Define Ironic

[FearlessLeader2]

My definition-

Dying of a stroke induced by the strain of evacuating your bowels while afflicted by constipation brought on by your cholesterol medication.


How do you define ironic?

 

[Simon Darkshade]

A fat man who go's to the doctor for a check up, complaining of shortness of breath. The doc says he should exercise in order to lose weight, and lower the risk of atheroschlerosis. He buys a brand new tracksuit, and go's for a jog, and drops down with a heart attack after 20 metres.
That is one little evil irony that comes to mind. More might follow.

 

[duke o' york]

One usually so au fait with the language as yourself using "go's" rather than "goes".

 

[Hitro]

There's a certain irony in being run over by an ambulance...

 

[ainwood]

"it's like ra-aain, on your wedding day".

 

[MrPresident]

You want irony, okay then. There was a city planner on his way to a big city planners meeting about how that city planner had solved all the traffic problems in that city but he was delayed because of the large amount of traffic.

 

[Simon Darkshade]

Originally posted by duke o' york
One usually so au fait with the language as yourself using "go's" rather than "goes".

Tsk. That will teach me to dictate my posts to my staff of trained monkeys so I don't have to type.

 

[Sparrowhawk]

Ooh, ooh, here's some irony:

Dictating your message to trained (however poorly) monkeys in order to save effort, then having to expend more effort to dictate a second post explaining their mistake!

 

[goodbye_mr_bond]

I only had to go as far as the next, cryptic, thread to find this little gem:

Idon unstan sadam

I had to enter the thread to understand that it meant, "I don't understand Saddam"

EDIT: typo

 

[Cunobelin Of Hippo]

Well, this is almost a true story...

A paramedic goes to church while on duty. When he comes out, he spots a lowlife trying to break into the ambulance, so he cuffs him upside the head, puts the unconcious man in the back of the ambulance, and drives off, sirens blaring

 

[TubaGuy]

Originally posted by ainwood
"it's like ra-aain, on your wedding day".

I don't think she knows what Irony is, all the things she says in that song are unfortunate, not ironic.

 

[goodbye_mr_bond]

Originally posted by Cunobelin Of Hippo
Well, this is almost a true story...
A paramedic goes to church while on duty. When he comes out, he spots a lowlife trying to break into the ambulance, so he cuffs him upside the head, puts the unconcious man in the back of the ambulance, and drives off, sirens blaring

So the irony is that, even at church, God isn't watching your vehicle?

EDIT: Hey! I just noticed you're a mod! Congrats!

 

[goodbye_mr_bond]

Unless your signature is saying that you're moderately hungry? I guess my latin's not that good. Sir.

 

[damunzy]

The Hippo has been a mod for a long time now....sorry....don't have anything ironic to say...but they have all been funny!

 

[Cunobelin Of Hippo]

Originally posted by goodbye_mr_bond

EDIT: Hey! I just noticed you're a mod! Congrats!

Wow...you have been on an extended hiatus I trust the schooling (I think that's what you're up to?) is going well?

And of course I'm also very hungry...

 

[Apollo]

I don't remember it exactly, but a signature I saw on here a couple days ago went something like: "Do you find it disturbing that doctors call what they do 'practice'?" And of course this can be applied to lawyers as well.

 

[ainwood]

Originally posted by TubaGuy
I don't think she knows what Irony is, all the things she says in that song are unfortunate, not ironic.

CORRECT!

But its somewhat ironic that a song about irony isn't.

 

[ainwood]

Oh yeah - its also ironic that a thread asking for people's definitions of irony actually only contains lots of examples of irony (well maybe not exactly ironic

 

[scorch]

Originally posted by Hitro
There's a certain irony in being run over by an ambulance...

That happened in NZ.


But it was the old ladys fault.

What happened was, some ambulance was going to an emergency, just left the station, and were about to turn on the sirens, screaming down the road, some old lady decides to cross the road, without looking, the ambulance is tooting its horn, but no, the lady keeps going and gets killed.

 

[MrPresident]

There's a certain irony in being run over by an ambulance...

Thats not ironic. It would be ironic if you were run over by a van which is promoting pedestrian safety.