The thread for people who appreciate irony . . .

[Displaced Flames fan]

Damn you resolute! I thought Cowperson was back.

[HalifaxDrunk]

Is it ironic that a thread about irony is full of posts about an ironic song that has no irony?

[Machiavelli]

Edit: Frig, was beat to it eons ago

[flylock shox]

I was waiting around inside a mall about a year ago - basically just killing time waiting for a friend of mine to finish her shopping. Three black guys walked past the bench where I was sitting. Two of them were shorter and heavy set (read: fat) and dressed like thugs. The third was taller, and athletic looking, wearing long basketball shorts, Air Jordans, and a Michael Jordan basketball jersey.

I thought to myself at the time that it was mildly ironic that he, out of the three of them, was chomping on an Oh Henry chocolate bar.

I thought it was very ironic when, having finished it, he crumpled the wrapper into a ball and proceeded to throw it at a nearby garbage can, missing by about 4 feet.

I guess it really isn't the shoes...

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by Cowperson

This is interesting . . . . do American's "get" irony? And are Canadians and Brits good at irony?

Anyone who walks the streets of my neighborhood will realized irony is well and alive here. The whole hipster culture is founded on irony. it's quite annoying actually and makes me want to hit people with an iron.

[Boblobla]

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06....ap/index.html

'Shock art' trial stalled by porn report on judge

A federal judge has suspended the obscenity trial of a Los Angeles porn distributor after a newspaper report that the judge had sexually explicit material on his own Web site.

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

Damn you resolute! I thought Cowperson was back.

Ahaha oops! I just picked the irony thread with the most recent post date. I didn't even realize this was from 2005!

[Boblobla]

Originally Posted by HalifaxDrunk

Is it ironic that a thread about irony is full of posts about an ironic song that has no irony?

That is the only ironic thing about that song.

[Nufy]

Isn't "Irony" when the wife takes all the wrinkles out of my shirts ??????

[Russic]

I'm so pleased this hasn't been posted yet:

(courtesy of collegehumor.com)

Lines From Alanis Morissette's "Ironic," Modified to Actually Make them 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.

[Azure]

Darn....I thought we had a Cowperson sighting.

[firebug]

Does this post fit into this thread (emphasis mine)?

Originally Posted by Calgaryborn

Accepted science does not neccesarily equal truth.

One can see many instances where science has gotten it wrong in the past. Certainly medical science has a very dubious track record. The fact that science in this day and age has married itself to big corporations and big government doesn't help its credibility at all.

You are a fool to not at least question whatever is currently passing as accepted science. Those of you who are acting like it is a cardinal sin not to vaccinate betray a blind faith in institutions that don't deserve such trust.

I had my boys vaccinated because I determined that the rewards were greater than the risks. However, I do respect those who come to a different conclusion. What I don't like is you zealots who have sacrificed independant thought and critical thinking on the altar of scientific orthadoxy. Your "holier than thou attitude" is annoying.

[troutman]

Your "holier than thou attitude" is annoying.

[Cowperson]

A 29 year-old, 575 pd spokesperson for the high calorie menu of "The Heart Attack Grill" dies . . . .

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/41899470/ns/today-food/

Would have been better for irony if it had been from a heart attack but it was complications from the flu.

Cowperson

[burn_this_city]

His weight probably didnt help his cause.

[Russic]

Originally Posted by Cowperson

A 29 year-old, 575 pd spokesperson for the high calorie menu of "The Heart Attack Grill" dies . . . .

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/41899470/ns/today-food/

Would have been better for irony if it had been from a heart attack but it was complications from the flu.

Cowperson

This is where irony confuses me. Wouldn't a 575 lbs. man be more likely to die than a man of normal size? Wouldn't it be more ironic for a 130 lbs. practitioner of Vegan culture dying of colon cancer?

[Weiser Wonder]

Originally Posted by Russic

This is where irony confuses me. Wouldn't a 575 lbs. man be more likely to die than a man of normal size? Wouldn't it be more ironic for a 130 lbs. practitioner of Vegan culture dying of colon cancer?

That would be more unlikely and more ironic, but this story is still somewhat ironic. Everyone thought he'd die from a heart attack but ended up dying of the flu. It would be really ironic if he died from food poisoning he got from a tomato in a salad he was eating to try to get healthy.

[Winsor_Pilates]

Originally Posted by fotze

We are much more smart than that fat guy, thats what makes his death so funny. He deserved it.

The irony being Fotze is 400 lbs

[BergyBoy]

http://journalstar.com/news/local/ar...d7f48027a.html

Derek, who was thrown from the vehicle, was not wearing a seat belt, Lefler said. He said Havermann and Uphoff were wearing seat belts at the time.
In a column written for the Daily Nebraskan in September, Derek attacked seat belt laws as intrusions on individual liberties and expensive to enforce.
"It is my choice what type of safety precautions I take," he wrote.

[Komskies]

I freaking hate ironing. I always just try to lay my jeans flat on the floor to avoid this problem.