The Greatest Forms of Irony !
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My favorite form of irony:
When a character in a book does or says something without knowing the future impacts. An excellent example is when Oedipus decrees that king Laius' murder will be executed to run from town. Unfortunately, Oedipus is in fact the ex-king's assassin.
Most of the time when people point out irony, they are unaware that dramatic irony and literal irony are completely different.
As someone pointed out earlier, Bender defines literal irony when he says "The use of words expressing something other than their literal intention. Now that IS irony!". This is in response to Lela's signing over her hand to the Robot devil to get new robotic ears (after being deafened) in order to hear Fry's opera (the final episode of the show). Unfortunately, the contract Lela signed was an agreement to marry the Robot Devil. Technically, as a work of Drama, this could qualify as dramtic irony (the kind most people erroniously point out in real life) as well a literal irony in the context of the show.
When a character in a book does or says something without knowing the future impacts. An excellent example is when Oedipus decrees that king Laius' murder will be executed to run from town. Unfortunately, Oedipus is in fact the ex-king's assassin.
Most of the time when people point out irony, they are unaware that dramatic irony and literal irony are completely different.
As someone pointed out earlier, Bender defines literal irony when he says "The use of words expressing something other than their literal intention. Now that IS irony!". This is in response to Lela's signing over her hand to the Robot devil to get new robotic ears (after being deafened) in order to hear Fry's opera (the final episode of the show). Unfortunately, the contract Lela signed was an agreement to marry the Robot Devil. Technically, as a work of Drama, this could qualify as dramtic irony (the kind most people erroniously point out in real life) as well a literal irony in the context of the show.
I believe he's claiming its ironic that people say "Wii owners are ignorant" because that is an opinion based on ignorance and bigotry.TaborMallory said:
Damn, you beat me to it. Isn't that ironic... don't you think?Nigh Invulnerable said:
No I spose not.
A person who criticizes other people's grammar and spelling, yet can't get the difference between "your" and "you're." It seems to happen frequently.
I've got two here:
1) This is from the film Bowling For Columbine, when Michael Moore shows a slideshow of films of people getting shot, to the song What a Wonderful World.
and 2) Whilst debating whether or not reading right to left (Such as in Manga) is correct way of reading "It's worng cause it's not english" said a mate of mine. During a french lesson.
1) This is from the film Bowling For Columbine, when Michael Moore shows a slideshow of films of people getting shot, to the song What a Wonderful World.
and 2) Whilst debating whether or not reading right to left (Such as in Manga) is correct way of reading "It's worng cause it's not english" said a mate of mine. During a french lesson.
I think that the greatest form of irony is when people try to make themselves seem wise and all knowing by pointing out that something is ironic but they miss the point of irony completely.
fletch_talon said:
Oooooh. That makes sense. Damn, now I feel like a douche. Thanks for the clarity.
America's LGM-118 Peacekeeper missile.
For all you folks who don't follow military news, revel in the irony of 10 nuclear warheads.
For all you folks who don't follow military news, revel in the irony of 10 nuclear warheads.
There's an episode of the Simpsons where Barney steals a jetpack, which runs out of fuel as he's flying. He falls and bounces off the roof of a marshmallow factory, lands on the road, and gets run over by a pillow truck.
