Word: jesting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even if the posters were created lightheartedly or in jest, these slogans are so obviously contrary to the idea of women's liberation and female empowerment that I am embarrassed as an actor and a woman. I strongly object to being referred to as "Adam's rib," and the idea that women's theater is performed so that guys can drool over us is obscene...
...What upset the judge so? It could well have been Microsoft's claim that Lessig had compared them to the devil in an E-mail to a friend at rival Netscape ? a claim that Jackson denounced on the grounds that the E-mail was clearly written in jest. In any case, the very mention of sanctions does not bode well for the outcome of the contempt hearing, when the Justice Department is asking for a $1 million-a-day fine to be slapped on the Redmond corporation. Indeed, Microsoft may have mounted a vigorous technical defense Wednesday of why Windows...
...take exception to the offhand comment that by 2001 everyone will be using computers with Windows 2001 and that the only holdouts will be "aging potheads still designing really cool fractal algorithms" on Macintosh computers. Even in jest, comments like this distort reality. Macs are not relevant only to impractical deadbeats. Most of us know that if you want an elegant computer that is easy to set up, operate and maintain, you buy a Mac. Otherwise you get a PC. ALAN THOMPSON San Mateo, Calif...
...birthday party that his father had always advised him to find a woman who would stick with him through thick and thin and that "those of you who know Victoria know that she's thick, and she certainly is thin." Spencer and Lockwood claim that this was said in jest, but the comment seems rather harsh nonetheless...
Zoeller has since released a half-hearted apology, claiming that his "comments were not intended to be racially derogatory" and expressing his regret that "they were misconstrued in this fashion." He also said: "It's too bad that something I said in jest was turned into something it's not, but I didn't mean anything...