that much.
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Reading David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest" was hugely important to me in early sobriety — it was funny and skeptical and tender about recovery all at once — and I particularly loved Don Gately, the huge lumbering rehab counselor trying to stay sober and decent in the middle of all the plotline's insanity.
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"A number of sources have told us that the government of Chechnya is involved in the prosecution of LGBT people in the country, so this is very much an 'Infinite Jest' kind of situation where the people responsible for the prosecution are supposedly trying to investigate their own crimes," she said.
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Still, it seems that the clip of Bundy-as-Shoncantelle turning "okay" into "okurr" is the first video evidence we have of okurr appearing in the modern vernacular, a funny word that was likely picked up and reused in jest and now, eight years later, is a part of our pop-culture vocabulary.
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The internet always has receipts.) If the comment was a tongue-in-cheek jest, probably done while giggling and sitting next to Kardashian herself (we've all seen those episodes of KUWTK and know how the Kardashians operate), then Bendjima has officially graduated to the next level up in the Kardashian Media Training University.
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But while some have speculated — both in seriousness and in jest — that the ball may have been bugged, the chip is not a spy tool but rather a technological feature of the Adidas AG soccer ball that's designed to connect fans to player videos, competitions and other content through their mobile devices.
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"Microwaves that turn into cameras" were among surveillance methods cited on Sunday by Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser to President Trump, in an interview with Mike Kelly of The Record of Bergen County, N.J. Two days later, Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, said Ms. Conway had been speaking in jest.
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"I think this is a time when all of us — Republicans and Democrats — need to stand up and make it clear that we're committed to the rule of law and for the president or his lawyer to, even in jest, talk about firing Mueller or ending his investigation, is unacceptable," he added.
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To make matters worse, Justice Department officials later said Rosenstein participated in meetings that not only raised the possible need to remove Trump as an incompetent president under the 25th Amendment but reportedly discussed wearing a wire to implicate Trump in crimes, a suggestion that Rosenstein said was a jest but others insisted was serious.
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Whether it's his remark about the "disgusting" freedom of the press "to write whatever it wants," (which raises the specter of state-mandated media controls) or his remark made "in jest" about Vice President Mike Pence wanting to "hang gays," (which conjures regime-style persecution) he has dangerously expanded the boundaries of public presidential language.
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Where at first there was shame in having a Finnish man become internationally synonymous with leather and kink—"do Americans and Australians now think we're all leather gays dressed in uniform?" he asked me in jest—there's since been a renewed celebration of the artist in his home country and perhaps a sense of pride.
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"Young people, especially those in middle and high school, might have playful dynamics with their teachers, might have rapport where something can be misinterpreted very easily with this new law, where a young person curses or says something in jest," Andrew Hairston, director of the School-to-Prison Pipeline Project at Texas Appleseed, said.
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" He pointed out that "the quotes in question are more than a decade old" and suggested that it was "pointless to try to explain how the words were spoken in jest, or taken out of context, or in any case bear no resemblance to what you actually think, or would want for the country.
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The only book that shows any sign of use is "Infinite Jest": the first 85 pages look as if they've been read no fewer than six times, but the rest of the book remains untouched, even though remnants of an online dating profile we found claimed that it was the apartment owner's favorite book.
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As a member (barely) of the generation Wallace was part of, and as a writer whose closest friends are writers (most of whom are Wallace fans), and as someone who first read "Infinite Jest" at perhaps the perfect age (22, as a Peace Corps volunteer in Uzbekistan), my testimony on this point may well be riddled with partisanship.
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Whether or not the comment was made in jest—a possibility given Trump's miserable attempts at humor and something resembling a smirk visible in video of the moment—it's doesn't quite hit the mark, given that he's now expressly encouraged a powerful country with a nut job leader to hack into the email of a US presidential candidate.
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There was high-end collegiate puck, sure, but aside from then-retired old-timer Frank Brimsek and newcomer Tom Williams (who—and this tidbit deserves an essay of its own—was once arrested by Toronto customs officials after telling them, in jest, that he had a bomb in his bag), the NHL contained exactly zero American delegates.
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"[Hyde-Smith] said something out of jest that wasn't the most politically correct thing to say but, you know, I bet you nine out of 28503 Democrats would vote to execute the young man that killed the nine black people in the church in South Carolina — the African Americans that were killed in South Carolina," Younger told the outlet.
