Finally greenlit.

Like a death row pardon, two minutes too late.

God, I hate Alanis for ruining that word.

THIS is what immediately popped in my head when I read this story.

/I blame thank my 9th grade English teacher.

i bet it rained on his wedding day too

I have a black fly in my Chardonnay, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

My first green! Woohoo!!!

bionicFAG: THIS

Awesome site. I'll have to bookmark it.

/it's not ironic FOOL

Asbury: My first green! Woohoo!!!

Considering how many Alanis/ironic headlines there have been on Fark, that is truly ironic.

_{/No it isn't}

Who would have thought it figures?

Well, isn't that nice?

Earguy: Considering how many Alanis/ironic headlines there have been on Fark, that is truly ironic.

It's not ironic.

If he'd won a free heart operation, THAT would be ironic.

/ That is all.

he also repeated the repeat repeatedly

Wrong headline is wrong.

He died the same day.

Asbury: My first green! Woohoo!!!

Now, I'll stop being snotty and say, congrats!

/accurate headlines are by no means a fark requirement.

Old school irony

Ironic tag used correctly?

/how ironic

co·in·ci·dence
Pronunciation:
\kō-ˈin(t)-sə-dən(t)s, -sə-ˌden(t)s\
Function:
noun
Date:
1605

1: the act or condition of coinciding : correspondence
2: the occurrence of events that happen at the same time by accident but seem to have some connection ; also : any of these occurrences

Since people seem to have already covered the ironic issue, I'll nitpick something else. I could be mistaken, but subby should've used a semicolon. ;)

madmann: God, I hate Alanis for ruining that word.

People were screwing it up before she was.

I'm starting to think most people here really do know what irony means, and simply use the tag inappropriately to troll everyone.

/and it works

Guess he doesn't need a spoon after all.

But isn't it moronic?
Dont ya think?

daimlerneon: Like a death row phardon, two minutes too late.

FTFY

iro·ny
Pronunciation:
\ˈī-rə-nē also ˈī(-ə)r-nē\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
Latin ironia, from Greek eirōnia, from eirōn dissembler
Date:
1502

1: a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning -called also Socratic irony
2 a: the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning

/"Which definition do you think is the more accurate one?"
//Socrates might ask.
///We report, you decide.

that was the best headline subby could come up with for this? this article's been online for 18 hours, and thats the one that gets green?

otterrr: Since people seem to have already covered the ironic issue, I'll nitpick something else. I could be mistaken, but subby should've used a semicolon. ;)

I'd actually remove the comma and replace "and" with "then"

Ironic that it tastes like turkey?

The numbers are bad!!!

yep, nice semi-troll smitty. But this time you may be, as Dennis Green said, "off the hook."

Irony is the inconsistency between what is said or expected and what occurs. I suppose in the broadest sense you could call this irony because a person who has won the lottery is expected to live a life of luxury and milk the best of medical technology well beyond their expiration date, a la C. Montgomery Burns.

It's not irony in the same sense as the Robot Devil demanding Leela's hand (unspoken: in marriage) but it's closer than examples involving black flies and effing booze.

opiumpoopy: Earguy: Considering how many Alanis/ironic headlines there have been on Fark, that is truly ironic.

It's not ironic.

If he'd won a free heart operation, THAT would be ironic.

/ That is all.

But it touches on the Alanis song, therefore automatically earning the tag for the song being wrong.


So something that is not ironic automatically earns the ironic tag in this case.

Is that ironic? I may have confused myself.

bahr:
Irony is the inconsistency between what is said or expected and what occurs.

opps, addendum: "and what occurs or is understood."

I'd still like to ironic the craziness outta that Canuck...

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That old lady should get her Corvette, if that's what she wants. If I was old, and had just won the lottery to the tune of 10 million dollars, I would buy a Jaguar XJ8.

As funny as the Alanis-Irony joke is... From TFA:

"I've always wanted a Corvette, but I don't think I'll buy one," she said. "I'll stick to a small car. I might go to Mohegan Sun (casino). I'm going to go home and sit and think."

My god, you asshole.

Some people have all the luck!

also, [followup] tag?

Sounds like they had a fun marriage, and that's worth a lot more than $10 million.

It's not the least bit ironic

/always wanted to say that

Come on, this headline is beautiful.

/not submitter

Dying after winning the lottery is considered an expected ending? I thought the typical path is to quit your job and spend it all on hookers and blow. You'd end up in a ditch with no home, family, or money within 6 months.

/ but you're jealous of him.
// so any bad occurrence isn't ironic.
/// it's simply justice.

jackiepaper: that was the best headline subby could come up with for this? this article's been online for 18 hours, and thats the one that gets green?

For some reason all the others on the topic were rejected. Next time, why don't you show us all how it's done?

But was he perverted like me? Would he go down on you in a theater?

Can we just get ride of the ironic tag already? All it does is fill the thread with people biatching about its correct use. And in this case it was brilliant usage!
/also finds it odd when people complain about which tag was used. who the hell cares?
//what's the deal with airline food?

FTFA: "the 79-year-old retired hat factory worker suffered a fatal heart attack "

Was it the Susquehanna Hat Company?

/got nothin' after the entire irony argument was beaten to death

I just came in to say that the use of this tag is mistaken, that happening is NOT ironic.

However, for once.....the fact that it's not ironic IS ironic.

bionicFAG: THIS is what immediately popped in my head when I read this story.

/I blame thank my 9th grade English teacher.

Great story, I had to skip to the last paragraph just to make sure it was the same one.

It's like meeting the girl of your dreams and finding out she's five.

jackiepaper: that was the best headline subby could come up with for this? this article's been online for 18 hours, and thats the one that gets green?

bahr: yep, nice semi-troll smitty.


"Ironic" by Alanis Morissette

An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
It's a death row pardon two minutes too late
And isn't it ironic... don't you think

All he needed was a knife...