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Isn't It Ironic?
gessel writes "Have you ever used the word "ironic?" Do you know what it really means? If not, is that ironic? Was Seinfeld's "irony" really the cause of the utter collapse of civil society as we knew it? How ironic was it for the CEO of MTV to declare irony a victim of 9/11? The Guardian is running a brilliant article that clears the confusion around a culturally critical and chronically misused word."
Keep in mind that it will not be ironic for you to post something that is not ironic, but claim that it is. That would just be moronic.
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Here's the big irony for this article: somehow, someone felt that it belongs under a heading that includes the phrase "stuff that matters."
Slashdot is discussing proper English usage.
Edmund:Baldrick, have you no idea what irony is?
Baldrick:Yeah, it's like goldy and bronzy, only it's made of iron.
from Amy and Amiability
Butthead: Umm, what's that word when you don't think something cool is going to happen and then it happens?
Stuart: Ironic?
Butthead: No dumbass, an English word.
Beavis: Umm,.. cool?
Butthead: Yeah. That was cool.
I remember a couple of years ago a comedian at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival disected the Alanis song Ironic ...
"'It's like rain on your wedding day' NO! That's only ironic if you're marrying a weatherman and he picked the date!"
He gave anything that is labelled ironic but blatently isn't, the title of Alanic.
That was enough for me to use the word more appropriately!
Actually, Irony is where the Iranians come from.
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