baha!  I foresee a new avatar for another forum...

STOP!

Jedi time!

Somebody once wrote on one of our local stop signs -- right under the word "STOP" -- "Hammer Time!"

I wonder how many people bumped into things when they finally got it.

It wasn't me, by the way.  That's why it was so cool.  Some weirdo in the redwoods.

bandit wrote:

????? perhaps?

[ September 01, 2006: Message edited by: bandit ]

BWAH!!

Funnily I *was* going to post this gif I have of a guy in running shorts madly humping a tree for god knows what reason, but...you know. to to me, that is the future perfect.

Irony is going to be the cocaine of the 21st century.  Just when everyone starts doing something all the time is when it becomes obvious that it's dangerous (and ultimately boring.)

Pssst.  C'mere, kids.  Wanna try a little sincerity?

What you lookin' at, no sincere!

I appreciate irony as much as the next guy but when someone says "That's so ironic!" I'm usually disappointed that its not ironic at all, merely coincidental.  At moments like that I'm always reminded of what George Carlin said, "Irony deals with opposites; it has nothing to do with coincidence.

If two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father's, it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence.

Irony is "a state of affairs that is the reverse of what was to be expected; a result opposite to and in mockery of the appropriate result." For instance: a diabetic, on his way to buy insulin, is killed by a runaway truck. He is the victim of an accident. If the truck was delivering sugar, he is the victim of an oddly poetic coincidence. But if the truck was delivering insulin, ah! Then he is the victim of an irony.

If a Kurd, after surviving bloody battle with Saddam Hussein’s army and a long, difficult escape through the mountains, is crushed and killed by a parachute drop of humanitarian aid, that, my friend, is irony writ large.

Darryl Stingley, the pro football player, was paralyzed after a brutal hit by Jack Tatum. Now Darryl Stingley’s son plays football, and if the son should become paralyzed while playing, it will not be ironic. It will be coincidental. If Darryl Stingley’s son paralyzes someone else, that will be closer to ironic. If he paralyzes Jack Tatum’s son, that will be precisely ironic."

Everytime I hear the lyrics for "Ironic" I remember these spots that MTV was running with this grody cab driver who would like, imitate a music video in his cab. So for "Ironic" it featured him in many different sweaters in different parts of the car, mangling the lyrics. "It's like raaaay-eeeee-aaaaayn! on a rainy day!" "It's like meeting the girl of your dreams and finding out she's five!" Sweet stuff.

So since then, I always have to sing, "It's like rain on a rainy day!" whenever someone talks about that song. Which usually just leads to them correcting me cause they (naturally) dont get the reference, and then they point out that the use of "ironic" in "Ironic" isnt even ironic at all! And I kill myself inside a little bit more.

Stuart wrote:

It still makes me laugh that people 'over here' point this out as an example of how you Americans don't really get irony.

Also Alanis is canadian. So I suppose I can point this out as an example of how you british dont really get geography. :D

D'oh! Well it was 5:30am when I posted that, in my defense. Also, this irony - it can be exchanged for goods and/or services?

We can supply an irony service at reasonable rate.

$4 per shirk.

For pants see the Dog.

Need to go, work pressing.

*is saddened by laughing at his own joke*