"It is crispy and ridiculous!"

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:36 AM -0400 4/7/11, Neal Whitman wrote:
>Rachael Ray describing the focaccia she's taking out of the oven.
>
>And I thought it was weird to hear Randy Jackson on the last season
>of American Idol, complimenting a contestant's performance by saying
>it was ridiculous!

The latter sounds like the usage that's become common (involving
adjectives I'd have thought of as negative in connotation, e.g.
"sick") on ESPN's SportsCenter to commend particularly impressive
athletic feats.

LH

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