1.   Another friend ribs me for ever reading instructions.

2.   Friends ribbed him about what they should call him.

3.   Friends rib him.

4.   His friends still rib him about the four-day party Jennifer once threw.

5.   Over lunch last June, a friend ribbed Deep for not being as famous as the teenager who started Napster.

6.   He mostly wrote with pen and ink, but in his later years sometimes used a typewriter because friends ribbed him about it.