Mortimer proposes, perhaps jokingly, that "Maybe it's something to do with a new sort of conservatism".
The next year, Mr. Larson had jokingly proposed to Ms. Rivkin during a baseball discussion.
In the fall of 1968, while in high school, he jokingly proposed adding a Frisbee game he had created with some friends to the school curriculum.
Mr. McCain seemed to set himself up again last Wednesday when, in an appearance on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," he jokingly proposed Dwight Schrute, a sycophantic character on the NBC sitcom "The Office," as his running mate.
Urban, a former anti-communist, recalled that he jokingly proposed calling the new nation "Left-Over-Stan" to describe its repeated historical experience as a "leftover", first from the Habsburg Empire and then the Cold War.
He was in good humour while joking that he would select John Terry as this country's footballer of the year, with Lampard as runner-up, but when someone jokingly proposed Arjen Robben for third place the Chelsea manager snapped that he hadn't liked the Dutchman's display as a second-half substitute.
Huppenthal followed up on his post an hour later, responding to a commenter who jokingly proposed closing all ethnic restaurants.
Five days later ― Washington and Moscow announced a deal in which Syria would do what Kerry had almost jokingly proposed.
ABC is rushing to make amends after a "Jimmy Kimmel Live" skit this month jokingly proposed killing "everyone in China" to help solve America's financial problems.
In 2010, David Cameron supported a backbencher's private bill to push UK time forward by an hour, but it was eventually filibustered and then lampooned by Jacob Rees-Mogg, who jokingly proposed Somerset deserved its own time zone a quarter of an hour behind London's.
Jason Kapalka, the co-founder and chief creative officer of PopCap, claims that he "half-jokingly" proposed a game collaboration between the two companies that would combine a role-playing game with Bejeweled-style gameplay, calling it "Final Fantasy Bejeweled".
