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PostPosted: June 16, 2008 1:39 pm    Post subject: irony: a definition Reply with quote

it seems people get irony confused with unfortunate lets give some examples

irony would be michael jackson joining the priesthood.

unfortunate would be the altar boy of the month
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PostPosted: June 16, 2008 1:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

irony= George W winning a spelling bee

unfortunate = being the runner up



Are those good examples?
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PostPosted: June 16, 2008 1:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

GinnyX wrote:
irony= George W winning a spelling bee

unfortunate = being the runner up



Are those good examples?


omg yes!!!

irony would be hillary clinton following bush

unfortunate would be her winning the election
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PostPosted: June 16, 2008 1:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Irony - Microsoft offering Windows XP "downgrade" disks.
Unfortunate - Windows Vista has many bugs and problems.
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PostPosted: June 16, 2008 1:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Trust Al to come up with the computer geek example!
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PostPosted: June 16, 2008 1:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

xXxArilellaxXx wrote:
Trust Al to come up with the computer geek example!

You know it. Wink
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PostPosted: June 16, 2008 2:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lol i know you too well methinks!! Shocked
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PostPosted: June 16, 2008 2:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hehe, I know you as well.
Anyways, it is odd how people get these mixed up, it is rather easy to understand the difference.
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PostPosted: June 16, 2008 2:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Aye it is, i dont really get it myself Razz
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PostPosted: June 16, 2008 2:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm trying to think of examples but this has made me self conscious...I keep thinking I screwed up. yay second guessage.

ooo ooo I think I have one

irony: my friend finally got the money to repay me for her plane ticket, I thought my mom would finally be off my back about it. But...alas she has run out of checks.

unfortunate: mom is crabby
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PostPosted: June 16, 2008 2:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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i am also going to say i blame alanis because the irony of her song is NOTHING IS IRONIC it is all unfortunate

but here is her song redone to actually be IRONIC

But a easier example is Alanis Morissette's Song Ironic, which was altered here by college students to make it actually ironic.

An old man turned ninety-eight. He won the lottery and died the next day... of chronic emphysema from inhalation of the latex particles scratched off decades' worth of lottery tickets.

A black fly in your Chardonnay... poured to celebrate the successful fumigation of your recently purchased vineyard in southern France.

A death row pardon two minutes too late... because the governor was too busy watching Dead Man Walking to grant clemency any earlier.

Rain on your wedding day... to Ra, the Egyptian sun-god.

A free ride when you've already paid... all of your money to the good-natured cab driver when you mistook him for a mugger.

The good advice that you just didn't take... after reading Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking and resolving that the key to success is making your own decisions.

Mr. Play-it-Safe was afraid to fly. He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye. He waited his whole damn life to take that flight. And as the plane crashed down, he thought, Well isn't this nice... now I'll never make it to the National Association of Aviophobics conference in Reno, NV.

A traffic jam when you're already late... to receive an award from the Municipal Planning Board for reducing the city's automobile congestion 80 percent.

A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break... at the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco corporate offices in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife... with which to kill your spouse for sleeping with the young soup chef who works at the Au Bon Pain.

Meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife... who happens to be the psychiatrist I recently hired in hopes of improving my luck with the opposite sex.

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irony would be to jog and work out all your life in order to stay healthy and end up getting hit by a truck carrying sports gear and or exercise equipment.
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PostPosted: June 16, 2008 4:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Would irony be me joining the KKK?
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PostPosted: June 16, 2008 6:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yes lol
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PostPosted: June 16, 2008 8:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Irony: Jewish Nazi
Unfortunate: Nazi's killed the Jewish
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PostPosted: June 16, 2008 10:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ravvy wrote:
Smile

Spoiler:

i am also going to say i blame alanis because the irony of her song is NOTHING IS IRONIC it is all unfortunate

but here is her song redone to actually be IRONIC

But a easier example is Alanis Morissette's Song Ironic, which was altered here by college students to make it actually ironic.

An old man turned ninety-eight. He won the lottery and died the next day... of chronic emphysema from inhalation of the latex particles scratched off decades' worth of lottery tickets.

A black fly in your Chardonnay... poured to celebrate the successful fumigation of your recently purchased vineyard in southern France.

A death row pardon two minutes too late... because the governor was too busy watching Dead Man Walking to grant clemency any earlier.

Rain on your wedding day... to Ra, the Egyptian sun-god.

A free ride when you've already paid... all of your money to the good-natured cab driver when you mistook him for a mugger.

The good advice that you just didn't take... after reading Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking and resolving that the key to success is making your own decisions.

Mr. Play-it-Safe was afraid to fly. He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye. He waited his whole damn life to take that flight. And as the plane crashed down, he thought, Well isn't this nice... now I'll never make it to the National Association of Aviophobics conference in Reno, NV.

A traffic jam when you're already late... to receive an award from the Municipal Planning Board for reducing the city's automobile congestion 80 percent.

A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break... at the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco corporate offices in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife... with which to kill your spouse for sleeping with the young soup chef who works at the Au Bon Pain.

Meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife... who happens to be the psychiatrist I recently hired in hopes of improving my luck with the opposite sex.



haha, that song is so much better, now.
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PostPosted: June 16, 2008 11:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Its when the actual meaning is the complete opposite from the literal meaning.
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PostPosted: June 17, 2008 12:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Royo wrote:
Irony: Jewish Nazi
Unfortunate: Nazi's killed the Jewish


Nice roy.
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PostPosted: June 17, 2008 12:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

teacakes wrote:
Its when the actual meaning is the complete opposite from the literal meaning.


It can also mean that something completely unnexpected happen. . . s


5. an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.


http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irony
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PostPosted: June 17, 2008 1:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love irony, and Kevin you should join the KKK. Razz
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PostPosted: June 17, 2008 1:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Irony: Mom's German, Dad's a Jew.

Story of my Life.
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PostPosted: June 17, 2008 1:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is probably wrong but I'm bored:

Irony - The Wrigley's dude dieing because he choked on chewing gum.

Unfortunate - he got sick of people blowing bubbles.
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PostPosted: June 18, 2008 12:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ndb489 wrote:
Irony: Mom's German, Dad's a Jew.

Story of my Life.


well even LOVE can over power irony!
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PostPosted: June 18, 2008 1:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ndb489 wrote:
Irony: Mom's German, Dad's a Jew.

Story of my Life.



That would only be irony if it happened during WWII in Germany, and you mom was a top spokeswoman for the Nazi party.

Under the current circumstances, though, it's just a coincidence.
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PostPosted: June 18, 2008 5:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

a firehouse that is on fire
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