Even if they follow their own high standards in commendably preposterous music videos, there's surely little that can rescue this wet cod-Zep funk of the middling sort.
On Twitch, where the entire tournament is broadcast live around the world with accompanying chatter from so-called shoutcasters (a preposterous, redundant neologism for video game commentators derived from their high-decibel, rapid fire crescendos of observation), close to 100,000 people tune in to watch the final.
And then there's the preposterous idea that "viral videos" should be a concern at all.
Not only is there a designated @rihannanavy Twitter feed ("Introducing a new era of fandom") but there's also a preposterous two-minute Navy recruitment video with text that reads: "Her appearance infatuates us, her strength feeds us, her music created us – the Navy wants you".
A popular video on YouTube shows actors giving preposterous reasons for voting Republican.
There was also the brief but preposterous moment when Sandi Thom, claiming she was video broadcasting to hundreds of thousands of people from her south London basement, was taken seriously until it was discovered her viewer numbers had been gamed.
The suggestion that citizens should withhold political criticism for fear of offense is preposterous — far more embarrassing to Singapore than any videos by Yee could be.
Nick Neyland of Prefix Magazine wrote Knowles made the best music video of 2011, commending its "big budget extravagance, full of preposterous costumes and ridiculously over the top dance routines".
Not only has Michelle Obama never spoken from the Trinity pulpit, the very idea that such an incendiary video exists and is being withheld until just the right moment is preposterous.
This is as preposterous as presuming that all young writers and directors have been schooled in TV and video games and have no clue what makes a good story, because they've hardly ever opened a book.
