As the robbers proceeded, Anders made more and more comments out loud on their cliched and ridiculous language, until one of the robbers approached him with a gun.
But if advertising authorities banned all inaccurate, arguable or just plain ridiculous language on food packets, our nosh would have to be wrapped, as cigarettes soon will be, in completely blank packaging.
It will also strip foreigners, many of whom speak ridiculous languages, of large defence subsidies paid out of your pocket!
Travesty is a crude form of burlesque in which the original subject matter is changed little but is transformed into something ridiculous through incongruous language and style.
Some visitors now arrive with their own games, diabolical little numbers that produce ridiculous faces, awkward language and, when we're lucky, humiliating personal revelations.
I invented part of a (ridiculous) great blue heron language, wrote the opening stanzas of an (impenetrable) epic poem about seasonal migration.
As children, my sister and I would sit in our grandparents' minuscule kitchen, gorging on sponge fingers and, to our infantile English ears, their language sounded ridiculous: "ongy-bongy, ongy-bongy, vosh-ingmochine".
This is just the latest shake of the bigoted pepper mill that is Littlejohn's career, following a ridiculous amount of homophobic language, an article that defended police who threw a disabled protester out of his wheelchair and a piece that insinuated ethnic minority staff had ot their jobs through threatening to sue the Equality and Human Rights Commission. .
But we suspect that he will instead focus on how Russia managed to water down the language in a ridiculous bid for evenhandedness.
A beautifully chosen, unexpected adjective can transform a comedy routine into poetry, while the banal repetition of a common place noun can make that word, and consequently all language, suddenly appear ridiculous.
"When you look at how much is paid for a mediocre midlist author" in the United States, he said, "and how much you have to pay to get a world-class author who has been translated into 18 languages, it is ridiculous that more people don't invest in buying great literature".
