Random Thoughts Thread

[Luke]

Exactly why my swiss army knife is equipped with a spork.

[KillerJuan77]

Nothing in the song Ironic is actually ironic. And that's not ironic.

You killed the joke

[Luke]

You killed the joke

Mission accomplished *high five*

[OldSchool_Boy]

You killed the joke

Mission accomplished *high five*

[Rurouni_Fencer]

I wish a waitress would give me ten thousand spoons when all I need is a knife.

Fun fact: I've used a spoon as a knife before.

It is much worse to need a spoon and only have a knife.

Guy of Gisborne: "Why a spoon, cousin? Why not an axe?"
Sheriff of Nottingham: "Because it's dull, you twit - it'll hurt more!"

sorry - first thing that came into my mind...

[elmagicochrisg]

Just because I like to repost things...

Geroge Carlin wrote:

Irony deals with opposites; it has nothing to do with coincidence.

If two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father's, it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence.

Irony is "a state of affairs that is the reverse of what was to be expected; a result opposite to and in mockery of the appropriate result." For instance: a diabetic, on his way to buy insulin, is killed by a runaway truck. He is the victim of an accident. If the truck was delivering sugar, he is the victim of an oddly poetic coincidence. But if the truck was delivering insulin, ah! Then he is the victim of an irony.

If a Kurd, after surviving bloody battle with Saddam Hussein's army and a long, difficult escape through the mountains, is crushed and killed by a parachute drop of humanitarian aid, that, my friend, is irony writ large.

Darryl Stingley, the pro football player, was paralyzed after a brutal hit by Jack Tatum. Now Darryl Stingley's son plays football, and if the son should become paralyzed while playing, it will not be ironic. It will be coincidental. If Darryl Stingley's son paralyzes someone else, that will be closer to ironic. If he paralyzes Jack Tatum's son, that will be precisely ironic.

Funny thing is, half the examples of irony you're giving are not ironic. That is ironic in itself. Comic irony to be exact...

At least to me it is...

[final fight cd]

Nothing in the song Ironic is actually ironic.

my friends and i were actually talking about this recently.

[Opa Opa]

Coffee is good.

[dsheinem]

Funny thing is, half the examples of irony you're giving are not ironic. That is ironic in itself. Comic irony to be exact...

At least to me it is...

They aren't my examples, the are Carlin's. And all the examples that he says are irony are indeed irony. Yes, most of the examples he gives are not irony, which he also explains...

[elmagicochrisg]

Funny thing is, half the examples of irony you're giving are not ironic. That is ironic in itself. Comic irony to be exact...

At least to me it is...

They aren't my examples, the are Carlin's. And all the examples that he says are irony are indeed irony. Yes, most of the examples he gives are not irony, which he also explains...

First one, yeah, insuline supposed to save the diabetic's life kills him. Second one, humanitarian aid killing the people they are trying to help. But that last one, for the love of God, I cannot see the irony in that one. Please explain...