It would then have her return from the quite preposterous Australia Day 10-minute fireworks break, tumble on the ankle again, bang her head and hang on in the third set for a heartwarming win.
A declassified US diplomatic cable claiming Pakistani spies funded the suicide bombing of a CIA base in Afghanistan in 2009 were dismissed by Islamabad as "preposterous" on Friday.
He also had to deal with the preposterous opening-day putting of Colsaerts, accepting blow after blow with a dignified stoicism.
Likewise, the massive enterprise of enforcing gambling laws and other anti-vice statutes and the underworld of crime it spawns actually gets more preposterous by the day.
It's a reaction to Mr. Gingrich's preposterous claim in Monday night's debate that he and Ronald Reagan created 16 million jobs, and that he and Bill Clinton later created another 11 million.
Two weeks ago, at the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh, I heard Gilley talk about how he came to set up Peace One Day – a preposterous tale of how he'd had this idea "because basically I was really worried about humanity" and had tried to organise the whole thing from a bedroom in his mum's house.
"The whole incident seemed preposterous in the light of day".
Much of it may well seem preposterous in the light of day – but the company's beauty, skill and intensity are not to be denied, and there are worse fates than not respecting yourself in the morning".
At the end, after their preposterous concoction has carried the day, the two Hollywood pros, played by Alan Arkin and John Goodman, double over laughing; the nonsense they have perpetrated successfully sprung six people from captivity.
The movie's circumstances might be preposterous, but "Ruby Sparks," being released Wednesday by Fox Searchlight, speaks to the universal pain of having to reconcile your dreams about someone with an actual person.
