blowingbubbles

desperately searching

   Thu, May 18, 2006 - 4:04 PM
for irony

what happened to it?



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Thu, May 18, 2006 - 4:19 PM
I think the irony board is in the linen closet.
Thu, May 18, 2006 - 4:28 PM
Somebody got confused and shelved it with coincedence, and nobody's been able to find it since.
Thu, May 18, 2006 - 7:09 PM
it's up in
cumming
Fri, May 19, 2006 - 5:58 AM
what do you know..........it's been in the dictionary all along:


i·ro·ny [ rənee ] (plural i·ro·nies)


noun

Definition:

1. humor based on opposites: humor based on using words to suggest the opposite of their literal meaning


2. something humorous based on contradiction: something said or written that uses humor based on words suggesting the opposite of their literal meaning


3. incongruity: incongruity between what actually happens and what might be expected to happen, especially when this disparity seems absurd or laughable


4. incongruous thing: something that happens that is incongruous with what might be expected to happen, especially when this seems absurd or laughable


5. theater
Same as dramatic irony


6. philosophy
Same as Socratic irony


[Early 16th century. Via Latin ironia < Greek eirōneia "pretended ignorance" < eirōn "dissembler"]
Fri, May 19, 2006 - 7:17 AM
so i recounted an article i read in a post that details how unrelated professors came to the conclusion that this one english nudist guy into the occult totally created the popular pagan religion, wicca, making up all the historical stuff in the process . . . a christian designed paganism

i was called an ignorant intellectual for it . . .
shit, i thought i just liked dark irony?

(maybe its been redefined?)
Fri, May 19, 2006 - 8:06 AM
Irony?
I am surrounded by it. it must have moved to Texas
Fri, May 19, 2006 - 10:35 AM
Spinach has a lot of irony. Or so I hear.
Fri, May 19, 2006 - 10:49 AM
flagged for TOU violation