"It is crispy and ridiculous!"

[Jonathan Lighter]

I've run into laudatory "ridiculous" a number of times.

Cf. laudatory "outrageous," which was just catching on when I was an
undergrad ca1972.

JL

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Neal Whitman <nwhitman at ameritech.net>wrote:

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> Rachael Ray describing the focaccia she's taking out of the oven.
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> 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!
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