Irony Is
27 January 2010
Cupid being shot to death by arrows. (Found that example after visiting the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and seeing an effigy of Cupid shot full of arrows.)
An insulin truck killing a diabetic. – Gordon Bryson.
Have at it in the comments. I appreciate good examples of irony.
Is it ironic that Alanis Morissette’s song “Ironic” does not contain any examples of irony?
I like that one.
Here’s a stretch from Ann Althouse (http://althouse.blogspot.com/2010/01/justice-alito-overshadows-obama-on-day.html):
“Isn’t it fascinating that the lengthy, amplified, magnified speech of the most powerful man in the world with his big captive audience — in the magnificent room and in smaller rooms all over the country — are outweighed by one man’s headshake and silent mouthing of 2 or 3 words? And isn’t it ironic that, right when we saw the [Justice Alito's] minimalist expression that overwhelmed the President’s torrent of words, Obama was railing about the ‘powerful interests’ and that would use their great wealth to speak far too much during election campaigns?”