Even though I was an English major for a while, I still don't quite get irony. Especially when my favorite example of a diabetic being killed by being hit by a sugar truck turns out not to be ironic.
Diabetic spends their entire life avoiding sugar in one form because eating too much would be fatal, and yet STILL gets killed by the sugar in a form of vehicular overdose.
Yes, it's ironic, mostly because the joke speaks to the idea of "why bother being healthy, since we're all going to die one way or another anyway" in a particularly bitter sense.
Ah, but I had this conversation with a professor of mine, and she said that irony would be a diabetic getting hit by a truck carrying insulin, as they were killed by something that was supposed to have saved their life. Hence my confusion, and my decision to switch to History major.
But then again, this was the English Prof with a mullet and a muumuu...
You just want me to argue with you some more, don't you?
Isn't one of the meanings of irony that there is incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs? I thought it was ironic that (mostly absent) New Orleans citizens were being exhorted to donate money to help victims of a flood. C'mon, throw me a bone here....
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Heh.
Date: 2005-10-14 07:18 pm (UTC)I'm working on your interview questions, BTW.
Re: Heh.
Date: 2005-10-14 07:22 pm (UTC)Also: YAY!
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Date: 2005-10-14 09:59 pm (UTC)Re: Heh.
Date: 2005-10-14 10:11 pm (UTC)(Good to see you.)
Diabetic being hit & killed by a sugar truck: Yes, that is an example of irony.
Date: 2005-10-20 07:56 am (UTC)Yes, it's ironic, mostly because the joke speaks to the idea of "why bother being healthy, since we're all going to die one way or another anyway" in a particularly bitter sense.
Re: Diabetic being hit & killed by a sugar truck: Yes, that is an example of irony.
Date: 2005-10-20 08:03 am (UTC)But then again, this was the English Prof with a mullet and a muumuu...
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Date: 2005-10-20 06:13 pm (UTC)Re: Heh.
Date: 2005-10-14 07:57 pm (UTC)Re: Heh.
Isn't one of the meanings of irony that there is incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs? I thought it was ironic that (mostly absent) New Orleans citizens were being exhorted to donate money to help victims of a flood. C'mon, throw me a bone here....
Re: Heh.
Date: 2005-10-14 10:01 pm (UTC)It would have been really ironic, if it was erected after Katrina.
Re: Heh.
Date: 2005-10-14 10:51 pm (UTC)Re: Heh.
Date: 2005-10-15 03:54 am (UTC)(goes to see if you have a "Dreaded head of Vecna" icon)
No, but you do have Ambush Bug. How much does that rock!
Re: Heh.
Date: 2005-10-15 04:21 am (UTC)ps had to look the head one up, v funny!!
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Date: 2005-10-15 09:38 pm (UTC)Re: Heh.
Date: 2005-10-16 03:32 am (UTC)