As for the fanciful price tag in his jest, it would well exceed the highest rates for which CBS has made deals; "we have sold some of our spots for over $4 million," Mr. Moonves said.
Or how about eye contact?" Here his jest is a beat to set off a moment of blatant idiocy, a light goof to ward off despair, a flash of charm to encourage us forward.
His jest reflects the feeling of many working on other organisms that their research is underfunded relative to human disease genetics.
Audiences here will be less attuned to the gravity of his jests and more sorely tried, perhaps, by the climax, as a line of Israeli shooters fire at a female Palestinian terrorist.
In addition to his jests about religion and politics, he talked about using drugs, including LSD and peyote; he kicked cocaine, he said, not for moral or legal reasons but because he found "far more pain in the deal than pleasure".
8 1 And now, after they had assumed the imperial power, the two emperors acted in so democratic a manner that no one missed the lenient ways of Pius; for though Marullus, a writer of farces of the time, irritated them by his jests, he yet went unpunished. 2 They gave funeral games for their father.
So Lipsky goes on a five-day road trip with Foster Wallace as he finishes the last leg of his "Infinite Jest" book tour and asks questions.
Mr. Kelly, who called in to the show later, offered his own jest, that the delay was surely the fault of the Transportation Department, which got tongues wagging around City Hall.
"The monarchy is extinct like the dinosaurs, so why would we have it?" Mr. Rabbani asked, smiling at his own jest.
"If it can't go viral, we at least hope it goes bacterial," said Shearer of his latest jest.
But Florida Gov. Jeb Bush had his little jest during a Cabinet meeting, joking that the people of San Francisco may be endangered, and "that's probably good news for the country". The remark came to Bush's lips as he was considering environmental land and surveying a map of places with plenty of varied wildlife species.