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"Read more: Logan Paul said he wants to 'rip the head off' the man he was filmed slapping unconscious, who now claims the video was fakeOn the same day, Paul posted a video titled "meet the girl i've been hiding from you.." where he refers to himself and Mongeau in jest as "two of the internet's biggest sociopaths.
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A lot of us have things to do other than relentlessly internalize 218 years and some 22008,20203 minutes of Marvel superhero cinema — things like eating, sleeping, finishing Infinite Jest, worrying about the plastic island floating in the Pacific Ocean, knitting, catching up on Game of Thrones, trying to make sense of President Trump and Stormy Daniels, or making our own American Chopper meme.
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The project, which she has been documenting on Twitter, was inspired by her own experience working at a bookstore in LA. "I didn't know anything about Infinite Jest [prior to eating it], other than every chode who came into the bookstore I worked at would buy it and unhinge their jaw to scold me when I said I hadn't read it myself," she told me.
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As soon as we get to know one character and time period, we are whisked off to another person, decade and mode of expression, often for relatively inconsequential purposes, like a tangent devoted first to the Elfscape addict (through a very "Infinite Jest"-sounding 11-page chapter basically composed of a single sentence) and then the plagiarist, minor players in an already overstuffed ensemble.
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In this case, the words were wielded in jest against a movement aimed at supporting a community that sees five times the incarceration rate of whites, are eight times more likely to contract HIV, and suffer from massive systemic inequalities that stymie opportunities in education, real estate, and wealth potential—and can be killed for holding a cell phone, selling cigarettes, or eating Skittles.
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Sen. Ron JohnsonRonald (Ron) Harold JohnsonGOP senators call for Barr to release full results of Epstein investigation FBI Agents Association calls on Congress to make 'domestic terrorism' a federal crime Senators renew request for domestic threats documents from FBI, DOJ after shootings MORE on Thursday acknowledged that "it's a real possibility" that a reference to a "secret society" in a text message exchange between two FBI officials was made in jest.
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However, the Post cited an unnamed official who attended the meeting and claimed the remark was made in jest and came in response to McCabe's suggestion that the DOJ probe Trump after he fired ex-FBI Director James ComeyJames Brien Comey3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Barr predicts progressive prosecutors will lead to 'more crime, more victims' James Comey shows our criminal justice system works as intended MORE.
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Now, recent claims by men that they have been victims of sexual abuse -- such as the actor Brendan Fraser's allegation that in 2003 he was groped by the former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (the accused, Philip Berk, told GQ he "pinched" Fraser in jest), and the actor Terry Crews' assertion that he was groped by a "high level Hollywood executive" -- show that some men are emboldened to report such incidents.
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A fine example of this occurs early in "Infinite Jest," during its "Where was the woman who said she'd come" interlude, which concerns the paranoid weed addict Ken Erdedy, whose terror of being considered a too eager drug buyer has engendered an unwelcome situation: He is unsure whether or not he actually managed to make an appointment with a woman able to access 200 grams of "unusually good" marijuana, which he very much wants to spend the weekend smoking.
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There's also a point in one episode in the revival when Roseanne Conner the character and her husband Dan talk to Darlene about her parenting style and they kind of make a jest about you know spanking her daughter as a form of punishment whereas in the original series Roseanne had an entire storyline in an episode dedicated to the fact that she wanted to break the cycle of child abuse because of how she was raised.
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The teenage boy, whose name was not released, pleaded guilty Wednesday and is set to be sentenced April 24, according to the AP. The teen told police he was bored when he made the threats and was speaking in jest, Assistant Commonwealth Attorney Samantha Markley told the AP. The threats closed down Charlottesville schools last Thursday and Friday after police received a tip about the post, written on 85033chan and 8chan, which encouraged white students to stay home from school.
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The Atlanta native was responding to the brand's dubiously tongue-in-cheek "#BOYCOTT DOLCE & GABBANA" campaign, a $245 slogan t-shirt and accompanying video of smiley-faced youngsters that felt a little too much like Kendall Jenner's ill-fated Pepsi advertisement—which was itself poking jest at the public outcry over the First Lady Melania Trump's recent appearance at a G7 event in Sicily in a Dolce & Gabbana coat so dense with silk flowers that it sells for $51,500. Wheeeeeee!
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