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Isn't It Ironic?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-you-think dept.

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."

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  1. Do you even know what is? by whoever57 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Blackadder: "Baldrick, have you no idea what irony is?" Baldrick: "Yes, it's like goldy and bronzy only it's made out of iron"

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