On Friday, the beard prompted some jests on Twitter: The Blankfein Beard: I'd say it's a good 40% of the way to Paul Singer.
"We are not pope," many Germans said in Twitter posts in the hours after his announcement, some in jest and some with an apparent twinge of sadness, a reference to the now-famous headline in the tabloid Bild, "We Are Pope," that captured the German enthusiasm at Benedict's election in 2005.
2. J-E-S-T Jest, jest, jest.
In the spring of 1993, Wallace submitted to Pietsch the first two-thirds of "Infinite Jest" — some four hundred thousand words.
Although offered in jest, some ideas here contain a spark of genius ("custard-filled speed bumps" and "continuously fresh underwear" being two).
SOME people talk, sometimes in jest, about leaving their brains to science.
The growth of MOOCs (massive open online courses) has focused increased attention on instruction, he adds, as well as leading some faculty members to ask, only half in jest, "Will some MIT professor put me out of business?" (The edX project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University has been aggressively fielding MOOCs).
But, as the old saying goes, there's some truth in every jest".
Many outed other Twitter users, apparently in jest, but some responses were more wary.
Mr. Hecht suggested, in jest, that some sacks might be given to old age homes, to occupy the elderly.
