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• He also asked the priests jestingly as to why the Lord was not able to save the tank each year?
• Challis jestingly replied : " Never had any but it has now-we'll call the thing Rushmore ."
• Henry David Thoreau cites the Society in his essay " Walking, " in which he jestingly proposes a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Ignorance.
• In Young Fontainon Queen only half-jestingly suggested that she may marry him, since he would be a fitting consort due to his once-regal bloodlines.
• When he half-jestingly suggested in a speech last fall that maybe there should be a lobbyists'committee for campaign reform, he was swamped with approving phone calls.
• His new book, " The Genesis of Ethics " ( Crown ), jestingly calls Genesis " an ugly little soap opera about a dysfunctional family ."
• Begun, the NSO principal tympanist who premiered the piece, made the original suggestion for the piece, but he later remarked, " " I suggested five drums jestingly ."
• "It turns out, " he grumbled half-glumly and half-jestingly, " that the reason all those Canadians moved here was to get away from hockey ."
• Some laid-off Wall Streeters have even adopted a name for themselves : the 405 Club, a reference to an evening last year when a group of unemployed investment bankers jestingly tried to pay an $ 800 dinner bill at Craft, in the Flatiron district, by signing over their $ 405 unemployment checks _ the maximum benefit offered by the Department of Labor.
• On arrival they shared their lodgings with violinists, a singing-master, and an oboist : a " m閚age " that was, as Wolfgang wrote jestingly to Nannerl, " . . . delightful for composing, it gives you plenty of ideas ! " Working at great speed, Wolfgang finished " Ascanio " just in time for the first rehearsal on 23 September.
• Ludovico Ariosto, in his epic Orlando Furioso ( 1513 ), jestingly sent his hero to a Moon where everything lost on Earth eventually turns up; but it was not until Galileo discovered ( 1609 1610 ) that the Moon had surface features, and that the other planets could, at least, be resolved into disks, that the concept that the planets were real physical bodies came to be taken seriously.
• In Paris, where the 1878 " Exposition Universelle " was in progress, Kruger saw a hot air balloon for the first time and readily took part in an ascent to view the city from above . " High up in mid-air ", he recalled, " I jestingly asked the aeronaut, as we had gone so far, to take me all the way home . " The pilot asked who Kruger was and, on their descent, gave him a medal " to remind me of my journey through the air ".
• Jerry Bruckheimer also executive-produces the series . " CSI : Crime Scene Investigation " stars William Petersen and Marg Helgenberger expressed their displeasure at CBS'launch of " Miami ", with Petersen stating that " [ they ] should have waited five years for a " CSI " spinoff . " Helgenberger supported Petersen's comments during an Emmy acceptance speech, noting that " as far as [ she was ] concerned, there s only one " CSI " . " Petersen jestingly referred to the series " NYPDCSI ", as it initially featured both David Caruso and Kim Delaney, of " NYPD Blue " fame.