pay no attention to the man behind the curtain

to ‘ribery’

Finally a use has been found for Ribery - as a word to describe the act of making fun of somebody, or ‘ribbing’.

For example:

Daylight ribery - making fun of someone in bright sunlight

Highway ribery - making fun of women drivers

Armed ribery - making fun of someone in a deaf and dumb institution and so forth…

(via Nigel, my London correspondent)