What is irony?
By xboxboy
@xboxboy (5576)
October 13, 2007 7:28pm CST
my friends and i (after sharing some blue smarties and a swig of bucky) were discussing the best definition of 'irony'.
i said it would be a soap manufacturer killing himself by slipping on a soap bar shaped liked a banana skin.
what is youe definition of irony?
4 responses
@spiderlizard22 (3444)
• United States
15 Oct 07
What happens is different of what you expect to happen.
I will give you 10 examples.
I purchase a bus ticket only to be offered a free ride shortly after.
A time traveler goes back in time to stop an incident from occuring only to accidently cause the incident once the time traveler reaches the past.
A kid skips school because he wants to relax only to discover it was surpise carnival day at school.
A brother sold his game console so he can have enough money to get his sister a cd for her music player only to discover his sister sold her music player so she can get him a video game for his game console.
A king heard a prophecy that his son will overthrow him so he abandoned his son only to discover his son overpowered him because he abandoned him.
A single woman finally meets the man of her dreams only to discover he is already married.
A person of severe mental deficiency accusing anyone else of being of lesser intellect.
Downloading a virus scanner that has a virus.
A con artist being conned.
A prank backfires on a prankster.
That should give you some idea of what irony is.
